WHO probe into COVID origins taps scientist who funneled NIH grants to suspect Wuhan lab

Chicago restaurants and bars reopen one week after Biden takes office

Imagine that.

A GUARDSMAN AT THE CAPITOL

“…My guard unit was called up last [week] to help secure the Capitol and has been providing security since [January 16]. In 48 hours of on-duty security I have not seen a single protester — only one drunk guy who cussed my 2nd platoon (which raised morale for a good two hours – soldiers like and respect fluent profanity).

Last night I saw probably 2000 riot-prepared soldiers unload from buses and enter the perimeter. This level of military involvement surpasses overreaction, skips past overkill, and pegs “insane.” Whoever ordered this response is completely out of touch with reality.

Twenty thousand is a difficult number to explain. It’s especially strange how it’s a much larger number, relatively, than in 7 A.D. when Varian lost about that many in the Teutoburg forest. But 20,000 troops is three times as many as I deployed to Kuwait with in 2019 for a rotation there, and that seemed huge.

The cost of having these troops in the District of Columbia for one week, including all the movement, food, hotel rooms, and medical probably runs over $100 million. It is just another data point that indicates the people running the country are not living in the same reality as the rest of us.

And now (I wrote my first draft several days ago) there is word that “some National Guard units” will remain in DC through MARCH to “guard the senate.” To guard the Senate? For THREE MONTHS?

May I just say, if you had any respect for the FBI or any belief that it was not a fully partisan organization, you were completely wrong. If there was any “credible intelligence” that there was enough of a threat to require 20,000 national guard troops at the Capitol this past week, then the FBI is completely failing. The fact that the alleged credible evidence was clearly inaccurate tells me that I should not ever trust the FBI with anything I would give a 19-year-old soldier…”

It’s a secret: California keeps key virus data from public

“…California Gov. Gavin Newsom has from the start said his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency.

But with the state starting to emerge from its worst surge, his administration won’t disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted.

State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public…”

Disney blocks children from watching ‘racist’ Peter Pan

We live in the age of stupid.

Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg defends Biden's elimination of Keystone pipeline jobs, saying those workers need to get “different ones”pic.twitter.com/T56f7aKp8D

— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) January 21, 2021

The decision to stop the project is a terrible decision. In response to a direct question about jobs lost, Buttigieg mumbles rambling platitudes about climate change and green jobs. They have not thought through the consequences of their decision because they don’t care. The decision is an ideological decision divorced from facts on the ground, economic concerns, or what is best for the country. The decision fulfills some kind of green ritual sacrifice. I don’t know how else to interpret it.

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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 23, 2021

It is almost as if the Democrats will cut off their nose to spite their face when it comes to preferred green pieties. These decisions which effect thousands of jobs, a major economic sector, income for multiple states, American international competitiveness, and international oil and gas prices seem completely divorced from the normal business analyses on which such decisions should be based. These are not hard-boiled, rational decisions. These are faith-based type decisions rooted in the secular religion of climate. Decisions based on the flaccid, academic, unproven, pseudo-science of global warming and the vain belief that man can change the earth’s climate by painting asphalt white, or not building a pipeline, or not drilling for oil. It is soft, confused reasoning that can’t stand even surficial probing as the questioning of Buttigieg shows. 

Decisions like this will soon have a significant depressing effect on American and global economies and new business development.

Nothing says, “This was a perfectly normal election, and now it’s time to come together as a united nation,” like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt.