Today’s Olfactory Olio

Submitted for your consideration, things that make you go hmmmm.

Make up your own minds if these things pass the smell test, seem rational, or are just more hypocrisy.

Item: According to emails from Hunter Biden’s famous laptop, a charitable foundation for Joe Biden’s grandchildren reportedly received a $100,000 donation from a trust controlled by former FBI director Louis Freeh. This might matter because Biden was vice president at the time and Freeh was an attorney for three foreign businessmen that ran afoul of the law.

Item: The White House is teaming with nine dating apps to offer special perks to people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. No mention of STD prevention rewards.

Item: Meanwhile, the State of New York will offer scratch off lottery tickets as incentive to get COVID-19 vaccines. Also, no STD bonuses.

Item: A total of 22 states have acted to drop the extra $300 a week unemployment bonus, which a substantial number of “unemployed” have used to fund their remaining outside of the employed workforce, the better to play video games or enjoy other leisure activities without that pesky 40-hour work week intruding.

Item: According to no less a reliable left-leaning source than The Washington Post, CNN host Chris Cuomo was instrumental in formulating the policy of his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in dealing with mounting accusations of sexual misconduct. The most busted name in news strikes again. Ethics? We don’t need no stinking ethics.

Item: Dominion Voting Systems had “coding errors” in the past week’s Pennsylvania primary election, but the company has assured that all votes were counted correctly. Sounds familiar.

Item: Mr. Mask, AKA Dr. Anthony Fauci, who in recent weeks has made it a point to wear masks in public even while bragging about being fully vaccinated, has conceded that, just as Senator Rand Paul said during Fauci testimony, it was all for show. Fauci admitted it was for public consumption, but now he’s more comfortable with the reality that there is no pressing need for his mask, indoors or outdoors.

Item: A solid 71 percent of respondents to a recent poll said their country is full of immigrants and can’t handle any more. That country would be France, which sent this country the Statue of Liberty as a gift. Sometimes, enough really is enough.

Item: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who had the gall to go to closed beauty parlors during COVID-19 lockdowns to help her appearance, but can’t get a handle on her city’s murder sprees, has a new solution to her image problems. According to a tweet from a Chicago political reporter, Lightfoot now will grant 1-on-1 interviews only to “Black or Brown journalists.”

Item: All of a sudden the sanctimonious truth police of the internet are pulling back on labeling as debunked speculation all stories about Chinese labs as a possible source of COVID-19. Republicans in Congress have released a report with strong circumstantial evidence of a Chinese leak and even the hysterical head of the CDC was forced to admit in testimony that such a lab leak is definitely a possibility. Considering some other information coming to light, this could be even more embarrassing for Dr. Fauci than his constant flip flops, or that anemic first pitch at a Washington Nationals baseball game.

Item: And, finally, a Bloomberg opinion writer posits that should the planned release of all United States government information on UFOs this summer provide strong evidence of ET presence, that could be good for the U.S. dollar and domestic investment markets. Buy now and avoid the rush from space immigrants – I guess.