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Archive for 2023
October 2, 2023
CHUTZPAH: A Ukrainian soldier called up Russian tech support when his captured Russian tank wouldn’t start. “The person on the other end of the phone appeared to be unaware that he was speaking with a Ukrainian soldier. He assured Kochevnik that he would raise Kochevnik’s issues with the design bureau and the engine manufacturer, Forbes reported.”
LIGHTNING DEAL: German Stainless Steel Knives Block Set with Built-in Sharpener. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)
YES, WHITE SUPREMACY IS EVERYWHERE: Jim Treacher: The REAL Fire Alarm Is White Supremacy: You’re a racist for noticing a black man caught on camera committing a federal crime.
Plus, never-before-released crime scene imagery:
THE COLLAPSE OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS: “The bloggers are the Data Colada bloggers, who have been checking the evidence and finding problems. Why was Kahneman so credulous in the first place? He seems to be admitting that he wanted to believe cool stuff, so he just did.”
THIS IS ENTIRELY RATIONAL IF YOU EXPECT RUNAWAY INFLATION: Americans Are Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow: Concerts, trips and designer handbags are taking priority over saving for a home or rainy day. “I might as well just enjoy what I have now.”
WHEN THIS IS THE ADVICE YOU’RE GETTING FROM A DEMOCRAT ON MSNBC…: Biden should stop focusing on the economy.
WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN: The Covid Cover-up. James Meigs provides excellent summary of the lies and corruption of the public-health and scientific establishments.
FOR A GUY WHO ISN’T RUNNING, HE’S SURE MAKING A SHOW OF MOVING TO THE CENTER: Gov. Newsom Vetoes Bill Allowing Workers to Collect Unemployment While on Strike.
DON’T BE EVIL: DOJ finally posted that ’embarrassing’ court doc Google wanted to hide. “The document in question contains meeting notes that Google’s vice president for finance, Michael Roszak, ‘created for a course on communications,’ Bloomberg reported. In his notes, Roszak wrote that Google’s search advertising ‘is one of the world’s greatest business models ever created’ with economics that only certain ‘illicit businesses’ selling ‘cigarettes or drugs’ ‘could rival.'”
ANTISEMITISM AT RICE: Rice U. LGBTQ club cuts ties with Jewish group over its ‘invalidation of Palestinian experience.’
Response: “Look forward to Pride’s upcoming tour to Gaza, where its members will undoubtedly feel comfortable and safe.”
More seriously, this is yet another example of "Jews Don't Count." Rice PRIDE cuts ties to Hillel to make "Arab and Palestinian students feel safe." And Jewish students at Rice, knowing that the umbrella Jewish group on campus is being boycotted? Don't count. https://t.co/sA3drcS9VG
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) September 28, 2023
YOU DON’T SAY: Biden admin quietly released study showing green energy receives far more subsidies than fossil fuels.
The report — authored by the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) and published in August — represents the first of its kind since 2018. The EIA analyzed data from 2016 through 2022, and determined that, during that time period, the federal government doled out $183.3 billion in direct and mainly indirect taxpayer subsidies, more than half of which came over the last three years.
“For years Democrats have claimed technologies like solar energy are cheaper than coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear. This report makes clear that solar is largely dependent on heavy subsidies with taxpayer dollars,” Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital.
It might be more expensive and less reliable but at least solar provides endless opportunities for grift.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ‘Mommy, the Republicans Are Fighting Again!’ “Grand Old Party. Grand Old Hot Mess. The fun never ends.”
IT’S HARD TO FOLLOW THE SCIENCE WHEN THE SCIENCE FOLLOWS THE PARTY LINE: How ‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science: Especially in climate and Covid research, abuse of peer review and self-censorship abound.
Scientists were aghast last month when Patrick Brown, climate director at the Breakthrough Institute in Berkeley, Calif., acknowledged that he’d censored one of his studies to increase his odds of getting published. Credit to him for being honest about something his peers also do but are loath to admit.
In an essay for the Free Press, Mr. Brown explained that he omitted “key aspects other than climate change” from a paper on California wildfires because such details would “dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.” Editors of scientific journals, he wrote, “have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives.”
Nature’s editor, Magdalena Skipper, denied that the journal has “a preferred narrative.” No doubt the editors at the New York Times and ProPublica would say the same of their own pages.
Mr. Brown’s criticisms aren’t new. In 2005 Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis wrote an essay titled “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” He contended that scientists “may be prejudiced purely because of their belief in a scientific theory or commitment to their own findings.” . . .
Journals often don’t compensate peer reviewers, which can result in perfunctory work. The bigger problem is that reviewers often disregard a study’s flaws when its conclusions reinforce their own biases. One result is that “a large share of what is published may not be replicable or is obviously false,” Dr. Ioannidis notes. “Even outright fraud may be becoming more common.” . . .
Scientific journals and preprint servers aren’t selective about research quality. They’re selective about the conclusions. If experts want to know why so many Americans don’t trust “science,” they have their answer. Too many scientists no longer care about science.
Every successful system accumulates parasite. American science has been successful for a long time, but now its parasite load has become unhealthy.
CHANGE: Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications. The regulations also require transgender minors to undergo at least 40 hours of ‘gender-identity-focused’ therapy that are ‘clinically neutral’ before receiving any medical treatments meant to affirm their gender identities. A new law that took effect Sunday bans gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth under 19 and also required the state’s chief medical officer to spell out when and how those youth can receive other care.
AMONG OTHER THINGS: White House Report Card: Biden-Blinken ‘dumbing down’ US diplomacy. “It was another one of those weeks. President Joe Biden repeated some old and false stories, Secretary of State Antony Blinken played the guitar, and nobody cared much about anything the Biden crew did.”
LOL: Donald Trump was right: The mayor of America’s Sanctuary City just said no mas to illegals.
Don Surber: “Bwahaha.”
HMM: Gavin Newsom fulfills his promise and names a black woman — Laphonza Butler — to replace Dianne Feinstein. “Newsom didn’t pick Barbara Lee, who is a black woman and who is running to win that Senate seat in the 2024 election. He’d said he didn’t want to have an impact on that race. Presumably, Laphonza Butler is committed to completing Feinstein’s term and not attempting reelection. Lee is behind in the polls, so by declining to boost Lee, Newsom helped Adam Schiff, who’s been leading. But Newsom’s spokesman denied that the Butler was bound not to enter the 2024 Senate race. Maybe Lee should support Butler. We’re told Butler has been “a prolific fund-raiser at Emily’s List.” The NYT article also informs us that Laphonza Butler is a lesbian and that her background, unlike Feinstein’s, was not privileged.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Chicago Armed Robbers on an Extraordinary Rampage: ‘Everyone Is so Freaked Out.’
A FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD: WATCH: ‘I’m Crazy About My Grandkids,’ Says President Who Denied Granddaughter’s Existence.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul rants the border is ‘too open’ and demands a ‘limit on who can come across.’
New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul ranted about failing immigration policies saying the southern border is ‘too open’ and demanded a limit on how many people can stream over into the US.
During a Sunday appearance on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation,’ Hochul said she feels the country’s border is currently too much of a free-for-all.
A record 260,000 migrants flooded across the border last month alone, causing chaos not only in border states that are ill-equipped to stomach such massive population influxes but in sanctuary states like New York.
‘We want [Congress] to have a limit on who can come across the border,’ said Hochul.
Congress does have limits, Governor. Talk to your man in the White House about enforcing them.
THEY HAVE A LOT TO LEARN: What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders About Reaching Young Men. “Young men today often feel as if their needs are secondary to those of their female peers. … By contrast, online men’s influencers seek to help men themselves, to show them how to improve as people and achieve their own goals. . . . Online influencers challenge men to work harder and get better. Former Navy SEAL Jocko Willink encourages his followers to get up at 4:30 a.m. to work out. But they also give practical advice and true if sometimes politically incorrect facts, such as those about the opposite sex.”