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Miguel’s post California to lead the country again! reminded me of this:

California COVID-19 benefits fraud could reach $9.8 billion

California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims — more than double the previous estimate — with some of that money going to organized crime in Russia, China and other countries, according to a security firm hired to investigate the fraud.

The state has acknowledged that the department was bilked out of hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID-19 unemployment funds that went to fraudsters, including some in the name of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Others were sent to inmates in jails and prisons, including some on California’s death row.

Law abiding Californians are on indefinite lockdown and can’t get assistance, but China, the Russian mob, Nigerian scammers, and fraudsters can get cash.

California is a state that serves the tech billionaires and criminals, everyone else gets fucked.

That is what America will become.

Cadbury Cream Eggs are candy, for children, sold for Easter, the holiday that celebrates the resurrection and redemption of Jesus Christ.

This is the ad that Cadbury ran:

Did we really need the sexualization of a Cream egg?

Primary consumer of Cadbury eggs: families filling Easter baskets.

Cadbury ad: gay men swapping creamy substances between them.

I’d ask if we could not pervert a children’s candy but I know the answer is “no.”

The whole point of Leftism is to destroy everything beloved by tradition.

I can’t wait until Christmas when Cadbury hires an marketing agency that thinks the best wad to sell chocolate Santas is to fellate them on TV.

Two California items. The first, the LA Times;

WASHINGTON —  After four years of being relentlessly targeted by a Republican president who worked overtime to bait, punish and marginalize California and everything it represents, the state is suddenly center stage again in Washington’s policy arena.

California is emerging as the de facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris administration and of a Congress soon to be under Democratic control.

And then this:

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, there are two million doses of the coronavirus vaccine sitting in cold storage units across the state of California. But the rate of vaccinations has slowed to a crawl and now Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly changed the eligibility requirements for citizens to get a vaccine. Counties are crying for more vaccine while many frontline health care workers remain unvaccinated.

California’s Vaccine Distribution Is a Massive Clusterfark

But thank God they will not follow Florida’s example!

As the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States approaches, two of the country’s three most populous states — California and Florida — are seeing two very different epidemiological curves. Hard-lockdown California is — perhaps counterintuitively — recording significantly higher new case numbers and hospitalizations compared to the more open, less restricted state of Florida.
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Additionally, as of Friday the COVID Tracking Project reported California’s COVID hospitalization rate at about 56 per 100,000, with Florida standing at around 36 per 100,000. Experts have argued that hospitalization numbers invariably precede fatalities, with higher hospitalization rates likely pointing toward an imminent rise in deaths.

During current COVID wave, Florida is outperforming California with fewer restrictions

And let us not forget this:

It was the state’s worst wildfire season on record. By the end of it, the flames had killed 31 people, destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 buildings and burned a staggering 4.1m acres. The North Complex fire was responsible for more than 300,000 acres of scorched land, killing 16 people in its wake.

So, the goal of this administration would be to make sure the proper medications are not distributed to those who need it because irresponsible and irrational rules and see if the country can catch fire on all sides and destroy public and private property.

Don’t you feel better now that Biden is gonna be our new POTUS?

The Stalker-turned local celebrity for her meddling with Covid numbers and anti DeSantis positions, got raided for hacking into Florida’s Department of Health system and apparently enough was found that she surrendered to authorities after an arrest warrant was issued.

I had to add that comment. It is simply too stupid not to  include.

And she still has her stalking case to finish, which by this article I think is not going to be declared innocent.

Yesterday, I was running sprints at a local track that was maybe 10 blocks away from my condo.  As I walked to and from the track, I noticed a lot of graffiti.  As noted above, graffiti is generally a sign of disorder and a likely indicator that you may be in an unsafe area.  But context matters as well.  That’s what inspired this article.  Not all the graffiti I saw was a danger sign.  How does one know the difference?

Assessing Neighborhood Safety- Gang Graffiti 

As usual, great stull from Greg Ellifritz. Mexico has a great and rich culture of “Murales” AKA Wall art. They do have beautiful works and not necessarily the ones blessed by the government or hired by private companies but the common people and street-level artist will surprise you with the beauty of their work.

Anyway, I am gonna get me a copy of his book Choose Adventure: Safe Travel in Dangerous Places  because one simple reason: He does not mean OUTSIDE the US only. These observation work here too.

You should get your copy too.

Via Legal Insurrection.

That is bad. CNN is indeed bleeding badly and it is a mixture of both politics and not being able to compete with delivery systems and they admit it so after they just recently announced the shutdown of  CNN Airport News.

He (Jeff Zucker) said the decline in airline passenger traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of available streaming news video on mobile phones and other internet-connected devices led to the decision.

They have been shooting themselves in the lower extremities for far too long and it was bound to affect them. Truthfully, I only tune to CNN if there is some sort of breaking news which they may have coverage, but I find myself doing it less and less since I can directly tap a local (or several) TV stations and even check live streaming from people in the location.

As a result, CNN’s role has become just a propaganda tool for a political side which was bound to cause migration to other providers when a big chunk of the audience felt they were not only not respected, but used as target and fodder for CNN’s political support strategy.

And asking to shut down or restrict other media that cares for the desires of people they do not care about is suspicious. It is not like those who no longer watch CNN will suddenly come back and accept their shows, they simply will not provide the revenue they think they seek. And if it is just because they want them out for political purposes, then it is idiotic because the same principle can and probably will be used against them in the future.

FoxNews came out because CNN stopped being a news delivery organization and became a propaganda arm of the Democrats. OAN & NewsMax exploded and are advancing because FoxNews decided to become part of the Cool Kids Club and may become as weak-assed as CNN which for some reason still cannot process the idea that insulting your viewers does not promote ratings, just the opposite.

“Daddy! The ugly kids hurt my feelings (and pocketbook) Please kill them!