THIS, TO BE FAIR:  Stop insulting us with phony social distancing theatre!

WE STAND READY AND ABLE TO CROSS A FREEZING RIVER TO KILL THE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM ON CHRISTMAS MORNING:  Merry Christmas . . . and Happy Save the Revolution Day.

Remember Americans have a very slow boil. But when we boil, we’re unstoppable. Why do you think the Junta is sniffing the air and starting to panic?
I’m still hoping we get through this with a very low butcher’s bill. I’m not holding my breath though. They are very stupid and very panicked.

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?  Be careful when researching your new home – the data may be deliberately incomplete.

ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION BY DISCRIMINATING:  Today’s blacklisted Americans: School board votes to pay whites less than non-whites.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Leftists otoh remain utter and complete idiots, with a side of malice.

WE NEED A SOLUTION TO THE FEDERALES:  Joe Biden Officially Taps Out on COVID Crisis “There is No Federal Solution”.

I suggest we take all their power away. (At least if not specified in the constitution. And since this so called administration is a constitutional crisis walking, we take all of it from this one.)

THEY’RE SERIOUSLY OVERTHINKING THINGS:  CDC Changes Rules, Shortens Quarantine for Vaxxed and Unvaxxed, Cancels Any Self Quarantine for Boosted Group Even When Positive Test for Virus.

The only reason for that change is an attempt to make everyone be vaccinated and boosted, so Brandon can pay off his buddies in the pharm industry. That’s it. With people being totally over the scare, he’s having trouble managing it, and he thinks this will do it, or at least force companies to make employees do it.
If the second what will happen is more people walking out, but hey, the Brandon Junta ain’t too smart.

Let’s go Brandon.

WHEN DYSFUNCTION MEETS DYSFUNCTION, COMING THROUGH THE RYE:  Venezuela And Iran Are Getting Cozy On World Stage.

Tyranny loves company.

PARENTS: 1619 AUTHOR SHOULD BE GIVEN A ONE WAY TICKET TO THE AFRICAN COUNTRY OF HER CHOICE:  1619 Project Creator: Parents Shouldn’t Have Voice In Schools.

We’ll help her pack.

DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN 2022:  Stupidest Year In America Ever?

DEVELOPING: Aircraft explodes into flames after smashing into San Diego neighborhood. “A plane has dramatically exploded into flames after crashing into a busy residential neighbourhood. The crash is thought to have happened when the aircraft, a Learjet 35, hit a power line and smashed onto a road in San Diego, California. Images on social media appear to show the lights of the plane in the night sky as it falls to the ground and violently explodes.”

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PALS. SOME OF US HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR A WHILE. Experts Say Covid 19 Cases Don’t Tell The Whole Story.

For nearly two years, Americans have looked carefully at coronavirus case numbers in the country and in their local states and towns to judge the risk of the disease.

Surging case numbers signaled growing dangers, while falling case numbers were a relief and a signal to let one’s guard down in terms of gathering with friends and families and taking part in all kinds of events.

But with much of the nation’s population vaccinated and boosted and the country dealing with a new COVID-19 surge from omicron — a highly contagious variant that some studies suggest may not be as severe as previous variants — public health officials are debating whether the nation needs to shift its thinking. . . . As a result, hospitalizations and deaths are the markers that government officials need to monitor carefully to ensure the safety of communities as the nation learns to live with COVID-19.

Do tell.

Related: US records 151,915 new COVID infections thanks to Omicron surge – just 39,000 fewer than Christmas Day 2020 – but deaths have dropped by 72%.

OPEN THREAD: Tomorrow never knows.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Woman Alleges She Was Groped — Virtually — Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s “Meta” Virtual World.

SPACE: Space Tourism Took A Giant Leap In 2021.

I WANT “COKE MINUS,” WHERE EVERY CAN YOU DRINK TAKES OFF 500 CALORIES: Negative Calorie Foods.

WHEN KARENS ATTACK: Delta Karen Unmasked: Foul-mouthed Delta passenger who was arrested for spitting at and punching 80-year-old passenger for not wearing mask while he ate – despite her NOT wearing one either – is revealed to be a luxury real estate agent and former Raiderette.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Texas vs. California Challenge.

I’ve been coming to Texas intermittently for about 30 years, and it’s never seemed more crowded. The place is packed – the roads, the stores, the airport. Back home in LA, it’s empty and depressing as the pols elected by the brigades of frigid Santa Monica wine moms who seem to run everything panic ever-harder over a disease that appears to be less virulent than the regular flu.

Here in Texas, people are happy, chipper, and armed.

Life is better in America.

FLASHBACK: Psst! Rand Paul Was Right About Federal Pay. “So you have apples in that pay basket! When I heard that Rand Paul had claimed that average federal employee’s compensation (including benefits) was more than $120,000, I thought that can’t be true. Then I read Media Matters’ lengthy response to the claim.”

Plus this:

P.S.: When people are outraged at the $120,000 figure, I think, they aren’t making an implicit apples to oranges comparison. They’re making an apples to themselves comparison. They know what they do and what they’re making. They have a pretty good, rough idea of what federal employees do (some are highly skilled doctors, some are equal opportunity compliance facilitators). They know that they themselves have had to take pay freezes and cuts and endure waves of corporate downsizing while the federal government hasn’t been through anything like that. In fact, pay for individual federal workers has kept growing each year thanks to both cost-of living raises and “step” increases. The federal pay escalator kept on running right through the recesssion. Meanwhile, federal workers enjoy job security they can only dream of.

They know, in short, that as a result of this Great Divergence (sorry Tim!) they don’t make anything like $120,000, but they pay taxes to support the government workers who do—and they’re outraged. Oranges have nothing to do with it.

Indeed.

SCIENCE: One in Five Genetics Papers Contains Errors Thanks to Microsoft Excel. A friend comments: “The other four contain errors too.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Now he tells us: There’s no federal solution to COVID, says Biden.

A few days ago the Washington Free Beacon honored his campaign pledge to “shut down the virus” as its Lie of the Year for 2021.

After this clip, they might make it the Lie of the Decade.

It takes a lot to turn a Democrat into a federalist but a raging pandemic that’s defied all attempts by a Democratic-controlled federal government to bring it to heel might do it.

2024’s campaign ads write themselves:

IF NOBODY DOES, BLAME ANTHONY FAUCI: If a Humanity-Ending Asteroid Heads Our Way, Will Anyone Believe Scientists? When you spend half a century prophesying bogus dooms, don’t be surprised if people tune out.

Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: In Push For Diversity, Military Canine Units To Give Equal Opportunities To Chihuahuas.

To be fair though, as one Twitter wag noted, “That might actually work, every single chihuahua I’ve ever met has been meaner than every single German shepherd I’ve ever met.“

I USED TO COVER CES FOR POPULAR MECHANICS. IT WAS A MADHOUSE OF THOUSANDS, AND EVERYBODY CAME DOWN WITH THE CONVENTION CRUD AFTERWARD. CES 2022 seemingly falling apart: Google and GM join T-Mobile and others in opting-out. But you know, you just can’t do the same kind of thing online. You just can’t.

A SAD STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING: Half-Naked Home Invader Beats Couple in Their 70s Before Being Stopped With a Home Defense Gun.

BUT APPARENTLY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CAN: At least walk away from responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and emails it receives on its Free Speech Hotline, according to Liberty Unyielding’s Hans Bader.