WORKABLE FUSION POWER IS JUST 20 YEARS AWAY! Fusion scientists set record for energy generation in Britain. Well, someday, anyway.
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February 11, 2022
SPOILER: HE’S LYING. Tired of High Gas Prices? Biden Will ‘Work Like the Devil’ to Bring Them Down. “I’m trying to be a better person. I try not to hate. But when I see this senescent old man blandly repeating spoon-fed lies he doesn’t believe and perhaps only barely understands, it makes my blood boil.”
THIS APPLIES TO SO MUCH THESE DAYS: It’s Not Junk Science, It’s Just Junk. But in this case, it’s about ballistic forensics: “Jurors have watched plenty of police procedurals on TV and think that projectile matching is some precise science when in fact going much beyond ‘Well, the octagonal polygonal rifling tells me this .45 caliber bullet was likely fired from a Glock’ is educated guesswork.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Top commander slams White House, Jill Biden for being a ‘distraction’ during chaotic Kabul withdrawal. “You had everyone from the White House down with a new flavor of the day for prioritization.”
It’s so nice having the competent political professionals back in charge.
CNN SPINS ITS OWN POLL: Most Biden detractors say he’s done nothing they like since becoming president. “The finding, from a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS in January and February, highlights the entrenched politics driving the nation at the start of the midterm year, with little agreement across party lines on priorities for the government or how to handle the coronavirus pandemic.”
See, the bad numbers aren’t really about Joe Biden. They’re about those crazy fringe people who can’t admit he’s gotten even one thing right.
Well, he hasn’t.
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICANS PODCAST: Introduction to Samuel de Champlain and Some Other Stuff.
JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO NORMALCY: Biden’s New Energy Department Pick Is His Most Outrageous and Appalling Yet.
I COULD USE THIS BOOK: The 5-Ingredient Cookbook for Men: 115 Recipes for Men with Big Appetites and Little Time. #CommissionEarned
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY Arabica Closes At A 10-1/4 Year High As Global Coffee Supplies Plunge.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! White students excluded from Arizona State theatre performance: The event was ‘made up entirely of students of color.’
THEY DON’T WORK FOR AMERICANS, AND THEY’RE NOT OUR FRIENDS:
WHEN COLLUSION BECOMES GROVELING: Duke official apologizes for being ‘insensitive’ to CCP.
YOU CAN FOOL 25% OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME: 75 Percent of Americans Believe ‘Defund the Police’ Contributed to Violent Crime Wave.
SHE’S RIGHT, AS USUAL.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: CNN: A grim portrait of Biden’s unhappy America.
President Joe Biden often says America’s best days are ahead. It just doesn’t feel that way right now.
A nation exhausted by a two-year pandemic, struggling against rising food and gas prices, driven to distraction by school closures and torn apart by a political schism that erupted into violence is far from at ease with itself.
The sense of turmoil was captured in a new CNN/SSRS poll released Thursday that showed waning faith in US elections and found that most of the nearly 60% of Americans who disapprove of how Biden is handling his presidency were unable to name one single thing they like that he has done. “He’s not Donald Trump. That’s pretty much it,” one despondent respondent said. Another answered: “I really like his new cat, Willow Biden.”
Also on Thursday there was news that a key measure of inflation had climbed to a near-40-year high last month. Rising prices have a kind of strange magic that not only spooks voters, but also seeds the kind of political derangement in which extremists like former President Donald Trump can prosper.
If Biden’s a centrist, maybe “extremism” doesn’t look so bad. Of course, this is CNN, so once you get past the factual setup, it turns out everything is Donald Trump’s fault because of course.
SALENA ZITO: When Politics Replaces Heroes.
Averted tragedies, ideally, make us feel better about who we are, rather than causing us to reach for the quickest way to divide people. But Wolf opted for the latter in his social media thread. He praised fellow Democrats Joe Biden and Bob Casey, who were both coincidentally in Pittsburgh that day for an event, for supporting the infrastructure bill and then made a scant four-word “first responders arrived quickly” mention for those who deserved the real praise.
If we had better leadership, those “first responders who arrived quickly” would have probably been the only thing Wolf mentioned; he would have spoken with civic pride about the five officers who arrived on the scene in the pitch black, the hiss of a ruptured natural gas line, and the smell that goes with it surrounding them. They did what they were trained to do by sliding down the ice-covered ravine to rescue those who were trapped on the collapsed bridge in their vehicles.
He would have sung the praises of Pittsburgh paramedic Jon Atkinson, who helped first responders who were having trouble getting victims out of the ravine by offering up the bed of his four-wheel-drive pickup truck when the other rescue vehicles could not get out of the steep gully.
Instead, the day became one of politics for politicians. Yet the people I spoke to that day didn’t want to talk politics. The people who used that bridge every day to take their children back and forth to school understandably had different priorities. They must have also been rattled. They may have been spared a terrifying fate only because of a two-hour snow delay.
They had only two things on their mind. They praised the work of the first responders, whose quick actions likely saved lives, and they groused about how the government had once again failed to do what it promised — to keep them safe.
To be fair, politicians have contempt for ordinary people — including the embarrassingly working-class first responders — and no desire to keep them safe.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Polling gets Democrats to finally begin their COVID retreat. “In the words of blogger Lawrence Person, ‘Not since the collapse of the Hindenburg Line in 1918 have such bitterly held positions been abandoned so quickly.'”
Plus: “Is there anything more pathetic than the way the West’s ruling class labels anyone who opposes it as racist, sexist, Islamophobic, transphobic, etc.? Literally every single time.”
MAN’S REASON ON THE THRONE: It’s Day Five of Instapunditeer Lee Dise’s seven-part series on Lessons From History on HillFaith. Today’s focus has a distinctly French flavor, beginning with Descartes and continuing with Rousseau, de Sade, Voltaire and Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. Others, notably Hegel, also make significant appearances.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: A Terrible, Awful, No Good Week for the Oscars. “The Oscars ceremony is like a DNC event, filled with one-sided rhetoric alienating half the country. And it worked. The ratings sink dramatically almost every year, and few would suggest the March 27 gala will be different.”