HMM: America Doesn’t Need More Gun Control, It Needs Lawyer Control.
Lionel Hutz begs to differ:
Archive for 2022
August 23, 2022
STAY COMFORTABLE: Carhartt Men’s Loose Fit Heavyweight Short-Sleeve Pocket T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Paul Pelosi benefits big with PPP forgiveness, company won’t repay millions.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Use of marijuana, hallucinogens soared to new high in 2021, NIH says.
MARY KATHARINE HAM REVIEWS THE STOLEN YEAR: A Belated Vindication for School Reopeners.
[Anya] Kamenetz, an NPR education reporter, is highly credentialed and well-informed. But if the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that degrees and area expertise don’t necessarily lead people to good decisions or sound interpretations of data. Knowing the facts was not synonymous with having the courage to buck the pressure to padlock playgrounds.
There were signs in Kamenetz’s reporting that she understood that the risks of opening schools were being exaggerated and the harms of closures downplayed. (I frequently shared her early reporting on YMCAs safely opening for children of essential workers.) Despite that, she admits that she and her colleagues largely missed the biggest story in the modern education beat’s history.
“It was all easy to predict,” she told The Grade. “So we could have been a lot louder.”
They could have been louder. NPR and other national news outlets were not chock-full of stories about the ways remote learning exacerbated existing inequities. Public radio didn’t send warnings in its sonorous tones commensurate with what Kamenetz knew was generational damage, hitting poor and minority students hardest. It didn’t extensively profile the politically and ethnically diverse coalition of parents who fought for a year to open urban and suburban schools’ doors. It didn’t press large districts and teachers union leaders about their insistence on staying closed while the rest of the world opened safely. (COVID policies closed many American schools for 58 weeks, compared with 33 in Finland, 27 in China and the U.K., 11 in Japan, and even fewer in Denmark and Sweden.)
Exit quote: “Twelve years after he was acquitted of murder, O.J. Simpson and a ghostwriter penned a book called If I Did It. I was reminded of that when The Stolen Year arrived on my doorstep.”
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: America’s favorite supervillain doesn’t have time to deal with your damaged kids:
Cavuto: "Do you think shutdowns particularly for kids who couldn't go to school that it's forever damaged them?"
Fauci: "I don't think it's irreparably damaged anyone." pic.twitter.com/RSypxkBd6A
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 23, 2022
FOR ONE THING, THE FLY HAS MORE AT STAKE THAN YOU DO: Why it’s so hard to swat flies, according to science.
That’s why I use a Bug A-Salt Gun. Even the formerly skeptical InstaWife is a fan.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: New Taylor Swift class at UT Austin will dive deep into the artist’s songbook.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ‘Not A F***ing Hero:’ The Left Turns On Liz Cheney After Primary Loss.
See also: Megyn Kelly’s stillborn career at NBC: Megyn Kelly Desperately Grovels to her New Friends on the Left After Committing Wrongthink.
THE VERSION OF THE MATRIX THAT TOM WOLFE PROGRAMMED SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH IS STILL WORKING PERFECTLY:
NOW THEY’VE GONE TOO FAR: Soulless Greens Are Trying to Ruin Scotch Whisky. “Because peat is decaying organic matter that must be burned to obtain energy, it is considered a fossil fuel — and you know what that means.”
If you read between the lines, it’s obvious that banning or limiting peat is just a way for distillers who don’t use peat to legally kneecap superior distillers.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: China in Charge at U.S. Lab.
The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), part of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), focuses on “dangerous pathogens” with the “potential to be used as weapons around the world.”
This same GNL signed agreements with three Chinese labs, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that gave China the power to destroy “secret files, materials and equipment, without any backups. “The agreements applied to “all cooperation and exchange documents, data, details and materials,” were renewable every five years, and the confidentiality terms remaining in force even after termination.
As The Epoch Times reports, the UTMB now concedes that officials signed “poorly drafted” agreements, and that the signing could violate Texas law. Also in play are violations of a more serious order.
The Galveston National Lab is a 2008 creation of NIAID, the division of the National Institutes of Health headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci since 1984. Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function research, which makes viruses more lethal and transmissible, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, controlled by Communist China and not accountable to American officials.
In addition to some $4 million in U.S. funding, which Fauci laundered through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, the WIV received a cargo of deadly pathogens courtesy of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu. As Israeli molecular biologist Dr. Dany Shoham documented in China and Viruses: The Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, the Chinese scientist came to head the special pathogens program at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.
The viruses that were “surreptitiously shipped from the NML to China included Machupo, Junin, Rift Valley Fever, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, and Hendra. In 2017-18 alone, Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the Wuhan lab.
Read the whole thing.
GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS: CNN Staff Fears Right-Wing Billionaire Will Turn It Into a Dumpster Fire.
The fallout from the firing of Brian Stelter and the cancellation of Reliable Sources continues this week.
CNN insiders tell Confider that staffers cannot shake the feeling the shocking move was made to appease John Malone, a right-leaning billionaire, close friend of the Murdoch family, and key Warner Bros. Discovery board member who has made it well-known that he would like CNN to be more “centrist”—whatever that means.
Perhaps being able to define “centrist” might be a good first step in repairing both CNN and the Huffington Post.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: 10-Year-Old Praised as Youngest Trans Model To Walk New York Fashion Week.
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Study: Researchers find carbon monoxide trapped in ice.
WHY IS THE GRAY LADY SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? People of color at the New York Times get lower ratings in job reviews, union says.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, COMRADE PUTIN: Russian paratrooper’s bombshell diary exposes chaos in Ukraine.
GOODER AND HARDER: Crime spiking in upscale New York neighborhoods, NYPD statistics show.
CALIFORNIA’S NOT SENDING ITS BEST TO CONGRESS: Eric Swalwell Takes a Swipe at DeSantis, but Commits an Embarrassing Self-Own.
MEGAN FOX: The People v. Cynthia Abcug: Who Is the ‘Conspiracy Theorist?’ “Today, more than 30 potential jurors unknowingly walked into a horrible day on jury duty because the state of Colorado didn’t care if it traumatized its citizens with a fake story of child abuse. I aim to do better.”
WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT HEALTH EXPERTS? ‘Doggy Style’ can give you stroke – Health expert advises.