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DECEMBER 29,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

COMEBACK FOR SARAH? – OVERNIGHT:  Sarah Palin is considering a return to politics.  Some will cheer.  Some will not.  From Mediaite:   Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Wednesday she was interested in the prospect of getting involved in elective politics once again, saying she had a “service heart.”  “You’re a very popular personality,” Newsmax’s Eric Bolling told Palin in an evening interview, adding that she was “a very popular politician” and asking, “Do you have aspirations to get back into elected office or anything more in politics?”  “I would love to,” Palin replied. “I would never say never… I feel like there are still some offerings that I have in terms of a service heart. I want to serve. I want to help the people. And I think I have a heck of a lot of common sense, and that’s what we need today. And I’m not so obsessively partisan that I let that get in the way of doing what’s right for the people.”  Bolling reacted with intrigue. “Hmm,” he mused, “Stay tuned, in other words, folks.”  Palin, 57, served as Alaska’s governor from 2006-09. She began her term in that position with around 90 percent of state voters approving of her performance, but that number plummeted after the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) selected her as his presidential running mate in 2008. She resigned the subsequent year, citing the cost and burden associated with combating numerous legal challenges and complaints prompted by her rise to fame.  Look, you never know.  I have doubts that she's all that popular, and many voters won't even remember her.  She was never ready, when John McCain selected her, for a national campaign.  She'd have to demonstrate that she' s ready now.  Tough challenge.  The Republican bench is already deep.

December 29, 2021       Permalink

THEY FORGOT TO CHANGE THE BATTERIES IN THE CALCULATOR – OVERNIGHT:  You know how these cheap Asian calculators can just fail.  It happens at every level.  From Daily Mail: 

The impact that the Omicron variant has had on the nation's skyrocketing instances of Covid infections may have been completely overblown after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slashed its estimate for the prevalence of the strain in COVID-19 cases by 50 percent on Tuesday.

The agency released a revised chart on Tuesday showing that the new variant accounted for 23 percent of all cases for the week ending on December 18, as opposed to the 73 percent it originally reported. 

The chart showed that the Omicron variant accounted for 59 percent of all new cases for the week ending on December 25, meaning the Delta variant has been accounting for far more infections than the agency initially thought. 

The CDC corrected its error, to the confusion of many, on the same day that the nation broke its record for the most daily COVID-19 cases with a seven-day average of 254,496 cases reported on Tuesday, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of Johns Hopkins University data. 

The country's previous record was about 251,989 daily cases, reported on January 11.

The record comes as the US hit a total of 53,170,421 cases as of Wednesday morning, amid a growing number of people who were tested before and after Christmas weekend. 

The CDC’s new data on the prevalence of the Omicron variant shows that the Delta variant, which is more severe and less contagious than Omicron, still has a hold on the country and is a driving factor behind the most current surge in cases.

It also begs the question of how the CDC could have recorded such a drastic difference in the strain’s prevalence than what was the reality.

COMMENT:  With mistakes like this, is it any wonder why Americans are confused, outraged, and angry?  We're talking about human life.  We're talking about the health of the nation.  But, not to worry.  Some of the major news outlets will get rid of this story in a day.  Count on it.

What mistake?

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DECEMBER 28,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

FIGHTING BACK – OVERNIGHT:  Ah, old Princeton.  Not a place where you usually find revolution.  But some of the Princeton tigers are actually proving to be real tigers, the conservative kind.  From College Fix:  A group of more than 60 undergraduate students at Princeton University has called out a dean’s statement critical of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict as a violation of administrators’ obligation to remain officially neutral on controversial issues.  The students addressed an open letter to university President Christopher Eisgruber in response to a Nov. 20 email by Amaney Jamal, dean of the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs (pictured).  Jamal had used the school’s email server to send a message to all students in which she called Rittenhouse a “vigilante,” stated the not guilty finding sets “a dangerous precedent,” and asserted that “there are racial inequities in nearly every strand of the American fabric.”  The students’ Nov. 24 letter is signed by members of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition and published on the Princetonians for Free Speech website.  They write that Jamal’s use of her administrative position to advance her views on the case “exerts pressure” on dissenting students to conform. Jamal’s official statement, they argued, suppresses honest debate and truth-seeking regarding the case.  The writers clarify that they do not object to Jamal’s views and uphold her right to advance them as an academic and a citizen. However, they argued:  "What motivates our letter is a concern about the implications of a University administrator, speaking in her official capacity, promulgating to an entire community of students her moral evaluation of the outcome of a highly publicized and controversial trial. Her doing so in effect places [the School for Public and International Affairs]’s institutional support behind a particular position on a matter which, as it engages the interests of so many, should invite a vigorous and respectful conversation amongst students and faculty alike."   It takes guts to go up against the administratioon of an Ivy League school.  We need to reinforce these kids by voting in a new, conservative Congress in November, which will have the power to cut off federal aid to academic programs that don't pass the laugh test.  Even at Princeton.

December 28, 2021        Permalink

THE LATEST MADNESS; HAPPY HOLIDAYS – OVERNIGHT:  For the far left, there are no holidays, just some days when they can push more of their insane agenda into the faces of the American people.  Get this one.    From Fox: 

Washington state lawmakers introduced a bill this month that would reduce penalties for drive-by shootings with the aim of "promoting racial equity."

The bill, introduced by Democratic Representatives Tarra Simmons and David Hackney ahead of the state's 2022 legislative session, would eliminate drive-by shootings as the basis for elevating a first-degree murder charge to aggravated murder in the first degree, which carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

Drive-by shootings were added to the list of aggravating factors for murder charges in 1995. Other aggravating factors include the murder of law enforcement officers, murders committed by inmates while they are behind bars, and murder-for-hire schemes.

The aggravating factor that the bill would eliminate reads: "The murder was committed during the course of or as a result of a shooting where the discharge of the firearm… is either from a motor vehicle or from the immediate area of a motor vehicle that was used to transport the shooter or the firearm."

Rep. Simmons, who represents a district in western Washington, argued that "it’s clear that it was targeted at gangs that were predominantly young and Black."

"I believe in a society that believes in the power of redemption," she told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Murder is murder no matter where the bullet comes from but locking young people up and throwing away the key is not the answer."

COMMENT:  Unfortunately, it often is the answer, at least the best one we have.  The country is properly tired of theoretical propositions, flown in from Lenin country, to make things easier for militant murderers.  These are horrendous killers.  The very worst.  We don't need a law in any state to make things easier for them.

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