SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED! Another professor arrested for hiding ties to China.
Oh, deary me. My stars and garters.
Archive for 2021
January 17, 2021
WELL, OF COURSE THEY DO: Twitter Allows Chinese Propaganda to Remain.
Apropos nothing, btw, so I was re-reading Heinlein’s The Sixth Column the other day…..
WELL, OF COURSE: Pelosi Proves Again She Wants To Wear The Crown.
Would-be socialist and communist systems, like any oligarchy, are a continuous, internal battle for the top stop. The top spot is the only one in which you are relatively (very relatively for anyone who spent a long period of years watching the May Day parades on TV) safe for any time at all. They all want the top spot. And will do anything to get it.
OH, THE POCKETBOOK WAS PART OF IT: HuffPo: Trump Supporters’ Main Problem Was Never The Economy.
But I take the point. The peons should not have the money for even small luxuries. Also note “the insurrectionists wore costumes.”
Dear Lord. The future historians, if there are future historians, will laugh themselves sick over this nonsense.
Dear left, no matter how many papier mache puppets you deployed in the service of your causes, you were never serious revolutionaries. You were privileged, elite common or garden variety idiots putting on a show of outrage and revolution for your peers.
And the people in “costumes” at the capitol were just …. people letting steam off. Not serious insurrectionists or revolutionaries of any kind. The greatest danger for Pelosi was catching buffalo lice or something.
WELL, WE DIDN’T: Don’t Just Resist—Insist!
We let the toddler get away with stealing the entire candy isle. Now it’s going to be a very rocky road better to some kind of normalcy and representative republic. To allude to Doctor Peterson, “Never let your political opponents become people you legitimately hate.” Now it’s too late, and all we can do is salvage it.
EVERYTHING: National Guard At The Capitol – What Could Go Wrong?
They’re scared. They’re not too bright. For a while dad volunteered to cull the feral pigs that would invade agricultural land. And he told us over and over again there is nothing quite so dangerous as a wounded and dying boar. Which is what the American left is. No high flying ideals, no persuasive arguments, no brilliant operators: all they have left is greedy kleptocrats in the pay of a foreign power. They’re terrified of the changing world. And they intend to make sure we die first.
POSSIBLY. BUT I STILL THINK THEY’RE SCARED: Aslan at the Stone Table.
THESE ARE NOT NORMAL PEOPLE: RATIO ALERT: NYT journo shocked to discover that ‘regular humans’ use zip ties for ‘legal’ purposes.
They’re the pampered and coddled children of privilege, almost impossibly divorced from toil and effort.
Someone on Facebook was screaming at me, just the other day, that of course it was an attempted revolution and they wanted to kidnap and kill legislators. Why else would they have zip ties in their possession?
If I can figure out where my husband put these very dangerous implements, (he had them last) I have some rose bushes to bind. I don’t intend to kill the rose bushes, note. Though granted I probably will, since I have an anti-green-thumb. As you see,t his proves the left’s case. Or something.
AND THIS ONE IS MINE: The Stink Of Fear.
WELL, THERE ARE TWO TAKES ON THIS: Fear.
IN THE FIELDS I KNOW, SHE’S RIGHT: Everything Is Broken.
January 16, 2021
IT WILL NOT BE HEEDED, BECAUSE THE REGIME IS GOING TO BE FILLED WITH IRANIAN SYMPATHIZERS: Henry Kissinger’s wise warning to Joe Biden on the Iran nuke deal.
OPEN THREAD. “15 years ago, the Internet was an escape from real life. Now real life is an escape from the Internet.” Discuss.
JUST BUY ‘EM FROM CHINA. JOE BIDEN SAYS THE CHINESE ARE OUR FRIENDS. Report: U.S. military space programs at risk of losing domestic sources of key components.
LIFE IS TOUGH ALL OVER: The Pandemic Has Made Dating Difficult, Even For a Rhinoceros.
HOUSEHOLD COVID UPDATE: So it’s been nearly a month since I showed the first symptoms, such as they were — my symptoms were barely identifiable as anything in particular for the most part — and the worst part of it was probably just feeling vaguely weak, tired, and achy for a couple of weeks. (Even that wasn’t very specific, since as a middle-aged man who lifts weights, I’m tired and achy a lot anyway). But everything seems back to normal now. Helen and I both took an antibody test, and to my non-surprise even though she had tested negative for Covid on the PCR test, she was positive on antibodies, as was I. She had very similar symptoms, and for whatever reason she tends to get false-negative results on a lot of tests for infections. We both feel fine now, at least to the point where any remaining malaise or “blahs” can just as easily be explained by cold gray weather and a depressing political situation. I’m still taking low-dose aspirin, but I’m going to start tapering off it. I’m going to look into how to donate convalescent plasma, too, though apparently that’s more complicated (even in the signing-up process) than just giving blood.
Anyway, I’d say we were lucky, but really we probably had a close to median Covid experience: Worse than the 30-40% who have no identifiable symptoms, but better than the people who are sicker. We’re certainly glad to have not been among the percentages of people who got sicker.
SPENGLER: Bidenomics will bankrupt us.
WHY WOULD YOU STAY? The NYC exodus that de Blasio refuses to see. “Mayor de Blasio released his new, bigger-than-ever city budget this week pretending that federal aid would make up for City Hall’s losses thanks to the pandemic. And, worse than that delusion, he still hasn’t faced up to how his policies had New York shrinking long before the pandemic even began. That’s right: The mass exodus from the city dates to at least 2018; the flight since then is just adding to New York’s woes.”
I am, by the way, working on making the “Welcome Wagon” project a reality. I’ll report more at an appropriate time. I realized that instead of calling on other people to make it happen, it was time for me to take a hand myself.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: After Capitol Riots, Sesame Street Pulls All Episodes Featuring The Letter ‘Q.’
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Harvard Students Launch Petition to Revoke Degrees of Trump Supporters in Government.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Make Yourself a Hard Target.
#FIGHTFOR15: Biden minimum wage proposal could lift more than 1 million workers out of poverty.
Also in the same CBS article: “The CBO also estimated the move would cost 1.3 million American jobs, a claim long made by conservative economists. Mr. Biden’s call to boost the minimum wage to $15 an hour ‘is the absolute last thing that unemployed workers need right now,’ Michael Farren, an economist with the right-leaning Mercatus Center at George Mason University, said in an email. ‘After all, they can’t benefit from higher wages if those higher wages result in slower job growth.’”