Guardian: “Climate change deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade”

American Environmentalism Failed

What part of the US is safest from climate change?

Why scientists are blaming climate change for extreme weather (CNN) Because they know what’s good for them.

Carbon Capture Gets Cheaper: Making Methane From CO2

Endangered species called the snail darter is saved from extinction (Washington Post)

People are realizing that degrowth is bad

Biden Chief of Staff Backs Green Energy Despite His Costly Role in Solyndra Scandal

Five Fallacies About 100% Renewable Energy

In a blow to climate whiners, a new breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes and rice

Investigating The Mass Hysteria Over 1 Degree In Climate Change Since 1850

Joe Biden displays his wisdom

State Dept blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan, organizers say: ‘Blood is on their hands’

Border Patrol scrambles to fill gap in wall left by Biden administration

NY Times Changed Headline on ‘Not Everyone Wants to Hear’ Joe Biden’s Talk of Beau Biden

Border Patrol Tries To Fill Holes in Border Wall That Biden Left

Justice Dept Will ‘Protect’ Abortion Seekers in Texas

Comedian Fuquan Johnson among three people found dead from suspected overdose at party in LA

Montana Resort Town Residents Band Together to Shun Broke Richard Spencer (Daily Beast)

‘Sit Down and Shut Up’: Alexander Vindman Fires Back at Ohio Republican Over Afghan Refugees

Killing Floor Boss Pleased Texas Women Losing Basic Human Rights Since when did killing your child become a ‘basic human right’?

CNN Host, PBS Star Agree 1/6 Is As Big as the Civil War, World War 2  Except for the fact that only one person died, of course, and she was shot by a policeman.

Media Slam Ron ‘DeathSantis’ But Tout ‘Masterful’ Andrew Cuomo

Elder: Fear of Black GOP Governor Fueling ‘Hysterical’ Media Attacks  Those of us who view politics chiefly as a form of entertainment are pulling for Larry as we did for The Donald.

Nancy Pelosi Flies To Afghanistan To Lecture Stranded Americans On How Bad January 6 Was  Babylon Bee.

Economic War Comes Home: Portland Urges Imposition Of Sanctions Against Texas

The GOP’s Texas-sized mistake on abortion (CNN)

Religious exemptions to vaccine mandates could test ‘sincerely held beliefs’ (NBC News)

Wealthy Lobbyists Have Already Slashed Biden’s Tax Reform by Three-Quarters (New York Magazine) My, what a surprise.

Why Is Religion So Preoccupied With Sex? (Psychology Today) Why is politics so preoccupied with sex?

Researchers studying Facebook misinformation say they were deplatformed  My, what a surprise.

Roadrunner Blocked by U.S. Border Wall Wins Best Bird Photo of 2021

We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume (BBC) Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it wrong, and we Smart People are here to instruct you.

Opponents of Texas Abortion Law Find Ally in Satanic Temple

Anakin Skywalker Hired By Planned Parenthood For His Speed And Efficiency Taking Care Of The Younglings  Babylon Bee.

Portland, Oregon, Weighs Boycott of Texas for Abortion Law  I can’t think of anything Oregon has that Texas might want, except maybe refugees from California, and even that’s not a sure thing.

Liberal Wants To Join A Union But Realizes He’d Have To Get A Job  Babylon Bee.

Hospital Denies Rolling Stone Report It Turned Away Patients Because of Ivermectin Overdoses

Anti-Vaxx Paramilitary Group Disbands After Tabloid Exposes Attack Plans (Daily Beast)

Hospitals Crushed By COVID May Have To Ration Care : Shots – Health News (NPR)

FDA Dehumanizes the Tens of Millions of African Ivermectin Users

Joe Rogan Says He’s COVID-Free After Medical Cocktail  Including Ivermectin.

“I Will Not Submit”: 140,000 French Citizens Protest Against Vaccine Passport

UK Minister Says Minors Can Get COVID Vaccine Jab Without Parental Consent  Because, whatever may be right, parents are always wrong.

Oregon Police And Firefighters Suing Governor In Resistance Of Vaccine Mandate

Why can’t we mandate anything? Global resurgence of patrimonial rule  (The Hill)

Florida Doctor to Deny In-Person Care to Unvaccinated  I’ve actually been expecting this for a long time.

Minnesota Parents Sue Gov. Walz for Lack of School Mask Mandate  The biter bit. Sweet.

Over 7 Million Lose Unemployment Benefits As Pandemic Programs Expire Today [Maynard G. Krebs voice] “WO-rk!”

Joe Rogan: ‘I’m Doing Better But I’m Still A Little Hoarse’  (Note: Prescribed By His Doctor.)

Aussie Health Chief: COVID Will Be With Us “Forever”, People Will Have To “Get Used To” Endless Booster Vaccines  Time to leave.

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Well, that trick didn’t work.

Matt Ridley.

With a laboratory leak in Wuhan looking more and more likely as the source of the pandemic, the Chinese authorities are not the only ones dismayed. Western environmentalists had been hoping to turn the pandemic into a fable about humankind’s brutal rape of Gaia. Even if ‘wet’ wildlife markets and smuggled pangolins were exonerated in this case, they argued, and the outbreak came from some direct contact with bats, the moral lesson was ecological. Deforestation and climate change had left infected bats stressed and with nowhere to go but towns. Or it had driven desperate people into bat-infested caves in search of food or profit.

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Another My Safari Among The Dirt People thumb-sucker in the New York Times.

I suspect that they give these assignments to new staff members from Flyover Country to make sure that their heads are in the right place, like a Communist self-criticism session.

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The Tunnel to Towers Foundation plans to gift a mortgage-free home to the family of one of the 13 service members killed in the terrorist suicide bombing at Kabul airport.

Chairman and CEO of the foundation, Frank Siller, told “Breitbart News Saturday” that his company was building mortgage-free homes for Gold Star Families, “and that includes any of the 13 that left behind a young family. And we do know one of them — his wife is pregnant and will be giving birth shortly. We are going to build her a mortgage-free house. And rest assured, we are going to take care of any Gold Star Family that fits that criteria.”

Freeberg nails it, as he always does.

It’s like the 1980’s all over again. Everywhere, I see people offering their opinions about abortion, and a lot of these opinions consist of nothing more than a showy cranky statement that some certain set of other people shouldn’t have opinions. Of course that’s a dishonest way to present a non-argument argument. What they’re really trying to say is “We want this other set of people to have a license to kill, but we know if we argued it that way we’d lose, so we’re going to argue about not arguing about it.”

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They think children are liabilities and not assets. You’ll notice our whole society is built around this idea now. “Who’s going to take care of him or her?” “How are you going to afford child support for three kids?” “Oh you are collecting child support from him, aren’t you?” “Better keep her happy fella, she’s a Fertile Myrtle and that would be one expensive divorce.” “He has special needs, how are you going to get him the help that he needs?” Etc….it used to be, the poorer the farmer, the more kids he would have to have. Children were assets, even if you were heartless, and if you had a heart they were a blessing. We don’t look at it like that anymore because, let’s be honest, we can’t. Liabilities aren’t blessings.

And in large part that’s true. Everyone is surprised that the population growth rates are crashing around the First World and chattering with nerves because those in the Turd World are the same as they’ve always been without any appreciation of the reality on the ground. In the history of the world up until Bill Gates, children were an asset – it took some time and effort to get them to a useful size, but once you did they pitched in and raised the entire family’s standard of living (at least the ones that survived). That is no longer the case. Hence, children have gone from being a Useful Thing to being a luxury, one that people are increasingly being unwilling t0 pay for. (The reason the illegitimacy rate is so high in the Diverse Part of Town is that being an unwed mother is the magic ticket allowing a teenage girl to escape the parental straightjacket and get off on her own, subsidized by Uncle Sam.)

So abortion is just the end of the spectrum that spans School Debt Forgiveness and I Don’t Have To Pay My Rent Because COVID and Free Health Care From Obama.

Scott Johnson at Power Line discusses at great length the degeneration demonstrated by Peggy Noonan, hitherto a reliable conservative voice, during the Age of Trump.

Noonan is a sore subject of long standing with me. She makes my skin crawl.

Noonan joined the crowd turning on George W. Bush in what I thought was (in Noonan’s case) a grossly unfair manner in 2008. Noonan wasn’t just unfair, she was also cowardly. I wrote critically about one of Noonan’s weekly Wall Street Journal columns in which she identified with the public disapproval of Bush that April in “Season of the witch.”

Having turned on George W. Bush, Noonan moved on to support the election of Barack Obama later that year. Noonan all but endorsed Obama in her 2008 column “Obama and the runaway train.” The anti-Bush and pro-Obama columns fit neatly together.

Tru dat.

The advent of The Magic Negro, and then of Donald Trump, has acted as a political power-washer upon the layers of nominally conservative and formally Republican ‘knowledge workers’ in D.C.–Noo Yawk Crust, sluicing away those whose attachments were weak and easily degraded. This ought to serve as a wake-up call to those who insufficiently cognizant of the corrosive effect of living adjacent to the Corridors of Power on The Other Left Coast. Perhaps it’s something in the water.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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In this first economic history of the 2020 COVID crisis, Columbia University historian Adam Tooze identifies some harbingers of the new world we have entered. Venerable retail stores went bust: Neiman–Marcus, J.Crew, Brooks Brothers. Kurzarbeit, the widely imitated German system of “smart” unemployment benefits in which government tops up income to keep people working, was extended to prostitutes. While big airlines withered, turning airports into empty Ozymandian mausoleums, travel on private jets continued almost uninterrupted.

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A federal labor agency ruled against a local subsidiary of the Communications Workers of America after it threatened a worker who requested to resign his membership—dealing a blow to the Biden administration, which attempted to squash the case.

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CubanaAngel, as she is known on social media, is the wrong sort of civil rights campaigner — the mainstream left would prefer it if she kept her mouth shut. A black woman in California, CubanaAngel has the wrong opinions, she worships an unfashionable god and probably doesn’t even give her pronouns when she meets new people. Despite not passing the political purity test, CubanaAngel believed she had the right to speak-out against something she felt was unjust. But when she did, the US edition of the Guardian, a paper which describes itself as “giving a voice to the powerless”, reported that she had made “unsubstantiated allegations” which had fuelled violent far-right extremism.

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After all, subscribers to The Atlantic must make up a huge fraction of America’s gun murderers.

Steve Sailer does some entertaining fisking of one of America’s leading cucks.

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A mob knocks the teeth out of a young girl during a savage robbery in Sol.

The National Police have detained four of the attackers, Moroccan kids, after receiving information from a Metro guard who was passing through the area.

They must not have gotten the memo that Islam is a Religion of Peace.

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Senior Taliban officials met in Kabul on Sunday with the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, who promised to maintain assistance for the Afghan people, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said.

I don’t suppose anybody suggested sealing off the borders and not letting anything in or out until the Taliban laid down their arms and restored the democratically-elected government. (But, of course, the U.N. has never insisted upon democratically-elected governments in its ranks.)

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Public education, today, is far more concerned with raising the grades and test scores of its lowest achieving students than with pushing all students towards a higher standard. Of course, schools would love everyone to learn more and they are eager to highlight any academic achievement that they can use to create the illusion of educational excellence. But in a world of finite resources, the priorities are quite clear. Whenever a school has to choose, they will sacrifice the benefit of the many to focus on the least successful few.

The inevitable result of the ‘no child left behind’ mindset is the inevitable triumph of No Child Gets Ahead.

What Is a Nuclear Microreactor?  Whatever it is, I want one.

Volcanic Winter: Ever-Present Threat of Catastrophic Supervolcano Eruptions Revealed

The truth New York City cannot avoid (CNN)

How you can help fight climate change in ways that really matter (CNBC) Take a ride in a  private plane, like climate envoy John Kerry?

Climate Change in 15 Minutes

Fall Football on Borrowed Time? Yes, Say Climate Change Alarmists

US EPA To Become The Environmental Justice Agency.

The clothing revolution (Aeon) Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

EPA Penalized for Polluting

Senior British Police Officer Confirms Extinction Rebellion is Disrupting Efforts to Fight Violent Crime

Nature promotes frivolous lawsuits

Application of automotive alternators in small wind turbines

Hollywood Movies With The Most Absurd Global Warming Set-Ups

Bigoted Joy Reid: Conservative Christians Are America’s Taliban Islamophobia!

Anti-Abortion Whistleblowing Site Gets New Home With Provider Known for Hosting Extremists (Daily Beast) Extremists!

Amy Coney Barrett an ‘actual handmaid,’ MSNBC host asserts in Texas abortion law segment

Jim Acosta Calls Out ‘Human Manure-Spreader’ Tucker Carlson (Daily Beast) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Jim Acosta Rips Tucker Carlson as a ‘Human Manure Spreader,’ Part of ‘American Taliban’

Kristi Noem Used Prison Labor to Build a Gun-Holding $9000 Desk—Then Got a Discount (Daily Beast)

Kristi Noem Orders $9K Desk From State Prison Work Program That Includes Gun Drawer (Newsweek)

Pro-Trump Republicans Will Rally at Capitol to ‘Celebrate Cop Killers,’ Says Eric Swalwell (Newsweek)

These Trumpy Billionaire Bros Are in Hot Seat Over Union-Busting Claims (Daily Beast) Despite the headlines, the billionaires in question are not named Trump.

It’s Time to Put the Right-Wing Zombie Death Cult on Trial (Daily Beast) This from people who support abortion.

MSNBC To Biden on Texas Abortion Law: Send in Force of Federal Abortionists!  Perhaps he can call the National Abortion Guard into Federal service.

Democrats Alarmed CEOs Not Rushing to Support Climate Bill Trillion Dollar Corporate Tax Rises

As If Millions Of Hollywood Celebs Suddenly Cried Out In Terror: China Bans “Effeminate Men” From TV

These companies are pushing back against the Texas abortion law (CNN) God forbid a company should not be able to get an abortion.

Bette Midler calls on women to refuse sex to protest Texas abortion law (The Hill)

Coloradans protest Texas’ new abortion law (The Denver Channel) I wasn’t aware that Coloradans depended on Texas for their abortions. Good to know … I guess.

Tradition of Afghan girls who live as boys may be threatened

Why Satanists may be the last hope to take down Texas’s abortion bill (Fortune)

Why Satanists may be the last, best hope to save abortion rights in Texas (Salon)

Parents sue California over mandated ‘chants to Aztec gods’ in ethnic studies classes

Taiwan Scrambles Jets Against Renewed Chinese Military Activity

Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using Alice and Bob as too Western

Biden blasted for ‘cheat sheet’ he used in Louisiana while surveying storm damage: ‘Weak and incompetent’

Taliban is ‘hunting Americans,’ says California mom-to-be left behind in Afghanistan

Pregnant California Mom Stranded in Kabul Says Taliban Hunting Americans

Florida diner that told Biden supporters to eat elsewhere becomes so popular it runs out of food

USA Today reporter slammed for playing ‘victim’ after false Biden report

‘Potentially Dicey Days’: ABC Shocked By Biden Cratering in the Polls

Protesters Call Biden a ‘Fake Catholic’ for Abortion Position

Rep. McCaul: Executions Taking Place of Afghans Who Were US Partners

Taliban Stop Planes of Evacuees From Leaving But Unclear Why

400-Person Migrant Caravan Gathers in Mexico for Trek to US

Rolling Stone ‘Horse Dewormer’ Hit-Piece Debunked After Hospital Says No Ivermectin Overdoses  It’s their Narrative and they’ll lie if they want to….

Labor union’s disturbing sign outside elementary school prompts drastic action from superintendent

Oklahoma hospitals deluged by ivermectin overdoses, doctor says (The Guardian)

Each COVID-19 Surge Poses a Risk for Healthcare Workers: PTSD

House Of Lords Member Asked Why Brits Are Forced To Take PCR COVID Tests On Returning To UK But Illegal Migrants Aren’t

Until 2023? Parts Shortage Will Keep Auto Prices Sky-High

Twitter Allows Fake ‘Horse Dewormer’ Overdose Story to Spread

South Florida Police Stress Vaccination to Slow No. 1 Killer of Cops

Media Pounce on FAKE NEWS Hospital Making Gunshot Victims Wait Over Deworner ODs

Vexing Vax Performance Puzzles

Who here spread the story on Invermectin?

Ivermectin shows clinical benefits in mild to moderate COVID19: RCT double-blind

Horse-Paste Hooey: How Left-Wing Lunatics Spread Yet Another Obvious Lie

Quotation of the Day: “So far as we know, no horse has died of COVID.” — Scott Adams

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A New Zealand terrorist attack that left six people injured has prompted a supermarket chain to remove all its knives and scissors from its shelves.

One general manager of the supermarket chain Countdown said the store was also considering not selling knives in the future.

One would think that a more … focused solution would be to remove “a Sri Lankan national who was said to be aligned with the ISIS ideology” rather than inconveniencing EVERYBODY ELSE by removing knives and scissors from the store would be the way to go. But I guess not.

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It was seven years ago that Rolling Stone magazine ran the 9,000-word cover story on an alleged rape at the University of Virginia that turned out to be a complete hoax. (File it next to Dan Rather’s Texas Air National Guard story.)

Well, it looks like Rolling Stone has done it again. I don’t know what’s up with the controversy over the use of ivermectin, normally a drug treatment for de-worming horses, as a COVID treatment, but Rolling Stone has a long piece up claiming that an Oklahoma hospital is having to treat large numbers of ivermectin overdoses, and denying hospital beds for patients with other medical needs.

There’s only one problem with the story: It is almost certainly fake news.

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Guess his ethnicity.

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A devastating pandemic with massive unemployment, followed by a shortage of workers during the recovery is forming a boon for the automation industry.

The shortage of workers is exacerbated by the generous government welfare and unemployment benefits.

So, businesses are forced to automate more whether they like it or not, thus eliminating more jobs.

Ultimately, when the workers who are lounging at home now eventually want (or are forced) to go back to work won’t have as many jobs to go back to.

So the political pressure will build to provide more taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.

Eventually we will wind up as Eloi and Morlocks, except that the Morlocks will look like Jeff Bezos and the Eloi like Stacy Abrams.

I’m glad I won’t live to see it (I hope).

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You can tell that Clive Riordan, the villain in Edward Dmytryk’s Obsession (1949), is a thwarted and disturbed person because he owns an elaborate model railway. Admittedly, there are other indications: primarily the way he kidnaps his wife’s lover and holds the man captive in the basement of a blitzed building, slowly filling the bath of acid in which he plans to dissolve his corpse. It is the scenes of Riordan at play, however, that are truly damning. Running locomotives around the chest-high papier-mâché mountain range that dominates his basement, his megalomania and sadism are thrown into stark relief. This urbane postwar cuckold becomes legible as an ancestor of the basement-dwelling incel of contemporary folklore, impotently venting his frustrations via endless online deathmatches.

I found myself thinking of Obsession in September 2020, when Joe Biden’s campaign team created an island in the Nintendo game Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020). Visitors could enjoy an ice cream with bobbleheaded Joe and Kamala avatars before picking up TEAM JOE signs for display on their very own in-game lawns. They could also pay a visit to ‘Joe’s Train Town’, a basement room featuring an array of model railway sets. This touch was presumably meant to evoke Biden’s old-fashioned decency and pioneer spirit, while expressing a vaguely greenish, vaguely leftish regard for mass-transit infrastructure; I took it as confirmation that anyone who aspires to be Commander in Chief must have a Riordanesque streak.

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Founded in 1937, the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils is the national trade association located in Washington, D.C. advocating on behalf of refiners who produce 95% of domestic edible fats and oils.

Typically, trade associations exist to establish barriers to entry in favor of existing members and to lobby for favorable treatment on the part of government.

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Rabbi Raziel Cohen doesn’t want you to have to draw a gun in synagogue. But if you must, he doesn’t want you to waste precious time unbuttoning your kapota, a type of jacket worn by men in the Chabad Hasidic community on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

So Cohen, a firearms instructor who goes by the moniker “The Tactical Rabbi,” worked with Shaul Snovsky, who sells kapotas in South Florida, to create the Tactical Kapota. The jacket, which looks like any other kapota, closes with snaps instead of buttons for easy opening. Its cost: $550.

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New Zealand had tried for years to deport the knife-wielding militant who wounded seven people at a mall in Auckland last week, the government said after it released more details on the attacker following the lifting of a court suppression order.

Court documents made public on Sunday identified the attacker as Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen, 32, an ethnic Tamil Muslim from Sri Lanka. He had arrived in New Zealand 10 years ago on a student visa seeking refugee status, which was granted in 2013.

Really. What were they thinking?

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In my twenties, I believed that successful people hold secret knowledge leading to their success. I obsessed over “self-help porn”: books, videos, and blogs promising to reveal little secrets that would make me successful one day, too.

But when I started observing and talking to people I consider successful, I noticed they don’t do anything extraordinary. In fact, they do quite the opposite. They follow “boring” advice I already heard a million times in proverbs, religious and old philosophy stories, and even from my grandma.

And it makes sense!. It has already been figured out for thousands of years! There is nothing new a Brian can write in his next New York Times bestseller while sipping a $9 latte that I didn’t hear before. All I ever had to do is to act on that well-known advice.

Actually, there is a secret body of knowledge that guarantees success, but you people aren’t authorized to access it. Sorry.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Here at iSteve, I’m on the Emmett Till Beat beat 24×7, covering all the stop-the-presses coverage of the latest developments in the ever-evolving Emmett Till story, such as this new New York Times news story about an Emmett Till sign being briefly unaccounted for this week.

5 Earth-friendly ways to wash your dishes (National Geographic) Ah, but are they Sustainable?

A Former Walmart Executive to Build ‘the Most Sustainable City in the World’

Abundant Chukchi Sea ice explains silence on walrus haulouts in Alaska and Russia so far

Beijing demands US fulfill wish list of demands in exchange for cooperation on climate change

Novel Renewable Technologies That Could Power the Future Yeah, right about the time we get flying cars.

This wildly reinvented wind turbine generates five times more energy

World’s Largest Tidal Energy Turbine Will Prove Its Worth  Unmentioned: Mow much taxpayer money went into this project.

IPCC 6th Climate Report: Who Deleted The Medieval Warm Period? Tracks Lead To University Of Bern

FLASHBACK: CBS, MSNBC Fretted Trump Was Visiting Hurricane Victims Too Quickly

USA Today ‘Fact Check’ Accuses Gold Star Parents Of Lying, Then Issues Massive Correction

Joy’s Week of Hate: Fox Is al-Qaeda, GOPers Are the New Taliban, and TX Loves Rapists

Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts “Primates” Label on Video of Black Men  Black men are, of course, primates, as are white men. ‘Scientists’ are discovering that a major ‘problem’ with A.I. is that it just paints what it sees, not the fake fantasy world of Wokeness.

Facebook Apologizes After Labeling Black Men As “Primates”  Apologize to whom? The primates?

Biden Administration Erased Afghan Weapons Reports From Federal Websites

Biden tours Louisiana Hurricane Ida damage — cheat sheets ready to go

Diner Sells Out After Owner Posts Sign Telling Biden Fans to Eat Elsewhere  It’s just a stunt, but a very profitable stunt.

Biden’s Approval Rating Among CNN Employees Sinks To All-Time Low Of 98%  Babylon Bee.

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New Zealand Lampman Who Attacked Eight People Before Police Shot Him Dead Can Finally be Named

The ISIS-supporting terrorist who went on a battering rampage in a lighting store in New Zealand on Friday has been named as Mohammed Mahmoud Mehmet Mohmadin.

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Gordon Haff was at Dartmouth about the same time that I was at Yale, and this list brings back a lot of dear memories of my youth. I endorse his choices up to Olivia Butler, who unfortunately marked the beginning of Wokeness in SF, which has pretty much destroyed the value of the traditional Hugo and Nebula awards and divided the field effectively into two different parts.

Excuse me while I go read Weapon Shops of Isher again….

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This is The New Yorker (“Fifty-one, with light-green eyes and a dark beard that lend him a mischievous air….), so I’d want to confirm this with another source.

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As a side note to the articles below: Almost everybody I know has now been vaxed, but yesterday I received my first personally-related report on a serious adverse reaction to the experimental mRNA therapy used against COVID-19. An old friend and former employer called me up and told me that her son, who is now in his late fifties, had suffered a stroke a few days after receiving the first dose of the Moderna “vaccine”. It caused some impairment of his ability to speak, and induced partial paralysis on one side of his body. He won’t be getting the second jab.

The Other McCain is on the case.

It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court rules when this case actually comes before it for decision, not just a preliminary injunction.

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It isn’t easy to assemble the entire Squad in one place, but reportedly it happened today in Minneapolis. The Squad held a press conference to demand that President Biden revoke the permit to construct Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 replacement pipeline. As usual, the activists’ claims are hysterical.

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One of the ironies here is that Line 3 will replace an existing pipeline. It incorporates modern anti-leak technologies and will be much better for the environment than the existing line. Nonetheless, Congresswoman Omar deems the pipeline a threat to wild rice.

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The dirty little secret of the ‘intellectual property’ racket unmasked: Having a government-enforced artificial monopoly makes a business focus on rent-seeking rather than innovation.

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A small group of female Afghan activists protested the Taliban on Friday in Kabul. The Hill.com reported that the group, called the Women’s Political Participation Network, was calling for equal rights for women in the government and society.

The group gathered outside Afghanistan’s Finance Ministry, where members of the Taliban were meeting to discuss plans to form a new government.