Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

Just Say No to Nikki! was posted on Townhall.com by Kurt Schlichter Apr 26, 2021, which is a partial subscription site, so if you're not a subscriber, the link won't do much.  Also, there's a video, which I didn't watch.  If a guy can't shave, put on a shirt and tie, or at least put on a nice shirt, to do his weekly update video....it irritates me.  

However, he's got humor, and I think he has a point.  It's not 2005, and now real conservatives get it.  This "let's stiff these conservative rubes for contributions" with tough talking America first kind of stuff no longer fools the "rubes"! 

He says:

Nikki Haley and Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner going around Twitter, and people are going "Ugh." She's terrible. She's the worst. And I want you to assume whenever I say Nikki Haley that there's an exclamation point (Nikki!) because she is Jeb! in a skirt. And Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner is also Jeb! in a skirt. Apparently, he's running in the California recall because we need more novelty acts...... And I'm tired of novelty acts..........it's so annoying.

Here's the part that should resonate with real conservatives:

And what annoys me most is conservatives playing along. Conservatives actually pretending this isn't just a joke in poor taste, that it's not ridiculous.......... We are done with being patronized. We are done with being condescended to, particularly by people who are not better than us.

His answer to the calls for contributions?  Just say NO to the Fauxcons. 

Matt Vespa is another of my favorite writers.  His subscription article, The Last Shred of the COVID Panic Lockdown Regime Has Been Eviscerated...Now Reopen the Country, he states:

The COVID protocols are over. Sorry, after this last study, it only makes sense for two things to happen. The teachers have to get back to school and work, and the nation has to reopen.......let’s go into the nuts and bolts of this MIT study that delivers a headshot to the remaining vestiges

The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors can be as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet in a room where the air is mixed — even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world.

Okay, now, you know those people how go around saying, "I told you so!"  Well, I'm one of them.

From the very beginning I stated, and did so with historical precision, and if I may say so - and I do -  with outstanding logic in my this was all hysterical scare mongering.  While many of my science friends, and others I communicate with regularly, disagreed with me.   If you

So, how did I know?

First, we have to understand history is the paved pathway leading to the future, and we've been there with the hysteria blather before.  We've been given outrageous predictions over and over again, whether it's Global Warming or a pandemic, the patterns are always the same.  

Please get this once and for all.  Computer modeling isn't science. Statistics isn't science.  Epidemiology isn't science.  All of that is educated speculation - guess work - and has a place in science, but it's not science.  They're merely components of science,.  Science must be observable, recordable and repeatable.  Statistical guesswork isn't science, and entirely too often it's actually politics.  And it was in this case also. 

Get this once and for all.  The patterns of life repeat over and over again, but you must be able to see the patterns, but that takes more than a casual glance at history, because history has depth, and in that depth is truth.  It's also imperative we pay attention to the actions of people in positions of power and responsibility, past and present, because they lie.  Their unending theme:  "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" 

 

National Review and All its Many Ways of Insulting Conservatives

January 25, 2021  By Christopher Skeet

The writers and columnists at National Review just had a great week.  Joe Biden was inaugurated, President Trump is gone, and their writers can scratch off their calendars the upcoming rush week at the Lincoln Project frat house and get back to pretending they are conservatives.  It's been four years since they last parroted the Paul Ryan/Mitch McConnell if-only-we-were-in-power shtick, and they made up much lost ground with a slew of articles critical of Biden's first days in office. 

But prior to that, they collectively unloaded on the Trump presidency in a manner that dropped all pretense of detached objectivism (implausible as it was) and chortled with unrestrained glee. 

Here is a recap of some of last week's articles:.............To Read More....

McCarthy Misses the Point in the Michigan Election Audit

You would think elections officials would want an investigation because it would exonerate them. But they don’t. What are they hiding? 

By Bart Marcois  December 26, 2020

I have admired Andrew McCarthy since I was a diplomat in the Middle East, and he filed the indictment against Sheikh Omar for the 1994 bombing of the World Trade Center. He has been right, and courageous, about many things in the years since then. But he is wrong about the massive election fraud in November, and especially about the Allied Security Operations Group report signed by Russ Ramsland that focuses on the role of the Dominion Voting Systems machines in Antrim County, Michigan.

In “A Whopper of An Election Rigging Claim,” McCarthy clarifies the misunderstanding about the reported 68 percent error rate. But he goes on to accuse Ramsland, wrongly, of many other errors. It seems as though McCarthy is basing his criticism on reporting in the Detroit Free Press, and he fails to understand several important matters. Let me point them out in no particular order.

McCarthy clarifies that the “68 percent error rate” means 68 percent of events in the log are reports of errors. It does not mean that 68 percent of the votes were put in an error category, and then adjudicated. The ASOG report, however, never made the erroneous claim: it was a misinterpretation that went viral.

I reached out to Ramsland and asked him to comment on the reported error rates............To Read More....