YEP: Bragg’s Lawfare Tears Apart A Thousand Years of Anglo-American Jurisprudence.

SOMEONE HAS PAID ATTENTION TO THE INCENTIVES OFFERED?  Pushback: University president forced out because she fired professor for including Muhammad images in classwork.

TOO RIGHT! IF TRUMP HADN’T STOLEN BIDEN’S BRAIN AND REPLACED IT WITH TAPIOCA, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE:  Biden: Afghanistan Withdrawal Mess Was Totally Trump’s Fault.

OH, DEAR LORD:  Tennessee State Rep. Survives Expulsion, Cites Racism.

THEY’RE SOOOO SMART:  CNN ‘Fact Checks’ Trump’s Claim of Soros/Bragg Connection, Accidentally Admits A Connection.

AS SHE SHOULD:  Maine Mother Suing School for Allegedly Hiding Her Child’s Gender Transition.

THE SHOE ONLY PINCHES IN THE OTHER FOOT:  Biden and Obama Suddenly Concerned About Democratic ‘Norms’ After Ouster of Tennessee Lawmakers.

SKILLS FOR OUR TIME:  Reading Pravda In English.

THE PRICE OF ELECTRICAL EVERYTHING:  United Nations to Begin Accepting Applications for Deep-Sea Mining.

BLINK?  FDA Approval Of Abortion Pill Mifepristone Is Revoked By Federal Judge.

AIRBRUSH UPDATE: George Floyd riots rewritten as “2020 fires.”

WELL, THAT INSPIRES CONFIDENCE:

"Photographs of charts of anticipated weapons deliveries, troop and battalion strengths, and other plans, represents a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine"https://t.co/xhDDcKa4BC

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 7, 2023

Maybe our intelligence agencies should spend more time on their actual jobs and less on manipulating domestic politics.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy yourselves.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch.

Meanwhile, China is trying to start a price war, though they are a lot farther from launching than SpaceX.

MATH FORMULAS AREN’T USUALLY THE PREFERRED METHOD, BUT OKAY: Researchers Just Developed a Math Formula For Achieving a Male Orgasm. “The research was inspired by the use of mathematics to improve sports performance, but it does not involve thinking about baseball.)”

THIS ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE: New Study: Smells Influence Metabolism and Aging. “Our studies show that female odors slow the sexual development of female mice, but consequently extends their lifespan. And we also show that the smell of females can increase male mouse energy expenditure, which subsequently influences their body weight and body fat levels.”

HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS BANKS, BIDEN FAMILY ASSOCIATES IN PROBE OF FINANCES.

MY NEW SUBSTACK ESSAY: Who can you trust? Did Robert Heinlein have the answer to deepfake photos and video? (Bumped.)

I’M NOT TOO WORRIED ABOUT MARBURG, THOUGH I CERTAINLY WOULDN’T WANT TO GET IT. CDC Alerts Docs to Watch for Potential Imported Marburg Cases — Concern grows, though no cases have been detected outside Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania so far.

THAT RANGE IS FINE BUT NOT ACTUALLY IMPRESSIVE: The 2024 Kia EV9 Will Drive 300 Miles on a Single Charge. But this is not bad: “And will charge from 10 to 80 percent in under 25 minutes.

READER FAVORITE: Greenworks 48V 17″ Brushless Cordless Lawn Mower. #CommissionEarned

FANCY PROPUBLICA PROPAGANDA STORY: CLARENCE THOMAS GOES ON LUXURY VACATIONS WITH BILLIONAIRE. Sorry, but if it’s not to an island owned by a pedophile who gets suicided in prison and whose client list is shrouded in secrecy surpassed only by the Las Vegas mass shooting footage and Obama’s college transcript, I refuse to care. After all, ProPublica doesn’t.

NOBODY BELIEVES THIS: Bower: No One Needs Guns Today Because We Have Police and the National Guard.

ROGER SIMON: Where’s The Manifesto?

My home city of Nashville has been in a virtual non-stop uproar since the tragic murders of six people, three of them 9-year-old children, at The Covenant School on March 27.

This has been ineffably sad for the family and friends of the victims, who are victims themselves, their grief often overwhelmed in a city, indeed a country, now so politicized that our common humanity seems some distant memory from a long ago Jimmy Stewart movie one sees only at Christmas.

Lost too in all this is any sense of what really happened that Monday or why it happened.
Distraction reigns. The last few days have been arguably the mother of all distractions when, as reported here at The Epoch Times and virtually everywhere, riots or protests (depending on how you see them) broke out in front and within the Tennessee State Assembly.

The rioters/protestors were largely high school students, bent on gun control, instigated, at least in part, by three members of the assembly, two of whom have now been expelled for their behavior. . . .

Which brings me to the missing “manifesto.”

In the immediate aftermath of the murders the police informed us the obviously emotionally disturbed shooter was transgendered, something that was ratified by the video of the killings at the Christian school showing the female-by-birth Audrey Hale dressed entirely like a macho terrorist.

Further, they told us she had left behind documents and a manifesto, explaining her actions.

Then, as if by magic, we heard no more of the word transgendered in any of its forms, from the media or anywhere, nor, almost simultaneously, anything of the manifesto, except that it had been handed to the FBI for review.

Regarding the media, it isn’t just CBS, widely known to have decreed the word “transgender” should be omitted in coverage of the crime but almost all of the MSM. NPR, recently labeled “state-affiliated” on Twitter, does not mention the word in its recent update on the crime, nor does it apply a pronoun of any sort—male, female, or “they”—when referring to the shooter. This must be a new form of asexual reporting.

As for the FBI, no word so far on when they will release the manifesto, in original or redacted form.
Sound familiar?

No doubt it does. How long have we been waiting for the FBI to act on the Hunter Biden laptop or even reveal its contents? Do we expect it ever to happen, especially under the current administration?

Obviously not. And amidst the consternation over the expelling of the Tennessee assembly members, to demand transparency or even to mention the manifesto will invoke a response that one is transphobic.

But no one’s transphobic, just interested in the truth, a truth that has become evanescent for a reason.

When they don’t want us to know things, it’s because they’re worried about what we might think, or do, if we knew them.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Hey, Won’t You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody with a Machete Song. “On this week’s Florida Man Friday we have one man’s violent passion for karaoke, the curious case of the slippery burglar, and the worst police impersonator in all of Michigan.”