Archive for 2021
January 12, 2021
TAMARA KEEL: FN 509 LS Edge Hands On.
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: “Meet the new Teletubbies! Council recruits men with TVs strapped above their heads to walk the streets and warn public not to break Covid lockdown rules.”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: Here are six videos of Democrats calling for violence or physical confrontations that are still active on Twitter.
Related: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
And speaking of Bernie Bros: NY Dem Accused of ‘Strangling Wife’ Turns Himself In to Authorities. State senator Luis Sepúlveda is close ally to Bernie Sanders, Bill de Blasio.
JOE BIDEN’S RACIST CIVIL RIGHTS NOMINEE, PART ONE:
Kristen Clarke is Joe Biden’s choice to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. But Biden probably doesn’t know Clarke, so in a sense she is the choice of the radical BLM crowd, which demanded a similarly radical pick in exchange for Biden having had the audacity to pick a White male to run the DOJ. It’s no coincidence that Al Sharpton was quick to praise the selection of Clarke.
It turns out, however, that Clarke has a history of racism and anti-Semitism. As a student at Harvard, where she was president of the Black Students Association, she presented her views on the alleged genetic differences between blacks and whites to the school newspaper (The Harvard Crimson).
Read the whole thing.
I WAS HOPING FOR MORE OF A RACHEL OR MONICA: Researchers find Mars has a Chandler wobble.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: PBS Lawyer Called For Firebombing White House, Kidnapping Republicans’ Children.
PBS principal counsel Michael Beller dreamed up big plans to punish his political opponents once Democrats are inaugurated in the White House.
“We go for all the Republican voters, and Homeland Security will take their children away,” Beller said in comments caught on tape and published by Project Veritas, comparing President Donald Trump to Hitler* while saying the kids of Trump supporters should be sent to “re-education” or “enlightenment camps.”
“They’re [re-education camps] nice,” the tax-payer-funded attorney promised. “They have Sesame Street characters in the classrooms, and [the children] watch PBS all day.” Without them, Beller prophesied, the nation was breeding a new generation of evil, intolerant children who Beller demanded be subject to 20th-century-style internment.
“Kids who are growing up, knowing nothing but Trump for four years, you’ve got to wonder what they’re [Trump supporters’ children] going to be like. They’ll be raising a generation of intolerant, horrible people — horrible kids,” Beller said.
Reportedly, PBS has fired Beller as a result of the Project Veritas video.
* As America’s Newspaper of Record noted yesterday: Evil Fascist Dictator Censored And Voted Out Of Office.
ALL THE VINEGAR AND STOP BATH YOU COULD EVER WANT: Engineers’ reactor converts gas directly into acetic acid.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: California Governor’s Budget Proposes Economic Relief, No New Taxes.
Nobody would have been surprised if Governor Newsom had presented his new state budget wearing a neck brace. The whiplash from budget boom to bust to recovery must have been intense.
One year ago, while the country, and especially California, were flying high economically, the Governor presented a $222 billion budget with an $18 billion surplus. Three months later, the pandemic-fueled recession caused unemployment in California to quadruple, and retail sales cratered. The Governor and Legislature predicted a $54 billion budget deficit and raised taxes, cut spending and borrowed from the future to cover the fiscal hole.
But the Pandemic Recession has been unlike any other economic downturn experienced in the modern era. The economic pain has been real, but it has hit hardest workers in hospitality, tourism and other public-facing businesses. Low-wage and often low-skilled workers in these industries, along with small business owners statewide, have been devastated. The social and community devastation has ravaged these communities and continues to this day. But not the state budget.
Much of the California economy has been spared because it was able to accommodate to the pandemic’s cruel dichotomy: if your business or job is not dependent on bringing people together, you were likely to remain in business or employed. Millions of Californians changed their place of work to their kitchen table, or continued on the job masked, separated and vigilant.
The California investment economy thrived. A buoyant stock market and surprisingly strong real estate market created capital gains revenues double the amount forecast in 2020.
As a consequence, rather than managing a $54 billion deficit, the Governor is proposing a $227 billion balanced budget with no new tax increases and $34 billion in reserves and surpluses, which provides record levels of public school funds, increases spending on higher education without any tuition increases, and expands the social safety net.
Meanwhile, for those whose jobs are “dependent on bringing people together,” Californians Are Revolting Against The Lockdown:
THE BOXER REBELLION: “President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural committee will refund a donation from former Sen. Barbara Boxer after the California Democrat registered as a foreign agent for a Chinese surveillance firm accused of abetting the country’s mass internment of Uighur Muslims, officials tell Axios.”
Boxer. Dianne Feinstein. Eric Swalwell. Is any California Democrat not in bed with China?
IMITATING? The New York Times Keeps Imitating A Chinese Propaganda Outlet.
Imagine, that during the height of Stalinism, as millions died from a Communism-induced famine, an American publication ran headlines like “Russians Hungry, But Not Starving?”
Imagine, that during the height of Nazism, as Adolf Hitler worked to exterminate the Jewish people, an American publication consciously downplayed and buried coverage of the Holocaust?
The New York Times did precisely these things. Now, it appears it wants to complete the trifecta of effectively shilling for the world’s most monstrous regimes by glorifying that of Communist China as it seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s preeminent power.
Read the whole thing.
WE’RE PUTTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: Obama-era officials with Big Tech ties joining the Biden administration in droves.
WEIRDLY, FORBES HAS TAKEN THIS DOWN: Twitter Is The Worst Company On Planet Earth. Here’s How To Bet Against The Stock—and Deactivate Your Account. “It is rare that a public company stretches so far into the realm of abhorrent behavior, but Twitter’s actions last week revulsed me more than Union Carbide’s Bhopal, Boeing’s repeated failures with the 737 Max, J&J’s Tylenol scandal, and really any other corporate action I have seen in my lifetime.”
VOTE FOR BIDEN, THEY SAID. AMERICA WILL RETURN BACK TO NORMAL, THEY SAID.
#UNITY: Joe Biden is Pro-Impeachment. “President-elect Joseph R. Biden on Monday said he is looking for ways that the Senate could hold an impeachment trial for President Trump while working on the new administration’s agenda.”
BUMMER: Oral sex frequency, number of partners linked to HPV-related cancer risk in study. “Having more than 10 oral sex over a lifetime partners quadruples a person’s risk for human papillomavirus-related mouth and throat cancer, a study published Monday by the journal Cancer found.” That said, the absolute risk is much lower than this suggests.
‘SHUT UP,’ SHE EXPLAINED: NYT Reporter Warns Conservative Writer Andy Ngo is a ‘Real Threat’, Should Be Censored on Twitter.
HOW SILICON VALLEY, IN A SHOW OF MONOPOLISTIC FORCE, DESTROYED PARLER:
On Thursday, Parler was the most popular app in the United States. By Monday, three of the four Silicon Valley monopolies united to destroy it.
With virtual unanimity, leading U.S. liberals celebrated this use of Silicon Valley monopoly power to shut down Parler, just as they overwhelmingly cheered the prior two extraordinary assertions of tech power to control U.S. political discourse: censorship of The New York Post’s reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the banning of the U.S. President from major platforms. Indeed, one would be hard-pressed to find a single national liberal-left politician even expressing concerns about any of this, let alone opposing it.
Not only did leading left-wing politicians not object but some of them were the ones who pleaded with Silicon Valley to use their power this way. After the internet-policing site Sleeping Giants flagged several Parler posts that called for violence, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked: “What are @Apple and @GooglePlay doing about this?” Once Apple responded by removing Parler from its App Store — a move that House Democrats just three months earlier warned was dangerous anti-trust behavior — she praised Apple and then demanded to know: “Good to see this development from @Apple. @GooglePlay what are you going to do about apps being used to organize violence on your platform?”
Abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives. Somebody should write a book about the reasons why.
TUCKER CARLSON: Meet Biden’s nominee to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Unbelievable.
BLUE STATE BLUES: Colorado youth corrections system sees biggest spike in violent offenders in a decade. “Even more startling: In the past four years, the number of youth in the Colorado Division of Youth Services for the offenses of homicide and manslaughter has risen by 141%.”