NONSENSE, IF THAT WERE TRUE DEMOCRATS AND JOURNALISTS — BUT I REPEAT MYSELF – WOULD BE OBSEQUIOUSLY BACKING THEM: Young: Gun-Toting Politicians Are the Kim Jong-Uns of American Politics.
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January 4, 2022
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T RAISE? Viagra Lifts Woman Out of COVID Coma. “Before being put into the coma, Almeida agreed to partake in experimental COVID treatments if necessary. She was 72 hours away from having her ventilator turned off when her doctors decided to inject her with a large dose of Viagra.”
BEST SELLER IN ECONOMIC THEORY: Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam. #CommissionEarned
YOU DON’T WIN FRIENDS WITH SALAD: Organic packaged salads tied to E. coli outbreak in 6 states.
SO MUCH FOR ERIC ADAMS’ TOUGH ON CRIME STANCE: Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases.
Manhattan’s new district attorney has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences in a slew of criminal cases, according to a set of progressive policies made public Tuesday.
In his first memo to staff on Monday, Alvin Bragg said his office “will not seek a carceral sentence” except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption.
“This rule may be excepted only in extraordinary circumstances based on a holistic
analysis of the facts, criminal history, victim’s input (particularly in cases of
violence or trauma), and any other information available,” the memo reads.Assistant district attorneys must also now keep in mind the “impacts of incarceration” including on public safety, barriers to housing and employment, financial cost and race disparities, Bragg instructed.
In cases where prosecutors do seek to put a convict behind bars, the request can be for no more than 20 years for a determinate sentence, meaning one that can’t be reviewed or changed by a parole board.
Two guesses as to who funded Bragg’s campaign: “Soros also donated $1 million to Alvin Bragg’s successful DA campaign in Manhattan, funneling the cash through the Color of Change political action committee, according to public filings.”
As Tom Cotton wrote last month: Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.
A READER SENDS THIS RATHER LOCATION-SPECIFIC GAS PUMP STICKER FROM FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE:
DAVID DEAVEL: Desmond Tutu (1931-2021): Remembering Heroes and their Limitations. “The death of South African archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu at the age of 90 on December 26, 2021, marks the definitive end of an era. With Nelson Mandela, his moral witness and advocacy helped to end the reign of South Africa’s Apartheid regime that kept black South Africans separate and desperately unequal. In today’s age in which free speech and colorblind policies are labeled as ‘white supremacist,’ it’s good to be reminded that real white supremacy as embodied in the South African regime actually happened and has largely been removed from the globe. It is also good to be reminded of the very real heroism Tutu exhibited. But, finally, it’s also good to be reminded of Tutu’s post-Apartheid misjudgments. Unlike the woke left, we don’t need to tear down the statues of heroes with feet of clay or clouded minds. We do, however, need to be able to notice that heroes have these traits—and don’t need to be followed at all times.”
ALL OF OUR INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED, AND PEOPLE ARE NOTICING: FBI brass seen as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’: Poll. “Adoration of ‘G-men,’ once celebrated in the nonpartisan war on Al Capone and organized crime and now leading the effort to round up Jan. 6 Capitol riot suspects and Trump supporters, is apparently waning. In the latest sign of how today’s politics is dividing support for major Washington institutions, the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows more people than not view the FBI as the punishing political arm of President Joe Biden.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN MESSAGING: Sheep, goats join in German efforts to encourage vaccination.
Tasty bits of bread did the trick for about 700 sheep and goats to join Germany’s drive to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The animals were arranged on Monday into the shape of a roughly 100-meter (330-foot) syringe in a field at Schneverdingen, south of Hamburg.
Shepherd Wiebke Schmidt-Kochan spent several days practicing with her animals, news agency dpa reported. But she said in the end, it wasn’t difficult to work things out — she laid out pieces of bread in the shape of the syringe, which the sheep and goats gobbled up when they were let out into the field.
Organizer Hanspeter Etzold said the action was aimed at people who are still hesitating to get vaccinated.
“Sheep are such likeable animals — maybe they can get the message over better,” he said.
Or perhaps not. Why, it’s as if:
MICHAEL BARONE: Plague-year immigrants headed to Trump country. Life is better in America.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: Fat-shaming by doctors, family, classmates is a global health problem, studies find.
—CNN, June 1st, 2021.
Chaser: CNN Finally Admits That Obesity Is a Contributing Factor in COVID Outcomes.
—Leslie Eastman, Legal Insurrection, today.
THINK OF IT AS PROFESSIONAL COURTESY: How Far Will the Left Go to Keep Criminals Out of Jail?
LOVE THE PICTURE: Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Dishes Are Attracting Cats. The dish has a heating element to keep off snow and ice, and that attracts cats in the winter.
HE EXPANDED THE POWER AND PRESTIGE OF THE PROFESSIONAL/MANAGERIAL CLASS SO HE’S A HERO:
Meanwhile Trump threatened the power and prestige of the professional/managerial class, which was all it took to make him a villain.
Flashback: New status anxiety fuels Trump derangement.
COVID IS OVER: Cases up, deaths down.
Related: Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the pandemic and ‘we will have our normal lives back in two months.’ “But while infection numbers in countries with the variant are soaring, the expert said that the highly infectious Omicron appears milder than the Delta variant, and therefore more people will be infected without having serious symptoms. As a result, she said, this will provide a good level of immunity in the population.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Oh, Now The Atlantic Decrees Americans Are Paranoid about Catching Covid.
If you’re worried about Covid-19, then there’s an excellent chance that at least once over the past two years, either you’ve read an article or someone has sent you an article about the pandemic from The Atlantic magazine. Day after day, week after week, that publication offers at least one article or personal essay that warns you that, as bad as things may seem, they’re actually much worse and will probably get even worse tomorrow, all with a headline perfectly calibrated to go viral, no pun intended, among the most Covid-concerned: “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice.” “We Know Enough About Omicron to Know That We’re in Trouble.” “Covid Is Not Endemic Yet — And May Not Be for a Long Time.” “You Can Get COVID and the Flu at the Same Time.” “America Can’t Beat Omicron One Booster at a Time.”
The only thing that scares the staff of The Atlantic magazine more than Covid-19 is Kevin D. Williamson.
And now, seemingly out of nowhere, The Atlantic runs an essay by Benjamin Mazer, a physician specializing in laboratory medicine, headlined with the imperative, “Stop Wasting COVID Tests, People”:
It’s quite a pivot, from when COVID was seen as something only those icky Red State voters get: Let Omicron Spell the End of the Pandemic—and the Covid Shaming: “If only blue state liberals could acknowledge the truth: that no one should feel guilt or shame for getting a highly infectious disease. After all, we don’t shame people for getting chickenpox or seasonal influenza or any number of other highly contagious respiratory viruses or diseases. It’s something many liberals actually know in other contexts; they would never shame someone for getting an illness that is even related to their behavior, like obesity, alcoholism and some forms of diabetes. Why is this a thing with COVID?”
HEH: “While it’s true that I’ve always found it rather easy to mock the Democrats, it’s never been as nearly effortless as it is these days. They’ve become such a spectacle that it’s almost as if they’re doing it for my benefit.”
GALAXY BRAINS AT WORK: Glenn Youngkin Gets Blamed for I-95 Traffic Snarls as Actual Governor Ralph Northam Appears MIA.
Youngkin will be sworn in on Saturday, January 15th.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Get Away From It All in Antarctica, Get COVID Anyway.
Plus:
- Crypto goes LBGTQ
- VIDEO: Biden takes unscripted questions from the press, forgets what to do with them
- NYC, there’s something awful about you
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Biden disapproval hits new high as voters give him bad grades on economy, new CNBC/Change poll says.
Despite its being memory holed by the DNC-MSM, this detail may also be driving Biden’s low poll numbers:
