Roundup

We’ll start with a couple of feel good political items:

Democrats Panic as Donors Signal That the House Is Lost

The idea is that the Dems are short of money because their major donors see no point in throwing good money after bad. They’re not even willing to give money to challenge GOP Congressmen in districts that Zhou carried by +10 in California.

Don Surber has a good discussion on the Dem panic, with a focus on NY:

NYT worries NY will flip red

There are concerns that even the Governor and AG are vulnerable. As elsewhere, the Dems are playing whackamole on defense.

On the war front—the undersea pipeline front—what does it tell you that Sweden is freezing the Germans out of the Nordstream investigation? The pipeline runs to Germany, and the Germans—NATO members—are frozen out? Hmmmm.

Nord Stream: Sweden breaks up cooperation on pipeline investigations
The Limited Times (non-English News) ^ | October 14, 2022

Contrary to plans, Sweden, Denmark and Germany will not form a joint investigation team to investigate the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines.

According to SPIEGEL information, Sweden has rejected the establishment of an international Joint Investigation Team (JIT).

According to information from security circles, Sweden is said to have justified the refusal by saying that the security classification of its investigation results was too high to share them with other countries.

And we finish up with Covid.

Alex Berenson is on the war path, and that’s good.

Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb secretly pressed Twitter to censor me days before Twitter suspended my account last year

After White House pressure failed to force Twitter to ban me immediately, Gottlieb, who was in contact with federal officials, stepped in; I will be suing him, Pfizer, and the Biden Administration

And:

Scott Gottlieb just slandered me on live television

On CNBC, where he is a contributor, he just accused me of making "physical threats" against Tony Fauci; he is daring me to sue him for defamation, and I might take him up on that offer

And, people are so over Covid. I did see two masked knuckleheads at the store this morning, but that was it.

Few Getting Updated COVID-19 Boosters Despite White House Pleas
epoch times ^ | 14 October A.D. 2022 | Jack Phillips

Few people have received updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters since it was first made available in August, according to recent data published by the federal government.

About 14.8 million have received bivalent boosters made by Pfizer and Moderna, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data that was published Thursday shows. The Food and Drug Administration provided emergency use authorizations for both booster doses on Aug. 31 for people aged 12 and older, while it signed off on an emergency approval for children aged 5 to 11 this week.

Some 226 million people have received their primary vaccination series, CDC data shows. It means that about 6.5 percent of people who are eligible got the updated boosters, which were designed to target the Omicron variant and several of its subvariants.