Archive for October, 2021
21st October 2021
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21st October 2021
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21st October 2021
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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Tom Malinowski revealed 86 new financial transactions worth up to $1.97 million that he failed to disclose when he originally made them.
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21st October 2021
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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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21st October 2021
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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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21st October 2021
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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?)
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21st October 2021
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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21st October 2021
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21st October 2021
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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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20th October 2021
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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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20th October 2021
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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.”
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20th October 2021
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20th October 2021
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20th October 2021
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20th October 2021
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20th October 2021
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20th October 2021
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20th October 2021
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Ponder the fact that nobody is trying to develop meat that tastes like plants.
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20th October 2021
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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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20th October 2021
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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.
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20th October 2021
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.
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20th October 2021
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.
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20th October 2021
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20th October 2021
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For Nigeria, increased crime, especially kidnapping, is largely the result of the worldwide covid19 economic slowdown and recession. This was made worse by the sharp global decline in oil sales, which hit the Nigerian economy hard. At the end of 2020 unemployment was nearly 30 percent and inflation nearly 15 percent. Currently the unemployment rate is still over 20 percent and the inflation rate is 16 percent.
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20th October 2021
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In January 2019, I wrote about an emerging trend in higher education: The requirement that applicants for faculty positions submit, along with statements about teaching and research, “diversity statements.” In such statements, applicants demonstrate their commitment to drawing in students, staff, and faculty from under-represented groups, meaning oppressed groups. They prove their commitment to helping members of those groups feel welcome on campus and to removing arbitrary barriers to their success in class or at work. What was emerging then is more established now.
Later in 2019, Abigail Thompson, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis, asserted that several campuses on the vast University of California campus were using diversity statements as a screening tool. “Hiring committees,” she wrote, “are being urged to start the review process by using officially provided rubrics to score the required diversity statements and to eliminate applicants who don’t achieve a scoring cut-off.”
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20th October 2021
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A new optical switch is, at 1 trillion operations per second, between 100 and 1,000 times faster than today’s leading commercial electronic transistors, research that may one day help lead to a new generation of computers based on light instead of electricity, say scientists in Russia and at IBM.
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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Cruz introduced the Stop the SURGE Act to demand President Joe Biden and Democrats address the crisis at the southern border, which has been flooded by migrants seeking entrance into the U.S.
The legislation would establish new ports of entry in 13 communities across the country and mandate all migrants encountered at Border Patrol Sectors in Texas be transferred to these new ports for processing. That would help alleviate the workload for overwhelmed Border Patrol and local law enforcement.
The new ports would be located in places such as Napa Valley, California; Greenwich, Connecticut; Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; and North Hero, Vermont.
Blue-State legislatures and agencies are very fond of putting (or trying to put) ‘affordable housing’ (i.e. poor black people) in what they consider to be overly-white and overly-affluent areas. Sauce for the goose….
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19th October 2021
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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization is often in the business of “jihad now, not later,” an approach that has led to multiple deadly escalations between it and Israel in the Gaza Strip – even when this did not suit the immediate interests of Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas.
However, PIJ has recently been making a concerted effort not to undermine Hamas’s rule, and has cooperated with Hamas’s decision to seek a tactical, unofficial period of calm. What remains unclear is just how long PIJ will continue to play along before reverting back to its traditional role of arsonist.
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19th October 2021
ZMan pulls back the curtain.
One of the unexamined parts of the current crisis in the West is that much of it is related to an opposition to nationalism. It is an axiom of the ruling ideology that nationalism is the worst thing ever and that stamping it out is a primary concern. In Europe, there are laws against the concept. People are jailed for promoting it. In the United States, nationalism is linked to the deadly sin of racism. The term white nationalism has become a synonym for racism and antisemitism.
Without much evidence, it is asserted that nationalism is the cause of the great horrors of the modern age. For generations now children have been taught that nationalism was the cause of the two great industrial wars of the 20th century. Paradoxically, they also are taught that nationalism is to blame for colonialism. Today it is claimed that white people being themselves as a people, currently called whiteness, is the cause of everything that ails nonwhites in the West.
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19th October 2021
Akex Tabarrok, a Real Economist, lays it out.
One of the silver linings of the pandemic was the ability to see a doctor and be prescribed medicine online. I used telemedicine multiple times during the pandemic and it was great–telemedicine saved me at least an hour each visit and I think my medical care was as good as if I had been in person. I already knew I had poison ivy! No need for the doctor to get it also.
Telemedicine has been possible for a long time. What allowed it to take off during the pandemic wasn’t new technology but deregulation. HIPAA rules, for example, were waived for good faith use of standard communication technologies such as Zoom and Facetime even though these would ordinarily have been prohibited.
Once again, government is the problem, not the solution.
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19th October 2021
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An examination of hundreds of health departments around the country shows that the nation may be less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for the current one.
The problem is not with ‘the nation’ but with ‘health departments’ that act like the Gestapo at its worst.
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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Leptin is a hormone produced by fat cells that carries out a range of functions in the body, chief among them being the regulation of appetite. It does by communicating with the brain region called the hypothalamus to let the person know they’ve had enough to eat, but this relationship can break down in people with obesity.
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19th October 2021
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California company Radiant has secured funding to develop a compact, portable, “low-cost” one-megawatt nuclear micro-reactor that fits in a shipping container, powers about 1,000 homes and uses a helium coolant instead of water.
Cue Eco-Nazi lawsuits.
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19th October 2021
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Across the country, parents and concerned citizens are rising up against unresponsive left-wing school boards, most of which have been put in place without much public oversight by far-left teachers’ unions. The movement for reform has now reached as far as San Francisco.
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19th October 2021
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19th October 2021
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In previous years it was Lampedusa, the Italian island not far from the coast of North Africa, that was the preferred destination for “refugees” who wanted access to the European Union, especially Germany. In 2021, however, the focus has been on Belarus, which has been encouraging migrants to come to Minsk and cross the border into Poland or Lithuania as a geopolitical move against the EU.
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19th October 2021
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It seems that just about every more-or-less secular Afghani has stood up, raised his hand, and said, “I, too, was an interpreter for the Bundeswehr!”
At least that’s the way it looks as the Afghan “refugees” pour into Germany, aided and encouraged by various factions of the German government.
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19th October 2021
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A Senegalese culture-enricher has killed an Italian street artist during an aborted mugging in Lecce, a city in the southern Italian province of Apulia. He says he didn’t mean to.
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18th October 2021
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18th October 2021
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18th October 2021
Fauci: J&J Vaccine Should Have Been 2 Doses
40% Of California State Workers Are Unvaccinated Despite Newsom’s Order
Mad Vax Disease
Vaccine Roulette
Southwest Asks Court to Keep Vaccine Mandate in Place
‘Coffee Cup Gestapo’: The Latest Covid Crackdown Viral Video Out Of Australia
Washington State Trooper Gives ‘Final Sign Off’ After Refusing To Take Vaccine; Tells Governor To Kiss His A**
This Doctor Opposes COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate. Now His State Won’t Let Him Practice Medicine.
Fully Vaccinated Former SecState Colin Powell Dies From COVID Complications Guess that vaccination really worked out for him, huh.
Fraudci-lent ‘Science’
Several Children Shot In Weekend Violence As Chicago Cancels All Time Off Requests, Bracing For Vax Non-Compliance
RECKLESS: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Shuns Mask Mandate at Surprisingly Crowded WNBA Game BRAAAAAAAINS!
Public Health System Less Equipped to Handle Pandemic: NY Times
Dr. Gottlieb Warns New “Super Variant” Is Behind Latest COVID Comeback In UK
CDC Warns Unvaccinated 11 Times More Likely to Die of COVID-19 They fail to mention the obvious condition: IF they catch the disease, which many of us have managed to avoid doing. As Albert Einstein once said, “A clever person solves a problem. A wise one avoids it.”
Chicago Mayor Accuses Police Union Of Trying To ‘Induce An Insurrection’ Over Vaccine Mandate
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18th October 2021
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18th October 2021
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