GIVEN THE NYT’S CREDULOUSNESS REGARDING THE CDC, I WOULDN’T POINT FINGERS HERE: 41% of teenagers can’t tell the difference between true and fake online health messages.
Archive for 2022
August 29, 2022
SEEMS LIKE A MANAGEABLE RISK: FDA warns of risk of monkeypox infection from fecal transplant treatments.
OH MY: FBI special agent who opened Trump investigation reportedly escorted out of Bureau headquarters.
Former Washington Field Office Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault was reportedly escorted out of the Bureau’s headquarters on Friday, amid whistleblower allegations that he showed political bias in his handling of politically sensitive investigations.
The Washington Times reported eyewitness accounts that “Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three ‘headquarters-looking types.'”
Whistleblowers alleged that Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to secure their approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump. That investigation culminated in the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.
Developing…
TO BE FAIR, THEY STARTED DOING THIS BEFORE HE WAS EVEN SWORN IN: Redacted Mar-A-Lago Affidavit Confirms Biden’s DOJ Fished For A Crime To Pin On Trump.
The public (understandably) may wish to sidestep the minutia of the mandates of the Presidential Records Act, but three top-line takeaways prove imperative to understanding the scandal of the Mar-a-Lago search. First, the Presidential Records Act is not a criminal statute, and violations of that federal law do not constitute a crime. Second, the Presidential Records Act does not reach broad swathes of documents retained by a former president, including “official records of an agency,” “personal records,” and convenience copies of presidential records. And third, the courts have refused to question a former president’s conclusion that a record constitutes a “personal record” and not a “presidential record.”
Every single charge they’ve made against him so far, from Russian “collusion” and the “Pee Dossier” on, has turned out to be bogus.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: It’s Open Season on Jews in New York City.
TYRANNY-LIMITERS FOR SENATORS ARE APPARENTLY UNAVAILABLE: New York Senator Pushes Bill Mandating Speed Limiters for All Cars.
SHE FINALLY FOLLOWED THE SCIENCE: CNN Medical Analyst Says Masking Stunted Her Toddler’s Language Development—and Taught Her an Important Lesson about Tradeoffs.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: White House calls violence in Iraq ‘disturbing’ but says embassy not being evacuated.
So we’ll be out of there by tomorrow? Or will there be another hostage crisis?
SPRUCE UP THE BACKYARD: Folding Adirondack Patio Chair. #Commission Earned
EXPERTS FINALLY ADMITTING WHAT MOST EVERYONE ELSE ALREADY KNEW: After Proclaiming The Opposite, Medical Pros Quietly Admit Mutilating Trans Kids Doesn’t Fix Depression.
If suicide rates — which are virtually identical for those who have and have not “transitioned” — are anything to go buy, surgery doesn’t fix depression in adults, either.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Europe’s largest dinosaur skeleton may have been hiding in a Portuguese backyard.
HMM: Did Dave Chappelle Get ‘the Talk’ Back in 2005? “I’ve heard the story several ways. In the most creative version, a bunch of successful black comedians and entertainers, led by Oprah Winfrey, showed up in Chappelle’s bedroom at 4 a.m. and told him that if he wanted big-time money and success he was going to have to ‘toe the line’ politically.”
THIS COULD PROVE TO BE THE FIRST REAL TEST OF WHETHER THE WAR ENDS ON SOMETHING CLOSER TO MOSCOW’S TERMS OR CLOSER TO KYIV’S: Kherson Counteroffensive Finally Begins. “He notes the reports of HIMARS hitting Russian infantry positions, something we haven’t seen before and which suggest a counteroffensive is indeed underway. Plus a video of a single Russian soldier freaking out and reporting that Ukraine troops are attacking in force.”
MICHAEL WALSH: What’s the Constitution Among Friends?
What’s in our future? Civil War? Partition? Amicable divorce? In the meantime, let me leave you with this, from my debut novel, the controversial Exchange Alley, written after my return from Moscow in 1991 and published in 1997 but set in the period just before the end of the Soviet Union.
There is an unmistakable odor about socialist countries that pervades every public place. It is a strong animal smell, composed in equal parts of sweat and unwashed clothes, Russian cigarettes, cheap perfume, piss, disinfectant, and leaded gasoline; in the heyday of Communism, every socialist country smelled the same. But in the mother church of Marxism-Leninism, the reek was stronger, sharper, more pervasive. It was the ur-stench of the Soviet system, the stink of a dying animal and with each passing year it got stronger and more difficult for foreigners, even fellow travelers in the west, to ignore.
Smell that here at home now? I thought you might.
Read the whole thing.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Study says old bones show that humans’ oldest-known ancestor could climb like an ape. “Researchers say that a study of fossils that are millions of years old indicates something unique about humans’ oldest known ancestors — they walked on two legs but could climb trees like an ape.”
IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MATH. Tim Blair on the Grauniad: Eight Years or 78, What’s the Difference.
Seems these dumb alarmists don’t know the difference between centuries and decades:
The record-breaking heatwaves seen across much of the world in recent months will become increasingly common by the end of the decade, according to research.
The end of the decade, you say? Please continue:
By 2100, dangerous conditions will occur in western Europe, the US, China and Japan three to 10 times as often.
Germany? Pearl Harbor? Forget it, the Grauniad is rolling.
SAY ANYTHING: Whoa, Did Biden Admit Elections Have Been Stolen?
DEAL OF THE DAY: Self-Cleaning Ice Machine with Ice Scoop and Basket. #CommissionEarned
PLANETARY DEFENSE: NASA’s DART Confirmed on Target To Impact Asteroid Dimorphos.
TRUE, BUT THE ONES CAUSING THE TRANSITION THINK THEY’LL END UP JUST FINE: Elon Musk Says That Civilization ‘Will Crumble’ If We Transition From Oil and Gas Too Quickly.