Since we won’t be traveling back and forth to New Jersey any more this year due to the Moo Goo Gai Panic, we have two flights to re-schedule and use.  Fortunately, due to United’s having cancelled rescheduling fees for the duration of the Panic, we can do so at no cost other than making up for a difference in ticket prices.  So we’re thinking we’ll visit Alaska at least one more time, scouting for housing locations.  Our sense of urgency in moving away from Denver is growing daily, as is our worry that our (Democrat-controlled, mostly for several generations now) major cities may be only months away from destroying themselves.

But enough of that worry.  Now then…

One To the Links!

Is it time for a Blexit?

Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Matt Taibbi wanders off the reservation.  And further off the reservation!  This guy’s a committed statist lefty, but he’s right about the legacy media.

Civil Rights Leader Shelby Steele wanders off the reservation.  Relevant quote:

To look at black Americans, minority Americans, and say, you’re not carrying your own weight. You’re gonna go have a fit and a tantrum and demonstrate, [but] are you teaching your child to read? Are you making sure that the school down the street actually educates your child? Are you becoming educated and following a dream in life and making things happen for yourself? Or are you saying, I’m a victim, and I’m owed, and the entitlement is inadequate? I need more, and after all, you whites, you know racism has been here for four centuries with slavery and so forth, so it’s time for you to give to me.

Well, that’s an exhausted, fruitless, empty strategy to take. We’ve been on that path since the 60s. We’re farther behind than we’ve ever been, and we keep blaming it on racism, blaming it on the police. I’m exhausted with that. I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. Blacks during the ’50s took a lot of responsibility for their lives, because the government didn’t. My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third-grade education from the South. What civil rights bill is going to replace that? That value system?

And he was not exceptional. Across the community we lived in, those were the values. That is the problem. We have allowed ourselves to be enabled in avoiding our real problems by a guilty white society. It keeps using us and exploiting us as victims. If you really care about how minorities do, why don’t you ask them to do it? Why don’t you ask them to drop the pretense?

It’s the Left That Destroyed Legitimacy of Coronavirus Containment Measures.  No shit, Sherlock.

This Week’s Idiots:

Everybody knows you never go full retard.

You went full retard.  Never go full retard.

Ahead Retard Factor Eight!

And So:

Programming note:  Next week I’ll be taking a break from blogging for a few days, to free up more time for the fishing I’m planning to do.  So from Monday through Thursday there will be some placeholder posts, and regular posts will return Friday.  And on the following Monday, I’ll drop some details on the fishing trip, including (with luck) some photos.

On that hopeful note, we return you to your Wednesday, already in progress.

One thing about this “shelter in place” reaction to the Kung Flu is that I’ve had television news on more than usual.  It’s just as inaccurate, poorly researched and annoying as it ever was and I usually switch over to music by mid-morning, but in the meantime, I’ve been seeing a number of commercials hawking things like hearing aids that inevitably claim the products are “FDA approved,” making it sound like an endorsement.  Bullshit.

What a bucket of crap.  Most people don’t know how the FDA deals with medical devices, but this is my business.  Hearing aids, for example, are Class I (One) devices, not invasive, minimal risk.  The FDA does not approve these devices; all a manufacturer of a Class I device has to do is notify the FDA “we’re making these.”  FDA does not look at the device (unless a safety issue arises in use) and certainly does not approve them; they are regulated under a mass guideline for this type of device, but there is no inspection or approval of any company’s individual device.  The FDA’s stance on these is “…there’s no real risk to public health and safety from these types of devices.”  Never a statement of approval or efficacy.  These companies are peddling horseshit with this “FDA Approved” claim.

So, with that out of the way…

On To the Links!

California’s idiotic law requiring background checks for ammunition sales has been put on hold by a judge.  Good news, everyone!  Or, maybe not.  Bad news, everyone!  But the fat lady ain’t sang yet, so we’ll see.

Osama bin Laden’s backup plan to destroy America:  Make Groper Joe President.

I love a happy ending.

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment.  In 2020.  Flogging.  Banned.  2020.  Want to know when the Kingdom outlawed slavery?  1962.  Fucking savages.

North America is under a lot of stress.  The continent, that is.

RRRUUUUUSSSSSIIIIAAAA!!!

Queen Nancy endorses daffy old Groper Joe – but only after there are no other remaining options.

Also, Her Imperial Majesty Hillary I, Dowager Empress of Chappaqua, also endorses Groper Joe.  Paula Jones was unavailable for comment.

This Weeks Idiots:

Cristina Cuomo is an idiot.

Possibly-senile Groper Joe indulges in idiotic conspiracy theory.  And more of the same.

MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle is an idiot.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is an idiot.  Hey, at least for once it’s not Occasional Cortex.

And So…

So far it’s been a cold, damp last week of April here in our temporary New Jersey lodgings, making us all the more anxious to pull out of here at the end of May to our own Colorado, where the weather, if not the political climate, is much more to our liking.  But the thing about weather is that, sooner or later, it always improves.   Summer is coming!

And on that summery note, we return you to your Wednesday, already in progress.