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As school gasps to a close, lets revisit some Covidiocy

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OH: Canadian Officials Reportedly Knew COVID Vaccine Wasn’t Effective Pre-Mandates.

FDA Says ‘Vaccines Do Not Require Demonstration of the Prevention of Infection or Transmission.’

CDC Will Continue To Ban Unvaccinated People From Entering The US, Defying Science

NEED TO KNOW: Pfizer Knew of COVID-19 Vax Risks to Breastfeeding Babies in April 2021.

COVID IS OVER: Chinese who reported on COVID to be released after 3 years.

From the Comments to an Alex Tabarrok piece. Deals with “medical ethics.”

AS ALWAYS, POLITICAL CONVENIENCE: Why Is One Dose Suddenly Enough for the mRNA COVID Vaccines?

I CAN’T SEE THIS – THE FDA WOULD NEVER APPROVE AN UNSAFE VACCINE*:  Increased Risk of Serious Eye Problem After COVID-19 Vaccination: Study.

Pushback: Three teachers blacklisted by Rhode Island for refusing the jab score total victory in court.

UNEXPECTEDLY: The Harm Caused by Masks.

MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS: Psychologist Breaks Down How Society Descended Into COVID Insanity.

And if you’re an underclassperson who is done for the summer – ENJOY IT!

They SAY it’s over

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but the damage cannot be undone and there’s no “Move On” coming to their rescue. They’re too busy with the Trans issue.

Analysis:

COVID Vaccines Caused 300,000 Excess Deaths in 2022 Alone.

Senate COVID origins report details lab leak theory.

In case you’re still getting jabbed: The Original COVID Vaccines Are No Longer Authorized By The FDA

WHEN TREASON PROSPERS:  The former Director of National Intelligence agrees with the former

CDC Director that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress under oath about funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.

Law student suspended for questioning Covid policies shares story: ‘These people put us through hell.’

Insert clown nose here: Justin Trudeau admits Covid jabs have side effects, claims he never forced “anyone to get vaccinated” … I know a few thousand truckers who disagree

Good to know I’m not the ONLY one sick and tired of being right, being chastised for it and then having the whole thing memory-holed: The COVID lockdown scolds killed people — but they still have no shame.

Anthony Fauci Says Don’t Blame Him for COVID Lockdowns and School Closures

Hannah Cox, as usual, nails it: Justin Trudeau joins long list of leaders and ‘experts’ trying to rewrite COVID policy history

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Face masks and testicular dysfunction.

I have more but I’ll close with this: I CANNOT BEGIN TO EXPLAIN HOW UNCUTE I FOUND THE LEFT’S “IT WASN’T MY FAULT” AND “MISTAKES WERE MADE”:  No Forgiveness Without Repentance.

Some econ stuff … along with thome other “gov’t screws up” stuff.

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California Senate approves first-of-its-kind ‘price gouging’ bill. Price gouging is not a thing. Or at least not the thing “they” THINK it is.

New York Democrats Are Proposing Tax on Netflix and Ubers Because They Have Destroyed The State

Dr. Bastiat: Much of the Left’s Control over Elections Doesn’t Involve Ballot Fraud

The Crusade Against ‘Malinformation’ Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths and The Media and Politicians Keep Trying To Censor Things That Turn Out To Be True

Police Traveled 500 Miles To Seize Girl’s Pet Goat for Slaughter. One of the last cases I handled was a DR ….WAS a dissolution until the husband shot the pet goat. Wife refused to sign docs. Converted to a contested divorce. She got a flat tire on the way to court. He got everything (of which there was not much.)

Our French Revolution › American Greatness. Want a reason to read it? “The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.”

Black People Less Likely

Not for the reasons leftists think: DON SURBER: DeSantis wants to bring back the 1950? Cool.

WELL, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE VIDEO GETS

OUT: Most believe government agents ‘provoked’ Capitol riot.

Happy end of April …. NFL draft right around the corner!

 

The Lingering Effects

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Call it Long Lockdown. We’re gonna be paying for that year and flattened curve for a LONG time.

IF YOU HAVE A VERY DARK SENSE OF HUMOR, I GUESS?  Three New Hilarious Papers On The Coronadoom Vaccine.

Pfizer’s Shots Aren’t Safe and Were Never Shown to Be.

Perception is important. Messaging is too. Half think COVID vaccine is deadly.

I’m wondering if this is gonna be this century’s eugenics: Must read: Here’s a megathread of all the hate the media and the elites spewed about the unvaxxe

Pro-lockdown and Mask Mandate COVID Doctors on Twitter Were Fake Accounts

REMEMBER WHEN THEY CLOSED THE GYMS AND ARRESTED JOGGERS AND CYCLISTS? Regular aerobic exercise reduces depression in teens.

Worked for me and mine:

+ Significant Protection From Vitamin D. “This study found in particular that taking vitamin D provided significant protection against acquiring COVID-19.”

THERE ARE RECEIPTS: Joe Biden’s White House Directed Facebook COVID-19 Censorship.

Remember the ‘horse paste’ hullabaloo about ivermectin?

FDA Advisors Admit They’re ‘Angry’ With Moderna For Not Revealing Data Showing New Boosters Weren’t More Effective

New study finds hundreds of thousands of “excess deaths” in past two years due to Covid lockdowns and mandates

COVID “experts” are continuing to figure out the stuff the rest of us have been saying for the last 3 years

For some reason I find this Hi-larious: New Covid Variant May Target the Vaccinated.

Wish my sister would read this. Would make family gatherings SO much more fun.

It’s about to get worse

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As one wag used to say “Things always seem darkest right before they go completely black.” Not sure we’re going total blackout or how close it is, but we ARE heading in that direction.

Have you heard ANYTHING about the port backups in California that are contributing to the pipeline disruption? Nope?? Nothing fore weeks. Because Secretary Chestfeed didn’t get it fixed so the media had to focus on something (anything) else.

But now there’s this. CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS SCREWING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY: Truckers Say California Law Likely to Make U.S. Supply Chain Crisis Even Worse.

A California Law Regulating Ride-Share Apps Leaves Truckers in Limbo

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: California law AB-5 is screwing over 75,000 truckers and will make inflation worse while Dems are tanking.

and from Reason: Truckers Shut Down California Port Fighting for the Right To Be Their Own Bosses

Resist we much: Protests Against California’s Anti-Independent Contractor Law Continue at Oakland Ports.

Related: VDH on California’s Brylcreemed governor: Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom.’

FDA Finally Admits It Caused the Baby Formula Shortage

Massachusetts Fails to Learn the Lesson of the “Success” From California’s AB 5 – Pacific Research Institute

Tomatoes to fish

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First question: what is a fruit?

Answer: the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds.

Second question: what is a vegetable?

Answer: Here it gets a tad more complicated. Vegetables are usually classified on the basis of the part of the plant that is used for food. The root vegetables include beets, carrots, radishes, sweet potatoes, and turnips. Stem vegetables include asparagus and kohlrabi. Among the edible tubers, or underground stems, are potatoes. The leaf and leafstalk vegetables include brussels sprouts, cabbage, celery, lettuce, rhubarb, and spinach. Among the bulb vegetables are garlic, leeks, and onions. The head, or flower, vegetables include artichokes, broccoli, and cauliflower.

Third question: What is a fish?

Answer: a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water:

Fourth question: What is a honeybee?

Answer: a stinging winged insect that collects nectar and pollen, produces wax and honey, and lives in large communities. It was domesticated for its honey around the end of the Neolithic period and is usually kept in hives.

Final question: what is catsup? (sp?)

Answer: a smooth sauce made chiefly from tomatoes and vinegar, used as a condiment.

What do these things have to do with one another?

[Jonathan H. Adler] A Bee May Be A Fish (At Least in California) [Updated]

California Court Rules That Bees Are Fish

A BUMBLEBEE NEEDS FINS LIKE A FISH NEEDS A…: “It takes 35 pages of tortured logic in an opinion that reads like a parody, but the court concludes that bumblebees indeed are fish within the meaning of California’s environmental laws. I take it that all other insects, by the court’s logic, are also fish. I cite this decision as a warning to those who repose faith in our courts to check the excesses of the political branches. See also: Michael Sussman.”

The left enjoys launching into paroxysms of laughter claiming that Reagan claimed ketchup was a vegetable. (Announcers voice: “He didn’t.”) It goes back to 1893. It started with congressional action and ended up in Nix vs Hedden. The Court’s unanimous opinion held that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words “fruit” and “vegetable,” instead of the technical botanical meaning. Fast forward to the 1980’s and the Depts of Agriculture and Education decided that since tomatoes were botanically a fruit but ordinarily considered a vegetable then products made predominately FROM them could also be considered vegetables, those “solving” some school lunch problems.” Probably not a great idea but typical of governmental pretzel-tying to solve a problem.

Enter California which has now defined insects as fish for environmental protection.

<face palm>

Some numbers … Covid and others

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now that there’s ANOTHER variant. I would remind you that this virus is doing what all viruses have done across the long history of viruses. It becomes more infectious and less harmful.

We’ll start with some poll numbers: Read the desperate letter from a Democratic polling firm begging Dems to move on from COVID hysteria and you’ll understand how freaking terrified they are ahead of the midterms

I did a calculation similar to this every day or two two years ago. Covid Arithmetic for Anxious Parents

OK, NOT Covid but silly governmental numbers nonetheless: SCHOOL DISCIPLINE FARCE: A Georgia school superintendent recently stated that his “goal is to have zero [racial] disproportionality” in school discipline. But as long as students from different racial groups misbehave at different rates, we’re going to have (or at least we should have) disproportionalities in school discipline.

MORE PREVALENT ON THE LEFT. IT’S ALL THE TV THEY CONSUME:  YouGov: “Amercians tend to vastly overestimate the size of minority groups”.

WHOOPSIES! The CDC just reduced how many kids died with Covid by 24% due to a “coding logic error”

and I’ll just leave this here:

There’s more to an election than ballots

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Calls For Investigation Of Big Tech For Violating Election Laws

Arizona 2020 Vote Audit Finds Potentially Election-Shifting Numbers Of Illegal Ballots

Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Was Part Of Election-Meddling Team That Nuked The Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Biden 2020 win ‘tainted,’ 56% say it was a cheater’s paradise.

The 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg

And since MLB has egg on its face, trudging reluctantly back to Georgia: Two Georgia Elections Employees Fired Over Allegations of Shredding Voting Applications.

related: I’m so old I cen remember when questioning the results of an election was grounds for impeachment: McAuliffe claims Stacey Abrams should be governor of Georgia, furthering what some call her ‘Big Lie.’

and we’ll get MORE next week! Terrified Virginia Democrats Seek to Change Election Laws After Voting Has Already Started.

I was assured by the BEST people that his never happens: Former South Philly Judge of Elections Charged in Massive 4-Year Voter Fraud Scheme.

In keeping with the title of this post: & More News: Watch State Supreme Courts on Partisan Gerrymandering & Hold Your Breath on Fed Courts

but it’s not ALL gloom & doom: How Texas Protected Its Vote From Getting ‘Rigged’ In 2020

Vote early and vote often!!!

Choosing sides

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This past summer when the BLM movement and others decided that if you weren’t an anti-racist (and ascribe to everything Ibram X Kendi says) you’re a racist it was difficult for some of us to take, especially since we’d been raised in an era of “content of character not color of skin.” But it seems we’ve gotta chose sides a LOT more often these days. So here are a few related observations from folks who write a lot more and a lot better than I.

I used to be asked frequently what it meant to be a Libertarian. I had a variety of tap-dancing answers that I used to avoid confrontation but here’s a decent discussion. Jeff Hummel on Classical Liberals and Libertarians

So why now? Because many folks believe we’re On the brink. And as far as things become “us vs them” there’s always the “We the People” argument. But I never like the Barney Frank definition of “government” as “those things we do together.” And then there’s this: The Vacuity of the Political “We” – Econlib.

So what does it mean to be a “dissident” in this milieu? Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21st-Century American Dissident. See, I still remember my ex-wife reaching out to me from Cali on election night 2016 afraid that there would be jack-booted thugs marching down American streets in the morning. That didn’t happen. But today the White House is surrounded by fencing, concertina wire and jack-booted National Guardsmen who have been marched into elected officials offices to intimidate them. But Organgeman bad. News flash: Lifelong liberal Naomi Wolf says dictators always take the same 10 steps to seize power, and we’re on step 10 right now.

Think she’s wrong? Over-reacting? Here’s a very telling look into the anti-American statist mindset, courtesy of CNN, along with a brief corrective delivered via flamethrower.

Some other interesting reading:

The Thing And The Whole Of The Thing

only slightly related: Matt Taibbi: A list of official falsehoods about Russian influence.

Circling the Drain

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A significant portion of my livelihood is hurtling toward cancellation. It’s one of those bills that have been given a cutesy acronym name. As I was arguing to friends DECADE’S ago – just because you name a bill “The Orphans and Puppies Aid Act” does NOT mean that the bill has ANYTHING to do with, let alone aid, either orphans OR puppies. (If you’re one of those despicable cat people please substitute “kitties” for “puppies” in the above so I don’t lose your support.) It’s called the PRO Act – Protecting the Right to Organize Act. And it has virtually nothing to do with the right to organize. It will more than likely kill the ride share industry as currently constituted.

Y’see most of us ALREADY have the right to organize and have chosen NOT to. We don’t WANT to. But the Great White Fathers (and Mothers …. ESPECIALLY Mothers) in far away Washington DC know better. They KNOW what we need and they’re going to see that we get it, good and hard. For those of you not aware of this bill or its predecessors, it’s a more-or-less mirror image of California’s AB5 which west coasters overwhelmingly defeated at the ballot box last fall. Essentially it does away with the freedom to work as an independent contractor and requires those who WERE IC’s to become employees. Do you know why most of us AREN’T employees? Because we don’t WANT to be. Just sayin’.

So the silliness of this bill STARTS with the fact that it purports to “protect the right to organize” but it DOES so by PROHIBITING the right NOT to organize (or to NOT organize … one of my editor friends wanna weigh in here?) The second silliness is the long-standing leftist belief that if they just pass a statute everyone will change their behavior in the direction the left wants them to and the world will be a better place. They seem not to realize that we are NOT pieces on a chess board who will move in specified ways and follow a strict set of rules. One woulda thought PPACA woulda taught them that lesson but these aren’t flatworms we’re dealing with here.

This thing passes the Senate and a LOT of people are going to be worse off and virtually NO ONE will be better off. The platforms will either shut down or face a severe restructuring that will make them not affordable to a majority of my passengers and an unattractive side gig option for most drivers.

Congress Should Not Follow California’s Example With PRO Act

The federal labor legislation that would kill my livelihood.

Livelihoods And The Congressional Thieves Who Want To Steal Them

And my final (?) quibble: in Cali they bill came larded with a TON of exemptions for special interests. Writers especially. With no exemptions this thing will hit ANYBODY who free-lances including substitute teachers, ride share drivers, food delivery drivers, most OTR truckers, and many others. Find hope and take action: Understanding AB5 carve-outs. I don’t know what to do and I don’t know what I WILL do …. but I’m scared. Really.

But hey, no more mean tweets, AmIRight?

<edit to add> and THIS popped into my news feed within seconds of hitting “publish” Why Democrats Need the PRO Act: Union Density, Mandatory Dues and Straight-Up Graft.