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What happens is that his negatively charged material absorbs hydrogen. When light passes through it, the polarity of the bonds changes to positive, and the hydrogen is released. That’s a much better process than compressing hydrogen to 5,000 psi up to 10,000 psi, as today’s fuel cells need. For example, the Toyota Mirai holds 5.5 kg of hydrogen at that pressure.

This material Plasma Kinetics developed can be used as a disc or as a film that is just one-tenth of a thickness of a human hair. At first, the discs helped the company to explain the technology: hydrogen would be released when the laser hit it as a compact disc would “release music” when the laser reader hit it. However, the nano graphite film proved to be a better means to deal with hydrogen storage.

Are You Ready For ‘The Mother of All Caravans’?

Our Punchline-in-Chief  Charlie Cooke does the Biden dance.

Biden’s Afghan Debacle: Questions Future Historians Will Ask

Biden Blames Pandemic on Delay of JFK Records

All Records Shattered After 1.7 Million Illegal Immigrants Arrested At Southern Border

State Department Privately Admits ‘Nearly 400’ Americans Still Stuck In Afghanistan

Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network (Washington Post)

Bannon Caught Fleeing U.S. Disguised as Man Who Recently Took Shower (The New Yorker) I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Democrats move to finalize new ‘billionaire’ tax proposal, targeting 700 wealthiest Americans as key source of revenue for spending plan (Washington Post)  Successful? Well, we’ll punish you for that. (Betcha it neither increases what ‘billionaires’ pay nor provides the money they say it will.)

Lincoln Project files ethics complaint against Abbott (The Hill) Of course they do.

Feeding The Liberal Flock: Glenn Greenwald Exposes The Real Reasons For The Congressional 1/6 Committee

Cancel Culture Takes A Big “L”  Matt Taibbi looks at the Dave Chapelle situation.

White House details plans to vaccinate 28M children age 5-11 (Associated Press) Who don’t need it, according to The Science.

Arizona AG Seeks Immediate Halt to Federal COVID Vax Mandates

Mutated Strain Of Delta Variant Causing Panic In UK Has Been Found In US

Sweden Suspends Moderna Shot Indefinitely After Vaxxed Patients Develop Crippling Heart Condition

CDC Director Admits “We May Need To Update Our Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated'”

Joe Rogan calls CNN’s Don Lemon a ‘dumb motherf—–‘ for doubling down on ‘horse dewormer’ narrative I am inclined to agree, although I would add ‘lying sack of shit’ to the mix.

The Arbery Show Trial Begins—More Human Sacrifices to Appease the BLM Gods

Injecting Anti-Racism Activism Into the Adoption Process Won’t Help Black Children

On PBS, Capehart Lies That CRT Is Taught NOWHERE to Children in U.S. Schools

A theater professor refused to express anger at something that wasn’t meant to cause anger. Coastal Carolina University wants to fire him for it.

White House report on climate, migration opens door to refugee status for ‘environmental defenders’

How Climate Change Is Posing A Mounting Threat To U.S. National Security (NBC News) Yeah, we’re all going to be attacked in our beds by starving polar bears.

‘Delinquent’ Matt Gaetz Blocked from Practicing Law (Daily Beast)

Justice Dept. adds two top prosecutors to Matt Gaetz case (Chicago Tribune) Scraaaaaaape that barrel!

Florida is ditching palm trees to fight the climate crisis (CNN)

Your green credentials may be linked to your genes, study says (The Guardian) Further proof that insanity is hereditary.

Andrea Mitchell Whines: Climate Change Is a National Security Threat, Senate’s Unfair!

“How Dare You?” – These Countries Are The Most Committed To Coal

Watch: Morano’s full 25 min speech on Climate Lockdowns at Heartland Skeptic Conference in Las Vegas

David Friedman.

Perhaps we owe thanks to our stone age ancestors for the glaciers not yet having started south.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

night should be a source of disquiet and consternation to anyone who cares about the United States. Fielding what must have been screened questions submitted by a friendly invitation-only audience, Biden required a number of clean-ups in aisle 46 back in the White House.

Dominic Green touches on a few particulars in the Spectator column “Biden builds back in the USSR” (my favorite: he couldn’t remember Kyrsten Sinema’s name). Gordon Chang focuses on China in “Joe Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Now A Total Disaster” (“If there is anything unclear, it is the situation after the clarifications from Biden administration officials: Press Secretary Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson Ned Price, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. All of them walked back Biden’s statement to CNN”).

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I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV or in the movies. I am, however, someone who can read, look things up, and understand numbers- and when it comes to the dreaded covid, numbers are all important. And, there’s something you need to understand right up front- your doctor isn’t responsible for your health. Your insurance company isn’t responsible for your health. The government- especially the government- not only isn’t responsible for your health but seems these days to be actively working against it. There is one and only one person responsible for your health- you. Awesome responsibility, isn’t it? Doesn’t apply to children- PARENTS, adults, are responsible for their health Not teachers, not school superintendents or school boards, parents or in some cases legal guardians.

Amen to that.

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Words go in and out of fashion all the time. For example, the phrase “the debate over” is fading out in favor of “the conversation around.”

My guess is that the change in prepositions is merely a fad. After all, prepositions in English are somewhat arbitrary, which is why it’s hard for people learning English to remember which preposition to use.

I don’t know whether it is the product of heredity or of environment, but compulsive nattering appears to be the way women relate to the world, especially to other women. This can be tedious for those of us who make a point of not saying anything when we don’t have anything to say, and wishing that other people would have the good grace to do the same, but there it is. I remember going to an SCA event with my late first wife to Tulsa, a four-hour trip from Dallas, and noticing that she didn’t stop talking for more than ten seconds at a time during that entire four-hour trip. It’s a gift; I couldn’t have done that even if I’d tried.

Taki is delightfully dyspeptic this day.

“The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money,” screams a Bagel Times headline, as bogus a message as that caricature of a newspaper’s other captions of an antiwhite, anti-cop, anti-male, and anti-Conservative platform. (“Bid the binary goodbye,” is another pearl.) Not that anyone takes the Bagel Times seriously any longer since it decided that whites are very bad people, and that it will cover only Blacks (capitals for them, lowercase for us). Still, I found it amusing that London is responsible for the shame of the Pandora Papers, when most of the miscreants involved are third-world dictators and Eastern oligarchs.

Never mind. A newspaper that consistently shades the facts to suit its agenda—even book reviews are assigned to well-known haters of the subject reviewed—is not to be taken seriously, and it’s not, but as I’m traveling and feeling good, I will for the second week running defend the very rich. For starters, it’s only the very rich who are clobbered when investing in Silicon Valley start-ups that go belly-up. Those below a certain net worth are not allowed by law to invest. Mark one for the common man and woman. When a start-up implodes, as most of them do, the very rich take it with their chin up, while the media laugh like hyenas. But the working stiffs are safe by having been excluded from the start.

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I am not making this up.

Indiana Jones, call your office….

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In 2012, he pulled out of a conference in Delhi at which Salman Rushdie was also booked to speak, stating that he “could not even think of participating in any programme that included Salman Rushdie, who has caused immeasurable hurt to Muslims across the globe.” Rushdie responded by pointing out that “30 years ago Imran Khan was a fan at my 1982 Delhi lecture and 100 percent secular. Now my work ‘humiliates’ his ‘faith.’ Which is the real Imran?” He later added: “When Imran was a playboy in London, he was called ‘Im the dim.’ Imran may have been born again. He will have to be judged by this (the new Imran). Those of us who knew the young Imran don’t remember him like this.”

The Bill Clinton of the Middle East?

Victor Davis Hanson.

Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?

Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.

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In the following video, a man identified only as Wolfgang records a message to his loved ones from his ICU bed about his medical condition. He is now paralyzed from the neck down a month after receiving an injection of the experimental Johnson & Johnson mRNA medical treatment intended to prevent infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

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Sweden as a society is currently run by women, specifically feminist women. The prime minister is male, and numerous members of parliament are males, but important cabinet posts and administrative positions in the bureaucracy are filled by women. Female social workers. Female police chiefs. Female directors of enterprises, both public and private. And the ideology that animates public service and cultural institutions is avowedly feminist.

It is this feminist, feminized ideology that requires Swedes to welcome immigrants and celebrate them. Sweden has no legitimate culture of its own, so Swedes must embrace the multiculturalism that immigrants bring. Even if those culture-enrichers abuse, mutilate, brutalize, rape, and murder women and girls.

By 2050 — in less than thirty years — Sweden will no longer be run by feminists, because there won’t be enough of them left. Oh, there will be plenty of women, but the majority of them will be the property of patriarchal polygamous men who have been welcomed in from the Third World to enrich Swedish culture.

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An on-set shooting death has reignited concern about the use of prop guns like the weapon actor Alec Baldwin discharged in the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming a movie in New Mexico.

I think that instead it ought to re-ignite concern about Alec Baldwin. The gun didn’t fire itself.

UPDATE: Alec Baldwin’s Accident  John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Outraged North Carolina parent calls out ‘racist’ banner taunting football team’s White privilege

Lawsuit Targets Massachusetts Public School System for Racial Segregation, Censoring Students

‘No more time to waste,’ chair of House climate panel warns ahead of Cop26 (The Guardian) TIME TO PANIC!

Inaction on climate change imperils millions of lives, doctors say (Washington Post) Millions! In peril!

“Damage and Destroy” Climate Zealots’ Final Solution?

South Pole’s Winter Weather Record

White House Wants Easier Path For “Climate Migrants”

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They’d be fools not to

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The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide your password to law enforcement. Yesterday, along with the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in State v. Valdez, arguing that the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination prevents the police from forcing suspects to reveal the contents of their minds. That includes revealing a memorized passcode or directly entering the passcode to unlock a device.

In Valdez, the defendant was charged with kidnapping his ex-girlfriend after arranging a meeting under false pretenses. During his arrest, police found a cell phone in Valdez’s pocket that they wanted to search for evidence that he set up the meeting, but Valdez refused to tell them the passcode. Unlike many other cases raising these issues, however, the police didn’t bother seeking a court order to compel Valdez to reveal his passcode. Instead, during trial, the prosecution offered testimony and argument about his refusal. The defense argued that this violated the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, which also prevents the state from commenting on his silence. The court of appeals agreed, and now the state has appealed to the Utah Supreme Court.

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A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big incisors become a liability.

Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

During the conflict from 1977 to 1992, fighters on both sides slaughtered elephants for ivory to finance war efforts. In the region that’s now Gorongosa National Park, around 90% of the elephants were killed.

The survivors were likely to share a key characteristic: half the females were naturally tuskless — they simply never developed tusks — while before the war, less than a fifth lacked tusks.

Well, that’s how evolution works.

The Buckhead Lamborghini Murder

Court mistakenly gave potential jurors in Ahmaud Arbery case his mental health history

Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa Spar in 1st NYC Mayoral Debate

Watch: Condoleezza Rice Crushes Critical Race Theory: “White Kids Shouldn’t Be Made To Feel Bad For Being White”

Biden at MLK Commemoration: 1/6 Was Motivated by White Supremacy

What Liz Cheney just said about January 6 is *really* important (CNN) If, of course, you support The Narrative.

Two people could save US democracy (CNN) And they are, of course, Democrats.

Please, Everyone, a Moment of Silence for These Antivax Cops Who Ragequit Their Jobs (Gizmodo) Not just ‘quit’ but ‘ragequit’, so you’ll know the correct thought.

Army Kicks Out Hitler Mustache-Wearing Solider Who Allegedly Breached Capitol, Says Report (Daily Beast) It must be a great disappointment to the Daily Beast that Trump doesn’t wear a Hitler Stache.

Professor Dorian Abbot: I was canceled for basing admissions on merit

Trump faces new criminal investigation into New York golf club  (Washington Post)

Trump broke the suburbs for the GOP. The rebuilding could start in Virginia. (Politico) As if anyone at Politico knew anything about suburbs.

Twitter Mob Comes for Dave Chappelle. It’s Time to Realize They Aren’t As Powerful As They Think.

Joe Scarborough: On Voting Rights, GOP Like George Wallace ‘In Schoolhouse Door’  George Wallace was, at the time, a Democrat.

Trump’s new social media site collapses after trolls flood it before launch

Kooky Tom Friedman on Cooper Show: Cruz, Hawley Seek to ‘Burn Down the Country’

Head of California’s largest union arrested on theft, fraud charges  Look for … the Union label….

Tech Salaries Are on the Rise, Just Not in New York or San Francisco

Brian Laundrie might be dead, but women like me are still hunting for closure And somebody, by God, had better provide it for me.

New gerrymander weapon Gerrymandering is a Bad Thing … when Republicans do it.

A politicized Supreme Court? That was the point (The Hill) No. Just … no. A ‘politicized’ court is never the point.

Poland triggers an existential crisis for Europe (Washington Post) No, just for the E.U., which is not quite the same thing.

ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC Spend Zero Seconds on Loudoun,VA School Sex Assaults

Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users

Andrea Mitchell Hails David Hogg for ‘Really Effective Protests’ for Gun Control  Really? What ‘gun control’ measure has “Camera” Hogg gotten passed?

China Blocks All Boston Celtics Games After Enes Kanter Demands “Dictator” Xi “Free Tibet”

Religious Persecution? Ex-Washington State University Football Coach To File Lawsuit

DC Cops Say Department Pressured Them To Have Abortions

YouTube Bans ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Video for ‘Medical Misinformation’

Nevada Democrat Violates State Mask Mandate at Star-Studded Gala Honoring Chinese Billionaire

ACLU Sues Texas School District Over Long Hair Policy

Pa. Poll Worker Gets 1st 2020 Voter Fraud Bounty Reward From Texas Lt. Gov.

University of Virginia Students Vandalize Thomas Jefferson Posters

Reducing People to Their Pronouns

ABC’s Roberts Whines to Jill Biden About Loss of ‘Free’ College in Dem Spending Binge

The Hypocrisy of Environmental Elites

COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report It’s not about The Science, it’s about The Politics.

What’s Holding Nuclear Energy Back In The U.S.? Hint: Government red tape.

It’s time for a ‘moo shot’ to disrupt industrial animal agriculture (The Hill) Climate Chante! Is there anything it can’t do>

Reports: Health Problems Linked to Global Warming Increased

Proposed Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Benefit Unions, Wealthy Individuals—Not Environment

Climate reports outline Biden administration fears on global warming

The Cost Of Going Green Is About To Get More Expensive

Marine Vet Sues Walmart After Pharmacist Refused To Fill His Ivermectin Prescription

The FDA’s War Against The Truth On Ivermectin

NYC mayor ‘troubled’ by video showing unmasked officers forcibly removing masked subway commuter

High school teacher of the year faces termination over vaccine mandate  I’d terminate him for looking like a derelict. But that’s me.

Florida Chief Fired for Not Forcing Firefighter Vaccinations

Florida Gov. DeSantis to Call Special Legislative Session to Ban Vaccine Mandates

NIH Letter Shows Fauci Lied to Congress About Gain of Function Research Funding  My, what a surprise.

Finally: San Francisco To Require Proof Of Vaccination To Poop On The Sidewalk  Babylon Bee.

CDC Says 5 Year Olds Will Still Need to Wear Masks After Vaccine Is Approved for Kids

CDC Advisory Committee Quietly Confirms Moderna Jab Significantly More Dangerous Than Pfizer

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Just days after entering his financial assets into a blind trust to sidestep ethics questions over his failure to disclose stock transactions in a timely manner, New Jersey Democrat Tom Malinowski revealed 86 new financial transactions worth up to $1.97 million that he failed to disclose when he originally made them.

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Western Maryland state lawmakers have sent letters to officials in West Virginia, asking them to “consider adding us as constituent counties to the State of West Virginia.”

“We believe this arrangement may be mutually beneficial for both states and for our local constituencies,” the lawmakers wrote in the letters, which were sent earlier this month and released publicly on Thursday. The letter was signed by five Republican lawmakers who represent Maryland’s three westernmost counties: Garrett, Allegany and Washington.

It wasn’t immediately clear exactly what legal steps would need to be accomplished in order to make such a switch, but there would likely be many hurdles ahead.

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Gov. Mike Parson escalated his war with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday when his political operation published a video doubling down on his attack against a reporter who informed the state that a state website revealed teacher Social Security numbers.

The video is produced by Uniting Missouri, a political action committee created by Parson supporters to back his 2020 election campaign. The PAC continues to raise and spend large sums of money to promote Parson’s political agenda. It operates without direct input from Parson on its activities.

“The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is purely playing politics,” the ad states. “Exploiting personal information is a squalid excuse for journalism.”

The ad comes less than a week after Parson’s widely criticized demand for an investigation and prosecution of the reporter who discovered the security flaw in a state website, along with “all those involved.” Parson read a statement calling the reporter “a hacker” to reporters gathered outside his Missouri Capitol office last Thursday, then left without taking questions.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Whenever government regulations get burdensome, businesses will arise that will help people navigate the bureaucratic morass — for a fee. This is how most attorneys and accountants make their living.

There exist a large number of companies whose business model is ‘help prople with their taxes’. (In support of this business model, the government tax bureaucracy maximizes its natural inclination to be no help whatsoever.)  Intuit is one such.

In the struggle  between reformers who want to make dealing with government easier and businesses who make their living from helping people deal with government, which do you think will win? (Hint: Which side has money to contribute to legislators’ re-election campaigns?)

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

Last week, the media was buzzing with claims that the Chinese have mastered hypersonic technology. They had flown a hypersonic glider around the globe and then delivered it to a target. Supposedly the glider was capable of carrying and therefore delivering a nuclear weapon. Additionally, the US military claimed to not know how they managed to pull it off. The implication being that the Chinese have now surpassed the American empire in military technology.

The official outlet for the Washington regime promptly put out an essay warning about the threat China now poses. Th point of the essay is to frame the debate over how best to wage the new cold war. One side will be dovish and seek to negotiate, while the other side will be hawkish and want to keep pace with the Chinese. The compromise will be both sides get what they want. This means jobs and cash for the army of managerial class flunkies and military contractors.

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Wood at a settlement in Canada’s Newfoundland that was cut with metal tools helped researchers pinpoint when the Norse first reached the continent — well before Columbus.

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The extra funds would be used to purchase additional aircraft, surveillance drones, and the munitions needed to strike Iran’s underground nuclear facilities. The report said about $620 million would come from the 2022 military budget, and the rest of the funds would come from this year’s budget.

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“I’m tired of this sh*t, I’m tired of them ruining these characters,” Eltaeb said, in light of DC’s announcement that Superman would no longer be abiding by the motto of “truth, justice, and the American way,” according to Breitbart.

“I’m finishing out my contract with DC. I’m tired of this sh*t, I’m tired of them ruining these characters; they don’t have a right to do this,” Eltaeb added.

Eltaeb continued on, citing that his grandpa had almost died in World War II, and changing Superman’s motto from the “American way” to a “better tomorrow” is disgraceful to those who fought and died.

“My Grandpa almost died in World War II; we don’t have a right to destroy sh*t that people died for to give us. It’s a bunch of [expletive] nonsense.”

Ohio college student ‘angry’ and ‘scared’ after ‘cisgender men’ installed radiator in dorms: ‘Safe space’  The student in question is biologically male, which raises a number of questions that the ‘news’ coverage is carefully not covering.

‘Terrifying’ for the U.S.: YouTube Censors Steven Crowder for So-Called Trans ‘Hate Speech’

Couric Blames America’s ‘Sexism’ for Her Failure as CBS Anchor

TikTok Threatens To Censor “Let’s Go Brandon” Song For “Harassment And Bullying”

Nets Skip Parents Suing AG for ‘Terrorism’ Smear, NBC Rails Against Anti-CRT Law in TX

Nation’s Leading Parks Group Introduces ‘Woke’ Language Guide

NYT: Yeah, Sailer Was Right About Del Rio as a Preview of the Coming Camp of the Saints; But the Camp of the Saints Will be a Good Thing.

Pope Demands Silicon Valley “In The Name Of God” Censor “Hate Speech”, “Conspiracy Theories”

McAuliffe Abruptly Ends Interview, Says Reporter Should Have Asked Better Questions

Americans Still Trapped In Afghanistan Told By Washington Post To Lower Expectations

ADL Under Fire for Teaming Up With Anti-Israel Activist Who Defended Terror Groups

NYC Fentanyl Deaths Up 55% During Pandemic

Ivy League Firebombers Pled Guilty, Face 10 Years Under Terror Law

Twitter VP of Trust & Safety Del Harvey Resigns, Leaves Legacy of Biased Censorship

UN Health Special Rapporteur Calls for Abortion  Nothing says ‘health’ like killing babies.

CNN Lectures Manchin on Climate, Urges He Back Massive Spending & Regulations

San Francisco shuts down In-N-Out for not enforcing jab mandate: ‘We refuse to become the vaccination police’

Covid anger drives recall election targeting 3 San Francisco school leaders (Politico)

Dozens Of Top Nuclear Scientists With “Highest Security Clearances” Being Fired From Los Alamos Lab After Vax Mandate

India’s big four services giants wrestle with staff attrition amid COVID-19 pandemic

More Than 180 San Francisco City Officials, Including Police And Sheriff Employees, Placed On Leave For Not Being Vaccinated

More Covid Vaccine Boosters Are Coming. Who Should Get Them?

White House Details Plans to Vaccinate 28M Children Age 5-11  Who, according to ‘the science’, don’t need it.

Judge Rejects Florida Husband’s Attempt to Force Hospital to Use Ivermectin to Treat COVID

COVID Delta Subvariant Confirmed in US, Israel

New York City to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine for Entire City Workforce

NYPD’s Largest Union Suing NYC Over Vaccine Mandate

Experts Warn That If Children Between The Ages Of 5-11 Aren’t Vaccinated Then Pfizer Executives Won’t Get Their Sales Bonuses  Babylon Bee.

Apple again ramps up COVID-19 testing requirements for unvaccinated employees

Biden’s Energy Secretary Violated Hatch Act, Watchdog Says

Under the Radar: Nets Skip Biden’s Secret Night Flights for Illegals

Psaki yanks our supply chain

Did Anyone Miss the Transportation Secretary?

Border Patrol Arrests Hit Record Levels

Christian Group Sues Biden Administration Over Transgender Surgeries

The Bidens: Corrupt or crazy?

Biden’s Ambassador Nominee Changes Tune on ‘War of Words’ Between US, China

Police determine cause of Dallas apartment explosion

McAuliffe nods along as Stacey Abrams tells ‘Big Lie’ that Georgia race was stolen from her

Watch: 6th Grader Secretly Records Teacher Peddling Critical Race Theory To Class

NYC Declares Racism Public Health Crisis

Police Suggest Possible Charges For Those Who Filmed Rape On Train

ACLU Sues Oklahoma Over Critical Race Theory Law

Netflix braces for staff walkout and LGBTQ rally over Chappelle special

Democratic Virginia Councilman Refuses To Step Down Over Felony Charges

Netflix Workers Stage Walk-Out over Chappelle Transgender Comments

Condi Rice Crushes Pro-Critical Race Theory Talk on ‘View’

CNN asks West Virginia residents about climate change. See their responses How about asking people in, oh, Alaska?

‘Brown recovery’ wipes out hopes that pandemic stimulus would drive climate spending (Politico)

Dammit, Coal’s Back (Gizmodo)

‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans (The Guardian)

The Irrelevancy of Lynas ‘99.9 Percent Certainty Climate Change’ Consensus

The Conversation: Why are People so Climate Nonchalant?

Emerging World Hands Dems A “$750 Billion Bill” For Climate Change Ahead Of Glasgow Summit

Transport Of Tropical Ocean Heat Causes An Over Estimation Of The Global Average Temperature

Carbon-neutrality is a tale: the race for renewables is burning Europe’s forests

Microplastics May Be Cooling—and Heating—Earth’s Climate

Weather vs. Alarmism

Marc Morano Takes on Climate Alarmist Reporter at ICCC-14

House panel on Jan. 6 votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for defying subpoena (NPR)

Donald Trump (yet again) proves there’s no bottom (CNN)

El Chapo Refuses to Share a Prison Cell with Steve Bannon (CNN) I’m sure he’d refuse to share a prison cell with Chelsea Manning, too; who cares?

The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies (The Guardian) There is no right but the far-right.

How Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Basically Bought’ Her House Seat (Daily Beast)

CNN’s Cillizza Remembers Colin Powell…by Focusing on Trump  All Trump! All the time!

Aaron Rodgers Blasts Woke, PC Cancel Culture For Silencing People

UC Berkeley’s Top Climate Director Resigns After Colleagues Reject Speaker Who Denounced Race-Based Admissions

Following Free Beacon Report, Gaming Platform Removes Game That Has Users Slaughter Israelis as a Palestinian Militant

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Ponder the fact that nobody is trying to develop meat that tastes like plants.

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The Arcflash Labs GR-1 “Anvil” is an 8-stage semi-automatic high voltage Gauss Rifle. It is the most powerful coilgun ever sold to the public, and also (very likely) the most powerful handheld coilgun ever built.

The GR-1 is capable of accelerating any ferromagnetic projectile (under 1/2? in diameter) to 200+ fps, and can deliver up to 75 ft-lbs of muzzle energy.

Not a firearm, and so presumably outside the reach of current firearms laws and regulations.

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Quite appropriately, the first MTV video was “Video Killed the Radio Star”.

I had the hots for Martha Quinn,  back in the day.

Good times.

Spencer Kalvan.

Let us now praise Jennifer Rene Psaki—English major, sorority girl, mother of two. Let us praise her seemingly endless supply of monochrome crew-neck blouses and pencil skirts, the way she peels her mask off after striding to the lectern. Jen Psaki has been briefed by her 11 staffers; she has had her coffee (and her bagel, if it’s Wednesday); she is freshly armed with the latest talking points and she is not going to take any of your guff today.

Jen communicates just how on top of things she is by nodding ceaselessly throughout every question, interjecting an “uh-huh” or a “yep” to show she has not been caught off guard since the last clause of the reporter’s sentence. This is a patented bobblehead technique she perfected as a commentator at CNN in between the Obama and Biden Administrations. What she is saying or listening to is less important than what she is communicating with her demeanor at all times: that she is serious, that she is informed, that she is the adult in the room.

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

If a man had fallen asleep in 1980 and woke up in this age, he would be amazed at many things. We can easily think of the technological stuff like social media, Zoom calls and mobile devices. Then you have the cynical stull like the failure get back to the moon, much less Mars. One less obvious change is the explosion of entertainment and the public obsession with being entertained. Forty years ago, people did not expect to be constantly entertained throughout their day.

One aspect of the saturation of entertainment is how public affairs transformed into something like Vaudeville. People dream up new acts and new characters to play on-line and on television. If the act works, we get a flood of imitators. Once that runs its course, someone cooks up a new way to separate from the rest of the performers and they have their run on the big stage. Politics in this age is pure theater, centered on various acts making claims to certain audiences.