Archive for 2021
April 7, 2021
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FEEDING IT TO COWS AND PIGS FOREVER. DOES THAT COUNT? Scientists turn beer waste into new protein sources, biofuels.
DECLINE IS A CHOICE: Quality of life plummets, taxes rocket — and New York City faces doom.
In this case, the choice was electing Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo.
THEY DON’T CARE, THEY GOT A GOOD PRICE: Peter Thiel Blasts Silicon Valley’s ‘Useful Idiots’ for Selling Out to China.
GOOD: Oregon GOP Minority Leader Facing Recall After Failing to Block Gun Ban Legislation. “Oregon’s Republican Senate minority leader declined to join his fellow party members in a walkout over gun control legislation last month. His presence in the Senate (along with five of his closest GOP friends) allowed the body to reach a quorum of at least 20 members and bring legislation banning firearms in the capitol up for a vote…which, in the Democrat dominated Senate, passed easily.”
A LIMITED BUT SIGNIFICANT VICTORY FOR CHILDREN THE GOVERNMENT DEEMS TO BE AMERICAN INDIANS: Tim Sandefur analyzes the Fifth Circuit’s long, divided opinion on the Indian Child Welfare Act.
I’ve spent the last couple of years researching the modern American law of racial classification, and if you asked me what is the most obviously unconstitutional (or for that matter, immmoral) law that depends on such classification, my answer would be the ICWA. Just for example, under ICWA a child could be zero percent Indian on his mother’s side, 1/256 Cherokee on his father’s side, and not a member of the Cherokee tribe, but eligible for tribal membership. His parents decide to give the child up for adoption to a loving white (or black, or Hispanic) family. Great, right? Wrong. The Cherokee Tribe can veto the adoption, and insist that he be adopted by a Cherokee.
But wait, there’s more. Before a court can allow the non-Indian couple to adopt, it would have to make sure that no other Indian tribe wants to claim the child. In other words, this child’s future is being determined solely based on what amounts to a one-drop rule of racial ancestry, allowing a child that’s never set foot on his ancestral reservation to be adopted against the parents’ judgment by a tribe with which he has no connections at all, other than “racial.” The Supreme Court needs to take this opportunity to get rid of this monstrous law.
THE LAST ACT OF A FAILED REGIME IS THE LOOTING OF THE TREASURY: 9 Crazy Examples of Unrelated Waste and Partisan Spending in Biden’s $2 Trillion ‘Infrastructure’ Proposal.
THIS IS WHAT WOKISTS COUNT AS A GREAT MORAL VICTORY: We have now reached the ‘get a V tattoo to show you’ve been vaccinated’ stage.
MY LATEST FOR PJ MEDIA’S VIP SUPPORTERS: If You’re Still Using Chrome, Google’s Latest Revelation Will Make You Stop. “What actually doesn’t matter is whether or not you boycott Google — because if you use the internet, Google tracks you, and makes money off of you.”
ON THIS DAY IN 1994: The Rwandan genocide began.
CHANGE: Quarterly Gun Sales Record Set. “Although few expected March 2020’s staggering and record-setting mark of 2.6 million would be eclipsed, news that volume during 2021’s first quarter shattered all previous 3-month marks was unexpected.”
FOLLOW THE LAUGHTER: Comedian K-von Quadrupled Fan Base with Biden Barbs. “I’m a one-man show, and I’m just crushing Joe Biden. I’m putting it out there since no one else is doing it. And my fan base has quadrupled.”
Previously: WaPo, USA Today Claim Biden May Be Too Competent to Mock.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Hasn’t the Mainstream Media Pilloried 60 Minutes for Spreading Misinformation?
—Reason, today.
Flashback: Jennings and Brokaw Defend [Dan] Rather Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.
—The Media Research Center, October 4th, 2004.
The DNC-MSM protects its own.
JUST AS JESUS TAUGHT: Best-Selling Devotional Has Prayer to ‘Help Me to Hate White People.’
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Stop A Supervolcano.
THE NEW ANTIRACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: ‘Anti-racist’ narrative is ‘you can’t get ahead.’
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HAS MADE A MAJOR MISTAKE:
Lead activist and media superstar Stacey Abrams expressed regret over the MLB’s decision to move a lucrative game in a state with a large African American population to one which is 86 percent white. As one Twitter user noted, this was comparable to Abrams attempting to pour a cup of water on a forest fire that she started. Her sentiment was echoed by freshman Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Another factor at work is the sheer popularity of SB-202. Per Morning Consult, the law labeled Jim Crow on steroids by our president and so widely derided by the media, journalists and celebrities has a +6 favorability rating nationally. Now, because of the embarrassing similarity between Georgia’s voting laws and Colorado’s, the argument has become ‘photo ID is Jim Crow’ or ‘fewer days of early voting is Jim Crow’.
This is Calvinball: a transparent attempt to cover a disastrous PR move by our confused old president, backed up by liberal activists and journalists who think their Twitter accounts reflect the national mood. Then there is Major League Baseball’s ratings, which reached an all-time pre-pandemic low in 2019. Cynics may simply point to this move by MLB as a way to drum up publicity as a way to get more woke fans to pay attention. Well, if that is true it doesn’t work: similar recent moves by the NBA and the NFL have resulted in fewer viewers, not more. The MLB has made a grave mistake. Perhaps our president, who not so long ago promised unity, should have hesitated before throwing yet more fuel on a moronic inferno.
These things happen when you have a preening, self-loathing ruling class.
FASTER, PLEASE: A technique to produce transplantable livers in the laboratory.
I imagine Stephen Green concurs.
This is likely as close as Harris will get to the border: VP Harris returns to Oakland with focus on jobs, infrastructure and clean drinking water.
FASTER, PLEASE: NASA puts final pieces together for Psyche metal asteroid mission. “The space agency chose the target because asteroid 16 Psyche is unique. Most asteroids are clumps of ice and rock rather than metal, but even some telescopes on Earth have been able to identify Psyche as primarily metallic.”
SAY ANYTHING: Biden Flip-Flops On Georgia Boycott, Refuses To Say The Masters Should Relocate. “On the same day of Biden’s gaslighting, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki reiterated that the president and his administration did not call for any businesses to boycott Georgia.”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: Legacy Media Corruption Is At The Heart Of Our National Conflict.