It’s Wednesday, August 24th, 2022…but before we begin, further evidence the mass insanity of the scamdemic continues unabated in certain quarters, in this case, Yankee Stadium, where Paul O’Neill’s jersey was recently retired:

“O’Neill was not allowed to interact with any of the current Yankees players because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19.“

And all Hal Steinbrenner would offer the legend being honored was a fist bump; Seriously?!?  For Heaven’s sake, shake the man’s hand, and then, if you’re worried, use hand sanitizer, morons!  Has it truly not dawned on everyone this thing has been one gigantic hoax from Day 1?!?

Speaking of morons and the Big Apple, Jim Geraghty recounts how…

Two Democrats Set Aside Years of Friendship to Destroy One Another

“As New York magazine put it, “Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney really hate each other.” (Who can blame them?!?)

Why? Neither one deliberately set out to end the other’s career in Congress; the redistricting plan that put them in the same district was handed down by a court. Both of them chose to run in this new district, instead of an adjacent one, because this is the district where they live. It’s not like either one can contend that they’re being cheated out of an illustrious future career in Congress; Maloney is 76 years old, Nadler is 75.

Is staying in Congress for a 31st and 32nd year worth trying to destroy the reputation of someone you audaciously still call a friend? Apparently, it is.

If you’re a conservative, this is all hilarious. Two longtime allies with little to no ideological distinction are turning on each other with ferocity and venom, turning their primary into a demolition derby just out of a desire to stay in Congress for a few more years — years that are extremely likely to be spent in the minority!

But, if you suspect that politics rots your brain and corrodes your soul, this is rather vivid evidence that the longer you stay in power, the more you prioritize staying there. In the end, winning another term is all that matters to these two.

Imagine running against someone you call a friend who’s been working alongside you for 30 years. You would think that it would be a relief, not an irritation, to face a potential loss to a friend and longtime ally who sees the world the same way you do. If you can’t win, better that the district be represented by someone you trust, a figure you see as right-minded and who has the right values. Instead, Maloney and Nadler are frothing at the mouth, denouncing each other as lazy, entitled, gullible, cowardly, senile, and dishonest.

I have no dog in this fight; I’m not a progressive, I’m not a Democrat, and I don’t live in that congressional district. But if I did have a vote, I would select Patel, simply because he’s never claimed to be or pretended to be friends with either of his rivals. Maloney and Nadler have demonstrated in recent months that they’re simply terrible human beings who prioritize winning over the reputation of an alleged friend and colleague. It would be fitting if both could be sent back into private life.“

Actually, we could think of any number of fates more fitting for these two than private life; But, we’ve the same problem as Auntie Em:

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, the editors at NRO highlight how the helm at the CDC is slow in answering Rochelle Walensky’s highly-publicized course change: 

The Monkeypox Deception

“The evidence keeps piling up: Monkeypox is a disease that affects gay, sexually active men far more than any other group of people. As in, 99 percent of all cases are in men, and 94 percent of those infected reported recent same-sex intimate contact. Additionally, nearly three-quarters of the cases among men were from those who had two or more partners in the three weeks prior to the onset of symptoms.  

Articles in peer-reviewed journals also suggest that intercourse between men is the primary way the disease is spread. Scientists are calling on public-health authorities to change their guidance and prioritize gay men in their mitigation efforts. But if you go to the CDC’s website right now, you can read:

At this time, data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up the majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak. However, anyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, who has been in close, personal contact with someone who has monkeypox is at risk.

A different page on the CDC’s site obscures the risk by highlighting vaginal contact and also says that “a pregnant person can spread the virus to their [sic] fetus through the placenta.”

While it is of course possible that the disease could evolve and spread differently over time, right now it is an outbreak with 99 percent of cases in men (who are overwhelmingly highly sexually active), and the CDC is using gender-neutral language to warn the public about it. Ninety-four percent of those men had same-sex intimate contact before contracting it, and the CDC is warning about contact with female sex organs just as much as male sex organs.

Not one person in America is well served by this nonsense…”

Least of all highly sexually active gay men.  So much for that course change at the CDC.

Next, Writing at NRO, Kevin Williamson explains how…

“…Fetal-personhood laws are part of a “strategy” to end abortion in much the same way that the 13th Amendment was part of a “strategy” to end slavery: In both cases, the “strategy” was to bring the law into harmony with the facts of the case as understood by the activists making the effort to do so. If you have been on the anti-homicide side of the abortion debate for very long, then you surely heard those on the homicidal side of the debate — at least before the Dobbs decision — say something like, “The law says a woman has a right to an abortion, and that’s that.” Or, “There is no law establishing that a fetus has rights that supersede a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.” (I have it on the authority of the Associated Press that we can once again write “pregnant woman,” which the famously facts-forward news agency now begrudgingly concedes is “acceptable phrasing.”) And, in many cases, that was entirely correct, inviting the answer: “Yes, we know what the law says, or, at least, what the Supreme Court pretends the law says. We mean to change the law.” Much of the conversation around Dobbs simply presented the fact of a legal right to abortion (exnihilated via judicial imperialism) as somehow the end of the conversation, as though there were not questions and issues prior to the law.

The half-literate civics of New York Times headline-writers notwithstanding, the American proposition — which is a theological proposition, as much as that fact embarrasses some secularly minded citizens — has never held that the state, its courts, or constitutions confer rights. The American proposition holds instead that “all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” and that it is the proper business of the law neither to grant nor to revoke such rights — the granting and the revoking of that which is unalienable being both beyond the law’s legitimate scope — but to record, formalize, and provide practical support for such rights, which preexist the law and the state. Our right not to be killed (even by a policeman or an aristocrat) owes to the fact that we are human beings, not to the edict of nine quasi-magical personages wearing ceremonial black robes in Washington.

Of course it matters what the law says, just as it matters how we talk about such issues as abortion. But what matter much more urgently and profoundly are the prior fundamental facts of the case: What happens in an abortion is the intentional killing of an individual human organism at an early stage of development. Either living human individuals have moral significance or they do not. If they have moral significance, then the law must take proper note of that significance — but the law does not create that significance.

If you will forgive my repeating this: There is some irony in the fact that the purportedly secular and scientific thinking of the pro-abortion caucus is keeping alive an old strain of medieval superstition: the doctrine of “quickening” or “ensoulment.” Because the European Christian intellectuals of the Middle Ages were in such great part under the influence of the ancient Greeks, they took the onset of detectable fetal motion, which they called “quickening,” as indicating the presence of a soul, the soul being, in such a view, the animating and dynamic force that gives motion to matter. Many traditions within Islamic law have taken an essentially identical view. (Our worldly and sophisticated progressive friends, who denounce pro-lifers as “Taliban Christians,” should familiarize themselves with the facts of Islamic beliefs about abortion, and, in particular, to the actual treatment of abortion under Taliban rule, which at times has included an inclination to permit the procedure as a means of mitigating family poverty that could have come out of Planned Parenthood literature.) The notion that at birth, or perhaps at some other point late in gestation, a magically transformative event occurs and transforms that meaningless clump of cells into a human being deserving of protection as a “person” under the law is only the ensoulment superstition in modern dress. Many abortion opponents are religious; so are many abortion advocates. But the pro-life position requires no deity and no theology. The same cannot be said of the ensoulment doctrine, which all but demands a hand reaching down from the beyond to deliver the divine spark of life. Biology can tell you what is being killed even if it cannot tell you whether you should kill the organism in question. The modern version of ensoulment/personhood sets that on its head, beginning with the desire to permit the killing and then backfilling in a pretext that effectively asserts that what is to be killed is not human and cannot be human because we want to permit its killing.

In reality, human development unfolds along a mostly seamless arc, not as a series of discrete graduations. The life of the human organism starts in a reasonably well-understood and biologically observable way and then progresses until it reaches its biological conclusion. There is not usually much debate about when a body is dead. The fact that there are occasional ambiguities and “corner cases” does not somehow leave us unable to see what is in front of our faces….”

Reading Jeremiah 15 this morning, we were struck by verse 4:

“I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.“

Recalling Hezekiah had been a king of Judah who “did what was right in the eyes of the Lord”, we were intrigued how his son could have fallen so precipitously away from his father’s faith, and what he did to so anger God.  And then we remembered, as II Kings 21:1-6 recounts:

“Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them. He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.” In the two courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.“

If the Lord was so angered by Manasseh sacrificing one child to a pagan god, imagine the wrath awaiting those who’ve offered up untold millions of innocents on the altar of abortion.  We’re of the opinion Jonathan Edwards’ version doesn’t even come close.

Since we’re on the subject of deliberate Dimocratic deception, today’s entry in the EnvironMental Moment courtesy of Balls Cotton offers perhaps the most succinct exposé of the greatest scientific swindle the world has ever witnessed: 

The Great Climate Hoax! pic.twitter.com/r9JNUiNdRz

— Mr. Potato Head (@America1Scotty) August 21, 2022

In a related video, John Stossel highlights how government science has been almost totally politicized:

Moving on, here’s a septet of specially-selected items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). In what should come as a shock to no one, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies emailed National Review he views the terms Biden is offering a hostile foreign power that recently tried to kill Salmon Rushdie and John Bolton as, “No less than surrender.”

It’s as we said on Monday: Whenever a politician or bureaucrat enacts a policy or makes a decision which leaves you scratching your head, just follow the money!!!

(2). FOX reports a Canadian armed forces veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was offered assisted suicide as an option by an employee of Veterans Affairs Canada.

(3). Of course he is; Can’t have anything to do with the likelihood Republicans will be taking back the House.  Here’s the juice: NOTHING Faux Chi may have done prior to the scamdemic can make up for the incalculable pain and loss he inflicted on the country during it, which includes having funded the WuFlu’s development in the first place.

(4). Andy McCarthy suggests Trump would be well-advised to tone down his rhetoric, as he may be playing into the hands of DOJ officials just begging to prosecute him.  Unfortunately, as has so often proved to be the case in the past, wisdom offered to The Donald is akin to pearls cast before swine.

(5). Courtesy of Marcus Aurelius, Car & Driver informs us how towing affects EV pickups, as towing a trailer might be easy, but it kills range fast:

“These new electric pickups are wonderful towing companions, aided by massive horsepower and torque that allow for easy merging with the flow of interstate traffic, and their heavy curb weights (between 6855 pounds for the F-150 and 9640 pounds for the Hummer) lend an impressive stability when lugging a three-ton trailer. But you won’t want to be going far, as a full battery will take you a mere 100 miles in the Lightning, 110 miles in the R1T, and 140 miles in the Hummer. Although the Hummer consumes electricity at the highest rate of the three, its considerably larger battery pack more than makes up for the difference.“

But hey, who would want to tow a trailer more than 100-140 miles!

(6). In a related item from FOX Business forwarded by the Nickel, coming soon to the banks in a country very close to you…if Progressives have their way.  After all, they’ve tried it with gun manufacturers; why not internal combustion engines?

(7). And they’ve announced the winner for the Rocket Surgeon of the Week: Nina Turner, a Progressive activist who displayed an abysmal understanding of the source of all government funding:

And to think, as The Washington Free Beacon‘s Chuck Ross quipped, “this lady was within 33 points of winning her House primary.” 

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from the lovely Shannon…

…Balls…

…and The Patriot Post:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as we learn the…

Suspect in Seattle senior citizen’s beating death was released by judge days prior

“…An officer witnessed the murderous broad daylight beating happening just after 2 p.m. near 3rd Avenue and Pike Street. Seattle police said officers took the suspect into custody and began first aid on the victim. Seattle Fire medics took over treatment and rushed the senior citizen to Harborview Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries without ever regaining consciousness four days later. 

The charge was then upgraded to first-degree murder, and Fulk pleaded not guilty on Thursday.  

Fulk, who has prior assault convictions in Idaho, was released from Pierce County Jail – located just about and hour’s drive south of Seattle – just eight days before the deadly unprovoked attack. 

The Seattle Times reported that Fulk had been released on his own recognizance after being charged with felony harassment in July for allegedly threatening to kill a transit security officer in Tacoma, Washington. Pierce County prosecutors requested that he be held on $10,000 bail, but Judge Phillip Thornton released him without bail and ordered him not to commit any crimes…”

Maybe if Judge Thornton had said “pretty please”?!?  This jurist is either incredibly naive, or maliciously malevolent.

Magoo

P.S. Just a heads-up, come Saturday we’re heading to Montana for a week of quality time with TLJ, so it’s likely we won’t broadcast again until Monday September 4th, though we might squeeze in an edition over the Labor Day weekend.  In any event, ’til then…

Video of the Day

We’re shocked…SHOCKED…to learn monkeypox is effectively an STD! Go figure!!!

Tales of The Darkside

Ben Shapiro provides some heretofore sparsely disseminated history on the giant loser currently kicking the sorry Donald-endorsed, carpetbagging a*s of Dr. Oz!

On the Lighter Side

Run, Ron, RUN!!!