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February 19, 2022
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Biracial NC House candidate blasts school board over CRT (Video).
“As a parent, I speak to other parents,” he told the board members, “And there’s a few things we don’t want.”
“I’m biracial, I’m multilingual, I’m multicultural. The fact is in America and North Carolina, I can do anything I want — and I teach that to my children,” [Brian] Echevarria said forcefully. “And the person who tells my little pecan-color kids that they’re somehow oppressed based on the color of their skin would be absolutely wrong and absolutely at war with me.”
Echevarria closed out his remarks with a parting shot, stating that “What the masks showed us is the parents, the most powerful group in the country, are taking back the wheel.”
Much more like this, please.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cough suppressant knocks some hearts back into rhythm.
DOES HE WORK FOR THE DAILY PLANET? Olympic Photographer Catches Bullets in Mid-Air with the Sony Alpha 1.
While Nikon’s flagship Z9 can shoot at a staggering clip of 120 frames per second for 11-megapixel photos, the rival flagship Sony Alpha 1 is no slouch either, capturing 30fps with the electronic shutter.
“When Sony Alpha 1 came out, I got myself one as quickly as possible, mainly for 30 frames per second and 120 autofocus calculations every second,” Dranginis tells PetaPixel. “For a sports photographer like me, accurate focus and speed are absolutely necessary.”
That and a massive telephoto lens a la Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window combine for some brilliant photos.
SPACE: Perseverance rover’s second year on Mars to focus on rock samples, river delta. The Mars rovers have proven remarkably durable.
ALANIS MORISSETTE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Isn’t It Ironic? Canada Condemns Cuba’s Treatment of Protesters.
THE REVOLT OF THE CANADIAN TRUCKERS: New video from Reason TV:
Related: Bounce Houses, Sing-Alongs, And Freedom Hugs: The Trucker Convoy Looks Dangerously Fun.
Earlier: War Of The Worlds. Canadian Truckers’ Protest is first battle in global clash between those who live in Physical World, and the ruling class of Virtual World.
IT WAS ALWAYS A LIE: ‘Freedom Convoy’ Exposes Canada’s Hollow Liberal Universalism.
Related (From Ed): Ottawa Police Excuse for Horses Running Over Freedom Convoy Protesters Departs From Reality. “From what we can see from the multiple videos, there was no ‘bicycle’ thrown. The disabled woman had a scooter which she didn’t throw, since pictures show her still on it after she is run over by the police horses.”
Meanwhile, America’s Newspaper of Record suggests one possible outcome: U.S. To Invade Canada To Establish A Democracy.
To be fair, such proposals have been in the air for many, many years.
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I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: CDC: Children’s ER visits for eating disorders, self-harm spike during pandemic.
FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE ‘OASIS OF THE SEAS:’ Cruising in the Era of Covid.
My latest, over at EdDriscoll.com.
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OUT ON A LIMB: The Chinese Communist Party always medals in moral corruption.
Profiteering off China’s regime isn’t new, but these Olympics raise broader implications. The CCP intentionally wields the profit motive as a tool to co-opt foreigners and foreign corporations into plowing capital and know-how into the Chinese market, for the regime’s benefit. Mr. Xi even has a term for the practice: “dual circulation,” in which the CCP lures foreigners to become more dependent on China while simultaneously working to reduce Chinese companies’ dependence on the outside world. Meanwhile, the Party allows a few lucky foreigners to make piles of cash. In return, these individuals serve as witting — or in some cases, unwitting — propagandists for the regime.
US corporations are starting to awaken to the impossible situation that they’ve put themselves in. By investing in Xi’s China, they’ve signed up for Beijing’s rules, which exist to prop up the regime at all costs. Their bets on China expose these companies to intellectual property theft, reputational harm and physical threats to their employees. Thus NBC News, which broadcasted the Games, tried to walk a fine line between ignoring the regime’s human rights abuses and criticizing the communists too harshly. The conundrum resulted in some truly cringe-worthy discussions, including one panel in which one China “expert” sanitized his commentary and made pains to present the CCP’s point of view of the Uighur genocide.
The 2022 Olympics felt far too much like the 1936 Olympics — but without Jesse Owens.
TOP SELLER: Rand McNally 2022 Road Atlas. CommissionEarned
COVID: WAS IT REALLY ALL BAD? Of Course: Joy Behar Will Wear a Face Mask Indefinitely.
UPDATE: Joy Behar spotted maskless despite her pledge to wear masks indefinitely.
Unexpectedly!
I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO FOSTER TOLERANCE AND CRITICAL THINKING: Law students still work to cancel retired professor who cited Supreme Court case with n-word.
If you can’t hear a Supreme Court case read without suffering trauma, you don’t belong in law, or in law school.
JIM TREACHER: It’s a Good Thing Quintez Brown Wasn’t Wearing a MAGA Hat.
Imagine for a moment that a young man wearing a MAGA hat walked into the campaign headquarters of a mayoral candidate in an American city, pulled out a gun, and started shooting. Imagine that he came so close to assassinating the candidate that a bullet grazed the man’s sweater. And now imagine that the shooter’s bail was set at only $100,000, and a group of white supremacists raised his bail and put him back on the street within a couple of days.
Would that be national news? Would you be able to turn on CNN or MSNBC at any hour of the day without hearing about it? Would it be presented as further evidence of what’s really wrong with America?
Heck, I’m so old, I can remember when all you needed to do to receive universal condemnation by the American media was to wear a MAGA hat and stand next to an American Indian and a drum circle.
Related: Sorry, Freedom Convoy — fundraisers are only for left-wing criminals. Black Lives Matter bails out an alleged attempted murderer.
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’! Boston abruptly lifts vaccine mandate. “Returning to the question I posed at the top of the article, this ending of vaccination mandates is taking place all over the country now. Those who refused to accept the vaccines will now finally be allowed to mix with the rest of the public like normal human beings. But what of all of the people who didn’t want to be vaccinated but gave in and took the shots just to gain some measure of freedom of movement or keep their jobs? They can’t turn around now and be ‘de-vaccinated.'”
Plus: “If you weren’t paying attention to the politics involved, you might be surprised at how quickly we went from ‘the mandates are the only thing that will save us’ to ‘never mind.’ But that’s because all of these politicians are able to read their own polling numbers and those numbers look like a dumpster fire at the moment when it comes to COVID mandates. These are political decisions far more than medical decisions. And at least some of these officials are going to be held accountable later this year.”
Related: Vaccine requirements lifted across America as COVID cases wane.
GOODER AND HARDER: Shock: DHS springs plan for 16,000 Afghan influx through Loudoun County.
Without warning, the Biden administration this month told Loudoun County officials that it plans to roll an influx of 16,000 Afghan refugees through a convention center as part of its settlement program.
Sheriff Michael Chapman said Thursday that officials from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service said that up to 1,000 at a time would be temporarily housed at the National Conference Center in the ritzy Lansdowne area east of Leesburg, Virginia.
The agency said that 2,000 a month would arrive between February and September.
I’m sure everything will go swimmingly.
MEN ARE BETTER AT EVERYTHING, I GUESS, EVEN BEING WOMEN: Congrats to trans Ivy League swimming champ Lia Thomas for defeating a biological female in the 500 free (and setting a new record!) (Video).
Related: Watch: Matt Walsh Destroys Woke Gender Narrative With One Simple Question.