Saturday, May 11, 2024
We don't want journalism back - Don Surber
America does not need a cabal of pencil-necked geeks deciding which is right and which is an illusion - Don Surber"...Twitter has replaced them all by being immediate and allowing all sides to be heard...
The idea of a Trump presidency sent the cabal of pencil-necked geeks running the news business into a frenzy.
On August 7, 2016, in a front-page column...the New York Times announced that for all intents and purposes it formally was abandoning objectivity altogether.
It blamed Trump.
The newspaper was rationalizing its decision to become a completely propagandist tool of anti-American fascists...
It blamed Trump.
If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?Blah, blah, blah.
Because if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century..
But the question that everyone is grappling with is: Do normal standards apply? And if they don’t, what should take their place?
The newspaper was rationalizing its decision to become a completely propagandist tool of anti-American fascists...
How can these losers rule our campuses?!!-----This Pro-Hamas Student at Princeton Shows How Weak and Soft the Left Is
“This is absolutely unfair. My peers and I, we are starving. We are physically exhausted. I am quite literally shaking right now, as you can see,” - Matt Vespa
"It’s not enough that pro-Hamas mayhem has overtaken college campuses nationwide.
"It’s not enough that pro-Hamas mayhem has overtaken college campuses nationwide.
We now have these students, though many are probably professional agitators, going on hunger strikes to protest the war in Gaza.
- We should put “hunger strike” in quotes since this is intermittent fasting.
- These kids are taking snack breaks—it’s the weakest sauce hunger strike ever...
Election Integrity Win in Georgia: Election Board Reprimands Fulton County, Will Appoint Monitor for 2024
Election Integrity Win in Georgia: Election Board Reprimands Fulton County, Will Appoint Monitor for 2024:
The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County for its conduct of the 2020 election and direct the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee this fall’s general election.
The Georgia Recorder reported that the 2-1 vote came after investigators from the Georgia secretary of state’s office confirmed the county double-scanned 3,075 ballots during a statewide recount of the 2020 presidential election.
New research discovers that wind turbines create a ‘turbulent wake’ that can steal almost 40% of energy from other ‘nearby’ turbines By Olivia Murray
The answer is a resounding no.
- Force conversions to electric vehicles without putting the proper and sufficient charging infrastructure in place? Check.
- Manufacture millions (billions?) of solar panels with no disposal plan in place? Check.
- Build countless offshore wind “farms” without conducting studies to determine the impacts? Check.
Jo Nova, who runs an eponymous blog, credited a watchdog organization for discovering this story by Kirk Moore:
Downstream turbulence from offshore wind turbines can reduce power generation at nearby turbines, substantially reducing the total potential from planned U.S. offshore wind projects, according to recent research from the Colorado University Boulder and National Energy Technology Laboratory...
Fact Check: Biden Claimed Inflation was 9% as He Entered Office - Truth Paints a Much Different Story
Fact Check: Biden Claimed Inflation was 9% as He Entered Office - Truth Paints a Much Different Story:
CNN may be regretting its big interview. Biden has been blasted for giving the fewest interviews of any president in 40 years, Just The News reported. But his penchant for disgorging one lie, false boast, and fake story after another is the reason the White House seems reluctant to let Biden appear before reporters.
The enemy in inside the gates!-----Northwestern Administrators Sign Resolution Calling for Boycott of 'Terror' State Israel
...calling the Jewish country a "terror" state and accusing it of "one of the most atrocious and monstrous sieges in modern history." - Alana Goodman
- Northwestern University administration officials and faculty members signed a resolution demanding that the school cut ties with Israel, calling the Jewish country a "terror" state and accusing it of "one of the most atrocious and monstrous sieges in modern history."
- The resolution—which also defended the eliminationist slogan "From the River to the Sea" and criticized the administration for creating a task force to combat anti-Semitism—was signed by over 1,000 students, alumni, and faculty members, as well as officials from Northwestern's admissions and civil rights compliance offices...
"Monorail!"-----The H Stands For Hype - Robert Bryce
The New York Times calls hydrogen a “renewable energy source” and other silliness about using an element that’s “a thermodynamic obscenity”
- On June 10, 1975, during the 94th Congress, the House of Representatives held the first of two “investigative hearings on the subject of hydrogen...claimed hydrogen “has the potential of playing the same kind of role in our energy system as electricity does today.”
- In 1996, the Chicago Sun-Times declared “The first steps toward what proponents call the hydrogen economy are being taken.”
- President George W. Bush bought the hydrogen hype. In his 2003 State of the Union Address, he said, “With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles” to taking hydrogen-fueled automobiles “from laboratory to showroom so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.”...
Or, as author Jeff Minick explained in 2022, we are plagued by “presentism.”
Presentism, Minick wrote, “is the reason so many young people can name the Kardashians but can’t tell you the importance of Abraham Lincoln or why we fought in World War II.”...
The Climate Cargo Cult
This speech is arguably the greatest speech on science ever presented. - Julius Sanks
"...Dr Feynman...In 1974 he gave the CalTech commencement speech.
He titled it “Cargo Cult Science.”
This speech is arguably the greatest speech on science ever presented.
- Why?
- Because in it, he examines completeness...
For those who are unfamiliar with the Cargo Cult, it appeared in various forms in Melanesia during the early to mid-20th Century.
The best known, and the one to which Dr Feynman refers, was the John Frum Movement.
During World War II, these cultists observed the belligerents using aircraft to move cargo, either by air-drop or landing on airstrips.
Wanting this wealth for themselves, though knowing nothing about aviation, they tried to replicate factors they had observed.
As Dr Feynman put it:
As Biden's media ignores-----Georgia Election Board dumbfounded after finding out that 3,000 ballots were scanned twice in the 2020 election recount in Fulton County.
The board also revealed that 380,761 ballot images from machine count were “not available.” - Collin Rugg @CollinRugg
- Q: Does Fulton County know why there are not 380,761 ballot images from election day?
- A: As with the investigators we have not been apprised of this allegation. This is the first I'm hearing about it.
General counsel for the secretary of state’s office Charlene McGowan confirmed that Fulton County broke the law in their recount.
“Fulton County used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest in 2020.”
- Despite this, the board refused to approve further investigation.
History for May 11
History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com
Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor
- 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
- 1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
- 1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
- 1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
- 1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1997 - In New York, Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
- 2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
Friday, May 10, 2024
Judge who fined Trump $454 million for 'fraud' now under investigation | WND | by Bob Unruh
Judge who fined Trump $454 million for 'fraud' now under investigation | WND | by Bob Unruh:
The judge's determination – he found "fraud" before the trial and then held the hearings solely to determine the punishment – now is on appeal.
The Pundit explained, "Bailey stated publicly that he spoke with Judge Engoron three weeks before the decision, advising him to 'get it right.'"
Some Parts of America Still Work - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Hint: They're not in the government or academic worlds."...But some parts of America work amazingly well.
We saw one of them last week, when Intuitive Machines, a private company, landed the first American spacecraft on the Moon in over 50 years...
- The Russian Luna-23 lander failed and crashed into the Moon last summer. Indian and Israeli landing attempts also failed.
- And Astrobotics, a Houston company, launched its Peregrine lander that wound up crashing into Earth after rounding the moon, unable to land due to a ruptured propellant tank.
Well, space is hard...
Apple's new ad met with widespread disgust and resentment over 'dystopian' messaging | Blaze Media
Apple's new ad met with widespread disgust and resentment over 'dystopian' messaging | Blaze Media:
Apple's celebrated "1984" television commercial, which first aired on Dec. 31, 1983, depicts a bleak dystopian reality wherein shaved, uniformed, and altogether interchangeable persons file ant-like through gray steel structures and into a theater. Awaiting them in the dark is a giant screen whereon a Big Brother-esque talking head spews propaganda.
The Orwellian monologue is interrupted by a colorful and athletic woman, who storms in armed with a sledge hammer. Having outpaced her faceless pursuers, the heroine hurls the hammer through the screen, shorting the mass programming exercise and possibly liberating the audience.
CLIMATE ALARMISM IS A SCAM
CO2 is now down to 0.04% of the atmosphere, dangerously close to the “red line of death” for life on the planet. - NoBull Cause"Yet we’re told we need to reduce it because it’s making the planet dangerously hot.
It’s supposed to be causing “global warming”, but we now know that every warming period in the last 160 million years has PRECEDED increases in CO2.
It’s supposed to be causing “global warming”, but we now know that every warming period in the last 160 million years has PRECEDED increases in CO2.
- CO2 doesn’t cause global warming, it results from it!
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