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The scientific journal Nature doesn’t exactly say that in its April 7 editorial but the title sure gives off that same vibe: “Stop the coronavirus stigma now.” The subhead complains “The pandemic is fuelling deplorable racism and discrimination, especially against Asian people.”

For which, of course, there is no evidence, except in the fever dreams of proglodytes.

Steve Sailer reads this stuff so that you don’t have to.

ou know what we’ve been missing? Right! Lately, we just haven’t had enough New York Times op-eds on the theme of Hate Whitey from self-promoting Asian women writers. But happy days are here again….

Climate projections may have ignored the world’s secret weapon against climate change

Awakening volcanic region in Iceland ‘could cause disruption for centuries’  The Guardian.

Volcanic activity is escalating in Icelandic region and could cause disruption for CENTURIES  Dail Mail.

Study: Climate Change to cause“Abrupt Biodiversity Loss” by 2030

Coral Catastrophes Imagined

What the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board gets exactly right about Trump’s problematic coronavirus briefings  CNN. Problematical? And you know how loudly they would bitch if he didn’t hold briefings.

Authorities fight against Easter gatherings  USA Today.

Trump administration is rushing to gut environmental protections  CNN. Rushing!

‘That Is Not A Fair Question’: Trump Spars With Jim Acosta During Coronavirus Briefing

On PBS, David Brooks Hammers Trump for His ‘North Korean-Style Loyalty Tests’

Media’s Latest Strategy To Fight Trump: Remove Him From His Press Conferences

CNN Accidentally Displays ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Question During Coronavirus Town Hall

NY Times Calls Trump’s Vote-by-Mail Fraud Claim ‘False,’ But Saw ‘Fraud’ in 2012

Ocasio-Cortez Says Trump’s ‘Xenophobic COVID Response’ Scaring People Away From Hospitals  An assertion for which, of course, no evidence is presented — possibly because it’s not true.

Ali Velshi Uses Pandemic to Politicize Easter

Bloomberg Praises “Uninterpretable” Gilead Study While Bashing Trump “Miracle Drug” Hydroxychloroquine

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I’m tempted to suggest that the feel-good news story of the week is “UN To Run Out of Money by End of Month, Secretary General Warns.” Aww, wouldn’t that be a shame.

But no, by far the the best stand-up-and-cheer-for-‘Murica story this week is “Team Allegedly Sets New ‘Cannonball Run’ Record on Empty Highways During Coronavirus Lockdown.” Now that’s making the best of the bad situation, American-style! Me, I’m getting three weeks to the gallon on my car right now, and so admire and envy the lust for speed on the open road.

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America is the most mobile society in history, but our transportation system is on the verge of collapse. Traffic congestion is today five times greater than it was 25 years ago, yet many transportation plans and projects are making it worse. As Randal O’Toole reveals in Gridlock, the prime causes of our ailing system are a government transportation planning philosophy whose primary goal is to diminish auto use—hence, personal mobility—in combination with federal budget incentives that perversely encourage transportation planners to increase congestion. As a result, the automobile which is accessible to almost every family in the nation and provides unparalleled access to better housing, low??cost consumer goods, a choice??driven affordable life, and freedom—is being deliberately forced off the transportation grid by the expensive “solution” of little??used high??speed trains and urban transit lines.

A blast from the past (2008).

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

When Popular Science actually writes about, you know, science rather than thinly-disguised proglodyte talking points, it’s actually pretty interesting.

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The mayor in question is, unsurprisingly, a Democrat.

This pandemic has the one advantage that it has publicly exposed, in a way that no other event could, who among our elected officials are actually closet fascists. Somebody with more energy than me needs to make a list and bring it up during the next regularly scheduled election.

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Maher is one of the most inconsistent human beings in existence — half of the time he is a deranged proglodyte, and the other half of the time he is a rational adult, and you can never predict which one you’re going to get.

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In “Who Wants to Play the Status Game?,” her Jan. 16 column at The Point, Agnes Callard, an academic philosopher at the University of Chicago, makes some interesting observations and claims. Like doctors, lawyers, and indeed the entire range of ambitious human beings, academics often find it difficult to tolerate the next fellow’s social distinction and the egotism that accompanies it. “‘Look at me,’” said Bertrand Russell, who was not a very modest man, “is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart.” But having looked at you who are so special, others may be filled with envy and resentment, nor is there anything human psychology loathes more than the judgment (especially when it’s accurate): “That person is better than me.” Hence the need for certain leveling games that serve as a kind of indispensable moral (or pseudo-moral) social glue.

If you look at Underclass people, they all have LOOK AT ME plastered all over them, from fancy decorated fingernails and bizarre tattoos to pink hair and uncomfortable  but striking clothing. Such people don’t have a lot of control over what happens to them in life so they tend to focus on the little that they actually do control, their appearance (and often their political twitches). Pretty sad, really.

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In my private life, I expressed my love for passenger trains by helping to restore the SP&S 700 steam locomotive and several passenger cars; buying (but never really doing anything with) some model trains; collecting railroad memorabilia; building a library of hundreds of books on passenger trains and railroad history; and joining dozens of rail history societies and museums. None of these things were as satisfying as riding the trains themselves, so whenever I had an opportunity I rode tourist trains such as the White Pass & Yukon and Cumbres & Toltec.

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My, what a coincidence.

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African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too.

On the other hand: Eddie Glaude Blames ‘Structural Racism’ for Minority COVID Death Toll

Watching people realize that the models were never intended to tell you the future, they were only intended to persuade, is a really a big mind-effer, if you know what I mean. And a lot of people are waking up into a new reality, in which they realize that the so-called experts certainly know more than we do — I’m not saying you should ignore experts —  but you can’t trust them to give it to you straight when that doesn’t work.

— Scott Adams

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Higher education today resembles a massive Ponzi scheme. Colleges desperately recruit ever more marginal students who stand little chance of graduating. Before their inevitable withdrawal, those students’ tuition dollars fuel the growth of the bureaucracy, which creates the need to get an even larger pool of likely dropouts through the door to fund the latest round of administrative expansion. Administrative positions at colleges and universities grew at ten times the rate of tenured faculty positions from 1993 to 2009, according to academic consulting firm ABC Insights. By the 2013 school year, there were slightly more campus administrators nationwide than faculty; spending on the bureaucracy was equal to spending on all educational functions, including faculty. Tuition rose to cover those bureaucratic expenses, regardless of whether families could afford to pay it. Tuition at private four-year colleges grew 250 percent from 1982 to 2012, while the median family income rose about 18 percent, adjusted for inflation, according to ABC Insights. Since the 2008 recession, tuition at four-year public colleges rose 35 percent.

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One of the most effective tools in the arsenal of any MSM hack is to brand information questioning or contradicting the official narrative as a dangerous ‘conspiracy theory’. Keep in mind, many of the same writers who accused Zero Hedge of promoting ‘conspiracy theories’ about a possible connection between the novel coronavirus and a nearby bioweapons lab – contributing to a permanent suspension from Twitter, a social media org which purports to be a ‘marketplace of ideas’ free of political bias – shamelessly promoted the false ‘Trump-Russia’ conspiracy for years.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

John Derbyshire.

We all live on the same planet, to be sure, and we have common concerns in areas like, oh, public health. But making your country dependent on a geopolitical rival for some high proportion of your medications, or key manufacturing processes, is seriously stupid.

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I’ve now treated several patients with the new cancer gene therapy called CAR-T, but there’s still a lot to learn.

The unholy alliance of covid-19, nationalism, and climate change  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Global Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Jane Fonda’s Climate Hysteria  Why would it?

Trump’s self-interest is at odds with safe coronavirus policy  The Hill. More mind-reading Loserthink.

Oversight erased, Supreme Court hijacked: Trump turns the presidency into a dictatorship  USA Today.

CBS’s Anti-Trump Drama Fantasizes: President Hillary Cures Cancer, Saves Rainforest

Acosta Miffed About Taking Test to Keep Task Force Safe Since ‘So Many…Can’t Get’ Tested

James Carville: Republicans Want to Kill People to Keep Power Jen Rubin: We Democrats Must Be Eager to Say Republicans Want to Kill People to Keep Power

Left-Wing Super Pac Dumps Six-Figure Ad Buy On Memes Hitting Trump For Golfing Amid Virus Pandemic

Schiff Unveils Bill For Coronavirus Commission; Swears It’s Not To Lay Blame  And if you believe that one he’ll tell you another one.

Colbert, Obama Alum ‘Enraged’ By Trump’s ‘False Hope’ at Briefings: ‘Doing More Harm Than Good!’

Trump And Fauci Team Up To Knock Down Question From NBC Reporter

‘This Is the Real Deal’; Watch Trump Torpedo Jim Acosta for Trashing ‘Happy Talk Briefings’

Spike Lee Blasts Trump, Praises Cuomo, Claims Coronavirus Is Earth’s Revenge

Amanpour Presses for Biden to Hit Trump, Embrace Sanders

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Open doors and press buttons without touching them!

I am not making this up.

“If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.” — George Carlin.

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See what your Senator is buying and selling.

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The stakes could not be higher. On the table are not just millions of lives and many billions of dollars and renminbi but perhaps a century’s worth of geo-political power and status. If science is the exit to the lockdown forced upon the world by Covid-19, then a working vaccine holds the most likely key to the door.

Babylon Bee.

The new method of college admissions will just figure out how oppressed or privileged you are and assign you an oppression score based on your racial background. Those with lots of marginalized ancestors will receive a high score, while those with evil, privileged ancestors will receive a low score. Prestigious schools such as Ivy League institutions will only consider applicants with an Oppression Score of 1500 or higher. Asian students start the test off with an automatic 500-point deduction, while white students are asked to leave the testing site immediately.

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“The World Health Organization did not protect the world from this pandemic and I consider them to be co-conspirators with the Chinese Communist Party,” McCaul continued. He also called for the resignation of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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He must have had dirt on Hillary.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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They’re fundraising on Easter weekend during a national shutdown in which many people are missing paychecks and maybe seeing their businesses go bankrupt?

Bold call, Cotton. Let’s see how that goes.

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Apparently, liberals have an alternative reality built up in their minds where Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in 2016 and now is an amazing president.

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The Charmed actress, who days ago dismissed sexaul assualt allegations against Dem fave Joe Biden a year-and-a-half after slandering Justicice Kavanaugh over laughable sexual assault allegations, posted a video to Twitter of her decrying the high amount of gun sales during the pandemic. It was, she said, a “dangerous” trend.

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Everything sounded on track for WASHLITE as it filed suit April 2 in a dark blue state, a blue county (King County, which includes Seattle), and a liberal judge named Ken Schuber who’s both donated to far-left causes and received help in his campaign from a progressive political firm.

So why has WASHLITE changed its tune and moved to have Schuber disqualified from the case? And why do so only a week after filing it? The likely answer? Because they know it will fail miserably.

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Uh, no.

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Someone who had specific information that the CDC did not was Dr. Helen Y. Chu, an expert in infectious diseases in Seattle. In an excellent New York Times news story on March 10, reporters Sheri Fink and Mike Baker tell the tragic tale. As a result of her months-long research in the flu, Dr. Chu and her colleagues had a collection of nasal swabs from people experiencing symptoms. She spent weeks trying to get permission from state and federal officials to test the swabs for the coronavirus. They turned her down. The CDC told her on February 16 that if she wanted to use her test as a screening tool, she would need permission from the Food and Drug Administration. But because of regulations put in place by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the FDA could not approve. Finally on February 25, in desperation, she and her colleagues did the tests without approval. And bingo: she found a positive test for a teenager who had not recently traveled. But for the regulation, she could have known this weeks earlier. And did the FDA see the error of its ways and give her credit? No. Dr. Scott Lindquist, Washington state’s epidemiologist for communicable diseases, says, “What they [the CDC and the FDA] said on that phone call very clearly was cease and desist to Helen Chu. Stop testing.”

As often happens, government is the problem, not the solution; the people we hired to fix such problems just make them worse.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

NY Times Reporter: Virus Proves We Blew ‘Most Important Election’ of Lives on Trump

Nets Hype Experimental Virus Treatments, Bash Drug Boosted By Trump

WHO Director-General Tedros Harsher Toward Trump Than Toward China

Washington Post praises Tom Cotton to bash President Trump

James Carville: Republicans ‘Will Kill People To Stay In Power’

Defense Official Shoots Down ABC Report Alleging Trump Admin Ignored Virus Warnings

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Unspools His Inner Conspiracy Kook on Virus Goalpost-Moving

Chris Hayes, One Month Ago: Trump “Personally Pressured” Health Officials to “Manipulate the Numbers Downward” Chris Hayes, Yesterday: Trump Inflated the Death Count So He Could Brag When The Numbers Came In Lower

‘No One Has Forgotten This Is How You Honor POWs’: Meghan McCain Blows Up At Trump On POW Day

Media On ‘Jihad’ Against Anti-Malaria COVID-19 Treatment Since Trump Endorsed Use: AG Barr  They don’t want an easy fix; their business model depends on stretching the doom & gloom out as far as possible, not to mention their ideological propensity for using this ‘crisis’ to implement progressives policies.

News, or Editorial? AP Reporter Lemire Rants ‘Trump Cycles Through Targets to Blame’

Welcome to the Shibbolithic

Oh, But We’re Anti-Science? Climate Change Zealots Harrelson, Cusack Push Crackpot ‘5G’ Theory

Radical Environmentalists’ Giddiness During Pandemic Exposes Their True Aims

ZMan is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

The people making the models and making predictions care about things that are important to them. It has always been assumed that they care most about being right, but as the models have failed and they are now “updated” on a daily basis, it turns out that accuracy really was never all that important to them. Marc Lipsitch, the guy largely responsible for the panic, was never all that concerned with being right.

Similarly, the people making public policy were always working their deals, rather than working your deal. By that I mean they were not issuing crack down orders on people because it was good for the public. They did it because it was good for them or at least they assumed it was good for them. It is why we had a race between states to see who could arrive at the most absurd policies. The nation lies dormant now because of a bizarre beauty pageant among the nation’s governors.

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As the world has slowed down to stave off the spread of COVID-19, stories of wild animals tromping into now-quiet city streets have gone viral online. Some of these turned out to be completely made-up, including the dolphins supposedly swimming through Venice canals or the elephants getting drunk on corn wine in a Chinese farming village.

But there are also plenty of very real sightings of animals you might not expect in the urban jungle. Coyotes have been spotted throughout San Francisco, even taking naps in patches of green spaces in the city. In the coastal Welsh town of Llandudno, a herd of mountain goats stomped through the streets, munching on vegetation and climbing walls. In Boulder, Colorado, mountain lions have been prowling residential streets—one even took a nap in a backyard tree.

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David Horowitz, among others, has noted that “Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” We see that today, as state governments assert the power, often illegally, to tell the rest of us how to live our lives, and to shut down hundreds of thousands of businesses.

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I am no alarmist, but I am surprised at how easy it has been for the authorities–liberal authorities, in most cases–to cow the rest of us into radically and unquestioningly changing our behavior in response to orders of dubious legality that are not supported by any scientific proof.

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The enzyme, originally discovered in a compost heap of leaves, reduced the bottles to chemical building blocks that were then used to make high-quality new bottles. Existing recycling technologies usually produce plastic only good enough for clothing and carpets.

Pope: Coronavirus May Be ‘Nature’s Response’ to Climate Change

Chaos rocks Trump White House on virus’ most tragic day  Really? Chaos?

Column: Denial and Blame at The New York Times

CNN’s Brian Stelter Whines No Staffer ‘Stands Up’ to Trump When He Whacks the Press

NY Times Levels Ridiculous Page One Conflict of Interest Charge on Trump, Corona Drug  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

‘That Is A Lie!’ Joe Scarborough Goes On Screaming Rant At Networks For Not Fact-Checking Trump During Live Press Briefings

MSNBC Hypes Attack on ‘Right-Wing Clone’ of Trump, Tucker Carlson

ABC Cheers China as ‘Glimmer of Hope,’ Trashes Trump for ‘Missed Warning Signs’

Snopes Gives NYT ‘Mostly False’ Rating Over Article About Trump And Hydroxychloroquine

Kamala Harris Claims ‘People Are Dying’ Because Of Trump Administration’s ‘Vacuum Of Leadership’

Soros-Funded Left-Wing Group Free Press Fails to Get FCC to Label Trump Virus Briefings as ‘Hoaxes’

CACrabtree: Words to Live By, Especially for Never-Trumpers (Part Deux)

‘View’ Asks Kamala to Trash Drug ‘Pusher’ Trump, Blame Him for ‘American Lives Lost’

‘Bulls**t!’: CNN’s Chris Cuomo Slams Trump Over ‘Asinine’ Leadership Based On Clip That Omits Half His Comments  Liberals are liars every day.

Kamala Harris On Trump Touting Hydroxychloroquine: ‘We Don’t Want A Drug Pusher For President’  Especially if the drug solves our problems. (Former ‘Bachelor’ Colton Underwood Says Drugs Touted By President Trump ‘Saved’ His Life)

Senate Democrats Say Trump Admin ‘Blatantly Misinterpreting’ The Law With Emergency Border Closure

CBS & ABC Rush to Defend WHO From Trump, Ignore Failures

Babylon Bee.

Think about it.

Walter Williams calls BS.

We black people are so convenient and useful to America’s leftists. Whenever there’s a bit of silencing to be done, just accuse a detractor or critic of racism.

A recent, particularly stupid, example is CNN’s Brandon Tensley’s complaint that the “coronavirus task force is another example of Trump administration’s lack of diversity.”

Tensley said the virus experts are “largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who’ve dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning.”

I’d like for Tensley to tell us just what racial or sex diversity contribute to finding a cure or treatment for the coronavirus.

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China told the world that it would donate tons of PPE to Italy to slow the virus outbreak. Reports now indicate that China actually charged Italy for PPE, instead of donating. It also turns out the PPE China sent over was the same equipment that Italy donated to China earlier in the year. What a mess…

The Conversation: “Sorry to disappoint climate deniers, but coronavirus makes the low-carbon transition more urgent”

IP: Award-Winning Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Fred Singer Dies – Pioneering Scientist & The Dean of Climate Skeptical Scientists