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Friday, January 28, 2022
Fish Pic Friday - Tara Foster
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Whew, Chessie Gets Home Safe
Chessie, the manatee that gained fame for making sporadic visits to the Chesapeake Bay over three decades, has made yet another reappearance, easing fears that a possible alligator attack last summer had done him in.
Chessie, a manatee who has occasionally visited the Chesapeake Bay, is scanned for a passive integrated transponder tag. PIT tags, commonly referred to as microchips, are about the size of a rice grain and are widely used by veterinarians to help identify lost pets and return them to their owners. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
When his satellite tag stopped transmitting last June in waters near Jacksonville, FL, scientists suspected that an alligator or a boat had damaged it. For more than six months, Chessie’s whereabouts were unknown.
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| Manatee swimming with Mermaids |
But on Tuesday, Jan. 25, an underwater microphone deployed by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium detected a separate — and apparently still-operative — tracking device attached to the 1,500-pound mammal. The sonic transmitter showed that Chessie was basking in the warm discharge from a power plant in Fort Lauderdale, more than 300 miles south of his last known location.
The aquarium’s staff hurried to the canal. They located the manatee and fastened a fresh satellite tag to him, according to the nonprofit’s press release. The tag allows researchers and the public to track Chessie’s movements remotely.
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| Chessie getting measured and photographed |
Scientists estimate the manatee to be at least 35 years old. His lifetime has been marked by a dramatic series of appearances and disappearances, beginning with his sighting in the Chesapeake Bay in 1994. That was the first time a manatee had been spotted in Maryland waters. He bypassed the Bay during his northward trek the following year but ventured as far north as Rhode Island, adding another first to his ledger.
He popped up in the Bay again in 2001 and 2011. But then he was off the grid until he was recovered in February 2021, emaciated and suffering from pneumonia. Unlike hundreds of Florida manatees that have died of starvation amid a recent mass die-off of seagrass, Chessie survived.
To my great regret, I missed Chessie when he stopped for a short visit in the local harbor in 2011.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly at The Other McCain.
Grading Yourself is Tough
If you give yourself too good a grade, and people will think your cheating; give yourself too bad a grade and they might thing you aren't trying very hard, and not give you more money to do what your doing. A B- seems about optimal to say we're trying hard but we need more help! WTOP: Maryland gives itself B-minus for adapting to climate change in coastal areas
So how is Maryland doing when it comes to confronting the rising temperatures, stronger storms and increased flooding already being experienced due to climate change?
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) has collaborated with the Adaptation and Resiliency Work Group of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and the Department of Natural Resources on a first-of-its-kind report card that gives a snapshot of the current adaptation status in Maryland’s coastal counties and establishes a framework for measuring future progress.
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The report card, which was released Friday, gives the state an overall grade of B-minus. However, the review outlined several shortfalls that could lead to more significant damage.
“Some indicators that were measured already meet, or are close to meeting, current adaptation goals, while others require significant investment to achieve adaptation goals,” the scientists and researchers who compiled the report wrote.
The report card comes as the General Assembly prepares once again to consider aggressive legislation to address climate change in the state. The Senate and House could not agree on the best approach to the legislation in the final hours of last year’s legislative session.
"We're trying really hard; if only we had more money!
Oregon, My Oregon
PM, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown pushes executive clemency for criminals despite rise in violent crime
Oregon’s Democrat Governor Kate Brown has made a push for clemency towards criminals, prompting outrage among state prosecutors due to her refusal to address the surge in violent crime.
Prosecutors argue that the Governor’s efforts to use executive clemency is making it difficult for them to put dangerous criminals in prison.
"This is the massive release of violent criminals through a process which violates the legal requirements of law," stated Kevin Mannix, the president of Common Sense for Oregon and the lawyer whose firm is bringing a lawsuit against Gov. Kate Brown on behalf of two district attorneys and the families of three murder victims, Fox News reported.
Portland, Oregon’s largest city, saw a massive surge in violent crime, particularly homicides. In 2021, the number of homicides in the city went up to 85, up from 57 I n 2020. There were only 36 murders in 2019, and 26 in 2018. The number is not expected to fall.
Mannix and the plaintiffs he represents argue that the 1,000 convicts Brown released from prison early after March 2020 have contributed to the state’s rise in crime.
"Recidivism, or repeat conviction rate, for violent criminals is at least 40%," Mannix said to Fox News. "Sure, we try to rehabilitate people. We try to change their lives, and we should keep trying. But the prediction I would make is that 40% of these violent criminals are going to commit another violent crime."
They voted poorly.
So how's that Greater Idaho movement going?
In a Fit of Mass Formation Psychosis, Justice Breyer Says Sayonara
Sorry about the title, but Stacey wanted to know if We Can Make Thursday ‘Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day’? (followed up with ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ and the Censorship of COVID-19 Criticism). I'm not really all that keen on the term myself, which seems to describe media and goverment lead, global gaslighting of whole populations of susceptible people. As such, it can relate to almost any topic. I don't much worry about the WuFlu anymore. Omicron is the cure; if you're not highly vulnerable, catch it.
Say, Justice Breyer resigns. The media and Democrats will gaslight us on how significant and necessary it is for Biden to get his pick; any opposition will be considered racist, and sexist (since we all expect the nominee for the position to be black and at least nominally female. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition), at the Volokh Conspiracy, NBC News Reports Justice Breyer Will Retire WaPoo, Breyer to retire, giving Biden first Supreme Court pick of his presidency and Breyer replacement to be named relatively quickly. The Peacock, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire, giving Biden a chance to nominate a replacement. Althouse fairly glows after seeing in in the NYT, Breyer will retire! She's not all that kind to the NYT, though. At Haut Hair, AllahPundit notes the obvious in Breaking: Stephen Breyer to retire "Ol’ Justice Breyer knows how to read a poll. The House is gone and the Senate increasingly looks like a 50/50 status-quo best-case scenario for Democrats in 2023." Sundance at CTH, As Expected, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Will Step Down, Biden Will Likely Nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson. Ace, With Democrat Control of Senate Due to be Lost, Leftwing Ideologue and Democrat Partisan Steven Breyer Announces Retirement, "Brandon vows to nominate the first black female justice. Is Kamala finally positioned for success? Meanwhile: does Sonia Sotomayor's intemperate rant give away that a preliminary vote was taken and Roe is going to be overturned or rendered dead letter?
But did he really intend the news to get out, Fox's Shannon Bream hears otherwise, Shannon Bream@ShannonBream "Multiple sources tell me Justice Breyer was not planning to announce his retirement today. They describe him as "upset" with how this has played out. We still await any official notice from his office and/or the #SCOTUS public information office." Paul Bedard at WaEx, By-the-book Breyer said to be miffed retirement leaked. AllahPundit, Uh oh: Breyer "upset" that news leaked, wasn't planning to announce retirement today, reports claim, "I’m dying to know who’s responsible for this sh*tshow."
I’m thisclose to embracing the conspiracy theory that Breyer didn’t intend to retire at all and a liberal source tried to force his hand by making up a lie about an imminent announcement and feeding it to the press. If he’s not going to retire voluntary, progressives will have to take matters into their own hands by ginning up a media frenzy that all but requires him to do so!
Althouse, "Oh? I'd forgotten that he'd pledged to choose a black woman. Isn't that inconsistent with his 3 reasons for not giving us a list?". An inconsistent politician? Heaven forfend! At JTN, Amid speculation that Biden will nominate Harris to SCOTUS, Psaki says Biden-Harris will run in 2024. AllahPundit sighs at a Report: No, Biden's not going to put Kamala Harris on the Supreme Court. Would she be worse than Sotomayor? PM notices Liberals who harassed Sinema and Manchin now need them to push Biden's Supreme Court pick through. Ooof, I don't think Sinema is a problem' Manchin, on the other hand. . . His voters won't be pleased.
Will the Breyer confirmation process give Biden enough boost to stop the bleeding? AllahPundit has No confidence: Biden's numbers turn negative on every major issue in new Pew poll (Pew Pool, Biden Starts Year Two With Diminished Public Support and a Daunting List of Challenges) and Red wave or red wedding? GOP surges to highest numbers yet in generic ballot polling "“Well, at least it can’t get any worse than this,” Joe Biden is thinking as he scans this Monmouth poll. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, Vladimir Putin picks up the phone and gives the “go” order to his generals outside Ukraine…" Capt Ed at Haut Hair catches Republicans catching the blame, WaPo, Zogby: Dems starting to abandon Biden -- but is Biden's lying or GOP "intransigence" to blame? Even Chris Cilliza at CNN sees 8 terrible numbers for Joe Biden in the new Pew poll. Josh Kraushar at National Journal, Red wave alert for Senate Democrats. Capt. Ed again, Morning Consult: Biden down nine points against a generic Republican, but ... never doubt the ability of Republicans to f*ck things up.
Chris Barron at PI opines, With Biden You Get All Of The Drama Of Trump Without Any Of The Benefits and at Wa Ex, Byron York thinks Biden drags Democrats down. At the NY Sun Larry Kudlow sees A Perfect Storm Engulfs Biden Over Economy, Europe, and Asia.
At Star News, Far-Left Group Launches Campaign to Remove Arizona Sen. Sinema from Office, but according to Capt. Ed Kelly tells AZ Dems: Knock off the attacks on Sinema
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| Morgan Ortagus - perfect for the 'leg' seat |
Politico thinks Dr. Oz stumbles out of the gate in Senate race,
"In his first tests as a candidate, the celebrity physician fails to impress Pennsylvania GOP activists." I'm unsure on Dr. Oz.
Fox, Hoyer agrees with Biden that midterms could be illegitimate, then walks it back, "His office said after a backlash he does not believe elections will be illegitimate without 'voting rights' legislation" prompting AllahPundit to whine Time for another top Democrat to suggest that the midterms might not be legitimate. George Korda from Knox News, From Biden to Blackburn, from CNN to Fox, just stop with election fraud nonsense. Put the period after "stop." Bulwark Girlz Phil Rotten, The DOJ is investigating the phony electors. Criminalizing election disputes. Logan Washrurn at Da Fed, ZuckBucks-Connected Private Organization Taught Election Officials To ‘Control The Narrative’ About Mail-In Voting. Atop the Hill Government demands to remove Twitter content hit record high. J Christian Adams at PJ Media notes that DeSantis Aims to Fix Failure to Prosecute Florida Election Crimes.
At CNS News, Could Border Malfeasance Lead to Impeachment? Not 'Out of the Realm of Possibility,' Sen. Cotton Says. Failure to defend the country.
Joe Cunningham at Red State says The Biden Administration Signals That Florida Belongs to the Republicans Now, by revoking the emergency use authorizations on monoclonal antibody treatments. They hate you and want you to die.
Althouse, cites Rudy Teixeira "Do they really believe that the Black voters who formed the base of the Democratic Party think like Ibram X. Kendi, or the leaders of BLM? Are they crazy?" Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition), Dun Surber Don Surber: A Mass Shooting Every Day This Year So Far and the First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch Is Horrified That Some Democrats Actually Want To Fight Crime and Legal Insurrection: “There Are Only Nine Meals Between Mankind & Anarchy”. Jazz Shaw at Haut Hair, Democrats running "defund the police" fan in Ohio swing district.
A WaPoo, Glenn Youngkin opines Virginia’s parents can decide what’s best for their children. What a novel idea! They won't always be right, but on balance, they'll be right more often than the schools. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition), at Am Great Eric Lendrum sees Virginia Governor Youngkin Opens Tip Line for Parents to Report Teachers who Teach Critical Race Theory prompting Jim Acosta to say I didn't expect Glenn Youngkin to institute a "Soviet-style police state" in Virginia. To his credit, AllahPundit debunks that claim. At Fox Business a video where Markowicz shuts down 'petty tyrants' trying to silence parents. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Morning Edition) at Am Great Eric Lendrum reports Virginia Shuts Down Plans For Race-Based Math Curriculum, “For the last year, local school boards and the media have insisted that critical race theory is not in our schools, dumbing our kids down,” said PDE’s Asra Nomani. “But it is in our schools, putting us in a race to the bottom, especially with math and sciences.” Good.Campus Refor reports University quietly changes controversial policy, months after telling College Republicans not to campaign for Youngkin Nick Arama at Red State, Must Watch: VA Republican Lights up Dems for Calling GOP 'Racist' and 'Sexist' and at Twitchy, ‘Straight fire’: Virginia Rep. torches Dems whose kneejerk reaction to disagreement is to cry ‘racist’ or ‘sexist.’ At Haut Hair, John Sexton catches the Slantic admit School masking 'is not justified by the data'
At WaEx, 'Let's go Brandon': Loudoun County father famous for school board rant announces bid for Congress
Also via the Wombat, Don Surber, Democrats Dump BLM. Legal Insurrection: UT Austin Students Fret Over Defunded Police Not Monitoring Sex Offenders, CUNY Profs Sue – Claim Union Is “Anti-Semitic & Anti-Israel”, and Washington U In St. Louis Holding Event On “Professionalism As A Racist Construct”.
I'm going to pass on J6 stuff; it's thin; Maybe tomorrow will be better.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly at The Other McCain.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Bravo! No Dissent Permitted
Bravo has fired Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jennie Nguyen over posts she shared on social media calling out the Marxist, far-left organization Black Lives Matter and slamming rioters amid the summer 2020 riots that spread across the country after the death of George Floyd.
“Bravo has ceased filming with Jennie Nguyen and she will no longer be a cast member of ‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,'” Bravo said in a statement. “We recognize we failed to take appropriate action once her offensive social media posts were brought to our attention.”
“Moving forward, we will work to improve our processes to ensure we make better informed and more thoughtful casting decisions,” the statement said.
Bravo appeared to be reacting to woke mob pressure demanding the network fire Nguyen after they discovered the Real Housewife star shared conservative memes in 2020.
One meme allegedly shared by Nguyen read: “If you follow the officers orders, you won’t get shot,” according to a report by Page Six.
Another meme read: “I’m sick of people saying cops need more training. You had 18 years to teach your kids it’s wrong to loot, steal, set buildings a blaze, block traffic, laser people’s eyes, overturn cars, destroy buildings and attack citizens. Who failed who?”
A third meme allegedly shared by Nguyen reads as follows:Hundreds of blacks shot and many killed (including children) by other blacks every week. Over a thousand Officers violently injured, some permanently, by rioters. Anarchists rioting in major cities every night, which has caused billions of dollars of destruction to private and public property. And you still think Police Officers are the problem. You are an idiot.Nguyen is a Vietnamese immigrant who escaped communism, noting in an episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City late last year: “I lived through the war and so because of the Communist country, we need to just escape.”
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| Jen Shaw |
While Nguyen has been fired for sharing conservative memes, Bravo appears more lenient for its cast members who get arrested for allegedly engaging in fraudulent schemes. Last year, Real Housewives star Jen Shah was arrested during the filming of season two, reports Us Weekly.
“Jennifer Shah, who portrays herself as a wealthy and successful businessperson on ‘reality’ television, and Stuart Smith, who is portrayed as Shah’s ‘first assistant,’ allegedly generated and sold ‘lead lists’ of innocent individuals for other members of their scheme to repeatedly scam,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said.
“In actual reality and as alleged, the so-called business opportunities pushed on the victims by Shah, Smith, and their co-conspirators were just fraudulent schemes, motivated by greed, to steal victims’ money,” Strauss added. “Now, these defendants face time in prison for their alleged crimes.”
Shah was able to resume filming for season two just one month after her arrest.
So, actual criminal behavior is OK, but expressing dissent from liberal orthodoxy is verboten. Got it.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly at The Other McCain.
Forget It Larry, It's Baltimore
The Dundalk Eagle, State sues city over Back River, Patapsco sewage plant pollution
State environmental regulators last week filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City alleging environmental law violations at the city’s two sewage treatment plants, claiming the over-polluted discharge the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant has “contaminated the surface waters of Back River and Bear Creek.”
The Maryland Department of the Environment is asking a judge to order the city into compliance with their pollutant discharge permits, and to fine the city up to $10,000 for each of thousands of days worth of alleged violations at the Back River plant, which is located within Dundalk but is city-side property, as well as the the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant in Wagner’s Point.
In the lawsuit, the state accuses the city of breaking their sewage discharge permits’ limits on discharging pollutants into waterways, as well as failing to report both non-compliance with their permit and sampling results.
The complaint also accuses the city of improperly testing samples, failing to conduct necessary maintenance and not keeping an adequate staff at the plants. During a June inspection at the Back River plant, state regulators discovered that out of the 76 operators there, only two had a permanent license, with the rest holding temporary licenses.
It's racist to try to make Baltimore not dump it's shit into Chesapeake Bay.
Forget It Jake, It's Baltimore
Fox 45, Driver shot in face after running out of gas in N.E. Baltimore
Baltimore police said a man was shot in the face in northeast Baltimore overnight while he was sitting in his vehicle.
The 57-year-old victim had run out of gas at about 3:04 p.m. on Kirk Avenue near Montpelier Street.
An armed man approached him and ordered him out of the vehicle. When the victim refused, the suspect shot him in the face.
The victim is expected to survive; he was taken to an area hospital.
He was one of three people shot in the city since Monday evening.
Which begs the question, what was he doing in NE Baltimore?
Hump Day Political Hilarity
We're still following fallout from Biden's "You stupid son of a bitch" comment to Fox's own Peter Doocy. At Da Caller, ‘I Do Not Agree’: Jake Tapper Refuses To Play Along With Jimmy Kimmel’s Roast Of Fox News Reporter. Points to Jake. But Jim Acosta is still wallowing in self pity, CNN's Jim Acosta: I still have 'marks on my back' from standing up to Trump, "Acosta: 'I never got an apology' from Trump for his insults." Did he ever actually swear at you? I don't think so. And I have a question; what happened to Acosta after Trump? His star seems strangely faded. Ace woke up in the afternoon and noticed Media Got Its NPC Programming Update: Biden Wasn't Snapping At Doocy, He Was Merely "Deadpanning", "It's amazing how fast the NPCs update once that notification goes out." Monica Crowly at NYPo notes Joe Biden’s kindly uncle routine has always been a facade — he’s dangerous, just ask Justice Thomas. Chris Krisinger at Am Think wonders Is It Too Much to Expect That President Biden Abide By His Own Promise?. Hypocrisy is universal among politicians, but Democrats are far less likely to be called on it.
Joe's unpopularity continues to soar. HE, Biden’s Approval Rating Plummets Again…to 41 Percent according to Pew. From Da Wire, Biden Approval Rating Plunges To New Low , 39% at the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll. CNS News, Gallup: Only 37% of Americans View Biden as a 'Strong and Decisive Leader.' That many? Breitbart, Poll: Majority of Voters Think Economy Is Unfair Under Biden "Roughly 60 percent of voters think the economy is “not very fair” (29 percent) or “not at all fair” (31 percent), according to a Rasmussen poll released on Monday." At WaEx, Paul Bedard has a Zogby poll which says Biden lied to get elected and life is worse. Scott McKay call it Our Own Scottish Tragedy? "Aside from the mask, Joe Biden’s beginning to look a lot like Macbeth, "The Scottish tragedy is all about a guy who did what it took to grab political power he shouldn’t have rightly had, and unsurprisingly it all went exceptionally wrong. That sounds quite familiar." At Da Wire, Psaki Appears To Struggle To Answer What Biden Was Doing Today, Then A Reporter Tweeted Photos Of Biden going to an ice cream shop where he got one scoop. AllahPundit at Haut Hair repeats the rumor that White House "terrified" that Biden will get COVID. But I though he destroyed the virus!
'Bonchie' At Red State, Tensions Boil Over in the Biden Administration After Ron Klain Is Thrown Under the Bus. "Yet, I think it would be a big mistake for anyone to believe that Klain’s departure (likely to occur after the mid-term shellacking the Democrats are going to get) will somehow improve things for the Biden administration." At Town Hall, Kurt Schlichter encourages you to Savor the Democrats’ Humiliation.
Sucks for the Dems that they have no choice but to stagger on toward ruin, accumulating ever more failures and disgraces, all the while doing the impossible and making the Republican Party look good, if only in comparison. But this is more than just a bad electoral cycle. Everyone has up years and down years. This is something much worse. This is a head-first dive into a cesspool with their eyes and mouths wide open.
Sundance at CTH is eager to report that Jim Cooper Becomes 29th House Democrat Who Will Not Attempt Reelection Bid. The Tennessee Star confirms Tennessee U.S. Congressman Jim Cooper Announces He Will Not Seek Re-Election. John Sexton at Haut Hair, Another House Democrat announces retirement (but Nancy Pelosi will run again). What was that last one? KRON 4 San Fran, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to seek re-election. Fox, Pelosi announces re-election bid ahead of 2022 midterms.'Bonchie' says Nancy Pelosi Makes a Panic Move and Sets up a Showdown With Her Own Party. Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media, Like a Hobo's Bad Foot Odor, Pelosi Is Sticking Around.
NYT, cited at Haut Hair thinks that With some voters ready to "move on," Dems search for new message on COVID. I know, how about some interparty warfare! Jazz Shaw, also at Haut Hair, Democrats drawing up midterm primary hit list, "Multiple sitting Democrats are in the crosshairs in both the House and the Senate and candidates are being courted to take them out." KT, also at Haut sees a Hair Texas primary battle rematch is wide open thanks to convenient timing of an FBI raid. We're not saying it's political interference, but we're also not saying it isn't.
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At Da Wire Gabe Kaminsky points out Biden Court Nominee Argued Voter ID Requirements Are ‘Same Playbook’ As Jim Crow. William Doyle at Am Great counters, Democrats in 2020 Wrote the Book on Voter Suppression and Election Subversion, "Joe Biden is right in saying that voter suppression and election subversion must be stopped. The problem for Democrats is that they have seen the enemy in the mirror." Also from Am Great, Albin Sadar, When Will People Finally See the Obvious? "Americans are waking up to the many ways the Left has lied to them over the last several years, but too many still believe the Democrats’ narrative about the 2020 election. Why?" At Town Hall, Maureen Riordan opines We Don’t Want the Justice Department Running our Elections
For example, during the 2000 Florida recount, I personally observed Voting Section staff discussing strategies to assist the Democrat Party while receiving and sending faxes to Democratic National Committee and campaign operatives.
Don’t just take my word for the Department of Justice’s misbehavior and abuses of Section 5. The Department has even been sanctioned by federal courts. Between 1993 and 2000, the Voting Section was sanctioned over $2 million.
At WaEx, Justice Department investigating fake 2020 Trump elector certificates. I still say they were preparing the paperwork ahead of time for an eventuality than never occurred.
Gratefully, a relative dearth of news on the Jan. 6 front. At the PI, House Select Committee Refuses To Say When Transcript Of Interview With Capitol Riot Figure Ray Epps Will Be Released. They're hiding something. Mike LeChance at LI, #WalkAway Founder Brandon Straka Sentenced to Three Months Home Confinement and Three Years Probation Over Jan 6, "The judge “said Straka was not being sentenced for his First Amendment protected speech, but rather for his conduct”"
"Straka encouraged people to walk away from the Democratic party and encouraged people to make videos explaining why they left the left."
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According to prosecutors, Straka used his “significant public profile” to promote his activity on Jan. 6, and went to join the riots after having learned the Capitol building had been breached, encouraging others to do the same. He also recorded video of rioters entering the Capitol and encouraged them to take a police officer’s shield…
Did Kamala use her “significant public profile” to promote riots? Sure seems like it to me. Tristan Justice at Da Fed claims an Exclusive: House Republicans Demand Records Over Capitol Police Surveillance Of Constituents. Spying on the opposition? Looks that way. Also from Tristan, Bill Tracker Dings Republicans, But Not Democrats, For Questioning Election Certification, "Democrats who made similar objections in 2017, 2005, and 2001 remain on the website with no such descriptor." Regarding the Whitmer kidnapping trial, James Gagliano at NYPo notes The obsessive pursuit of woke domestic-terror laws isn’t making us safer, but it is serving their political goals and George Parry at Am Spec, Your FBI in War, Peace, and Swingers’ Clubs, "In today’s surveillance state, the FBI can coax otherwise harmless political grievances into full-fledged conspiracies."
Ace wakes up (again) to notice New Virginia AG Jason Miyares Fires Two Virginia University Lawyers, One of Them Currently Serving as... Head Investigator of the January 6 Committee, "This guy's awesome." John Sexton at Haut Hair catches the fact that Politifact's fact-check of Va Lt. Gov. appears to have missed something. The truth. At NYPo, Parents wise up about Critical Race Theory.
Regarding the war on masking in schools, From Da Wire, Jen Psaki Won’t Say If White House Believes Parents Know What’s Best For Their Kids. Because she knows the truth won't help. Also at Da Wire, NY Parent Told Maskless 8-Year-Old Will Be Segregated, Not Given ‘Instruction’ Despite Court Ruling but ABC 7 (NY), Masks required in NY schools today, judge grants stay pending appeal on mask mandate ruling. At Fox Business a video, Markowicz shuts down 'petty tyrants' trying to silence parents, "New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz says we can't 'stop our lives indefinitely' over COVID. All irrelevant. If you haven't had Omicron, you probably will.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly at The Other McCain.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Maryland, My Maryland
Da Caller, National Democrats Intervene To Protect Gerrymandered Maps In Maryland
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is preparing to wage a legal battle to protect gerrymandered Congressional maps in the state of Maryland, Fair Maps Maryland announced Monday.
According to Fair Maps Maryland, an organization aligned with Republican Gov. Larry Hogan which seeks to end partisan gerrymandering in the state, the DCCC filed a motion to intervene in ongoing litigation over Democrats’ proposed Congressional maps. If granted, the DCCC would become a legal defendant in the case on the side of defending the gerrymandered maps.
The motion was filed by attorney Marc Elias, former general counsel to the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign and founder of Democracy Docket, a website dedicated to covering election law news from a progressive perspective.
Elias has been an outspoken critic of gerrymandering done by Republicans in states like North Carolina, but would now be defending gerrymandering done by Democrats if the motion to intervene is granted.
Marc Elias is a Clinton crony and also a principle in the creation and promulgation of the Russiagate hoax. He and the DCCC should mind their own damn business. But this gives me some reason to suspect that there's a chance (however small) for gerrymander reform in Maryland. If not, they wouldn't have bothered.
Beach Report 1/25/22
Then Georgia found this big White Shark tooth laying at the high tide mark.
The best day in a fair while.
Civility Alert: Biden to Doocy - "You Stupid SOB"
Yesterday's flash in the pan story was Preznit Biden calling Fox White White House correspondent Peter Doocy at stupid son of a bitch into an open mike, when Doocy shouted an unwelcome question about inflation. I have to break my no twitter rule again:
A reminder from Townhall.com @townhallcom "Joe Biden in January of 2021: "But I'm not joking when I say this, if you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot." Needless to say he didn't resign. Dooce took it in stride, Sister Toldja at Red State, Peter Doocy Has Appropriate Response to Biden Attack as Other ‘Reporters’ Show True Colors "“So Doocy, I think the president’s right, you are a stupid SOB,” co-host Jesse Watters quipped. . . .“Yeah, nobody has fact-checked him yet and said it’s not true,” Doocy replied." At Twitchy, Peter Doocy tells Sean Hannity what Biden said to him during phone call after ‘stupid son of a b*tch’ insult. It's Nothing personal, pal! Meanwhile, the media that had hissy fits when Trump was nasty to their guys (although, I don't believe he ever swore), went into Biden protective mode. Twitchy, ‘CNN has received the talking points’: President Joe Biden ‘deadpanned’ that stupid SOB line about Peter Doocy.Biden to a Fox News reporter asking about his inflation crisis: "What a stupid son of a bitch" pic.twitter.com/epOJL02o1Y
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 24, 2022
Meanwhile, the Biden popularity streak continues. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.24.22, Weasel Zippers:
NBC’s Chuck Todd Says Biden “No Longer Viewed As Competent &
Effective”. Mediaite,
Chuck Todd Reports on Latest NBC News Poll: Biden is ‘No Longer Seen as
Competent’. "No longer? Who ever thought it was in his skill set? At NewsBusters,
NBC's Todd Admits Dems in 'Shellacking Territory' Ahead of Midterms. Rasmussen's Daily Tracking poll, "for Tuesday shows that 40% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President
Biden’s job performance. Fifty-nine (59%) disapprove. The latest figures
include 18% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 50% who
Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of
-32. (see trends)." Also from the
Wombat, The Lid:
Staggering Majority Says U.S. Headed In Wrong Direction and The Coming Dethronement of Joe Biden "Biden’s situation presents
the unnamed committee who actually runs the presidency with a huge and
delicate problem. It can’t last," from Roger Kimball at Am Great. Also from
Kimball at ET, cited heavily at
Instapundit,
Of Cabals and Elections.
Politico cites Biden’s personal Covid fears as his excuse for not getting out. To be fair, he's old, and that's a
risk factor. But he's more afraid of what it would do to his image.
At Da Caller, Psaki Admits Underfunding Of Police Is Partially Responsible For Soaring
Crime Rate. At Da Mail, They were loyal liberals who never dreamed of voting Republican but the
damage done to kids by the Left's Covid hysteria is driving a wave of moms
away from the Democrats. When you've lost SNL, 'SNL' Weekend Update: Biden needed 2-hour press conference to 'list
everything that’s gone wrong' (Fox). And Beto! Matt Margolis at PJ Media, LOL! Beto Doesn't Want Biden Anywhere Near Texas During Campaign. Capt. Ed at Haut Hair catches AP wondering: Is Biden losing black voters? Stacey Lennox at PJ Media, Florida Is so Red, Democrats Can't Even Field Candidates in Some 2022
Races. I&I, I&I/TIPP Poll: Americans Agree —McConnell, Pelosi, Fauci And Breyer
Should Ride Off Into The Sunset. Upper age limit needed all around.
Also from the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.24.22, Joy Pullman at Da Fed reminds us After Brutalizing Trump For Doubting Elections, Joe Biden And Jen Psaki
Tell Americans To Doubt Elections and Margot Cleveland adds Your Right To Vote Doesn’t Include A Right To Vote From Your Couch. 1945, How Joe Biden ‘Sided’ With George Wallace And Jefferson Davis. All three Democrats. Yahoo whines Pro-Trump death threats prompt bills in 3 states to protect election
workers, but have we checked to make sure they weren't hoaxes?
At Althouse, "What the Trump Documents Might Tell the Jan. 6 Committee/Following last
week’s Supreme Court ruling, the House panel has received material that it
hopes could flesh out how the attack on the Capitol came about."
This is an article in the NYT, which I'm reading because what I hope is that the material will show that Trump wasn't involved in planning or promoting breaking into the Capitol or committing any illegal acts. And isn't that what everyone should hope?
So I'm reading this article and setting to the side everything that is about Trump's belief that he really did win the election, his search for a legal path to victory, and his desire for a big, exciting rally showing strong support for this cause.
So, what does the NYT list? I've copied and pasted the whole text into my compose window, and I will now cut out everything I just said I was setting to the side:
Leaving nothing, literally. AllahPundit whines Gingrich: When Republicans take back the House, January 6 committee members will be at risk of jail BizPac, Newt says J6 Committee could face real risk of jail when GOP is back in power, Cheney leads response.
“You’re going to have a Republican majority in the House and a Republican majority in the Senate and all these people who’ve been so tough and so mean and so nasty are going to be delivered subpoenas for every document, every conversation, every tweet, every email, because I think it’s clear these are people who are literally just running over the law, pursuing innocent people, causing them to spend thousands and thousands of dollars in legal fees for no justification and its basically a lynch mob and unfortunately the attorney general of the United States has joined that lynch mob and is totally misusing the FBI,”I don't think there's any risk of jail, as long as they hire expensive lawyer and answer to the subpoenas. Donald Trump Jr.@DonaldJTrumpJr, "Liz Cheney & her Dem friends are using the J6 Committee as a weapon to target & harass their political opponents. Straight out of the Communist playbook!!! Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as it Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits." Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media warns GOP Dreams of Election Victory Revenge-Porn Are a Bit Premature. I agree.At Big League Politics, The Dersh says Jan 6 Committee ‘Reminds Me Of McCarthyism’. As Sauron's eye, Former Attorney General William Barr has spoken to January 6 committee. Hollywood In Toto thinks ‘J6’ Is Hollywood’s Attempt to Stop Trump 2.0. Of course it is. Truth has nothing to do with Hollywood. On Da Hill, Jan. 6 probe roils Cheney race in Wyoming. She is working hard for Democrat votes because she won't be getting many Republicans'.
“And I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down,” he added. “And the wolves are going to find out that they’re now sheep and they’re the ones who are in fact, I think, face a real risk of jail for the kinds of laws they’re breaking.”
The redoubtable Julie Kelly at Am Great asks a great question, Did the Justice Department Lie About Pence and Harris’ Location on January 6?. It matters because many "In every charging document, the government relies on section 1752 to define a “restricted building” as the location of the “President or other person protected by the Secret Service,” which would have included Pence and Harris." Harris was not there, and there is some question about when Pence was present. That should be easily determined. Patrick Gibbs at Am Think wonders Will the Arrogance of the FBI Ever End?. No. Dismantle it, and send the honest agents to the Marshall Service.
Da Wire catches another insurrectionist, MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross: People Need To ‘Pick Up A Weapon And Get Involved’ In ‘The War’ For America
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| At Insty, #JOURNALISM, UNDERMINING THE POLITY ON A DAILY BASIS: |
At RCP, The Left Doesn't Like School Choice. The Right Doesn't Need Them To. Any kind of choice. At PM, Progressives must stop fighting parents on education. Yeah, that'll happen. . . . At the College Fix, Professor: Opposition to critical race theory is ‘rebranded Nazi-style antisemitism’. Also at Insty, K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:
Tattoo Tuesday
Special edition; via Althouse: "What's Up With The Ignorant Tattoo Style?"
I just thought they were bad tattoo jobs. A link to some celebrity ignorant tattoo
Monday, January 24, 2022
James, Barren Island Restoration Going Forward
Da Balmer Sun, Chesapeake Bay island construction, key to slowing Eastern Shore erosion, gets $38M in new federal infrastructure spending
A project to rebuild two vanishing Chesapeake Bay islands — and thereby slow erosion along some of Maryland’s most vulnerable coastline — will receive $38 million under recently approved federal infrastructure spending, officials announced Thursday.
The money will go toward Army Corps of Engineers work to begin restoring Barren Island and to complete engineering fieldwork, drilling and testing on James Island. The islands off Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and others in the middle portion of the bay, have lost more than 10,000 acres of land mass since the late 1800s, according to the agency.
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| James Island in 2016 |
The projects also are considered key to the success of the Port of Baltimore, because the islands are being reconstructed using material dredged from the bay’s shipping channels. More space for the dredged material is needed as the port upgrades and maintains berths and channels to accommodate increasingly larger cargo ships that could otherwise call on other East Coast ports.
James and Barren islands long helped protect Dorchester County shores from Chesapeake Bay winds and waves, but as they have diminished, land loss has accelerated on the mainland. In Dorchester, shorelines have receded by as much as 600 feet over the past four decades, and with much of the county at just a foot or two above sea level, more losses are expected.
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| Looking across Barren Island in 2016 |
James Island shrunk by more than half from the mid-1800s to the 1990s, from 1,300 acres to 550, but is planned to be expanded to nearly 2,100 acres eventually. Barren Island is expected to grow to 72 acres of wetlands. Work on Barren Island is expected to start in September, while James Island construction is scheduled to begin in 2024.
The projects are expected to cost $1.7 billion over 30 years.
I look forward to fishing the rip rap walls on the restored James Island. But bare in mind, this isn't really about restoring the islands, it's finding a place to dump the dredge spoils from Baltimore Harbor.
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