Being homeschooled means that you NEVER HAVE TO GO TO THOSE STUPID CLASS REUNIONS.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, ya know.

NYC Public Schools Excusing Students Who Plan On Participating In Upcoming Climate Strike  Your tax dollars at work. (Or not, as the case may be.)

Children should be allowed to skip school to attend protests, say British teachers

The Amazon Rain Forest Is Nearly Gone. We Went There to See for Ourselves.

Can Environmentalists Get Their Heads Wrapped Around Using Nuclear Energy?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #376

The world has a third pole – and it’s melting quickly

A philospher’s reflections on AGW denial

Britain will see four heatwaves a year and twice as many flash floods, 50 year forecast by Met Office predicts 

‘Agnostic’ Sarah Silverman Calls Climate Change Girl the Second Coming of ‘Jesus’

Babylon Bee.

Democrats such as Beto O’Rourke have proposed a number of new gun laws, such as universal background checks, a ban on magazines that hold more than ten bullets, and possibly even a “mandatory buyback” of some weapons such as AR-15s. While these laws are likely to be a headache for law-abiding gun owners, the nation’s murderous psychopaths aren’t quite certain how the laws will affect them.

Aussie Clean Energy Investment Falling as Political Support Falters

Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic

Greenpeace members face federal, state charges in Houston protest  And about goddamned time., too.

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When I go shoppingf for wine, in particular everyday drinking wine, I give bonus points to wines with screw-tops. It’s more convenient, the bottles fit in the refrigerator more easily, and even ignoring the risk of TCA contamination, there is much less risk of failure. Everyone has seen crumbly corks and corks that broke off halfway out of the bottle, and that just doesn’t happen with screw-tops.

Wisdom Attend.

Washington Winery releases wine called “The Denier”

Long-Term US Drought And Precipitation Trends

Important news from the world’s top meteorologist

Extingtion Rebellion co-founder rearrested after attempting to fly drone at Heathrow

JAMA Calls for Papers of Climate Change Harm

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Wouldn’t you like a system like that in the U.S.?

When government provides your health care, doctors become government employees. For examples of quality government employee work, try the Postal Service, the TSA, and a VA hospital.

Me, in my native habitat.

With thanks to Bluebird of Bitterness – and no, I don’t know where she finds this stuff.

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A friend who is a doctor told me—and therefore it must be true—that a well-known social media site has decided that from now on it will not publish how many people “liked” what people had posted on it because some posts attracted many more “likes” than others, thereby wounding the self-esteem of those whose posts were not much “liked.” From now on, the only person to know how many “likes” his post attracts will be the person who posted it. He will not be able to compare himself with others and will therefore be able to continue to think well of himself.

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Some good news for a change.

“It’s come full circle, now they’re eating each other,” comedian Nick Di Paolo, who just released his own special, “Breath of Fresh Air,” told the Daily Caller. “I’m the counter culture now, guys like me that lean right, those people, the woke ones, they are the culture. That’s how bad it is, that Chappelle and Bill Burr are labeled like the Anti-PC guys.”

Public Radio: Things Ill-Considered

People Are Missing Out on the American Dream, and the Climate is Going to Kill Everybody

Heathrow protest thwarted as police use radiowaves to jam Extinction Rebellion group drones

The EPA’s roll back of the Clean Water Act could impact drinking water for millions of Americans  Could but probably won’t, despite Chicken Little.

‘Variety’ Worries Hollywood Not ‘Doing Enough’ to Fight ‘Climate Crisis’  Variety does’n’ get out much.

Greta Thunberg has done her science homework  And she got a participation trophy for all of that cut-and-paste.

L A Times “climate change facts” article conceals critical global energy & emissions data

Climate Change and the Democrats

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Predicts Miami Won’t Exist ‘In A Few Years’

Babylon Bee.

Up until now ‘public servants’ have had to depend on tedious manual systems like sending ‘investigative reporters’ out to track down suspicious rumors. Now they’ve managed to bring this essential feature of government into the new millennium.

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The three-level building near Zurich features 3D-printed ceilings, energy-efficient walls, timber beams assembled by robots on site, and an intelligent home system. Developed by a team of experts at ETH Zurich university and 30 industry partners over the course of four years, the DFAB House, measuring 2,370 square feet (220 square meters), needed 60% less cement and has passed the stringent Swiss building safety codes.

Tom Smith of The Right Coast comments:

Evidently the construction industry is one of the most regulated, inefficient and corrupt businesses in the US. Just replacing human workers with robots and building offsite can save enormous amounts of money and time just by avoiding all the payoffs you have to make otherwise to get anything done. That’s why a lot of these houses are being built in China at the moment.

As usually happens, the things that activists bitch about are caused by the governments to which activists want to give greater power. ‘We’re from the government and we’re here to help.’ Help like that we don’t need.

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He argued that, as a vegetarian, he should have the same rights as employees who suffer discrimination over their religious beliefs or sexual orientation, which are characteristics protected by the 2010 Equality Act.

But his claim was thrown out at an employment tribunal in Norwich, Norfolk, after a judge decided that vegetarianism was a “lifestyle choice” and does not qualify for protection under the Act.

Since we now know that there is no such thing as a ‘gay gene‘, this same logic ought to apply to perverts homosexuals.

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Given the omnipresence of “statistical significance” in pedagogy and the research literature, it was interesting last year when the American Statistical Association made an official statement “ASA Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values” (discussed here) which includes comments like: “Scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold. … A p-value, or statistical significance, does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result. … By itself, a p-value does not provide a good measure of evidence regarding a model or hypothesis.”

Jay, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.

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My, my, those strict anti-gun laws certainly worked to reduce violent crime, didn’t they?

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One contemporary observer, a legal theorist in his mid-30s named Carl Schmitt, found the seeds of the crisis within the idea of liberalism itself. Liberal institutions like representative democracy, and the liberal ideal that all a nation’s citizens can be treated as political equals, were in his view a sham. Politics at its core is not about compromise between equal individuals but instead conflict between groups.

“Even if Bolshevism is suppressed and Fascism held at bay, the crisis of contemporary parliamentarism would not be overcome in the least,” he wrote in 1926. ”It is, in its depths, the inescapable contradiction of liberal individualism and democratic homogeneity.”

A voice of the Crust attempts to hijack classical liberalism in the service of the proglodyte Narrative.

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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly planning to move his business – and his home – to Florida, one of seven US states with no personal income tax, to avoid New York taxes, according to Bloomberg.

Apparently rich people prefer hurricanes to high taxes. Wonder why.

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Trevor Noah talks to an actual black guy about what they can do to spread the Narrative. (Trevor likes to check in with actual black people periodically to make sure he’s on track.)

Actually, the available evidence suggests that Democrats chiefly want to cause trouble while lining their own pockets, which is the only Stuff they really care about. That’s why it’s so common to see African politicians get busted for bribery, cronyism, and other types of corruption.

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As George Orwell once noted, “The worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.” According to Orwell, the typical socialist is “either a youthful snob-Bolshevik … or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler, and often with vegetarian leanings.” Orwell wrote those words in 1937, but they’re entirely recognizable today, especially the line about vegetarianism. There’s something about the left that makes them highly neurotic about food. That’s been true for generations, but there’s evidence the impulse is getting worse.

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Catch that? Warren says you eat too many cheeseburgers — as if it’s any of her business. But that’s the thing: She actually thinks it is her business. They all think that. The activist left seeks to control everything you do, including what you put in your mouth. For the last few years, they’ve been pushing you to eat bugs. Recall this headline from The Washington Post: “Eating bugs can help the environment.” Or this one from The New York Times: “Why aren’t we eating more insects?” Bizarre. Why would they want you to eat insects? Because it’s repulsive and un-American, of course, and therefore, in the eyes of the left, it must be awesome. The more perverse and unnatural the better. That’s always been the left’s standard.

Why the Democrats Will Lose on Climate Change

Green Technology’s Dark Side

Polish Police Raid Rainbow Warrior Climate Protest, Arrest Protestors

Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world

CNN vs. What the Science Says, Part 2

Time Editor Touts All-Climate Issue, Insists ‘There Is No Other Side’

NYC Public Schools Excusing Students Who Plan On Participating In Upcoming Climate Strike  Why not? It’s not as if they’re missing anything important.

Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones

Shut Up, Franzen

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All I know about preppies I learned from the movie MAKING THE GRADE, which I heartily recommend.

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It’s all right for successful, college-educated professionals like Lara Bazelon, Jeff Bercovici, Meghan Daum, and others to write about how much joy their working lives bring them. The people who edit the publications in which such articles appear are themselves college-educated professionals. They too probably enjoy their upper-middle-class lives. To my knowledge, when Bercovici wrote positively about his happy experience as a Forbes staff writer, no one accused him of sucking up to Steve Forbes, the magazine’s owner and publisher and a man whose net worth is estimated to be north of $400 million. When Meghan Daum enthuses about her work at Columbia University, no one accuses her of shilling for an institution with an endowment of more than $10 billion. Lara Bazelon has written for the Washington Post, which, like Amazon.com, is owned by Jeff Bezos. But as for as I know, no one has accused her of shilling for him.

But for working-class people, the rules are different. All those upper-middle-class professionals who edit the nation’s most prominent publications permit only one narrative when it comes to the toiling masses. Their lives are nasty, brutish, and short, and must always be portrayed as such. To publish a story about a person who enjoys working at Wal-Mart or Starbucks or Georgia Pacific or Amazon is considered tantamount to white-washing the horrific crimes (whatever those may be) of oligarchs such as the Walton family, Howard Schultz, the Koch brothers, or Bezos.

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We have the technology.

Can’t do that with Facebook.

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Got the solution: Convent.

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In what appears to be a huge victory for Google employees who don’t ascribe to the ultra-liberal Silicon Valley monoculture, the National Labor Relations Board has reached a settlement with Google over complaints that the search giant punishes employees for speaking out on political and workplace issues that don’t comport with the company’s agenda.

Well, let’s see how long that lasts.

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After Porsche announced that its 750 HP Taycan EV, being dubbed a “Tesla-killer”, had set a 7:42 time at the Nurburgring, Elon Musk quickly Tweeted out that the Model S would be there the “next week” to make a run of its own.

With results as you might expect.

Elon Musk isn’t Tony Stark, he’s Justin Hammer.

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It is no shock that most Americans, most of the time, disapprove of politicians and political parties. Thus, the task of a party is not to be universally beloved, but rather, not to be disproportionately disliked.

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What? You mean I don’t have to try to understand a Mexican or Pakistani accent over a horrible PA system any more?

UPDATE: McDonald’s To Replace More Humans With Drive-Thru AI

World Meteorological Organization Chief Castigates Climate Alarmists: “It’s Not The End Of The World”

Emails Reveal Role Michael Bloomberg’s Climate Crusaders Are Playing In Maryland’s AG Office

Temperatures In The Pacific Ocean Have Shot Up To Dangerous Levels, And Scientists Are Blaming A “Strange Anomaly”  Can Godzilla not be far behind?

BBC: Solar panels: Thousands of customers complain

Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Now Turning Up In Human Stool   Wake me up when a human dies because of microplastics.

Armstrong: Climate Change Has Been A Routine Scare Tactic Since The 1930s

MSNBC Regular Tiffany Cross: Maybe Donald Trump Is a ‘Secret Muslim President’

1000 Amazon Employees Threaten Strike over Lack of Climate Action

CBS Touts ‘Panic’ Agenda of Teen ‘Climate Warrior’: ‘Push’ World Leaders ‘Against the Wall’

‘Wake The F–k Up’: Eco-Obsessive James Cameron Freaks out About Climate Change

New Yorker Contributor Abandons Hope, Claims ‘Climate Apocalypse’ Is Inevitable

Once Again, Climate Warriors Rescued From Their Ship Trapped In Polar Ice

Polar bear books for kids and young adults are the perfect antidote for climate anxiety

Polish armed border guards smash windows of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior with sledgehammers

Buildings should be made out of hemp and wool to cut carbon emissions, National Farmers’ Union says

Lake found at 11,000 feet in the Alps proves climate change is real

Climate Scientists Look to Poor Countries to Fund Geoengineering

Critique of “Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Predictions”

Can we still prevent an apocalypse? What Jonathan Franzen gets wrong about climate change

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

I doubt you’ll find many grizzlies at 42nd and Broadway in NYC, but that location has it’s own dangers.

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I am not making this up.

A married man who died of a heart attack after having sex on a business trip in France was ruled to have been the victim of a workplace accident — making his company financially responsible, according to reports.

Engineer Xavier X was found dead in his hotel room in Meung-sur-Loire shortly after having sex with a local woman he’d just met, according to the Times of London.

Lawyers for his bosses at the Parisian railroad construction company TSO insisted he was not performing duties when he had the heart attack — blaming the “adulterous sex act that he had had with a complete stranger,” according to the report.

But appeals court judges ruled that an employee on assignment “is entitled to their employer’s protection for the duration of their mission … whether or not the accident takes place as part of a professional activity or as an act of normal life,” the report said.

That’s going to make for some pretty interesting expense reports.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Being a werewolf is my number one choice. But that apparently didn’t make the cut.

John Hinderaker at Power Line takes a shot.

The meaning of “socialism” has evolved; or, one might say, it is flying under a false flag. When Democratic politicians advocate socialism, they don’t talk about North Korea, Soviet Russia, Albania, Cuba (anymore) or Venezuela (anymore). Rather, they talk about Sweden, Denmark and Norway–countries that are not, in fact, socialist. One might conclude that they just want a slightly larger welfare state–accompanied, although they never say this, by a less progressive tax system and often more business-friendly policies.

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As, indeed, they do.

The United States “owes a profound and enduring debt of gratitude” to its historically black colleges and universities, President Donald Trump said in an address Tuesday, at which he announced new support from his administration for the institutions.

“Previously, federal law restricted more than 40 faith-based HBCUs and seminaries from fully accessing federal support for capital improvement projects,” Trump told the audience at the National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Washington, D.C.

Sure sounds like a thorough racist to me.

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times Magazine, an article about how colleges are biased in favor of lazy white boys and discriminate against amazing hard-working black and Latino Women of Color. That’s why Silicon Valley is full of indolent white boys making huge amounts of money in easy jobs like starting their own businesses, while amazing black women and Puerto Rican men have to take on life’s greatest challenges, such as being a college admissions staffer or writing op-eds about how society should pay more attention to their hair.

Common Sense versus Climate Hysteria

Ship with Climate Change Warriors caught in ice, Warriors evacuated

Nuclear power station could destroy wildlife haven I’ve loved since childhood  “could” but won’t.

Bill Gates Is Funding a Chemical Cloud That Could Put an End to Global Warming

What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?

NBC Announces New ‘Climate Unit’ and ‘Climate in Crisis’ Series  Cue scary music.

Climate Crisis! Companies are Investing Big in New Oil Fields  They may be crazy but they ain’t stupid.

Behar Scolds Republican: Trump’s Economy ‘Not Good’ If It’s At ‘Expense of Environment!’

Liberal Amazon faces Walkout from Employees over Climate Change  You can never be so woke that someone else isn’t more woke than you.

Swedish Student Tells People Not To Be Hopeful About Climate Change, But To ‘Panic’ Instead  After all, you don’t get any attention for advising calm.

Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike  You mean I may have to go into an actual store? Whoa….

New Yorker: We Can’t Prevent the Climate Apocalypse  So shut up about it already.

Surprise! The Left is Now Pressuring Google To Stop Even Linking Climate Skeptic Blogs and News Sources

USA Today Assails Natural Gas, Omits Links to Bloomberg, Steyer

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

I always use those little plastic packets (available for free from any fast-food restaurant), laying them carefully on the table and using a Xacto knife to put a small nick in one end. Then you hold it over the food with the nick toward the food, put two fingers on either side of the packet, and slowly run your fingers from the top to the bottom, neatly extracting the sauce.

Or you can just put them on the table and slam them with your fist. If you hold your hand correctly all of the sauce will go on your companions instead of yourself. This is especially handy when faced with armed assailants.

Babylon Bee.

An insane man who is known for stumbling through the streets of Troutdale shouting at people that he’ll buy back things from them that he never owned after he takes money from them that he does not possess has become one of the leading candidates in the 2020 presidential election.

I’m sure this is a satire on one of the current Democrat candidates but I can’t for the life of me figure out which one.

The Other McCain does the reporting that American ‘journalists’ just won’t do.

Let’s start with the Klan kook: Thom Robb calls himself the “national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.” Robb lives about 10 miles from Harrison and his “Knights” receive mail at a post office box in Harrison, which gives the town a dot on the SPLC “hate map.”
This reflects a problem I’ve addressed at The American Spectator (“Another Dot on the ‘Hate Map’,” Feb. 22), where the SPLC targets entire communities as “hate” locations based on dubious claims, in order to create an exaggerated sense of menace for fund-raising purposes. By the standards of the SPLC, just about every Baptist church in America could be designated an “anti-LGBT hate group,” and if hate groups are everywhere, what’s the point of all those dots on the map?

Babylon Bee.

Makes sense to me.

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Low unemployment will do that.

But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.