Saturday Miscellany

First, a few words from the seriously mentally challenged Kamala Harris:

Understand the difference here moving forward. Moving forward, understand the difference here. What we are looking at is a difference in this election. Let's move forward and see where we are.

I defy anyone to tell me what that means. 

Second, let us not ignore the idiocy of one Mark Cuban, who derides Trump for not being surrounded with strong, intelligent women-- when he says so in defense of a weak idiot. Evidently, you do not need to be smart to be rich.

Third, when Hamas demonstrators overtook the campus of Columbia University last spring, House Speaker Mike Johnson led a delegation of Republicans to meet with the Jewish students who were being persecuted and harassed. He met with the Columbia president and recommended that she not negotiate with Hamas supporters.

Where was the Biden Administration? Where was Chuck Schumer? Well, now we know. He was standing up to protect the anti-Semites.

Daniel Greenfield explains:

Sen. Schumer spent decades campaigning in the Jewish community as a "shomer" or "protector" of the Jews. The House report reveals that Sen. Schumer was actually a "shomer" for campus antisemites. This is why Schumer's numbers catastrophically collapsed among New York Jews from 82% to 45%

Fourth, Michelle Obama came out of hiding and tried to scare up some Kamala voters. At the least, her imagery was vivid:

If your wife is shivering and bleeding on the operating room table during a routine delivery gone bad, her pressure dropping as she loses more and more blood, or some unforeseen infection spreads and her doctors aren’t sure if they can act, you will be the one praying that it’s not too late. You will be the one pleading for somebody, anybody, to do something.

Of course, there is no such thing as a ban on treatment under these circumstances. 

Heather Mac Donald explains in the City Journal that Michelle Obama was lying. What a surprise!

The former First Lady proffered the hilarious thesis that females are discouraged from talking about their bodies and their “reproductive health.” One could have sworn that that is almost all we have been talking about this election season. According to Obama, we need more discussions of menstruation and menopause—presumably, discussions emanating from the White House. Naturally, she sounded the maudlin note that females were prematurely dying because of male indifference. In fact, females live nearly six years longer than males; males die of diabetes at a 60 percent higher rate than females; the male cancer death rate is 189.5 deaths per 100,000, compared with 135.7 cancer deaths per 100,000 women. The federal government showers billions of taxpayer dollars on women’s health initiatives; men get virtually nothing coded to their sex. And yet amazingly, it is women who are underserved, according to Obama’s harangue to insufficiently chivalric males: “And in those terrifying moments when something goes wrong—which will happen at some point to the vast majority of women in this country—let me tell you, it feels like the floor falls out from under us . . . And look, I don’t expect any man to fully grasp how vulnerable this makes us feel.”

It’s always nice to have a few facts with your morning coffee. They ought to be an effective antidote to the falsehoods peddled by aspiring demagogues.

Fifth, after calling Trump supporters garbage, and having his staff and his flunkies lie about it, Joe Biden went out to bite the toes of some babies.

And we had thought that Biden was merely suffering from a hair sniffing fetish. Think of how painful it must have been for him to avoid sucking toes for all these many years. Now, of course, he has been liberated from the requirements of decorum and propriety.

You cannot make it up.

Sixth, in the matter of Yahya Sinwar, formerly head of Hamas, recently executed by Israeli soldiers, you might ask yourself what the United Nations has to say about it all.

Well, Nellie Bowles, of the TGIF column in the Free Press, explains:

When Israel killed the head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, they could have been gentler about it. Did you ever think about that? Here is United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the matter: “They killed him in a way that is quite inhumane. I do not believe that this is justice. I find that it is a use of violent force.” I’m no general but usually when you kill the head of a terrorist organization, some violent force is involved. They don’t sit him down like, “Hey, so there’s been a restructuring.” I think that’s probably for the best. 

Seventh, in due time business schools will be offering courses in what went wrong with Boeing. Some have suggested that the management error lay in handing the company to a group of accountants, rather than a group of engineers.

Anyway, the new management is trying to right the ship at Boeing. Among their most recent actions -- ridding the company of the diversity, equity and inclusion department.

The New York Post reports:

Boeing reportedly dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) department as part of an overhaul of its operations ordered by the company’s new top executive — becoming the latest major company to ditch the controversial initiative.

The aerospace giant — which was slammed by tech mogul Elon Musk for prioritizing DEI over safety and quality controls after a near-catastrophic blowout during an Alaska Airlines flight — said staff from its DEI office would be absorbed into another human resources team focused on talent and employee experience, according to Bloomberg News.

Sara Liang Bowen, a company vice president who was put in charge of the now-defunct DEI unit, left the company on Thursday.

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