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December 11, 2021
OPEN THREAD: I’m either last or I’ve already won.
TRUMPS DIPLOMACY CONTINUES TO FLOURISH: Mexico joins Artemis Accords.
INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM NEWS: New study may help explain why infants are less affected by COVID than adults. The best Covid immune response seems to be T-cell based. But we continue to test antibody levels as a measure of protection, mostly because doing so is much easier.
WHEN EVEN JILL FILIPOVIC IS GETTING RED-PILLED:
JIM TREACHER: Wait, Jussie Is… GUILTY?!?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa.
Whoa.
So you’re telling me that this whole time, Jussie Smollett actually did it? He really is guilty? There were no crackers in MAGA hats prowling the streets of Chicago at 2 a.m. in subzero weather, carrying around ropes and bleach, hunting for TV actors to attack? You’re telling me Jussie faked the whole thing? You’re saying I’m not complicit in this hate crime due to the color of my skin, because there was no hate crime at all?
Wait, what???
I don’t know what to believe anymore. This changes everything. If you can’t trust Jussie Smollett…1
But seriously, folks, I’m genuinely surprised by this verdict because it’s obviously the correct one even though it happened in Chicago. This ditz committed the dumbest fake hate crime in history against himself, and now he’s been proven guilty in a court of law. It’s actually a relief to see justice being served. Not “social justice” or “racial justice” or any other kind of “justice” that apparently requires a modifier. Just plain old justice.
Jussie kind of gave the game away with the double-negative in his 2019 interview with one his media enablers, Robin Roberts of ABC: “I will never be the man that this did not happen to.”
On the other hand, as Treacher writes in his footnote: “Hold on. What if the whole Jussie Smollett thing is a Tenet-type situation? What if, instead of Jussie staging the attack on himself by hiring those Nigerian weightlifters, it was actually Jussie attacking himself? One day in the future, Jussie travels back in time to kick his own ass in 2019, but, see, the 2019 version of Jussie didn’t know about it because he hadn’t even had the idea yet. God, that’s confusing. I hate that movie. I need to watch it again.”
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.
DUMB AND DUMBERER: CNN And MSNBC Coverage of Smollett Verdict.
Look, no one expected the MSM to apologize for drawing conclusions about the Jussie Smollett in January 2019 when the supposed attack happened. Heck, we’re still waiting for them to apologize for believing the Russiagate hoax. But to be honest, a wealthy TV star who desires to get a sandwich from the local Subway at 2AM is a bit odd. That he decided to walk to the subway when the temperature was -16 degrees should have raised questions. Instead, they bought his pile of bull crap without asking any questions. After all, it was the perfect liberal media story— a victim who was both gay and black attacked by two white racists who supported Donald Trump. If Smollett didn’t make it up, someone in the liberal media would have. coverage of Smollett verdict
Now that a jury has convicted Smollett for making up the attack, the post-verdict reaction of the liberal mainstream media is just as stupid as the Smollett defense’s decision to have their client testify at the trial. Their post-verdict coverage downplayed the Smollett conviction and beat up conservatives.
As reported by Fox News, CNN’s website said, “Jussie Smollett guilty on some charges.” SOME? He was found guilty on five out of six charges. That’s 83%, not some. Meatloaf used to sing a song called, “Two out of three ain’t bad.” If two out of three ain’t bad, for the prosecution, five out of six isn’t some and has to be even better than “ain’t bad.”
Oh, and note the timing of when it all began:
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: World’s largest pot brownie weighs in at 850 pounds for National Brownie Day.
A Massachusetts cannabis company is claiming it set a world record Tuesday when it baked a marijuana-infused brownie that weighed 850 pounds.
The company, MariMed, said the brownie contained 20,000 mg of THC, which would make it several thousand times stronger than the normal dosage sold in recreational cannabis shops.
The baking project honored National Brownie Day, which falls on Wednesday, and was part of a promotion for MariMed’s new brand of cannabis brownies, Bubby’s Baked.
At 3 feet wide across its square base and 15 inches tall, the brownie was said by MariMed to be the largest pot brownie ever created.
Maureen Dowd, your moment is now!
(Photo by MeriMed.)
ICYMI: I Want to See My Friend, Jimmy Lai.
It is often the case that seasoned activists commit offenses to highlight the injustice of the law they are breaking. That may have been the case with Chow and Ho, two long-time activists who I admire deeply. But with Lai, there is no evidence whatsoever that he incited anyone to attend the assembly. Instead, Judge Woodcock appears to have convicted him simply for being a famous political opponent of the government. And in her written Reasons for Verdict, she did little to hide it. . . .
OK, so Lai attended a lawful gathering, said nothing, lit a candle, and left. Nothing to see here, right? Not according to Judge Woodcock, who convicted Lai along with the others.
Where things get rather dystopian is in Judge Woodcock’s reasoning. She ruled that because Lai “is a prominent public figure known to publicly share similar views as Hong Kong Alliance,” and because at the press conference, he was “surrounded and followed by photographers and reporters,” his very presence was an effort to incite others to attend the gathering. (Pghs 95-97)
In other words, by being a famous person who supports democratic political causes, who other people decided to follow and photograph at an event where someone else allegedly gave a speech inciting others to act unlawfully, Lai committed “a deliberate act to rally support for and publicly spotlight the unauthorised assembly that followed.” (Pgh 97)
If you’re thinking that doesn’t sound right, you’re not the only one. The ruling is plainly, insidiously wrong as a matter of law.
A Hong Kong friend writes: “Woodcock is the judge in all these cases because she always sides with the CCP.”
And honestly, you can see this same approach in the Democrats’ January 6 “investigation.”
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Cold snap this winter could zap New England power grid: ISO boss.
If a polar vortex parks itself over New England this winter for too long, start chopping wood.
ISO New England CEO Gordon van Welie — a power player paid $2.3 million, according to tax filings — warned Thursday such a cold snap could knock out the grid.
“People need to be prepared,” he said during an ISO video briefing. “I’m not trying to cause undue alarm, but there are vulnerable supply issues.”
Topping that fear-factor list is the price and supply of natural gas — the region’s lifeline — with prices soaring in Europe and Asia. Warm weather forecast for next week and possibly the rest of December has eased that worry.
But van Welie stressed it’s a Texas-sized freezing across the region that worries him. Last February the power grid in the Lone Star state left millions without power in subzero temperatures and hundreds died.
“We rely on an energy supply chain that is quite fragile,” he said on New England. “What if the weather doesn’t stay fine?” The forecast for this winter is calling for mild temps.
He added the “last thing we need” is people trying to recharge their electric cars if the polar vortex extends down to Massachusetts as it has done in the past.
No doubt, the Washington Post is busy decoding the racist dog whistle in that last sentence.
(Classical reference in headline.)
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STILL AVAILABLE: New Apple AirPods Pro.
WHEN THE CRIME WAVE HITS YOUR FAMILY:
My wife and I are scrambling to find daycare for our 16-month-old son. We’ve had a “nanny share” up until now, which means we and another couple employ a nanny for both couples’ kids and split the cost. Our nanny is wonderful, and she lives just a few blocks from us. But a few weeks ago, someone walked up her street spraying bullets into random houses. One of the bullets found its way into her living room, as she and her family ducked for cover. At that moment, she and her husband decided they were moving their family out of Oakland.
The shooting didn’t even make the local news. Apparently, in the Bay Area right now, you can walk up a residential street firing your gun into houses, and you still won’t be able to compete for attention with all of the other sensational crimes.
Perhaps you’ve heard about some of them or seen the videos.
Shoplifters casually walk into Walgreens stores in San Francisco filling garbage bags full of merchandise. They’ve spat on, bitten, assaulted, and thrown bottles of urine at employees.
The flashmob-style “smash and grab” robberies that originated here—in places like Union Square in San Francisco and the shopping plaza in affluent Walnut Creek—have now spread across the country.
Asian seniors are brazenly assaulted in the street; one octogenarian was body slammed to death. This week, an Afghan refugee—a father of three who had worked as a translator for the U.S. army—was shot dead near a playground in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood.
And now freeway shootings are a thing. A few weeks ago, at nine in the morning, a 29-year-old mom on her way from Oakland to San Francisco for a job interview with her fiancé and two kids was randomly shot and killed in her SUV at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. In an interview, the victim’s mother recalled being heartbroken after hearing the story of an earlier crime, in which Jasper Wu, a two year-old who was sleeping in his car seat, was shot and killed by a stray bullet fired from another car driving in the opposite direction. It was not even two weeks later when she lost her own daughter the same way.
Related: Rise of Violent Crime: Democrats Have a Woke Rogue Prosecutor Problem.
CHINESE COUPLES PUSH BACK ON XI’S PRO-NATALIST POLICIES: “We want to have sex, not children…. Having a child or not is our choice to make and our fundamental right. We don’t need anyone to tell us how to live.”
More bleedover from Western politics. Enjoy it, CCP!
From the comments: “China banning vasectomies in an attempt to spur baby-making. The dark night of The Handmaiden’s Tale is always descending on America and yet lands only in China…”
BLUE ORIGIN’S FLIGHT WAS SUCCESSFUL: NS-19 crew included “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the first U.S. astronaut in space.
HOW IS THAT TERMINAL PLANETARY DEFENSE COMING ALONG?
RADICAL CHIC, THE PRESIDENT KLAIN ERA:
● Why Did Biden Nominate Saule Omarova in the First Place?
● Senate Confirms Radical Eco-Terrorist as Chief of the Bureau of Land Management.
● Kamala Harris doing damage control after encouraging student who accused Israel of genocide.
Flashback: The Mark of Klain. “[A]ll in all, things have worked out pretty darn well for Ron Klain. For America? Not so much.”
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: “San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes” — and after 30 or so years of a city in decline, the AP is finally on it!
Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco’s people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago. But after repeatedly clearing away used needles, other drug paraphernalia and human feces outside the bar she manages, and too many encounters with armed people in crisis, her affection for the city has soured.
“It was a goal to live here, but now I’m here and I’m like, ‘Where am I going to move to now?’ I’m over it,’” said Foster, who manages Noir Lounge in the trendy Hayes Valley neighborhood.
A series of headline-grabbing crime stories — mobs of people smashing windows and grabbing luxury purses in the downtown Union Square shopping district and daytime shootings in the touristy Haight-Ashbury — has only exacerbated a general feeling of vulnerability. Residents wake up to news of attacks on Asian American seniors, burglarized restaurants, and boarded-up storefronts in the city’s once-vibrant downtown.
San Franciscans take pride in their liberal political bent and generously approve tax measures for schools and the homeless. They accept that trashy streets, tent encampments and petty crime are the price to pay to live in an urban wonderland.
No word yet if Fox Butterfield contributed to that last paragraph (and the AP’s headline.)
(Classical reference in headline.)
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THE MANDATES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: German lawmakers pass COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health workers.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! The White House Sicced Fact Checkers on Townhall...for Quoting Biden.
In the clip Townhall tweeted, President Biden says “Nationally, prices are down seven cents a gallon,” meaning Gwin’s claim that the video was edited to omit the president noting falling gas prices is entirely false.
But after the Biden lackey made his false claim, PolitiFact conveniently decided to fact-check Townhall’s video, asking our team for an explanation and citing the White House as the source of their scrutiny.
Townhall responded to PolitiFact via email:
Townhall was directly quoting the president in our tweet. In the clip, Biden is heard saying, “Nationally, prices are down seven cents a gallon, continuing to fall. We’re making progress. We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas.”
We have added an extended clip on Twitter, which includes Biden going on to say “not being gouged for gas.” This does not change what Biden said in our original clip.
Subsequently, PolitiFact published a “story” on Townhall’s video that would impress any crisis public relations firm with its scrambling to clarify what Biden *meant* with his words:
The full context of Biden’s Dec. 8 remarks indicates that he was talking about working to lower the price of gas to a more reasonable amount for Americans, not raise or maintain it. The line was met with applause from the crowd at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.
Nowhere does PolitiFact dispute what Biden said, because they can’t — it’s on video — nor did they find any editing by Townhall that changed what Biden said. But that didn’t stop them from doing additional damage control for President Biden, claiming that Townhall’s “follow-up tweet wrongly claimed that omitting Biden’s final words did not change the meaning of his sentence.”
“We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
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DEADLY TORNADOES RIP ACROSS ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, TENNESSEE: LIVE UPDATES.
UPDATE: The creator of the television series Sabrina the Teenage Witch has thoughts:
As Jim Treacher responds, “They’re not atheists. They just have different gods.”
QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Major News Outlet Asks if Math is Racist.
Have you ever considered a numerical concept and then suspected it was judging you by your color?
If so, USA Today has an article for you.
A piece published Tuesday asks, “Is math education racist?”
“Debate rages,” it claims, “over changes to how (the) U.S. teaches the subject.”
The current title is a tweak: As relayed by Fox News, the original headline posed more profoundly, “Is math racist?”
We’re living in odd times — the best I can tell, if any group by any metric scores any worse than another, it’s assumed victimization is afoot.
And culture’s current Occam’s razor tells us the most racist explanation is usually the best.
Or perhaps I’m completely confused.
Either way, the write-up wants to know — what’s causing racial disparities in math performance?
Given our nation’s shameful anti-Irish past, I’m sick and tired of being told to calculate logarithms by The Man. Is it too late for me to get in on this action?