01 April 2022

Friday Links - 1 April

New Neo Starts us off with. Why was the intelligence community wrong about Putin? But then they missed everything including the fall of the Soviet Union.

I think what should have been the biggest surprise was the scope and furor of the attack on Ukraine. But even that was apparently foretold in Chechnya, where apparently tons of civilians were killed. Russia’s actions in Syria, likewise. However, I suppose those were distinguished from Ukraine by being mostly Moslem populations, whereas Ukrainians are fellow Russian Orthodox. Perhaps our intelligence community didn’t think that Putin would unleash so much ferocity on a population that he claimed was a brother population to that of Russia.

Real Clear Policy - How Mississippi Flipped the Script on the Labor Shortage

The cause of this was simple: Federal unemployment expansions and bonuses were paying people more money to stay at home than they could make working. The solution to these woes plaguing our state was also simple. Governor Tate Reeves saw the need for swift action and, in June, Mississippi became one of the first states nationwide to opt out of these expansions and bonuses months before they were set to expire.

The View From North Central Idaho - Layers of fact checkers.

NASA: Giant asteroid to pay Earth a visit today; it will come horrifically close to our planet. How many errors or exaggerations can we find in this article? I found three.

Manhattan Contrarian - The People Promising Us "Net Zero" Have No Clue About The Energy Storage Problem

The problems of trying to provide enough storage to back up a fully wind and solar system without fossil fuels are so huge and so costly that you would think that everyone pushing the “net zero” agenda would be completely focused on these issues. And given that the issues are quite obvious, you would think that such people would be well down the curve with feasibility studies, cost studies, and demonstration projects to make their case on how their plans could be accomplished. Remarkably, that is not the case at all.

The Other McCain - ‘OK, Groomer’: Democrats Go All-In on Promoting LGBTQ to Young Children

If anyone ever doubted that most public-school employees are left-wing activists, that doubt has now been eliminated.

Ace at Ace of Spades HQ - Florida Gay Kindergarten Teacher: This Law Impacts My Ability To Talk About My Sex Life With Five Year Olds

So kindergartners need to know all about who you're Gay Going Steady With?

Legal Insurrection - Tucker Carlson Apparently One of the Main Reasons Chris Wallace Left FOX News

Alex Gutentag at Tablet MagazineThe New Authoritarians.

The cult of victimhood conjures the specter of fascism, misogyny, or white nationalism in order to justify blatantly repressive measures. This is why, for example, the professional class consistently portrayed unvaccinated people as Trump supporters even though in many major cities vaccine passports mostly excluded Democrat-voting Black residents from indoor establishments. Under the guise of combatting anti-vax extremism, woke liberal politicians embraced segregation and the exact kind of “systemic racism” they claimed to oppose.

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