Archive for 2022
March 17, 2022
“YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRADE YOUR FREEDOM FOR SAFETY, BUT I SURE AS HELL DON’T:” Martha Bueno’s organization, People 4 Cuba, smuggles food and medicine directly into the hands of suffering Cubans to help undermine an oppressive dictatorship. New video from Reason TV:
WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report.
Update (from Steve):
During the second presidential debate, Joe Biden claimed that the election was about character and telling the truth. He then went on to blame Hunter's laptop on a Russian plot. pic.twitter.com/h7j7l1xnn4
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 17, 2022
DOES THIS MEAN THEY’RE RUNNING OUT OF THE MODERN STUFF? Russia resorting to older weapons more likely to cause civilian casualties, UK Defense Ministry says. “‘Due to the delays in “achieving their objectives and failure to control Ukrainian airspace,’ the ministry said Russia has probably ‘expended far more stand-off air launched weapons than originally planned,’ leading them to resort to weapons that are less militarily effective.”
HEALING SICK PEOPLE IS SO 20TH CENTURY: Exclusive: Association of American Medical Colleges to Propose DEI Curriculum Standards.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S MOSTLY WHAT “SOCIAL JUSTICE” IS ABOUT: GRAFT. AND THE FASCISM, OF COURSE. Boston’s ‘best social justice advocate’ arrested for defrauding donors.
YOU CAN’T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME: Joe Biden Goes 110 Days With Approval Index Under -24, Polling Worse Than Obama, Trump.
STILL POPULAR: LifeStraw Personal Water Filter for Hiking, Camping, Travel, and Emergency Preparedness, 1 Pack, Blue. #CommissionEarned
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: We’re Close to a Majority of States Passing Constitutional Carry Laws.
“OVERSEE” IS PROBABLY TOO STRONG A WORD: Will Joe Biden Oversee The Collapse Of The U.S. Dollar? “Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears to think it’s a possibility, based on his recent quip: ‘It’s possible to have more than one reserve currency.’ This is a staggering admission from the one person who wields the most influence over the dollar.”
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Cornell to hire social justice ‘Equity Librarian’ for science library.
EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Criticism of Kamala’s Ill-Timed Cackle Is (What Else?) ‘Racism’ and ‘Misogyny.’
WHO’S SIDE IS HE ON, ANYWAY? Biden may remove Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from terrorist list.
Just kidding, we know.
COVID IS OVER: Pandemic over, cont’d: Biden COVID czar out. “Zients was an odd choice from the start. By appointing Zients to that position and Xavier Becerra to run Health and Human Services, Biden picked two men without any medical background to run his administration’s policies for the worst pandemic in a century. Under their management, COVID-19 policies became even more politicized than before, especially when it came to schools and interventions. That politicization infected even the supposedly hard-science bastion of the CDC, which calculated its guidelines on political lobbying from teachers unions until this day.”
“Supposedly” is the key word there.
Related: Biden officials fear “mass migration event” if COVID policies end. “U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border if COVID-era policies that allow instant expulsions during the public health emergency are ended, sources with direct knowledge of the discussions tell Axios.”
Is it really “fear?”
A TASTY NUISANCE: California city may declare Chick-fil-A a ‘public nuisance.’
In Santa Barbara, the city is close to dubbing its sole Chick-fil-A a “public nuisance” due to long drive-thru lines that often has cars filled with hungry customers backed into the street for hours at a time.
The eatery known for its waffle fries and chicken sandwiches has had a restaurant in Santa Barbara since 2013, drawing a steady flow of patrons whose vehicles block nearby driveways and sidewalks and make city buses and emergency vehicles find other routes, according to city officials.
Chick-fil-A’s drive-thru lane heightens the odds of traffic collisions and pedestrians getting injured. At peak-volume, the drive-through blocks one lane of traffic for as much as 90 minutes on weekdays and for as much as 155 minutes on Saturdays, according to a city traffic report.
“The city’s traffic engineer, police chief and community development director have evaluated the situation and believe that the persistent traffic back-up onto State Street is a public nuisance and that the nuisance is caused by the operation of a drive-through at the Chick-fil-A restaurant,” the document stated.
Or is the real nuisance… political?
SHOT: NASA’s huge new moon rocket to emerge for first time in rollout to launch pad. “NASA’s towering moon rocket, the SLS, is expected to emerge from its assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, providing a new look at the agency’s biggest space vehicle since the Apollo era.”
Chaser: According to a US Auditor, Each Launch of the Space Launch System Will Cost an “Unsustainable” $4.1 Billion. “Boeing, the struggling aerospace giant that has faced a series of public relations disasters in recent years, came in for particular criticism from Martin. He lambasted their technical and project management skills and noted they were still paid a handsome bonus for their incompetence.”
Boeing is good at lobbying, not at aerospace. Give the money to SpaceX and have them build a rocket instead.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Biden’s Latest Pervy Comment May Be the Most Awkward Yet.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THESE FBI RAIDS BECOMING MORE FREQUENT? Lara Logan tweets hidden camera footage of the November 2021 FBI raid on the home of Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe. Good thing those agents were armed because you never know with a guy like O’Keefe, whose picture is plastered on Post Office walls across America!
I’m sure those red-letter editorials blasting the government for these assaults on the First Amendment will appear any day now in the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MANBC, etc. etc. Not today? Well then surely tomorrow. Right?
SO MUCH TO CHEER IN THIS DECISION: And not just the fact that math Professor Nathaniel Hiers’ First Amendment rights were vindicated by a federal court, but, as Just the News reports, the same court delivered a warning to academic bullies that they can be held personally liable for such violations. Now that just might give the bullies something to think about they weren’t expecting. Go here to read the opinion, which is well worth the time.
BIDEN BOMBS SUN TZU’S GOLDEN BRIDGE:
Biden knows how to talk tough and how to punch down, but he’s clueless, self-defeating, and dangerous when there are actual stakes involved.
EXPLAIN THIS: Did you know there’s a camshaft in the ATP Synthase in your body that functions just like the camshaft in your car’s engine, HillFaith is asking today. Whether your engine has one, two or four camshafts, the function is the same as it is with the ATP Synthase’s camshaft – to open and close valves as an indispensable part of an energy production process that illustrates irreducible complexity. Intelligent Design or random chance?
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S ONLY BECAUSE SHE’S TERRIBLE: Sheriffs want Kamala Harris dumped as ‘border czar’ and vote ‘no confidence.’
A NEW NATIONALISM: Joel Kotkin: Foreign threats demand a muscular domestic response.
War, or the threat of war, should awaken nations from their dogmatic quarrels. So too should concentrated economic threats and assaults on our political system from unfriendly powers. It is not so much a matter of good global intentions but the embrace of hard-headed national interests, not only in the realm of energy and manufacturing, that will be key in responding to the autocratic challenge.
In the end, it’s only the nation state—in alliance with other similarly minded states—that can stand up to the threats now coming from our primary adversaries, China, and Russia. NATO does not build planes and failed to counter Russian threats; the UN has not exactly stamped out aggressive wars. Meanwhile the global economic hegemons have backed policies on energy and manufacturing that have made our autocratic enemies, and their allies like Iran, stronger. . . .
Successful nationalism lies in tapping the power of our productive economy—real products, not just digital ones—as occurred under Franklin Roosevelt and successive presidents. America’s rise to global predominance in the last century, and its creation of a vibrant middle class, had its roots, notes economic historian Robert Gordon, in great investment in physical infrastructure and production. In contrast, our current focus on digital technology and social media has resulted in a slow and diminished productivity and growing social inequality. This has been made worse as by what one analyst describes as “the transformation of disruptive tech companies into rent seeking monopolies.”
Rather than amplify social media and oligarchic privilege, we need to realize that it will be largely in the “real economy” that the struggle will be determined. This starts, particularly in reference to Russia, with restoring our control of our own energy supplies. The “net zero” climate policies adopted by President Biden and most of his party have worked to reduce energy investment, with new regulations making it harder to build new fossil fuel plants, which has contributed to soaring energy prices. In this he has been buttressed by our corporate elite, which has taken the “net zero” pledge and even now frets that the invasion of Ukraine may distract us from an obsessive focus on renewable energy sources.
Russia’s adventurism may be passionately denounced by the virtue signalers from Wall Street and the New York Times to Hollywood, but the decisive answer to the Asian partnership rising against the woke West will come from the workers and managers of west Texas, the Great Plains, the logistics hubs on the West Coast, and the industrial Midwest. Right now, the greens basically offer little more than permanent economic dislocation. The green aristocracy’s plans to cover much of the countryside with solar panels and windmills are bitterly opposed by residents who might not see much advantage in scarring their backyards to salve the consciousness of the global Greta Thunbergs.
Yes, woke morons need to be removed from power everywhere.