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Rioters and looters would lose federal unemployment benefits and be forced to pay for extra policing needed at protests under a new bill being introduced by a military-veteran congressman.

“Antifa thugs are descending on suffering communities, disrupting peaceful protests and leaving violence, looting and vandalism in their wake,” Indiana rep. Jim Banks said while introducing his “Support Peaceful Protest Act” on Friday.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there were stingless bees, much less that they had spiral honeycombs.

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The New Yorker, when it isn’t doing politics, as it too often does these days, is well worth reading.

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Many feminists and progressives argue that the West is plagued by pervasive misogyny. In fact, this claim is made with such frequency, and is so rarely challenged, that it has become part of the Left’s catechism of victimhood, repeated by rote without a second thought. The only real question is how powerful and pernicious the misogyny is. Real-world data, however, suggest a different narrative, complicated by the fact that men have worse outcomes in many domains. For example, they are much more likely to be incarcerated, to be shot by the police, to be a victim of violent crime, to be homeless, to commit suicide, and to die on the job or in combat than women. Furthermore, they have a shorter life expectancy and are less likely to be college educated than women. Although these (and similar) data can be reconciled with the pervasive misogyny theory, they should at least give pause to the open-minded. The best data from contemporary social science tell a rather different story and suggest that the very persistence of the pervasive misogyny narrative is itself a manifestation of the opposite: society is largely biased in favor of women.

Rather like Oprah complaining about racism.

First mass extinctions in 13000 years may be on the way

The future of climate change is here, scientist warns

Wind Motion 70, the Wind-Powered Trimaran That Will Save the World  At least for those who can afford a 70-foot yacht.

Scientific American: “What Climate Change Does to the Human Body”  They do crazy things, like voting for Trump.

Fatal polar bear attack in Svalbard unfairly blamed on lack of sea ice

You are Probably a Criminal. Hands Up–Drop the Feather!

Post-Covid-19 ‘Sustainable Development’ Means Little In Precision Or Practice  ‘Sustainable’ is a word you throw into your advertising copy in order to appear Hip And Trendy.

After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform  I guess they had to figure out a way for their favored grifters to monetize it first.

Severian creates some terminology.

You’ll have to trust me on this, I guess, but way back in Rotten Chestnuts’ early days I had a post about “moonwalking.” This was my attempt at… meme generation, I guess, although it was really just shorthand for some things we were dealing with at the time (anyone who came over from House of Eratosthenes remembers the Cuttlefish infestation). “Motte and Bailey” seems to have caught on as a way to describe this Leftist rhetorical tactic, so you may have seen it described that way, but even if not you know the kind of thing I’m talking about:

From the totally 100% true scientific fact that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, Lefty will, if you let xhyzer, insist on the whole “Green New Deal” schmear. If you point out all the problems with the GND, though, and Lefty feels like xhzyr is losing the argument, xzhe scuttles back to “carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas!!,” then calls you a “science denier” — as if all the flaws you pointed out with the Green New Deal only exist if you deny, as no literate person could, that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. It’s such a bizarrely stylized gesture — didja really think we didn’t notice, Snowflake? — that it looks like a dance move. Hence, moonwalking.

Scott Adams loves calling out this kind of thing, and he does it very entertainingly.

CO? removal to halt warming soon would be a gargantuan undertaking

The “racism” of climate change alarmists

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There has been little as divisive in this pandemic as the debate over face masks. It’s a battle waged on many fronts, some political, others scientific. It raises not only thorny issues about identity politics and the culture wars that plague us but important questions about the way in which we weigh facts and act as a society on scientific evidence.

As the winter approaches and we are pushed indoors, expect the battle to intensify as we look for ways to mitigate transmission of the virus in offices, and even our homes.

Well, some of us will. Others of us don’t give a shit.

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Hear, hear.

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A couple of days ago, we reported that conservative attorney Lin Wood has taken on the case of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who has been hit with 6 charges stemming from a Tuesday night bloodbath where he shot three men, killing two, during a night of chaos, anarchy and looting.

As the lawyer goes about shaping and implementing his legal strategy, Wood told reporters that he plans to argue his client acted in self-defense during the fatal shootings.

Steve Sailer.

A statement issued by the Kenosha Professional Police Association.

Steve looks this stuff up so you don’t have to.

On Climate Change, We’ve Run Out of Presidential Terms to Waste  The New Yorker.

Amid crying over low Arctic ice, W Hudson Bay polar bears leave ice as late as 2009

Steve looks at the Kenosha kerfluffle.

Here’s something you need to know before you read anything else. Reader Monty James posted a comment in which he mentioned a website where people can donate to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund. It’s legitimate. The attorney who represented Nick Sandmann has agreed to represent Kyle, and he is behind the site. Here is a link so you can donate: LINK. I just hope what I’ve read is true and that the attorneys won’t be accepting fees. Even without fees, expenses will add up, and Kyle may have financial problems related to his actions.

Things look worse and worse for the prosecutor and the rioter/terrorists. Surviving assailant Gaige Grosskreutz looks particularly bad today. More video keeps popping up, and a Twitter post from a person claiming to be Grosskreutz’s friend contains a damning statement purportedly from Grosskreutz.

If you want to see a good chronology of what happened–and I can’t believe I’m recommending this–The New York Times has one. A Times employee named Christiaan Triebert, who may be fired shortly for his honesty, posted a series of tweets detailing what happened on the night of the shootings. One remarkable point: an unknown gunman fired a shot before Kyle did. Kyle was being chased by rioter/terrorists, and someone fired a shot. It was immediately after this that Kyle started shooting, killing rioter/terrorist/sex offender Jo Jo Rosenbaum. After shooting, Kyle tried to escape to safety as a large mob of angry rioter/terrorists pursued him.

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During the network’s post-convention coverage early Friday morning, former RNC official and CNN commentator Mike Shields pointed out the media’s hypocrisy in trying to pin President Trump for the BLM violence, while giving President Obama a pass for cities like Ferguson that were destroyed by BLM during his presidency. He made this point after Chris Cuomo demanded he answer who’s to blame for the violence:

Steve Sailer.

My impressions are that white Antifa rioters seem disproportionately to be:

– pedophile
– transgender
– drug addict
– general criminal
– punk rocker
– enjoy vandalism and violence
– working or lower middle class by background
– physically unattractive
– firebugs: people who enjoy starting pretty, pretty fires

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The alleged “murder” of George Floyd by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin triggered the riots, looting and arson that have dominated the Summer months. That Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department is an article of faith on the left and on many precincts of the right.

But is it true? Floyd’s case became internationally famous because of cell phone video that showed him slowly becoming unconscious while a police officer knelt on his neck. Surely he was asphyxiated! That conclusion seemed inescapable, especially since, while lying on the street with officers restraining him, Floyd complained of being unable to breathe. “I can’t breathe” became a Black Lives Matter battle cry.

But video that came out later showed that Floyd had been complaining of inability to breathe when he was standing up and walking around, long before he was on the street. And it emerged that the toxicology report associated with his autopsy found that he had at least double the dose of fentanyl in his blood that is normally considered lethal, along with other drugs. And shortness of breath is notoriously a symptom of fentanyl poisoning.

The cop was kneeling on the side of his neck. It’s impossible to suffocate somebody kneeling on the side of the neck; the best you can do is give him a crick.

Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are fuelling  The Guardian.

Earth Science Basics: What Determines the Level of the Sea?

Renowned climate-change researcher killed by climate change: colleagues

Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice  Surely Trump is to blame.

New confirmation that climate models overstate atmospheric warming

New confirmation that climate models overstate atmospheric warming

Steven Hayward from PowerLine blog.

Let’s stipulate starting out that Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, who has been arrested and charged with murder for shooting two people during the Kenosha riots two nights ago, should not have been present at the scene with a semi-auto rifle. That’s no place for a 17-year-old, even if he is a regular at the gun range. And resorting to vigilantism is a sure path to a breakdown in the rule of law and perhaps even open civil war. We’ll hold off a recitation of Lincoln’ Lyceum Address on this point for some other time, as well as scoring the appalling negligence of Democratic political leaders in Wisconsin.

That said, there appears to be a decent case that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. Who says this? Sit down for the answer: a team of reporters from the New York Times. I’m starting to think someone from Fox News has spiked the water at the Times, as this story makes two sensible news stories in one day from the Times. Or maybe the panic is that high at DNC headquarters.

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The Internet Archive receives the files of a monumental New York City typewriter business.

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Just after midnight, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin turned deadly after a teenager allegedly killed two and injured a third. The protracted incident was an apparent case of self-defense (though he was charged with first-degree intentional homicide), as the teen was fleeing from a mob of violent rioters. But the viewers of ABC, CBS, and NBC were treated to lies and misinformation during their evening newscasts later that day.

Video evidence from multiple angles show 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse running into a parking lot as a violent rioter chased after him and threw something at him. As the assailant got closer, Rittenhouse turned and fired his rifle. The 17-year-old was then chased down the street as a violent mob attacked him. He fell to the ground and was beaten with a skateboard by one assailant and another brandished a handgun at him. Again Rittenhouse defended himself with his rifle.

But that’s not the story that was told to network news viewers.

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Wisconsin Justice Department investigators recovered a knife from the driver’s side floorboard of the car into which Jacob Blake Jr, was leaning when he was shot in the back by a police officer three days ago, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.

Attorney General Josh Kaul also told a news conference that Blake, 29, a Black man whose wounding by police has left him paralyzed and the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, torn by civil strife, had admitted to investigators that he had a knife in his possession at the time.

Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice

Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change

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? 100s of years of lifetime
? Safe and almost unbreakable
? 7x charge:size vs. current phone batteries
? Tiny & modular, can be sized to any device

Steve is apprehensive.

Yesterday it suddenly occurred to me that the town my cousin lives in might be close to Kenosha. I texted her to find out. She says the closest part of Kenosha is 15 minutes away. Her son’s girlfriend lives in Kenosha.

I asked how things were going. She told me over 600 cars from Minnesota had arrived. Terrorists or protestors? It appears that the answer to that question, in many cases, depends on the local response. If the police and citizens show up in a display of force, visitors protest relatively peacefully and then leave. If not, terrorist rioting is likely. Her bedroom community has a population of around 20,000, so the arrival of several thousand potential rioters is a serious threat.

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I see the citizens of Kenosha have started opening fire.

That’s what it’s going to come to, nationwide.

Folks who fancy themselves cynics like to say that the Powers That Be don’t want the riots stopped — they’re SJW True Believers, and nothing gets their thighs moister, faster, than a good race riot. But look, y’all: nobody’s that stupid. Not even a tertiary-educated ovulating White Democrat from a gated community. They like being in charge, and even they have finally figured out that if this goes on much longer, there won’t be anything left for them to be in charge of — see the recent, widely-reported mass exoduses from California, New York City, Minneapolis, etc.

No, the truth is much more sordid than that. They know that eventually, someone’s going to start shooting. They’re just trying to make sure their name isn’t on it.

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The debate over hydroxychloroquine has faded from the forefront as big tech has worked to suppress information and silence the voices of doctors and researchers promoting it. However, it appears the controversy over the drug has encouraged some senators to take a closer look, and it seems they are asking the FDA the right questions.

False Alarm: Book Review

Nuclear advocates fret as first maker of small reactors encounters trouble

Artificial Photosynthesis Advance: Standalone Device Converts Sunlight, CO2 and Water Into Clean Fuel

After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform

Up to Half of The World’s Oceans Are Already Affected by Climate Change

Earth Lost a ‘Staggering’ 28 Trillion Tonnes of Ice in Just 23 Years  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Researchers Identify Larger Variability in Future Sea Levels As Earth Warms

ABC: Failure to Acknowledge the Climate Change Grief of Others Causes Serious Health Problems

Kamala Harris and AOC craft crazy climate law

Ali Velshi Rants Climate Change Will Kill Far More People Than COVID  I wish it would be about it then.

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Which tells you, perhaps not everything you need to know, but a lot of what you need to know about Wikipedia.

I first became conscious of the difference between ‘speaking Scots’ and ‘speaking with a Scottish accent’ while watching a comedic rant about golf by Robin Williams on a British talk show. It was very entertaining but at one point he talks about them using a ‘tiny flag ta give ye hope’, and the use of ‘little’ where any Scot would have used ‘wee’ just threw me completely out of the routine.

Steve has a biscuit victory marred by a chicken FAIL.

’ve learned a few things about flour over the last few weeks. First of all, you don’t need bread flour to make bread. Some kinds of bread need high-gluten flour, but others don’t. The type of bread that surprised me is the baguette. You would think a crusty, airy loaf of bread would have to be made with bread flour, but it’s not true. Baguettes should be made with flour that is lower in gluten. That’s not my opinion. It’s the opinion of people unlike me who make prizewinning baguettes.

Today I learned that biscuit flour is the wrong flour for biscuits.

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A trio of armed residents protected a small business in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as rioters and looters lit multiple buildings on fire Monday evening.

That’s what I’m talking’ about….

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Who are the best type of Republicans to give the GOP perspective on night one of the party’s convention? Well, if you’re at MSNBC, the answer is ex-Republicans who are doing their best to elect Democrats. In order to understand the out of touch, delusional perspective MSNBC holds, it’s helpful to see a list of who the network turned to on Monday night for coverage.

As soon as the last speaker was done, MSNBC featured co-host Nicolle Wallace. She’s an ex-Republican aide to the 2008 John McCain campaign who promised (if necessary) to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2020.

Brian Williams introduced Steve Schmidt, he’s an ex-Republican aide to the 2008 John McCain campaign who was now determined to elect Democrats. As Brian Williams said: “Back with us tonight, Steve Schmidt, veteran political strategist, leader of the John McCain ’08 campaign effort, who has since left the party. He was among the founders, in fact, of the Lincoln Project, dedicated to the defeat of one Donald Trump and Trumpism.” And by the way, he also interviewed for a leadership positioning the 2016 Trump campaign.

NASA Research Reveals the True Causes of Sea Level Rise Since 1900

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Climate Hypocrisy? Harrison Ford Takes a Private Jet Trip

Ozone on the rise – suggests pollution controls aren’t ‘working as well as we thought’

How airships could provide the future of green transport

Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return  Still waiting for NYC to be under water. Still waiting for prices of beachfront property in Malibu to go down.

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Pockets in tight jeans look bad. Putting a modern slab phone, a wallet,
and keys into a pair of skinny jeans will leave even the most fashionable
figure looking looking like they’re wearing batman’s utility belt as unde-
rwear. Even empty, in tight pants a large pocket bag can show through.

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Shai Efrati said he has found that when healthy adults over the age of 65 were given a special oxygen therapy, their cognitive function improved along with their brain’s tissue function.

“It reverses aging,” Efrati, a Tel Aviv University associate professor and a senior doctor at the Shamir Medical Center, told The Times of Israel about his treatment. “It improves cognitive function, and doesn’t just slow its decline.”

Doesn’t do anything for wrinkles, though.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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In 2011, he and colleague Gina Riley surveyed 232 parents who unschool their children, which they defined as not following any curriculum, instead letting the children take charge of their own education. The respondents were overwhelmingly positive about their unschooling experience, saying it improved their children’s general well-being as well as their learning, and also enhanced family harmony. Their challenges primarily stemmed from feeling a need to defend their practices to family and friends, and overcoming their own deeply ingrained ways of thinking about education. (The results are discussed at length here.)

 

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Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue’s responsibility until it engulfs his pupils’ lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education–and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries.

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Last night Harvey Risch — M.D., Ph.D. — professor of epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health, joined Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin. Risch is of course the author of the Newsweek essay “The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It.”

If it weren’t for President Trump’s advocacy of hydroxychloroquine to treat (early) cases of COVID-19, this would be old hat. However, Trump Derangement Syndrome rules the media. Despite its apparent safety and efficacy, hydroxychloroquine therefore had to be stigmatized and condemned. Professor Risch is himself a prophet without honor at Yale, although the Yale School of Medicine posted this interview with him back in May, around the time his paper on the subject was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

I feel the same way about Global Warming.

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Gun control activist David Hogg deleted a tweet asking his 1 million followers if they would be interested in hearing his thoughts on the election after 84% responded, “No.”

“Would you be interested in seeing a video post every day from now until election day with my thoughts on what’s going on?” Hogg asked in a Twitter poll. More than 90,000 Twitter users responded to the poll with nearly 80,000 responding with a “no.”

Heh.

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In a creative—some might say desperate—bid to bolster its amphibious fleet, the U.S. Navy in recent years has been building so-called “expeditionary sea-base ships” that are little more than commercial heavy-load carrier ships with a gray coat of paint and some military radios.

Now the Chinese fleet has demonstrated the same creativity—or desperation. A commercial heavy-load carrier flying a Hong Kong flag recently supported a Chinese naval exercise, functioning as a base for at least two army helicopters.

Gizmodo Blames Natural Gas for California’s Rolling Black Outs

Arctic ocean moorings shed light on winter sea ice loss

The Green New Deal means monumental disruption

Carbon emissions are chilling the atmosphere 90km above Antarctica, at the edge of space

Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash  All of this ‘green’ stuff isn’t really very green.