Archive for 2022
December 5, 2022
BOMB CANADA: THE CASE FOR WAR. Canucks Claim Killing Cripples Is Compassionate Care.
If you’re an MSNBC viewer and you don’t know what “euthanize” means: This lady was having trouble getting around the house, so Canada offered to move her into a coffin.
Wow, even Canada’s own government admits that living in the second-worst snowbound communist country on Earth is a fate worse than death.
This sort of medical advice is not only legal in Canada, it’s actually preferred under the country’s Medical Assistance In Dying law, or MAID. Hey, maybe socialized medicine is the way to go after all. I can’t even get my maid to do the windows, let alone a contract killing.
I’m pretty sure Charlton Heston didn’t agree to star in Soylent Green because he thought it would make a great how-to guide for 2022:
(Classical reference in headline.)
OKAY, I TOOK DOWN THE SCHWYZER/FRENCH POST because the comments were just pretty nasty, which I should have foreseen. I mean, I’m no French fan these days because I think he lost it post-Trump, and I’ve never been a Schwyzer fan for obvious reasons, but I thought there was a point there that clearly isn’t getting across. Or maybe I was just wrong. Anyway, I don’t do this often but ugh.
LOSS OF PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY HAS A PRICE: ‘Great Resignation’ of healthcare professionals affects patient care.
PRIVACY: How Chinese students came up with an ‘invisibility cloak’ that evades security cameras. “The InvisDefense coat can be seen by human eyes but is covered in a pattern that blinds cameras in the day and sends out unusual heat signals at night, according to the team.”
HOUSE DEMOCRAT WHIP KATHERINE CLARK SAYS CHILD WAKES UP WITH NIGHTMARES OVER ‘CLIMATE CHANGE.’
Here’s proof Clark uttered these words on broadcast television, to no pushback:
Incoming House Democrat Whip Katherine Clark: "I remember my middle child waking waking up with nightmares over concern around climate change." pic.twitter.com/Xayp52a20K
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 4, 2022
One of two scenarios is possible:
1) Katherine Clark is lying about her child’s experiences to stoke hysteria around climate change for political gain.
2) She aggressively instilled unjust fear into her child, causing them to lose sleep over a political talking point.
We hope it’s the former for the sake of the child. Sincerely.
Indeed, but door number two is a distinct possibility: Progressives Against Progress. The rise of environmentalism poisoned liberals’ historical optimism. “Crankery, in short, became respectable. In 1972, Sir John Maddox, editor of the British journal Nature, noted that though it had once been usual to see maniacs wearing sandwich boards that proclaimed the imminent end of the Earth, they had been replaced by a growing number of frenzied activists and politicized scientists making precisely the same claim. In the years since then, liberalism has seen recurring waves of such end-of-days hysteria. These waves have shared not only a common pattern but often the same cast of characters. Strangely, the promised despoliations are most likely to be presented as imminent when Republicans are in the White House. In each case, liberals have argued that the threat of catastrophe can be averted only through drastic actions in which the ordinary political mechanisms of democracy are suspended and power is turned over to a body of experts and supermen.”
JIM GERAGHTY: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi: ‘Twitter Files’ Paint an Ugly Portrait.
The revelations of the “Twitter Files” paint an ugly portrait of the individuals who made decisions about standards of content on Twitter during the 2020 presidential campaign. The company’s senior management — oddly, without consulting or involving CEO Jack Dorsey — basically decided unilaterally that people shouldn’t be allowed to read the New York Post’s article, which laid out emails indicating that Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm, “less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the company.”
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, gave reporter Matt Taibbi access to internal company emails and records, and Taibbi laid out in a series of tweets how the company “took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe.’ They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.”
The reasoning behind the ban of the article was the contention that it included “hacked materials,” even though there was no evidence of hacking. The Post said the information was obtained from a computer that was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019 and never reclaimed. This was not electronic theft; this was old-fashioned reporting — and exceptionally bad judgment on Hunter Biden’s part, which at this point shouldn’t seem implausible to anyone.
Note that Twitter made its decision to restrict access to and distribution of the Post story before more than 50 former senior intelligence officials signed a letter contending that the trove of emails from Hunter Biden “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” (In retrospect, the characterization of it as an “information operation” instead of a “disinformation operation” was a revealing admission.)
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey must have known what was coming when he tweeted in April:
HEIST OF THE CENTURY, ANY CENTURY: Coinbase CEO Rejects FTX ‘Accounting Error,’ Says Funds Were Obviously ‘Stolen.’
NICHOLAS WADE: Proximal Orchestrations. Newly released emails cast more doubt than ever on the official story of Covid-19 as a naturally occurring virus.
BE PREPARED: Merkur Long Handled Safety Razor. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM THE NO FUN LEAGUE: Hypocritical NFL Fines Cowboys Players For Salvation Army Celebration.
OH, CANADA: Canada offered assisted suicide to a Paralympian veteran who wanted a wheelchair lift installed.
Christine Gauthier, a 52-year-old retired corporal who competed in the 2016 Paralympics at Rio De Janeiro, testified to lawmakers that a VA official had offered — in writing — to provide her with a medically-assisted suicide kit. The case officer remains unnamed but reportedly made similar offers to at least three other veterans, according to the Independent.
“I have a letter saying that if you’re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying,” Gauthier said in a hearing before the House of Commons veterans affairs committee.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the incident in a public statement on Friday after Gauthier said she personally wrote him a letter on the issue.
We’ll see how serious Trudeau’s condemnation is when we see if anyone is seriously punished.
RATS ON THE WEST SIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: Wanted: NYC Rat Czar. Will Offer Salary as High as $170,000.
I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Is Trump Costing the GOP the Senate Seat in Georgia Again?
COMER TO DIG INTO BIDEN’S SECRET ENERGY DEALS: Incoming House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) is laying the groundwork for a systematic investigation of Biden’s work to increase foreign oil production while striving to kill it here in the states.
WEIRD HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT ISN’T PRAISING MUSK FOR THIS: Suspension Rate Nearly Doubles For Twitter Accounts Exploiting Child Sex Abuse Material.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: America’s Lunatic Grandma Hillary Is Off Her Meds Again. “Hillary Clinton always seems to be in a constant state of one-person ‘hold my beer’ where she’s trying to outdo herself. Her follow-up to her unhinged theory about the 2024 election is a real doozy.”
NOW OUT: The 2022 Lysenko Award. “In my view, our winner exemplifies the spirit of Lysenko. Lysenko was illiterate until he was thirteen, and his inability to grasp basic scientific principles led him to be regarded as a bad joke by actual scientists. (Lysenko’s sociopathic persecution of those who dared disagree with him may well have been because he knew he did not have the chops to defend his positions under traditional academic metrics.) Similarly, our winner is not a law professor or a legal scholar, and, from what I can see, she does not appear to have had any noteworthy accomplishments as a practicing attorney. Instead, she is the ‘Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs’ for a law school and the functionary for the school’s ‘Faculty/Staff Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee.'”
EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: CVS Sued Over ‘Fraudulent’ Donations to American Diabetes Association.
A consumer filed a class-action complaint in the Eastern District of New York against CVS Health Corporation for a purportedly deceptive charity campaign it held last year, which the plaintiff asserts was more like a reimbursement to CVS than a charitable donation.
According to the complaint, prior to the completion of a customer’s transaction, the checkout screen would prompt the customer with several boxes of pre-selected amounts (and an opt out option) to donate to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). The plaintiff alleges that CVS did not merely collect the customer’s donations and forward them to the ADA, but instead, counted the donations toward a legally binding obligation of $10 million that CVS had made to the ADA.
In short, the plaintiff accuses the defendant of reimbursing itself with the charity donations. The plaintiff asserts that the defendant’s treatment of the charity donations was materially different from the untrue, deceptive and misrepresented claim that CVS had given customers.
Can’t trust anybody.