HOW MANY MORE CUOMOS SHIELDED BY THE ELITE? Kylee Zempel, writing today for The Federalist, is asking that rather relevant question, which makes sense, given the Clinton, Weiner, Epstein scandals:

“Tuesday’s resignation signals it’s the end of the road for Cuomo — for now. But if the media can sit and twiddle its thumbs — or worse, kiss keister and perform comedy sketches with giant Q-Tips — while thousands of elderly folks die in New York nursing homes and women in the double digits tell of a gropey governor’s disgusting habits, we must ask: How many other Andrew Cuomos is the media covering for?”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Mask bullies don’t want to persuade you — but to humiliate and rule you.

PARKING TICKETS ARE RACIST: Or something like that.  (A favorite progressive theme these days is that the enforcement of fines and fees is “criminalizing poverty.”  I would have a bit more sympathy for that position if progressives didn’t oppose all efforts to prevent bad behavior—from executions on down to reprimands from the teacher.)

WEIRD THAT THERE’S SO MUCH RESISTANCE AMONG THEIR STAFF THAT THIS IS NEEDED: UMass Medical mandates vaccine or faculty and staff face being fired.

I HAD NO IDEA HOW WOKE BRAVEHEART WAS: NPR, woke researchers declare ancient warrior remains to be ‘non-binary.’

SHE’S A CLOWN: Cori Bush’s call to defund police rejected 2-1.

EDITORIAL: It’s the end of the world as the IPCC knows it, and we feel fine. “There is no consensus that Earth is doomed by global warming. And there won’t be such a consensus, no matter how much the authors of the report’s summary choose to hype things up with alarming language.”

NO, DELTA VARIANT IS NOT WORSE: Why is it all but impossible to get from the Mainstream, excuse me, the Government Media solid data like the three charts provided this morning by Issues & Insights that demonstrate rather conclusively that Covid casualties are on a steady decline?

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Oregon Suspends Need For High School Graduates To Be Proficient in Reading, Writing, and Math.

POLITICAL CRIMES: Clarice Feldman: Latest developments in the prosecution of January 6 defendants.

Prosecutors in the cases against the January 6 demonstrators are starting to run into some judicial pushback: Questions about exculpatory evidence in their possession not turned over as the law demands, lower courts assessing the defendant as more dangerous than the evidence warranted, and most significantly, whether the prosecution is overcharging defendants with the federal crime of obstruction.

Most of the defendants are charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted area — a fancy way of saying trespassing. Defendants are entitled to see before pleading to the charges any materially exculpatory evidence in the government’s possession. Defense counsel have complained that the government has not been meeting this obligation, and the prosecution has been responding that it is unable to quickly assess all the evidence it has to meet this burden. As to those charged with trespassing, some are claiming they were invited in and, therefore, could not be guilty of the charges. The prosecution got one extension and the question is whether they should get another, a question complicated by the defendants’ right to a speedy trial. Sixteen of the defendants facing the most serious charges will not have their cases heard until next January.

This week, the Department of Justice seems to have conceded the very point of the inapplicability of some trespass charges.

In its pleading, it states: ”we possess some information that the defense may view as supportive of arguments that law enforcement authorized defendants (including Defendant) to enter the restricted grounds’. e.g., images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks, we are not in a position to state whether we have identified all such information.”

To my knowledge, two appellate courts have now held that the trial courts have erred in assessing the appellant’s dangerousness.

Read the whole thing.

Related: National Police Association slams Jan. 6 probe as ‘dog and pony show,’ calls for investigation of Floyd riots.

FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris On Joe Biden Accusers: ‘I Believe Them.’

INSURRECTION: Dem Official Says Burning Police Station Was ‘Act of Pure Righteousness:’ Minneapolis party chairman says ‘decorum’ is ‘hallmark of white supremacy.’

Glad to hear that, chum, because I aim to misbehave.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH ROD BLAGOJEVICH IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Blagojevich Hammers Cuomo: ‘Bigger Scandal’ than Sexual Harassment Is His ‘Massacre at Nursing Homes.’

Related: Janice Dean’s Reaction to the Resignation of Cuomo Says It For All of Us.

EXPERTS WRONG AGAIN. SHOCKING. COVID Cases Fell 40% in the UK After Restrictions Were Lifted, Proving the Experts Wrong Yet Again.

The decision of Johnson’s government was not without controversy.

CNN described it as a “huge gamble,” while Labour Party leader Keir Starmer criticized the move as “a reckless free-for-all.” Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, said it was “almost inevitable” the decision would result in 100,000 daily cases and one thousand hospitalizations per day, despite the presence of vaccines.

“The real question is do we get to double that – or even higher,” Ferguson told the BBC. “And that’s where the crystal ball starts to fail. I mean, we could get to 2,000 hospitalisations a day, 200,000 cases a day – but it’s much less certain.”

At the time, daily cases stood at roughly 45,000, which meant Ferguson was predicting it was “almost inevitable” cases would more than double.

When Freedom Day arrived, Reuters noted the occasion was marred by “soaring cases” and chaos. The AP had a strikingly similar take.

Weeks later, however, we have an abundance of empirical evidence that show the prognosticators were once again wrong. Cases did not double or quadruple as Ferguson had predicted. Nor did cases “surge,” as many had warned.

On the contrary, cases fell—a lot.

Neil Ferguson is a clown at best, a serious malefactor at worst. His pathetic “analysis” was responsible for billions (maybe trillions) in unnecessary losses, and many, many lives damaged or ruined. And he still broke quarantine to get laid, even after urging everyone else to stay home.

SHUT UP PEASANT. THE RULES DON’T APPLY TO THE RULERS:  Obama Guests Delete Pics As Unmasked Truth Leaks.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Dozens Of Major Events Are Being Cancelled Across The Country Due To Covid.

THE CUOMO RESIGNATION PROBABLY DOESN’T HELP MATTERS: Arkansas law school feeling heat after naming professorship for Bill Clinton. “I simply do not think it is appropriate for a law school to honor a disbarred lawyer — it strikes me as hardly sending a deterrent message to law students or practitioners.”

Plus: “They said, ‘oh, lost mail,’ to explain their sudden addition but that is not true. It’s clear that his position was not named for Bill Clinton and it should obviously remain not named after Mr. Clinton.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. It’s good Cuomo’s gone, but don’t forget the nursing home scandal.

THE CDC HAS NEVER YET MISLED US, RIGHT?  CDC urges against travel to Israel, France, other nations as COVID-19 delta variant spreads.

In other words, this is a global revolt, and your government is on the side of tyrants and is afraid you’ll rebel if you know other peasants are rebelling….. Delta is a funny way to spell Mouthy Peasants Catapulting Burning Smart Cars at the Arc Du Triomphe. I guess they failed high school French.

WELL, THEY’RE NOT WRONG: 61% SAY BIDEN LIKELY TO RAISE MIDDLE CLASS TAXES.

WHEN THE MACHINE LOSES THE POLICE, THE MACHINE LOSES:  Ella French, Chicago P.D., End Of Watch.

NPR SELF-IDENTIFIES AS BRAINLESS:  NPR Touts Medieval Warrior as “Nonbinary”.

SPEAKING OF THE DREAD NAME OF FAUCI:  The Tale of The Flying Dutch-U-Haul.

This is by way (hopefully) of explaining why my schedule here will be…. more erratic than normal, for the next two/three weeks, as we’re now in phase one of a protracted three-phase move from Colorado.

I’ll be honest, if there weren’t health reasons for this, I probably would not have bestirred myself. But health, joining with everything else is finally spurring me to get to places less blue. There is a lot of sadness in this, as I wanted to live in Denver since I was 8 and wasn’t very sure where the heck Denver was.

But it’s time.  And as is, I feel like I might be catching the last train out of insanity to come. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the feeling is there.

Oh. And son is mostly recovered, and not roaming the mountains forever in a cursed u-haul.

SHUD UP INFIDEL. IT’S ALL COVID. THE DREAD FAUCI DECREES IT:  Surge in Pediatric Respiratory Cases Appear to Stem from RSV Infections, Not COVID-19.

SHUT UP INFIDEL: Rep. Tlaib Caught Partying Maskless Same Day She Criticized Sen. Paul.