Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: Adam Andrzejewski reported, "National Institutes of Health Spent $2.3 Million to Inject Beagles with Cocaine."

If they treat dogs that way, imagine how they would treat human beings.

Of course, if you call them out as Josef Mengele, the crowd who called Trump Hitler will accuse you of anti-Semitism.

But Mengele was as big an incompetent with a medical degree as these dog-tormentors are.

ITEM 2: AP reported, "There’s little support among Americans for a major U.S. role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to a new poll, even as President Joe Biden imposes new sanctions and threatens a stronger response that could provoke retaliation from Moscow.

"Biden has acknowledged a growing likelihood that war in Eastern Europe would affect Americans, though he has ruled out sending troops to Ukraine. Gas prices in the U.S. could rise in the short term. And Russian President Vladimir Putin has a range of tools he could use against the U.S., including cyberattacks hitting critical infrastructure and industries."

Only 26% favor war.

Just because the media has forgotten Afghanistan, do not for a minute believe Real Americans have forgotten. Many of them or their children volunteered for duty following 9/11. For 20 years, America fought for freedom.

Biden gave it all away because he was bored.

Let Hunter and Vindman protect Ukraine.

ITEM 3: Clint Ehrlich tweeted, "There's a powerful lobby pushing for a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

"If Biden listens to them, he will start a shooting war with Russia.

"This is not a drill. It's the closest we've been to World War 3 since the Cuban Missile Crisis."

No-fly zones are an act of war. Democrats favor them because they avoid putting troops on the ground. Instead, Democrat generals can indiscriminately bomb civilians and turn a generation against the USA. Democrats have done this so often that I believe this is the intent. 

ITEM 4: The Hill reported, "Lawmakers in both parties raced this week to condemn Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, denouncing President Vladimir Putin’s gambit as a brazen assault on international law, Ukrainian sovereignty and stability in eastern Europe.

"But that’s about where the bipartisan agreement ends.

"Republicans, while hammering Putin’s march toward war, also wasted no time placing the blame for the escalating hostilities squarely on the shoulders of President Biden, saying his administration cleared the way for Russia’s aggression with a series of foreign policy blunders, including the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last August."

Republicans are absolutely correct.

Putin took Crimea under Obama, stayed at bay under Trump and now will annex Ukraine under Biden.

ITEM 5: The New York Times reported, "The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald J. Trump and his business practices abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid a monthlong pause in their presentation of evidence to a grand jury, according to people with knowledge of the matter, throwing the future of the high-stakes inquiry into serious doubt.

"The prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted their resignations after the new Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump, the people said.

"Mr. Pomerantz confirmed in a brief interview that he had resigned, but declined to elaborate. Mr. Dunne declined to comment.

"Without Mr. Bragg’s commitment to move forward, the prosecutors late last month postponed a plan to question at least one witness before the grand jury, one of the people said. They have not questioned any witnesses in front of the grand jury for more than a month, essentially pausing their investigation into whether Mr. Trump inflated the value of his assets to obtain favorable loan terms from banks."

Is the new DA dropping the case?

If so, maybe he now will go after thugs shoving Asians into subway trains and sucker-punching helpless old Jews.

ITEM 6: How about a little Trumpenfreude?

Jon Nicosia of Media-ite tweeted, "Chris Wallace is having daily meltdowns at CNN and CNN-+ Remember, CNN+ was Zucker and girlfriend Allison Gollust's baby and without them, the service is very much in flux. Something Wallace is not pleased with."

And, citing a source, Nicosia tweeted, "He has threatened to quit 2x this week.  And it's just Tuesday"

I wonder if this is how he acted at Fox.

UPDATE: Oops. I failed to do a 7 or 8. Sorry. Math class is tough.

ITEM 9: Outkick reported, "Tuesday, 97.9% of prosecutors in the L.A. County DA office union voted to recall their boss, L.A. District Attorney George Gascon.

"Gascon’s critics cite his soft-on-crime policies for the county’s violent crime spike that began in 2020. Gascon eliminated cash bail for non-violent felonies and implemented a ban that prevented the county from charging juveniles as adults, though he has since revised that policy."

Prosecutors have a union?

Fire them all for insubordination.

I am not defending the asshole. I am defending the right of the people to elect people to run the government. Civil service is the worst idea this republic ever had because it leaves us with a powerful group of busybodies who are accountable to no one.

ITEM 10: Yair Rosenberg wrote a Deep Shtetl column in The Atlantic on Whoopi Goldberg's suspension, "Have We Forgotten How to Forgive?"

ABC firing Roseanne Barr over one bad joke was not mentioned.

The column ended, "If you are a rabbi and use this for your sermon but do not credit Deep Shtetl, I will not forgive you."

Um. OK.

ITEM 11: MSN reported, "Swedish researchers have engineered an artificial neuron that can control the snapping of a living Venus flytrap, a brand new development that has implications for future research linking artificial, synthetic devices with biological systems such as brain-machine interfaces (think Elon Musk’s Neuralink) or bionic prosthetics."

Tim Reid, you are wanted on the courtesy phone.

ITEM 12: AP reported, "The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world costs of climate change.

"The administration said in a legal filing that a Feb. 11 ruling by a Louisiana federal judge will affect dozens of rules by at least four federal agencies. Among the immediate effects is an indefinite delay in planned oil and gas lease sales on public lands in a half-dozen states in the West.

"The ruling also will delay plans to restrict methane waste emissions from natural gas drilling on public lands and a court-ordered plan to develop energy conservation standards for manufactured housing, the administration said. The ruling also will delay a $2.3 billion federal grant program for transit projects, officials said."

When Obama said you cannot drill your way out of this, he meant that as an order.

Trump allowed us to drill.

Biden is the Mini-O.

ITEM 13: The Daily Mail reported, "A West Texas woman running to be the state's railroad commissioner has turned heads after she posted a TikTok of herself topless and without pants while straddling an oil pumping jack.

"Sarah Stogner, 37, tweeted out the controversial video, set to the Sugarhill Gang's Apache (Jump On It) song, on February 13, writing: 'They said I needed money. I have other assets.' 

"The video -- which has now been viewed more than 104,800 times -- was apparently meant to garner attention for Stogner's campaign, as she trailed frontrunner Wayne Christian, the incumbent who currently has $766,256 on hand as voters head to the polls, according to Transparency USA, a website that tracks campaign funding."

Nothing quite says serious candidate like taking off your clothes and hopping on an oil jack.

ITEM 14: Fox reported, "Early voting analysis in two primarily Hispanic counties along the Texas border suggests Republicans are outpacing Democrats in voter enthusiasm and perhaps turnout, and Hispanic politicians in the state tell Fox News that its indicative of a larger trend.

"A report from the political consulting company Ryan Data & Research shows that Republicans are 76% of the way to matching 2018 turnout in Cameron County, Texas along the southern border with Mexico with eight days remaining until Election Day. In Hidalgo County, which also sits on the border with Mexico, turnout is 65% of the way to matching 2018.

"On the Democrat side, the party is only 59% of the way to matching 2018 turnout in Cameron County and 47% of the way in Hidalgo County.

"Hispanic political candidates and operatives in Texas told Fox News that the early data points to a larger trend of Hispanic voters, especially in the Rio Grande Valley, supporting Republican candidates in areas that have been predominantly controlled by Democrats for decades."

The primary elections are Tuesday. Republicans need to nominate good candidates who don't jump on oil jacks.

ITEM 15: Yahoo reported, "We need to think about the covid-19 vaccines we'll need in 3 to 5 years: Public health expert."

Vaccination today. Vaccination tomorrow. Vaccination forever!

If covid has taught us anything it is that much of government health is run by quacks and crooks who get kickbacks from drug companies.

They should have been upfront and told us masks don't work and that the vaccine is a temporary protection that will reduce the severity of the virus. They also should have OK'd HCQ and ivermectin as temporary relief.

Instead, they gave cover to Democrats and RINOs to shove us around while nearly a million people died anyway.

ITEM 16: TMZ reported, "Shannon Sharpe sees the need for minority owners in the NFL and if that means Kanye West spearheading a group of investors to purchase the Denver Broncos, then he’s all for it."

Black man spearheading? Really?

ITEM 17: Politico reported, "A member of the liberal Squad is delivering a formal response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday.

"In the speech, given on behalf of the left-wing group Working Families Party, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is expected to hammer moderate Democrats who have stymied Biden’s social spending and climate change package."

This raises the question: Will Nancy tear up his speech too?

ITEM 18: New York Focus reported, "Hochul Proposes Bringing Back Private Prison Labor. Banned for a century, contract labor could return to New York’s prisons."

Warden Norton was a man ahead of his time. Amirite?

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