“Big U.S. companies are taking a range of approaches to dealing with employee requests for a religious exemption to Covid-19 vaccine mandates, according to internal documents viewed byThe Wall Street Journal.
Employees at General Electric Co. who seek a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate are asked to answer 13 questions, including whether their religious beliefs prevent them from wearing seat belts or taking Tylenol.Workers at Tyson Foods Inc. requesting the same accommodation sign a two-question form.
Employers say they are trying to meet federal requirements and protect their workers by getting them inoculated.Companies are weighing factors such as privacy issues and religious beliefs as they try to identify workers who are attempting to avoid the vaccine for other reasons.Some workers at companies that ask more questions say they feel the protocols were designed to discourage them from seeking a religious exemption.
The more detailed questionnaires, some experts say, reflect a view among employers that vaccine accommodations should be rare, and reserved for people who apply their religious beliefs in other decisions and behaviors as well…”
The Journal goes on to list examples of questions asked on the more detailed questionnaires, some of which are 31-questions long:
— how long have you had your religious beliefs;
— do you have any tattoos or body piercings;
— do you eat foods that contain preservatives or chemicals;
— do you take common medications, such as Tylenol, Tums, or Motrin, which reportedly used fetal cell lines during research, testing and development;
— “Is your request based on a belief that vaccines violate religious teachings that say ‘the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit’ or is your religious belief based on faith healing?”
Forgetting for the moment no one should be forced to put anything in their body in a country which permits the removal of the unborn, Mrs. Koffler, who knows of what she speaks, having experienced the beneficent rule of Socialists in a prior life, states:
This is perhaps the scariest article I’ve read recently. Remember this year, my fellow Americans — 2021 is the year when America stepped firmly on the path of totalitarianism.32 years after, upon my Mom’s guidance and dream, I fled the totalitarian socialist USSR and came to America, the land of freedom, liberty, and justice.
If this recent step doesn’t wake up Americans to US government’s atrocious Soviet tactics and ambitions to establish total government control in America, the way that the Soviet Politburo did, I don’t know what will.
Neither do we, Rebekah, neither do we. That this scamdemic is still even newsworthy speaks volumes about how desperate Progressives and their MSM shills are to maintain the power its given them through the next couple election cycles, as it’s the only way they can win.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, in a forward from Bill Meisen the Daily Caller offers…
“NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd laid out a recent poll Sunday that he said amounted to “scary news for Democrats.” Todd pointed to the new poll, conducted by NBC News, that indicates just 22% of Americans believe the U.S. is heading in the right direction while 71% believe it is not. “Just 22 percent of adults say we’re headed in the right direction,” Todd said as he laid out the numbers. “A shocking 71 percent say we’re on the wrong track, and that includes a near majority of Democrats who are saying that.”
“President Biden’s approval rating stands at a dismal 42% versus 54% who disapprove. Believe it or not, just two months ago Mr. Biden was in positive territory,” Todd continued, noting that the numbers only got worse from there. According to the poll, only 37% of Americans believe Biden is “competent and effective” or has the ability to handle a crisis. On the flip side, 50% do not believe the president is “competent and effective,” and 47% are not convinced of his ability to handle crises.
Todd also pointed to the broader picture, saying that the poll indicates support for Republicans on major issuesthat could drive people to the polls during the upcoming midterm elections…”
In other words, Biden’s numbers and his presidency are…
And he’s trying to take the country with him.
In a related item, this snippet from a Washington Examiner article explains why pollsters like John Zogby are so often wrong: He doesn’t even understand the facts of the issues on which he’s polling.
“Zogby said that the problem for Biden is that he appears unable to get his agenda through Congress as the economy is sinking and other critical issues, such as the border crisis, crash in.
“Voters can’t help but wonder why the Biden administration keeps sweeping these issues under the rug and declaring them ‘transitory.’ Democratic leaders cannot even come to consensus within their own ranks,” Zogby said in his analysis.
“Without the passage of the ‘Build Back Better Act,’ or a solid infrastructure bill, and the potential default of the U.S. debt on the horizon, is it any surprise Biden’s presidency is sinking like the Titanic? Biden’s failure to reach vaccination goals and his executive vaccine mandates have also not helped his cause,” he added.“
Perhaps…just perhaps…as Charlie Cooke relates at NRO, it’s because, as a recent ABC/Ipsos poll confirms, the Democrats’ spending bills are duds, and a significant segment of the population don’t want them passed. As Cooke notes, even among Dimocrats, “fewer than half (47%) think the two bills would help people like them.“
All of which leads Charlie to wonder, “This is what Joe Manchin is violating his own standards for? This is what Democratic moderates in the House and the Senate are choosing to commit suicide over? This is the cause of our months-long Washington drama?”
Manchin went on to say, “As more of the real details in the basic outline of the framework are released, what I see are shell games, budget gimmicks that make the real cost of the so-called $1.75 trillion dollar bill estimated to be almost twice that amount. This is a recipe for economic crisis.”
So PLEASE, Mr. Zogby, tells us again why 46*’s low polling numbers are because he hasn’t gotten his agenda passed?!? Those portions of his agenda he’s managed to enact through executive orders are why inflation is soaring, the border is open and 100 container ships are stranded off Long Beach. And while the country goes to Hell in a handbasket, he’s falling asleep in Glasgow pursuing a cause no one cares about to deal with a problem that doesn’t exist. And even if it did, nothing he’s doing would solve it in the slightest “degree”.
Next, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty takes us…
It is as if the U.S. intelligence community heard our complaints and answered them…with an 18-page report declaring that it could not determine the origins of COVID-19 and could add very little to what was already known. Keep in mind, the U.S. intelligence community was appropriated $62 billion in 2020, and $60 billion in 2021.
The 18-page report is fairly infuriating, in part because of its dry bureaucratese and opaque language, and in large part because, assuming this report is accurate, it seems that large swaths of our intelligence community are bending over backward to give the Chinese government the benefit of the doubt. It seems to see nothing suspicious in Beijing’s refusal to turn over data or fully cooperate with international investigations. The fact that Beijing lied to the world for the first three to six weeks of this pandemic, insisting that the virus was not contagious when it obviously was, does not influence our intelligence agencies’ analysis at all. It does not see any signs or indications of a coverup, despite the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s yanking large swaths of data offline shortly before the start of the pandemic.
And the agencies seem to explicitly reject Occam’s Razor, the principle that of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred. As far as we can tell from this report, the U.S. intelligence community does not find it strange or unusual that a random Chinese person, with no connection to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, could have a spectacularly unlucky run-in with a bat or other animal, and that that random Chinese person just happened to catch an exceptionally rare, naturally occurring animal virus that infects, sickens, and spreads among human beings like wildfire on the metaphorical doorstep of one of the three labs in the world doing gain-of-function research on novel coronaviruses found in bats…”
In other words, nothing to see here, folks; please move along…and toe “the Party’s” line.
As Gerard Baker notes at the WSJ, “the Party” means the Dimocratic Party. And as the Dimocratic Party is now the Party of Privileged Progressives, more and more with each passing day…
“If there’s a defining feature of modern progressives’ self-image, it’s the idea that—by dint of their supposedly superior education, their association with like-minded members of global elites and their immersion in the various rites of the contemporary secular religion—they are more knowledgeable and virtuous than you, the inferior classes.
Democratic leaders, and the academic, corporate and media people who sustain them, nurture their luxury beliefs, comfortable in the conviction of their own moral supremacy.
We shouldn’t be surprised. There’s been a social revolution in this country and the wider West in the past 50 years in which, by a remarkable inversion, the left—which used to represent the interests of the outsiders, the disadvantaged—is in almost total control of the institutions of the establishment.
They are the masters now. And like masters through most of history—from tribal chiefs to Roman patricians, absolutist monarchs and totalitarian tyrants—their superiority is such that the rules they make don’t apply to them. They apply only to you, the unenlightened.
…The ultimate demonstration of the gulf between our leaders’ alarmist prescriptions and the reality of life for the rest of us can be witnessed in an energy crisis that is pushing up fuel bills for hard-pressed working people, thanks in large part to policies that have prematurely reduced gas production, inexplicably killed off nuclear power in countries like Germany, and made our fragile economy dependent on wind power when the wind doesn’t blow and solar power when the sun don’t shine.
The higher costs of energy fall disproportionately on the poor and middle class, for whom it represents a sizable proportion of their total spending. For the laid-off coal miner in Appalachia or the family struggling to meet its heating bills in a freezing Midwestern winter, the climate demands we’ll hear so much about in the next few weeks have a much more immediate impact than for the proliferating crowd of well-heeled “ESG” investors.
“Folks, we all have that obligation—that obligation to our children and to our grandchildren,” Mr. Biden said last week, addressing the climate crisis. But the words need careful parsing. In the newspeak of progressive sanctimony, pronouns are different. In this case, “we” means you.
Roughly translated, Mr. Biden says: My obligation is to talk at length about moral imperatives, to cite ever more alarmist scenarios about the threat we face and to commit to ever grander projects and spending plans for which I get slapped on the back for my courage over lavish dinners in international hotels and blessed in papal palaces.
Your obligation is to pay for it.“
You…and you children…your children’s children…ad infinitum. But hey, as this meme forwarded by Ed Hickey suggests, even 46*’s offspring are feeling the pain his policies are perpetuating:
Which provides the perfect segue into the EnvironMental Moment, where, courtesy of The Hill via Speed, Scott Tinker tells us…
“While global leaders prepare to trek to Glasgow for COP26 – the United Nations Climate Change conference – Asia, Europe and Britain are experiencing energy crises,largely politically self-inflicted. The public is paying the price.
Meanwhile, COP26 aims to “accelerate action toward the goals of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change” and the goal of net-zero emissions. The idea being that if the world could balance human-sourced emissions of greenhouse gases with equivalent emissions removals, warming could stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
As the guide for getting to net-zero emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) – an intergovernmental organization often called the “world’s energy watchdog” – published its “Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector” in May of this year, where it describes a “narrow but achievable” path to net-zero emissions. While the IEA does excellent, objective work, critics say it is undermining the “climate change battle.”
The IEA roadmap certainly assuages those accusers by targeting a “net zero energy system” underpinned by an extremely rapid transition away from carbon-based fuels – for example, an immediate end to new coal, oil and natural gas. Yet, in reality, emissions are the primary issue for climate change, not fuels. Nonetheless, fuels continue to be targeted by public pressure that is starving oil and gas companies of capital, and government policies legislating and subsidizingsolar, wind and battery winners.
As global leaders at COP26 prepare to commit trillions of dollars, guided by this roadmap, it is important to understand how confusing, and even implausible, are some of the roadmap’s key 2050 assumptions.
…One thing is clear: Emerging and developing economies will not sacrifice economic growth for emissions reductions. They might, however, consider a range of technology and resource options that focus on emissions reductions, while allowing them to continue to benefit from affordable and reliable coal, oil and natural gas.
Yet, many academics, think tanks, advocacy organizations and government officials continue to propound IEA roadmap-type thinking and produce reports with 80 percent or more solar and wind. Reality can be a harsh teacher as we witness the many self-inflicted global energy crises today, in systems with considerably less than 80 percent. Weather-dependent wind and solar can’t deliver reliable energy at scale without extensive and expensive backup.
Undercapitalized oil and gas companies can’t provide the required backup, causing many countries to reach out to non-neighborly neighbors for natural gas and coal as winter approaches. As a result, energy prices are soaring.
It can be difficult to separate our biases and beliefs from science and economics. But separate we must, lest a climate-based roadmap lose its energy-reality way, hurting the very people it was intended to protect. The road to green should not be paved with bad assumptions.“
Yet it is, and always will be. For just as much of the response to the WuFlu was purposed purely to promote Progressive power, so is the entire anthropogenic global warming/climate change scam.
We turn now to a quartet of items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:
(2). Once-impartial political analyst Larry Sabato surrendered any shred of credibility he still possessed by claiming, as Spencer Brown reports at Townhall.com, “White Backlash” and “White Resistance” will be to blame if Youngkin wins. Which he did, in what Sabato termed “a bloodbath“. But NOT because of any White racism, Larry. So…
“To most readers of this column, the question is absurd. The reason is not because the question is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious. Am I implying that most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong? Yes, I am. As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong. Since I always draw a distinction between those on the Left and liberals, let me add that I suspect most liberals think stealing is wrong. But it almost doesn’t matter because they vote for people who do not think it is…”
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…
…and Balls Cotton…
…along with this instant classic from James Patrick:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and this just in from the Buckeye State, as…
Fostoria, OH police warn 2 pieces of trick-or-treat candy tampered with sewing needles
“An observant child in Ohio made a “demented” discovery inside their Halloween candy while trick-or-treating over the weekend, alerting police to a sewing needle planted inside a chocolate treat. The tampered candy was distributed in Fostoria, a city located about 40 miles south of Toledo, during citywide trick-or-treating on Saturday, the Fostoria Police Division said Sunday.
…While the child who reported the tampered treats told police they received it while trick-or-treating in the area of North Union, Summit and Rock streets, authorities said the specific street it had been distributed on wasn’t immediately clear…”
At the risk of seeming a conspiracy theorist, something ain’t right. Sorry, but if we were going to lace a Kit Kat with a sewing needle with serious intent to inflict bodily harm, we wouldn’t leave the end of the needle exposed for all to see.
Just sayin’.
Magoo
P.S. While our heartfelt appreciation goes out to Virginia voters for having sent the a*sclown illegitimately residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a clear, unambiguous message…
…we thank God Almighty for giving our country a reprieve…however brief.
Video of the Day
As contributor Daniel Francis so astutely noted, the truth has finally arrived: The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us God!
Tales of The Darkside
Courtesy of Jeff Foutch, Dr. Faux Chi’s lies exposed as he utters them.
On the Lighter Side
If Terry McAuliffe loses, it will be because, as this forward from Bill Meisen confirms, up until the very last minute his campaign consisted of one word.
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