SHOCKING: Army Suicides Up Nearly 50% Over Same Time Last Year. “Today’s news is even worse than the headline number would make it appear, since the active duty suicide rate had already hit a new record in 2020.”
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October 13, 2021
AND NOT FOR THE BETTER: Masks Are Changing How Kids Interact.
With all the things to worry about in 2021, it hadn’t occurred to me to fret about the social impact that masks might have on my son; I’d been so relieved that his public elementary school, in San Francisco, would require them. But here we were. Huxley couldn’t tell his new classmates apart; he had trouble hearing them; he wasn’t sure whether they could hear him; and he became especially disoriented around lunchtime, he said, because that was when all the kids took their masks off. Suddenly they looked like entirely new people. Normally he’s pretty good at making friends, but the confusion was giving him anxiety.
“Even for adults, it is difficult to recognize faces in masks,” says Changhong Liu, a psychologist at Bournemouth University, in the U.K., who studies face recognition. People process faces holistically, he told me, taking in all the features in combination—which is impossible when some of those features are obstructed by a mask, or even sunglasses. And until about age 14, children are still developing their facial-recognition skills.
Some psychologists and educators worry that such impairment in facial processing can lead to a spate of challenges with socialization and communication.
If a mask-loving, San Francisco progressive can come around to the dangers of masks, anyone can.
NOBODY TELL JOE: Smoke and Mirrors: Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Doesn’t Actually Exist.
MAYBE THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE SHUTTERED ALL THOSE NUCLEAR PLANTS: Gripped by Energy Crisis, Europe Considers Breaking Climate Promises and Turning to Coal. “Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel and European countries have committed to phasing out its use and closing all coal plants by 2030, according to Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, a climate change nongovernmental organization (NGO).”
CNN REPEATING SOCIALIST TALKING POINTS IS THE ULTIMATE DOG-BITES-MAN STORY: CNN: Get Used to Empty Supermarket Shelves, Comrade. “If you hoped grocery stores this fall and winter would look like they did in the Before Times, with limitless options stretching out before you in the snack, drink, candy and frozen foods aisles, get ready for some disappointing news.”
HMM: Biden’s self-defeating decision on executive privilege may come back to haunt him.
The congressional committees currently investigating the January 6th riot recently requested sensitive information from White House files involving internal communications between Donald Trump and his staff during the period in question. Trump immediately requested the files be shielded, claiming executive privilege. But breaking with previous precedents, Biden denied the request and said that the files will be delivered to the committee. That may seem like a cool, “own the cons” thing to do and a way to stick it to the Bad Orange Man, but as one analysis from the Associated Press reveals, this is a move that could come back to haunt Biden and any future presidents from either party. It’s yet another case of needing to be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
If there are still people in Congress who actually believe that Donald Trump was somehow involved in planning the attack on the Capitol Building, they’re probably in for a great deal of disappointment. But if the courts allow those documents to be revealed, Joe Biden will have set a new precedent that future presidents will be able to draw on. This possibility becomes even more intriguing if Trump decides to run again in 2024 and manages to win a second term.
Joe Biden is the kind of scheming mediocrity who rarely thinks more than one step ahead — if that.
NOTHING’S BETTER THAN MORE: Are More Obamagate Charges Coming?
IT’S AN HONOR JUST TO BE NOMINATED: Revealed: Facebook’s Secret Blacklist of ‘Dangerous Individuals and Organizations.’ “As with other attempts to limit personal freedoms in the name of counterterrorism, Facebook’s DIO policy has become an unaccountable system that disproportionately punishes certain communities, critics say. It is built atop a blacklist of over 4,000 people and groups, including politicians, writers, charities, hospitals, hundreds of music acts, and long-dead historical figures.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Your Quarterly Reminder That Nobody Likes Kamala Harris. “Kamala Harris is so unpopular even with her own party that she had to drop out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race in 2019. Marianne Williamson lasted longer than Harris did, and she spends most of her free time huffing essential oils with her cats.”
REDISTRICTING: John Yarmuth, powerful liberal from Kentucky, announces he’ll retire from Congress at the end of his term. “The seat is safely blue, but if the GOP-controlled Kentucky legislature decides to slice up the area, which includes Louisville, into other districts in redistricting it would become much harder for a Democrat to win a seat in the Bluegrass State. Yarmuth is the 11th House Democrat this cycle to announce plans to leave Congress at the end of their term, compared to nine Republicans. Of those 11 Democrats, four are running for governor or a US Senate seat.”
NEVER LET A (MANUFACTURED) CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Psaki Admits Biden Is Exploiting COVID for ‘Fundamental’ Economic Change.
I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ALL THE SMARTEST PEOPLE THAT THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENS AND THAT GEORGIA’S VOTING INTEGRITY LAW IS RACIST: Two Georgia Elections Employees Fired Over Allegations of Shredding Voting Applications.
October 12, 2021
IF YOU’VE MISSED LAUGHING WOLF’S BLOG…: In The Blink Of An Eye.
One second I was reading one of my regular reads (Instapundit, I think, not real clear at this point) when a bolt of lightning hit somewhere off to my right. The blinding flash and roar were almost simultaneous, and as I lost sight my body clenched up tight. I distinctly remember having a brief Buckley moment, thinking “This is going to hurt” and wondering if when my eyes opened/worked if I would be looking at Heaven, hell, or other. When my eyes could see again and my body unclenched, I was delighted to see I was still on the porch.
What I didn’t realize at the time was that while the main bolt did indeed miss me, a part of it came over to say hello.
Read the whole thing.
IF YOU CAN’T WIN, CHEAT: Terrified Virginia Democrats Seek to Change Election Laws After Voting Has Already Started. “It was all but inevitable that McAuliffe’s allies would attempt to meddle with election laws using public health as a pretext. Sure enough, the Democrat-dominated Fairfax Board of Supervisors has asked Gov. Ralph Northam to waive the witness signature requirement that Virginia law stipulates for all absentee ballots. Board Chairman Jeffrey McKay insists that the waiver is necessary due to the threat of COVID-19, yet cases are declining.”
GOOD FOR THEM: The Amish Refuse Flu Manchu Foolishness. “The Amish did everything the Democratic Media Complex said was anathema and came through just fine, with no notable excess deaths, and got on with living their lives.”
THE GREAT RESIGNATION: Big Trouble Ahead as Record Number of Workers Quit Their Jobs in August.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Orchestrated crisis to bring tens of thousands of people to southern border in coming weeks. “With papers or without papers, we are ready for war.”
MEET YOUR DOMESTIC TERRORIST: Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says.
On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
What people did not know is that weeks prior on May 28, Smith says, a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girls’ bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith’s ninth-grade daughter.
Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith’s attorney Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day at that school.
As a result of the viral video showing his arrest, Smith became the poster child for what the National School Boards Association has since suggested could be a form of “domestic terrorism”: a white blue-collar male who showed up to harangue obscure public servants on his local school board.
Read the whole, shameful thing.
MANDATES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME: Hypocrisy Much? Newsom’s Daughter Isn’t Vaccinated But Your Kids Better Be.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: The Biden-China-Oil Connection. “Instead of moving oil around, the DC-CCP pipeline transports money and influence from East to West.”
Plus:
- First thing we do, let’s fire all the nurses
- Kamala insists: The kids stay in the picture
- When everyone is a domestic terrorist, no one is
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WILLIAM DOYLE: The 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg.
During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters. But this wasn’t traditional political spending. He funded a targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally non-partisan — but demonstrably ideological — non-profit organizations.
Analysis conducted by our team demonstrates this money significantly increased Joe Biden’s vote margin in key swing states. This unprecedented merger of public election offices with private resources and personnel is an acute threat to our republic, and should be the focus of electoral reform efforts moving forward.
The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.
Last week’s Facebook “whistleblower” testimony was an act designed to engineer a Facebook-friendly social media regulatory scheme to lock in Facebook’s dominance.
Zuckerberg bought himself a government and he means to use it.