Shockingly, Noted Hysteric, Self-Care Enthusiast, and Murder Victim Alexandria Donkey-Chompers also called Simone Biles' decision to quit the competition and focus on her "mental health" brave.
AOC says Simone Biles is a "brave" "role model" for putting her mental health first. https://t.co/2ttXrzXVNB
I think the Simone Biles' quitting incident is provoking a lot of ire less due to the actual quitting, and more due to infantile leftwing feminists insisting that literally everything a woman does, including quitting a competition, is "brave."
Male athletes are not called "brave" for quitting a competition or sitting a game out. That doesn't mean they're criticized for doing so, if they have adequate cause. If a running back's foot is fractured and he could play but would only be at 90% and would also risk aggravating it, a lot of people would say of his decision to sit a game out, "It was a tough call but probably the right one" or would call the decision prudent.
Prudent -- but not brave. And prudence, of course, is the wise decision to avoid risk. Which is kind of the opposite of bravery. Prudence is a good thing, but it is, seriously, kind of the opposite of bravery. Not to the extent that cowardice is a perfect opposite.
But definitely on the other side of the Risk-Seeking Vs. Risk-Avoidance graph.
But now when a female athlete withdraws from a competition either because of stress or, it is said, she lost mental focus while in the air and this put her safety in danger -- the infantile feminist left insists on calling her "brave" for avoiding risk.
Again, I'm not saying that this wasn't a sound call or a prudent call. Bad risks should be avoided.
But I will insist it's not brave.
This is the Olympics, after all. The equivalent of a Super Bowl -- and you would generally expect a running back, even one with a fractured foot who might re-aggravate it if he plays, to play anyway in the Super Bowl.
Simone Biles was not "brave."
But that's what the infantile woman-children of the far left insist it is.
This old article from 2003 -- back when The Onion was funny -- has never been more true.
A scientific journal article authored by Professor Peter Hotez, a frequent guest on corporate media networks, called to "extend federal hate-crime protections" for scientists facing criticism from alleged "far-right extremists," including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Hotez, who himself has been funded by Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1993, offered the robust defense of scientists including Fauci and EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak in a recent paper: "Mounting Antiscience Aggression In The United States."
"There is a troubling new expansion of antiscience aggression in the United States. It's arising from far-right extremism," the paper, published in the peer-reviewed Public Library of Science (PLOS) Biology journal, begins.
Is PLOS reputable? Question for the scientists out there. I thought I've read crticism that the peer reviewing at the place is a bit... Easy Mode.
But let me know.
Either way, this asshole does work for the Gain-of-Function Deep State, funded by Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"A band of ultraconservative members of the US Congress and other public officials with far-right leanings are waging organized and seemingly well-coordinated attacks against prominent US biological scientists. In parallel, conservative news outlets repeatedly and purposefully promote disinformation designed to portray key American scientists as enemies," it reiterates.
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Hotez even draws comparisons to the intentions of the Trump administration and its "America First" allies to those of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Marxists and Leninists...
In response, Hotez calls for a public statement in defense of Fauci and other COVID-19 scientists from "President of the United States together with science leaders at the federal agencies"” and even floats that "another possibility is to extend federal hate-crime protections."
His paper rails against the alleged "authoritarianism" of the right while simultaneously demanding that those who criticize Fauci be imprisoned.
Who the heck wrote this, AllahPundit?
Or the Chinese Ministry of Information?
Read the whole thing. He seems to want to prosecute Marjorie Taylor Greene for the hate crime of introducing the "Fire Fauci" Act. He pushes the idea that the lab leak theory is a conspiracy theory and that it's "sinister" to ask questions about it, even in a Congressional hearing.
Former Trump Official: A Subpoena Would Reveal That the Biden Administration Is "Intimately Involved With Critical Race Theory"
—Ace
Well that's no big deal. Fox News' impartial journalist Chris Wallace told me, at a debate he was moderating, that Critical Race Theory was just "racial sensitivity training." (By the way: He also asserted -- slanderously and "Without Evidence," as his pals at CNN would chyron it -- that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist. He didn't say that directly, but suggested in claiming the "violence in Kenosha" was caused by "white supremacists.")
A probe into the Biden administration will reveal that government officials "are intimately involved with critical race theory" and the ideology's advocates, a former top Trump administration official told Fox News in an exclusive interview.
Russ Vought, the former Office of Management and Budget director, last week demanded the Department of Education hand over records that could potentially show ties between the Biden administration and the Abolitionist Teaching Network, a pro-critical race theory group.
"We want to know the extent to which the connections are there within the federal bureaucracy," Vought, who now heads the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank, told Fox News.
"I think what it's going to reveal is that Biden administration officials are intimately involved with critical race theory, that they are tracking with many of the influential people in the critical race theory community," Vought continued.
The Department of Education, in a handbook intended to help public schools and spend funding provided through the American Rescue Plan, linked to a guide the Abolitionist Teaching Network published. The guide included rhetoric often associated with critical race theory and referred to whiteness as a form of oppression.
Hours after Fox News reported the connection, a Department of Education spokesperson said hours "it was an error" to include the link to the Abolitionist Teaching Network.
"But we believe it’s a little bit more than that," Vought told Fox News. "They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. This just a reflection of the political poison that is critical race theory."
Below, Jen Psaki says that "equity," not equality, is a priority of the Biden Administration.
"Equity" is itself a key goal of CRT -- not equality. Equality is about the law treating people equally. Which can result in people either succeeding or failing, per their own merits and according to luck of the draw.
CRT is against "equality" and considers it yet another tool of White Devil Oppression. They want a guarantee of equal outcomes for all, no matter their talents or their efforts. That's what they call "equity."
And here's Jen Psaki making it plain that equity, not equality, is the goal of the US government.
Relatedly: "Antiracist" (meaning virulent anti-white racist) Ibram X. Kendri has previously called for a government Department of Racism to declare and prosecute "racists."
Below, he talks about "curing" racism, like it's cancer.
And noting that people must be ready to accept the "cute" he and his fellow racist radicals have in mind.
Critical race theorist and "anti-racism" academic Ibram X. Kendi says he can diagnose racism like a doctor diagnoses cancer, and says that the next step requires a "treatment." pic.twitter.com/zpCJejNH7G
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 4, 2021
And related to that: Twitchy thinks that Ibram X. Khendi's generous offer to donate a full forty minutes (!!!) of his time for a cause he's promoting is hilarious, and I agree.
Oh, and he's so generous donating forty (40) full minutes of his time to honor his Very Good Friend, Meghan Markle.
Each one of those 40 (four-oh) minutes will be a Living Tribute to the Duchess of Sussex.
The most prominent member of the anti-racism industry worships royalty and honors workers by donating 40 whole minutes of his valuable time. How to be a ruling class dipshit https://t.co/WnXauIPY7c
DeSantis to Biden: "Why Don't You Do Your Job? Why Don't You Get This Border Secure? And Until You Do That, I Don't Want to Hear a Blip About Covid From You"
DESANTIS TO BIDEN: “Why don’t you do your job? Why don't you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don’t wanna hear a blip about COVID from you, thank you.”
"Joe Biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policies, then you should get out of the way. Well, let me tell you this... If you're trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way. And I am standing FOR the people of Florida."
Cernovich's comment here will be controversial and I'm not linking this for that, just for the video itself. This is a longer clip of DeSantis' response to Biden, which contains, at the end, the last two clips posted above. But the first three quarters of it is new material. The clip is great.
A report says that 13% of the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens Biden is ushering into the heartland of America (and not, say, Martha's Vinyard or New York City or the Hamptons) carry covid.
But he's serious about "shutting down the virus," you guys.
About 13% of migrants released by the federal government in McAllen are testing positive for COVID-19, according to a report provided to the City Commission last week #rgvpic.twitter.com/BpisnNcoCx
Cultures grow and prosper by creating from within and absorbing from without. The arrant stupidity and ignorance displayed by those who use the historically inconsistent term "cultural appropriation" is a testament to the Long March," which has dumbed down education to the point at which we have American college graduates with no understanding of how their own culture has evolved, and are completely unaware of the tremendous benefits the world has enjoyed, courtesy of America.
Last month, a small-business owner named Karen Taylor made national headlines for all the wrong reasons. After a viral tweet exposed the racist and orientalist language used to market Taylor’s company, which specializes in $15 prepackaged congee kits and is called Breakfast Cure, critics made quick work of tearing the self-styled “Congee Queen” to shreds. Taylor, who is white, eventually apologized, and an essay on her company’s website, which was originally titled “How I discovered the miracle of congee and improved it,” was quickly edited (although the original title is still easily found in the page’s metadata).
For a week, my Twitter timeline was filled with Asians and our allies airing their righteous anger, sharing touching personal testimonies on what congee meant to them, and ridiculing Karen’s “white lady” ingredients like blueberries, apples, and cinnamon. On TikTok, multiple POC creators uploaded videos of themselves trying — and choking on — Breakfast Cure–style congee.
Notice the casual and unsubstantiated "RACISM"TM charge? Its intent is to delegitimize her target, because her audience, mush-brained internet addicts, accept it as the gospel. Once the charge is made, there can be no more debate.
This dreck was written by Frankie -- me love you long time -- Huang, a pompous entitled twit who claims the mantle of moral superiority simply by stating an unsupported accusation of racism.
I emphasized that there's nothing particularly sacred about the dish, that anyone can make it, but that it doesn't make it okay for a white woman to anoint herself the Queen of Congee.
Ah yes...a White woman! Burn her! Except...the author of this vile piece is herself a "cultural appropriator" extraordinaire. She was born in China but them came to America to appropriate all of our disgusting Western ways, like educating women and not forcing abortions, or having a culture that accepts the abortion of girls as a matter of course. And than penicillin that you took for strep throat? Spit it out! That was the product of evil British Empire culture!
I am reminded of General Sir Charles James Napier, who forced the cultural mores of the West on the Hindus of India by -- shockingly -- ending the practice of "Sati" (suttee), the burning of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands.
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
Perhaps we should agitate for the return of that particular cultural artifact...the respect for human life...and demand that the Hindus and others return to their own pure cultures...without modern medicine and respect for life and internal combustion engines and electrical power grids and air conditioning and barbed wire and...
Good morning, kids. Thursday and the heat is most definitely being turned up on Angel of Death Nipsy Cuomo to either get the hell out of the governor's mansion in Albany or have the useless skin surrounding his whole sausage, i.e. his body, forcibly ejected. There are still a number of pundits who think he's going to skate, especially since it is axiomatic that Democrats, and even more especially high-profile ones, never face the music for their crimes. Notable exceptions of course are Stuart Smalley Franken and Carlos Danger Weiner. But with DA's in the state's most high profile areas looking to start investigations of their own and the state assembly actively considering an impeachment deadline of the end of the month - on top of national Democrat leadership up to Joey the Wonder Vegetable calling for him to get the hell out, this is not going to blow over.
And speaking of that drooling, gibbering dementia patient, Tara Reade, the woman he more than likely raped back in 1993, rightfully blew a gasket over Piss-Hockey Psaki dismissing her accusations at a press conference. Having Reade's name back in the public eye is something Biden's handlers do not want, even with the propagandists in their corner who would be hard pressed to keep it under wraps with Cuomo still on the loose. Blackface 30-odd years ago is one thing. Serial sexual assaults and culpability in the deaths of thousands of people is quite another, especially when not only Cuomo is guilty of them but a slew of his cohorts in other governor's mansions and the White House itself. Besides, Tish James has some darling drapes already picked out for her office, and it looks as if she will not be denied.
With that out of the way, the more significant story is the complete trashing of the Constitution with these vaccination mandates as well as the government effectively nationalizing private residential property via a unilateral decree to extend the moratorium on evictions. This is after the Supreme Court ruled that the moratorium had to end as scheduled. Amazing how the Left always looks to SCOTUS as the ultimate oracle whose decisions are final and can never be overruled; that is only if its decisions are in line with the Left's preferred policy outcomes.
"The President's a lawyer, he spent 36 years in the Senate, was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spent eight years as vice president, half a year as president. He speaks often about democracy versus autocracy. He's issuing or overseeing this order from the CDC, in the face of doubts about its constitutionality, which he seemed to echo yesterday," [CBS News Radio reporter Steven] Portnoy said. "There's no inconsistency here? The president is, there are many people out there who say that the President is essentially not giving voice to the ethic that he campaigned on. He didn't call Congress back, he asked Congress to act, it didn't. How do you square all that?"
"What's important to note here is that the President would not have moved forward with a step where he didn't feel comfortable and confident in the legal justification. It is also a reality that there are legal steps that have been taken by the Supreme Court in the last few months. And we've spoken to that publicly. We're not going to hide from that," she claimed. "But he asked the CDC and his legal experts to look at what is possible. This is a narrow, targeted moratorium that is different from the national moratorium. It's not an extension of that, it's a different moratorium from a policy and legal standpoint. So he felt comfortable in the justification and the legal approach to this effort."
"What's the White House's message then to Americans who heard what happened yesterday, heard what was said at this podium on Monday, can't square the two, and are now disappointed that the president is signaling that he doesn't respect the rule of law?" Portnoy asked.
"I'm not sure there are Americans evaluating it to that degree, maybe there are some you have talked to, I don't know, what the President has his message to the American people, especially those who are concerned about losing their homes, being kicked out of their homes, is that he's going to do everything in his power to make sure they can stay in their homes as long as possible," Psaki responded.
Wait a second, WHOSE homes??? Call me old fashioned but the person who actually OWNS the home is what is known in the trade as "the owner." The people who would be evicted for non-payment of rent aren't. But this of course is Obama/Fauxcahhontas You-Didn't-Build-That Topsy Turvy World where unions and workers made businesses successful (and it's the owners who are solely to blame for failures) and landlords are evil abusers of the poor, trying to deny them of their inalienable right to an apartment (by the way, see the Anti-Semitism section to find out who those evil abusers usually are in the Left's mind). This not coincidentally is a microcosm of the Leftist mindset of the illegitimacy of America itself.
Lest I get sidetracked and this gets lost in the sauce, the reason that we even need a moratorium on rent, as well as stimulus checks in perpetuity is because for the past 17 months, the nation's economy was intentionally strangled in order to fight a virus. No not the Peking Pulmonary Pox but the "virus" that was identified as Trump, Trumpism, and MAGA which created an economic miracle the likes of which had never been seen, and simultaneously exploded and exposed every Leftist/Democrat/Socialist economic policy as pure folly and failure.
So, what happens when these evil landlords can no longer afford to heat and light their buildings, or to maintain them? Or when zoning regulations are re-written to be more "equitable" and therefore degrade the value of their homes even further? Just as small businesses got wiped out and a handful of giant corporations stepped into the breach, they too - naturally with the help of the State - will step in and gobble up all those abandoned houses. Just as Amazon became the company store, some other entity like Berkshire Hathaway will own the company houses. Boy, if all of this wasn't pre-planned, they sure did not let this crisis go to waste.
So, as I asked in the comments yesterday about all this, if the government is going to ignore the courts and be a law unto itself without any legitimacy or consent of the governed, what's to stop a landlord from evicting deadbeat tenants anyway? Wait, I know the answer to this. The police. Funny how the Left wants to abolish the police when they are building one massive police state here and now. At some point, people who own rental properties are not going to just take it in the neck. Look up photographs of Detroit, or East St. Louis or any other Leftist controlled shit-hole. You're going to see a wave of arson that made the 2020 mostly peaceful rioting look like a backyard cookout. Unless of course, the government decides to seize control of the homeowner's insurance industry preemptively. In the name of "equity" and "fairness" of course.
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"The district attorneys for Manhattan, Albany, Nassau, and Westchester County have requested for New York Attorney General Letitia James to turn over evidence in connection to her office's investigation of sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo." (yeah, he's gone - jjs) 4 New York DAs Seek Evidence from AG's Angel of Death Cuomo Sex Misconduct Investigation
"Cuomo has not been seen in public or made a statement since Attorney General Letitia James released the 165-page bombshell report Tuesday morning, instead opting to release a pre-recorded video denying the accusations, as a bipartisan chorus of calls for his resignation grew deafening." Angel of Death Cuomo Skipped Work to Strategize Survival Plan at Governor's Mansion: Sources
"At least 82 state Assembly members have either released public statements or told The Associated Press that they support beginning the process of forcing out the scandal-scarred governor who now faces criminal probes in at least four counties including in Manhattan." NY Assembly Eyeing Angel of Death Cuomo Articles of Impeachment by End of August
"And remember: He's still under investigation for covering up [Chinese] COVID nursing-home deaths and using state resources to write his $5 million book touting his 'leadership.'" Everyone Deserted You, Creep Cuomo. It's Over. Just Go.
"The New York attorney general's damning report portrays Governor Andrew Cuomo as not only a sexual harasser but a misappropriator of state resources." Creepy -- And Corrupt
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"DHS seems to be spending as much time tracking and prosecuting 'domestic terrorism' as it does foreign terrorists and actual criminals." Homeland Insecurity for Conservatives
"The beef between workers and management began last month, when Rob Rosania, a leading investor in the butcher, received a text from a pal in Westport, Conn. who was offended by BLM signs in the company's local storefront." (if I were the owners, I'd fire the miscreants and hire inner city kids hungry to work - jjs) NYC Butcher Fleisher's Closed After Staff Walks Out Over Terrorist BLM Sign Removal
"Compare the 'insurrection' of 1932 with its counterpart in 2021, and a few insights emerge." The DC Insurrection of 1932
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"So I think the question is, we can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state. And I can tell you, Florida, we're a free state, people are going to be free to choose, to make their own decisions about themselves, about their families, about their kid's education, and about putting food on the table." DeSantis Responds To Biden: "I Am Standing In Your Way" From Taking People's Freedoms, "Do Your Job"
"'You are the ultimate knuckleheads. And because of what you are saying and standing for, people are losing their life. You have to know that. Look in the mirror! Look in the mirror!,' the governor said, going off script at the event to sign a bill extending the state's eviction moratorium." Jersey Jackass Granny-Killer Phil Murphy Lashes Out at Protesters Opposing Mandatory Vaccines
Victor Davis Hanson: "The Biden [junta] should look in the mirror before casting stones at others." Vaccination Weaponization
"For far too many of us, life simply can't go on as it's supposed to under mask mandates, and the results are devastating." Mask-Wearing: Not Polite, Not Considerate
"America has entered a Kafkaesque period. Lies are truths, wrongs are rights, and individuals who can't abide the zig-zagging that Fauci and his allies do routinely." Who Believes Anthony Fauci?
"Daszak attempted to hide his close association with [China's Wuhan Institute of Virology] while he referred to anyone in the scientific community who said a lab leak should be investigated as promoting a 'conspiracy theory.' What an irony, considering this is the very same Daszak whose word was treated as gospel by Facebook when it censored any mention that the virus leaked from the Chinese lab he part funded that was conducting Frankenstein 'gain of function' research on bat viruses. Talk about a conflict of interest. Daszak, 55, has studiously avoided answering questions asked by Congress about what happened in Wuhan." We Must Hear From This Man
"We need an urgent reversal, from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries, to the majority going to low-income countries," Ghebreyesus added. "Accordingly, WHO is calling for a moratorium on boosters until at least the end of September, to enable at least 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated." (so, he wants to bring people down, not lift people up - just like socialism - jjs) World Health Organization Calls for Moratorium on Booster Shots
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Perhaps what it most disturbing about this letter is the number of attorneys general who are so eager to turn their states' rights over to the federal government. Federalism works specifically because there are certain things that only the states have the power to do. And convinced that the United States will become forever blue, these officials are begging DC to do their jobs for them. And that alone should give the residents of those states sufficient cause for alarm." 22 Pearl-Clutching State Attorneys General Want to Cede Power to the Feds
"It is time to save our kids from the leftism and racist misinformation they are receiving in poorly performing public schools." Disestablishment a Second Time
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Often witness tampering is subtle. In this case, there were foreseeable consequences if I did not comply and tailor my grand jury presentation as directed and failure to do so would adversely affect my working relationship with the District Attorney's Office for the foreseeable future. I was afforded no choice but to comply with the directives that were issued to me by Jose Garza through his assistants." Austin Star Police Detective Accuses DA Jose Garza's Office of Criminal Witness Tampering in High-Profile Case
Robert Spencer: "Whatever else the global Left may be, it isn't coy. The demonstration in Brooklyn comes amid an increasing normalization of violence among Leftists. . . Every step of the way, instead of meeting with indignation and rejection, those who normalized violence were excused, and their anger declared righteous. The forces that espouse violence saw that no one seemed to have the will to stand up to them. And so now demonstrators in Brooklyn can call openly for what amounts to a new genocide of the Jews, and they know they will suffer no personal or professional consequences as a result." Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators in Brooklyn Call for Worldwide Violence Against Jews
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"Because they lack the vision and ideas to get us out of this mess, Democrats have fallen back on their tried and true tactics of ginning up outrage and hysteria to try and scare people into voting for them. The problem is that the voters are looking for something more. And Democrats are coming up empty." Will the Democrats' Scare Tactics Work in 2022?
Margot Cleveland: "While the Biden [junta] won the first round and will likely prevail at later stages, it will be a Pyrrhic victory if Texas succeeds in forcing coverage of the crisis at the border." (or it can decide on nullification of the executive and judicial branches and win. Big - jjs) Texas' Attempt to Cut Illegal Migration is Legally Doomed But Effective PR
"That history may be relevant again because the New York Times reportedly decided not to use its considerable influence and resources to investigate the origins of [Chinese] COVID-19 at the same time China was lying and delaying, early weeks in the pandemic that cost lives. That story is perhaps the most important story of our time. [Chinese] COVID has killed millions and transformed the entire world. Where it came from and who, if anyone, is responsible is important." Is There More Than Anti-Trump Politics Behind a Reported New York Times Decision Not to Investigate Chinese COVID's Origins?
"They can't sit calmly in Tehran while igniting the entire Middle East -- that's over," [PM Naftali] Bennett said Tuesday during a meeting with military officials. "We are working to enlist the whole world, but when the time comes, we know how to act alone." Israel Vows to Retaliate Against Iran for Attack on Oil Tanker
"Therein lies the two really important lessons. First, Congress has no interest in legislating on contentious issues. They prefer to punt to the executive branch and unelected bureaucrats and have the courts figure it out. . . Second, the radical left is driving the policies of the [junta]. . . It sounds like it's all going just as the founders intended, doesn't it?" What Joe Biden Caving on the Eviction Moratorium Really Means
Betsy McCaughey: "The Squad's agenda is socialism: Don't pay rent, we'll block evictions; don't pay back college loans, we'll cancel them; don't work, we'll take money from those who do work and give it to you. That's why it's troubling to see that in this face-off between Biden and the Squad, he was spineless." Joe Biden's Foolish Surrender to Hard-Left Dems Seeking to Cancel Rent
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is not the first attempt to increase regulations on the nascent cryptocurrency sector. Last week, Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) unveiled the Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act, which would "protect consumers and promote innovation by incorporating digital assets into existing financial regulatory structures." Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Expand Cryptocurrency Tax Reporting
"If Joe Biden cared about infrastructure, he would restart the Keystone XL Pipeline. Instead, Biden killed over 1,000 good-paying jobs by canceling the pipeline. For Biden, the infrastructure bill, just like the pipeline, is about appeasing AOC and the left's woke socialist agenda." Marsha Blackburn Proposes Adding Keystone XL to Infrastructure Deal
"Environmental virtue signaling and political patronage rule the day at New York's Climate Action Council." Green Fever Dreams
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Time for another "What the heck?" image." White Blobs on Mars (not White Punks on Dope - jjs)
"R.I.P. Gil Levin. Though the overall data we have gotten from Mars in the half century since still favors a non-life explanation for his experiment, the uncertainty remains quite large. He could have been right. More important than his uncertain result, however, was his dedication to the proper scientific method, where you let the data speak for itself and never dismiss any possibility if that is what the data shows you." Gil Levin Passes Away
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
John Stossel: "Schneeberger regularly won bicycle races, until a former men's cyclist transitioned, competed as a woman, and rode away from her." Unfair Competition
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I haven't had time to even look at my twin HP Spectres recently. Just did. I shouldn't have.
Both of them have suffered severe battery bloat and are now little more than e-waste. And I've hardly had the time to use them.
I do have a new notebook arriving any day, but it would have been nice to still have the old notebooks. I don't know why these suffered from battery bloat in particular; my old Dell has been running for years and while its battery is wearing out it still works fine.
There's an Intel model which is maybe interesting for some specific tasks, and a rather nice AMD model. Ryzen 9 5900HZ, up to 64GB RAM, one M.2 and two 2.5" drives, 2.5Gb Ethernet, two DisplayPort and two HDMI outputs. It's 7.5x7" so rather larger than a typical NUC, but a typical NUC fits at most one 2.5" drive.
On the other hand, it has a 120W power supply, which seems like a lot.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Vaclav Havel
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato
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I think being a writer is recognizing in the publication cycle there’s going to be a lot of unpaid labor and how to protect yourself so that you can actually still write, and have a life and have something left for you, which I think has become increasingly hard for all of us. To have anything left. Author, Kate Zambreno
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“Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.” Economist Ludwig von Mises
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“There’s a long history in this country of people needing to show their papers. During slavery, post-slavery, as recent as—you know what immigrant population has to go through here. We heard [former President Donald] Trump with the birth certificate nonsense. Here we want to make sure that we are not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact BIPOC communities.” Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey
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If I were in charge, I'd turn the entire planet against China and make them beg for mercy, even if it meant getting into bed with every piece of shit tyrant, dictator, kleptocrat or miscreant on Earth. Matthew Noto
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Crowds of bikers are rumbling their way towards South Dakota’s Black Hills this week, raising fears that COVID-19 infections will be unleashed among the 700,000 people expected to show up at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
The rally, which starts Friday, has become a haven for those eager to escape coronavirus precautions. Last year, the rally hardly slowed down, with roughly 460,000 people attending. Masks were mostly ditched as bikers crowded into bars, tattoo parlors and rock shows, offering a lesson in how massive gatherings could spread waves of the virus across the country.
The city of Sturgis, usually a sleepy community of under 7,000, tried to tamp things down last year, canceling most city-sponsored events and promotion, but hordes of bikers showed up anyway.
“The rally is a behemoth, and you cannot stop it,” said Carol Fellner, a local who worried that this year’s event would cause a fresh outbreak of cases. “I feel absolutely powerless.”
This year, the city is embracing the crowds. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has given the rally her blessing and will appear in a charity ride. The event is a boon for tourism, powering over $800 million in sales, according to the state Department of Tourism.
A couple of quick guesses here on my part:
1) The motorcycle rally has been going on longer than Carol has been a resident;
2) She's too cheap to leave Sturgis for a week;
3) You could substitute the name Karen for Carol and she would answer to it.
Some people take the states of their front lawns incredibly seriously — to the point where they'll scream at any cute dog who dares to slow down and sniff the grass.
It can be (rightfully) argued that doggies mean no harm when they make yellow patches, but humans know better... most of us, anyway.
Police in London, Ontario, are seeking the public's assistance with a "Dangerous Operation causing Bodily Harm" investigation after a 38-year-old man hit one of his neighbours with his car.
Dallas County Commissioner J.J. Koch escorted out of meeting after refusing to wear a mask
Koch’s attorneys said he planned to sue Clay Jenkins over the removal, and that he should follow rules set by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott
Not even the USA winning the gold for all-around gymnastics lifted the ratings for the 2020 Woke Olympics anywhere close to respectable territory.
“NBC said Friday that Thursday’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympics averaged a 10.8 rating and 19.5 million viewers across all of its platforms, down 43% in ratings and 41% in viewership from the comparable night of the Rio Games in 2016 (18.9, 33.0M),” Sports Media Watch reported. “Versus the most recent Olympics, the Pyeongchang Winter Games three years ago, ratings fell 5% and viewership 1% from an 11.4 and 19.3 million.”
Per the NY Post Nunes ‘claims Maddow and MSNBC have shown “hostility, hatred, extreme bias, spite and ill-will” in their coverage of him, the suit says’
Nunes says in the lawsuit she target him because he’s “the most prominent skeptic in Congress of Maddow’s marquee news narrative from 2017 to 2019: that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to hack the 2016 presidential elections.”
A series of graphs compiled by Twitter user @holmenkollin (Corona Realism) document that "the most-vaccinated countries in the world are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, while the least-vaccinated countries are not."
Iceland, Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus, for example, have vaccination rates of 90–98% and are experiencing surging virus cases. European countries with high vaccination rates are experiencing increasing infection rates, while those graphs show minimal infection rates among the countries with the lowest vaccination rates.
In Israel, where COVID cases are spiking despite a vaccination rate of 80%, the government is launching a campaign to inoculate its population with a third jab. The vaccines' effectiveness may very well be wearing off after a few months, but doubling down on booster shots may prove counterproductive if something else is at work.
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The ONT Musical Interlude
Born on this day: 4 Aug 1901
Louis Armstrong, singer, bandleader, trumpet. Had many hits including the 1964 US No.1 'Hello Dolly!', 1968 UK No.1 'What A Wonderful World’ plus ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’, ‘Ain't Misbehavin’, and ‘We Have All the Time in the World.’ Died 6th July 1971. via thisdayinmusic.com
Prior case studies have reported that sex — including the autoerotic variety — “was the immediate preceding activity before a ruptured aneurysm in up to 14 percent of patients,” according to clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Amee Baird, author of “Sex in the Brain: How Your Brain Controls Your Sex Life” (Columbia University Press, 2020). The risk of death by sex-induced stroke can be compounded by taking cocaine or Viagra before the act.
The man survived his near-fatal orgasm ordeal and was released from the hospital within two weeks in excellent condition, according to doctors.
However, he should thank his lucky stars he didn’t achieve the opposite of a happy ending, as a ruptured brain aneurysm causes “death in 40 percent of cases,” Baird reported. Meanwhile, two-thirds of survivors are left with serious neurological deficits.
This isn’t the first time someone has suffered a vascular mishap during an act of self-gratification. In 2016, a Bronx hospital worker allegedly died of a heart attack while masturbating to porn at work, according to police sources.
Dinesh and Debbie D’Souza will donate $100,000 to a nonprofit fund that will give immediate financial relief to the families of Americans detained for their involvement in the Capitol protest on January 6.
Dozens of Americans who’ve been arrested and charged have languished in jail for months awaiting trial, denied bail by federal judges as Joe Biden’s Justice Department repeatedly seeks pre-trial detention even for nonviolent offenders. Many remain held in a D.C. jail used specifically to house January 6 protesters, creating a class of political prisoners who face an unequal system of justice based on their political views and activity. This group includes veterans, former law enforcement officers, and active military personnel.
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Missouri's governor has issued full pardons to the McCloskey's, bringing Soros Lawyer Kim Gardner's political persecution of them to an end.
Well -- it should bring it to an end. I have a feeling Gardner will confabulate new charges for... something.
Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned Mark McCloskey, who pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750, and Patricia McCloskey, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000.
"Mark McCloskey has publicly stated that if he were involved in the same situation, he would have the exact same conduct," the McCloskeys' lawyer Joel Schwartz said Tuesday. "He believes that the pardon vindicates that conduct."
An FBI supervisory special agent based in Louisiana allegedly exposed himself to multiple children and molested one child in a period from 2018 to 2019, and the alleged crimes took place in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, according to a Smith County affidavit.
The suspect in the case is David Lee Harris, 51. Of Prairieville, Louisiana. A previous story by WAFB said the allegations involve underage girls.
During a previous court hearing, prosecutors said Harris threatened at least one of the victims if she said anything.
In Smith County, Harris, an FBI special supervisory agent, has been charged with third-degree felony indecent exposure.
I'm sure this is all perfectly innocent and not creepy at all:
Amazon is offering store credit in exchange for customers submitting a digital scan of their palm, according to a report. The ecommerce company in 2020 introduced biometric palm print scanners in some of its brick-and-mortar stores, allowing registered shoppers to pay for goods by waving their hand over the devices.
To promote the payment technology and encourage more people to start using it, dubbed Amazon One, Amazon is offering $10 in promotional credit to anyone who registers a biometric print of their palm at a store, according to a promotional flyer first spotted by Tech Crunch. After registering for the system, users receive Amazon One IDs that include their palm signature, a credit card or other payment data, and other contact information, the tech industry news site reported.
Admittedly, that's kind of neat, but we have forfeited more and more of our privacy, and then our freedom, for the sake of convenience, "free" apps, and "neat" little things.
@JackPosobiec
The Atlantic is now advocating for the unvaccinated to be placed on the No Fly List
Psaki deflects about Biden's own past history of sexual harrassment/sexual assault, claiming it was "heavily litigated" during the campaign.
Psaki dodges when asked about Biden's past harassment allegations against him:
That's the Hillary Clinton technique of saying "All of these questions have been answered," when in fact they haven't been answered, and have barely even been asked, at least not by the leftist propaganda media.
My memory is that they begrudgingly mentioned Tara Reade's well-substantiated allegations and then "moved on," as they used to say under Bill Clinton.
There was no reason to dismiss her claims -- but they did so anyway.
And they never addressed his constant pawing at children, including at the breasts of 13 year old girls.
It’s not just Democrats.This very attitude is how you get The Bulwark, The Dispatch, the Lincoln Project, and a third of National Review. https://t.co/xeyJmxtkWa
— Mulder’s Insatiable Thirst for Baby Blood & Jerky (@proteinwisdom) August 4, 2021
LOL:
NEW: Members of Politico's newsroom are actively mounting an effort to unionize with the NewsGuild, sources tell Axios.
People who spent their entire adult lives demanding and agitating for wars that other people would go fight in, all as part of a career that they have solely because of the success of their mom. https://t.co/svI2mjTaQJ
Former President Barack Obama has canceled his controversial 60th birthday mega-bash in Martha's Vineyard, citing the spread of the coronavirus's Delta variant.
"Due to the new spread of the Delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends," Obama’s spokeswoman Hannah Hankins said in a statement Wednesday morning, The New York Times reported.
Note that a super-popular Savior like Barack Obama has at least 200 "close friends."
"He's appreciative of others sending their birthday wishes from afar and looks forward to seeing people soon," she added.
Obama's decision follows a report by The Post, which cited a source as saying the former president was creating a public health "nightmare" by trying to get nearly 700 people to his party amid a national surge of the variant and new restrictions.
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On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was pressed on the massive shindig -- and defended it.
Asked if Obama was "setting the wrong example about how serious COVID-19 is by hosting a big birthday party with hundreds of people," Psaki said that the venue is within a county classified by the CDC as having only moderate coronavirus transmission -- though there's an outbreak of the more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 nearby on Cape Cod, which is just over 50 miles away.
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Last week, Martha's Vineyard health officials urged people to wear masks when indoors as the local infection rate was categorized as "substantial," meaning more than 50 new cases per 100,000 residents over one week.
Again, the CDC says that private gatherings of six to eight people are okay, but have issued guidances forbidding larger gatherings.
Will Obama only be entertaining six to eight people?
Shiiiiiiit, Pearl Jam alone is five.
Now, I want you all to consider your Privilege and how your Privilege makes life more difficult for marginalized persons like Barack and Michelle Obama.
As Biden Fails to Convince Democrat Constituencies to Get the Vaccine, and As He Allows Hundreds of Thousands of Infected Illegal Aliens to Infect Americans, Biden Tries Shifting the Blame to Florida and Texas
—Ace
His "moderate, centrist" AG, vouched for by National Review's Andrew McCarthy, sued the state of Texas for trying to keep its citizens free of infection from covid-ridden illegal aliens being secretly dispersed around the state to create super-spreader events.
Thank Goodness for the moderate, centrist, norms-restoring Biden Administration vouched for by NeverTrump and Conservative, Inc. as a whole.
Abbott's order said that "DPS is to stop & reroute, or impound any vehicle being used to transport illegal migrants who have been detained by Border Patrol." Critics said this would lead to illegal stops by law enforcement and profiling. The goal is to stop anyone other than law enforcement from transporting migrants who may be infected with COVID-19 from place to place. This order is part of a disaster declaration signed by the governor on July 28. The DOJ threatened to sue if Abbott didn't rescind the order. He didn't so the DOJ sued.
Judge Kathleen Cardone, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, granted a temporary injunction. She cited the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution as her reason for doing so. The Supremacy Clause states that the federal government is "the supreme law of the land" and federal law takes priority over state law. Her order prevents any state or local agents from enforcing any part of Abbott’s executive order as it pertains to transporting migrants. The DOJ claimed that state and local officials were obstructing the federal government by limiting who could transport migrants taken into custody.
This is sheer lawlessness. It is true that the Supremacy Clause says that federal laws supersede the laws of states, but not mere policies and directives of the executive. Those are not laws.
But this is Post-America, and the Ruling Class intends to dispose of the Constitution that has hitherto restrained it.
Biden demanded that Abbot specifically "get out of the way" of Biden's supposed efforts to control the spread of covid -- even as Biden acts to prevent him from controlling the spread of covid.
BIDEN: "Florida and Texas account for 1/3 of all new covid-19 cases... I say to these governors 'please help.' But if you aren't going to help, at least get out of the way of the people trying to do the right thing." pic.twitter.com/QzLnR6202V
NEW: The city of McAllen, TX says the federal government has released over 7,000 COVID positive migrants into their city since February, including over 1,500 new infected migrants in just the *last week alone*. A local state of disaster in McAllen has been declared. @FoxNews
NEW: All morning long we’ve watched Border Patrol drop off multiple bus loads of migrants at a Catholic charity in downtown McAllen, where they are given food & shelter before they take buses and flights across the United States. Buses arriving every 30 minutes so far. @FoxNewspic.twitter.com/Yon4rpN3VZ
Biden is deliberately creating covid disaster areas in red states, and then claiming the tyrannical authority to squash the governors of those states.
Is this really about covid?
Seems that the supposed "right" of illegal aliens to enter the country as they please is important enough to trump any anti-covid measures.
So strange that the rights of American citizens to live their lives in freedom are not similarly important enough to outweigh covid concerns.
By the way, despite the frothing agitation by Biden's puppetmasters and the enemy propaganda media, it turns out that Evangelicals -- mostly Trump voters -- are not the most unvaccinated group in America.
Meanwhile, the Dictator of New York City says you must give up your right to not be vaccinated or else he's going to strip you of even more of your rights:
.@NYCMayor: “Unless we want to run the risk of going back to restrictions and having our freedom taken away,” we need to require everyone entering restaurants/gyms to display proof of vaccination pic.twitter.com/cYsFaaJdZC
NY will require vaccine passport for indoor activities incl restaurants. Not seeing much coverage from the race-obsessed media about how this disproportionately impacts the freedoms of black & Hispanic people. pic.twitter.com/XZRaJDAeeD
All those Trump Supporters spreading illegal misinformation about the vaccines...
Joy Reid and Stephen Colbert suggest that Donald Trump supporters are in a “Jim Jones” era “death cult” because of their Covid vaccine skepticism. Wow pic.twitter.com/mAx2F5jIJQ
Frankly, the fact that Pfizer was not part of "Operation Warp Speed" and took no Trump government funding makes me feel better about their vaccine. Just speaking for myself, I wouldn't go near anything that Trump or his politicized FDA had anything to do with.
CNN and the Whole Corrupt Media Establishment Spins on Behalf of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Covering Up Her Violation of Her Own Masking Rule
—Ace
This is two days old, but it's important.
After DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was caught, red-handed, not wearing a mask at an indoor event after just imposing indoor masking on her city, CNN went into full Defense Lawyer mode, claiming (without evidence!) that maybe she had just temporarily taken the mask off because it was "a toast."
I repeat: There is no evidence whatsoever for this claim. They're straight-up making it up.
In fact, CNN should certainly know that their spin is false, because they had their own reporter at the wedding as a guest, and that reporter is observing the mafia code of omerta. More on that later.
Kate Bennett is not confirming nor denying that Bowser went maskless during the reception. Or that the entire gathered crowd went maskless.
A "journalist" who is in a perfect position to report on a highly relevant story is straight-up refusing to report. Everything to protect the Democrat Party and The Regime that rules us.
Video proves that Bowser wasn't in the middle of "a toast" or eating or drinking or anything while not wearing her mask. She like all other members of the Inner Party were just ignoring their own diktats.
I like how another leftwing outlet, The Washingtonian, attempts to debunk the photographic proof of maskless celebrating by saying, "the Examiner didn't even have an official invite!!!"
Burn. I guess that makes the leaked photographs and video Russian Fakes, huh?
I thought this response from a "doctor" -- an Ed.D., a "doctor of education," like Jill Biden -- is pretty emblematic of discourse in 2021:
So I guess you are attacking this Black woman politician with a photo of her un-masked? Sit down, sir. Just sit down. And wear a mask
— Dr. Heather Harding to you (@HeatherHJ) August 1, 2021
Biden Endorses the CDC's Lawless Extension of the Eviction Moratorium, While Admitting It's Unconstitutional and He Will Just Use the Delay of Litigating It to Illegally Give Some Citizens the Right to Use Other People's Property
—Ace
The eviction moratorium was already found to be unconstitutional. Brett Kavanaugh, who, let's face it, probably sexually assaulted 12 or 15 or 30 women, and Obamacare Tyrant John Roberts decided that they'd permit a law he said was unconstitutional to remain in place, because it was expiring.
Huh?
But Kavanaugh did also say that he would find any attempt to extend the illegal moratorium to be unconstitutional. I don't know if John Roberts feels married to that stance.
This is saying "the quiet part out loud," Jonathan Turley says, and this will be used as evidence against his unconstitutional action.
In his press conference, President Biden acknowledged that most of the experts consulted by the White House said that an extension would be unconstitutional. However, he noted that he found a few who dismissed or rejected such views: "The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it's not likely to pass constitutional muster... But there are several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort."
Frankly, given the overwhelmingly liberal makeup of law faculties, it is astonishing that most still told the President that an extension would be unconstitutional. Moreover, it is not difficult to find experts who are cavalier about the Constitution and willing to sign off on any effort to achieve desire political or social results.
What is interesting is that Biden did not appear to accept their view but still thought violating the Constitution would be beneficial in this circumstance:
"There are a few scholars who say it will and others who say it's not likely to, but at a minimum by the time it gets litigated it will probably give some additional time while we're getting that $45 billion dollars out to people who are in fact behind on the rent and don’t have the money."
The President said the quiet part out loud and admitted that they would use litigation as a delaying tactic to spend money without constitutional authority. That line will now likely be repeated at the top of any motion challenging the extension and seeking a temporary injunction.
Turley notes, too, that just six months ago, Biden swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution which he now admits to trampling.
She seems to be right. But the decision, I guess, is a preview of what the Supreme Court would rule, when (if?) it does rule.
Even the New York Times is compelled to admit that the moratorium -- which constitutes an illegal appropriation of the property of one person disfavored by the government to one favored by the government -- is bankrupting small and middle-sized landlords.
And tenants who know they cannot be evicted for any reason whatsoever are terrorizing their landlords.
For more than a year, Vanie Mangal, a physician assistant at a Connecticut hospital, called relatives to tell them that their loved ones were dying of Covid-19, watched as patients gasped their final breaths and feared that she herself would get sick.
Ms. Mangal found no respite from stress when she went home. She is a landlord who rents the basement and first-floor apartments at her home in Queens, and for the past year, conflicts with her tenants have poisoned the atmosphere in her house.
The first-floor tenants have not paid rent in 15 months, bang on the ceiling below her bed at all hours for no apparent reason and yell, curse and spit at her, Ms. Mangal said. A tenant in the basement apartment also stopped paying rent, keyed Ms. Mangal's car and dumped packages meant for her by the garbage. After Ms. Mangal got an order of protection and then a warrant for the tenant's arrest, the woman and her daughter moved out.
All told, Ms. Mangal -- who has captured many of her tenants' actions on surveillance video -- has not only lost sleep from the tensions inside her two-story home but also $36,600 in rental income. "It's been really horrendous," she said. "What am I supposed to do -- live like this?"
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At the same time, those broad protections have created tremendous financial -- and emotional -- strain for smaller landlords like Ms. Mangal, who often lack the deep pockets to survive without payments. And in New York City, there are a lot of those small landlords: An estimated 28 percent of the city’s roughly 2.3 million rental units are owned by landlords who have fewer than five properties, according to JustFix.nyc, a technology company that tracks property ownership.
Landlords can seek pandemic financial assistance, and the federal government has allocated $46.5 billion for emergency rental relief. But the aid has been slow to flow to property owners, and it comes with certain strings attached: It requires the landlord to allow a tenant to remain and not raise the rent for a year after the aid is received. Ms. Mangal has not applied for those reasons.
Further complicating matters for landlords, their ability to evict unruly tenants has been essentially eliminated by the moratorium.
Those favored by the Democrat Party will be spared the requirement of paying rent.
Landlords -- disfavored by the Democrat Party -- will be made bankrupt.
The one-month extension of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's eviction moratorium was welcome news for tenants but another nail in the coffin for some struggling landlords.
Groups representing landlords had been lobbying hard to end the moratorium and now warn even another month will put some of those landlords out of business.
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The majority of the nation’s landlords are individual investors. They own about 23 million units in 17 million properties, according to the U.S. Census. More than 6 million renter households are behind on rent, also according to the Census. Landlords have next to no recourse.
Howard Simon owns a small building in Massachusetts with three rental units. He hasn't received the rent on one of them since last October and is out about $7,000 so far.
"I have mortgages, I have expenses for repairs to that particular building, I'm losing one-third of the rent just because of this," said Simon. "And you know the other tenants who are occupying the other two units, they’re trying their hardest and doing their best."
Simon has contacted the delinquent tenants but said they will not respond, nor will they apply for the aid available to them. While about $34 billion in federal assistance has been distributed to states for back rent and utilities, getting that cash to landlords has been an onerous process because the tenant must be involved.
"In my particular instance the tenant is not cooperating with even completing the application. I'm just a small landlord, and I'm not a big corporation like many of the other large rental organizations, so although the funding is very helpful, if the tenant doesn't cooperate everything falls apart," said Simon.
This is a terrorist-like "dry run" probing our defenses for the coming imposition on Ruling Class-declared communism on America. I mean, it's communism as it is. But this is a foot-in-the-door for the rest of it.
Republicans are doing what they usually do: Absolutely nothing.
Democrats just nationalized the entire country’s rental housing stock and turned landlords into criminals. No laws were passed, no votes were made. And the response of Republicans has been to say, “That’s not nice!”
Just as Obama suddenly realized he had the power to grant DACA on his own authority after years of saying that would be unconstitutional, so too has Biden suddenly realized he is a Dictator and can take the property of some people for the use of other people on his own authority.
Reporter asks Psaki when Biden "changed his mind" on having the legality to extend the eviction moratorium. pic.twitter.com/aNZ7f2wbsH
An institution that doesn't do its core duties because it's that worried about its reputation among social friends is not worth protecting.
— Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 (@AviWoolf) August 4, 2021
The President of the United States is acting unconstitutionally and openly admitting that it's unconstitutional, and destroying middle class property owners in the process, and the Republican Party seems to have hardly noticed
Let me break this down quickly again for everyone: They (the mega wealthy/politicians/etc) think they should run the world. You (the normal middle class person) are the thing standing between them and that power. You are their enemy. They want to hurt you.
Good point: The Ruling Class is driving small landlords out of business. The small landlords will either have their property seized by the bank, or will be forced to sell.
Gee I wonder who'll be there to buy up distressed properties...?
The War on Small Business- shake out the small landlords, let the big ones buy up the properties with basically free debt. One more set of wealth creation opportunities crushed, one more win for central planning.
A selfie taken moments after Andrew Cuomo allegedly groped an executive assistant's butt at his home shows New York's governor with gleaming eyes and a broad smirk.
Cuomo allegedly asked the woman assistant, whose identity remains anonymous, to take a selfie with him while they worked together at his office in the Executive Mansion in Albany on December 31, 2019.
As she held up the camera, Cuomo allegedly 'moved his hand to grab her butt cheek and began to rub it' for at least five seconds.
He forbade her to show anyone else the photo.
She notes that she didn't report what happened because she was terrified Cuomo's top aides would force her out.
'[T]he way he was so firm with [me] that I couldn't show anyone else that photo, I was just terrified that if I shared what was going on that it would somehow get around,' she told investigators.
I don't know if that's a smirk -- it looks like the blissed-out look of a guy who's either high or literally getting off at the moment the picture is snapped.
Tucker Carlson notes that Andrew Cuomo showed off his Emmy -- which is a statuette of a female form -- and commented upon her shapely figure. "Isn't she buxom?" he asked aides.
It's not sexual harassment, but it is a bit of background for what the women around this guy were subjected to every minute of work.
From Tucker Carlson:
ANNE CLARK, SDNY SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR: The governor hugged Executive Assistant #1 and reached under her blouse to grab her breast. This was the culmination of a pattern of inappropriate sexual conduct, including numerous close and intimate hugs, where the Governor held her so closely that her breasts were pressed against his body and he sometimes ran his hands up and down her back while he did so.
There were also several occasions on which the Governor grabbed her butt.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Wasn't Joe Biden accused of all of that? Credibly? I guess we're pretending that didn't happen, but we care about this. One thing we learned, Andrew Cuomo is not against defunding the police, he wants to have sex with them, or at least one of them.
Now, just to be clear, you can find the little sexual commissars on your screen that you just saw, repulsive and at the same time, find Andrew Cuomo repulsive. It's okay to dislike everybody involved.
In fact, you probably should.
The AG's report also found that Governor Cuomo appeared to be sexually attractive to his Emmy statue. How's that for weird?
"Two witnesses," also this is a quote, "... recounted that during a meeting, the Governor looked at his Emmy statue, which he had won in November of 2020 and put in his Albany office and said something to the effect of quote, 'look at her figure, isn't she buxom.'"
He’s a total creep, I mean for real.
But you knew that.
Cuomo showed a slide-show of him hugging men, to prove, I guess, that grabbing women's asses was NBD.
Tucker made a joke about that:
He did not claim anti-Italian bias, though he has claimed that many times in the past. He did make it clear he is not resigning. He also showed a slideshow of himself kissing people, including Al Gore and said his gestures of affection have been wildly misinterpreted.
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Now, we didn’t show the tape, but we just want to be totally clear that the video, the slideshow that Cuomo put on the screen showed him hugging Al Gore, but not reaching up under Gore’s shirt to grab his man- boobs. That did not happen. We didn't know if it happened, but he didn't show it today.
Video at the link.
Now this is interesting: As part of his defense of his conduct, Andrew Cuomo is presenting other Democrats, including credibly-accused sexual assailant Joe Biden, getting touchy with other people.
Unfortunately, he chooses the most innocent possible photos of Uncle Badtouch touching people. He does not include pictures of Biden groping little girls' breasts or sniffing their hair.
He knows that the left and the leftist propaganda media would lynch him for sharing those pictures.
But maybe he's hinting he could start drawing attention to Biden's groping of a child if the Democrat Party presses him on this.
Yeah this allegation is even more bullsh*tty than some of the others, but, I mean, the guy was just constantly throwing out come-ons to women who work for him.
You can imagine that a man who walks around thinking that every 25 year old woman wants his d*** will behave with women.
Cuomo gave female staff roses and autographed photos on Valentine's Day and showed off a cigar humidor from Bill Clinton which one accuser says was his attempt at a 'Monica Lewinsky affair'
Among the details in the AG's newly released report is that Cuomo gave female staff roses on Valentine's Day in 2017
He also distributed signed photos of himself to them - his attorneys say he was 'trying to be thoughtful'
Lindsey Boylan also recalled being taken into his office at a holiday party in 2016
He showed her a cigar box that Bill Clinton had given him as a gift
She took it as an inference to Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, a WH assistant
I don't think you can prove it, but yeah, I do think that showing off the humidor from Bill Clinton was an attempt at a pass.
And giving women roses and signed photos of himself? Are you kidding me?
Most New Yorkers want Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign, according to a new snap poll conducted hours after the release of a bombshell report that the three-term Democratic governor sexually harassed multiple women.
A Marist Poll released Wednesday morning indicates that 59% of New Yorkers, including 52% of registered Democrats, say Cuomo should resign. And if the governor doesn't step down, nearly six in 10 say he should be impeached.
Less than a third of those questioned in the survey say Cuomo should serve out the remainder of his term, which lasts through the end of next year.
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Forty-four percent of those surveyed say Cuomo did something illegal, while nearly three in 10 say the governor did something unethical but not illegal. Just 7% offered that Cuomo did nothing wrong.
At Twitchy, Drew Holden posts a long thread highlighting the leftwing propaganda media's efforts to make Andrew Cuomo a god who walks the earth.
Interesting moment here. Don LeMon and Fredo Cuomo cannot believe that conservatives are downplaying the media's overplay of January 6th -- even after they themselves downplayed Andrew Cuomo's killing of tens of thousands of seniors.
Fredo Cuomo, of course, didn't report on his brother's sexual harassment.
But awkwardly, Don LeMon starts talking about it the moment he ends his hand-off with Fredo.
Don Lemon started talking about Andrew Cuomo the second that his brother got off the air pic.twitter.com/Pd1e7QgogL
In the opening months of the pandemic, the lab leak hypothesis was actively discredited by the media and scientific establishment, with anyone associated with it smeared as "racist". The question we have to ask now is how, and why, did this happen?
To a great extent, I believe the answer lies with the world's most powerful news outlet, the New York Times. At the start of the pandemic, the Times set the news and policy agenda on the lab leak hypothesis, discrediting it and anyone who explored it. The Times did so while taking money from Chinese state-owned propaganda outlets, such as China Daily, and while pursuing long-term investments in China that may have made the paper susceptible to the CCP's strong-arm propaganda tactics in the first months of the pandemic.
As someone who has spent years researching the history of the Times, I was struck by the paper's markedly pro-China bent at the start of the pandemic. It opposed Trump's travel ban to and from China as "isolationist". It all but ignored the unparalleled success of China's arch-enemy, Taiwan, in containing the virus. It downplayed China's economic war against Australia, whose prime minister early on questioned the CCP story on the pandemic's origins. And it celebrated China's success in battling Covid-19, taking the CCP's absurd mortality numbers at face value, reporting in August 2020 that 4,634 Chinese people died from the virus and, six months later, that there were 4,636 total deaths. That in a country of 1.4 billion people only two people died of Covid-19 in the half a year defies logic and common sense. Still, the Times legitimised the CCP numbers by printing them as hard fact.
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Over the months, the Times’s coverage grew even more strident --and more in line with Chinese propaganda. In February 2020, it gave a platform to zoologist Peter Daszak, publishing an opinion piece by him which claimed that the pandemic was caused by "road-building, deforestation, land clearing and agricultural development". Daszak argued that "discovering and sequencing" viruses like Covid-19 in labs like the one in Wuhan should be a priority.
The Times, which used Daszak as a key source in over a dozen articles, has never mentioned that Daszak's organisation funded the Wuhan lab, in particular research into bats and coronaviruses, a flagrant conflict of interest. Crucially, there was no mention of this when a reporter interviewed Daszak this February, following his return from a heavily criticised WHO investigation into the virus's origins. (Danszak later recused himself from the investigation because of the conflict of interest.)
But the Times also never revealed that Daszak was a favoured source for another outlet: China Daily. The state-owned media organisation, along with Xinhua and sister outlet Global Times, repeatedly quoted Daszak to assure readers of China's full cooperation in the search for the virus’s origins -- and to discredit the possibility of a lab leak.
In fact, the Times appears to have been so enthusiastic in its attempts to discredit the lab leak hypothesis that Chinese propaganda outlets promoted its reporting on social media. In April 2020, for instance, the Times published an article claiming the Trump Administration’s investigation into a lab leak "has echoes of the Bush administration’s 2002 push for assessments saying that Iraq had weapons of mass of destruction." Within minutes, a China Daily columnist retweeted the story and parroted its central claim.
The article goes on to note that not only does (or did) the New York Times take money from China to run a propaganda insert in the New York Times itself, but the New York Times also bragged about the lucrative publishing ventures it was launching in the Chinese market.
In other words: China had kompromat on the New York Times. And they in fact leveraged this kompromat to pressure the New York Times regarding reporting they considered anti-China, as the article notes.
A top editor at the New York Times instructed Times staffers not to investigate the origins of COVID-19, two Times employees confirmed today.
'In early 2020,' a veteran Times employee tells me, 'I suggested to a senior editor at the paper that we investigate the origins of COVID-19. I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus. There was resistance to running anything that could suggest that [COVID-19 was manmade or had leaked accidentally from a lab].'
[Even as evidence of a lab leak was building, the Times], according to two well-placed sources, refused to investigate the biggest story of our time. Instead, senior editors are alleged to have suppressed efforts to probe the virus's origins, and the Times led the charge to dismiss any questioning of the WHO’s now-discredited line as conspiracist or even 'racist'.
'It was considered a conspiracy theory,' confirms a second Times insider who was in a senior position on a different section at the time, and also proposed an investigation. 'It was untouchable everywhere. The fact that Trump embraced it, of course, also made it a no-go.'
'The idea was considered dangerous,' my first source agreed. They suggest that the Times's editors weren't motivated by domestic politics in an election year, or even by a hatred of Donald Trump that ran so deep as to dispose them to trust the WHO and the Chinese government over the Trump administration.
In the years before COVID-19, revenue from China was an integral part of the Times's business model....
In November 2019, it emerged that China Daily had failed to disclose to federal authorities millions of dollars in payments to US outlets including the Times and the Washington Post. In August 2020, the Times quietly scrubbed the China-funded advertorials from its website. Still, in October 2020, the Times ran an op-ed by Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong's Executive Council, justifying the repression of anti-government protests in the Hong Kong SAR.
Almost as if they strongly suspected China created the virus, and they wanted to hide the evidence of their long-term collusion with the Chinese Communist Party.
He also recounts all the apparently-uncompensated propaganda on behalf of the CCP that the New York Times, CNN, and NBC/MSNBC ran.
As someone keeps saying -- I think Instapundit frequently repeats it, though I don't know if it's original to him -- the media is not covering up for China primarily to cover up for China, but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party.
First, as ace discussed the other day, Megan Rapinoe and her thin-skinned band of mopes were humiliated by Team Canada team, which, incidentally, is sportin' a DIAD (dude-in-a-dress) as one of their players. Hee hee.
Meanwhile, professional ingrate Gwen Berry, who turned her back on the flag when she didn't come in first in the Olymic trials, didn't even come close to medal contention in her event (the hammer throw), finishing in 11th place (out of 12). So she can turn her back on the flag to her hearts' content while watching the rest of the Olympics on TV. And nobody is interested and nobody cares.
Lastly, "Laurel" Hibbard, a Kiwi DIAD who managed to elbow his way onto the New Zealand weightlifting team (thus taking the place of an actual woman weightlifter), was a miserable failure. I don't think he even made it out of the preliminary rounds. I'm kind of disappointed with this result. I actually wanted him to win. Because that would have forced the issue out to the center of the international cultural radar, namely, do you want to see women's sports destroyed or not? Hibbard's craptacular performance did serve a purpose: it gives ammunition to the activists who insist that DIADs have no physical advantages over actual women.
Here's an idea: If they can have a Russian 'ROC' team, I think we should field two Olympic teams also, designated USA and USW. The USA team is for normal athletes to compete as normal Americans for the enjoyment of other normal Americans, and the USW is for the miserable, unhappy 'woke' athletes who want to raise their fists, burn their bras, take dumps on the flag, bitch, whine, complain, make commie speeches, and whatever else they have want to do to express their hatred and contempt for the country they've agreed to compete for.
Addendum: I urge you all to watch the video in the tweet below. This is the kind of athlete I *want* to represent my country internationally. I found her very refreshing:
Exercise: Looks Good, But Why Might It Be Fake News? Show Your Work
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
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Prayer Requests:
6/18 – Ladyl requests prayers for Danielle and Kristin, who lost their home during Covid, but are now both working. Kristin has vasculitis, which is causing nerve and neurological issues.
7/8 Update – Please keep praying for Danielle and Kristin and their health issues. Also, they recently lost their current home, when the owner decided to move back in.
6/26 – NaughtyPine needs prayers. Both of her parents have been diagnosed with cancer this week, and she will be helping with transportation to appointments and treatment. She lives about 4 hours away from her parents, so will be living with them at least part of the time. She asks for prayers for healing for her parents and “Coping Gainzz” for herself.
7/7 – Tonypete requests prayers for Anna. A lifetime of too much drinking has caused monumental problems with her health and well-being. She has been sober for a few months and things are looking better, but every day is a huge mountain for her to overcome. Prayers are needed for her to stay on the path.
7/12 – Weak Geek asks for prayers for comfort and strength for the wife and daughters of his former co-worker M.S., who died last week at age 57 after his health took a plunge last month. God grant the women strength.
7/21 – TA needs prayers for his daughter, Sarah, who is profoundly sad and lonely.
8/2 – She Hobbit and her young children need prayers on the passing of her husband, Kate Winslet’s Boobs. He succumbed to a lengthy struggle with kidney cancer over the weekend.
For Healing:
7/03 – Slapweasel requests prayers for Psych_bear’s dad, who just found out he has stage 4 kidney disease.
7/15 – Taxpayer1234 would like prayers for her mother, who had a heart attack while coming out of anesthesia for cataract surgery. She is conscious and able to speak, but was being transferred to a different hospital for angioplasty and will need to spend time recovering. Taxpayer1234 asks for prayers for total healing and a speedy recovery.
7/26 Update – Taxpayer1234’s mom is home and doing well.
7/26 – Polliwog requests prayers for her sister and dad. Her sister is having back surgery Wednesday (7/27). It should be an out-patient procedure. Prayers for a successful surgery and quick healing/recovery are welcome. Her Dad has tested positive for Covid. He mostly just feels really tired, but the concern is that if he caught it even when vaccinated that her grandparents could get it too, and they’re in their 90s. Prayers for Dad’s complete recovery and protection for the others in the house would be much appreciated.
8/2 Update – Her sister’s surgery went well, and she had immediate relief from the constant burning pain in her legs. Her recovery seems to be steady and she’s working hard on the physical therapy so she can get back to work. Also, her dad has recovered from Covid, and her grandfather may have caught it too (no test done), but seems to be recovering pretty well even though he’s in his late 90s and has much reduced lung function. Thanks for everyone’s prayers.
7/28 – BignJames asks for prayers for his big brother BignSteve, who has pancreatic cancer. A course of chemo went well and he’s scheduled for a “Whipple Proced
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Monday Who Dis: Evelyn Ankers started out as a serious actress, but her career got sidetracked into horror movies in the 1940s, when she became known as "the Queen of the Screamers." She played opposite Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolf Man and she was also in The Invisible Man's Revenge with leading man Jon Hall. They did two other movies together, Eagle Squadron and Last of the Redmen.
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Good morning, kids. Wednesday and in the lead are the twin stories of Angel of Death Andrew Cuomo's seeming impending exit from the governor's mansion in Albany and the continuing Chinese Coronavirus follies. Obviously, like most everything in the news, these are related but for sure extremely closely. The cynics here (and you can't blame them for being cynical considering everything we have witnessed since the coming of Trump and even before that fueled the cynicism) were sure that Cuomo was going to skate, and it certainly appeared that way as of a few weeks ago. But NY AG Letitia James dropped the hammer yesterday. Now the calls are coming for this greasy, crooked bastard to wire his damn mouth shut with his nipple rings and fall on his salsicce.
"We owe it to the American people to #BelieveSurvivor," Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted in support of the Democrat lynching of Justice Kavanaugh. After years of calling for "zero tolerance" on sexual harassment, the Cuomosexual chickens have come home to roost. As David Horowitz tweeted, "Chickens are coming home to roost -- all the dirty tactics & hypocritical moralizing Dems used to attack Trump are now focused on Cuomo. Speaking truth to power used to mean commie lies attacking Republicans and patriots. Now the worm is turning." Joe Biden, who had once called Cuomo the "gold standard", is now calling for his head. The Democrats and their media are now using the same dirty tactics against their own that they had formerly deployed against Trump.
Democrats, beginning with Attorney General Letitia James, a former ally, have come for Cuomo, not because they care about how many nursing home patients he killed or how many aides he groped, but because they, especially James, want his job. Now James released a report describing numerous cases of her feminist ally groping women. A month after Cuomo was claiming that whatever higher power (beyond his own reflection in the mirror) he believes in had made him a feminist, he ordered James' predecessor to end an investigation into the handling of the Harvey Weinstein coverup after getting $25,000 from Weinstein's old lawyer. This was the same investigation he had formerly demanded.
Was James really unaware of all this? Don't count on it. "Tish James says I'm a feminist and she's right," Cuomo had once bragged at a rally. "God told me I was a feminist." The first time Cuomo was accused of sexual harassment was twenty years ago when he was serving in the Clinton administration. And Congressional Democrats closed ranks around him. New York Democrats have gifted the state with paragons of virtue like Eliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner, former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who was forced to resign after multiple women accused him of choking and assaulting them, Comptroller Scott Stringer, whose recent mayoral campaign tanked after accusations of sexual harassment, and a legion of other cretins.
There's a reason that Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein felt so comfortable in New York. . .
. . . James isn't bringing actual criminal charges against Cuomo. That would take her away from her focus on destroying the NRA and President Trump. The investigation, like the orchestrated calls for Cuomo to resign, something he has no intention of doing, are a thinly disguised primary campaign. The Democrats want Cuomo's job, they aren't about to hold him accountable. An actual criminal trial would be too dangerous and would threaten too many party interests. Democrats want to primary Cuomo. They don't want to lock him up. And if he survives the primary challenges, they'll go back to being 'Cuomosexuals' all over again. And Attorney General James will go back to praising Cuomo as a feminist. Cuomo was as good at fake moral outrage as James and his Democrat opponents.
Good analysis from the estimable Daniel Greenfield insofar as gauging Ms. James' aspirations, and later on in his essay, he and his boss David Horowitz ring a rather optimistic tone about what they see as perhaps the beginning of the end of cancel culture and the political future of the Left more broadly. Nice to imagine that, but in the near term with his essay, I think he is missing a couple of things. Or perhaps he penned this before the news broke that every major and minor local and national Democrat up to and including braindead stooge president Joey Biden are unequivocally calling for him to resign.
There is no way to survive that. I also think he is missing the fact that in my estimation, as horrible as the serial sexual abuse of women and the corruption of his staff and the media to cover it all up and smear the accusers, this is to put out the real fire over his gross incompetence and possible malice aforethought in a policy that directly led to the deaths of at least 15,000 or more elderly nursing home residents by exposing them to the patients with Chinese Lung AIDS. And if Cuomo has to fall for that so do equally execrable monsters like Phil Murphy, Ned Lamont, Tom Wolf and Wretched Whitmer to name but a few. That to me is the real reason this is breaking right now.
Now my own cynicism comes to the fore, since if Cuomo does exit the scene we get Lt. Governor Katy Hochul filling in until the next election in 2022 and it certainly looks as if Letitia James is being groomed or is grooming herself to get the nod. So we're swapping out projectile colitis and eye shingles for terminal pancreatic cancer here in the Empire State. Oh joy.
Continuing on the Chinese Coronavirus theme, yesterday lame duck Commie mayor of NYC Bill DeBolshevik put the hammer and sickle down on those of us who do not want to get vaccinated by requiring "zee paperz pleez" if you want to go to a restaurant and gym. No doubt this will roll out everywhere else unless people push back. And judging from the attitude I have seen from my neighbors, I don't see that happening. Whatever the merits or dangers of these vaccines, they're not for me.
Well, I reject the vaccine. I will be happy to reassess the case in a few years, once we've had a chance to see how it performs in the long term. For now, I'm young, healthy, reasonably fit, have no leukemia or other aggravating conditions. I'm not at serious risk. If you are at risk, go get the vaccine. You will then be protected. If you're worried that I may still get the "delta" variant and transmit it to you -- it turns out that you're just as likely, as a vaccinated person, to get it and transmit it to me. But I'm not worried. Fauci says that if I walk around without a mask, I am "encroaching" on your right not to get sick. I'm sorry, but you have no such right. To live your entire life in fear of getting a disease is no better for your mind than a bad case of the flu is for your body. But the flu is transient, whereas perpetual fear of disease is not: It will disable you, and make you an isolated, lonely, scared, bitter person. You may not get COVID, but you will be sick.
Fortunately, it seems a number of my fellow Americans agree, even in the middle of New York City: In the days after the CDC's new mask guidelines, a fair proportion of people continue to ride the subway and bus maskless. The mask mandate for public transit has been in place since the beginning, but many New Yorkers have had enough of it. Likewise on the Long Island Rail Road last weekend: by the time my train reached Huntington, I found myself surrounded entirely by people not wearing masks. As if by tacit consent, everyone agreed that it was time for the stupidity to stop. The conductor came by, asked us for our tickets, and said nothing about masks.
New York City's Mayor de Blasio has just announced the city will require a vaccine passport, with scannable QR-code, for indoor dining, gyms, and concerts. The chips are down: In New York I have a choice between living in isolation or letting the government track every visit I make to a restaurant. For the first time in my life, I feel the law being brought to bear against me. I feel the attempt to turn law-abiding and peace-loving citizens into criminals. But I will not be coerced. I will not be blackmailed. I don't know whether I'm going to end up fined or in jail or just lonely -- but I hope others will join me in telling Mayor de Blasio that he can go straight to hell.
I am in my later 70's; over my lifetime I have lived among and have been exposed to people in refugee camps suffering with tuberculosis, cholera, hepatitis B and diphtheria and, after arriving in the United States, polio. I managed to get through the Asian Flu pandemic in 1957-58, the Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968-69, the HIV/Aids pandemic in the 1980's and the Swine Flu pandemic in 2009-10.
Thus, I am well aware of medical risks and realities, particularly when it comes to my health. I have been vaccinated for everything from tuberculosis to diphtheria to smallpox to polio to the annual flu. I have been reliably informed that I have a very robust immune system and, thankfully, I have never been seriously ill with any viral or bacterial infections.
I researched, from credible non-government sources, the evolution and development of the mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) vaccines, their possible side effects and approval process. After considering the short and long-terms unknowns of a new type of vaccine that contains attenuated virus based on the Covid-19 genetic code provided by China combined with the realities of Covid infections, I concluded that I was unwilling to run the risk of compromising an immune system that had maintained my good health for nearly eight decades.
My medical history and attendant health decisions are unique to me. Every person in the United States has their own distinctive medical history, and depending on circumstances, heredity and previous access to medication, an immune system able or unable to fend off a variety of diseases.
A one-size-fits-all vaccine, particularly one that was approved on an emergency basis with unknown short and long-term side effects, requires allowing the citizenry to evaluate the risk for themselves. Instead, those that choose not to vaccinate are being called vile names and being threatened, intimidated and coerced by politicians and government bureaucrats. Additionally, vaccines are being mandated as a condition of employment by many private businesses and in the federal government at the direction of the Biden Administration. . .
. . . Every country that has pushed mass vaccination has experienced tremendous growth in Covid cases as well as increased hospitalizations and death rates among both vaccinated and unvaccinated people brought about by these variants. Fortunately, the variants to date, while highly contagious, do not appear to cause the same hospitalization and mortality rate as the first or alpha variant.
But that does not stop the Marxist-inspired Democrats and the Biden Administration from using the growth in cases to again threaten mandatory vaccinations, mask mandates and potential lockdowns in furtherance of the strategy put in place at the beginning of the pandemic to strip Americans of their rights and transform the populace into one that will meekly acquiesce to any specious government edicts.
I'm stuck in New York for the foreseeable future and even with that lanky hunk of Communist piss a lame duck, I doubt very much Eric Adams, even being merely a Trotskyite and not a full-on Maoist freak, is going to abolish this crap if he wins Gracie Mansion, almost as much as I doubt Curtis Sliwa has a chance at beating him. That being said, it took me all of about two seconds to find a PDF of the CDC vaccination card as well as how to fill them out. There is no way any bar, restaurant or other venue is going to have the wherewithal nor even the desire to do more than give a cursory look at it and wave you in. Traveling on airplanes might be more problematic but I am hardly a frequent flyer and if this is not resisted right now they will no doubt spend the billions of ill-gotten tax dollars to create bureaucracies to do the job. Or pay off Big Tech and the private sector to be the enforcers.
The CDC = Center of Diseased Control-Freaks. I have no fealty to illegal laws and edicts passed by illegal juntas and tyrants based on incompetent, inept, uncaring, unfeeling technocrats who are so far removed from reality and the last people you want controlling life and death decisions, let alone if you want regular or unleaded. If this makes me a criminal, so be it.
We can all sleep better tonight. The Los Angeles Times reported Monday on the July 29 arrest of Glen Allen Brooks, 61, of Huntington Beach, Calif. His crime? Brace yourself, gentle reader, for Mr. Brooks has been identified as a participant in the Jan. 6 "insurrection" at the United States Capitol. Imagine, he's been on the loose all these months, no doubt insurrecting to beat the band the whole time.
Mr. Brooks's alleged misdeeds are detailed in an FBI affidavit, in which a special agent (whose name is for some reason redacted) says that on Jan. 6, at 3:13 p.m., Brooks "entered the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol by climbing through a broken window near the Senate Wing Door." The affidavit goes on to say Brooks left the Capitol at 3:30 p.m.
And how did this dangerous insurrectionist spend those intervening 17 minutes? Did he menace any House or Senate member? Did he assault any police officers, destroy or steal any property? Did he go off in search of Vice President Pence, perhaps to cajole him into invalidating the electoral vote?
He did none of these things. He took some pictures. Photographs included in the affidavit purport to show Brooks using his cell phone to snap pictures, all in the presence of a dozen or more uniformed police officers, none of whom appear to be doing anything to stop him or anyone else from meandering about the room. Brooks reportedly shared some of his pictures with members of his church prayer group back home, one of whom reported him to the FBI. . .
. . . There have been 114 homicides in Washington, D.C., this year, a 5 percent increase over the same period last year, and based on the Metropolitan Police Department's past performance, we may assume more than 30 percent of them will go unsolved. Perhaps the FBI's time and effort would be of better use in trying to improve these statistics.
Andrew Breitbart, PBUH, said it best: "Fuck you. War."
"The Biden [junta] has implemented an effort to root out political 'extremism' in the military despite little evidence of any such extremists actually operating within the ranks." The Biden Military Witch-Hunt
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"The report of the investigation, conducted by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, stated in its executive summary the 'culture' of Cuomo's Executive Chamber was 'one filled with fear and intimidation, while at the same time normalizing the Governor's frequent flirtations and gender-based comments -- contributed to the conditions that allowed the sexual harassment to occur and persist.'" Bombshell Report: Angel of Death Cuomo Executive Chamber "Normalized" Behavior, "Contributed" to Allowing Harassment to Occur
"Back in March, Biden agreed that if the attorney general's investigation confirmed the allegations against him Cuomo should resign. When asked on Tuesday if he still believed that, Biden said he would 'stand by the statement.'" "Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden Call on Andrew Cuomo to Resign
"I think Governor Cuomo is capable of being president. I think he's a great guy." (he also thinks Hunter has the talent of Michelangelo and the piety of Rabbi Schneerson - jjs) Joe Biden's Praise of Angel of Death Cuomo Did Not Age Well
"We are conducting a separate investigation. I think after today's presentation, which here in Albany county we were witnessing at the same time that the rest of New Yorkers were witnessing, it's pretty clear that we have an obligation here, and thus, we've reached out to the attorney general's office seeking all of the evidence upon which they uncovered and relied upon off of their report." Albany County DA Soares: Gov Cuomo Under Criminal Investigation
"Bombshell report confirms sexual harassment charges against NY Governor." Bye Bye, Cuomo?
Michael Goodwin: "In addition to Monday's devastating report, the feds are probing the nursing home death deception, the book publisher scrapped further printing and there is another probe into his use of state employees to help him write, promote and edit it. . . The pile up means that, in what seems like a nanosecond, Cuomo went from the top of the mountain to the pits." Heartless Angel of Death Cuomo: An Insult to New York -- And His Name (his name was shit to begin with - jjs)
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The McCloskeys, both in their 60s, said they felt threatened during the June 2020 [riots and mayhem], one of countless similar [destructive, terrorist rampages] across the country in response to George Floyd's death." Missouri Governor Pardons Couple Who Aimed Guns at BLM Terrorists
"Americans want an examination of the riots over the summer and the origins of the virus over investigating Jan. 6th," Mark Penn, co-director of the survey, said. "The voters reject the Pelosi move to toss Republicans off of the committee and see it now as just a partisan exercise." POLL: 58 Percent of US Voters Believe Jan. 6 Committee is Biased
"A one-size-fits-all vaccine, particularly one that was approved on an emergency basis with unknown short and long-term side effects, requires allowing the citizenry to evaluate the risk for themselves." Why I Refuse to Be Vaccinated
"Federal, state, and local governments plan to make people's lives miserable if they don't get the jab. It's time to tell the politicians and bureaucrats to go to hell." I'm Unvaccinated -- And I Plan to Stay That Way
"If a city wanted to force out its families, it would not do things much differently than New York has done. We used to understand that families were the key to a thriving Big Apple. Now we push children out of public life, as if they are lepers, and treat them as an afterthought." NYC's New Vaccine Policy Erases Kids From Public Life
"Beijing is battling its latest outbreak of the [Chinese] coronavirus as the highly contagious Delta variant forces new lockdowns and restrictions worldwide." (I think the Orientals are manipulating us again, or else this is a way to quash internal unrest that they do not want us to know about - jjs) China Wracked by Surge in Chinese Coronavirus Cases
"A judge asked the parties to lay out a time frame for written arguments by Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reports. However, it could take months before the judge comes to a final decision." Trump Will Fight Release of Tax Returns
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Donald Trump made huge gains with Latinos and Asians in 2020. And that swing, if it continues, threatens the Democrats' electoral prospects. Moreover, Biden's efforts to change the trend have been plagued with missteps." (meh, open the borders and loot the taxpayer - jjs) Democrats Panic as Latinos and Asian Voters Leave the Party
Lloyd Billingsley: "How did a composite character with a fictional biography become the most powerful man in the world? What we know about Barack Obama, and when we knew it." POTUS 44 Turns 60
"Biden had reportedly planned to lift Title 42, a Trump-era public health order that was used to expel most migrants at the border, at the end of July, but decided to keep it in place due to the coronavirus pandemic. Human rights groups, immigration advocacy organizations and Democrats criticized the president for keeping the policy in place." Doocy Challenges Biden About "Untested and Unvaccinated" Migrants Crossing the Border
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"This is an enemy of the state, and I mean the United States of America. He doesn't give a shit about us, the United States. He knows he can transcend it. He can get away to any place. And so it's just about filthy lucre, that's it." (Burns attacking an ally and fellow traveler who helped bring about the very thing he wants in the first place. I don't get it - jjs) Documentary Director Ken Burns Blast Mark Zuckerberg as "An Enemy of the State"
"A scientific journal article authored by Professor Peter Hotez, a frequent guest on corporate media networks, called to 'extend federal hate-crime protections' for scientists facing criticism from alleged 'far-right extremists,' including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci." Scientific Journal Paper Suggests Making It a "Federal Hate Crime" to Criticize Fauci
"When GETTR, the free speech, "cancel free" social media platform officially launched on July 4th and immediately began to scale, it was certain that Big Tech and the mainstream media would get their knives out." Politico's GETTR Hit-Piece Was Covertly Funded By Big Tech Giants
"The new dark age of silencing According to the legal team for former president Donald Trump, almost 65,000 people have submitted examples of censorship by the social media companies Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and the lawyers have amended Trump's the lawsuit to add those individuals to it." Today's Blacklisted American: 65,000 Americans Censored by Social(ist) Media
"In order to think freely once again, man must start to see the value in contemplative life." Through a Screen, Darkly
". . . people who want to keep it in place have to realize that this vote will be similar to the vote in 2002. The vote in 2002 allowed a hundred thousand troops or more to be in Iraq, it allowed two thousand of our soldiers to die, it allowed 20,000 people to be wounded and over a thousand young men and women to lose their arms and legs. That's what you're voting for now. If you leave this in place any president could do the same thing they did in 2002. That's what you're voting for," Sen. Paul said. "Wouldn't you want to vote again." Senate Committee Debates "Use of Force" Authorizations, Rand Paul Calls For "Public and Official Ending of the Iraq War"
"Military exercises signal larger defense coordination and threaten U.S. security, experts say." (at least no more mean tweets, and we can focus on climate change and white supremacists in the ranks - jjs) China Forges Closer Military Ties to Russia
"Capitalism in space: SpaceX today rolled its 4th Superheavy prototype from its assembly building in Boca Chica, Texas, moving it to the orbital launchpad in preparation for having the 20th Starship prototype stacked on top and assembled for the rocket's first orbital test flight." Superheavy Prototype 4 Rolls to Orbital Launchpad
"ISpace is one of about four such pseudo-private Chines companies. In each case, China is allowing private Chinese capital to finance the development of these rockets, for use both by the Chinese government as well as sale to customers (but only with the government's approval and control)." Chinese Pseudo-Private Rocket Fails During Launch
Christian Toto: "Actor/singer Robert Davi will bring the sordid life of the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] son to life." "My Son Hunter" Finds its Director
"It's amazing how many people are trying to tear down present glories in the name of a past none of them have any interest in going back to." Can We Stop with the "Indigenous" Bit Already?
Dennis Prager: "If you want to know how the left has screwed with people's minds, hearts and consciences, just read the comments sections accompanying New York Times articles. Then read comments accompanying Wall Street Journal articles. You may not agree with them, but you will encounter nothing so comparably irrational or mean, let alone deranged." What's Ripping American Families Apart? Responses From the Bizarre World of New York Times Readers
"Those who fail to meet the Left's political expectations are all enemies to the Left -- whether they see themselves as such or not." Lenin's Legacy of Hatred
HITHER & YON
Michael Anton: "In a regime of equality, excellence and superiority are allowed to thrive while the ordinary virtues of frugality, industry, piety, and fidelity are protected." How Could the Founders Have Done Better?
"Remembering, honoring and teaching about our nation's military heroes." Wreaths Across America
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
Now, I'm not entirely against crypto regulations - some days I'd be delighted to see the entire industry suffer a sudden spontaneous existence failure - but just one part of the infrastructure bill will run to $1 trillion and the regulations are expected to generate $28 billion over ten years.
Give or take five weeks, really. Not a bad article overall:
We have choices. We could use Varnish (scripting! edge side includes! PHK blog posts!). We could use Apache Traffic Server (being the only new team this year to use ATS!). Or we could use NGINX (we're already running it!). The only certainty is that you'll come to hate whichever one you pick. Try them all and pick the one you hate the least.
I was actually planning to do just that - I'm building out a new development lab, and I'm going to deploy a small stack of Intel NUCs for cluster testing. Plan was to use some existing WD Black SSDs and add WD Blues when those ran out.
The WD Blue looks great on Windows-oriented benchmarks, but it's DRAMless. The Samsung 980 is similar, and on the benchmarks on that page it's as much as eight times slower than the WD Black. It's definitely not eight times cheaper.
The problem with the world today is that there are not enough grumpy old bastards saying You're not putting that shit on my servers. Back when I was a very young Pixy they were already a dying breed, and we need to find a new supply somehow.
You'll lose access to Google services by the end of September.
Later but still very old Android devices will continue to work because sometime around Android 4 they added a modular update architecture, but the very early versions can't be fixed any more.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Tuesday it will extend the federal eviction moratorium through October 3, 2021 after the ban lapsed over the weekend.
The announcement comes after pressure from House Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. The White House previously said Biden did not have the authority extend the ban, given a June Supreme Court ruling that said only Congress can enact a such a ban. Congressional Democrats did not appear to have enough votes to do so, and the House is currently in recess.
Now, the CDC will instead issue a ban in counties “experiencing substantial and high levels of community transmission levels” of in Covid-19, which will cover an estimated 90% of renters, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Taxpayers are raising renewed calls to defund NPR after the public broadcaster announced that journalists can now openly advocate for a litany of hot-button political topics.
Last month, National Public Radio loosened its ethics policy, which long prevented correspondents from taking a public position on “controversial” or “polarizing” issues, or participating in politically themed demonstrations. NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride announced on July 29:
Gwen Berry, a U.S. Olympic hammer thrower who turned away from the American flag during the playing of the national anthem, failed to medal during finals on Tuesday.
According to the New York Post, Berry finished in eleventh place out of twelve competitors, registering a distance of 71.35 meters.
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Friend and fellow Cob CBD passed this along. It's really funny.
Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, released a statement that read: "We can't wait any longer to make our roads safer from drunk driving accidents." She went on to say, "The inclusion of my bill in the bipartisan infrastructure package will help incentivize the development and implementation of technology to stop drunk driving once and for all and save lives."
Another provision in the bill was to combat deaths of children accidentally left in hot cars called a "door logic" alert that reminds drivers to check the backseat when turning off the engine.
Janette Fennell, president of Kids and Car Safety, said more than 1,000 children had died in hot cars since 1990.
"The Senate version is only requesting a reminder system that does not detect anything," Fennell said. "It does not let you know if there is an actual child in the back seat.
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Grabbing ass = bad. Letting Grandma and Grandpa die from the Kung Flu in a nursing home = Yawn.
Passenger duct-taped to seat after ‘groping flight attendants’ breasts and punching a third’
In a statement, Frontier Airlines said the ‘passenger made inappropriate physical contact with a flight attendant and subsequently physically assaulted another flight attendant’. That resulted in him needing to be ‘restrained until the flight landed in Miami and law enforcement arrived’.
Frontier Airlines added that the flight attendants were relieved of flying amid an investigation.
But in a later statement, the airline said that ‘the proper policies for restraining a passenger were not followed’ and ‘the flight attendants involved have been suspended pending further investigation’.
Drunk and combative at 35,000 feet, what the hell were they supposed to do, throw him out of the GD plane?
Dan Price is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, a credit card processing and financial services company. In 2015, the company made headlines all over the world when Price announced that his employees would receive a minimum salary of $70,000.
To finance this move, Dan cut his own $1.1M pay by 90%. At the time, this decision received a lot of criticism but 6 years later, the company is thriving and Price said it has made him happier and a better boss.
A contractor who didn’t receive the payment he was promised rented an excavator and destroyed the façade of an apartment building he himself built.
Tenants were supposed to move into a newly completed apartment building in Blumberg, a small town in Germany’s Baden-Wurttemberg, in the next couple of weeks, but a bizarre incident has delayed their plans by at least three months. Late last month, a man operating an excavator showed up at the building and began meticulously tearing down the façade, breaking glass windows and destroying balconies, ultimately leaving the place looking like it had been in a war. Stranger still was that the man responsible for the devastation was allegedly the contractor who had been responsible for building the edifice in the first place.
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I think most of us here enjoy a good hot dog. No this isn't the ketchup vs. mustard fight. Best hot dogs in every state. (H/T Doof)
If the mere mention of the word "hot dog" makes your mouth water, you're in good company. According to Eric Mittenthal, president of the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, Americans eat approximately seven billion hot dogs just between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Certain areas of the country are famous for their hot dogs. We all know that it would be a foodie crime to go to a place like Chicago or New York City and leave without eating at least one hot dog. But the truth is, every state has a food truck or restaurant that serves up a five-star hot dog. From the classic frankfurter to unique twists that take advantage of local ingredients (looking at you, Hawaii!), you can rest assured that no matter where you go in America, there's a place to satisfy your hankering for a hot dog.
Nope, not heading to Wisconsin Dells. Not going to do it.
Molson Coors Just Axed 11 Cheap Beers That You Probably Regret Drinking
The beverage company is veering toward hard seltzers and "premiumization" (sorry, Keystone Ice)
Pour one out for the terrible cheap beer you drank in college, because 11 of those brands will soon be gone.
On a recent earnings call, Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley announced nearly a dozen “economy” beer brands will be axed from its lineup. “This will improve supply chain flexibility for our more profitable priority brands, enhance our innovation efforts, enable us to better focus resources and ensure dependable and on-time shipments to our distributors,” he said during the call. “We’re going to invest bigger behind our fast growing global hard seltzer portfolio and we are going to permanently streamline a smaller portfolio of legacy brands.”
Feds free trucker accused of sneaking 2,270 pounds of pot into Detroit: 'I got justice'
After 16 days of professing his innocence in an American jail cell, a Canadian trucker accused of smuggling more than 2,270 pounds of "highly potent" pot into Detroit has been freed.
And the charges have been dropped.
Tasbir Singh, 32, of Windsor, Ontario, poses in this February 2021 photo with his son. He was freed from U.S. authorities on July 23, 2021 after serving 16 days in jail on marijuana charges that were dropped.
At issue was whether or not the trucker really knew he was hauling $3.2 million worth of marijuana across international lines.
The truck driver said he had no idea weed was in the truck, but rather believed he was transporting coil rings, as was written on all the paperwork. His lawyer, Detroit-based criminal defense attorney Ellen Michaels, investigated the case and says this is what really happened: Slick marijuana dealers hacked into a trucking company's computers, created a fake order for coil springs, and then filled the truck with marijuana instead.
If You Don’t Suspect Deep State Provocation At The Jan. 6 Riot, Start Paying Attention
It's required to ask at the outset of leftists' 1/6 'Truth Commission': How much of what led to Donald Trump supporters 'storming the capitol' was a setup?
Born on this day: 3 Aug 1926
American singer Tony Bennett who had the 1955 UK No.1 single 'Stranger In Paradise' and the 1965 UK No.25 single 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco'. In 1998, Bennett made an unlikely but highly successful appearance on the final day of a mud-soaked Glastonbury Festival in the UK dressed in an immaculate suit and tie, his whole set on this occasion consisting of songs about the weather. Bennett and Amy Winehouse recorded the duet 'Body and Soul' in March 2011 - the final recording made by Winehouse before her death on July 23, 2011 at the age of 27. When the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100 it made Bennett, at age 85, the oldest living artist ever to chart on the Hot 100. via thisdayinmusic.com
On this day: 3 Aug 1963
The Beach Boys released 'Surfer Girl', the first song Brian Wilson ever wrote and the first one he produced. via thisdayinmusic.com
A Chicago-born U.S. wrestler thanked God and expressed joy at representing the United States after becoming the first African-American woman to win gold in wrestling.
Tamyra Mensah-Stock received her gold medal Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics after defeating Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu 4-1 in the women’s freestyle 68kg finals, according to the Olympics’ organizers.
She is the second U.S. female in the history of the Olympics to win gold in wrestling, after Helen Louise Maroulis’ gold medal victory in the 53kg category in Rio 2016.
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Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James Arguelles ruled Monday state law "unambiguously precludes party information from appearing on a recall ballot where the elected officer fails timely to make the designation," according to the Associated Press.
But Newsom has filed a lawsuit to ignore the law and put the "D" on there anyway.
The Washington DC medical examiner petitioned to have Ashli Babbit's body cremated two days after her death.
WHAT?
The Washington D.C. Offices of the Chief Medical Examiner submitted a request to cremate Jan. 6 Capitol protester Ashli Babbitt two days after gaining custody of the body, according to documents obtained and released Tuesday by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.
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Among the 1,160 pages of documents obtained by Judicial Watch is a Jan. 8 application to cremate Babbit’s body that is labeled "completed successfully."
However, neither Judicial Watch nor the medical examiner’s officer could confirm Tuesday whether the entry meant the application or the cremation was successful.
The Justice Department said in April that it would not pursue charges against the unnamed officer accused of fatally shooting the 35-year-old Babbitt because there was insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution.
And they're making sure there's insufficient evidence, huh?
British Columbia is being pressured to change its name, because Christopher Columbus has been #Cancelled. And the socialist Canadian Broadcasting Company is pressing the case for the name change.
There's been a national reckoning on place names and the people they're named after -- and some say that conversation should include looking at the name of British Columbia, which is derived, in part, from Christopher Columbus.
Robert Jago, a writer and consultant from the Kwantlen First Nation and the Nooksack Tribe, says any association with the Italian explorer, who is widely associated with the beginnings of the violent colonization of the Americas, is problematic.
"I think everyone knows this by now, but Christopher Columbus had some issues. Even in his day, he was seen as incredibly violent, genocidal," Jago told guest host Angela Sterritt on CBC's The Early Edition.
"To name a jurisdiction after this person is, in this day and age, not something we would do."
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Michelle Nahanee, who is [word made up of nonstandard characters to be "authentic" to the indigenous Indian language] and the founder of Nahanee Creative, says this renaming process is important and an opportunity to look at what we believe now as a society.
"[Renaming B.C.] would be an opportunity to take us into the future as a decolonial land and approaches that are more connected to the land and the values that are here today," Nahanee said.
Choosing a new name for B.C., Jago said, would be a fresh start.
"It's really hard to build things up when we're continuously being pulled back and reminded of this horrible past," he said.
"If we can have a new name, that's part of it."
Possible alternative names for B.C.
Jago says one possible name for the region, which he described in detail in a recent article for Canadian Geographic, is the name S'ólh Téméxw, pronounced "soul tow-mock." It means "our land" or "our world" in Halkomelem, the language spoken by the Kwantlen people at Fort Langley, where B.C. was declared a colony in 1858.
That's catchy.
Why not name it The Cleveland Guardians?
Some good Olympics news:
Good Olympics News #1: Female Olympic weightlifters were asked if they wanted to comment on "Laurel" Hubbard competing as a woman.
"It feels amazing," the wrestler shared. "I love representing the US. I freaking love living there."
"I love it," she added, as she made a heart with her hand. "And I'm so happy I get to represent USA!"
The cynical side of me says that word of the low ratings and general indifference of Americans to the Olympics has hit Tokyo, and word has gone out to say the sort of things athletes used to say when they won.
But I'll tell that side of me to shut up and just take the W.
Good Olympics News #3: the blue-lipped loudmouth lost, and lost badly.
Gwen Berry, the weird-looking pyrsyn who is not very good at throwing the hammer, finished 11th out of 12 in the finals. She had promised that she would protest if she medaled; I promised this flake wouldn't get anywhere near a medal.
These Olympic Games are never far from the hint of a gesture or protest, a moment of free speech, an opportunity to make a statement.
So it came as absolutely no surprise that U.S. hammer thrower Gwen Berry entered the Olympic Stadium Tuesday night by raising her right fist not once but twice, several seconds apart, to announce that she of all people would be taking advantage of the International Olympic Committee’s relaxed rules allowing freedom of speech prior to the start of play.
"It was the same thing," she said of her gesture after finishing well off the podium and out of the medals in 11th place out of 12 competitors, "social injustice, racial injustice, I'm just here to represent. I know a lot of people like me, a lot of athletes like me, a lot of people are scared to succeed, a lot of people scared to speak out. So as long as I can represent those people, I'm fine."
You represent failure and the bitterness that ugly people feel towards the world.
Shut the fuck up and go away now, Ugly-Bones Loser.
Yup:
I used to look at history’s monsters and wonder how any human being could possibly treat other humans like that.
Then coronavirus came. Now I see clearly. Just wave enough carrots and/or sticks in front of people and they are capable of pretty much anything.
Look at Germany in the 1920s. Who could have predicted that an educated, civilized, highly-cultured, scientifically-advanced, and wealthy society could descend into psychopathic barbarism in 15 years.
A lot of dopey "conservatives" with no appreciation of history and no imagination just keep asserting that It Can't Happen Here for reasons they never specify, but which seem to boil down to, "It's not happening now so it won't happen later" and "That's too distressing for me to contemplate, so I will not think about it" or "Understanding that societies sometimes become barbaric, murderous tyrannies -- by choice! -- would force me to reconsider my constant need to prove myself as One of the Good Ones to my leftist pals, and I don't want to change, so I will refuse to understand this."
I hate these people. It is better to be perfectly ignorant than to credentialed, well-read, and arrogantly, catastrophically wrong about very large matters.
“What Biden is doing is against the law!”
Well, yeah. Stop living in a world of make believe. We live in a post-law country now. The law is whatever they decide.
“Do not quote laws to men with swords.” -Pompey Magnus
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) August 3, 2021
In case you missed it in the last Quick Hits: Funny stuff.
Ryan Long and Danny Pol... something spoof leftwing women's habit of casting every nasty or evil thing they do as "just part of their journey" and something they should be proud of "because it's part of what made them."
Democrats "Distance Themselves" From Cuomo, Go Through Empty Pantomime of "Calling For" Cuomo to Resign
—Ace
Journalists used to deploy a euphemism -- "distancing himself" -- to apply to politicians who offered up some kind of criticism of one of their own party.
It meant nothing. It did not advance any case against the wrongdoer. It did not call for any concrete action to be taken against the politician in bad odor.
It's just a transparently self-serving minimum-possible-effort maneuver to keep yourself from being associated with someone you're clearly associated with.
You're just "distancing yourself" from the stink.
But not doing anything to clean it up.
Democrats are now doing a lot of Distancing Themselves with Cuomo.
The entire Democratic congressional delegation of New York has called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign after an independent investigation by the state attorney general's office found he had sexually harassed multiple women.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) issued a statement Tuesday, saying "the time is right" for Cuomo to resign after an investigation found that he sexually harassed multiple women.
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Most of the 19 Congressional Democrats previously called for Cuomo to resign in in March. At the time, Jeffries, Meeks, and Suozzi were the only three New York House Democrats who did not.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.) also called for Cuomo to resign at the time.
Of course, this is all a hustle; Cuomo won't resign, and NY AG Letitia Jones won't prosecute. This is all just a con to allow the Democrats to Distance Themselves from "The Love Gov."
Joe Biden, a man credibly accused of r@ping a woman (with his hand), which does count as r@pe in many jurisdictions, has now called upon Cuomo to resign.
Well, he barely did that. He was asked if he still stands by his previous statement that Cuomo should resign if found to have sexually harassed women, and he said "I still stand by that."
Note that Cuomo hasn't been convicted of anything, merely accused by a DA.
Pelosi also Politically Distanced Herself from Cuomo by asking him to resign, and then doing nothing else.
Think she'll start a Congressional commission to probe how Cuomo could have gotten away with sexual harassment, and even sexual assault for years and years?
Think she'll start a Congressional commission to probe the tens of thousands of elders he consigned to certain death by seeding the nursing homes with covid-19?
Democratic members of the Assembly held a conference Tuesday afternoon to discuss the potentiality for the impeachment, and many members of the Senate called publicly for his removal.
"Now that the investigation is complete and the allegations have been substantiated, it should be clear to everyone that he can no longer serve as Governor," State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins wrote in an official statement.
Stewart-Cousins also told NY1, "For the sake of the state of New York and the people, the governor should resign."
According to researchers, as of now, 83 percent of members of the New York State Senate and 56 percent of State Assembly members have called on Cuomo to resign or be impeached.
Calling for him to resign means literally nothing, as he's repeatedly said he's not resigning. He says to resign without some kind of legal conviction is "anti-democratic," an idea that might have some merit, except for the fact that Democrats like Cuomo routinely demand trial-free punishments for their enemies.
Here's CNN "journalist" Fredo Cuomo offering a patently dishonest statement for his sexually-harassing, elder-abusing brother to issue to the public:
BREAKING: Here is an email from @ChrisCuomo on Feb 28, 2021 to the Andrew Cuomo inner circle where he appears to have personally drafted a statement for his brother to respond to the allegations pic.twitter.com/Jh3NP3lqKq
New York City will require proof of vaccination for workers and customers who want to participate in indoor activities including dining in restaurants, working out in gyms and attending theater performances, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Tuesday.
The policy is one of the first of its kind in the United States and comes amid a nationwide spike in COVID-19 infections, driven largely by the spread of the delta variant in people who are unvaccinated.
The "Key to NYC Pass" program will begin Aug. 16, and enforcement will begin Sept. 13, de Blasio said during a news conference.
"It's time for people to see vaccination as literally necessary for living a good, full and healthy life," de Blasio said. "If you're unvaccinated, unfortunately, you will not be able to participate in many things."
While New York City is the first U.S. city to institute a municipal vaccine passport, the state developed its own "Excelsior Pass" mobile app, which debuted in March.
It's still racist to ask for proof of identity when people vote, though.
So wait, I don't understand: Where are the hysterical claims that black people don't know how to install apps on their phones? Or are too poor to afford phones?
Meanwhile, in the Free State of Florida, schools were following the teacher union line that children had to be masked all day so that fat, unhealthy teachers could avoid being vaccinated.
DeSantis said he would impound their state funding if they imposed masks on children.
The second-largest school district just blinked.
Tim Swain
@SwainForSenate
BREAKING: Ron DeSantis WINS! Florida's second-largest school district REVERSES its mask mandate after DeSantis threatened to cut funding for schools with mandates.
We'll see what the others do.
The Obama bash -- taking place after a nearby Delta outbreak in Provincetown, as millions face evictions after Obama presided over a massive foreclose crisis -- sounds great! 🤑 🍾
Interesting how every major US politician finds vast oligarchical wealth after leaving office.💰 pic.twitter.com/FAhP3HjEz7
Quick Hits: True Conservatives and Ukrainian Patriots Edition
—Ace
Last week, a poll was published showing that likely California voters were approximately split on recalling Gavin Newsom: 47% in favor, 50% opposed. And the margin of error was +/- 3%.
Gonna be close. Time for anonymous mail-in voting and 4am shut-downs on the count.
Greg Kelly of Newsmax is having some fun with Lt. Bearclaw, who has a book out. I'm sure he was granted a greatly-inflated advance his publisher will never, ever recoup.
VINDMAN spends a lot of time "online"----as he does his MEDIA tour---I definitely want to get that short sleeve plaid shirt. WHO is he wearing ? It's the perfect shirt for going online and "meeting people" pic.twitter.com/A2jpQVMEI8
— Greg Kelly The PROJECT is a Secret (@gregkellyusa) August 1, 2021
Both Lt. Bearclaw and his twin brother, Lt. Apple Fritter, are chubby schlubs who are in no way fit to defend the country:
What a bunch of Schlubs. IS this the waiting room at Jiffy Lube? No, it's the Vindman family---you know, that drama Queen who colluded with the Deep State to get TRUMP. He's now running around trying to remind everyone who he is. Today Fake News @CBSNews hype his "book" pic.twitter.com/NPuOEQfvEf
— Greg Kelly The PROJECT is a Secret (@gregkellyusa) August 1, 2021
Strangely, while Greg Kelly did not mention Vindman's wife there, Lt. Bearclaw assumed that Kelly must mean that his wife is schlubby too.
I’m not @SenTedCruz. I will not allow attacks on my wife and family go unanswered. Your attacks are even more pathetic than your pitiful attempts at notoriety @gregkellyusa. pic.twitter.com/oTrYN3FADo
— Greg Kelly The PROJECT is a Secret (@gregkellyusa) August 1, 2021
Kelly didn't say she was schubbly. Why is Bearclaw saying she is?
I think these two need to have A Discussion about who wears the schlubs in the relationship.
True Conservative David French once again makes the Conservative Case for Reparations, claiming that he's not saying that whites have racial guilt for the sins of the past, it's just that the institutions they created have racial guilt and must act, on behalf of all whites, to extirpate those racial sins.
See? It's a huge difference!
French is in denial about who he really is. A virtue signaling pro-government power leftist. https://t.co/biI1YnSkyG
This is like saying, "Reparations aren't about individual guilt, they're about the government paying reparations to people. It's just that the government is going to impose levies on white people to pay these reparations."
Your weekly reminder that David French has long been a deranged leftwinger but National Review kept insisting he was Their Kind of True Conservative for years.
Speaking of True Conservatives -- the National Man-Boy Lincoln Association is back to its second and third favorite pastimes, after covering up for serial sexual harassment of young men and boys.
Its favorite things to do -- apart from pederasty -- are threatening people with lawsuits for non-existent slander and threatening people with blackmail. Rick Wilson is fond of vaguely suggesting he has blackmail material on people, and then offering the fat internet-addicted tough-guy line, "F*** around and find out."
Here's fellow morbidly obese grifter Steve Schmidt claiming he'll bankrupt you for saying the National Man-Boy Lincoln Association covered up for the pedophile John Weaver:
None of that is true. It is a smear made by men like you because I oppose Trump. I look forward to your retraction and the legal costs I am about to impose on you. I hope they break you. Trust me when I say this. You will publicly apologize. @TheRickWilson
The trouble is, if something is a legitimate matter of public interest and there has been credible reportage about that matter, it is "fair commentary" and therefore not slanderous to opine on it.
And there's been a lot of reporting on the insiders at the National Man-Boy Lincoln Association knowing all about John Weaver's predatory predilections:
The whole Capitol Police force will be awarded a Congressional gold medal from the Senate, including the guy who executed an Air Force veteran.
The Senate has unanimously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the officers of the US Capitol Police & the Metropolitan Police Department, nearly seven months after the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan 6
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 2, 2021
None of you probably know who "Don Winslow" is.
He's supposedly an author.
I know who he is because everytime I click on a Twitter link, this Very Online Twitter Addict is posting far-left hysterical agitprop under every post.
Twitter seems to be promoting his posts/giving them favorable play in their algorithm because he stridently parrots every leftwing narrative.
So here's Twitter Fave Don Winslow offering up vaccine misinformation:
Former NSA John Ratcliffe: It Is Nearly a "Certainty" That China Created and (Accidentally) Released the Covid-19 Virus That Killed 4.5 Million People and Shut Down the Planet
He also says that China should forfeit its right to host the 2022 Olympic Games.
With the summer Olympics kicking off in Japan in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this is a good time to remember that in a matter of just six months, another Olympic Games is scheduled to take place in Beijing, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership coordinated -- and continues to perpetrate -- a massive cover up of the virus's origins and the circumstances surrounding its initial outbreak.
As Director of National Intelligence during much of the pandemic, I know this particularly well.
The 2022 Winter Games should go on. We should not punish hard-working athletes who have dedicated their lives to preparing for this moment. But the world -- and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) -- should not allow Beijing to enjoy the benefits of hosting a massive global event while rejecting transparency and refusing to allow inquiries into, much less answering for, the deaths of millions of people around the world.
Just last week, China rejected the World Health Organization's (WHO) plan to investigate the theory that the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan. This was remarkable not only because of China's continued belligerence, but also because the WHO was once complicit, caving to the CCP's initial pressure to dismiss the lab leak theory and downplay the CCP's coverup. But now the facts are too hard for even the WHO -- and hopefully the IOC -- to ignore.
I had access to all of the U.S. government's most sensitive intelligence related to the pandemic. My informed opinion is that the lab leak theory isn't just a "possibility," at the very least it is more like a probability, if not very close to a certainty.
More than 18 months after the virus first leaked into the world, I still have not seen a single shred of scientific evidence or intelligence that the virus outbreak was a naturally occurring "spillover" that jumped from an animal to a human.
Yesterday I mentioned that the Republicans had issued a report noting that the Wuhan Institute of Pandemic Manufacture had paid for a renovation of its ventilation system in September 2019, which was right around the time that masses of people were spotted going to hospitals in Wuhan.
Jim Geraghty notes this additional fact: The Wuhan lab solicited the bids for a "Security Services procurement project" on the exact same day the Chinese deleted its database about the viruses it was performing gain-of-function research on.
Four days later, it announced a bid competition to renovate its ventilation system (which was only two years old) for $606 million.
Gee guys what do you think happened that required the Wuhan lab to gut and replace its ventilation system?!! And to delete its database of the virus research it was doing?!
Joe Biden's top covid advisor admits that the cloth masks most people are wearing offer "very little" protection from covid, and also very little protection to other people from the mask-wearer's germs.
Cloth masks do not stop the virus from coming in, nor do they stop the virus from going out.
Joe Biden’s top covid advisor just went on CNN and admitted the masks people are wearing don’t work against covid. As I’ve been saying, this is all just cosmetic theater. pic.twitter.com/bB58Up5GXN
Fully vaccinated Dr. Guy P. Benson, Ph.D. tests positive for covid:
Just announced on @GuyBensonShow that despite being fully vaccinated, I tested positive for COVID over the weekend. I’m now 1 of those “breakthrough” cases. My symptoms are very mild, thanks to the vax. I feel fine (while isolating).
Lindsey Graham was also fully vaccinated, and he also came down with covid.
And he spent time this past weekend with other politicos.
So that makes Sen. Joe Manchin, Sen. Mark Kelly and Sen. Jacky Rosen who've spent the past weekend with Lindsey Graham, who says he's tested positive for Covid-19 despite being vaccinated https://t.co/W2dAARZhGr
Let's just hope they're all healthy! I sure wouldn't want the Senate to lack a quorum when they vote on the Human Infrastructure Bill our heroically competent Senate Republicans negotiated for us!!!
People make a big deal about vaccinated people testing positive for covid, as if this disproves the vaccines' effectiveness, but they shouldn't: Even when the vaccines were being tested, researchers announced that Pfizer and Moderna were only 91% and 94% effective (if I remember right) at fully stopping the virus.
What they always followed up with was the claim that the vaccines prevented something like 99% of all serious cases of covid-19.
I would imagine the idea is that the vaccines, having already taught the body how to make antibodies against covid-19, can produce those antibodies far faster -- no learning period required -- when infection comes. White blood cells don't have to go through the process of identifying the intruder virus and learning how to stop its ability to infect cells; they just have to begin producing the antibodies en masse with the coding already in their possession.
Thus, they provide high protection against any infection, and very high protection against serious infections.
But not complete protection.
But they were never claimed to provide that, ever.
So it's not any kind of huge point to make that vaccines which were sold as stopping most, but not all, covid infections turn out to stop most, but not all, covid infections.
That said, given Dr. Guy P. Benson, Ph.D.'s constant Panic Porn about covid, I have to ask him, as he whiningly asked the Trump Administration during a covid briefing around March/April 2020: But what about social distancing?
Dr. Benson was very, very critical of the Trump Administration for not pushing social distancing harder. They did mention it, but not with the breathless, choking fear that Dr. Guy P. Benson, Ph.D., determined was appropriate with his beakers and bunsen burners and Erlenmeyer Flasks.
So I have to ask Dr. Guy P. Benson, Ph.D., the same question: But what about social distancing, Doctor? Surely you were fully masked and maintaining a six-foot Zone of Impregnable Safety around yourself during this time of elevated panic about the Dread Delta Doom.
So how could you have gotten infected?
BUT WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING?!?!
I should allow that the Providence incident is closer to evidence that the vaccines are not offering >90% against any covid infection. I forget the numbers -- what was the claim, that 75% of the people in the super-spreader outbreak were vaccinated?
But most people there were probably vaccinated, and the fact that 75% of the infected in a sample were vaccinated is not the same thing as saying that 75% of the vaccinated were infected. Just like saying "almost all terrorists are Muslims" is not the same as saying "almost all Muslims are terrorists."
Still, it's that kind of evidence that would tend to establish that the vaccines do not work as advertised. You'd want to establish that the vaccines not only don't totally protect against any infection -- no one ever claimed they did -- but that they don't provide the high-but-not-complete protection they were said to provide.
Simply amplifying the fact that this guy here and and that guy there were vaccinated and got the 'rona doesn't prove the vaccines don't work as advertised. Again, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine only claimed 91/94% total protection, and I think the J&J virus was only established to provide something like 75%/80% total protection. You'd want to establish not just that infection happens -- that was always admitted -- but that it happens at a higher rate than originally claimed.
The big selling point was always that they all reduced serious cases to a very small number, less than 1%.
As far as I know, it is now an established fact rather than a prediction or projection that the vaccines do in fact prevent 99% of all serious cases of covid. The numbers of vaccinated people being hospitalized for covid is very low, and the numbers of vaccinated people dying due to covid is even lower.
If people think the risks of vaccines that so far have only been found to be safe and effective by the reduced standards of the Emergency Use Authorization process exceed the risks on not getting them, that's understandable, though I disagree. This depends on how healthy and young you are, of course.
Personally, I think that if you're rapidly approaching age 29, as I am (and as I have been for quite some time now), and if you've got some fun stuff around your belly (as I still have, and always have had), my guess would be the risks of the vaccine itself are much lower than the risks of being unvaccinated against covid-19.
But individual decisions will of course vary.
But the "he's vaccinated, and he got 'rona" game relies on either an unwitting or willful ignorance of the high-but-imperfect level of protection of the vaccines as was always promised.
A couple of good reads on the reason for public skepticism about the vaccines:
In short, the supposed Expert Class has been lying to us not just about things like the effectiveness of masking for a long time, but about things like Russian Collusion for even longer.
Everybody wrap something around your face again even though they said you wouldn't need to if you got vaxxed! But they didn't lie -- no, apparently a bunch of people -- and not just those evil white nationalist-Christian-gun-Jesus-flag people -- are refusing to get the vaccine, and the reason is that they are moral defectives somehow in thrall to Tucker Carlson's Svengali-like powers of persuasion. You see, the people who won't get it are stupid people who hate science because they refuse to trust the people who have spent the last year-and-a-half lying to them.
I don't blame those folks a bit.
Let's try a thought experiment. Let's imagine our ruling class was not as utterly corrupt, dishonest, incompetent and downright stupid as it manifestly is. I know that's hard, but go with me.
This weird new virus appears and starts spreading. Instead of leveraging it to take down Trump, the Democrats appear with the Republican president and GOP leadership to announce they are working together to solve the problem. Imagine that instead of shaming people, first about wearing masks, then about not wearing masks, then about not wearing two masks, then no masks, then masks again, they went with transparency.
"We are not sure how much, if at all, masks work. We're running test trials to see and we'll tell you what we find as soon as we have the data. In the meantime, let's all wear them just in case." And then, when they ran the studies, they would tell us the answer.
Have you seen any studies about masks? We get a lot of that fascist gnome and others telling us to wear masks (after initially telling us they were useless -- remember that memory-holed narrative?) but where's the actual science?
See, you have to believe the science, and believe them when they tell you what it is yet won't show you. Obey!
But trust is earned, and these people act like it is their right to have our trust, that we owe them to take it on faith that whatever these people say is the Gospel. Except they are wrong all the time, and instead of owning up to it, they treat you like some sort of idiot for noticing. When you don't trust people who are perpetually wrong, that's not denying science. That is science---you are making observations, and drawing reasonable conclusions. In this case, the observation is that our establishment sucks, and that it can't be trusted.
How far would a little humility gone? Very far.
I had this thought a couple of weeks ago:
The Panic Karens are now all nattering about how they can finally instruct/bully/coerce everyone into obeying their latest "guidances."
They keep asking, "How do we convince these Stubborn Trumpkins?"
(They don't ask how they can convince the stubborn black and Hispanic vaccine-hesitant, because The Regime has determined only the white working class can be attacked.)
Here's a possible answer:
You can start to convince these stubborn people by admitting all of the errors you made -- and lies you told -- and cover-ups and gaslighting you engaged in to hide your lies -- and thereby start to re-earn public trust.
Now all of The Regime claims it cares only about helping people and keeping them well.
But notice their Noble Concern does not quite go far enough to compel them to admit error and lies.
No, no, no. They'd rather see another million or two die than admit having been wrong and having lied in the past.
So take their claims of being so very Concerned for that they are: Yet another series of Regime lies, casting their unrelenting, hateful, snarling attacks on the white working class and Trump voters generally as something benevolent and holy.
White-Grifter-Pretending-to-be-Black Shaun King Buys $842,000 House With Grifted Funds, Then Actually Fundraises for Additional Grift Money, Alleging That The Disclosure Of His Luxe Home Puts Him In Danger
Shaun King has built his image on being a champion of the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights activist lives like a one-percenter in a sprawling lakefront home, records show.
King, 41, moved earlier this year from a luxury two-bedroom apartment in downtown Brooklyn, to the five-bedroom, 3,000 square foot North Brunswick, NJ, property, with "a lakefront backyard" and gourmet kitchen, according to public records.
The property, surrounded by lush, tall trees, was purchased by King's wife, Rai-Tonicia King, a Ph.D. candidate and educator, in November 2020 for $842,000, public records show.
A Ph.D. candidate and "educator" -- which I assume means Teaching Assistant pulling a meager stipend while she pursues her Ph.D. -- would not normally have enough money to purchase 84% of a million dollar house.
King has been dogged for years by allegations of shady dealings in his charitable efforts in movements he has founded -- including a lack of transparency in money he has raised for several criminal justice initiatives he has backed.
Talcum X is always raising money, but people have noticed that very little money reaches the people or causes the money was supposedly raised for.
And now he's got a new grift: Claiming that Fox News and the New York Post, by running a picture of his home, have put in life in danger, and guess what that means?
That means that you'll have to send him even more money so he can move from the $842,000 house he just bought.
2, Democrats have just decided that Cuomo is a weak candidate for reelection and its time to purge him, or
3, both 1 and 2 in an unspecified ratio.
Reagan McCarthy at Townhall:
New York Attorney General Letitia James addressed the sexual harassment scandal surrounding Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY). James said that the investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct made against Cuomo constitute sexual harassment in the workplace, a violation of state and federal law.
"Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law," James said.
James noted that the 4-month probe confirmed that Cuomo "engaged in unwanted and inappropriate groping, kissing, hugging, and comments that accusers called 'deeply humiliating, uncomfortable, offensive, or inappropriate.'" The officials also noted that Cuomo created a "toxic work environment" and "climate of fear." The report from the investigators also found that "the governor and his senior team took actions to relate against at least one former employee for coming forward" with allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace.
....By engaging in one wanted groping, kisses, hugging, and by making inappropriate comments. Further, the governor and his senior team took actions to retaliate against at least one former employee for coming forward with her story."
17 In before the DOJ refuses to prosecute.
Posted by: Beartooth
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"The independent investigation has concluded that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, and in doing so, violated federal and state law," says New York state attorney general after a four-month probe.
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And then she refused to charge him with anything.
Posted by: Tami
I am with this tweet instituting my own vaccine mandate. I am not interacting with people any more whom I do not know to be vaccinated, and I reserve the right to demand proof of vaccination from anyone on pain of refusal to further engage. Children excepted of course.
Motherfucker you do 99% of your "interacting" on twitter. Get off of the fucking internet for five minutes, you diseased Gollum. These neurotics and hysterics are becoming more and more mentally ill.
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