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March 1, 2020
FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY, AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD WAS BORN: Christian News Satire Site Launches.
“This is a sad day for America, and a sad day for the world,” remarked a teary-eyed President Obama in an emergency press conference from the White House. “Look,” he continued, “news satire has a long, storied history as an important and effective tool for articulating a specific brand of worldview: far-left, anti-religion, naturalist, nihilist—in a word, reasonable. The very idea of Christian satire is an outrage and has no place in our society, or among civilized people anywhere.”
After a brief pause to gather himself, the President continued, “Are we really OK living in a world in which some Christian version of The Onion freely publishes Christ-centered news satire? There are even reports that The Babylon Bee already has a roster of talented contributors.”
Snopes would never be the same.
THIS POST SPONSORED BY THE TYRELL CORPORATION: Sex robots with ‘coding flaws’ prone to ‘sexually assaulting humans.’
FLAILING FAUXCAHONTAS SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE:
● Shot: “I’m not doing big-dollar fundraisers, I’m not selling ambassadorships to donors, I’m not cozying up to super PACs.”
—Elizabeth Warren releases new anti-corruption campaign ad in Iowa, ABC News, December 23rd.
● Chaser: Elizabeth Warren Now Has The Largest Super PAC In The Democratic Field.
—The Huffington Post, Friday.
FIGHT THE POWER: Oregon Engineer Makes History With New Traffic Light Timing Formula. “Today, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) formally announced that it voted to adopt a new formula for determining the timing of traffic lights. The vote vindicates the theory of Mats Järlström, who was fined $500 by the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying for publicly criticizing traffic light timing without first obtaining a professional engineering license.”
COMRADE SANDERS DECLARES WAR ON THE WHOLE U.S. ECONOMY.
Democrat front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders has responded to his disastrous 60 Minutes interview by releasing a plan for how he would raise the estimated $60 to $94 trillion necessary (he doesn’t know exactly how much it all costs, and don’t ask him) to pay for his massive socialist social programs. These programs include abolishing private health insurance to replace it with a government-run universal Medicare, pushing the so-called “Green New Deal” to force the economy onto expensive and as yet unreliable energy sources, and even a $1.5 trillion government-funded child care program that he nevertheless dubs “free.” He claims he would pay for that by taxing “extreme wealth.” Sanders would also drastically weaken the military, abolish ICE, and effectively open our borders while expanding the welfare state to cover illegal immigrants.
The Sanders plan to pay for all this is less serious, as a plan, than your average dorm room philosopher’s pot-inspired sophistry to save the world, man. It’s also an all-out assault on the American economy and, in particular, on the energy-producing states including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wyoming, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ohio, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, Alaska, and Texas. In that sense, it’s very serious.
And California and the Democrat-controlled Congress are getting a jump on things! California and federal politicians want to destroy millions of freelance jobs – We can’t let them win.
The same language that was used in AB5 was, according to Davis, snuck into federal legislation that passed the House earlier this month called the PROAct.
This law, which is heavily pro-union and seeks to repeal right-to-work laws, also encompasses doing away with freelancing.
This awful legislation threatens the entire backbone of our economy. Davis says, “With the PROact looming on the horizon for the country at large, California artists and freelancers are not giving up this fight, but instead will double our efforts as we move into election season.”
What you can do about all of this? If you are in California, you should call or email your state representatives to oppose AB5, and federally, you should call and email your representatives and senators and ask them to oppose the PROact.
And in general, my advice is this: Don’t vote for people, whether “democratic socialists” or otherwise, who believe that the government knows what is right for you better than you do and who want the government to limit your freedoms.
Hopefully Cocaine Mitch will let the PROAct die in the Senate. Stay tuned.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to prepare for a viral epidemic.
COVERING THE IMPORTANT NEWS: Jif peanut butter to release limited edition Jif-GIF jars to settle ‘great debate.’
Well, that’s how I was taught to pronounce it, by the original 1996 spiral-bound Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age, an elegant little book, written in a more civilized era, when the publication still leaned libertarian, prior to its being acquired by the massive Condé Nast empire.
QUALITY HAS NOT BEEN JOB ONE: Boeing says longer Starliner software tests could have prevented flight failure.
EIGHT YEARS AGO TODAY: RIP, Andrew Breitbart, the Ultimate Happy Warrior.
We visited a Hutong (inner city – where the locals live) and saw raw chickens, skinned and bleeding, just laying on the floor, waiting to be thrown on a restaurant grill…for public consumption. No FDA or USDA or food inspectors or “codes” to comply with, here. But why? This is the last purely communist country on earth. You’d think there would be red tape everywhere. What was happening here?
Then, my wife and I had to rush our newly adopted, 8-month-old daughter to the public hospital…and suddenly it all started making sense.
As we stepped in more urine, took our number from the print-out machine, walked past the line of children whining and crying from the scalp IVs in their heads, then rushed to clean up blood and mucus (left by the last patient) on the plastic table they were now laying our baby on, then waited on the ONE overworked doctor (attending to no less than three hundred people) try to round up a basic anti-biotic to administer to my daughter (right there on site – no refills) it dawned on me what I was seeing and what I had been seeing this whole time. I wasn’t watching a “backward” culture or a third-world society. These people weren’t genetically inferior to first-worlders. They weren’t “less-evolved” than I was.
I was witnessing the kind of maximum, almost brutal efficiency a society must develop when the state is the master and the individual is merely a subject. Why would a Communist country not have an effective FDA? Because who are you going to complain to if you get tainted food? The government? They don’t answer to you. The press? They are owned by the government. And again, they don’t answer to you.
So what if you don’t like the conditions in the hospital? Where else are you going to go? This hospital is the last (and only) stop. You can’t opt for another place and then just pay out of your own pocket. The government has capped financial upward mobility. There is now “income equality.” And that means nobody has the means to buy their way into a different (or better) situation. And even if you could, one doesn’t exist. The state provides it all. You’re stuck.
Exit quote: “The thing about free-market solutions when it comes to healthcare, is that if they don’t work, you can always trash them and go to a public option. But once you nationalize healthcare, there is no going back. And that terrifies me. I’ve seen the natural conclusion of what happens when only one buyer is purchasing gauze and morphine; when one source pays the doctors and nurses.” Definitely read the whole thing.
(Via James Woods, now back on Twitter.)
DEBLASIO’S NEW YORK: Subway Robberies More Than Double in One Year.
DNC-MSM DUSTING OFF KATRINA PLAYBOOK: Facebook Fact-Checkers Admit Trump Never Said Coronavirus Was ‘a Hoax.’
Blocking Sanders with Biden is tantamount to writing off the Democratic party’s own youth activist wing. No one Biden could pick as his running mate would have the pull with the left-wing youth that Sanders has. And beating Trump in November will put Democrats in the awkward position of having to govern without the two-chamber congressional majorities and the massive popular mandate that Barack Obama came into office with in 2009.
Read the whole thing.