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1. Retired Spook May 22, 2026 / 9:06 am

   They believe things which are not only untrue, but are obviously untrue. Things like: there have been times when atmospheric CO2 was five times (or more!) higher than today and yet life flourished on the planet…and the planet had absolutely no ice…so vastly warmer than today.

   So, it’s untrue that there have been times when CO2 was five times higher, and there was no ice? Rhetorical question – I know what you meant.

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2. Retired Spook May 22, 2026 / 10:43 am

   I love stupid crook stories, and this one from Jeff Childers is LOL funny.

   Fauci is long gone. Now the people who carried out the orders, his deputies and lieutenants, are nearly gone, too. But Nature (and only Nature) reported more. The criminal prosecutions are starting, too.

   💉 Fauci might have gotten an Autopen pardon. But the list of witless, white-coated mini-bosses under him did not.

   Alert readers will recall that, three weeks ago on April 28th, the DOJ criminally indicted David Morens, 78, a ‘senior adviser’ in NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022. Morens reported directly to Fauci. He was charged with conspiracy against the United States, destruction and falsification of federal records, and a truly catastrophic failure of basic operational security— all connected to a revolting scheme to conceal his communications about EcoHealth’s Wuhan research grants from FOIA requests.

   As a reminder, in an email that is now the indictment’s Exhibit A, Morens —an actual moron— explained his methodology: “I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe.” Au contraire, mon amî. After EcoHealth won a new $7.5 million grant, Morens wrote to Daszak: “Ahem…. do I get a kickback???? Too much fooking money!”

   

   If this were a heist movie, Morens would be the guy who accidentally clicks ‘email all’ with the getaway plans attached.

   In other words, the culture at NIH was so corrupt that a senior federal official was bold enough to write emails soliciting bribes and confirming the agency’s in-house FOIA official taught the scientists how to destroy government records. He wrote those admissions down. In emails that he helpfully sent to everyone he was conspiring with. Thanks, doc!

   Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (bless him) explained, “Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records to suppress theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”

   In another email cited in the indictment, Morens wrote, “We all agree that we want to keep off Of it any fingerprints of you, [North Carolina Scientist 1] and any [COMPANY #1] or grant colleagues.” He stressed, again, “I need to keep this off of govt email and govt phone text.”

   Morens —a top NIH scientist, but obviously not any rocket scientist— sent this incriminating reminder about not leaving fingerprints on government email or government phone texts in a government email, from his government phone. You just can’t make this stuff up. Maybe he thought abbreviating ‘govt’ would keep it off the radar.

   People— these are the midwits who broke the world during the pandemic. It sort of takes one’s breath away, doesn’t it? I blame DEI.

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   • Mark Noonan May 22, 2026 / 11:21 am

     I think a lot of it was sloppiness based on a conviction that they probably wouldn’t even be seriously investigated. The panic probably set in when Fauci was pardoned but nobody else involved…and I wonder how much Fauci had to pay Hunter to get that? Seriously: what the heck would the Biden’s actually care if Fauci went down? Someone moved some money…because if it was an actual effort to stop the investigation, lots more in Fauci’s orbit would have been pardoned.

     The scale of corruption we’re seeing is just staggering…but the good news is that when Angus King (Pretend Independent Actual Leftist Democrat – ME) suggested a government program for bath mats so you and I won’t slip in the tub, everyone immediately saw it for the grift it was. That is, everyone figured that if we passed King’s law, some connected NGO would get a massive contract for it and by the time your $10 bath mat arrives, it cost the taxpayer $50, the rest of it being raked off along the way, including by King and his people who would get kickbacks for getting it through.

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3. Retired Spook May 22, 2026 / 11:13 am

   To your point about liars (a point that can’t be made too often or too vehemently), this column by Michael Smith today reminds us that people who don’t routinely lie, are also likely to have other positive traits.

   “ A reader asked an easy question of me in the same way a man standing at the foot of Everest asks someone else to “just run up there real quick and plant a flag.”

   He asked, “How do conservatives reduce the size of government and restore honesty, integrity, accountability and competence in America?”

   The short answer is this: you cannot have limited government without a population capable of limiting itself. That is the part modern America increasingly refuses to discuss because it is uncomfortable, judgmental, unfashionable and, worst of all, it points the accusatory finger not at Washington, but at us.

   What we lack are enough citizens who understand that self-government begins with governing the self.

   So, let me ask a few very simple questions:

   If you go to church regularly, why do you go? What motivates you?

   What stops you from walking over to your neighbor’s house and simply taking his stuff?

   What stops you from beating your wife, husband or kids?

   Why do you obey stop signs, speed limits and lane markers even when no police officer is present?

   Why do you go to work instead of lying in bed waiting for someone else to feed you?

   What keeps you from blowing your paycheck on the Hunter Biden Special—hookers and blow every Friday night—and waking up Saturday morning hungover, morally bankrupt and broke?

   Why do you return the extra twenty dollars when the cashier accidentally gives it to you?

   Why do you stay faithful to your spouse when temptation and secrecy present themselves together?

   Why do you stand in line instead of simply shoving your way to the front like a baboon fighting over fruit at the zoo?

   Why do you keep promises no court could enforce?

   Why do you feel shame after lying and pride after enduring something difficult honestly?

   Now here is the important part: if your answer to most of those questions boils down to “because it is wrong,” then congratulations, you are carrying around the invisible machinery required for a free civilization to exist and you can be sure the problem doesn’t rest with you.

   The problem is this: when enough people stop believing those things are wrong, no constitution ever written will save the republic.

   That was one of Alexis de Tocqueville’s great observations about America. He recognized that America’s freedom did not emerge merely from parchment, elections or institutions. It emerged from habits, morality, churches, families, customs and self-restraint. Americans governed themselves internally, which meant government did not need to govern every external aspect of their lives.

   In short, freedom worked because most people voluntarily stayed between the lines without requiring an armed bureaucrat to scream instructions through a megaphone. Civilization survives because enough people choose not to act like drunken trash pandas fighting in a dumpster behind a casino buffet.

   De Tocqueville understood something modern progressivism desperately tries to deny: morality cannot be fully outsourced to government bureaucracy.

   You cannot regulate a people into virtue. You cannot subsidize responsibility into existence. You cannot create honesty through federal grant programs, and you certainly cannot sustain liberty among people who lack impulse control, discipline, delayed gratification or moral restraint.

   A society capable of self-government requires a population of millions of people making small, invisible decisions every single day that nobody applauds and nobody monitors.

   Going to work.
   Paying debts.
   Raising children.
   Keeping promises.
   Telling the truth.
   Showing restraint.
   Accepting consequences.
   Choosing duty over indulgence.

   Civilization, in the end, is not held together by the Capitol dome, Supreme Court robes or inspirational campaign slogans. It is held together by internal restraint practiced voluntarily by ordinary people who will never appear in history books.

   The frightening reality is that when enough citizens cease governing themselves, government inevitably expands to fill the vacuum. If people will not control their impulses voluntarily, government will attempt to control behavior coercively. The less self-discipline a population possesses, the more external discipline becomes necessary. That is the trade being made all around us right now—people losing the ability to govern themselves while demanding ever larger systems to govern everyone else, and history shows that road does not lead to liberty.

   It leads exactly to where every civilization eventually goes when appetite replaces virtue and entitlement replaces duty: toward soft despotism, managed decline and eventually collapse under the sheer weight of moral and institutional decay.

   What makes America great is not what makes great politicians. We must stop treating politicians as if they are an inevitable consequence of a separate class made from finer clay—because they aren’t. As we each must answer those aforementioned questions every minute of every day, so should they and when they are found wanting, it is time for them to go because they no longer represent you.

   A republic we have, as Benjamin Franklin warned, if we can keep it. The terrifying part is realizing that “keeping it” was always going to depend less on politicians than on whether ordinary citizens could keep themselves.

   Most of us already have what it takes and are doing what is required, so the answer seems to be that it begins with us and what we will accept.”

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   • Mark Noonan May 22, 2026 / 11:57 am

     Here’s the final word on that: those of us who do self-govern will, eventually, come to realize that we will have to govern those who won’t. When we see people starting a brawl at the fast food joint, we have to start letting these people know they may not do that…and such people are not amenable to reason. We’re going to have to beat them into decency. Take away their power to vote (I know longer consider voting to be a basic human right – it is a privilege which must be based on moral and intellectual capacity…and it is fairly low bar for this capacity…but it is a bar, and you’ve got to clear it). Take away their freedom if they repeat offend…not in a cruel and unproductive way by putting them in a cell, but by putting them into labor camps which will teach them the requirements of being a member of society. They will work, and they’ll get rewarded for it. They will (eventually) behave, and be rewarded for that (by getting out). Those who can’t take the message will simply have to be sent back for ever longer terms in camp…and, eventually, if they are really thickheaded, they’ll never get out…but even then, they’ll be doing useful work and will have the ability to live a pretty good life, just under supervision.

     It is a Republic, if we can keep it – and keeping it will require ensuring those who can’t keep it are kept under control.

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     • Retired Spook May 22, 2026 / 12:24 pm

       I’m reading a book series (Jonathan Grave by John Gilstrap that Amazona clued me onto) in which Jonathan Grave and a former Delta Force colleague run a hostage rescue organization as a covert part of a private investigations firm. They kill a lot of bad guys in the process of rescuing innocents, but never do outright assassinations or cold-blooded murder. I think society will eventually get to that point where vigilante groups will remove bad people from society. I don’t see government EVER performing that function satisfactorily.
   • Amazona May 22, 2026 / 12:31 pm

     When I look at videos of thuggish animalistic behavior, whether by individuals being stopped at Wal Mart or groups hassling people, I wonder what their lives were like ten-twenty years ago.

     We know one thing—-they were, for their entire lives, brought up on in a society targeting them for the promotion of rage and resentment and hate and entitlement and victimhood. Those characteristics did not just pop up out of nowhere when there is a conflict. I feel pretty confident in speculating that they were not expected to be home at a certain time at night to sit down to a family meal. In other words, their day-to-day lives were feral, in an atmosphere purposely dedicated to building on every possible negative.

     The gradual changes I am seeing in response to this seem to come, for the most part, from black men who are disgusted by the successful destruction of black culture and its transformation of so many into mere mindless rage-drive thugs and criminals. But this has become a multi-generational abscess in the heart of a once-proud culture, and without a major change in the Agenda Media and pop culture and attitudes toward family I don’t see much likelihood for it getting much better.

     It’s not just the gun-toting gangbangers—it’s the grossly obese female black shoplifter who, when asked to produce a receipt, instantly starts screaming profanity, throws herself on the floor (without being touched or threatened) and screams “RACIST! I CAN’T BREATHE!” At least I can kind of understand the yearning of young black men for strong male figures in their lives, driven by testosterone and a sense of futility. They are truly unmoored and adrift, though at a point of decreased humanity in many cases.

     But the women—-I am utterly baffled by the total lack of personal dignity.

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