A Little Religion on Sunday

MICHAEL WALSH

ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Actually, It Is ‘Blah, Blah, Blah.’

ENVIRONMENTALISTS WANT TO MAKE THEIR RELIGION OFFICIAL: “Now I am actually all for this. Hear me out: if we start making Earth Day and the theology of this article officially recognized religious holidays, we can go to federal court to invalidate environmentalism as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. We can’t be mixing up church and state you know.”

The unhinged reality of modern environmentalism is, well, unhinged

DO TELL: Climate Activism Has A Cult Problem.

Global Warming Trend Is ‘Only One-Half of the Climate Model Simulations,’ Says New Paper

WE KNOW:  Dr Richard Lindzen exposes climate change as a politicised power play motivated by malice and profit.

Climate Change Alarmism Not Supported by the Facts

2017

a look back at the movies of five years ago.

Five Years Later: A Fresh Look at the Top 20 Films of 2017

I’ve seen all 20 on this list but my list isn’t THEIR list. Mine looks like this:

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Movie TitleRelease
Year
DirectorMPAA
Rating
Your
Ranking
13533What Happened to Monday Probably too high2017Tommy WirkolaNR168
797Dunkirk2017Christopher NolanPG13170
667Baby Driver2017Edgar WrightR193
3395Darkest Hour Just finished teaching this period. No regrets that it’s this high2017Joe WrightPG13263
857Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017James GunnPG13345
770Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017Martin McDonaghR413
1568It Oh, C’mon. You KNOW I’m right.2017Andy MuschiettiR549
1314John Wick: Chapter 2 same here.2017Chad StahelskiR552
1311Wind River maybe a tad too high but still belong in this 20.2017Taylor SheridanR554
2167Molly’s Game Poker AND Jessica Chastain??!2017Aaron SorkinR800
742Coco2017Adrian Molina, Lee UnkrichPG1065
399Logan2017James MangoldR1074
39218Marrowbone another that’s maybe too high2017Sergio G. SánchezNR1119
41111Terrified Nope. This one belongs here. Hasn’t been seen by enough people. Some GREAT frightening shots.2017Demián RugnaNR1410
33423Louis C.K. 2017 Deserves this spot. 2017Louis C.K.R1912
6252Murder on the Orient Express. Pretty, but. 2017Kenneth BranaghPG132113
9354Cars 3 Better than 2!2017Brian FeePG2121
491Thor: Ragnarok2017Taika WaititiPG132122
3586Happy Death Day interesting and well made. Too high?2017Christopher LandonPG132123
1088The Big Sick2017Michael ShowalterR2128

Some econ stuff … along with thome other “gov’t screws up” stuff.

California Senate approves first-of-its-kind ‘price gouging’ bill. Price gouging is not a thing. Or at least not the thing “they” THINK it is.

New York Democrats Are Proposing Tax on Netflix and Ubers Because They Have Destroyed The State

Dr. Bastiat: Much of the Left’s Control over Elections Doesn’t Involve Ballot Fraud

The Crusade Against ‘Malinformation’ Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths and The Media and Politicians Keep Trying To Censor Things That Turn Out To Be True

Police Traveled 500 Miles To Seize Girl’s Pet Goat for Slaughter. One of the last cases I handled was a DR ….WAS a dissolution until the husband shot the pet goat. Wife refused to sign docs. Converted to a contested divorce. She got a flat tire on the way to court. He got everything (of which there was not much.)

Our French Revolution › American Greatness. Want a reason to read it? “The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.”

Black People Less Likely

Not for the reasons leftists think: DON SURBER: DeSantis wants to bring back the 1950? Cool.

WELL, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE VIDEO GETS

OUT: Most believe government agents ‘provoked’ Capitol riot.

Happy end of April …. NFL draft right around the corner!

 

Because we just can’t say “Told ya so” often enough or loud enough

The Lab Leak Theory

For the last five years, the Pulitzer Prize has gone to people spreading actual misinformation

The COVID-19 Pandemic Permanently Damaged Property Rights

Former CDC Director Robert Redfield: ‘NIH Leadership Was Antithetical to Science’

Britain’s ‘Lockdown Files’ Reveal the Sordid Thinking Behind Pandemic Policy

DO TELL: Healthy adults don’t need to keep getting COVID-19 boosters, says WHO.

The Great COVID Rupture

and the worst of the bunch: Corporate Media Encourages COVID Slaves to ‘Forget Much of the Pandemic’

Been a little light lately

NO running stuff. Took over a class full time and it’s killing me.

Had a TPK in my D&D group so I’m tooling up for another run at that.

cleaned out my “blog about” folder … had stuff 45 days old in there. I don’t usually use anything over 30. So what did we miss? A buncha stuff about 1/6, disinformation and the lockdown. What’s next? Let’s start with something light. Someone had AI draw every president, “but they’re all cool and they all sport a mullet”

I WAS gonna address some of the woke stuff but that’s kinda like rasslin’ jello. So instead I’ll just drop these two little pearls: DEAR WOKESTERS, YOU NAMED YOURSELF and Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using)

throw in some education stuff: I saw this in play as far back as the 80’s: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION’S FAILURES: Law-School ‘Mismatch’ Is Worse Than We Thought. What are we trying to do/measure again? This is real: New York fixes its abysmal test scores by lowering proficiency standards in Math and English

Want a little Econ and Domestic politics? Which Countries Hold the Most U.S. Debt, and How Much Interest Are We Paying on It?

and I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

A short movie post

Have seen some decent stuff so far this year and hope it continues. Of course I’ve seen some dreck as well.

but the post that prompts THIS post is: The Top 20 Films of 2021, Readjusted

here’s MY list, still subject to adjustment

3803Nightmare Alley2021Guillermo del ToroR209
61656 – really? still this low??Dave Chappelle: The Closer2021Stan LathanNR210
3514Pig2021Michael SarnoskiR268
12055Red Notice2021Rawson Marshall ThurberPG13528
2816The Green Knight2021David LoweryR561
54653The Protégé2021Martin CampbellR1022
82723The God Committee2021Austin StarkNR2079
9943Fear Street Part One: 19942021Leigh JaniakR2083
12595Midnight Mass2021Mike FlanaganNR2085
80370Fear of Rain2021Castille LandonPG132100
4766Don’t Look Up2021Adam McKayR2132
1996Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings2021Destin Daniel CrettonPG132156
82020The Feast2021Lee Haven JonesNR3357
2305Licorice Pizza2021Paul Thomas AndersonR3426
5283The Black Phone2021Scott DerricksonR3554
74675The Vault2021Jaume BalagueróR3733
75439The Cursed2021Sean EllisR3868
85755The Manor2021Axelle CarolynNR3872
74550The Advent Calendar2021Patrick RidremontNR4160
84394The Scary of Sixty-First2021Dasha NekrasovaNR4225

A handful of worthy movies I have yet to see but a lot of THEIR list I really don’t care about.

Beginning to feel like spring

and AFD has passed …. so let’s revisit an old favorite

The Climate Scare Narrative Continues To Collapse

The Toxic Intersection Of Climate Alarmism And Communism

Meet the biggest religious fanatics in the country

Whatever doubts anyone would still have that environmentalism is a religion should be dispelled by the fact that the University of Helsinki just awarded an honorary doctorate in theology (!) to… yes, Saint Greta of the Great Mountain of Tuna

speaking of religions masquerading as ideologies — and trying to subvert established religions — Insty on his substack has thoughts on wokeism, religion, evolution, and liberty — and why the real litmus test of a free society should be whether it is

RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Energy Secretary Granholm Admits She Has A Gas Stove While Justifying Push To Regulate Appliances.

Testing IPCC Projections Against What Happened

Progressives have made science a religion not worth following

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: The cult of the climate apocalypse. Green campaigners are not ‘following the science’ – they are promoting a Biblical fantasy

THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE (NOR DO THEY CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS):  ‘Wind Power Fails on Every Count’: Oxford Scientist Explains the Math.

It’s NOT getting better

In which I turn this blog into continued sharing of regret that I took this FT gig. It IS spring break so I have a few days away fom THOSE kids, although I’ll be subbing elsewhere this week.

IT’S TERRIBLE FOR STUDENTS, TOO:  “Soft-on-Consequences Discipline in Terrible for Teachers.”  (And don’t let anybody give you any baloney about this issue.)

HOW THE LEFT DRIVES AWAY COMPETENT PEOPLE: National K-12 teacher shortage due to education colleges pushing ‘radical philosophy’, expert argues

There ARE options: Unschooling: 1

CHAOS:

I recently likened my students to the tic-tac-toe playing chicken in the Tropicana. They’ve been trained to recognize simple patterns and peck at a screen. Teens spent the pandemic in front of screens. And we wonder why they feel hopeless

Florida High School Student Beats Teacher Unconscious For Taking His Nintendo Switch

MORE EVIDENCE ON THE DUMBING DOWN OF PUBLIC EDUCATION: Nearly half of NYC DOE grads at CUNY need remedial classes

Antifragile children

Check out the surveillance footage from the school that said black students forced white students to pledge allegiance to BLM

THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION: Why 65 Percent of Fourth Graders Can’t Really Read.

JOANNE JACOBS: Learning math matters. Math scores are way down: The Education Recovery Scorecard

GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OR HOBBES’ STATE OF NATURE?

WELCOME TO AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS:

It’s that time of year again

Uncle Sugar confirming that he gets to keep what he took. And for those of you not paying attention, he’s getting ready to make – from EVERYBODY.

IRS Plans To Raid Workers’ Tip Jars. Yes, that means ride-share drivedrs too. I WAS gonna drive during spring break but income is steady and I picked up anough days that week to cover, so I won’t be back on the road until May or June.

5 promises Biden made in his State of the Union speech that should scare workers 2, 4 & 5 are the biggies, and as I approach 70 so is 3.

Defending Yourself While In Your Vehicle. Had a guy at a poker game a few years ago ask what I carried when driving. I said “First, Uber and Lyft don’t let you drive armed and second there’s only one way to find out and that wouldn’t be good for either of us.”

Biden Wants To Restrict Work and Flexibility for Freelancers And to say “Biden wants …” is really a misnomer. His handlers want.

The State are little laboratories of freedom. You go first: New York Floats a Crackdown on Independent Workers

The next Labor Secretary shouldn’t be an adversary of freelancers

They aren’t ALL daft: Ride-Share and Delivery Drivers Are Independent Contractors, Says Court

How about some more Covidiocy?

Haven’t mentioned any of this in DAYS …. but last w/e I had a discussion with an old friend who is also a health care professional and she wanted to play off the recent revelations. She denies that half the country demonized (wrongfully it turns out) the other half. Never happened. This is BEYOND infuriating. Still steamed, as obviated by the fact that I’m fixated on it a full busy week later.

Antifa claims responsibility for attack on far-left Portland bar in retaliation for them ‘spreading Covid’ by staying open.

HMM: 30% more young people dying from heart attacks…. with a new sweetner waiting in the wings to take the blame.

The media is now reporting on a study that shows prior infection is just as good as (or better than) the vax

DON SURBER: Foolish right-wingers: We were right about CFLs, gas stoves and covid….

America’s Lost Generation. “The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board comments on the hundreds of thousands of kids who seem to have disappeared, following the covid school shutdowns.”

See if you can spot how The New York Times has slightly shifted its coverage of COVID masking 🤔

WELL: New research reveals possible COVID vaccine blood clot connection….

SHADDUP – IT’S JUST A COINCIDENCE:  Birth Rates Plunge in Heavily Vaccinated Countries.

What kind of monsters would want to plunge human population like that? Don’t answer that. they’re proud of it.

They were wrong about everything, but will apologize for nothing

Lab Leak Theory Proves War On Information The Greatest Domestic Threat: Bobby Burack

Quote of the Day: A Reasoned Rant on the Pfizer Covid Jab