Crime Fighting is a state and local duty.

 Crime fighting is not a federal job, mostly.  The TV has been trashing Biden's news conference for a lot of reasons, including no questions about crime control.  The cops and the courts are run by states and cities and towns.  The federal judiciary is mostly reserved for cases of constitutional interpretation.  Plus, it seems to me, that the voters of New York City in electing a soft-on-crime DA asked for more crime.  After electing Alvin Bragg as city DA they are going to get more crime.  How much more crime in the streets and passengers pushed to their deaths in front of subway trains will it take to wise up New York voters??

The Winter Car

 It’s zero F this morning so I started thinking about what I would like in a new car for winter driving.

 

1. An outside thermometer so I can tell if that black patch up ahead is glare ice or just a puddle.  The sensor has to be properly located so it reads right if it is raining, and doesn’t read engine heat when it is supposed to read outside temperature.
2. Front wheel drive or even better all wheel drive.  For all wheel drive to be worth it the car needs the same amount of weight on each wheel.  It also needs limited slip between the wheels on each axle and between the axles, so that a few wheels that have traction can pull the car even if a couple of wheels are just slipping.
3. Manual transmission so I can rock the car back and forth by shifting from 1^st to reverse and back again rapidly.
4. Ski rack.
5. Windshield washer reservoir positioned so it gets some engine heat to keep it from freezing.
6. Battery under the hood to make a jump start easier than a battery under the read seat cushion does. 
7. Dash light brightness controlled by a knob, rather than those fancy intelligent deals where the car automatically dims the dash lights when it senses sunlight.  And dash light bright enough to read the instruments in full sun.

Where is the Justice Dept Anti Trust Division? On vacation? sound asleep?

 Micro$oft, a massive company, who owns the desktop and laptop operating system buisiness, and Word and Excel, and a bunch of other stuff, wants to buy Activision, a video game maker (Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush, and some other stuff).  The deal is said to be $75 billion.  That's quite a chunk of change, even for Micro$oft.  

   This should not be allowed.  Micro$oft is entirely too big right now.  We don't need a Micro$oft that is $75 billion bigger.  Anti trust ought to send Micro$oft a nasty gram and threaten to take them to court if they push this deal thru.  That is what the anti trust division of DOJ is for.  Lets have them earn their pay.

Why do we care about Corona virus testing?

    We can tell if someone is ill by talking to them, taking their temperature and doing those med school things that doctors are taught in med school.  If the person doesn’t think he/she is ill, and a face to face examination fails to reveal any illness, why do we care about a lab style test?  If the test reports illness in an obviously well patient, the test has reported a false positive.  Do we need to run a laboratory style test to determine that a person is ill?  I think not. 

   And, test results are subject to change without warming.  You can test negative in the morning and catch Corona virus in the afternoon. 

   Why bother messing around with tests?  If you worry about catching Corona virus, get yourself vaccinated. 

Who Runs the Biden Administration (WRBA)?

I think Joe Biden signs what they put before him and says on TV what appears on his teleprompter.  I don’t think Joe writes his own stuff, someone[s] does it for him and he pretty much signs it or says it. 

I have never heard who these invisible controllers might be.  Only suggestion was from Instapundit a while ago.  He thought Joe’s wife Jill was doing the controlling.  Instapundit just said this, he didn’t offer any evidence.  I haven’t heard anyone else offer suggestions.  It could be coming out of the White House staff.  It might be some Svengali like character of whom we have never heard.  It could be anyone anywhere.  

I haven’t heard much if any discussion as to who it might be.  Who ever it is, he/she wields a lot of power. 

 

You would think the Australians ...

 Could have figured out a way to have the world's champion player, Novak Djokovic play in the Australian open.  I mean just one guy isn't going to release the Black Death in Australia, even if he manages to sleep with a couple of cute chicks who want to be able to say they slept with a world champion athlete.  I would think the publicity advantages to having a world champion competing in the Australian Open would override any health worries. 

Great Snow storm peters out

 The weather wienies have been talking up a huge snow storm for today.  Well, we get some snow, but so much of it was blown into the weeds that it doesn't look like much now.