One of its many peculiarities is its penchant for fads, and what can only be called mass hysteria.
Repeatedly, we see waves in which something that nobody much cared about suddenly comes to dominate ruling class discourse...
There are several factors behind this, but one of the most important, I think, is that our ruling class is a monoculture... I’ve written elsewhere, in a law review article titled Is Democracy Like Sex? that electoral turnover in democracies produces a moving target for special-interest groups (the political analog of parasites) and thus helps keep them from becoming too well adapted to the society that is their host.
As evolutionary biologist Thomas Ray observed, every successful system accumulates parasites, and the United States of America has been very successful indeed.
I suggested that part of its success lay in electoral shifts that served keep special interests from locking in their positions entirely.
But what I (mostly) missed when writing that piece many years ago, is that electoral turnover only affects one small piece of society. While elections change out elected officials sometimes, the rest of our society – the bureaucracy, academia, media, corporate leadership, what is generally known as the “gentry” or “ruling class” – remains the same...
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"Bill Gates, ever the demented snake oil salesman, has long argued in favor of a bizarre plan to fight global warming by using experimental geoengineering to partially block the sun’s rays from reaching Earth. Well, he’s apparently about to get his wish.
Scientists plan to begin pumping chemicals into the sky over the next few weeks and months from several countries around the globe, including the U.S., Australia and Israel.
The idea, promoted by Gates and leftist billionaire George Soros, involves pumping manmade white clouds containing chalk dust and other chemicals into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s surface.
Blocking the sun’s light would allegedly lower the planet’s temperature enough to reverse global warming...
“Secretary Benson is vigorously opposing our efforts to investigate the tens of thousands of deceased registrants we found on the voter roll,” PILF President, J. Christian Adams said in a statement.
In August 2022, Benson sought to have PILF’s lawsuit thrown out by a federal court but the request was denied and the case continues.
"As they explain in their recent study for the journal Nature Geoscience, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — which is roughly the size of Mexico (1.97 million square kilometers in area), and which is already melting at an alarming rate — once underwent a period roughly 8,000 years ago in which it dramatically and quickly shrank...
— What a load of nonsensical propaganda.
Pretty sure there were no steam engines running 8,000 years ago, yet the ice melted.
They don't even bother to define what 270 km means.
Coastline? Retreat toward the south pole?
The alarmists invariably talk about the western ice.
Why?
Because much of it is floating, it is fed by glaciers, and there are active volcanoes beneath.
A bill to require public and charter schools in the state to socially “transition” children who request using a different name than their birth name is making its way through the Colorado legislature.
The bill, introduced in January, would require public schools and charter schools to use a child’s “preferred name” and label the refusal of a school to do so “discrimination.” It would also create a task force within the Colorado Department of Education to “provide recommendations” to schools on how to implement “non legal name changes” for children.
Whitmer, Stabenow, Slotkin, Nessel, Benson silent after suit claims Byrum and Brad Delaney had Mason Schools reverse son's expulsion - for 2 attacks including sexual penetration!
"Ingham County Clerk Barbara Byrum and her husband Brad Delaney, a detective sergeant with the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office, are alleged in a suit filed in federal court to have used their respective political positions to circumvent a Mason Schools expulsion, Title IX complaint, and a personal protection order against their son. Mason High School Principal Lance Delbridge and Assistant Principal Nicholas Toodzio are also named as defendants in the lawsuit....
Court documents note that B.D. on May 12, 2022, “Plaintiff E.M. was sitting in her English class at a table when B.D., who was attending the same class, pulled her chair closer to him and leaned forward as if he was going to tell her a secret but instead, forcefully put his hand inside E.M.’s sweatpants and underwear and digitally penetrated her vagina without consent.”...
"A couple in Boston signed up to a government scheme to house illegal immigrants in their own home and were delivered an entire family of four within an hour, according to a CBS News report. “When Colin and Jessica Stokes called the state to sign up to be a host family, it took less than an hour for the displaced migrants to be dropped off at their door,” the report notes, adding “The family of four, who didn’t want to go on camera, had made been sleeping at Logan Airport“...
According to a report at the Federalist, the report's claim was that Obama's s administration might have been spying on Trump as early as 2015, and the British Guardian claimed those multiple individuals were "targeted" because "suspicious 'interactions'" were noted during the course of ordinary investigations.
Those details then were delivered to Obama's henchmen.
"Kristina Karamo, the popular conservative and activist who was elected by MIGOP delegates during a state MI GOP conference in March 2023, has been replaced after it was determined by the RNC that the proper by-laws were followed to remove her on January 6, in a 40-6 vote by a group of 71 state committee members (including proxies).
Former Ambassador Pete Hoekstra and Kristina Karamo
...The decision was made following a conference call on Feb. 12, where lawyers representing Pete Hoekstra and Kristina Karamo plead their cases...
Kristina Karamo, who is expected to continue to fight the decision by the RNC, has already emailed the RNC, challenging the authority of the RNC to decide the matter.
1804 - A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by Muslim pirates.
1857 - The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College.
1868 - The Jolly Corks organization, in New York City, changed it name to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).
1923 - Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The next day he entered the chamber with several invited guests. He had originally found the tomb on November 4, 1922.
1937 - Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont.
1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.
1968 - In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.
The House Judiciary Committee revealed that federal investigators instructed banks to use terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" to filter customer transactions as part of the January 6 investigation. They also warned that purchases of "religious texts" could be indicators of "extremism."
The committee, along with its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, oversees federal law enforcement's interaction with private sector information and its use without legal processes.
"This is obviously part of a strategy, because that’s what Soros does.
