Puffin Publishing changes their minds, sort of.
Joe Biden tries to get out of going to Palestine, Ohio but the optics are horrible.
And Mickey is going to be pissed.
Another Conspiracy That’s Not a Theory
Here’s another conspiracy theory that turned out not to be a conspiracy. According to the Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.
The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.
The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.
Here’s a big secret, we all knew this already. The whole “someone ate a bat” thing didn’t make much sense. The fact the Wuhan Lab is five miles away from ground zero looked really obvious. We know that China is testing biological weapons. It doesn’t matter that this is against the Geneva Convention. China is a terrible country. They lie constantly. They lied about the virus from the beginning and are still lying about it. When they sit back and deny this report, I don’t believe them.
And, they benefitted from the release of this virus. They shut down the United States economy. They got people to blindly follow the government’s commands. A lot of this woke crap comes from the COVID fear mongering the government has been pushing for the past two years and still tries to push today.
Here’s the question I have, what happens now? Is YouTube going to restore all my podcasts? By the way, the crap I said in those banned videos wasn’t from my brilliant intellect. I referenced stuff I found on the web. I had resources yet I was banned for “misinformation”. Are we going to get an apology from the mainstream media and all other social media outlets? Hell, I’d be happy if they just investigated this whole thing.
But they won’t.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rejects-u-s-assertion-that-covid-originated-from-lab-leak-fe15df0c?mod=hp_lead_pos1
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a?mod=article_inline
One More Step to the White House
Ron DeSantis just screwed the mouse and took one step closer to the presidency.
According to Fox News:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill into law that ends Disney’s self-governing power and puts the media giant under the control of a state board.
“Since the 1960s, they’ve enjoyed privileges unlike any company or individual in the state of Florida has ever enjoyed,” DeSantis said at a news conference held at a firehouse minutes away from Disney World. “They had exemptions from laws that everyone else had to follow. They were able to get huge amounts of benefits without paying their fair share of taxes.”
Before signing the legislation, DeSantis told attendees to check their watches so they know “what time the corporate kingdom came to an end.”
“How do you give one theme park its own government and then treat all of the other theme parks differently?” he asked. “So we believe that that was not good policy. We believe that being joined at the hip with this one California-based company was not something that was justifiable or sustainable.”
He added that Disney will be treated like SeaWorld and other theme parks in the state.
So how does this screw Disney?
- Disney was allowed to skip state building codes.
- Disney was able to maintain their own fire department.
- Disney did not have to pay corporate state taxes.
Disney was basically its own state within the state. Florida, which has become deep red, had enough of Disney’s woke crap and took away all of their benefits.
This started last year when Disney began ripping Florida over the Parental Rights in Education Act (named the Don’t Say Gay Act by the media). Bob Chapek, who was Disney CEO at the time, saw this coming and told DeSantis that he couldn’t control his woke employees and that Disney shouldn’t be blamed for their crap. No wonder he was fired. Chapek should have fired all of them to show good faith.
This is another example of “Go Woke, Go Broke”.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-signs-bill-revoking-disneys-self-governing-power
Go Woke, Go Broke
Last week, Puffin Publishing decided they were going to rewrite the Roald Dahl series of books to make them politically correct. When I say, “rewrite,” I mean, “rewrite.” We went over some of the changes that were going to be made, but, the fact is, there were hundreds of changes that were going to be made to each book. This essentially these changes would have created completely different books. They wanted new books since Dahl has been dead for thirty years.
Puffin, hearing the outrage, made an announcement on Friday. Francesca Dow, president of Puffin’s parent company, Penguin Random House, said:
“At Puffin we have proudly published Roald Dahl’s stories for more than forty years in partnership with the Roald Dahl Story Company. Their mischievous spirit and his unique storytelling genius have delighted the imaginations of readers across many generations. We’ve listened to the debate over the past week which has reaffirmed the extraordinary power of Roald Dahl’s books and the very real questions around how stories from another era can be kept relevant for each new generation.
“As a children’s publisher, our role is to share the magic of stories with children with the greatest thought and care. Roald Dahl’s fantastic books are often the first stories young children will read independently, and taking care for the imaginations and fast-developing minds of young readers is both a privilege and a responsibility. We also recognise the importance of keeping Dahl’s classic texts in print. By making both Puffin and Penguin versions available, we are offering readers the choice to decide how they experience Roald Dahl’s magical, marvellous stories.”
You have a choice now. Read Dahl’s original book or read a book written by someone else, but it will be politically correct. In other words, the books will lose their edge and will be boring.
Again, I believe in the purity of the author’s words. If I don’t like what he says, I won’t read the book. I don’t think the words dhould ever be changed unless it is by the author himself. I bought the Roald Dahl set for my grandchildren. I want them to be able to read these great books penned by the hand of Dahl himself. I also want them to read Shakespeare, Twain, Steinbeck and every other controversial author.
That includes authors like Toni Morrison whose books are being banned in schools. The Left hates that Toni Morrison’s books are being banned in schools, but there is a reason. Her books contain subject matter that includes gand rape and beasiality. Conservatives don’t want these books banned or rewritten, just kept out of schools filled with kids. Let the books be read by a more mature audience.
My advice, always buy paper. Don’t buy digital. That goes for controversial movies also.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/publisher-walks-back-woke-rewrites-of-roald-dahls-classic-stories-will-release-original-text-as-well