Two of our favorite young entertainers putting on a show for us. Doesn't seem to be over. It has been entertaining so far.

Candace Owens threatens to sue Cardi B over "photoshopped tweet" | Salon.com

Quote:Several conservative media figures have seized upon Cardi B's recent performance of her 2020 hit "WAP" at the Grammys on Sunday to reuse their tried and tested outrage bait: explicit rap lyrics. Owens appeared on Fox News to slam Cardi B's performance with Megan Thee Stallion saying, "this seems like an attack on American values, American traditions." 

Quote:Parents "should be terrified that this is the direction that our society is heading towards," Owens continued. 
Soon after her appearance, Cardi B responded on Twitter: "only you can monitor what your kids watch [no one] else."
"I take issue with you being used to encourage young women to strip themselves of dignity," Owens replied to escalate the fued, to which Cardi B responded with the nude photo of former first lady Melania Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30VA7czp79I&t=242s

Georgia Republicans Scurry to Pass Voting Restrictions Law (theintercept.com)

Quote:Some of the changes are profound. Some seem perfectly petty.
The bill that passed the Georgia Senate on Monday night, SB 241, criminalizes “ballot harvesting” activities like helping people fill out absentee ballot applications. It also requires an applicant to either upload a picture of a photo ID or submit photocopies of an ID. In combination, the two rules create impossible conditions for some voters, Butler said.

“How is a blind person going to upload that form into an email process and send it in?” she asked. “People don’t have copiers in rural Georgia. They don’t always have internet access. They don’t always have email or fax.”
Absentee ballot boxes are apparently too convenient when placed outside, so now they must be indoors and only available during business hours. No more private buses would be able to take early voters to the polls.
Other changes seem simply absurd. Consider the criminalization of line warming, the practice of offering food or drink to people standing in line to vote. It seems something awfully minor. But combine it with substantial reductions to early voting and absentee ballots and the inability for local elections boards to expand polling locations, and suddenly you have long, thirsty lines.

Taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.

Watched some of the testimony in Madison. Looks like the Green Bay Mayor might be in some hot water.

to Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

Quote:On Friday afternoon, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (still called the CDC, even though they added a ‘P’) released a heretical report about mask-wearing and COVID-19.

The report, authored by at least a dozen medical doctors, PhD researchers, and, bizarrely, a handful of attorneys, examined how mask mandates across the US affected COVID cases and death rates.

You’d think with all of the media propaganda about mask effectiveness… and all the virtue signaling, with politicians and reporters appearing on live TV wearing masks… that the data would prove incontrovertibly and overwhelmingly that masks have saved the world.

But that’s not what the report says.

According to the CDC’s analysis, between March 1 and December 31 last year, statewide mask mandates were in effect in 2,313 of the 3,142 counties in the United States.

And, looking at the county-by-county data, the CDC concludes that mask mandates were associated with an average 1.32% decrease in the growth rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths during the first 100 days after the mask policy was implemented.

Wait, what? Only 1.32%?

You read that correctly, they didn’t misplace the decimal: according to the federal government agency that is responsible for managing the COVID-1984 pandemic, the difference between mask mandates and no mask mandate is literally just a 1.32% difference.

And bear in mind, it’s entirely possible that the real figure is even lower than that, given all the questionable COVID statistics.

For example, the CDC reports that influenza cases in the United States have dropped to almost zero in the 2020-2021 flu season, down from 56 MILLION the previous year.
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-...esy-31329/

[b]The US Supreme Court dismissed President Trump’s final election challenge on Monday without comment.[/b]

[b]BREAKING: Supreme Court Dismisses President Trump and Attorney Lin Wood's Final Election Challenge Without Comment (thegatewaypundit.com)[/b]

Swiss agree to outlaw facial coverings in 'burqa ban' vote (trust.org)

Quote:ZURICH, March 7 (Reuters) - A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets.

Texas restaurant threatened after keeping mask rule, it says | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (star-telegram.com)

'It was horrific': Houston restaurants brace for threats after sticking with masks (houstonchronicle.com)

Quote:[color=var(--tc,#222)]A Mexican restaurant in Houston says it’s been getting some “horrific” threats after announcing it was keeping its mask requirement as Texas reopens.[/color]
[color=var(--tc,#222)]Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order [color=var(--lc)]lifting the statewide mask mandate[/color] and allowing businesses and facilities to operate at 100% capacity. The rollbacks go into effect March 10.[/color]
[color=var(--tc,#222)]After Picos announced it would still require masks for diners, co-owner Monica Richards said she started receiving some disturbing messages and calls from people threatening to [color=var(--lc)]report the Picos staff[/color] to Immigration and Customs and Enforcement, The Houston Chronicle reported.[/color]

Quote:[color=var(--tc,#222)]They also said the staff’s green cards and paperwork needed to be examined, the newspaper reported.[/color]

[color=var(--tc,#222)]“It was [color=var(--lc)]just horrific[/color],” Richards told The Washington Post. “People don’t understand unless you’re in our business what it felt like, how hard it was to go through everything we went through during COVID. For people to be negative toward us for trying to remain safe, so that this doesn’t continue to happen, just makes zero sense to us.”[/color]