THAT’S NOT EVEN HIS MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT:
Archive for 2022
October 19, 2022
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Melatonin can be a nightmare if used incorrectly, experts say.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. ALSO, THE SCIENCE IS ANYTHING WE SAY. CDC could add COVID vaccine requirement for children to immunization list with ‘no clinical data.’
IT’S COME TO THIS: Death Row Records Co-Founder Endorses Nathan Hochman for California Attorney General.
Michael Harris is straight outta Hollywood. The music industry, to be specific, whose artists are usually lined up behind every communist and social justice reformer in, and running for office. Looking at you, John Legend.
But even more notorious, Harris is the executive who financed Death Row Records, the label that gave us 2Pac, Dr. Dre, and California native son, Snoop Dogg. He reportedly gave a $1.5 million investment to the label’s co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight, much of that money probably derived from drug trafficking.
Both Harris and Knight were hardasses. Both ended up in prison for their corruption and drug trafficking. Harris was also up on a bid of attempted murder and was serving 25-to-life; he wasn’t scheduled to be released until 2028 and was denied compassionate relief during COVID.
None other than Snoop Dogg petitioned former President Donald J. Trump to pardon Harris and two others. President Trump granted the pardon on his last day in office.
On his release, Harris had this to say:
“There’s not a dime of difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes down to results to me at this point,” the former drug kingpin explained. “I don’t have a dog in the fight unless the people that’s in power deal with the people that are powerless in a respectful way.”
Apparently, Harris feels that Nathan Hochman will be the one to get those results, and who will return that respect and power to the powerless.
Read the whole thing.
GREAT MOMENTS IN MALARKEY: Biden: Releasing 15 Million More Barrels of Oil Reserves Right Before Election ‘Not Politically Motivated at All!’
More malarkey: “Let’s debunk some myths: My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production.”
Joe Biden, it’s time to meet Joe Biden!
● Biden’s plan to cancel Keystone pipeline signals a rocky start with Canada.
—The Washington Post, January 19th, 2021.
● Success: Biden Gets the High Gas Prices He Promised.
—The Pipeline, June 17th.
● Biden pulls 3 offshore oil lease sales, curbing new drilling this year.
—The Washington Post, May 12th.
● Biden administration won’t appeal judge’s ruling revoking Gulf of Mexico drilling leases.
—The Washington Post, February 28th.
Flashbacks: Why Aren’t Democrats Dancing for Joy About Sky-High Gas Prices?
In the service of reducing carbon emissions, Democrats have long openly worked to raise the price of fossil fuel energy. They have done so by proposing carbon taxes, cap-and-trade schemes, higher leasing fees, and other measures to jack up costs so people burn less of it. This is why Barack Obama said, in answer to a related question about electricity, that his energy plan would make prices “necessarily skyrocket.” This is why Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna praised BP’s CEO less than six months ago for pledging to reduce oil and gas production by 40% by 2030. Reductions in oil production and rising gasoline prices are part of the Democrats’ agenda and the Paris climate agenda.
There’s even more to it than that. Over the past decade, the Democrats’ overt hostility toward fossil fuels has even driven companies in the industry to sideline production, purely for public relations purposes, while prioritizing meaningless, politically correct carbon emissions goals. How can Democrats suddenly feign outrage at their incredible success in influencing the industry?
Is it a mystery why Democrats aren’t doing a sack dance and celebrating the salvation of planet earth?
There’s the small matter of their political survival, of course. It would be unseemly — like doing a jig at an Irish funeral — to celebrate other people’s pain. And it would cost many Democrats who are secretly jubilant about high gas prices their political careers.
Instead, Democrats are pretending to look for a way to “ease consumers’ pain.”
In September of 2019, after CNN’s seven hour “climate change town hall,” Bryan Preston wrote, “Seriously, if you see all of the above — which is just a sample — and vote for any of these people for any office at any level, it’s on you. If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela.”
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
● “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So despite Biden claiming today that high gas prices are Putin’s fault, is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
● Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
● The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
OBSOLETE TECH AND MEANINGFUL LYRICS: Expert in a Dying Field.
I used to own that Studiomaster board. And a lot of the other gear pictured. . . .
DAVID THOMPSON: But What If Your ‘Whole Self’ Is, Frankly, Aggravating?
And back in the world of contrived racial grievance,
Job postings and corporate ‘About Us’ pages often include a statement about the company fostering an environment where employees can bring their ‘whole selves’ to work. But how often do these claims reflect reality?
At risk of being difficult, I have questions about the premise. For one, why on God’s Fragrant Earth would an employer, or indeed their customers, want employees to drag every last piece of their personal baggage into the workplace and then inflict that inexhaustible tedium on everyone else? If, say, I’m buying groceries, I am as a rule friendly towards the person at the checkout. There’s always eye contact, a smile, and a word of appreciation. However, I rarely have the time or inclination to hear about the cashier’s extensive list of ailments or her difficulties finding a babysitter, or a lover, or a suitable shampoo. Nor do I wish to hear her views on politics. It’s not why I’m there. And ditto her.
Read the whole thing. As Christopher Buckley wrote in his satiric “Introducing Yourself to the Waiter” chapter of his 1997 book, Wry Martinis, “One person I know always eats a full meal before going to the restaurant, leaving him free to concentrate on developing a personal relationship with the server.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: KOIOS 850W Smoothie Bullet Blender for Shakes and Smoothies. #CommissionEarned
RECALLING AMERICA’S ‘HUMAN ZOOS:’ Ota Benga was the first human being to be displayed at the Bronx Zoo’s Monkey House in 1906. Yes, a human being exhibited in the Monkey House as the “missing link.” It’s upsetting to any patriotic American, but it is one of those hidden corners of our history.
READER FAVORITE: Instant Read Meat Thermometer for Cooking. #CommissionEarned
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Top House Dems continue paying family members thousands of dollars using campaign funds.
CAN COLLEGE WORK WITHOUT TENURE? Cairn University’s president says yes. But would it work everywhere? Without strong protections against academic freedom abuses, I fear the cure might be worse than the disease.
MICROBIOME NEWS: Alterations to gut mucus may trigger ulcerative colitis.
SHE’S RIGHT: Tulsi Gabbard Says Democrats Have Become ‘Insane.’
THEY’VE BEEN PREDICTING CLIMATE-CHANGE-BASED HURRICANE ARMAGEDDON SINCE KATRINA: Climate change could bring bigger, wetter Atlantic hurricanes.
GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Armed citizen shoots knife-wielding man threatening paramedics.
EVERYTHING GOING SWIMMINGLY UNDER PRESIDENCY OF CO-ARCHITECT OF OBAMACARE: More than a million Americans ration insulin as prices skyrocket.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST:
● Shot: Climate COVID? The Guardian Insists ‘Next Pandemic’ May Come From … ‘Melting Glaciers.’
—Headline, NewsBusters, today.
● Chaser: President ‘has four years to save Earth.’
—Headline, the Grauniad, January 17th, 2009.
● Hangover: Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days.
—Headline, the Grauniad, November 12th, 2021.
● The D.T.s: ‘Humiliating:’ 2004 Guardian Report Peddling Climate Doom By 2020 Frozen Out.
The eco-extremists at the liberal Guardian should realize by now that the internet is forever. The outlet freaked out over 17 years ago about a frosty future thanks to a ridiculously inaccurate Pentagon prediction.
The Guardian published a report in 2004 sounding the alarm bells over a “secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs” and obtained by sister newspaper The Observer. Here was the harrowing message, according to The Guardian: “[M]ajor European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.”
It’s now 2021, and major European cities are still intact and a Reuters report this year flushes The Guardian’s frets about a little ice age in Britain down the toilet. Reuters trumpeted: “Britain’s climate getting warmer, sunnier and wetter – Met Office.” Travel website Touropia has an updated report headlined, “25 Best Cities to Visit in Europe.” Even the waterway-dominated Venice, Italy is No. 17 on the list. Ouch.
—NewsBusters, December 17th, 2021.
You have to give the Grauniad points for keeping at it, though. And yet, I’m keeping all the lights on; if only to do my part: ‘Promise?’ Illustrated warning of what Washington, DC might look like if climate change isn’t addressed backfires:
(Classical reference in headline.)
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Sleeping five hours or less increases risk of chronic illnesses, study warns.
WHO WILL BE INTIMIDATED BY THIS? NOT THE UKRAINIANS. THE EUROPEANS? MAYBE, BUT DOUBTFUL. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION? THEY SEEM TO WANT A NUCLEAR WAR. Russia May Detonate Nuclear Weapon Over Black Sea, Vladimir Putin Preparing To Declare All-Out War On Ukraine: Reports.
Also, a fair chance it won’t work, which would be embarrassing.
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS (CBC) SHOWS ITS TRUE PARTISAN COLORS: Republican Jennifer-Ruth Green is Black and she is running for Congress in Indiana’s 1st congressional district.
If she wins her race against incumbent Democrat Rep. Frank Mrvan, she would be expected under normal circumstances to join the CBC. The race is rated a toss-up at the moment, so there is a realistic possibility of Green winning, according to the Daily Caller’s Senior Congressional Correspondent, Henry Rogers.
But she won’t be joining the CBC if she wins because the group endorsed Mrvan and contributed to his re-election campaign. Mrvan is a White Democrat. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), the dynamic Black GOPer who is viewed as an emerging star, was also blocked from joining the CBC. Time to change the name to something more honest, like Congressional Black Democrats Caucus.
TEXAS: Three Republican House Candidates to Consider Backing.
Here’s one of them:
Myra Flores, TX-34 (Donation Page). Technically this isn’t a “flip” opportunity, since Flores eked out a Special Election win against Dan Sanchez to fill out the remaining term of Democrat Filmon Vila Jr., who left office to work at Aiken Gump. But that election was a big upset, since Vila had defeated his Republican opponent in 2020 by 14 points. In November she faces Democrat Vicente Gonzalez (an incumbent for TX-15 who changed races because his own district was becoming too competitive), who says that Flores and Republicans stole the seat by out-raising Sanchez. This seat is a bellwether for Republican chances to flip Hispanic voters to the party. I donated to Flores.
If you’ve been looking for a campaign or two to give to, even just a little, you could do worse than Flores.