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

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.

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An old and mostly true observation about revolutions is that they end up where they started with a new set of rulers doing pretty much the same things as the rulers they deposed in the revolution. Stalin was the Tsar decorated with the ideological trappings of the revolution. Napoleon was a secular version of the Sun King. The people hiding behind razor wire and armed men this weekend in the imperial capital are the authoritarians they claimed to have deposed last election.

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Liberal outlets often try to ignore conservative journalism, refusing to recognize facts and substance that they fear are damaging to the Democrats. The closer the election gets, the more hypersensitive their censoring instincts become. They repeated Democrat claims of “Russian misinformation” and moved on.

This never happens to Bob Woodward, the “legend” of The Washington Post. He is, to liberals, the gold standard of information. He never commits misinformation. Nothing ever needs to be substantiated. No source ever needs to be identified. No “reconstructed conversation” is ever doubted. The Bible is treated less reverently than Woodward’s latest gospel.

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The Upper Midwest Law Center, on whose board I serve, is representing several individuals who have been fired or demoted because they disagreed with Critical Race Theory. One of those plaintiffs is Chuck Vavra. Vavra was an engineer at Honeywell, which imposed mandatory Critical Race Theory-based training on its employees. The “curriculum” called America irredeemably racist and asserted that all whites are the same, and insisted that whites admit their inherent racism and status as evil oppressors, while blacks were characterized as victims, good people but intrinsically unable to lead successful lives due to white racism.

Vavra objected to this bizarre Marxist world-view. The result? Honeywell fired him.

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With talk of D.C. statehood, there’s renewed interest in redrawing state boundaries across the U.S. Upstate New York doesn’t have much in common with New York City, or eastern Washington with Seattle. We’ve long been aware of this, but what’s new is the depth of the divide between, say, Washington’s Lincoln County (73% Trump) and King County (75% Biden). And it’s not just how they vote. In their most fundamental beliefs, they’re almost two different countries.

That doesn’t mean we’ll rejigger the map, however. Before that can happen, we’d need three things. First, it couldn’t happen without a perfect political alignment, with the party engineering the split ensconced in power in both the state and in the federal government. Second, the split would have to advantage that party. And third, the change must be seen to be excused by the extraordinary circumstances of the time.

General Milley: Guilty As Charged

Putting a Spotlight on Biden’s Problematic Nominees for Government Posts

France Accuses Biden Of Being ‘Worse Than Trump’ As UK-Aussie Defense Pact Sinks Sub Deal

WashPost, CNN ‘Fact Checkers’ RAGE at GOP for Noting White House Cut Biden’s Feed in Idaho

Biden’s Border Crisis Rages On; TV News Airtime Down 94%  Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

Press Buries Biden Forgetting Name of Australian PM: ‘That Fella Down Under’

New York Times Skips Biggest ‘Woodward Bombshell: Gen. Milley’s Deep State Sedition?

White House Plans New System for International Travel, Contact Tracing

Polls Suggest Biden May Face Uphill Battle in 2024  Oh, ya think? He spent the first year of his term demonstrating that Jimmy Carter was not, in fact, the worst President in history. What will he do for an encore?

GOP Senators Push To Designate Taliban A Terrorist Organization As White House Mulls Sending Aid

US-Mexico Border Arrests Top 200,000 For Second Straight Month

8 Things You Need to Know About Democrats’ Tax Increase Bill

Fairfax County approves 5-cent tax on plastic bags  How quickly the rot spreads.

Ilhan Omar slams judge for blocking ballot measure to scrap Minneapolis Police Department

Major UK Fertilizer Plants Shuttered Due To Skyrocketing Natural Gas Prices

Illinois Dem Pushes for ‘Clean Energy’ Subsidies That Would Pad His Pocket

WSA Passport Acceptance – Visas on WSA Passports

Joe Scarborough Suppresses Most Serious China-Call Allegation Against General Milley  Servant of the Narrative.

WSJ: Big Tech Platforms Are Addictive, Toxic for Teen Girls and Minors

The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history (The Guardian)

TONE DEAF CNN Allows Ex-Planned Parenthood Prez to Demand: ‘Protect Our Children’

AOC Hit With Second Ethics Complaint Over ‘Tax The Rich’ Theatrics At The Met  Her dress reminds me of a Chick-Fil-A bag.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Lawyer Who Represented Clinton Campaign

Gabrielle Union’s soul was ‘shattered’ when she learned Dwyane Wade got another woman pregnant

Amazon Blocks Ad for Book Investigating Black Lives Matter

Florida Sheriff: Traffic Stop Ambush Shows What’s Wrong With Criminal Justice System

Sirens Blaring At Democratic Headquarters As Black Woman Expresses Unapproved Opinion  Babylon Bee.

VENOMOUS Joy: GOPers ‘Love Covid So Much’ They Want to Kill You, ‘Drink It’ Like ‘Kool-Aid’

California’s recall election makes it abundantly clear: Trump is lying about election fraud (Washington Post)

California recall election results show Gavin Newsom winning — and Donald Trump losing (NBC News)

California Republicans Flee to Florida and Texas in Search of Dumber Governors (The New Yorker)

GOP suffers historic embarrassment in California recall (Washington Post)

Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley,Trump, and Democracy to Make Billions, Tax-Free (Bloomberg) ‘Gamed’ means ‘took advantage of existing law, the swine’.

CNN’s Don Lemon Urges Viewers “It’s Time To Start Shaming” Unvaccinated People  How about we start shaming Halfricans like Don Lemon instead?

Terry McAuliffe Employs Debunked Attacks Against GOP Opponent

World’s Biggest Battery In California Overheats, Shuts Down

Still waiting for two thirds of polar bears worldwide to disappear due to lack of summer sea ice

After Two Recalls, GM Finally Just Tells Bolt EV Owners: “Don’t Park Your Car Within 50 Feet Of Another Car”

Renewable Britain Undersea Cable Failure Sends Electricity Prices Soaring

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The United Kingdom is launching a world’s first trial to test whether adding graphene to recycled asphalt can increase the lifespan of a major highway — and decrease costly, annoying road maintenance.

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I guess they got tired of having their property trashed, their buildings vandalized, and their employees and families threatened.

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In plain English, the federal government will pay the employer’s side of the payroll tax for “news journalists,” or, to use equally plain English, “Democrats with bylines.”

Severian never fails to entertain.

Eurotrash art poseur: We are adrift in a sea of decadent luxury and  meaningless sex.

Moe: Uh-huh …so where might this sea be located?

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Bullshit. No ‘computer or data scientist’ ever put his life on the line while sitting at a desk pounding a keyboard. There’s a reason we honor warriors.

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Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan says that Big Tech firms, including Apple, had exploited “loopholes” to make hundreds of acquisition deals without informing antitrust regulators.

The FTC has published a report describing 819 incidents of transactions, over 10 years, which were small enough to not require regulatory approval. The transaction range from changes of voting control, to patent acquisition, and hiring.

So these transactions are perfectly legal, and ‘loophole’ merely means that the bureaucrat in question doesn’t like them. Suck it up, buttercup. As long as they obey the law, it’s outside your playground. If you don’t like the law, get it changed.

What goes around, comes around.

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The safety of Afghan Shia, now that the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan, has become a major issue in Iran. The new Taliban government, now more openly controlled by Pakistan, is not seen as an improvement by most Iranians or the 20 percent of Afghans that are Shia. Many of those Afghans served as Iranian mercenaries in Syria and some are still there because they are the best, and most expensive, mercs. The new hardline Iranian government regards “defending all Shia” as one of its core functions. Doing that in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two nations that have been notorious for persistent anti-Shia violence, is going to be difficult. So far the Taliban have not gone after Afghan Shia, but Iran knows that could change quickly. The centuries old Sunni animosity towards Shia remains. As in the past, Iran will try to get what it can from the Taliban while remembering that many Taliban factions and individuals see tolerance for Shia as bad for Afghanistan.

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Discover Card will no longer process donations to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), a left-wing advocacy organization that provides funding to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a group that works to free Palestinians from the Israeli prison system. Discover Card froze donations after Israel designated Samidoun as a terror group earlier this year for its alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), according to information provided to the Washington Free Beacon by the Zachor Legal Institute, which has been pressing companies to cut ties with these organizations for several months.

Name a ‘Palestinian’ organization that isn’t ‘linked to terrorism’. Terrorism is what ‘Palestinian’ organizations are all about.