Married, with grown children?

TV producer Michael Moye’s house at 111 Conyers Farm is finally under contract. It started at $8.595 in 2017 and has dropped down steadily to its current price of $5.1 million. Not bad for 13,000 sq. ft. on 18.4 acres, if you find Riverside too close for comfort.

Built in 1993 for Mr. Moore on land he’d purchased the year before for $1.5, Moore will probably not be facing a large capital gains tax here, but hell, he’s had almost 30 years of use from it, so who’s complaining?

What would we do without experts?

Meghan, Harry’s choice of name Lilibet is “rude” towards Queen, expert says.

I’m hard-pressed to think of anything I pay less attention to than the doings of Oprah’s new neighbors, but the opinion of “experts” — in any field, real or imagined — is one of them.

For a broader look at this topic, see Glenn Reynold’s “The Suicide of Expertise”.

Her mistake was not being elected to pubic office first

“There’s a right way to do this, and a wrong way!”

Professor who raised $200,000 for cop-shot “victim” stole $120,000 of it.

"Message: I care"

Kampallawalla Ding Dong is off to Mexico and Guatemala “to manage expectations”

According to Politico,

The Biden administration is trying to manage expectations for Kamala Harris’ first international trip as vice president.

The goal for her two-day visit to Guatemala and Mexico isn’t to roll out a massive plan to solve the problems driving thousands to flee the region, according to administration officials, people close to the White House and experts, but simply to show that the U.S. cares and isn’t just looking for quick fixes.

“No way am I going anywhere near that friggin’ cesspool”, Kampalla told FWIW, when asked if she would finally visit our southern border. “We’ve got the Mod Squad for that – I’m focused on ending political corruption and poverty in Mexico and Central America, cure global warming and world hunger, and make everyone good-looking — we’ll do all that, restore the area to the paradise it was before Orange Man seized power, and then look at controlling our border.

“Of course”, she mused, while sucking on a finger, “there’s South America to fix, and then the rest of the world. but once the Harris/Biden administration has cleared all that up, we’ll be ready to look at this so-called border crisis you mention.”

The gift that keeps on giving

Bye Ku

Hamas terrorists blow themselves up attempting to disarm unexploded Israeli ordinance

Palestinian media: “The Brigades mourned its fighters, Ahmed Abu Hasira and Osamah Janina, and said they died after a blessed life full of struggle and sacrifices, asking Allah Almighty to accept them as martyrs, bestow His mercy upon them and make His Paradise their eternal dwelling.”

Alternatively,

Two people were killed after trying to defuse an unexploded IDF ordnance at a military base in Gaza, Israeli media reported.

Ynet reports that the two killed were engineering members of Hamas’ military wing, who attempted to defuse the armament within the confines of the Hamas base.

They almost certainly were trying to salvage the explosive for future use, as common Hamas practice as the L.A. Times reported recently:

In a September documentary aired by the satellite news network Al Jazeera, rare footage showed Hamas militants reassembling Iranian rockets with ranges of up to 50 miles and warheads packed with 385 pounds of explosives. Hamas militants opened unexploded Israeli missiles from previous strikes to extract explosive materials. They even salvaged old water pipes to repurpose as missile bodies.

This one weird trick dramatically cuts COVID deaths!

It’s so simple, anyone can do it!

California county slashed its COVID death toll 25% by only counting deaths directly caused by the flu.

Imagine if health authorities around the country had tried this, as well as not including “DNR” patients’ deaths in the body count. But then what would CNN and the Mainstream Media have done for content?

Related: Stanford epidemiologist says “Fauci’s credibility is entirely shot”

The epidemiologist said that Fauci’s views on the novel coronavirus were “sensible” at first — but that stopped in February, as cases began to rise in pockets of the United States. 

“In the early days of the epidemic, he was quite a sensible person,” [Dr. Jay Bhattacharya] said.

“He understood immunity, he understood the necessity of not panicking the population. Something happened in late February where he just flipped on a dime. It wasn’t the science changing. Something else happened where he just changed.”

“What happened” was that Fauci began to love the limelight, and realized that he’d have to undercut Trump, embarrass him, ridicule hm privately, and join forces with his media masters to work against Trump’s election.

I wouldn’t say that Fauci ever had any credibility, but he did have in the beginning, a misplaced trust bestowed on him by most Americans.

That trust went into the crapper the same time the public health system’s did; the media blew theirs decades ago.

Okay, this is alarming

can she make it to december?

Concerns Arise Over Jen Psaki's Physical Health After Her Statement That Biden Is 'Hard To Keep Up With'

"This is bad-- really, really bad," said health expert Dr. Hans Gundersen to the press. "Biden is in really bad shape. We're not even sure Biden is legally still alive right now, or what exactly is holding him together or animating his limbs and causing sounds to come out of his mouth. It's a total mystery. I have fewer concerns about the health of the possum I ran over in my car this morning than I do with Biden. It's really, really not good. What was I even talking about? Oh yeah-- Psaki. If she's having trouble keeping up with that guy, then she's in serious trouble health-wise." 

Several other doctors have come forward, diagnosing Psaki with a host of possible conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome, actue liver and kidney failure, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Geo. Orwell, 1984

Erased from History

Citation needed: Stonewall uprising was lead by black cis and trans women who faced housing issues

I’m far more concerned about the rewriting of the history of our country than I am the history of the gay rights/transvestite movement, but it’s the same issue, and the same process; it’s all as one.

Andrew Sullivan called foul on the New York Times during Pride Month last year, when the Times reported that it was trans women of color who kicked off the 1969 Stonewall riots.

It’s a year later, and a group called Shelter is getting in on the action by claiming the Stonewall riots were started by “Black cis and trans women who faced public housing issues throughout their lives.”

(From Twitter) “A lot of people are commenting on the flag Shelter used in its tweet. We recently had to look it up: it’s the “progressive” trans flag, with the Pride rainbow but with stripes added to represent the trans community and black and brown people. That thing’s getting crowded.”

You can go to the link and read the numerous tweets from gays who were there and who refute this lie, but these two should suffice:

Again, I’m not particularly worried about who sparked the gay rights movement, but revisionist history promulgated by the Times (one commenter referred to the NYT’s effort as “The 1969 Project”, is, a year later, being repeated as accepted truth.

It’s not just the Times, of course. Witness what happened just last week when the WaPo was caught out for suppressing the truth fifteen months ago: It simply went back and stealth-edited its original article

There’s historical precedent for this, of course:

"Science" is the new refuge of the scoundrel

Well, if I did say it, I didn’t mean it — just kidding!

Dr. Liar says that attacks on him are “attacks on science”

With thousands of his emails forced public (thanks in part to the WaPo), Fauci’s lies, coverups, and doubts about everything he was recommending, from masks to the shutdown have been exposed, so the octogenarian went on Rachael Maddow’s show to whine to his last group of supporters.

“it's really very much an attack on science”

“is very much an anti-science”

“all nonsense”

“completely inappropriate, distorted, misleading and misrepresented attacks.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci ridiculously responds to being criticized:

“it's really very much an attack on science”

“is very much an anti-science”

“all nonsense”

“completely inappropriate, distorted, misleading and misrepresented attacks.”

Uh huh. Riiiight. pic.twitter.com/eAn3lZVP37

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) June 5, 2021

Related: The New Clerisy — “Faith in Science” is an oxymoron

The scientific establishment, like the political establishment, is a human institution. It’s not an impartial supercomputer, or a transcendent consciousness. It’s a bunch of people subject to the same incentives and disincentives the rest of us are subject to: economic self-interest, careerism, pride and vanity, the thirst for power, fame and influence, embarrassment at admitting mistakes, intellectual laziness, inertia, and ad-hoc ethical rationalization, as well as altruism, moral purpose, and heroic inspiration. Scientific experts deserve the respect due to them by dint of their education and experience, and they deserve the skepticism due to them by dint of their existence as imperfect actors functioning in complicated and deeply flawed human networks and organizations. If you “believe in science,” you don’t bow to their authority. You don’t transform them into living legends and teach your children to follow the example of their lives. You don’t light votive candles to them and castigate anyone who dares doubt their infinite wisdom.

Instead, you demand the best proof they can offer. You consider their motivations, their ideological biases and their conflicts of interest. You interrogate their advice, and weigh it against that of their critics. You exercise diligence. You ask questions. You trust in evidence, not in people. You think for yourself.

In our drift toward political tribalism, these are skills we are quickly unlearning. Those who call the shots in this country are happy to have it that way.

Is were any way we can get this up to 100%? Permanently?

71% of Democrats believe the best way to beat the flu is to “stay home as much as possible”.

A whopping 71 percent of Democrats in the United States want healthy people to stay home “as much as possible,” even as vaccinations soar and new coronavirus infections have plummeted, according to a new survey from Gallup.

In contrast, 87 percent of Republicans surveyed and 64 percent of independents said it was time for people to start living normally after more than a year of pandemic shutdowns and working from home.

I can’t speak for that liberal hotbed, Portland, ME (I’ll have a report from there tomorrow), but its sister in wokeness, Portsmouth, NH seems to have braver Democrats than the rest of those polled: its few still-masked pedestrians now just look like the sick weirdos they are, rather than suffering, ordinary citizens oppressed by the state.

In the meantime, Apple employees ($125,000 average annual salary and Democrats all) are protesting their employer’s demand that they return to work three days a week beginning in September because the order is “dismissive” and ‘non-inclusive”, whatever they hell that's supposed to mean. Great! Facebook and Twitter have told their own employees they can stay at home forever, and Apple should follow their lead. Keep these people off the streets and out of the stores. Is there no Grub Hub? No Amazon? Stay home and stay away from me, please.