CHANGE: NJ Governor Murphy Turns to Private Sector to Take Over State Government-Run Nursing Homes for Veterans. “We view Murphy’s move as one of desperation. It is a de facto admission his administration’s management of New Jersey’s nursing homes for veterans has been an unmitigated failure. It is also an admission his administration has no ability to turn around the situation at the three veterans home it fully controls by replacing their current managers with other state government officials. It is, plain and simple, an admission of the failure of his leadership.”
Archive for 2022
December 5, 2022
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Democrats Vow To Find New Social Platform That Will Censor The News About What They Did On Twitter.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEWS DAVID BERNSTEIN’S NEW BOOK, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America.
(Link not paywalled.)
#JOURNALISM: Reporters Against Reporting.
The MSM is having a mental breakdown over the revelations. Their favorite toy, Twitter, has been taken away from them and they will never forgive Musk.
Yet their real anger now is being directed at reporter Matt Taibbi, formerly of Rolling Stone and now a star on Substack. He, along with Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss has built a huge following on the platform, filling a void in the current news landscape: former mainstream reporters who have defected from the MSM due to disgust with the rejection of journalistic standards.
Musk is releasing the Twitter files through Taibbi, and the media Elite™ are in full attack mode against Taibbi. Utterly unhinged attacks.
Utterly unhinged and totally coordinated attacks. Almost as if there is an official MSM Narrative™ they are trying to push.
Almost.
EVERYTHING IS STUPID NOW: “Really says a lot about Current Year when the most prominent communists are Ivy legacy Chapo trust fund kids and the most prominent white nationalists are a black schizophrenic, a Jewish homosexual FBI informant, and an autistic Mexican(who’s also homosexual).”
ROCKIES MAY CRUMBLE, GIBRALTAR MAY TUMBLE: But Democrats (and not a few Republicans as well) will keep right on trying to legislate our way back to the Garden of Eden, according to Daniel Oliver, writing for American Greatness. You WILL follow orders!
VICTIMS HONORED BY THE PROFESSION THAT VICTIMIZED THEM:
WELL: Explosions Hit Russian Air Bases. “Explosions at a pair of air bases deep inside Russia killed at least three people and wounded six others on Monday, Russian authorities said, while Ukrainian officials hinted at a capability to strike deeper within Russian territory.”
BLAME’S NICE BUT WHERE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES? We Can Reasonably Blame Former Twitter Executives’ Censorship for at Least Five Major Consequences.
In August, New York mayor Eric Adams stood before a banner festooned with cannabis-leaf emblems, making what he billed as a major announcement. “Today, we light up our economy,” enthused the mayor. Referring to recreational pot sales, he continued: “The regulated adult-use cannabis industry is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. . . . Cannabis NYC will plant the seeds for the economy of tomorrow.” Standing with Adams, John Durso of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union promised “good, union jobs.” Jeffrey Garcia of the Latino Cannabis Association predicted “one of the largest generators of wealth in New York at least for the next two decades.” Bertha Lewis of the Black Institute affirmed that “cannabis is an industry and not just a nickel bag.” Deputy mayor for economic development Maria Torres-Springer promised “hundreds of millions in revenue” for the city.
Welcome to New York’s post-pandemic economic-development policy: the promotion of vice. In this New York, vice isn’t something to tolerate, operating on the edges of the law, in a black market in a dense, wealthy city; it’s a premier growth industry.
And pot isn’t the only vice that New York is encouraging. Gotham is also eagerly courting multiple full-service casinos. It’s a path that struggling and far weaker American cities—including Atlantic City, New Orleans, and Detroit—took out of sheer economic desperation, born of policy failure. Adams is unabashedly cheering the expansion of “gaming,” as he calls it, to “create at least 16,000 good-paying jobs.”
New York’s new emphasis on pot and poker—even as the city ignores the day-to-day quality-of-life concerns of its core high-paying industries in finance and business and its highest-earning individual taxpayers—comes despite decades’ worth of evidence that vice-oriented cities don’t thrive.
A topic City Journal’s Nicole Gelinas explores in depth; referencing the not exactly thriving gambling havens of Atlantic City, Detroit, and New Orleans.
MINDING THE CAMPUS: It’s time for the 2022 Lysenko Award.
SMOKING GUN’S TRIGGER IS PULLED: Former Eco-Health Alliance Vice President Andrew Huff claims to have worked directly with researchers at China Wuhan lab in developing the Covid virus.
Huff’s book, “The Truth About Wuhan,” goes on sale tomorrow, according to Just the News’ Charlotte Hazard, who reports: “Huff, an epidemiologist and army veteran who worked for EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2016, said it was China’s gain-of-function experiments — and shoddy biosecurity — that led to the lab leak at the U.S.-funded lab.”
That funny sound you hear tomorrow in the Mainstream Media will be crickets about Huff.
IRAN: Is The Iranian Regime Starting To Crack?
I haven’t covered too much of the unrest in Iran, mainly because we’ve seen widespread Iranian protests fizzle out before (in 1999, 2003, 2009, 2011-12 (remember, Obama was far more interested in pursuing his crazy nuclear deal than in helping the Iranian people free themselves from the Mullahs)) up to the most recent protests.
But we finally have a sign that this time may be different, in that this is the first time the regime has (reportedly) offered concessions.
It’s a big deal, the mullahs abolishing the “morality police” and maybe loosening up hijab requirements.
And it’s likely because something changed late last week: As Iran Unrest Turns to Armed Clashes, Government Prepares Fight to Survive.
Protests are nothing new against the mullahs’ regime, but armed clashes are.
Stay tuned, this ain’t over yet.
ONE-PARTY GOVERNMENT MAKES YOU STUPID: China’s COVID Plan Is Threatening Disaster Once Again.
IT’S SCIENCE!!: When Musk declares the NYT to be “a lobbying firm for the far left” for failing to cover “Twitter Files,” he may be pointing out an additional example of what Hal Pashler and I wrote about in “Perceptions of Newsworthiness Are Contaminated by a Political Usefulness Bias.”
OMG, DEMS WANT ‘WILD IN THE STREETS’ FOR REAL: If you are of a certain age, you may recall a really bad movie in 1968 that revolved around the slogan “14 or Fight,” referring to the voting age. Just the News’ Aaron Kliegman reports on the gathering movement within the Democratic Party.
EPIC HOLIDAY DEAL: Old Fashioned Whiskey Glasses With Indented Cigar Rest. #CommissionEarned
CRYPTO STOCKS TEETER NEAR ABYSS AS FINK’S WARNING ADDS TO ANGST:
Already reeling from the so-called crypto winter, investors were dealt a major blow with the high-profile collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange in early November, which sent Bitcoin tumbling. To top it off, BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink said this week that he expects most crypto companies will fold after FTX’s demise. A Schwab index tracking crypto-linked stocks is coming off its worst month since June, and is down 63% this year.
“Questions about whether crypto has a future have become prevalent after a year during which many tokens lost more than 70% of their value and the collapse of FTX has exacerbated a crisis of confidence that had started in the spring,” said Mark Palmer, an analyst at BTIG LLC.
Few, if any, companies connected to the sector have been spared during the selloff, with even banks like Silvergate Capital Corp. and Signature Bank taking hits. Mining stocks have been among the worst performers, with Marathon Digital Holdings Inc. and Hut 8 Mining Corp. both seeing their share prices cut roughly in half in November.
FTX’s sudden downfall sparked fears of contagion across the industry, which ultimately became a reality this week when crypto lender BlockFi Inc. also filed for bankruptcy.
“We expect the crypto space to continue to be toxic for investors in the near-term and expect overall chain activity to be relatively quiet among users as we continue to wait out potential contagion effects as a result of the bankruptcy of FTX,” Chase White, an analyst at Compass Point, wrote in a note to clients.
Flashback from the Onion: Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him.
STACEY LENNOX: We Can Reasonably Blame Former Twitter Executives’ Censorship for at Least Five Major Consequences. “First and foremost, it is almost certain there would not be a war in Ukraine right now.”
EVERY SUNDAY I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS: Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There’s also a vignette contest.
ICYMI, THE BOTTOM LINE:
They all knew about Harvey Weinstein, too. It just didn’t matter until we knew.
YOU SHOULD BLAME THIS ONE ON MY HUSBAND’S MAINLINING OF CHRISTMAS MOVIES FOR THE LAST WEEK: Home Star.
WHEW! SURE GLAD THEY DIDN’T RUPTURE TIME AND SPACE! Scientists make ‘wormhole’ without rupturing time and space, study says.
…. Would we know if they had?