Secretary Blinken avoids answering questions

 Congress grilled Blinken on TV all day.  He managed to dodge answering anything all day.  A fast mouth on that guy.  And I don't believe a word he said. 

Why did Fauci give US taxpayer funding to a Chinese lab?

 Did, or did not, the Wuhan lab in China create the corona virus?  Who knows?  Why did Fauci approve giving US funding to a Chinese lab?  If there was something that we really needed to know, we should have funded and American lab, on American soil, staffed by Americans, to do the work.  That way we get the results, we can check them, retry anything that seems doubtful, and we have full access to the experimental results.  

   The Chinese have clammed up about just what went on at that Wuhan lab.  We funded them but we don't get any results.  Money down the drain.  

I suspect that the funding went to China, because the work was "gain of function" research, a very dangerous procedure that had been banned by the Obama administration.  Fauci wanted for some reason to do some gain of function work, so he sent the work and the money to China which had not banned gain of function research.

Gain of function research amounts to fiddling with the infectious agent, most likely a virus, to make it more infectious.  There is no good reason to do that sort of thing.    

baked French onion soup

 Tasty.  Start with a can of Campbell's French onion soup.  Follow directions on the can, add a can of water, heat on the stove on medium until it begins to bubble.  Take an earthenware bowl or pottle.  Put in half the soup.  Top with a small piece of toast and some grated cheese.  Pop it until the broiler long enough to melt the cheese.  In my oven, with my timer, that is two minutes.  It's tasty and low calorie.

Why do I care?

 Me, I got vaccinated against corona virus back in February and March.  Far as I know, far as the TV tells me, I won’t get covid, no matter who I hang out with.  We have some people who don’t want to get the corona virus vaccine.  I think they are wrong headed, but I don’t really care.  I won’t get it no matter what they do.  If they think they are immune, or think the vaccine is worse for them than covid, that’s their problem, not mine.

  So now we have Biden calling for mandatory vaccination for federal workers and health care workers and mask mandates.  I think Biden is just talking up a story that is not Afghanistan, just to get the newies talking about something, anything, that is not as damaging to Biden as Afghanistan stories are.  And the vast federal bureaucracy, democrats all, are trying to help poor old Biden out. 

 

Biden wants zero emissions from electric generation by 2040.  Good luck Joe baby.   He is pushing “alternate energy” by which he means wind and solar.  Trouble with wind and solar is they don’t produce electricity when needed; they only produce electricity when they feel like it.  Solar stops generating when the sun goes down, which happens every evening.  Wind stops generating when the wind stops blowing, which is not unusual.  In fact the air is dead still up here as I write this. 

   I need electric power all the time.  My oil burner won’t run without electricity, my stove, my hot water, my lights, my TV, my computer, my power tools all need electricity.  Biden’s zero emissions plan would only furnish power on sunny afternoons.  Juice goes off at sundown.  On a cold winter night, no juice means no oil burner and my pipes freeze. 

  

Biden wants Alternate Energy by 2040

 

Biden wants zero emissions from electric generation by 2040.  Good luck Joe baby.   He is pushing “alternate energy” by which he means wind and solar.  Trouble with wind and solar is they don’t produce electricity when needed; they only produce electricity when they feel like it.  Solar stops generating when the sun goes down, which happens every evening.  Wind stops generating when the wind stops blowing, which is not unusual.  In fact the air is dead still up here as I write this. 

   I need electric power all the time.  My oil burner won’t run without electricity, my stove, my hot water, my lights, my TV, my computer, my power tools all need electricity.  Biden’s zero emissions plan would only furnish power on sunny afternoons.  Juice goes off at sundown.  On a cold winter night, no juice means no oil burner and my pipes freeze. 

  

Vetting Afghan refugees.

 

Do we care about “vetting” the Afghan refugees?  We fear that Islamic terrorists will get into our country in the guise of refugees.  “Vetting” is comparison of the refugee with Afghan police records, Taliban membership lists, school attendance records, driver’s license records and the like.  Trouble is, all these records are all still in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban.  Should the Taliban want to slip a few operatives into the United States, they will surely show a clean as a whistle record to any attempt by Americans to check them out. 

  If the State Dept had been really effective, they would have acquired the needed Afghan records during the 20 years we maintained friendly relations with the Afghan government[s].  You could fit all the records for the entire country onto a handful of smart drives that would fit in your pocket.  But I’ll bet the State Dept never bothered to collect the needed records.  I have little respect for our State Dept.

  As for me, I figure any Afghan willing to board a plane out of his/her country, with nothing but the clothes on his/her back, is probably alright, a good nick on our side.  And, I think ordinary police work on our part, developing informants, cracking down on drug running, keeping good records about crime in our new Afghan refugee communities, will be enough to pick up any Islamic terrorists before they can do much badness.