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September 4, 2022
WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT: Diesel exhaust may harm health of women more than men, study says.
Just a few years ago the greens were pushing diesel hard.
BED BATH & BEYOND CFO COMMITS SUICIDE BY JUMPING FROM NYC SKYSCRAPER AFTER ANNOUNCING MASSIVE STORE CLOSURES: “The 52-year-old, who is also the company’s executive vice president, lept to his death as the company announced last week they were instituting mass layoffs and closing 150 stores. [Gustavo] Arnal made over $2.9 million in 2021 which resulted from a $775,000 salary and stock awards. According to the Daily Mail, Arnal was being sued for ‘allegedly inflating the Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock price in a ‘pump and dump’ scheme.’”
LEE SMITH: Why Did the FBI Raid Mar-a-Lago?
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’ proposed damage assessment of the documents is a remake of the January 2017 intelligence community assessment which claimed, without evidence, that Vladimir Putin wanted to put Trump in the Oval Office. The extensive redactions on the affidavit the FBI used to get a warrant to raid Trump’s home are akin to the excessive redactions on the application that the FBI showed a secret court in 2016 to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. What was true for the original Russiagate holds here, too: The redactions are designed to hide not state secrets, but government corruption.
The Mar-a-Lago raid feels like Russiagate because, well, it is Russiagate: a conspiracy theory weaponized by the country’s courtier class to serve the interests of a delirious and deracinated oligarchy, spawning daily prophesies of doom fed by an endless supply of national security “leaks” asserting that the former commander-in-chief really was and is a secret Russian agent. And proof of the president’s treachery, chant the priestly keepers of the “collusion” mysteries, will soon be revealed to the public. It is their blanket justification for every past crime and every new banana republic-style abuse of power, accompanied by a drumbeat of ever more outlandish and violent threats.
It is in this context that the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago should be understood: Government records and reports from political and media operatives and bureaucrats who previously starred in Russiagate I give evidence that the FBI raided Trump’s home to seize documents exposing the crimes that the FBI and Justice Department have been committing since 2016. The fact that Russiagate shows no signs of ending anytime soon is bad news for the republic, betrayed from within by a performative elite whose ability to project power outside its gilded bubble requires a steady supply of paranoia, fear, and hysteria.
Read the whole thing.
GOODER AND HARDER, OLD BLIGHTY: UK pubs must hike pint prices to £20 each or face closure this winter, expert warns. “Tom Stainer, the chief executive of real campaign group CAMRA, says the increase in energy prices will cause running costs at pubs to increase by 500-600%, putting an enormous amount of establishments at risk of closure.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: ComfiLife Gel Enhanced Seat Cushion. #CommissionEarned
DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE NOW THE NORM: University mandates vaccine for students but not staff.
“IF YOU CAN’T MEASURE IT, YOU CAN’T FIX IT:” New tool helps parents, students assess DEI ‘sickness level’ at schools.
HOW IT STARTED: Florida puts New York to shame in rational pandemic policies.
It’s a lie, though, that Floridians aren’t taking the novel coronavirus seriously. What they have done is discard the policies that don’t work, while retaining the ones that do.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on the day he closed indoor dining in New York City, noted that COVID spread in restaurants amounted to 1.4 percent of cases. In Florida, they decided numbers like that meant indoor dining stays open. In New York, we foolishly didn’t.
In Florida, DeSantis prioritized school openings. In New York, Cuomo puffed out his chest and said he was in charge of schools but then washed his hands of them when it was time to do the hard work of getting them open.
And Florida’s policies bore good fruit. On Jan. 9, New York reported 17,839 new cases. Florida, with about 2 million more people than New York, had 15,445. An open state like Florida having fewer COVID cases than a mostly closed state like New York proves protracted lockdowns are a failure.
And that disparity has led people like Rich Azzopardi, a senior adviser to Cuomo, to spin bizarro conspiracy theories on Twitter that Florida has “cooked the book on case numbers.” It’s much harder to admit that his boss destroyed restaurants and other businesses for no reason.
How it’s going: Democratic Socialist Professor Eric Alterman : Ron DeSantis Is an Honest-to-God Semi-Fascist.
THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU. THEY DON’T HAVE TO. IRS to 120K taxpayers: Oops, our bad. “The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering the error and removing the data from its website, officials said Friday.”
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Biden’s Reichstag Blunder. “President Joe Biden’s Thursday speech in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall would have been a disturbing abuse of presidential power had it not been so ineptly bungled in every phase of execution.”
Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up. Unfortunately, those things include America.
GREEN PARTIES IN EUROPE FACE SOBERING REALITY THAT THEY NEED FOSSIL FUELS AFTER ALL:
Greens in France, Great Britain, and other EU countries are out of power. They can bash the government for their reliance on fossil fuels to their hearts’ content because they don’t have to put any political capital where their mouths are.
Except in Germany. The Greens are members of Chancellor Olaf Schulz’s left-wing coalition and are now dealing with the uncomfortable realities of power. And one of those realities is that since Russia invaded Ukraine, German supplies of natural gas have largely been held hostage by Russian president Vladimir Putin, whose pipelines supply Germany with 27% of Germany’s overall energy mix. Before the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, just over half (55%) of gas consumed in Germany was imported from Russia.
Since then, Putin has played footsie with Europe by shutting down the Nord Stream pipelines for “maintenance” twice — the second time ten days ago. And now, Putin has shut the natural gas pipeline down “indefinitely,” forcing Germany and much of Europe into hard choices.
Now the Greens are having to make a great energy leap. As members of the German government they are staring close up at the realities of soaring energy prices. They are having to face the prospect of the lights going off this winter, and of public buildings in major cities such as Hamburg already trying to ration the amount of electricity they use. The Greens’ demand that everybody else join them in a fantastical leap has now reversed into the Greens recognizing that their society simply is not ready.
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DEAL OF THE DAY: ENERGIZER LED Headlamp Flashlights. #CommissionEarned
WHAT HATH RANDI WEINGARTEN WROUGHT? Parents’ Satisfaction With Education Plummeted Since Start of Pandemic.
Both higher ed and especially K-12 ed went out of their way to demonstrate just how dispensable they are.
METAPHOR ALERT: Coal miners help push tourists’ dead electric car in West Virginia. “Because the vehicle was plastic underneath, there was no way to tow it, so a group of miners decided to push it. ‘So here are 5 coal miners pushing a battery car to the coal mine to charge up.’ You could even see mounds of coal in the background while the vehicle was charging.”
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Yale psychiatrist fails in attempt to get her job back after calling Trump mentally ill.
THIS MIGHT BE THE POLITICAL AD OF THE YEAR:
It’s Nixon’s 1968 “Law and Order” ad updated for 2022. As Charles Glasser wrote here in August of 2020, “[I] cannot stress enough how powerful and resonant this ad was in 1968. Ben Rhodes was right: The young reporters in the MSM don’t know anything, and I’d add neither do their readers. This ad could run today and still be effective. If you support Trump, you should be demanding that they start producing ads like this.”
“THE MASTER’S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISASSEMBLE THE MASTER’S HOUSE.” This is the sort of bullshit that someone who has never used actual tools spouts. Which I guess explains why the water treatment plants don’t work.
WITH INTRODUCTION BY D. JASON FLEMING: Three Riders (Annotated): a pulp western omnibus.
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I EXPECT BILL CLINTON IS TAKING NOTES: Padlocked, restrained female ‘vampire’ discovered in 17th-century graveyard.
IT WOULD BE NICE IF ANYONE IN OUR GOVERNMENT HAD ANY: Responsibility.
INSTEAD OF SETTLING OUT OF COURT I WISH THEY’D GOTTEN A RULING ASSERTING PARENTAL RIGHTS – BUT I GUESS ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE DOING: Teacher Pamela Ricard wins $95K over push to ‘deceive’ parents about students’ gender identity.
“I’M SORRY DAVE, I’M ARAID I CAN’T DO THAT.”: Robots could be the future of child mental health counselors: study.