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Here are some ideas of what Republicans could do if they actually wanted to motivate voters to show up for them at the polls ever again after Lucy-with-the-footballing us for decades.

Steve Sailer.

Olgiati’s house reminds me that I have an opened cardboard box sitting around that I need to stomp flat so I can put it in the recycling bin.

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“I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny. I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.” The Deep Blue Good-By

Bloomberg: Nowhere is Safe from the Climate Apocalypse

Joint Statement by Pope Francis, Ecumeniocal Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury on Climate Change

Floods Have Swamped the US. The Next Health Problem: Mold

Record Power Prices & Blackouts Hit Germany

Big tech’s pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by policy action, report finds

Body Of Evidence: All Of Antarctica Is Cooling… Peninsula Cooling Since Long Before Greta Was Born

Seth Rogen Calls Out COVID-Unsafe Emmys: ‘This Is Insane!’ (CNN) OF course, we all look to Seth Rogen for public policy advice.

Covid hospital bills arrive for patients as insurers restore deductibles and copays (Washington Post)

Fauci Defends FDA Panel Rejecting Boosters for Most Americans

Trump Insists ‘Gross Incompetence’ Caused Pandemic

Vatican to Require COVID-19 Pass for Residents, Visitors

Schoolboy Who Hasn’t Seen A Human Face In Weeks Just Glad Celebrities Had A Good Time Last Night  Babylon Bee.

SF Mayor Berates ‘Fun Police’ After Getting Caught on Camera at Club Without Mask  Rules are for thee but not for me.

6 people shot, 1 fatally, in heart of Deep Ellum overnight, Dallas police say “The incident happened shortly before 12:45 a.m. near the intersection of North Malcolm X Boulevard and Main Street”

BLM Protest Planned at New York Restaurant Where Brawl Over Vaccination Proof Occurred

Cleveland mayor’s grandson fatally shot, report says

BLM to Protest Racist Karen Restaurant Hostess

Black Gunshot Victims Up 89% During Racial Reckoning

‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Guilty in Terrorism Case

More White Than Black People Want Police Abolished In Minneapolis, New Poll Finds

Biden knows fate of spending plan will show extent of his power – and define his legacy (The Guardian)

White House shakes off immigration blow dealt by Senate parliamentarian

Senate Parliamentarian: Can’t Include Immigration Reform in Spending Bill

Senate Parliamentarian Kills Democrat Bid To Shoehorn 8 Million Green Cards Into $3.5T Spending Bill

Haitians moving out from under the bridge “They say they heard Joe Biden was opening the border up so they came.”

White House Finally Ends Ban On Travelers From EU & UK After 18 Months

Stranded in Afghanistan

Didn’t Take Long: ABC, CBS Lose Interest in Biden’s Botched Drone Strike on Kids

“Why Aren’t You Here?” – Democratic Del Rio Mayor Calls Out Biden, Harris For Failing To Visit Border In Crisis

GOP Governors Seek Biden Meeting on ‘Emergent Crisis’ at Border

At the Justice for J6 rally  Some of these pictures are pretty funny. (Babylon Bee: 7 Easy Ways To Spot A Fed)

The Biden presidency is in free-fall

Biden Will Use Trump Rule To Justify Mass Deportation in Border Crisis

“It’s Not The Same Thing”: Jen Psaki Asked Why Migrants Walking Across Border Don’t Have To Show Vaccine Proof

Democrats ‘Want People to Be Dependent on Government,’ Georgia Governor Says  Who doesn’t know that?

More Radical Than Roe: House Abortion Bill Would Repeal Existing Laws, Prohibit Future Pro-Life Laws

Hungary and Serbia Plan to Stop the Migration Tsunami

Dems Call For Infrastructure Spending To Build More Bridges For Haitian Migrants To Live Under  Babylon Bee.

Left Leans Into Champagne Socialism

Support for Abbott plunging in Texas: poll (The Hill)

The Banality of Bonkers (New York Magazine) When in doubt, bash Trump.

Democrats want to tax the very rich. Here’s who they are. (CNN)  The rich, not the Democrats.

Republicans who let Trump ‘bully’ party will seal midterms defeat, GOP senator says (The Guardian)

Trump may be gone, but Covid has not seen off populism (The Guardian)

This $100,000 Donation by Matt Gaetz Raises All the Eyebrows (Daily Beast)

Two women nabbed for stealing MAGA hat, ripping Trump sign learn their fate Probation.

12 People Canceled by the Left After Expressing Conservative Views

NY Times Freak Out Over ‘ULTRACONSERVATIVE’ Texas ‘Shifting Right’

Brian Williams Promotes Disgraced Lincoln Project, Airs Free Ads Attacking GOP, Fox News

ABC Enthralled by Woodward Book Warning America in Peril if Deranged Trump Runs Again

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“I’m just born to be in it,” failed Senate candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke told Vanity Fair before he announced his failed campaign for president in 2019. He dropped out a few months later, after a series of Democratic primary polls showed him getting blown out by alternative options such as “None” and “Not Sure.”

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Just days after House members returned to Capitol Hill from their August recess, Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens skipped hearings on President Joe Biden’s record-setting budget to take a vacation.

Fresh from a month-long recess, Stevens married software engineer Rob Gulley in a September 3 ceremony. According to the Democrat’s wedding registry, the couple planned to “head up north right after the wedding” and accepted cash contributions to fund “boating, couples massage, [and] dinner” on the honeymoon.

The trip coincided with two House Committee on Education and Labor markup sessions during which members voted on an array of amendments to Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan. Stevens, who has served on the committee since she joined Congress in 2019, missed votes on at least a dozen amendments, including one that would prohibit funds in the bill from going to universities that host Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes.

Stevens did not return a request for comment.

Priorities, man, priorities. If you’re in a safe seat (Dem – Michigan – ’nuff said), and your party has a solid majority in your house, you can take a little time to smell the flowers. It’s not like anybody really depends on you to show up or anything.

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Republicans appear ready to claim more registered voters than Democrats in Florida for the first time in modern political history, Politico reported.

Democrats had 23,055 more registered voters than Republicans in the Sunshine State at the end of August — that was down from the 700,000 voters advantage President Barack Obama won the state with in 2008.

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I guess nuking Jews was just a hobby.

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An underage Syrian culture-enricher in the German city of Hagen allegedly plotted to attack a synagogue with explosives during Yom Kippur.

Let’s hear it for the Religion of Peace.

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Maspeth High School created fake classes, awarded bogus credits, and fixed grades to push students to graduate — “even if the diploma was not worth the paper on which it was printed,” an explosive investigative report charges.

Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir demanded that teachers pass students no matter how little they learned, says the 32-page report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, Anastasia Coleman.

“I don’t care if a kid shows up at 7:44 and you dismiss at 7:45 — it’s your job to give that kid credit,” the principal is quoted as telling a teacher.

AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states

Secession! Sarah Silverman Proposes Breaking America Into Two Countries

J6 ‘Chaos’ Total Bust For Media As Cops, Journalists And FBI Appear To Outnumber Protesters

The words Trump couldn’t bring himself to say (CNN)

Private Jet Attendants Tell All About Flying the Super-Rich (Daily Beast)

Trump’s ‘Waning Influence’ Shown in ‘Very Small Crowd Size’ at ‘Justice for J6’ Rally: Ted Lieu (Newsweek) You mean the one he told people not to go to?

New Yorker moves to Texas and shares ‘culture shock’ with viral TikTok

The insurrectionists and their defenders are an old American story (Washington Post)

After 169 hospitals, a dad finally got the Covid-19 care he needed — and changed dozens of skeptics’ minds (CNN) Daily hand-wringer about vaccination.

Anti-Mask Florida Official Dies of COVID—and Takes GOP Software Secrets With Him (Daily Beast)

Trump Advisers Privately Admitted ‘Critical Mistakes’ Even Before Full Force of Pandemic Hit (Daily Beast)

The GOP Is Sacrificing Its Stars on the Altar of Trump (Daily Beast)

Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines for preventing Covid hospitalizations

Masks and Manners

ABC Fears GOP ‘Pouncing’ AND ‘Seizing’ on Botched Boosters to Hurt Biden

“This Is Not Political!” – 1000s Gather At ‘Freedom Rally’ In New York City To Oppose Vaccine Passport

I’m not an anti-vaxxer but vaccine passports treat me like I am (anaphylactic)

White House Debating Vaccines For Air Travel After Fauci Said He’d Support A Mandate

Study: COVID Hospitalizations Exaggerated; 48 Percent of Cases Are Mild

“The Story Is Not Over” – Fauci Rejects “The Science”, Says Covid Boosters Still Likely Despite FDA Rebuke

Mass Protest in NYC Over Vaccine Mandates

Kamal Harris at a coin toss for Howard University while the US deals with crisis at border

Ugh: NY Times Bows to Biden Press Secretary and Her ‘Yasss Queen’ Online ‘Cult of Psaki’

Haitians under the bridge: An update

Black Texas women filmed ‘attacking NYC restaurant hostess’ say they were racially profiled (Daily Mail)

Rush to Judgment: An autopsy of a racial power grab in Coronado

Floating Architecture that are the sustainable solution we need to survive the rising sea level crises! Still waiting for real estate prices in Malibu and Miami Beach to go down.

Lion or Gazelle?

Want to save the earth then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone

The Impossibility Of The 1.5C Target

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Long before the earliest animals swam through the water-covered surface of Earth’s ancient past, one of the most important encounters in the history of life took place. A primitive bacterium was engulfed by our oldest ancestor — a solo, free-floating cell. The two fused to form a mutually beneficial relationship that has lasted more than a billion years, with the latter providing a safe, comfortable home and the former becoming a powerhouse, fueling the processes necessary to maintain life.

That’s the best hypothesis to date for how the cellular components, or organelles, known as mitochondria came to be. Today, trillions of these bacterial descendants live within our bodies, churning out ATP, the molecular energy source that sustains our cells. Despite being inextricably integrated into the machinery of the human body, mitochondria also carry remnants of their bacterial past, such as their own set of DNA.

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Since its inception screen printing has been transforming the world by producing art, posters, and colorful patterns on textiles. New developments in the realm of material sciences will propel this technology to the center of next-generation electronics.

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I’ve always wondered about that.

Maskless San Francisco mayor breaks health order, seen partying with BLM co-founder at nightclub

Laura Loomer, Who Once Said ‘Bad Fajitas’ Were Worse Than COVID, Says She’s Tested Positive (Daily Beast)

Readers Respond: What To Say If Someone Asks Why You’re Wearing A Mask (NPR) Just show them one of your silver bullets.

Almost Half Of Americans Disapprove Of Biden Vaccine Mandates, New Poll Finds

Almost A Quarter Of COVID Patients In England Are Being Treated For Something Else

Facebook Deletes German Anti-Lockdown Groups As New Censorship Rules Go Into Effect

Anti-Lockdown Protesters In Australia “Break Police Line” As Clashes Erupt  Maybe we ought to ship them some ‘Texans’.

Instagram Blocks #naturalimmunity Hashtag

DeSantis Office: Over Half Of Those Seeking Lifesaving COVID-19 Treatment In South Florida Fully Vaccinated  My, what an effective vaccine!

Antibody Treatments For COVID Work. Why Aren’t They Being Promoted?  (Can you say Big Pharma? of course you can.

Indiana University Health Loses 125 Workers Due to Vaccine Mandate

Hospital Staff That Decline COVID Vaccine For Religious Reasons Must Attest To Also Swearing Off Tylenol, Tums, & Other Common Meds

W.Va. Gov. Justice: State ‘Will Keep Lining Up Body Bags’ Until More Vaccinated

Centrist Democrats Won’t Even Let Biden Crack Down on Tax Cheats (New York Magazine)

CBP shuts down Del Rio port of entry, border checkpoints in response to Haitian migrant surge

Thousands of Migrants, Most From Haiti, Overwhelm Border Officials in Texas

Here Are The States Receiving Bulk Of Afghan Refugees (With D.C. So Far Taking In Zero)

Biden’s string of broken covid promises exposed

Dwyane Wade’s Baby Mama Aja Métoyer Says Life Is ‘Beating Her A–‘ As Gabrielle Union Unloads About Love Child During Book PR Tour

As a Texan ….  You’ve no doubt heard of the ‘group of Texans’ who allegedly assaulted a hostess in a NY restaurant for asking to see their proof of vaccination? Their laywer says ‘their proof of vaccination had been questioned “unjustifiably” because they are Black and denied that they had tried to “forcefully violate” the requirement that they show it.’

‘Family Demands Answers’

Analysis | This is how embarrassing Trump’s ‘fraud’ claims have gotten (Washington Post)

Georgia prosecutor quietly pursues case against Trump (CNN)

Texas Lt. Guv Spews Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory on Fox: ‘A Revolution Has Begun’ (Daily Beast)

Jimmy Kimmel Trolls Trump And His Supporters With A Brutal Video Reminder (Huffington Post)

A Texas Republican’s vile rant shows ‘great replacement’ is becoming GOP dogma (Washington Post)

Occupy Wall Street set the tone: A decade later, how protests against inequality made the GOP worse (Salon)

New Arizona ‘Voter Fraud’ Report Turbocharges the Crazy

What states with restrictive abortion laws get wrong about women’s health (Washington Post)

Forget inflation. This billionaire investor worries about democracy (CNN)

Students Are Damaging School Bathrooms For Attention On TikTok

Pennsylvania Democrats Sue Over GOP’s 2020 Election Audit

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Whines: ‘Delusional America’ Calls for Firing Milley

Politico: Jennifer Rubin So Pro-Biden It Embarrasses Biden Allies, WashPost Reporters

General Milley Downplayed BLM Riots To Prevent Trump From Invoking Insurrection Act

Scientists toilet-train cows to reduce air pollution  I am not making this up.

When the Bison Come Back, Will the Ecosystem Follow?  Perhaps if we all just wish hard enough, Tinkerbell will be saved.

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The differences between Chris and Susan are striking. Susan was born to an extremely wealthy family, and married an extremely wealthy man. Now she’s in her 50’s, and divorced, and finds herself very wealthy with no obvious skills to contribute to, well, anybody. It must be a weird feeling. She has gradually slipped down the social strata throughout her life. From a fabulously wealthy upbringing, to not getting into a prestigious college, to partying away four years at a state school, to marrying a wealthy man and traveling the world on his dime. Now she’s single, divorced, and not all that important to anyone. She’s still wealthy, but nothing else is going right.

Chris was born of very modest means, grew up working on his grandfather’s farm, went from state schools and the military to Harvard, to consulting, to finance, and now is at the top of the heap. He has had a difficult rise, but has succeeded every step of the way, and now, in his 50’s, he is very important to a lot of people, and is setting himself up for an early and very comfortable retirement.

Susan looks down her nose at people like Chris. For a lot of reasons. Susan is an enlightened atheist. Chris is a devout Catholic. Chris doesn’t know anything about the best ski slopes in Austria, or French wine, or Italian shoes. To Susan, he’s just a rat in the rat race, unlike her position as a worldly philosopher, above such petty concerns.

Chris knows exactly who Susan is, too. Or at least, people like her. When I suggested that he could use the expertise of people like her, he initially thought I was kidding. And then, he concluded that I just had no idea what I was talking about, but he was too nice to point out how absurd I sounded. Even though we both knew that he was right.

Steve Sailer.

Because the ASHG values genetic diversity, it insists that all groups are genetically identical.

Or something.

Okay, let’s try that again: All races are diverse, but some races are more diverse than others.

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Needless to say, if Iran weren’t actively working on nuclear weapons, and hadn’t made quite clear their willingness to use them against Da Joos, this guy would still be alive.

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For a shoe-factory job paying $12 an hour, the actual cost of shoemaking — when adding benefits — grows to $16 an hour, compared with about $3 an hour in China, said Mike Jeppesen, head of global operations at Wolverine Worldwide, which owns brands like Merrell, Sperry and Keds. And that cost quadruples after wholesale and retail markups, he said, ballooning into a $50 price difference between a pair made in the U.S. versus in China.

Note the lack of mention of Minimum Wage regulations. The only way around the barrier of expensive labor is to exclude as much labor as possible through increased automation, and that doesn’t do domestic employment for low-skilled workers a bit of good. The Underclass benefits from cheap prices only to the extent that they can find the money in the first place, and government welfare benefits only go so far.

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Mr. Baker calls his plan, “RiverArch,” and describes it as, “a way to transform the skyline and the City with a structure like no other in the world, while also housing thousands of people and generating hundreds of millions of dollars per year in new tax revenue.”

And, of course, the tax revenue is the important part (at least in New York).

Actually, it strikes me as an attractive idea.

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Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced move.

It was the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting women’s rights as they settle into government, just a month since they overran the capital of Kabul. During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s, the Taliban had denied girls and women the right to education and barred them from public life.

At last! A career path for Gender Studies majors!

Severian does some pharmacology.

I’m not sure if “comorbidity” is the right word — remember, not that kind of doctor — but I’d wager long money that there is no addict on this earth who is addicted to one drug exclusively. Sure, his drug of choice is heroin, but if he can’t find that he’ll go down the list until he gets altered on something, because in a lot of ways, “___ addict” is something like a category error. You’re an addict first; what you’re technically addicted to is epiphenomenal.

‘Addict’ is a personality disorder, and (like stupid) it can’t really be fixed.

Scott Adams often tells the story of his step-son, who died of a fentanyl overdose — they tried on multiple occasions to rehabilitate him, but all attempts failed on the rock of the fact that he just preferred being high to being straight, and that’s not something that you can fix from the outside.

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Sterile, free of toxic metals, isotonic and good for the heart, beer is undeserving of decades of bad press, say David Williams and Jeremy Philpott.

Beer is one of the most ancient foods known to humankind. Grain was being fermented to brew beer as long ago as ca 3500 BC – 2000 years before it was used in baking bread. Used as payment, ration, or gift, beer has been drunk and celebrated by people all over the world for thousands of years. Up to 300 years ago it was safer to drink beer than surface water because the water used in brewing had been boiled, and until recently stout was frequently prescribed for post-natal women and the infirm.

It still tastes like beer. Make it taste like Pepsi and then come talk to me. ‘Sure it tastes bad but it’s good for you!’ Well, tastes bad plus good for you makes it ‘medicine’, and I only take medicine when told to by a doctor. When my Primary Care Physician says ‘drink a six-pack of Coors and call me in the morning’, then I’ll think about it.

John C. Wright discusses ‘gender roles’ and why we have them.

Read The Whole Thing. I agree with every word of it.

Apple executives talk impact of diversity initiatives at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference  The Congressional Black Caucus has only Democrats; black Republicans aren’t admitted.

White College Professor Tells Students She Will ‘Confront the Innate Racism Within’ Herself

This Police Department Is So Bad, a Cop Reported It to Black Lives Matter (Daily Beast)

Virginia high school teacher says making kids behave in class is ‘white supremacy’

Liberal groups prod Dems to raise taxes to pay for racial justice agenda

A historically Black town stood in the way of a pipeline – so developers claimed it was mostly white (The Guardian)

BuzzFeed Investigation: ‘Peg the Patriarchy’ Met Gala Outfit Appropriated from ‘Fat, Queer, POC’

Race-Baiting Don Lemon: ‘Fair’ to Call Clarence Thomas a ‘Sellout?’

World Economic Forum Tells US Colleges To “Re-Educate The Racists Among Us”

Haitians Trying to Flood Into Texas from Mexico, White House Responds by Banning Fox’s Drone Coverage

No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes. (New York Magazine) Chait admits that it’s ‘literally true’,but employs handwavium to demonstrate that it’s ‘deeply misleading’.

Gov. Newsom abolishes single-family zoning in California

Dozens of Florida students signed petition to abolish Constitution

California teacher hangs ‘F— the Police,’ ‘F— Amerikkka’ posters in classroom

Politico Reveals Full Acceptance of Social Media Censorship

Trans-Indoctrinated ‘Y: The Last Man’ Finds ‘Plenty of Men, None With Y Chromosome’

How Social-Justice Extremists Spawned a Generation of ‘Progressive’ Antisemites

No Fly Zone: FAA Shuts Down Fox News Drone Exposing Border Crisis

TikTok’s ‘Devious Licks’ Trend Leaving Nationwide Damage in Schools

Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown

Liberal Annoyed His Mask Hides How Smug He Looks For Wearing A Mask  Babylon Bee.

SALT Break Erases Most Of Democrat Tax Hike ‘On 1%’ – And AOC’s Suddenly Open To It

Brazen Muggers Ambush, Rob, & Shoot Customers Dining At Fancy NYC Restaurant

North Carolina Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law

CNN Hosts, Guests Demand GOP Surrender on Raising the Debt Limit  Yeah, they’ll get right on it.

Treasury Dept. Seeks to Track Transactions of Personal Bank Accounts over $600

Thousands of Migrants Converge Under Texas Bridge, Posing New Challenge for Biden

Poll: Biden Approval Rating Tanks to Lowest of Presidency

Despite Trafficking Crisis, Biden’s Policies Encourage Minors to Cross Southern Border Alone

Biden Admin Dismisses Yom Kippur as ‘Local Holiday’

Univision: Border Patrol Overwhelmed, Fears ‘HUMAN STAMPEDE’ in Texas

How BAD Is the Border? Even the Networks Are Covering It!

Democrat Insanity Peaks As Biden Shutters Pipelines Then Is Baffled When Gas Prices Rise

White House: ‘We Must Continue Admitting Unvaccinated Immigrants To Replace All The Workers Who Got Fired For Being Unvaccinated’  Babylon Bee.

Small-Business Group Prepares Biden Vaccine Mandate Lawsuit

Fauci on Natural Immunity and Vaccinating Children

Hospital staff must swear off Tylenol, Tums to get religious vaccine exemption

COVID-19 Vaccine Passport Mandatory In Italy For All Private Sector Workers: Officials

NYC Restaurant Host Attacked Over Vaccine Status Request

Most NYC Restaurants Not Enforcing Vaccine Mandate

NYC’s Demand That Diplomats Follow Vaccine Mandate Creates Uproar At UN

Killing Grandma in Florida (and Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Other Red States….)

San Francisco Mayor Goes to Nightclub Maskless, Breaks Mandate  Rules are for thee but not for me.

Climate-Crusading Billionaires To Take Their Private Jets To Davos Again Next Year

Two Large Polluter Nation Leaders Skip Climate Change Follow-up  My, what a surprise.

Trump Reportedly Called White Supremacists “My People,” in Case It Wasn’t Clear He’s an Abject Racist (Vanity Fair) No, he didn’t.

Analysis | A deeply cynical moment in gerrymandering from the Ohio GOP (Washington Post)

Unhinged Newsmax Host Cuts Off and Yells at Veteran for Mildly Criticizing Trump (Daily Beast)

Georgia Now Grows Politicians to the Right of Marjorie Taylor Greene (New York Magazine) OH NOES!

Judge: Prosecutors Can’t Show Rittenhouse Link to Proud Boys

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Polls rarely ask these people what a “fair share” looks like. Is a quarter of someone’s earnings enough? A third? Because the rich have been shouldering an increasingly larger share of the cost of government. The United States already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the free world. Those who make over $207,350 now pay 35% in income tax. Those who make $518,400 or more pay a 37% income-tax rate. At some point, taxation should be considered theft.

Despite perceptions, the highest-income strata of taxpayers are the only ones who pay a larger share of taxes than their share of income. In 2018, the top 1% of income earners made nearly 21% of all income but paid 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 71% of all federal income taxes.

Freeberg nails it.

All your life you have heard “Women fought for and won the right to vote” and it makes it sound like men were the Evil Galactic Empire and women were noble brave Ewoks on Endor…but, no. It was a constitutional amendment that had to be ratified by 3/4 of the states, and in order to ratify, you had to be a man. Men gave women the right to vote.

Ever since then, we have been dominated by what we might call The Hystericals. These are people who are driven into hysterics when they figure out there’s danger around…just humdrum, everyday, ordinary danger. In network security we call it “residual risk.” It goes with simply living life. When The Hystericals figure out residual risk has not been reduced to zero, which is an impossibility anyway, they insist on turning everything upside down. They don’t feel completely 100% safe yet, because they’re not, and so everyone else has to do some more accommodating. We need more taxes and more rules, to suit The Hystericals.