Archive for 2022
February 14, 2022
I WOULD EXPECT NO LESS: Psaki Lied in Her Attempts to Debunk Afghanistan Report.
A LITERAL ARMY, OF DAVIDS: Meet the amateur drone pilots defending Ukraine’s border with Russia. “As tensions rise in Ukraine with Russian troops arriving at the border in increasing numbers, a small army of amateur engineers is monitoring events using homemade drones equipped with sensors and old Soviet missiles.”
THIS SORT OF SENTIMENT USED TO BE A LOT MORE COMMON. BRAVO.
TREATING CANCER WITH ASPIRIN: A pair of Senate Democrats want to suspend the federal gas tax through the end of 2022. “A pair of Senate Democrats facing tough re-election bids want to cut costs at the gas pump.”
CHANGE (IT BACK): Judge Blocks Key Biden Executive Order on Climate Change. “The judge left very little wiggle room for the administration to remedy the situation for the states in question.”
BE PREPARED: Augason Farms 30-Day 1-Person Emergency Food Supply. #CommissionEarned
YES. Our Greatest Domestic Threat: Pro-Government Extremists.
We rue that pro-government extremists caused immense destruction during their less-than-“peaceful protests” in 2020; and we witness the continuing damage caused by their neurotic, totalitarian response to a plethora of problems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic..
Indeed, what makes the pro-government extremists so dangerous is their far greater numbers than their anti-government extremist counterparts. Their noxious ideology that the citizen is subordinate to the omnipotent state is incessantly “normalized” and propagandized by their corporate media comrades.
Worse, their pro-government extremism is being indoctrinated throughout American public and private institutions, including K-12 education, higher education, and the military. In fact, pro-government extremists have infiltrated the American government, and are weaponizing the powers of the state to wage war on dissenting citizens’ liberty and livelihoods.
Read the whole thing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University advises staff on ‘neopronouns’ such as emojis and … ‘catgender.’
STACEY LENNOX: The CDC Data Nobody Is Talking About Raises Urgent Questions for Bureaucrats. “Why is no one talking about two seroprevalence studies on the CDC website? At a minimum, they raise questions about the public health response, the current pandemic statistics, and the immune response individuals have to a COVID infection after receiving the vaccines. The two studies measure detectable antibodies in the population nationwide.”
EVEN AT PEPPERDINE, THERE’S A CULTURE OF IMPUNITY FOR THE LEFT: WATCH: Students destroy pro-life memorial at Pepperdine University.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Biden says he’s running in 2024, but 2020 Democratic presidential candidates keep coming to NH.
Klobuchar is far from the only 2020 Democratic presidential contender to return to New Hampshire.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who ended her struggling White House campaign two months before the start of the primary and caucus calendar, traveled to the Granite State last April to highlight the Biden administration’s investments in broadband.
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who suspended his presidential campaign a month after Harris, came back to New Hampshire in December to headline a major state party fundraising dinner.
Buttigieg also made a stop in the state in December to showcase the benefits of the recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure measure, which was a top domestic achievement of the Biden administration.
Easy call: We’ll see more of this, not less.
IS THE LEGAL STANDARD FOR LIBEL OUTDATED?
If you’re wondering that, you should read my Rethinking Libel for the Twenty-First Century, in which I explain how to overrrule New York Times v. Sullivan without overruling New York Times v. Sullivan.
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’! Two-thirds of Canadians ready to drop COVID-19 restrictions. “According to the poll, 56 per cent of Canadians say the unvaccinated should not be pressured into getting the shot. The majority believe that if someone has not gotten it by now, they won’t, and pressuring them is creating backlash that is ‘worse than living with them in our communities.’ On the topic of who precautions should be determined by, 53 per cent of respondents believe that it should be left up to them to choose what measures they take to protect themselves and not the government or health-care officials.”
Justin Trudeau refers to this group as a “fringe minority.”
DEBUNKING THE WARREN REPORT: Emerald Robinson published a piece on Substack today about Thomas Lipscomb‘s forthcoming book “The Oswald Letter” and it reveals a calm, reportorial approach to the still-unsettled questions about the assassination of JFK. It also raises newer questions never asked before.
This is not tin-foil hat stuff. Lipscomb discovered many facts that truly challenge the integrity of the Warren Commission. In the excerpt published today, Lipscomb and co-author Jerome Kroth look at an artifact from that fateful day and explain how it severely undermines the Report.
The windshield of the limousine in which Kennedy was killed has been in the National Archives for almost 59 years. The problem is that it’s highly unlikely that is it genuine, and the history of this windshield points to solid forensic evidence that one of the bullets — possibly the lethal one — fired into the car came from the front, not from behind where Oswald was allegedly perched in the Book Depository:
The Secret Service had the Presidential limousine shipped from Dallas to the White House garage the night of the assassination. Then they sent it to the Ford Factory at River Rouge in Detroit, where it was built, for refitting. […] a senior manager there was ordered to immediately report to the glass plant lab. In a recorded interview, [the senior manager} said “And the windshield had a bullet hole in it, coming from the outside through…it was a good, clean bullet hole, right straight through, from the front. And you can tell, when the bullet hits the windshield, like when you hit a rock or something, what happens? The back chips out and the front may just have a pinhole in it…this had a clean round hole in the front and fragmentation coming out the back.”
The Ford employee’s story is backed up by interviews with Dallas police officers who also said “There was a hole in the left front windshield…It was a hole, you could put a pencil through it…you could take a regular standard writing pencil…and stick [it] through there.” Lipscomb interviewed several people on the record who saw the windshield, including hospital staff.
Two really strange facts stick out: First, the windshield in the National Archives has no such hole. Second, and perhaps more ominously, not a single person who could verify that there was a shot from the front — including the surgeon who inserted the tracheal tube in the dying JFK — was quoted in the Warren Report. Many were never even interviewed by federal authorities.
There are a lot more details to come…
YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHER MAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS: Democratic Governor Calls for ‘Civility and Respect’ on Mask Wearing. “The governor did not say why there shouldn’t have been ‘civility and respect’ directed at those who chose not to wear masks previously. Guess it sort of slipped his mind.”
ICYMI: What’s Good for Generac is Bad for America.
The reason why K. and so many other people in Texas and across the country are buying generators is obvious: the reliability of the electric grid is declining. According to data from the Department of Energy, between 2000 and 2020, the number of what the agency calls “major electric disturbances and unusual occurrences” (read: blackouts) on the U.S. electric grid jumped about 13-fold. . . .
The question that must be addressed is this: why is the grid becoming less reliable? While some recent news stories are pinning the blame on climate change, the reality is that bad policy and grid mismanagement are fragilizing our most important energy network. Over the past two decades, our grid has been fragilized by three things: the headlong rush to add weather-dependent renewables like wind and solar, the closure of coal and nuclear plants which provide baseload power and help keep the grid stable, and mismanagement of the country’s bulk power system by regional transmission organizations like ERCOT in Texas and CAISO in California, which do not provide the incentives needed to assure reliability and resilience.
Of course, climate activists and renewable promoters are loath to admit that wind and solar are undermining our grid. But last August, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a non-profit trade group, issued a report which identified “changing resource mix” as the most urgent challenge facing the reliability of the US grid. The report says America’s electric generation capacity “is increasingly characterized as one that is sensitive to extreme, widespread, and long duration temperatures as well as wind and solar droughts.” Generac agrees. In a recent investor presentation, the company said the key reasons for declining reliability are an “aging and under-invested electrical grid” and “increasing use of renewables leading to variability of supply and grid instability.”
If it’s green policy, it’s probably lousy policy. Related: The generator mafia in Lebanon.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper took issue with President Joe Biden’s outright dismissal of a nearly 2000-page Army After-Action Report (AAR) detailing his administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Tapper addressed the report as he wrapped up Sunday’s broadcast of “State of the Union,” arguing that while he believed Biden cared about the men and women in uniform – and often in harm’s way — he couldn’t understand why that concern did not translate to a willingness to take the investigation “more seriously.”
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The report also indicated that no one was on the same page when it came time to evacuate Kabul. “At the embassy, U.S. troops went room to room on Aug. 15, pressing people to meet deadlines and get ready to go, an Army officer from the 10th Mountain Division told investigators. Some State Department personnel were ‘intoxicated and cowering in rooms,’ and others were ‘operating like it was day-to-day operations with absolutely no sense of urgency or recognition of the situation,’” one officer said.
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Tapper took issue with Biden’s outright dismissal of the report, saying, “It’s difficult to overstate how insulting it is, given the full content of the 2,000 pages of documents in this U.S. Army investigation which CNN has also obtained,” he said, noting that many of the people interviewed during the investigation were career soldiers with “little political motivation to lie and heavy legal and moral obligation to tell the truth in sworn statements.”“I don’t doubt President Biden cares, but I do not understand why he would not manifest that care into taking this investigation more seriously, absorbing the tragic details, contemplating the obvious failures of his administration. Failures that cost lives,” Tapper continued.
When was Joe Biden’s prickly little ego ever able to tolerate admitting a mistake?
SALENA ZITO: The Great Awakening.
The half-circle of 13 chairs that framed the statue of President Harry Truman in the heart of the historic Independence Square this past fall was placed there in the days after 13 American soldiers were killed in the attack on the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in late August.
The flags on either side of Truman flew at half-mast, with the chairs bearing the names of each service member lost in that attack. All hailed from small-town corners of our country. Their average age was 22. Eleven were Marines, one was a member of the Army, one a Navy medic. . . .
The loss of these brave service members marked the beginning of an awakening. Many people stepped outside the comfort of their political beliefs and began to question everything coming out of the government.
Few national journalists noticed it at its inception because few national journalists leave their desks or disconnect from Twitter long enough to listen to people outside of their bubble. Had they listened, they would have heard the questions and the doubts.
The more Joe Biden’s White House stubbornly and willfully refused to answer questions and insisted it had acted rightly, the more distrust in government grew.
The images of Biden walking away, his back to the press and metaphorically to the people, in the days and weeks after the pullout projected arrogance and negligence. When he repeated that exit, it only served to hasten the awakening.
Soon, the questions about Afghanistan became questions about how the government was handling the pandemic — in particular the mandates, masking, and the treatment of our children. Many people had been afraid to make their complaints public — they saw how lives and livelihoods could be destroyed if you questioned the motives of the government or teachers unions.
Across the political spectrum, people who had been struggling so hard to keep their businesses open and their children in school or who dared to question the usage of masks or the authority of the government were called racists, fascists, grandma-killers, insurrectionists, and white supremacists.
Never mind that most of them had done all of the right things. They stayed home at the beginning, washed their cardboard Amazon boxes before they opened them, refrained from hugging their parents and children and grandchildren, lost jobs, lost friends, lost family members, got boosted, saw their children flail emotionally and academically. They watched crime escalate in their cities and suburbs. They watched depression and suicide affect their loved ones and fentanyl flood their nice neighborhoods and communities. They watched their cities turn into ghost towns and their grocery and energy bills diminish their wealth.
No one in the press really picked up on this movement. They see everything as either Republican or Democratic. This awakening is not so easily characterized. It is an inside-outside movement reacting to a government that chose to play politics with the virus and continue a long-standing partisan battle.
This week, it finally became acceptable among the insider set to say that the pandemic is over. But this abrupt change is part of an apparently coordinated effort to save a political tribe; as such, it does not pass the smell test for most people.
Nor should it.