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July 26, 2022
WHO CARES WHAT MEDICAL STUDENTS THINK? Med students walk out of speech because professor holds pro-life views.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: How Not to Catch Monkeypox for Dummies. “If I’d been that demonstrably stupid, I’d have kept my mouth shut about it. Köhn wrote 1,400 words for The Guardian.”
Plus:
- Gov. Hochul flies the overly friendly skies
- Three more reasons Elon Musk will get out of the Twitter deal
- Whoopi nominates DOCTOR Jill Biden for Surgeon General
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: SURVEY: Liberal faculty at Harvard outnumber conservatives 82-1.
Why should taxpayer money support such a partisan operation?
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Samantha Bee’s show the latest to be canceled. Took her longer than it should have though, she was never funny. But then, neither are the others: “Amazingly, the network does not appear to be doing this because of the controversial nature of the show and the crass language that is frequently featured. It’s just a business decision as ratings and advertising revenue for the late-night shows have been slumping.”
BLUE ON BLUE: Rep. Carolyn Maloney Claims She Is Entitled To ‘A Woman’s Job’ In Primary Against Jerry Nadler.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney is telling voters to re-elect her in New York’s Twelfth congressional District over fellow Democrat Jerrold Nadler because serving in Congress is “a woman’s job.”
Maloney and Nadler were forced into an Aug. 23 member versus member primary by New York’s new congressional maps, which were drawn by a special master after the state’s high court threw out a pro-Democrat gerrymander. Nadler currently represents Manhattan’s Upper West Side, while Maloney represents the Upper East Side. Both representatives were first elected to Congress in 1992 and chair committees.
In her first campaign ad, released Monday, Maloney notes the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence, parental leave, and gay marriage as issues animating her career in Congress and the New York City Council.
“Being at the forefront of women’s rights has taught me that we can fight back and win, if we just don’t quit,” Maloney says.
“I approve this message because it also taught me, you can not send a man to do a woman’s job,” she concludes.
The amazing thing is that either Nadler or Maloney will still serve in Congress next year.
WHERE MOCKERY IS CONCERNED, KAMALA IS LOW-HANGING FRUIT: Kamala Harris mocked after warning that women getting pregnant is ‘a real issue.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Should the GOP Look Ahead to a 2023 Revenge Agenda? “It’s a shame that Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney won’t be members of Congress next year but that will add a little spice to the proceedings when they’re hauled out of their private life revelry to testify before a committee that’s hell-bent on being vindictive.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: After massive bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service. “One day after officials touted the passage of the Connecticut Clean Air Act, including plans for thousands of electric vehicles to hit the road, one of the state-run electric buses caught on fire over the weekend. The blaze engulfed a CTtransit bus in a Hamden parking lot Saturday morning, sending two workers and a firefighter to the hospital, officials said. ‘Lithium ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites,’ Hamden fire officials said. . . . The Saturday fire came one day after state officials gathered in New Haven, including Department of Transportation Commissioner Joe Giulietti, Gov. Ned Lamont, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Katie Dykes, to boast the success of the Clean Air Act that would restrict diesel vehicles and increase electric cars in the state.”
The article doesn’t specify the make and model of the buses.
OUR PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNITY DOING ITS USUAL STELLAR JOB: As Monkeypox Spread in New York, 300,000 Vaccine Doses Sat in Denmark.
On the Thursday before Pride Weekend last month, hundreds of men dropped what they were doing and raced to a city-run health clinic in Manhattan. Finally, more than a month after monkeypox appeared in the city, a vaccine was being made available to sexually active gay and bisexual men, among whom the virus was rapidly spreading.
But there was a catch: There were only 1,000 doses available. Within two hours, the only clinic offering the shots began turning people away.
At that same moment, about 300,000 doses of a ready-to-use vaccine owned by the United States sat in a facility in Denmark. U.S. officials had waited weeks as the virus spread in New York and beyond before deciding to ship those doses to the United States.
Even then, there was little apparent urgency: The doses were flown piecemeal, arriving in shipments spread out over more than a week. Many didn’t arrive until this month, more than six weeks after the first case was identified in New York City.
By holding back the doses, an early opportunity to contain or slow the largest monkeypox outbreak in the country appears to have slipped by.
Well, to be fair, we need a new public health emergency for the midterms.
Related: Fauci Says Gay Men Should Get Monkeypox Vaccine First.
WHEN IS A RECESSION NOT A RECESSION? Bending the Truth.
If you want to understand why no one respects institutions or “elites” anymore, look no further than Janet Yellen. She went on television talk shows which are basically soapboxes for Democratic talking points and said that if the GDP numbers print negative this week, we aren’t in a recession.
She’s wrong. She knows it. Plus, she told a pretty big fib for a political spin and didn’t do it convincingly.
It undermines her credibility for anything she did as an academic and everything she does in the future. This is no different than Susan Rice’s lie on Benghazi. She is a political operative, period.
Rice is a better liar than Yellen. Yellen had the skill of a four-year-old.
Yellen abandoned any sense of objectivity when she ran the Fed. She is one of the people that politicized the position.
The definition of a recession accepted by all economists of all political and ideological stripes was 6 months of negative GDP growth. Period the end.
We live in a kakistocracy.
Related: Shocking poll: Majority believe government is “corrupt and rigged.”
JOANNE JACOBS: Grading ‘reforms’ teach kids they can ‘do nothing, get something.’ “Teachers can’t give a zero for a missed assignment, unless they document their efforts to contact a parent about the problem. It takes a lot of time to send multiple emails, the teacher says. So he just gives students the required minimum — 50 percent — even if they did nothing.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Charlie Kirk: College is a ‘scam.’
THE LEFT HATES TO BE MOCKED: “I mean, this isn’t diplomatic but I can’t find the lie.” “I wish we weren’t at this point in American discourse, but we are, and any sign of doubt or apology is gonna get you eaten by the woke mob.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Difficulty Paying Bills Tops Pandemic High in US Census Survey.
Plus: Around half of older Americans can’t afford essential expenses: report.
And: More Signs Emerge That Inflation Is Altering Shopping Habits.
Also: The Upper Middle Class is Getting Squeezed. “While poorer families might feel the effects of inflation more deeply, they also have had the biggest wage increases and have the smallest share of their net wealth invested in financial markets. The richest families, meanwhile, have been hurt by market losses but have been insulated from the worst of inflation. Goods that have had the sharpest price jumps, such as gasoline, automobiles and home utilities, account for a relatively small percentage of their spending. Over the first three months of 2022, upper-middle-class families lost a bigger chunk of their stock portfolios than the people who make more than them, according to the Federal Reserve. Since the pandemic started, they saved less than most of the people who make less than them, according to Moody’s Analytics.”
Given the extent to which the Democrats rely on upper middle class voters, this is likely to be especially concerning.
UPDATE: From the comments: “We can’t all buy into chip manufacturers the day before our spouse votes to subsidize the company at taxpayer expense.”
ACTUALLY, IT IS — JUST NOT THE WAY THE WANT YOU TO THINK IT IS: Media Watcher Touts J6 Committee TV Show as ‘Civics Lesson.’ Hardly.
THE CONSTITUTION BARELY SURVIVED: Democrat Insurrection: Liberal Hill Staffers Arrested for Storming Dem Leadership Office.
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE? Deborah Birx: I think we overplayed the vaccines. “I knew the vaccines weren’t going to protect people from infection, she claims. Remember this golden moment from May 2021, which feels like it happened 20 years ago?”
SHE LOOKS A BIT LIKE WINSOME SEARS: England’s New Conservative Superstar: Kemi Badenoch used to work at McDonalds. Now she’s become the breakout star of the Tory Party.
Her political sensibilities emerged from her experience of Africa—though in the opposite way that adherents of Black Lives Matter would want. “Growing up in a place like Nigeria means you appreciate what we have in the UK and in the West,” she told me on the phone on Wednesday, after she had dropped out of the race. “One of the things I find frustrating is the ethno-nationalism that you get in many countries like Nigeria: ‘Oh, we’re going to do things our way, we’re not going to do things the Western way.’ People start looking at things like free markets and capitalism as being Western things. And actually the whole world would be in a much better place if they adopted these systems, free markets in particular,” she said. “They are still the best way of lifting people out of poverty.”
Well, yes. That’s why the left opposes them.
AND, DEAR CALIFORNIANS, IF YOU’RE MOVING TO PORTUGAL THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE EVEN WEIRDER: 10 Biggest Adjustments Fleeing Californians Have To Make In Their New States.
ELIZABETH SCALIA: Selling the mansions: It’s a very good start.
It seemed to fly under the radar of both secular and most Catholic media, but recently some heartening news came out of the Diocese of Belleville, Illinois, when Bishop Michael McGovern announced that he would be selling the 13-bedroom manor that has been the home of Belleville’s shepherds for over 150 years.
In a splendid example of the Church putting its money where its mouth is, Bishop McGovern’s office said that selling the valuable property is meant to “generate resources that can be used for a maternity fund for expectant mothers as well as in support of Catholic education, youth ministry and evangelization.”
This action gives comprehensive pro-life, pro-family witness both to the People of God, and to a cynical secular world, at a time when — thanks to the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade — some voices, both in and outside of the Church, have questioned whether Catholic pro-life views extend beyond the moral debate of abortion. In a press release posted to Bishop McGovern’s Facebook page, it was noted that the decision was made after much prayer and reflection and that the bishop will take up residence within the rectory of the Cathedral of St. Peter. “I hope to live more simply,” McGovern was quoted as saying, “and, as a pastor, I believe the proceeds from the sale of the home can be better used in helping pregnant mothers in need, assisting families seeking a Catholic education and providing programs for our youth.”
This seems right. I used to live down the street from the Knoxville Bishop’s residence, which was a nice house but no sort of a mansion. I don’t know if that’s still the case — we’ve acquired a cathedral since then.
THEY SEE THEIR ROLE AS PROTECTING THE REGIME, NOT INVESTIGATING IT: GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley alleges widespread effort in FBI, Justice Dept to downplay negative information about Hunter Biden.
“Highly credible” whistleblowers have come forward to a senior Senate Republican alleging a widespread effort within the FBI to downplay or discredit negative information about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, according to letters reviewed by CBS News.
“The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation,” GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25. “The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter.”
Grassley, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the whistleblowers alleged that legitimate streams of information and intelligence about the president’s son were characterized as likely disinformation or prematurely shut down leading up to the 2020 presidential election. . . .
In the correspondence, Grassley cited a 2020 FBI intelligence assessment that was “used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation.” He continued, “Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.”
In October 2020, one month before the election, “an avenue of derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed” by a senior FBI agent at the bureau’s Washington Field office. An earlier letter from Grassley identified the agent as Timothy Thibault.
“[T]he allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation,” Grassley claimed.
Same thing was done in the news media and at the tech companies.
Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Vabogu 12×42 Binoculars. #CommissionEarned
WHEN IS A RECESSION NOT A RECESSION? WHEN DEMOCRATS SAY IT ISN’T, JACK:
It’s different now because reasons.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
