GET IN SHAPE: Bowflex SelectTech 552 Adjustable Dumbbells (pair). #CommissionEarned
Glenn got a set of these before the pandemic and found them very helpful in getting a good home workout.
Archive for 2022
January 28, 2022
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Meet the Artists Against Free Speech. “Some want inconvenient views silenced. Others won’t stand up to the woke mob.”
Art in service to the State is propaganda. So stop referring to these propagandists as artists.
DIGITAL PRAETORIANS: CNN Tries to Memory-Hole Ukraine President Telling Biden to ‘Calm Down.’
DEMOCRATS SIGNAL THAT THEY DON’T EXPECT TO GET CONTROL OF THE SUPREME COURT ANYTIME SOON: Joy Behar Calls Supreme Court a ‘Dictatorial Branch of the Government.’
#RESIST: Marine Corps Nears 400 Separations Over COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal. “The service received 3,428 requests for religious exemptions, with 3,377 adjudicated. All but the three were denied.”
EVANGELINE LILLY – NEXT WOKE VICTIM: The Marvel actress comes out against vaccine mandates. You know what that means for her career.
RICHARD REINSCH: Larry Fink of BlackRock and His Global Crusade to Advance Identity Politics. “Larry Fink has emerged as the point man for environmental, social, and corporate governance capitalism, broadly known as ESG. As chief executive officer of BlackRock, which holds a $10 trillion global portfolio, Fink leverages this immense power to compel companies that BlackRock invests in to comply with an aggressive climate change and diversity agenda in their operations. Fink’s BlackRock is committed to a net-zero carbon strategy, and seeks global conformity across its clients on sustainability reporting measures, i.e., they must prove that their companies are seeking this goal. His annual letter to CEOs is closely read, and, it would seem, followed.”
This is rather a lot of unaccountable power. We’d be hearing a lot about its dangers if it weren’t being deployed in service of a leftist agenda.
STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY AND HATE:
The city also faces another challenge in hiring a monitor: Eric A. Hill, a white former military police officer who sought the monitor position, filed state and federal discrimination complaints in November, alleging that nearly 30 social media posts by board members disparaging white men and the military put him at an unfair disadvantage.
We need more lawsuits like this.
THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT: ‘Walk Away’ Activist Brandon Straka Can Finally Speak About Being Under the FBI’s Thumb After Jan 6. “Straka was in D.C., as many activists were, to give a speech on Trump’s behalf. Going to, but not inside, the Capitol Building after President Trump’s speech turned into a ‘year-long nightmare’ in which he suffered ‘from the abuse of the legal process’ and a ‘savage campaign to destroy me. It didn’t.'”
DEEP-DIVE ON THE ABOLISH FILIBUSTER FRAUD: No, it was not a grassroots movement seeking to “protect democracy,” claim Jason Snead and Scott Walter. The drive to abolish the Senate filibuster and enact measures to federalize election law in America was the carefully calculated and richly funded product of a small group of rich progressives and their legions of activist dependencies.
STILL POPULAR: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: A Chinese Satellite Just Grappled Another And Pulled It Out Of Orbit. “A Chinese satellite was observed grabbing another satellite and pulling it out of its normal geosynchronous orbit and into a “super-graveyard drift orbit.” The maneuver raises questions about the potential applications of these types of satellites designed to maneuver close to other satellites for inspection or manipulation and adds to growing concerns about China’s space program overall.”
KILLING AN INDUSTRY: Restaurant reservations in cities with vaccine mandates tank compared to cities without: OpenTable data. “Cities without vaccine mandates are seeing increases in reservations compared to pre-pandemic data.”
HIGHER EDUCATION AS TOTALITARIAN INDOCTRINATION: University assignment has students record themselves accusing someone of racism or homophobia. “An assignment shows an instructor directing students to locate someone that they can accuse of ‘racism,’ ‘ableist racist or homophobic use of language,’ or ‘micro-aggressions.'”
As taxpayers tire of funding things like this, we’re told it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”
HIGHER EDUCATION AS POLITICAL MONEY LAUNDRY: Nikole Hannah-Jones paid $55,000 for speech criticizing Republicans at UW Madison.
DON’T ASSUME BIDEN’S SUPREME COURT NOMINEE’S CONFIRMATION: Rachel Bovard of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), writing in The Federalist, points to a Senate rule that could, given the chamber’s 50-50 partisan split, make the confirmation of His Fraudulency’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee anything but certain.
PITTSBURGH BRIDGE COLLAPSES BEFORE BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE SPEECH: Fortunately, no fatalities and only 10 minor injuries.
THE NARRATIVE MUST BE PROTECTED: Daily Caller Reporter Asks Why Biden Admin Doesn’t Stress Living Healthier Lifestyles. Psaki Starts Talking About Masks.
R.I.P. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, who died on this day in 1596.
SO BOSTON HAD BETTER HOPE IT’S NOT A SNOWY WINTER: Howie Carr: Woke snowplowing? Boston’s new hire swears by it. “Never heard of snow-plow equity? The “e” word gives it all away. Equity – in this case, that means bicycle lanes should get plowed before … pick any major thoroughfare. Broadway, Hyde Park Ave., Centre Street, Comm. Ave., Blue Hill Ave. … forget about it. Equity demands that bicycle lanes be cleared first, because, well, it’s a lotta fun to ride your bike on an icy street. Very safe, too.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Will Undoubtedly Be Tragic. “Biden will saddle us with a Supreme Court pick who makes Stephen Breyer look like William Rehnquist. It won’t tip the balance of the court just yet, but it will be another brick in the communist wall that the Democrats are building.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Hang on to your hats: Breyer’s retirement sets up a bumpy confirmation battle.
BOB ZUBRIN: Putin’s Green Fifth Column:
In fact, Germany’s dependence on Russia for its natural gas is an entirely self-inflicted weakness.
Let’s compare the sources of German and French electricity. . . .
A number of important points stand out from this data. In the first place, note that the Germans get far more energy from coal than from natural gas Note also that while Germany now only gets 4 GW of power from nuclear energy it previously obtained 22 GW of nuclear power, nearly twice the total amount it gets from all gas, not just the 40 percent that comes from Russia. Finally note that Germany’s “green” power has resulted in 541 gms of CO2 emission per kWh. This is six times the 95 gm/kWh of nuclear-powered France.
In short, Germany’s dependence on Russian gas is entirely an artifact of Germany’s decision to shut down its nuclear-power plants. This dependence is not only driving Germany to sabotage any effort to deter Russian military expansionism, it is also funding the Russian war effort itself. . . .
Not only that, but the Green movement, which effectively dominates Germany’s political ideas, has had a continent-wide campaign — with vocal Russian backing — to prevent Europe from becoming independent in natural gas by fracking its abundant shale resources The Greens have also acted to block the establishment of liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals that would allow the importation of LNG from the Unites States or the Mideast. So the Germans and their Green international allies are not really in favor of natural gas. They are just in favor of Russian natural gas.
In the United States the Green movement operates primarily through the Democratic Party. While they do not completely control the Biden administration, they have a strong voice in it. Accordingly, to appease his Green supporters, President Biden has acted to sabotage American oil and gas production while calling on OPEC nations to increase their output, lest prices rise too high.
These actions do not align with the claim of the Green movement that it is simply trying to protect the global environment. Oil and gas produced in Russia and OPEC nations do not merely create the same amount of pollution as the oil and gas produced in the West, they create considerably more.
The Greens are Reds.