A week away from the wearin’ of the green

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so let’s look at some other greens. My FAVORITE law is the law of unintended consequences.

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH REUSABLE BAGS: California’s plastic bag ban backfires after customers just start dumping thicker and heavier 10 cent ‘reusable’ carriers instead, triggering more pollution than ever.

I WAS RELIABLY INFORMED THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED:  New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap in Our Understanding’.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Global warming found to increase the diversity of active soil bacteria.

IT’S GREEN LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Plastic makers lied about recycling for decades. What do we do next?

try to enjoy your week and PLEASE be careful next w/e. It’s not YOU I’m worried about, it’s the idiots.

Just over two months to go in the school year

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But apparently it’s NEVER too latre to beat the crap out of a substitute teacher. NOT RIGHT:  Elderly Indianapolis teacher, 74, left with horrific injuries after being beaten by 6ft 280lb ‘man child’ student in the classroom as cops refused to arrest him

related: LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: School Committee members explain why they want National Guard’s help at Brockton High.

Literacy or Loyalty?

CONSEQUENCES MATTER: ANALYSIS: Eliminating failing grades incentivizes laziness.

CHRONICALLY ABSENT STUDENTS NEED AN ALTERNATIVE

JOANNE JACOBS: Why Joe College can’t read.

for some reason I think this might belong here too: MARK JUDGE: The Left and ‘the fury of the fatherless.’

Same church, different pew: IS HE WRONG? Schools as ‘Epstein Islands’: Former history teacher goes scorched earth against ‘indoctrination’

Is it me or do these hits just keep coming?

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OH: Mainstream science mulls ‘global moratorium’ on COVID vaccines as cancers rise, boosters flub.

UH UH:  Limited Hangout?:  Moderna Scientists Acknowledge Lipid Nanoparticles in mRNA Shots Present ‘Toxicity Concerns’.

COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court

BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THE LINK IS ANDWHEN IT WAS ESTABLISHED:  Why is NZ refusing to investigate a link between covid vaccines and excess deaths?

The “largest Covid vaccine study yet” shows “small increases in neurological, blood, heart-related issues”

COVID HYSTERIA WAS A PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER: Rate of antidepressant dispensing to young people rose faster after March 2020, especially among females.

SCIENCE: How Sweden proved the world wrong about lockdowns: The evidence is clear: authoritarian restrictions did not save more lives.

Some odds and ends on the beginning of the month

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Since I might be driving this summer AND since I hear some of the crap that passes for economics edjumacation at the HS level these days, there’s this: PROGRESSIVISM: Seattle’s “living wage” fee meant to help delivery drivers is causing drivers to make less because people stopped placing orders

another take on the same story: The Value of Econ 101, example #10,191

Some movie stuff:

Shot: From The Passion of the Christ to Barbie. When did People Stop Behaving Themselves in Movie Theaters?

—Mark Judge, August 21st, 2023.

Chaser: Werner Herzog Watched 30 Minutes of Barbie and Asked: ‘Could It Be That the World of Barbie Is Sheer Hell?’

And then there’s this duet: My view of *Casablanca* (with spoilers, but you’ve seen it already?) which I read first and disagreed with even though I thought I understood where it was going. Then there was this response: Appreciating *Casablanca*. I’ll take Caplan over Cowen any day.

And speaking of movies I just watched my 9,600th one! An interesting little romp called Blood Fest. It’s a 5.4 on IMDB but I’d put it higher than that. Some interesting “takes.”

Follow the …..what was it again?

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EVERY SUCCESSFUL SYSTEM ACCUMULATES PARASITES, AND SCIENCE HAS BEEN A SUCCESSFUL SYSTEM: Scientists warn: Declining academic standards mixed with DEI a recipe for disaster.

I’ll post THIS one again: OH: Mainstream science mulls ‘global moratorium’ on COVID vaccines as cancers rise, boosters flub.

OUT: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, PEASANTS! IN: He Hunts Sloppy Scientists. He’s Finding Lots of Prey.

Latest environmental catastrophe: The earth is getting greener. Oh no! We’re all doomed?

I’M NOT EXACTLY SHOCKED BY ANY OF THIS: Hardly any plastics can be truly recycled, and producers have known for decades.

ONLY WHEN IT SERVES THE LEFT:  The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science: 2024 Update.

I WAS RELIABLY INFORMED THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED:  New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap in Our Understanding’.

OH NOES! WHO EVER SUSPECTED THE DATA WAS MANIPULATED!!!  We’re Not Curing Cancer

Here, Guys.

I remember the days when even smart people believed scientific reports.  Maybe my grandchildren will live long enough to see trustworthy science be the only science again. I’d like to believe that.

Discussed the before times

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with a group of juniors today. Was marginally interesting. They were surprised to hear that some of us were scorned and ostracized for our choices and opinion during the lockdown and after which plays right in to the first link I intended to post today.

JORDAN SCHACHTEL: We are witnessing the mass memory-holing of the lockdown era.

The shocking testimony of the Covid-19 nurses

Resurfaced interview shows Dr. Fauci say this about mandates: “When you make it difficult for people… they lose their ideological bull**** and get vaccinated”

FINALLY! COVID VACCINE TRUTH: It only took four years, with more than a million American deaths along the way, but a new peer-reviewed medical journal calls for a a moratorium on mRNA vaccine use, especially among children. This is a preview, in my latest PJMedia column, of a coming wave of class-action lawsuits that could produce unprecedented jury awards.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENTS OF THE WATCHDOGS IN THE NIGHT-TIME:  The watchdog that was determined to ignore covid vaccine warnings.

I need a comfy seat in a dark room

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a little escapism since I’m coming up on my 9,600th movie!

Most movies should not be made either because the original is so good … or so bad. Here’s one I’m thinking looks like a great remake of an already good (albeit on a cult level) movie: Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal duking it out in the Florida Keys might be the best movie trailer I’ve seen in forever

My view of *Casablanca* (with spoilers, but you’ve seen it already?). OK. Not MINE. But you get the idea. Not sure I 100% concur but it IS thought provoking.

And a few other scattered shots from other fields:

For Black History Month: The Optimistic Space Between Black and White

This one’s on a point that’s bothered me for a LONG time. Communication is becoming harder as people lose shared language and shortened idioms. Are You Fluent in English?

And since we’re talking communications: Somebody made this video explaining all of the logical fallacies and since everyone is arguing these days you might find it interesting

I’ll never be at a loss for material

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at least until the second Biden term at which point the news will be … limited.

DEMOCRATS CRUCIFIED NIXON FOR 18 MISSING MINUTES BUT THEY DELETED TWO TERABYTES: Republicans Recovered More Than 100 Encrypted Jan. 6 Files, but There’s a Catch

INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE BUT FACEBOOK WANTS TO MEDDLE: ‘A Starting Point’: Meta Oversight Board Member Says 2020 Election Interference Was ‘Not Enough.’

Reminder that none of us is safe: AT THIS POINT, ANYTHING IS BELIEVABLE: FBI charged with Jan. 6 ‘cover-up’ in Ashli Babbitt shooting case.

It Ain’t Paranoia if It’s Happening — ‘Undocumented’ Voting Edition. “It’s disturbing to think about how many illegal voters might be making their way to the polls in November now that their numbers are growing so rapidly during the Joe Biden Border Crush.”

RIGGED: CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say.

REQUIRED READING: Kruiser’s Handy Election Year Guide to Topics the Democrats’ Media Hacks Will Be Censoring.

Why Even Democrats Should Care About the “Cooked Intelligence” Russiagate Scandal: The last time we let “sexed up” intelligence guide policy, we were led to war in Iraq. The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment caused America to declare war on itself.

and since tomorrow is Millard Fillmore Day: David Frum Announces Misguided Quest to Rehabilitate the Reputation of One of America’s Worst Presidents.

It just keeps getting worse

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My never-Trump relatives are NOT happy. They can’t even PRETEND to be supportive of POTATUS any more.

The Battle at the Boarder ain’t over yet. DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Abbott: Texas Has Constitutional Right To Defend Its Borders From Invasion, Supersedes All Federal Law. Related: Donald Trump’s Next Move Should Be a Trip to the Southern Border.

SHOCKER: DHS knew risks of mail-in voting but continued censoring concerns anyway: Lawsuit.

CORN, POPPED: Did Obama Just Get Trump Off the Hook? “Just when you thought 2024 couldn’t possibly get any weirder — yes, I know it’s still only January — a secret Barack Obama memo could prove the undoing of special counsel Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump.”

MEH. IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT DISCIPLINE AND INTELLIGENCE, BUT I KNOW PLENTY OF SMART LAWYERS WHO TOOK MORE THAN ONE TRY TO PASS THE BAR. 69% Of America’s ‘Best Lawyers’ Question The Competency Of Any Lawyer Who Has Difficulty Passing The Bar Exam. As Ben Barton has demonstrated, the bar exam was introduced mostly to protect existing lawyers from new competition. And for the record I passed it first time. Same with the FEDERAL bar. Took the Valedictorian of my law school class two shots at that one. And I KNOW this because I tutored her.

WEIRD HOW RON DESANTIS, WHO NEVER BANNED ANY BOOKS, GETS THE HEAT FOR THIS WHILE BIDEN GETS A PASS: The Biden White House Literally Tried to Ban Books.

and finally New Thoughts On The Timing In The Section 3 And Criminal Immunity Cases.