When Ray Charles culturally appropriated Eddy Arnold

When Ray Charles culturally appropriated Eddy Arnold

"The Washington Post — owned by Jeff Bezos — ventured into country music this weekend. 

It did not go well because if there is one thing DC journalists know less than guns, it is country music.
The Bezos Post reported, “Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs and the complicated response to Fast Car.
“Combs’s remake of Chapman’s 1988 hit now dominates the country charts, renewing difficult conversations about diversity in Nashville.”
Difficult conversations is dog whistle racism by Bezos and his Post — at least according to my cat. I cannot hear dog whistles. 

The story’s unsubtle message is a country star is not allowed to record a song written by a black woman because, well, just because. 

How dare you ask!...

Lunch video-----Hottest Day EVER? Not So Fast!

"The media widely reported that the first week of July had the hottest temperatures in history. 

Well, that is if you consider history to be within a a lifetime or two. 

And where did they get their measurements? 

Linnea Lueken breaks it down!

Noon-toon

 

Son of Canadian pastor facing prison for sermon blasts Trudeau before EU Parliament, draws standing ovation | Fox News

Son of Canadian pastor facing prison for sermon blasts Trudeau before EU Parliament, draws standing ovation | Fox News: 

"We no longer have freedom of religion, or freedom of speech, or the right to protest or assemble or associate or express ourselves or have free media or disagree with the government," Nathaniel Pawlowski told the EU Parliament. "Anyone who does so is arrested, charged and jailed as political dissidents." His speech was followed by a recorded video in which his father likened his situation in Canada to growing up behind the Iron Curtain in communist Poland.

Cuz it wouldn't be too hard to beat the current group of "professional" writers!

 

Rules are for little people-----Non-binary ex-Biden official Sam Brinton was on secret taxpayer-funded trip at time of luggage theft | Fox News

Non-binary ex-Biden official Sam Brinton was on secret taxpayer-funded trip at time of luggage theft | Fox News -  By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News

"EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brinton, the embattled non-binary former senior Department of Energy (DOE) official, was traveling on a taxpayer-funded business trip at the time of a high-profile baggage theft last year, internal Biden administration documents show...

Police accused Brinton of stealing a suitcase with a total estimated worth of $3,670 at Harry Reid International Airport on July 6, 2022, the same day Brinton traveled to Las Vegas on official DOE business...

• Brinton ultimately escaped jail time in the grand larceny case after pleading no contest to the charges and waiving the right to a trial. Brinton was ordered to pay $3,670.74 to the victim in the case and $500 in additional fees including a criminal fine and Clark County Judge Ann Zimmerman handed Brinton a 180-day suspended jail sentence, a sentence that doesn't need to be served, and ordered Brinton to "stay out of trouble."
• Brinton also escaped jail time in a separate case involving the theft of a baggage worth a total of $2,325 from the luggage carousel at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Sept. 16. 
• And Brinton was arrested in May in relation to yet another baggage theft, this time stemming from a 2018 incident at the Washington, D.C.-area Reagan National Airport...

Cuz it's bull$hit?

 

THIS IS CNN

Instapundit-THIS IS CNN

THIS IS CNN: CNN Deceptively Edits RNC Chair To Paint Her as a Conspiracy Theorist.

...Wallace owes viewers and explanation. He knew what McDaniel was talking about on Tuesday, but based off his answers to Coates, he doesn’t care. CNN’s dishonest editing didn’t just allow it to spread a false narrative about McDaniel, it allowed others to do the same. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes panned McDaniel on Thursday as someone who “just can’t say the straightforward sentence.” While secretary and Friday Way Too Early guest host Ali Vitali added, “And of course we will again underscore the fact president Biden did win the election and he did so fairly”

The fake version also made its way around the internet to Mediaite, the Washington Post, the DNC’s website, and HuffPost.

Why on earth is McDaniel going on CNN in the first place? But if she feels like she must, as Glenn wrote in the New York Post after Charlie Gibson’s deceptively edited interview with Sarah Palin in September of 2008: Bring Your Own Camera. -  Ed Driscoll

#1 This day 1967-----The Association - Windy - 1967

Just another reason to slow down the eco-cars mania.-----EV Charging Networks Prepare for Cyberattacks - WSJ

EV Charging Networks Prepare for Cyberattacks - WSJ - Catherine Stupp

• Mandates for electric-vehicle sales have raised concerns over poorly defended charging stations—and the possibility for spillover hacks of wider power grids

"As Europe and the U.S. push to ramp up development and sales of electric vehicles, researchers are concerned that cybersecurity is being neglected.
In the worst of cases, hackers could engineer blackouts and do damage to entire electric grids by infiltrating charging stations and networks, officials and security analysts warn...

Dangerous!

 

Montana State Library cuts ties with American Library Association after new president identifies as 'Marxist lesbian': 'Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist' - TheBlaze

Montana State Library cuts ties with American Library Association after new president identifies as 'Marxist lesbian': 'Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist' - TheBlaze: 

In an unprecedented move, the Montana State Library voted on Tuesday to cut ties with the American Library Association after its new president repeatedly claimed to identify as a "Marxist." The seven-member commission voted 5-1 this week to "immediately withdraw" from the ALA, making it the first state entity to leave the nonprofit, the Daily Signal reported.

Featherbedding the Ivy-----Harvard activists disrupt ice cream social to whine about ethnic studies | The College Fix

Harvard activists disrupt ice cream social to whine about ethnic studies | The College Fix

"This past Tuesday, activists at Harvard University crashed President Claudine Gay’s ice cream social to demand the creation of an ethnic studies department.
Members of the Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition shouted “Hey, President Gay! We need ethnic studies today!” and eventually got to chat with the new president for a bit, The Crimson reports...

AM Fruitcake

History for July 18

History for July 18 - On-This-Day.com

John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut

• 0064 - The Great Fire of Rome began.
• 1872 - The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
• 1932 - The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
• 1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
• 1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
• 1942 - The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.

Tucker Carlson says media 'determined to suppress the truth' - TheBlaze

Tucker Carlson says media 'determined to suppress the truth' - TheBlaze: 

Tucker Carlson claimed that Washington and media figures are not bothered by lies but that they have a meltdown when people tell the truth. "No one in Washington or in the media ... is ever outraged by a lie," Carlson told BlazeTV host Glenn Beck during a wide-ranging conversation on Friday after Carlson had interviewed multiple presidential candidates earlier in the day at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit. Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader for that event.

The way we were-----History of Flight Attendants

Climate Fakery Part 11

"Fake historical statistics and bright red maps are key tools being used to scare people into compliance with an anti-energy agenda.

Pronoun Lockdown: Almost Half of Millennials Want Jail Time for “Misgendering”

Pronoun Lockdown: Almost Half of Millennials Want Jail Time for “Misgendering”

"A recent survey by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for Newsweek, found that 44 percent of millennials (between ages 25-34) favor criminal charges for people who use the wrong pronouns for others or so-called “misgendering.” 

 We have previously discussed how misgendering is now a crime in countries like Great Britain. Misgendering has been referred to as an “act of violence” at some U.S. universities.
There has been a concern that we are seeing the rise of a generation of censors, who have been taught since a young age that speech is harmful and even violent...

John Kerry explains | Power Line

John Kerry explains | Power Line
"My vocabulary of opprobrium is insufficient to do justice to Biden administration climate czar John Kerry. 

• There is no leftist bromide he can’t spout with suffocating self-regard. 
• He emits hot air in quantities sufficient to warm the planet. 

We remain proud of our small role in saving the planet from a Kerry presidency in 2004.
Yesterday Kerry testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability...

...Quotable quote (Douglas Murray): “You could say Kerry suddenly remembered about his family jet in Heinz-sight.”

Kamala Harris gaffe about population control during green energy speech - TheBlaze

Kamala Harris gaffe about population control during green energy speech - TheBlaze: 

Vice President Kamala Harris made yet another gaffe during a speech about green energy on Friday. In Kamala's latest slip-up, she accidentally said the United States needs to "reduce population" in order to combat climate change. Harris gave a speech about "building a clean energy economy" at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

'Stop shouting at me!' - Sky's Mark Austin challenges Just Stop Oil acti...

The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors | Fox News

The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors | Fox News  By Jonathan Turley

• It's shocking and depressing to me that major media figures are defending government censorship

"Editor's note: This essay first appeared on the author's blog Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks.
As a long-standing free speech advocate, the last few years have been alarming and, frankly, depressing.
The censorship efforts of the government are, unfortunately, not new.

• However, what is new is the support of the media and the Democratic Party in such censorship...

If You Need To Kill Time On Your Computer, This Oldschool Game Is A Must-Have. No Install

Lunch video-----I Spent 7 Days on a $1,000,000,000 Luxury Cruise Ship

Turley: Biden Admin. Called for Censoring True Information Using Same 'Clarion Call' as all Censoring Nations

Turley: Biden Admin. Called for Censoring True Information Using Same 'Clarion Call' as all Censoring Nations: 

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Fox News Contributor and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated that the argument for government censorship on social media uses “the clarion call of every nation that has engaged in censorship” that people need to be protected from “harmful” views and ideas and pointed to the government pressing for restrictions on true statements.

Turley said, “[T]his is the clarion call of every nation that has engaged in censorship. They always say that they’re protecting citizens from harmful thoughts, harmful ideas, harmful viewpoints, that this is all for the good, because you shouldn’t hear these views. That’s always been the case.

They'll never fess up! NEVER!

 

NYC hotline for involuntary hospitalizations receives zero calls

NYC hotline for involuntary hospitalizations receives zero calls - JAZZ SHAW 

"...We’re talking about a position as an operator for the city’s involuntary hospitalization hotline, where people – particularly police officers – can call to report homeless people who may be experiencing mental health issues and seek guidance about what to do. 

And why is the job so low-stress? 

Because since it was established more than six months ago, not a single person has called. 

(Politico)No one has called a 24/7 city hotline to help NYPD officers determine whether to force someone to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, a resource launched by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration as he sought to involuntarily hospitalize people unable to meet their basic needs...

#1 Movie this week 1987-----RoboCop movie trailer 1987

Biden Announces $39 Billion Student Loan Forgiveness for Over 800,000 Borrowers

Biden Announces $39 Billion Student Loan Forgiveness for Over 800,000 Borrowers - By Naveen Athrappully

"The Biden administration has announced a $39 billion student loan forgiveness plan for 804,000 borrowers as part of fixes in “administrative failures” that had held up relief for borrowers under their income-driven repayment (IDR) plans.

• “For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks of a broken system that failed to keep accurate track of their progress towards forgiveness,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement. 

“Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is taking another historic step to right these wrongs and announcing $39 billion in debt relief for another 804,000 borrowers.

• “By fixing past administrative failures, we are ensuring everyone gets the forgiveness they deserve...

#1 This day 1950-----Mona Lisa (Remastered)