Homeland Security denies entry to top ranked tennis player, for no reason that I can figure out. Covid-19 is over and Fauci lied about everything. Sure, some people will get a Covid variant. People at great risk can keep getting booster shots and wearing masks, but the rest of us have moved on.
Homeland Security may wish to finish building the border wall and get serious about the legal and illegal immigration system. They certainly aren’t acting in a way that benefits the American people.
As Tennessee, others target drag shows, many wonder: Why? It may be because encouraging perverts to celebrate with children is depraved.
The protestations have arisen fairly suddenly around a form of entertainment that has long had a place on the mainstream American stage.
That such spectacles are now being portrayed as a danger to children boggles the minds of people who study, perform and appreciate drag.
I can understand why perverts wouldn’t want people to call them perverts.
This article is intentionally obtuse in support of depravity. Everybody understands boys dressing as women for Halloween, Milton Berle doing it for a laugh or high school Powder Puff games. That’s not what we are talking about. Its transvestites, simulated strip shows and sexualizing children.
Passing a law may not be the preferred approach. Conscientious parents are not concerned with unintended consequences of the law. They will let it all burn before allowing their children to be seduced. The best approach would be for degenerates to go back to the red light district or seedy part of town and remain in the shadows, while the people in positions of authority act like they care about the children in a community. Failing that, good people should expose the child groomers, cut budgets and demand that staff changes.
Side Topic: In the Woke world, why is cross-dressing acceptable? It seems like the gender equivalent of wearing blackface. Drag is even more egregious since the performer is portraying an exaggerated version of a woman. Drag is analogous to Mickey Rooney wearing buck teeth and doing the, “Me so solly” routine in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
I’m not clear on the Cuyahoga County’s plastic bag ban. The article says that North Olmsted opted out of the bag ban, but that’s the city were I am least likely to be offered a plastic bag. Most everywhere else uses the typical plastic bag.
As an old school environmentalist, I don’t take my direction from NPR, but try to do some research and think things through. I live in a modest house, heat mostly with wood and took my own silverware to school to use at lunch time. I’m aware of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , but also know that ocean garbage comes from cruise ships and Asia. Americans are environmentally conscious. I live next to a major highway, and hop the fence to pick up trash about once per year. I get one garbage bag full in a third of a mile. That ain’t much.
I replaced my cloth grocery bags a few years ago. They were in good shape, but said “Finast” on the side. I decided to splurge. That is the beauty of cloth bags, they don’t split open. Plastic grocery bags aren’t really single-use. Most people keep some bags around, and pet owners need them for poop pickup. Nobody tells the pets that a plastic bag ban is passed. Pet owners start buying actual single-use bags. That isn’t helping anyone.
The way the Covid-19 pandemic was handled was a shit show. It’s over, but we have to do better than just never speak of it again. Questions should be openly discussed so we learn. The Norfold Group put together a reasonable set of questions. I don’t care who funded them or the background of the doctors. The report is so reasonable, it may become hard to find, so I’m backing the Questions for Covid Commission by Norfolk Group Full Report .
The executive summary provides ten concise questions, and they are:
What could have been done to better protect older high-risk Americans, so that fewer of them died or were hospitalized due to COVID-19?
Why was there widespread questioning of infection-acquired immunity by government officials and some prominent scientists? How did this hinder our fight against the virus?
Why were schools and universities closed despite early evidence about the enormous age-gradient in COVID-19 mortality, early data showing that schools were not major sources of spread, and early evidence that school closures would cause enormous collateral damage to the education and mental health of children and young adults?
Why was there an almost exclusive focus on COVID-19 to the detriment of recognizing and mitigating collateral damage on other aspects of public health, including but not limited to, cancer screening and treatment, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, childhood vaccinations, and mental health?
Why did the CDC fail to collect timely data to properly monitor and understand the pandemic? Why did we have to rely on studies from private initiatives and from other countries to understand the behavior of the virus and the effects of therapeutics, including vaccines?
Why was there so much emphasis and trust in complex epidemiological models, which are by nature unreliable during the middle of an epidemic, with unknown input parameters and questionable assumptions?
Could therapeutic trials have been run in a more timely manner? How was information on drug effectiveness and safety disseminated to doctors and clinicians? Were effective therapeutics easily accessible across the population? How did certain drugs become heavily politicized?
Why did vaccine randomized trials not evaluate mortality, hospitalization, and transmission as primary endpoints? Why were they terminated early? Why were there so few studies from the highest-quality CDC and FDA vaccine safety systems?
Why was the USA slow to approve and roll out critical COVID-19 testing capacity? Why was there more emphasis on testing young asymptomatic individuals than on testing to better protect older high-risk Americans? Why was so much effort spent on contact-tracing efforts?
Why was there an emphasis on community masking and mask mandates, which had weak or no data to support them, at the expense of efficient and critical COVID-19 mitigation efforts? Why did the CDC or NIH not fund large randomized trials to evaluate the efficacy and potential harms of mask wearing? Why didn’t policy recommendations change after the publication of randomized trial data from Denmark and Bangladesh which showed no or minimal efficacy of mask wearing by the public?
When cheating becomes the norm, normal kids cheat. During the summer of 2020, the administrative team for my school had time to plan for fully remote classes. They made no provision for valid testing. Teachers asked questions and suggested solutions, but no answers ever came. Even worse, the administration kept insisting that students be shown grace. In education-speak, grace means dialing down the accountability.
North Royalton students are generally honest and respectful. I taught college-prep and AP courses, so my students were smart and ambitious, but not necessarily better people. Most teachers changed their assessments for remote learning. Some tried to hold the line by making it harder to cheat with more extended response questions, while others threw in the towel and went for multiple-choice questions. It wasn’t long before this system corrupted students who wouldn’t have considered cheating.
To compound the educational dereliction, the administration gave students the option of remaining remote, after we went back to a hybrid schedule. Those remote students remained in classes with in-person students. The remote students cheated their asses off, while the responsible students took tests and quizzes in class. For three quarters of a school year, some students took minimal interest in their education, but got the same or better grades than students who attended class. I don’t stand by any of the grades I gave that year.
It only took a month for the federal government to propose rules to ban gas stoves. Do you suppose the gas stoves that can still be sold will be the expensive ones?
NPR finds racism in race-blind tax code
There’s a broader question about whether institutions and rules and customs that are blind with respect to race are actually neutral with respect to race, or if they reinforce preexisting disparities.
NPR can always find a way to encourage racial animosity. Do our enemies still have to payoff these wreckers of our culture or do the Leftists just do it for sport?
We encourage equality of opportunity because a disparity of outcomes can always be found. Do the same analysis for the tax returns of single men versus single women, tall women versus short women or any other trait. Statistics will find a difference in outcome, and that can be used to drive a wedge between those groups.
I don’t know what minor lifestyle difference might result in this tax disparity. Black folks can live anyway they want. It’s none of my business.
A tax code with no institutional racism is the goal. NPR doesn’t suggest a solution, but instead, hope’s to nurture any racial tension.
Pete Buttigieg is frustrated and everyone is picking on him.
Three people in Buttigieg’s orbit admit to being exasperated by the furor, saying nobody asked him about the derailment in any of the 23 media interviews he conducted during the first 10 days after the accident.
Buttigieg first tweeted about the disaster on Feb. 13, when he said he continued to be “concerned about the impacts” to those living in the area. He pledged to use all “relevant authorities to ensure accountability and continue to support safety.”
This is from an article in Politico, a liberal site that is trying to defend Buttigieg.
Buttigieg may have be a diversity hire because he seems like a non-threatening gay guy with middle-class values or it may have been a quid pro quo to get his support for Biden’s presidential run. Clearly, Buttigieg didn’t think a patronage job required him to actually be accountable.
As the head of the Department of Transportation, Buttigieg expects reporters to ask him about East Palestine. Yeah, that’s leadership.
Waiting a week to even Tweet about it, and expecting that people really need to hear that he is concerned, is patronizing. People expect leaders to do something.
I’m not a big fan of politicians rushing to disaster sites. Those visits can interfere with people actually doing their jobs. However, Buttigieg could have done a press conference the next day explaining what is known, what is being done and assuring people that experts are onsite.
Trump, showing up faster and with supplies, did a fantastic job of showing that he cares. Sure, it might just be symbolic, but symbolism matters. Buttigieg appears to be in way over his head, generally incompetent, and possibly not caring about conservative communities.
Biden proposes tougher restrictions on asylum.
The Biden administration is moving forward with tougher restrictions on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. A proposed rule published today would make it harder for migrants to get asylum if they cross the border into the U.S. illegally after passing through Mexico or any other country without seeking protection. Critics compare the rule to a similar effort by the Trump administration, and they are vowing to fight it.
That sounds like the Trump policy. Will the administration make foreign aid and trade contingent upon those countries stopping the invaders before they cross into Mexico?
It’s too much to hope that Biden’s handlers are going to start acting in the best interests of the American people. Being a skeptic, is it possible that:
Bill Clinton advisor dead gunshot wound no gun.
People associated with the Clintons seem to kill themselves in the most unusual circumstances.
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