CHINA: China’s coal futures hit record high as floods worsen energy crisis. “Chinese coal futures rose to record levels as floods shut dozens of mines and displaced more than 100,000 people, throttling the country’s main source of the fuel for electricity and compounding a global energy crisis.”
Archive for 2021
October 11, 2021
KURT SCHLICHTER: There Are A Lot of Brandons.
“Brandon” is actually “Biden,” and as for the other part – how to put this in on family website? – it’s more coming than going.
Everyone hates Joe Biden, and this spontaneous chant is a symptom of the disease infecting his poll numbers. Move over mere COVID – Biden’s numbers have leprosy with some scabies and chlamydia mixed in. And there’s no cure.
America just can’t stand the guy. Even people who don’t despise the guy are pretty turned off. Just look at his sparsely-attended and increasingly infrequent events. There is always like just 12 people there – a few aging pinkos, some illegal aliens fresh from hassling a Democrat heretic in the john, and a bunch of divorced wine women wearing pro-abortion shirts to protect their right to a procedure that will never be an issue for them. And they are all wearing masks outside. You could get a better turnout in a random high school parking lot offering discount drive-thru colonoscopies.
I hope I didn’t just give the Lincoln Project any ideas.
Heh. Read the whole thing.
THE BUFF STUFF: B-52 Stratofortress Bomber: The Air Force Has Big Plans. “With these upgrades, the last B-52s could remain in the service for 100 years. The question is whether any of the parts on those aircraft would actually date back to the 1950s.”
(Via Ace of Spades.)
NeverTrump Has Become NeverConservative… Or Was It All Along?
Good job, NeverTrumpers, you got rid of the Bad Orange Man — so now what?
You want to give everything to the Democrats, really?
Really.
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WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Firefighters: ‘Woman’ stranded on cliff was movie mannequin.
TWO PROFESSORS EXPLAIN How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality.
In a particularly troubling example from the biomedical sciences, a 2015 literature review found that almost 900 peer-reviewed publications reporting studies of a supposed breast cancer cell line were in fact based on a misidentified skin cancer line. Worse still, nearly 250 of these studies were published even after the mistaken cell line was conclusively identified in 2007. Our cursory search of Google Scholar indicates that researchers are still using the skin cancer cell line in breast cancer studies published in 2021. All of these erroneous studies remain in the literature and will continue to be a source of misinformation for scientists working on breast cancer.
In 2021, climate research finds itself in a situation similar to breast cancer research in 2007. Our research (and that of several colleagues) indicates that the scenarios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the end of the twenty-first century are grounded in outdated portrayals of the recent past. Because climate models depend on these scenarios to project the future behavior of the climate, the outdated scenarios provide a misleading basis both for developing a scientific evidence base and for informing climate policy discussions. The continuing misuse of scenarios in climate research has become pervasive and consequential—so much so that we view it as one of the most significant failures of scientific integrity in the twenty-first century thus far. We need a course correction.
Nevertheless: There will soon be no more ads denying climate change on Google.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Far-left activists plan to ‘birddog’ Sinema during Boston Marathon.
YES, BUT TRUMP HELPS: Sans Trump, Can GOP Expand Its Inroads to Latino Voters?
BETTER MAKE IT THROUGH TODAY: Rolling Stone Is Trying to Cancel Eric Clapton.
HIGHER EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The Art Institute of Chicago fires all 122 of its (unpaid and volunteer) docents because they aren’t sufficiently ‘diverse.’
The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), one of the world’s finest art museums, harbors (or rather, harbored) 122 highly skilled docents, 82 active ones and 40 “school group greeters.” All are volunteers and are all unpaid. Their job is to act as guides to the Museum’s collection of 300,000 works, which they explain to both adults and schoolchildren. I’ve seen them in action at the Museum, and they’re terrific.
Despite the lack of remuneration—they do this to be helpful and because they love art—their training to be docents is extremely rigorous. First, they have to have two training sessions per week for eighteen months, and then “five years of continual research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas” (quote from the docents’ letter to the Director of the AIC). On top of that, there’s monthly and biweekly training on new exhibits. Then there are the tours themselves, with a docent giving up to two one-hour tours per day for 18 weeks of the year and a minimum of 24 one-hour tours with adults/families. Their average length of service: 15 years. There are other requirements listed by the Docents Council in the ChicagoNow column below (first screenshot).
Many of the volunteers—though not all—are older white women, who have the time and resources to devote so much free labor to the Museum. But the demographics of that group weren’t appealing to the AIC, and so, in late September, the AIC fired all of them, saying they’d be replaced by smaller number of hired volunteers workers who will be paid $25 an hour. That group will surely meet the envisioned diversity goals.
Read the whole thing.
This came courtesy of a reader who doesn’t use Facebook much, but decided to try and share this story — only to have sharing squashed.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Mom Sues Cops Who Arrested Her for Leaving 14-Year-Old Daughter Home Alone. The police in Texas also searched the family’s home without a warrant, and terrified the teenager by taking her into custody and refusing to let her call her parents for hours. A jury took five minutes to acquit the mother (who lost a year’s pay because she was suspended from her job awaiting the trial). Now Lenore Skenazy, the president of the Let Grow project promoting independence for children, tells how the family is fighting back.
OUT ON A LIMB: An Italian-American Defends Columbus Day.
KURT SCHLICHTER: There Are A Lot of Brandons. “Everyone hates Joe Biden, and this spontaneous chant is a symptom of the disease infecting his poll numbers. Move over mere COVID – Biden’s numbers have leprosy with some scabies and chlamydia mixed in. And there’s no cure.”
Related: Politico: Dems warn that “the president’s decline is alarming.”
Reminder: The political establishment — virtually all of the Democrats and a large chunk of the GOPe — foisted Biden off on us despite knowing that he was unqualified in the extreme, and that his running mate was no better. When they pose as the responsible adults in the room, remember that they were happy to saddle America with a dysfunctional president at a dangerous time in history, out of a combination of pique and corruption.
SO ROTTEN TOMATOES APPEARS TO HAVE DISABLED THE AUDIENCE SCORE ON FAUCI:
However, the IMDB user ratings may give you an idea how it’s going over:
THE RACISM THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME: Newsom Signs ‘Ethnic Studies’ Bill for High School Graduation Requirement—But Don’t You Dare Call It Critical Race Theory.
LIONEL SHRIVER: The Most Frightened Nation. The United Kingdom will never be the same now that Covid hysteria has transformed the land of “keep calm and carry on” into a society of bedwetters eager to forsake their liberties.
LIONEL SHRIVER: Britain’s Servile Response to the Covid 19 Pandemic.
THE ROAD FROM SERFDOM: Hayek Book Prize. Nominations are now open for the Manhattan Institute’s annual Hayek Book Prize. Each year, the Hayek Prize honors a non-fiction book published within the past two years (2020-2021) that best reflects Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek’s political philosophy—that economic freedom leads to broader prosperity—and that advances the ideals of classical liberalism in its economic, political, or moral dimensions. The author is awarded a $50,000 prize and invited to give the Hayek lecture at the annual award ceremony. Last year’s winner was Thomas Sowell’s Charter Schools and Their Enemies.
HMM: Capitol Police Whistleblower Claims Leadership Botched Jan. 6th And Lied to Congress About It. “Truth be told, Pelosi wants this committee to set up their third annual impeachment of Donald Trump, or at the very least ban him from running again as the Democrats are frightened that he will run again and win.”
OUTRAGEOUS: Biden Might Send Foreign Aid to the Taliban.
NICE IN CASE YOUR GPS GOES OUT: National Geographic Road Atlas 2021: Adventure Edition [United States, Canada, Mexico].