[AOL] Just four years after going public with a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson calls the recent firing of Ed Henry a "victory" for women.
"Four years ago, nobody would have been paying attention to it," Carlson tells Yahoo Entertainment about the news that broke on July 1 that Henry, co-anchor of America’s Newsroom, was fired as a result of a complaint made the week before about "willful sexual misconduct in the workplace years ago," according to an internal memo from the network.
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What does willfull sexual misconduct mean? No criminal charges appear to have been charged so was it verbal? If so, how long ago and in what setting? The mans entire career and livelihood appears to have been destroyed by the manner of his abrupt and public firing. What behavior in the world of woke bullshit warranted such destruction?
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Note for the record, Benedict Arnold was a patriot as well, well up to that unfortunate moment he decided his ego was more important than the nation.
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Tammy Quackworth was seriously wounded as a right-seater in a Pentagon version of Affirmative Action. It gives her nothing in terms of gravitas, but seems to allow her a pass on whatever pukes from her maw.
Her recent position statement regarding the removal of George Washington statues speaks loudly. And now it appears she, owing to a trifecta of boxes checked, may be in contention as Joe Biden's anti-Kryptonite.
Imo, the only heroes in her universe were those who, to the ultimate detriment of our country, put her back together.
The Week via Hot Air
I wouldn't call it a breaking point, necessarily, but it feels like we've reached a moment in the pandemic when things are starting to change. There's been a shift, a dawning that normal isn't just going to come back. That things will not simply get better anytime soon.
While rationally it's been clear for quite some time that life won't fully resume until we have a vaccine, there'd still been some wiggle room to play games with yourself: by Memorial Day, by the Fourth, by September, by Election Day it might be different. Confronted now as we are, though, with the onset of the second half of the year, and no significant progress having been made toward mitigating the threat of the virus, many of us are having to come to terms, for the first time, with the looming pandemic long-haul.
In the early days of the outbreak, due to the sheer uncertainty of what was coming, it was easy to feel somewhat optimistic. Major League Baseball initially postponed Opening Day by only two weeks; Disney's live-action Mulan was delayed from a late March premiere to what at the time seemed to be an overly-cautious date of July 24, 2020. After what felt like the worst of the pandemic, in April and May, you could convince yourself the spread was starting to get under control; cases were going down, anyway, and lockdowns were being lifted. States moved ahead with reopenings, only for the disease to flare back up again, as experts had warned it would all along. Now, as the government ghoulishly prioritizes the economy over American lives, our grasps at versions of "normalcy" (you can get a haircut!) are desperate at best. It isn't that optimism is being replaced by pessimism so much as it is that ignorance is being replaced by a new informedness.
Still, it's one thing to understand that normal life isn't going to be back by, say, September, and another thing to actually come to terms with that fact. For many, the past few weeks have involved grappling with such a shift not so much logically as emotionally. Personally, it's been fall event cancelations that have really hammered this home; while I knew there couldn't safely be a New York City Marathon this November, for example, it's still a blow to actually hear that the city is now in the phase of preparing for what will by then be month nine of the pandemic. Additionally, it's rattling to have nothing to look forward to in the near-future, to know indoor concerts won't soon resume safely, much less if it is realistic to plan an international trip anytime in the next 18 months.
Discussions in the news this week about how to handle the fall school semester have also reinforced the realization that we are still very much in the thick of the pandemic. A number of major universities have said they will not be back on campus by September, something that would have been unthinkable back in early March. Likewise, New York City — the largest school district in the U.S. — has confirmed that students will not be returning to in-person class five days a week in the fall. That life will remain suspended for thousands, if not eventually millions, of students, seems the biggest indicator so far of our indefinite limbo.
What is certain, though, is we're not talking about only six more weeks or even six more months. For many, July has been when that realization has emotionally sunk in; that it's useless to project ahead in the short term, and less maddening to accept that life is going to be different for a while yet. Ultimately, though, this shouldn't mean our resignation. If anything, it should stoke our determination — that we have far to go, but we approach it as a collective. That we're buckling up for the long-haul, yes, but even the lengthiest journeys eventually have an end. Of course me, I'm worried about what else Xi's bio-wizards have in their labs.
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Im curious what the need is for a vaccine for a virus with a death rate of 0.2%. I seems to my unedgumacated mind that a peeps immune system is adequate for this. For those at risk it might be a proper choice.
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"Now, as the government ghoulishly prioritizes the economy over American lives..."
I'd like someone to explain to me why this version of the flu virus (and few or none of its predecessors) requires killing large swaths of the world's economies.
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Some have argued climate change agenda was flailing, and this plandemic gave it a boost. Listen to the nonsense coming out of AOC's & Pelosi's mouths and also Europe. Also a "sudden" push to digitize currencies (Europe & Pelosi again). Other items as well. Something is horribly rotten in the state of Denmark.
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The long pandemic, indeed. Per the 'historians' at the CDC The 1968 pandemic was caused by an influenza A (H3N2) virus ... The H3N2 virus continues to circulate worldwide as a seasonal influenza A virus.
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Ref #6: A porch squirrel told me just yesterday that "the globalist agenda is all that will save us." Some people don't hold much stock in porch squirrels, but this one is seldom wrong about anything.
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g(r)on, I was wondering the same about Lex the other day. Hope he didn't get frustrated. One poster thinks Lex and I are the same. LOL, ridiculous.
Lex got tired of refighting the same battles about the coronavirus, and took a vacation before he said something we’d all regret — on the opposite side of the argument as you, g(r)omgoru.
My personal position is that both sides are right, and it would be very helpful if all involved could apply their serious intelligence and deep knowledge to work on ways to accommodate both sets of very real needs instead of staking out maximalist positions and refusing to budge.
If the solution should happen to involve isolating all Black Bloc activists on Alcatraz for the duration, regardless the banner they happen to be doing the usual under, I am open to throwing a dinner party as a reward. Y’all have been upsetting me.
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Sad to hear you were being worn down, TW. Lex stepping back will be good for Lex.
Question to all: I read the other day (and failed to bookmark it) that the Chinese virus is no longer a 'pandemic', and is falling to marginal epidemic status. Does anyone else recall this news item? It was in a CDC statement, iirc.
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Yes, I read that as well.
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Pretty sure the DNC and G(r)om issued a joint statement denying that :-)
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A PJ Media piece. I posted it on the 8th. There is a search thingy on each page in the right margin above the list of most recent commenters. Enter your desired key words, and you’ll get clickable articles back in 100 piece lots. I use it so often I have the search page saved in my favourites. Nota bene: it only searches the text within articles, not comments.
Marginal Revolution via Instapundit
One of the most confounding aspects of the pandemic has been Congress’s unwillingness or inability to spend to fight the virus. As I said in the LA Times:
If an invader rained missiles down on cities across the United States killing thousands of people, we would fight back. Yet despite spending trillions on unemployment insurance and relief to deal with the economic consequences of COVID-19, we have spent comparatively little fighting the virus directly.
Economists Steven Berry and Zack Cooper have run the numbers:
By our calculations, less than 8 percent of the trillions in funding that Congress has allocated so far in response to the virus has been for solutions that would shorten or mitigate the virus itself: measures like increasing the supply of PPE, expanding testing, developing treatments, standing up contact tracing, or developing a vaccine. A case in point is the most recent House Covid-19 package. It calls for $3 trillion in spending; less than 3 percent of that total is allocated toward Covid testing. As Congress considers next steps, it’s imperative to shift priorities and direct more funding and effort toward actually ending the pandemic.
Berry and Copper point to the vaccine plan that I am working on as an example of smart spending: "Give me money"
...a group of prominent economists, including Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer, has proposed spending a $70 billion dollar vaccine effort. The proposed expenditure is both much larger than anything proposed by the White House or Congress and also quite cheap compared to the potential benefits.
...[Similarly] Nobel Laureate Paul Romer and the Rockefeller Foundation have each sketched out $100 billion plans to increase testing. We say: Let’s fund both, allocating half the funds directly to states, who can spend to activate the vast capacity of university labs, and also fund Romer’s plan to scale up $10 instant tests for true mass testing. We could create a $50 billion dollar challenge prize that rewards the first 10 firms that develop effective treatments for Covid-19 — $5 billion each. We could fund Scott Gottlieb and Andy Slavitt’s bipartisan $50 billion contact tracing proposal. We could allocate $100 billion to fund the libertarian leaning Mercatus Center’s proposal for advanced purchase contracts to procure massive quantities of PPE.
What makes this all the more confounding is that spending to defeat the virus will more than pay for itself! As I said in my piece in the Washington Post (with Puja Ahluwalia Ohlhaver):
Economists talk about "multipliers" — an injection of spending that causes even larger increases in gross domestic product. Spending on testing, tracing and paid isolation would produce an indisputable and massive multiplier effect.
Who gains by killing the economy and letting people die? Yes, it’s possible to spin some elaborate conspiracy about someone, somewhere benefiting. But in talking with people in Congress the message I hear is not that there’s a secret cabal with a special interest in economic collapse and dying constituents. In a way, the message is worse. Multiple people have told me that things move slowly, no one is stepping up to the plate, leadership is absent. "Who is John Galt?," they sigh. Ok, they don’t literally say that, but that sigh of resignation is what it feels like in the United States today at the highest levels of government. A libertarian instead of faux-libertarian viewpoint?
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I'm having some trouble finding the death toll for the 1968 Hong Kong flu, which is still circulating.
Estimated deaths from the pandemic are easy to find; total, including fifty-two years of still-not-defeated virus would be anybody's guess. So I'll guess.
100k for the first outbreak, and an average of 10k per year for 50 years ... (carry the one)
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[oops] 600,000 would be a pretty conservative number. That's a USA estimate.
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Utter nonsense of the anti-Trump, only-government-spending-counts type. Who needs additional Congressional spending when President Trump had already stood up public-private partnerships to get so much of that done? Ventilators, PPEs, hand sanitizer, face masks of all sorts — all already handled. I seem to recall that in the U.S. alone over 40 million lab tests have been done, never mind the rest of the world, where even the Palestinians and refugees in al Nusra-controlled Idlib have test kits and labs, though the accuracy of those tests varies. A variety of treatments short of ventilation, alone and in combination, are showing positive results — the results being shared among patient-facing medical staff despite caviling by scientific officialdom, news media, and politicians. Research is going ahead at breakneck speed on improved tests, treatments, and vaccines around the world, all without massive, targetted spending packages from America’s national legislature.
The entire world has stepped forward to demonstrate that in a real emergency, those on the ground dealing with it can invent makeshifts to answer pretty much all the needs of the moment using whatever is at hand, including bedsheets, scuba masks, and the leftovers from the nearby whiskey distillery.
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Well, government is often part of the problem, if not THE problem. Although recognized by President Trump, the approval process for drugs/vaccines is dismal. The cozy relationship between the FDA and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex doesn't help at all. I believe the rabid opposition (you, too, Fauci) to HCQ is evidence of that as it is not a money-maker. And the Dem response to it speaks volumes.
And then there's falsifying death certificates for the all-mighty dollar. Sigh....
[Babylon Bee] EASTERN OKLAHOMA—The Supreme Court decided this week that half of Oklahoma is Native American land. Failed presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren was seen soon after in the newly formed Eastern Oklahoma Autonomous Zone with an authentic tomahawk and bow purchased in a gift shop, declaring herself to be the warlord of the area.
"We must overthrow the palefaces," she said in an address to her people, who looked both confused and annoyed. "This is no longer part of the colonizers' United States of America -- we are an autonomous collective." The U.S. senator then instructed the Native Americans to build "wigwams" along the borders of their newly formed territory to keep out the "white man with his fire sticks."
"Wigwams aren't even -- you know what, never mind," said one chieftain. "Knock yourself out, lady."
Warren began planting a garden with signs that read "Indigenous Peoples and Her Plant Allies Only," but was not able to grow anything and so was forced to order Domino's Pizza to be delivered to the new autonomous zone. She was last seen emaciated and starving dragging herself into a casino buffet for sustenance.
[Washington Examiner] First comes the statement. On Thursday, it was the case for reopening schools, setting out the dangers for students who fall behind in class work, and all delivered straight to the camera.
Then comes the invitation to reporters: "And with that, I'll take questions."
And finally the clash, as President Trump’s press secretary tells a roomful of reporters they have been asking the wrong questions. "I was asked probably 12 questions about the Confederate flag. This president is focused on action, and I’m a little dismayed that I didn’t receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend," said Kayleigh McEnany this week.
Her combative style has frustrated journalists, but insiders say that she has added a new weapon to Trump’s arsenal as he fashions a communications team built in his own image for the bruising election campaign. "Journalists". Nope - paid propaganda agitators
Multiple former and current members of staff, who asked not to be named in order to speak freely about working relationships, said she was doing exactly what the president wanted at the podium: speaking not just for Trump but for the base and the American people.
"She does that well because so many Americans are frustrated when they hear the questions and behavior of the press corps in that briefing room when they are asking absurd questions about how the president feels about the South losing the Civil War," said a senior administration official.
"When you are getting clown show questions, to have someone up there who not only channels the president very well but channels how most Americans feel about that kind of journalism, she really is a breath of fresh air."
But that is not her job, said Brian Karem, White House correspondent for Playboy.
"She represents the government; we represent the people asking questions of the government," he said. "If we want to be critiqued, we’ll be critiqued by the audience. People will read us, or they won’t read us."
Either way, she has brought the briefing room back to the center of the White House communications strategy since joining from the Trump reelection campaign in April. She appears two or three times per week for quick-fire sessions that sometimes last barely 15 minutes and, though rarely, as long as 30.
Briefings ended altogether last year during Sarah Sanders’s tenure in the job, replaced by occasional informal question-and-answer sessions as relations between officials and journalists frequently turned hostile. The room remained completely unused for the year when Stephanie Grisham held the role.
The difference is clear, according to a former White House official, who said each of Trump’s previous press secretaries had struggled with such a demanding role.
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But that is not her job, said Brian Karem, White House correspondent for Playboy."She represents the government; we represent the people asking questions of the government," he said.
An example of Press Arrogance. They do not represent the people. And definately haven't for a long, long, time. their job is to convey information from the government to the people in an unbiased way.
If anyone 'represents the people' it is the duely elected President of the United States. Not some two-bit self-appointed reporter.
The ever estimable "Jack Dunphy"
[City Journal] As cops become objects of derision and scorn, violent crime soars in American cities.
The police officer occupies a distinctive position in American life. Dressed in his uniform and driving his distinctively marked cruiser, he is the most visible symbol of civil government and serves as a reminder that society is governed by rules that citizens are expected to follow. A compact exists between the officer and the government that he serves. The officer does his job in the knowledge that it comes with significant risk to his personal safety; he accepts this risk with the understanding that the government affords him certain protections, especially in cases where he may have to use reasonable or justifiable force.
[THEFEDERALIST] While monuments and building names said to be stained by racism are being erased across the country, one former Ku Klux Klan organizer remains virtually untouchable.The late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat and Senate majority leader who organized a Klan chapter in 1941 and filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is celebrated in the state, his name gracing over three dozen public works projects, including two federal courthouses, a dam on the Ohio border, libraries, community centers, roads, bridges, schools, and several university buildings throughout the state.
Byrd’s still-hallowed legacy came into question this month when tiny Bethany College, in the state’s narrow Northern Panhandle between Ohio and Pennsylvania, removed Byrd’s name from its health center. In a statement, school President Tamara Rodenberg said, "The last few weeks, and well before the conversations and calls for change took hold, we recognized as a campus that the name of our Robert C. Byrd Health Center created divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... ness and pain for members of Bethany community, both past and present."
Twenty-nine of the college’s 35 board officers are from outside West Virginia. The move came even though a petition effort on Change.org failed to achieve its goal of 1,000 signatures.
The state’s politicians have not expressed similar concern, and Byrd’s tarnished past has failed to gain any traction as a 2020 election issue in West Virginia. Nothing has been proposed in the Republican-controlled legislature to rescind Byrd commemorations, and the 14 sitting Democratic state senators, all white, have been silent.
None of the latter responded to emails or calls from RealClearInvestigations about what should happen, if anything, to Byrd’s many tributes, notably a larger-than-life bronze statue in the state capitol whose design was backed, when he was a state senator, by West Virginia’s most prominent politician, Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin.
Also declining to comment was State Democratic Party chair Belinda Biafore, who in 2017 commemorated what would have been Byrd’s 100th birthday with a tribute on the party’s website, saying that "he represented fairness, strength and integrity."
"Silence is a sign that there is some other force operating," said Wilfred McClay, a historian and a professor at the University of Oklahoma. That’s explained in part by Byrd’s role as a master of pork during his record-setting Senate tenure (from 1959 until his death in 2010), bringing an estimated $1 billion to his home state, and state politicians’ gratitude expressed by placing his name on projects delivered.
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[Jpost] Shurat HaDin’s practical interest in the annexation of Judea and Samaria stems from its work in representing Israeli interests in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Last week, thousands of visitors to Shurat Hadin’s Facebook page were treated to a spirited discussion between leading international diplomats on the virtues and vices of US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... ’s Middle East peace plan, and the implications of Israeli illusory sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
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[FOX] Sports leagues and players have turned racial justice issues into a "circus" by focusing more on who’s kneeling or what message is written on players’ jerseys rather than real change, basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said Friday.
"I think we’re missing the point," the former 76ers, Suns and Rockets star told CNBC. "We need police reform, we need prison reform. ... My concern is turning this into a circus instead of trying to do some good stuff."
Meanwhile, the Bournemouth-Leicester City match just started, and right at kick-off, everybody on the pitch takes a knee for a few seconds (some with fists raised), to include the referee. I think I'm gonna turn the game off. This is pathetic.
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The mainstream media companies are pushing politics into non-political broadcasting because the only audiences watching their news programs are already on board politically. sports gives a captive cross section of American society to listen to their biased political malarkey. Charles is right that the right leaning audience will stop watching.
[Corey's Digs] I have to admit that my skin color has been a problem for me throughout my life: it’s pale, prone to blushing and gets incinerated by the sun in the blink of an eye. I envy anyone who has a complexion that isn’t reactive and can handle sunlight. All other things being equal, my friends of Kenyan and Caribbean origin really have it easy.
Some of the most wholesome and selfless women I have met have had Caribbean, Indian and South American roots: generous, warm and caring to such an extent that you enter a private reality in their presence — of safety and nurture and self-worth. That’s not to say that I haven’t had negative experiences with people of other ethnicities: I had a Nigerian flatmate once who hated me on sight, because no doubt he took me for a middle class white boy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. A drugged up black guy threatened to stab me on the subway many years ago, because, again, my affluent Anglo-Saxon appearance triggered his programing or sense of victimhood. Both of those people were wrong in their assumptions; the first one, who had changed his surname to sound more English than mine, had a family who phoned him regularly and generally looked out for him; that was more than I could boast. The other thug was greatly deceived in thinking his hard life made him a more ferocious foe than Little Soft Pale Skin on the seat opposite. I had recently been on the martial arts tournament circuit and was fit, with honed reflexes.
It’s easy to forget, if you don’t hang on the media’s every word, that many people live a life of regurgitated clichés — they talk like a sitcom character and their value system is as vapid as a Saturday afternoon ball game. It’s no surprise then that they react on cue when the media authorizes them to be incensed about an issue that previously they hadn’t even thought about. The anger; where does that come from? Well, maybe, from trying to reconcile the blandishments of a Babylonian slave system, where consumption and self-gratification are substituted for introspection, self-knowledge and meditation.
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As a man working in the public relations world, I was outnumbered by women seven to one.
Nearly as bad as the percentage of white males found in HR departments or gov't Civilian Personnel Offices (CPO). Difficult to explain you say? Not really.
[THEFEDERALIST] Despite standing behind their data and method used to conclude there is "no evidence of anti-Black [sic] or anti-Hispanic disparities across [fatal police] shootings," a study’s authors want to retract their work because it contradicts left-wing politics."Although our data and statistical approach were valid to estimate the question we actually tested (the race of civilians fatally shot by police), given continued misuse of the article (e.g., MacDonald, 2020) we felt the right decision was to retract the article," Michigan State University’s Joseph Cesario and the University of Maryland at College Park’s David Johnson wrote in their retraction request, according to the blog Retraction Watch.
Cesario and Johnson link to work by the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, who is often viciously protested for publicizing data indicating that racial disparities in policing and crime are typically due not to racism but to higher rates of criminal behavior among blacks and Hispanics as compared to whites and Asians. AKA: Reality™
Some research finds black Americans are more likely to be involved in physical altercations with police, although it is currently not established whether that is due to racism, behavior differences, or something else. Research also has found that black officers shoot black suspects at the same rate white officers do, and that police are if anything more reluctant to shoot nonwhites. The latter is the main conclusion of the study Cesario and Johnson want to retract due not to scientific error but to politics.
Their finding directly contradicts the left-wing narrative fomenting riots across the nation after George Floyd, a black man with illicit drugs in his blood, died after a nearly nine-minute chokehold from a Minneapolis police officer. Floyd, a multi-time convicted criminal who once held a gun to a pregnant black woman’s belly during a robbery, was used as a pretext to revive the narrative that all U.S. coppers are racist and so is the country and the rule of law they represent.
’THE SCIENCE’ IS A MASK FOR ARBITRARY POWER
These researchers are attempting to hide information that doesn’t support policies roving violent mostly peaceful mobs are attempting to impose at the blunt ends of bricks, sticks, and guns. This bias and cowardice is only the tip of the iceberg of the scientific corruption we’ve been seeing increase since, perhaps, the scientific method became accepted as a valid way to perceive reality.
Another pervasive recent example is, of course, the use of "science" as a shield for politicians to make largely arbitrary, ill-informed, and oftentimes abusive decisions about how to handle COVID-19. In recent months, we’ve been told that "science says" so many contradictory and even flat-out false things, it’s hard to even keep track of them all.
Science says don’t wear a mask. Except that you absolutely should wear a mask. Even though it isn’t recommended by medical scientists using data from other respiratory disease outbreaks. But it’s still helpful. Or actually it’s not really, according to the Centers for Disease Control in 2017. Yet you should still wear a mask, or else. Who knows?
Science says gathering in groups will spread coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... . Except if those groups are thousands of anti-America protesters crowding together on hot streets. Oh, wait, yes, that actually does spread the disease. And so does attending church. But not going to the grocery store. While going to the beach is dangerous. Except being outside is actually about the safest place you can be.
Except that there are second waves of transmission in hot, summery places where lots of people outside. The science said summer would slow the virus. Except now it’s not, and you need to stay inside. Except when you’re going outside. But don’t you dare plant your garden when you’re out there, or go to your cabin. But other people from other states can go to their cabins in your state. Because science!
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There is a Hebrew saying that can be translated as "When the fish is going bad, it always starts with the head." Ours [Western] is a declining civilization - obviously, the Arts & the Sciences will be the first to go.
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Once Science became openly political, they are no more credible that any other marketing/propaganda organization.
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Science went political w hen it became mainly extortion funded i.e. bureaucrat directed money extorted from taxpayers with any benefits mostly accruing to a small group of connected taxpayers.
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I think calling the current economy "Capitalist" with the current progressive taxes on incomes and subsidies and tax loopholes on the things that a capitalist would tax (i.e. title) is probably one of the biggest lies currently going around.
There exists an enormous welfare state for the wealthy... I just wonder what they're blowing it all on.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] EASTERN OKLAHOMA—The Supreme Court decided this week that half of Oklahoma is Native American land. Failed presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren was seen soon after in the newly formed Eastern Oklahoma Autonomous Zone with an authentic tomahawk and bow purchased in a gift shop, declaring herself to be the warlord of the area.
[Washington Examiner] First comes the statement. On Thursday, it was the case for reopening schools, setting out the dangers for students who fall behind in class work, and all delivered straight to the camera.
[THEFEDERALIST] While monuments and building names said to be stained by racism are being erased across the country, one former Ku Klux Klan organizer remains virtually untouchable.The late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat and Senate majority leader who organized a Klan chapter in 1941 and filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is celebrated in the state, his name gracing over three dozen public works projects, including two federal courthouses, a dam on the Ohio border, libraries, community centers, roads, bridges, schools, and several university buildings throughout the state.
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
[FOX] Sports leagues and players have turned racial justice issues into a "circus" by focusing more on who’s kneeling or what message is written on players’ jerseys rather than real change, basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said Friday.
[Corey's Digs] I have to admit that my skin color has been a problem for me throughout my life: it’s pale, prone to blushing and gets incinerated by the sun in the blink of an eye. I envy anyone who has a complexion that isn’t reactive and can handle sunlight. All other things being equal, my friends of Kenyan and Caribbean origin really have it easy.
[THEFEDERALIST] Despite standing behind their data and method used to conclude there is "no evidence of anti-Black [sic] or anti-Hispanic disparities across [fatal police] shootings," a study’s authors want to retract their work because it contradicts left-wing politics."Although our data and statistical approach were valid to estimate the question we actually tested (the race of civilians fatally shot by police), given continued misuse of the article (e.g., MacDonald, 2020) we felt the right decision was to retract the article," Michigan State University’s Joseph Cesario and the University of Maryland at College Park’s David Johnson wrote in their retraction request, according to the blog Retraction Watch.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
