National Institutes of Health acting director Lawrence Tabak confirmed to lawmakers Wednesday that US health officials concealed early genomic sequences of COVID-19 at the request of Chinese scientists — but insisted the data remains on file.
Tabak told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the NIH “eliminated from public view” the data from the pandemic epicenter in Wuhan, China, before adding that researchers can still access it via an archaic “tape drive.”
Read it all. It only gets worse.
Historians over the years have debated the exact meaning of the phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors, as found in our Constitution concerning causes for impeachment. If this description of it by the American Enterprise Institute is correct, it’s safe to say that there are many officials in the Biden Administration guilty of them.
High crimes and misdemeanors are not limited to actual crimes but extend to an abuse or violation of the public trust in carrying out those duties.
Nothing will happen to these traitors during the present Administration of course, but Deo volente, perhaps in the next. These people should be in jail or better yet, exiled for life to the country of their real employers.
Pro-abortionists, including women in their silly red “Handmaids” garb, disrupted a mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. You have to wonder about these people; do they honestly believe those opposed to abortion will come around to supporting it when beset by ill-behaved harridans shrieking at them? The answer of course is no. They do these things first, for the pleasure of self-righteousness and second, the greater pleasure of making others miserable.
There are however people even viler than these wretched demonstrators and they are those Catholics, who like the Catholic quoted below, empathize with them.
Another man tells the women to get out. “Respect us,” one man says. “You guys want respect? We want respect, too.”
“I understand,” the man says. “We are with you but please, let us worship.”
No doubt that man, directly after the demonstrators were cleared out, marched up to the aisle and received. So whose is the greater sin: the demonstrators’, likely apostate Catholics, liberal mainline protestants, non-Christians and, naturally, Episcopalians, or that of Mr By-ends above, Catholic, but of the “cafeteria” kind, who heaps on his plate Church teachings he does like and skips those he doesn’t.
Your Tatler wonders, do any of these large corporations conduct surveys to determine whether they will lose or gain customers by appealing to the woke? This seems especially pertinent here considering the market segment to which the Kellogg Company is targeting is least likely to have children and most likely to abort them.
The leak the other day of the upcoming Supreme Court decision throwing out Roe v. Wade was a devious and contemptible act, though your Tatler believes the gloom and doom pronouncements over it are overreactions. The miscreant should not be difficult to find and though for impartiality’s sake staffs of all the justices will have to be investigated, it is more than likely the leak came from the offices of one of the liberals.
This correspondent’s money is on the office of the weakest justice on the bench (though soon to be displaced), Sotomayer, whose clerks no doubt reflect her intellectual limitations and easily capable of perpetrating such a stupid act. Once the guilty party is nabbed, disbarred and, we hope, imprisoned, that ought to be the end of the matter. The Court will survive and possibly even benefit from the debacle. Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit and professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, suggests one result could be the end of the Supreme Court hiring clerks.
The Justices did their own work for the first century of the Court, before clerks were introduced, and arguably their opinions were better. In fact, come to think of it, the Court should probably stop hiring clerks anyway. The original justification was that they would be a transmission belt bringing the latest legal thinking from law schools to the justices. Given the state of law schools today, that’s a bug, not a feature.
As for the caterwauling of abortion advocates over the future Court decision (maybe), who without God in their lives weirdly seem to regard the slaughter of innocents in the womb as some sort of hideous sacrament, the gruesome procedure will still be available in 37 of the 50 states. That number will remain the same for some time, though the Court decision will now allow each state to determine where it stands on the subject . This will not satisfy the screamers of course, who demand unrestricted abortions throughout pregnancy and beyond. Their shrieking will continue unabated as will the killing of unborn babies.
Texas wants to know how it can help workers in gaining skills without getting a college degree.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s latest “Interim Legislative Charges” document asks the state senate’s Higher Education Committee to study “workforce education” developments.
Patrick . . . wants a report on “state efforts to support access to work-based learning and microcredential [sic] opportunities” such as “apprenticeships, industry based certificates and certifications.”
The committee should examine “competency-based education” and evaluate “the potential benefits of expanding access to work-based learning, apprenticeships, microcredentials” as well as “industry-based certifications.”
The certifications should be “aligned to workforce needs and provide in-demand workforce skills and competencies.”
This disappointingly jargon-filled document, (shame on you, Texas), bears a striking resemblance to the English-product used in modern academe. Its premise seems to be that skills used in the workplace can only be learned in institutions of higher learning, which is precisely wrong. Work skills are learned in the workplace or, if they are particularly complex, in technical schools, found in most towns not long ago before the myth everyone should go to college came to being.
Your Tatler, using his gift of prophecy, predicts the unsurprising recommendation of this study will be, should Texas waste the money and go through with it: skip college and get a job. From day one you’ll be up a hundred grand or more, which will go a long way compensating for your possibly, though increasingly unlikely, meager starting wage.
Even if your job is merely a sales clerk at Walmart, you can still relish the satisfaction knowing your work is of much greater value to society than that of the brain-dead idiot with a quarter-million dollar PhD in Women’s Studies, or any of the other what historian Alfred Muir Whitehill referred to as the “fraudulent disciplines” (which nowadays, sadly, at many institutions, must include the so-called hard sciences).
Dear people of Texas: please don’t squander taxpayer money on this silly and unneeded study. Spend the money on something far more beneficial to the working class in this country: more walls on the Mexican border.
Isn’t it time to bring the Disney Corporation to its knees? It bears not the slightest resemblance to that of its founder, in fact it has become its antithesis. While Mr Disney’s desire was to create entertainment families could enjoy, with both movies and amusement parks, his corporate heirs have rejected his vision in favor of extreme and offensive “wokeness.”
Just today the Florida State Legislature, along with the Senate earlier, voted overwhelmingly to strip the considerable tax and regulatory advantages the Disney Corporation has enjoyed with its Disney World in Orlando since opening over four decades ago. That is a good start and will cost the corporation millions, but it is not enough. The company is loaded and much more drastic action will be necessary to bring it down.
We need a national boycott of Disney. Not just of the amusement parks and movies, but all products having even the remotest connection to it; Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck need to become pariahs parents will shun. Given that the vast majority of Americans are vehemently opposed to the foul policies Disney Corporation is actively espousing, e.g., encouraging public schools to teach first graders to “explore” their sexuality and undergo counseling without the knowledge their parents on changing their sex, it should be a cinch to persuade Americans to have nothing to do with this evil corporation.
Obviously, a small blog like this one cannot effect by itself a boycott of Disney. If however any readers have connections to influential blogs or websites, please pass this suggestion onto them. In addition to a national boycott, another tactic worth considering, since shares in Disney Corporation have been tanking lately, a shareholder revolt against the Disney board would be in order. That would certainly draw attention to them and might even result in their removal.
The Disney Corporation is not only cynical and perverted, but its market is primarily children. Walt Disney would be appalled what’s become of his company. It’s time to close it down.
Biden shakes hands with thin air, BoJo shakes hands with Zelenskyy.
Not only has Boris Johnson shown the world which nation is leading the way in Ukraine, walking the streets of Kyiv with President Zelenskyy, he has achieved the seemingly impossible: making the pathetic Joe Biden look even smaller and weaker than before. Johnson converses with the president of a war-torn nation; Biden holds court at the White House with the Easter Bunny.
[T]his week I signed A Fraternal Open Letter to Our Brother Bishops in Germany together with seventy other cardinals and bishops from around the world (and the number of signatories is still growing). Because the German Synodal Path departs radically from settled Church doctrine and ancient and well-established discipline, it threatens to cause a schism in the Church, even beyond Germany itself. Our expression of concern is prompted by this threat, especially when we hear leading voices of the Church in Germany rejecting the authority of Scripture and Tradition, in particular with regard to the unbroken teachings of the Church on matters of sexual morality, gender ideology, the sacraments, and the exercise of authority in the Church.
While they display a patina of religious ideas and vocabulary, the German Synodal Path documents seem largely inspired not by Scripture and Tradition — which, for the Second Vatican Council, are “a single sacred deposit of the Word of God” — but by sociological analysis and contemporary political, including gender, ideologies. They look at the Church and her mission through the lens of the world rather than through the lens of the truths revealed in Scripture and the Church’s authoritative Tradition.
Synodal Path content also seems to reinterpret, and thus diminish, the meaning of Christian freedom. For the Christian, freedom is the knowledge, the willingness, and the unhampered ability to do what is right. Freedom is not “autonomy.” Authentic freedom, as the Church teaches, is tethered to truth and ordered to goodness and, ultimately, beatitude. Conscience does not create truth, nor is conscience a matter of personal preference or self-assertion. A properly formed Christian conscience remains subject to the truth about human nature and the norms of righteous living revealed by God and taught by Christ’s Church. Jesus is the truth, who sets us free (Jn 8).
While in no way lessening the devastating consequences of the Synodal Path, which will tear the Church apart should its proponents be successful, your correspondent cannot resist pointing out what an embarrassment these clowns are, ‘sixties relics perpetually living in the Age of Aquarius. They have to be stopped; unfortunately the one man who can do it thus far has shown no inclination to do so.
ROME, Italy — Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin.
Refugees are subdivided,” the pontiff declared during a lengthy Good Friday interview on Italian television. “There’s first class, second class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.
“We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad,” the pope stated.
As he has done on other occasions, Francis compared the current problem of migrants and refugees to the flight into Egypt of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus when King Herod was seeking to kill him.
The pope went on to praise a painting of the flight into Egypt by an Italian artist who portrayed Saint Joseph as a clean-shaven, modern-day Syrian fleeing the war with his child.
“An anguished face that these people have, just like Jesus, forced to flee,” Francis said. “He sent it to me and I made holy cards from it.” [Lord have mercy.]
Someone in the Vatican with book-larnin’ please point out to Papa Errata that Egypt and Judea were both part of the Roman Empire, thus the Holy Family were hardly “migrants” or “refugees.” Otherwise, by the Pope’s reckoning, your Tatler could regard himself similarly owing to his flight into New Mexico from New York.
Turning to the matter of the Pope’s concern: by use of the first person plural in his emotive cry (unless he is using the royal We like his forbears–unlikely), we may assume he means every person in the Western Hemisphere is a racist (except of course those on the ever-growing list of approved victims). That is quite an assumption. What special insight does Francis have into the hundreds of millions of souls in the West, that he is able to discern in them a particular shortcoming of character? Observant Catholics will not dispute we are all sinners, but it strikes this layman the Pope is grossly overreaching with this charge and, yet again, appearing ridiculous.
Most Catholics will vigorously reject the Pope’s irresponsible claim and some may even suggest instead of issuing tiresome scolding broadsides, he take action against the rampant heresies in Germany and many other parts of the world. As of now, while not explicitly encouraging them, he seems content turning a benignly deaf ear.
The only Catholics who applaud this self-righteous twaddle from the Francis are the editors and writers at those lamentable period pieces, the National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, America and others, plus of course those ancient post-conciliar clerics who have yet to face their maker and be held accountable for the rampant destruction they have wreaked upon Holy Church.
The Church will survive these bad men. We have our Lord’s assurance of it. Still:
Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
THE TAOS TATLER. 