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Here’s what we don’t discuss on this week’s show: not a word about Sharpie markers, maps, or the tracking of certain weather events. Nope, not a word. Here’s what we do talk about: The WSJ’s Kim Strassel stops by to talk about Comey, Mueller, and an investigation that went far off the rails (P.S. feel free to pre-order her new book, which she will discuss in more detail on the show next month). Then, we debut a couple of new features: first, The Long Poll (we’re still working on the name…). Look for it on the top right of the page, vote, and help Rob fulfill his dream of mainstream media mentions from his elite media buddies. Then, say hello to Lileks’ Post of The Week, in which James himself selects a member written post for Ricochet Podcast fame and glory. Who wins this week’s coveted mention? You’ll have to tune in to find out!
Music from this week’s episode: Hurricane by Lin Manuel-Miranda from Hamilton
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@JamesLileks what’s the name of the app that shows you the flights overhead? My wife is always saying “I wonder where that plane is going?” It would be fun to have the answer.
@misterdog, there is a website that I visit called planefinder.net. They have an app as well, but I’ve never used it.
Yes, I was making a Spartacus joke.
Try PublicVue Portal. One proviso: there’s a time delay of several minutes, apparently for security reasons.
FlightRadar24
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flightradar24-flight-tracker/id382233851
Chalk it up to being another rare member benefit of belonging to Ricochet–Lileks might be reading your post! Feel enshrined, for the cost of a once-a-month coffee at Starbucks!
I guess everyone is going to start titling their posts “Hey @jameslileks” from now on . . .
Nah, that never worked for me.
Is it true each one of Rob’s ribbons is for an interrupted segue?
Also, what about Robinson? What’s going to be his weekly podcast escapade?
My vote: Peter’s Pop Culture Adventures.
He can interview and sing a duet with a different pop star every week! I’d pay top dollar to hear him with Liz Phair, singing one of her songs with the more explicit lyrics . . .
Peter’s Pop Culture Adventures can be alternated with Peter’s Adventures with Modern Technology. :-)
I vote Buttigeig. Gay white guy likely to suppress Black and Hispanic turn out (maybe even some illegals stay home).
I hope Bernie gets the nod. Not just a landslide but debates that will be fun and utterly nuts.
Thanks all for the tips
I read an interesting story in today’s newspaper. Lots of people are upset about tariffs especially on farm products etc. But there’s a side benefit: food banks and such are getting a lot more stuff, and better stuff too, including fresh dairy and meat.
That seems like a very good thing to me. Shouldn’t we be making sure our own low-income people are well fed, before selling it to communists whose very system of government makes it impossible for them to feed themselves?
Hmmn, but if it is going to them for lost profit, it puts our farmers in a worse position.
No the farmers are being paid for it, remember? That’s one of the complaints against the tariffs. They might actually be getting paid more than the Chinese pay, and farm exports are often subsidized anyway. Plus this way our own people are getting fed better. Would it be smarter to sell it to North Korea so their “soldiers” aren’t 5′ tall or less? Sure, let’s make the enemy’s military stronger! As long as there’s a profit! Does the phrase “we’ll sell them the rope they use to hang us” no longer mean anything? If they think they’re superior, they should prove it by feeding themselves.
Amazingly, Rob Long doesn’t know that the Federal government has been regulating your toilet for a generation:
“The Energy Policy Act of 1992, which became law in 1994, mandates a maximum flush volume of 1.6 gallons for toilets manufactured and installed after this date.” — https://homeguides.sfgate.com/federal-regulations-toilet-gallons-88640.html
As I recall, when the Republicans came roaring in shortly after that, they tried to repeal the regulation, but the cause of freedom was betrayed by a moderate Republican Congresswoman from, I think, Arizona. She was influenced by the plumbers (all the clog$!) and the toilet makers (units with jet engine$!).
One of the guys (Peter?) said he was astonished, watching the global warming talkathon, by how far left Democrats have gone. He kept waiting for good sense to reassert itself, but it never did.
I remember watching the McGovern convention of 1972, where they put the radicals on in the wee hours of the morning to hide them from the public. There was the lesbian delegate at about 2:30 AM, exclaiming that “we believe in people loving people – men, women, and children!”
I think leftists tunneled into the Democratic Party back then and dissimulated their real views, like sleeper agents. Now, they’re just coming out of the closet.
True, it was global cooling, not global warming back then. However, the basic point is that the environment — for one reason or another or another — always requires a socialist economy, and that point has remained consistent over the past 50 years.
The left, having taken over the indoctrination of the young, merely needed for the older generation – the people who had been brought up to love their country and believe in private property and freedom of speech – to pass away.
Incidentally, this is why I am pessimistic about Brexit. As the patriotic generation dies off, they are replaced by young people who have been taught their country is especially evil in all the world, and by immigrants who were never sentimentally attached to Britain in the first place.
We made the best civilization that has ever been and we hate ourselves for it.
It seems to me O’Rourke should have been included since he’s one of the ten Democrats who qualified for the September and October debates.
Could I change my vote to Tulsi? At least she is against abortion in the 3rd trimester which makes her slightly less reptilian than the rest of them.
All that means is she can’t possibly get the nomination. Unless she “grows” in the meantime and “sees the light.”
Oops. Beto was supposed to be in the poll. It was supposed to be the ten in the debate (which is why Tulsi is not in there). But I simply forgot about Beto.
I can’t believe you would forget ol’ whatsisname.
I’ve given up on correcting errors in the promos sections. Nobody else seems to care, so why should I?
And considering the different reasons people have for picking their “favorite” Democrat to run against Trump – the one they figure is most likely to lose, or the one they figure is most likely to win, etc, etc – the poll is actually worthless.
‘Struth.
What is the “promos sections”?