CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Former Pelosi Aides Cash in as Coronavirus Lobbyists.

PROCUREMENT BLUES: Bath Shipyard Scrambles As Thousands Retire; Months Behind On Destroyer Work, Says President.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: New FBI document confirms the Trump campaign was investigated without justification. But we’ll be lucky if they pay any serious price at all.

HOWIE CARR ON “TALL DEVAL” CHARLIE BAKER AND CORONAVIRUS: Can I get me some regime change here?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Flashback: As Biden and Kerry Went Soft on China, Sons Made Nuclear, Military Business Deals with Chinese Gov’t.

CHANGE: Cuomo Shifts Focus to Reopening NYC.

PROJECTION MUCH? Roger Waters: Evangelical Christians ‘Hate the Jews.’

THE CENTRAL PARK DOG CASE IS COVINGTON 2.0:

Franklin Templeton is a deep-pocketed firm that publicly damned Ms. Cooper as obviously a racist after taking very little time to weigh the facts, in a post that has generated hundreds of thousands of likes. This was tantamount to announcing that any other firm that might be interested in employing Ms. Cooper in the future was a haven for racism. What is she supposed to do with her life now? If I were Ms. Cooper, I would be focused on one potential source of income only: Suing my former employer for its libel and demanding a hefty sum.

Read the whole thing.

ICYMI: Cuomo’s Deadly Nursing Home Policy Likely Cost 10,000 Lives So Far.

AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR: Pentagon Will Present Timelines for Afghanistan Withdrawal to Trump.

SO I HAVE A NEW STORY UP. KIND OF. THIS CALLS FOR A STORY ON THE STORY, SO PULL UP A ROCK: Twenty two years ago, my husband had a traveling job, five days a week.  I was home with a six year old and a tthree and a half year old, six days a week. I was going slightly insane, cleaning, cooking and trying to break into publishing.
So, of course, I needed a hobby. Something I could do after the kids were in bed.
…  I know. Writing! But this time without the “will they accept me?” pressure.  I decided to go for fanfic, but since I rarely watch TV, I had trouble finding fanfic where I knew the original work.  Until I found various Jane Austen fanfic sites.

Over the next three? four? years I made some friendships that last to this day, and also learned more about writing than I learned in any workshop.  If you’re observant, you see from comments what is hitting, what is going over the readers’ heads, and what makes a big impact.

About three months ago, I realized I could now sell fanfic (this is proof I’m slow. I mean, I read a lot of JA fanfic when stressed, so I should know) and had a couple of stories finished and a few near-finished at a free site.  So I contacted the admin and asked her to remove them from site so I could publish.

Okay, back on:
THIS IS THE FIRST JANE AUSTEN FANFIC I EVER WROTE.  ALSO, I WASN’T ON ANY KIND OF DRUG, AND WASN’T EVEN DRINKING WHEN I WROTE IT.  YES, THIS ASSURANCE IS NECESSARY.What if He Were to Pick Me: A Pride And Prejudice Variation With A Dash of Insanity.

What if Mr. Darcy, trying to avoid the appearance of being lofty and proud, so far mistook himself as to be charmed by Lydia Bennet?
How long could the fair strumpet lady hold his interest? How would Elizabeth Bennet feel about it?
As all the Bennet sisters fall into the strangest of relationships, you’ll fear you lost your mind. But you haven’t. Just grab your sweetie and a whip – in case of unruly pillows – and hire a Bennet coach to Gretna Green. They have the best carriages, and guarantee no one will catch you.
Then hold on to your hat. You’re in for the ride of your life.

FORMER PELOSI AIDES ARE CASHING IN AS CCP VIRUS LOBBYISTS: Yes, I’m trying to duplicate Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face, but it’s just not happening. And for the record, a bunch of former Trump appointees did the same thing, notes Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon.

YES: Make ‘Temporary’ Regulatory Relief Permanent After the Pandemic Passes: The health crisis revealed red tape that hobbles our lives even in good times.

Early in the response to the pandemic, localities hard-hit by COVID-19 invited medical professionals working in more fortunate places to temporarily relocate and help treat afflicted patients. To make such moves possible, state governments suspended or loosened licensing requirements that would otherwise delay and discourage doctors, nurses, and others hoping to lend a hand. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services similarly eased restrictions on cross-border practice of medicine, telehealth, testing, and other services. The Food and Drug Administration stepped-down regulation of personal protective equipment and medical devices. Local governments cut all sorts of red tape to make life a bit easier.

Many rules that served as tedious bureaucratic obstructionism in good times were quickly revealed as dangerous and potentially deadly during a crisis and tossed aside. And that’s where those rules should remain after the pandemic is gone⁠—on the garbage heap of failed authoritarian policy.

“Sometimes, destruction may create an opportunity for future growth, if the destruction includes the piled-up layers of interest group guano that coats the gears of the system,” writes Michael Munger, a professor of political science, economics, and public policy at Duke University. “Our systems of occupational licensing—always a mook’s game, but now clearly preventing rapid response to emergencies in other states—drug and medical equipment certification, and regulating employment in the ‘gig’ economy, have all been shown to be catastrophic. The economic justification for these grants and set-asides was never persuasive. Let’s get rid of them!”

Get rid of them, indeed! But how much guano are we talking about?

Heaps.

ABOUT TIME:  “Americans Don’t Get Ruled”.

DUH:  The “Obstruction of Justice Trap” – Former AAG Matt Whitaker Confirms Mueller Probe Was Used As Weapon to Cover Coup Effort….

IT WON’T BE. IF THEY TRY TO PUSH IT…. IT’S NOT GOING TO GO WELL FOR THEM:  This so-called ‘new normal’ had better not be the permanent ‘normal’.

DO WE HAVE ANY PROOF IT’S INVOLUNTARY?  How is Gov. Cuomo Not Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter?

NO REASON TO QUESTION LOCKDOWN. AT THIS POINT IT IS A CONCLUSIVELY PROVEN BAD IDEA:  COVID19 update, May 27, 2020: Norwegian official report now questions necessity of lockdown; Dr. John Campbell on The Lancet hydroxychloroquine study.

SAFER — AND SANER AT HOME — UNLESS YOU WANT THE SCHOOL TRAINING YOUR KID ON HOW TO BE A REEDUCATION CAMP INMATE:  LAUSD 2020-21 School Reopening Plan: Child Prison.

NONE of this is needed. Children don’t seem to either catch the Peking Pox or really pass it on.  So, why are the schools doing this?  Ask yourself that.

LIKE VETS “FIX” YOUR PET:  Joe Biden Camp: He’ll Fix the Economy!

SURE. BUT “BUREAUCRATS” IS THE QUICKER WAY TO REFER TO THEM:  Cannibal Rats: Another Consequence of Lockdown.

Oh, you mean literal cannibal rats?  My apologies. To THEM. No one wants to be called a bureaucrat, after all.

SOME THINGS SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN:  Biden History Of Racial Gaffes Sticking Around.

WHILE THE WEST LARPED THE APOCALYPSE: Hong Kong on the Brink of Communist Control With Beijing’s Latest Aggression: Experts.