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Monday, April 15. 2024

Monday morning links

 An 85-year-old woman was handcuffed to a chair during an armed home invasion. She killed the robber and survived.


 Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane


 DR MAX PEMBERTON: It's time to prescribe some tough love: How work can help cure the mental health epidemic


 The Prophets: Eric Hoffer - In 1951, a book by an unschooled dockworker predicted the forces that would give rise to radical politics on the left, populism on the right—and a president like Donald Trump.


 The Bargain with Government Is Coming Apart


 Rebranding DEI: How Colleges Are Getting Around State Bans


 Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff?


 'Revolutionary Suicide': UCLA Psychiatrists Cheer Self-Immolation in Leaked Audio. Med school talk glorified self-harm, violated CDC guidance, experts say


 The NPR Fallout. Iran’s Attack. Plus. . .A sneak peek from our debate in Dallas. Heartbreak for the ‘Golden Bachelor.’ And more.


 "This Person Is A Crazy Racist": New NPR CEO Exposed As Woke Activist


 The Week In Doom: Follow The Science Edition


 Biden Admin Locking Down HALF of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve From Energy Development


The Group Quota Regime 


 Ontario resident who wants both a vagina and penis wins public funding for unique surgery


JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning


 The Inevitable Result of Intersectional Gender Studies


 The Arsonist - Tucker Carlson whitewashed murderers to set fire to evangelical-Jewish relations


 It increasingly feels as though the Biden administration is sacrificing Israel at the altar of electoral calculation. 


 REMINDER: The Biden Administration Granted Iran Billions in New Sanctions Relief Just One Month Ago


 A SLOW-MOTION WAR


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Tucker Carlson has a nice little market carved out for himself. He rants about the progressives and socialists, and sells ads for people who want to nod their heads to something that sounds right but you don't need to think about much. He's the dead weight in the conservative community; most talking heads are.
#1 jack walter on 2024-04-15 09:38 (Reply)
re Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

It's an interesting story and explains a lot.

Still .; . . When was the last time a Boeing plane crashed in the United States from a structural or mechanical failure?

The article is very pro-union, but I don't know what that has to do with the gist of the story. Union membership does not magically bestow competency.
#2 feeblemind on 2024-04-15 10:12 (Reply)
Boeing made the mistake that many corporations have made: Taking a reputable brand and re-configuring the business to extract capital from it, for the investor class. Hollowing out the industrial core and demolishing quality, in the process. They moved their executives from the factory floor to Chicago, and then Washington. Because their business focus moved from production to finances to political influence. There is a reason the CEO has been told to go.

The result is as plain as day. The 737 MAX has been a failure from its concept beginnings on the drawing board.

https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/transportation/2023-03-08/stockpile-of-boeing-737-max-jets-assures-moses-lake-years-of-work

Google Maps says this stockpile is years old:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Moses+Lake,+WA+98837/@47.2015357,-119.3010261,912m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x54993f358edfbbdb:0x3f50ebe5ece52024!8m2!3d47.1301417!4d-119.2780771!16zL20vMDEwcXA0?entry=ttu There are even more 737's stockpiled there now - unfinished.

Boeing will recover when they re-align their focus on delivering value in their produced airframes as their primary objective - not diverting cash to investors.
#2.1 Aggie on 2024-04-15 12:55 (Reply)
I think one of the worst practices in corporations is doing stock buybacks. It is the cheap and easy way to show more profit per share and pad the value of executive stock options.
Better to spend the money on engineering improvements and efficiency or tuition reimbursement for employees trying to better themselves in their job.
#2.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-04-15 13:42 (Reply)
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#2.1.2 Zachinoff on 2024-04-15 17:51 (Reply)
The Boeing story reminds me of the change in our country since 1960 or so. Putting people in charge who knew nothing but had an agenda. Getting rid of people who knew what they were doing and were trying to make things right. Now it's DEI which seems intended to make the previous efforts to destroy the country look like amateur hour.

I will add this to bolster feeblemind's point. I have worked in union shops and you would not believe the brazen and dedicated effort union members will go to in order to sabotage the company for even small real or imagined disagreements. All of the union members were/are Karens who spend their waking hours complaining and looking for things to complain about. Even on break in the break rooms the union members would argue and fight among themselves about who was more union or who has done more for the unions (which usually meant sabotaged the company or the product). One time a coworker and I were tasked to run a machine as the two other operators were out sick (LOL) and one of the other machine operators, who was a huge union prick, came over to us and said we were going too fast and we needed to slow down because we were making the rest of the workers look bad. The entire union ethos seemed to be go as slow as possible so that the company would need to ask you to work overtime so that you could get overtime pay.
Often we would be asked to really work hard on a job to get it done and then based on the amount of product/work completed we would stay for two hours overtime but since the work was already done we would play cards for those two hours. It just seemed like the entire purpose of the union was to bleed the company until it went bankrupt, which is exactly what happened.
#3 OneGuy on 2024-04-15 10:37 (Reply)
"UCLA Psychiatrists Cheer Self-Immolation".

Follow the link, see who they are and then understand that because of their religion and culture that we (the West) and them can never coexist. You must understand this and soon because they do and they intend to take power and kill or enslave you. Part of the reason we don't get this is because since the mid 50's we have been going through retrospective changes in our beliefs and understanding of people who are not from our culture. Most of that was good or OK for the first 30-40 years but in the last 30-40 years or so everything was changed to weaponize that idea and turn it against you (you; the West) by those who would destroy you. It also involves a lot of useful idiots which could make you think it is not some grand plan by foreign nations/cultures. But it is historically correct that useful idiots and enemies within are essential to overthrowing powerful countries. So it isn't only those who shout "death to America" who are your enemies, those who demand antihate speech laws or anti-gun laws are also your enemy and they intend to to see you dead.
#4 JustMe on 2024-04-15 10:54 (Reply)
Tablet Magazine has an agenda. That's fine, they don't hide it and it is why they exist. But they decided to come after Tucker. Interestingly NOT for the reasons they claim, Tucker didn't downplay the Oct 7th attack. What Tucker actually did was to point out that America is under attack, 100,000 deaths a year, and it is being downplayed and ignored intentionally. But he made the "mistake" of mentioning Oct 7th. You can't do that! They demand the media attention and you, no one of "you" are allowed to in any way use their issues because that makes you a hater or something and open to savage attack. Tucker did nothing wrong. His editorial wasn't anti-Israel and he didn't say anything in support of those who are anti-Israel. he merely touched that third rail and got shocked.

Tucker is a target of the left. He will either get lawfared, go to jail or commit suicide one day soon. I can't tell if this attack (stupid and senseless attack) by Tablet is part of that leftist hate or their own hate. But either way it was hate. Watch and see. Other, seemingly unrelated groups will ramp up the hate. They may use this same excuse or another silly excuse but once it starts it really doesn't matter anymore if it is silly or untrue it is built on top of the previous silly and untrue claims and becomes a mountain of silly and untrue bullshit. Tucker is a target! He is exposing things that our dear leaders don't want exposed and these seemingly unrelated and disparate groups will be used to take him down. Which ironically proves that Tuckers point in that editorial was right; our government doesn't give a shit about the 100,000 Americans killed by China pushing deadly drugs into our country.
#5 Anon on 2024-04-15 11:11 (Reply)
When Condon went downstairs again at some point, Jenneiahn dragged the chair she was handcuffed to into her bedroom and got her .357 Magnum revolver, which was under her pillow.

Pillow talk, pillow Glock.
#6 CapitalistRoader on 2024-04-15 11:14 (Reply)
I prefer Liar, liar, hands on Steyr. But that's just me.
#6.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2024-04-15 11:33 (Reply)
You all remember the Tet offensive. Terrible! Ask any Vietnam vet who was there at the time. The media played it up. It was a BFD. It really was. But how many believe it was a victory for Ho Chi Minh? In a way it was, a huge political victory. He sacrificed tens of thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands of young people to achieve that political victory and as he expected our news readers gave it to him. He couldn't have done it twice. He had almost nothing left after that suicide mission. He couldn't afford another "victory" like that. Without the effort of our own media to hide what a disastrous military move that was his leadership would have dissolved. It was all about how it would look on the world stage as reported by a media who hated the American military more than they hated communism.

But the recent attack by Iran on Israel was supposed to go the same way. All the anti-Israel sites and pundits are joyous over the attack and yet the attack was a colossal failure for a number of reasons. First the Iranian missiles were crap! Pure crap! You could have shot them down from a piper cub with a shotgun. Slow, indiscrete, easy targets. Second many of them didn't even work. They failed to launch or shortly after launch they failed and crashed or if they somehow made it to the end they didn't even come close to their target. Third, Israel's defense took out 99% of those missiles that didn't fail to launch, admittedly partly because they were slow fire spouting targets but whatever the reason they were shot down. This attack was a terrible military failure, so terrible that even the media couldn't resuscitate it into a success. The only possible conclusion is that either Iran has duped us all and made it appear that their missiles were shit so they could trick Israel into war OR their missles are indeed SHIT. If this is what they have to fight with they are going to lose biggly. Iran would be wise to shut their mouth now and go pray or something.
#7 Dave in LA on 2024-04-15 11:53 (Reply)
My thought is that Iran spent very little in comparison to Israel and allies. Many of the drones cost in the hundreds of dollars and the missiles to knock them down in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. In a war of attrition Iran wears Israel down. I think Israel knows this and its response will be to go for the throat. That scares the stuffing out of me.
#7.1 Don on 2024-04-15 14:42 (Reply)
I don’t think it’s so much the money, but the missiles themselves. How do they get replaced? Who manufactures them?

What’s left of the US manufacturing sector, is barely keeping up with Ukraine needs. And with Brandon (whom ever is pulling his strings) needing every Muslim vote he can get, he’s not going to work very hard for Israel’s defense.
#7.1.1 B. Hammer on 2024-04-15 15:56 (Reply)
I doubt they used many missiles to knock them down. Low tech drones like that are pretty slow and not stealthy. From the IDF footage I've seen they were in close and using guns. The Russians even brought an American drone in the Black Sea down by dumping some fuel on it. These things are not exactly cruise missiles.
#7.1.2 Lord Heathen on 2024-04-15 16:23 (Reply)
Spouse did mention that - serious as the situation was - it was a great time for the pilots to get good gunnery practice with all those lovely targets coming their way.
#7.1.2.1 Frances on 2024-04-16 00:51 (Reply)
Ontario resident who wants both a vagina and penis wins public funding for unique surgery

Well then they can go f___ themselves now, can't they.
#8 Libdis on 2024-04-15 15:50 (Reply)
I'm fine with that. When they can pay for it themselves, go ahead and have it done. Cold hard cash only. Oh and by the way the doctor and hospital that performs the surgery should not have insurance coverage for this nonsense.
#8.1 Don on 2024-04-15 16:26 (Reply)

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