Thursday, July 01, 2021

"If anyone can provide just one logical and intellectually consistent reason why transgenderism is valid but transracialism isn't, I'll delete my account."

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If anyone can provide just one logical and intellectually consistent reason why transgenderism is valid but transracialism isn't, I'll delete my account.

Nothing to see here-----Mircea Popescu, early Bitcoin adopter, died suddenly on Monday at age 41 | Daily Mail Online

Mircea Popescu, early Bitcoin adopter, died suddenly on Monday at age 41 | Daily Mail Online

Controversial crypto billionaire - dubbed 'the father of bitcoin toxicity' - drowns off Costa Rica aged 41 leaving a $2bn fortune

  • Popescu was one of the earliest adopters of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin
  • Local news reports say he drowned off the coast of Costa Rica  
  • The Romanian was controversial and accused of being racist and sexist in his prolific blog postings 
  • He leaves behind more than $2 billion in Bitcoin, the fate of which is uncertain...Read all.  

NFL declares, 'Football is gay. Football is lesbian. Football is beautiful.' - TheBlaze

NFL declares, 'Football is gay. Football is lesbian. Football is beautiful.' - TheBlaze

The NFL on Monday joined the rest of corporate America in marketing to LGBT Americans for Pride Month with the release of a new commercial declaring that football is gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, bisexual, and a whole bunch of other things.

SHE’S DOING HARM

Instapundit--SHE’S DOING HARM

"Ilhan Omar Knows What She’s Doing. 

“Omar, as the kids say, is owning her truth. 

Her tap dance follows a pattern that is by now well established, in which the justice-seeking congresswoman 

  • makes nakedly prejudicial remarks
  • pretends to walk them back in the face of muted criticism from her colleagues, 
  • characterizes the criticism itself as Islamophobic
  • and proceeds to reoffend.”--Posted by 

Every New Republican Is the Most Evil Republican Ever by Kurt Schlichter

Every New Republican Is the Most Evil Republican Ever by Kurt Schlichter
"According to the Democrats, Donald Trump is literally Hitler or something, but rest assured that the next Republican to become a threat to their dominance will be Hitler2 because of course he will. 
Or she. 
Maybe it won’t be Ron DeSantis, who we will be told is Baal without the upside. 
...It’s just one of those things that simply is and cannot be denied – the sun rises in the east, Brian Stelter is a potato, and every Republican leader is a million times worse than the one who preceded him.
...Trump...
  • they hated him not because he embraced a few conservative ideas. 
  • They hated him not even because of those mean tweets – they like meanness. 
  • No, they hated him because he told the forbidden truth. He told the terrible secret to those unwashed people out there in Americaland who make things for a living and sweat when they work, that our elite is not only not better than the plebs but is much, much worse in every sense...Read all.

Lunch video-More bull-pockey lies, fake promises and payoffs-----Bipartisan infrastructure plan to yield economic benefits in next decade

"The Wharton School is out with a new study of President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan. CNBC's Ylan Mui breaks down the numbers."

Noon-toon


 

As Rebellion Against Critical Race Theory Grows, Left Turns to Denial

As Rebellion Against Critical Race Theory Grows, Left Turns to Denial

Americans are waking up to the threat posed by critical race theory, which is often presented behind a cloak of secrecy and the banner of social justice, and across the country, they are now fighting back.

The Biden administration may have reversed former President Donald Trump’s ban on critical race theory and so-called anti-racist training in government agencies, but Americans from a diverse set of backgrounds are now making this a national fight, which is dramatically playing out on the local and state level.

What has been the response from the left to this popular rebellion against critical race theory?

"Climate change", the weapon that never quits giving.


 

Which Is The Real Party Of Racism?

Which Is The Real Party Of Racism?
"The blasé response to the revelation that Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse belonged to a private “whites only” club and even owned a stake in it, should come as no surprise.
In the Democrats’ race-obsessed world, only Republicans are racist.
Whitehouse confused the issue last week when asked about his membership in Bailey’s Beach Club and its alleged all-white membership, saying: “I think the people who are running the place are still working on that and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet.”
Well, it turns out, his family is among the “people who are running the place.”
...So, to ask the by-now-cliched question, if Whitehouse were a Republican would he get a pass from the Democrats?
 Of course not.
The reason is simple. 
Whitehouse, like so many Democrats, portrays himself as a staunch anti-racist, as he did recently during a Senate “moment of silence” to commemorate the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor: “We can and must do better to root out systemic racism in its many forms and meet America’s full promise of justice for all.”...Read all.

m o d e r n i t y 6

"Safe"!


 

A Scientist Scientifically Uses Science to Debunk Global Warming Alarmist Pseudo-Science

A Scientist Scientifically Uses Science to Debunk Global Warming Alarmist Pseudo-Science

"A 21st-century version of Lysenkoism has become the dominant pseudoscience of the American Left, with ever-changing theories associated with anthropogenic global warming having shaped Democrat control policies and crackpot economic schemes for over a generation.

Lysenkoism was the Soviet version of politically correct science akin to the global warming alarmist mania that has conquered the Democrat Party and the Left over the last 40 years. Agronomist and biologist Trofim Lysenko (1898-1976) cast aside the genetic theory of evolution for the pseudoscience of evolution by “acquired characteristics,” i.e., “that organisms evolved through the acquisition of traits that they needed and used.” ...That impact is summarized here:

In the political storms that ravaged the Soviet Union following the rise of Stalin, Lysenko’s idea that all organisms, given the proper conditions, have the capacity to be or do anything had certain attractive parallels with the social philosophies of Karl Marx (and the twentieth-century French philosopher Henri Bergson) that promoted the idea that man was largely a product of his own will. Enamored with the political correctness and with the “scientific merit” of Lysenko’s ideas, Stalin took matters one step further by personally attacking modern genetics as counter-revolutionary or bourgeois science. While the rest of the scientific world could not conceive of understanding evolution without genetics, Stalin’s Soviet Union used its political power to suppress rational scientific inquiry. Under Stalin, science was made to serve political ideology...Read all.

#1 This day 1963-----The Essex - easier said than done

Charles Murray's Two Uncomfortable Truths and His Not Bad Advice - Rasmussen Reports

Charles Murray's Two Uncomfortable Truths and His Not Bad Advice - Rasmussen Reports
"Give Charles Murray, longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, credit for courage. 
Again and again, despite outrageously unfair attacks, he has returned to the public arena and persisted in telling unwelcome truths. 
...It will be interesting to see whether there is a similar reaction to his latest and much shorter book, "Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America."

  • His first truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different means and distributions of cognitive abilities." Murray makes mincemeat of arguments against IQ tests and shows that they're highly correlated with achievement in schools and in later life. Asians have the highest average scores, followed by Whites, Latinos and Blacks.
  • Murray's second truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different rates of violent crime."...Read all.

No American could disagree!


 

Toyota tramples cancel mob after being targeted over donations to GOP 'election objectors' - TheBlaze

Toyota tramples cancel mob after being targeted over donations to GOP 'election objectors' - TheBlaze
Over the weekend, Toyota became the latest company to be targeted for donating to Republican "election objectors." But the automaker isn't taking the heat lying down.

On top of a 12% AND a 50% increase THIS YEAR!-----Consumers Energy’s proposed rate boost is ‘excessive and unnecessary,’ AG says

Consumers Energy’s proposed rate boost is ‘excessive and unnecessary,’ AG says
"Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is seeking to stop a rate increase requested by Consumers Energy that would raise residential electric bills.
The Michigan Public Service Commission is considering an annual increase in revenues of $225 million, which would result in an 8.8% percent increase for residential ratepayers and a 5.5% increase overall when considering all ratepayer classes - residential, commercial and industrial, according to the Attorney General’s office...Read all.

AM Fruitcake


 

History for July 1

History for July 1 - On-This-Day.com
Wally Amos, Jr. 1936 - Entrepreneur, created Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies
  • 1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
  • 1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.
  • 1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.
  • 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
  • 1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.
  • 1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.
  • 1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
  • 1997 - The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from Great Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong as a colony for 156 years.
  • 2003 - In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their opposition to anti-subversion legislation.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

California bans state travel to Florida and four other states over Fairness in Women's Sports laws - TheBlaze

California bans state travel to Florida and four other states over Fairness in Women's Sports laws - TheBlaze
Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta restricted state-funded travel to Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia, adding these states to a list that now includes 17 states where state-sponsored travel is prohibited.

The way we were-----Ep. 20 The Malaise Era Part I: The Downfall of the American Automotive I...

SCOTUS rebuffs bathroom appeal in transgender case

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a major transgender rights case, leaving in place a lower court's ruling that a Virginia public school board acted unlawfully in preventing a transgender student from using a bathroom at his high school that corresponded with his gender identity."

"Sometimes you wonder if people are ignorant by choice."

Facebook--Michael Smith
"Just saw where Fake Jake Tapper's CNN show has lost 75% of its audience since January. 
...Probably not a real surprise, without a Republican in the White House, the audience doesn't need to be told what to be mad about every day because they swallow every WH press release as if it were real news.
  • When you are living in an information society bifurcated by politics, the genetic fallacy (accepting or rejecting information based on where it comes from) is more pronounced and especially pernicious.
  • I've also noticed another fallacy rising, especially when discussing things like Critical Race Theory. It is called the "normalcy bias" - if it hasn't happened to me, or I haven't heard about it, it hasn't happened at all. I've presented direct documentary evidence of teachers being indoctrinated in CRT (training materials) and students being taught it (assigned books and class syllabus) in our local schools, only to be greeted with "Well, that's not what I heard" and "I don't know any teachers who are using it in their classrooms".
Sometimes you wonder if people are ignorant by choice...Read all.

The scam explained. Partially.-----12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence

12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence
"Many officials and climate activists claim we have only 12 years to act on global warming. 
Where does this figure come from? 
A 2018 Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 
The second sentence of that document reads, "Global warming is likely to reach 1.5 degrees C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate." 
The 12-year figure comes from subtracting the year of the report, 2018, from the earliest possible date of 1.5 degrees C warming, 2030.
The problem is that this was a statement about the past, dressed up to suggest that it's about the future. 
It's not about what will happen; it's extrapolating from what has already happened. 
Actual temperatures in 2030 will depend on whether warming speeds up or slows down, and also on whether the year is warmer or colder than the long-term trend.
Why the 22-year range?...Read all and watch the video.


WaPo nails Biden with four Pinocchios on 2nd Amendment: 'Everything in that statement is wrong' - TheBlaze

WaPo nails Biden with four Pinocchios on 2nd Amendment: 'Everything in that statement is wrong' - TheBlaze
The president made the claim last week in a speech advocating for more gun control in the U.S. Biden was calling for an increase in background checks to prevent guns from getting in the hands of violent criminals when he made an odd digression about the Constitution. "And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own," Biden interjected. "You couldn't buy a cannon!" Fact-checkers disagreed.

"We Can't Say For Certain"

"Toto discusses the heatwave superstition and propaganda flooding the airwaves today."