AMERICA HAS OFFICIALLY GONE OFF THE DEEP END: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky refers to 'pregnant people' in vaccine tweet.
And don't get me started on 'chestfeeding'....
Nuts is inadequate to describe these loons.
MORE: Looney Tunes used to be a cartoon series; not a presidential administration.
Saturday, August 14, 2021
POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Peak liberal hypocrisy edition. Two favorite hypocrites this week.
Now go see the rest. And rest assured we're far from peak hypocrisy.
A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE and sooner or later you’re talking about real money collapse of this Republic.
I'm serious.
I'm serious.
THREE CHARTS the COVID delta variant scaremongers don't want you to see.
So why isn’t this seemingly good news about COVID making headlines?Repeat after me: "It's all about control." Period.
The public health community and leftist politicians don’t want to give up their newfound powers.
If COVID goes away, Anthony Fauci suddenly becomes just another annoying bureaucrat that nobody pays attention to.
And leftists, who have been able to boss people around and spend taxpayer money at levels no one would have ever tolerated before COVID, are loathe for things to get back to normal.
There’s also the fact that the current outbreak provides another chance for Democrats to score political points against Republicans....
Power doesn’t only corrupt. It is also highly addictive.
INSTAPUNDIT: Worst. Insurrection. Ever. Follow the link for details; our ruling class should be ashamed, if not imprisoned.
THE FLEEBAGGER FARCE continues.
Umm, not quite. The Texas Senate passed the bill March 12 after overcoming a Democrat filibuster.
House Speaker Dade Phelan signed arrest warrants for the 52 Democrats who did not return during the fourth day of the House’s second special session. As of Thursday, the House fleebaggers have lawyered up (probably at taxpayer expense) to prevent the warrants from being served.
Texas has gone from being a state I loved to one I wouldn't willingly drive through, even nonstop.
Umm, not quite. The Texas Senate passed the bill March 12 after overcoming a Democrat filibuster.
House Speaker Dade Phelan signed arrest warrants for the 52 Democrats who did not return during the fourth day of the House’s second special session. As of Thursday, the House fleebaggers have lawyered up (probably at taxpayer expense) to prevent the warrants from being served.
Texas has gone from being a state I loved to one I wouldn't willingly drive through, even nonstop.
BECAUSE COVIDIOCY: The coming crabcake crisis.
The crisis is real -- and not with just crabcakes and restaurants -- it's everywhere. Big box, grocery, hardware stores, all. The bigger stores may be short an item or two I buy for a day or so; littler ones, much longer. I've been to our local Dollar General to buy a grocery item or two and find the shelves fully stocked on Tuesday and empty -- literally empty -- on Thursday.
Employees I talk to tell me it's the supply chain. The supplies are there, but the manufacturing, processing, and distribution facilities don't have the employees to run at full capacity. (And the stores themselves don't have enough employees to keep their own shelves stocked; every one of them is hiring anyone with a warm body and the wherewithal to show up.)
Feel free to thank our government covidiots....
The crisis is real -- and not with just crabcakes and restaurants -- it's everywhere. Big box, grocery, hardware stores, all. The bigger stores may be short an item or two I buy for a day or so; littler ones, much longer. I've been to our local Dollar General to buy a grocery item or two and find the shelves fully stocked on Tuesday and empty -- literally empty -- on Thursday.
Employees I talk to tell me it's the supply chain. The supplies are there, but the manufacturing, processing, and distribution facilities don't have the employees to run at full capacity. (And the stores themselves don't have enough employees to keep their own shelves stocked; every one of them is hiring anyone with a warm body and the wherewithal to show up.)
Feel free to thank our government covidiots....
GAS [EQUIVALENT] TAXES -- AND CONTROL: Democrats put a per-mile 'transportation' fee in infrastructure bill. The reason being, ostensibly, that electric vehicles don't use gasoline/diesel and thus don't pay taxes for road use.
I've got a better idea.
Mandate (Democrats love mandates, right?) that all electric vehicles be charged at commercial EV charging stations, similar to current U.S. gas stations, of which there are roughly 115,000 in the U.S. Encourage/entice/subsidize them into adding/becoming charging stations. (As everyone knows -- or should know -- Democrats are very good at subsidizing.)
Then tax the EVs based on energy consumption, just as gasoline/diesel vehicles are taxed. One gallon of gasoline is roughly the energy equivalent of about30 kWh (kilowatt-hours) of electricity, so a federal tax of 18.4 cents/gallon equates to something less than a penny a mile, depending on the automobile's average mpg rating.
An EV (assuming an 80 kWh capacity battery capable of a 300 mile range) has a 'fuel consumption' of roughly 0.3 kWh/mile so an equivalent tax of a penny/mile would be on the order of 3 cents/kWh.
A fill-up (recharge) would be something less that $3 for either class of vehicle.
And no paperwork. Or intrusive government monitoring.
I've got a better idea.
Mandate (Democrats love mandates, right?) that all electric vehicles be charged at commercial EV charging stations, similar to current U.S. gas stations, of which there are roughly 115,000 in the U.S. Encourage/entice/subsidize them into adding/becoming charging stations. (As everyone knows -- or should know -- Democrats are very good at subsidizing.)
Then tax the EVs based on energy consumption, just as gasoline/diesel vehicles are taxed. One gallon of gasoline is roughly the energy equivalent of about30 kWh (kilowatt-hours) of electricity, so a federal tax of 18.4 cents/gallon equates to something less than a penny a mile, depending on the automobile's average mpg rating.
An EV (assuming an 80 kWh capacity battery capable of a 300 mile range) has a 'fuel consumption' of roughly 0.3 kWh/mile so an equivalent tax of a penny/mile would be on the order of 3 cents/kWh.
A fill-up (recharge) would be something less that $3 for either class of vehicle.
And no paperwork. Or intrusive government monitoring.
BUT OF COURSE IT'S NOT A SUPERSPREADER EVENT: At least 63 people on Martha’s Vineyard have tested positive for Covid-19 since Barack Obama’s maskless 60th birthday bash.
Looking online there appear to have been 300-500 guests at his soiree so, assuming all the cases resulted from the party the infection rate was about 18.0%.
Compare that with 2020's Sturgis motorcycle rally: the data I've seen indicates that there were about 414 infections (nationwide) that could be associated with the rally. The estimate of attendance over the multi-day rally was about 462,000. That's an infection rate of 0.09%.
Again, which one was the 'superspreader'?
Looking online there appear to have been 300-500 guests at his soiree so, assuming all the cases resulted from the party the infection rate was about 18.0%.
Compare that with 2020's Sturgis motorcycle rally: the data I've seen indicates that there were about 414 infections (nationwide) that could be associated with the rally. The estimate of attendance over the multi-day rally was about 462,000. That's an infection rate of 0.09%.
Again, which one was the 'superspreader'?
MORE THAN YOU WANT TO KNOW about Biden's gangster government.
You voted for him, suckers. What pains me is that I also have to pay the price....
You voted for him, suckers. What pains me is that I also have to pay the price....
WITH OUR TAX MONEY, OF COURSE: Biden admin takes aim at DeSantis with cash offer for school districts that buck ban on mask mandates.
And probably illegally....
And probably illegally....
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