Saturday, November 06, 2021
Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm Beclowns Herself and the Biden Admin With Ridiculous Claim
Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm Beclowns Herself and the Biden Admin With Ridiculous Claim
"Remember when the Obama administration pushed for European prices for gasoline?
The thinking, if you can call it that, was that if Americans had to pay $9 or $10 a gallon for gas, we’d stop driving so much and this would thus stop global warming (that was the term they used back then before perfectly normal climate fluctuations resulted in embarrassing cool temps–the solution to this inconvenient truth was to change the term to the catch-all “climate change”).
...We all know what we saw, what we experienced; we know what we paid
...We all know what we saw, what we experienced; we know what we paid
- during the Obama-Biden admin,
- during the Trump admin,
- and what we are paying now.
But Democrats, now back in charge (for the time being), think we are stupid, that we will buy their brazen lies, somehow enjoy their lack of empathy or concern for normal Americans’ economic plight, and reward their condescending mockery.
Watch Joe “I am the Democratic Party” Biden’s repellent Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, laugh hysterically at the idea that Americans are suffering or that America has any control over gas prices...Read all!
Watch Joe “I am the Democratic Party” Biden’s repellent Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, laugh hysterically at the idea that Americans are suffering or that America has any control over gas prices...Read all!
'Brandon administration': Watch Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rebrand the Biden administration - TheBlaze
'Brandon administration': Watch Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rebrand the Biden administration - TheBlaze:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis played off of the popular "Let's go Brandon" meme on Wednesday by jokingly referring to President Joe Biden's administration as the "Brandon administration."
Shortly after the governor's comment people could be heard chanting "Let's go Brandon."
Censorship is rampant and getting worse across all social media platforms.
Facebook Gregory Wrightstone
- Censorship is rampant and getting worse across all social media platforms.
- This factually correct post was removed by Facebook for violating their community standards.
History for November 6
History for November 6 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Henry Dow 1851 - Journalist, economist.
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
- 1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
- 1903 - Philippe Bunau-Varilla, as Panama's ambassador to the United States, signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. The document granted rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses.
- 1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
- 1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
- 1961 - In the Saraha Desert of Algeria, a natural gas well ignited when a pipe ruptured. The flames rose between 450 feet and 800 feet. The fire burned until April 28, 1962 when a team led by Red Adair used explosives to deprived the fire of oxygen. (Devil's Cigarette Lighter)
Friday, November 05, 2021
Dr. Fauci's staffers reportedly flagged potential gain-of-function research in Wuhan in 2016 - TheBlaze
Dr. Fauci's staffers reportedly flagged potential gain-of-function research in Wuhan in 2016 - TheBlaze:
A new report says that two staffers working with Dr. Anthony Fauci had flagged experiments that possibly included gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Viroloogy in 2016.
The report from the Daily Caller News Foundation would toss a wrench into the contentious debate between officials like Fauci who deny gain-of-function was ever funded by the NIH at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and those like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) who have criticized them heavily.
AT&T race theory training says white employees 'the problem': report
AT&T race theory training says white employees 'the problem': report
"AT&T offers employees training that calls racism a “uniquely white trait” — and tells white employees that they “are the problem,” according to a report based on leaked documents.
The telecommunications giant’s “Listen. Understand. Act” training is based on core principles of critical race theory, including “systemic racism,” “white privilege” and “white fragility,” according to City Journal’s Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
"AT&T offers employees training that calls racism a “uniquely white trait” — and tells white employees that they “are the problem,” according to a report based on leaked documents.
The telecommunications giant’s “Listen. Understand. Act” training is based on core principles of critical race theory, including “systemic racism,” “white privilege” and “white fragility,” according to City Journal’s Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
- Employees are encouraged to study resources, including one that asks, “White America, if you want to know who’s responsible for racism, look in the mirror,” Rufo said.
- “White people, you are the problem,” the article reportedly tells employees of why the US is a “racist society.”
- “Regardless of how much you say you detest racism, you are the sole reason it has flourished for centuries,” author Dahleen Glanton writes, insisting that “American racism is a uniquely white trait” and that “Black people cannot be racist,” according to the report.
- Employees are also encouraged to participate in a “21-Day Racial Equity Habit Challenge” that relies on the concepts of “whiteness,” “white privilege,” and “white supremacy,” Rufo said...Read all.
Connor Boyack
- Uber driver was from Cuba...
He supports his family back home and has to pay $40 to send $100 using a travel office because there's no Western Union.
He had never heard about bitcoin.
He had never heard about bitcoin.
He's now enthralled and going to go watch YouTube videos to learn all about it, and have his family figure out how they can locally cash out of crypto and transfer into Cuban pesos, so he can send them more money by avoiding costly middlemen.
- He was so happy to no longer live under the Communist garbage he endured, and excited to bring his family here in a few months.
He deeply appreciated the relative increase freedom he was experiencing and had all kinds of tales to tell about what life was like in Cuba.
Economics isn't an abstract set of ideas—it's the lived experience of individuals.
Economics isn't an abstract set of ideas—it's the lived experience of individuals.
Monetary policy and political corruption (I repeat myself…) hurt people in very real ways, while often enriching the elite.
Crypto is the best chance we've ever had to eliminate the wasteful middlemen and keep evil people a little more honest."
Joe Biden's new 401(k) rule threatens to funnel workers' retirement funds into 'woke' causes - Washington Times
Joe Biden's new 401(k) rule threatens to funnel workers' retirement funds into 'woke' causes - Washington Times:
A rule quietly proposed by the Biden administration would allow companies to consider factors such as climate change, diversity issues and even political donations when selecting employees’ 401(k) plans, potentially forcing workers to funnel some of their pay into woke causes.
The proposal explicitly directs retirement plan administrators and asset managers to consider environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments.
Nate Jackson: Racist Race-Baiters Yell 'Racism!' | The Patriot Post
- Democrats only ever have one refrain about their Republican opponents.
...Democrats beat the racist drum for the entire campaign, and now they’re blaming their loss on the claim that they were right.
- “He’s run a racist campaign from start to finish,” said Terry McAuliffe over the weekend of his rival Glenn Youngkin.
So “racist” that his lieutenant governor will be a black woman, and his attorney general will be a Cuban American named Jason Miyares.
...The Democrats’ media mouthpieces were no better than McAuliffe.
...The Democrats’ media mouthpieces were no better than McAuliffe.
- Republicans allegedly decided that “tap-dancing with white supremacy is their way back into power,” opined The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart.
- Politico falsely asserted that Youngkin made “racial appeals to working-class white voters.”
- Atlantic contributor Jemele Hill groused, “This country simply loves white supremacy.”...Read all!
GOP Adds 13 Democratic House Seats to 2022 Midterm Target List after Election Night Successes | National Review
GOP Adds 13 Democratic House Seats to 2022 Midterm Target List after Election Night Successes | National Review:
The House GOP campaign arm is now targeting an additional 13 Democratic House seats ahead of the 2022 midterms after Republicans had a number of surprising successes on Election Day, including a win for Republican Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia gubernatorial election.
Fact Check: Is Critical Race Theory Taught in Virginia Schools?
Fact Check: Is Critical Race Theory Taught in Virginia Schools?
"Throughout election night, as it became clear Republican Glenn Youngkin would win the Virginia governor’s race,
numerous left-leaning media commentators insisted that critical race theory isn’t being taught in Virginia public schools.
...But a simple Google search would have shown these pundits that public documents from the Virginia Department of Education repeatedly mention the phrase “critical race theory,” as well as produced news stories about teacher training by consulting firms associated with critical race theory.
...Critical race theory holds that race is the prism through which all aspects of American life should be analyzed, categorizing individuals into groups of either oppressors or victims of oppression.
"Throughout election night, as it became clear Republican Glenn Youngkin would win the Virginia governor’s race,
...But a simple Google search would have shown these pundits that public documents from the Virginia Department of Education repeatedly mention the phrase “critical race theory,” as well as produced news stories about teacher training by consulting firms associated with critical race theory.
...Critical race theory holds that race is the prism through which all aspects of American life should be analyzed, categorizing individuals into groups of either oppressors or victims of oppression.
...Numerous MSNBC panelists and hosts made comments along the lines of “Critical race theory is not taught in Virginia schools.”
...Fox News reported and linked to the publicly available documents on the Virginia Department of Education’s official website...Read all!!
...Fox News reported and linked to the publicly available documents on the Virginia Department of Education’s official website...Read all!!
The apocalypse is near! Food production collapse! Soaring wheat prices from the U.S. to Russia are raising bread costs - Strange Sounds
The apocalypse is near! Food production collapse! Soaring wheat prices from the U.S. to Russia are raising bread costs - Strange Sounds
"Wheat prices are surging from the U.S. to Russia, hitting a record in Europe and raising bread costs all over the world.
And there may not be much relief soon...pushing benchmark prices in Chicago to an almost nine-year high.But that’s not just threatening higher grocery bills… it’s also giving central banks a bigger inflation headache and risks worsening global hunger that’s already at a multiyear high...Read all.
Hope or another scam?-----HPV vaccine cutting cervical cancer by nearly 90% - BBC News
So sad that this might be an effective vaccine while the world's skepticism about vaccines/big-pharma rises.
HPV vaccine cutting cervical cancer by nearly 90% - BBC News"The human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine is cutting cases of cervical cancer by nearly 90%, the first real-world data shows.
- Cancer Research UK described the findings as "historic", and said it showed the vaccine was saving lives.
- Nearly all cervical cancers are caused by viruses, and the hope is vaccination could almost eliminate the disease...Read all.
Critical race theory resegregation is undoing all of MLK's gains
Critical race theory resegregation is undoing all of MLK's gains:
When we forget that we are one race — the human race — we begin segregating ourselves and creating division in our nation. This division has ripple effects on all aspects of society. Perhaps most concerning is the effect it has on education.
Our country was founded as one nation under God, and our children used to be reminded of it every day. It used to be standard practice that when the school bell rang, children would stand up, face the American flag, place their right hand over their heart and say the pledge of allegiance. Each day they would speak the words “one nation, under God.” The symbolism was clear; we all stood united in our love of country and commitment to equality.
Where did that unity go?
1 year ago. It's worse today!-----10 most extreme 'Critical Race Theory' classes & trainings at US colleges
Campus Reform | 10 most extreme 'Critical Race Theory' classes & trainings at US colleges
"...Meanwhile, colleges across the country are seeing a growing trend of racial sensitivity classes and trainings, and Campus Reform has rounded up some of the most extreme examples.
1. Workshop on "deconstructing whiteness" for white-identifying studentsColumbia University hosted a five-week "deconstructing whiteness" lecture series for white-identified students in July.
"...Meanwhile, colleges across the country are seeing a growing trend of racial sensitivity classes and trainings, and Campus Reform has rounded up some of the most extreme examples.
1. Workshop on "deconstructing whiteness" for white-identifying studentsColumbia University hosted a five-week "deconstructing whiteness" lecture series for white-identified students in July.
The goal was to “engage in exploration of their white identities and build community and accountability around deconstructing whiteness and white privilege to facilitate the development of an antiracist lens.” In an email reportedly sent to students, the university’s law school said the workshop “will not be a support group for white students. Nor will it be comfortable or easy.”...
3. Mandatory anti-racism course for all first-year students...
6. Course on whiteness and violence...
9. "White supremacy in the age of Trump" course...Read all!
3. Mandatory anti-racism course for all first-year students...
6. Course on whiteness and violence...
9. "White supremacy in the age of Trump" course...Read all!
Introducing the Minding the Campus Lysenko Award - Minding The Campus
Introducing the Minding the Campus Lysenko Award - Minding The Campus
With campus cancel culture now so commonplace and brazen that even leftist publications like The Atlantic are sounding the alarm, we are now inaugurating a new MTC award: The Minding the Campus Trofim Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech (a Lysenko Award, for short).
Who was Trofim Lysenko?
The son of Ukrainian peasant farmers and illiterate until he was 13, Lysenko became an agronomist of initially dubious reputation. His earliest experiments (which involved sowing certain crops in the winter to get yields in the spring—hardly a new idea) were marked by poor design and likely fabricated results. Nevertheless, the young Lysenko loudly proclaimed that they validated his principal theory: that genetics did not exist, and that, instead, plants and animals could simply be trained to develop heritable traits, allowing them to grow and prosper under any conditions.
Foreign scientists regarded him as a bad joke. British biologist S.C. Harland observed that Lysenko was “completely ignorant of the elementary principles of genetics and plant physiology . . . To talk to Lysenko was like trying to explain differential calculus to a man who did not know his 12-times table.” When confronted with statistical errors in his results (likely occurring because he either did not understand statistics, or was simply fudging his data), Lysenko famously claimed that mathematics had no place in biology, and denounced his critics as bourgeois imperialists.
Under normal academic conditions, where researchers follow the scientific method and subject hypotheses to rigorous testing and debate, Lysenko’s theories would have been swiftly exposed for the pseudoscience they were. But Lysenko had one thing going for him. While his research was bunk, the idea that you could change a plant or animal’s heritable characteristics by changing its environment matched up with the Marxist concept of materialism—Joseph Stalin brooked no disagreement from that party line. Therefore, disputing or even mildly questioning Lysenko or his theories (Lysenkoism) thus marked you as a counterrevolutionary, a rebel, an imperialist, etc. Lysenko was not shy about unleashing the secret police on those who disagreed with him, or about blaming his dissenters as the “enemies” responsible for his failures. The lucky ones merely lost their positions and fell into penury. Many others, like botanist Nikolai Vavolov, were named enemies of the state and were either killed or starved to death in prison.
With dissent from Lysenkoism outlawed (indeed, the science of genetics was officially proclaimed to be antinationalist and pseudobiology), Lysenko’s crackpot ideas became official Soviet agricultural policy. This led to predictable results: implementation of his theories led to the famines of the 1930s that killed tens of millions in the Soviet Union. When Mao adopted them in 1958, the result was the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-62, in which 15 million people died.
Even after Watson and Crick cracked the genetic code in 1953, Lysenko, Lysenkoism, and the silencing of dissent remained official Soviet policy well into the 1960s. By the time he was finally exposed as a fraud and disgraced in the mid-60s, Soviet biology and agronomy had been set back by decades. In particular, Soviet genetics research—which had been among the best in the world in the 1920s— was utterly obliterated by Lysenkoism.
The moral of Lysenko is that suppressing academic debate and dissent for political reasons yields bad science, bad scholarship, and inevitably bad results. It can even lead to the collapse of nations. The genius of the scientific method and Western academic culture is that you get closer to the truth by subjecting all theories and ideas to rigorous testing and debate. When you frustrate this process because you are afraid the results might prove politically inconvenient, uncomfortable, or “triggering,” the ghost of Lysenko smiles.
The Lysenko Award
MTC’s Lysenko Award is for those in academia who promote or advocate the silencing of academic inquiry and speech, especially where the motive for doing so is based on political disagreement. Nominees for future awards can be sent to Managing Editor David Acevedo (acevedo@nas.org).
Dishonorable mention for the inaugural Lysenko Award goes to MIT Professor Robert van der Hilst, who caved to the Twitter mob and disinvited Professor Dorian Abbot from giving MIT’s annual Carlson lecture. However, as there appears to be some question as to whether Prof. van der Hilst was motivated by a desire for academic censorship or simple cowardice, he gets a reprieve.
Our winner, however, has no such excuse. While also involved in l’affaire Abbot, she is not on the MIT faculty or in its administration, so unlike Prof. van der Hilst, she was not thrust into the fray. Nevertheless, this Williams College department chair helped lead the keyboard warriors demanding that Prof. Abbot be disinvited from giving the Carlson Lecture—not because his science was unsound, or that he was unqualified, or that he had broken the law or committed a tort, but because he believes that individuals in higher education should be evaluated based on their individual merit rather than their membership in an identity group. Scandalous, I know. Apropos to the purpose of our award, when interviewed by the New York Times, our winner justified her actions thusly:
What, she was asked, of the effect on academic debate? Should the academy serve as a bastion of unfettered speech?
“This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated,” she replied.
Trofim Lysenko would be pleased, although he likely would have formulaically dismissed the need for academic rigor and debate as being the product of fascist-bourgeois-imperialist-capitalist culture, instead of the current wokeism of “straight white men” as the source of the world’s problems.
So congratulations, Williams College Professor Phoebe Cohen, you are the first recipient of the Minding the Campus Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech.
With campus cancel culture now so commonplace and brazen that even leftist publications like The Atlantic are sounding the alarm, we are now inaugurating a new MTC award: The Minding the Campus Trofim Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech (a Lysenko Award, for short).
Who was Trofim Lysenko?
The son of Ukrainian peasant farmers and illiterate until he was 13, Lysenko became an agronomist of initially dubious reputation. His earliest experiments (which involved sowing certain crops in the winter to get yields in the spring—hardly a new idea) were marked by poor design and likely fabricated results. Nevertheless, the young Lysenko loudly proclaimed that they validated his principal theory: that genetics did not exist, and that, instead, plants and animals could simply be trained to develop heritable traits, allowing them to grow and prosper under any conditions.
Foreign scientists regarded him as a bad joke. British biologist S.C. Harland observed that Lysenko was “completely ignorant of the elementary principles of genetics and plant physiology . . . To talk to Lysenko was like trying to explain differential calculus to a man who did not know his 12-times table.” When confronted with statistical errors in his results (likely occurring because he either did not understand statistics, or was simply fudging his data), Lysenko famously claimed that mathematics had no place in biology, and denounced his critics as bourgeois imperialists.
Under normal academic conditions, where researchers follow the scientific method and subject hypotheses to rigorous testing and debate, Lysenko’s theories would have been swiftly exposed for the pseudoscience they were. But Lysenko had one thing going for him. While his research was bunk, the idea that you could change a plant or animal’s heritable characteristics by changing its environment matched up with the Marxist concept of materialism—Joseph Stalin brooked no disagreement from that party line. Therefore, disputing or even mildly questioning Lysenko or his theories (Lysenkoism) thus marked you as a counterrevolutionary, a rebel, an imperialist, etc. Lysenko was not shy about unleashing the secret police on those who disagreed with him, or about blaming his dissenters as the “enemies” responsible for his failures. The lucky ones merely lost their positions and fell into penury. Many others, like botanist Nikolai Vavolov, were named enemies of the state and were either killed or starved to death in prison.
With dissent from Lysenkoism outlawed (indeed, the science of genetics was officially proclaimed to be antinationalist and pseudobiology), Lysenko’s crackpot ideas became official Soviet agricultural policy. This led to predictable results: implementation of his theories led to the famines of the 1930s that killed tens of millions in the Soviet Union. When Mao adopted them in 1958, the result was the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-62, in which 15 million people died.
Even after Watson and Crick cracked the genetic code in 1953, Lysenko, Lysenkoism, and the silencing of dissent remained official Soviet policy well into the 1960s. By the time he was finally exposed as a fraud and disgraced in the mid-60s, Soviet biology and agronomy had been set back by decades. In particular, Soviet genetics research—which had been among the best in the world in the 1920s— was utterly obliterated by Lysenkoism.
The moral of Lysenko is that suppressing academic debate and dissent for political reasons yields bad science, bad scholarship, and inevitably bad results. It can even lead to the collapse of nations. The genius of the scientific method and Western academic culture is that you get closer to the truth by subjecting all theories and ideas to rigorous testing and debate. When you frustrate this process because you are afraid the results might prove politically inconvenient, uncomfortable, or “triggering,” the ghost of Lysenko smiles.
The Lysenko Award
MTC’s Lysenko Award is for those in academia who promote or advocate the silencing of academic inquiry and speech, especially where the motive for doing so is based on political disagreement. Nominees for future awards can be sent to Managing Editor David Acevedo (acevedo@nas.org).
Dishonorable mention for the inaugural Lysenko Award goes to MIT Professor Robert van der Hilst, who caved to the Twitter mob and disinvited Professor Dorian Abbot from giving MIT’s annual Carlson lecture. However, as there appears to be some question as to whether Prof. van der Hilst was motivated by a desire for academic censorship or simple cowardice, he gets a reprieve.
Our winner, however, has no such excuse. While also involved in l’affaire Abbot, she is not on the MIT faculty or in its administration, so unlike Prof. van der Hilst, she was not thrust into the fray. Nevertheless, this Williams College department chair helped lead the keyboard warriors demanding that Prof. Abbot be disinvited from giving the Carlson Lecture—not because his science was unsound, or that he was unqualified, or that he had broken the law or committed a tort, but because he believes that individuals in higher education should be evaluated based on their individual merit rather than their membership in an identity group. Scandalous, I know. Apropos to the purpose of our award, when interviewed by the New York Times, our winner justified her actions thusly:
What, she was asked, of the effect on academic debate? Should the academy serve as a bastion of unfettered speech?
“This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated,” she replied.
Trofim Lysenko would be pleased, although he likely would have formulaically dismissed the need for academic rigor and debate as being the product of fascist-bourgeois-imperialist-capitalist culture, instead of the current wokeism of “straight white men” as the source of the world’s problems.
So congratulations, Williams College Professor Phoebe Cohen, you are the first recipient of the Minding the Campus Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech.
History for November
History for November 5 - On-This-Day.com
Will Durant 1885 - American historian, philosopher, author
1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed...
1872 - In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.
1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.
1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.
1959 - The American Football League was formed.
1994 - Former U.S. President Reagan announced that he had Alzheimer's disease.
2009 - At Fort Hood, near Kileen, TX, Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.
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