DESPITE — OR BECAUSE OF — THE TEETHING PROBLEMS WITH CURRENT VACCINES, WE’RE LEARNING A LOT: Virologists develop broadly protective coronavirus vaccines. “The candidate vaccine was developed using an innovative vaccine platform targeting a highly conserved genomic region of coronaviruses. . . . The new vaccine platform utilizes a genome-reduced bacteria to express the coronavirus vaccine antigen on its surface. Such a vaccine platform can be manufactured with low cost in existing facilities around the world, which could meet the pandemic demand.”
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April 17, 2021
C’MON, THAT WAS JUST JACK’S TEMPORARY EXCUSE TO HELP GET DEMENTIA JOE OVER THE LINE: Twitter Promotes Story Using ‘Breached’ Data To Dox Police – After Banning NY Post For ‘Hacked Material.’
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE. ‘I’m Kind Of Disgusted:’ Appearing on Tucker, Victor Davis Hanson Rips U.S. Ambassador To UN For Lauding Al Sharpton.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is the Army Going to Extremes Over Extremism?
Recently, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) created the first-ever Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer position and ordered the Army Extremism Safety Stand-Down. These two measures meant to address what frankly very few within the ranks saw as an issue amongst their peers.
With no clearly defined mission and with absolute abruptness, these D&I officers were shoe-horned into the command structures of units Army-wide, specifically into USSOCOM subordinate units.
The first to hold the failed USSOCOM Diversity and Inclusion Officer position was Mr. Richard Torres-Estrada. He was supposed to be USSOCOM’s slam dunk to appease the ever-growing appetite for the woke social media criteria in today’s military.
Torres-Estrada’s tenure was short-lived. His diversity and inclusion beliefs made their way onto his social media accounts. They revealed him to be a Left Wing ideologue rather than a political moderate — which you would think would be a good idea for anyone you hire to promote things like diversity and inclusion.
Within hours of his appointment, his beliefs were discovered and made public. Within days, USSOCOM spokesman Ken McGraw made the statement, “USSOCOM is aware of the situation, and the command has initiated an investigation.”
McGraw then followed up with a less than meaningful, yet very common, statement to cover for higher-ranked leaders. Torres-Estrada has been reassigned to other duties pending the results of the investigation.
The soldiers wanted to know why this position was created in the first place.
Xi Jinping can dream big, reading articles like the above.
SMALL BUT POWERFUL? First Look: Federal Premium .22 LR Punch Defense Ammo. “The Punch .22 LR load features a 29-grain nickel-plated lead-core bullet that travels at maximum velocities (1,070 fps from a 2-inch barrel) for deep penetration from short-barreled handguns. Somewhat of a departure from standard .22 projectile designs, the Punch bullet features a flat nose and heavy jacket around a lead core, thus increasing velocity and minimizing expansion so as to increase penetration depth.”
Well, you can only make a .22 expand so much. And people pretty much hate being shot by any caliber of bullet. But it’s still small.
DISPATCHES FROM THE HEAD OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS:
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COVID ONE YEAR AGO: The battle at the heart of British science over coronavirus.
The crisis may not be over, but already there are lessons. Perhaps the biggest one, according to Sir David [King], is to bolster resilience against future outbreaks. As chief scientific adviser between 2000 and 2008, he pushed the idea of the UK becoming more serious about preparing for emerging health and environmental threats.
“We seem to have forgotten the lessons, the fact that we need redundancy against all the things we haven’t prepared for,” he says.
The current crisis shows how a lack of preparation ultimately limits a country’s options. “When it came to foot-and-mouth and Sars, we used to be the ones telling China how to respond, but now the boot is on the other foot. The Asians are in the lead and they’ve responded well. We’ve done poorly.”
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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Popular New Mask Reads ‘I’m Not A Democrat, I Just Forgot To Take Off My Mask When I Left The Store.’
IF TREATMENTS ARE GOOD ENOUGH, WHO NEEDS A VACCINE? Experimental antiviral proves effective in halting spread and damage of COVID-19.
OUT ON A LIMB: Breonna Taylor’s Mother Claims BLM Louisville Is A ‘Fraud’ That Exploited Her Daughter’s Death. “I think it’s crazy when people say they’ve been here since day 1.”
Earlier: BLM co-founder: I practice Marxism by getting rich and supporting my family. “If Marxism means making bank and sharing the riches with your kids and siblings, then you know what? I guess I’m okay with Marxism. As Marx himself said, ‘From each according to his abilities, to each according to whether they’re kin to a politburo member and have their eye on a four-bedroom.’”
CHANGE: OnlyFans, COVID-19 pandemic have spurred a new sexual revolution. “In other words, selling one’s sexuality online is becoming a side hustle without stigma. Once upon a time, a reality star under contract to a high-profile cable network would likely be fired for sex work on the side. It wasn’t all that long ago that Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, was stripped of her title for having posed nude, after her pictures were purchased and published by Penthouse magazine. A nation gasped. Today, we yawn.”
DISPATCHES FROM FUN CITY: NYC YouTube Prankster Tells Restaurant Patrons He Has Bomb, Will Kill Them for Allah.
IS IT A FUNCTION OF AGE, OR IS IT GENERATIONAL? Older adults are more likely to help others than younger adults.
MICK JAGGER’S ROCK’N’ROLL FIGHTBACK AGAINST LOCKDOWN:
The beauty of ‘Eazy Sleazy’ is that it is a libertarian bypass of so much of the culture wars surrounding Covid. In an era when the battle has apparently been raging between supercharged finger-waggers seizing a once-in-a-century opportunity to impose the nanny state and ostrich-headed loons citing ever more esoteric graphs, the song manages to dismiss both.
Lockdown? ‘We took it on the chin / The numbers were so grim.’ Conspiracy theorists? ‘Bill Gates is in my bloodstream / It’s mind control.’ As well as containing elements of Jagger’s well-observed wit, it’s also nice to be reminded of a time when musicians’ opinions went beyond the drearily conformist. There is also the entertaining concept of ‘shooting the vaccine’ – a geriatric nod to the idea that, after pushing 60 years on the road, the Stones’ days of heroin chic might be on the wane.
Seeing Jagger raging against being ‘Bossed around by pricks’ and ‘football’s fake applause’ feels rather what it must have been like seeing Bertrand Russell on an anti-Vietnam War march. A mind so readily associated with a past era is suddenly transposed into the present, showing up our anaemic and relentlessly policed public discourse today. Dave Grohl also deserves a nod for playing the straight man and piling in on the drums and bass. ‘Don’t want to be your monkey wrench… I’d rather leave than suffer this.’
The punky “Easy Sleazy” isn’t exactly the second coming of “Satisfaction,” let alone “Wild Horses” and “Midnight Moonlight,” but it’s great to see Jagger, 78, punching back against the seemingly permanent lockdown culture. It’s curious Jagger’s song seems to be much better received by rock fans (and was enthusiastically introduced by leftist DJ Jim Ladd on Sirius-XM’s Deep Tracks channel on Thursday night) than the earlier protest songs by Eric Clapton and Van Morrison in November. Perhaps timing is everything, with Morrison and Clapton having proved it’s still possible to protest the establishment.