Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
Let That Sink In
A HAPPY STORY
4 years ago the bitter commies at Twitter BANNED ALX forever
Never gave a reason
1 yr ago @elonmusk restored ALX
ALX now has +600K followers
Today, ALX BOUGHT the old Twitter sign
Twitter thought they owned ALX, but in the end it was ALX who owns Twitter
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 19, 2023
QOTD
In the long civilizational struggle — especially in the West — between the “progressive” forces of “Why not?” and the protective “Why?” of conservatives, the victory of the former always signals the death not only of the latter but of both parties. Like the scorpion stinging the rescuing frog to death in the middle of the pond, thus dooming them both, they simply cannot help themselves. It’s in their nature to tear down, ransack, and destroy, even at the cost of their own existence. This weakness-from-within is how civilizations fall (Gibbon, in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, speaks of it as “effeminacy”) and it’s repeated itself so many times over the course of the past two thousand-plus years you’d think we’d learn by now. But you would be wrong.
“Dentist Ahmed ElKoussa has been let go from CG Smile dental practice in Miami, FL.”
Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
Embrace Pallywood!
@robbystarbuck – So after all the drama yesterday it turns out the Gaza hospital wasn’t bombed, the parking lot was, and 500 people didn’t die. Oh and the rocket wasn’t from Israel, it was from a failed rocket that Palestinian terrorists shot at Israel. Absolutely insane.
“Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world.”
Via @McfarlaneGlenda – If anyone is wondering why the conservatives popularity is exploding look no further than this.
And this.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Poley Bears
Last December, researchers vigorously promoted a possible 27% decline in Western Hudson Bay (WH) polar bear abundance but kept hidden the fact that adjacent Southern Hudson Bay (SH) numbers increased by 30% over the same period.
And surprise, surprise: the bombshell SH results call into question everything the ‘experts’ have been saying about polar bears in Hudson Bay for years.
I finally got a copy of the 2021 WH survey report from the Nunavut government, which was reported on by the media around the world in December 2022. The Nunavut government also sent along a copy of the 2021 SH report (helpfully asking, “would you also like the SH report?”), published at virtually the same time. The existence of a SH report was never mentioned by any of the media articles in December, even though it was referenced several times in the WH report, which suggests reporters never actually saw the WH report but were simply given a press release with approved talking points.
Go bump her tweet with a repost, if you’re so inclined.
Another Win For The SaskParty
Winning so hard, I don’t know if I can handle this much winning.
A member of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission has resigned, citing the provincial government’s proposed pronoun policy.
In an email to Premier Scott Moe, Heather Kuttai said her decision to resign as one of the organization’s six commissioners — which is effective immediately — “did not come lightly.”
“I strongly disagree with the proposed legislation that requires teachers to seek parental permission to change a child’s name and/or pronouns when they are at school,” Kuttai wrote. “This is an attack on the rights of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse children, which, contrary to what is being reported, is actually a very small number of kids.”
Kuttai, who was appointed to the commission in 2014, said she believed the commission was designed to uphold individual rights. She suggested the proposed legislation doesn’t provide that protection for children.
“A child’s rights must always take precedence over a parent’s obligations and responsibilities,” she wrote. “Removing a child’s rights, in the name of ‘parental rights’ is fundamentally anti-trans and harmful.
Like a self-weeding garden, the ‘Parents’ Bill of Rights’ has begun to remove the groomers from our institutions, one hissy fit at a time.
The Libranos: SNC Lavalin Returns From The Grave
Democracy Watch: Public inquiry needed into RCMP’s national command coverup
“The records show the RCMP is a negligently weak lapdog that rolled over for Prime Minister Trudeau by doing a very superficial investigation into his Cabinet’s obstruction of the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, not trying to obtain key secret Cabinet communication records, and burying the investigation with an almost two-year delay,” said Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch. “The RCMP also misled the public by claiming it wasn’t investigating, violated the open government law by keeping investigation records secret much longer than is allowed, and is refusing to disclose the legal details why no one was prosecuted.”
“Given pressure by the Prime Minister and Cabinet officials to obstruct a prosecution is a situation that has not been revealed publicly before, and given no past court ruling makes it clear that the RCMP and Crown prosecutors could not win a prosecution, they should have tried to get a search warrant for secret Cabinet communications, and prosecuted so a judge could decide in an open court whether obstruction had occurred instead of making a behind-closed-doors and very questionable decision to cover up their investigation,” said Conacher.
Bumped for more from Dan Knight.
The pages we do have tell a tale of sloth-like efficiency. Over four years—yes, years—the RCMP spoke to a grand total of three witnesses. Were they expecting these witnesses to come carolling at RCMP headquarters, hot chocolate in hand? It seems that due diligence was put on ice, perhaps indefinitely.
They called their lukewarm endeavors an “assessment” rather than an “investigation,” as if they were grading a sixth-grade book report instead of probing into the alleged corruption at the highest levels of our government. The verbal gymnastics here could win an Olympic medal, but they also deceived Canadians.
Now, the RCMP had what they needed to press on with obstruction of justice charges. Even a rookie lawyer fresh out of a Canadian law school would salivate at the prospects of this case. But what do they do? Suddenly, the goalposts move, and they decide they need proof of “a corrupt intent to interfere” before any prosecution could occur. This convenient shifting of standards smells more fishy than a Newfoundland trawler.
Enjoy!
Khmer Noir
Average tuition at Cornell is $65K US.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“Like most students, she spoke on the condition of anonymity, given the potential for reprisals.”
Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
What Would We Do Without Economists?
Bloomberg predicts recession, complains how mainstream economists keep getting it wrong.
In fact, the “Soft Landing” line has been trotted out before every single actual recession since 1969. To the point the phrase itself is a red flag, like “our banking system is fundamentally sound.”
If Bloomberg wonders why top economists get it so wrong, the truth is pretty simple: they’re paid to get it wrong.
Video at the link above.
Via @WallStreetSilv – Nice to see Bloomberg noticing how dishonest regime economists are, but they let them off with “economics is complex” when the reality is a lot simpler: When government is paying their salary, the economists say what they’re told.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
They’re running out of stupid rich people.
The first wave of buyers willing to pay a premium for a battery-powered car has already made the purchase, dealers and executives say, and automakers are now dealing with a more hesitant group, just as a barrage of new EV models are expected to hit dealerships in the coming years.
“The curve isn’t accelerating as quickly as I think a lot of people expected,” said John Lawler, Ford Motor’s chief financial officer at a conference in September, on the EV adoption rate. “We’re seeing it flatten a bit.”
Healthy Options
For many years, I asked roomfuls of doctors and nurses how employers might help stanch Americans’ rapid increase in obesity. Their answers usually fit this cloistered stereotype:
“My office had a walkathon competition.”
“My company opened a gymnasium for employees.”
“My employer pays 50 percent of gym membership costs.”
“We have twice-weekly yoga classes in the boardroom.”
“Human Resources offers wellness classes.”
“Our cafeteria offers healthy options.”
Ask the same medical professionals what the government and other employers ought to do to fight obesity, and the answers reflexively veered toward “encourage or require employers to do all those things my employer does.”
The problem is that many of America’s most serious health problems reside in people whose lives and jobs do not remotely resemble those of healthcare professionals or policy-shapers.
Truth And Reconciliation
Normally, I oppose the prosecution of decades old “historical” sex offense charges as fundamentally unfair to the accused. But given the current culture of truth and “reconciliation”…
A First Nations leader and reconciliation spokesman in Saskatchewan has been accused of sex crimes dating back two decades.
Theodore (Ted) Quewezance, a residential school survivor and former chief of Keeseekoose First Nation, was scheduled to appear in Kamsack provincial court Tuesday charged with four historical sex offences.
Keeseekoose is a Saulteaux community in southeastern Saskatchewan, located about 20 km north of Kamsack.
Court documents obtained by APTN News show Quewezance is charged with single counts of sexual assault, touching a young person under the age of 16 for a sexual purpose, counselling a person under 16 to touch for a sexual purpose, and being in a position of trust while counselling a person under 16 years to touch for a sexual purpose.
The documents show the alleged offences involve a male victim who was a minor on Keeseekoose First Nation between September 1997 and September 2004.
h/t Kelly, who adds – The person in question also ran as a federal Liberal candidate in Yorkton-Melville
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
The demands by the left that we ‘fundamentally transform’ our society (do those words sound familiar?) into a carbon-neutral economy steps on a lot of rakes. There is Biden’s EPA chief, Joseph Goffman, who doesn’t know how much electricity the United States needs each year, the politicians who don’t realize that charging EVs requires about 90% of traditional grid electricity, and, of course, everyone’s favorite giggling vice president, who famously can’t even figure out how to charge an EV.
But maybe the biggest rake of all so far came recently from Kansas, where a coal-fired power plant that was slated for closure will now remain open because … it is needed to supply power to a brand new, $4 billion Panasonic EV battery factory just outside of Kansas City.
h/t Greg
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
They Are Not “Treaty People”
Australians have cast their vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum.
The proposal, to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and to create an advisory body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to make representations to the federal government, has been resoundingly defeated. […]
Opposition leader Peter Dutton says the result is “good for our country”.
He thanked No campaign leaders Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine.
“No one is owed more gratitude than each of these individuals,” he said.
“They have suffered through deeply personal and offensive attacks.”
Mr Dutton said the Coalition wants to see Indigenous disadvantage addressed.
“We just disagree on the Voice being the solution,” he said.
Calling for an end to “academics and activists” thinking they knew better than people on the ground in remote communities, she said that a new way of thinking was required.
“We should not maintain the racism of low expectations in this country,’’ she said. “We are all part of the fabric of this nation.”
Senator Price said she wanted to thank the Australian people for “believing in our nation.”
“The Australian people have overwhelmingly voted No. They have said No to division in our Constitution along the lines of race,” she said.
“They have said No to the gas-lighting, bullying, to the manipulation. They have said No to grievance and the push from activists to suggest that we are a racist country when we are absolutely not a racist country. […]
In an emotional speech, she described the Voice referendum as the “biggest gaslighting event our nation has ever experienced”.
“We are sick to death of being told how racist we are, how horrible we are. Our own children are being taught not to be proud to call themselves Australians in this country,’’ she said.
Senator Price has argued a Voice would “constitutionally enshrine” a victimhood mentality in the country.
“It doesn’t belong here,”