AND THAT IN ITSELF IS AN ANSWER:  FBI Refuses to Explain FBI Role in January 6.

What to do with agencies that betrayed We The People?  Disband. Salt the Earth. FBI delenda est.

INSANITY BY ANY OTHER NAME:  Covidiocy And Vaccine Mandates For Children.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Great Barrington Declaration: Vindicated.

ISRAEL REJECTS SUICIDE PACT:  Israeli Prime Minister Bennett: We Are Not Bound By Any Nuclear Deal With Iran.

THOSE TERRIBLE PARENTS. IT’S LIKE THEY THINK THEY HAVE RIGHTS TO THEIR OWN CHILDREN:  Report: Ed. Sec. Cardona Requested NSBA Letter That Described Concerned Parents as Domestic Terrorists.

SENATOR PAUL TELLS THE TRUTH:  Sen. Paul to Fauci: “You are the Lead Architect for the Response From the Government and Now 800,000 People Have Died”.

SURE, WE LAUGH, BUT TELL ME A BIT OF COLD DOESN’T GO UP YOUR SPINE:   Democrat Strategists: We Have Found Our “Change” Candidate For 2024.

How much can they fraud? How much will they fraud?

LIES, LIES LIES. IT’S ALL THEY HAVE:   Biden Lies About His Past and Georgia’s Voting Law to Justify Getting Rid of the Filibuster.

THERE ARE PEOPLE I READ AND ADMIRED LONG BEFORE I CAME OUT OF THE POLITICAL CLOSET: People who kept me sane when I was terrified anyone would find out. People who were companions in the fight even when they were — objectively — unaware I existed.  Blake Powers was one of those people.  And he’s run into some pretty heavy weather. I mean, literally, having been struck by lightening, which led to cardiac issues and other problems.  He’s trying to put his life back together.  Of course, bloggers don’t have insurance. Only they kind of do. It’s people like you — and me — and yes, I know, I asked for help recently, and was overwhelmed at your generosity.  Well, Blake needs help, and he’s not someone who asks lightly.  It’s been an incredibly rough few months. However bad your 2021 was, his beats it.  So, he wrote about it here, and he’s asking for help.  A New Life.

Donate if you can, and if you can’t, spread the word as far as you can.  In the end, we only have you. And each other.

LEFTISTS ARE AGAINST “OTHERING,” EXCEPT WHEN THEY’RE IN FAVOR OF IT: Othering Unvaccinated Persons.

Related: “Rhetorically flogging the unvaxxed at this point has more to do with the vaccinated venting their frustrations about the endless pandemic than achieving something meaningful.”

Also: Science!

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THERE ARE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF PHILADELPHIA, COMRADE, THAT I WOULDN’T ADVISE YOU TO INVADE: Philadelphia Flyers Conquer Red Army: January 11, 1976.

YEAR TWO OF THE ADMINISTRATION FROM HELL: But will it end well in November?

If 2021 was scary, 2022 — the 2^nd. year of the administration from Planet Stupid —  will build on that disaster. You don’t need a crystal ball or the ghost of Nostradamus to see what lies ahead, and it won’t be pretty.

1. The administration will continue to blame everyone and everything for the failure of its perverse policies. We were told that COVID is responsible for snatch and grab, something called the “meat conglomerate” made chicken prices take wing, and greedy oil companies are to blame for pain at the pump. Could destroying domestic energy production possibly have anything to do with rising prices? Impossible! To suggest such a thing shows you don’t understand economics, a la AOC.

2. Chaos at the border will be the new normal. In its move to swamp the nation with welfare-state voters, the administration will continue to open the floodgates to drugs, disease, poverty, human trafficking and crime. The Border Patrol has been replaced by a revolving door.

3.  We’ll continue to fight inflation with spending. – We’ll keep spending to fight a virus that’s increasingly irrelevant. We’ll spend to fight a crime wave that anti-police policies set in motion. We’ll spend to hire more police when fewer and fewer want the job. We’ll spend on education for schools that are closed. We’ll throw money at rising prices – which is like dousing wildfires with gasoline.

And here we go: White House braces for brutal inflation report. Complete with Republicans seizing! “Republicans have seized upon rising prices as evidence Biden’s economic policies — including his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package enacted last March — have done more harm than good.”

OPEN THREAD: Hitchhike. I saw this band in DC a couple of years after this was recorded and hung out with them after. Nice folks with a cool girl drummer. I think the Fleshtones opened.

ELVIS COSTELLO RETIRES FROM PERFORMING ‘OLIVER’S ARMY’, ASKS RADIO STATIONS TO STOP PLAYING IT:

Elvis Costello has revealed that he will no longer perform “Oliver’s Army”, one of his most popular songs, and has also urged radio stations to stop playing it.

Written about the conflict in Northern Ireland, the song contains the lyrics: “Only takes one itchy trigger/ One more widow, one less white n*****.”

The 67-year-old singer defended his use of the slur in the song due to a historical “fact”. But he said he will stop performing it before anyone “accuses” him of “something he didn’t intend”.

“If I wrote that song today, maybe I’d think twice about it,” Costello told The Telegraph. “That’s what my grandfather was called in the British army – it’s historically a fact – but people hear that word go off like a bell and accuse me of something that I didn’t intend.

“On the last tour, I wrote a new verse about censorship, but what’s the point of that?” he continued. “So I’ve decided I’m not going to play it. [Bleeping the word] is a mistake. They’re making it worse by bleeping it for sure. Because they’re highlighting it then. Just don’t play the record!”

Elvis was some piece of work back in his early days: That Time Elvis Costello Incited a Brawl With Racist Remarks.

It started out with slight insults between bands. Members of the old rock guard (the Stephen Stills Band) and the new wave (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) converged in the Holiday Inn bar in Columbus, Ohio, after playing separate gigs on March 15, 1979.

Costello was already drunk when Stills and friends walked in. As he got drunker, his words got nastier in a desperate attempt to inflame the sensibilities of his elders. Stills soon left to go to his room. Backing singer Bonnie Bramlett (of Delaney & Bonnie fame) continued to engage Costello, who kept disparaging America and its most hallowed rock stars. After 2AM he described James Brown as a “jive-arsed n——” and Ray Charles as a “blind, ignorant n——.” In response, Bramlett backhanded the 24-year-old up-and-comer. It all ended in a brawl, quickly broken up by the bartender.

Exit quote: “When asked about the controversy, Ray Charles said, ‘Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.’ In the meantime, members of the American chapters of Rock Against Racism picketed Costello’s remaining concerts. The irony was that some of the pictures of Costello on the picket signs were from a Rock Against Racism gig Costello had played in Europe in 1978.”

THEY PROBABLY THINK JEWS SHOULD MOVE TO BIRIBIDZHAN: A marketing firm that works with Jewish groups, Big Duck, has nixed a potential client because of its Israel ties. No self-respecting Jewish group would continue to work with Big Duck. Which unfortunately means that some left-leaning Jewish groups likely will continue to be its clients.
UPDATE: It’s worth noting that the organization Big Duck is boycotting, the Shalom Hartman Institute, is left-leaning, though not “anti-Israel.” Consider, for example, this seminar: “In November 2017, thirty leading theorists and practitioners convened for a day of thoughtful discussion on topics of power and privilege. The group, comprising academics, rabbis, Jewish communal leaders, philanthropists, activists and educators, explored crucial questions of how gender, class, and race impact the distribution of authority and influence in Jewish communal life.” When the revolution eats its own, Jews tend to be the appetizer.

HOWARD STERN GOES OFF ON ‘F*CKNUT’ NOVAK DJOKOVIC OVER HIS COVID CONTROVERSIES: ‘Throw Him Right The F*ck Out Of Tennis.’

Howard Stern has already called for Aaron Rodgers to be kicked out of the NFL for his vaccine stance, and now he’s calling for tennis star Novak Djokovic to be banned from playing tennis.

Djokovic has chosen not to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and is now allegedly being investigated by The Australian Border Force for submitting a false travel declaration upon his arrival in Australia.

“That fucknut Djokovic,” Stern ranted on the latest edition of his SiriusXM radio show. “What a f**king asshole,” Stern added. “The first I’ve heard of this guy is that he doesn’t want to get his vaccine. They should throw him right the f**k out of tennis. That’s it. Goodbye.”

Stern then accused Djokovic of lying about having gotten Covid. “He could be lying,” Stern said. “He could be lying. He’s a douchebag. He’s a f**knut.”

Flashback: Howard’s end: Shock jock Stern has lost his sting — and his mojo.

“The Howard Stern Show,” long in decline, is dead.

In March 2020, when New York City officially went into lockdown, Stern fled to his basement in the Hamptons. Over one year later and now vaccinated, as he first admitted on-air Monday — back from yet another vacation — Stern still has no intention of ever returning to his Midtown studio, his luxury Upper West Side apartment, or any semblance of pre-pandemic life.

The Howard Stern who stayed on air as planes flew into the World Trade Center is unrecognizable.

“Things will never get back to normal,” he declared just two weeks ago. “I do not believe the pandemic will ever be over.”

For a once-constant listener like me, this is heretical, especially here in New York City, where every single neighborhood is struggling to survive. Also, Howard: This pandemic will end, even though you, a germophobic recluse, clearly wish it would not.

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Stern’s rants are so expected and so often hit the same notes — personal hygiene, looks, financial status, marital troubles, professional incompetence — that even attacked staffers feel the same boredom that long ago came over the listener.

And how could they not? Stern long ago abandoned his best attribute, going after famous hypocrites. Hilaria Baldwin, for example, pretending for years to be from Spain — when really she’s from Boston — and bagging a movie star would once have been Stern show fodder for days.

But Hilaria barely rates a mention. Why? Can’t piss off Howard’s good pal Alec in the Hamptons. Howard’s in with the cool kids — all he ever really wanted, despite claims to the contrary.

As original Saturday Night Live writer writer Anne Beatts famously said, “You can only be avant-garde for so long before you become garde.”

SPACE: SpaceX goes all-in on Starship configuration for second-gen Starlink.

SpaceX has dropped a plan to use Falcon 9 to launch the 30,000 satellites in its proposed second-generation Starlink broadband constellation, and is instead focusing on a configuration leveraging its upcoming Starship vehicle.

The decision follows development progress that SpaceX said exceeded the company’s expectations and means it could start “launching the Gen2 system as early as March 2022,” SpaceX lawyer William Wiltshire said in a Jan. 7 letter to the Federal Communications Commission.

Starship missions are subject to a favorable environmental review into SpaceX’s launch facility at Boca Chica, Texas, which the Federal Aviation Administration expects to complete Feb. 28.

Were it me, I’d be reluctant to commit to a course of action that gave the FAA bureaucrats so much power over my timeline, but Elon is much more aggressive than I am.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Normalcy for kids in Florida proves how wrong NYC’s school rules are.

Our family had enough of New York City COVID regulations that target kids, the least at-risk segment of the population, with no off-ramp in sight.

So we moved to F