Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: Fox reported, "Gas prices hit $5 in Manhattan."

Meanwhile, here in civilization, where there is no Knockout Game, people peeing in the streets, or vaccine mandate, gasoline is $3.05 at the Exxon off Exit 45 in Nitro.

ITEM 2: The Wall Street Journal reported, "Former President Donald Trump’s family company is in advanced discussions to sell the rights to its opulent Washington, D.C., hotel in a deal worth more than $370 million, say people familiar with the matter.

"CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm, is in talks to acquire the lease on the hotel, these people said. The Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., is located in the former Old Post Office, a short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House in a building featuring some of the largest guest rooms in the capital.

"The property is owned by the federal government, but with extensions the lease runs close to 100 years. CGI has also entered into discussions with hotel operators, including Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.’s Waldorf Astoria luxury brand, about removing the Trump name in favor of that of another hotel manager, these people said.

"The lease deal could ultimately fetch closer to $400 million, which would represent roughly a doubling of the money the Trump Organization spent to convert the government building into a luxury hotel, said one of the people familiar with the matter."

Double the money in 5 years. Good for The Donald. Look for the Biden administration to try to stop the deal because DC hates Donald Trump with a passion it never had for any communist.

ITEM 3:  Breitbart reported, "A federal judge in Texas issued a temporary restraining order against United Airlines on Wednesday, blocking the airline from imposing a vaccine mandate against any of its employees in a nationwide class-action lawsuit.

"According to the judicial order, which could be the first of its kind in the country against a coronavirus vaccine mandate, United Airlines is prohibited from placing employees with religious and medical exemptions on unpaid leave until October 26 while litigation continues. The judge also prohibited the airline from denying any employee requests for religious or medical exemptions. Previously, the airline did not allow employees to apply for an exemption after August 31."

The judge was Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee.

ITEM 4: The New York Post reported, "Brooklyn has told Kyrie Irving he can’t be a part-time Net.

"The All-Star point guard has refused to get a covid-19 vaccine, and the Nets announced Tuesday that he won’t be part of the team until he does. In essence, get vaxxed or get gone."

He is willing to give up $35 million to fight for his freedom.

Live Free Or Die was not a slogan. It was a way of life we call the American Revolution. It has not ended. 

The vaccine is good. The mandate is wrong.

ITEM 5: Not The Onion.

Washington Post columnist who's voted for Democrats for years announces he is again voting for Democrats https://t.co/flPwKlSfbT

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 12, 2021

You get to quit the party only once before you are a whiny hypocrite, but in his case he was that long before he switched parties.

ITEM 6: Just the News reported, "Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside fellow Democrat Terry McAuliffe as he competes to again become the governor of Virginia. McAuliffe announced the guest appearance Tuesday morning saying, 'the stakes could not be greater.'"

The stakes could not be greater! Democrats say that so often that they sound like the owner of a steakhouse.

ITEM 7: The Daily Mail reported, "The Coachella Music Festival is pulling the plug on their original plan to enforce mandatory vaccines for ticketholders when it returns in 2022. The fest, which makes its comeback to Indio, California April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022 after missing 2020 and 2021, will not require concertgoers to have the jab. The festival's official Instagram page made the announcement, saying that the decision was based on recent COVID statistics."

Slowly people realize the vax mandate is unpopular. 

ITEM 8: Where no 90-year-old man has gone before.

Seriously?? SpaceX folks are going into space with Captain Kirk wearing. . . red shirts? pic.twitter.com/xOojTpD9ZS

— Steven F. Hayward (@stevenfhayward) October 12, 2021

Eat your heart out, George Takei.

ITEM 9: Becker News reported, "Southwest CEO Gary Kelly had a major announcement on Tuesday about the vaccine mandate the airline recently issued: His company won’t be enforcing it.

"During an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, the CEO said that no employees would be fired over the company’s vaccine mandate. Earlier, the airline announced that all employees needed to get vaccinated against covid 19 by November 24 or face termination."

Kelly said, "We are not going to fire any employees over this."

Governor Abbott's ban on vax mandates saved Kelly's rear. Kelly is denying this because he dare not belittle Emperor Biden.

But we went from vaccinate or we terminate to "We are not going to fire any employees over this."

ITEM 10: Just the News reported, "Move over Arizona and hold on Pennsylvania, the next election integrity investigation to take center stage is occurring in Wisconsin, where a former state Supreme Court justice empowered by the Legislature to compel testimony and document production is gathering steam.

"Interviews with more than a dozen witnesses, officials and lawyers who have interacted with retired Justice Mike Gableman and his staff suggest a strong focus on the role election bureaucracies played in changing the rules — without legislative consent — for how ballots were sent out, filled out, collected and counted.  

"Gableman's early investigative work as special counsel appointed by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is shining a spotlight among other things on the Wisconsin Election Commission, a statewide body created by GOP lawmakers after an earlier political rigging scandal in the state known as the John Doe investigations. The commission provides guidance and rules to the 1,852 election clerks in the state on how to conduct voting."

Keep an eye on this because Republicans are beginning to realize it was not just President Trump that Democrats wanted to get rid of.

ITEM 11: AP reported, "New York health care workers will be able to seek religious exemptions from a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a lawsuit challenging the requirement proceeds, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

"Judge David Hurd in Utica had issued a temporary restraining order a month ago after 17 doctors, nurses and other health professionals claimed in a lawsuit that their rights would be violated with a vaccine mandate that disallowed religious exemptions."

Clinton judge.

Suddenly a lot of people are getting religion. In her bizarre, authoritarian way, Governor Karen is converting thousands without meaning to.

ITEM 12: Breitbart reported, "A vaccinated Ohio man who is in dire need of a new kidney is having his surgery delayed due to the Cleveland Clinic’s new policy requiring coronavirus vaccinations for organ transplant recipients and donors.

"After more than a year of pain, tests, and finally finding a match, Mike Ganim was just days away from getting a new kidney before the Cleveland Clinic announced that patients on the transplant list — as well as living donors — are now required to be vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, according to a report by News 5 Cleveland."

He is vaccinated. He cannot get covid.

We are told to donate our organs to save lives -- and then the hospitals pull stunts like this.

ITEM 13: Newsweek reported, "Gripped by Energy Crisis, Europe Considers Breaking Climate Promises and Turning to Coal."

Politicians have discovered people don't like rolling blackouts and high prices.

Go back to school, Greta.

ITEM 14: The New York Post reported, "Walgreens is closing five more San Francisco locations as drug stores from the Bay Area to the Big Apple are besieged by rampant shoplifting and lax enforcement.

"San Fran shoplifters have been emboldened by a referendum that lowered the penalty for stealing goods worth less than $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor, cops and prosecutors have said."

In the 2021 remake of "The Beverly Hillbillies,: when kinfolk say Californy is the place you ought to be, Jed punches them in the stomach.

ITEM 15: Superman is bi? Dean Cain told Fox, "They said it’s a bold new direction, I say they’re bandwagoning. Robin just came out as bi — who’s really shocked about that one? The new Captain America is gay. My daughter in [The CW series] Supergirl, where I played the father, was gay. So I don’t think it’s bold or brave or some crazy new direction. If they had done this 20 years ago, perhaps that would be bold or brave.

"Brave would be having him fighting for the rights of gay people in Iran where they’ll throw you off a building for the offense of being gay,"

But Hollywood's Gay Mafia does not care about gay people. It is all about power. They would rather take on Dave Chappelle than an ayatollah.

Wait until the Gay Mafia finds out what Chairman Xi thinks of them. They won't be able to build closets fast enough in Hollywood.

I would have looked up and linked directly to the Fox story, but Fox blocks my links because its IT is run by idiots.

ITEM 16: The Daily Mail reported, "Biden's approval rating is now 10% LOWER than Obama at the same point of his presidency and less than half of Americans trust him to get the country out of the pandemic, new poll numbers show."

That is an unfair comparison because Obama was actually elected president.

ITEM 17: Sundance reported, "Central Maine Medical Center, a key hospital for regional healthcare, issued a dire warning about the need to shut down critical care services last week if they are forced to fire or lay-off all the unvaccinated workers. The hospital appealed to the Governor’s office, Democrat Janet Mills, for a testing option to avoid losing some of the most important care providers in their system.

"Today, the hospital quantified their issue and announced they were going to suspend pediatric admissions as well as heart attack and trauma admissions, because they just will not be able to operate.

"Unfortunately, the Democrat Governor has announced she doesn’t care if the hospital has to shut down. Mills’ stated her unilateral jab mandate will remain in place and the vaxxed and unvaxxed citizens of Maine will die until they comply with the vaccine rules."

This is not about public health.

This is about power.

Moses: Let my people go!

Mills: Let my people die.

ITEM 18: The Federalist reported, "Mom Reports School To Police For Promoting Gay Porn Book To Children."

Good for Mom. Schools are supposed to protect children, not groom them.

Maybe we should restrict "Superman Is Bisexual" comics to those 18 and older.

ITEM 19: Fox reported, "Florida School Boards Association denounces national group’s call for federal involvement in parent protests."

The Axis of Idiocy is disintegrating.

The link may or may not work. The network lives in the last century. Well, it once was 20th Century/Fox.

ITEM 20: The Washington Examiner reported, "Biden 2020 win ‘tainted,’ 56% say it was a cheater’s paradise.'"

Slowly, America wakes up and smells the roses. And by roses, I mean fertilizer.

ITEM 21: The Star-Tribune reported, "Rising COVID-19 numbers returning to pre-vaccine levels in Minnesota. Hospitalizations reach a high for this year."

That's the headline.

Paragraph 2 read, "COVID-19 hospitalizations in Minnesota reached 960 on Monday and included 254 people needing intensive care because of breathing problems or other complications. While that is below the record 1,864 hospitalizations on Nov. 29, it is the highest in 2021 and combines with patients with trauma and other illnesses to fill up 96% of available intensive care beds and 93% of non-ICU beds."

Half the peak hospitalizations. That's the story.

FINALLY, Ross Douthat of the New York Times filed a column today, "How Democrats Can Save Themselves."

He called for Democrats to reject the language of progressives -- while pushing progressivism.

He wrote, "For instance, popularist Democrats would not merely avoid a term like Latinx, which is ubiquitous in official progressive discourse and alien to most U.S. Hispanics; they would need to attack and even mock its use. (Obviously this is somewhat easier for the ideal popularist candidate: an unwoke minority politician in the style of Eric Adams.)

"Likewise, a popularist candidate — ideally a female candidate — on the stump in a swing state might say something like: I want this to be a party for normal people, and normal people say mother, not birthing person."

His call for a return to deception and incrementalism is old school. But AOC and the rest of the Veruca Salt squad don't care how, they want it now!