It’s Monday, January 4th, 2021…but before we begin, we’d appreciate you joining us in prayer for our good friend Doug Trogdon who’ll be undergoing cancer surgery this morning: skill and guidance for the surgeons, healing for Doug. He’s already licked it once, but it’s returned in a more serious form requiring a 7-1/2 hour procedure, and he can use every bit of divine assistance which can be brought to bear.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the first full week of January 2021 with the MSM bias…WHAT bias?!? segment, as, in a forward from James Nichols, we learn how…
“It should not be this easy for a conspiracy theory to make its way into the pages of the most powerful newspaper in the United States.Yet it is.
The New York Times this week promoted a deranged, easily debunked rumor that President Trump’s Oct. 8video address to senior citizenswas shot inside a studio and digitally manipulated to make it appear as if it was recorded on the White House lawn.
The paper then stealth-edited the article to remove its initial attempt to legitimize this bizarre rumor. There is no editor’s note explaining the changes.And don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology or even a concession from the New York Times.In fact, the way things are going over there, the since-amended report will probably win a Pulitzer Prize.
The White House released Trump’s address to senior citizens at 1:13 pm on Oct. 8.
Political commentators, including MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, and other assorted anti-Trump “resistance” types, immediately pounced, claiming the footage obviously was shot in front of a green screen. The White House, their conspiracy theory-mongering suggested, is trying to make Trump, who was diagnosed last week with COVID-19, appear healthier and peppier than he really is.
But Trump clearly appeared in-person on the White House lawn, said multiple individuals with knowledge of audio and video editing…”
The truth being evidenced by The Times deep-sixing its initial report with no explanation. This comes as no surprise considering the way the MSM lauded any and every aspect of Groper Joe’s behavior…
…and criticized anything The Donald did…notwithstanding the fact, as Stilton Jarlsberg recorded…
…Trump was often his own worst enemy.
Next, courtesy of the Claremont Institute’s American Mind via Speed Mach, Peachy Keenan not only suggests the winners for a number of appropriate 2020 awards, but some…
My 74 million new friends, that is. They can’t kill or cancel us all, but they’ll try. Make no mistake, if they could press a button and vaporize us to the last breeding pair, they would not hesitate. In my former corporate stooge day jobs, many a normie lib would confide their wish that flyover people would “just die already.” This is commonly discussed at their homes; you know, the houses with the “We believe in kindness” signs on the lawns. They absolutely hate you and do not want your unity, only your terrified silence. But our massive size is our strength.
They’re gonna need a bigger virus…
And Now, Some Awards
It wouldn’t be an end-of-the-year article without awards. Here are just a few, just for fun…”
Fun they are, and well worth your time.
In two related items, Townhall.com‘s Scott Morefield recounts…
“It’s official: 2020 was the worst year ever, except for almost all the other years in human history! Will 2021 be a better year? Take a look at the Babylon Bee’s official list of infallible predictions for next year and decide for yourself!…”
Turning from the infallible to all-too imperfect, as all those he’s offered to date have only highlighted his own incompetence, Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman recommends Fredo’s older brother Sonny…
Politicians and media pundits have often blamed the population density of New York City for the country’s highest per capita Covid death tolls in New Jersey and New York. Now they need to explain the slow pace of vaccinations.
Around two out of every thousand people in New York and New Jersey have died with Covid this year, roughly double the rate in Florida and Texas. By placing strict limits on individual liberty while also failing to prioritize the protection of the elderly, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D.) has achieved the ignominy of presiding over both the highest per capita Covid death rate and the nation’s highest unemployment rate.
It’s a remarkable occurrence that New Jersey joblessness exceeds even the pain in states like Hawaii and Nevada which rely heavily on the hospitality and travel industries. New Jersey’s unemployment rate is also much higher than Florida’s. Across the Hudson River from the Garden State, New York’s grim stats have been almost as awful as New Jersey’s. Maybe it’s all about the highly populated metro area.
One might assume that population density would be more help than hindrance in a vaccination campaign, but according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control, New Jersey and New York have barely been able to climb to the level of mediocrity.
The vaccination effort has only recently begun and perhaps reporting lags around the holidays are obscuring the full story. But so far the national leader in administering Covid vaccinations is West Virginia. Perhaps Mr. Murphy and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) can learn from the Mountain State example.
WAJR radio reports from Morgantown:
Officials now say the first round of the two-part COVID-19 vaccine has been administered at all 214 nursing homes and long term care facilities.
Director of Professional Regulatory Affairs for the West Virginia Pharmacy Board and associate professor of pharmacy at WVU, Krista Capehart coordinated the effort. On MetroNews Talkline Capehart said it was a monumental effort, but one the medical community in the state was prepared to execute.
“It’s been a tremendous effort- team work, setting up the infrastructure and the framework to be able to do this,” West Virginia really is a close knit community.”
Under the West Virginia model, the two week wait period following authorization was used to energize and prepare the network of people to get the job done before some states have even started the process.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph has more good news. “On Jan. 19, all elementary and middle school students can return to school five days a week,” reports Charles Boothe, who reports on a press conference held by Gov. Jim Justice (R., W.Va.):
“We have got to get our kids back in school,” he said, adding that students are safer in schools because COVID transmission rates are extremely low among students, especially those under 15 years old.
Justice said virtual learning has been tried and does not work…
“The research shows it is safe to restore the in-person learning model for parents that chose this option for the children,” [State Superintendent of Schools Clayton] Burch said. “We also know students are suffering because of the lack of in-person instruction…student social and emotional well-being has suffered, and one-third of our students have received failing grades in at least one core subject area. We simply have to get our students back in school, in-person…There is no substitute for engaging students in person.”
When key mitigation strategies are followed, it is safe for them to be in school, he added, and much more is now known about the virus than when the pandemic began.
Burch said Justice understands that the school safety data is “undeniable,” referring to studies in the nation as well as in other countries.
Compared with New Jersey and New York, the governance of West Virginia seems almost like heaven.
Proof that a store-bought smile doesn’t convey effectiveness.
Since we’re on the subject of Socialist hypocrisy and ineptitude…
More likely it’s a complete lack of evidence, and they need more time to come up with a narrative…or “event”…to absolve themselves and George Floyd of any responsibility for this manufactured fiasco.
And in the EnvironMental Moment, courtesy today of Ed Hickey and Real Clear Energy, third-generation auto dealer Jeff Pohanka highlights…
“…EVs starttheir lives with a larger carbon footprint than gasoline vehicles. Another question is how these batteries will be charged, since electricity mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources such as coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy. Some speculate that EV costs will decline with mass production, and that battery-charging times will be reduced with newer technologies. If this does not occur, then affordability, lack of range, and charging times will be major handicaps.
Besides the extra cost to purchase an EV and the larger carbon footprint, the greatest drawback by far will be what to do with all those hours spent waiting while one’s car is charging.“
Given the wait times Mr. Pohanka’s experienced, we’d recommend some light reading…like War and Peace!
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these two from our eldest son Jon…
…along with this string of humor from Breeze Gould…
…as well as this single from Speed Mach:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy of a recently-deceased Minnesotan of Somalian descent:
Fast-forward to the 43-second mark for the actual incident.
“The Minneapolis Police Department on Thursday released body camera footage of the shooting death of Dolal Idd, the first police killing since George Floyd died during an encounter with officers in May. Idd’s father, Bayle Gelle, of Eden Prairie, identified his 23-year-old son as the man shot Wednesday evening at a gas station during a traffic stop for a felony warrant, the Star Tribune reported.
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said witnesses reported the Idd fired first. Body camera footage from one officer’s point of view shows the driver of a white sedan attempting to flee. The motorist collides with a squad car as an officer points a weapon at the vehicle and screams, “Hands up, police!”
…Gelle told the newspaper his son was the motorist killed by police. “The police, they are brutality,” he said.
…Online court records showed a string of minor traffic charges against Idd, a felony theft conviction in 2018 and a felony drug conviction in 2017…The records also included a misdemeanor conviction in 2019 for carrying a pistol in a public place. The Star Tribune reported that charges in the case said Idd fired a gun in the basement shower of his parents’ home in suburban Eden Prairie with two children sleeping nearby. Idd, a Somali-American, was later arrested with a handgun that had been reported stolen in North Dakota…”
Yes, but…”the police, they are brutality”. Sorry, pal:
Better yet, go back and sell it in Somalia.
Magoo
The Video of the Day
With their usual 20/20 vision and irreverent brand of humor, the Hodge Twins call it as they see it.
Tales of The Darkside
One honestly has to wonder why Ron Johnson would appear on Chuck Todd’s show: no one who supports him watches it, and he’s never going to change the views of those who do. Like Groper Joe, Chuck’s a really nice guy…as long as you don’t call him out for his lies and misrepresentations.
On the Lighter Side
Courtesy of G. Trevor, two Croatian cellists provide something they aren’t quite ready for, but that their offspring eventually LOVE!
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