The new "conservatism": The Republican sweep of Virginia's top offices is a narrow victory for MLKJr-ism over critical race theory, which isn't saying much

 The kooks on the left scared the normies.

It could have easily gone the other way.

Conservatism keeps redefining itself leftward.

The bots are mining me for content for the umpteenth time

LOL, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck agree that vaccinations bring down case counts

 

Good morning!

 Only 167 days until Easter.

Happy Reformation Day!

 

It's the weekend, time to practice kneeling

 

F is for Fauci: Lancet publishes study finding that vaccination does not prevent transmission of the India variant after elites blamed the August surge on the unvaccinated for months

... our findings suggest that vaccination is not sufficient to prevent transmission of the delta variant in household settings with prolonged exposures.

 

More.

LOL, Drudge gets his ungrammatical headline straight from the comments section to the story

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amazing he can spell "Kaepernick" but can't come up with "equates".

I turn on the radio just before the bottom of the hour, and what are Clay and Buck talking about?

 Halloween candy.

Not a serious country.

Tucker Carlson chalks up new illegal immigrant reparations scheme to Biden just acting in keeping with his other craziness, but this widely misses the mark

And of course, pretty much every morning, what we had assumed was a joke turns out to be entirely real. It's actually happening. The Biden administration really is that crazy. They really are firing thousands of nurses in the middle of a pandemic, firing thousands of cops in the middle of a crime wave. No, they're not kidding, even in the slightest, when they tell you that's a genuine female four-star admiral standing right there. Joe Biden isn't giggling. He tells you Rachel Levine's promotion is a victory for women everywhere, and he means it when he says it.

More.

Like the full court press by the federal government to exaggerate the January 6 debacle as an insurrection, the "reparations" scheme is designed to do just one thing: Paint the record of Donald Trump in the worst possible light.

One of the most distinctive features about America is how its leadership on both sides fails to take seriously the real problems facing the country while taking too seriously merely imaginary ones.

This is how a nation declines and falls.

Somewhere, out there, there's an iceberg, waiting for its moment.

Feynman lives: Ann Bauer believes in the ignorance of the experts because they helped kill her autistic son

 If you read nothing else about COVID-19 ever again, make sure you at least read this.

I Have Been Through This Before:

In the end, what I believe doesn’t really matter. History will out. Ten or 15 or 25 years from now there will a reckoning, deep research, a spate of biographies and memoirs from the people who spent 2020-21 under the sway of gurus. News media that trumpeted their wisdom and methods will issue brisk, researched, documentary-style reports. People will swarm out of the shadows to claim they didn’t really believe the experts embodied science and were secretly resisting all along; even those who preached their gospel and strong-armed the public’s obedience will insist they actually did not.

 

Jesse Kelly is a hot mess: An accident was a war crime, for which an acceptable consequence would be resignation

Draco will have to do better than that.

FDA panelist admits C19 vaccines are just one giant experiment on the American people

 Here.

 

 

Liberalism: Just shut up

 

Hells Angel in the Senate

 

Whitey gonna be hearin' about this: Community college enrollments down 14.1% in two years, elite college enrollments are back up to pre-pandemic levels

There were roughly 17.5 million students enrolled as of the last tally.

Combined with last autumn’s declines, the number of undergraduate students in college is now down 6.5% compared to two years ago — the largest two-year enrollment drop in the last 50 years, the report found. ...

Only the most selective colleges notched enrollment gains — up 4.3% — to return to pre-pandemic levels. ...

Community colleges remain the most adversely affected sector, experiencing a 14.1% total enrollment decline since fall 2019. ...

Community college students likely are older, lower-income and often balancing work, children and other obligations — and they are also disproportionately students of color. These are all groups that the pandemic hit especially hard.

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Montana school teacher and breakthrough case "mad that people won't get vaccinated" like she did and got sick anyway

 A lifelong Democrat.

Clay Travis, whose favorite holiday is Halloween, is the poster child for unserious America

 

Breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in wretched data manipulating Tennessee in Sep 2021: 16%, 13%, 15% respectively

Breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths showed modest declines compared to August proportions of 14% and 17% respectively. Since hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators, however, the rise in breakthrough cases from 14% to 16% may be a harbinger of more bad news in Tennessee.

The data isn't presented in a straightforward manner. Subtract the percentages shown in the table from 100 to get the breakthrough figures. I can imagine some idiot looking at that table, wondering what the hell he's lookin' at.

Vaccines do not make one bulletproof, as story after story makes plain. This is especially the case for the elderly, for whom the risk of death is the highest, vaccinated or not. Waning vaccine effectiveness is only the second biggest concern facing this group.

But in Tennessee you wouldn't know risk of death is highest if you are old anyway, if you relied on Tennessee's COVID statewide dashboard, hilariously entitled "unified command". You won't find death information visualized anywhere, let alone by age. Cases are visualized by age, which is even more misleading to the elderly since cases abound among the younger tranches, not the older.

You really have to hunt for the death data on a different page and download the data in XLS format from a long list of available data sets entitled "Daily Age Group Outcomes- Statewide case outcomes by age group", and then do the math. And do you see the word "death" in there anywhere?

It's really irresponsible. It's almost like Tennessee is trying to hide the deaths from its old people, and throw shade on the vaccines, by publishing the breakthrough data in a weird way, at the same time. A conspiracy theorist would say they're tryin' to get rid of 'em, real quiet like.

I count 13,119 deaths in TN to date from COVID in people 61 years of age or older, which is about 82% of all the pandemic deaths in the state.

Tennessee really, really sucks at this.

 

 

Suddenly Oklahoma is not showing breakthrough data like it had been

Last week's PROPORTION OF BREAKTHROUGH CASES BY MONTH OF ONSET AS OF OCTOBER 11, 2021 showed the percent of cases vaccinated for October to date at 9.8%, the highest for any month yet.

This week the table is missing, with this message:

At this time, we are currently working on refining the process for identifying breakthrough infections and reinfections. Once we have finalized this process, we will resume providing tables on breakthrough infections and reinfections.

I'm sure it's nothing.