NAH. LIQUIDATE IT AND SHARE THE PROFITS: Rittenhouse, Sandmann agree to share joint custody of CNN.

Assuming, of course, that there will be any profits....

GOOD QUESTION: Are CNN, MSNBC, et al. about to make Kyle Rittenhouse rich?

I certainly hope so -- we need more billionaires and fewer CNNs and MSNBCs.

HOWEVER CONCERNED YOU MAY BE about the Left coming after your children, you can’t be paranoid enough.

THE UPSIDE OF CLIMATE CHANGE:

Linked from Mallard Fillmore here.

FREAKING BREAKING: The Democrats (in the House; it still has to go to the Senate) just passed their Build Back Better legislation.

Fine. Now pass legislation requiring Democrats(only) to pay for it.

Added thought: God help us; the Democrats won't....

LET'S GO BRANDON. Gov. Ron DeSantis signs anti-vaccine mandate package in Brandon, Florida.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Death row inmate who shot wife and sexually assaulted stepdaughter while she lay dying executed.

MAYBE THERE WOULDN'T BE SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES if Mr. Potato Head stayed out of grocery stores....

INTERESTING: How much good do the COVID vaccines do?

From the data tables it's evident that the vaccines are modestly effective in curbing both hospitalizations and deaths, at least in the short term, and particularly for those with underlying comorbidities as evidenced by the data for the elderly (60 & up) population where underlying comorbidities are much more likely.

The long term is still to be determined, however recent news stories about 'breakthrough' infections in the vaccinated population suggest that COVID vaccination effectiveness may not be long term (therefore booster shots). I've even seen recent suggestions that vaccination may actually increase the risk of future infection, although that seems to be just speculation.

I've seen no data that vaccination of the preschool and school age population has any effect whatsoever. The chart data tends to support that conclusion.

The comments (and I haven't read them all) seem to be mostly supportive of my view that vaccination at best is modestly effective in damping the severity of the disease in populations where immunity is compromised. Here are two of many:

(disqusdfp): Left unsaid in all of this is what death and hospitalizations would look like were the CDC and other assorted clowns not actively discouraging and even banning treatments known to be effective. Vaccines simply are not needed if good treatments are available; this is why (IMHO) after close to 2 years, there are still no fully approved treatments - the CDC wishes not to weaken the vaccination narrative. Here in Silicon Valley, even the monoclonal antibody treatment would be denied me by my medical provider, despite that as a geezer I fall into the high risk category allowed access to it. And don't let me get started on Ivermectin; we're still waiting for the "urgent studies" on that, too. My deepest disappointment is that the medical establishment is knuckling under to all this, patient wellbeing be damned. My respect for doctors is at an all-time low.

(Brandoch_Daha): I think there's no real way to tell.
Statistics, especially from the government, are so skewed (not to mention screwed) by political influence that a clear picture is impossible.
My Dad (a corporate controller) used to say that "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure."
Or put another way: "Torture numbers long enough, and they'll confess to anything."

Read it all, including some comments, and make up your own mind.

AT LEAST SHE DOESN'T CACKLE: Apparently the rumor is the Junta wants to replace her [Kamala] with Michelle Obama.

WELL, YOU'VE GOT TO GET RID OF KAMALA BEFORE YOU IMPEACH JOE BIDEN: Imminent vacancy rumors swirling on Capitol Hill.

I HOPE NOT: Will public school enrollment rebound?

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on a just Rittenhouse verdict.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABOUT SCIENCE: DC mayor follows the science by lifting mask requirement for indoors but the White House won't follow.

It's about control. It's always about control.

THEN LET'S HAVE MORE SETBACKS, PLEASE: Surgeon General says court blocking OSHA's vaccine mandate 'would be a setback for public health'. Murthy argues:

In any community, sometimes our decisions do affect other people. It’s why, Chris, we have speed limits on highways because we know our decision about how fast we drive affects the safety of others. When it comes to getting vaccinated, we know the people who are unvaccinated are at high risk of getting sick and spreading it to others.

That argument is specious. It sounds good and is easy on the tongue, but is actually a non sequitur. Speed limits are imposed to protect me from you. Vaccine mandates are being proposed for the purpose of protecting me from me.

It's about control.

I'M WORKING ON IT. COVID panic will only end through civil disobedience and mockery.

THE WHITE HOUSE is now blaming unvaccinated children for high inflation.

In his latest exhibition of post-graduate cognitive dissonance, Brian Deese, the White House National Economic Council director, the primary architect of the JoeBama economic program, appears on NBC to proclaim that massive U.S. inflation is somehow connected to the fact that 5 to 11-year-old children are not yet vaccinated. [Video at 01:30] Once the children are vaccinated, some unknown and difficult to explain metamorphosis will take place amid the American workforce allowing the U.S. economy to stop inflation.

You're welcome to attempt to navigate the word salad that constitutes the video. I made it perhaps two minutes before I gave up in disgust.

SARAH HOYT NOTICES: "When you don't punish the guilty, you punish everyone."

KAMALA HARRIS'S BIGGEST HANDICAPS are that she’s not very talented, not very likeable, and not especially bright.

But other than that....

HIT 'EM AGAIN, HARDER: California gasoline price averages soar to all-time record high.