It’s time for another installment of news and views, in which we recap a week’s worth of notable, often ridiculous, developments in our rapidly devolving society.
NEWS: Vox reports that preliminary FBI data indicates murders in the United States surged by 25 percent or more in 2020 compared with 2019, but experts interviewed weren’t sure why.
VIEWS: Let me take a stab (unfortunately violent metaphor) at that. Anyone else think that perhaps defund-the-police movements, as well as growing tolerance of mob violence and autonomous zones in Democrat-controlled major cities has anything to do with that jump?
NEWS: Joe Biden noted to supporters of the Second Amendment that they don’t need to keep their guns because they wouldn’t stand a chance against an oppressive government such as his that has F-15s and nuclear weapons.
VIEWS: And yet Democrats have been hyperbolic in saying the takeover of the U.S. Capitol in January by unarmed citizens threatened democracy here. As the U.S. found in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. fighter jets and nuclear weapons are pretty much ineffective against armed populaces, which is why the assault on the Second Amendment is so beloved by socialists.
NEWS: IRS statistics for 2018 – yes, years old but the latest we have since the IRS spends so much time harassing conservatives – the hated top 1 percent, those individual returns showing earnings of $540,000 a year or higher, paid a whopping 40.1 percent of this nation’s total individual taxes. Expand that to the top 5 percent ($218,000 or higher) and the total paid is 60.3 percent. Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent paid less than 3 percent of total individual taxes.
VIEWS: That lower 50 percent is almost exclusively the Democrat voter base, which is why the liberals are so keen to push their taxes to zero and give them even more freebies to guarantee their future support. Along with looking to grab guns, Biden and his handlers want to grab more taxes from the people who actually work hard for a living and look to be upwardly mobile. If you think the tax increases won’t affect the entire top 50 percent before this is all said and done, you are one gullible individual.
NEWS: My town is hosting its annual motorcycle rally, Thunder in the Valley, after a one-year virus-enforced hiatus.
VIEWS: If you can get past the noise, it’s a fun few days with plenty of free music and interesting people-watching opportunities. One of the drawbacks is that so many of the organizers and event help race around on sidewalks in four-wheeled vehicles, apparently having forgotten how to walk around our fairly compact downtown . One such woman backed over a trash can in a crowded Central Park and found it amusing as judged by her giggling.
NEWS: The Olympic Games, which from 1968 through 1998 tested some alleged female athletes to guarantee they were not males masquerading as the fairer sex, or females using drugs to simulate male strength, now welcome transgender athletes, including a former male weightlifter.
VIEWS: In this case, we’re being asked to ignore THE SCIENCE. And that science, according to The British Journal of Sports Medicine, reaffirms that in general men are stronger, run faster, jump higher, and throw objects farther than women. Even after the suggested one year of testosterone-suppressing drugs, trans women still had a 9 percent higher mean running speed than biological females. Also, as noted by developmental biologist Dr. Emma Hilton, 9,000 males have run faster 100-meter times than the current world-record time by a woman. An under-15 boys soccer team beat the mighty U.S. women’s national team in a scrimmage. The reigning Olympic women’s 100-meter champion is slower than the current 14-year-old boy record for the race. So, to recap, we’re supposed to slavishly accept FLAWED SCIENCE when it comes to viruses, but we must ignore DOCUMENTED SCIENCE when it comes to the Olympics and transgenders.
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