BE PREPARED: Augason Farms Lentil Beans Emergency Bulk Food Storage 4 Gallon Pail 231 Servings. #CommissionEarned

I THINK I’VE BLOGGED ABOUT THIS BEFORE: The Forgotten Medieval Habit of Two Sleeps. “And far from being a peculiarity of the Middle Ages, Ekirch began to suspect that the method had been the dominant way of sleeping for millennia – an ancient default that we inherited from our prehistoric ancestors. The first record Ekirch found was from the 8th Century BC, in the 12,109-line Greek epic The Odyssey, while the last hints of its existence dated to the early 20th Century, before it somehow slipped into oblivion. How did it work? Why did people do it? And how could something that was once so completely normal, have been forgotten so completely?”

JOANNE JACOBS: No School in Flint. “The district is receiving nearly $50,000 per student in federal Covid aid, the most in the state, reports Tom Gantert on Michigan Capitol Confidential. Schools have closed with little warning to parents.”

JACK DUNPHY: Better to be Tried by Twelve than Carried by Six. Kyle Rittenhouse would agree.

JEFFREY CARTER: “We are in a bear market. In early December, we tested it. Omicron happened in mid to late December. We have fundamentally turned a corner.. Instead of a big crash, we are losing .5% to slightly over 2% per day. That is death by a thousand cuts. Meanwhile, look at Crude Oil. Let’s go Brandon! . . . The market was frothy and everyone knew it. We just didn’t know where. However, when you look at the carnage in crypto, in stocks, in bonds, and commodities there is nowhere to hide from it. By the way, neither gold nor bitcoin is an inflation hedge. Otherwise, they’d be rallying. How frothy? We haven’t found a bottom yet. Capitulation hasn’t happened yet. The other thing that is different is we have President Biden.”

IF THE CHINESE STOPPED BRIBING OUR LEADERS AND THE PRESS, MAYBE: What Might Awaken Americans to the War With Communist China?

FLORIDA, MAN: Florida Is so Red, Democrats Can’t Even Field Candidates in Some 2022 Races.

WHAT RATIONAL REASON DO THEY HAVE TO SUPPORT HIM? AP wonders: Is Biden losing black voters? “The risk here isn’t that Republicans are making inroads among black voters in the way they are with Hispanics. It’s that black voters might sit on their hands in the upcoming midterms, and beyond that in 2024 as well. Democrats need a massive turnout to deal with the expected red wave hinted at by the current polling, perhaps especially with Hispanics starting to shift away from the hard-progressive rhetoric of the Democratic Party. That’s what makes this uncharacteristically unenthusiastic level of support from black voters so significant. It portends a lower turnout, a lower level of activist engagement, and therefore an even bigger collapse than Chuck Todd might imagine from this segment yesterday.”

Well-deserved if so. But don’t get cocky. Republicans haven’t won anything yet.

And if you care, you should be donating and volunteering. Winning takes work, and no, commenting on the Internet doesn’t count.

CHINESE INTEL GAVE HIS FRAUDULENCY’S FAMILY $31 MILLION: Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer lays out for Mark Levin some of the details of how Chinese individuals linked to Beijing’s intelligence establishment channeled $31 million to the Biden family. Must-watch, and Schweizer’s new book, “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” is a must-read.

“There’s no question in my mind that they were targeted by the Chinese … This is unprecedented. I don’t know of a time in American history where the American first family has had this kind of a financial bond with a foreign intelligence service —particularly a foreign intelligence service that wants to defeat the United States in global competition,” Schweizer notes in the interview.

Levin points out in response that the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause was included by the Founders precisely to prevent this kind of foreign influence inside American government.

BOUGHT AND PUTIN-PAID FOR: Who is Nord Stream’s Matthias Warnig, Putin’s friend from East Germany? “Matthias Warnig is, in various ways, an exceptional person. The 65-year-old is the oldest German friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the most active German in Russian business circles. He is a former Stasi agent who became a banker in the 1990s. Since then, he has sat on the supervisory boards of numerous German-Russian banks and companies. He is currently the CEO of Nord Stream 2, and happens to play a part in the latest YouTube video by Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), in which Russian opposition activists uncover an extensive network of corruption around the construction of a palatial estate for the Russian president on the Black Sea coast.”

Meanwhile, I suspect that rather a lot of German politicians are on Putin’s payroll. Both China and Russia seem to have discovered that it’s easier and cheaper to buy off the West’s corrupt, feckless ruling class than to wage traditional war.

ANYTHING FOR MONEY: Chinese tech giant Huawei paid Dem Tony Podesta $1 million for lobbying Biden White House.

Podesta began working for Huawei in August 2021, The New York Post reports. His Quarter 3 disclosure for 2021 shows that he made $500,000 lobbying the “Executive Office of the President.” He made $500,000 during Quarter 4 lobbying the “White House Office,” according to his disclosure filed Thursday. Both forms stated that he specifically lobbied on “issues related to telecommunication services and impacted trade issues.”

The Trump administration identified Huawei as a national security threat, and President Donald Trump issued regulations to prevent the sale of American products to Huawei.

In November 2021, restrictions on Huawei were tightened further after President Joe Biden signed legislation to stop new telecommunications equipment licenses from being issued to companies deemed to be security threats.

Documents released by The Washington Post the following month show that Huawei is connected to China’s mass surveillance program.

Apparently not even Biden still listens to Podesta.

#JOURNALISM, UNDERMINING THE POLITY ON A DAILY BASIS:

SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR PAIR OF COLLEGE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CASES. I wouldn’t get too excited. Equal justice under law is pretty far in the rear-view mirror at this point.

SUPREME COURT AGREES TO TAKE HARVARD ADMISSIONS CASE:  Here’s one thing I hope they keep in mind:  The public is sick and tired of this stuff.

HE’S TOXIC: Beto Doesn’t Want Biden Anywhere Near Texas During Campaign.

OUT TOMORROW: Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win. #CommissionEarned

THE LEFT’S WAR ON WOMEN: ‘Women are now third-class citizens,’ says Penn swimmer in exclusive interview. “For years, liberals, Democrats, and leftists have routinely claimed that a patriarchy in the United States exists and makes women second-class citizens. Female athletes have echoed these claims, bemoaning significant inequalities between men’s and women’s athletics. Consider the numerous reports that highlight disparities between men’s and women’s sports, especially at the collegiate level. Now, with athletes who have the genetics of a man being permitted to take away athletic opportunities from women, females have been relegated to an even lower position.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor: Opposition to critical race theory is ‘rebranded Nazi-style antisemitism.’

A professor of creative writing, working class literature and “changing masculine roles” believes opposition to critical race theory (CRT) is not only antisemitic, but Nazi-style antisemitic.

Georgia Southern University’s Jared Yates Sexton, who according to his Twitter bio fancies himself a political analyst, made this claims in a Friday Twitter burst which also included the invocation of QAnon and “white supremacist paranoia.”

That Georgia Southern has a professor of creative writing, working class literature and “changing masculine roles” is itself evidence that higher education is in a bubble.

AND HERE WE GO: Ukraine Pres. Zelensky And British Intelligence Reveal Russian Plan To Overturn Ukraine Govt.

THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: If You Thought the Supply Chain Crisis Was Bad Enough, DHS Could Make It Worse.

YOU KIDS AREN’T VERY BRIGHT, ARE YOU? Students feel ‘compromised’ after Defund the Police changes local sex offender policies.

BLUE ON BLUE: Arizona Democratic Party formally censures Sinema.

The executive committee of the Arizona Democratic Party (ADP) formally censured U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema over her vote against changing rules in the chamber to steer through voting rights legislation, the state party said on Saturday.

Sinema was one of two Democratic senators who joined with Republicans to vote against lowering the Senate’s 60-vote threshold to 50 so that the Senate could pass voting rights bill without bipartisan support. read more

The censure is mostly a symbolic move, but it does highlight criticism that Sinema has faced from members of her own party, with polling indicating that Sinema is facing a rising amount of backlash from Democratic voters.

Prediction: Sinema will win reelection handily in 2024, in no small part because she hasn’t joined in with party radicals.

POLICING FOR PROFIT: A Tiny Alabama Town Is Growing Its Police Force by Fining Everybody in Sight.

Here’s the original, much more detailed, report.

DEAL OF THE DAY: 5.0 Bluetooth Earbuds 9D Stereo Earphone Wireless Earphones Waterproof Earphones. #CommissionEarned

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