HMM: The Capitol Police Issue Suspicious Statement Over Spying Scandal. “If U.S. Capitol Police were merely securing the room after finding the door open, why take photographs of constitutionally protected information?”
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February 11, 2022
February 10, 2022
LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.
DENVER: Utility bills from Xcel are 37% higher this winter. “Nationally, most customers are dealing with the same bump in household utility prices. Colorado utility providers Black Hills Energy and Atmos Energy have both acknowledged similar price increases. All hold responsible a spike in natural gas prices.”
We’ve had a remarkably mild fall and winter on the Front Range, too.
COMPLY, THEY EXPLAINED: How Vaccine Discrimination Caused Dangerous Hospital Care Shortages In Wisconsin. “Babinski isn’t an anomaly. She’s one of an untold number of health-care workers and other hospital staff across the country who have been denied basic informed consent where it should be valued most, and have thus either resigned or been fired for their private medical decisions.”
KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF: Al Franken Says It Would Be ‘Tempting’ to Run for Office Again.
PIVOT! Midterm Variant Wrecking Flu Manchu Mandates.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Gotta love this line: “Not since the collapse of the Hindenburg Line in 1918 have such bitterly held positions been abandoned so quickly.”
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How do you attach a 45-foot rocket to an F-15?
Also: Why.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Jonah Goldberg Cruises Off to CNN. “I believe this is known as ‘shaking hands with Jeffrey Toobin.'”
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Number of Colorado restaurants that expect to close has doubled. “Some of the main reasons for the trepidation among restaurant owners are increasing operating costs from labor and supplies. Almost every survey respondent said their labor costs have risen since January 2021, with another 90% saying they raised their menu prices in response.”
At my favorite sports bar for lunch last week, I noticed all the prices on the menu had been Sharpie’d out. I also heard a random guy at the bar shout, “Let’s go Brandon!”
Coincidence?
I LOVE WOMEN WHO LOVE BEING WOMEN, TOO: Adele Enrages Leftists By Saying ‘I Love Being a Woman.’
PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.
Matt Margolis: Democrats Now Trust the Politics, Not ‘The Science’ of COVID. “Between pandemic fatigue and the repeated hypocrisy of Democrats imposing COVID restrictions that they won’t follow themselves, we’re finally starting to see states you wouldn’t expect lifting mask mandates.”
STEPHEN KRUISER: Republican Fundraising Pitches Need to Move Into the 21st Century. “I’m not even a young man and they’re going after people who make me look as if I am about to pledge a fraternity.”
Yours Truly: Kill Switches, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Liberty. “I’m not usually the paranoid type, but as I mentioned recently in another column, these days ‘paranoid’ just means ‘three weeks ahead of the news cycle.'”
KATIE PAVLICH: Americans Are Noticing Something Odd About the Wuhan Coronavirus Tests Biden Sent Out.
Last week White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended the administration’s curation of tests from China, the very country responsible for the pandemic.
“I would say our objective continues to be to increase U.S. manufacturing capacity of tests. We also needed to meet a need that we had in this country for more tests and a shortage of tests and the understandable demand from people across this country to get tests and make them free and accessible, which required us purchasing some of those tests from China in order to meet that demand,” Psaki said.
Further cold winter weather, which the administration didn’t factor in when sending tests through the Postal Service, has invalidated a countless number of tests.
I threw out my “free” tests after pulling them out of the mailbox in 20° weather.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems’ Disturbing Soviet 2.0 Dream for America Is Coming True. “Back in the Cold War days, American Democrats had a thinly veiled admiration for all things Soviet Union. In fact, the Democrats never thought ill of the Russians at all until the 2016 presidential election, when they needed someone to blame for the fact that their precious Granny Maojackets lost to Donald Trump.”
MEMORY-HOLED: A report detailed the tech gap between China and the U.S. Then it disappeared.
China and the United States are in a race to develop the newest, hottest technologies of the 21st century as a technological decoupling looms. But the effects won’t be felt equally — according to a new report from one of China’s most prestigious think tanks, a full-blown tech decoupling will be even worse for China in the end.
The Peking University Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) published its findings just days before the new year — China’s biggest holiday — and the beginning of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The introspective report clashed with the festive vibes spreading across the country, as it concluded China will come out worse than the U.S. as tech competitions continue to escalate between the two nations.
“Both the U.S. and China will lose from ‘decoupling,’” the researchers wrote. “And at this point, it looks like China’s loss may be greater.”
The report was pulled from the internet within a few days of its publication, but by then, the text of the piece, titled, “U.S.-China Strategic Competition in Technology,” had already circulated widely on the Chinese internet.
Well, somebody important in China thinks there’s something to this.
February 9, 2022
TO BE FAIR, HE WAS THE LEAST INSANE DEMOCRAT IN A CROWDED FIELD OF KOOKS: Remember When Eric Adams Was The Sane One?
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘Tinder Swindler’ Simon Leviev Conned Women Out of Millions in the Craziest Way You’ve Ever Heard.
COLORADO: A Black separatist group’s utopian dream for land near Telluride withered after an armed standoff.
They were about two dozen leftist revolutionaries, almost all people of color. In Denver and other U.S. cities, the group’s chapters had spent the pandemic handing out food and personal protective equipment while planning their signature project: Hammer City, a utopian settlement high in the Rocky Mountains free of coronavirus, cops, money and white people. Together they would renounce private property, work the land and build power.
Commenters on Facebook and Twitter widely ridiculed the concept as a “cult” doomed for failure. But the activists raised more than $60,000. On May 3, 2021, Augustus Romain Jr., the group’s commander-in-chief, posted a photo of 10 people standing among sagebrush with raised fists and a declaration on Facebook: Black Hammer had “liberated” 200 acres of land somewhere in Colorado. The soil, they wrote, was rich.
Black Hammer never said where their new community was. Within weeks, the group suddenly stopped its dispatches from the desert.
But donations continued pouring in, eventually cresting the $100,000 mark, according to the organization’s fundraising webpage. Critics online wondered where the money went when the Hammers left Colorado.
Read the whole thing.
RACE CARD: DECLINED. After Playing Race Card, Stacey Abrams Apologizes for Maskless Photo.
COLLAPSE: He’s Fallen and He Can’t Get Up: Joe Biden Poll Average Slumps to Under 40 for the First Time. “Just when Biden needs support on Capitol Hill to turn things around, do you know what he did?”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Convoy!
Who would have though C.W. McCall would have written the anthem for freedom.https://t.co/8DyC885Uea https://t.co/oslC4q8Ms3
— Magills (@magills_) February 9, 2022
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— Magills (@magills_) February 9, 2022