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August 6, 2022
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Texas Teacher Who Sexually Abused Middle School Boy Has Prison Sentence Delayed After Giving Birth.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: New York Health Department says hundreds of people may be infected with polio virus.
IT LOOKED SUSPICIOUSLY DELICOUS: Top scientist admits ‘space telescope image’ was actually a slice of chorizo.
HOW IT STARTED:
JIM ACOSTA: What you’re proposing, or what the President is proposing, does not sound like it’s in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration. The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” It doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmer. Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them you have to speak English? Can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?
STEPHEN MILLER: Well, first of all, right now it’s a requirement that to be naturalized you have to speak English. So the notion that speaking English wouldn’t be a part of immigration would actually be very ahistorical. Secondly, I don’t want to get into a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty lighting the world. It’s a symbol of American liberty lighting the world. The poem that you’re referring to was added later. It’s not actually a part of the original Statue of Liberty. But more fundamentally —
ACOSTA: So, you’re saying that that does not represent what the country has always thought of as immigration coming into this country?
—“The White House’s Stephen Miller Destroys CNN: ‘Cosmopolitan,’ ‘Outrageous,’ ‘Ignorant,’ ‘Biased,’” Scott Whitlock, NewsBusters, August 2nd, 2017.
How it’s going:
Related: NPR reports GOP governors had ‘no plan for what came next’ after busing migrants to DC.
I DON’T KNOW MANY VEGAN WEIGHTLIFTERS: Weightlifting, strength training may improve bone structure for vegans.
THE GREENS ARE ENEMIES OF HUMANITY: John Hinderaker: The Coming War on Agriculture. “You probably know about what has happened in Sri Lanka, where the government’s attempt to impose organic farming led to food shortages, impoverishment, and a revolt that caused that country’s prime minister to flee. Also the Netherlands, where the government’s attempt to drastically reduce fertilizer use has led to massive protests by farmers that continue to this day. . . . Next up is Canada. . . Global warming religion is international, and the same anti-farming movement is coming soon to the U.S., the world’s number one agricultural economy. The first target will be nitrogen-based fertilizers, which are a principal foundation of the world’s ag productivity. Without fertilizers, the world will go hungry. That leads to target number two: animals, especially cows.”
You’ll eat a 1400 calorie a day plant-based diet provided by the state, and you’ll be happy to get it.
Hey, gruel is plant-based.
Plus:
Will the Left’s war on agriculture succeed? I don’t know. The Sri Lankan government pushed it until mobs invaded the prime minister’s residence. The government of the Netherlands isn’t giving an inch, despite massive and prolonged civil disobedience by farmers. Justin Trudeau apparently likes what he sees in those countries. And consider the Left’s war on energy: I never would have imagined that it could get as far as it has.
I think many liberals are essentially sadists. They love to boss the rest of us around and make us miserable.
Exactly.
FASTER, PLEASE: This Is What Your United Flight Could Look Like in the Near Future. Production for Boom Supersonic’s Overture passenger jet is set to begin in 2024.
TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Pro-tax hike Dem continues to fail to pay his own taxes.
BE PREPARED: FIRST ALERT P1210E Smoke Alarm, White. #CommissionEarned
If the only damage done by the Steele dossier had been to inject disinformation into American political discourse, there would only be a medium-level scandal. But Comey and the FBI took the dossier seriously, despite never verifying it. Comey himself, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, personally lobbied — over the objections of CIA analysts — to include allegations from the dossier in a US intelligence assessment of Russia’s influence over the 2016 election. And when Comey briefed congressional leaders and the Justice Department in March 2017, we know from recently declassified FBI talking points, it was claimed that some of the dossier had already been corroborated and that it derived from a Russia-based source, when in fact Danchenko was a US resident at the time. By that point, the FBI had already conducted one interview with Danchenko — and he had begun to walk back some of the dossier’s claims. In other words, Comey presented the Steele dossier as credible information to Congress, just as lower-level agents were learning it was not to be trusted.
Savor the irony. Clinton has claimed that Comey’s October email surprise cast a cloud over her campaign that cost her the election. Meanwhile, Clinton’s agents fed the bureau enough thinly sourced dirt on Trump and Russia to cast doubts over his whole presidency. Comey only let the fog linger over Clinton until November 6, when he announced that a review of Weiner’s laptop revealed nothing incriminating. The miasma over Trump’s presidency lingered for two and a half years, until Mueller announced he had found no evidence of conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign. To this day, most Democrats still don’t believe that and ignore how that conspiracy theory was first whispered by their party’s own lawyers and operatives.
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WELL, THE AMY WAX BUSINESS IS ANOTHER LEFTIST SHOW TRIAL: Law professor accuses Penn dean of ahistorical criticism of Amy Wax.
TRY NOT TO THINK OF A RECESSION — Biden administration denials are bound to deliver the opposite of the intended message.
Is the U.S. in a recession? New York Mayor Eric Adams seems to think so. Speaking last week to the nonprofit group Project Hospitality, he said: “We’re in a financial crisis like you can never imagine. . . . Wall Street is collapsing. We’re in a recession.” But Mr. Adams’s fellow Democrats in the Biden administration have been furiously denying there’s a recession. When a reporter asked him if they’re wrong, he backtracked: “The president will make a determination on the official title of where we are; that’s the president, and I follow the lead of the president.”
The debate has brought a new notoriety to the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, the organization that officially designates recessions. The NBER’s definition is “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months” and taking into account gross domestic product, real income, employment, industrial production and consumer spending. That’s a mouthful, and it can’t compete with the simplicity of “two quarters of declining GDP.” In any case, NBER won’t make a determination for months.
Adding to the danger is that experts think that the expectation of inflation can cause inflation. Does the same psychology apply to recession?
The administration’s communication challenge is twofold. First is the old “don’t think of an elephant” problem. What are you thinking of? Second, saying “This isn’t a recession” only convinces people we’re in a recession. The word “recession” makes a much stronger impression on the listener than the word “isn’t.” This is one of the easiest mistakes to avoid, but it pops up daily.
As always life imitates Monty Python: In “the Amazing Mystico and Janet” sketch, the magician puts up a block of apartments instantly — but the buildings only stay vertical if their tenants believe in them.
YOU CAN SEE WHY TOP ACADEMICS WOULD OPPOSE THAT: Merit system is unjust because it rewards productive individuals, professors argue.
GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: ‘Worst of all options’: Hotel owners blast L.A. City Council proposal to house homeless alongside guests.
BRING THE PITCHFORKS: Radical Dutch farmers pledge ‘hardest action ever’ after nitrogen talks. “Nevertheless, the government is sticking to its target of a 50% reduction in nitrogen-based emissions by 2030 in order to meet European environmental rules. Farming, mainly livestock, accounts for some 40% of nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands. Finance ministry calculations suggest 11,200 livestock farmers would have to close down and a further 17,600 would need to reduce the number of animals they keep in order to meet the targets. The Netherlands has some 54,000 farms.”
IT’S A DISHONEST STALINIST SHOW TRIAL: Doug Mastriano challenges Jan. 6 panel’s ‘deceptive editing’ in balking at deposition.
SHE GOT CAUGHT IN A BIG LIE AND THE PRESS LARGELY IGNORED IT, SEEMS QUALIFIED TO ME: Judge rules Rebekah Jones is not qualified to run as a Democrat in Florida.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Something Snaps In The Job Market: Multiple Jobholders Hit All Time High As Unexplained 1.8 Million Jobs Gap Emerges. “So what’s going on here? The simple answer: Fewer people working, but more people working more than one job, a rotation which picked up in earnest some time in March and which has only been captured by the Household survey.”
Plus: “And since the Establishment survey is far slower to pick up on the nuances in employment composition, while the Household Survey has gone nowhere since March, the BLS data engineers have been busy goalseeking the Establishment Survey (perhaps with the occasional nudge from the White House especially now that the economy is in a technical recession) to make it appear as if the economy is growing strongly, when in reality all they are doing is applying the same erroneous seasonal adjustment factor that gave such a wrong perspective of the labor market in the aftermath of the covid pandemic (until it was all adjusted away a year ago). In other words, while the labor market is already cracking, it will take the BLS several months of veering away from reality before the government bureaucrats accept and admit what is truly taking place. We expect that “realization” to take place just after the midterms, because the last thing the Biden administration can afford is admit the labor market is crashing in addition to the continued surge in inflation.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Penn State Orders Hiring Freeze, 3% Budget Rescission To Close $191 Million Deficit.