Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Question 46


Question 46
 
The Russians have invaded Ukraine. We will have posturing on steroids, the press will pay attention to the U.N., and the White House will debate over the verb "invade." But the insight will be lost: malice, murder, and mayhem are a part of us and any government philosophy that does not include that is useless and dangerous. Not to say some are more prone to malice, murder, and mayhem than others.

Special counsel John Durham outlines in his latest indictment “definitely showed that the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,” says Kash Patel, the former chief investigator for the House Intelligence Committee.
But, is that accurate? Was the intrusion into a candidate's and then president's computer a rogue act or did the Clinton campaign initiate it?

The NBA runs ads that say, "Speak for the people who may not be able to be heard," But that doesn't seem to include speaking out for Uyghurs and their genocide.
Morey, a Rockets exec, commented on it in a tweet and China didn't like hearing an NBA executive say that. Chinese TV stopped broadcasting Rockets games. The NBA then apparently told its players and front offices to shut up. Morey deleted his tweet and instead tweeted that he "did not intend to cause any offense."
The NBA itself also apologized to China, saying that they were "disappointed" by Morey's "inappropriate" tweet. Lebron James called Morey "misinformed." James Harden said, "We love China."
Chamath Palihapitiya, a part-owner of the Golden State Warriors, was unusually honest when he said, "Nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs….We have a responsibility to take care of our own backyard first."
New world success and hypocrisy, two tracks, one train.

Latest from Neil Ferguson and Imperial estimates Omicron as intrinsically 70% less severe than Delta.
Quite a difference from their 16th Dec report to SAGE: “We find no evidence of Omicron having different severity from Delta.”

Only six of Alabama’s 143 school districts have more than half of their students proficient in math.

Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan…in what appeared to be another effort by the country’s new rulers to soften their image.

The phrase “zero tolerance” (of a virus, or violence, or something) is favored by people who are allergic to making judgments and distinctions: i.e., thinking.--will

Funny story from Riley on the recent NFL racism charge.
One reason is that teams don’t want to hire someone they can’t fire without being labeled racist...
Not long after Barack Obama became president, he made an appearance on the “Late Show With David Letterman. ” It was September 2009, and the administration’s plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system had not been going over well in the polls. Some people, including former President Jimmy Carter, were insisting that criticism of Mr. Obama was racially motivated. Asked about it, Mr. Obama demurred. “It’s important to remember,” he said to Mr. Letterman, “that I was actually black before the election.”

Sort of astonishing, sort of not:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/11/university-illinois-chicago-cowardice/

A new bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security on February 7th warns that “false or misleading narratives” about COVID-19 could be fueling terrorism and says those who publicly question the government’s protocols regarding mandates and restrictions are creating a “heightened threat environment.” 
Looks as if Trudeau took that to heart.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.--Acton

There will very soon come a time in this miserably long pandemic where the only sizable group left wearing masks by order of the government will be the cohort threatened the least by COVID-19 — school-aged kids. And for this anti-science, anti-education, anti-childhood-development outrage we have one person above all to blame: American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. Very hard to understand.

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