REPUBLICANS POUNCE: Who Among Us Has Not Chased Down an Unarmed Black Jogger with a Shotgun?

Oh, and [far-left PA Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman] chased down a black jogger with a loaded shotgun in 2013. The jogger said Fetterman pointed the shotgun at his chest; Fetterman denies this but allows that his intent was to detain the jogger. At the time, Fetterman was mayor of a small town in Pennsylvania. Trip Gabriel of the New York Times frets, “The GOP use of this 2013 incident . . . has begun.” Gabriel previously published a detailed account of this episode that puts the gentlest imaginable spin on events but . . . Fetterman chased down an innocent, unarmed black jogger with a shotgun and detained him.  

Evergreen:

FALLOUT: Russian Diplomat Quits Over ‘Criminal’ Ukraine War: ‘Never Have I Been So Ashamed of My Country.’

SHOCKING NEWS: Exercise, diet program helps elderly people remain independent.

UKRAINE WAR: Syria’s barrel bomb experts in Russia to help with potential Ukraine campaign.

Intelligence officers say more than 50 specialists, all with vast experience in making and delivering the crude explosive, have been in Russia for several weeks working alongside officials from Vladimir Putin’s military.

Their arrival is understood to be one factor behind US and European warnings that the Russian military may have been preparing for the use of chemical weapons in the conflict, which has entered its fourth month with little sign of slowing.

Barrel bombs – crude explosives packed in to a drum and dropped from a helicopter – were used to devastating effect throughout the Syrian war.

Under Vlad Putin, Russia is transforming itself from a Third World nation with a First World military to a Third World nation with a Third World military.

WHY ELIZABETH WARREN’S NEW ‘ANTI-INFLATION’ PLAN WOULD FAIL MISERABLY:  “So, under Warren’s legislation, we would see more shortages and rationing. This isn’t just economic theory. It’s reality. Peer-reviewed research has shown that during the pandemic, states with similar ‘anti-price-gouging’ laws saw more shortages of COVID-19-related goods such as hand sanitizer than states without them.”

ICYMI:

TAIWAN: White House Scrambles to Cancel Biden’s Promise to React ‘Militarily’ to Chinese Aggression. “Maybe someone in the West Wing should establish an Office for Explaining What the President Had Really Meant to Say. Obviously, it would be a full-time, high-pressure job, presumably with a high turnover.”

MATT TAIBBI: Bush is Biden is Bush: George W. Bush returns to the news with a tad too much honesty, lifting a veil on Washington’s dirtiest open secret: the Biden Democrats have become the Bush Republicans.

MAKING DISCRIMINATION EASIER TO DO AND HARDER TO DETECT: ABA Council Votes 20-1 To Advance Proposal Permitting Law Schools To Go Test Optional. What Are The Implications Of Admitting Students Who Don’t Take The LSAT Or GRE?

And don’t kid yourself, that’s what it’s about.

ICYMI: McKinsey’s consulting work with Russian weapons manufacturer draws scrutiny in Washington.

OUT ON A LIMB: They Want You to Suffer.

That’s the President of the United States calling the $5.00 a gallon gasoline that is crushing Americans an “incredible transition.” And lest anyone think I’m misreading him, he means it exactly as it sounds and says as much by citing that we’ll become “less reliant” on fossil fuels in the end.

In other words, this is all intentional. Biden and his handlers saw an opportunity to destroy the energy market and have done everything in their power to make that a reality. The most recent example came after the administration canceled more oil and gas leases that could have helped relieve price pressures long-term.

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We’ve moved past the point of simple political disagreement and into the realm of purposeful sabotage in order to obtain a delusional partisan goal. They aren’t even hiding the ball anymore. These people want you to suffer.

Related: Ouch: Ron Klain’s 2021 tweet bragging about gas prices soon ‘tumbling below $3’ makes new brutally hilarious rounds on Twitter.

FASTER, PLEASE: New technology makes cancerous tumors eliminate themselves. “Scientists at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus, called adenovirus, to act like a Trojan horse to deliver genes for cancer therapeutics directly into tumor cells. Unlike chemotherapy or radiotherapy, this approach does no harm to normal healthy cells. Once inside tumor cells, the delivered genes serve as a blueprint for therapeutic antibodies, cytokines and other signaling substances, which are produced by the cancer cells themselves and act to eliminate tumors from the inside out.”

I BLAME BLUE HADES: Scientists Left Stupefied After Large Underwater Observatory Vanishes Without A Trace.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Washington State Gas Stations Run Out of Gas, Add a Digit to Charge $10 Per Gallon.

THIS LOOKS INTERESTING: Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is Destroying American Medicine. #CommissionEarned

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Top Trans Medical Org Used Castration Fetish Site for Research to Develop Guidance for Doctors. “WPATH, which sets medical standards for transgender medical procedures according to U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, released new draft guidelines Dec. 3, 2021 which include ‘eunuch’ as a gender identity. The organization pulled information from a website called ‘Eunuch Archive,’ which hosts thousands of members who discuss their castration fantasies and, according to WPATH, hosted a popular post providing instructions for self-castration.”

CLASH OF THE SPECIAL PEOPLE: Canadian university pulls LGBTQ poster after Muslim community complains.

NO. MORE. LOCKDOWNS. After Shocking Monkey Business, Belgium First to Lock Down Over Monkeypox. Who’s Next?

WELL, TO BE FAIR, IT’S AN OBVIOUS SCAM: Americans are losing interest in Black Lives Matter amid urban violence, financial scandals.

I mean, it was always an obvious scam that was going to hurt black people the most, but now it’s really obvious, and even the press can’t cover that up anymore.

V’GER SMILES: Something strange is up with 45-year-old spacecraft Voyager 1. “Voyager 1’s altitude articulation and control system (AACS) is sending back some strange readings, and engineers are puzzled as the craft is still operating normally. The AACS is responsible for keeping Voyager in the right orientation and making sure that its antenna is pointing toward Earth so that the spacecraft can transmit data. But now, the AACS is sending back data that doesn’t make any sense — the data looks like it could be scrambled, for example, or suggests that the system is in an impossible state — even though the antenna is still pointing the right way and transmitting just fine.”

CLINICAL TRIALS IN CHINA: There has been a surge in China since 2018 of clinical trials of potential new drugs. Given China’s history of falsifying the data in such trials, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are raising questions and seeking a Government Accountability Office (GAO) probe at the FDA. Why FDA? Because besides manufacturing of baby formula, the FDA has a big role in clinical trials.

CLEANEST ELECTION IN HISTORY: Arizona Sheriff’s Office Investigating Active Organized Voter Fraud in Yuma County.

WHEN A MEGACORPORATION ACTS LIKE YOUR PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE EX. “You want to change your iPhone battery yourself? Fine, you can, see what I care.” (The kit do it weighs 79 pounds and comes in two suitcases. Not even kidding.)

SOME GOOD NEWS: Ukraine sows crops on over 80% of planned lands.

Ukraine has sown crops on 11.84 million hectares, or 82.2% of the 14.4-million-hectare area planned for this spring, including crops sown on 1,94 million hectares on May 12-19, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said on Friday.

Sunflower crops have been sown on 3.94 million hectares (80% of the 4.93 million hectares planned for 2022), corn on 4.17 million hectares (86% of 4.85 million hectares), spring barley on 927,500 hectares (92.6% of 1.02 million hectares), spring wheat on 188,600 hectares (99.4% of 189,600 hectares), oats on 156,800 hectares (95.8% of 163,600 hectares), and peas on 124,800 hectares (86% of 145,700 hectares) as of May 19, according to a statement published on the ministry website.

In addition, the areas sown with potatoes stand at 1.07 million hectares (90% of 1.19 million hectares), while soybeans are sown on 728,600 hectares (78.6% of 1.25 million hectares), sugar beet on 182,000 hectares (88% of 206,900 hectares), spring rapeseed on 28,400 hectares (95.3% of 29,800 hectares), millet on 32,100 hectares (51.5% of 62,300 hectares) and buckwheat on 37.400 hectares (46% of 81,600 hectares).

“The sowing is continuing in Ukraine. Spring wheat has been sown on almost 98% of the planned area,” the ministry said.

Winter crops were sown on 7.7 million hectares in 2021, including 6.5 million hectares of wheat, one million hectares of barley, and 0.16 million hectares of rye.

As reported earlier, Ukraine will reduce the sowing of highly marginal crops (sunflower and corn) this year, while increasing the area under simpler crops that are more important for food security – peas, barley and oat.

Seems likely the Russians won’t be in a position to interfere with the harvest, either. Also, the Ukrainian government seems more focused on important things than our own.

WOKENESS DESTROYS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES: ‘Woke’ Fed Fell Asleep on the Job.

The Federal Reserve has become increasingly concerned with “woke” issues like inequality and climate change. These concerns have distracted Fed officials from their core mission of price stability. The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation hit 6.59 percent in March. The price level is now 4.6 percentage points higher than it would have been had the Fed hit its 2-percent target over the course of the pandemic. With inflation raging at the highest rate in 40 years, it is time to reexamine the Fed’s legitimate responsibilities.

Regarding monetary policy, a central bank has one—and only one— legitimate obligation: to maintain price stability via transparent activities that conform to the rule of law.

Actions inconsistent with long-run price stability reduce overall welfare. They also open the door for wealth to be diverted to special interests at the expense of the general public. This is the road to economic inefficiency, arbitrary wealth redistributions, politicization of monetary policy, and chaos.

The best service the Fed can provide is to singularly pursue a stable, transparent, and predictable monetary framework.

The Fed is a political creature and always has been. Abolish it and return to the gold standard or some other non-fiat currency.