2024: I honestly thought Dems would get Joe to step down by threatening him with the 25th. Now they’re apparently threatening to use it on him to make Harris look better! [5:25]
CLICK https://rumble.com/v57icf6-people-are-calling-this-the-greatest-ad-trump-has-ever-released.html to see a new Trump ad.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eSJyKxKZfJQ to hear Congressman Wesley Hunt tell an awesome Trump story.
CROWDSTRIKE: On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that turned millions of computers into doorstops. On July 15, 2024, just three days prior, Chief Security Officer Shawn Henry sold off 4,000 of his shares (about $1.5M worth) in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.
Apparently, Henry has been steadily selling off his CrowdStrike shares for about a year, maybe because July’s crash was the third such incident in 2024. On April 19, 2024, Crowdstrike issued a flawed software update that crashed computers running Debian Linux builds and kept them from rebooting normally. And on May 13, 2024, a CrowdStrike upgrade caused Rocky Linux servers to freeze.
Crowdstrike’s President and CEO George Kurtz has an interesting history. In October 2009, McAfee promoted him to chief technology officer and executive vice president. Six months later, McAfee accidentally disrupted its customers’ operations around the world when it pushed out a faulty software update that turned its customers’ computers into doorstops.
- https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/20/helping-our-customers-through-the-crowdstrike-outage/
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insider-sale-chief-security-officer-044121767.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kurtz
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdStrike
- H/t Mindful Webworker for alerting me to this story.
CALIFORNICATION: When a 7-year-old added “any life” to her “Black Lives Matter” drawing, the principal came down on her hard for what he said was an inappropriate and racist act. He made her publicly apologize and banned her from recess and drawing pictures for two weeks.
Her parents sued the Orange County school district, claiming her First Amendment rights had been violated. A California judge recently found in favor of the principal. According to the judge, disciplining the little girl was the principal’s job, not the federal court’s.
Unfortunately, his decision did not address the standards set by SCOTUS in 1969 which requires that, before punishing a child for unpopular speech, a public school must establish that the speech itself constituted a “substantial disruption.”
I’m thinking the principal opened up the school district, and its taxpayers, to “substantial disruption” by making a mountain out of this little girl’s drawing. They’ve already had to pay out to defend the district in court and the case isn’t over. The Pacific Legal Foundation is representing the girl pro bono, and has appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
They say, “An elementary school is not a totalitarian environment in which students have no rights. The district court was wrong to claim otherwise and set a dangerous precedent, totally stripping elementary school students of their First Amendment rights.”
Personally, I am bewildered why the original complaint wasn’t handled with a little sit down between the two moms and their daughters, who are friends. According to the reports I read, nobody ever even explained to the wee artist why she was being punished!
- https://notthebee.com/article/california-judge-says-school-was-justified-in-punishing-7-year-old-who-said-all-lives-matter-because-shes-too-young-to-have-first-amendment-rights-
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independent_Community_School_District
- https://pacificlegal.org/case/capistrano-blm-free-speech-discipline/
DEI: Microsoft has disbanded its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) team. IOW, the entire staff of the Department of Didn’t Earn It has been found surplus to requirements. ::snork::
MICHIGAN: Trump and Vance held their first joint rally in Grand Rapids. I was curious how his ear is doing, so looked around for a close up (above). News reports say tens of thousands lined the streets to greet him and that the line to get into hear him was a mile long.
CLICK https://x.com/Jason/status/1814818248401231944 [:47] to see him mock his own combover. LOL
- https://notthebee.com/article/trump-took-time-during-his-first-rally-since-the-assassination-attempt-to-make-a-joke-about-his-combover-and-i-cant-stop-laughing
- https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/trump-rally-wraps-in-downtown-grand-rapids-tens-of-thousands-show-up
NEW HAMPSHIRE: On July 19, Gov. Sununu signed three bills and vetoed one that affect how schools, businesses, and medical establishments consider transgender-related issues.
The three approved bills include: HB1205, which keeps girls’ sports exclusive to girls; HB619, which bans genital gender reassignment surgery for minors; and HB1312, which gives parents more control over how, if at all, their children are taught about sex and gender at school.
The vetoed bill was HB396, which sought to protect private businesses and government agencies from repercussion for creating private spaces and facilities for men and women. Sununu said the problem of repercussions doesn’t exist in New Hampshire, so it did not require a law to fix it.
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/new-hampshire-bans-transgender-procedures-for-children-reserves-girls-sports-for-females-5690627
- https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=1501&inflect=2
- https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=71&txtFormat=html
- https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1379&txtFormat=html
- https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=630&txtFormat=html
POLITICO: “Little known”?! Where do these turkeys live … in a cave?
Wikipedia says, “The Lord of the Rings is considered one of the greatest fantasy books ever written, and it has helped to create and shape the modern fantasy genre. Since release, it has been reprinted many times and translated into at least 38 languages. Its enduring popularity has led to numerous references in popular culture, the founding of many societies by fans of Tolkien’s works, and the publication of many books about Tolkien and his works. It has inspired many derivative works, including paintings, music, films, television, video games, and board games. Award-winning adaptations of The Lord of the Rings have been made for radio, theatre, and film. It was named Britain’s best-loved novel of all time in a 2003 poll by the BBC called The Big Read.”
Joel Abbott has a scathing and lengthy response to the Politico article at Not The Bee (link below).
- https://notthebee.com/takes/politico-is-apparently-trying-to-cancel-jd-vance-by-highlighting-how-lord-of-the-rings-shaped-his-politics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings
TRUMP SHOOTING: I posted the gunshot analysis video above a few days ago. [20:37] – Update: Fox News has confirmed that there were three separate shooters. In addition to Crooks, a local police sniper fired at Crooks, but missed. A Secret Service sniper fired at Crooks and killed him.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGRqQ07uhVQ
CLICK https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1814735344195281196 [1:47] to watch the Fox News report. These three shooters only account for Crook (3 shots), the local sniper (1 shot), and the Secret Service sniper (1 shot). The audio analysis reveals there was a fourth shooter (4 shots).
CLICK https://x.com/BackThebluecool/status/1814489451051049093 [1:58] to see a speculative recreation of the 7 shots that came from Crooks’ direction. The yellow line is the first shot, the one that hit Trump’s ear and injured the spectator who survived. The green and blue lines appear to be the second and third shots Crooks took. Then there are four black lines that the audio analysis above attribute to the mystery shooter, one of which killed Comperatore. This video does not address the two shots fired at Crooks by local police and Secret Service snipers.
I’m confused about the shooting of Comperatore. His daughter said his first action was to throw her and her mother on the floor of the bleacher and cover them with his body. The reenactment shows him standing and getting hit in the head.
GRAMMY NOTES: I’m so proud of our Bunny! She got up in front of everybody at Mass on Sunday and lead the Responsorial Psalm, which was taken from Psalm 23. If you’re not familiar, the cantor (Bunny) sings the response line, then invites the congregation to repeat it. Then the cantor sings the verses solo, inviting the congregation to repeat the response line after each segment.
SHORT:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jhnvgF262PY. Cuz wow.
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