Archive for 2021
January 21, 2021
THE UNPERSONING OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT: Twitch’s Trump ban sustained after leaving office.
DUNNO. DOES IT ALSO REPLACE SUN SPOTS AND BRING TECTONIC PLATE MOVEMENT TO A HALT? Engineers have built machines to scrub CO₂ from the air. But will it halt climate change?
HOUSE DEM FRESHMAN WANTS TO ABOLISH ‘AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM:’ Looks like Critical Race Theory has another proponent in the Democratic House of Representatives. We just don’t understand how evil we are until we listen to our betters like Rep. Jamaal Bowman. But The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz is not impressed.
TRANSGENDER DÉJÀ VU: I am waiting to see if (or rather when) the Biden Administration re-issues the Obama Era transgender Title IX bathroom guidance. My amicus brief in the Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. case still demonstrates why that guidance misstated the law and why, under the actual law, school districts have the discretion in this area. Bostock v. Clayton Co. (2020) does not conflict with my analysis. Its hyper-textual analysis arguably bolsters it.
WELL, YES: Von der Leyen: big tech firms need to be reined in despite Trump’s exit.
The end of Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House was celebrated by the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday, as she warned that the former US president’s rise highlighted the need to confront the internet giants who helped him spread “conspiracy theories and fake news”.
The European commission president spoke of her relief at Trump’s departure, but warned that the outgoing leader’s movement still existed, and that the digital platforms used to spread hate needed to be tackled.
Please note Von der Leyen’s tacit admission that she thought it was Big Tech’s job to determine the US election.
RULING CLASS: Michael Lind: The New National American Elite: America is now ruled by a single elite class rather than by local patrician smart sets competing with each other for money and power. “The rising ruling class in America is found in every major city in every region. Membership in it depends on having the right diplomas—and the right beliefs.”
Plus: “More and more Americans are figuring out that ‘wokeness’ functions in the new, centralized American elite as a device to exclude working-class Americans of all races, along with backward remnants of the old regional elites. In effect, the new national oligarchy changes the codes and the passwords every six months or so, and notifies its members through the universities and the prestige media and Twitter.”
Related: ‘Luxury beliefs’ are the latest status symbol for rich Americans.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Everyone But Kamala Harris Is Hoping Biden Stays Healthy. “The Democrats, however, are the ‘be careful what you wish for’ party. Whenever the Democrat who sane people like us think we want gone finally is, there is a ninety-nine percent chance that his or her replacement will be even worse. Seriously, those people have a never ending supply of awful gushing forth from wherever they’re spawned.”
IS SEX BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS A PRIVATE ACT: Of course it is. But as the Colson Center’s Brook McIntire explains, it’s all but impossible to avoid the reality that there can be public consequences for all of us.
UNLOCKING ACHIEVEMENT: HERD IMMUNITY. Covid-19 Vaccines May Cut Transmission as Well as Symptoms.
Once again, the Covid-19 health message is getting muddled. Even as officials and scientists urge the public to get vaccinated, they warn that after vaccination, we’ll still have to go on isolating and wearing masks.
It’s a mistake to oversimplify this way. We should be talking about using the vaccines to end the pandemic — not filling people with dread that they will be stuck with isolation and masks forever. The evidence is compelling that a strong, rapid vaccination campaign could render SARS-CoV-2 less of a threat than seasonal flu through building herd immunity.
Without herd immunity as a shared goal, some might skip the vaccine, influenced by scare stories about side effects and rare allergic reactions, especially if they are young and face only a small chance of dying from the virus.
Expect to see a lot more positive messaging from the press now that Orange Man Bad is out.
FROM AMIE GIBBONS: Scorpions of the Air (The Elemental Demons Urban Fantasies Book 2).
There are more things in Hell and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Not even magic can trump terror…
Sarah Blakely fought off demonic possession last month, discovering she has powers she can use against the demonic forces of evil.
She’s ready to celebrate her birthday with a bang. But when a deadly variation of meningitis strikes Chattanooga schools without warning, the party isn’t the only thing shut down.
Children are dying, the doctors have no cure, people are panicking, and Sarah doesn’t believe anything about the sickness and fear drowning the city is natural.
With the entire city against them, and questions piling up, can Sarah and her friends stop the invisible specter haunting the city before it gets what it came for?
*And yes, although indies cannot for now circumvent Amazon, I’m working on something that will let you buy “pre-release” copies. Give me a few months. And I plan to bring Amie along! (As well as other liberty-minded indies) – SAH*
A LAW SCHOOL DISGRACES ITSELF: Is This Law Professor Really A Homicidal Threat? “You would expect, given the sanctions that the University of Illinois at Chicago’s John Marshall Law School piled onto Professor Jason Kilborn, that he had done something horribly disgraceful. Disgrace there is in abundance, but it belongs to the school’s administration. Indeed, in this story, Kilborn is the only one who looks good.”
John Marshall Dean Darby Dickerson has an alleged history of bigotry where dealing with faculty and staff is concerned.
CHINA’S NORTHEAST BEING RAVAGED BY COVID: If you think our lockdowns are draconian …
I’VE GATHERED AROUND ME UPPITY LIBERTY-MINDED WOMEN: Not Today! – A Guest Post by Amie Gibbons.
And men too. And I’m very proud of that.
NOT AS MUCH AS A SOCIALIST USA WILL: Study: Global Warming will Impact Children’s Nutrition.
Socialism/Communism/Collectivism: Bad for children and other living things.
TYRANTS ALWAYS WANT UNITY: Biden and Harris: The Great Uniters?
Free societies are havens of dissent and disagreement.
THE LEFT PLAYS THEIR EMPTY SHOWS FOR NO ONE: Jill Biden Is Media’s New Fashion Queen.
NO ONE’S PRESIDENT: Inauguration of FICUS Biden – Citizens Not Invited.
And it wasn’t an Inauguration. It was a perjuring.
THE LEFT’S SPECIALTY: Projection.
One of my fans called it “Like a drive-through IMAX”.
IT’S NOT PARANOIA: The Dangerous Boomerang of Political Paranoia.
The dolts really are out to get us.
IT’S BIZARRE ACTUALLY: An empty Biden inauguration for a false victory.
For us, children of the Cold War, it’s like watching the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, juxtaposed, like someone took a double exposure.
Nothing is what it seems.
DIVERSIFY, DIVERSIFY, DIVERSIFY: New daily record for search engine DuckDuckGo.
And don’t give money to people who want to kill you or enslave you.
BUT IT WON’T LAST: The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming.
Look, guys, these are not the nineties, when Clinton could make laying siege to an apocalyptic cult into an excuse for demonizing “militias.”
In many ways everything the left is doing are the deranged death throes of a dying cult. It doesn’t mean they can’t kill lots of us and destroy our economy. I fully expect them to do that.
However, and this is very important, we’re not watching the birth of a socialist republic that will last a thousand years. Please! The Fascists managed 10 years and were already falling apart before that. Arguably the war gave them cohesion. The communists only lasted because we — through fear, confusion, misguided humanitarian urges, and yes, traitors within — fed them during the seventy year reign of the USSR.
There is no one to feed us after these idiots make a mess of everything (and they are. Double time. Look, Obama is a genius for their side. They are all college freshman potheads, inside) and no one to support them in any way. China doesn’t do that. China itself needs to feed off healthy countries. This move in supporting these idiots is proof that Xi is a moron. His regime’s days are now numbered.
Yes, it’s going to suck. But in the end we win, they lose.