IS ANYONE SURPRISED?: “Racially Sensitive “Restorative” School Discipline Isn’t Behaving Very Well.”
Archive for 2022
February 5, 2022
READING THE NEW YORK TIMES DOESN’T HELP: NYT: Suburban women stuck in “politics of gloom” ahead of midterms. “Well, who isn’t? Inflation has hit a 40-year high, we’re edging up to another wage-price spiral, another war is brewing in eastern Europe, and we’re entering Year 3 of pandemic life. Anyone not perceiving political and cultural gloom at this moment might need their head examined. Even so, the second successive focus-group test covered by the New York Times shows the risks for Democrats in perhaps one of the most significant demographics. Suburban women may not dislike Joe Biden, but they are very unimpressed by his handling of the presidency.” Well, with reason. Plus: “Despite claims from Biden that he’d “outperformed” expectations in his first year, those voters unanimously had an entirely different assessment. And they’re also rejecting the January 6 argument just as completely.”
Flashback: Democrats’ war on suburban women includes inflation-fueling reckless spending.
RNC MOVES TO CENSURE LIZ CHENEY AND FUND HER PRIMARY OPPONENT: “That message is that we must all hang together or each hang separately. Cheney and Kinzinger believed that their individual consciences were more important to them than the party. Now the party is showing them what they think about their consciences.”
Our institutions are run by monsters.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: And just like that, liberals hated mountain lions.
The Mountain Lion Foundation sides with the urbanizers, tweeting, “While Woodside abuts and contains mountain lion habitat, a blanket prohibition against adding an additional unit on an already developed parcel anywhere in the town is neither required by the California Endangered Species Act, nor contributing to the protection of mountain lions.”
That tells me the Mountain Lion Foundation is not about mountain lions at all.
Matt Haney, one of the San Francisco Supervisors, tweeted, “The entire wealthy suburb of Woodside is claiming to be a protected mountain lion habitat to skirt state law allowing fourplexes. What shameless ridiculousness.”
Haney’s San Francisco allows people to poop in the street. Woodside doesn’t want that. I hope some Trump-appointed federal judge allows Woodside to stop this urbanization of a habitat for billionaires.
Read the whole thing.
Related: Feral hogs — they’re not just for Texas anymore! The Rampaging Pigs of the San Francisco Bay Area. A proposed California law would make it easier to hunt feral swine, the voracious “super invaders” that are the bane of some East Bay suburbs.
THE GASLIGHTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: White House casts COVID-19 lockdowns as a Trump-era relic.
When asked about a new study suggesting that the negative effects of lockdowns far outweigh any positives, White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded that most of America’s lockdowns occurred during the Trump administration.
The study is a Johns Hopkins meta analysis of lockdowns that found that they are not an effective way of reducing mortality during a pandemic but do cause tremendous societal harm.
“[The study] suggests that lockdowns shouldn’t be a part of a future pandemic response,” a reporter asked Psaki on Friday. “Is that the shared view of the administration?”
Lockdowns were never part of the Biden administration’s plan for combating COVID-19, Psaki responded.
“Most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous president,” she said. “What our objective has been is conveying that we have the tools we need to keep our country open.”
Psaki did not answer directly when asked if she agreed lockdowns caused more harm than good but reiterated that President Joe Biden is not promoting them.
He was as recently as December: With Scant Information on Omicron, Biden Turned to Travel Ban to Buy Time.
And then there was this classic moment last March: Biden Mocks Texas And Mississippi For Reopening, Dropping Mask Mandates: ‘Neanderthal Thinking.’
As Glenn wrote in the New York Post at the end of last year: We must make public health authorities accountable for their COVID lies.
Early on, public health officials minimized COVID’s dangers, with Anthony Fauci telling people that it was safe to go on cruises. Maybe that was just a mistake. But then Fauci told people not to wear masks because they didn’t help, changing his position within a couple of weeks to become stringently pro-mask. The earlier statement, it turned out, wasn’t based on his scientific opinion but on a desire to reserve masks for health-care workers — a worthy goal, but that doesn’t justify the lying.
Public health officials then pushed lockdowns to the max, telling everyone to stay in their homes and not to gather in even small groups, but after George Floyd’s death they suddenly announced an exception: It was fine to gather in huge groups if you were protesting on behalf of Black Lives Matter.
Racism, they told us, was a “public health” problem, too. That’s doubtful in itself — racism is a behavior, not a disease — but if the threat of COVID was serious enough to shut down the economy and the schools, then that wasn’t the best time to be gathering in groups. After all, sexually transmitted diseases are a public-health problem, but they weren’t issuing quarantine exceptions for people to protest those.
As lefty journalist Glenn Greenwald recently observed, “This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic’s history: For four months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave — even to go to a deserted beach — are reckless sociopaths. It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked.”
This is what I mean by lies and political manipulation. People noticed, and the public health establishment’s credibility — already damaged by the mask reversal — collapsed.
Peppermint Psaki does get bonus points for chutzpah considering how locked down Biden himself was in 2020: Biden won White House with ‘put your dumb uncle in the basement’ strategy, new book says.
Additionally, as the Daily Wire noted yesterday, “While on the campaign trail in September 2020, then-candidate Biden also stated that he would be in favor of ‘shutting down’ the country if that’s what his medical team advised: ‘I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,’ Biden told ABC’s David Muir in a joint interview with his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, to air Sunday. ‘We’re going to do whatever it takes to save lives.’”
THIS IS THE ‘SCIENCE’ WE’RE TO FOLLOW? Federal officials spent $2.5 million injecting Beagle puppies with cocaine … Somebody needs to go to jail.
#RESIST: From Albuquerque.
And a variation seen in L.A.:
February 4, 2022
SEE, THEY’RE NOT ACTUALLY A “BLACK CAUCUS,” THEY’RE A “DEMOCRATS’ TOOLS CAUCUS.” Black legislators caucus in VA House of Delegates refuses to admit black Republican A.C. Cordoza.
IMPORTANT NEWS: If You Wish To Be A Writer, Have Sex With Someone Who Works In Publishing. I hear it can also get you promotions at CNN.
SARAH HOYT: This is the alarm bell.
OPEN THREAD: You keep talkin’ that, we’ll see.
1972: IN 50 YEARS, WE’LL HAVE FLYING CARS!
2022: Scientists Find Putting Pantyhose on Your Head Makes Your Mask Safer.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter takes amazing video selfie for lunar New Year.
SPORTS FROM A LAND OF SLAVERY AND GENOCIDE NOT SELLING AS WELL AS HOPED: NBC flops in primetime to open Winter Games.
THEY SAID, “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!” AND KILLED HIM. A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy.
Okay, not actually, but only because it wasn’t 2022 yet.
THE MORAL AUTHORITY OF OUR RULERS:
Related:
Day 1 of the Winter Olympics and the CCP has already physically pulled a Dutch reporter off air.
Where are the woke NBA, Nike, and Hollywood China apologists? pic.twitter.com/QXw4Yu3AJo
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) February 4, 2022
UPDATE: America’s Paper of Record: Pelosi Condemns Jesse Owens For Criticizing The Nazis At Berlin Olympics.
BEN RHODES SMILES: Breaking: Biden Lifts Sanctions On Iran’s Nuclear Program.
SCIENCE: NC Commission for Public Health taps brakes on 17-year-old COVID vaccination request.
A body with the ability to alter immunization requirements has tapped the brakes on adding COVID-19 vaccination requirements for students 17 and up.
The N.C. Commission for Public Health (NCCPH) is the only other body in the state besides the legislature which can alter immunization requirements for K-12 public school students. The NCCPH is housed within the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. (NCDHHS).
The NCCPH voted unanimously to deny the petition. The motion made included directions for the commission’s staff and legal counsel to draft a letter of denial which will be circulated to the other members before being sent.
Prior to the vote, members Dr. Gene Minton and Dr. Michael Riccobene both voiced support for denying the petition.
“I think that based on the fact there is an especially high incidence of adverse effects in children and adolescents – particularly myocarditis and those type things – that we would really be making a not wise choice to require the least affected population of this country, which would be students… adolescents and children…to have the most stringent requirement,” Minton said.
Minton added he is a strong proponent of vaccinations for those who need it and restated that they should not be requiring it of those who least need it. He also noted there are no long-term studies on the adverse effects of the vaccines on kids.
“I am a 52-year-old with hypertension and high cholesterol and I am a frontline healthcare worker and I have chosen to be vaccinated and boosted and I believe I have acquired natural immunity,” said Riccobene. “I am a proponent of people in high-risk categories to being vaccinated, however, I do strongly believe in people’s personal freedoms.”
Riccobene continued, “I have chosen not to vaccinate my children. I think every parent and adult should have the right to choose whether or not they receive the COVID vaccine. I do not think it is in the best interest of the public to take away that right.”
Dr. Doug Sheets remarked that he had contacted the medical society and said that “the feeling” of their board of directors was they “could not currently support any COVID vaccine mandate for minors.”
That sounds sensible and cautious.
AS LONG AS IT’S NOT ICE 9: Direct evidence emerges for the existence of two forms of liquid water.
Thirty years ago, a team working at Boston University made the dramatic suggestion that there are not one but two forms of liquid water, which can interconvert at high pressure well below water’s normal freezing point.1 Researchers have been searching for this putative liquid–liquid phase transition ever since, and evidence has slowly accumulated that it really exists. New experiments now supply what seems to be a direct observation of such a transformation between liquid states of different density – not in pure water but in solutions of the sugar trehalose.2 Understanding how such supercold solutions behave could have implications for biology and cryopreservation – where damage to biological tissues by ice crystals must be avoided – as well as for the water-rich states that might exist in the atmospheres of gas giants.
Liquids are structurally disordered, so it’s not immediately obvious how they can support two distinct structures with different densities. But that does seem to be possible for liquids in which some degree of directional bonding, such as hydrogen bonds between adjacent water molecules, makes distinct local structures possible.
Fascinating.