‘Cheating’ Maspeth High School teachers ousted from classrooms amid ‘testing improprieties’ Apparently the job of public school teachers isn’t really to teach anybody but to guarantee good jobs for public school teachers.

S.F.’s Castro Safeway closing early, blaming ‘out of control’ shoplifting

How to Steal 40 Years of Elections

Taxpayers Take School Board to Court for Trying to Silence Parents’ Criticism

PETA Calls On MLB To Rename ‘Bats’ As Name Is Offensive To Nocturnal Flying Animals  Babylon Bee.

Climate activists boycott climate conference over vaccine inequality, despite warnings of impending doom  The sea levels will rise unless everybody gets vaccinated.

To deal with the climate crisis, the world needs more democracy  If the world had more democracy, there wouldn’t be a ‘climate crisis’.

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year (Associated Press) I guess it’s, what’ pear-shaped now?

Glasgow idiocy: Climate change isn’t remotely the world’s No. 1 problem  Although it might be in Glasgow, which is not exactly famous for its fresh air, beautiful buildings, and attractive scenery.

Climate Change Fueled Witch Hunts… Then and Now

Climate change: What’s it like living in a place where it’s 50C?  More to the point, what’s it like being so stupid as to remain in a place where it’s 50C?

Private jets to COP26 in Glasgow emit more CO2 than Scots pump out in a year  ‘Climate change’ is a problem — for you.  (For me … not so much.)

G20 Leaders Offer Little New on Climate, UN Chief’s Hopes ‘Unfulfilled’

Crazy People Are Dangerous

New Orleans Man to Get His Life Savings Back, a Year After DEA Civil Forfeiture

They Said Rat Poison Was Racist. Now New Yorkers Are Dying of Rat Diseases  Think of it as evolution in action.

Plan to Replace Minneapolis PD Worries Many Black Residents

90% Of Unvaxx’d Germans Say They Won’t Get It

Ice Cube Refuses Vax for Movie Project, Walks Away From $9M Payday

Reuters Draws Conservative Ire for Saying ‘Republicans’ Tried to Smear Youngkin

Staff Shortages Shutter 26 NYC Firehouses Amid Pushback Over Vaccine Mandate

Mandate Meltdown: 26 NYC Firestations Shuttered, LA Sheriff Warns Of ‘Mass Exodus’, Tucson Water District Faces ‘Staff Shortage’

Update on Rapid Antigen Tests

Church Leadership Board Approves Baptism Boosters  Babylon Bee. Maybe your baptism can wear off. Why take a chance?

NY Times Terrified for Dems in VA Race: Youngkin’s ‘Hard-Right Turn’  There is no Right – there is merely the Hard Right, the Far Right, and the Ultra Right.

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson problem (CNN) Actually, it’s CNN’s Tucker Carlson problem, but they can’t admit that.

Trump Does Racist ‘Tomahawk Chop’ Gesture At World Series (Huffington Post) And if the Huffington Post says it’s racist, who are you to say otherwise?

Inside Facebook’s struggle to contain insurrectionists’ posts (Politico) Pity poor Facebook, trying hard to stomp out insurrectionists’ posts and struggling to do so.

Lincoln Project Sends Fake White Supremacists to Virginia GOP Event (Daily Beast)

Taibbi: The “Let’s Go, Brandon!” Freakout Goes Next-Level

‘A roadmap for a coup’: inside Trump’s plot to steal the presidency (The Guardian) Some ‘journalists’ appear not to understand the meaning of the term ‘coup’.

Arizona bride, mom plead with progressive anti-Sinema protesters to stop ‘ruining’ wedding  I wasn’t aware that Senators could perform weddings.

Alabama College Disinvites Historian Jon Meacham After Anti-Abortion Protest

The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT

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Naomi Oreskes: – “if human-made warming is as unequivocal as these scientists insist, then why do we need more reports to tell us the same thing?”.

For the same reason choirs still need to be preached to.

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I take a vitamin D3 supplement daily and encourage you to do the same.

URBAN PLANNER: Somebody who lives in a $10 million McMansion in Malibu who thinks you ought to live in an 800 sq ft walkup in Chinatown; who drives a Lexus but wants you to pay $2 a ride for Light Rail; and who doesn’t sent his kids (if indeed he has any kids) to the public schools that are just right for the herd.

Steve Sailer.

The problem with casting obviously black women in roles where they are supposed to be able to pass as white is that the movie makes no sense:

Who could director Rebecca Hall have cast in Passing who could, you know, pass? How about Rashida Jones, the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton?

Or Beyoncé. Or Susan Rice. Or Don Lemon. Or Trevor Noah.

How about, for that matter, Rebecca Hall?

But would making Passing with actresses who actually could pass be more trouble than it was worth? Much of the current out-swelling of racist hatred for whites is due to black women worrying that, despite their high self-esteem, they aren’t objectively as pretty as white women, so casting two pretty actresses who look white is just asking for trouble.

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Somehow, writers for left-wing publications (of which The Guardian is probably the poster child) seem to think that it’s still 1843 and we’re just waiting for Dickens to come along and rip the cunning facade off of the dystopia that is the modern world.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

A central tenet of Critical Race Theory is that America’s institutions are “systemically” rigged to favor white people. POCs just can’t catch up, no matter what they do. Of course, if that were true it would be hard to explain why whites rank only 17th in median income, trailing such allegedly oppressed groups as Lebanese, Iranian, Pakistani, Syrian, Ghanian and Nigerian Americans, as well, of course, as Indian-Americans, whose median income is close to double that of whites. But devotees of Critical Race Theory have never worried much about facts.

Then, too, we have the phenomenon of whites pretending to be people of color. If it is a crippling drawback to be Native American, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be one? Everyone knows the answer to that question–affirmative action–but somehow, it is improper to mention it in polite society. Everyone who applies for anything knows that it is a help, not a hindrance, to be a minority. Or, in more up-to-date jargon–I’m not kidding–to have been “minoritized.”

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I didn’t tell him that according to the latest data from the NHS in the UK, the percentage of those who die from the WuFlu after being “vaccinated” is roughly the same as it is for the unvaxed. And I especially didn’t tell what the experts say all those boosters will eventually do to him after he’s had enough of them. I don’t tell any of my vaxed friends about those things — since they can’t do anything about it once they’re vaxed, why would I want to ruin their day?

I refer to my friend’s syndrome as “Corona Psychosis”. It’s completely irrational, recognizes no evidence that might contradict it, and is clung to with a ferocity reminiscent of a religious mania.

It should have its own entry in the DSM-5.

North Carolina middle school art assignment infuriates parents over sexual imagery

Former Ohio Democratic Party chair: Current generation of politicians have ‘never been in a democracy’ (The Hill)

Why is white supremacy growing in the United States? (Al-Jazeera)

PETA Wants Major League Baseball To Stop Saying “Bullpen” Because It’s “Insensitive To Cows”

Seriously, NY Times? ‘The Right’s Big Lie About a Sexual Assault in Virginia’

Tibet’s Long Fight for Freedom

Trade Group Says Texas Law Will Make Social Media ‘Unacceptable’  It’s already unacceptable.

U. of Florida Blocks Professors From Testifying on Election Reform Lawsuit

Cuomo Agrees With Lincoln Project Stunt, Says it Raised ‘Legitimate’ Question

Hillary Clinton Dresses Up As President For Halloween  (Babylon Bee) Can’t get any scarier than that.

Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users (Associated Press) Swarmed!

Fight Over Mask Mandate Caught On Video At Woodland Hills Restaurant

Supreme Court Rejects Religious Exemptions for Vaccine Mandates in 6-3 Maine Ruling

Dan Bongino Ends Radio Program In Vaccine Mandate Battle With Employer

Covid Vaccines Don’t Work Well Enough to be Mandated

“Stop Medical Apartheid!” – Police Passive As Huge Crowd Protests Australia’s Draconian Pandemic Powers Bill

Rep. Cori Bush accuses oil executives of ‘environmental racism’  Be the first on our block to collect all of the different forms of racism.

Dem Lawmaker Doc Fined for Videoconferencing From Operating Room

Capehart on PBS: If Democrats Lose in Virginia, ‘Fear Works’ and ‘Whiteness Is a Hell of a Drug’

AT&T’s ‘Racial Re-Education Program’ Asserts “White People, You Are the Problem”

These 4 charts explain why the stakes are so high at the U.N. climate summit (NPR) Or at least that’s what the Narrative Media would have you believe.

Fossil fuels doomed in New York as regulator blocks new gas power plants Time to leave.

‘Apocalypse soon’: reluctant Middle East forced to open eyes to climate crisis (The Guardian)

‘It’s starting right now:’ CCU scientist details local impacts of sea level rise Except that it isn’t.

Malibu home sells for $177 million, setting new California record I guess the sea level isn’t rising after all.

Climate change: Human activity makes forests emit carbon (BBC)

Why more people are attending sustainable events than ever (CNBC) Sustainable!

“The Climate Is Changing, And Human Activities Are The Cause”: How, Exactly, Do We Know That?

Supreme Court to Hear Bid to Curb EPA Power to Regulate Coal, Power Company Emissions

How Parents Can Deal With Climate Anxiety (Wired ‘Science’)

Tree Rings Show Modern Cyclones Are the Rainiest in Centuries (Wired ‘Science’) Centuries!

Xi And Putin Leave Climate Alarmists At COP26 In The Lurch

Debra Messing says Republicans ‘still defend the Nazis’ from Charlottesville rally  Possibly the most debunked hoax ever.

Hate symbol associated with white supremacy displayed at Durango school board meeting An obvious comment on the school board that the Narrative Media would have you believe was being used in earnest.

Defiant Yale student, Native American association member refuses to apologize for ‘racist’ email Perhaps because it wasn’t racist — which it wasn’t.

Former Fox News reporter reacts to Tucker Carlson series (CNN) The ongoing campaign to cancel Carlson.

Trump Becomes Latest Whiny Billionaire to Freak Out Over Suggestion He Should Pay More Tax (Daily Beast) Whiny!

Media pushes false narrative about Ted Cruz defending Nazi salutes

Lincoln Project Democrat Operatives Busted For White Nationalist Hoax

Virginia Scholar Refuses to Cave to Pressure Over Tweet Criticizing Bisexual Superman

Lincoln Project Loonies Busted Over Stunt for Virginia Democrats

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When it comes to marriage, the jobs that each person in a couple has can play a role in whether or not it works out. Maybe it’s similar schedules. Maybe it’s common ground and understanding between two people. Maybe jobs are an indicator for the types of people who match well together.

In the chart below, based on estimates from the American Community Survey, find out which jobs most often pair together among married couples.

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times news section on the whoop-tee-doo in Spain I wrote about before in which a bestselling lady novelist named Carmen Mola turned out to be three guy screenwriters.

Michael Shellenberger.

I am pleased to officially announce that on October 12, 2021, HarperCollins will publish my new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. At nearly 400 pages, and with 1,100 end notes, the book is equal to Apocalypse Never. It is based on over 200 interviews, including with leading experts, advocates, and elected officials, over the last two years, original data analysis, and a review of the best-available research on crime, drugs, and homelessness. I wrote it because I love San Francisco and am upset and ashamed of what has happened to it and to other progressive cities in the name of progress.

Rutgers’ ‘ProfessorCrunk’ Hails CRT, Wants to Take White ‘Mother****ers’ Out

How Racial Preferences Pigeonhole Minority Lawyers

Liberal Criminologist Shot by Pool Party Youths, Blames Covid

Black Lawyers Group Says New York Concealed Carry Restrictions Are Racist

NYT: True-Crime Documentaries About White Men Murdering White Women Are Racist Against Blacks

‘Parks and Recreation’ actor charged with vandalizing George Floyd statue

NAACP to athletes: Don’t sign with Texas teams  Explicitly racist organization calls on Fashionable Victim Group to act on matters that have nothing to do with race.

Ohio Board of Education president Laura Kohler to resign over anti-racism resolution

Rapper Fetty Wap Arrested by FBI on Federal Drug Charges

The Religion that is ‘Woke Racism’

New York City Firefighters Union Asks Court to Halt City’s Vaccine Mandate

Top Florida Official Suggests ‘In-N-Out’ Move To Sunshine State After Vaccine Mandate Closures

Air Force is first to face troops’ rejection of vaccine mandate as thousands avoid shots

Employees leave as Austal reaches COVID-19 vaccine deadline

Judge Temporarily Stops Biden Administration From Firing Unvaccinated Workers

FDA Adviser Explains Why He Abstained From Vote On Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine For Kids

Latest Lancet Study Exposes Limits Of Vaccines At Preventing COVID Infection

Gallup Poll: More Than One-Third of Workers Say Employer Requires Vaccine

Up to 12K Air Force Personnel Have Refused Vaccine Orders

Defense Companies Brace For Workforce Loss Due To Vaccine Mandate

Study: Fully Vaccinated People Can Spread COVID-19  Fine vaccine ya got there, really fine.

Effect of early treatment with fluvoxamine on risk of hospitalization for Covid

US Intel Doesn’t Expect to Determine Origins of COVID-19

Firefighters Lash Out on Eve of NYC’s Vaccine Deadline

12,000 Air Force Personnel, Including Elite Pilots, Have Rejected Vax Order As Tuesday Deadline Looms

Nets Spike New Loudoun Assaults, Evidence CRT Taught in Virginia

Parents Demand California School Board President Step Down After ‘F**k You’ Hot Mic Incident

How Deeply Have the Chinese Communists Penetrated Our Institutions?

AP Acts Puzzled That a Democrat Could Lose

Florida school board member takes elementary school students on field trip to gay bar: ‘SO honored’

Manchin Will Agree to Halloween Only if Candy Is Completely Removed (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz thinks he’s the Babylon Bee, I guess.

Democrat Cries to ‘Defund Police’ Fade in Mayoral Races as Crime Surges Funny how that works.

Susan Collins Marks 8,000th Consecutive Vote in Senate  She gets the ‘RINO clinging to power’ award.

The Self-Isolation of the American Left

CNN and MSNBC Spend 17 Nights HIDING Horrific Loudoun School Sex Assault Case

Tucker Rips ‘Lying Coward’ Liz Cheney After She Joins Democrat Meltdown Over His J6 Exposé

NY Times Dismisses Parental Concerns on Education: ‘Angry and Threatening….Frantic Republican Alarms’

School Superintendent Complained That Sheriff Rejected Request to Monitor Parents as ‘Extraordinary’

Facebook Enacts ‘Irreversible’ Ban of NC Mayor without Explanation

Joy Reid, Guests: GOPers Are Dangerous Terrorists Led by Carlson, Youngkin

Scottish Gov’t Offers Bizarre Defense for Not Investigating Trump (Daily Beast) I mean, how could ANYBODY not want to investigate Trump?

CNN Worried ‘Kooks’ Who Watch Fox News Will Run For School Boards

‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock: I was ‘alarmist’ about climate change

Nets Silent as Lefty Thugs Harass Sinema at Wedding, Ruin Ceremony

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A group of House Democrats will propose a resolution urging the Biden administration to condemn Israel and support six Palestinian groups that were designated as terrorist organizations by the Jewish state.

In response to Israel’s terrorist designations, Rep. Betty McCollum (D., Minn.) plans to introduce a resolution celebrating the designated Palestinian groups for the “value and importance” of their “courageous work,” according to Haaretz. The resolution will be cosponsored by several House Democrats, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.).

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Yesterday morning the White House posted a summary of its so-called Framework of a Spendapalooza bill to be jammed through Congress by Democrats in a reconciliation bill. The White House posted the summary just before President Biden went up to Capitol Hill to meet with the House Democratic caucus.

Biden followed up with one of those 20-minute White House speeches in which he stares vacantly into the teleprompter while he struggles to read the text served up to him. The White House has posted the text of his remarks here. I have posted the video below.

The falsity of the remarks lies somewhere between painful and outrageous. Listening to Biden recite the text is tortuous. If ordered by a court as punishment for a crime, it might violate the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

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Don’t wear a mask; you must wear a mask. Buy a pulse oximeter. Stock up on Tylenol, vitamin D, Pepcid. Whisper so you don’t spit. Stand six feet from others—no, 10. Wear gloves. Wear two masks! Open the windows. Close the schools. The dizzying madness of COVID, and the reliance on gurulike experts, has been eerily familiar.

I have a pulse oximeter….

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And why not? If there’s money lying on the table, pick it up.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

The season of the witch is upon us. For much of the country Halloween is the tipping point where people head inside. It is in the close quarters of indoor life, especially around the holidays, where the witch does her worst work. They have the vaccine spells, supply chain voodoo, CRT incantations and insurrectionist stories ready to go so they can increase your misery. The witch lives to make the normal man miserable and agitated, especially during what should be the cozy season.

This week’s show is about how to deal with the witches we call leftists, feminists, cult-Marxists, and so. Back when I did the shows on the radical nature of our ruling class, I said I would do a show on how to deal with these people in our daily lives. Given this is the season of the witch, it seemed appropriate to post the show this week. When the kids are out trick-or-treating, you can be aware of the mother standing in the shadows, holding a water glass full of chardonnay.

Paul Mirengoff from Power Line.

Loudoun County, Virginia seems to have become the epicenter of the school policy battle within our culture wars. Events from that county are also playing a role in the upcoming Virginia gubernatorial election — at least I hope they will. This post is about two developments from Loudoun County that have been reported elsewhere, but may have escaped widespread notice.

Joel Kotkin.

To some in the Biden Administration, the supply chain crisis can be dismissed as a loss of East Asian-made consumer trinkets that, as Vox tells us, we could all be better off without—or as White House spokesperson Jen Psaki suggested, amounts to little more than “the tragedy of the delayed treadmill.” Yet, in reality, a broken supply chain is hardly a rich man’s problem—global bankers are having their best year ever—but mostly impacts ordinary folks suffering from rising prices for everything from soybeans to natural gas. The crisis is now expected to last for at least a year.

The chaos on the ground level may not much hurt the elites of Manhattan or Palo Alto, but inflation, which is now expected to continue apace for at least the next year, has wiped out wage gains in the U.S., the UK, and Germany. Low-income groups are the most threatened, struggling to pay energy costs, surging rents, and higher food prices. All this is also eroding President Biden’s already weak poll numbers.

Darwin’s Bulldog on the Cancellation Chopping Block; How Long Until Darwin Himself?

NBC Breaks Silence on Loudoun Rapes, Claims Parental Outrage Is Staged

What Is It About Peter Thiel? (The New Yorker)

A fear grows in Trumpworld: Have we gone too conspiratorial? (Politico) Politico attempts to speak for ‘Trumpworld’. Uh, I don’t think so….

Jim Caviezel’s QAnon Guru Wants to Control Elections (Daily Beast) None of which is true.

Anti-Trump Republicans target McCarthy, Scalise, other high-profile conservatives (The Hill) We call them ‘Democrats’.

Cruz blasts Omar, Swalwell for accusing him of ‘defending Nazis’

A D.C. area environmental group is dropping the name of John Audubon, naturalist who was an enslaver and Indian grave robber (Washington Post)

What’s Kyrsten Sinema Up To? It’s Pretty Obvious. (Politico)

Political Play? Conservative Tim Allen Gets Booted as Buzz Lightyear

Cancelled: ESPN Going After Atlanta Braves ‘Chop On’ Cheer

PETA Wants Bullpen Erased From Baseball Vocabulary

Hospital Chain Discovers, Expensively, That 14th Amendment Applies to White Men, Too

ShotSpotter: Shots Fired Almost Doubled During the Racial Reckoning

Abbott tied their hands. But this Texas mayor is fighting back.

Rutgers Professor On White People: “We Gotta Take These MF’ers Out!”

‘The View’ Invites Biden’s Education Secretary to Lie About Critical Race Theory

Sen. Tom Cotton Calls for AG Garland to ‘Resign in Disgrace’ Is there a special form for that?

4 Points to Understanding How Many Americans Are Stranded in Afghanistan

Kamala Harris’s Disregard for the Hatch Act to Keep Virginia Blue

‘Let’s Go Brandon’ rapper Bryson Gray boots Adele out of No. 1 spot with banned anti-Biden song

Caravan of 2,000 migrants presses on toward US border through Mexico And Mexico isn’t doing a thing about it.

ANALYSIS: Sleepy Joe’s Disastrous Four Months

White House Orders Daring Mission Into Afghanistan To Mark Stranded Americans’ Passports As ‘Non-Binary’

Biden Mulls $450K to Illegal Immigrants for Family Separation

Move Over Julia—Here Comes Linda!

Biden Wants To Give Separated Illegal Immigrants $450,000 Per Person

Obama Dismisses High School Rape as a ‘Fake Outrage’

Dem Hypocrites at CNN Still In Full Panic Over GOP Redistricting

NY Times: No Constitutionality, No Problem! Illegal Tax Merely ‘Stakes Out New Territory’

The Vox Formula: Telling Privileged People What They Already Believe

S.F. community advocate posted on social media about a rape allegation. Then she was fired

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot drowned out by boos at union fundraiser BRAAAAAAAINS!

Conservatives sound like anti-racists — when the cause is gun rights (Washington Post) Not that the WaPo would know anything about either subject.

Democracy’s sudden peril was an inside-job (The Hill)

San Francisco gas prices could reach all-time high That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Liberal Dems Angry as Moderates Get Family Leave Tossed From Spending Bill  My, what a surprise.

New York Times Journalist Is Running for Oregon Governor — as a Democrat, Of Course  Considering the recent record of Democrat governors, how hard could it be?

Dem Candidates in Virginia Ban Cameras From Public Campaign Events  Democracy dies in darkness, but that’s where Democrats live.

Pelosi Pushes Electric Vehicle Subsidies As Husband’s Tesla Stock Soars

CNN Claims American Foreign Policy Needs Biden’s ‘Crucial’ Big Spending Bill

Lame WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ DRAGGED Into ‘4 Pinocchios’ for Lying Terry McAuliffe

VIDEO: Omar Wanted To Dismantle Minneapolis Police. She Now Blames Them for a Crime Surge.

Eloi and Morlocks in Portlandia

‘We’re Not Doing Anything Bad To Your Kids But You Cannot Come In And Check,’ Says Public School Teacher  Babylon Bee.

Angry Parents, Voters Driving Recalls Around Nation Over Mask Mandates, Lockdowns

‘There Is No Rational Debate’: Loudoun County School Board Chair Trashes Parents

Wisconsin Sheriff Seeks Investigation of Nursing Home Voting

Legal Experts See Strong Self-Defense Claim for Rittenhouse

Dissatisfied Northern Virginia Parents Moving Kids to Private Schools

Cracking Down on the Unvaxed

A Maverick Among Socialists

FDNY Firefighters Assoc. President: Keep Working, Ignore Vaccine Mandate

Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19  Cue Narrative Media outrage.

California’s In-N-Out sparks latest pandemic culture war

NYC firefighters union leader tells unvaccinated members to defy mandate

Poll: 5% of Unvaccinated Adults Have Quit Job Due to Vaccine Mandates

US to Fine Unmasked Travelers Up to $85K  YOU WILL OBEY!

Danish Health Minister Threatens To “Shut Down Society” If More People Don’t Get Vaccinated  YOU WILL OBEY!

NYC Firefighters Union Tells Members To Defy Vaccine Mandate; NYPD Union Loses Bid To Halt

SD Gov. Noem Signs Order Protecting State Employees From Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

‘Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave’ To Be Removed From National Anthem To Encourage Compliance With Vaccine Mandates  Babylon Bee.

The new fluvoxamine results have been published

Inexpensive Antidepressant Slashes COVID-19 Hospitalizations By Over 30%: New Study Finds

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President Biden is going on up to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats this morning. He is promoting a Spendapalooza “Framework” of $1.75 trillion to bring them all to together.

I have been following the intense cheerleading for the Democrats to come together and get it done at Politico. Politico reports this morning that the $1.75 trillion “includes investments in home care, education and immigration.” They are light on the details, but I feel confident in saying these are not the kind of “investments” that pay dividends. On the contrary.

Any spending that winds up in the pockets of a Democrat is an ‘investment’; which from the point of view of a Democrat politician buying votes with taxpayer money is certainly true.

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The cure is worse than the disease, say critics of an emergency plan of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach backed by the Biden administration. If you think port congestion is bad now, just wait for what comes next.

On Wednesday, two days after the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced a surprise emergency fee for containers lingering too long at terminals, the National Shippers Advisory Council (NSAC) held its inaugural meeting. NSAC, created to advise the Federal Maritime Commission, is composed of 12 U.S. importers and 12 exporters. Members include heavy hitters like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Office Depot and Ikea.

Council members had a lot to say about the California port fees — none of it good.

Once again, government action, rather than fixing the problem, has merely made it worse.

Zman does an overview.

Fighting Mother Nature is always a losing game. This is the lesson of communism in the 20th century. They simply could not kill enough people to cause Mother Nature to yield to the theory. The technological age may be experiencing the same thing, with a lower body count. Instead, people are slowly beginning to adapt to the reality of their environment by reorganizing it. Cord-cutting is a way to slow down your environment, thus making it more habitable.

Social media seems to be suffering a similar trend. They lie about their membership and activity, but it is pretty clear that we are past the peak of these big platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The former is the domain of old people keeping touch with friends and family, while the latter is a holding pen for the mentally ill. A devolution to smaller, more focused on-line communities is under way. People are unplugging from the system to slow down their life.

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Digital real estate marketplace Zillow has been hemorrhaging cash in the home-buying arms race in certain markets, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, after the company tweaked its algorithm to jack up the bids it offered on real estate.

One of the more ominous movements in both real estate and tech during the current phase of the covid-19 pandemic has corporate house-buying sprees in response to resurgent demand, using predictive algorithms that try to divine the future of the housing market. The aim is generally to flip the homes for a profit, or in some cases convert them to timeshares or rental units, with unknown long-term effects for the housing market. Throughout the summer and fall, Zillow was urgently pursuing these potential buys via an “iBuying” program called Zillow Offers, which advertise homeowners’ offers in as little as a few days.

I’m with Mom on this one.

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Some people are born with hearing loss, while others acquire it with age, infections or long-term noise exposures. In many instances, the tiny hairs in the inner ear’s cochlea that allow the brain to recognize electrical pulses as sound are damaged. As a step toward an advanced artificial cochlea, researchers in ACS Nano report a conductive membrane, which translated sound waves into matching electrical signals when implanted inside a model ear, without requiring external power.

 

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A man was severely beaten in a culturally enriched district of Berlin for refusing to shout “Free Palestine”. The victim is reportedly a “German citizen”, which means he is probably a fellow culture-enricher who declined to engage in the Jew-hatred that Muslims consider mandatory.

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More young, activist women are choosing to be sterilized as our nation’s emerging adult generation is buying into climate-change propaganda that ”humans were a mistake,” according to an existential psychologist scholar.

This would seem to be a self-correcting problem, from an evolutionary standpoint.

Personally, I think that women who don’t want to reproduce ought to be encouraged not to do so.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

One thing about news stories that reflect badly on Democrats: they generally disappear from the news quickly, and without leaving a trace. Like our departure from Afghanistan, an epic failure on the part of the Biden administration that resulted in 13 dead Americans (that we know of), hundreds of Americans still marooned in Afghanistan–assuming they are all still alive–and many thousands of Afghans, mostly unknown, in the U.S. or on the way here.

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When Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, he told Rep. Jim Jordan that FBI agents will not be attending school board meetings. However, an activist mother in Fairfax, Virginia says the feds did show up at a school board meeting last Thursday, the same day Garland made his statement to Jordan.

 

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As we focus on our own problems in the United States, the Russian war against Ukraine continues. There is also a cold war between a Russian proxy, Belarus, against Poland and Lithuania that involves immigration.

Belarus invites Middle East immigrants to come to Belarus. Belarus then deposits these immigrants on the Polish and Lithuanian borders and tries to force them to cross into Poland and Lithuania. The goal is to destabilize two NATO nations.

Ukraine is not a NATO nation but the United States is selling Ukraine Javelin anti-tank missiles to defend against Russian tanks in the Donbass region of Ukraine. They are also purchasing drones from Turkey, and Turkey plans to allow Ukraine to produce the Bayraktar T2B in Ukraine.