THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN 2020: Watchdogs Press Congress to Axe Taxpayer Funding for Chinese Lab at Center of COVID Pandemic.

VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS DEALS are still here. #CommissionEarned

IT CAN BE DONE: Oklahoma Secretary of Education Ryan Walters is moving to ensure every public school district in the state complies with the law barring shared bathrooms for boys and girls.

Walters’ action follows coverage of a male student beating up two females in a girls bathroom in Edumund, Oklahoma. Edmund is an affluent suburban neighbor just north of Oklahoma City.

Earlier this year, Walters tore into administrators of the Stillwater, Oklahoma, public schools who had allowed mixed-gender bathrooms, according to The Washington Stand’s Ben Johnson:

“You have chosen radicals over your students, ideology over biology, and ‘wokeness’ over safety. Today, I am asking you to work with your fellow board members to make it so that your students only use the bathroom of their God-given natural sex. Biological males should not receive unrestricted access to women’s restrooms, leaving our young girls uncomfortable and afraid to enter them during school.”

Stillwater, by the way, is the home of my undergraduate alma mater, Oklahoma State University. Here’s three cheers for common sense and Ryan Walters, who was appointed by Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt.

FALLOUT: Russian oil exports crater by 54% in the first full week of the EU’s embargo amid a shortage of tankers willing to carry cargoes.

SPOILER: THEY’LL ALL STILL BE RANKED. With Southwestern, 10% Of ABA-Accredited Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings.

PENETRATION: Are FBI And CIA Agents ‘Sheep Dipped’ At Twitter And Other Tech Companies?

Yes, large global corporations need high-level, discreet corporate security, and potentially for benign purposes the particular skillsets that former law enforcement and intelligence personnel provide. However, the situation with Baker makes the problem plenty obvious. If you’re inclined to automatically trust the professionalism and integrity of the FBI and CIA, please have your head examined.

I want to know how many of these FBI and CIA agents are “sheep dipped.” In the intelligence world, “sheep dipping” is a term of art. It describes a tactic whereby a member of the military is “officially discharged from service” to do covert work. In secret, they are still eligible for rank promotions and military benefits. . . .

But the point here isn’t to offer up conspiracies about the Kennedy assassination. It’s to make the point that one reason conspiracy theories are so easy to believe is that it’s well-known the Deep-State Industrial Complex employs a lot of tactics such as sheep dipping that are expressly about manipulation and deception.

Combined with so many official denials over the years that turned out to be lies, this makes it impossible to believe intel agencies when they say they aren’t doing something. It was very much denied that American soldiers were in Southeast Asia when my dad was in the jungle learning how to eat soup with chopsticks. More recently, we have very dishonest denials about domestic spying by Obama intelligence officials John Brennan and James Clapper that in a just society should have led to criminal charges.

The FBI response to “Twitter Files” revelations that they were working behind the scenes with the social media network and encouraging censorship is about the furthest thing from reassuring.

Indeed. Read the whole thing.

BRITAIN’S FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCES GO UNTAPPED, BUT AT LEAST THEY HAVE “WARM BANKS.” British homeowners broken by energy costs turn to “warm banks”. “The problem with it is that it’s not for the homeless. These government-designated refuges are for homeowners, who are at risk of freezing to death in their own homes because they can no longer afford the heating oil, gas and/or electricity to keep them livable. All this during what is shaping up to be a brutal winter.”

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Lindell, Jack Posobiec Weigh In on RNC Chair Race.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): North Carolina Substitute Teacher Charged With “Indecent Liberties with a Child” for Having Sex with Student.

IF YOU MISSED IT, I HAD THE THIRD FREE CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY UP YESTERDAY:  On Christmas Day In The Morning.

Another probably day after tomorrow.

AFTER ALL THESE YEARS YOU’D HAVE THOUGHT THEY’D ALL BEEN FOUND:  168 mysterious new geoglyphs discovered in Peru’s Nazca Lines.

Oh, I get it, these are the “tiny” ones from 6′ to 19′ long….

I AM CONFIDENT THIS WILL DISCOURAGE ANYBODY ELSE FROM COMMITTING SUCH HEINOUS CRIMES:  Nazi ‘Secretary of Evil,’ 97, sentenced for role in more than 10K deaths.

I WILL LIVE IN THE LIGHT:  The Cult of Darkness.

YEAH, YEAH, BUT YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN CLOWN WORLD:  No one should be convicted for solving a problem the government refused to address.

PRIVACY? ON THE INTERNET? YOU SWEET NAIVE CHILD!   The terrifying ways employers can spy on your online life.

IT’S HARD TO SEE THIS, BUT WE OWE IT TO THE FUTURE NOT TO LOOK AWAY:  Twitter files #7: the FBI sets up the scam.

STANFORD CAN TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER. I’M AMERICAN AND PROUD:  Stanford: Don’t Call Yourself An American.

The only people that hurts are Socialists pantywaists who are afraid to call themselves Americans, and foreigners who are jealous. Bah. The pantywaists can get off my country, and the foreigners…. should too.

I’M ALL OUT OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES. THE ONES I HAD TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE:  On doubting everything.

LIKE THE WIND UP SOCIALIST GRIEVANCE DOLL CARES:  Yes Karine, There is a Border and It is Wide Open.

DEPENDS. I’VE HEARD THINGS ABOUT KENNEDY. BUT WE MUST STOP IT NOW:  Not Your Grandfather’s Election Day.

BECAUSE TRUMP SCARED THEM:  Why Did the FBI Want Joe Biden to Become President?

Let’s face it, the deep state has had a pretty sweet deal going. Trump was poking around in everything. This is… oh, yeah, China had a lot of these. This is a eunuch’s revolution, trying to prevent the legitimate ruler from destroying their graft and corruption.  And looking at the idiots in this administration “eunuchs” is a pretty good term for them. Intellectual and moral eunuchs if not physical.

LAST I CHECKED THE CONSTITUTION HAD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT ACTS OF ATTAINDER:  Even if Garland is foolish enough to indict Trump, he can still run and win.

Also, the left always tells us whom they fear. And boy, do they fear Trump.

HOLD THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE:  Energy Groups Suing Biden Administration for Failing to Hold Mandated Gas and Oil Lease Sales.

WELL, THAT’S AS STRANGE AS SAYING THE SUN HAS COME UP WHEN YOU SEE MORNING LIGHT:  ‘Not Just Twitter’: Elon Musk Alleges FBI, Govt Paid Other Social Media Companies.

SURE WHY NOT. THAT’S WHAT THE POST OFFICE NEEDS:  U.S. Postal Service to Spend Almost $10 Billion for Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure.

It’s either that or a radical re-structuring of a very outdated industry.  But you know, just getting all electric vehicles is er… easier for the left.