Black (woman) and blue (Origin)

 M. Walter

 "So here we have this incredibly smart, accomplished, decent human being, who achieved a life dream, to fly in space, and she gets a torrent of hate...from the “tolerance” people. What a shame." 

"On Saturday, May 31, The Washington Post published an interview conducted by Elizabeth Dwoskin, entitled “A rocket scientist wrestles with backlash over her Blue Origin flight,” and subtitled “Former NASA aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe always dreamed of going to space. She never imagined realizing that dream would let loose a barrage of online hate.”

"It begins:

In early April, I was looking at a beautiful Elle magazine spread featuring the six women who were set to crew the all-female Blue Origin flight into space. There was Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King — and then my jaw dropped. There was my friend Aisha Bowe, surrounded by celebrities.

Bowe and I have known each other for nearly a decade. She’s a former NASA aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. I always knew it was her dream to go to space.

"Ms. Doskin figured her friend was slammed with all the publicity, so she waited a bit to text her. When she finally did, she asked her “if she was still basking in the glow,” then writes she “was stunned by her response.” Ms. Bowe, a deeply impressive woman who happens to be black, had been the recipient of a gusher of left-wing hatred. Why? Because Blue Origin is a Jeff Bezos project, and Jeff Bezos had recently been in Trump’s orbit (pardon the pun)." . . .

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I Hate QR Codes

 Love and Science  

"I hated it. I hated being told to use it, I hated having an old man explain something I otherwise had no idea how to do, and I hated the process of using my phone’s camera to connect with my browser."

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. . ."You’re passing a billboard at 70 miles per hour and see a QR code.

"Once you’re forced to use a QR code against your will, you start noticing them everywhere. I truly can’t understand how they’ve become so widely used when the user experience is so poor. And what about those chumps that put QR codes on billboards? How on earth does that work? 

"You’re passing a billboard at 70 miles per hour and see a QR code. Even if you’re determined to use that code instead of just Googling the brand you see on the billboard, is it even possible?

"Can you whip out your phone, open your app, steady the viewfinder over the code and allow your browser to open the page without committing vehicular manslaughter?

"Are you supposed to pull over on the highway and scan from the shoulder? Is anyone tracking the usage of these high-stakes QR codes? This is nonsense at best, and downright deadly at worst.

"The Right Tool for the Job

"Here’s my solution: don’t default. Choose the right tool for the job and the audience. 

"In a situation like a highway billboard, scrap the QR codes altogether and just get better at establishing clear URL naming conventions and using redirecting vanity domains. Sure, it might require a little more creativity, but what’s ultimately easier for the user: scanning a QR code from the passing lane, or committing a straight-forward URL (like site.com/billboard) to memory?" . . .  Full Article...

Why don’t Democrats offer something good for Americans instead of bashing Trump?

 M.B. Mathews   

"Why do Democrats bristle at every proposed legislation that makes American citizens’ lives better?"

"What is the Democrat agenda that all Americans can rally behind? It’s not the trans agenda, because most Americans hate it. It’s not the gay thing, because most Americans are tired of hearing about it and find it irrelevant. It’s not DEI because, again, most Americans abhor the notion of racial preferences. It’s not the “Green” agenda, because most Americans are not on board with that, either. It’s not antisemitism, because most Americans either know about the Holocaust or at least hate the notion of religious persecution. 

"So, what are Democrats offering the American public in order to raise their approval rating, which right now is south of dirt? Nothing, it seems.

"Have Democrats created legislation to lower taxes? To make small businesses more able to survive? To clean up crime in blue cities? To deport criminal illegal immigrants instead of trying to get them back? To create wholesome entertainment for families? To prosecute career criminals and gang members? To create programs to make children healthier? To discourage obesity and sloth?

"Have Democrats done anything to elevate public discourse without having to resort to profanity? Have they done anything to promote decorum, decency, and modesty among young people? To discourage narcissism? To hold to K–12 standards that will lift American children into at least competitive levels with other countries? Have Democrats done anything to stop campus chaos regarding Israel and Hamas or do they encourage it?

"Have Democrats come up with any new ideas to make Americans’ lives better? Or are they persisting with DEI, CRT, LGBT, and ESG? Have Democrats been working on programs to deter ghettos (remember that word?) where police have been defunded and DAs won’t prosecute criminals? Or are Democrats content to have those neighborhoods just as they are, degraded and violent, so that they can pull the trigger in case of another George Floyd sainthood event?" . . .

I Used To Hate QR Codes Until I Learned How Genius They Are!

I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius

"This comprehensive overview provides viewers with a deeper understanding of the technology behind QR codes, their historical context, and their impact on modern communication and data sharing practices."

Discover the evolution of QR codes from their origins in Morse code to their widespread modern-day applications in this informative video that delves into the history, mechanics, and technological advancements of these versatile matrix barcodes.

The Evolution of QR Codes: From Morse to Matrix  "In this informative video, the history and technology behind QR codes are explored, tracing their origins from early communication methods to modern-day applications. The journey begins with Morse code, which revolutionized long-distance communication in the 19th century, and progresses through the development of barcodes in the mid-20th century.

Barcodes: Precursors to QR Codes   "The video delves into the mechanics of barcodes, explaining how these linear patterns of black and white lines encode information. Invented in the 1940s and refined in the 1970s, barcodes became ubiquitous in retail and inventory management, paving the way for more advanced two-dimensional codes.

QR Codes: Storing Information in 2D  "The core of the video focuses on QR (Quick Response) codes, invented in 1994 by Masahiro Hara at Denso Wave. These matrix barcodes can store significantly more information than traditional barcodes. The video explains the intricate structure of QR codes, including the positioning squares, timing patterns, and data cells that allow for rapid scanning and interpretation.

Error Correction: Why Damaged QR Codes Work   "An intriguing aspect of QR codes is their ability to function even when partially damaged or obscured. This resilience is due to built-in error correction capabilities, which the video elaborates on, discussing different levels of error correction and their applications.

QR Codes in Modern Society   "The widespread adoption of QR codes is examined, from their initial use in the automotive industry to their current prevalence in marketing, payments, and information sharing. The video also addresses safety concerns related to QR code usage and potential future developments in this technology.

"There is no two-state solution" Douglas Murray

 The Israel Institute of New Zealand

‘A fantasy’: Douglas Murray claims two-state solution in the Middle East is ‘impossible’   "This comes as there’s been a push for a two-state solution in the Middle East amid Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

"Mr Murray said Western politicians keep talking about a two-state solution being the “magical solution to everything that goes wrong” in the Middle East.

"It was always a fantasy,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“I think it’s worth people realising this and not taking part in this delusion.”

Blood on Their Pens: How the Media’s Incitement Led to Murder

  Israel Institute of NZ   

"Until mainstream media confront their role in this ecosystem of incitement, the bloodshed will continue — and so too will their culpability."

"The brutal murders of Israeli embassy staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim — slain overnight by a pro-Palestinian extremist — are not isolated incidents. They are the tragic consequence of a culture of incitement, where anti-Israel hatred is normalised, excused, and even celebrated. And it’s time for the media to acknowledge their role in fuelling this hatred.

"For nineteen months, the chant “Globalise the Intifada” has echoed across Western campuses and protest rallies. It is not a slogan of peace. It is a call to replicate a violent uprising beyond Israel’s borders. It is an incitement to bloodshed, and the media’s uncritical repetition of it — without scrutiny or context — has helped mainstream what should be morally unthinkable.

"When you repeat slogans like “Globalise the Intifada,” you are inciting violence against Israelis and Jews around the world.

"The danger of incitement is no abstraction. It became tragically real overnight, when a virulent antisemite — shouting “Free Palestine” — gunned down a young Israeli couple in cold blood outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

"This was not a “random” or “isolated” act. It was the logical endpoint of months of unchallenged propaganda, where the line between criticism of the State of Israel and antisemitism has been deliberately blurred, and where mainstream media have become unwitting — or at times willing — participants in the process.

"Consider the now-discredited claim that 14,000 babies were killed in Gaza — an inflammatory and baseless figure initially circulated by a UN official and repeated uncritically by major media outlets around the world. The claim has since been walked back, but the damage is done. The retraction, when it came, was barely a whisper compared to the roar of the original headline." . . .

Michelle Obama’s Strange Vision of the Female Reproductive System

 The American Spectator  

. . ."Yet Democrats such as Obama have jumped onto Amber Thurman’s story and spun up the narrative that unborn babies are pitted against women’s health and safety." . . .

"This week, during a new episode of her podcast, Michelle Obama put forward a perspective on the female reproductive system that can only be described as odd. “The least” of what the female reproductive system does, Obama said, “is produce life.”

"It’s quite a funny thing to say when the elements of the female reproductive system are quite clearly intended for, well, reproduction. The uterus, for instance, isn’t sitting around just for kicks. Turns out it’s there to nurture and safeguard unborn children.

"But in Michelle Obama’s version of reality, the female reproductive system’s role in the generation of new life is nearly shameful. She wants women to be only about themselves, and definitely not tied to their child-bearing capacity. In fact, any part of a woman that is geared toward the bearing of children must be repurposed to being primarily about the woman.

" 'Women’s reproductive health is about our life,” insisted Obama in her podcast. “It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system, the least of what it does is produce life.”

"Obama claimed that pro-lifers, which she stereotyped as clueless men, only care about unborn babies, and pay no regard to women. She contrasted this to her vision, in which reproductive health is only about “our life,” that is, about women.

"  'We haven’t been researched, we haven’t been considered,” she said, “and it still affects the way a lot of men lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice, as if it’s just about the fetus, the baby, but women’s reproductive health is about our life.”

"Obama connected these claims to speeches she gave on the campaign trail last year, the most prominent of which was an address she gave in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in October. The speech, which the New York Times described as “striking,” was in reality a scare-tactics-laced screed based on the false premise that women are dying because of laws against abortion.

"“[Trump] could take actions that effectively ban abortion nationwide,” said Obama, “which will put all of us in danger no matter what state we live in. We will see more doctors hesitating or shying away from providing lifesaving treatment because they are worried about being arrested." . 

”Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. She is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover.

Democrats’ Brilliant New Strategy: Learn To Speak Like An American

 Issues & Insights

 "What’s more, almost all the counties where Republicans made gains are working class, while Democratic gains were isolated in wealthier, better-educated counties. Is that because Democrats use words such as “intersectionality” or “cisgendered.' ” . . . 

Babylon Bee: 10 Ways Democrats Plan To Win Back Men To help the Democrats out, The Babylon Bee has obtained the following  list  of things the party is planning to do to win back male voters:

 "This week, we saw a spate of news stories blaming Democrats’ troubles on their vocabulary. They’re just using too many darn multisyllabic, academic-sounding words and turning off numbskull voters, is the basic message.

"Seriously?

"The Democrats’ problem isn’t linguistic, it’s ideological. But no one in the party wants to admit that.

"A Washington Post story this week – “Democratic troubles revive debate over left-wing buzzwords” – begins by saying:

Maybe it’s using the word ‘oligarchs’ instead of rich people. Or referring to ‘people experiencing food insecurity’ rather than Americans going hungry. Or ‘equity’ in place of ‘equality,’ or ‘justice-involved populations’ instead of prisoners.

As Democrats wrestle with who to be in the era of President Donald Trump, a growing group of party members — especially centrists — is reviving the argument that Democrats need to rethink the words they use to talk with the voters whose trust they need to regain.

"The Post goes on to say that “liberal candidates too often use language from elite, highly educated circles,” and quotes Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear saying that: “It makes Democrats or candidates using this speech sounding like they’re not normal.”

"Earlier this year, a group of centrist Democrats gathered at a ritzy resort in Loudoun County, Virginia, the richest county in the country, to talk among themselves about how to regain working-class trust.

"Among the recommendations: “get out of elite circles and into real communities” and embrace “traditional American imagery.”

"This week, we also learned that Democrats are spending $20 million to “study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality” of “American men.” The project is called – and we are not making this up – “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”

"So, if we understand all this correctly, the answer to the Democrats’ problems is to wave more flags, pretend to like beer, drop more f-bombs, and stick to one-syllable words?

Crying Over George Floyd

 Crying Over George Floyd

"We have politicians who have been in power for decades who cry over the Saint Georges of the world yet remain silent over the multi-generational carnage these public schools impose on unfortunate kids whose only crime is that they were born poor." . . .

"Well, it’s been five years since the Saint George Floyd incident, and what have we learned? What has been done?

"I won’t bother to rehash who and what Saint George was -- that is readily available to anyone who cares to look. Suffice to say, the narrative isn’t remotely accurate. But with the Left the narrative is seldom accurate, as that isn’t its goal. It’s the emotional -- and manipulative -- storyline that’s important, not reality.

"I’ve been a management consultant for decades and in the course of my work I’ve been to some of the toughest neighborhoods in the country. Very few white folks have seen and been where I have.

"We would of course visit these neighborhoods early in the morning, before the animals who stalk these areas get up.

"And if that last sentence offends you, you have no idea what you are talking about. Everyone who services these areas -- or lives there -- knows this is true.

"If you want to be offended, be offended by the 95+% of the decent people who are forced to live in these conditions because they are poor. Be offended by the poor moms who fear for their child’s safety and future on an hourly basis. Be offended by poor women who live under the very real threat of rape and murder every time they leave their homes. Be offended by the overflowing cemeteries of innocent people who were killed by the animals.

"Yet they are forced to live under criminality that in many cases exceeds that of war-torn countries. All for the crime of being poor." . . .  

John Conlin is an expert in organizational design and change. He also holds a BS in Earth Sciences and an MBA and is the founder and President of E.I.C. Enterprises. He has been published in American Greatness, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, Houston Chronicle, Denver Post, and Public Square Magazine among others.

Young Brit Slams U.S. Leftists Mocking Mourning Of Queen: You Mourned George Floyd

 “Dear Americans who mock us for mourning our beloved queen,” Corcoran tweeted. “She dedicated her entire life to her duty and our country even just two days before her death. You mourned a man who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman by burning cities to the ground. We are not the same.” . . .

 Sophie Corcoran's  backing of Israel has subjected her to threats and  abuse because “the Instagram culture of woke, poorly informed infographics” prompts ill-informed people to deny the Jewish State’s right to exist, she wrote. But she called on people of all faiths to stand with Israel and not give in to the anti-Semitic mob."

Political commentator Sophie Corcoran says bullying has forced her away from politics  Sophie, you will live on for me in the above quote. TD in Texas

Riley Gaines Dolphin Kicks ‘Old Deranged Man’ Keith Olbermann After He Tries Dunking on Her Athleticism

RedState

"Keith must enjoy getting smacked around by strong women. The completely unemployable has-been once took on Megyn Kelly by pointing to a job controversy during her time at NBC News. And again, it didn't turn out well for him."

"Keith Olbermann unwisely took a jab at former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, host of "Gaines for Girls" on OutKick.com, over her athleticism. It didn't work out very well for him.

"Olbermann, who has a history of going after prominent conservative-leaning women on social media from the safety of his basement studio, opted to take a shot at Gaines after Education Secretary Linda McMahon suggested she would have won her race had it not been for a biological male participating in the event.

"She finished 85th in the Olympic Trials," he responded. "She finished tied for 5th in the only race including a transgendered athlete. If there had been none, she MIGHT have finished tied for 4th, or had 5th place to herself."

"[Gaines] was, somehow, a worse swimmer than she is a MAGA stooge."

"Nerds taking on superior athletes rarely work out. And Olbermann drew a response from Gaines. She might as well have given him an atomic wedgie, a swirly, and stuffed him in a locker.

"Gaines defended herself by pointing out she was just 15 when she competed in the Olympic trials.

"And I placed 5th *in the nation* in a sport measured in .01s of a second without going a best. Would you say the 5th-best college football player is objectively bad at their sport?" she wondered.

"No. You’re just a misogynistic pig [and] an old, deranged man with a terminal case of TDS who can’t hold down a job." . . .

Keith Olbermann Tweets That He 'Hopes' Someone 'Assassinates' Donald Trump | OutKick  . . ."He referenced a post from the Biden-Harris HQ X account flagging a clip of Trump saying he had been persecuted worse than any president in history, including Abraham Lincoln." . . .

. . ."Trump says he has been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated," the campaign account posted on Saturday. 

Olbermann responded by saying "There's always the hope," as in some nut kills Trump, as John Wilkes Booth did Lincoln.

. . ."Keith Olbermann is a caricature of the emotional hemophiliacs suffering from an unhealthy disdain for a political figure whom they don't know personally. 

"Earlier this month, Olbermann called for the dissolution of the Supreme Court for ruling 9-0 that the Colorado Supreme Court erred in disqualifying Trump from the state’s presidential contest. 

"He then implied urine drips from his eyes instead of tears" . . .

May 30, 1922: Dedication of Lincoln Memorial

 The American Catholic

"Well, it took long enough.  Lincoln had been dead for almost half a century before work finally began on his memorial in Washington, with a dedication ceremony occurring on his birthday in Washington DC in 1914.  Plans to memorialize Lincoln in Washington had been mooted about since the time of his death, but in Washington, then and now, nothing moves swiftly.  Controversies about cost and just what form the memorial should take had delayed the project for decades.  The final plan to erect a Greek styled temple to house a Lincoln statue appalled some Lincoln admirers who thought a log cabin memorial would better suit a man as humble as Lincoln.

"The building of the memorial would take eight years, with it being completed and opened to the public on Memorial Day, May 30, 1922.

"The dominating feature of the memorial is of course the brooding statue of a seated Lincoln.  Sculpted by Charles David French, the statue, standing 19 feet, dominates the memorial.  Open 24 hours a day and free for all, the memorial is visited by six million visitors a year and has become a symbol of American freedom  and union, the causes for which Lincoln lived and died." . . .

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”  Abraham Lincoln

We still await the "better angels of our nature" to manifest themselves. At the time of this movie America still needed much forgiveness for the Jim Crow laws and the Japanese internment camps. Overcoming those, we now have such demagogues as the Al Sharpton's, Maxine Waters, the Jew-hating, keffiyeh-clad lap dogs on campus and the glowering, America - loathing Democrats now in Congress. TD

Jake Tapper and His Co-Author Get Nuked Into Orbit Over Insulting Interview With Bari Weiss

 Jake vs. CNN

. . ."I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure proclaiming that "we were all cowards who were too scared to cross the Biden administration" doesn't make this situation any better. On the contrary, I'd argue that's even worse than if the cover-up was solely driven by partisan ambition. At least I can understand that, as distasteful as it is. But to claim fear of being "ostracized by peers" and "intimidation from the White House" as reasons for not only lying about Biden's condition but viciously attacking those who didn't is laughable. If that's the case, every single journalist in question should be fired, including Tapper and Thompson." . . . 

That's the Tapster on the left. TD

Lara Trump Says Jake Tapper Called Her to Apologize for Rebuking Her Claims of Biden Decline  "In 2020, Lara Trump appeared on Jake Tapper’s CNN show and expressed concerns about Joe Biden’s mental acuity. Not only did Tapper not take her seriously, he berated her for even raising the issue. He claimed that she was mocking Biden’s stutter, a thing that no one had even heard about in Biden’s long career." . . .

Semper Why responded: "I think you’re close, but not quite on target. Tapper is trying to rehabilitate himself not because he wants to court sources in the Trump administration but because he needs the public to trust him again in time for the 2026 midterm elections. He doesn’t care if Trump officials leak him information – he’ll just make up sources or cloak Democrats behind “anonymous sources” again.But Trapper needs to get his credibility back so that enough voters believe him when he says Trump needs to be stopped by electing Democrats."

Viral Clip of Jake Tapper Bashing Dem Party for How They Talk to Men

"CNN's Jake Tapper is trying to sell quite a story with his book. 

"Not the story of Joe Biden's cognitive decline, but the story that somehow he didn't realize the depth of Joe Biden's issues because he was put off by the Biden team telling him everything was fine. Not many people are buying that take." . . .