I swear Joe Biden is going to get us all killed

 So far on this trip to Poland to rally NATO to the defense of Europe, Joe Biden has

1) threatened to respond "in kind" if Russia uses chemical or biological weapons;

2) told members of the 82nd Airborne they're about to deploy to Ukraine ("when you’re there, you’re going to see women, young people standing in the middle, in the front of a damn tank saying 'I’m not leaving.'");

3) specifically called for regime change in Russia (“For god’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”).

 

 

 

 

We're not supposed even to possess chemical and biological weapons.

Russia has stated NATO intervention in Ukraine is a cause for war with NATO.

Making removal of Putin the NATO objective is the existential threat Putin also says is a cause for war.

At least in 1984 when Ronald Reagan quipped in a sound check, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.", he was only joking.

The Reagan joke was deliberately leaked to embarrass him, which it did. But today's White House scrambles to correct all these Biden statements because none of them are jokes.

Joe Biden is the loose cannon on the ship of state. 

And they used to call this guy a dunce.

 

 

That right there is what you call a lady boner

 

Environmentalists sneered at Trump's promotion of natural gas, and Europe didn't want his Freedom Gas in 2019, now they're cutting deals for US LNG which Trump made the US the world's third top exporter of by 2019

EU strikes gas deal with the U.S. as it seeks to cut its reliance on Russia :

The White House said the EU said would work toward the goal of ensuring, until at least 2030, demand for approximately 50 billion cubic meters per year of extra U.S. LNG. This is “consistent with our shared net-zero goals,” it added.

 

U.S. liquefied natural gas export capacity will be world’s largest by end of 2022:

U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity has grown rapidly since the Lower 48 states first began exporting LNG in February 2016. In 2019, the United States became the world’s third-largest LNG exporter, behind Australia and Qatar. Once the new LNG liquefaction units, called trains, at Sabine Pass and Calcasieu Pass in Louisiana are placed in service by the end of 2022, the United States will have the world’s largest LNG export capacity. 

The environmentalist wacko Democrat Governor of Washington State Jay Inslee sneered at the idea of freedom gas:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Europe rebuffed Trump's LNG in 2019, preferring the cheaper Russian gas:

 

 

 

LOL Bob Woodward and Robert Costa for WaPo full of it again, can't produce one text showing Ginni Thomas "urged Meadows to overturn the 2020 election"

 Texts don't show.

 Urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn election...

Madeleine Albright: "I was so completely stunned . . . it was appalling news . . . so horrendous"

 

Look who's talkin', lady

  Mocked Putin as 'small, pale and almost reptilian' in final scathing op-ed... 

 

Even in death Madeleine Albright, who later in her life had said she was shocked to learn that she was Jewish, remains half-bright. 

 

The word "spinach" does not occur in the article headlined by Drudge

 Broccoli, Spinach Wards Off?

Failure by US health authorities to count COVID-19 cases in March 2022 is causing the case fatality rate to soar

 Case fatality rates in the US

January 2022: 0.30% (relatively few deaths compared with enormous case counts over 20m yielded this)

February 2022: 1.59% (consistent with adequate case counting as in 2020 and 2021)

March 2022 to the 23rd: 3.00% (case counting goes in the toilet)

2021 average: 1.38%

2020 average: 1.73%

Stupid beyond a reasonable doubt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seattle Times LOL on new DA Alvin Bragg who obviously developed reasonable doubt because his own prosecutors suddenly went for lesser charges:

weeks of escalating disagreement between the veteran prosecutors overseeing the case and the new district attorney ...

 

While Dunne and Pomerantz were confident that the office could demonstrate that the former president had intended to inflate the value of his golf clubs, hotels and office buildings, Bragg was not. ...

 

Initially, Pomerantz and Dunne had envisioned charging Trump with the crime of “scheme to defraud,” believing that he falsely inflated his assets on the statements of financial condition that had been used to obtain bank loans. But by the end of the year, they had changed course and planned to charge Trump with falsifying business records — a simpler case that essentially amounted to painting Trump as a liar rather than a thief.

This flashcard was missing from Judge Jackson's Senate hearing prep

 

"Pick the one that's not like the others"

A public service announcement

 

AP Obama, lying sacks of shit: "As coronavirus cases plummeted around the United States this year ... after months of case declines ..."

 The Wall Street Journal shapes the news to one end, AP Obama to another end.

All this in a story about oooooh, Biden press secretary gets COVID-19 for a second time.

She's double jabbed and boosted.

Meanwhile AP Obama is COMPLETELY IGNORING that January's cases set a pandemic record, after which Biden has given up on testing despite criticizing Trump for not testing enough.

Why? So he can put the pandemic behind us.

Biden sees the public has given up, and he's simply doing the same thing.

Meanwhile Omicron is running rampant out there, Biden has given up testing for it, and many vulnerable people will continue to die as a result.

No one gives a damn.

PSAKI INFECTED... 

Biden press secretary has COVID-19, won’t travel to Europe

 

 

 

Another difference between today's young people and the 98 million Americans 55 and over

March 22:

 Feel real-life pain in metaverse!

March 12:

1 in 3 Americans take pain meds every day...

US COVID-19 deaths in the first 21 days of March: 1,101 per day

 2021 average: 1,310 per day

First 80 days of 2022: 1,845 per day

LOL Wall Street Journal: "The S-300 from Belarus wasn’t among the systems that are being sent to Ukraine, one U.S. official said"

 That right there is an unnamed US source quoted for plausible deniability, primarily for Russian consumption. The link is free to read at Drudge.

USA Sending Soviet Air Defense Systems...
 

The story is an example of US disinformation involving a shell game of transfers of maybe this, maybe that, maybe here, maybe there.

Happy to see it!

WASHINGTON—The U.S. is sending some of the Soviet-made air defense equipment it secretly acquired decades ago to bolster the Ukrainian military as it seeks to fend off Russian air and missile attacks, U.S. officials said. ... in 1994 ... a Soviet-made transport plane was observed at the Huntsville, Ala., airport within sight of a major highway. It was later disclosed that the plane was carrying an S-300 air defense system that the U.S. had acquired in Belarus ... The S-300—called the SA-10 by NATO—is a long-range, advanced air defense system intended to protect large areas over a much wider radius. ... At least some of what the U.S. sent was from that base, said officials, who added that C-17s recently flew to a nearby airfield at Huntsville. ... [SECDEF] Austin last week visited Slovakia to explore if the country would send an S-300 from its arsenal. Slovakia has said that it would do so if the U.S. would provide it with a replacement . . ..

New study finds marijuana fails to reduce pain, anxiety, or depression in medical marijuana users but does increase addiction to marijuana, which supposedly doesn't exist

 Study Finds, here.

The Spratly Islands are now teeming with Chinese offensive weapons

OVER THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (AP) — China has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed South China Sea, arming them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment, and fighter jets in an increasingly aggressive move that threatens all nations operating nearby, a top U.S. military commander said Sunday.

U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino said the hostile actions were in stark contrast to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s past assurances that Beijing would not transform the artificial islands in contested waters into military bases. The efforts were part of China’s flexing its military muscle, he said. ...

A U.N.-backed arbitration tribunal that handled the case invalidated China’s sweeping historical claims in the South China Sea under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. Beijing dismissed the ruling as sham and continues to defy it.

More.

I haven't been posting much because I've been too busy being white

Besides Alexander Solzhenitsyn, lots of people in America and elsewhere have been very friendly with Vladimir Putin over the years

 

Things were different in 2007, and Solzhenitsyn would live only until the next year, but he did support Vladimir Putin at the time

 https://archive.boston.com/news/world/articles/2008/08/05/toward_end_solzhenitsyn_embraced_putins_russia/

Here's the lede:

MOSCOW - In the last years of his long and stubbornly contrarian life, Alexander Solzhenitsyn finally found a political system he could embrace: Vladimir Putin's Russia.

"Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people," Solzhenitsyn told Der Spiegel in a 2007 interview. "And he started to do what was possible, a slow and gradual restoration. These efforts were not noticed, nor appreciated, immediately."

 

 

 

51 former "intelligence" officials lied about Hunter Biden's laptop, and thousands of health "professionals" have been lying about the vaccines

 Seems like kind of a pattern for the Trump-Russia-dossier-collusion crowd who all just happened to vote for Hillary, too.

Story.

 

WaPo is full of it, as usual: Zelensky isn't sending "mixed messages"

The mounting death toll in Ukraine has forced President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider concessions to Russia in order to bring an end to the devastating conflict, but the specific elements of any peace deal his government may be discussing with Moscow remain a mystery to Western leaders . . . said U.S. and European officials.

But Zelensky said nothing of the sort, that's why it's a mystery, you dumbasses. You're just making this shit up.

WaPo is just pulling it out of their ass, here.

 

 

 

Breaking News LOL: Alcoholics Anonymous to resume alcohol sales next month!

 AA to Resume Alcohol Sales Next Month...

Wasn't this roughly what the experts said Trump's wall would cost?

 Asking for a friend.

White House Wants $22.5 Billion for More Covid Funding

Philip Wegmann, RCP

 

It probably never occurred to Volodymyr Zelensky that the deaths of 100 Ukrainian children wouldn't mean much to a country which has aborted 63 million of its own babies since 1973

 “Now I’m almost 45 years old. Today, my age stopped when the hearts of more than 100 children stopped beating. I see no sense in life if it cannot stop the deaths.”

Some of us have seen no sense in life, either, for a very long, long time.

NY Post: "If the markets don’t scream over a rate hike, it’s not enough"

 Hear! Hear!

Here.

LOL, US Senate votes "unanimously" for permanent daylight saving time, "probably the worst choice"

 The bipartisan bill is the work of perhaps the two dumbest people in the US Senate, Patty Murray and Marco Rubio, who represent the extreme northwest, the extreme southeast, and the nation generally.

While no time system will be perfect for everyone, making daylight saving time permanent would lead to a greater number of dark mornings than we have now, said Phyllis Zee, chief of sleep medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. ...

Experts say circadian misalignment has been associated with adverse effects on cognition and mood as well as cardiovascular and metabolic function. “It’s really not a good thing to have your internal body clocks out of sync,” Zee said. “Imagine being in jet lag a lot of the time; it can’t be good for you." ...

Zee said her “heart sank” when she saw the news of the Senate vote. “I thought there would be more of a discussion, that it wouldn’t be as unanimous.” Of the three potential time systems for the country to be on — permanent standard, biannual switching and permanent daylight saving time — she said, the last is “probably the worst choice.”

More.

 

The stock market didn't give a flying fig about the Fed's quarter-point interest rate increase today: Powell was way too timid, should have just gone with one full point

 The insanity of easy money is liked most by the stock market, which is why Powell is going slow on his way to two percent after he completes the six more increases he's promising over the next year.

If he thinks the rate ought to be 2% to curb inflation, well then get on with it, boy, and show us what you've got! Nip it in the bud if it's that big a FD.

Truth is they've got nothing, and intend to do nothing about inflation.

Inflation this high needs a bigger gun than 2% one year down the road. That's not how it was done in the 1980s, and 2% even if done right now won't do a damn thing.

This is just inflation theatre, just like the TSA war on terror security theatre, the this government theatre, the that government theatre, and lately the vaccine theatre.

Meanwhile the first in line to all this easy money keep getting richer, and richer, and richer.

Gotta keep that going while appearing to DO SOMETHING!

What a crock.

 

President Joe Biden is right to call Vladimir Putin a war criminal

There can be no going back to what was. Vladimir Putin must pay for his crimes, along with Russia.
 

This is what Ukraine needs far more than MIG-29s

 

High gasoline prices were a problem for Americans two months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a political problem for Biden

 

Joe Biden operates on a slower time schedule than the Congress, which hurriedly passed the spending bill 5 days ago to meet the deadline

 

"immediately"

The points made by the psychiatrist on the Clay and Buck Show sounded like they were taken almost verbatim from journalist Charles Mackay's 1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

 

I hope that psychiatrist's new book, buy it now!, properly credits The Science ™.

Hi, I'm president Joe Biden and the buck stops with COVID-19, Vladimir Putin, and high fuel costs, not with me

 Joe just wants you to forget that his anti-fossil fuel policies pushed gasoline from $2.09 to $3.44 in one year from his election, that he did nothing to dampen the NATO connections with Ukraine which have inflamed Putin, and that he failed to shut down the virus.

He also omits that his ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan broadcast the very weakness which was later on display when he promised Putin that US and NATO troops would not get involved in Ukraine. 

"Step right this way, Vladimir!"

Meanwhile at least we have president Emmanuelodymyr Macronsky of France to laugh at

 

LOL, as telegraphed on March 10th, Massachusetts subtracts 3,770 COVID deaths from total because they died of COVID longer than 30 days after infection

The new system will narrow the state’s definition of who died of COVID. Currently, Massachusetts records anyone who died within 60 days of a COVID diagnosis as having died from COVID, unless it is clear the person died from another cause, such as a traumatic accident. Under the new system, recommended by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, COVID deaths will now be those that occur within 30 days of a diagnosis. The council helps establish uniform methods for states to track and record various diseases. This “will also improve our ability to compare our data with data from other jurisdictions and other states,” Brown said. She said most, but not all, states have adopted this new method. ... The state for the first year counted anyone who had been diagnosed with COVID at any time as a COVID death. ... Most of the overcount, she said, occurred between the summer of 2020 and April 2021, before the state adopted an updated system. That updated method used the 60-day window, counting anyone who died within 60 days of a COVID diagnosis as a COVID death, as well as those in which COVID or an equivalent term was listed on their death certificate. ... Barbara Anthony ... said the Baker administration has been less than transparent about COVID death counts. She said the state did not publicly announce it had significantly changed its system for counting total deaths last April, when it switched to the 60-day method. ... “It’s mind boggling, frankly,” said Anthony, who also is a senior fellow in health care policy at the Pioneer Institute. “It’s not a transparent way to run an operation, and it undermines the faith of the public.”

Read the whole thing.

So, the real story is Massachusetts has changed its counting method TWICE to reduce an "overcount" mostly during the UK variant wave when most authorities increasingly look to excess death data and conclude that COVID death counts don't actually capture the true number of COVID deaths.

Massachusetts is completely counter trend.

 

 

 

 

Gold fanatics never mention the potentially bad tax news

 The war in Ukraine has pushed more investors into gold, which some see as a “safe haven” in volatile times, and fueled a price rally.  ...

And because the IRS classifies metal coins as collectibles, ETF investors face the top 28% tax rate that applies to all collectibles when they sell shares.

 

The IRS outlined this thinking in a 2008 memo. (While the memo doesn’t carry the weight of official law, accountants have largely accepted its rationale, Lewis said.) ...

 

Stock investors generally pay one of three tax rates on their profits — 0%, 15% and 20%, the top rate — based on their income. These rates are preferential with respect to an investor’s regular income tax rates, of which there are seven (10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37%).

Conversely, the capital-gains tax rate on collectibles aligns with these seven [ordinary income tax] rates, up to a 28% maximum. That means an investor whose annual income puts them in the 12% tax bracket would pay a 12% tax rate on their collectibles profits; an investor in the 37% bracket would be capped at 28% on their collectibles profits.

Read the whole thing.