It’s Friday, October 22nd, 2021…but before we begin, while a recent Quinnipiac poll spells trouble for 46*…

…The Donald fared only slightly better, with 39% of Americans saying they have a favorable opinion of him, up a mere 2% from last May.  Voters’ viewed Congress even less favorably, with only 23% of Americans approving of Republican lawmakers and 30% of Dimocrats.

Without wishing Trump any ill, we’ve no doubt the country would benefit greatly from him passing the torch, either by choice or some unforeseen circumstance…like a Mack truck.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, in keeping with the theme of our Quote of the Day and courtesy of Speed, another picture worth far more than a measly thousand words, exemplifying as it does the utter moral bankruptcy and depravity of the current Administration:

In a related item, courtesy of Patriot Post via White House Dossier, Dennis Prager correctly concludes…

The Left Is Evil — And Liberals Keep Voting for Them

The fate of America and the West lies largely in the hands of liberals.

 

“As I have noted repeatedly, liberalism and leftism have virtually nothing in common. In fact, leftism is the enemy of liberalism — as a handful of liberals such as former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, former Young Turk Dave Rubin and others have come to recognize.

The Left has never believed in free speech and has suppressed dissent wherever it has assumed power. Free speech is a pillar of liberalism, and it has always embraced dissent.

The Left rejects the anti-racist ideal of colorblindness. Colorblind is the liberal racial ideal.

The Left supports racial segregation — such as all-black dorms and separate black graduations. Liberals have always advocated racial integration.

The Left has always loathed capitalism. Liberals were always major advocates of capitalism — recognizing that only capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty.

The Left has always been anti-Israel. Liberals have always been fervent supporters of Israel.

The Left has always held America in contempt. Liberals loved this country. A liberal wrote “God Bless America.” No leftist would write such a song.

Leftists want to defund the police. No liberal does.

The list of liberal-Left differences is as long as the list of left-wing positions. Yet, it is liberals who keep the Left in power. Were it not for the liberal vote, the Left would have no power.

Why do liberals vote Left? Why do liberals vote for those who have contempt for virtually everything they, the liberals, hold dear? The question is all the more apt given that it is conservatives who protect virtually every liberal value. It is conservatives who seek to preserve free speech, racial integration, love of America, a strong Israel and capitalism.

So why do liberals vote for the Left, for the very people who hold liberals and their values in contempt? There are two primary reasons.

One is brainwashing. Liberals are brainwashed from childhood into believing that the right is their enemy and that “pas d’ennemis a gauche” (there are “no enemies on the left”). That is why there is no left-wing position, no matter how destructive or vile, that could move a liberal to vote Republican or identify with conservatives.

The second reason is fear. Liberals fear they will lose friends and even family if they do not vote Democrat or if they publicly criticize the Left. And this is not an irrational fear.

America and the West are being destroyed by the Left. But this destruction of the universities, the high schools, art and music, journalism and freedom itself could not take place were it not for liberals. The fate of America and the West lies largely in the hands of liberals. There are simply not enough leftists to destroy our most revered institutions. They need liberals to serve as fellow travelers to accomplish their ends.

Should the American experiment fail, and it may, that profile in lack of courage, the liberal, will have made it possible.“

As the story goes…

Keep in mind, they’re offering to steal YOUR money to keep YOU and YOUR PROGENY in PERPETUAL SERVITUDE!!!

Next, in a forward from FOX News via George Lawlor, we learn a…

Navy probe reveals the failures that fueled arson fire and destroyed USS Bonhomme Richard

 

“A Navy report has concluded there were sweeping failures by commanders, crew members and others that fueled the July 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard, calling the massive five-day blaze in San Diego preventable and unacceptable. 

While one sailor has been charged with setting the fire, the more than 400-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, lists three dozen officers and sailors whose failings either directly led to the ship’s loss or contributed to it. The findings detailed widespread lapses in training, coordination, communication, fire preparedness, equipment maintenance and overall command and control. 

“Although the fire was started by an act of arson, the ship was lost due to an inability to extinguish the fire,” the report said, concluding that “repeated failures” by an “inadequately prepared crew” delivered “an ineffective fire response.”…”

Exactly HOW inadequately the crew was trained and prepared is evidenced by this paragraph further on in the article:

“Sailors also failed to push the button and activate the firefighting foam system, even though it was accessible and could have slowed the fire’s progress. “No member of the crew interviewed considered this action or had specific knowledge as to the location of the button or its function,” the report said.“

But at least they were up to speed on their gender pronouns, sexual harassment guidelines and diversity training!  Hey, $5 billion here, $5 billion there…

…it’s not like we’re pissing away the family funds of the Biden criminal cartel.

Speaking of criminals, writing at NRO, Caroline Downey notes the…

NIH Admits to Funding Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan, Says EcoHealth Violated Reporting Requirements

 

“A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S. taxpayers funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan and revealed that EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. non-profit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing.

In the letter to Representative James Comer (R., Ky.), Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH cites a “limited experiment” that was conducted to test if “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” The laboratory mice infected with the modified bat virus “became sicker” than those infected with the unmodified bat virus.

The revelation vindicates Republican senator Rand Paul, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over the gain-of-function question. At the second hearing, Paul accused Fauci of misleading Congress by denying that the U.S. had funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Gain-of-function research involves extracting viruses from animals and artificially engineering them in a laboratory to make them more transmissible or deadly to humans. In keeping with Fauci’s refusal to use “gain-of-function,” Tabak avoids the term, though the work he described matches its commonplace definition precisely.

A previously unpublished EcoHealth grant proposal filed with NIAID, obtained by The Intercept, had already exposed that $599,000 of the total grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology was for research designed to make viruses more dangerous and/or infectious.

Dr. Richard Ebright, biosafety expert and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, had previously rebutted Fauci’s claim that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV]” as “demonstrably false.” Ebright told National Review that the NIH-financed work at the WIV “epitomizes” the definition of gain-of-function research, which deals with “enhanced potential pandemic pathogen (PPP)” or those pathogens “resulting from the enhancement of the transmissibility and/or virulence of a pathogen.”

In addition to his admission that gain-of-function research was being conducted with NIH money, Tabak also revealed that EcoHealth failed to comply with its reporting responsibilities under the grant. EcoHealth was required to submit to a “secondary review” in the event of certain developments that might increase the danger associated with the research. So, when Wuhan researchers successfully bound a natural bat coronavirus to a human AC2 receptor in mice, they were supposed to inform the NIH, but they didn’t.

Eco Health now has five days, according to Tabak, to submit to NIH “any and all unpublished data” relating to this award’s project for compliance purposes…”

Keep in mind, Faux Chi was the arrogant ass who, back in 2012, justified funding gain-of-function research in a substandard lab facility run by America’s greatest global foe by saying, “Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

Now, with the blood of some 5,000,000 dead worldwide on his hands, it’s more than passing curious none of the MSM talking heads constantly interviewing him have ever asked the good doctor:

The real question is why Faux Chi isn’t in jail, let alone still gainfully employed in a position of trust?!?

Here’s the juice:

We for one are never going to give in to the bastages.

Turning from the dark, politicized aspect of medicine to the brighter side, FOX reports a...

Pig kidney transplant has successfully been tested on deceased woman

 

“A pig kidney was successfully tested on a dead patient (Yeah, we had to read that little factoid twice as well.) at a hospital in New York last month for the first time without being immediately rejected. “It had absolutely normal function,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the surgical team at NYU Langone Health. “It didn’t have this immediate rejection that we have worried about.”  While pig organs are similar to human ones, a sugar in pig cells triggers organ rejection.

The pig came from Revivicor, a biotech company that engineers the animals to edit out the sugar gene. The company has a herd of 100 pigs at a facility in Iowa. 

Researchers have turned to pigs to help with the kidney donor shortage.  Around 12 patients die a day waiting for a kidney…”

Amazing, simply amazing.

Earlier reports the kidney had come from a hog…

…rather than a pig…

…proved inaccurate.

Moving on, here’s an even dozen interesting items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). NRO tells us the Border Patrol detained more than 1.7 million illegal immigrants at the southern border during the 2021 fiscal year that ended in September as arrests surged to the highest levels since 1986.

(2). In a related item forwarded by Niel Beggy, BPR reports Ted Cruz has introduced legislation establishing 13 new ports of entry in Democrat-run cities across the country in response to the “unprecedented man-made crisis on the South Texas border.”  “The 13 ports proposed by Cruz include Martha’s Vineyard, along with Cambridge and Nantucket, Mass. Other liberal North Eastern towns listed are North Hero, Vt., Newport and Block Island, R.I., Greenwich, Conn., Rehoboth Beach, Del. In the state of New York, Governors Island and Scarsdale are included. Palo Alto, California, is also listed, along with Yountville and St. Helena.”

(3). As this video courtesy of White House Dossier relates, 46*’s spending binge won’t cost anything because Jen Psaki says it won’t:

(4). All the while Raphael Warnock has been advocating for gun control and the defunding of law enforcement, he’s spent over $600,000 of campaign contributions on private security for his worthless a*s.

(5). Is there even one Dimocrat who can field tough questions?!?

(6). Is there anyone in the federal medical establishment willing to tell the truth?!?  It’s another “forever war”, folks, and you, common sense and our constitutional freedoms are their enemies.

(7). Is there anyone in the education establishment with a lick of sense?!?  What we’re witnessing with these threatened terminations over a refusal to take the Wuhan vaccine is the ultimate “what have you done for me lately?”

(8). Meanwhile, the Journal‘s Kim Strassel suggests Terry McAuliffe’s rare moment of honesty should prove a gift to the GOP in 2022, as, win or lose, he has shown the potency of education as an issue.  And from allowing boys in the girls restrooms to CRT, eliminating gifted and talented programs to race-based performance adjustments, Dimocrats are on the losing side of every education issue.

(9). Case in point, as NRO just released news the National School Board Association communicated with the White House BEFORE releasing a letter requesting federal intervention to investigate whether alleged threats leveled by parents against school-board members qualify as domestic terrorism under the Patriot Act:

“Email correspondence obtained by nonprofit Parents Defending Education and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon shows that White House officials coordinated with the NSBA to iron out the details of the letter before it was officially published.”

(10). Since we’re on the subject of Socialist tyrants, though we stopped watching the NBA some 15 years ago, our hat’s off to the Celtic’s Enes Kanter for tweeting Xi Jinping for what he is: a “brutal dictator.”  It was no surprise when, shortly thereafter, highlights from the Celtics’ game against the Knicks were made unavailable on the Tencent Sports app primarily used in China to stream NBA games.  Hey, has to be a coincidence.

(11). In a forward from Jeff Foutch, the Manhattan Contrarian records New York Times threatens Joe Manchin and his West Virginia constituents with witchcraft if he obstructs the Dimocrats’ “climate” agenda.

(12). Best of the Web suggests we reexamine who’s calling for family leave subsidies.  In all seriousness, if you can’t survive on $100,000,000 without taxpayer subsidies…

…maybe Dimocrats really do have a marketing problem.

Here’s the juice: They’re not the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.  Rather they’re…

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

Then there’s these from Balls Cotton…

…Brenda Berry…

…and our incredibly hot sister-in-law Jackie:

Finally, we’ll call it a week with another titillating tale torn from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as we learn from the WSJ crime actually does pay, particularly in this case:

Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Gets $200 Million Bounty for Tip on Libor Misconduct

 

Ach du liebe: We knew we should have gone into banking!  This reminds us of a rather disingenuous admonition from Michael Keaton in Johnny Dangerously: 

Magoo

P.S. Please continue to pray for Stilton Jarlsberg’s wife Kathy, who’s now home from her hospitalization for initial leukemia treatment.  She’s on the mend, but still facing a long, tough road, and we know Stilt covets your prayers.

Video of the Day

Listen as 46* tells a totally debunked story about an Amtrak worker for the FIFTH time as president. Biden says the conversation took place “7 years into” his vice presidency, which would be 2015. The subject of the story retired in 1993 and passed away in 2014. The man lies but once, and that continually.

Tales of The Darkside

Tucker takes us back to the day America changed.

On the Lighter Side

A rather humorous 911 which New Zealand police correctly classified as “too cute not to share.”