Author Archive: Stephen Green
February 22, 2021
JOANNE JACOBS: Men without work. “Just before the pandemic hit, almost 7 million civilian, non-institutionalized men between the ages of 25 and 54 were out of the workforce altogether.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Climate Czar John Kerry Proves We’re All Insane.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: If John Kerry says we’re all doomed without John Kerry, does that mean we can all sit back and relax without John Kerry?
Answer: Sit back with a nice drink and find out.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- The Left finds, ignores, the real insurrection
- Will Chamberlain debunks systemic racism in one easy tweet
- Ryan Long’s progressive superhero team
Bonus Sanity: Turns out it is possible to go too far left for Mitt Romney.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Cheap Prepper’s Guide for Cold Weather And Other Disasters.
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook blocking my article brought home the urgent need for tech giants to be held accountable.
Earlier this month I wrote an article for UnHerd in response to the World Health Organisation trip to Wuhan in search of the pandemic origins.
My piece was scathing about the belated exercise, arguing that a crucial inquiry for global safety was compromised by shameful appeasement of a dictatorship. It criticised how the team – vetted by Beijing and including one scientist with a clear conflict of interest – disregarded evidence to push China’s narrative that a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely” and not worthy of further investigation, while claiming the virus might have been imported to the country on frozen food.
Facebook posted a sign warning of false information and alleging “this post repeats information about Covid-19 that independent fact-checkers say is false”. My editors were furious since this impeded sharing of a time-sensitive article, while I was dismayed by a serious allegation that could damage my reputation.
Luckily, I was able to track down a senior executive for the company, who after rapid investigation apologised for their mistake and discarded the sanction. “A fact-checking label was wrongly applied to this post yesterday and it was removed,” he said in an email. “We’re very sorry for any inconvenience or confusion caused.”
Facebook is even clumsier than they are arrogant.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Trump Organization says it is closing Central Park ice rinks after city severs contract.
Two ice skating rinks operated by the Trump Organization are set to close in Central Park at 4 p.m. on Sunday as the city severs its contract with the company. The decision to cut ties by the de Blasio administration came after the Capitol riot, CBS New York reports.
The leases to the Wollman Rink and the Lasker Rink will be terminated on February 26. The rinks are set to close Sunday to allow time for the Trump Organization to move out.
Families decried the move, with one skater pleading for more time. “So much has been taken away from us this year, and this was one thing that was kind of holding us all together,” Mya Henning told CBS New York. “It’s only, like, six weeks more that we’re asking for.”
More: “The Wollman Rink was the one that then-New York Mayor Ed Koch tried and failed to renovate for years at great public expense. Trump took over the project and at his own expense got the rink operating for the public in just six months. The Trump Organization has operated it since, returning most of the profits to public works.
But Orange Man Bad.
WOEING: Flight test for troubled Starliner capsule pushed back to April. “NASA and Boeing now are targeting no earlier than Friday, April 2, for launch of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station.”
PRIORITIES: Biden Under Pressure From 18 State AGs to Reinstate ICE’s Operation Talon Targeting Sex Offenders. “Operation Talon is a nationwide ICE operation that arrests and removes convicted sex offenders illegally in the United States. The effects of this order have been immediate, with the cancelation of a joint operation to arrest at-large sex offenders.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: ‘Cancel Trump’ Culture Is Toxic, Juvenile, and Dangerous. “The Democrats are in control of the federal government right now and they have no clear vision for the United States of America other than hating Donald Trump. That would be myopic and stupid in the best of times. With the pandemic still upon us and the economy in dire need of a comeback, it’s a recipe for long term disaster.”
THOSE LEAST LIKELY TO BE HARMED BY IT ARE THOSE MOST HARMED BY OUR RESPONSE TO IT: Pandemic’s mental health burden heaviest among young adults.
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WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Bringing a Whole New Meaning to Death Metal.
PORTABLE, RELIABLE, POWERFUL: FEMA Sends Wind and Solar — No, Wait, It’s Sending Diesel Generators — to the Texas Winter Storm Zone.
TOM KNIGHTON: The Navy’s Greatest Failure Since Pearl Harbor.
I’m damn proud to have been a part of the Navy. As a former Navy Corpsman, I’m exceptionally proud to part of that group. Read the Wikipedia entry on the Hospital Corps sometime to get an idea why.
Despite that, though, I now weep for the Navy. Why? Well, it seems they’re more interested in “anti-racism” than anything else.
See, the problem here isn’t that it’s asking sailors to not be racists or to stand for their fellow sailors in the face of racism. That’s actually reasonable, in my opinion.
No, the problem here is that it’s turning activism into an order, requiring members of the armed services to step up and act like Critical Race Theory pushers. Failing to do so would likely land a sailor in hot water.
I’m old enough to remember when the Navy was mostly interested in sinking the bad guys’ ships.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: We’ll Achieve Herd Immunity By April, Report Claims.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What if the pandemic was nearly over and everybody pretended not to notice?
Answer: That’s less of a “What if?” and more of an “Exactly what’s going on.”
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Star Trek star learns not to mess with Texas
- Yet another example of the new anti-racism looking an awful lot like the old racism
- The Junior Anti-Sex League is real and Orwell is not happy about it
Bonus Sanity: Red State, Blue State, Good State, Bad State.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
MORE OF WHAT JOE BIDEN DISMISSED AS ‘DIFFERENT NORMS’: Guards Gang Rape Religious Minorities In China’s Concentration Camps, Former Detainees Allege.
The silence from leftwing feminists is beyond deafening.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
NEVER DOUBLE DOWN ON STUPID: No, AOC, the Green New Deal Is NOT the Solution to Texas Blackouts.
REFILL THE SWAMP: Biden Muscles Out Chicago Prosecutor Hot on the Heels of Powerful Dems.
President Joe Biden is forcing Chicago’s top federal prosecutor to resign amid ongoing criminal probes of powerful Illinois Democrats and their associates.
U.S. attorney John Lausch is prosecuting close confidants of Democrat boss Mike Madigan, an ally of former president Barack Obama who resigned from the state legislature Thursday after a decades-long reign in Springfield. Lausch’s office will also prosecute Chicago alderman Edward Burke (D.), an influential figure accused of strong-arming businesses into retaining his law firm.
Lausch’s abrupt removal has drawn bipartisan criticism from Illinois lawmakers who say he should be allowed to finish his work or depart on a longer timeline to ensure an orderly transition.
When the corruption is so bad that even Illinois Democrats want the investigation to continue…