SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Jared Bernstein, member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”
Archive for 2021
February 2, 2021
FRANCIS TURNER PRESENTS: A host your own server blogging platform. “Micronetia is a system for people to create their own standalone blog, website or other internet connected resource that is hosted by them so that it can’t be arbitrarily deleted because some part of BigTech decided that either the content or its creator needed to be cancelled.”
AT THIS POINT I’M READY TO ABOLISH FOOTBALL ANYWAY: Half of college football concussions sustained in preseason.
2021 IS THE BABYLON BEE’S WORLD; WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT:
● Stacey Abrams Gets Nominated for a Nobel Prize for Destroying Confidence in Elections.
● Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize.
● Scientists have taught spinach to send emails and it could warn us about climate change.
● AOC Claimed She Had a Near Death Experience at the Capitol, but the Real Story Is Mind-Blowing.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: YGBKM: Acronyms are a tool of white supremacy, says San Francisco school board.
IF YOU TAX IT, THEY WILL GO: Taxes driving wealth out of Massachusetts and into Florida, New Hampshire: report.
Wealthy residents and businesses are leaving the state at a troubling rate — an exodus that could grow now that working remotely is gaining widespread acceptance, a new Pioneer Institute report states.
Massachusetts has seen a net loss of $20 billion to other states, especially New Hampshire and Florida where taxes are much lower, the report warns.
“COVID has dramatically accelerated working from home and that’s bad news for the state,” said Pioneer Institute Research Director Greg Sullivan, who co-authored the report on “Do the Wealthy Migrate from High-Tax States?”
The Pioneer report found wealthy residents have been packing up and moving out of state over the last 25 years, taking with them much-needed taxable income. . . .
That news hits as Massachusetts’ Democratic lawmakers have proposed a hike in taxes on the rich to bolster funding for education and transit. Another vote, Sullivan says, is expected to come up again this spring.
He warns the post-pandemic economy will see companies be more mobile and searching for the best deals they can — all while employees could be free to choose where they want to live also.
My Welcome Wagon Project is underway.
I ADMIT I DID NOT SEE THIS ONE COMING: Scientists have taught spinach to send emails and it could warn us about climate change.
DEEP THROAT HAS LEFT THE PARKING GARAGE: RIP Hal Holbrook, famed Mark Twain and Deep Throat actor, dead at 95.
All the President’s Men is a great movie, but it is a movie, not a history lesson:
● Mark Steyn’s article on Mark Felt, the real “Deep Throat.”
● “‘Deep Throat’ never advised [Bob] Woodward to ‘follow the money.’”
● Woodward’s latest Trump book prompts myth-telling about Watergate. “‘[T]o explain Watergate through the lens of the heroic journalist,’ I wrote, ‘is to abridge and misunderstand the scandal and to indulge in a particularly beguiling media-driven myth’ — one that even Woodward has disputed. He told an interviewer in 2004: ‘To say that the press brought down Nixon, that’s horseshit.’”
● “The sale of the Woodward-Bernstein papers to the University of Texas in 2003, and the 2005 death of Mark Felt, the former FBI official whom Woodward has identified as Deep Throat, have led researchers to ever larger doubts about the accuracy of Woodward’s reporting on Watergate, and particularly his account of his relationship with his much-heralded, and often inaccurate, Watergate source.”
IN A WORD, POLITICS: The Real Reason Why Joe Biden Rejected the GOP COVID-19 Relief Bill.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS TAKING A WELL-DESERVED REST: Democrats Who Resisted Reopening Schools Took Thousands From Teacher Unions.
FALSIFIABLE PREDICTIONS ARE THE ESSENCE OF SCIENCE: Faculty union predicted in-person learning would lead to deaths, but won’t say if it actually did. From this I think we can take that it didn’t.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Desperate Biden Administration Tried to Get White House Press Briefing Questions in Advance.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Could there be actual reporting going on inside the White House Press Briefing Room?
Answer: We’ll get back to you on that one — we need to sit down for a minute.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- The CDC found yet another way to be both stupid and annoying
- John McAfee has become America’s Voice of Sanity. John. McAfee.
- Of all the Bill Murray movies to get trapped in…
Bonus Sanity: CNN gets what it voted for, good and hard.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: Sephora Cancels Conservatives? Seriously? This Is Where We Are? “And why in the holy hell is FREAKING MAKEUP AND SKINCARE POLITICAL?!?!”
Welcome to the Gleichschaltung, comrade.
WELL, THERE’S LESS AND LESS REASON TO STAY ON: Elon Musk is “off Twitter for a while.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UC prof: Zionism has ‘politically toxified our schools.’
CLARIFICATION: ACTUAL FEMALE ATHLETE. Female athlete speaks out against new Biden executive order on gender identity.
During an interview with Ainsley Earhardt on Fox & Friends, Kenyon appeared with her lawyer Christiana Holcomb to discuss how her past competitions against “biological males” were both “frustrating and “unmotivating.”
Holcomb explained that Biden’s executive order sends a message to her client and other female athletes that they “don’t matter to this administration.”
She added that federal law is “very clear” about having separate sporting sections for women to ensure that they can be “champions” and maintain a “fair” and “level playing field.”
The feelings of a tiny-but-vocal minority trump women’s rights and federal law because feelings.
TWO YEARS AGO: Va. Gov. Northam’s yearbook pic of men in blackface, Klan robe spurs calls for his resignation. Those quickly vanished — at least, those from Democrats — when it was realized that between his resignation, and his Lt. Governor’s rape accusations, Virginia might end up with a Republican governor. All principles were immediately thrown out the window in the name of power.
SO I REMEMBER WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AGAINST MCCARTHYISM, BUT WHY, EXACTLY? Jimmy Kimmel Sparks Anger For Calling Reddit Investors ‘Russian Disruptors.’
EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Biden administration cites climate change as a ‘racial justice issue.’
EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH US IS A NAZI WHO SHOULD BE BANNED. ALSO, THEY’RE DIVIDING THE COUNTRY! Liberal Media Scream: New high in CNN bias, blames GOP for ‘Divided America.’