THE YEAR THE RULING CLASS GOT WOKE

Instapundit--THE YEAR THE RULING CLASS GOT WOKE:

"Identity politics has become the new secular religion. We need more heretics.

For me, the defining image of 2020 was also the funniest: that of Democratic lawmakers in the US taking the knee, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, draped in Ghanaian kente cloth....

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What was perhaps more unexpected* was the almost total embrace of Black Lives Matter, the banner under which this movement marched, by the capitalist class. Corporate giants lent their support to the protests. Ben & Jerry’s ice cream pledged to ‘dismantle white supremacy’. And the CEO of JPMorgan Chase took the knee in front of a giant open bank vault...

...Related: The Religion to Replace All Other Religions.

* It shouldn’t be that unexpected, considering how easily corporate giants embraced another gnostic religion, radical environmentalism, a few decades ago.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"...Read all!

Either way, it works...for the powerful.

 

Legion of Gloom - WSJ

Legion of Gloom - WSJ

"Even Dr. Anthony Fauci has soured on the idea of closing schools in response to Covid-19, amid overwhelming evidence of student harm and a lack of evidence of public benefit. 

But the destructive policy seems to have a new lease on life in politics. 

In a dreary Tuesday speech in Wilmington, Del., President-elect Joe Biden suggested that some schools should remain closed through April--and even longer if there is not another huge round of federal spending on education.

...Look, we can only do that if Congress provides the necessary funding so we get schools, districts, communities, and states the resources they need for those so many things that aren’t there already in a tight budget.

Taxpayers may be even more depressed to learn they will now be asked to fund a Biden administration program to persuade people to ignore the message of the Biden presidential campaign. 

As candidates, Mr. Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, cast doubt on the safety of any vaccines approved by the Trump administration. 

On Tuesday, after modestly acknowledging “there’s a vaccination hesitancy in many communities,” Mr. Biden promised “a massive public education campaign to increase vaccine acceptance. 

...He then promised to “ensure vaccinations are free of charge,” perhaps unaware of existing federal policy. 

Then Mr. Biden’s speech got a little more confusing when he said:

I hope the president will clearly and unambiguously urge all Americans to take the vaccine... I took it to instill public confidence in the vaccine. President-elect Harris took hers today for the same reason.

Sounds like someone’s bucking for a demotion...Read all.

#1 This day 1976-----Rod Stewart – Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) (Official Video)

They hiding this important information on purpose?---You’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected?

You’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected?

• Knowing the amount of virus carried in the body could help doctors predict the course of a patient’s illness.

"As Covid-19 patients flood into hospitals nationwide, doctors are facing an impossible question. 

Which patients in the E.R. are more likely to deteriorate quickly, and which are most likely to fight off the virus and to recover?
As it turns out, there may be a way to help distinguish these two groups, although it is not yet widely employed. 

Dozens of research papers published over the past few months found that people whose bodies were teeming with the coronavirus more often became seriously ill and more likely to die, compared with those who carried much less virus and were more likely to emerge relatively unscathed.
The results suggest that knowing the so-called viral load — the amount of virus in the body — could help doctors predict a patient’s course...

...The idea is not new: Managing viral load has long formed the basis of care for people with H.I.V., for example, and for tamping down transmission of that virus.

Little effort has been made to track viral loads in Covid-19 patients...Read all.

We're broke! Why are we sending money overseas?

 

Controversial Bill Gates-funded plan to dim the sun's rays moves forward quietly - TheBlaze

Controversial Bill Gates-funded plan to dim the sun's rays moves forward quietly - TheBlaze: 

The billionaire philanthropist is set on saving the Earth no matter the cost.

"While you may have been paying attention to [Gates'] efforts on vaccination and lockdowns, you may not have noticed that one of Gates' most controversial causes just got a go-ahead: A project that would help block out the sun," the Western Journal's Douglas Golden wrote.

Reuters reported that the geo-engineering plan — a Harvard University project funded largely by Gates— "plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun's rays."

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS

Instapundit-PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS
"Professor Neil Ferguson in the London Times on Christmas Day:

People don’t agree with lockdown and try to undermine the scientists.
Not least of which, some fellow called Professor Neil Ferguson, during the first half of 2020: What Neil Ferguson’s booty call tells us about modern politics.
“It is actually incredibly important news that Ferguson, the Imperial College modeller who said it was possible 500,000 Brits would die if we didn’t lock down, defied the lockdown.
It deserves the frontpage treatment it is getting today.

For Ferguson’s booty call with his married lover actually reveals a great deal about the 21st-century elites and how they view their relationship with the masses.
It’s one rule for them and another for us.”
QED: Dr. Fauci Admits He Has Treated The American People Like Children.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

AM Fruitcake

 

Massachusetts Passes Abortion on Demand for Minors

Massachusetts Passes Abortion on Demand for Minors: 

“The actions taken by Democrats to ram through this legislation are a reflection of just how extreme the party has become on abortion. Led by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats’ agenda for the entire nation is reflected in this bill: abortion on-demand, up until the moment of birth,” Dannenfelser argued.

History for December 30

History for December 30 - On-This-Day.com

Rudyard Kipling 1865 - Short-story writer

• 1853 - The United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.
• 1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
• 1924 - Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galactic systems.
• 1940 - California's first freeway was officially opened. It was the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena.
• 1944 - King George II of Greece proclaimed a regency to rule his country, virtually renouncing the throne.
• 1953 - The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
• 1978 - Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the Gator Bowl. Bauman had intercepted an Ohio pass.

Harvard Calls Women 'Birthing People,' Ted Cruz Responds - Louder With Crowder

Harvard Calls Women 'Birthing People,' Ted Cruz Responds - Louder With Crowder: 

It's times like these when Ted Cruz might wish he had gone to Yale instead. Though, maybe not. They don't make the Ivy League quite like they used to. At Harvard, one department held a panel on something called "Maternal Justice." That's a thing the left likes to do nowadays. They take a word and put "justice" after it to try to create a new thing, usually so they have an excuse to claim anyone who thinks they're silly is racist. The tweet announcing this panel is an impressive collection of virtual-signaling woke buzzwords.

The CDC and NCHS Need to Clean Up COVID-19 Death Counts

The CDC and NCHS Need to Clean Up COVID-19 Death Counts: 

Some of us have been questioning the COVID-19 death counts reported by the CDC through the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for some time. Of course, CNN and the corporate media love the likely elevated counts to push their narrative. Lockdown Inc. loves them to justify their destruction of lives and livelihoods. A report from the Freedom Foundation, a Washington State think tank, explains why. The foundation’s original analysis of deaths in the state found the number may have been inflated by as much as 13%:

Pennsylvania lawmakers find there were more votes than voters

Pennsylvania lawmakers find there were more votes than voters: 

What they found were "troubling discrepancies between the numbers of total votes counted and the total number of voters who voted in the 2020 general election." They now are questioning "how the results of the presidential election could possibly have been certified by Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar and Governor Tom Wolf."

Fauci doubles down after being confronted over startling admission that he deceived the public about herd immunity - TheBlaze

Fauci doubles down after being confronted over startling admission that he deceived the public about herd immunity - TheBlaze: 

Fauci admitted in an interview with the New York Times that he moved the goal posts on herd immunity percentages partly based on public polling data to covertly encourage more Americans to get vaccinated. At the beginning of the pandemic, Fauci stated publicly that 60-70% of the American public would need to be inoculated with a vaccine to achieve herd immunity. But Fauci slightly increased his percentages as the pandemic raged on, suggesting in his interview with the Times that achieving herd immunity would require 90% of the American public to receive the vaccine.

The way we were-----Dick Butkus Hard Nosed Old School Football

Boob-tube-----Joe Namath ignores Johnny Carson and Flirts with Elke Sommer

The Shaky Case for State Bailouts

The Shaky Case for State Bailouts

...Newspapers are running story after story about how, in the absence of such bailouts, state and local legislators are forced to slash funding for services.

...Consider a recent New York Times article, "With Washington Deadlocked on Aid, States Face Dire Fiscal Crisis." 

• The report tells us: "Alaska chopped resources for public broadcasting. 
• New York City gutted a nascent composting program that could have kept tons of food waste out of landfills….
• In Maryland, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will lose a $1.6 million state subsidy."

These examples not only are not dire; they represent activities that the government has no business wasting taxpayer money on. 

• Orchestras, for instance, overwhelmingly benefit the rich. If affluent Americans want to enjoy the pleasure of live classical music, they should pay for it themselves, fully and honestly.
• ...spending includes the lavish pensions paid to state employees. Why should I, as a resident of Virginia, pay for public employees' retirements in badly managed states such as Kentucky? As the Times explains, Kentucky has one of the most poorly funded public-sector pension systems in the country, and now it is further delaying its payments into the system. 
• Meanwhile, "some, like California and New Jersey, had recently committed to raising their contributions to cover past underpayments—but now can't afford to do so."

...one dollar of government spending during the last recession returned much less than a dollar in growth, even under the best circumstances.

Worse, systematically bailing out state and local governments creates a serious moral hazard, reducing decision makers' incentives to plan better for the next downturn...Read all.

Why Is Solar Energy Getting 250 Times More In Federal Tax Credits Than Nuclear?

Why Is Solar Energy Getting 250 Times More In Federal Tax Credits Than Nuclear?
"The Washington Favor Factory never sleeps. 

...Which industries got the biggest favors inserted into legislation that The Hill columnist Joe Concha called “the swampiest thing ever”?
Without a doubt, it was the solar- and wind-energy sectors.
According to a December 21 estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation, the extension of the solar sector’s investment tax credit (ITC) will cost the American treasury another $7 billion between now and 2030...Those billions will be added to the $27 billion in ITC credits that were already designated for the solar sector and $34 billion in PTC that will be collected by Big Wind between now and 2029. 

...In 2018, the American solar industry got roughly 250 times as much in federal tax incentives as the nuclear sector, when compared by the amount of energy produced. 

Coming in a close second is the wind sector, which got about 160 times as much as nuclear...Read all.

Dark Age of Science: Top Doctor Booted from Position After Questioning Lockdowns

Dark Age of Science: Top Doctor Booted from Position After Questioning Lockdowns: 

So this is how liberals settle science. In a taste of the kind of intolerance progressives practice when they have the power to do so, a top doctor at a California hospital lost his position last week after having the gall to question the logic behind coronavirus lockdowns. The incident speaks volumes about how liberals silence critics and says even more about the state of science in a statist world.

Too funny, must share!-----Team storms field while other team scores the winning TD, a breakdown

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF CANCEL CULTURE AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE

Instapundit--DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF CANCEL CULTURE AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE

He Was Offended By A Private Video She Sent To A Friend. So He Waited A Year To Post It And Ruin Her Life.

Four years ago, 15-year-old Mimi Groves, then a freshman at Heritage High School in Virginia, was excited to get her learner’s permit. After receiving it, she sent her friend a 3-second Snapchat video in which she said: “I can drive, [n-word]!”

Somehow, the video was circulated among a few students at school. It survived for years, and, last year, Jimmy Galligan, who was a senior along with Groves at Heritage, ended up seeing it. Galligan, whose mother is black and whose father is white, said he was offended by the video. Instead of explaining the issue with a white girl using the slur to Groves herself, Galligan held onto the video and waited until he could use it against Groves to destroy her.

Typically, such an act would be seen as bullying, but in today’s pro-cancel-culture society, Galligan received a New York Times profile and the story presented from his point of view, along with a headline clearly favoring his actions. “A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning,” reads the Times headline about Galligan’s act.

The “reckoning” refers to what Groves endured at the hands of Galligan. Groves had been accepted to the University of Tennessee and was set to join the school’s cheer team, which at the time was the reigning national champion. When Galligan posted the video of Groves online and it went viral, she lost her position on the cheer team and was forced to withdraw from the university after facing pressure from admissions officials. The officials apparently told her they received “hundreds of emails and phone calls from outraged alumni, students and the public,” the Times reported.

Groves told the Times that she didn’t “understand the severity of the word, or the history and context behind it because” she was so young. She told the outlet the slur was used in “all the songs we listened to, and I’m not using that as an excuse.”

There’s something for everyone to hate in this story: A college freshman gets her life destroyed by being videoed quoting a rap song when she was 15. The crusading New York Times, staffed by journalists who earlier this year exclaimed that a Tom Cotton op-ed somehow endangered them, is thrilled to sic the social media dog pile onto her. And college administrators who take their lead from that mob. A whole lot of people who should know better need to ask themselves:

Posted by Ed Driscoll"

Lunch video-----The Absurd “Doctor” Jill Biden Controversy Points to A Larger Issue...

Noon-toon

 

UV LED lights kill 99% of COVID in 30 seconds, new study - TheBlaze

UV LED lights kill 99% of COVID in 30 seconds, new study - TheBlaze: 

Researchers from Tel Aviv University claim that they have found a way to significantly eliminate COVID-19. The new study found that UV-LED lights effectively, quickly, and inexpensively kill coronavirus.  The promising study was published in the November 2020 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology. The study attempted to find the disinfection efficiency of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes irradiation at different wavelengths or frequencies on coronavirus. It is said to be the first of its kind in the world, according to the Jerusalem Post.

From MSNEWS-Unbiased media forgets to mention the reasons he refused.

 

Asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 didn’t occur at all, study of 10 million finds

Asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 didn’t occur at all, study of 10 million finds

• Only 300 asymptomatic cases in the study of nearly 10 million were discovered, and none of those tested positive for COVID-19.
  
  
  

WUHAN, China, December 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, found that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 did not occur at all, thus undermining the need for lockdowns, which are built on the premise of the virus being unwittingly spread by infectious, asymptomatic people.

Published in November in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the paper was compiled by 19 scientists, mainly from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, but also from scientific institutions across China as well as in the U.K. and Australia...Read all!

Aside from that...everything okeydokey.

 

The disgusting media uses this for their headline? Misses the entire point!!----------Michigan AG to Trump: ‘stop obsessing about those women from Michigan. You’re not our type’

Michigan AG to Trump: ‘stop obsessing about those women from Michigan. You’re not our type’
LANSING, MI – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has fired back at President Donald Trump after he suggested she should face sanctions for pursuing sanctions against lawyers questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

“These lawyers are true patriots who are fighting for the truth and, obviously, getting very close,” Trump tweeted on Sunday. 

“AG should be sanctioned. Fight on!”

...Nessel responded shortly after it was posted.
“A patriot is a person who vigorously defends their country against its enemies and detractors,” she wrote. “History will reveal which you were. I wish you loved your country half as much as you love yourself. Also, time to stop obsessing about those women from Michigan. You’re not our type.”

Insanity Wrap #113: Trump Had No Choice But to Sign Corrupt 'Relief' Bill

Insanity Wrap #113: Trump Had No Choice But to Sign Corrupt 'Relief' Bill

Facts Are Stubborn Things

Trump’s pardons are tyrannical and Literally Hitler™ and…

Oh.

Nevermind.

More seriously, we’d love to see Trump use his pardon power more.

Lots more.

Insanity Wrap has a list...Read all.