Friday, May 21, 2021
History for May 21
Plato 427 B.C.
- 1819 - Bicycles were first seen in the U.S. in New York City. They were originally known as "swift walkers."
- 1832 - In the U.S., the pro-slavery, Democratic Party held its first national convention.
- 1881 - The American branch of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.
- 1922 - The cartoon, "On the Road to Moscow," by Rollin Kirby won a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer.
- 1924 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. The killers were students at the University of Chicago.
- 1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.
- 1929 - William Henry Storey registered the trademark for the board game Sorry! in the U.K. (U.K. number 502898)
- 1956 - The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean over Bikini Atoll.
- 1968 - The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- 1982 - The British landed in the Falkland Islands and fighting began.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Non-Profit Exposing Truth About 'Woke' Companies - Louder With Crowder
Non-Profit Exposing Truth About 'Woke' Companies - Louder With Crowder:
A majority of Americans oppose companies getting involved in woke politics. A majority of Americans oppose woke bullsh!t in general. The problem is the minority of woke leftist twats are louder and organized around the belief that if you have a platform, that platform needs to be used to promote leftist politics. Or else! People can say how dumb Gina Carano's firing was all they want. All it takes is a handful of losers on Twitter to complain and she gets fired. The minority accuses people and companies of -ists and -isms. The majority is too busy having a life. Shook corporations with no testicles cave to the minority.
'What they respect is POWER and CONTROL': How the Left used masks to condition us to turn on each other - TheBlaze
'What they respect is POWER and CONTROL': How the Left used masks to condition us to turn on each other - TheBlaze:
Dave and Glenn agreed this new development should not erase how the Left exploited masks make half the American population feel less than human. In fact, Dave said he believes they used masks to inflict "a psychological condition on us to make us afraid of each other, and turn on each other."
"So many people on the liberal side see the mask as a sign that you're part of 'the party,' and when you're not wearing a mask, you're a problem," Glenn observed. "They've been shaming us, they've been side-eyeing us, speaking out and calling us names. How do they remove that mask when it has become part of the identity of the party?"
The way we were-----Next Exit: A History of Roadside Attractions
"At countless stops along the old highways travelers could find all manner of attractions like the “World’s Largest Ball of Paint”, “Cadillac Ranch”, and “The Thing”, giving birth to an entire culture of kitsch, monuments to the mammoth, and shrines to the strange.
The history of these roadside attractions - or less charitably, tourist traps - predates even the highways they dotted.
This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration.
As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. "
Will America bend to this outright racism?-----Lightfoot slams 'overwhelming whiteness' of Chicago press, defends only speaking to reporters of color | Fox News
Lightfoot slams 'overwhelming whiteness' of Chicago press, defends only speaking to reporters of color | Fox News
"...Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, D., defended her controversial announcement to only give individual interviews to journalists of color and blasted Chicago media institutions for their "overwhelming whiteness and maleness" in an extraordinary letter on Wednesday.
- Lightfoot slams 'overwhelming whiteness' of Chicago press, defends only speaking to reporters of color-'Many of [the Chicago City Hall reporters] are smart and hard-working, savvy and skilled. But mostly white, nonetheless,' Lightfoot wrote
...In a two-page letter to the media, Lightfoot, the first Black woman as well as the first openly gay mayor in Chicago's history, praised her own 2019 election for "breaking barriers" and took a shot at media organizations in the city for not adequately addressing "institutionalized racism" in their ranks.
Her decision to temporarily only speak to Black and Brown reporters, she said, was part of her lifelong battle to fight for diversity and inclusion...Read all.
Biden warns unvaccinated Americans will ultimately 'end up paying the price' - TheBlaze
Biden warns unvaccinated Americans will ultimately 'end up paying the price' - TheBlaze:
Fox News reported Biden declared during a news conference that COVID-19 cases "are down in all 50 states" and announced that the U.S. would now send more coronavirus vaccines to other countries.
Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence.
Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence.
- An overview of the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of face masks.
1. Studies on the effectiveness of face masks
So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control.
- A May 2020 meta-study on pandemic influenza published by the US CDC found that face masks had no effect, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control. (Source)
- A Danish randomized controlled trial with 6000 participants, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in November 2020, found no statistically significant effect of high-quality medical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection in a community setting. (Source)
- A large randomized controlled trial with close to 8000 participants, published in October 2020 in PLOS One, found that face masks “did not seem to be effective against laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections nor against clinical respiratory infection.” (Source)...Much more!
Development of cases after mask mandates...Read all!
Families with children to receive monthly payments from Biden administration starting July 15 - TheBlaze
Families with children to receive monthly payments from Biden administration starting July 15 - TheBlaze:
Parents with children who qualify for President Joe Biden's expanded child tax credit will begin to receive their monthly payments on July 15, the administration said Monday.
Biden calls Coast Guard graduates ‘Dull’ for not applauding during his speech
Biden calls Coast Guard graduates ‘Dull’ for not applauding during his speech
Biden delivered a commencement speech to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 140th commencement in New London, Connecticut.
- President Joe Biden chastised a class of U.S. Coast Guard graduates after he didn't receive applause during his commencement speech.
- "You’re a really dull class. I mean, come on, man. Is the sun getting to you? I would think that you would have an opportunity, that when I say that about the Navy, to clap," Biden scolded the graduates.
He mentioned the pride Coast Guard members should feel for being "the hard nucleus around the Navy formed in times of war.” Biden's line fell flat, receiving crickets from the audience.
...Biden also quoted Communist Chinese Dictator Mao Zedong while praising the increased number of female graduates compared to years past.
“There’s a saying we use in a different context, it’s a Chinese saying, it says, ‘Women hold up half the world.’ It’s an absolutely stupid position not to make sure they represent at least half of what we do,” Biden said...Read all.
How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices | Climate Etc.
How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices | Climate Etc.
...2. Bias in academic research
- Climate Etc. recently carried several insightful posts about How we fool ourselves.
"...We have just completed a study for the National Association of Scholars [1] that took a deep dive looking at flawed statistical practices used in the field of environmental epidemiology. The study focused on air quality−health effect claims; more specifically PM2.5−health effect claims. However, the flawed practices apply to all aspects of risk factor−chronic disease research. The study also looked at how government bureaucrats use these claims to skew policy in favor of PM2.5 regulation and their own positions.
All that we discuss below is drawn from our study. Americans need to be aware that current statistical practices being used at the EPA for setting policy and regulations are flawed and obviously expensive. Viewers can download and read our study to decide the extent of the problem for themselves.
Academic researcher incentives reward exciting research with new positive (significant association) claims—but not reproducible research. This encourages epidemiologists – who are mainly academics – to wittingly or negligently use various flawed statistical practices to produce positive, but (we show) likely false, claims.
There are numerous key biases that epidemiologists continue to unintentionally (or intentionally) ignore in studies of air quality and health effects. This is done to make positive, but likely false, research claims. Some examples are:
- multiple testing and multiple modeling
- omitting predictors and confounders
- not controlling for residual confounding
- neglecting interactions among variables
- not properly testing model assumptions
- neglecting exposure uncertainties
- making unjustified interventional causal interpretation of regression coefficients..
3. How epidemiologists skew research...Read all!
All Trump voters...Right?-----University hate crime report leaves out that 90 percent of NYC arrestees are black or Latino | The College Fix
University hate crime report leaves out that 90 percent of NYC arrestees are black or Latino | The College Fix
"...However, a researcher on the project said that the primary suspected perpetrators in New York, which drove the increase in hate crimes, are black or Latino.
- California State University San Bernadino’s extremism research center published its latest report on hate crimes allegations, but it did not include the race or ethnicity of offenders.
...He said the breakdown for crime in the city is “about 80% Black and Latino for all crime, and around 90% for hate crime.”
...The latest report on “Anti-Asian Prejudice and Hate Crime” looked at data for the first three months of 2021.
...The 42 hate crimes for January through March in New York City accounted for 45 percent of all hate crimes against Asian-Americans in the major cities studied.
...“The only anti-Asian hate crime charged from NYC that I am aware of was an Asian on Asian hate crime that revolved around a dispute about Communism,” Levin told The Fix...Read all!
Spanish MP suspended from Twitter after declaring 'a man cannot get pregnant': 'Fascist biology' - TheBlaze
Spanish MP suspended from Twitter after declaring 'a man cannot get pregnant': 'Fascist biology' - TheBlaze:
Twitter suspended a member of Spain's Parliament last week after the politician wrote on the social media platform that "a man cannot get pregnant."
15 Reasons Why You Can Never Trust the Mainstream Media - Quertime
15 Reasons Why You Can Never Trust the Mainstream Media - Quertime
"...2. Mainstream media don’t check their sources
It is known that the professional news media always need to check sources and facts before writing about something. However, it doesn’t always work this way: sometimes mainstream media publish unchecked information accidently and sometimes they do it on purpose for their own reasons (usually related to government and businesses that sponsor them).
3. Mainstream media rely on the government..
Speaking about government: it would be wise to mention that all mainstream media are sponsored by certain politicians, who use them to promote their ideas and campaigns. This means that these media not only promote politics but also twists facts, presenting you wrong information.
8. All mainstream media want is to make a profit
While the media have to be our most important source of information, entertainment and education, actually it doesn’t work this way. All the mainstream media want to do is to receive more money, and so their work is dictated by the profit only. They choose not the most important news and facts, but the ones that will bring them more profit. Moreover, they alter them if their sponsor says so – so, you’re basically supporting misinformation and media sponsors when you’re turning to the mainstream media for news...Read all.
History for May 20
John Stuart Mill 1806 - Editor, philosopher
- 1506 - In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.
- 1520 - Hernando Cortez defeated Spanish troops that had been sent to punish him in Mexico.
- 1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior
- 1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.
- 1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
- 1916 - Norman Rockwell’s first cover on "The Saturday Evening Post" appeared.
- 1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.
- 1932 - Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.
- 1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average broke the 1300 mark for the first time. The Dow closed at 1304.88.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Rand Paul wins: Fauci admits he wore a mask for show to avoid sending 'mixed signals' - TheBlaze
Rand Paul wins: Fauci admits he wore a mask for show to avoid sending 'mixed signals' - TheBlaze:
Now, Fauci admits that he continued to wear a mask indoors even though he was vaccinated and knew he didn't need to because he didn't want to send "mixed signals" to the American people, which appears to be the very definition of "theater."
Sen. Paul has not yet commented publicly on Fauci's remarks but he did share the following social media post from the Republican Party of Kentucky: " Two months TO THE DAY after Dr. @RandPaul said Dr. Fauci was performing 'theater' and wearing two masks 'for show' despite being vaccinated, Dr. Fauci finally admits it was, indeed, for show."
Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton says he suffered 'disastrous' side effects from COVID-19 vaccine, blames 'propaganda' insisting they're safe - TheBlaze
Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton says he suffered 'disastrous' side effects from COVID-19 vaccine, blames 'propaganda' insisting they're safe - TheBlaze:
The magazine cited a letter Clapton wrote describing his ordeal to architect and anti-lockdown activist Robin Monotti Graziadei, who shared it with the guitarist's permission. Rolling Stone said it confirmed the authenticity of the letter — but that a Clapton rep didn't immediately respond to its request for comment.
"I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days," Clapton wrote in the letter, according to the magazine. "I recovered eventually and was told it would be twelve weeks before the second one…"
Teach racism to the teachers?-----White people are inherently racist, argues diversity expert hired by elementary school district | The College Fix
White people are inherently racist, argues diversity expert hired by elementary school district | The College Fix
"The Hermosa Beach City School District recently hired a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant who will help train teachers about their white privilege, among other duties.
...Atwater, in response to the concerns, said she would not use “shame or guilt” when she teaches on topics such as race, color blindness, implicit bias and similar topics, according to the video of the school board meeting.
Atwater also said during the meeting that what she trains on is not “critical race theory.” But the scholar’s published works include weighing in on “whiteness norms … that systemically benefit white people” and arguments against a color-blind society, according to her faculty bio.
One Hermosa Beach citizen, Matt McCool, who has been vocal against the Hermosa Beach City School District’s push for DEI training, posted a video of Atwater in which she explains how in her trainings she gently guides people to understand they are racist even if they think they are not:
Read all.
Scarborough: U.S. Capitol Rioters Were Looking to 'Hurt People, Kill Cops'
Scarborough: U.S. Capitol Rioters Were Looking to 'Hurt People, Kill Cops'
"Wednesday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough sounded off on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) opposition to proposed legislation to form a January 6 commission to investigate the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Scarborough accused members of the GOP of “lying” about wanting transparency in the riot because they are “following the ring leader of the conspiracy to commit sedition.”
He asserted that the rioters were looking to “hurt people” and “kill cops” on that day.
...“As somebody, Kasie, who was there, you know full well, as do all of these members who were lying to their constituents, these weren’t just tourists ambling through, taking pictures of statues in Statutory Hall or rubbing Will Rogers’ shoe for good luck. They were there looking to find people, hurt people, kill cops — almost killed quite a few — and you know, put bear spray into cop’s face who eventually died,” he added.
France bans gender-neutral words in schools harmful language - TheBlaze
France bans gender-neutral words in schools harmful language - TheBlaze:
Gender equality advocates were pushing for full stops in the middle of written words, which they called "midpoints," that would allow both male and female forms of the word to be represented at the same time. The Daily Mail reported, "In French grammar, nouns take on the gender of the subject to which they refer, with male preferred over female in mixed settings."
However, the Academie Francaise or the French Academy, which is the 400-year-old education authority responsible for preserving the French language, shot down the woke proposal. The Academie Francaise declared the overture to be "harmful to the practice and understanding of [French]."
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