donsurber.blogspot.com Highlights of the News
Donald John Trump is still our president.
Oh, and Ralphie finally got his revenge.
ITEM 1: The New York Post reported, "A mall Santa dropped the hammer on a little boy who asked him for a Nerf gun for Christmas — telling the bawling kid he wouldn’t bring him the toy.
"The politically correct Kris Kringle was caught on video asking the child what he wanted for the holiday, according to a Facebook post by the boy’s mother.
"The boy apparently mentioned a gun, because the Santa could be heard replying, 'No, no guns.'"
But that is not the end of the story. Like A Christmas Story, this tale has a happy ending.
The Truth About Guns reported, "Fortunately, the mall quickly canned Woke Scold Santa and sent the real Kris Kringle over to the kid’s house with an apology and a Nerf gun almost as big as he is."
In 2020, just about every 1980s movie is coming true.
Is Red Dawn next?
ITEM 2: CBS reported, "Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday urged confidence in corona virus vaccines during a conversation with leaders of a coalition of black doctors, faith leaders, and academics. Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to die from the virus than their white counterparts, the CDC says, but because of a long history of mistrust, studies suggest Black Americans are less likely to get vaccinated than other ethnic groups."
Hmm, maybe attending funerals for a petty criminal who died of a drug overdose while in police custody was not such a bright idea.
ITEM 3: The Jerusalem Post reported, "FDA announces deaths of two Pfizer vaccine trial participants • Vaccines expected to arrive in Israel Wednesday."
The story said, "Israel’s Midaat Association responded to the report on the deaths, explaining that when vaccines are administered to at-risk populations “there may be unfortunate cases. One should not infer from this about the safety of the vaccine, but welcome the transparency required from the pharma companies in the drug approval process.'
"The association noted that in large trials of tens of thousands of people, death can occur without any connection to the trial, but that companies such as Pfizer are required to report those deaths."
Side effects may include death.
Maybe we need a vaccine for the vaccine.
ITEM 4: Just the News reported, "A solid majority of voters – nearly three-quarters – think small businesses should be considered essential under covid-related lockdown orders, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen.
"When asked, 70% of the voters survey responded that 'small businesses that a family relies upon for financial support; should be deemed essential and thus spared from corona virus closures and shutdowns."
Part of the plan was to destroy independent businesses.
Remember, it was the National Federation of Independent Business -- not the Chamber of Commerce -- that sued to stop Obamacare. Big Business loves Big Government, and vice versa.
ITEM 5: The Daily Caller reported, "The Chinese government will rely on a core circle of old friends on Wall Street and in Washington to influence the Biden administration, according to a Chinese academic with ties to the communist regime.
"Di Dongsheng, the associate dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University, offered his predictions about China-U.S. relations in the upcoming administration during a speech in Shanghai on Nov. 28."
Xiden (as a reader called him) was cheap. They gave a billion bucks and some underage hookers to his son.
Chairman Mao sized us up well 45 years ago when he met George H.W. Bush, whose son later got Red China membership in the World Trade Organization, which enabled Red China to flood the world with cheap products to rack up trillions in trade surpluses to finance its military buildup.
Nixon should have told Red China to go to hell.
ITEM 6: The New York Post reported, "More than a dozen Army leaders will face termination or punishment over widespread leadership failures at the scandal-plagued Fort Hood base following an independent probe, reports said Tuesday.
"The disciplinary action will impact at least 14 leaders after an independent civilian review board found top brass didn’t properly investigate crimes or do enough to prevent sex crimes, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told reporters, according to the Washington Post.
"The failures created an environment that allowed sexual assault and harassment and ultimately made troops unsafe, the official said."
The military may be the last bastion of accountability in government.
ITEM 7: Breitbart reported, "On Monday, just before midnight, the State of Texas filed a lawsuit that is far more important than all of the others surrounding the presidential election of November 3rd.
"Texas brought a suit against four states that did something they cannot do: they violated the U.S. Constitution in their conduct of the presidential election. And this violation occurred regardless of the amount of election fraud that may have resulted. The four defendant states are Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."
Gateway Pundit said Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and South Dakota also joined the case.
Don't mess with Texas.
The Supreme Court is an appellate court which means new evidence is rarely brought in for cases.
However, Ron Coleman tweeted that this is a case that would originate in the court and therefore, evidence would be introduced in the court.
ITEM 8: Hot Air reported, "Breaking: SCOTUS Denies Injunction In Pennsylvania Election Case, 9-0."
Reuters reported, "The court in a brief order rejected a request by U.S. congressman Mike Kelly, a Trump ally, and other Pennsylvania Republicans who filed a lawsuit after the Nov. 3 election arguing that the state’s 2019 expansion of mail-in voting was illegal under state law."
The case, however, continues. I am no lawyer and do not know how it is all going down.
I do know when to despair. This ain't the time to despair. I will tell you if and when that time comes.
ITEM 9: United Press International reported, "Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law Tuesday that favors the Russian constitution over international treaties.
"The bill amends Russian law to prevent implementation of international treaties that conflict with the newly reformed Russian constitution, raising human rights concerns.
"The move represents the third time in four years Russian authorities have pushed for precedence of Russian law over international law, according to Human Rights Watch.
"The international non-governmental human rights organization cited a 2015 law in particular that allowed the Constitutional Court to review international human rights rulings and declare them non-executable if they contradict the constitution."
Russia rejects the global communism the West now embraces.
Who won the Cold War?
ITEM 10: CNS News reported, "White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is disputing reports that the Trump administration turned down a chance to buy additional corona virus vaccine from Pfizer beyond the 100 million doses that was contracted and now has to wait until the summer to get more.
"In an interview with Fox News, McEnany said, 'It's just simply not true that they offered extra doses, according to the people who are involved in the negotiations. With each and every company, we contracted for 100 million doses, so it's just simply not the case that we were offered more and rejected them.'"
President Trump gave us Operation Warp Speed that will deliver about a billion doses of vaccines next year.
The press is giving us Operation Warped which somehow denies his success.
As usual.
ITEM 11: House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted, "House Democrats have scheduled 101 days of work for next year — a 25% reduction.
"Let me say it again: 101 working days. For the whole year.
"Laziest Congress in modern history."
The less Congress does, the better off we are.
ITEM 12: Via Glenn Reynolds, Road and Track reported, "Why Movie Car Chases Always Crash Through Fruit Stands."
I will cut to the chase.
The magazine said, "the exploding fruit cart is celluloid gold: Its contents are cheap, it makes a big mess, and it doesn’t bitch about re-shoots."
THIS is why we have the Internet, to explain life's mysteries to 7 billion people worldwide.
ITEM 13: Zero Hedge reported, "Democrat Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey expressed his frustration during a press briefing on Monday with the fact that NJ's contact-tracing efforts have been a colossal failure, largely due to astronomical rates of non-cooperation, a problem that also plagued NYC's famously botched contact tracing program.
"According to the Garden State Governor, 'the rate of noncooperation with our contact tracers is now up to a whopping 74%.'"
This is a huge success with 74% of New Jerseyans telling Big Brother fuggedaboutit.
ITEM 14: Oil Price.com reported, "California's imports were the largest in the United States last year when 25 percent of California's total electricity supply was imported, the Energy Information Administration said on Monday.
"Last year, California's net electricity imports were the largest in the country at 70.8 million megawatt-hours, followed by Ohio, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Tennessee, EIA data showed.
"In California's case, the state's utilities partly own and import power from several power plants in Arizona and Utah. California's electricity imports also include hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest, mostly across high-voltage transmission lines from Oregon to the Los Angeles area.
"This summer, amid the great West heatwave, the largest U.S. solar state, California, was grappling with power issues and struggling to keep its electricity grid stable as demand exceeds supply."
And these geniuses plan to run all their cars on electricity in 10 years.
ITEM 15: Zero Hedge reported, "While thousands of small businesses were shut out of the Paycheck Protection Program earlier this year, NFL quarterback Tom Brady's sports performance and nutrition company, TB12 Inc., received a loan from the federal government worth nearly one million dollars.
"According to the Small Business Administration, TB12 was granted a $960,855 loan in April. The sportswear and supplement company qualified for the lifeline with a 2019 payroll between $1.68 and $4.8 million."
That's just what America needed: another reason to hate Tom Brady.
ITEM 16: Summit News reported, "Senator Rand Paul spoke out Monday against the policy of lockdowns and restrictions, declaring that there is no evidence they are having any impact on the spread of corona virus, and that those who say they do are not paying attention.
"'We ought to at least still use logic to try to figure out how we stop this …,' Paul said in an appearance on Fox News, adding 'I don’t see any evidence that crowd control, hand washing, standing six feet apart, all of these things they tell you to do — closing down the restaurants, closing down the schools — there’s no real evidence that they are changing the trajectory of the disease.'"
Telling the truth is a crime these days.
Facebook and Twitter will ban him.
ITEM 17: Zero Hedge reported, "Biden Chooses Raytheon Board Member, Retired General Lloyd Austin, As Secretary Of Defense."
The story said, "One inside source told CNN further that Gen. Austin 'knows the Pentagon inside and out' and would be 'an excellent person to run logistics on Covid-19 vaccine distribution.'"
I don't doubt he knows the Pentagon inside and out. It landed him the Raytheon gig.
But why would the military run the vaccine distribution? I thought that was the job of HHS.
ITEM 18: Just the News reported, "The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies did not approve a motion on Tuesday that described Joe Biden as the nation's next president, failing to pass it in a 3-3 split vote due to opposition from the panel's three Republican members."
Who said resistance is futile?
ITEM 19: CNBC reported, " China’s consumer price index fell in November for the first time in about a decade as food prices dropped.
"The consumer price index, a measure of inflation that tracks prices for a basket of consumer goods and services, fell 0.5% in November from a year ago, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday.
"The decline marked the first drop since October 2009, according to the Wind Information database."
Hmm.
Red China has more product than it does customers, which led to the first price drop since the Great Recession.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
She is such an expert on farming and rural life that they are putting her in charge of Housing and Urban Development.
But of course if Xiden (as a reader called him) becomes president, the deep state will run everything with flim-flam artists like Fudge serving as a front.
ITEM 21: CNN reported, "Newsmax TV scores a ratings win over Fox News for the first time ever."
It illustrated the story with a photo of OAN.
Conservatives all look alike, right?
But I am through with rooting for TV stations. Newsmax will sell us out eventually.
ITEM 22: Fox 11 reported, "A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday issued a ruling that stated LA County acted arbitrarily and failed to perform the required risk-benefit analysis when it banned outdoor dining as a corona virus-control measure as covid 19 cases continue to spike in Southern California.
"Superior Court Judge James Chalfant also noted that, however, that due to the state's overriding regional stay-at-home order through the Christmas holiday, which also includes an in-person dining ban, outdoor restaurant dining in the county cannot reopen at this time."
How is the overriding regional ban not just as arbitrary? And what risk-benefit analysis did it go through?
The judge knows it is BS but refuses to stop it.
ITEM 23: WEWS-TV reported. "Since motorists stayed off the road during the Thanksgiving holiday due to the corona virus pandemic, gasoline sales in the United States during the holiday week fell to its lowest level since 1997.
"According to an IHS Markit Oil Price Information Service survey, gas consumption fell 8.4%, or about 185 million gallons, from the previous week ending Nov. 28. Demand for motor fuel was down 19.3% compared to 2019, OPIS said."
Hmm, it will be interesting to see the explanation for why atmospheric carbon dioxide continued its relentless rise even though we have cutback drastically on consumption in the pandemic panic.
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