Nobody celebrates December 25th. Or December 31st. Or January 1st for that matter. So let’s call it what is is, not just some spot on the calendar.
Some memes (from LAST year) to help celebrate kicking the monarchy to the curb.
And for those looking for a fresh start: A Re-Declaration of Independence
A Re-Declaration of Independence
and I hope you enjoy your week.
Looking forward to heading back. I’ve had the incoming seniors since 8th grade. Might be pleasant. Already been asked to present one with his diploma! Not sure about the “building sub” thing. Haven’t been asked (formally) so my PLAN is to pick up days at HTHS as they become available. I’ll pick up BHS if available the night before. And if I have NOTHING at 6am I’ll drive down to HTHS and see what opens up (figure there’s about a 25% chance) and if nothing there I can pick up other schools as needed spur of the moment (OR take the day off OR drive a little.) Don’t WANNA miss days because that impacts my summer comfort level.
Of course it ain’t all gonna be beer and skittles.
PROF JENKINS: Leftists are wrong. Western culture is not white supremacy.
WATCH: Detroit students got suspended so they returned with a thug who mag dumped a pistol in a bus loading zone full of students Ohio has a program for CC in schools. Thinking about pursuing.
AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE A NATIONAL DISGRACE, AND THEY CAN’T BE REFORMED. Ergo, the only meaningful solution is #JustWalkAway: Even with 5 extra years of education, a quarter of 12th grade students would still remain undereducated at graduation
Some GOOD news: The Phonics Resurgence
and some not: Schools Have No Constitutional Obligation to Try to Keep Students from Having Sex in the Parking Lot
And speaking of driving: A SENSIBLE RESPONSE TO A CRAZY CITY GOVERNMENT: Metro Atlanta rideshare company will let you hire an armed driver.
GOOD: Armed Woman Stops Uber Eats Driver’s Home Invasion Attempt.
Remembering When The New York Times Reported East Coast Beaches Would Be Gone by 2020
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Researchers sound alarm over ‘unprecedented ice-free’ threat to Arctic. “The peer-reviewed findings on the effects of human-caused climate change in the region, published in Nature Communications, suggest the first ice-free summer could be in the 2030s. That’s a decade sooner than previously projected.”
Um… not really: Scientists predict seasonal ice-free Arctic by 2015.
MEDIA BLAMES ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ FOR CANADIAN WILDFIRES DESPITE ARREST OF MULTIPLE ARSONISTS.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 36 Climate Models Overestimated Warming in U.S. Corn Belt.
But just because they’ve been wrong about THAT doesn’t mean they won’t get everything ELSE right.
Springer to Retract a Key Paper in Response to Activist Demands
New study shows that a large percentage of people who identify as LGBT end up switching to heterosexual in just a few years time. I’ve seen this for myself.
PLENTY OF DOWNSIDES, THOUGH: Dem Expert Witness Couldn’t Cite Evidence of Benefits of Trans Procedures for Children.
How the ‘conspiracy theorists’ overthrew the ‘experts’ on COVID’s origins
and finally, on a positive note: You always knew it to be true, but new scientific research says conservatives are more physically attractive than progressives
THEY LIED. MOST OF THEM KNEW THEY WERE LYING. NO AMNESTY: Over 300 COVID-Era Medical Papers Retracted due to Scientific Errors, Ethics Concerns. Do I need to mention that they all ran the same way?
Mine wasn’t that good in the Before Times! I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Dutch Survey Data Shows Significant Increase In Memory And Concentration Problems Among Adults Since Start Of Covid-19 Pandemic.
‘Lockdowns were a costly failure’: New meta analysis
LOSS OF TRUST: Most US adults are declining COVID boosters as CDC warns of health risks: ‘Relatively little protection.’
AS FORETOLD IN THE PROPHECIES: Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many COVID-19 Deaths.
Mad Gerald: “COVID Shots Are Still One Giant Experiment”
It’s not just the death and destruction. ‘The Great Grift’: New AP investigation reveals stunning scope of COVID fraud. We’re talking half – a – TRILLION – dollars.
Good question. Sadly, the answer is “we don’t.” How Do We Get Back The Lockdown Time Stolen From Us?
There will be more counts than this: KAROL MARKOWICZ: Impeach Becerra for saying masking 2-year-olds was fine.
Sadly Judge Robert Jackson isn’t available. NEW NUREMBERG TRIALS NOW: ‘Experts’ Are Now Beginning to Express Regrets over Fauci’s Dreadful Handling of Covid.
On the lighter (?) side – I am SO going to steal this! Comedian hilariously describes what it was like to be ostracized for questioning Big Pharma during Covid
Let the lawsuits begin – not against the Pharma companies – but those that ENABLED them: Professional Basketball Player Dies Of Heart Attack, Previously Blamed COVID Vaccine For Myocarditis
And we’ll end todays installment here
David Friedman’s blogpost More on Politics makes quite a few interesting points including this suggestion for an improved Representative Democracy: Each voter has a vote that he can assign to a representative of his choice. A representative with at least 300,000 votes can occupy a seat in congress, representatives with fewer can group up to qualify for a shared seat, details determined by mutual agreement. Each representative casts the number of votes assigned to him. Voters can change the assignment of their votes at any time
I’ve ruminated on it a bit and need to spend some more time on it but this is a good direction IMHO.
Arnold Kling’s ideological triangle as a “ternary phase diagram” of politics. I reread Kling’s book every 2-3 years and recommend it to students looking to find their way.
This stuff bothers me and it’s either too late or I don’t have the resolve to reverse it: Susan Quinn: From Tribes to Tribalism
MYTH: Democratic Florida Mayor Charged With Voter Fraud. and then THAT SEEMS FAIR: DeSantis Suspends Mayor From Office Who Was Arrested For Alleged Voter Fraud.
THE SECURITY STATE TURNS INWARD: “These are intelligence agencies rigging domestic elections just as they have done in so many foreign countries.”
I always used to say I’d rather have the flu than a cold ’cause they can TREAT the flu. Making The Problem Bigger
I THOUGHT ONLY EXTREMISTS BELIEVED THERE WAS CHEATING: Voters see ‘cheating’ everywhere, 54% expect it in 2024 election. Maybe demanding that nobody talk about cheating wasn’t the most persuasive response.
For starters: what are “we” celebrating? Really? I mean who celebrates the LAST person to learn something? Rosebud was the sled. Let’s have a national holiday.
Nor is it “the day slavery ended.” There are more slaves on the planet to day than there were on this date in 1865. Today, according to the World Population Review, there are more than 10 times as many slaves as were enslaved by Americans at the start of the War of Northern Aggression around the world and they encompass multiple ethnicities:
“Slavery is a system in which principles of property law are applied to people, enabling individuals to own, buy, and sell other individuals—designated “slaves”—as a form of property. Slaves are unable to withdraw from this arrangement and are typically forced to work for little to no pay. Slavery has played a role in the history of nearly every country on Earth and remains a massive problem in many places around the globe.
“Today, 167 countries still have some form of modern slavery, which affects an estimated 46 million people worldwide. Modern slavery can be difficult to detect and recognize in many cases. This is because slavery has moved underground in most countries and because the definition of slavery has expanded and evolved over the past several decades.”
How about the ending of slavery in the US?
Nope. Misses the mark on that one too. As the London Daily Mail notes, the last slaves were not legally freed until “six months later,” when “the 13th Amendment fully prohibited the owning of slaves, spurring states such as Kentucky and (Joe Biden’s) Delaware – where it had still been legal – to cease the practice.” Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation only declared slaves free if they were held in areas that had been controlled by Confederate rebels, not in slave states that remained loyal to the union, such as Delaware and Kentucky. Slaves in those two states were not freed until ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865.
Strike two.
Is it a good, positive day worthy of celebration. Damned skippy! Juneteenth isn’t ‘woke.’ It’s as American as apple pie
But rather than celebrate the reality some celebrate the cheese: Meaningless Political Speech and Juneteenth
And then there’s this: AUTHENTIC AMERICAN BLACKNESS
enjoy the day your way.
Well, OK. I COULD. But I won’t So since this is a high holy month let’s turn to religion.
oh. And I’m wondering when the other SIX deadly sins get THEIR month.
HOW OUR COLLEGE LEADERS “CULL THE HERD.” DEI is a religion, except there’s no Golden Rule and anyone can be part of the Inquisition.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Don’t be fooled, ‘Green Energy’ is neither green nor energy.
Always nice to welcome someone new to the congregation. Environmental Religion
And if you wondered where I got the lead-in: it was this flag desecration article: Official State Religion Enters High Holy Days
MICHAEL WALSH: Waiting for GODot.
YOU SEE, WE’RE DEALING WITH A CULT. THEIR REVEALED TRUTH CANNOT BE ARGUED WITH: The death of debate.
I’m tired today.
DOZEN TRICKS PRESSTITUTES MISSED: The Lid’s Wes Walker compiles the list of Biden scandals the mainstream media absolutely refuses to cover in anything approaching the seriousness and accuracy they merit.
Clip and save: ICYMI: https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1658273949703196673
YES, AND SICKENING TOO: Is DEI Training Unconstitutional?
FDA Bans Farmers from Caring for Their Own Animals Without Costly Vet Approval. BOTH of my grandfathers are spinning in the grave.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
U.S. Government Now Confiscating Private Legal Fund Donations to Jan. 6 Defendants.
Political Ignorance and Misinformation on the Left
KRUISER: Pride Shouldn’t Be the Only Deadly Sin With Its Own Month.
When Sterilization Was Dogma: Why the Eugenics Movement is Relevant Today
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
And so we have the leftist approach to “science”.
Professor says ‘junk citations’ have created ‘distrust’ in academic research.
Biden Administration Ignores the Science to Push Bans on Traditional Ammunition.
Peer-reviewed study says left-wing extremism is linked to “high narcissistic and psychopathic traits,” where people use activism to “satisfy their own ego-focused needs” Oh look, it’s only what everyone with common sense has been saying for YEARS.
Mask Mandates And COVID Lockdowns Were Useless, New Study Confirms
MICHAEL P. SENGER: Thread – The Great COVID Ventilator Death Cover-up. “ Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way.”
Memory-Holing of COVID False Narratives Picks Up Steam. “Tyrannical garden gnome and alleged physician Anthony Fauci repeatedly insists that he didn’t want anything shut down. Randi Weingarten — the most evil woman in America — swears that she and the cauldron-stirring teachers’ union she runs never tried to keep schools closed.”
Clip and save: MISINFORMATION: https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1661386847530909698
CHANGE: https://twitter.com/wretchardthecat/status/1663310482651095041
BDB: Hard To Overstate How Bad Birx Was
CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT: The medical field is erasing its own COVID-era history.
I’ve gpt mre but soon it’s gonna rain and I need to drag this old bloated meat-sack through the neighborhood.
Checking the Fridge for Leftovers 