So Ketanji is “extraordinarily qualified” for the highest court in the land. We can only assume, by the discredited Donna Brazile‘s standards, were she a White female instead of “Brown”, she’d merely be “ordinarily qualified”. And if a White male, or at least one who identifies as male, “utterly unqualified”.
“Republicans can score political points, deny Biden any political points, and maximize their odds of defeating the nominee if they stay focused, treat Jackson with dignity and respect, and talk about her record and what progressives do on the bench. There is a time and a place for smash-mouth politics, but this will not be one of those.“
Second, she’s not a serious jurist; She has no gravitas. Therefore she’ll be a non-force on the court. Sure, she’ll be a dependable Socialist vote, but, like Sonia Sotomayor, she’ll have no influence on her fellow justices.
BTW, since Blacks constitute approximately 13% of the population, and Jackson’s confirmation would make 22% of the Supremes Black, can we assume they’ll then be more than represented, at least on SCOTUS? Sorry, we forgot: Clarence Thomas isn’t authentically Black.
Joe and his sycophants evidently believed he could handle an international thug armed with nuclear weapons in the same manner he did Corn Pop.
As some recent reports have suggested, Putin may well be crazier than a sh*t house rat. But even if Vlad’s mad, this recent cartoon from Gary Varvel accurately assesses how an infirm imbecile matches up against a madman.
Meanwhile, people are dying half a world away because of Biden’s missteps and miscalculations, not the least of which has been his feckless fight against domestic fossil fuel production (see Andy McCarthy’s assessment in our Quote of the Day at the top of the page), an example of Liberal lunacy he still refuses to recognize, as evidenced by this tweet forwarded by James Nichols:
BREAKING: Jen Psaki just said that we need to reduce our reliance on foreign oil, but doesn’t want to increase American gas and oil production pic.twitter.com/QNXx2drbMy
Yeah, you heard her right: The 46* clown car’s answer to skyrocketing energy prices is to decrease planetary productions of cheap, plentiful, readily-available fossil fuels.
Some day, either in this world or the next, these people will be called to account for the purposeful pain and suffering, physical and economic, they’ve inflicted on so many, both living and unborn, whilst they sat in and enjoyed…
…the lap of luxury. Paybacks are HELL!
Since we’re on the subject of accountability, Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman unequivocally calls for…
“Today brings still more evidence of what any reasonable person should have guessed in early March 2020. Imposing wrenching changes on a society without calm consideration of costs and benefits is bound to end in catastrophe. Unfortunately since 2020 not many reasonable people have been running America’s public health bureaucracies. And so the coronavirus panic led to fear-inducing measures targeting just one of the many threats to human health, with hardly a thought for the collateral damage or even the unlikelihood that business lockdowns and school closures could somehow manage to stop the virus. (They didn’t.)
…Right from the start of the pandemic panic, it was as if the leaders of government health bureaucracies all forgot that there are plenty of ways to die other than Covid infection.Even now it’s not easy for many politicos or members of the press corps to get over their love of lockdowns.
In the New York Times Patricia Mazzei writes a largely critical story about early lockdown opponent and Journal contributor Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) to be Florida’s surgeon general. Ms. Mazzei’s story quotes a number of lockdown advocates, as if it’s an open question on who turned out to be right—as if we haven’t just run perhaps the most expensive medical experiment in human historyand discovered that lockdowns imposed massive costs with a scarcity of proven benefits.
The Times piece naturally takes aim at Florida, where Gov. DeSantis embraced a strategy of focused protection for the high-risk elderly and freedom rather than mandates to allow daily life to proceed and citizens to make healthy choices. Writes Ms. Mazzei:
Florida ranks among the 20 worst states for its pandemic death rate and among the 12 worst for its case rate, but Mr. DeSantis has argued that the state also suffers when its economy and schools are restricted.
Yet the Times’ own website notes that New York and New Jersey, which pursued aggressive lockdown strategies, masking mandates and other draconian measures, have suffered more Covid deaths per capita than Florida since the start of the pandemic.
Stanford School of Medicine professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya tweetstoday about the Times report:
This @nytimes story on @FLSurgeonGen is premised on statistical misinformation. Any comparison of covid death rates by state needs to be adjusted at least for age.
On that basis, Florida’s Covid mortality results look even better. And what about an accounting of lockdown harms in the heavily-regulated jurisdictions? Don’t expect to find one in the Times account.
Whether they admit it or not, even many media-approved doctors have lately been moving toward Dr. Ladapo’s position. Last month this column’s most celebrated alumnus, Journal editorial features editor James Taranto, wrote:
The Omicron surge has triggered a mutation in the conventional wisdom about Covid-19. The virus “is here to stay,” oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel and two other experts who advised the Biden transition proclaimed in a Jan. 6 article for the Journal of the American Medical Association, “A National Strategy for the ‘New Normal’ of Life With Covid.” That means no more “perpetual state of emergency”: “The goal for the ‘new normal’ . . . does not include eradication or elimination.”
Joseph Ladapo reached the same conclusion almost two years earlier. “Please don’t believe politicians who say we can control this with a few weeks of shutdown,” Dr. Ladapo, then a professor at UCLA’s medical school and a clinician on Covid’s frontline, wrote in USA Today on March 24, 2020. “To contain a virus with shutdowns, you must either go big, which is what China did, or you don’t go at all. . . . Here is my prescription for local and state leaders: Keep shutdowns short, keep the economy going, keep schools in session, keep jobs intact, and focus single-mindedly on building the capacity we need to survive this into our health care system.”
Exactly. How many of the lockdowners can stand behind the panicked prescriptions and proscriptions they made in March of 2020? Mr. Taranto added:
Florida’s permissive policies didn’t stop Covid, but neither did other states’ restrictive ones. It’s an open question whether lockdowns, masking, forced vaccination and the rest have conferred any benefit at all. As the federal government and states like California and New York search for a “new normal,” they should consider following Florida’s example of simply being normal.
Amen.“
Again…
Although the saying is not strictly Biblical, we personally find it perfectly applicable.
Next up, in a must-read for anyone interested in refuting the ridiculous aspirations of the EnviroNazis, courtesy of Tom Bakke and the Foundation for Economic Education‘s FEE Stories, Mark Mills offers…
“A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons that have fueled societies for centuries. Regardless of one’s opinion about whether, or why, an energy “transformation” is called for, the physics and economics of energy combined with scale realities make it clear that there is no possibility of anything resembling a radically “new energy economy” in the foreseeable future. Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.”
He’s right. So, in my recent Manhattan Institute report, “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking,” I did just that.
Herein, then, is a summary of some of the bottom-line realities from the underlying math…”
SPOILER ALERT: Gates should stick to developing underperforming operating systems, ’cause, when it comes to his green dreams, the facts clearly indicate…
Consider just 12 of the 41:
3. When the world’s four billion poor people increase energy use to just one-third of Europe’s per capita level, global demand rises by an amount equal to twice America’s total consumption.
4. A 100x growth in the number of electric vehicles to 400 million on the roads by 2040 would displace five percent of global oil demand.
5. Renewable energy would have to expand 90-fold to replace global hydrocarbons in two decades. It took a half-century for global petroleum production to expand “only” ten-fold.
12. For security and reliability, an average of two months of national demand for hydrocarbons are in storage at any time. Today, barely two hours of national electricity demand can be stored in all utility-scale batteries plus all batteries in one million electric cars in America.
13. Batteries produced annually by the Tesla Gigafactory (world’s biggest battery factory) can store three minutes worth of annual U.S. electric demand.
14. To make enough batteries to store two day’s worth of U.S. electricity demand would require 1,000 years of production by the Gigafactory (world’s biggest battery factory).
23. Over 90 percent of America’s electricity, and 99 percent of the power used in transportation, comes from sources that can easily supply energy to the economy any time the market demands it.
24. Wind and solar machines produce energy an average of 25 percent–30 percent of the time, and only when nature permits. Conventional power plants can operate nearly continuously and are available when needed.
25. The shale revolution collapsed the prices of natural gas & coal, the two fuels that produce 70 percent of U.S. electricity. But electric rates haven’t gone down, rising instead 20 percent since 2008. Direct and indirect subsidies for solar and wind consumed those savings.
38. It takes the energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil to fabricate a quantity of batteries that can store the energy equivalent of a single barrel of oil.
39. A battery-centric grid and car world means mining gigatons more of the earth to access lithium, copper, nickel, graphite, rare earths, cobalt, etc.—and using millions of tons of oil and coal both in mining and to fabricate metals and concrete.
40. China dominates global battery production with its grid 70 percent coal-fueled: EVs using Chinese batteries will create more carbon-dioxide than saved by replacing oil-burning engines.
P.S. We thought the Christmas colors appropriate, as Santa Claus is more real than the hogwash these hucksters hype.
Moving on, here’s a quintet of items guaranteed to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
“The attempts to wave away the president’s obvious shortcomings are becoming absurd. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin — a fictional character who apparently serves as the nom de plume of beleaguered White House chief of staff Ronald Klain — believes that Biden should begin his State of the Union speech “with a reminder [of] where we were a year ago” and then insist that “the improvements are stunning — and too easily forgotten.” “If he can do that,” Rubin writes, “this State of the Union will be among the better ones in recent memory.”
Counterpoint: No, it won’t. It might be one of the more outlandish ones in recent memory. But it won’t be one of the better ones. Has Rubin never watched Joe Biden attempt to sell himself before? Has she never tuned into one of his press conferences? Dale Carnegie couldn’t sell this White House — let alone Biden himself, the black-eyed, white-toothed, stumble-prone, faux-folksy gaffe machine we’ve all come to know and disdain. Rare is the bout with the teleprompter from which Biden emerges victorious — and this one will be on in primetime.“
(4). And what bumbling Braniac bureaucrat thought it would be a good idea to put control of the International Space Station in the hands of Mad Vlad, a project in which the former Soviet Union has invested a paltry $12 billion compared to America’s $126 billion. Then again, if the Russians do drop the station from orbit onto one of the six cities it passes over (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London, Paris and Rome), we’re indifferent between Chicago, New York and Paris.
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