WELL… IT IS MORE CREDIBLE THAN WUFLU OCCURRING NATURALLY:  Havana syndrome culprits may be crickets, scientists say.

THE DEMAND FOR HATE CRIMES CONTINUES TO EXCEED SUPPLY:  Dindunuffin, Georgia Terrorist Threatening to Kill Black People Was Actually a Black Woman Creating a Hoax Crime.

FOR CHINA’S VICE-ROI:  Elizabeth Warren Praises Afghanistan Withdrawal as ‘An Amazing Undertaking’.

WHY SHOULD ANY FOREIGNERS BE PROCESSED ON ENTRY?  Report: Hundreds of Unprocessed Afghan Evacuees Leaving U.S. Military Bases and Fanning Out Across the Country.

It’s like we think we’re a sovereign country with a border.

LOOK AT AUSTRALIA, THEN LOOK ME IN THE EYES, AND TELL ME MY LATE FRIEND, L. NEIL SMITH, WAS WRONG: Neil.

TRUST ME, THE COSTS ARE MASSIVE:  The social costs of left-to-right political change.

The only gain is the ability to call your soul your own. I’ll take it.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR COUNTRY IS RUN BY PUPPETS OF ITS ENEMIES:   Eco-Terrorist Confirmed As Bureau Of Land Management Director.

IF YOU’RE IN CALIFORNIA, AND YOU GO ALONG WITH THIS:  Science! Newsom Mandates Vaccines For ALL K-12 Students.

You’ve surrendered all pretense of being a free American.

THE GRASPING INSANITY OF THE BIDEN JUNTA:  Monitoring your Bank Transactions.

IF SHE DID, WOULD SHE BE A DEMOCRAT?  Psaki, Do You Even Economics, Bro?

AS DO ALL OF THEM:  The Arizona election audit found significant issues that could easily have changed the final result.

So… what is the appropriate way to deal with a soft-coup?
Asking for a formerly free (and still beloved) country.

THIS WAS MADE FOR HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT HOUR YEARS AGO, BUT SOMEHOW SEEMS FITTING TODAY:
Still mid-interstate-move, but seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Posting here should be more regular now.

OPEN THREAD: “Can you make it rain harder?”

BLUE STATES BITE BACK: Lawmakers ask Air Force Secretary to ‘pause all actions’ on Space Command relocation. “Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and other lawmakers are asking Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall to suspend all activities related to the relocation of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: Time For Fauci To Go.

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Screen time rises, physical activity dives for U.S. kids, teens during pandemic.

SHOCKER: Research associates excess body weight with COVID-19 mortality.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Elitism of the Woke.

What were we to make of multimillionaire Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash at his Martha’s Vineyard estate, and the throng of the woke wealthy and their masked helot attendants?

Was socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suffering for the people when she wore a designer dress to the more than $30,000-a-ticket Met Gala? Her entourage needs were certainly well-attended to by masked Morlock servants.

Did the leftist celebrities at the recent Emmy Awards gather to discuss opening Malibu beaches to the homeless when the (unmasked) stars virtue-signaled their wokeness?

For answers about these hypocritical wokeists, always turn first to George Orwell. In his brief allegorical novella “Animal Farm,” an array of animal characters—led by the thinking pigs of the farm—staged a revolution, driving out their human overseers.

The anti-human animal comrades started out sounding like zealous Russian Bolsheviks (“four legs good, two legs bad”). But soon they ended up conned by a murderous cult of pigs under a Josef Stalin-like leader. And so, the revolution became what it once had opposed (“four legs good, two legs better”).

Our own woke, year-zero revolution is now in its second year. Yet last year’s four-legged revolutionaries are already strutting on two legs. They are not just hobnobbing with the “white supremacists” and “capitalists,” but outdoing them in their revolutionary zeal for the rarified privileges of the material good life.

The Marxist co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, is now on her fourth woke home. She has moved on from the barricades to the security fences of her Topanga Canyon digs in a mostly all-white, all-rich rural paradise—the rewards for revolutionary service.

Professor Ibram X. Kendi has evolved from the edgy revolutionary work of flying all over the country, hawking his Orwellian message of “All racism bad! But some racism good!” Now he has mastered the art of zooming the wannabe woke for his $20,000-an-hour, avant-garde hectoring.

What of Colin Kaepernick, the mediocre second-string quarterback-turned-sudden firebrand? He refused to stand for the national anthem and spread his “take a knee” kitsch throughout professional sports.

Kaepernick became a boutique revolutionary multimillionaire. For $12 million a year, he pitches Nike sneakers, often made in Chinese forced-labor camps.

The Chinese are very happy to see woke culture spread in America.

WHERE WE’RE HEADED IF SOME PEOPLE GET THEIR WAY: Venezuela subtracts six zeros from currency, second overhaul in three years.

QUESTION ASKED: Am I still fully vaccinated?

Am I ‘fully vaccinated’? For the last few months I was sure I was — but recent events are making me doubt myself.

Take Monday, when President Biden rolled up his sleeve and presented his unusually hirsute arm for his third Pfizer shot. This followed some federal health advice last week that people over 65, as well as 18-to-64-year-olds with ‘underlying health conditions’ or ‘jobs that increase their risk of developing severe COVID’, are eligible for a third dose of Pfizer.

‘The booster line is if you’re fully vaccinated — the bottom line is that if you’re fully vaccinated and — you’re highly protected now from severe illness, even if you get COVID-19,’ explained the President with his trademark clarity.

Due to a fortuitous run through a hospital parking lot, I secured two doses of Pfizer in March 2021. Back then, we became ‘fully vaccinated’ a full two weeks after completing the course of the COVID vaccine: after your second dose of Pfizer or Moderna or your ‘one-and-done’ Johnson & Johnson. For me, that was mid-April. But is President Biden now ‘more than fully vaccinated’? Or is the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ about to ‘evolve’ — and are the rest of us Pfizerites set to be downgraded?

It seems worth asking – the goalposts have shifted so many times over the last 18 months as public health officials squabble over what ‘guidelines’ or ‘mandates’ are ‘necessary’ for us all.

The public is catching on to the Biden administration’s incoherent and contradictory Covid response: Axios Poll: Majority of Public Now Distrusts Biden to Provide Accurate Information on Covid, Too.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: After Being Fired By Biden, Radicalized Horses Storm Capitol Shouting ‘Trump Won!’

“This has gone on long enough!” shouted the group’s leader, Mr. Ed Hoofer. “We aren’t going to sit around with long faces anymore. We’re going to trot right in there and let Nancy Pelosi know that we’re the glue that keeps this nation together! Down with Biden! Trump won! Trump won!”

Heh, indeed.™

WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Key inflation gauge watched by the Federal Reserve hits another 30-year high.

QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED: “Want to make Jen Psaki mad? Want to really raise her hackles? Just compare her boss to Bad Orange Man. Oh buddy, she does not like that!”

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOSTLY CONSERVATIVELY: $4 Trillion Reasons Why NYT’s David Brooks Is Insane on Dem Spending.

In the fantasy land of New York Times apostate conservative columnist David Brooks, the crazy Democrat spending agenda serves “moral and cultural purposes.”

Brooks’ new op-ed, headlined “This Is Why We Need to Spend $4 Trillion,” let readers know that he’s been in a “controlled fury.” His reasoning for the self-righteous anger was the sense of “indifference” amongst citizens to the “most consequential legislative package in a generation” during his recent travels across five states. Maybe it’s because Americans are not that gung-ho about sinking the country into a whirlpool of economic misery via out-of-control government spending?

But Brooks pleaded to readers to think differently (or nonsensically) about the destructive Democrat spending agenda: “These packages say to the struggling parents and the warehouse workers: I see you. Your work has dignity. You are paving your way. You are at the center of our national vision.”

In the words of former Washington Post economic columnist Steven Pearlstein, “Welcome, fellow Americans, to the era of the free lunch.”

And the best trouser creases ever.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: ‘Hope He Dies:’ The Left Expresses Joy and Happiness After Kavanaugh Tests Positive for COVID.