Racist Joe Biden Bans Travel From Africa  Babylon Bee.

Texas bishop on Catholic HHS Sec. Becerra’s religious liberty changes: ‘Maybe we should send him a catechism’

Biden ‘Forgets’ To Close The Southern Border Against ‘Omicron’ Variant

The ‘Devil You Know’ Is Still A Devil

Mexican Authorities List Conditions To Reboot “Remain In Mexico” Program  How about we put Army units on the border and machine-gun the invaders as they cross the border?

Pennsylvania man killed by stray bullet while enjoying Thanksgiving dinner (Daily Mirror) Hey, that bullet was just wandering around looking for trouble to get into. At least it wasn’t a murderous SUV.

Three teens arrested for double murder at Haltom City park

Darrell Brooks: Menace to Society

The Cynical and Dangerous Weaponization of the “White Supremacist” Label

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Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and provide insight into life over 23,000 years ago, scientists report.

I guess the so-called First Nations are just immigrants like the rest of us.

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Bhutia Busty is said to house the original manuscript of the Bardo Thodol or The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Buddhist teaching composed in the eighth century by Guru Rinpoche, the Indian saint who brought Buddhism to Tibet. A kind of pilgrim’s guidebook, the teaching is intended to help the dead navigate the “bardo” after-death journey to rebirth and has enjoyed great popularity in the West since it first appeared in English translation in 1927.

I assume that ‘don’t trust Chinese Communists’ is part of it.

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(Is there such a thing as a non-shoe cobbler?)

Shoe repair isn’t exactly a hobby one can simply fall into. Often, it’s the family business, passed on to the next generation. The store front, along with the machines, the customers, the skills are all transferred. “It’s wild to think that you used to be able to go to a trade school and take a course on shoe repair with a professor and a textbook,” Fortune says. “That’s not a thing anymore — you’re totally on your own.”

Getting into shoe repair is opaque, but Fortune had an in. His background in the fashion industry certainly gave him cursory knowledge of the trade, but it was a childhood friend whose family ran a shoe repair shop that really gave him a leg up. The shoe repair shop was in need of a refresh and Fortune pitched in to help. That’s where the shoe repairing journey started.

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We’re here to help. First, we gathered data for thousands of towns and cities on more than 30 metrics, such as school quality, crime rates and affordability. Then we used that data to make a quiz: Select the criteria you find important, and we’ll show you places that might work for you.

Here’s how I used it, and what I learned.

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Hammer tech.

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That essential discipline was ditched in the 20th century as part of “architectural education”, because it did not fit in with the nihilism of Modernism’s total rejection of the past. The dismal results can be seen on all sides. Students nowadays have virtually no feeling for how buildings are put together, or how ornament (a dirty word today) was once an integral part of architecture rather than plonked on as an afterthought. They simply do not understand the importance of context (another dirty word, as Modernism demands the tabula rasa).

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Rather than use off-the-shelf models, San Francisco has engaged in a years-long process to design cans that’ll cost thousands of dollars apiece. And it’s not nearly done.

When all your money belongs to the government, there is no limit to the amount of spending you can achieve.

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Adam Leeb ’07 is not a writer, but he’s devoted a lot of the past decade to improving the writing process. For him, it’s about designing products to increase focus and productivity, which is exactly what the modern-day typewriters created by Astrohaus do, he says.

And of course you can’d do that on your own, millennial slacker, so we’re going to create another widget for you to buy and stick in your closet after a month. KA-CHING!

Perfect for use in the railroad dining car.

Leeb graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and an interest in entrepreneurship and product design, thanks to business courses he took through MIT Sloan as a senior. He felt like he’d finally figured out how to optimize his skills and interests—only he couldn’t get a job.

Gee, I wonder why not?

“He was telling me about a software that he had used to do some writing, just for fun. I started learning about all this distraction-free writing software and I was like, ‘Why isn’t there a dedicated device that can do this?’”

Maybe because you don’t need one? Software runs on a computer, and who doesn’t have a computer these days?

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More buzzwords than you ever believed possible in one place.

If you could write like this, you could make a million.

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The migrants who have fetched up on the Belarusian side of the border with Poland are finding conditions there far less salubrious than those that obtain in the Club Med facilities set up on the Italian island of Lampedusa. The Belarusian and Polish guards don’t treat their guests with the same tender solicitousness that the migrants experience at the hands of the Guardia di Finanza. And, more importantly, now that winter is coming on, the weather is far harsher in the Belarusian forests than it is in the balmy southern Mediterranean.

As a result, the culture-enrichers are complaining about their lot to reporters for the Western press.

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I’ve been leaving CovidLand every weekend now for about eight weeks. It started with my vacation in western New York, then continued as I started the “restoration” of the dining room (i.e., removing the old wallpaper and painting) in the family’s western Pennsylvania home. Mom has set the deadline as Thanksgiving, when we expect about a dozen or more family to come to dinner. A far cry from the 30 or more that was a regular feature of my childhood, but a vast improvement over last year’s six.

Funny thing about that. We never asked if we should limit it to six last year. It was before any vaccine, and the family is aging to the point it just seemed prudent not to expose a lot of the older members of the extended family to the risk. Another funny thing. This year mom was shooting for 20, and we didn’t ask anyone about that either. You see, we don’t live in CovidLand.

Somewhere outside the DC Metro area, maybe by Frederick, certainly by Hagerstown where I often stop, I’ve left CovidLand behind. The masks, aside from those working for some sort of corporate affiliate like Dunkin’ Donuts or Wendy’s, are gone. There may be a sign on the door, but nobody is wearing them anymore. And it doesn’t seem to freak anyone out. It’s a wonderful feeling and just serves to highlight how much I hate life in CovidLand.

FEC: Foreign Nationals Can Contribute to American Ballot Initiatives

Wikipedia Contemplates Deleting Article On Communist Mass Killings

The Sorry State of Political Apologies

Why SFPD’s Union Square takeover is scarier than a few burglaries

America’s democracy is failing — and the world knows it

Seth Rogen is slammed for ‘privileged’ response after shrugging off Los Angeles crime

This tax would make wealthy corporations pay their fair share (CNN) What is ‘their fair share’? Nobody seems willing to say.

Suspects escape after Apple Store smash-and-grab by teens is caught on camera on Wednesday in California

Ukrainian President Says Imminent Russia-Backed Coup Plot Uncovered

CNN Analyst Has ‘No Idea’ What’s Behind Smash & Grab Robbery Wave—Then Supplies Answer!

Liberal Actor Seth Rogen Criticized for Justifying Rampant Theft in California

Professor Who Defended Pedophiles Announces Resignation  No doubt ‘it’ has a well-funded gig lined up somewhere in LiberalLand.

Narrative Shift: Watch As US Health Officials Move Goalposts To Undisclosed Location

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Media Tells Americans To Perform COVID Tests, Check Vaccine Status Of Thanksgiving Dinner Guests

LA firefighter accused of wiping butt with vaccine mandate letter that was handed to him

Former WHO Director Warns Making Vaccines Mandatory Could Cause Riots

Italy Bans Unvaccinated From Cinemas, Restaurants and Sports Events

Another Professional Soccer Player Suddenly Collapses In The Middle Of A Game

Belgium First European Nation To Confirm Spread Of “Nu” Variant

Pfizer CEO Warns New Vaccine To Combat Heavily-Mutated Coronavirus Could Take 100 Days  KA-CHING!

Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529

A Scared Nu World: Here’s What We Know About The New COVID Strain

The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis “The qualitative synthesis indicated that vitamin D deficient individuals were at higher risk of COVID-19 infection as compared to vitamin D sufficient patients.” I take a vitamin D3 supplement.

Black Friday Bedlam Means Kiss The Taper Goodbye

Oh Joy! Another Covid Variant ‘B.1.1.529 has a spike protein that is drastically different to the one in the original bug that the vaccines are based on, according to the UK Health Security Agency, which is raising some concern about how current jabs will perform against it.’

New York ER Closes As Employees Refuse To Comply With Vaccine Mandate  Mandates Kill!

26 More Cases Of Heart Inflammation Linked To Pfizer Jab

Will Disparate Impact Destroy America?

Black Lives Under Attack and Other Lies About Rittenhouse Case  Larry Elder.

The Consequences of Leftist Crime Policies

Unite the Right verdict sends an urgent message (CNN)

Indigenous activists want to change a California town’s racist name. Officials are pushing back (The Guardian)

Dave Chappelle doesn’t back down when students at DC alma mater slam him as ‘bigot’ at surprise visit

Former Trump adviser criticizes Trump, Fauci and Birx in fiery new book (The Hill) KA-CHING!

NY Times Conflates GOP Border Control, School Board Protests with Neo-Nazis

We write about climate change. Here’s what gives us hope (L.A. Times)

What’s on the Thanksgiving table in a hotter, drier world? (Washington Post) Same things as always.

Claim: Climate Fanatic Teacher Refused Kids Aircon

Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die from Climate Change

Late Freeze-Up For W. Hudson Bay Polar Bears At Odds With Ice Conditions Elsewhere

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It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials.

ZMan attempts to read the witch-hunt tea leaves.

Lost in the rush into the holiday season is the Charlottesville monkey trial concluded last week with a verdict for the plaintiffs. The jury had no verdict on some of the claims but agreed there was some sort of conspiracy by the defendants. They also decided that the plaintiffs suffered no harm as a result of it, but the defendants were doo-doo heads who deserved some sort of punishment. As a result, they awarded the plaintiffs eleventy billion bars of gold-pressed latinum in punitive damages.

The jury did not fall into Star Trek jargon, but they may as well have, given the structure of their decision. According to lawyers who followed the case, the punitive damages are symbolic due to rules governing the relationship between punitive and compensatory damages in civil cases. Typically, courts limit the ratio to a single digit. That is, punitive damage awards are capped at something less than ten times the compensatory damages, which in this case were one dollar.

This reality is of no consequence as the trial was always political activism on behalf of the ruling class. In a sane society this never would have been in a courtroom and the lawyers who brought it would be deported. Ours is a society in crisis, so ridiculous things like this are common now. The lawyers got their win and regime media was happy to promote it as a great blow against free speech. For a day, the blue-checks on Twitter were celebrating the win.

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The Friday after thanksgiving is called black Friday because that’s when retailers finally turn profitable for the year. Not so much for market, however, because this morning it’s red as far as the eye can see. The culprit: the same one we discussed late last night – the emergence of a new coronavirus strain detected in South Africa, known as B.1.1.529, which reportedly carries an “extremely high number” of mutations and is “clearly very different” from previous incarnations, which may drive further waves of disease by evading the body’s defenses according to South African scientists, and soon, Anthony Fauci.

British authorities think it is the most significant variant to date and have hurried to impose travel restrictions on southern Africa, as did Japan, the Czech Republic and Italy on Friday. The European Union also said it aimed to halt air travel from the region.

“Markets have been quite complacent about the pandemic for a while, partly because economies have been able to withstand the impact of selective lockdown measures. But we can see from the new emergency brakes on air travel that there will be ramifications for the price of oil,” said Chris Scicluna, head of economic research at Daiwa.

The problem isn’t the disease, but the panicked reactions by governments to the mere thought of the disease.

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If you went up to any random group of people and mentioned that behind their seemingly normal elementary school was a tale of Prussian Kings, Rockefeller interests, and theories of social control, they would surely look at you as if you were crazy. Well shame on him for not knowing his history! The number of people who have gone through school and yet remain willfully ignorant of how and why they were ushered for years through the system is a glowing testament to the effects of school itself: School works to actively neuter curiosity, impair intellect, halt questioning of the status quo, and restrict deviance form approved norms. Despite what you are instructed to believe, schools harm kids, they do not help them. This is a bold claim, I know, and that is why I have littered the history and analysis below with primary source references and quotations from the men (and they were mostly men) behind our current system of public schooling – their own words are damning enough. For longer and fuller critiques on schooling and its history I would lead the reader to the works of John Gatto, Ivan Illich, Diane Ravitch, and others whom I have relied heavily upon in creating this post. This is certainly a longer-form piece, but I found the extension was necessary to even begin to approach a complete picture of the true behemoth system of schooling we have.

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Reporter Dennis Wagner wrote: “Weaponizing of vehicles is a practice sometimes used by terrorists abroad. But the wanton attacks have also surged in the United States. The increase began after the police murder of George Floyd prompted Black Lives Matter demonstrations, which in turn prompted angry or fearful motorists to run over protesters.”

This framing makes it sound like protesters are “peaceful” and not “angry” and pose no threat. Wagner added “A Boston Globe survey identified at least 139 incidents in which vehicles ran into crowds of demonstrators since Floyd’s death in May 2020. Fewer than half resulted in criminal charges.”

Really? The original Globe story appeared on Halloween, by reporter Jess Bidgood, who sounds more like an opinion writer. She began with the usual sympathetic figure, a man who was paralyzed after falling off an interstate overpass while blocking drivers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bidgood was outraged no one was arrested, despite admitting that the red pickup involved felt threatened as “protesters banged on its hood and threw things at the vehicle as it moved in.”

CNN.

Yet another world crisis.

San Francisco police just watch as burglary appears to unfold, suspects drive away, surveillance video shows (S.F. Chronicle)

San Francisco Police Sit and Watch as Burglars Escape (Daily Beast)

Support For More Gun Control Falls, But Partisan Divide Grows

The UK Government Wants to Sequence Your Baby’s Genome  What could possibly go wrong?

Southern California Utility Cuts Power To Customers On Thanksgiving As Wildfire Risks Surge

San Francisco TV news crew’s security guard shot during attempted robbery and reporter’s coverage Ponder living in a place where a TV news crew needs an armed security guard. Time to leave.

California cities rush to limit new law increasing density of single-family neighborhoods  California state politicians think that crowding everyone into high-density housing is the universal panacea.

Biden’s HHS revokes certain faith-based exemptions, rolls back religious liberty enforcement

Kamala Harris Is on Her Way to Becoming the Next Dan Quayle (Daily Beast) Quayle was a better Senator than Harris could ever dream of being.

Wealthiest 1% get richer under Dems’ reckless tax-and-spend package  Specifically, the 1% living in Blue States.

The Arctic Ocean began warming decades earlier than previously thought, new research shows (CNN)

‘Either we kill it, or it will kill us’: The fight to dismantle a shadow court system threatening climate goals (CNBC)

Exxon lobbyist questions urgency of climate’s catastrophic risks (Washington Post) The swine!

Environmental activists face ‘fever pitch’ of repression from Australian governments, report says (The Guardian) Along with vaccine mandate protesters, but of course The Guardian doesn’t care about that.

On ‘Hannity,’ Trump reveals the truth about right-wing lionization of Rittenhouse (Washiogton Post) The Post loves to pretend that Trump speaks for anybody other than himself.

Trumpist Election Deniers Descend Into High School Drama (Daily Beast) ‘Election deniers’?

Mike Lindell Trolls Fox News With Pathetic Rally (Daily Beast)

‘Maybe You’ll Need to Report a Relative to the FBI!’ An Atlantic Writer’s Advice For Dealing With Conservative Family on Thanksgiving

USA TODAY: ‘Thanksgiving Represents the Dark Shadow of Genocide’

Watch: MSNBC Declares Thanksgiving About White People Celebrating “Genocide And Violence” Against Blacks

Jan. 6 organizers used burner phones to communicate with White House: report (The Hill)

Scientists warn of new Covid variant with high number of mutations (The Guardian)

Far right spies an opportunity in Europe’s new wave of Covid pain and protest (BBC) There is no Right except the Far Right.

COVID-19 Made Democracies More Authoritarian And Authoritarian Regimes Even Worse

CBS Urges Viewers to Stock Up on Covid Tests for Thanksgiving, Holidays

With Low Vaccination Rates, Africa’s COVID Deaths Remain Far Below Europe & US

Russian Lawmaker Says He Would ‘Execute’ People By Firing Squad For Buying And Selling Fake Vaxx Cards  The spirit of the old Soviet Union lives on….

Former Pro Calls For “Investigation” After Another Soccer Player Suddenly Collapses

University of Florida students change minds on renaming Black Friday after learning origins

Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Says ‘All Lives Matter’ in Reaction to Verdicts

NYT: I Was with Family. Suddenly, a White Man Appeared with a Gun.

Triathlon Is Racist But Triathletes Are Good, or Something

This Thanksgiving, Joy-Ann Reid Has Much to be Thankful for

“All Lives Matter”: Ahmaud Arbery’s Father Utters Forbidden Phrase In Call For Civility

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While the supply chain crisis left American store shelves bare, Biden went to a UN climate conference to save the world. Saving the world is a whole lot easier than stocking shelves. Ask any teenager.

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Jim Puckett put all his eggs in one basket when he started building what he hopes will be the tallest topiary in the world. But his dream tourist attraction cost him his job as mayor — and now the steel framework of a giant chicken looms over the town of Fitzgerald, Ga.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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At a time when President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to expand the breadth of entitlements to include free preschool and subsidized child care, little attention is given to the fact that the country’s biggest existing entitlement program—Social Security—is a financial wreck.

The program’s payouts have exceeded revenue since 2010, but the recent past is nowhere near as grim as the future. According to the latest annual report by Social Security’s trustees, the gap between promised benefits and future payroll tax revenue has reached a staggering $59.8 trillion. That gap is $6.8 trillion larger than it was just one year earlier. The biggest driver of that move wasn’t Covid-19, but rather a lowering of expected fertility over the coming decades.

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Days after GoFundMe tried to justify its Rittenhouse ban, the platform is under fire for allowing–and then deleting–a fundraiser for the suspect in the parade massacre.

GoFundMe tried to justify its Rittenhouse ban after his acquittal, claiming it did not allow fundraisers for defendants accused of “violent” crimes.

“GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime,” the platform tweeted. “In light of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, we want to clarify when and why we have removed certain fundraisers in the past.”

It seems to me that someone who has not yet been convicted of a crime deserves the benefit of the doubt.

The Other McCain faces a conundrum.

The basic problem with David Brooks is that he hasn’t been punched in the face as often as he deserves to be punched in the face.

Which is to say, repeatedly, on a daily basis.

On two occasions, I happened to be at conferences where David Brooks was a speaker, and in both instances, I walked out of the room, overcome by rage, struggling to resist an urge to rush the stage, grab hold of that swine and pummel him until the cops hauled me off to jail.

Don’t hold it in, Stacy, tell us how you really feel.

Being retired means never having to suppress your Inner Wally.

Steve Sailer.

Autonomous vehicle?

UPDATE: FBI To Place All SUVs On Terror Watchlist  Babylon Bee.

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Twice a year, Center of the American Experiment presents its Golden Turkey Award to highlight wasteful government spending in the State of Minnesota. Each contest features four nominees, and thousands of Minnesotans vote to select the winner. This time around, the nominees included a $261,000 grant to the University of Minnesota to teach eagles not to fly into wind turbines; $6.2 million to study development of a half-mile long “land bridge” over the major highway between Minneapolis and St. Paul, the purpose being to remedy “road racism” that occurred 60 years ago when the highway bisected a black neighborhood along with various other neighborhoods; and $2.5 million from the City of Minneapolis to pay “Violence Interrupters” to patrol the streets in brightly colored t-shirts, in lieu of police officers.

Trump poll tests his 2024 comeback map (Politico) All Trump! All the time!

Donald Trump is running again, part 7,282 (CNN)  All Trump! All the time!

Everything the Media Told You About Kyle Rittenhouse Was Wrong

Five Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’ Corrections We Need From The Media Now

Several hundred Google employees sign manifesto against widened Covid vaccine mandate Even the Woke are realizing that vaccine ‘mandates’ are bullshit.

Hungarian Media Outlet Normalizes Violence Against ‘Anti-Vaxxers’

De Blasio Pushes For No Jab, No Subway Travel In NYC: “We Know Vaccine Mandates Work”

Highlights from the Comments on “Ivermectin – much more than you wanted to know”

Watch: Fauci Claims His Critics Are “Killing People”

Germany’s New Leaders Shockingly Reject Merkel’s Request For 2-Week Covid Lockdown

mRNA Covid Vaccines Greatly Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS  Told you so.

Fauci’s Quagmire: Snopes to the Rescue

Aviation noise and emissions are environmental-justice issues (Seattle Times) Just in case you didn’t know that.

Citing climate risks, California is denying fracking permits in droves (S.F. Chronicle)

Alaska Suffering Through Some Intense Cold And There Is No Relief Coming Anytime Soon

Media Promotes Badly Flawed Science Spreading It Like Wildfire

April 1st: The Day of Extinction Rebellion’s Great Civil Disobedience Uprising

Hunter Biden’s Cobalt Deal With China Increases Cost of His Father’s Push for Electric Cars

Experts Worry Biden FCC Pick Will Use Post To Attack Conservatives

What Elephant? The Media Again Buries A Hunter Biden Scandal On Foreign Deals During Biden Vice Presidency

Fake It Till You Make It? Biden Energy Secretary Fumbles Two Simple Questions In One Day

A family confronts White privilege (Washington Post) “In the final installment of our series Teens in America, what it sounds like for the family of one 17-year-old to confront White privilege and racism.”

Black Supremacist Darrell Brooks Rapped About Being A ‘Terrorist’ And Called For Violence Against White People

88 Percent of Black Marylanders Support Hogan’s ‘Re-Fund the Police’ Initiative

Media Outlets Lose Interest in Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre as Death Toll Mounts

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California malls are resorting to barbed-wire barriers after a string of flash-mob smash-and-grab lootings. Previously on “California Voters Are Stupid,” we saw California voters approve propositions to release thousands of criminals from jail and reduce retail theft under $950 to a misdemeanor. (So, basically, the Waukesha mass murderer could have made bail by stealing a couple of TVs from Best Buy without adding to his existing criminal charges.) Then, to compound their stupidity, they elected radical-left district attorneys who think crime is just a symptom of poverty and therefore refuse to prosecute criminals because it’s mean to poor people or something.

You have to be deeply, deeply Californian not to understand how releasing criminals from prison while simultaneously defunding the police will lead to an increase in crime. Retail store owners are running out of options. The police won’t arrest what the DAs won’t prosecute, and the criminal class knows this and knows it can loot stores at will with little chance of being caught and less chance of being prosecuted. (Also, the political class wants you to know you shouldn’t call it “looting” because “Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something.”) So, now they have to barricade their stores and homes with barbed wire and layers of security, which also happens to be a common practice in many of the countries where California’s immigrant populations originated. But that’s only because the governments in those countries are corrupt, and the police cannot be relied upon to protect the citizenry.

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

By now it is obvious to everyone that Covid has become a bizarre mystery cult embraced by those into left-wing politics. There are some exceptions, like the HBD crowd, which was driven mad by Covid. A few dissidents were gripped by the great fear, but most have recovered. The bulk of the people hooked on Covid, however, are the sorts of people who obsess over climate change or check under their beds at night to make sure Hitler is not hiding there.

The HBD people were driven mad by Covid because it was a reminder of their exile and the price they have paid for holding bad ideas. This issue was in their wheelhouse, but their status excluded them from the conversation. If they had been in good standing, this would have been their time to shine. Instead, they were left to jump up and down on the sidelines desperately trying to get the attention of their old friends. This is the agony that comes with exile.

The Covidian proper is someone who traffics in the usual fads. She totes her groceries home in grimy canvas sacks because Gaia supposedly hates plastic. At one time, she had a weird food allergy, maybe a series of them. The overlap between Covidians and Glutenites is near 100%. Of course, she was sure that Trump was Hitler and she was also sure Kavanaugh was going to stuff her uterus full of Bibles. Covid is just the latest stop on the crazy train for her.

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Making this paint really reflective, however, also made it really white, according to Purdue University. The paint reflects 98.1% of solar radiation while also emitting infrared heat. Because the paint absorbs less heat from the sun than it emits, a surface coated with this paint is cooled below the surrounding temperature without consuming power.

Using this new paint to cover a roof area of about 1,000 square feet could result in a cooling power of 10 kilowatts. “That’s more powerful than the air conditioners used by most houses,” Ruan said.

“Great. Where can I buy it?”  Well, you can’t.

“The paint is not available on the market yet,” Xiulin Ruan, the lead researcher on the project, told USA TODAY Thursday. “We are currently partnering with a large corporation towards commercializing the paint, and hopefully it will hit the market in a couple of years.”

UPDATE: Ultrawhite BaSO4 Paints and Films for Daytime Radiative Cooling

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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control, garnered much attention a couple of weeks ago when she declared, “Masks can help reduce your chance of #COVID19 infection by more than 80%.” That would be remarkable, if true. As one commentator noted, Dr. Walensky evidently believes that wearing masks is more effective than Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and not vastly less effective than Pfizer’s or Moderna’s. If that’s really the case, is it wise to spend billions of dollars on a mass vaccination program and to threaten those who aren’t vaccinated with the loss of their livelihood? No one has brought forward a scintilla of evidence supporting Dr. Walensky’s statement. She apparently just pulled it out of the air, knowing that the “fact checkers” would nod and go back to scrutinizing satires posted by the Babylon Bee.