Archive for 2021
March 22, 2021
I MAY BE WRONG, BUT I FEEL LIKE THE “VARIANTS” ARE BEING OVERSOLD: Existing vaccines may protect against the Brazilian coronavirus variant.
Also, if “Chinese coronavirus” is racist, why isn’t “Brazil coronavirus variant” racist? Answer: Brazil isn’t bribing and blackmailing academics and journalists.
PUSHING BACK AGAINST WOKE IDIOCY AND PRO-PRC SYCOPHANCY: Academic Freedom Alliance stands with USD Law Professor in China Controversy. “Not only is the interpretation of Professor Smith’s phrasing as a slur based on race or national origin a tendentious misreading of the blog post in question, but the suggestion that a single phrase in a single blog post commenting on the behavior of the Chinese government and international health agencies can trigger the procedures of the university’s harassment policy sends a chilling message to all faculty.”
That’s what it’s meant to do.
Plus: “The Academic Freedom Alliance calls upon USD leadership to adhere to its academic freedom principles by rescinding its denunciation of Professor Smith and terminating all disciplinary proceedings against him based on his March 10, 2021 blog post.”
THE REST OF IT, HE WASTED: Self-Proclaimed Black Lives Matter Leader Indicted For Spending Donations On House, Guns, And Prostitute. He doesn’t look very black in the picture.
MARK JUDGE: Matt Damon and What Makes a Good Death.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: California’s 2021 Job Killers.
Much of California has been completely shut down or at a reduced capacity for the past year. Unemployment is still high, with approximately one million individuals out of work compared to the year before the pandemic hit. According to EDD, almost every sector of the economy saw a reduction in their workforce in 2020. Small businesses have shut down, or are barely holding on. It is estimated that about 44% of small businesses are at risk of shutting down permanently as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Small business revenue is down more than 30% in California, with some sectors being down more than 70%. According to Visit California, hospitality and tourism lost $59 billion in 2020 and California is not likely to reach pre-pandemic travel related spending until 2025. And while the increased vaccine distribution is promising and providing optimism that we may be close to the end of this pandemic, no one knows for sure. The Governor and federal government continue to remind people to be vigilant against the virus to curb any rise in infections.
Despite the uncertainty, loss, and devastation to California’s economy, the Legislature has introduced bills to: (1) increase taxes on targeted groups of Californians, even though California currently has a $15 billion surplus with another $151 billion coming from the federal relief package to state and local governments, schools and other sectors; (2) expand labor and employment mandates including additional protected leaves, new threats of litigation and costs, and forced unionization, all of which will burden struggling employers; and (3) even though it is well acknowledged that California has a significant housing shortage, there are bills to limit or eliminate housing production in the State. There is also a bill that will eliminate oil and gas production in this State to address climate change, even though it will put thousands out of work and make California more reliant on importing oil and gas from other states or countries with less restrictive environmental laws than California. And finally, a proposal has been introduced to completely overhaul the entire healthcare system in California, while we are still in a pandemic, and have the Government take over and manage it.
Coming soon? The Californication Of America.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Cuomo had staffers document which networks covered his press briefings and for how many minutes a day: Report.
A VIP TWOFER FOR OUR GOLD MEMBERS: Why My Trust in the Military Has Been Shattered.
I can’t begin to tell you how difficult it is to write these words, but my trust in the military has been shattered by its rapid surrender to the Woke Brigades that took over Washington on January 20.
As many others have noted, over the last 30 years or so, the military has consistently been our last remaining public institution enjoying broad public support.
Under the Biden Administration, our armed forces are becoming just as politicized as the DOJ under Eric Holder, Lois Lerner’s IRS office, or James Comey’s FBI.
Our Infotainment Industry, which just spent the last four years crying “Fascist!” about President Donald Trump and any Republican to the right of Mitt Romney, is mostly silent.
That one is from, and here’s another from our managing editor, Paula Bolyard: Berkeley Prof Robert Reich Knows the REAL Reason We Oppose D.C. Statehood. Can You Guess?
You really can’t.
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DON SURBER: Government experts do not know what they are doing. “Ashli Babbitt was an Air Force veteran who stormed the Capitol on January 6. The overwhelmed Capitol Police panicked. An officer shot and killed her in the only violent death that day. It was the first act of the post-President Trump regime. A media that spent all summer bestowing sainthood on a man who died from a drug overdose has stoically ignored Babbitt’s tragic death at the hands of a police officer. Between the metro police, the Capitol Police, and the assorted law enforcement arms of various government agencies, Washington has the highest number of cops per capita in the nation. Nevertheless, Congress dragged in 25,000 Guardsmen from across the nation to protect buildings from imaginary attacks by right-wing boogie men. None dared call it crazy but it is, was, and always will be crazy.”
ENVIRONMENTALISTS MAKE GOOD VILLAINS BECAUSE THEY GENUINELY WANT TO MAKE YOUR LIFE WORSE: THE HARM DONE BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS. The environment is just the excuse.
WELL, THAT’S NOT GOOD: Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” Beta Is Just Laughably Bad and Potentially Dangerous.
HIT BACK TWICE AS HARD: Defamation? Babylon Bee Is Considering Legal Options to Counter NYT Cheap Shot.
INTRODUCING A BIGGER BLOG: A Timeline of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandals.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: One of Our Presidents Is Missing!
Where’s Presidentish Joe Biden when you need him most?
Scratch that. Poor wording on Insanity Wrap’s part. No one has ever needed Biden, except as the occasional hatchet-man for bad Democratic projects like the 1994 crime bill and poisoning the well for judicial confirmations.
But you know what we mean: The country, we’re obliged to at least stipulate, needs a president. And Biden is AWOL.
Welcome, one and all, to a special “One of Our Presidents Is Missing” special edition of Insanity Wrap.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Biden White House…
…but were afraid was true.
WILL THIS BE LIKE DIESEL? Volkswagen Announces EV Battery Push.
I BELIEVE THIS. Happiness Can Be Learned.
WELL, THEY WERE SHOWN MONTHS OF PANICMONGERING BY THE MEDIA: Majority Of Americans Grossly Overestimated COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates.
ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE ENGINEERS: Astronauts in crewed missions to Mars could misread vital emotional cues.