By Mike Huckabee
February 10, 2023
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THE EVENING EDITION
BY MIKE HUCKABEE
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The Blinders are off
And the “Throwing off the blinders and finally admitting the truth” stories just keep comin’...
First up, the mayor of San Francisco gave a State of the City speech in which she admitted the city is facing bad problems but proposed improving things by spending more on policing, cutting taxes and regulations on small businesses, and removing government barriers to building more housing. That’s so normal that naturally, it angered the left, who are crazy.
And Twitchy.com reports that after months of lying about John Fetterman’s health, liberal media outlets like the New York Times are finally admitting what we said all along: he’s suffering serious health problems that are making it difficult if not impossible for him to serve in the Senate.
If voters had known this, it probably would have altered the course of the election and the Democrats’ Senate majority, just as if voters had known about Hunter Biden’s laptop, it would have prevented Biden from beating Trump. Funny how all these self-appointed guardians against “disinformation” and champions of “the voters’ right to know” only get their facts straight after they’ve already misled voters into doing what they wanted.
Let’s hope the voters are also throwing off their blinders and starting to see the truth.
Partisan not nonpartisan
As the House investigates collusion to censor conservative voices, here’s something else they might want to put on the agenda. In an exclusive expose, the Washington Examiner revealed a network of well-funded, supposedly nonpartisan “disinformation tracking groups” (but actually leftwing activist groups) that are using the guise of “disinformation” to block advertising dollars from going to conservative media outlets and drive them out of business.
Just as our politicized government agencies only need to brand someone as “anti-authoritarian” to justify treating them like terrorists, so these groups brand any media outlet that questions government health edicts or doesn’t parrot leftwing dogma as purveyors of “disinformation” and puts them on “exclusion” lists that go to ad placement companies, choking off their revenue.
It’s especially ironic, considering these so-called watchdogs of “disinformation” are possibly the most damaging and insidious peddlers of real disinformation in the media sphere today. It shows why it’s so important for conservatives to financially support conservative voices, and for Republicans in Washington to drag this shadowy cabal into the disinfecting light of day.
Pray for Senator Fetterman
Please continue to pray for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who remains hospitalized for what it is believed to be signs of a seizure. Or to put it bluntly, one more symptom that a man who recently suffered a major stroke should never have been put into a high stress job in the Senate.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/02/10/fetterman-is-still-hospitalized-n2619413
Good column
Good column by Derek Hunter at Townhall.com about President Biden’s race-baiting at the State of the Union in claiming that white people never have “the talk” with their kids about behaving very carefully and respectfully if they’re ever stopped by the police.
As Hunter reminds us: Yes, every kid of every race gets that lecture from his parents, if they’re even worthy of the title of “parents.” Maybe Joe never did it because for some reason, his son seems to think he can get out of any legal scrape just by virtue of his last name. I wonder where he got that idea?
RIP BURT BACHARACH
By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)
News came this morning that songwriter/composer/arranger/producer and recording artist Burt Bacharach died Wednesday in Los Angeles of natural causes at 94.
Bacharach had a long and influential career that spanned over seven decades, from his first big break after leaving the Army as the great singer Vic Damone’s accompanist in 1952 to a recent Grammy-nominated album collaboration with Elvis Costello. In between, he created too many hit songs to list, many with his late lyricist partner Hal David. Together, the two created a signature sound that was sophisticated, tuneful, and a perfect soundtrack for the Swinging 60s set who preferred cocktails and Playboy fashion spreads to marijuana and Woodstock mud.
Bacharach and David rivaled Lennon and McCartney as the most successful songwriting duo of the ‘60s, turning out such modern day standards (many cut by their muse Dionne Warwick) as “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “Walk On By,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” “I Say a Little Prayer for You,” “Anyone Who Had A Heart,” “This Girl’s (or Guy’s) In Love With You,” “Alfie,” “Promises, Promises,” “What’s New, Pussycat,” “One Less Bell to Answer,” “The Look of Love,” and the Oscar-winning “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.”
And that’s just scratching the surface, something you should never do to a record. You might not know that in earlier years, as a Brill Building tunesmith, Bacharach gave us such hits as “Baby, It’s You,” “Magic Moments,” “Any Day Now,” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” “Don’t Make Me Over,” “Only Love Can Break A Heart,” and my favorite, the theme from “The Blob” by the Five Blobs.
Later on, he worked with other collaborators, including his wife from 1981 to 1992, singer/songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, creating even more hits, including the Grammy-winning Song of the Year “That’s What Friends Are For” and the Oscar-winning “Arthur’s Theme.” He also released some solo albums that are mostly instrumental with guest vocals (his vocals showed why many great songwriters let someone else do the singing), and less pop-oriented than his famous tunes, for those who’d like to explore his catalog a little deeper than the mountain of hits. But even if you just compile a playlist of his hits, that should give you enough music to last all day.
Latest threat to the facemask cult
In some places, to this day, you still see people wearing masks even in parks or driving alone in their cars with the windows up. For them, belief in facemasks to prevent COVID is like carrying a rabbit’s foot to ward off the Evil Eye. They claim to believe in “SCIENCE!,” but no amount of scientific study of the extremely limited effectiveness, and even negative consequences, of facemasks can shake their faith.
The latest threat to the facemask cult is an analysis by the Cochrane Library of 18 randomized controlled trials on the impact of facemasks on airborne respiratory viruses. Results: wearing a mask in public places "probably makes little or no difference" in virus infection rates, whether measured by lab tests or reported symptoms. There was also no difference in clinical effectiveness between surgical masks and thicker N95 masks.
This article at Reason.com claims that the CDC “grossly exaggerated” the evidence supporting mask mandates and largely relied on a single study from Bangladesh showing that they were up to 66% effective, but that study suffered from a number of weaknesses and “grave methodological problems.” Even surgeons realize that surgical masks are only of limited usefulness even inside a closed, sterilized operating room.
But as David Strom at Hotair.com reports, true facemask disciples won’t uncover their faces and breath fresh air without a fight.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/02/08/irs-looks-to-crack-down-on-tips-n529185
They’re publishing screeds attacking the figures and methodology of the Cochrane Library study to try to debunk it. But as Strom points out, even if all that research were wrong and masks were 99.9% effective, airborne viruses are all around us at all times, so they’re still going to get to you eventually. Masks can even increase the risks to your health because they get contaminated with all sorts of bacteria and viruses that you then inhale at close range.
This shouldn’t come as a shock. Way back on June 16, 2021, I reported in this newsletter about a study in Florida that found up to half the masks used by school kids were infected with a long list of dangerous pathogens. And I wrote that even long before that, “I passed along the CDC’s strict guidelines for wearing masks hygienically and said that I couldn’t imagine anyone actually following them to the letter. Certainly not children! But if you don’t, you are creating a bacteria-infected rag and holding it over your mouth and nose.”
So why do some people still cling so zealously to wearing masks that don't help and might even make things worse? Strom theorizes that some people get a sense of security out of trusting authoritarian “experts” with credentials, even if they’re wrong. He writes, “These people view scientists as priests and become their acolytes, as happens with many movements. It’s called scientism, and dissenters are heretics.” Ironically, the loudest defenders of “science” are actually denying science because it conflicts with their secular religion.
Strom expects that despite mounting evidence, these people will continue masking up and demanding more mask mandates because wearing masks has “long since become a political statement, and no amount of reason can penetrate once that happens.”
If only someone could invent a mask that blocks out viruses as effectively as leftist political beliefs block out facts!In some places, to this day, you still see people wearing masks even in parks or driving alone in their cars with the windows up. For them, belief in facemasks to prevent COVID is like carrying a rabbit’s foot to ward off the Evil Eye. They claim to believe in “SCIENCE!,” but no amount of scientific study of the extremely limited effectiveness, and even negative consequences, of facemasks can shake their faith.
The latest threat to the facemask cult is an analysis by the Cochrane Library of 18 randomized controlled trials on the impact of facemasks on airborne respiratory viruses. Results: wearing a mask in public places "probably makes little or no difference" in virus infection rates, whether measured by lab tests or reported symptoms. There was also no difference in clinical effectiveness between surgical masks and thicker N95 masks.
This article at Reason.com claims that the CDC “grossly exaggerated” the evidence supporting mask mandates and largely relied on a single study from Bangladesh showing that they were up to 66% effective, but that study suffered from a number of weaknesses and “grave methodological problems.” Even surgeons realize that surgical masks are only of limited usefulness even inside a closed, sterilized operating room.
But as David Strom at Hotair.com reports, true facemask disciples won’t uncover their faces and breath fresh air without a fight.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/02/08/irs-looks-to-crack-down-on-tips-n529185
They’re publishing screeds attacking the figures and methodology of the Cochrane Library study to try to debunk it. But as Strom points out, even if all that research were wrong and masks were 99.9% effective, airborne viruses are all around us at all times, so they’re still going to get to you eventually. Masks can even increase the risks to your health because they get contaminated with all sorts of bacteria and viruses that you then inhale at close range.
This shouldn’t come as a shock. Way back on June 16, 2021, I reported in this newsletter about a study in Florida that found up to half the masks used by school kids were infected with a long list of dangerous pathogens. And I wrote that even long before that, “I passed along the CDC’s strict guidelines for wearing masks hygienically and said that I couldn’t imagine anyone actually following them to the letter. Certainly not children! But if you don’t, you are creating a bacteria-infected rag and holding it over your mouth and nose.”
So why do some people still cling so zealously to wearing masks that don't help and might even make things worse? Strom theorizes that some people get a sense of security out of trusting authoritarian “experts” with credentials, even if they’re wrong. He writes, “These people view scientists as priests and become their acolytes, as happens with many movements. It’s called scientism, and dissenters are heretics.” Ironically, the loudest defenders of “science” are actually denying science because it conflicts with their secular religion.
Strom expects that despite mounting evidence, these people will continue masking up and demanding more mask mandates because wearing masks has “long since become a political statement, and no amount of reason can penetrate once that happens.”
If only someone could invent a mask that blocks out viruses as effectively as leftist political beliefs block out facts!
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