Archive for April, 2021
19th April 2021
ZMan is not afraid to speak of the virus that dare not say its name.
One of the interesting side bars to the Covid panic is the extreme lack of interest in the origin of the virus. The story a year ago was that it sprung from so-called “wet markets” where provincials trade exotic meats. One version said it was from bats and another claimed it was the pangolin. Then the story shifted to the lab in Wuhan where the outbreak started. That was dropped as the Chinese Communist Party instructed the American media to stop talking about the lab in Wuhan.
Conventional wisdom says the wet market stuff was always just a way to divert attention from the fact that the Chinese have a bioweapons operation. The Biological Weapons Convention not only prohibits the use of biological agents, but it also prohibits the development of them as well. In light of the worldwide panic over the Covid virus, it is not hard to see why everyone is trying to shift the focus from the lab to exotic meat markets. This public health emergency could easily become a political crisis.
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19th April 2021
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Bias? What bias?
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19th April 2021
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President Joe Biden waited longer to hold his first press conference than any other president in the past 100 years. After waiting 64 days, the media had a chance on March 25 to ask the president about his agenda.
Tim Murtaugh, communications director for President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, was disappointed by what he saw.
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19th April 2021
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Last night in a tavern in Kenosha, WI, three men were murdered and three more (and possibly a fourth) were wounded.
As you’ll recall, Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings (four or more casualties) says that if there are more wounded than dead, then the shooter was probably black, but in the rarer cases where there are more dead than wounded, the shooter was probably nonblack. But what do you do when there are as many dead as wounded?
One tiebreaker is whether the mass shooting’s setting involved fun (probably black) vs. not fun such as school, church, or work (probably nonblack). This was a bar, so the tiebreaker would point toward a black shooter with above average aim.
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19th April 2021
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On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, they focused on recent political violence against the Capitol Police, but they were obviously more interesting in tagging the “far right” for recent violence, and not the “far left.” When the April 2 Capitol cop killing came up, the assailant Noah Green was not named, and his love for Louis Farrakhan was also spiked.
Lester Holt touted “a milestone today in the investigation of the deadly riot at the US Capitol, the first guilty plea.” He turned to NBC Justice Department correspondent Pete Williams, and they were naming names and applying labels.
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19th April 2021
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Hellequin GB has translated an article about anchor babies, European style.
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19th April 2021
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If that’s the mood he’s in, I could give him a list.
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19th April 2021
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A little while ago, a man carjacked a vehicle on a major road in a suburb adjacent to mine. Police gave chase, and he fired at them out of a window of the vehicle. With the police closing in, he rolled out of the moving car and ran onto an adjoining highway, trying to carjack a second vehicle. At some point he was shot by police officers.
The criminal was wounded but apparently alive at last word. The all-important question is, what is the race of the criminal? If he is black, like most carjackers, it means another week of riots. If he is white, no one cares. I can’t tell from the video, but it looks like he might be white. Let’s hope so.
UPDATE: From the bizarre Twin Cities hellworld (6) Apparently the victim was black.
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18th April 2021
Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Anti-Asian Hate Crime
‘Get More Confrontational’: Maxine Waters Crosses State Lines To Incite BLM Protester
Dalton head resigns amid criticism of ‘obsessive’ antiracism agenda
Maximum Maxine
Unhinged Cuomo: White Kids Need to Be Killed for Gun/Police Reform
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18th April 2021
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18th April 2021
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18th April 2021
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18th April 2021
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18th April 2021
Canadian Cops Refuse To Enforce Ontario’s New ‘Police State’ COVID-Lockdown Laws
The Political Economy Of Fear
The State Of The ‘Third Wave’ In Europe
Nearly Half Of Brits Say They Will Struggle To Revert Back To Normal Life After Lockdown
Fauci Believes J&J COVID Vaccine ‘Pause’ Will Be Lifted by Friday Yeah, but how long before it will be available to people, even if they ask for it? How many ‘health care providers’ will balk at offering it, even when they’re allowed to, out of an excess of caution? Anybody who has a bad reaction is not going to sue just J&J.
Masks Today, Masks Tomorrow, Masks Forever!
Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News? We ‘conspiracy theorists’ know the answer.
In San Francisco, Drug Overdoses Claimed Twice As Many Lives As COVID-19
Fauci Floats Possibility That A ‘Warning’ Will Be Added To Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Although I have heard no proposal that the Pfizer vaccine, which has at least as many bad-reaction cases (to the point that Denmark has stopped using it), will have such a warning. The conspiracy theorist in me suspects that Fauci owns Pfizer stock.
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18th April 2021
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…. would you change a single thing from what the far-left of America is doing now?
I know the title may seem provocative to some as this idea is but a subset of a universe of things we proles are not supposed to even think about, much less say out loud. If it seems provocative, good, because it seems to me to be high time more people started talking openly about what is happening all around us every day.
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18th April 2021
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Since race is not mentioned, unconscionable when the suspect has yet to be caught, under the Coulter Rule the presumption is that the suspect is black.
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18th April 2021
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As I walk toward Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office, I notice a large flag and sign opposing one another across the hall. Greene’s neighbor, Democratic Rep. Marie Newman, has recently planted a transgender pride flag to protest Greene’s opinion that biological men should not be playing women’s sports. Greene responded by posting a sign that says, ‘There are TWO genders: MALE & FEMALE. “Trust The Science.”’
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18th April 2021
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Nothing so surely signals the essential emptiness of Joe Biden than his rapid flip-flop Friday on raising the cap on the number of asylum seekers the United States will accept. At first the Biden Administration announced that they would not lift the relatively low cap that Trump had adopted, but following “outcry” from “Progressives,” Biden did a pirouette worthy of Bolshie ballerina and said he’d now lift the cap. One reason Biden had held the line, however briefly, on the asylum cap is that he’s polling terribly on immigration. But all it took was a gust of hot wind from “Progressives” to make him retreat.
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18th April 2021
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“What you see is an attempt on the part of the left to change the conversation about violent crime,” he said. “Let’s be very clear… it’s the war on ICE and law enforcement that is causing the debate [on] surging violent crime in America’s major cities.”
“If you want to save thousands of lives in this country every single year, take the strategy and tactics that New York’s [former] mayor Rudy Giuliani deployed in the ’90s and apply those nationwide. Support … long prison sentences, take violent offenders off the streets. In the case of criminal illegal immigrants, send them home.”
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18th April 2021
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Unlike at a conventional natural gas plant, the energy startup’s technology burns natural gas with pure oxygen, instead of the air, only producing carbon dioxide and water as byproducts. Most of the CO2 is reused as part of Net Power’s four-step cycle, with the excess CO2 captured and “pipeline ready” for underground storage.
Cue handwaving by the people who want to ban ‘fossil fuels’ no matter what.
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18th April 2021
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I’d rather he be set on fire than see him run for office again, too.
I’ll even provide the matches.
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18th April 2021
Freeberg nails it.
There is a bloated “new world” subclass of these that begin with, or could begin with, the words: “You see, what we’re trying to do is make a new world in which…”
“You see, we’re trying to make a world in which everyone uses the Metric System.” “You see, we want a new world in which men and boys are not so attracted to fit girls, or who are attracted to girls who are not so fit.” “You see, what we’re trying to do is make a new world in which money is not what motivates people.” “You see, we want a better environment in which bullying is a thing of the past.” “You see, we want to rid the world of bigotry forever.” It has not been lost on me that when such activists win at everything and reform everything exactly the way they want it, the things they wanted relegated to the past are not relegated to the past. They “celebrate” these past vices and plagues as if they were present things. Sometimes they even bring them back again so they have something they can continue vanquishing. And the new world they’re building, far from being a dream world, is the stuff of nightmares. No one with a choice would actually live in it…but people who don’t have choices, are compelled to do so, and suffering on a large scale is the unavoidable result.
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18th April 2021
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Ever wonder where the Ruling Class’s SJWs come from? Look no farther.
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18th April 2021
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An “agrarian” future for New York City? A “people’s bank” to redistribute wealth? Our mayoral hopefuls have harnessed the old liberal battle cry, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” to saddle up a jolly Trojan horse of far-left wish lists masquerading as remedies to the worst economic and social crisis the city has ever seen.
Instead of legitimately debating how City Hall should tackle genuine issues once COVID-19 abates — like reining in mentally-ill pushers on the subway — our mayoral wannabes prefer to toss around the Marxist-Leninist lingo of “the people,” “revolution” and “redistribution.”
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18th April 2021
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Note the implicit admission that ‘the Republican side of the aisle’ is not the side of the aisle he is on. CNN has apparently given up even the pretense of reporting news rather than spreading propaganda.
The liberal hackery was strong on NBC’s Sunday Today as political director Chuck Todd claimed that the debate on how to stop gun violence in America was not a discussion on the method, but a refusal by Republicans to want to stop the killing of innocent people at all. His ridiculous smear came a few days after multiple people were killed at an Indiana FedEx facility by a 19-year-old who was known to the FBI and had a shotgun confiscated from him previously.
Ignoring the fact that the state’s red flag law had failed to keep the troubled teen from purchased two rifles last year, despite the FBI monitoring him, host Willie Geist lamented to Todd about how President Biden was relying on Congress to pass legislation.
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18th April 2021
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A new study by scientists at Kyoto University and the University of Fukui, however, may offer some hope. The team reports that an antibody for one gene — uterine sensitization associated gene-1 or USAG-1 — can stimulate tooth growth in mice suffering from tooth agenesis, a congenital condition. The paper was published in Science Advances.
For some reason, just reporting the news is apparently not enough, even in a publication allegedly devoted to science; it’s necessary to lead off with some sort of cutesy story, as in this report.
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18th April 2021
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Do you care whether Alexander Navalny lives or dies? I don’t. And I’m quite sure Vladimir Putin doesn’t, either. ‘Hunger strikes’ only work on people who have Buttons To Push, like the British and (occasionally) American politicians. Turd-World dictators like Putin (and Xi) don’t give a shit. ‘This clown starved himself to death. Not my fault; not my problem.”
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18th April 2021
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Notice that there is no mention of the race of either the shooter or the victims.
Under the Coulter Rule, this suggests that the shooter, and maybe he victims, are black.
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17th April 2021
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17th April 2021
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17th April 2021
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17th April 2021
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17th April 2021
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17th April 2021
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17th April 2021
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When racist graffiti appeared on the walls of a dormitory at Albion College in Michigan, the college heads and student body were outraged. The graffiti, which included racial slurs, anti-Semitic remarks and multiple references to the Ku Klux Klan, prompted college officials to put forward a $1,000 bounty for anyone with information as to the perpetrator. Albion College President Mathew Johnson warned that ‘if they are Albion College students, they will also immediately be subject to the student conduct process — including the potential for suspension or expulsion’. Criminal charges would follow.
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Then, the police investigation found that the perpetrator of the crime had in fact been a 21-year-old black student. The college responded by removing him from campus while they conducted a full investigation as part of the student judicial process.
Rather than expressing relief that white supremacists hadn’t in fact been running amok on campus — the graffiti included the phrases ‘KKK’, ‘KKK White Power’, and ‘Albion is racist we do exist KKK’ — college officials simply doubled down on their assertions, declaring that the issue of racism at the school extended beyond the graffiti incident: ‘We know the acts of racism that have occurred this week are not about one particular person or one particular incident…we know that there is a significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus and we are taking action to repair our community.’
The fact that no witches had been found merely indicated that they were amazingly successful is hiding their nefarious activities. Burn the witch!
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17th April 2021
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The radicalization of the Ben & Jerry’s PR department has been one of the stranger spectacles of recent years. After all, for all its hippyish origins and homespun shtick, Ben & Jerry’s is a corporate giant flogging expensive ice creams with wacky names like Cherry Garcia and Truffle Kerfuffle. And yet it has become remarkably preoccupied with virtue-signaling and moral hectoring. It is hard to tell whether this is a deliberate strategy for attention, or if someone’s pious nephew has simply seized control of the social-media accounts at head office.
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17th April 2021
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I was pretty sure. (Must’ve been his human half….)
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17th April 2021
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CNN has been hemorrhaging viewers since President Biden took office, with ratings down more than 50 percent in multiple categories since Inauguration Day.
The liberal network spent years attacking former President Donald Trump and the network thrived during his final days in office amid a brief post-election spike. CNN averaged 2.2 million viewers during the first three weeks of 2021, but it has averaged just one million viewers since Biden took office, a staggering decline of 54 percent.
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17th April 2021
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Nineteen police officers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, quit the police department’s specialized protest team after an officer was put on leave following a protest.
“They don’t feel supported here, and they don’t feel trust. They feel second-guessed, and they don’t feel that they can do their job, no matter how perfect they do their job, without getting in trouble,” Shaun Willoughby, the president of the Albuquerque Police Officers’ Association, told KOB4.
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17th April 2021
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BLUF: Government regulation.
Excessive concern about low levels of radiation led to a regulatory standard known as ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable. What defines “reasonable”? It is an ever-tightening standard. As long as the costs of nuclear plant construction and operation are in the ballpark of other modes of power, then they are reasonable.
This might seem like a sensible approach, until you realize that it eliminates, by definition, any chance for nuclear power to be cheaper than its competition. Nuclear can‘t even innovate its way out of this predicament: under ALARA, any technology, any operational improvement, anything that reduces costs, simply gives the regulator more room and more excuse to push for more stringent safety requirements, until the cost once again rises to make nuclear just a bit more expensive than everything else. Actually, it‘s worse than that: it essentially says that if nuclear becomes cheap, then the regulators have not done their job.
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17th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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16th April 2021
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16th April 2021
Chris Rock.
A public service announcement.
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16th April 2021
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I remember when the Vatican was run by Catholics.
Ah, those were the days….
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