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Archive for 2023
July 29, 2023
JUST BEWARE OF MUTANT 59 WHILE YOU DO THE ENGINEERING: Scientists say microbes can be engineered to create renewable plastics.
ANY TIME YOU ASK ABOUT UKRAINE AND MONEY, DEMOCRATS GO BONKERS:
What’s incredible here is that Bernie Sanders once championed the exact same style audit of Afghan war money as an example of what to do for all of DoD, Elizabeth Warren championed the same style IG for bank bailouts. Now both oppose a special audit of Ukraine money? https://t.co/BsXxogAM87
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) July 28, 2023
Related:
Now that we know the Bidens took $10M+ in bribes from Ukraine do you understand why President Trump was impeached for a single phone call to Zelensky asking about Biden’s financial dealings?
Nancy launched impeachment proceedings the next week and came up with the reason later…
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 24, 2023
“DIVERSITY” FIRST: Biden Overrides Defense Secretary Recommendation for Navy Chief of Operations, Appoints Woman To Achieve “A First.” “Biden passes over Pacific Fleet Commander, a white man but with current expertise confronting the China threat, to lead the U.S. Navy, in favor of a woman currently serving in the Pentagon.”
To be fair, Biden doesn’t want to confront the China threat. They’ve been generous friends to him.
SOME OF THE TREATMENTS PUSHED WIDELY TODAY ARE NO BETTER: Mummy Powder And Fart Sniffing: The Weirdest Medical Treatments We Once Relied On.
LEFTISM RUINS EVERYTHING, WHICH IS ITS GOAL: How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate: New rhetorical tactics are creating a generation of nihilists.
The ultimate goal of leftism is to make the world as ugly and dysfunctional as leftists themselves are.
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Internalized Misogyny: Girl Pretends Her Successful Lawyer Barbie Is A Mommy. “We grew concerned when Tabitha turned Barbie’s genuine Mark Cross leather briefcase into a changing table for Barbie’s baby nursery. . . . More abhorrent, she stuffed Barbie’s camel hair overcoat into the charcoal, pinstriped business suit to make her look…ugh, pregnant!”
CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Anchorage mayor proposes sending homeless people to Los Angeles this winter.
People experiencing homelessness in Anchorage, Alaska, may be sent to Los Angeles and other U.S. cities with warmer climates this winter amid a shortage of shelters.
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson told reporters during a news conference this week that plane tickets would be purchased for unhoused people to be sent to cities where they have families who can care for them or where the climate is warmer.
“Last year was the most deadly year in history for people who were homeless, and now this coming year with this winter, we’re looking at possibly doubling that,” he said, noting that winters are extremely cold in Anchorage. “I have a moral imperative here and that is to save lives, and if that means giving them a few hundred dollars for an airline ticket to go where they want to go, I’m going to do that.”
No funding has been approved yet for the relocation program, which also operated last year, but Bronson didn’t anticipate any problems locating the funds. He said about 11 people took the offers last year.
“I think a ticket this morning to Los Angeles is 286 bucks, it cost us $100 plus or minus a few dollars every day to house someone, and we don’t have a place to put them in a large shelter this winter,” he said. “And remember, the objective, and it’s sad that we had to get to this, but we’re here to save lives, that’s my job.”
Hey, the mayor has said that “Los Angeles is and should remain a Sanctuary City and the LAPD should not be burdened with the federal government’s responsibility to enforce immigration law,” so I’m sure that any new homeless arrivals would be entirely welcome.
IN PRAISE OF PARKING LOTS.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Family Torn Between Placing Grandpa In Hospice And Having Him Run For Senate.
READER FAVORITE: Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet. #CommissionEarned
WELL, BUYING A FIRST-RATE CARRY GUN FOR EVERY LAW-ABIDING ADULT ISN’T CHEAP: Kos: The Solution to ‘Gun Violence’, Like Any Problem, is More Money. Wait, what?
BOOK REVIEW: How Complete is the New Home Studio Recording: The Complete Guide?
My review of the how-to book co-written by YouTube stalwart Warren Huart (Produce Like a Pro), over at EdDriscoll.com.
THE GOAL IS TO ELIMINATE PERMISSIONLESS EVERYTHING: Say Goodbye to Permissionless Travel.
OUT ON A LIMB: Congress is too old. New video from Reason TV:
WELL, GOOD: Researchers identify a potential therapeutic target against cirrhosis and liver inflammation. “In mice in which RNF41 protein function could be restored, results have shown enhanced elimination of fibrosis, reduced liver inflammation and increased liver regeneration.”
We’ll name it the Stephen Green Protein. Which also rhymes.
I HAVE QUESTIONS: Mysterious Chinese COVID Lab Uncovered In City Of Reedley CA.
City of Reedley officials called in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FBI, the State Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the State Department of Health, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH).
“Reedley officials and personnel from CDPH and FCDPH executed a warrant on March 16 to inspect the warehouse at 850 I Street,” MidValley Times reported. “According to a declaration from Humero Prado, Assistant Director of Fresno County Public Health, which was filed in superior court, investigators discovered that one room of the warehouse was used to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy tests. In other rooms, investigators found blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples. They also found thousands of vials that contained unlabeled fluids.”
And they found 900 genetically engineered mice, engineered to catch and carry COVID-19, living in “inhumane” conditions. 773 of the mice had to be euthanized, and officials found another 178 mice already dead.
Related: CDC detects coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes at unlicensed California lab.
LOST IN TRANSLATION: Springtime for AI.
A look at an inadvertently hilarious WWII documentary, 0ver at Ed Driscoll.com.
TOP SCIENTISTS WARN: SEA GODS ANGRY. Democrats Take A Page From Primitive Tribal Shaman, Blaming Their Enemies For The Weather.
One of the articles that Hillary Clinton cites in her tweet was published in Forbes. The piece reported:
“July 4th was Earth’s Hottest Day in Over 100,000 Years…”
That’s quite a claim, since we’ve only been able to track temperatures for the past 140 years. According to NASA:
“There are too few data before 1880 for scientists to estimate average temperatures for the entire planet.”
Even for the past 140 years, it seems highly dubious to assume that the records are accurate enough to confidently declare that we experienced the hottest day in a century and a half this month. Does anyone think we actually have a precisely accurate idea of what the temperature was everywhere on the planet on, say, August 11th, 1893? How much less do we know what the global temperature was on August 11th, 1893 BC? So suffice it to say, the Forbes piece isn’t particularly strong evidence to support the idea that Trump voters are somehow making it hot during the summer.
Let’s take stock of what’s happening here. This is the kind of thing we often laugh about and then move on from, but we should really spend some time thinking about it. One of the most prominent Democrats in the country, a former Secretary of State and presidential candidate, just sincerely blamed her political opponents for making it hot outside. And she did it on the basis of no evidence whatsoever — in fact, she lied about what little evidence she did present.
On some level we’re used to the climate change hysteria, and constant claims that the world is ending. But what makes this so especially insane is that she’s claiming that not only does human activity change the weather, but that a relatively small group of humans can bring about substantial changes in the weather in the span of just a few years. This isn’t just “human activity has caused global temperatures to rise by 2 degrees in 150 years” or whatever. This is “we’re having a devastating heatwave because of what my political opponents did last Tuesday.”
We’re in full-on primitive superstition territory here. Blaming your enemies for a heat wave is the kind of thing you expect to hear from a tribal chieftain in a loin cloth in the Amazon somewhere. Though I think even most of them are too advanced at this point to believe in that sort of thing.
I’m pretty sure that Ayn Rand didn’t write The Return of the Primitive as a how to guide.
Related: Glenn on Our caveman politics.
(Classical reference in headline.)
IT’S SHOWING UP EVERYWHERE! Diabetes drug Metformin may help seniors recover from injury, illness.