Why work?
/Joe Biden Moves to Bankrupt More Americans, and persuade welfare loafers to stay on the rolls
The president is now moving to pressure Congress into extending the so-called “eviction moratorium” that has crippled the housing market and crushed landlords across the country.
This comes after some property owners have not gotten paid rent in over a year while they still have to pay their mortgages. As you can see, this is really caring and compassionate stuff coming from Joe Biden.
The absurdity isn’t just that this is coming under the guise of an “emergency,” but that it’s been allowed to happen at all. On what planet does the CDC or Congress have the constitutional authority to literally steal people’s property with no reimbursement? Yet, that’s exactly what’s been happening. In fact, you can find multitudes of left-wing ideologues willing to defend it as a right and just move, citing the supposed evils of landlords.
There’s no means test for this relief from paying one’s rent or mortgage; to quote our arbitrator of modern cultural norms, “Just Do It”, and millions of Americans have accepted that invitation. And why not? Their debt to their landlord or bank is already huge after piling up for the past 18 months, and by the time Congress ends the moratorium, if it ever does, the amounts owed will dwarf, say, student loan obligations, and be “unpayable”. So our government will pay it all off, and give the tab to the future.
Of course, most Americans have the moral character to pay what they owe, but millions don’t; the same person who’s spent the past 18 months flopped on his couch, collecting unemployment cash sweetened by an extra $300 per week, is also the type to stay on the gravy train for as long as he can. And if he can also live rent-free, he’d be a chump to work. Free money and free rent, or show up a job at the same time every day, to do the same boring work while under the eye of a supervisor? Harsh bud, dude.
I was in Portland Maine, yesterday, and noticed an incredible number of restaurants still operating on a take-out-only basis. Some of that can certainly be attributed to that liberal city’s absolute panic over Kung Flu, but I suspect it’s also a labor shortage that is preventing the restaurants from fully reopening. That shortage persists despite the communist city council’s imposition of a $22 per hour minimum wage, and its own moratorium on evictions (and rent control, though that’s irrelevant, for now). It takes character to go to work when you don’t have to, the type of character that is now denounced as “white racism” by our betters. Stoned and skateboarding in the park, or washing dishes 8-hours a day? That’s an easy choice for many people.
The Science Guy has spoken — repeatedly
/Fauci: We haven’’t flip-flopped on mask-wearing guidance
All lies, all the time, Chapter XVIII
/CDC justified new mask guidance based on vaccine study listed as failing peer review
In fact, there’s more to this than the CDC’s using data from a foreign country (unnamed, but India, apparently) that was reporting on the efficacy of a vaccine not approved for use in the US. I’ve also seen a number of scare headlines in our Democrat media corp in recent days shrieking about rises in “variant” cases in third world countries that, digging down, turn out to be using the Chicoms’ and Ruskie’s vaccines. Aside from the cynism of China following up its introduction of the disease to the world by passing out an ineffective “vaccine”, it would also be responsible journalism to identify what’s actually being reported here.
But who said anything about journalism? Remember when only the “conspiracy theorists” said that the real goal was a passport and eventually a China-style social credit score?
To be fair, some of the Democrats with bylines may be coming around. The Washington Post actually ran an article this morning, “CDC Reversal on Indoor Masking Prompts Experts to Ask Where’s the Data?” We’ll have to wait to see whether this is a real change or just a slip, soon to be disappeared, like the NYT article last year that revealed the utter uselessness of COVID testing using over-amplified samples. Remember that one? The media doesn’t.
PSAKING BACK. Oh! That Indian study the CDC cites? Not only did it not use a US-approved vaccine, it didn’t use humans. Petri dish only.
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A new weapon for the Chicoms: send maskless troops charging at our men
/Pentagon orders masks to be worn indoors.
How many in our military have died of COVID since this started? “Fewer than 30”. Thas’s out of 1.5 million active members and even more in the reserves. Could that have anything to do with the age and physical condition of service members? There probably aren’t all that many who are over 70, morbidly obese, and suffering from at least two or more comorbidities, which is the standard profile for COVID deaths.
“All that’s true,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks told FWIW, “but in light of reports that the Chinee are already training their attack forces to ignore the preferred gender pronouns of our boys, girls, and whatevers, we’ve decided to act out of an abundance of caution. Can you imagine if those yellow dogs charge maskless across a field, yelling ‘hey, boy!’ and our own people aren’t equipped with earplugs and face diapers? We’d wilt like pansies.”
According to the Pentagon, the number of US military deaths connected to the virus remains small — fewer than 30. There have been a total of almost 206,000 cases [sic - a positive test result is not a “case”] within the military as of July 21, the last date that numbers were available.
Finger on the button
/Biden confuses Trump with Obama, calls it 'Freudian slip'
It reminds me of the joke told pal Nancy and me by my Uncle Gary, a psychiatrist:
(Patient, lying on couch). “Doctor, I made the most horrible Freudian slip this morning, and I just can’t forgive myself!”
(Dr )“Oh, that’s okay, we all make those from time to time; what happened?”
(Patient): “Well, I was having coffee with my wife over the kitchen table, and I meant to say, ‘Honey, please pass the sugar’, but instead, it came out, ‘YOU FUCKING BITCH, YOU’VE RUINED MY LIFE!’ “
“Honey, please pass the sugar” thereafter became a staple with Nancy and me whenever one of us was mildly annoyed with the other. Tee hee.
I pointed this out in another blog's comment section three weeks ago, but by golly, the Ol Man's said it again
/No, Biden did not drive an 18-wheeler, not even with Corn Pop riding shotgun. He made the same claim last month, expanding from his driving a school bus one summer to “driving semis”. I took the trouble to look up Maryland’s commercial license system and, at least as of this year, there are three types, ranging from the easiest to get: school buses; to the hardest: 18-wheelers. Requirements were probably looser in 1910, when Joe was on the roads, but I earned a Class 1 commercial license (the big rig one) in 1974, and even then, there was a substantial difference in requirements.
The line about “Popping little white pills” in “6 Days on the Road” would be apt here, but in view of Joe’s age, maybe this one, instead.
There's actually nothing unusual or even wrong with this, we're just reverting to the 18th and 19th Century’s blatantly partisan journalism; it only the press would admit it
/The farce involved is that our media claims to be impartial reporters of fact. Fortunately, that lie has been shredded. (I do like this quote:The newspaper wars of the 1790s were ferocious. “The golden age of America’s founding was also the gutter age of American reporting,” writes historian Eric Burns. Papers were partisan, not impartial. Editors attacked each other in the street, cursing each other with prolixity and backward-running sentences. They seemed to have the typesetting equivalent of unlimited minutes when it came to using insulting synonyms found in the thesaurus. Their enemies were “depraved,” “worthless,” “vile,” “intemperate,” and “wicked.” Accusations of drunkenness were frequent (and accurate) as were charges of corruption and debauchery.)
Just until we flatten the curve
/The trouble is, I suspect a majority of Americans really are as gullible as these people think we are.