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.
Archive for 2022
January 12, 2022
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.
January 11, 2022
LEFTISTS ARE AGAINST “OTHERING,” EXCEPT WHEN THEY’RE IN FAVOR OF IT: Othering Unvaccinated Persons.
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 2nd. 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 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 Florida. Hello from the other side.
Last week, my children went to school maskless for the first time since March 2020. Was I worried about them getting COVID? No, because there’s a mountain of evidence that their cloth Batman masks do absolutely nothing.
There has been a high cost to needlessly masking kids. Many countries weighed the risk and decided that the effect masks have on learning and human connection was simply not worth it so they didn’t mask small children the entire pandemic.
But blue areas in the United States have refused to accept science, data, reality.
Read the whole thing.
THE GLOBAL BABY BUST HAS HIT JAPAN, BUT IT’S GOING TO HIT PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE: Record low number of Japanese reach adulthood as demographic woes deepen.
A record low number of Japanese citizens turned 20 last year as the country’s workforce dwindles and a generation that grew up with tepid growth, low inflation and a zero interest rate policy reached official adulthood.
The latest government figures showed the number of Japanese who were aged 20 on January 1 2022 had fallen 40,000 from the previous year to about 1.2m, the lowest since the survey began in 1968.
The decline reflects Japan’s persistent inability to reverse the falling number of births. The birth rate stood at 1.34 children per woman of childbearing age in 2020, with just 840,000 babies born in Japan that year.
The country’s population dropped to 126.6m by the start of last year, a continuation of a steady decline since its 2008 peak of almost 128m.
The fall-off in 20-year-olds has reduced the country’s “new adult” cohort to just 0.96 per cent and cast a shadow over Monday’s “Coming of Age Day”. The national holiday is marked by ceremonies to welcome the 20-year-olds to the joys and responsibilities of adulthood.
“I am looking forward to the ceremony . . . [but] I’m not sure if I can really be too excited about becoming an adult,” said Rina, who was renting a kimono for the occasion in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. “Japan seems to have a lot of problems that never get solved and I guess they are my problems now.”
It was little comfort, she added, that the number of Japanese reaching official adulthood this year would increase as the legal age of majority — allowing people to buy a mobile phone and apply for loans without parental consent — is lowered for the first time in 140 years, from 20 to 18.
Studies of young Japanese attitudes towards work and business suggest that the country’s relentless demographic woes have nurtured a desire for stability above all else. A number of 20-year-olds told the Financial Times that their central ambition was to join a company and avoid risk. Starting a business represented a terrifying leap into the unknown, said several.
A rising generation few in numbers and short of moxie is not a good thing.
Plus: “Yuki Murohashi, representative director of the lobbying group Japan Youth Conference, said that, above all, the mood among Japan’s youngest adults was one of low-level despair.”
CHANGE: The media suddenly notices the CDC is clueless.
Yet to save Stelter, Darcy and their network any more embarrassment, let me put it bluntly: the CDC lost the faith of the American people last year when business owners were forced to stay home and parents were forced to pull their kids out of school, yet social justice protesters and leftist activists were permitted to flood the streets in protest. You weren’t allowed to open your business, but they were allowed to burn it down.
Since then, amid this overnight changing of “the science” with little to explain it other than Joe Biden’s poll numbers, members of mainstream media have suddenly changed their tune on the never-ending pandemic measures. Simply put: the writing is on the wall for the upcoming midterm elections and they are making their adjustments accordingly at the behest of an administration flailing over its broken promise to “shut down the virus.”
The media’s sudden about-face is not because they now hastily agree with those on the opposite side of the political aisle. Stelter and others are simply trying to moderate their message now that “the good ones” are starting to catch Covid. This is about hierarchy. Journalists and Democrats are experiencing the same draconian-lite measures that the rest of the country has had to go through for the past year, and they are finding them very inconvenient, both to their own lives and to Joe Biden’s approval ratings.
The Politico retreads at Axios have also noticed: The Biden administration has a COVID credibility crisis. “While much of the unvaccinated population is unlikely to be persuaded by any messenger, large swaths of the public are still receptive to expert guidance, but federal health agencies, particularly the CDC, may be squandering their credibility with this population.”
As Steve wrote yesterday in response, “May be? Celebrity medical spokesmodel Anthony ‘Doctor’ Fauci has been on at least both sides of every COVID-related question since the outbreak began.
FBI REFUSES TO EXPLAIN FBI ROLE IN JANUARY 6:
In September, the New York Times confirmed that FBI informants infiltrated the Proud Boys, an alleged militia group, and participated in the first breach of the Capitol perimeter right before 1 p.m. The man seen with the Proud Boys before the first intrusion was Ray Epps.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked Matthew Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, whether any plain-clothes officers were at the Capitol on January 6. Olsen, who announced today the formation of a domestic terror unit within DOJ, said he was not “aware” of any plainclothes officers within the crowd or inside the building on January 6. Cotton slammed Olsen for repeatedly refusing to give the committee specific answers. “Did you prepare for this hearing, did you know this hearing was happening before this morning, Cotton asked Olsen.
Cotton also pressed Olsen about Epps; Olsen deferred the question to Sanborn. “Do you really expect us to believe you’ve never heard the name Ray Epps, you don’t know anything about him?” Cotton asked. Olsen said he had “no information at all” about Epps.
Fortunately though, one man in Washington is on the case! ‘Just another misled man:’ Rep. Adam Kinzinger puts to rest all doubts about ‘Ray,’ says he apparently broke no laws so was let off.
BIDEN SAYS THOSE WHO OPPOSE DEMOCRAT VOTING RIGHTS BILL ARE ON THE SIDE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS:
President Biden Tuesday said lawmakers who oppose the Democratic-led effort to overhaul how the country conducts elections are choosing to be on the side of historical villains such as Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Biden, in an unusually vitriolic speech by a president who casts himself as uniting the nation and healing its wounds, suggested Republicans who oppose Democrat-backed election changes stood in opposition to democracy itself.
“So I ask every elected official in America, how do you want to be remembered?” Biden said during remarks from the Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the campus of Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College. “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”
But since Obama brought it up, it’s worth noting that the only person in modern American politics to have repeatedly praised Wallace and other segregationists is Joe Biden. It was Biden who bragged that in 1973 Wallace considered him “one of the outstanding young politicians of America.” It was Biden who wrote in 1975 that the “Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace.” It was Biden who in 1981 told a black witness in the Senate that “sometimes even George Wallace is right.” It was Biden who, while campaigning for the presidency in Alabama in 1987, claimed that he’d been the recipient of an award from Wallace in 1973 (it probably wasn’t true; but what a thing to brag about!), and then boasted that Delaware was “on the South’s side in the Civil War.”
“Biden was also buddies with J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and a segregationist and anti-Semite who would later become a mentor to the Clintons.”
And another fellow Democrat, Robert Byrd: Herschel Walker says ‘Democrats do not like America’ and slams media for not grilling Joe Biden over his friendship with former KKK member-turned senator Robert Byrd.
Related: Watch: Joe Biden Suggests to Black Students He Was Arrested During Civil Rights Struggle. “Biden has made similar claims before, most of which were later proved false. In 2020, he had to walk back a false claim that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to see jailed leader (and later president) Nelson Mandela. Biden has also made dubious and somewhat retracted claims about marching personally in civil rights demonstrations. Last week, in a speech on the anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot, Biden emphasized the importance of truth in history.”
More: Great moments in Stockholm Syndrome:
Flashback to 2012: Biden: Romney’s approach to financial regulation will ‘put y’all back in chains.’
IT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE ABOUT THE TIME EVERYONE HAS ALREADY HAD IT: Pfizer exec says new COVID-19 vaccine against Omicron variant coming soon.