IT’S RUN BY MOBSTERS: Why Russia’s Economy Sucks.
Archive for 2022
March 21, 2022
WOKE LEFTIES DO RESEMBLE COMIC BOOK VILLAINS: “I mean to celebrate Musk, and I think his superhero status is heightened by his encounter with a comic-book-style antagonist.”
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AGAINST CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT NOMINEES: Sen. Dick Durbin’s very concerned that GOPers won’t keep SCOTUS hearing civil the way Dems do.
MAKE IT EASY FOR US DISABLE THE “ENHANCEMENTS” WHEN WE WANT: Have iPhone Cameras Become too Smart?
NO MEA CULPAS, BUT AT LEAST THEY ARE REPORTING NOW WHAT THOSE “CRAZY PEOPLE” KNEW ALL ALONG: The AP reported last week that three Russian oligarchs named in the infamous “Steele Dossier” have dropped their defamation lawsuit against Fusion/GPS, the Clinton-backed outfit that convinced the media elites that Trump was a Russian stooge or even an asset.
Note the AP’s third graf is clear as a bell about the background:
“The Steele dossier has been largely discredited since its publication, with core aspects of the material exposed as unsupported and unproven rumors. A special counsel assigned to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has charged one of Steele’s sources for the dossier with lying to the FBI, and has also charged a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for Hillary Clinton’s campaign with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns about Alfa Bank.”
A few scant weeks ago this would have appeared only in “right-wing” Russian disinformation publications. And nobody is holding their breath waiting for an apology from the media elites or the intelligence officials who pushed the narrative.
Am I the only person who remembers Adam Schiff (D-Crazyworld) calling Tucker Carlson a “Russian asset” on live TV?
The oligarchs who sued got what they wanted: acknowledgement that the whole Russian dossier story was baloney. Unfortunately, so many people still believe it, proving once again that a lie goes halfway around the world before the truth is out of bed.
Or to quote Harry Reid when caught lying about Romney not paying taxes: “It worked, didn’t it?”
BAD-TOUCH CUOMO: Cuomo Staffers Try Escape Being Defendants in Trooper’s Sexual Harassment Lawsuit. “An attorney for former Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa and Richard Azzopardi, who remains a spokesman for Cuomo, wrote a letter to U.S. District Court this week indicating he will file a motion to have the federal complaint against them dismissed. DeRosa is accused in the lawsuit of aiding and abetting Cuomo’s alleged misconduct, and both are accused of retaliating against the female trooper.”
STILL UNSOLVED: 60 Years Missing: The Mystery Of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739.
THE LEFT COMES FOR THE PARENTS’ RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
Surveying the effect of British education on families, G.K. Chesterton wryly observed in his 1910 book What’s Wrong with the World: “The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.” Little more than a decade later, the compulsory public education movement was to pick up steam across the United States, often presented as a necessity for the protection and wellbeing of American children.
History, Mark Twain might say, is rhyming.
In response to initiatives to curb the influence of LGBTQ+ ideology on young people — such as Texas’ attempts to investigate parents who encourage their children to get “sex-change” procedures or Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — liberals are employing a familiar rhetorical tool: parental choice. Children’s welfare must be protected from the ideologies of self-interested politicians, they say. It’s an ironic twist, given that it’s almost word-for-word the same language that conservatives have used in recent education-related battles over race and sex.
Texas mother Amber Briggle in an op-ed for the Washington Post defended her decision to allow her daughter to identify as a boy as having given the child “a huge boost in self-esteem and confidence.” Briggle denounced Texas Republicans for “stripping the rights of parents, including me, to raise our children as we see fit.” The WaPo had earlier cited Jennifer Solomon, whose eleven-year-old son Cooper Solomon has a female “gender expression,” meaning he wears dresses and does “girl things.” Cooper, says his mother, is “happy, healthy and successful in school.”
In other words, conservatives should butt out of parents’ choices for their children. It’s a clever tactic, given that last year there was a groundswell of political momentum from parents angered over schools’ mishandling of all manner of decisions regarding their children’s well-being. From incoherent and illogical pandemic-related health guidance to “anti-racist” curricula that is actually quite racist to policies that enabled a “gender fluid” boy to sexually assault two different kids, parents fought back against school boards and superintendents. But two can play at that game.
This political jiu-jitsu does raise an important question: is parental responsibility for children absolute? And if not, where do parents’ rights end and the state’s responsibility to swoop in and protect children begin?
The answer exposes just how severe the disagreement between right and left is on this issue.
To be fair, we’ve known where Comcast stands on this issue since 2013:
MATT MARGOLIS: A Warning for the Gatekeepers in the Liberal Media. “But we knew the truth. And we refused to be bullied into silence.”
UNSETTLED SCIENCE: Studies using MRI brain scans are often too small to be reliable.
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Alcohol-related deaths in the US spiked more than 25% in the first year of the pandemic, study shows.
“We’re not surprised. It’s unfortunate, but we sort of expected to see something like this,” Aaron White, lead author of the study and a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said.
“It’s not uncommon for people to drink more when they’re under more duress, and obviously, the pandemic brought a lot of added stress to people’s lives. In addition to that, it reduced a lot of the normal outlets people have for coping with stress, [like] social support and access to gyms.”
Social isolation and media hysteria take a toll, but they have as much to do with a dysfunctional social response as with Covid itself.
SOMEBODY REALLY WANTS RIYADH TO PUMP MORE OIL: U.S. sends Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia despite deteriorating relations. “The longstanding Saudi request for more interceptors had been a point of contention between Washington and Riyadh, feeding Saudi officials’ displeasure over what they contend was a lack of U.S. support for their intervention in the Yemen civil war.”
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GO AWAY: Fauci suggests going back to restrictions. It doesn’t go well. “A growing majority of people in America are simply done with the pandemic and they are getting on with their lives. Law enforcement agencies in many areas have repeatedly declared that they have no intention of acting as the ‘mask police’ for bureaucrats who try to impose such rules and the authoritarians who keep trying to mandate such policies are probably going to be in for an unpleasant surprise when their next election rolls around.”
A THREAD FROM TRENT TELENKO ON RUSSIAN LOGISTICS AND “operational attrition.” In the past, the Russians showed considerable ability to improvise, adapt, and overcome when faced with logistical problems, but this is not the Soviet Army of 1945. World War II is a long time ago, and lessons drawn from it are likely to be outdated. (This is true when analyzing other nations’ militaries as well, including our own. Just because we were good at something in my grandfather’s day doesn’t guarantee similar abilities today.)
AND ALSO PART OF A CARTEL:
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Dietitians Explain Just How Long It Takes Vitamin D to Work in Your Body.
Previously: Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Increased Risk of COVID Infection and More Severe Symptoms.
I’ve been taking 5000iu of D3 daily for more years than I can remember, and on Glenn’s advice, a double dose during the winter months. So far, no COVID, despite my determination to catch the damn thing and get it over it.
STATISTS LOVE A STATIST: Putin Finds Some Unlikely Allies in the United States Congress. “Everyone knows that The Squad in the House of Representatives is so far to the Left as to make Stalin look like a John Bircher, but would they go so far as to cheerlead for a former KGB man’s war of aggression? It looks as if the answer is yes.”
POOR INTELLIGENCE, POOR PLANNING, POOR EXECUTION: We Think We Know Why Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Has Stopped.
According to the British Ministry of Defense, the perpetual logistical woes of the Russian military continue to beset the faltering Russian invasion.
Russian commanders are also reluctant or incapable of cross-country maneuvering, and, as a result, they are restricted on roads, making the life of the Ukrainian defenders that much easier.
The Ukrainian land is also fighting the invaders.
Melting snow is giving way to bogs of mud that can stop even the most advanced tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Indeed, the supply problems of the invading Russian forces are so serious that frontline units lack basic essentials, such as food, ammunition, and fuel.
“Russian forces have made minimal progress this week. . . Incessant Ukrainian counterattacks are forcing Russia to divert large number of troops to defend their own supply lines. This is severely limiting Russia’s offensive potential. . .Ukrainian forces around Kyiv and Mykolaiv continue to frustrate Russian attempts to encircle the cities.
No matter how this thing ends, Russia comes out of it weaker — and weaker looking — in every way.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: The RNC Has a Brilliant Way to Help Americans Fight Back Against Biden’s High Gas Prices. “What better way to get the word out that there’s an alternative to the Democrats’ foolishness on inflation and energy costs than to register Americans to vote? That’s what the Republican National Committee is doing, and they kicked off a voter registration initiative at gas stations this weekend.”
DON’T BLAME MEN. IT’S NOT OUR FAULT THAT MEN MAKE BETTER WOMEN THAN WOMEN DO: Women’s opportunities are being taken away by ‘womxn.’