Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere (The Economist) Socialist meddling.

Are gas stoves really dangerous? What we know about the science (The Guardian) According to the Narrative.

Ron Paul: Isn’t It Time For Adam Schiff To Be Expelled From Congress?

Secret Video Reveals Twitter Team Warned of ‘Shooting in the Streets’ Ahead of Jan. 6 (Rolling Stone) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

New York Times Sneers ‘No, Biden Is Not Trying to Ban Gas Stoves’ (But Maybe He Should?)

CNN, MSNBC Fret Over Missouri Dress Code for Women Legislators

UK Leader Linked to Bill Gates Wants Church of England to Allow Gay Marriages  This woman is allegedly a member of the Conservative Party and in that party’s leadership. I think we can safely say that they so-called Conservative Party isn’t any more.

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database Tops 1,400 Cases

Ex-Gov. Paterson praises Adams for pushing Biden on migrant crisis (New York Post)

NYC Mayor Adams blasts U.S. government over migrant crisis (Fox)

Two words no president wants to hear (CNN) Special counsel.

‘A real, real problem for the Democrats’: New classified material found in Biden’s home (MSNBC) Looks as if the clerisy is setting Biden up to be squeezed out.

The swamp comes for Joe Biden (The Hill)

Ex-top intel official Douglas Wise knew Hunter Biden laptop ‘had to be real’ but signed ‘disinfo’ letter anyway (N.Y. Post)

Biden Forgets MLK III’s Wife’s Name While Singing ‘Happy Birthday’

Did The Deep State Turn On Biden?

FBI Had Investigative Interest in Protests at Justices’ Homes, but Apparently Took No Action, Document Reveals

In Mexico Relationship, Biden Prioritizes ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Over Immigration and National Security

7 Ways To Spot An FBI Agent Twitter Profile  (Babylon Bee)

Why Harris world thinks she may be the biggest winner of the midterms (Politico)

Donald Trump’s Telltale Sign He Knows He’ll Be Indicted: Kirschner (Newsweek) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Revealed: Who visited the Trump White House before Jan. 6 (Politico) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH….

Two states still observe King-Lee Day, honoring Robert E. Lee with MLK (Washington Post)

Mississippi, Alabama still celebrating Confederate general on MLK Day (MSNBC)

Are we too worried about misinformation? (Vox) No, just the wrong kind.

Biden knocks ‘fiscally demented’ Republicans in MLK Day speech (The Hill)

Man ordered to remove ‘Jesus is the only way’ T-shirt at Mall of America (N.Y. Post)

What’s the true value of crypto? It lays bare the lies of libertarians (The Guardian)

GOP Rep. LaLota: DOJ, FEC Need to Freeze Santos’ Campaign Funds What does he need campaign funds for? He’s already been elected.

Ron DeSantis Takes On the Likability Issue (Sort Of) (Politico) A thinly-disguised hit-piece from one of the Usual Suspects.

The Bathroom Fight Fueling Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s Break-Up (Daily Beast) A fairy-tale of mind-reading from America’s High School Paper.

The McCarthy-Jordan Plan to Weaponize the House (The Bulwark) A stalwart of the Kristol Krew punches right.

Axios.

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) told the Israeli government she doesn’t want the bipartisan Senate delegation she is leading to Israel this week to meet with any members of two Israeli far-right parties that are in the government coalition, according to two Israeli officials and a source close to the senator.

I guess the Democrat understanding of ‘bipartisan’ doesn’t include any Heretics or Sinners. Very kind of them to even include Republicans.

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Six people including a six-month-old baby cradled in the arms of her 17-year-old mother were shot dead at a home in California’s main agricultural valley on Monday in what authorities called a targeted attack and “horrific massacre.”

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The bodies of the infant and 17-year-old mother were located in a ditch outside the home, Boudreaux later told the Los Angeles Times. Both had gunshot wounds to the head.

I get the impression that the cartels more or less run the Mexican provinces on the U.S. border.

Scott Adams is of opinion that sooner or later the U.S. is going to have to send in the military to clean the place up, whether Mexico likes it or not, including drone strikes and more or less treat the place like Afghanistan.

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In Britain and much of the Western world the vast majority of people are not racist. This will include people who have told, or laughed at, jokes based on race. These same people will have never done anything to harm another race, and would be revolted to see racial abuse in front of them, instinctively siding with the victim. This has in fact been true in Britain for many generations.

It is a historical fact that US servicemen during WWII were shocked by the British disregard for race and willingness to mingle freely with black or other non-white soldiers. It is also a historical fact that the Empire which is now routinely characterised as exclusively evil and racist was enthusiastically supported, entirely willingly, by generations of non-white and non-British people, so much so that many of them fought and died for it.

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Newly released data from Germany’s federal government, controlled by the three-party, left-liberal ‘traffic light’ coalition, has revealed that the number of migrants seeking asylum in the country—excluding Ukrainian refugees—has climbed to levels not previously seen since the 2016 European migrant crisis.

The figures, released on Wednesday, January 11th, in a report by Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), indicated that the Federal Republic of Germany registered 217,774 first-time asylum applications in the year 2022, the most of any European Union member state. The number represents a 46.9% uptick compared to the previous year, and the highest number of applicants since 2016, the Hamburg-based newspaper Die Zeit reports.

The figure does not include the approximately one million Ukrainian refugees who have traveled to Germany following the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022.

“Here we are! We want to live in your country! Give us money!”

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

We wrote here about a task force of the State of California that is developing a proposal to pay reparations to the state’s black residents, to the tune of perhaps $800,000 apiece. But that is chump change compared with what is being demanded in San Francisco.

The City of San Francisco appointed an African American Reparations Advisory Committee which delivered its draft Plan in December. The Plan is embedded below, so you can peruse it at your leisure. It acknowledges, as it must, that neither the State of California nor the City of San Francisco ever countenanced slavery, but nevertheless claims that San Francisco has systemically discriminated against blacks from the beginning. And, of course, the “legacy” of such discrimination is still felt today, reflected in every “disparity” that is to the disadvantage of blacks.

On the whole, the document comes across as whinier than Prince Harry’s memoir. But for now, let’s focus on the proposed remedy. News accounts have reported that the Plan provides that San Francisco blacks should get $5 million apiece. Currently, San Francisco’s population is 895,000, of whom around 5% are classified as African-American. Assuming those numbers, around 44,750 people would get $5 million apiece, for a total of $223,750,000,000. Each San Franciscan who is not a recipient of reparations would be on the hook for approximately $263,000, or a little over $1 million for a family of four. (I know, there aren’t many families of four in San Francisco, but you get the idea.)

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In an economy characterized by limited government and individual liberty people are self-supporting. They provide the means to pay for these needs through the fruits of their own labors. Minors are supported by their families until they can provide for themselves. The elderly may fall back on their kids if they didn’t squirrel away enough nuts during their working years.

In an economy characterized by central planning this is not the case. Large segments of the population are dependent on government programs for their daily bread. They also look to the benevolent hand of government to pay for their drugs and other medical needs.

The U.S., over the last 100 years, has transformed from a nation of self-supporting individuals to a nation of collective dependents. In fact, the U.S., at this very moment, is closing in on a significant milestone.

Several days before the Ides of March, 100 million people – or approximately 30 percent of the total population – will be on Medicaid. Can you believe it?

Reuters.

Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 “terrorists” to Turkey before the Turkish parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said.
The two Nordic states applied last year to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but their bids must be approved by all 30 NATO member states. Turkey and Hungary have yet to endorse the applications.
Turkey has said Sweden in particular must first take a clearer stance against what it sees as terrorists, mainly Kurdish militants and a group it blames for a 2016 coup attempt.

Why do we still have NATO? And why is Turkey a part of it?

Is Ron DeSantis just Trump 2.0, or something else entirely? Republicans are anxious to find out (Globe and Mail) And the Narrative media are even more anxious to find out.

Fmr Congressmen on House GOP’s score-settling and “narrative of grievance” (MSNBC)

FBI informants to testify in Proud Boys trial (MSNBC) I cannot take seriously someone who wears his hat backwards.

How Stephen Colbert Knows George Santos Is Definitely Going to Resign (Daily Beast) Not only does he read minds, but he also lives on Planet Proglodyte, where everything goes his way.

Jimmy Fallon Unearths Wild George Santos Video, Calling It Real-Time ‘Identity Theft’ (Huffington Post) Wild! (Meanwhile, Santos is sitting in Washington pulling down $174,000 a year, plus expenses.)

Nurse fired for refusing to prescribe birth control sues CVS (The Hill)

LAPD Chief Blasted For “Political Pandering” After Banning ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Flag From Los Angeles Police Stations

Telemundo Mad Over Arkansas’s Ban On Official Use Of Non-Word ‘Latinx’

Rep. Comer: Santos Will Be Removed If He Broke Campaign Finance Laws  One suspects that he was very careful not to.

Ex-Trump aide Sanders defends critical race theory ban as Arkansas governor (The Guardian) My, what a surprise.

New details link George Santos to cousin of sanctioned Russian oligarch (Washington Post) Next up: Pictures of George Santos jaywalking!

Rep. Santos Linked to Cousin of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch  Linked! That proves it!

Joe Scarborough Implies Bigotry Behind GOP Criticism of Karine Jean-Pierre  I guess it’s bigoted to be critical of dimwits if they have the Fashionable Skin Color.,

Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020 Sounds about right.

Biden Chides ‘Fiscally Demented’ Republicans in MLK Day Speech  Mr. Bipartisan.

How long can you use an at-home COVID-19 test once it’s expired? (WCNC)

What we know about the Ohio measles outbreak (The Hill) We know it’s time to PANIC!

New study: Long-term COVID symptoms disappear within first year (CBS) Guess it’s not all that long.

Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect those who are vaccinated, officials say (Fox)

Health experts reaffirm booster safety after concerns arise over COVID-19 shots (ABC) Of course they do.

Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate  One might almost think the ‘vaccine’ ineffective.

Super-Rich Thrive as COVID Thrusts Millions Into Poverty  That’s because the rich have the power to push back against being jerked around by the Crust and their minions in government; the poor don’t have that option. Big business employee? You can work from home! Small business owner? You have to shut down! Working class prole? Not only do you have to go to work, but you have to wear a mask as well! Aren’t you lucky?

“Deeply Sinister”: Big Pharma Bullied Twitter To Censor Cheap Vaccine Demands, ZeroHedge Articles

Wokeness Appears to Alter CDC Communication Guidelines

Millions Of Lives Saved By Person Wearing Mask While Walking Alone On Sidewalk (Babylon Bee)

The next Russian civil war is already under way. (Center for European Policy Analysis)

Bafflement after battle

Rescue Hopes Fade in Ukraine’s Dnipro Apartment Complex, Dozens Feared Dead  Don’t build high-rise apartments in a war zone.

U.S. begins expanded training of Ukrainian forces for large-scale combat (Washington Post)

AIR DEFENSE: Supercharged Spyder

Cargo Ship Carrying Ukraine Peas Refloated After Running Aground In Bosphorus Strait

Ukraine prepares for new offensive as Russia and Belarus begin joint drills (NBC)

Republicans want Biden home visitor logs – but not Trump’s (Reuters) Trump is already under special prosecutor investigation, and doesn’t have a son suspected of international bribery.

Democrat Schiff says national security may have been jeopardized by Biden’s mishandling of classified docs (Fox) And the effort to ease Biden out is starting.

Investigations into classified docs should leave Trump more worried than Biden (MSNBC) Yeah, because Trump is being witch-hunted by the entirety of the Narrative media, who are lining up to defend Biden (to ridiculous levels).

Democrat NYC Mayor Adams calls on federal government to play more proactive role to secure border (Fox) Feeling the heat.

Mayor Adams goes to El Paso to get better understanding of migrant crisis (CBS) And get some photo-op time.

POLITICO Playbook: Three storylines to watch in Biden’s document drama (Politico) Watch the Narrative sausage being made.

Dozens of illegal immigrants land on Florida beach, run from police as migrant crisis surges away from border (Fox)

Migrants arriving in Chicago sleeping in bus shelters and police stations as community steps in to help (Chicago Tribune)

The Importance Of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached New Low Seeking To Bar Daughter From Using His Name

New York Times Falsely Claims It’s Unproven Joe Biden Aided Hunter’s Business

Biden Tells Israel to Give Money to Terrorists, Not Terror Victims

Buttigieg Defends Job Performance By Reminding Everyone He’s Gay (Babylon Bee)

Capehart on Classified Docs: Comparing Trump and Biden Is ‘Apples and Basketballs’

Hunter Biden Wants to Stop Love Child from Cashing In on Family Name

ABC Frets GOP Is ‘Pouncing on’ Biden Over Docs Scandal, Revel in No Delaware Visitor Logs

Davos 2023: Climate activists protest over big oil hijacking debate (Reuters) I suspect that the main reason the International Crust hold meetings like that at Davos is to give the Woke fringe some venue in which to blow off steam. It’s not as if any of them care what the protesters have to say.

Davos 2023: Climate activists protest the presence of oil giants at World Economic Forum (Fox) “Shut up!” they explained.

Biodiversity: Fungi are ‘underloved and understudied’ (BBC) We can’t just have a picture of a cute chick; put some glasses on her to indicate that she’s brainy, too.

Ron DeSantis’s ‘New era of environmental stewardship’ (Tallahassee Democrat)

Climate tech roundup: From solar to CES, this week had something for everyone (TechCrunch) Everybody tryin’ to make money off of the greenies.

Breakthroughs in Clean Energy to Watch in 2023 (CNET)

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown (Inside Climate News)

Trapping Millions of Tons of CO2 – Researchers Have Discovered an Arctic Carbon Conveyor Belt (SciTech Daily)

Lost for words: fears of ‘catastrophic’ language loss due to rising seas (The Guardian)

Greta Thunberg joins protests in Germany as thousands gather to object to coal mine expansion (EuroNews)

Lützerath: German police oust climate activists after clashes near coal mine (BBC)

Tanzania’s tomato harvest goes to waste: Solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution (Salon)

U.S. climate envoy Kerry outlines carbon offset initiative for developing nations (Reuters) Who are all for sure going to jump right on that.

Dry stone wallers call for subsidy rise to protect environment (BBC)

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Lets Climate Alarmist Michael Mann Push for More Energy Crackdowns

Meet the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That’s Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves

China leads the quest for small modular nuclear reactors–will the world follow?  Yeah, let’s go steal their tech the way they’ve been stealing ours.

Drying Great Salt Lake Could Expose Millions to Toxic Arsenic-Laced Dust

“Distasteful Masterclass In Hypocrisy”: Elites Swarm Davos In Private Jets To Discuss Climate Crisis Rules are for thee but not for me.

As elites arrive in Davos, conspiracy theories thrive online (Associated Pess) A ‘conspiracy theorist’, of course, is someone who refuses to ignore what the Narrative wants you to ignore.

Youngkin Quashes Construction of Green Energy Plant That Would Have Been ‘a Front for China’

Wyoming Republicans Propose Ban on Electric Car Sales

Our Insane Racial Classifications

‘Woke’ $10M MLK ‘penis’ statue insults black community: Coretta Scott King kin

San Francisco’s Reparations Panel Suggests $5M Payment to Black Residents  Even though none of the people now living, who would be on the hook for the payments, owned slaves or is even alleged to have practiced racial discrimination.

Democrat Introduces Legislation to Make White People Criticizing Minorities a Federal Crime

Biden Slams GOP Efforts To Silence Discussions Of Systemic Racism (Huffington Post)

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

It is remarkable how little it took for Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis to expose the entire “sanctuary city” edifice as a fraud. A busload or two of illegal immigrants and “sanctuary” turns into “NIMBY.”

On Martin Luther King Day, everybody loves Martin Luther King … except me.

The reason I dislike Martin Luther King is because he was a totalitarian fascist.

King was a fascist in that he thought it perfectly appropriate for the government to dictate to businessmen how they conduct their business: Whom they can buy from, whom they can sell to, whom they must admit to their premises, even what sort of products they can carry.

People get all hot and bothered by King’s statements about what ought to matter is the content of one’s character rather than the color of one’s skin. But actions speak louder than words. It doesn’t matter so much what King said as what he did: His entire program was based on forcing people to deal with others based entirely on the color of their skin. If person X has a black or brown skin, you have to deal with him; his (or her) character has nothing to do with it. Is he a petty criminal who is intending to rob you, like Michael Brown? Too bad; you have to let him in your store. Is he a drug addict hopped up on fentanyl and God knows what else, like George Floyd? Too bad; you have to deal with him.

King’s whole program, and that of the Social Justice Wokery that arose out of it, is essentially totalitarian. The fundamental characteristic of a totalitarian is that he (or she) believes that he (or she) is entitled to dictate how you live your life, whether you like it or not, whether you agree or not. You may not choose what you do, you may not choose what you say, you may not choose what you think, but those choices are made by the totalitarian.

Totalitarianism violates one of the most fundamental of human freedoms: The freedom of association. This was considered one of the ‘rights reserved to the people’ in the Constitution until the rise of the modern corporate state. If I don’t want to associate with person X, that ought to be my right, regardless of my reason for doing so (that’s what a RIGHT is all about). This is why American culture has been on the downward slope ever since the so-called Civil Rights Movement of the sixties.

If we’re going to have a holiday to celebrate Martin Luther King, then why not one to celebrate Benito Mussolini? It’s only fair. The only substantial difference between them is … the color of their skin.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Leftists, perhaps thinking their war on reliable energy is well in hand, are now making war on scientific agriculture. The war has two main elements: opposition to fertilizers, without which billions of people could not be fed, and hostility toward animal husbandry. Leftists don’t want you to eat meat.

When you tell people that liberals’ end game is for them to eat bugs, they sometimes think you can’t be serious. Those are the people who aren’t paying attention. This article in an ostensible scientific site, is typical: “Making the case for using insects as food for both humans and livestock.”

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Over the last few years, there has been much written about the destruction of American democracy. Frequently the threat has been of alleged interference in U.S. elections by Russia, China or other state actors. Government agencies, the name of election integrity, were assigned to identify and disrupt these foreign intrusions. As more and more information is revealed about these agencies, it seems that America’s Intelligence Community participated in these activities domestically, and in a way that poses a grave threat to both election integrity and American democracy.

Just last week it was revealed that the FBI again withheld pertinent information from the American public, for past two months, until after the November 8, 2022 federal election. As with the Bureau’s reported cover-up of evidence influence-peddling reportedly found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, agents knew, since November 2, 2022, about at least some of the three sets of classified material that illegally found their way into the garage and library of President Joe Biden and into the Penn Biden Center think tank at the University of Pennsylvania — to which anonymous members of the Chinese Communist Party have donated $54.6 million.

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Washington could become a more dangerous city if the D.C. Council votes Tuesday, as currently planned, to override Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s veto of a bill that decreases punishments for violent crimes such as carjackings, home invasion burglaries, robberies and even homicides. The far-reaching rewrite of the criminal code will further tie the hands of police and prosecutors while overwhelming courts. With the capital city awash in handguns, the measure would also scale back penalties for convicted felons illegally carrying firearms, as well as for using them to commit crimes.

But when has that ever stopped Democrats before?

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Finally, finally after two recent stories about California Congresswoman Katie Porter first pondering and then announcing her bid for the U.S. Senate, Politico has at last gotten around to revealing the already well known embarrassing employee scandal in her office. A scandal almost as embarrassing as pretending it doesn’t exist as Politico absurdly tried to do.

BBC.

While the technology shows much promise, the costs in both money and energy are still high. This means leafy salads, smaller vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes and strawberries – high value crops which grow quickly – are about the limit of what is currently available commercially from vertical farms.

But where exactly is the limit of what we can actually grow in a vertical farm? And if we did find a way to overcome the problems of cost and energy use, what would a world where all our food is grown in such farms look like? Could we ever move to completely soil-free farming?

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A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB.

And here I’ll bet you just thought it was bad luck. Nope. Satan exists, and he has a plan.

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Yet another reason not to fly.

White House’s response to Biden documents frustrates Democrats inside and outside the West Wing (CBS)

Five more classified documents found at Biden’s Delaware home, White House says (WFAA)

Conservatives blast Biden over latest batch of classified information found: ‘FBI raid happens when?’ (Fox)

Biden Just Played Right Into Trump’s Hands (Rolling Stone)

The Observer view on the secret garage files that could deal a severe blow to Joe Biden’s hopes (The Guardian)

Democrats slough off attacks on Buttigieg (Politico)

Hunter Asks Court to Block His Child From Taking His Last Name  The eternal quest to avoid accepting responsibility.

EVEN Far-Left Weekend MSNBC Warns Docs Could Be Big 2024 Problem for Biden

FEMA Distributed Nonsense Emergency Brochures To Native Alaskans

ATF Declares Braced Pistols Illegal, Demands Registration Or Face Jail Time

SHOCK: ABC’s Karl Calls Out Biden’s Hypocrisy on Mishandling Docs

Why Was Hunter Paying Joe Biden $50k Per Month To Rent House Where Classified Documents Found?  Ten percent for the Big Guy, perhaps?

UK to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, Rishi Sunak confirms (BBC)

Ukrainian Army Still Uses Soviet Era Tanks (CNN)

Soledar May Be ‘Bargaining Tool’ in Wagner Chief’s Push for Authority: ISW (Newsweek)

Russia’s Wagner mercenaries lead bloody battle in Ukraine’s east (CBS)

Rifts in Russian military command seen amid Ukraine fighting (Associated Press)

Interview: U.S. General Ben Hodges On Russia’s Lack Of A ‘Coherent Plan’ (Radio Free Europe)

Why Biden Is Wrong About North Korea (Newsweek)

Detailed Report Exposes CIA-Backed ‘Zero Units’ In Afghanistan

As Russians Steal Ukraine’s Art, They Attack Its Identity, Too (N.Y. Times)

Iraqi PM Backs Indefinite US Troop Presence in Country

ARTILLERY: Truck-Mounted 120mm Mortar

British Govt Set to Ship ‘Game-Changer’ Apache Helicopters to Ukraine

China’s COVID surge prompts CDC to expand a hunt for new variants among air travelers (NPR)

Bivalent COVID Vaccines Likely Thwarted by Immune Imprinting, Expert Says (Medpage Today)

FDA ADVISOR AND VACCINE EXPERT SAYS THERE’S ‘NO EVIDENCE’ NEW BOOSTERS ARE BETTER

CDC Says Stroke Concerns Over Pfizer Jab Warrant Investigation

COVID-Narrative Dissenters File Lawsuit Against Legacy Media Over Coordinated Censorship

Doctor Calls For Withdrawal Of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Following New Research  Hard to ‘follow the science’ when the ‘science’ keeps changing.

How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied?

WHO Appeals to China to Release More COVID-19 Information

We Have Ways of Making You Take the Vax

Multiple Young Athletes And Former Athletes Died Suddenly This Past Month  But it has nothing to do with the vax, no sir.

Drug Shortages Aren’t New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look (Wired ‘Science’)

In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated (Wired ‘Scence’) It’s cheaper just to get the government to twist their arms.

Pentagon “Exploring” Back-Pay For Troops Kicked Out Over COVID Vaccine Mandate

Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

Judge rejects as ‘absurd’ Trump bid to dismiss rape accuser’s lawsuit (Reuters)

Trump testified E Jean Carroll was ‘nut job’ who said she enjoyed being sexually assaulted (The Guardian) These days, that’s not far-fetched.

See the smoking gun that might get Trump indicted: GOP chief links him to ‘crime’ phone call (MSNBC) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

If the Mar-a-Lago case collapses? Disaster dodged, America. (Washington Post)

Republicans Want to ‘Phase Out’ Electric Cars to Protect Fossil Fuels (Newsweek) No, they don’t.

The U.S. renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman (NPR)

Brazilian homemaker claims George Santos ruined her life (N.Y. Post) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

For 2nd time in a week, Chicago Police Department under fire over handling of a cop accused of belonging to extremist group (Chicago Sun-Times)

Save us from women’s shoulders, Missouri state legislature! (Washington Post) It is not, of course, about ‘women’s shoulders’. Narrative Media ‘journalists’ love to build straw men and then beat the living snot out of them.

‘Dismay and anxiety’ on college campuses as DeSantis ramps up anti-CRT campaign (Orlando Sentinel)

Conroe brewery receives flood of threats, harassment after canceling Kyle Rittenhouse event (Texas Tribune) The Texas Tribune is the Mother Jones of Travis County, home of Austin The Blue Pustule on the Rosy Red Butt of Texas.

NY Times Pouts Over DeSantis’s ‘Radical Approach’: Ignoring ‘Nonpartisan’ Press

George Santos Is A Piker Next To Former Rep. Doug Stringfellow

Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning? (Rolling Stone)

The House GOP’s retread tactics have blown up in Republicans’ faces before (Washington Post) Far-Left Retread E. J. Dionne fills in for Far-Left retread Carl “Worse Than Watergate” Bernstein, who has probably died during the interval.

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What do they know that you don’t know?

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We have the technology.

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We will also need a lot more electrons, which at present we are making no effort to get.

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We have the technology.

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Seeing this desperate attempt by Tyler Cowen to cover for crypto scams (his list of “falls in status” includes silly items such as “Mrs. Jellyby,” bizarre items such as “Being unmarried (and male) above the age of 30,” and “Venture capital,” but, oddly enough, not “Crypto” itself) made me think that smart people are overrated. Let me put it this way: if you’re a smart astrologer, you’re still not gonna be able to do “real” astrology, which doesn’t exist. To say it slightly differently: it’s easy to promise things, especially if you have a good rep; you have to be careful not to promise things you can’t deliver. It doesn’t matter how smart James Watson’s friend was; he didn’t have that promised cancer cure in two years.

As the saying goes: Saying it don’t make it so. I could go around telling the world I had a solution to all the problems of MRP, and some people might believe me for awhile—but I don’t have such a solution.

I can see how Cowen in his above-linked post doesn’t want to believe that crypto is fundamentally flawed—and maybe he’s right that it’s a great thing, it’s not like I’m an expert—but it’s funny that he doesn’t even consider that it might be a problem, given the scandal he was writing about.

All this got me thinking: in what fields of endeavor does it matter that you’re just B.S.-ing, and in what fields can you get away with it?

Aside from politics, of course, where B.S.-ing is all there is.

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The online tip jar. The after-show bucket. The YouTube donations drive. We are in a golden age of crowdfunding art, and you can’t move online for a creator panhandling you for a donation for their content. In a celebrated 2013 TedTalk, “The Art of Asking”, Amanda Palmer posited this crowdfunding model as a path forward for artists to live directly from audience support. That audience would pay for the artist’s work, not out of compulsion, but out of a desire to help someone they felt connected to.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Amanda Palmer, you realize that most people give her money just so she will go away. One of the worst days of my life was when I found out that Neil Gaiman had dumped the mother of his teenaged daughter in order to go running after this chick.

Steve Sailer.

My impression has long been that the White House during Democratic administrations, bureaucrats, NGOs, academics, and the media routinely conspire together to promote The Latest Thing.

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Occasionally, though, The Establishment screws up and gets the pieces in the wrong order, so the conspiracy is more evident. We can see this with the Gas Stove Fiasco of 2023.

Steve Sailer.

The Economics Job Market Rumors discussion board is particularly disrespectful of their betters, since economics requires math skills and attracts less politically correct academics. Not surprisingly, powerful economists, especially ones who are members of privileged groups who benefit from affirmative action, want to silence this forum.

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How about that government-run taxpayer-funded health care system?

Don’t you wish we had one like it in the U.S.? (We do. It’s called the VA. Ask veterans how well that works for them.)

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Then supplies run short and rationing sets in–or wait times increase–and your chances of dying before you can get treatment vastly expand. (But it’s free!)

Ben Shapiro.

Our government seeks more and more control.

Our government is not competent.

These two statements are both true, and together amount to a nightmare for institutional credibility. A government that seeks more control must at the very least demonstrate credibility in implementing its goals; a government that is incompetent can only regain legitimacy by limiting its authority. And yet we have a government that presents the worst of both worlds: incapacity to perform its most basic functions, combined with an ever-expanding encroachment into daily life.

Thus, this week, the Federal Aviation Administration was forced to ground virtually all flights in the United States after an outage in the so-called Notice to Air Missions systems, designed to warn pilots of weather problems, runway issues or other obstacles. The NOTAM system relies on a reportedly outmoded computer system that has not been updated for years. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is most famous for taking a two-month paternity leave and then bragging about it repeatedly on national television, helpfully commented, “There was a systems issue overnight that led to a ground stop because of the way safety information was moving through the system.” He then reported this problem to President Joe Biden, who helpfully commented that Buttigieg ought to “restore the system quickly and safely, and to determine causes.”

Job well done, gentlemen.

All of which makes the constant proglodyte effort to get more and more of what goes on in daily life under the control of government totally inexplicable. It’s as if they live on a different planet entirely.

Misinformation on gas stoves is swirling the internet. Here’s what you need to know (S.F. Chronicle) According to the Narrative.

New study links gas stoves with asthma, but lung doctor says don’t throw the stove out yet (NBC)

2022 was 6th warmest year on record for Massachusetts (WCVB Boston)

Ocean heat shatters record with warming equal to 5 atomic bombs exploding “every second” for a year. Researchers say it’s “getting worse.” (CBS)

Move over polar bears, there’s another top predator along the Arctic coast (LiveScience)

New imaging finds trigger for massive global warming 56 million years ago (Ars Technica)

Bulgaria rolls back plans to phase out coal amid fears over energy and job security (Euronews)

New Research Flips Our Understanding of Ice Age Frequency (SciTech Daily)

Scientists reveal Earth’s most detailed recent climactic history (The Hindu)

Federal climate forecasts could help prepare for extreme rain. But it’s years away (NPR)

Burning Man touts sustainability. Now it’s suing to block clean energy. (Washington Post)

Burning Man sues US government to stop Nevada ‘green’ project (N.Y. Post)

Corporate America Reserves the Right to Kill You With Soot Pollution (The New Republic)

We know soot pollution is deadly. The EPA needs tougher standards to protect public health (L.A. Times)

UAE names oil company chief to lead UN climate talks COP28 (Associated Press)

UAE Selects Oil Boss for Climate Talks (Foreign Policy)

Global Warming Is the Front-Page Story of Our Lifetime (The Nation)

Europe’s freakish winter heatwave breaks records (The Economist)

A Big Green Mess In Germany With Coal A Stunning 31% Of Electricity Production

FLASHBACK: Paul Ehrlich, The Media’s Favorite “Doomsday Celebrity”  One can make a very good living out of being demonstrably wrong for fifty years.

Bill Gates: Nuclear Power and Fake Meat can Save Us from Climate Change

Electric car makers put the brakes on UK production because they are too expensive to sell

Biden Calls For Two Weeks Of Not Cooking On Gas Stoves To Flatten The Curve (Babylon Bee)

Average EV fast-charging costs soar above petrol

Alabama bank slammed for Robert E. Lee, MLK holiday sign: ‘Pull your money out’

MSNBC guest scorches Garland over probes

WATCH: House Minority Leader Jeffries blasts House GOP agenda, calls out Santos (PBS)

Schumer blasts ‘extreme’ House GOP agenda: American people don’t want Congress to ‘just’ investigate (The Hill)

Indiana Lab Worker Fired for Sending Creepy Threats to Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (Daily Beast) As opposed to: uncreepy threats?

PBS Claim: GOP ‘Immersed in These Far-Right Networks…From Moscow to Budapest’  By contrast with the Far-Left Networks that the Democrats are immersed in, from Beijing to Brussels.

Schumer, Jeffries Warn ‘MAGA Republicans’ Forcing Default

House GOP Eyes Investigation of Big Tech-Aligned Election Grants

On PBS, Journalists Label House GOP As All ‘Fringe’ and ‘Very Extreme,’ Unlike Democrats

Rep. Grothman displays Christian nationalist flag outside congressional office (Wisconsin Examiner) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing as a ‘Christian nationalist flag’. Would you even know it if you saw it? Thank God we’ve got proglodyte ‘journalists’ to hunt these things down for us.

MSNBC Panel Labels GOP Racist ‘Juvenile Delinquents’ Projection.

‘We Will Die for Brazil’: How a Far-Right Mob Tried to Oust Lula (N.Y. Times) Lula is a socialist and a crook, so naturally he’s the Good Guy. Everybody who is not a Good Guy is a Far-Right Neo-Trumpist Crypto Nazi Bad Guy. Just keep that straight.

Embattled Rep. Santos Allegedly Tied to Ponzi Scheme  Allegedly! Tied! That proves it!

George Santos Allegedly Wore a Stolen Scarf to Stop the Steal Rally in 2021 (Daily Beast) SCRAAAAAAAPE that barrel….

Democrats: ‘It’s Different When We Do It!’

Lori Lightfoot torpedoed over re-election campaign: ‘Worst mayor in America, worst mayor Chicago has ever had’ BRAAAAAAAINS!

The Tyranny Of Minorities

NHL backtracks after Florida Gov. Ron Desantis’ office blasts league for ‘discriminatory’ job fair

Chicago Mayor Asks Teachers To Encourage Students To Help Her Win Reelection

Thought for the Day: The Cachet of the Oppressed

COVID Vaccines Are “Obviously Dangerous” And Should Be Halted Immediately, Say Senior Swedish Doctors

How Accurate Are At-Home COVID Tests With The XBB Subvariant? (Huffington Post)

Why Rapid COVID-19 Test Results Are Getting More Confusing (TIME)

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations. (Nature)

J&J slashes production of its unpopular COVID-19 shot

The Dystopian Roots Of California’s COVID-19 Misinformation Law

We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem. (Washington Post)

Brett Giroir to Newsmax: Gottlieb Censoring Natural Immunity Is a Bad Look

FDA Adviser Says Young And Healthy People Shouldn’t Get Latest COVID Boosters

European Parliament Poised To Ban Pfizer Representatives

Eric Adams says NYC can’t cater to migrants’ ‘cultural taste’ on food (N.Y. Post)

Migrants Say NYC Provided Raw, Rotten Foods – And Mayor Says It’s a Matter of Taste (NBC)

New Jersey wants to be the state of disinformation and indoctrinate its students (Fox)

‘Unprecedented pressure’ as EU’s borders face rising migrant numbers (Euronews)

Judge rules against LGBTQ students in Title IX college discrimination suit (NBC)

Has American Culture Ever Been More Violent Than It Is Right Now?  Well, yeah, during the 20s and 30s – you know, Bonnie & Clyde, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, etc.?

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State… And It’s Worse Than You Think

What to Know About Gas Stove Alternatives  (N.Y. Times) Biden doesn’t want to ban your gas stove, heaven forbid, but if he did, what else could you do? (Part of the proglodyte attempt to cancel the industrial revolution.)

POLITICO Playbook: Return of the default deniers (Politico) Hey, a new ‘DENIER’ tag! Get on the bandwagon!

Adam Carolla: Rob Reiner Is a ‘Useful Idiot’  Actually, he isn’t really all that useful.

Navy Swats ‘Wokeness’ Claims in Bid to Reach Older Americans Who Could Influence Recruiting  Except that ‘older Americans’ aren’t that gullible.