It’s Wednesday, March 1st, 2023…but before we begin, coming on the heels of school administrators county-wide refusing to release National Merit Scholarship awards in time for inclusion in early admission materials, the deliberate deception or unforgivable ignorance of this member of the school board is proof positive you’ve have to be crazy…or have no interest whatsoever in your child’s future…to keep them in the Fairfax County, VA public school system:
“…School board member Abrar Omeish was discussing the Day of Remembrance – an observance day for victims of Japanese-American internment during World War II. The day coincides with the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima, which was on February 19, 1945.
“Just a few days ago was Japanese Day of Remembrance,” Omeish said during the meeting. “Something for us to certainly reflect on… the days when, you know, Iwo Jima unfortunately happened and set a record for really what, I hate to say, human evil is capable of.” The Battle of Iwo Jima – which lasted from February 19 to March 26 – was a significant victory for the U.S. during World War II. Nearly 7,000 American service-members lost their lives while trying to capture the island from imperial Japan.
It is unclear why Omeish said the battle was an example of human evil. Omeish did not acknowledge any error in what she said in a statement after her remarks. “There is no reason to warp what was said and reading more into it merely reflects biases forced in by the listener,” Omeish said to The Washington Free Beacon.
The 28-year-old school board member has made controversial statements in the past. A Fairfax County parent said that she upset Jewish parents by referring to Israel as an apartheid state. “This caused huge outrage among over 250,000 Jewish Americans here in Northern Virginia and it sparked outrage across all political lines and there were calls for her to apologize. She offered no apology. She doubled down on it,” parent Gary Aiken told “Fox & Friends First” last year.
Omeish also delivered a politically-charged speech to Justice High School students in 2021, warning them that they were entering an unfair capitalist world. “Our world is overwhelmed with need. We struggle with human greed, racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, White supremacy, growing wealth gaps, disease, climate crisis, extreme poverty amid luxury and waste right next door. And the list goes on,” Omeish said.“
Perhaps the fact Omeish is herselfa product of this same public school system explains her ignorance, so we’ll help her calibrate her sense of evil. THIS…
…is EVIL, while THIS…
…is divine retribution! And if you can’t tell the difference, you shouldn’t be in any position of power or authority, let alone one responsible for molding impressionable minds. What’s next…Holocaust denial?!?
“Last night, it wasn’t hard to find random people on Twitter dismissing the Department of Energy laboratory report in the Wall Street Journal and insisting, “That department has no expertise whatsoever.”
Why would the U.S. Department of Energy be weighing in on an investigation into the origins of Covid-19? The short answer is because the Energy Department has a special division that, as part of its mission to track and mitigate the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, specializes in the study of biological weapons such as viruses.
There are a lot of first-rate research institutions in the United States, but no one would dispute that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the biggest of the big-time…
But hey, what would the U.S. Department of Energy know about researching the origin of a virus, huh?
…In partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Livermore Labs developed the Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information System, which was used in Salt Lake City, Utah, as part of security at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games — the system “operated for 35 days at sports venues, urban areas and transportation hubs. In all, 2,200 air samples were analyzed.”
In other words, when there’s a suspected threat of biological weapons — bacterial, viral, or other infectious pathogens — the U.S. government calls Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. And when the U.S. government needs answers and the rest of the intelligence community is stumped, it calls Z Division. The Division’s assessments are not to be ignored, dismissed, or hand-waved away. (You know, like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction!)
And yes, Z Division’s conclusion is of “low confidence,” meaning it’s only leaning a little in the direction of a lab leak. But clearly, it has encountered something new that prompted it to reevaluate its conclusions and shifted its thinking — and whatever that “something new” is, it’s probably extremely significant; Z Division doesn’t change its mind willy-nilly or on a vague hunch.
Some people whose understanding of what the U.S. Department of Energy does is limited to watching the series Stranger Things will tell you that “that department has no expertise whatsoever.” Now you know better.“
Frankly, we’re thankful at least one piece of a federal bureaucracy that is all too often monolithically Sino-subservient is willing to call a spade a spade, or in this case, a product of a lab in Wuhan, China funded, at least in part, by Dr. Faux Chi a product of a lab in Wuhan, China funded, at least in part, by Dr. Faux Chi.
“TheWall Street Journal revealed on Sunday that the U.S. Department of Energy has joined the FBI in concluding that the virus that exploded out of China in early 2020, inaugurating the worst global public-health crisis in a century and taking millions of lives with it, “most likely” originated in a Chinese virology lab. Other investigatory bodies looking into the virus’s origins don’t yet all agree, and the Energy Department added the caveat that it had “low confidence” in its own assessment. But “low confidence” is more than no confidence. Even this modest dispensation represents an indictment of the expert classes, who wielded all the social pressure at their disposal to cajole the nation into dismissing the lab-leak theory early and with prejudice.
Those who lent credence to the theory and were subjected to the dominant culture’s bottomless capacity for condescension as a result will be tempted to take a victory lap. And, you know what? They should! The story of the theory’s rise, fall, and rise again is a story of how too many abused their positions of authority to wage a conflict over cultural values under the guise of dispassionate empiricism. Anathematizing the lab-leak hypothesis was just the latest avenue through which they could impeach political actors they didn’t like.
…In February 2021, Facebook lifted an arbitrary ban it had imposed on posts that included “false claims about Covid-19,” including the notion that the virus was “man-made or manufactured.” The decision was attributed to the “evolving nature of the pandemic,” but the pandemic had not actually evolved at all. What had evolved was the conventional wisdom. At the same time, Facebook reportedly tightened the regime restricting users’ ability to post “content that has been rated false,” or at least has yet to be deemed true. It didn’t seem to occur to anyone that the biases shared by those who “rate” relative factuality might extend beyond epidemiology. And in Facebook’s defense, ABC News absent-mindedly admitted, “the claims [sic] that the virus came from the lab was one often pushed by former President Donald Trump, though he never provided evidence.” Enough said.
In what must have been a painful concession in September 2021, science historian Naomi Oreskes admitted that the “lab-leak theory is plausible.” But even so, she qualified her mea culpa by calling “some of the people promoting the claim” — and Donald Trump, in particular — “irrational.” “We all judge messages by the messenger,” this distinguished voice in the field of science journalism let slip. Even the center-left columnist Jonathan Chait, who had been brave enough to buck the social pressures culminating in a consensus around the virtue of censorship, justified his colleagues’ prejudicial impulses after the fact, writing that the “idiotic conformity of the right’s pseudo-journalistic apparatus” had essentially incepted in the Left an equal and opposite reaction to its “propaganda.”
The Energy Department’s conclusions about the virus’s origins are occasioning even more admissions against the Left’s interest. Author and CNN contributor Jill Filipovic rationalized the conduct of her ideological allies by noting that Donald Trump’s bigotries “put liberals understandably on the defense against any theory that seemed to blame China for Covid.” MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan stated this proposition with even more self-confidence. “The simple reason why so many people weren’t keen to discuss the ‘lab leak’ theory is because it was originally conflated by the right with ‘Chinese bioweapon’ conspiracies and continues to be conflated by the right with anti-Fauci conspiracies,” he wrote. “Blame the conspiracy theorists.”
What Hasan is missing is that heis the conspiracy theorist here. Advocates of the lab-leak theory’s suppression constructed an elaborate narrative in which the propagators of this thesis were actively radicalizing their impressionable audiences. They convinced themselves that even discussing the possibility that the theory might be true had the power to destabilize the global geopolitical environment and produce an army of potentially violent racists. You don’t often see genuine scholars indulge the hyperventilating apoplexy to which those who tried to throttle the nascent lab-leak theory in its crib so often appealed. But you do frequently see those who prosecute the culture wars indulge it — and the prosecution of the culture wars is all this enterprise ever was.“
Any questions?!? Here’s Jesse Watters thought on the matter:
It’s worth noting Jesse fails to mention it was The Donald standing behind Faux Chi nodding as the diminutive dissimulator propagated his Progressive propaganda.
““Covid tracing is a scientific issue that should not be politicized,” Mao Ning, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman, said in response to the finding, according to the New York Times. Ning also called on the U.S. to “stop defaming China” by raising the lab-leak theory.“
Though such a response from the ChiComs comes as no surprise, what’s truly shocking is the fact…
“The Biden administration remains supportive of gain-of-function research despite the potential risks as long as that research is pursued in a safe and transparent manner, national security council communications coordinator John Kirby explained on Monday.
The controversial practice involves making pathogens more deadly or transmissible in order to better understand current or future pandemics, and thus be able to respond faster. Funding for the research was halted in 2014 during the Obama administration due to concerns about the risks: If modified pathogens escape the laboratory setting, they can cause pandemics.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) lifted that funding pause three years later after the creation of an oversight framework. In 2021, it emerged that U.S. taxpayers had funded research into bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through an intermediary — that is, EcoHealth Alliance. The news gained new relevance last week after the Energy Department’s conclusionthat the lab-leak theory of Covid’s origins is probable.
Asked by White House reporter Philip Wegmann if the rewards of gain-of-function research outweigh the risks, Kirby expressed continued support for the practice. “[The president] believes that [the research is] important to help prevent future pandemics, which means he understands that there has to be legitimate scientific research into…the potential sources of pandemics so that we understand [them] and so we can prevent them from happening,” Kirby said.
“But he also believes…that that research has to be done, must be done in a safe and secure manner,” Kirby explained, adding that transparency is key…”
To borrow a phrase from Cordell Hull, in all our 67 years of life, we’ve never heard a statement more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions – on a scale so huge that we never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.
Let’s be clear precisely how what John Kirby represents is completely contrary to what went down:
(i). Dr. Faux Chi and the NIH funneled funds to the ChiComs through EcoHealth Alliance for this incredibly dangerous work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, whose safeguards and security standards the State Department, operating under the “oversight framework”, repeatedly reported as grossly deficient. So much for the oversight framework!
(ii). A virus resulting from research these parties funded was somehow released, either accidentally or deliberately, from the WIV, quickly spreading around the globe. So much for safety!
(iii). The ChiComs, as concerned with safety as the designers of an RMBK nuclear reactor, were as transparent about the origins of the virus as Hillary Clinton under oath. So much for transparency!
In summary, taxpayer funding for incredibly dangerous research was provided to a virology lab with sub-standard safety and security protocols run by a hostile government under an oversight framework whose findings were ignored. And yet, inexplicably, the Biden clown car advocates continuing the practice!!! Hey, what could go wrong?!?
When one considers he’s promoting research that just produced a virus which killed millions and almost destroyed the world economy, while at the same time doing whatever he can to eliminate fossil and nuclear energy production, the benefits of both which monumentally outweigh their risks, Biden’s policy is particularly galling.
Like Joe Biden, this evil, power-hungry bureaucrat has been covering for the ChiComs since the WuFlu scamdemic started, often telling deliberate lies while never informing America of the truth.
Like their father the Devil, the truth is in neither of them, and Americans should never trust a word either of them says.
Moving on, here’s a septet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
(2). In a rare instance of sanity in a world of Liberal lunacy, five of the Progressive mayoral hopefuls in Denver are vowing to involuntarily commit or arrest people living on the streets if they won’t go to a sanctioned location or treatment center. Former Denver chamber leader Kelly Brough stated in a recent debate, “As mayor, you still have an obligation to keep everyone safe. So if somebody can’t (or, as is far more likely, WON’T!!!) make that decision for themselves, based on mental health or addiction issues, I still think we have an obligation as government to make it for them.”
Talk about a radical concept: recognizing and protecting the rights of everyone, not just emanations from Progressive penumbras granting the drug-addicted and psychologically-impaired the freedom to litter the streets with trash, needles and human excrement while materially adversely impacting the very existence of local residents and businesses.
(7). LeBron James is expected to be absent from the most boring professional sport on the planet for an “extended period of time” due to a foot injury. Reports LeBron’s foot bore traces of his own saliva and teeth marks remain unconfirmed.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…
…and the lovely Shannon:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and an update on the 17-year-old, 6’7″, 270-lb. “special needs” kid who attacked the teacher’s aid:
“…Officials say the physical altercation between a 17-year-old student and teacher’s aide happened on Feb. 21 when the teacher’s aide took away the student’s Nintendo Switch during class time.The student is being charged as an adult and faces one felony count of aggravated battery on an elected official or education employee, according to FOX 35, adding that he’s in jail being held on a $1 million bond…”
Here’s the juice: Had this assault occurred in New York, California or some other bastion of woke Progressivism, the student’s skin color alone would have had him back in class the next day, along with the teacher’s aid offering a heartfelt apology and her promise never to take his Nintendo away ever again.
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Video of the Day
John Stossel highlights the destructive and costly impact of the Jones Act. Two things to note: The Donald’s response and what is perhaps the most obnoxious female we’ve ever encountered…outside of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary, Randi Weingarten, Moochie and Mad Maxine. Okay, AND Shirley Jackson Lee!
Tales of The Darkside
Tucker calls both the U.S. and ChiCom governments to account for their patent COVID prevarications.
On the Lighter Side
As contributor Nick observed, we got rid of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and the Land ‘o Lakes Indian maiden for two demented deviants. Heretofore Cheezits have always been our go-to snack food, our single greatness dietary weakness; so thanks, Kelloggs, you just saved us a boatload of money and 10 lbs. of unneeded weight.
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