Archive for 2021
December 1, 2021
HOWIE CARR: 34 questions about the latest COVID freak out. Including:
What will do more harm to the U.S. — the omicron variant or more government hysteria and lockdowns that the Democrats now want to re-impose?
When it named the new variant, did the Deep State realize that the anagram for omicron is “moronic?”
When the head of the South African Medical Association, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, says that the new panic variant is “very mild” and the lockdowns are “hype” – what part of that do they not understand.
Whatever happened to all the daily, ever-escalating COVID death charts at the bottom of the screen on CNN and MSNBC?
Plus: “When Dr. Anthony Fauci says basically, that attacking him is attacking science, how is that any different than King Louis XIV saying more than 200 years ago, ‘L’etat, c’est moi?’ (The state, it is me.)”
THE WHOLE STORY OF THE LOUDOUN COUNTY PARENTS REBELLION: Terri Wu of The Epoch Times documents the journey of a small group of parents in Virginia’s Loudoun County from trying to save their kids from Critical Race Theory to seeking to save America. It’s a lengthy piece, but, as Glenn would say, just keep scrolling.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Mysterious Hypersonic Weapon Can Stay In Orbit According To Space Force General.
“This is a categorically different system, because a fractional orbit is different than suborbital,” Saltzman continued. “A fractional orbit means it can stay on orbit as long as the user determines and then it de-orbits it as a part of the flight path.”
Historically, a fractional orbit has been defined as one in which the vehicle in question reaches orbit, but is brought back to Earth before fully circling the planet. However, the common working definition of so-called Fractional Orbital Bombardment Systems (FOBS), of which China’s system would seem to be a particularly novel example, has often been expanded to include concepts that do complete one or more revolutions. Saltzman is clearly suggesting here that the Chinese system is designed to spend a more protracted period in space.
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This kind of FOBS offers a number of advantages over a more typical IBCM, such as a depressed flight profile and a capability to hold any target within a strip of geography along the orbit at risk, presenting challenges to an opponent’s early warning networks and their ability to anticipate where and when a strike might occur. Beyond that, the orbital profile means such a weapon could attack from the opposite direction from which the bulk of an enemy’s existing early warning infrastructure might be pointed.
One of the reasons MAD worked in keeping the peace with the Soviets was its predictability.
Beijing is playing by an entirely different set of rules, or maybe it would be more accurate to say they’re playing without any rules.
FOR AS LONG AS THE LINCOLN PROJECT GRIFTERS KEEP THEM CONVINCED THEY’RE HURTING REPUBLICANS. NEXT QUESTION? How Much Longer Will Democrat Donors Waste Their Money With The Lincoln Project?
THERE’S NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THIS: ‘Back door lockdown’: Biden admin considering a mandate that all travelers to the U.S. – including American citizens – quarantine for 7 days.
THE FAILURE IS ALREADY BAKED IN. THIS WOULD JUST MAKE IT WORSE: Passing the Spending Bill Could Doom Biden’s Presidency.
One of the strangest ticks of left-leaning punditry over the last year has been the contention that if Democrats in Congress didn’t join together to pass some sort of climate and social spending bill—the various multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation packages that have gone under the label Build Back Better—then President Joe Biden would have presided over a failed presidency. The idea was that without this legislative package, Biden would have no accomplishments, no legacy, and nothing to show for his years in office with congressional majorities. Without the spending bill, Biden and the Democratic Party were doomed.
On the contrary, the evidence suggests that Biden is already presiding over a failed presidency—and passing the spending bill could further cement that failure.
A new poll from Echelon Insights puts Biden’s predicament in rather stark relief. Over half of voters disapprove of the way Biden is handling the economy, foreign policy, and his job as president. Similarly, inflation is among the top concerns for voters right now, and 52 percent of registered voters believe Biden is making inflation worse. The question poll respondents were asked is pretty telling: “Do you think Joe Biden’s policies are making the inflation situation…Worse? Better? Or not making a difference at all?”
The keyword in that query is policies. Voters blame Biden’s policies for current economic turmoil.
They’re bad policies.
ABORTION IS NO LAUGHING MATTER: Did you see the recent SNL skit in which Goober the Clown — aka Cecily Strong — told jokes and talked about how good abortion is between laughs. It’s just comedy, right? Well no, actually it tells us a lot, according to Natasha Crain, about how America’s secular culture has become so coarse while at the same time also being obsessed with virtue signaling.
And virtue signaling is not merely an ideological form of preening, Crain points out, it is rather part of a “psychological process of moral buy-in that secular culture must go through to gain acceptance of a changed moral position: awareness, normalization, then celebration.”
I missed Crain’s post when it first appeared earlier this month, but this is important stuff and she has an abundance of insights about it that make her well worth your knowing. And, my spiritual skeptic friends here on Instapundit, be forewarned — Crain makes no bones about being a Christian, but I’m 99 percent certain you will find much to agree with in her analysis.
HERE’S A CRAZY IDEA: GO AFTER THE REAL SPIES, DON’T GO AFTER INNOCENTS WITH MADE-UP CHARGES. As U.S. Hunts for Chinese Spies, University Scientists Warn of Backlash.
Weird how a story that’s largely about the University of Tennessee is illustrated with a photo of Princeton.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Corrupt CNN Won’t Really Get Rid of Sleazebag Chris Cuomo. “If ever a family deserved to be unemployed, it’s this one. The thing is, however, that Chris isn’t without a job, he’s merely been suspended. Yes, an indefinite suspension isn’t good, but we’re talking about CNN here. This is the network that let Jeffrey Toobin back on the air after he had a little quality time with his exposed shvantz on a Zoom call with his buddies at The New Yorker.”
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IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Jussie Smollett Uncovers Who’s at Fault for His Race Hoax and You’ll Be Shocked to Learn It’s Not Jussie Smollett.
BLUE ON BLUE: Journalists’ Knives Come Out for Chris Cuomo. “We’re not sure why the news organization’s managers and editors would choose to shred their journalistic reputation by allowing Andrew M. Cuomo’s influence network to embed itself within their organization, but shred it they have.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CULTURE OF CORRUPTION EDITION: Former Temple Dean Convicted In U.S. News Rankings Scandal Fraud; AUSA Hopes Case Send A Message To Administrators At Other Schools.
YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE: Massachusetts Gov. Cbarlie Baker: QR code vaccine passport coming soon.
ANOTHER CRISIS BY DESIGN: Iran Nuclear Deal: Futile, Dangerous Talks Continue in Europe.
PRESIDENT DEMENTO AND HIS MANAGERS: As Biden Goes Off-Script, White House Tech Team Cuts the Mic and Blasts Music.
NAH – ONLY AN ISLAMOPHOBE WOULD CRITICIZE HIM FOR THIS: Muslim man probed for posing as US spy, Hasidic Jew to marry Brooklyn girl: report.
GO TED, GO: A ‘Cruz missile’ drops on Anthony Fauci.
IT CAN’T BE THAT NEW YORK IS THAT MUCH MORE CORRUPT THAN NEW JERSEY: New Yorkers shouldn’t have to pay SEVEN TIMES the cost for their schools as other cities.