KEVIN DOWNEY JR: What Kind of People Would Fake a Hate Crime? Leftists! “In reality, hate hoaxes exploded. Leftists couldn’t wait to vilify Trump and his legions. If that means accusing 13-year-old white boys of holding down a black girl and cutting off her dreadlocks, so be it.”
Usually, Leftists love shortages.
I HAVE TROUBLE ENOUGH SLEEPING AS IT IS: 7 Infrastructure Act Provisions Sure to Keep You Up at Night. “Indeed, the misleadingly titled Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is packed with a plethora of partisan surprises — some extreme, and some just plain bizarre. In fairness to the president’s attempt at bipartisanship, however, it must be admitted that there are some provisions in the law that, while not wholly partisan, are certainly wholly wasteful — and utterly stupid.”
WELL, GOOD: Denver City Council Fails to Override Mayor’s Veto of Flavored Tobacco Ban. “The ordinance would have exempted hookah tobacco, premium cigars and pipe tobacco from the ban. But all other flavored tobacco products, whether vape juices or menthol cigarettes, would have gotten the ax.”
COVID IS OVER: The New York Mask Mandate Is a Spectacular Failure.
WOEING: Leaky valve issue forces Boeing to swap out Starliner’s service module. “NASA and Boeing did not hold a media event to announce their findings, and unfortunately some key questions remain. For example, it appears that Boeing has not yet fully identified the root cause of the valve failure, which was believed to be related to high humidity at the Florida launch site, which caused corrosion.”
From the comments: “It makes this all the more frightening that they don’t know what’s causing this… which means they can’t PREVENT it from happening again. ‘Swapping shit out’ isn’t a viable mitigation strategy.”
JEFF DUNETZ: CNN’s Don Lemon Trashes FNC – Ignores CNN’s And His Own Unprofessional Reporting. “If you want to blame someone for inciting violence, let me jog your memory. You said on the air that it’s okay to hurl vile racist slurs against GOP Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).in private. In private? Don, I realize that CNN doesn’t have many viewers, but you said it to those viewers on national T.V. That’s not private. Was it promoting peaceful political expression when you told your audience, ‘we’re going to have to blow up the entire [American] system.’ How about when you accused the right of making Al Sharpton a bogeyman. Sharpton incited two anti-Semitic riots in NYC, Sorry Donny, but Al Sharpton made Al Sharpton a bogeyman. Wasn’t he telling a falsehood and isolating Caucasians and possibly angering them to the point of violence when he said if you grew up in America, it’s more than likely you’re a racist by default.”
THAT ’70S SHOW: Bring On That Double-Digit Inflation! Producer Prices Rise 9.6%.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
THERE’S A LOT TO RANT ABOUT: A Rant on the Biden Economy. “The thing the Biden Administration seems to deeply care about is graft, fraud, social justice, transsexualism, pronouns, and protecting the inroads Critical Race Theory has made into America’s educational system. Victimhood Identity Politics, AKA wokeism, AKA Critical Race Theory, AKA ‘Sex as Social Construct’ are all part and parcel of the ‘Successor Ideology’ that is the new religion of America’s leftwing elites. They regard fighting American parents who oppose CRT as much bigger political priority than opposing Communist China.”
Read the whole thing.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Morning Briefing: Please Democrats, Keep Up Your Lunatic Jan. 6 Obsession. “Nancy Pelosi’s pathetic revenge porn January 6 show trial has been chugging along with its alt-reality addiction to all things Donald Trump. Bless their hearts, they think it’s going well.”
JOANNE JACOBS: The Liar’s Club: Anxious in Ivy.
“Take back your freedom,” Abigail Shrier told Princeton students in a speech. “Reclaim it now.”
Shrier has been vilified for challenging transgender ideology in Irreversible Damage, which sees the surge of teenage girls seeking puberty blockers and “gender confirmation” surgery as a dangerous fad.
Her talk was held off campus at a secret location revealed to guests a few hours before the speech due to “threats and harassment” against Shrier and student groups co-hosting the lecture.
The people getting chased off campus for their opinions aren’t the oppressed.
THEY HAVE NO DECENCY: Christmas Killjoys Target Group Laying Wreaths at Veterans’ Graves.
THAT’S NOT GOOD: Engineers say leaning tower of San Francisco is on the move again.
The building, known for years for a pronounced tilt, moved another quarter inch during the four days it took to install a test piling, NBC Bay Area reported. The tower has settled almost two inches at the northwest corner and tilts just more than two feet at the same edge since work to secure its north and west sides began in May.
The latest data, which tracks settlement, tilting and water pressure levels under the building, shows that it also settled another tenth of an inch during the installation.
Geotechnical engineer Bob Pyke said the movement is small yet significant. “This is a large drop — you can’t see the scale on this plot — but this is a pretty dramatic effect,” he told NBC.
At least this is being taken more seriously than the city’s crime problem.
SAY ANYTHING: Democrats Say the Darnedest Things When It Comes to Crime. “Mayor Kenney, have you met your District Attorney, Larry Krasner?”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Supply Chain is the Perfect Asymmetric Target.
Two factors have brought the otherwise dry subject of supply chain security to the top of the political risk table. One has been the pandemic, in which we have become painfully aware of the fragility of supply chains and the over-dependence of Western countries on external providers, particularly in China. We have also realised how little we actually understand about our supply chains: which companies are in them, who owns them, who controls them and how they can be disrupted.
The other factor has been the SolarWinds attack, almost exactly a year ago. The sophistication of this compromise of the software supply chain, which had probably been active for at least a year before it was discovered, captured headlines around the world. This was partly because SolarWinds Orion was in use by a whole range of government agencies and major companies. More acutely than many other earlier third-party compromises, it illustrated why supply chain companies are such attractive targets: their security is often poor and they represent a softer way into a vast range of customers, including many companies that would in themselves be a hard target. The supply chain is the perfect asymmetric attack.
Read the whole thing.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. In 90% of the Country, No One Gives a Flying Fig About COVID.
THE EMERGING ZEITGEIST IS NOT FRIENDLY TO DEMOCRATS: Let’s Go Brandon stores selling anti-Biden merch take off in New England. “The collection of seven shops, six in Massachusetts and one in Rhode Island, is the brainchild of Keith Lambert, founder of New England for Trump, who said the stores are resonating with customers eager to tout their opposition to President Biden.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: COVID Sense Breaks Out in Colorado, World Fails to End. “The only ones who are still panicked are the ones who want to be, and the politicians who still think they can get the rest of us to conform.”
Plus:
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
ABOUT TIME: Still No Deaths From Omicron, And Americans Are Getting On With Their Lives.
While corporate media outlets panicked and revived permanent pandemic narratives and talk of more lockdowns, a new poll from CBS News and YouGov found that of 1,731 people surveyed, 81 percent said they have not rearranged plans because of the Omicron variant or the hype surrounding it. In fact, a majority said they still plan to keep their normal holiday traditions and routines. Sixty-eight percent still plan to “gather with friends and family,” 64 percent said they will do their Christmas shopping in person, and 52 percent said they will eat in a restaurant.
Only 17 percent of those surveyed said they were “very concerned about Omicron,” while about 42 percent said they were not concerned at all about Omicron despite the initial media and bureaucracy-induced panic about it.
These Americans’ thoughts on Omicron are validated by the data. As it turns out, not one single COVID-19-related death in the U.S. from Dec. 1-8 was found to be caused by the Omicron variant. As of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that of the 43 people infected with the Omicron strain of COVID, most cases manifested only mild symptoms such as “a cough, fatigue, and congestion or a runny nose.”
I wonder how long the 17% — willing victims of a manufactured mass hysteria — will remain wedded to their masks.
Forever?
THEN IT ISN’T A MANDATE: New York Won’t Force Counties to Comply With Mask Mandate. “New York Governor Kathy Hochul undermined her own statewide mask mandate on Monday by revealing that she would not force counties to comply with the mandate.”
Translation: Enough counties wouldn’t comply even if Hochul did try to enforce a mask mandate that it would have been politically embarrassing.
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