AMERICA LAST — IF THEN: Biden’s $3.5 Trillion ‘Infrastructure’ Plan Includes Massive Attacks on U.S. Energy Producers.
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September 8, 2021
BLOWBACK: Kamala-Backed Bail Fund Freed Alleged Domestic Abuser Now Charged With Murder. “A bail fund promoted by Vice President Kamala Harris freed an alleged domestic abuser just weeks before police arrested him again for murder. Minneapolis police arrested George Howard on Aug. 29 after the career criminal allegedly shot 38-year-old Luis Martinez Ortiz to death following a road rage incident. Roughly three weeks earlier, the Minnesota Freedom Fund bailed out Howard following a domestic violence charge, the group confirmed in a statement.”
Plus: “Just a fraction of the bail money, however, was used to release protesters and rioters.”
NEW STUDY SUGGESTS NEURAL CELL COMPLEXITY POINTS TO ID?: That’s “ID” as in Intelligent Design. The study, which is described in a recent Quanta Magazine piece, prompts this thought on HillFaith:
Greater complexity reduces the probability of a chance explanation for the existence of a single biological cell and thus increases the necessity for intelligent design as the explanation.
What say you, Instapundit thinkers?
UPDATE: A question mark was added to the headline on this post and the linked one to make clear that a suggestion was intended about what the Quanta Magazine article could mean, rather than a claim of what it must mean. Evidently, the subhead that was and remains in the linked post since it first went live — More Complexity =s Less Chance? — failed to make this sufficiently clear for some readers.
EVERYTHING IS PROCEEDING AS I HAVE FORESEEN: Could China Take Over Bagram Air Base Abandoned by Biden? “Mainland China is supposed to be this post-colonialist Communist workers’ paradise or whatever. The cruel reality is that Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most explicitly colonialist project since King Leopold II of Belgium turned the peoples and resources of Africa’s Congo basin into his private personal fiefdom to exploit.”
CDC WANTS TO DO ANYTHING BESIDES ITS JOB: Echoing woke universities, CDC releases ‘non-stigmatizing language’ guide.
HMM: Microsoft President Brad Smith warns that U.S. is repeating a key Sept. 11 mistake in digital era.
Tightly controlled silos of information about cyberattacks persist among U.S. government agencies, Smith writes in a new update to his book, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, originally published two years ago.
“It’s impossible to avoid the grave conclusion that the sharing of cybersecurity threat intelligence today is even more challenged than it was for terrorist threats before 9/11,” writes Smith, with co-author Carol Ann Browne, in one of three new chapters in the paperback edition of the book, released Tuesday.
One anecdote illustrates the challenge from Microsoft’s perspective:
“Repeatedly in late 2020 we found people in federal agencies asking us about information in other parts of the government, because it was easier to get it from us than directly from other federal employees. A culture of holding information tightly is so ingrained in the government that even its contracts with us forbid us from letting one part of the government know that another part has been attacked.”
The next big war will be a war of digital systems and ours aren’t nearly hard enough.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: US troops’ rage at their leaders will grow unless there’s deep reform.
“TRUST THE HEALTH EXPERTS,” THEY SAID. Fauci Lied: Documents Showcase U.S.-Funded Coronavirus Research at Wuhan Lab.
THAT’S A PROBLEM: Mars Missions Can Only Last 4 Years Due to Radiation.
As the world once again sets its sights on the moon, it can seem like continuing on to Mars is the next logical step. Some space travel fans like Elon Musk have talked excitedly about seeding Maritan colonies within the next decade, but a new study from UCLA could put a damper on such plans. According to the latest data, humans could only safely spend four years on Mars before receiving an unsafe dose of radiation.
The researchers set out to answer two key questions for a hypothetical crewed Mars mission: Is it possible to safely send astronauts to Mars? And could the timing of a mission reduce the amount of radiation astronauts encounter? The answer to both of those questions is “yes,” but there are caveats.
While it’s possible for astronauts to live and work safely on Mars, this is not a long-term proposition. The team calculated that it is possible to shield a spacecraft sufficiently to protect the crew on the way to and from Mars, but that can only do so much. Cosmic radiation on the red planet is a real threat. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a magnetic field to deflect these deadly rays. Even with shielding and medical monitoring, the clock is ticking from the moment the crew sets foot on Mars.
Mars colonies will likely have to be underground but I suspect Elon Musk knows that and is preparing well in advance.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: California Is Probably Too Stupid to Recall the Tyrant Newsom. “From the outside, it may seem absurd that the thoroughly beleaguered Biden could help Newsom right now. It might be in any other state. California, however, marches to the beat of a drummer that the rest of the country will never meet. Things are so nonsensical there that Kamala Harris was able to rise to power.”
HE SUCKS SO MUCH: Another new low: More feel Biden has bungled on the coronavirus.
OLIGARCHS GONNA OLIGARCH: Big Tech Companies Mobilize To Disrupt Texas Abortion Law.
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UNBREAKABLE: New Studies Find Evidence Of ‘Superhuman’ Immunity To COVID-19 In Some Individuals. “Over the past several months, a series of studies has found that some people mount an extraordinarily powerful immune response against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19. Their bodies produce very high levels of antibodies, but they also make antibodies with great flexibility — likely capable of fighting off the coronavirus variants circulating in the world but also likely effective against variants that may emerge in the future.”
“SO PRETTIFIED AS TO BE WAGEABLE EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME:” Did making the rules of war better make the world worse?
September 7, 2021
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: US troops’ rage at their leaders will grow unless there’s deep reform.
WELL, THAT’S GOOD NEWS, EXCEPT TO FEARMONGERS: New Study Shows Breakthrough Infection Risk Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be.
PLAY IT AGAIN, JAMES: Lileks on Casablanca:
The older you get, the more you appreciate the benefits of the censor’s code. In the modern version, Lazlo would say “I know you slept with him when you thought I was dead,” and she says “And I’ll do it again to get the letters. Don’t take it personally.” It would be all out in the open. The inability to say these things led to a scene that makes you wonder how people at the time interpreted it: this wasn’t how people acted, talking around the truth.
But it was how movie people acted. How our better selves might act. If we found ourselves in a movie, set in Casablanca. Wherever, and whenever, that was, or is, or will be.
Read the whole thing.
Don’t let them normalize this corrupt, Chinese-controlled regime.
UPDATE: You seldom see such open hostility to a Democratic President on college campuses:
FUCK JOE BIDEN 🗣 pic.twitter.com/P0vJoO7TwF
— Old Row (@OldRowViral) September 7, 2021
FUCK JOE BIDEN 🗣 pic.twitter.com/P0vJoO7TwF
— Old Row (@OldRowViral) September 7, 2021
It’s everywhere:
THE NOT THE BEE YEAR IN PICTURES: Someone Created The Ultimate Picture Thread To Show How Far Society Has Devolved In The Last Year And It Is Beyond Depressing.
To be fair, the last year and a half has been pretty close to the 21st century I was promised in the pre-Star Wars, pre-Atari 1970s.