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October 7, 2021
Plus: “Who was that masked Justice? Sonia Sotomayor.”
“FACT CHECKERS” AREN’T ABOUT GETTING THE FACTS RIGHT: Politifact Tries Riding to the Rescue After Chuck Grassley Notes Broad Support for Photo ID Election Laws.
WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: AFL REQUESTS DOJ OIG INVESTIGATION INTO AG GARLAND’S MEMORANDUM OF OCTOBER 4, 2021 TARGETING CONCERNED PARENTS.
It does appear corrupt, as well as authoritarian and un-American.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU MOCKED AFTER USING ‘2SLGBTQQIA+’ ACRONYM.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being mocked on social media after he published two posts that mention the latest woke iteration of an acronym for people with different sexual identities — 2SLGBTQQIA+ — which some likened to an encrypted password or “headbutting the keyboard.”
“People across the country are lighting candles to honour Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people who are missing or have been murdered. We must continue to work together, raise awareness, and advocate to end this ongoing national tragedy. #SistersinSpirit,” the prime minister posted to Facebook and Twitter on Monday, referencing the Sisters in Spirit vigil, which honors women of specific racial or sexual identities who are missing or have been murdered.
The number and letter ‘2S’ in 2SLGBTQQIA+ includes people who identify as “Two-spirit,” referring to someone who identifies as having both a masculine and a feminine spirit. It is used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe their sexual identity.
The acronym, which used to be most commonly known as “LGBTQ,” sparked confusion among social media users.
America’s Newspaper of Record knows how this will ultimately play out: Experts Predict LGBTQ Acronym Could Circle The Earth 3 Times By 2022.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S ONLY BECAUSE HE’S BEIJING’S CORRUPT TOOL: Joe Biden could solve the mystery of COVID’s origins — but he won’t.
ROGER SIMON: Thank Goodness Merrick Garland’s Not on the Supreme Court.
But wait, as they say, there’s more (startlingly and ironically more).
Conservative Treehouse reported the following on Oct. 5, one day after Garland posted his memorandum:
“Well, well, well… This is interesting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently instructed the FBI to begin investigating parents who confront school board administrators over Critical Race Theory indoctrination material. The U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum to the FBI instructing them to initiate investigations of any parent attending a local school board meeting who might be viewed as confrontational, intimidating or harassing.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland’s daughter is Rebecca Garland. In 2018 Rebecca Garland married Xan Tanner [LINK]. Mr. Xan Tanner is the current co-founder of a controversial education service company called Panorama Education. [LINK and LINK] Panorama Education is the ‘social learning’ resource material provider to school districts and teachers that teach Critical Race Theory.”
Exit quote: “Once again, in the immortal words of H.L. Mencken, ‘When someone says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.’”
COLD CASE TEAM SAYS IT HAS IDENTIFIED THE ZODIAC KILLER:
A team of more than 40 specialists believes it has identified the Zodiac Killer, an unnamed serial murderer who operated in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960s.
The Case Breakers, which consist of former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence officers, said in a press release that they believe they have identified the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018.
The Zodiac Killer has been connected to five murders between 1968 and 1969. The killer notably taunted authorities through complex riddles and ciphers sent to media and police during the investigations.
The Case Breakers say they identified Poste as the killer after uncovering forensic evidence and photos from Poste’s darkroom. The team said a few images featured in the press release show scars on his forehead that match scars on a sketch of the Zodiac Killer.
Instapundit readers have known the identity of the Zodiac Killer since 2018.
I WON’T BE HAPPY UNTIL THERE’S A MAVERICK “GRABBER” EDITION: 2022 Ford Maverick First Drive – Return of the True Small Truck.
QUESTION ASKED: Does MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Want to Hang Mike Pence?
We know how MSNBC would respond if Chris weren’t a Democrat: MSNBC’s Mitchell Blames Palin, Again, for Tucson Shooting.
PANDEMIC LEADERS RESPOND TO POWER, NOT SCIENCE:
Nor was it the proliferation of the Covid-19 vaccine. Because New Zealand’s level of Covid-19 infection has been (and remains) low, the government did not start diligently pushing the vaccine until last month. Right now, just over 40% of the country has received two doses of Covid-19 vaccines, and to completely buck Covid-19 pandemic controls, Ardern’s government says that number must go way up.
Rather, it was a show of will and force by some fed-up Kiwis that finally bent Ardern’s ear. It is power, not science, that our Covid rulers respond to.
The pandemic situation in New Zealand is clearly different than in the United States. The media’s use of New Zealand as a model for the United States’ Covid-19 policy early on was ridiculous then as it is now. But, perhaps Ardern was willing to abandon Covid zero more readily because of New Zealand’s parliamentary system. One of the advantages of the parliamentary system is that it makes politicians more keen to respond to public demonstrations in times of crisis. I’m not suggesting the U.S. should consider scrapping the Constitution and adopt a parliamentary system, but the U.S. has had its fair share of anti-lockdown protests in various states with little such effect. Because Ardern could face an ousting at anytime (although that remains highly unlikely right now), she’s constantly concerned about maintaining her position. In the U.S., where if you elect a septuagenarian with failing mental faculties, voters have to wait a full four years to vote him out, or rely on elected representatives to find a clear and extreme reason to impeach and remove them from office.
Neither New Zealand’s Covid-19 policies nor its parliamentary system should serve as a model for the United States. However, what has happened as of late in New Zealand is a lesson for conservatives and right-populists hoping to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror. The pandemic will never be over until we force our leaders to admit it is.
Flashback: Ignoring Them Is the Only Way Out.
We can’t eat enough medium-well steaks to get the CDC to stop recommending that we not eat medium-rare, let alone steak tartare. If you ask epidemiologists whether human conversation is safe, their minds call up computer animations of people projectile-vomiting red and blue blocks of “droplets” on each other. If you asked public-health authorities for permission to be born and live a life, there’s no way they could just, you know, approve of that in an unqualified way. You just have to remember that you’ll never be in less danger to yourself or others until dead.
They’re waiting for us — the people. The people began locking down and shutting in and buying masks last February, when public-health officials were telling you that masks were racist and that you should attend Chinese New Year parades to show you weren’t afraid. The people began traveling out more — based on the Google traffic data — before the lockdowns were eased. When does it end? When we end it.
And it’s ending, despite Biden and Fauci’s dreams of endless lockdowns: “On Saturday in New York City you needed a vaccine passport to eat in a restaurant or grab a drink in a bar, work out in a gym, go to a movie, or attend any sporting event. Just four hours to the west nearly 110,000 maskless Penn State Nittany Lion fans who had to provide no health records to anyone to attend the game reveled in their school’s biggest football game in two years, packed as close together as possible all clad in white in one of the great football cathedrals of this country. Watch this video and tell me which America you want to live in, the one where you have freedom and embrace life or the one where you either bow down to the authoritarian whims of a group of leaders who don’t even follow their own rules or have no ability to do anything.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: UAE will send spacecraft to visit Venus and land on an asteroid.
#RESIST (COLORADO EDITION): Government Keeps Trying To Censor This Brewery. The Owner Isn’t Having It.
Jim Caruso, CEO of Flying Dog Brewery, calls his business a “First Amendment brewery.” That’s because he keeps going to court to defend beer labels.
It started in 1995, when Colorado’s Liquor Commission objected to the label, “Good Beer, No Shit.”
Bureaucrats told him, “Pull the beer from the market, or we suspend your license,” he says in my new video. That could have put him out of business.
I tell Caruso, “I’m glad we get to say ‘shit’ in this interview, but I can see why the regulators didn’t want the word.”
“Want free speech?” Caruso responds. “You have to respect that in others.”
After four years of litigation, Colorado’s Supreme Court overruled the liquor commission, ruling that “no shit” is free speech.
Read the whole thing.
By the way, it is good beer. No shit.
KRUISER: Getting the Big-Tech Boot Off Our Throats. “I’m not one given to being overwrought about much these days but I can tell you this in all seriousness: Big Tech (Facebook, Twitter, Google) isn’t content to simply marginalize conservative new media outlets, it wants to destroy us completely.”
COMPLY, THEY EXPLAINED: Some Black Actors and Athletes Won’t Spout the Party Line About Vaccines.
One way to shut down discussion is to depict anyone who disagrees with you as an evil monster. In this case, the popular conception of the vaccine skeptic is a MAGA-hatted redneck chewin’ his tobaccy whilst beatin’ his younguns and rapin’ his sister-wife. Those people do exist, but that’s hardly the only group of Americans who don’t like the way things are going. The dissenters aren’t just white folks, or Republicans, or Trump voters, or any of the other boogeymen under the bed of the average lib. One voice of reason in all this is… wait, is this right? [Black-ish star] Anthony Anderson?
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The THR piece also notes that Letitia Wright, who plays the Black Panther’s super-genius sister Shuri in the Marvel movies, has also expressed dissenting views on vaccines.
Move along, nothing to see here, citizen.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Facebook whistleblower to meet with Jan. 6 committee: report.
The air quotes that “whistleblower” Frances Haugen is making in the photo atop The Hill’s article is unintentionally perfect.
Earlier: Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor.
IF ONLY ROGER GOODELL HADN’T POLITICIZED NFL GAMES: “The ‘F*ck Joe Biden’ chants have transitioned from college football stadiums to the National Football League as a thunderous anti-Biden chant was heard Sunday at the Titans-Jets game. It may be the loudest example yet of the chant springing up at a sports venue.”
As Glenn wrote on September 11th, the “f**k Joe Biden” chants “seems to be happening all over. It’s amusing to see Democrats respond by demanding respect for the office, and the separation of politics and sport. Too late guys. Enjoy the new rules you made.”
Many have observed that Joe Biden is essentially Obama’s third term, given the many retreads in his cabinet. And to be fair, the NFL is, in a sense, returning to its roots, given that Goodell allowed the politicization of the NFL to begin when he did nothing to stop Colin Kaepernick and other player protests during the tail end of the original Obama era, despite having the precedent of the NBA blocking similar protests in 1996.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Rolling Gun Battles Now All the New Rage in Chicago.
Flashback: Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance. “In some parts of Chicago, violent street gangs and pols quietly trade money and favors for mutual gain. The thugs flourish, the elected officials thrive—and you lose.”
HERE’S HOW THAT SPACE PROGRAM IS COMING ALONG: NASA to test DART space deflection system to prevent asteroid Armaggedon.
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