MAYBE HE THOUGHT THEY PROTECTED HIM FROM INTERNET VIRUSES: The White House Gives a Pathetic Excuse for Biden Wearing a Mask During the Virtual Climate Summit.

FROM CELIA HAYES:  The Quivera Trail.

The Quivera Trail is intended as a sequel to the Adelsverein Trilogy,
following the second generation and Dolph Becker courting and marrying Isobel Lindsay-Groves. Desperate to marry, Isobel and her personal maid, Jane Goodacre embark at Southampton for a new life in a new land — a place entirely alien, when compared to the gentle hills and established estates of England. Slowly but surely, the two women begin exploring their new country … and what they themselves are capable of achieving.

Dolph Becker’s uncle Hansi Richter, the ‘cattle baron’ as he is now called, has plans for Dolph and Isobel to establish a new ranch near the Palo Duro, in the
Panhandle region. Once the winter refuge of the Comanche, the Palo Duro
is now open to ranchers and settlers like their neighbor, Charles Goodnight. Dolph and Hansi Richter have an English investor for this new  property – but after a long-trail drive to get there and the labor of establishing it from the ground , they discover that not all dangers of the frontier are banished. The Becker and Richter families are soon embroiled in a vendetta with a vicious rustler gang.

Jane, meanwhile, finds a new outlet in teaching school – and a romantic attraction to Dolph Becker’s artist brother, Sam. She makes friends with Lizzie Johnson, school-teacher and cattle baroness in her own right, and with the formidable matriarch of the family, Magda Vogel Becker. Can  the friendship between Isobel and Jane remain unbroken in the face of these new possibilities?

DEAR BEE, CAN WE STILL GIVE THEM SWIRLIES? AND LOCKING THEM IN SCHOOL LOCKERS?  CDC Officials Recommend People Stop Giving Them Wedgies.

Because they’ve earned it, they have it coming and they need to remember they’re the bosses of precisely nobody.

GOOD:  America First Legal Sues Biden Administration to End Racial Discrimination of Farmers and Ranchers.

SURE, BUT HE LEFTY CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY WAS DYING BEFORE:  A Rigged System Can’t Last.

All this rigging is their attempt to prolong their power. This never ends well.  Unfortunately, their death throes might kill us.

KIND OF DEPENDS IF YOU WANT MONEY OR APPLAUSE:  Who Really Matters: Readers or Gatekeepers?

FYI, the last time I tried to pay with applause at the grocery store, it didn’t go well. So I know which I’ll choose.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  Ma’Khia Bryant wasn’t an innocent angel, and neither are her parents.

THERE WILL BE A MAJOR CONFLAGRATION BY JUNE:  Michael Yon: “I am warning and warning and warning that we are steaming straight into civil war”.

If you can, get yourself to Free America.  (We might not be able to.)

SO CHINA PERFORMED SOME MORE GAIN OF FUNCTION EXPERIMENTS?   As COVID Deaths Mount, China Tells India to Reverse its “Pro-US Diplomacy”.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  Lecture: “Cancel culture, as it exists now, is … really the warfare of personal destruction”.

HE’S ONLY QUALIFIED TO GUEST HOST A CLASS ON BLOW AND HOS:   Hunter Biden Will Guest Host Tulane U. Class on ‘Media Polarization’.

Unless he intends to say “media bias hid my misdeeds so my walking mummy of a father could be “elected” president.”

OH, HECK NO:   Does anyone care what Joe Biden has to say about masks?

THE MEDIA ARE ENEMIES OF AMERICA:  Another false narrative about January 6th.

WELL, IF YOU DON’T GIVE YOUR KIDS TOY GUNS, THEY’LL SHOOT EACH OTHER WITH GRAHAM M CRACKERS CHEWED INTO THE SHAPE OF GUNS:  Advice Columnist Tries To Tackle Toy Guns And Mass Shootings.

For the record, we weren’t against toy guns, we just hadn’t thought to buy any. Also we had no TV and they didn’t watch movies yet.  Uh….. I guess they got it from comic books? But it was one of the funniest things ever.

WELL, OF COURSE:  Today’s blacklisted American: Any business in a Massachusetts town that does not genuflect to BLM and its Marxist agenda.

THE LEFT DESTROYS EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH:  Sax and Violins.

OH DEAR – WHAT A TIME TO SEND MY SHOCKED FACE TO THE CLEANERS:   Former Obama education adviser arrested for embezzling school funds.

OPEN THREAD: Sorry, this was scheduled but didn’t post for some reason.

SHE’S NOT WRONG: Rose McGowan goes on Fox News and says Democrats are in “a deep cult” — “They masquerade as the helpers.”

I’M A SPACE LAWYER — BET YOU WEREN’T READY FOR THAT: It’s not how big your laser is, it’s how you use it. Space law is an important part of the fight against space debris.

Related: Here’s a piece that Rob Merges and I wrote on space debris a while back.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Olympic uniform supplier rebuffs concerns over Xinjiang cotton. “Chinese sports retailer Anta is continuing to use Xinjiang cotton, rebuffing international scrutiny of forced labor in the Xinjiang cotton industry as the Chinese government denies allegations of human rights violations there.”

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Revealed: The Scientists “Debunking” the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Admit Being ‘Collaborators’ and Honorees of Chinese Communist Party.

Related: Fauci’s NIH funded controversial gain-of-function viral research at Wuhan lab to get around US ban on dangerous research.

THIS IS WELL ON THE WAY TO BECOMING THE NORM: Oklahoma Law Grants Immunity To Drivers Who Unintentionally Harm Protesters. “The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, which tracks state and federal initiatives limiting the right to protest, said there are more than 60 such measures currently pending across the country.”

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Hunter Biden the Professor: President’s son will guest teach a class on “fake news” at Tulane University this fall for students interested in ‘media polarization.

KURT SCHLICHTER: A Rigged System Can’t Last.