If parents went to trial for assaulting or killing these psychopaths, I’d have to acquit them.


Parents furious after elementary school says to send kids in ‘warm jackets’ and ‘rain gear’ for COVID-mandated outdoor eating, forcing school to reverse course
California parents were seething after Patwin Elementary School officials emailed a notice advising parents to dress their children in “warm jackets” and “rain gear” for an upcoming school week that saw cold and rainy temperatures.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, all children are made to eat their lunches outdoors. Public outcry forced the school to change course on what many parents said was an absurd idea.


How in the fuck did I end up in a universe where school officials would even consider forcing children — the least vulnerable to ChinCOVID — to eat lunch outside in the cold rain?

In Georgia, any surviving faculty doing that would go to prison. After they got out of the hospital.

Well… maybe not in the Atlanta area.

For the record, this is what cases in that county look like.

Yeah, cases have been dropping for two months. Sure looks like a excuse for large-scale child abuse, eh?

Added: BTW, if anyone wants to tell Principal Gay Bourguignon what they think about her plan, she apparently attempted to scrub the school web site of her contact data. Sadly for the moron, she doesn’t know how HTML works.

patwinprincipal@djusd.net

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A Variant Of A Variant Of A Virus. Maybe.

At what point will they decide to call it SARS-CoV-3?


COVID Delta Subvariant Confirmed in US, Israel
During Wednesday’s White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky confirmed that the subvariant has been found in the U.S., though not in clusters.


But the really interesting point is this.


“In the United States, delta remains the dominant variant with more than 99.7% of sequence cases in the country being caused by delta,” Walensky said. “There are new variants that continue to emerge as cases continue to spread, and in particular, the AY4.2 variant has drawn some attention in recent days.


If they have viral isolates and are sequencing them, why hasn’t Walensky told her own people, who still say they don’t have an isolate?

If they’ve sequenced the virus(es), why are they still using a PCR test based not on an isolate, but rather on a dubious Chinese partial sequence and a by-gosh-best-guess?

These inconsistent “facts” coming out of the CDC aren’t helping much with the conspiracy theories.

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“We are BEYOND fucked.”

Seen on Twitter; Army Basic trainees being led in an MLK “cadence.”

A lot of people misunderstand military basic training; some never figure it out. Even as a 19yo punk going through Air Force Basic, I got some of it, more I figured out after the fact.

Basic attempts to do several things. Some of the more… basic include:

  • Shocking recruits out of lackadaisical civilian attitudes, and getting them toreflexively follow the instructions of those with more experience or information. That might save your life in combat.
  • Inculcating the habit of attention to detail, not because it much matters if your socks are folded “right” or your uniform gig line is straight, but because attention to detail becomes really important when working with high voltage, high power weapons, or high explosives.
  • Learn teamwork, because you need to know that your fellows have your back, and they need to know the same of you; even if you don’t particularly like each other.

There’s so much more. If you want in-depth analysis of the subject, read almost anything by John Ringo. (If we wanted a real military, selected Ringo works should be required reading. Very selected, I admit.)

Part of basic training is the instructors leading by example. The instructors wear perfect uniforms to show that it can be done, and that yes, the rules apply to them, too. Marching, ditto. All of it.

Look at that idiot leading the recruits on that march. They are all masked. Pointlessly, being outside and spaced out, and cloth masks like that being useless. But Sergeant (I can’t actually make out the rank) Super-Spreader? No mask, no example but a bad one.

I guess ChinCOVID spreads selectively by rank. NCOs can’t get it; as a former TSgt, that’s nice to know.

What is seen in that short clip is bad, really bad. Everything else implied by what’s seen is so very much worse. “Fucked” doesn’t even come close to expressing how screwed up it is.

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Let’s fix the trucking part of the supply chain mess…

…by fucking it up even more.


Report: White House Weighs Deploying National Guard to Confront Supply Chain Crisis While Pete Buttigieg Is MIA
As part of the review, White House officials have studied what kinds of driver’s licenses are held by National Guard members and if they would be sufficient to deploy them as truckers without hurting their ability to fulfill their existing responsibilities to the guard, the people said.


So these morons — accustomed to demanding the NatGuard pull their chestnuts (emphasis on “nuts”) out of the fire — want to find who has a CDL, and suddenly pull them off their routes — WTF do they think people with CDLs are doing now? — to work other routes. It’ll be interesting to see what, or rather whose, cargo gets prioritized; big campaign donors, I expect.

We’ve seen this in the medical field, too. As hospital staffing craters, idiot governors call up NG medical personnel to work selected locations, ignoring the fact that medical personnel were probably already working other locations for their real jobs.

Another point to consider: What are these proposed Guard truckers supposed to be driving? Will they call up independent owner/operators and require them to bring their own rigs? Would they nationalize the fleets of trucking companies?

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A Rose By Any Other Name

Yesterday, I mentioned the Chinese hypersonic missile test. This afternoon, I see that the Chinese are claiming it was just a spacecraft, not a missile.

I figure a hypersonic reentry vehicle is a hypersonic reentry vehicle, no matter what payload you decide to put on it.

You might recall that Project Mercury used Redstone and Atlas ballistic missiles for boosters. Gemini used the Titan III ICBM. And the Air Force has it’s own vehicle that can reach orbit, then reenter and land; the X-37B.

Missile? Spacecraft? If it lands, it’s a spacecraft. If it hits, it’s a missile. I touched upon that nebulous difference in my novel Net Assets, as one reason the dot-gov really wants to control launch capability (which I wish the idiots trying to build a “space port” near the nuke sub base would consider).

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I’m sorta gonna defend Biden on this one.


Biden Announced Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach Would Remain Open 24/7 to Relieve Bottleneck of Container Ships Waiting to Unload – But No One Listened
Last Wednesday Joe Biden promised the ports in LA and Long Beach would remain open 24/7 to relieve the bottleneck of container ships anchored offshore waiting to unload.


He said they’d be open, not operating. If he wanted them operating, he probably should have met with the shipping companies, not just the landlords.

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I’m a big bank?

Who knew? Oddly, my personal bank account doesn’t reflect that status.


Psaki Doubles Down on Democrats Wanting the IRS to Spy on Bank Accounts
Speaking to reporters at the White House Monday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended the Democrat proposal, tucked into President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better spending plan, that would allow the IRS to monitor all bank transactions of $600 or more. She also claimed the “loudest” opposition to more IRS funding for snooping is from big banks, not small business owners or individuals worried about taxpayer rights.


Well, these are the psychos who think inflation is driven by people buying too much, and that having stiff competition in a war is good.

Fuck you, bitch.

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California: Climate Change

New Climate Models Show Much Of Southern California Underwater
Strauss’s nonprofit Climate Central did the research and created startling images of landmarks around the world, including a few parts of Southern California like Long Beach and Huntington Beach, being impacted by rising sea levels.

And the problem with that is…?

Meanwhile at the Babylon Bee.

Support For Climate Change Skyrockets After Computer Models Show It Will Flood California
A new climate model shows that much of southern California will be underwater in the future as a result of uninhibited climate change. These stark images have had a profound effect on public opinion, causing a huge spike in support for climate change.

“You mean, just by driving around in my gas guzzler, I could flood all the homes of those coastal elites?” asked Greg Butler, who lives in rural Kansas. “Cool! Why am I still talking to you? I should be driving!”

Drivers, start your engines. (Let’s go, Brandon!)

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