Comments on: Open thread 7/28/21 https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:23:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567075 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:23:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567075 Wouldn’t want to bet on it, but maybe just maybe the powers that be will grant dispensation to the Cleveland MLB Team formerly known as the “I******” to get their name back….
https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1420473988795539458

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567074 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:18:36 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567074 Meanwhile, back at the Democratic/Info-Tech/Media-collusion-shenanigans ranch:

Sherlock Holmes (or should that be Harry Potter?) and The Case of the Missing (or rather “Disappeared”) Lawsuit:
https://libertycenter.org/cases/ohandley-v-padilla/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567069 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:30:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567069 According to the tenets of current literary criticism, it’s clear that Captain Ahab is the first Woke Yankee whaling captain in recorded history—clearly trying to atone for all our “1619 Project” sins while committed to his own self destruction; a cautionary tale, no doubt.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/heart-whiteness-frontpagemagcom/

No doubt the belugas are getting really nervous. Oh well, there goes the whale watching season on the St. Lawrence…. (not that the Delta variant was helping matters any).
…Did someone mention the Delta variant?
https://fee.org/articles/despite-delta-alarmism-us-covid-deaths-are-at-lowest-level-since-march-2020-harvard-and-stanford-professors-explain/
…and in “Antibody Dependent Enhancement” news (OTOH, maybe one shouldn’t even think about going there….):
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1420447404726312961

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567063 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:41:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567063 @LeClerc:

My mission is to Bring Home the Bacon, Good Sir.

What Kraken? Ain’t no Kraken. Cantonese ate the last of those a while back. Thing was so big it caused a global shortage of XO Sauce and a run on Carlsberg to wash it down.

But there’s still a White Whale out here… and Captain Om is on his case. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show (Unlike yours which tanked.. geddit? geddit?).

]]> By: LeClerc https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567054 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:15:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567054 Neo’s Far East correspondent (while captive in fortune cookie factory) still manages to bring the kraken.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567049 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:54:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567049 Absolutely fascinating.

I post a comment here about China’s move to institute new laws in PRC Proper and Hong Kong legal systems outlawing compliance by companies operating in these jurisdictions with US Sanctions against China or Chinese Individuals. I mention that this sounds not totally unlike anti-BDS legislation in the USA… Forgot to mention that at least the Chinese Laws are aimed at protecting *Chinese* interests (radical concept, I know).

Imagine my surprise when I come back an hour or so later and find that my comment has disappeared…

It’s only a matter of time before Chinese own enough US State politicians to have a bunch of US States outlaw any China Boycotts, Divestments, or Sanctions.

The more immediate question, though… Is how long this comment sticks around for 🙂

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567035 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 04:23:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567035 More from the Can Do Department:

There’s currently a Taliban delegation visiting Beijing. They’re there to make a deal. Basically they won’t harbour Chinese Uighur separatists and China won’t tell them not to sodomise little boys and farm animals and won’t try to force them to throw out thousands of years of Tradition and become de-racinated GloboHome Pod People. It’s a win-win.

It’s not nice. It’s a bit grim. But it’s how adults conduct diplomacy. And it didn’t cost trillions of wasted dollars and a swimming pool or three full of Flyover People’s Blood, guts and limbs. Some could do well to learn from it.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567022 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 03:06:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567022 Some excellent HK Street Photography here:

I went for the technical discussion — was linked in a photography forum I follow — and stayed on for the photos:

https://medium.com/rokkorxblog/sony-a7rii-a7riii-a7iii-thin-filter-mod-d854c63fb1a0

iPhones with their multiple lenses and computational photography can do amazing things, but there’s still a certain magic about full frame (or larger) digital sensors and Serious Glass whether new or vintage.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567020 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:35:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567020 Ungrateful Entitled Mega-Privileged and Wealthy High Caste (Dot) Indian Immigrants and their Offspring Shitting on White Americans Per Usual (No! Really??? Bbbbbutttt Muh Nikki Haley!!!):

https://unherd.com/2020/09/how-brahmins-lead-the-fight-against-white-privilege/

Bring back Suttee. Lord Napier was an idiot.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/28/open-thread-7-28-21/#comment-2567019 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:22:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108928#comment-2567019 https://vdare.com/posts/nature-lack-of-people-of-colour-in-old-science-images-must-be-fixed

Excellent. Let’s Photoshop out some problematic Jewish Science 😀

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