A STEP TOWARD COLONIZATION: NASA rover Perseverance produces oxygen on Mars.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: The Panicked State of Our Terrible, Communist-Influenced Media.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Which is worse, that so many reporters are panicmongers because they’re panicked themselves, or that so many of their editors and employers are taking money from Beijing to spout the Party line?

Answer: We’re gonna drink our way through that one and get back to you.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Journalist has toddler with COVID, loses mind
• The universe mocks your liberal privilege
• Save the Earth, break other people’s stuff

Bonus Sanity: College kids turn against BLM when told where the money went.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

SOUNDS LIKE YOU’VE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WITH THAT ONE: Astronaut Kate Rubins: Fresh food in space is rare, desired.

OF COURSE, MOST COVID CASES ARE LIMITED AND MILD: CDC: Limited, mild COVID-19 cases seen among vaccinated people. My own case of Covid was limited and mild, and I wasn’t vaccinated. I assume if I get it again, it will also be limited and mild.

I’d like to see a really detailed comparison of reinfections among people who have had Covid versus infections among people who have been vaccinated.

IN ORDER TO DILUTE THE INFLUENCE (AND IGNORE THE CONCERNS) OF ACTUAL CITIZENS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. NEXT QUESTION? Why Does The Dallas City Council Want Illegal Aliens On Their Commissions?

IT’S COME TO THIS: Oscars Attendees Must Wear Masks… But Only Off-Camera.

But okay, here’s my question: How does a virus know when a camera is pointed at you and when it isn’t?

How is this filming protocol supposed to work, scientifically speaking? If two actors are in the same shot together, breathing the same air, what is the benefit of making them put on masks as soon as the scene is over? Does the virus just wait off-camera until they’re done?

And if Hollywood celebrities don’t need to wear masks while they’re on the clock, or sitting in the audience at the Oscars, why do the rest of us need to wear masks? Does a virus get star-struck? Does it say, “Oh no, I’d better not infect this guy, he’s Leonardo Di Caprio”?

Well yes. As America’s Newspaper of Record has reported: In Show Of Solidarity, COVID-19 Vows Not To Infect Anyone Protesting Inequality.

THIS WILL END WELL: Mass. Liberals Launch Woke Witch Hunt Against Local Businesses That Support Police.

DEMOCRATS BRING A GUN TO A KNIFE FIGHT:

Instead of admitting error in jumping to conclusions — that this incident was somehow linked to Derek Chauvin being found guilty of the murder of George Floyd — Twitter activists, cable news hosts and even the White House doubled down on the tale of a racist police officer sticking his gun where it didn’t belong. Bree Newsome, the activist famous for scaling a flag pole and tearing down a Confederate flag tweeted, ‘Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations  by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the teenagers. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.’

Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama adviser, echoed this sentiment by tweeting, ‘A Black teenage girl named Ma’Khia Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight. Demand accountability.  Fight for justice.’ While appearing on CNN, former head of the NAACP Cornell Brooks declared it a schoolyard fight:

‘What if it were your daughter, what if it were your child, a member of your family, your neighbor in a — essentially in a teenage fight, a schoolyard fight?’

Attorney Ben Crump tweeted, ‘As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting as @ColumbusPolice killed an unarmed 15yo Black girl named Makiyah Bryant. Another Child lost! Another hashtag.’

The New York Times later printed Mr Crump’s tweet, editing out his claim that the girl was unarmed. The Times has not explained why they edited a published tweet without editorial comment.

The incident made it all the way to the White House, where press secretary Jen Psaki insinuated that this was another police shooting driven by race, stating, ‘black women and girls, like black men and boys, experience higher rates of police violence.’ The footage and 911 call, wherein a woman begs for help because she is being attacked by someone with a knife, released by Columbus officials and the mayor have been deemed inconvenient to the left. The activists speaking out are sending a message that police had no business breaking up or stopping an armed altercation between two black teenagers. Most likely, had the police not been there to stop a girl from being stabbed to death, this incident would have been ignored by the media and the Biden White House. This would have been another faceless tragedy in a Democrat-controlled city among poor urban communities — and would have gone the way of gun violence in Chicago, which is never to be used as an example when it comes to gun or street violence. We are meant to look the other way because even bringing it up is allegedly structural racism at work.

Oh, and speaking of the Windy City, this is not a Babylon Bee headline: Chicago Mayor: Police should get permission before chasing anyone.

UPDATE:

HE’S NOT WRONG:

THEY CRASH THEIR PLANES, BUT THEY CRASH THEM INTO YOU: The Kamikaze Congress.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

INDEED: There’s No Way Americans Can Trust The Jury’s Chauvin Verdict.

Given the circumstances of the trial, however, it’s extremely hard to believe the jury was solely concerned with either truth or justice. It’s extremely hard, if not impossible, for any thinking person not to have a reasonable doubt about the outcome.

We know the judge in the case refused to sequester jurors from media coverage and outside influences during the trial, and that the pressure conveyed to them was beyond intense. It was made perfectly clear to them that the nation would be engulfed in flames if they expressed they did in fact have a reasonable doubt over whether Floyd’s death was Chauvin’s fault.

The entire bloody year of 2020, in which unprecedented and murderous riots swept the nation, was premised on the incident that led to this trial. At least 30 people died amid waves of riots that widely used Floyd’s death as the pretext. The Floyd riots have caused the most high-dollar damage in U.S. history, an estimated $2 billion.

Read the whole thing.

HAPPY EARTH DAY, EVEN THOUGH WE’RE ALL DOOMED:

At one time, the doomsayers claimed there wasn’t enough food to feed everyone, that India and China would suffer scenes of unimaginable tragedy with people dying in the streets of starvation. Then came the green revolution and China and India are now exporting food. The concern over overpopulation morphed into a concern that we were running out of oil. That prediction proved to be even sillier than mass starvation.

Why is it the doomsayers are never called out for being so spectacularly wrong? In the past, their errors didn’t cost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs. But what if they’re wrong about climate change? Not that the climate doesn’t change or isn’t changing now but these specific, terrifying predictions of doom—life if we don’t stop using fossil fuels we’re all going to die—are being used to justify all kinds of mischief by governments.

And if climate change is such a rock-solid certainty, why are opposing scientific views squelched? This fear that contrary views are somehow dangerous and need to be censored is more terrifying to me than anything the climate can do to me. If we are going to allow double-digit trillions of dollars to be sucked out of the economy, costing jobs, lives, and people’s peace of mind, you would think climate change advocates would welcome the debate.

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Flashbacks:

● “Earth Day” Turns 50. Half a century later, a look back at the forecasters who got the future wrong—and one who got it right.

● “Earth Day” Founder And Notorious “Unicorn Killer” Ira Einhorn Has Died In Prison At Age 79.

● On the eve of 2011’s “Earth Day,” NBC stumbled into this headline and subhead to describe Einhorn: Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend. Ira Einhorn preached against Vietnam War and violence, but had dark side.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Let’s Return Earth Day To Its Roots.

The first Earth Day celebration was conceived by then-U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson and held in 1970 as a “symbol of environmental responsibility and stewardship.” In the spirit of the time, it was a touchy-feely, consciousness-raising, New Age experience, and most activities were organized at the grassroots level*.

Sadly, today’s Earth Day shares something with the current political environment: It reeks of divisiveness.

Earth Day has devolved into an occasion for environmental Cassandras to prophesy apocalypse, dish antitechnology dirt, and proselytize for a “woke” agenda. Passion and zeal routinely trump science, and provability takes a back seat to plausibility.

It shouldn’t be too difficult to return “Earth Day” to its roots, considering that for the radical enviro-left, nothing has changed since 1970: Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of [2021].

Also 51 years on, to paraphrase the late Kathy Shaidle on Trump as Hitler, I’m already on (at least) my fourth apocalypse:

* Though it was thoroughly endorsed and promoted by that Jurassic Democratic Party operative with a byline, Walter Cronkite.

(Bumped. Classical reference in headline.)

ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTION: Is Chinese President Xi Jinping Too Fat to Lead?

Like most communists, Xi rarely practices what he preaches. During a hospital visit last month, for example, the Chinese leader said health was the most important indicator of people’s happiness. If the Chinese people had a choice, which they don’t, they might prefer to get their health advice from a man of less formidable girth, such as former American president Donald J. Trump.

Yes, it’s satire — or is it??

MEGAN FOX REPORTS FROM ST. LOUIS: Distraught Missouri Parents Hold Press Conference to Call Out Family Court Corruption; St. Louis Press Ignores Them.

IT IS UNWISE TO BRING UP INCONVENIENT FACTS, COMRADE: Twitter Suspended GOP Commentator Steve Cortes For Citing Study He Got From Govt Website.

NOR SHOULD IT: University of North Carolina System said it has no ‘legal authority’ to mandate COVID vaccines.

BIDEN CELEBRATES TRUMP VACCINE VICTORY! Biden Says Goal Of 200 Million COVID-19 Vaccinations In 100 Days Has Been Met.

I remember when Trump promised this, he got the “without evidence” and “experts skeptical” treatment. But now it’s a big achievement for Biden!

WE NEEDED A SUPREME COURT TO TELL US THAT?: On this day in 2014, the Supreme Court decided by a margin of only 6-2 that Michigan voters are permitted under the Constitution to insist the State of Michigan NOT discriminate on the basis of race. The name of the case was Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigration Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary. The respondent’s name—the acronym for which is “BAMN”–should tell you everything you need to know about its modus operandi.

Here’s some background on the Schuette case with a little bit on BAMN and its origins in the Revolutionary Workers League.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: A Troubled Rule of Law. The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury’s verdict was reached dispassionately. And the false narrative about a racist criminal-justice system will continue victimizing thousands of law-abiding blacks in vulnerable urban neighborhoods who yearn for more police protection.

SPOILER: THEY WON’T. Portland’s Black Leaders Ask Woke White Folk to Stop Ruining Things.

BUT OF COURSE: Democratic Socialists at AOC’s alma mater are still protesting for free laundry.

SHUT UP, YOU HATE-MONGERING CHINESE TOOL: LeBron James says tweet about police shooting ‘being used to create more hate.’

LeBron’s sponsorship deals: “James is expected to sign a multi-year deal to promote the Mountain Dew brand for the snacks and beverage giant, sources confirmed to Forbes. It joins AT&T, Beats, Nike, Walmart, Rimowa, GMC and Blaze Pizza in his endorsement portfolio.”

SIXTH CIRCUIT PANEL WHITESPLAINS IMMIGRATION POLICY, draws sharp response from Judge-of-color Amul Thapar. “I have my doubts about the wisdom of courts opining on hot-button political issues or the motives of citizens who hold one position or another in those debates. And as someone who is neither blond-haired nor blue-eyed and who has benefited directly from the kindness of the American people, I believe that the American Dream is alive and well for persons of all stripes.”

HM ROYAL CANADIAN CONSTABULARY IS GETTING WEAPONS OF WAR OFF THE STREETS! The US needs this kind of common sense gun control.

OK, OK, cheap shot, I guess. Toronto authorities also show off the more modern weapons they seize.

For once, the Twitter comments on these posts are actually kinda worth reading…