THE NEW WORLD ORDER is taking its mask off while telling you to keep yours on.

But they're the anointed.

Self anointed. Bow to the self anointed.

Nuts.

HEH: DuckDuckGo uses App Store privacy labels to call out Google for ‘spying’ on users.

Google and I are not on the best of terms....

SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 7: The leaves are coming. The leaves are coming! 'Poof' day (my term for that day when you suddenly decide 'Hey, it's really green outside') is nearly here. I predict near mid-week. Here are the reasons for my assessment:

The dogwoods have ceased blooming and are now showing real leaves. Yet to fill out, but soon.

The smaller (softwood) trees are filling out. That bright yellow-green in the picture is new leaf; it will darken as the tree fills out.

The hardwoods, mostly oaks, have begun their spring dance. If you look carefully, you can see them finally budding out -- flowering, I guess you'd call it -- the air (and porch, and decks, and cars) are covered with fine green pollen and everyone is sneezing. Another week, maybe two, and we'll see the leaves asserting themselves.

Now back to the usual pond view. Not a whole lot of difference yet, the buds are still nearly invisible in the distance. Next week should show some change.

The same is true of the view northwest toward the fire pit. Since that part of the property has been cleared of undergrowth the seasonal changes are still nearly invisible.

Much the same for this view of our neighbor's house from the northwest edge of our property. In time (next week, maybe?) the house will disappear. Until then....

FORMER CDC DIRECTOR ROBERT REDFIELD believes COVID-19 resulted from gain-of-function research at a Wuhan lab.

FAUCI DISAGREES: He also thinks children should wear masks while playing.

Redfield is a bureaucratic tool who should have spoken up when he was part of the Trump administration; Fauci is Bozo the clown.

SHOULDN'T SHE BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED FOR INCITING A RIOT? Maxine Waters urges Minnesota anti-police crowd to ‘stay on the street’ if Chauvin acquitted in Floyd case.

UPDATE: The New York Post agrees.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The coming backlash.

I'm hopeful, but not sanguine, that the 2022 mid-term election will be sufficient to stop it. Otherwise....

MIKE ROWE: Minimum wage jobs are the lowest 'rungs on a ladder' to success.

My first job paid 25 cents an hour, with no benefits. My last job (before I retired) paid $65/hour, with benefits that equaled that amount on an hourly basis. Post-retirement, I briefly earned $300/hour for a short consulting gig.

Without that first job, I might never have had that last job.

Mike Rowe is right; the Dumbocrats are wrong.

No sane employer is going to pay $15/hour just for existing....

THE ‘PAUSE’ ON THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON CORONAVIRUS VACCINE reveals one systemic flaw plaguing the FDA: an overabundance of caution.

Maybe Americans will finally realize the extent to which federal bureaucracy routinely stops potentially life-saving innovation in its tracks.