HE’S TOO SHAMELESS TO FEEL ANY EMBARRASSMENT: Cuomo WON’T Resign, Claims He’s ‘Embarrassed’ by Sexual Harassment Allegations.
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March 3, 2021
UGH: US Life Expectancy In 2020 Saw Biggest Drop Since WWII.
Life expectancy had been steadily decreasing since it reached its record peak of 78.9 in 2014, in large part due to increased drug overdose deaths, unhealthy lifestyles and suicides in the country. The CDC noted a decrease in drug overdose deaths in 2018, contributing to a higher life expectancy. Other factors include a 2.2 percent decrease in cancer deaths, as well as a decrease in unintentional deaths for the year.
Suicide rates are also continuing to rise, with a 1.4 percent increase between 2017 and 2018 in the country. The U.S. has perennially held one of the highest rates of suicide in the world.
But the pandemic added hundreds of thousands of deaths to the total and pandemic-driven restrictions have drastically weighed on future expectations.
The trendline was going the wrong way even before the lockdowns.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Late Night Laughs at Cancel Culture Crushing Dr. Seuss, the Muppets. “Colbert and Meyers can’t see the dangers tied to erasing our cultural institutions.”
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Does Big Tech Censor Conservatives And Not Terrorists?
IT’S GOING TO BE A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS WITH OR WITHOUT THE WUHAN VIRUS: Are Biden’s Border Rhetoric and Policies Creating a COVID Super-Spreader?
Related (From Ed): ICE locks Twitter account that alerted public of illegal immigrants freed by sanctuary cities.
MAYBE THEY OUGHT TO BRIEF HIM ON THE MEANING OF ‘PERVERSE INCENTIVES,’ INSTEAD: Biden to be briefed on need for 20,000 beds to cope with child migrant surge.
JOHN FUND: HR 1 must be stopped. “It is the worst piece of legislation I have even seen in my 40 years reporting from Washington.”
HR 1 would cement all of the worst changes in election law made in blue states in 2020 and nationalize them. Federal control of elections would be the norm. States would be relegated to colonial outposts that carry out Washington DC’s mandates. ‘Democracies die when one party seizes control of the elections process, eliminates the safeguards that have protected the integrity of the ballot, places restrictions on free speech, and seizes the earnings of individual citizens to promote candidates they may abhor,’ says Rep. Tom McClintock, a California Republican. ‘Democracies die by suicide, and we are now face to face with such an instrument.’
Does HR 1 justify such apocalyptic rhetoric? Sadly, yes. Hans von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission, says that while the Constitution does allow Congress to override the power of states to decide ‘the time, manner and place’ of federal elections nothing on the massive scale of HR 1 has ever been attempted.
Read the whole thing.
RELATED, FROM MIKE PENCE: Election Integrity Is a National Imperative.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Begun, ‘The Grand Re-Opening’ Has.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: If today is really March 352nd, 2020 in the Time of Our Lockdown, then could tomorrow really be March 4th, 2021 AD?
Answer: Not tomorrow, but maybe soon.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Colorado Governor who gets seconds on dessert still waging war on restaurants
- Experts who get it wrong all the time aren’t actually expert at much of anything except for getting publicity and public money
- Therefore, FBI Director Chris Wray is a very modern expert at law enforcement
Bonus Sanity: Today, for the first time ever, the sanity is right there in the headline.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
DEADLY CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Cuomo’s Fatal Nursing Home Order May Be Payback For Major Campaign Donations. “Campaign donations of over a million dollars from a hospital trade association may have been behind NY Gov. Cuomo’s infamous nursing home order, resulting in thousands of Nursing Home deaths.”
IT’S WHAT RATS DO WHEN THE SHIP STARTS SINKING: There’s Only One Reason Democrats Are Turning On Cuomo, And It Isn’t A Noble One.
SERGEANT SCHULTZ WITH DECLINING FACULTIES: Biden team in full denial mode about border crisis.
In the meantime, Mayorkas, like Psaki before him, asked people currently in Mexico to wait for a while before crossing illegally into the United States. “We are not saying, ‘Don’t come,'” Mayorkas said. “We are saying, ‘Don’t come now,’ because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible.”
That statement essentially served as the Biden administration’s official welcome announcement to those seeking to enter the United States illegally. Don’t do it just now, the administration said, because we’re still getting everything ready to receive you into this country.
But they’re not waiting. Why should they?
Indeed.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY RETIRED: Advocacy Groups for ‘Believe All Women’ Fall Silent on Cuomo Accusers.
ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE DIFFERENT CULTURAL NORMS: China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space. “According to Peterson, the Sharp Eyes project is implemented differently depending on each city or town’s needs, but the general premise is the same: The city or town is divided into a grid, and each square of the grid acts as its own administrative unit. Citizens watch security footage from within their grid, giving a sense of ownership over their immediate surroundings. Municipal data can then be aggregated based on reports from each square on the grid.”
Ownership? All they “own” is the privilege of being surveilled right back by their neighbors.
FASTER? PLEASE! Mysterious New Warp Drive Patent Surfaces Online. “The patent by Suchard and Gallanis is still awaiting approval, and it is an approval Suchard is not expecting any time soon. Still, he says, the theory is sound, and if he were able to put together the team of experts he envisions, he thinks building a warp drive may be possible. Like most potential breakthrough propulsion theories, Suchard’s take on energy and gravity is unique. Still, unlike Alcubierre and White, he has taken that theory to the next step with an actual patent application.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Who Had ‘Dr. Seuss Is Racist’ On Their Cancel Bingo Cards? “Most forms of entertainment are reflective of the time they were created and there’s a lot of older stuff out there that the woke scolds find problematic because none of them understand context. Disney Plus has been putting warnings on classic movies and cartoons like Dumbo because somebody might have a feeling hurt while watching it. Heck, pretty much everything that was written or filmed before 1965 is probably suspect now. I’m reading a classic sci-fi anthology that’s mostly stuff from first half of the 20th century and it’s a minefield of words that would be deemed culturally inappropriate now. Does that mean these old stories by luminaries in the genre have no value anymore?”
YES: School parents are mad as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore. “Until now, that cry has been mostly silent, but it is growing more vocal and more urgent. Returning kids to school and returning parents to work are America’s two most important dinner-table issues. The issues are closely linked, of course, because many parents can’t leave home for their jobs if the kids can’t leave home for their schools.”
UNBELIEVABLY SAD: Destroying a Generation: The 3 Million Missing Children of the Pandemic.
GOODER AND HARDER, COLORADO EDITION: Englewood city councilmember says communist views should be no surprise.
In an interview with the Colorado Community Media, Stone — who won an at-large seat on the city’s seven-member council in 2019 — said he uses “communist” to describe his views.
“I am a communist. I’m open about it,” Stone wrote on Facebook. “I was open about it when I was campaigning.”
The printouts of Stone’s tweets included numerous posts from some of Stone’s Twitter accounts that have been deactivated. They include tags such as “#ArmedLeftist” and “#F—Capitalism.”
In response to a tweet by Carol Roth — a national media personality with a background in investment banking who posted a tweet with which Stone disagreed — the councilmember posted: “Light the BBQ, comrades. It’s time for some capitalist pork ribs.”
Charming.