Archive for 2022
December 17, 2022
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Preparing for a Champagne Shortage.
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EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The Cheapest Ford F-150 Lightning Pro Sees Another Price Increase to Nearly Sixty Grand: The least-expensive electric F-150 Lightning now costs $16,100 more than it did earlier this year.
The hybrid with the onboard generator looks like a winner; the underperforming all-electric pickup is looking otherwise.
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DOES THAT REFLECT BADLY ON THE PHYSICIANS? OR ON THE GUIDELINES? Research shows doctors and their families are less likely to follow guidelines about medicine. “Following established guidelines about prescription drugs would seem to be an obvious course of action, especially for the professionals that do the prescribing. Yet doctors and their family members are less likely than other people to comply with those guidelines, according to a large-scale study co-authored by an MIT economist. . . . The researchers believe the answer is that doctors possess ‘superior information about guidelines’ for prescription drugs—and then deploy that information for themselves.”
QUESTION ASKED: How did free speech become a right-wing value?
In early May, I explored the left’s reaction to billionaire Elon Musk potentially buying Twitter and his vow to make it a free speech platform again. Since then, Musk and his vision have repeatedly been portrayed as “right-wing.”
It’s the damndest thing.
Canadian Conservative politician Andrew Scheer picked up on this strange phenomenon back in April, saying that that the corporate media framing free speech as a “right wing value” was just plain weird. As though to drive home the point, Twitch’s Zachary Ryan called Musk a right-winger on Monday. And over the weekend, entrepreneur Samir Tabar had a question for a whiny Robert Reich:
Since when did free speech become a right-wing value? Right around the time that conservatives won the culture war:
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ROGER SIMON: Has American Democracy Been a Hallucination for Nearly 60 Years?
Call it a democracy, call it a democratic republic, call it a constitutional republic, call it anything you want—it doesn’t really matter what America is if there is truth to what Tucker Carlson was reporting the other night via a source who had “direct knowledge” of still-hidden documents concerning the Kennedy assassination, implicating the CIA.
If indeed the CIA was in any way involved in the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, then anything that has happened in the public sphere in our country since that day has basically been a hallucination created by an intelligence agency far deeper than most of us—certainly me, since I was never much given to conspiracy theories—ever imagined.
The affairs of the day—RNC chief Ronna McDaniel revealed to be a profligate spender on her own luxury travel, not on Republican candidates; Donald Trump releasing self-aggrandizing NFT pseudo-art as a fundraiser (rest in peace, Johannes Vermeer); even Elon Musk’s exposure of the multiple mendacious censoring creeps behind Twitter, although that has an eerie similarity—pale by comparison to CIA involvement and, therefore, massive coverup for decades in the JFK assassination.
That former CIA director Mike Pompeo declined to appear on Carlson’s show to discuss this is not insignificant. We all know about 51 intelligence officials—John Brennan and others who fallaciously claimed two years ago the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They have to have known otherwise. Now this?
Why are 3 percent of the Warren Commission documents on the assassination still being hidden after those nearly 60 years with all the major players dead, if not to hide something of serious importance from the American public?
It’s time to reconsider Oliver Stone’s “JFK” that, though I admired Oliver’s filmmaking, I originally thought to be a crackpot.
Flashback: “Trapped In Camelot:” my interview with James Piereson, the author of Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism.
KISS WITH CONFIDENCE! Researchers develop antimicrobial lipstick using cranberry extract.
SO MANY ECO-TYPES TURN (OFTEN JUSTIFIED) SELF-HATRED INTO HATRED OF HUMANITY:
“People are awful; these beautiful creatures have a right to thrive in their habitats. Seriously, the planet didn’t need 8 billion people.”
Related: Loving monsters. “The effort to remake the world so that it is safe for predators seems rather odd to me. What sort of person would rather be prey? The sort who lives in upscale neighborhoods, and campaigns against hunting, apparently. I suspect that over the long term this isn’t a viable evolutionary strategy in a world where predators abound.”
“EXPERTS” ARMED WITH STATISTICS: Like Chimps with Machine Guns. “In 2011, Nobel economist Paul Krugman used statistics to extoll unionized teachers and excoriate non-unionized teachers. Blogger/car expert/humorist Dave Burge (aka, Iowahawk) showed that Krugman was unwittingly advising states to have more white students and fewer black and Hispanic students.”
I picked up a hitchhiker once. He asked if I wasn’t worried that he might be a serial killer. I was like, nah, what are the odds of two serial killers being in the same car at the same time? . . .
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I’D BE HAPPY IF THEY COULD JUST TEACH MATH COMPETENTLY: Scholars push for DEI at mathematics education conference.
But it’s probably easier to push DEI, which is one reason why they’re doing it.
JUST WHEN YOU HOPED SOUTH CAROLINA HAD MOVED PAST ITS SEGREGATIONIST HISTORY: South Carolina med school faces federal investigation for excluding men, white people.
IT’S RARE FOR THE CCP TO LOSE IN COURT: Surprise for Chow Hang-tung.
Chow Hang-tung (to her surprise) wins her appeal against conviction for ‘inciting’ others to take part in an illegal assembly – last year’s Tiananmen vigil. Expect the Department of Justice to blow taxpayers’ money trying to get that reversed.
Quick summary of the judge’s reasoning. She concluded that the HK Police ban on the vigil was not lawful. Expect a sorely vexed Security Bureau. . . . Meanwhile, a teenager gets up to three years in a training centre for such sins as rewriting lyrics to the national anthem.
Expect the Chinese government to figure out a way to keep Jimmy Lai from being represented by a famous foreign lawyer, though.
Meanwhile, our ruling class is big on bogus incitement charges too.
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Texas Judge Deals Stinging Defeat To Biden: Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Program Must Stay.
WELL, THEY SHOULDN’T: Most medical professionals don’t believe the public health establishment.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Poll: Majority of Americans Believe Biden’s Economy Will Get Even Worse in 2023.
They’re not wrong.
STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY: Office For Civil Rights Investigates Judge Judy’s Women-Only Scholarship Program At New York Law School. “Mark Perry, professor emeritus of economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, contacted the OCR to allege that the scholars program is ‘illegal,’ since it is only for women.”
Judge Judy’s response is essentially that she doesn’t care about the law because she wants to help women, and that pointing out illegal discrimination is “petty.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What’s Really Behind the Left’s Mad Rush to Legitimize P3dophilia.
This junk didn’t START during the pandemic – that’s when it was DISCOVERED by parents who looked over their kids’ shoulders and were horrified to discover what was on those remote-learning screens. Kids were hit with years of sexual and political indoctrination before that.
Outraged parents who formed grassroots pushback movements were stunned to discover huge batteries of political artillery were already pointed at their scrappy little bands. They realized they were belatedly joining a battle that was long in progress – nearly over, in fact.
Sexualizing children is important to the Left because it separates them from their parents. As we’ve finally been discovering, thanks to some courageous samizdat citizen reporting, sexual indoctrinators in schools almost invariably tell the kids NOT to talk with their parents.
That’s not just to prevent outraged parents from banding together and putting a stop to this offensive garbage. It’s psych warfare, deliberately alienating kids from parents, tradition, and community. Statist control is rebranded as a cool secret club kids are pressured to join.
Read the whole thing.