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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The California Homeless Problem Is a Bear

The California Homeless Problem Is a Bear - VIRGINIA POSTREL

But pretending it's just about housing misses its most salient features.

"One of my condo association neighbors recently put an old sofa out on the curb for pick up by the city’s “bulk items” collection service.

The city missed a few promised pickups.

Before we knew it, a group of vagrants had made themselves at home and were eating, drinking, and littering....

Such is life in today’s West L.A...
In one of the most hyper-regulated places this side of Singapore, the level of public disorder is disturbing.

Everyone complains about it....

"Could be..."?!!-----‘Bed rotting’ is self-care, some insist, but mental health expert shares warnings about social media trend

‘Bed rotting’ is self-care, some insist, but mental health expert shares warnings about social media trend

"Some lounging can be beneficial, but doctors warn too much could be ‘sign of depression'...

Lounging in bed all day might seem lazy — but some Gen Z trend followers are now embracing it as a form of self-care.

"Bed rotting" — the practice of spending long periods of time snuggled under the covers with snacks, screens and other creature comforts — is gaining popularity on social media...

About That Claim That July 3-4 Were the 'Hottest Days on Record'...

About That Claim That July 3-4 Were the 'Hottest Days on Record'... - BY RICK MORAN

The headlines were stark and specific. Reuters claimed, “World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3.”
Well, “ever recorded” is misleading since the records have only been “recorded” since 1979. But what kind of a headline would that have been?
At least the BBC was honest about their scare headline: “World’s hottest day since records began.”...

Stephen Milloy, a noted climate change skeptic, performed the necessary lobotomy on the hysterics in the Wall Street Journal.

...supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.
One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago...

A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.
Moreover, the notion of “average global temperature” is meaningless. Average global temperature is a concept invented by and for the global-warming hypothesis. It is more a political concept than a scientific one. The Earth and its atmosphere is large and diverse, and no place is meaningfully average...

Principal who quit to homeschool her kids sounds alarm over states altering teacher reqs to combat shortages | Fox News

Principal who quit to homeschool her kids sounds alarm over states altering teacher reqs to combat shortages | Fox News:

"I talk a lot about the current teacher shortages because it affects so much. It's causing larger class sizes. With the rise of discipline and behavioral issues in the classroom and the shortage of teachers, that's not the type of balance we want to see," she added.

A London borough tries to eliminate the academic achievement gap between...

Instapundit - Blog Archive - JUST NBC THE SCHIZOPHRENIA!

JUST NBC THE SCHIZOPHRENIA! Click link, much more!

Shot: COVID-19 and obesity: Doctors studying link between excess weight and severe disease. —NBC News, September 8th, 2020.

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Lunch video-----Just Stop Oil activist SLAMMED by physicist over eco claims | 'A lot war...

"‘It’s not the hottest week it has ever been, it was a lot warmer every summer during the Egyptian and Roman periods.’

‘Have you published any accredited papers since your career started!?’

Physicist Brian Catt clashes with Sean Irish from Just Stop Oil over Shell’s CEO warning against cutting oil and gas production.

Noon-toon

Secret Service now facing an investigation over White House cocaine scandal: 'Unacceptable and a shameful moment' - TheBlaze

Secret Service now facing an investigation over White House cocaine scandal: 'Unacceptable and a shameful moment' - TheBlaze:

To assist with a congressional investigation, Comer requested Cheatle provide Congress with a briefing by next Friday. "The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House's history," Comer said. "Congress funds White House security procedures, and the Secret Service has a responsibility to maintain effective safety protocols."

Wany higher prices? Vote democrat!

When moron criminals run our country!-----Becerra’s Blunder: Did the Administration Allow Fauci and Other Officials to Operate Illegally? - Jonathan Turley

Becerra’s Blunder: Did the Administration Allow Fauci and Other Officials to Operate Illegally? - Jonathan Turley

"...However, the most serious question now may be whether Fauci was who he said he was in those hearings: the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
On Friday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce issued a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra that raises the disturbing question of whether Fauci and 13 other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute and center directors were unlawfully holding their offices for some period.

Not only did these directors make sweeping policy changes for the nation but, in 2022 alone, they awarded more than $25 billion in federal biomedical grants.

...CNN's senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, once gushed that when "Dr. Fauci talks, he's just like a regular guy."

It turns out she might have been more accurate than she thought -- because Fauci legally may have been just a "regular guy" giving out billions without authority...

Libs of TikTok on Twitter: "Dietician tells followers to eat whatever they want whenever they want because eating 3 meals a day is rooted in white supremacy https://t.co/HOcUlomsYX" / Twitter

Wondering about American university "education"?

No, books are NOT being banned!-----From Bad to Verse - Taki's Magazine

From Bad to Verse - Taki's Magazine - Steven Tucker

"Are all modern-day popular poems really secretly written by Oprah Winfrey?

It may well be so.
Amanda Gorman, the unbearable young black American “poet” catapulted to undeserved stardom after she performed her shitty little ditty of leftist doggerel “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in January 2021, last month gave her first interview reacting to the terrible recent news that her poem has allegedly been banned (sadly it hasn’t) by a single Florida school.

Speaking to CBS News in June, Gorman complained how “All it takes is one person, one quickly written complaint, to render that book inaccessible for everyone in the community,” a reaction that rather suggests that left-wingers don’t like it when their own cancel-culture tactics are turned around and used against them by persons on the conservative right.
“Gorman ended up gracing the cover of Time magazine, performing at the Super Bowl, and signing a modeling deal with top firm IMG Models, just like Dame Edith Sitwell.”..

#1 This day 1965-----The Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction - Ed Sullivan Show 1966

Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion

Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion
- Matt Lamb

"New survey data from Brown University’s student newspaper provides further evidence that the increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures.
The latest data show that between 2010 and 2023, identification as LGBTQ+ has almost tripled among the student body at Brown (from 14% in 2010 saying they were not heterosexual to 38% now).

"The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate ," The Brown Daily Herald reported...

Other sexual orientations have seen massive increases...

Phony!

Texas begins deploying floating buoy barriers in Rio Grande; kayaking outfitter sues - TheBlaze

Texas begins deploying floating buoy barriers in Rio Grande; kayaking outfitter sues - TheBlaze:

"Our mission is to detect and interdict transitional criminal activity and create proactive strategies to combat it. It's dangerous to cross between ports of entry, and securing the border between them is ideal to fight Mexican cartels."

Why Affirmative Action May Be Doing More Harm Than Good for Black Americans

Why Affirmative Action May Be Doing More Harm Than Good for Black Americans BY CHARLIE MARTIN

"...hardly anyone on that side of the divide noticed or recognized that the Asians who brought the suit were responding to explicit racial discrimination.

...I think more importantly, they come from the culture of the famous “A- is an Asian F.”
In other words, Asians and many whites come from a “growth mindset” culture.

Blacks and to a lesser extent Hispanics come from a fixed mindset culture.
Affirmative action just reinforces that fixed mindset.

You’re not capable of Harvard on your own.
You must have the help of the Great White Father.

And modern liberals simply won’t stand for any other.

AM Fruitcake

History for July 11

History for July 11 - On-This-Day.com

E.B. White 1899

1533 - Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by "An Act for Establishing a Marine Corps" passed by the U.S. Congress. The act also created the U.S. Marine Band. The Marines were first commissioned by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775.
1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.
1962 - The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the Telstar I satellite.
1999 - A U.S. Air Force jet flew over the Antarctic and dropped off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nelson after she had discovered a lump in her breast. Nelson was at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center.

Monday, July 10, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook spent over $40 million on personal security while donating to defund the police groups - TheBlaze

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook spent over $40 million on personal security while donating to defund the police groups - TheBlaze:

Zuckerberg has a net worth of $13 billion, according to Forbes. During the same three-year period, Zuckerberg's family-run foundation donated millions to groups pursuing initiatives to defund the police and even abolish the police.