THOSE ARE THEIR PRINCIPLES AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM… WELL, THEY HAVE OTHERS: Senate Dems Drop For-Profit College Criticism to Appease Biden Nominee. “Elizabeth Warren ignores SEC pick’s for-profit college ties after attacking industry.”
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March 8, 2021
BACK TO THE FUTURE! Ex-Activision veterans form Audacity Games to develop Atari 2600 titles. “In their first press release, Audacity Games described themselves as ‘focused on designing and publishing boxed game products for a variety of retro game systems’. Garry Kitchen later clarified on Twitter that each release would come with ‘a download of a digital version’, so those without the hardware can still enjoy the new games.”
PREDICTION: THE WUHAN CORONAVIRUS WILL TURN OUT TO BE A DISEASE PRIMARILY OF VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY AND OBESITY. Analysis of vitamin D level among asymptomatic and critically ill COVID-19 patients and its correlation with inflammatory markers.
Related: Dress style and Vitamin D levels.
Plus: Covid deaths high in countries with more overweight people, says report. “The correlation between obesity and mortality rates from Covid-19 is clear and compelling.”
AL GORE SAYS WE HAVE ONLY FOUR YEARS TO PREVENT IT: Most life on Earth will be killed by lack of oxygen in a billion years.
ORDERS GIVEN: Chinese Regime Tells Biden to Reverse Trump’s ‘Dangerous Practice’ of Supporting Taiwan. “Top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have implored the administration to roll back Trump’s tough-on-China policies, focus on cooperation on issues such as climate change, and not to ‘interfere’ in what the regime dubs ‘red line’ issues, including its human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, the crackdown in Hong Kong, and military aggression toward Taiwan.”
IN RALPH NORTHAM’S VIRGINIA, LUXURY BELIEFS OUTWEIGH LOGIC: Virginia’s Unnecessary Ban on Styrofoam Food Containers Will Further Hurt Restaurants.
IF I IDENTIFY AS A WOMAN, CAN I GET ON THE CANDIDATES’ LIST? NASA’s new race to put a woman on the moon: Nearly a half-century after the last Apollo astronaut stepped foot on the moon, NASA is working to send its first woman to the lunar surface.
FACE IT, THE STATE’S MORE INTO CRIMINALS AND THE HOMELESS: Essential workers feel ‘left behind’ in Massachusetts coronavirus vaccine rollout.
TEAM BIDEN DOWNPLAYS TRUMP’S VACCINE SUCCESS:
“I don’t think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died of this pandemic,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters last Thursday. The answer was in response to a question from ABC News senior White House correspondent Mary Bruce that noted that the Biden administration has been “following some of the same playbook” as the Trump administration when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations.
But Psaki is wrong. Trump has many failings, both personal and political, but in the case of the vaccines that were approved by the FDA last December to prevent COVID-19, he does in fact deserve credit for this historic achievement and the many lives it will save.
Psaki’s comment follows the narrative pushed by Biden and his team that Trump cannot be credited in any way, shape or form for Operation Warp Speed’s success in getting safe and effective vaccines to Americans in unheard-of time.
Indeed the Biden administration has been adamant that Trump utterly bungled the vaccine rollout.
Is anyone surprised after Kamala’s TDS-driven anti-vax conspiracy theories last year? Flashback to October: Kamala Harris says she will be ‘first in line’ for a coronavirus vaccine if health experts approve it, but ‘if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, then I’m not taking it.’
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Burger King Cracks Joke, Woke Brigade Cracks Skulls.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is an eye-catching joke in service to a progressive aide program still a joke if no one gets it?
Answer: That’s not funny.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Minneapolis is about to feel the burn
- Joe and Hunter used your tax dollars to pay for the press services they could have gotten for free
- The only thing in the world worse than a rich and famous person complaining about their fame and fortune is three of them
Bonus Sanity: The CDC rediscovers the margin of error.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
CONGRESSIONAL BLIND TRUSTS: “Why are members of Congress allowed to trade stocks? Why are their immediate family members allowed to trade stocks? I don’t think they were really upset with the Gamestop situation as much as they were ticked off they weren’t tipped off and allowed to participate in the squeeze.”
I RIDE A GS SCOOTER WITH MY HAIR CUT NEAT: The enduring appeal of the Vespa.
THANK YOU, DR. OBVIOUS: Fully vaccinated individuals can socialize without masks, distancing, CDC says.
Also people who have had Covid, but they don’t want to stress that because reasons.
SCENES FROM THE CLASS WAR: Elites see my black baby daughter as nothing more than a carbon-emitter.
BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIR L’S: Important message from “Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden:” We may have been duped.
A KEY POINT: “The Seuss cancellations also illustrate how a disappearance can happen without a legal ‘ban’ being literally imposed. One day, the Seuss estate decides to self-censor; the next, that decision becomes the justification for eBay to delist used copies of the books. In a cultural landscape dominated by a few big companies with politically uniform management, you don’t need state censorship for books to swiftly vanish.”
THIS IS POLITICAL WAR, NOT IDEOLOGICAL DEBATE: Less Government’s Seton Motley sees no possibility of compromises with the reigning Democrats because they have zero interest in the moderation required for such prudence.
BRENDAN EICH’S REVENGE: Cancelled Tech Genius Behind Brave Preps the First New Search Engine.
WELL, YES: Biden’s “Equity” Push Is Actually a Push for Unequal Treatment.
The new president is so determined to sell us “equity” that he sometimes can’t get the buzz word off the teleprompter fast enough. One day in his second week in office, Biden misspoke and almost said “equality,” but then backed up and repeated the new magic word: equity.
Why was he so punctilious? Why equity and not equality? Because the difference has become enormous under the Biden administration.
“Equity” may sound like equality, but in the hands of Biden, his team, and the professoriate dictating the terms from the faculty lounge, it has become its functional opposite. This drives a dagger into any hope of unifying around the foundational principle of equality.
RELATED, FROM CHARLES LIPSON: ‘Equity’ Is a Mandate to Discriminate.
It’s the difference between equal treatment and equal outcomes. Equality means equal treatment, unbiased competition and impartially judged outcomes. Equity means equal outcomes, achieved if necessary by unequal treatment, biased competition and preferential judging.
Those who push for equity have hidden these crucial differences for a reason. They aren’t merely unpopular; they challenge America’s bedrock principle that people should be treated equally and judged as individuals, not as members of groups.
The Left is inherently hostile to this country’s foundational principles.
“GO AWAY,” THEY EXPLAINED: Google HR reportedly advised mental health leave in response to complaints of racist or sexist behavior. “The workers described encounters with coworkers that included racist comments about skin color and hairstyles, as well as sexual harassment. When they contacted Google’s human resources department, each was encouraged to take mental health leave, even when their complaints were unrelated to mental health concerns.”