Monday, January 31, 2022
A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’
A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’
...The economist Ludwig von Mises once observed the problem with using scientific claims to shape the modern world...in many cases people invoke science simply to tell people what they must do.
“The planners pretend that their plans are scientific and that there cannot be disagreement with regard to them among well-intentioned and decent people,” Mises wrote in his 1947 essay “Planned Chaos.”
...When teen activist Greta Thunberg exhorts us to follow the science on climate change, she’s not saying we should acknowledge that the planet is warming and that humans play a role in the Earth’s climate. She’s saying people should adopt her plan and that of other climate activists, which includes transitioning off meat, giving up flying (something to be achieved either through shame or coercion), taxing fossil fuels, and myriad other proposals...Read all.
- When people say “follow the science,” often what they’re really saying is “follow our plan.”
...The economist Ludwig von Mises once observed the problem with using scientific claims to shape the modern world...in many cases people invoke science simply to tell people what they must do.
“The planners pretend that their plans are scientific and that there cannot be disagreement with regard to them among well-intentioned and decent people,” Mises wrote in his 1947 essay “Planned Chaos.”
...When teen activist Greta Thunberg exhorts us to follow the science on climate change, she’s not saying we should acknowledge that the planet is warming and that humans play a role in the Earth’s climate. She’s saying people should adopt her plan and that of other climate activists, which includes transitioning off meat, giving up flying (something to be achieved either through shame or coercion), taxing fossil fuels, and myriad other proposals...Read all.
Dem governor rushes to shame Republicans after bridge collapse. But his narrative immediately falls flat. - TheBlaze
Dem governor rushes to shame Republicans after bridge collapse. But his narrative immediately falls flat. - TheBlaze:
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) wasted no time engaging in partisan accusations after a Pittsburgh bridge abruptly collapsed on Friday. But Wolf's accusation immediately fell flat.
China, Mexico, California get-out-of-jail-free card.-----Two charged with possessing 300k fentanyl pills in 'biggest ever' CA bust
Two charged with possessing 300k fentanyl pills in 'biggest ever' CA bust
...Both suspects were arrested and booked in the Fresno jail, where Hill remains.
- CHP allegedly found 300k pills, weighing 75 pounds, in what police call biggest ever fentanyl bust; two face federal charges
...Both suspects were arrested and booked in the Fresno jail, where Hill remains.
Bissell was released after her stepfather agreed to post a $10,000 cash bond, court records show...Read all.
Biden order lets people who quit jobs where they thought they might catch coronavirus to collect unemployment | Fox Business
Biden order lets people who quit jobs where they thought they might catch coronavirus to collect unemployment | Fox Business
"Typically workers can only collect unemployment if they lose their jobs
Continuing a flurry of executive action, President Biden signed an order Friday calling on the Labor Department to allow workers to collect unemployment benefits if they quit jobs they fear put them at risk for COVID-19.
...As part of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal, federal unemployment would be raised for out-of-work Americans to $400 a week, up from the $300 a week boost that lawmakers approved in December...Read all!
"Typically workers can only collect unemployment if they lose their jobs
Continuing a flurry of executive action, President Biden signed an order Friday calling on the Labor Department to allow workers to collect unemployment benefits if they quit jobs they fear put them at risk for COVID-19.
...As part of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal, federal unemployment would be raised for out-of-work Americans to $400 a week, up from the $300 a week boost that lawmakers approved in December...Read all!
The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing - Foundation for Economic Education
The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing - Foundation for Economic Education.
"Universities are dying.
Often, they shackle themselves or their children to tens of thousands in debt along the way.
"Universities are dying.
- They have long ceased being the best way to gain knowledge.
- More recently, the degrees they confer have ceased being the best way to signal employability...
- The final leg universities stand on is the mythology of social status. That’s it. That’s what gives them what waning power they have.
Often, they shackle themselves or their children to tens of thousands in debt along the way.
...Why?
Because they value the decaying social status indicator of a degree.
Because they value the decaying social status indicator of a degree.
They want a shortcut to communicate to the world that they are good parents and their kids are better than most...Read all!
Video of Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa by truckers - TheBlaze
Video of Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa by truckers - TheBlaze:
Truckers and protesters showed up in huge numbers as the Freedom Convoy descended upon Ottawa, Ontario. Despite subzero windchill temperatures on Saturday, Canadians mounted a large protest against vaccine mandates. Massive crowds peacefully protested against government overreach near Parliament Hill.
Truckers were protesting an order that went into effect on Jan. 15, requiring unvaccinated Canadian truckers re-entering the country from the U.S. to get tested for COVID-19 and quarantine themselves. There was reportedly a convoy of up to 50,000 Canadian truck drivers who traveled to Canada's capital to protest the vaccine mandates.
Be Grateful for Global Warming - CO2 Coalition
Be Grateful for Global Warming - CO2 Coalition
"... much of the recent advancement in human prosperity would have been impossible without the temperature increases of the last several hundred years?
A key to the sustenance of any society is food security. Today’s world should be grateful for today’s relative warmth as well as higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels because both have been instrumental in propelling plant growth globally.
...Past warming periods were much warmer than our modern temperatures and were associated with times of great prosperity. The intervening cold eras had names like Greek Dark Ages, the Dark Ages and Little Ice Age and were linked to crop failure, pestilence and mass depopulation.
According to historian Wolfgang Behringer, “…cooling has always resulted in major social upheavals, whereas warming has sometimes led to a blossoming of culture...Read all.
History for January 31
History for January 31 - On-This-Day.com
Zane Grey 1872
- 1606 - Guy Fawkes was executed after being convicted for his role in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James I.
- 1747 - The first clinic specializing in the treatment of venereal diseases was opened at London Dock Hospital.
- 1865 - In America, General Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.
- 1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. It was ratified by the necessary number of states on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
- 1893 - The trademark "Coca-Cola" was first registered in the United States Patent Office.
- 1940 - The first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. Government.
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Goldie Hawn says mental health of children suffering from pandemic - TheBlaze
Goldie Hawn says mental health of children suffering from pandemic - TheBlaze:
She warned that the answer is not to allow kids to "be over-diagnosed or shuffled through a system that screens and treats extreme cases after they are too late."
"We will survive the COVID-19 pandemic, but I’m not sure we can survive an entire generation whose collective trauma sends them hobbling into adulthood. We need more research, more preventative care and more early intervention. And there’s still time," Hawn concluded. "If we get it right, today’s kids could emerge as the strongest generation America has ever produced."
Hiding from the people. Like every dictator!-----Justin Trudeau and his family leave their home in Ottawa for a secret location amid security concern | Daily Mail Online
Justin Trudeau and his family leave their home in Ottawa for a secret location amid security concern | Daily Mail Online
"...as 50,000 anti-vaccine mandate 'Freedom Convoy' truckers march days after being dismissed as a 'small fringe minority'
- Protestors could be seen carrying copies of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, while others carried signs reading 'God keep our land glorious and free,' 'Make Canada great again,' and 'we are here for our freedom'
- The convoy set out from British Columbia on Sunday and was cheered by hundreds of Canadians as it made its more than 2,000-mile journey to protest vaccine mandates
- Since mid January, Canada and the United States have imposed a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for foreign truck drivers crossing the border between the two countries
- Canadian drivers are unable to enter US unless they are vaccinated, US drivers are unable to enter Canada...Read all!
Don't tell these families the vax has saved lives!-----Summit County (CO) Coroner’s Office sees record number of deaths in 2021
Summit County Coroner’s Office sees record number of deaths in 2021
"The Summit County Coroner’s office handled a record-breaking number of cases in 2021, and Summit County Coroner Regan Wood does not like the trajectory as it relates to substance use and alcohol.
Her office investigated 97 deaths in 2021, which is 10 (11.5% increase) more than the previous record of 87 deaths in 2015.
...It’s these accidental deaths — specifically the 18 deaths related to substance use and alcohol— that she is worried about.
Nine of those were drug overdoses and five of those overdoses tested for fentanyl in their system.
Wood said the nine alcohol-related deaths, or people who “drank themselves to death,” was also alarming.
Wood said these alcohol-related cases involved people between the ages of 30 and 55...Read all!
Ron DeSantis Releases New Ad Against Anthony Fauci - Louder With Crowder
Ron DeSantis Releases New Ad Against Anthony Fauci - Louder With Crowder:
Ron DeSantis is no fan of Dr. Anthony Fauci. America's most popular unelected government bureaucrat can be polarizing. You either enjoy living in constant fear and look to him for permission to live your life, or you're not a mindless nincompoop and enjoy freedom. Ron DeSantis, America's Governor, famously decided early to do the opposite of what Fauci said. It's what made him America's Governor and what made Florida a target destination for people leaving authoritarian states.
Games Journalists Play - by Tom Knighton
Games Journalists Play - by Tom Knighton
"...like this stunt pulled by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow:
Hey @maddow,
Is there a reason you didn’t finish reading the rest of the sentence from that statement I sent you? 
Redfern is the (republican) press secretary for the Florida Department of Health.
Now, it’s possible that while they reached out to comment at the last minute for some reason, he’s not wrong that it’s often an attempt to honestly say you asked for a comment without actually having to get a comment.
And based on the way Maddow framed his response on her show—in a manner made to look particularly flippant but also to hide the games her staff played—I’d be very surprised if that’s the case.
Now, it’s possible that while they reached out to comment at the last minute for some reason, he’s not wrong that it’s often an attempt to honestly say you asked for a comment without actually having to get a comment.
And based on the way Maddow framed his response on her show—in a manner made to look particularly flippant but also to hide the games her staff played—I’d be very surprised if that’s the case.
...Yet what Maddow forgets is that if this were done by email, then Redfern has a copy as well.
Only a fool would think he wouldn’t release it.
...Meanwhile, people like Maddow and her buddies and MSNBC and CNN seriously wonder why the American public doesn’t trust the media anymore.
They’re shocked and appalled not to be held in the highest esteem.
But why would anyone hold them as such?...Read all!
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