Saturday, July 03, 2021
I SUSPECT THAT CHINA IS QUIETLY PROMOTING THE WEST’S SELF-HATRED AND SELF-FLAGELLATION:
Instapundit--I SUSPECT THAT CHINA IS QUIETLY PROMOTING THE WEST’S SELF-HATRED AND SELF-FLAGELLATION:
As I’ve said, the kind of history being promoted by the 1619 Project and the “antiracism” movement generally is the kind of history that a conqueror would impose upon a conquered population in order to break its will.--Posted by
Iowa aquatic center permitted biologically female teen to walk around topless, use men's, boys' facilities because she identifies as male: report - TheBlaze
Iowa aquatic center permitted biologically female teen to walk around topless, use men's, boys' facilities because she identifies as male: report - TheBlaze:
An Iowa public pool complex in Pella reportedly permitted a biologically female teen to walk around the facility topless and enter the men's and boys' changing facilities because she was said to have told them that she identifies as male, the Iowa Standard recently reported.
Americans Allowed to “Self-Select” Gender on Passport, Third Gender Option Coming Soon
Americans Allowed to “Self-Select” Gender on Passport, Third Gender Option Coming Soon
"Americans will now be able to choose the gender displayed on their passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBA), and will not be required to provide medical documentation if their chosen gender does not match other identification documents, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Thursday.
Other gender options are on the way as well.
“The Department of State is committed to promoting the freedom, dignity, and equality of all people — including LGBTQI+ persons…. We will be updating our procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender as ‘M’ or ‘F’ and will no longer require medical certification if an applicant’s self-selected gender does not match the gender on their other citizenship or identity documents,” Blinken said in a statement...Read all.
History for July 3
History for July 3 - On-This-Day.com
Franz Kafka 1883 - Author
- 1608 - The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1775 - U.S. Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, MA.
- 1844 - Ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiated a commercial treaty with China that opened five Chinese ports to U.S. merchants and protected the rights of American citizens in China.
- 1863 - The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended after three days. It was a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
- 1930 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
- 1934 - U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) made its first payment to Lydia Losiger.
- 1954 - Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
- 1986 - U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
Friday, July 02, 2021
NYC mayor's race plunges into chaos after officials count sample ballots with actual ballots: 'Deeply troubling' - TheBlaze
NYC mayor's race plunges into chaos after officials count sample ballots with actual ballots: 'Deeply troubling' - TheBlaze:
The race to determine the next mayor of New York City descended into further chaos Tuesday after election officials admitted they included test ballots in the official vote tallies.
Yes, they are lying to all of us!-----Heatwave Reporting Shows How Science Has Been Corrupted By Climate Groupthink | Climate Change Dispatch
Heatwave Reporting Shows How Science Has Been Corrupted By Climate Groupthink | Climate Change Dispatch
"The headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, Scientific American, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets this week, “Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change” couldn’t possibly be more unscientific.
With absolutely no analysis, no historical context, and nothing but conjecture, author Anne. C. Mulkern eschewed science for advocacy in her reporting of the brief Pacific Northwest (PNW) heatwave this week.
Yes, the heatwave set all-time high-temperature records in Washington, Oregon, and Canada. But consider this: At best, we have about 150 years of reliable weather records for the PNW, so a “black swan” outlier event like this isn’t surprising.
It’s happened before, most certainly. We just weren’t around to observe it. After all, Native Americans did not keep written weather records.
High- (and low-) temperature records are nothing new. But it is important to look at the past because data shows us that more high-temperature records were set during the first half of the twentieth century than during the past 50 years.
Even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirms this.
But many climate activists immediately pointed to “climate change” as the cause, even though this week would have become a record weather event with or without recent modest warming.
It is said that...Read all.
WATCH: Dems Scream, Pound Desks When GOP Female Rep Proposes Protecting Women’s Sports
WATCH: Dems Scream, Pound Desks When GOP Female Rep Proposes Protecting Women’s Sports
"When a young female Ohio GOP legislator presented an amendment to an Ohio bill, an amendment that would protect biological female athletes from being forced to compete against biological males, Democrats reacted by screaming and banging their desks in an effort to drown her out, prompting criticism and mockery...
The Democrats’ “disgraceful behavior” was roundly rebuked online.
Powell was asked on Washington Watch, “Why was the reaction so strong?” She replied...Read all.
Dude Quits NH School District Over White Privilege Workshop - Louder With Crowder
Dude Quits NH School District Over White Privilege Workshop - Louder With Crowder:
Daniel Concannon, I don't know who you are other than a based Jerry Maguire. But I want to buy you all the beers.
As far as I can tell, Daniel worked for the Manchester School District in New Hampshire. "Worked" being the key phrase here. Corresponding tweets show that he was forced to take the same BS "white privilege" workshops that leftists force on everyone from Coca-Cola employees to abused foster children. Basically, if you're white, you suck and are to blame for all the bad things that have ever happened ever. Ironically enough, according to other white people. Just a hunch, but I'm guessing there's not a lot of melanin sitting on a NEW HAMPSHIRE school board.
Fauci=Lysenkoism?
Michael Smith shared a link.
"Sorry about the recycling of posts this morning, but the linked article is a pretty good example of how our intellectuals, academics and "scientists" are abandoning facts, reality and truth in favor of Lysenkoism.
About Lysenkoism, I wrote: 
Most people are at least aware of the Holodomor, the Stalin era famine in Ukraine that ultimately took an estimated 20 million lives, but few know that was just the beginning.
Famines continued in post-WWII Soviet Russia and in Mao’s China, largely due to the “settled science” based policies of Trofim Lysenko.
See, Lysenko and Stalin had somewhat of a bromance going on, and as such, Lysenko increased his influence and power as he rose within the government, ultimately becoming director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR’s Academy of Sciences.
But there was one real problem – Lysenko’s theories had no actual basis in science...
...All in all, Lysenko’s “science” contributed to the deaths of an estimated 30-40 million people in the Soviet Union and China.
...Lysenkoism is everywhere these days. The contemporary Lysenkos just want to please the state.
And that is why they cannot be trusted.
Allow the market to do its magic!-----Walmart. Earlier this week, the retailer shared it will be selling its own private brand of insulin.
Walmart. Earlier this week, the retailer shared it will be selling its own private brand of insulin.
"...Walmart. Earlier this week, the retailer shared it will be selling its own private brand of insulin.
More than 34 million Americans have diabetes.
...In comes Wally World.
Its private brand ReliOn will sell insulin vials for about $73 – saving people as much as $100 per vial."
'Irony defined': Only days after Oakland slashed its police budget, armed robbers ran up on the city's woke 'violence prevention' chief while he discussed rising crime with local news reporters - TheBlaze
'Irony defined': Only days after Oakland slashed its police budget, armed robbers ran up on the city's woke 'violence prevention' chief while he discussed rising crime with local news reporters - TheBlaze:
On Monday, a local Bay Area news crew, KNTV-TV, was interviewing Oakland's violence prevention director on the steps of City Hall when a pair of armed robbers approached the group with guns and attempted to steal the camera equipment.
Discovered: Migrant Safe House in Scottsdale, Arizona! - ICE and Gov. Agents provide 24/7 security and catering to Illegal Immigrants
Discovered: Migrant Safe House in Scottsdale, Arizona! - ICE and Gov. Agents provide 24/7 security and catering to Illegal Immigrants
"On Monday night, TGP’s Jordan Conradson investigated the Homewood Suites in Scottsdale, Arizona after receiving a tip that it was an illegal immigrant safe house. The hotel is located at 9880 N Scottsdale Rd.
When Conradson arrived at the hotel, every entrance was barricaded, and he had to park down the street. He walked up to the hotel and greeted some officers.
Conradson: what’s going on here?
LES Officer: You actually need to leave the property it’s actually a closed hotel.
Conradson: Oh, so what’s going on?
LES Officer: This is a private property man.
Conradson: But what’s going on?
LES Officer: If you want to get information for that you need to go to endeavors.org.
Conradson: I heard that they were harboring illegal immigrants here. Is that true?
LES Officer: You can go to the endeavors.org website and they’ll give you as much information as they can.
Conradson: Who do you work for?
LES Officer: I’m contracted with LES, it’s a law enforcement contract service company.
Conradson: Why aren’t people allowed on the premises?
LES Officer: You can go to endeavors.org to get information for that other than that this is closed this is private property from the company that’s here.
This is atrocious. Over 600 MILLION DOLLARS are funding this operation to flood red counties with illegal residents and brand new Democrat voters, and it’s costing the taxpayers money and it’s putting the American people in DANGER.
..Read all!
Singing the Cakeshop Blues — Again Baker Jack Phillips can’t get a break.
Singing the Cakeshop Blues — Again Baker Jack Phillips can’t get a break.
"...conservatives’ favorite baker has been thrown back into religious liberty limbo.
On June 15, a Denver district court ruled that Jack Phillips, the beleaguered owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, had broken Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws because he wouldn’t violate his religious beliefs and bake a theme cake for a man celebrating his alleged transition into a woman.
Hang on a second.
On June 15, a Denver district court ruled that Jack Phillips, the beleaguered owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, had broken Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws because he wouldn’t violate his religious beliefs and bake a theme cake for a man celebrating his alleged transition into a woman.
Hang on a second.
Didn’t we just do this?
Second (and Third) Verse, Same as the First
You’re forgiven for thinking so.
Second (and Third) Verse, Same as the First
You’re forgiven for thinking so.
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision that this same Jack Phillips could legally refuse to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because homosexual marriage violated his religious beliefs.
But the Court trod the narrowest path possible to arrive at that decision, a path so faint it may never be found again.
But the Court trod the narrowest path possible to arrive at that decision, a path so faint it may never be found again.
The Court did not decide that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had denied Phillips his religious liberty per se, but that the commission had been too mean when they considered the case.
Here’s what one commissioner said about the Phillips case...Read all!
Here’s what one commissioner said about the Phillips case...Read all!
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
"...A commenter here on HVAC and the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect wrote that he tries to interpret news stories using a simple procedure: determine the bias, and then assume the opposite of what the story claims...
I can go to trusted sources and believe them–just like everybody else does.
If I have seen the scene myself, I consider it very true.
"...A commenter here on HVAC and the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect wrote that he tries to interpret news stories using a simple procedure: determine the bias, and then assume the opposite of what the story claims...
- How do we figure out what’s real?
I can go to trusted sources and believe them–just like everybody else does.
They listen to their sources because they trust them, and they trust them because they’re just like what they’ve always listened to....
- We’ve lots of news sources. Sometimes they tell the truth. How do I know when?
OTOH, I don’t always know the context,…
...If the story is from a known liar on a topic which he has lied about in the past and has an interest in lying about again, I judge the probability small.
...If the story is from a known liar on a topic which he has lied about in the past and has an interest in lying about again, I judge the probability small.
But not zero—as Twain noted, you can lie telling the truth—just leave out important context.
...I can assume that if CNN reports on controversial politics or social mores the report is false; either false in its facts or false in its framing.
...I can assume that if CNN reports on controversial politics or social mores the report is false; either false in its facts or false in its framing.
But what if they report on a storm, or a revolution in Chad, or a new business?
They have no obvious reason to lie, except of course the reporter’s need to have an interesting story on a deadline.
NYT and Daily News reporters have been known to make stuff up—not that long ago, either...
- I can cross-check. Do I hear the same report elsewhere?...Read all.
Donald Trump: I built the wall; Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe - Washington Times
Donald Trump: I built the wall; Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe - Washington Times:
To top it all off, the Biden administration has announced a new program whereby the U.S. government will literally pay to fly illegal aliens’ relatives from other countries to join them in the United States.
These policies are utterly depraved — the actions of someone who by all indications wants to completely abolish America’s southern border.
The Looming Stagflationary Debt Crisis by Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate
The Looming Stagflationary Debt Crisis by Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate
- Years of ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies have put the global economy on track for a slow-motion train wreck in the coming years.
- When the crash comes, the stagflation of the 1970s will be combined with the spiraling debt crises of the post-2008 era, leaving major central banks in an impossible position.
In fact, the risk today is even bigger than it was then.
...As matters stand, this slow-motion train wreck looks unavoidable.
...With inflation rising and stagflationary shocks looming, it is now even more ensnared.
So, too, are the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England.
So, too, are the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England.
The stagflation of the 1970s will soon meet the debt crises of the post-2008 period.
The question is not if but when...Read all.
History for July 2
History for July 2 - On-This-Day.com
Thurgood Marshall 1908 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1776 - Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was adopted by the Continental Congress.
- 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield in Washington, DC.
- 1926 - The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.
- 1937 - American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
- 1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
- 1962 - Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the first Walmart store.
- 1964 - U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate against others because of their race.
- 1998 - Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.
Thursday, July 01, 2021
Jen Psaki squirms when confronted by Fox News reporter over White House claim that GOP defunded police - TheBlaze
Jen Psaki squirms when confronted by Fox News reporter over White House claim that GOP defunded police - TheBlaze:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki engaged in a contentious back-and-forth with Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Monday during which Psaki defended accusations that the Republican Party defunded police.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)