New at the Belmont Club. Why don’t people know what’s good for them? Or do they?
Just drop the depth charge anywhere
Barbara Boxer assaulted, robbed in California
“The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car,” the tweet said. “She is thankful that she was not seriously injured.”

Chance encounter
They say it only happens in the movies and too corny to believe.

The vaccine has failed relative to inflated political promises
“The NYT has decided it’s acceptable to discuss the topic of C19 vaccine failure. Even Dr. Fauci agrees.”

Progressive arrests all rival candidates
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police placed under house arrest a seventh presidential contender on Saturday, meaning that almost all of those who could have challenged President Daniel Ortega in the Nov. 7 elections have now been detained.

What the ‘selfless’ can learn from the Great War
The newest progressive insult is the epithet “selfish”, which appears to mean ‘not doing what the experts say is best for everyone’. The fallacy here is it discounts the effect of personal experience and feedback on behavior. The reason many people are being ‘selfish’ about Covid is disillusionment with the assurances and warnings issued by the politicians or with hideously expensive policies that seem to have no decisive effect.
Continue reading “What the ‘selfless’ can learn from the Great War”Famine, pestilence and war
In Europe, North America, Oceania and East Asia, the Covid-19 pandemic has been a tragic, wrenching experience, creating more depressed and divided societies. Yet, as we have been gazing obsessively at our own problems, a spectre infinitely worse is emerging in the most populous, fastest growing and least resilient parts of the world.

In the last days of the Obama administration
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO).” Adoption of these recommendations will satisfy the requirements for lifting the current moratorium on certain life sciences research that could enhance a pathogen’s virulence and/or transmissibility to produce a potential pandemic pathogen (an enhanced PPP).

68% still trust Fauci poll says
The survey also found that 68 percent of participants believed that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s foremost infectious disease specialist, provided trustworthy advice on the pandemic. Dr. Fauci has come under repeated attack from conservative media figures like Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson of Fox News..

Funded Wuhan and proud of it
Fauci added: “So, it was research that was done by qualified people. Right now, when there’s all of this thing about China, that’s a different situation now back then when you’re dealing with qualified, highly respected Chinese scientists. So it isn’t what was made out to be about dealing with really, really bad people. Because those scientists were very well-respected in the scientific community internationally.”
No way back
Nearly every politician now in office or who won reelection on the promise of a return to the “normal” old global world will fail in his pledge as it becomes clear that the pandemic and the new Cold War with China have changed things deeply.
Continue reading “No way back”Olympics a bust for Japan
Host nation expected an economic windfall and global recognition. But amid pandemic, a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away.
The lockdown realization
Seen on the Internet: “My God I’ve been on self lockdown since this 16 March 2020.In a period of 15 months I only went out of house for errands, government transactions, and vaccination.” It’s that moment when you realize that you’ve wandered into a dungeon.
Continue reading “The lockdown realization”Fauci
Fauci’s denials, however indignant won’t end the controversy over his involvement in Wuhan. The reason is simple. The scale of the catastrophe is just too big to be dismissed without a thorough look. Fauci may well be innocent but with the majority of the public now convinced a lab accident was the cause, according to a Harvard-Politico poll a mere denial will no longer suffice.
Waiting for vaudeville to come back
It’s sad to watch people who used to be respected conservative names in liberal media wandering in search of an audience, victims of a shift in audience composition. Big names that suddenly aren’t who are the last to know. The tide has moved on leaving them stranded in some shrinking pool. Maybe some wave will carry them back out among the big fish. Or maybe this is it.
In a way it’s better to say “I am Nobody” than “I used to be important”.
The sound of silence
The chief health officer of New South Wales, Australia, told reporters Tuesday that in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, citizens should avoid talking to each other.

What did the doctor say? “Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation with others — to be friendly — unfortunately th..…
World leaders were bugged
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced it is investigating the suspected widespread use of the Pegasus spyware to target journalists, human rights activists and politicians in multiple countries.

POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab
Most Americans now believe that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll that found a dramatic shift in public perception of Covid-19’s origins over the last year.
U.S. Treasury blacklists 7 Chinese officials under Trump-era Hong Kong Autonomy Act
The Biden administration blacklisted seven Chinese officials over violations of the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, a bill signed into law by former President Donald Trump in July 2020. President Trump ended the special economic status granted to Hong Kong in response to China’s drive to erode the territory’s autonomy guaranteed by the Communist regime under the “one country, two systems” policy when it took control of the territory in 1997.