Today in Western civilization.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Racin’ Cars
It’s a Hot Wheels track!
The second day of Formula E testing has been canceled after a fire brought the first day of running at Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo to an early halt.
After Robert Shwartzman’s DS Penske stopped on track in the morning session, the car’s battery was removed by supplier Williams Advanced Engineering. It subsequently caught fire, resulting in a paddock evacuation and one WAE staff member being taken to a local hospital as a precaution. […]
The fire is the first incident of its kind in Formula E’s 10-season history, but follows one at July’s World Rallycross event at Lydden Hill in the UK which destroyed Special ONE Racing’s cars and equipment, ruling it out for the remainder of the season.
h/t Allan
Don’t Worry, It’s Transitory
Subprime auto loans, which are issued to people with lower credit scores, are falling into past-due status at an alarming rate, reaching the highest rates of borrowers behind on loans in almost 30 years.
Subprime borrowers at least 60 days past due on their car loans grew to 6.11 percent last month, the highest rate since 1994. A combination of rising interest rates and higher purchase prices have made monthly payments more expensive than before, and an unstable job market isn’t helping the situation.
Repossessions are expected to show an increase this year of up to 300,000 actions as bills pile up for unfortunate buyers. As Automotive News pointed out, interest rates for subprime borrowers can be as much as three times more than those for everyone else, pushing payments up by hundreds a month in some cases.
Isabelle M. Ayala vs American Academy Of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics and several leading doctors are being sued for civil conspiracy, fraud, and medical malpractice!
Isabelle Ayala was just 14 years old and struggling with trauma, depression, cutting, and suicidal ideation when she was coerced onto testosterone by ideologically captured doctors who push childhood sex changes.
Isabelle has suffered from vaginal atrophy from the extensive use of testosterone; she deals with excess facial and body hair; she struggles with compromised bone structure; she is unsure whether her fertility has been irreversibly compromised; she still has mental health issues and deals with episodes of anxiety and depression, further compounded by a sense of regret; and she has since contracted an autoimmune disease that only the males in her family have a history of.
Under the AAP’s so-called ‘gender-affirmative care’ model, the charlatans named in this lawsuit advocate for the immediate, unquestioned embrace of a child’s chosen ‘gender identity.’
They also advocate for immediate ‘social transitioning’ of the child to the newly chosen gender identity, and encourage puberty blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones.
Notably, at least four of the six members of the Committee including Defendants Dr. Rafferty, Dr. Forcier, Dr. Allen, and Dr. Sherer —worked at pediatric gender clinics that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to patients as young as 10 and
Instead of supporting the conclusions and recommendations contained in the policy statement with scientific evidence, they fraudulently and misleadingly cited evidence that did not support any of their conclusions and recommendations, and they knowingly misrepresented the known risks and dangers of some of the medical interventions the policy statement promoted.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Douglas Murray: This is the woman ITV invited on to talk about ‘Islamophobia’ this week, and how tough it is to live in Britain. Here she is on the day of the Hamas massacres.
What Would We Do Without Models?
Morning update: Scenes of significant damage are beginning to come in.
Morning devastation.
If you’re anywhere near Acapulco, take cover.
In a shocking turn of events, Hurricane #Otis in the Eastern Pacific has unexpectedly, explosively intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in just 12 hours.
Even worse, the storm is expected to make a catastrophic landfall tonight as a Category 5 hurricane near Acapulco, Mexico, home to 1 million people.
Only 18 hours ago, people were expecting a tropical storm at landfall, and now a devastating Category 5 storm is likely.
This is pretty much a worst-case scenario, as residents have little time to find a safe shelter and protect life and property from this life-threatening storm.
A major hurricane (Category 3+) has never made landfall within 50 miles of Acapulco, let alone a Category 5 hurricane.
Otis could become the first Eastern Pacific hurricane ever recorded to make landfall as a Category 5 in Mexico.
Anyone in or near Acapulco should rush storm preparations to completion as their is little time left to shelter from #Otis.
Ryan Maue – “Nightmare scenario” for coastal Mexico…
Honey, I Finished The Freeland News Conference
Signs of Duper’s Delight
The Urban Bigot
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The Libranos: See Them Scramble
Y2Kyoto: Hockey Night In Seattle
Climate Pledge Arena: “The CEO was up in the rafters playing electrician”
“she has undertaken a number of unilateral actions that have undermined our collective work”
Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I won’t leave the house this winter without my Firebox Titanium Nano Stove.
I just fired a student, a first for me. 55 minutes into our THIRD session on his college personal statement, I started seeing lines get crossed out in the Google doc, and EDITED by a third person. He said “I have someone else looking at my essay now, I’ll tell her to wait.
I asked “Who is this other person?” He said “She’s a friend of the family, a professional grant writer, and she helped her son get into University of Chicago.”
“We are investigating the facts around the incident and our legal options concerning the employee”
Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Media Will Never Forgive Israel for Not Bombing That Hospital: Few things are as dangerous as the newsroom that wants a story to be true.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
The Ford Mustang Mach-E has had some weird recalls in its short time on sale, including one for the glass roof, which could separate and fly off while driving. Its most recent recall is also weird, but it’s also a little embarrassing: The electric SUV could experience a component failure in its battery pack that occurs while DC fast charging or romping on the accelerator.
Ford recalled almost 35,000 2021 and 2022 Mustang Mach-Es equipped with the extended-range battery for the issue. Recall documentation states that DC fast charging and “repeated wide open pedal events” could overheat the high-voltage battery main contactors, causing them to deform and arc. That could cause a loss of power and increase the risk of a crash.
Diversity Is Our Strength
Additional footage as protestors affiliated with “Toronto4Palestine” swarm outside of Cafe Landwer and demand to boycott the “Zionist Cafe”. Protestors have posted pictures targeting staff working at the cafe. The organizer of this rally, Toronto4Palestine, initially celebrated the massacre of October 7th, and then later denied that it happened. They have also engaged in Holocaust denial.
Eylon Levy Israeli Government Spokesman announces release of unseen Hamas bodycam footage for international media.
We could use a woman like Oriana right about now.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
I think it is rather important to listen to the radio broadcast of "The Obsolete Man" written by
Rod Serling in 1961.Radio added a dimension that video could not.
Close your eyes and see how this applies to our time, this moment. pic.twitter.com/OS2GQiEpWx
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 21, 2023
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Rise Of The Deplorables
Populist right tops Swiss elections
The SVP’s election campaign focused on its favourite theme: the fight against “mass immigration” and the prospect of the Swiss population reaching 10 million.
Its “New normal?” social media adverts, spotlighting criminal cases perpetrated by foreigners, plunged into a world of bloodied knives, hooded criminals, fists, bruised faces and frightened women.
It also launched a war on “cancel culture” and what it calls “gender terror and woke madness”.
“The situation in Switzerland is serious: we have mass immigration, we have big problems with people seeking asylum. The security situation is no longer the same as before,” Thomas Aeschi, head of the SVP parliamentary group, told AFP.
“There are many people in Switzerland who fear the situation will get worse.”
The SVP — which is strongly anti-EU — fiercely defends Switzerland’s long-standing military neutrality and feels Bern pushed the principle too far by matching EU sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine.
Aeschi said the SVP “wants good relations with the European Union but what we don’t want is an agreement where Switzerland must do what the EU says”.