COUGH IT UP, NIH: That’s the message from five GOP senators, led by Rand Paul, to the National Institutes for Health (NIH), about every royalty payment made by an outside source to any agency official, researcher or scientist since 2009. Open the Books, the non-profit government watchdog that first exposed $350 million worth of such payments to NIHers, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, has posted $12 Trillion in government spending at all levels of government. Now that’s what I call government transparency!
Archive for 2022
June 1, 2022
HMM: The Tide Is Turning Toward Russia: It’s time to face some grim facts about the war in Ukraine.
I haven’t found French’s track record especially impressive, but it’s important to recognize that the war isn’t over until it’s over.
SOME POST-MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHTS from Andrew Davis.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: BBC altered victims quote so she didn’t misgender her alleged rapist.
Last September the ACLU posted a quote from the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talking about gender equality. Only the ACLU had decided Ginsburg’s actual quote wasn’t quite woke enough for modern tastes so they replaced the pronouns and removed the word “woman.”
Yesterday the London Times reported that the BBC went one step further than the ACLU. According to the report, the news outlet replaced the pronouns in a victim’s quote in order to avoid having her statement misgender her alleged rapist.
The BBC changed the testimony of a rape victim after a debate over the pronouns of her transgender attacker, The Times has learnt.
The woman referred to her alleged rapist as “him” but insiders said that her words were changed to avoid “misgendering” the abuser in an article on the corporation’s website.
The BBC article replaced every reference to “he” or “him” with “they” or “them”. A source said the quote was the subject of heated debate prior to publication. Some journalists argued that the quote should remain intact, while others said it should reflect the trans woman’s preferred she/her pronouns.
Winston Smith could not be reached for comment. But couldn’t there have been a setup paragraph to alert those readers who are likely to dive for the fainting couch about what’s coming next rather than alter quotes?
To be fair though, the Beeb’s gotta Beeb: 1984: How BBC ‘inspired’ George Orwell’s infamous torture cell Room 101.
Flashback: ‘A Powerfully Corrosive Internal Culture.’
ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS NO ONE WANTS THE ANSWERS TO: Um… Did Hunter Biden Send Joe Biden Porn Links?
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: New Lancet Study Destroys the CDC’s Justification for School Mask Mandates.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Woman who is sexually attracted to planes wants to marry toy Boeing.
TO BE FAIR, JOE PROBABLY CAN’T EITHER: CBS reporter asks press secretary to explain Lyin’ Biden’s latest whopper. She can’t.
HOW IT STARTED: Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department, slashes jobs and salaries.
—Fox News, August 10th, 2020.
How it’s going: Seattle police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year, memo shows.
—The Seattle Times, today.
TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE RIGHT: Top Russian Military Brass Caught Venting: ‘You’re Fucked, Putin—Motherfucker!’ “Two high-ranking Russian military officers have been caught shit-talking Kremlin leadership in unimaginably colorful language. The two colonels blast the defense minister and lash out at that ‘motherfucker’ Vladimir Putin for his poor strategy in Ukraine, according to a leaked recording of a phone conversation. While Western and Ukrainian intelligence agencies have routinely reported on plunging morale among rank-and-file Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, many of whom have been heard complaining of dysfunction in intercepted communications, the latest audio appears to be the first to expose frustrations among high-ranking officers.”
THAT’S WHO THEY ARE, THAT’S WHAT THEY DO: NPR Conflates Mass Shootings With School Shootings to Wildly Overstate the Problem.
BIDEN DID THAT: 25% of Americans are delaying retirement due to inflation, survey finds. “Many people in or near retirement may not have considered this surge in prices in their financial plans, which has thrown off budgets and timelines as well.”
SEE BETTER: Reading Glasses 5 Pairs Quality Readers. #CommissionEarned
TO BE FAIR, HARDLY ANYONE LISTENS TO JOE ANY MORE AND EVEN FEWER STILL TAKE HIS WORDS SERIOUSLY: Karine Jean-Pierre claims she ‘did not hear that part of the speech’ when Biden falsely claimed he was ‘appointed’ to the Naval Academy in 1965.
JIM TREACHER: No, There’s No Racist Backlash Against Star Wars. “Lando Calrissian is the coolest MF in the galaxy. He’s been around since 1980. Forty-two years ago! Before most of the people pretending this is a problem were even born. Back then, did George Lucas or Mark Hamill feel the need to put out a statement defending Billy Dee Williams? No. The two main changes to American society since then: 1) Now there’s Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and such, and 2) Star Wars is played out. Do racists say stupid crap in 2022? Sure. A lot of them work for CNN and MSNBC, but that’s another story. But is there some sort of racist backlash against Star Wars? No. Most people wouldn’t even know about any of this if Disney hadn’t put a spotlight on it.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: Hunter’s search history reveals his obsession with porn and sex fantasies including ’18yrs old,’ ‘lonely widow’ and ‘MILF crack cocaine porn,’ he uploaded his OWN amateur videos and texted Pornhub link to phone listed in his contacts as ‘Dad.’
I’m so old, I can remember those naive days when we made fun of a presidential relative because of his penchant for beer.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Update on Food Plants Blowing Up: More Explosions, More Stress on Domestic Food Supply.
RECOVERY SUMMER: Gas prices hit new record; analysts wonder when we break $5 a gallon. “CBS’ analysts peg the date we hit $5 per gallon as the national average at June 17. I say… take the under, because Joe Biden’s “incredible transition” is accelerating.”
What’s the over/under on when we look back fondly on $5 gas?
MICHAEL WALSH: Forget Guns. Whatever Happened to Men?
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Planetary defense exercise uses asteroid Apophis as hazardous asteroid stand-in.
BLAME WEED FOR MORE MASS MURDERERS: Ron Kessler makes a persuasive case for the proposition that the growing wave of states legalizing marijuana use is having two effects: First, the weed becoming available today is far stronger than what was common only a few years ago, and as a result, second, stronger weed contributes to increased mental illness and thus it’s no surprise to learn that many of the recent mass shooters were frequent smokers.
A BUMBLEBEE NEEDS FINS LIKE A FISH NEEDS A…: “It takes 35 pages of tortured logic in an opinion that reads like a parody, but the court concludes that bumblebees indeed are fish within the meaning of California’s environmental laws. I take it that all other insects, by the court’s logic, are also fish. I cite this decision as a warning to those who repose faith in our courts to check the excesses of the political branches. See also: Michael Sussman.”
HE FEELS YOUR PAIN: Another Embarrassing Jean-Pierre Gaffe as She Tries, Fails to Cover for Biden’s White Privilege. “I miss former White House PressSec Jenn Psaki like a hangover, so say what you will about new PressSec Karine Jean-Pierre’s competence, but she’s endlessly entertaining.”