And I don’t know what I’m supposed to do…
Din’t know I had it when I gave it to you…
Just got that old-time Wuhan flu….

With apologies to Bob Seeger — stolen from the NO AGENDA podcast, which I can highly recommend.

I hear whispers that not only is the coronavirus hitting East Asians hardest, but specifically Han Chinese.

There are indications that Africans may have the same special lung structures that make Chinese especially vulnerable to the coronavirus, so it will be interesting to see what happens if it spreads to the extensive Chinese colonies in Africa.

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Put a 20mm chaingun mount on it and I’m in.

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We all want to change the world.

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Not going viral, I suspect.

Radix malorum est stupiditas, as a friend of mine likes to say.

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Because America has been so cruel to them, obviously.

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Dead cow and spuds are the basis of all true civilization.

Note how everyone is trying to find a vegetable substitute for meat — nobody ever tries to find a meat substitute for vegetables.

The technical term for vegetarians is ‘prey’.

Joel Kotkin watches the slow-motion train wreck.

For generations the Democratic Party has survived as an amalgam of competing factions: the labor-oriented party Middle American mainstream, the assorted billionaires and grandees from the coasts and the rising “clerisy “ of educated, credentialed professionals.

This coalition has shattered as the old unionized working-class base, at least among whites, has all but disappeared, replaced by the less settled precariat of unorganized, often temporary and increasingly non-white workers.

If white people ever get together and start voting as if they were an ethnic group, Democrats are in serious trouble.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

Why anyone would want actually to live in New York City, when it’s possible to live outside of it and just travel there for what you want, always escapes me. I suppose it’s the same mind-set that prompts people to stay in an abusive marriage.

Triumph of hope over experience, indeed.

Analysis of a carbon forecast gone wrong: the case of the IPCC FAR

The Ocean Floor is Sinking Due to Climate Change  Newsweek.

The Conversation? “ethically misguided and downright dangerous” NOT to Censor Climate Deniers

Sore Loser Alert: Bill Maher Moans He’s Standing Over the ‘Casket’ of Democracy

Japan Set To Release 1.2 Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean, Causing “Immeasurable Damage”  Waiting for Godzilla….

ABC’s Top Analyst: One Big Impeachment Loser Is ‘System of Checks and Balances’  Although probably not the way he means it.

ABC Fears Trump Post-Acquittal, He ‘Has Not Escaped this Issue’  You can kiss your ‘bipartisanship’ goodby.

Schiff Claims Democrats ‘Have Proved’ Impeachment Case Against Trump

CNN’s John Harwood Ties Senate Impeachment Votes on Witnesses to Confederacy

Bloomberg Campaign: Trump a ‘Liar’ About Debate Step Ladder

You Know Who Doesn’t Particularly Care About Impeachment? Democratic Voters

EXCLUSIVE: Google Employees Used Company Resources To Organize Anti-Trump Resistance Events Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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The nonstop campaign by bought politicians, owned news outlets, and manipulated social media platforms to control the dominant narratives about what’s going on in the world contribute vastly more to the sickness of our society than government secrecy does. We know this from experience: any time a whistleblower exposes secret information about the malfeasance of powerful governments like NSA surveillance or Collateral Murder, we see not public accountability, nor demands for sweeping systemic changes to prevent such malfeasance from reoccurring, but a bunch of narrative management from the political/media class.

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It’s a good thing they banned all the guns or who knows what might have happened.

Of course, they might more usefully have banned all the Muslims, but that would be raaaaaaacist.

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Many major U.S. cities run by liberal Democrats are in rough shape. They are afflicted by the problems of homelessness, violent crime, gangs, and unemployment to a far greater degree than the country as a whole.

Well, that’s what you get when Democrats run your city.

UPDATE: Tech giants have turned San Francisco into a dystopian nightmare

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As Eric Raymond suspected, it appears to be a bioweapon.

Since it also appears to be targeted at East Asians, I’m not going to worry about it.

I don’t know whether this was deliberately targeting China or merely the result of a fumble on their part, but the effect will be equally devastating all the same.

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To her, it undoubtedly does.

I’d really like to know what she uses for a brain.

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I am under no illusions that the current peace plan, version 45A-2, will be any more successful than the previous ones, but it does serve to illuminate a few of the intractable problems in Arab society. Accepting the blatant dishonesty and unbelievable crookedness and corruption of its leaders is a fundamental flaw in their culture, and one that guarantees the continuation of their poverty, internal violence and existential ennui.

East Asian andMiddle Eastern nations are living reminders that the normal state of mankind is to live under corrupt and oppressive governments. This makes the current Establishment hatred of Western liberal democracy even more moronic and criminal.

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If I were the richest guy in the world, I would have this dweeb kidnapped, flown to China, and dumped in a back alley in Wuhan.

Just sayin’.

On the other hand, anybody who would trade this:

for this:

has a screw loose. So there’s that.

Looks like John Gotti’s dimwitted uncle. Would you trust this guy? With anything> I wouldn’t.

Ace of Spades blows the whistle.

It has also exposed what so many of us have suspected for many years; our federal legislature is a fundamentally unserious body. It is filled with vain, arrogant, profoundly unintelligent and incurious apparatchiks whose only foci is the pursuit of the front-and-center position in front of the media’s microphones or cameras, followed closely by the frantic charge into every pocket with the least hint of cash. Whether those pockets belong to constituents, donors, foreign despots or enemies of America is of very little importance.

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Donald Trump’s appearance on the national stage has done a few things, but perhaps his most important and long-lasting success is the pulling back of the curtain. We see in its naked, pus-filled and evil glory the deep state, the corruption of our central government and the embarrassing lack of gravitas and wisdom among those who preen and crow and brag about how special and wonderful and elite they are.

Concur.

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I’m glad they banned all the guns and made the streets safe.. Just think of what would have happened if they hadn’t.

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Michale Moore wakes up and smells the corruption in the Democrat party.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mapping-where-corruption-most-rampant

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Or maybe not, but it sounds very interesting.

‘View’ Hosts Get Religious: ‘God Help America, Democracy’ If Trump Acquitted, Re-Elected!

MSNBC Offers a Gushing Fire Hose of Venom Toward GOP Amid Celebrating Bolton Leak  It is, after all, what they do.

Meacham Meltdown on NBC: ‘Monarch’ ‘King’ Trump Now ‘Above the Law’

Bernstein to CNN: GOP Has ‘Now Joined Hands With a Tyrant’

‘DEATH OF OUR DEMOCRACY’: Hollywood Tears Flow Over Murkowski Vote  Even their RINOs are deserting the ship.

Paul Krugman admits economy doing ‘pretty well’ after predicting Trump would lead to global recession

Washington Post Hails Democrat House Manager as ‘Modern-Day Wonder Woman’

David Brooks Slams America: ‘Not Persuadable by Evidence and Facts Anymore’  I doubt that anybody outside of the Sulzberger family thinks anymore that David Brooks is a conservative, but this ought to put the nail in that particular coffin.

Jorge Ramos Tried To Wokescold Hispanic Trump Supporters, Got SCHOOLED Instead

Why were whales increasingly caught in crab lines? Because of the climate crisis The Guardian.

New research highlights how plants are slowing global warming

Enviros Rally Around A Podcast Designed To Out Supposed Big Oil Propagandists

Cold wave grips northern Saudi Arabia, meteorologists fear strongest cold snap ever  Gotta lobe that global warming.

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This is news?

His choice for President instead of Trump was David French. What does this tell you about David French?

ZMan peers behind the curtain into the Deep State.

Eric Ciaramella, the CIA plant, who concocted the predicate for the impeachment hoax is friends with John Brennan, the former CIA director. He is also in the same social set as members of Adam Schiff’s crew of witch hunters. Like a religious cult, these people reinforce the paranoia of one another with these bizarre theories to explain what they think is some great anomaly. Trump could not have won the election fair and square, so there must be some hidden reason behind it.

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This kind of heavy handed censorship is the main reason nobody trusts the Chinese Government to tell the truth. Facebook allowing the Chinese government to control Facebook content will not stop the rumours spreading, with the TOR network and plain old telephone calls, there is no longer a way to stop the flow of information and rumours other than to shut down everything – and shutting down all communication would send its own message.

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More than half of all unsheltered homeless people in the U.S. – some 53 percent – are in California. That’s nearly nine times as many as the state with the second-highest total of unsheltered homeless which is Florida.

I can’t think of any better place to be ‘homeless’.

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Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was notified Friday by a tweet from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chair Matt Schlapp that he was “not invited” to the annual conference after being one of two Republicans in the Senate to vote to call additional witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.