ARGH … I AM SO TIRED OF THIS:  I did a post on Wednesday announcing the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ newest report, which compares the federal government’s response to Hurricane Harvey in Texas and to its response Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.  The Hill has now published a short piece on the report.  In it, The Hill states that “Hurricane Harvey killed dozens of people, but Maria killed nearly 3000.”  This is utter baloney (and that’s the nicest word I can think of for it).

As I detail in my Commissioner Statement (which is part of the report), this is an elementary error:  Wildly different methods for counting deaths were used for the two hurricanes.  Both methods are useful, but when making comparisons, apples must be compared to apples and oranges to oranges.

When Maria’s deaths were measured using the “direct death” method, the count was 64, slightly less than Harvey’s 68 (using more or less the same method).  But Puerto Rico preferred to use the “excess death” method, which looks for higher than normal death rates over the course of the six-month period following a disaster, for its official count.  That method yielded a count of 2975 for Maria.  No such study was ever done for Harvey, so we don’t know what the comparable numbers would have been.  Alas, journalists don’t bother to read (or apparently even skim) the things they write about.  And God forbid that they should make an effort to look at the dissenting opinions contained in a report.  In this case, if the journalist had looked at my Statement, she would have been saved an error.

NO ONE WOULD EVER AGAIN UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP: Next Tropical Threat Could Become Major Hurricane With Crosshairs On US Gulf Refineries. “Even though there’s a lot of uncertainty on the actual path of the disturbance over the next week, let’s say the meteorologists are right, and it does intensify into a hurricane next week and sets sights on the Gulf Coast of the US. Then this could be very problematic for major US oil/gas assets in the region and comes at a time the Biden administration has drained the SPR to decade-low levels to crush gasoline and diesel prices ahead of the midterm elections.”

WOW: At 4.4 Miles, Wyoming Team Sets New Rifle Shot World Record. “The shot was made with a custom-built rifle chambered for the .416 Barrett cartridge.” It did, however, take 69 attempts.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Dickies Men’s Loose-Fit Cargo Work Pants. #CommissionEarned

THE REAL GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA™ ISN’T REALLY CAPITALIZING ON HER INCUMBENCY: How Is Stacey Abrams Doing With Black Voters?

JOHN HINDERAKER: “I wrote earlier today about the Democrats’ unprecedented attempts to criminalize disagreement with their policies or criticism of their regime. These are more examples, from today’s news, of the suppression of conservative thought, not necessarily through criminal prosecution.”

FLASHBACK: Can more local self-rule save a collapsing, ‘late Roman’ America?

FROM M. M. COLT:  Destined: Whiskey River Magic.

#CommissionEarned

IT’S ANOTHER MARIEL BOAT LIFT:  Why is Joe Biden covering for Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro?

OF COURSE THEY DO: Dems Reject GOP Calls for Investigation into Safety of Unaccompanied Minors at Border.

WHEN I TALKED OF THIS 20 YEARS AGO NO ONE BELIEVED ME:  The De-Population Bomb. (VIDEO)

It’s worse than that, and it’s world wide. You have to understand that no one counts their population as well as we do, and we overestimate our population by something like 10% every census (Clinton made the fudging official.) In other countries, the censuses are more or less guesses.  And in third world countries, they’re wildly overestimated, in order to get more international aid (per capita.) Seriously. there are indications the third world started losing population earlier.

It’s all smoke and mirrors. Believe nothing. Verify everything.

AND HAVING MOVED EXPLODES:  The Overton Window Moveth.

I WITHDRAW CONSENT:  Conservatism Is Prohibited.

Every government rules by the consent of the governed. It’s time to resist, drag your feet and make it as heavy going for them as you can.

I’M READY TO NEVER HEAR FROM THIS CLINICAL NARCISSIST AGAIN:  Fauci Flips On Lockdown Damage And China.

ANNOYING BROADS DO STUPID STUFF:  Gutsy Part Four: THE Marriage Episode.

SOME FEDERAL JUDGES ARE STILL SANE, WHO KNEW?  Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden’s Head Start Child Care Facility Vaccine and Mask Mandates.

SO DOES EVERYTHING ELSE:  Google Searches Show People Care About the Border and Economy as Dems Focus on Abortion and Trump.

The left pursues its obsessions, regardless of what people want.

THEY’RE ALL INSANE:  WaPo ‘Fact Checker’ Glenn Kessler Spreads Stacey Abrams’ Lie That We Don’t Hear a Baby’s Heartbeat at Six Weeks.

POE’S LAW STRIKES AGAIN:  Progressive or Parody? ‘Citizens For Sanity’ Martha’s Vineyard Migrant Ad.

IMAGINE THEIR OUTRAGE IF ALLEN POSED HOLDING BIDEN’S BLOODY SEVERED HEAD:  Liberals on Twitter lose it over Tim Allen post mocking Joe Biden on ‘60 Minutes’.

Comedians can only do THAT to Republican presidents.

ANALYSIS: TRUE:  Nikki Haley blasts ‘The View’ host Sunny Hostin as ‘racist’.

A WHOLE TWO NIGHTS? WOW:  Martha’s Vineyard’s St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church sheltered 50 migrants for 2 nights.

COVERING FOR CRIMINALS: Dems block release of Hunter Biden’s financial documents.

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Feds move to drop Shelley Joseph case through agreement with Newton judge accused of releasing illegal immigrant.

Joseph was charged by the office of former U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, a Trump appointee, of helping a twice-deported illegal immigrant evade federal immigrations officials in 2018. The case was highly publicized at the time and was a local flashpoint for the immigration debates of the past several years.

She is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting and obstruction of a federal proceeding. The motion to dismiss would need a federal judge’s approval to go into effect to drop those charges.

The feds and Joseph have signed an agreement that makes the dropping of the charges contingent on her going to the state judicial ethics committee in a month after it goes into effect.

MacGregor, who was charged with perjury, already has resigned his job and has faced discipline, so, Cunha wrote, “that the deferred prosecution agreement entered with Mr. MacGregor represents a fair and balanced resolution of this matter and is likewise in the interest of justice.”

Joseph has been suspended while still now being paid $207,855 a year.

It’s good to be a Democratic pol under a Democratic president.

OPEN THREAD: So how are we?