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Archive for 2023
February 17, 2023
BOB MCMANUS TO KATHY HOCHUL: An iron fist in a velvet glove, gov? You wish Kathy!
OPEN THREAD: Discuss the events of the day.
UP, UP AND AWAY: Ingenuity helicopter aces 43rd Mars flight, its longest in 10 months. “During its 43 Mars flights to date, Ingenuity has covered a total of 28,968 feet (8,829 m), according to the mission flight log — nearly 5.5 miles (8.9 kilometers). That’s quite impressive for a technology demonstration that was originally supposed to fly just five times on the Red Planet.”
HUGH HEWITT: Anti-Catholic Bigotry at the FBI.
Related: Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.
Yeah, the other Gestapo didn’t much like Catholics either.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Experts on the Future of Planetary Defense 10 Years After the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Impact’s 440 Kiloton Explosion.
COMMIES GONNA COMMIE, AND DANIEL ORTEGA’S A COMMIE: Nicaragua Strips Citizenship From Hundreds Days After Prisoner Release: The country’s increasingly authoritarian government stripped more than 300 people of their citizenship, including political prisoners recently released and sent to the United States.
“For years, President Daniel Ortega has methodically crushed dissent, cracking down violently on protesters, undermining democratic institutions and making sweeping arrests.”
Who does he think he is, Justin Trudeau?
BUT THE CDC WANTS TO MASK TODDLERS ANYWAY: The Strongest Evidence Yet That Covid Masks Are Worthless. The gold standard in medical research, the Cochrane review of clinic trials, finds no evidence that surgical or even N95 masks made any difference in stopping the spread of Covid. Naturally, the CDC’s director vows to ignore the world’s most respected authority on health interventions. The CDC, the only national health agency to recommend masking two-year-olds, peddled junk science throughout the pandemic to justify its cruel policies, so why stop now? When you follow “the science,” who needs real science?
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THEY CHECKED IT OUT, AS BIDEN CHALLENGED: Issue and Insights listened to Biden’s State of the Union (SOTU) and heard this from President Joe Biden: “My administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion — the largest deficit reduction in American history. … Nearly 25 percent of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone — the last one. They’re the facts. Check it out. Check it out.”
Issues & Insights did just as Biden encouraged. Here’s what they concluded:
“Well, we checked it out. And it is perhaps the most flagrant of all Biden’s lies. The evidence shows that Biden is, in fact, the most fiscally reckless president in history … Here’s what the numbers show:
“In January 2021, the CBO projected the federal red ink that year would be $2.3 trillion. The actual deficit was $2.8 trillion. For those math-challenged journalists who keep parroting Biden’s lie about cutting the deficit, that’s an increase of $517 billion.
“He added $320 billion to the deficit in 2022, and will add $447 billion this year, CBO data show. And, if Biden’s policies are left in place through 2031, deficits will be $5.45 trillion higher than they would have been had Trump’s policies remained in effect.”
There is more to know here, but as I&I bottomed-lined it: “No matter what the Gaslighter-in-Chief says, these are the facts, folks.”
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DANGER IS EVERYWHERE: Scalding hot instant noodles pose danger to kids.
IN A NATION BUILT ON LIES, TRUTH IS THE ULTIMATE CRIME: Howie Carr: Guilty! Of telling truth about Hunter and ‘Pop.’
My new favorite judge in Massachusetts is Joseph L. Michaud of the Housing Court.
Until last week, I’d never heard of the guy, but now he’s not only my favorite judge, I think he should get a promotion.
Michaud was just “publicly reprimanded” by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) for the usual litany of things – violating the code of judicial conduct, engaging in conduct unbecoming a judicial officer and bringing the judiciary into disrepute blah-blah-blah.
Let me translate that into what crimes he’s really accused of.
Judge Michaud has been found guilty of being a Republican – no, worse than that, he’s been found guilty of being a fan of Donald J. Trump, which is what they call in law an aggravated offense.
You know who can’t believe how horrible Judge Michaud has been behaving? Judge Shelley Joseph. She let an illegal immigrant career criminal drug dealer out the back door of her courthouse and got a two-year paid vacation and the state paid for her criminal defense.
She’s a Democrat. From Brookline. Was on the Democrat state committee. Do I have to draw you a diagram?
Judge Michaud’s problems all revolve around his “now-deleted Facebook account.” The press release doesn’t go into the gory details, but it does give you a taste of his crimes against humanity beyond supporting a certain Republican candidate for president:
“Posts of news articles, memes and comments denigrating toward or in opposition to the Democratic candidate for President, other elected Democratic leaders, and the Democratic Party’s political positions.”
How dare he!?!?! Criticizing a Democrat? In Massachusetts, that’s not just lese majeste. That’s blasphemy.
The Michaud indictment, such as it is, remains “under seal.” But it wasn’t that well-sealed, if you know what I mean. The decision runs 24 pages, with appendices taking up another 142 pages. Think about that – 166 pages, a two-year investigation, to prove that a guy with a handful of Facebook followers is a… Deplorable.
Hey, he brings diversity to the Massachusetts judiciary.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Florida Woman Gets Free Cookie, Goes on Armed Rampage. “This week we have the heartwarming tale of the man who popped open a beer before his field sobriety test, the manliest dog rescue ever, and how not to react when given a free cookie. Plus, some craziness in Portland that even Florida Man would have trouble believing.”
THAT’LL STOP THE SHOOTING: Keith Olbermann Calls for Civil War as the Only Way to Stop Mass Shootings.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX matches global launch output. “In its quarterly briefing for Q4 2022, Bryce Technology reported that SpaceX lofted 142,300 kg into orbit during the fourth quarter of last year. China’s space program was in second place, with 69,900 kg, followed distantly by NASA, Roscosmos, and Arianespace. SpaceX’s cumulative total, consisting primarily of Starlink satellites, nearly matched the cumulative total of all other space agencies and companies in the world.”
It really is Musk vs. the world.
STOP PUTTING MEN IN WOMEN’S PRISONS: Theodore Dalrymple is the greatest.
BEHIND THE CURTAIN: Reporters caught on hot mic blaming each other for Biden refusing to take questions: ‘Poor way to handle that.’
Frustrated reporters who waited weeks to hear from the president were caught on a hot mic in video posted by The Recount grumbling at each other for scaring the president away by shouting all their questions at once.
“That seemed bad,” one appeared to say, while others talked over each other, another said, “He can’t hear if everyone’s shouting.”
“That does not help our authority to get information out of the president,” a reporter could be heard more clearly saying.
A female journalist said, “He was going to answer questions.”
“That was a really poor way to handle that,” another added.
He isn’t up to the job.
A NOT-SO-SHOCKING FINDING: Mothers with depression take longer to respond to their children, study finds.
COMING SOON TO BERKELEY LAW SCHOOL: From the Brixton Palestine Solidarity Campaign. This is the inevitable next step in the Berkeley Law student groups’ “Zionist” boycott, and it smells a lot like Nazi and Stalinist antisemitic campaigns of old. If they aren’t doing it now, it’s not because they don’t want to.
STARSKY AND HUTCH: You’ll Be Shocked, Shocked to Learn About the Reboot’s Shocking Twist. “Here’s the twist, and I hope you’re sitting because this is the twistiest twist that a network ever twisted up to give a 45-year-old franchise that twisty new show smell.”