LESS THAN BETO: Matthew Dowd Running Against Dan Patrick For Texas Lt. Governor. “Matthew Dowd, Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-ABC-News-dweeb-turned-Democrat is running against Republican incumbent Dan Patrick for Texas Lieutenant Governor.”
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September 30, 2021
KAROL MARKOWICZ: Parents fight school mask mandates for kids – just follow the science, they plead.
One of the more outspoken pro-mask members of the school board, Alexandria Ayala, was photographed recently partying maskless in a large crowd at the swanky Breakers Palm Beach. Outrage ensued. Ayala took to Twitter to argue she still believes in masking children at school. “Vaccinated adults around other vaccinated people can go maskless. But until students are vaxxed, they need to stay masked.”
Of course, all data shows unvaccinated kids have an even lower risk of a poor COVID-19 outcome than vaccinated adults. It’s this exact rejection of the data that has led people like Ayala to turn masking into a political statement even though they themselves can’t maintain it.
Plus: “In most blue areas, masking has long become a virtue signal instead of a safety measure.”
STACEY LENNOX: We Must Insist on Autonomy in the Practice of Medicine Before It’s Too Late. “Unfortunately, institutions are preventing doctors across the country and globally from providing treatment before hospitalization for an illness with pretty common symptoms, such as inflammation and viral replication. There are existing medications that improve both. In the United States, doctors are being threatened and intimidated by state medical boards, being overruled by hospital administrators and chain pharmacies, being censored by the media, and being investigated or even disciplined by their universities for recommending early treatment. This unprecedented interference in clinical practice motivated frontline clinicians and researchers worldwide to meet recently in Rome, Italy.”
THIS WILL MAKE THINGS EASIER: Smith & Wesson Move Continues the Migration of Gun Makers to States That Support Gun Rights.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why We Need to Encourage New Shooters to Get Training.
YES, YES IT IS: Privilege walk: Isn’t this an invasion of privacy? “On Twitter, Chalkboard Heresy (@CBHeresy), a history teacher, linked to a ‘privilege checklist’ used at a high school in Herriman, Utah, alleging that students were required to participate.”
LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.
(Spoiler: It’s Kurt Schlichter.)
LENIN SMILES: Biden Nominates Soviet-Trained Radical Saule Omarova for Top Banking Post. “Nominating Omarova to serve as Comptroller of the Currency, as Biden has done, is worse than putting the inmates in charge of the asylum. It’s more like putting a convicted arsonist in charge of the Forest Service.”
WHILE DEMOCRATS KEEP FIRING THEM: We Are On The Verge Of The Greatest Shortage Of Healthcare Workers In US History.‘
Genuine healthcare is a fairly recent innovation, but it sure didn’t take long to screw it up.
BIDEN IS SUPER-SERIAL ABOUT ELIMINATING COVID:
● Shot: Joe Biden: I’m going to ‘shut down the virus’, not the US.
—The Grauniad, October 23, 2020.
● Chaser: Mayorkas: Hey, that surge in Delta COVID-19 variant was totally unexpected at the border.
—Karen Townsend, Hot Air, Tuesday.
● Hangover: Hundreds of COVID-positive Haitians quarantined at El Paso motel.
Less than a week after federal authorities cleared the migrant camp underneath the International Bridge in Del Rio, more than 800 Haitians from that encampment were quarantined in an El Paso motel. They lacked adequate access to food, medical care and other necessities, according to a source who visited the motel.
—The Haitian Times, today.
The D.T.s: House Democrats Block COVID Testing Mandate for Illegal Immigrants.
—Townhall, yesterday.
Great moments in presidential schizophrenia: Are we in a pandemic or not?
GETTING FROM CHEMISTRY TO BIOLOGY: Self-replicating protocells created in lab may be life’s “missing link.”
CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL. Comptroller of the Economy.
President Biden checked off another progressive identity box last week by nominating Saule Omarova as Comptroller of the Currency. Some Trump appointees were ridiculed for having supported the elimination of their agencies. Ms. Omarova wants to eliminate the banks* she’s being appointed to regulate.
The Cornell University law school professor’s radical ideas might make even Bernie Sanders blush. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship. Thirty years later, she still believes the Soviet economic system was superior, and that U.S. banking should be remade in the Gosbank’s image.
“Until I came to the US, I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ‘know best,’” she tweeted in 2019. After Twitter users criticized her ignorance, she added a caveat: “I never claimed women and men were treated absolutely equally in every facet of Soviet life. But people’s salaries were set (by the state) in a gender-blind manner. And all women got very generous maternity benefits. Both things are still a pipe dream in our society!”
Sure, there was a Gulag, and no private property, but maternity benefits!
Omarova “graduated from Moscow State University in 1989.” That was the same year that Boris Yeltsin visited a supermarket outside of Houston, Texas:
In Yeltsin’s own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall’s, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits. Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia.
Maybe you can blame those frozen Jell-O Pudding pops he’s seen marveling in those Chronicle photos.
“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,” Yeltsin wrote. “That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”
Old and busted: Make America Great Again!
Omarova’s new hotness? Make America Soviet Again!
* Banks are already furious at Biden over his proposed IRS rulings. Nominating Omarova won’t exactly smooth relationships.
WE LIVE ON SUCH A STUPID TIMELINE THAT IT’S ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO MAKE THESE CASES: No, Government Spending Isn’t ‘Zero Cost.’
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Basta! Romans say enough to invasion of wild boars in city.
They’re wily and dangerous, but delicious.
TAR, FEATHERS: Fairfax Schools Sues Special-Ed Parents, Demanding ‘Damages’ For Publicizing Embarrassing Records The Schools Gave Them. “It also sued another mother of a special-needs student who runs a blog that published portions of the records. The documents are billing records showing how FCPS paid Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm that hired now-Virginia gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe as a top advisor, to do much of what parents say is the school system’s dirty work, including seeking to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by special-ed parents who allege that their children were systematically physically abused by educators.”
KATIE COURIC TORCHES ‘TODAY’ RIVAL, STINKY PRINCE HARRY, EX-CON MARTHA STEWART AND MORE:
The book comes several years after Couric’s last major gig, as Yahoo’s Global News Anchor, ended in 2017. Before her stint at ABC News, which lasted from 2011 to 2014, she landed a $15 million gig at CBS Evening News, where she worked as an anchor and managing editor from 2006 to 2011. The move, she writes, was “unwinnable,” and left her feeling “embattled, defensive, misunderstood.”
Some say the memoir is the nail in the coffin of dreams she’d ever return to the silver screen.
“[Couric will] never get a job at any television network or cable channel ever again because she attacks everyone,” an anonymous critic told the Daily Mail. “She’ll be stuck with her newsletter and Instagram stories for the rest of her working life even though the book oozes of her desperation to be back on network television hosting her own show.” Another denouncer suggested the tome “should be called ‘Burning Bridges’ by Catty Couric,” according to the publication.
I only hope it’s better edited than her last television gig.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: US Marine seen in viral video rescuing baby at Kabul airport investigated for appearing at Trump rally.
Meanwhile General Milley still has an office and a book deal in the works.
FROM TRUMP’S ABRAHAM ACCORDS TO BIDEN’S CRISIS BY DESIGN: Could Israel and Iran go to war, really? And if the worst comes, who would be to blame? “In a blistering speech to the United Nations on Monday — one that was mostly ignored by the mainstream media — new Israeli PM Naftali Bennett all but threatened war against Iran and that country’s nuclear weapons program.”