Archive for 2021
November 5, 2021
THE DOWNSIDE OF PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS: Some reflux, ulcer meds may raise kidney damage risk after heart surgery.
JOY PULLMANN: Democrats Are Right To Be Scared About Losing The Parent Vote.
On MSNBC Wednesday, a former Obama campaign manager declared, in an urgent tone, “The one thing that we need to make sure that Republicans in 2022 don’t become is the party of parents. Because we need to be the party of parents.”
It’s too late; that’s already happening. Even the hoax-mongering New York Times can see it, and they’re afraid too.
On Nov. 4, the Times issued a hysterical article covering the Virginia results with the same motif. “Republicans Pounce on Schools as a Wedge Issue to Unite the Party,” read the headline, followed by this malicious smear in the subheading: “Rallying around what it calls ‘parental rights,’ the party is pushing to build on its victories this week by stoking white resentment and tapping into broader anger at the education system.”
Get that? Parental rights in scare quotes and insisting it’s racist to complain about the clearly subpar quality of instruction offered to most American children in public schools.
Thanks in part to the lockdowns (that teachers insisted upon) and the attendant Zoom instruction, parents are discovering that our institutional rot extends all the way down to their local school board.
Democrats own this, and that’s why they’re panicking.
SMALL DEAD ANIMALS’ READER SURVEY: Shortages in Canada (And The US). “The comments are open for your observations and reports only, and please include your region or city. This is an informal survey – not a debate or discussion. Off topic and link dumps will be deleted. Update: These comments are quite the read. I’m pinning this post to the end of the day, then will do an update and compilation tomorrow.”
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? MSNBC Guest on Winsome Sears: ‘There Is a Black Mouth Moving But a White Idea Running on the Runway of the Tongue.’
Republican and Marine veteran Winsome Sears’s becoming the first black woman elected to statewide office in Virginia has confounded and frustrated many in the media.
During a Thursday segment on MSNBC’s The ReidOut with host Joy Reid, for example, Professor Michael Eric Dyson suggested that as a Republican opposed to the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools, Sears — Old Dominion’s lieutenant governor-elect — is a puppet of white supremacy.
“The problem is, here, they want white supremacy by ventriloquist effect,” he explained. “There is a black mouth moving but a white idea running on the runway of the tongue of a figure who justifies and legitimates the white supremacist practices.”
As Beckett Adams of the Washington Examiner tweets, “MSNBC hosts and contributors have argued in the past that ‘charged,’ ‘angry,’ ‘Chicago,’ ‘Baltimore,’ ‘golf,’ and ‘privileged’ are racist codewords. but not a word for Joy Reid and her guest calling the black Virginia Lt. gov-elect a white supremacy-supporting ‘black mouth.’”
CHANGE: Conservative Minorities Rising While Democrats Remain Clueless. “As Media Research Center Latino’s Jorge Bonilla points out, there’s more to the nightmare scenario for Democrats than Winsome Sears.”
JEREMY LOTT: The future of space travel according to Branson, Musk, and Bezos. Quoting yours truly, and Jim Bennett, among others.
And don’t miss my interview on the Age of Exploration 2.0 Podcast.
RETURN TO NORMALCY: Supply chain issues bring shortages of drugs, devices to U.S. hospitals.
WATCH THIS BEFORE IT’S BANNED: The horrendous reality of abortion.
DEVELOPING: Red States Sue Biden Admin Mere Hours After Vaccine Mandate Issued. “Ohio’s suit calls the mandate ‘an unlawful executive order’ and reminds the court that ‘our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in the pursuit of desirable ends.'”
NEW YORK: Families could be denied death benefits for unvaccinated loved ones. “In an article on its website, KHN said the New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is denying $500,000 death benefits to the families of the unvaccinated subway, bus and commuter workers.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Democrats’ war on suburban women includes inflation-fueling reckless spending.
So all over America, people are buying gas, groceries and the other necessities of life, and they’re paying more for them, and they don’t like it. The rich donors who fund the Democratic Party, and even the high-flying professionals who make up its controlling class, can afford to shell out and probably don’t much care about more expensive steaks, or hamburger, or cereal. But the people whose votes the Democrats need in 2022 and 2024 are noticing, and they care.
Return to normalcy? Only if “normal” means “normal for the Carter presidency.”
Jimmy was a one-termer you know, Joe. And he ushered in 12 years of Republican presidents.
BIDEN ACTS, PORTS GET WORSE: Issues & Insights has a carefully nice and diplomatic way of putting things, such as this succinct but restrained take on His Fraudulency’s “actions” to speed up the supply chain:
“Setting up task forces and convening a bunch of ‘world leaders’ to flap their gums about the need to work together might count as action to a guy who’s been a politician for 48 years, but it isn’t going to change the situation in Los Angeles.
“The truth is that Biden doesn’t seem to have any idea how to deal with this problem, other than blaming the private sector, most likely because his own policies are at least partly responsible.
“Critics of the $1.9 trillion partisan ‘rescue plan’ Biden signed in March said that it contained too many disincentives for workers to rejoin the labor market. Lo and behold, there are chronic shortages of workers, particularly truckers, which is contributing to supply chain problems across the country. Biden’s vaccine mandate will only make worker shortages worse.”
I think I need to have a little chat with the I&I editors about not being so diplomatic!
GOODER AND HARDER: Replacement Glass Shortage Adding To Woes Of San Francisco Car Break-Ins Victims.
Yen Phan, a San Francisco food blogger, found her car windshield violently smashed while she was parked on Mission Street near 22nd Street — a busy, heavily trafficked part of town.
“I thought it was bird poop or some kind of stain, but no it looked like it was smashed with a baseball bat, and there were about four marks, and then the roof was also dented,” said Phan.
After calling about half a dozen glass repair shops, she found they all faced a glass shortage.
“Normal glass repair is about 2 to $300,” said Phan. “And then when I talked to the guy I was like why is it $900, does it really cost that much, and can you not get it done any sooner, and he was like yeah, ‘No.’”
The owner of a brand new Audi RS7 also ran into the same headaches, after burglars broke into her vehicle on Hawthorne Street near Howard Street in San Francisco’s South Of Market neighborhood in September.
“We went to probably seven auto glass shops in the Bay Area,” said Trisha Bantigue. “All of them were backlogged, and especially you know add in the manufacturing delays from all over the world, it took me more than 4 weeks to replace that car window.”
And it cost $2,000.
“We have not seen a glass shortage like this,” said Co-Owner of MAZ Auto Glass Kevin Sarat-Guzman. “We’ve seen low supply, but not until the aspect where even when we order through the dealer they have no projected timeline, so we could be waiting weeks to months.”
Curiously, CTRL-F on the above CBS Bay Area article brings back zero results for the words Chesa Boudin or Pete Buttigieg.
THIS TRIAL HAS BEEN A MESS: A Bad Joke Gets Rittenhouse Juror Tossed From Jury.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: The Spence-Yale Connection (or How Schools Go Woke). “Side note: some of you might actually have to take some personal risk if the culture is to be saved.”
Plus: “We’re really not interested in white kids anymore. Unless they play a sport. Got any of those?”
BECAUSE OF COURSE: Team Biden Is Trying To Re-Divide Jerusalem. “The Biden move reestablishes a roadblock to peace that Trump removed. Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the U.S. embassy there was a big part of setting up the Abraham Accords. This action tool the religious component out of the peace equation and allowed the Arab States to make peace without conceding the Muslim’s third holiest city to Israel because it was a done deal. If he opens a Palestinian mission in Jerusalem, he is taking away the freedom of Muslim states to make peace without causing a religious revolt. The move also provides the Palestinians another reason to refuse peace.”
YES, THE CHURCH IS FULL OF HYPOCRITES: But the Colson Centre’s Sarah Stonestreet says there’s more to it than that. Three more things, in fact.
TOP SELLER: The 30-Minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: 101 Easy, Flavorful Recipes for Lifelong Health. #CommissionEarned
STRATEGIC BREAKOUT: China Could Have 1,000 Nuclear Warheads By 2030. “In 2020, the PLA added a new milestone for modernization in 2027, to accelerate the integrated development of mechanization, informatization, and intelligentization of the PRC’s armed forces, which if realized would provide Beijing with more credible military options in a Taiwan contingency.”