Archive for 2022
February 25, 2022
RON DESANTIS RACKS UP QUITE THE BIPARTISAN ENDORSEMENT: ‘Pinnacle of hypocrisy has been achieved!’ Guess where the Dem Governors Assn. is having a meeting.
GALLUP ON RUSSIA: Most Americans realize the 80s called — and Biden didn’t answer. “Looks like we’ve achieved nearly a full consensus on Mitt Romney’s vindication — even before Russia invaded Ukraine. A Gallup poll conduced between February 1-17 shows anger rising rapidly toward Russia, across all political denominations. It had already gotten bad shortly after Barack Obama’s 2012 bon mot to Romney that ‘the 80s called and they want their foreign policy back,’ but Vladimir Putin’s aggression has turned it into a consensus even before the first shot was fired.”
CURRENTLY READING: Base Line Training Manual: Tactical Wisdom Series. #CommissionEarned The information seems useful and it is a short easy read.
OUT ON A LIMB: Putin was playing Biden all along.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Premier STEM college faces accusations of a dumb-downed education to advance equity: Is Harvey Mudd College sacrificing high standards for diversity, equity and inclusion?
Leftist programs are never about raising standards.
I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE LET THEM KEEP THAT ONE.
1. Invade the Ukraine
2. Take over Chernobyl
3. ????
4. Profit!
RELAX, KIDS, THE DEMOCRATS ARE IN CHARGE! Graduating students are concerned about entering the job market as inflation soars.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: DeSantis Day at CPAC Was a Lot of Fun. “In these contentious and often tedious political times, it’s difficult to find glimmers of good to catch our eyes, especially when hanging around on the internet all day. There is something refreshing about meeting up with like-minded people in person. It’s the right kind of booster shot.”
BE PREPARED: Augason Farms 30-Day 1-Person Emergency Food Supply. #CommissionEarned
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN SPECULATES ON SKULDUGGERY BEHIND THE TRUMP PROSECUTION:
Here is another possibility.
Pomerantz and Dunne know they have, at best, a weak case. Perhaps, they have no case at all. They are consummate legal professionals and are wholly unwilling to make knowingly false representations before the judge—who has oversight over the grand jury and who has lawful authority to extend the grand jury’s term. If so, why the resignations? Perhaps because Bragg has told them: “Do whatever is necessary to extend the life of the grand jury, and swear out whatever certification you must before the judge—Do it or you are fired.” So, instead of being fired, Pomerantz and Dunne resigned.
Pomerantz and Dunne are bound by ethics rules in regard to grand jury testimony secrecy. But, apparently, someone is talking to the media. This is how we will know who wants the grand jury probe terminated and who wants its life extended. If Bragg shops around for new prosecutors and they decide to restart the investigatory process before a newly impanelled grand jury, then that likely means that Bragg wants—and has always wanted—the investigations to go forward. Otherwise, it was Bragg who was for closing the investigation down.
Which theory is more likely?
These things all tend to start with a bang and end with a whimper. Trump must be the most honest man in politics and business to have withstood all these investigations.
BRING BACK KEYSTONE, MORE FRACKING. UNLESS YOU’RE IN PUTIN’S POCKET, THAT IS.
TRUDEAU, PUTIN, IT’S HARD TO TELL THEM APART:
Related: “Mere moments after Russia’s Vladimir Putin went on TV to announce his ‘special military operation’ to ‘de-Nazify’ a democracy of 44 million people who happen to have elected a Jewish president, his forces attacked by land, sea and air. And the madness went on from there.”
OUR ENEMIES UNITE: New Sino-Russian Pact Threatens U.S.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX launching 50 Starlink satellites, landing rocket today: Watch it live. Scheduled for 12:12 ET.
THIS SEEMS IMPLAUSIBLE: Liz Cheney rising: Second to Trump with all 2024 voters.
Though given that Biden is an incumbent president and not even in the top 2, it’s certainly bad news for him if true.
But it’s really not. The headline is misleading — she’s second among Republican primary candidates if all voters (including Democrats) get to choose. Among actual Republicans she’s a very, very distant third place: “So among Republicans only in the survey, Trump leads with 47%, followed by DeSantis at 20% and Cheney at 7%.”
UKRAINE: Zelensky: Russians targeting civilian populations, move closer to Kyiv. “Just how bad has the Russian invasion of Ukraine become? Even the Taliban thinks Russia has gone too far. In a statement this morning, the terrorist group decried ‘the real possibility of civilian casualties’ in Russia’s attack.”
Related: Ukraine offers “non-aligned” status to Russia. Ukraine would rather be part of the West, but the West hasn’t exactly distinguished itself here.
ALL THESE PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTORS NEED TO BE BOUNCED: Murder Victim’s Mother Has Questions for One of Virginia’s Progressive Prosecutors. “Cromwell contemplates the fail points. Why wasn’t Lollobrigido’s ankle monitor configured to trigger an alarm if he approached Regina? Why wasn’t therapy a condition of his bond package? And the cruelest question—why did he bond out at all? Answers haven’t been forthcoming from Loudoun County commonwealth’s attorney Buta Biberaj. A progressive prosecutor elected on the strength of $861,000 in contributions from George Soros’s Justice and Public Safety PAC, Biberaj opposes pretrial detention in most instances and characterizes domestic violence as a health problem that warrants a clinical response, not a criminal problem.”
THEY’VE ALWAYS KNOWN IT: The UK Govt Accepts COVID Lab Leak Theory ‘Behind Closed Doors’.
THE SCIENCE CHANGES: CDC: Some of you should wait longer before getting your second vaccination. “And while we’re on the subject of insufficient data, how is it that we’re only now learning about immunity fading more quickly if the initial two shots are spaced more closely together? Didn’t they test for that during the initial trials? We’ve been listening to the CDC sound the alarm bells for the past year about how people’s immunity wasn’t lasting as long as originally predicted so perhaps we needed to shorten the time before people need a booster shot. Is it possible that the immunity levels are falling too quickly specifically because they were telling everyone to get the second shot too soon?”
ENDORSED: Bill would reimburse defendants who shoot under self-defense.
A panel of lawmakers introduced legislation that would strengthen Idaho’s “stand your ground” law by requiring counties to reimburse anyone charged in a slaying if a judge or jury concludes they acted in self-defense. Sen. Christy Zito, a Republican from Hammett, said the proposal is needed to protect people like Kyle Rittenhouse, who used an assault-style rifle to shoot three people during a street protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020. Rittenhouse killed Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, but he said he acted in self-defense. A jury last year acquitted him of multiple charges including homicide. “The way our political world is looking more and more every day, we need to make sure that our citizens are protected beyond any shadow of a doubt so if they do indeed take human life, they’re protected from that,” Zito said told the House State Affairs Committee.
Actually, I believe they should not only receive their costs, but compensation for the time lost and emotional distress suffered as a result of prosecution.
A CHEWY, CHOCOLATE CENTER??? Scientists baffled after discovering new substance deep in Earth’s core.
RUNNING TO GET AHEAD OF THE PARADE IS ALL THEY HAVE: CDC Expected to Drop Mask Guidance That Nobody Pays Attention To.