Source: Reason.

The writer justifies her skepticism with a few relevant observations. Most interesting to me is that the universe of infrastructure is divided between publicly-owned and privately-owned assets, with the latter being in better shape. This makes perfect sense in light of the incentives of the asset managers. You could almost make a rule: Public ownership of infrastructure is a poor investment.

Going off the grid for the next few days. No email, smartphone or internet. Just good wine, good, food, good bourbon, good company and a good time away from it all.

Y’all play nice in my absence.

And stay outta my yard, you danged whippersnappers.

The use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been paused because 6 women had blood clotting problems, one of them fatal. This was out of 7 million doses given so far.

The pause will result in avoidable deaths due to the delay in getting the population vaccinated.

An evidence based approach would take into account that women are well known to have more clotting problems than men and that the combination of smoking and oral contraceptives results in a much higher incidence of clotting problems.

There is no reason at all to pause the use of the J&J vaccine in men, as there have been no cases involving men.

There is very little justification for the pause in women, but if the very rare events are a concern, then continue the use of the J&J vaccine for men and give women Moderna or Pfizer while the issue is studied, especially if they have other risk factors like past clotting problems or they smoke or take hormones.

But it is idiocy to leave J&J vaccine on the shelf while people are still dying.

Climate Media vs Climate Science

Science has not supported an existential treat at any point, and the consensus is moving toward moderation more every day, yet the press and politicians are running with Doomsday

If you don’t have WSJ, this article is good reason to consider it.

Source: American Thinker.

Whatever else goes on, the Sun will be cooling the Earth for the next 50 years, according to Prof. Valentina Zharkova. The mechanism is somewhat roundabout. In 2020 the Sun began a period of reduced activity called a Grand Solar Minimum. During such periods, the Sun’s magnetic field weakens such that all the planets in the solar system become exposed to higher levels of cosmic radiation. On Earth the increase in “cosmic rays” will induce greater cloud formation. The planet will cool, changing weather patterns and disrupting agriculture.

Continue reading “Dark, Cold Years Are Coming, So You’d Better Get Ready” →

Even the WP gives 2 Pinocchios on job claims

Biden is claiming his Infrastructure program will create 19 million jobs over 10 years. The claim is based on a Moody’s analysis but that same report also said the economy would add 16.3 million jobs without the $2Trillion program, so it is actually $2Trillion to add 2.7 million jobs, or $740,740 per job.

And that doesn’t account for the jobs lost to the planned corporate tax increase.

Today it’s about Marc Leishman, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Rose, Will Zalatoris and, Xander Schauffele, and the rest of the field. I got to say it – to have our hometown guy up there just strokes away from the lead on ‘Masters Sunday’ is almost too much! What a wonderful Masters champion Leishman would be. I know, I know, he’s not a Norfolkian, but Virginia Beach is just a hop and a skip down the road from Norfolk.

As for the other four – I have to go with Matsuyama next. He’s played sterling golf so far and, like the other guys, he’s never won a Masters. As for Will Zalatoris – I never heard the name before this week, but I like his style. I love his game and he gives a great interview. Xander Schauffele is cool and his game lacks nothing. Finishing yesterday with that par was serious stuff that he really needed to put him in the last group. And, then there’s Justin Rose; he’s great. He played that fantastic round on Friday that was totally pure. He’s almost as cool as DJ (without the swagger. ha.)

It kills me that DJ isn’t playing the weekend. He’s usually just HOT, but his game was a HOT MESS this time. At least I’ll get to see him put the green jacket on the on winner later today.

So, I have no interest this weekend in politicians – good or bad. Politics is just be-damned these past four days so far as I’m concerned. Don’t know, can’t care.

Hunter’s book of confessions

Is he that confident his Daddy will protect him?

Hunter Biden lied on the BATFE form 4473. He admits to being so crack addled at the time he bought a handgun that he was barely functional. He would have been denied had the answered truthfully about cocaine use. But he lied, which carries a penalty up to 10 years in prison.

But he has not been arrested, much less prosecuted, though this is not so unusual

Non prosecution of Form 4473 violations

So, why are we being told we need more gun laws when we don’t enforce those we already have?

How many times does a violator sell a book about his felony crime?

Climate is not the reason for migration

Turns out agricultural production is up and islands are growing contrary to the settled science. 

Embarrassing how experience keeps falsifying all those projections. 

People aren’t fleeing climate change, they are fleeing exactly the kind of government the Democrats are trying to give us here. 

Somebody has to enforce the Constitution

With only razor thin control of Congress, Biden has issued 60% more executive orders than any other President at this point in his term, many trying to bypass the legislative process to make fundamental change that should be fairly debated and adopted in a bipartisan matter, or not at all.

The Robert’s court has gone out of its way to defer to the legislative branch, but it is a mistake to believe it will be so lenient toward executive edicts .

As this develops, the textualist majority of the court may well have had enough and the Biden Agenda is about to walk into a prop.