https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1355782289435725825
Hat tip to Kane
Lawyer who falsified documents to FISA court to spy on Trump Campaign officials not disbarred. The justice system is a politicized joke.
BREAKING: The DC District Court refused to disbar convicted felon Kevin Clinesmith for his crimes against the President of the United States. Instead they simply suspended him while on probation and until he pays his $100 fine. He should never be allowed to practice law again. pic.twitter.com/hsNZJUIJlt
— @amuse (@amuse) February 2, 2021
Rules and laws are for Republicans. Democrats who break the law obviously did it for the right reasons so they are not held to account or they get a slap on the wrist.
The wacky left has captured our education system and destroyed it
San Francisco school board declares — ‘Acronyms are racist’
“…First the San Francisco School Board decided to rename 44 schools because they are named after people with ties to racism or slavery. Now the Arts Department has taken a bold move by changing its name, “VAPA” because they say, “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.”
Schools have yet to reopen in San Francisco, but their Arts Department has continued to work toward ensuring that all students have access to quality arts education.T
he director of that department said, “We are prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work.” So they got rid of the acronym “VAPA,” which is short for visual and performing arts.
From now on, they’ll simply be called SFUSD Arts Department.
“It is a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are,” explained Sam Bass, Director of the SFUSD Arts Department…”
What a bunch of nitwits. You can’t make this stuff up.
Ron DeSantis is one of the Republican governors leading state attempts to combat social media censorship of conservatives.
.@GovRonDeSantis Announcing Some Of The New Regulations The State Of Florida Will Seek To Enact To Deal With Big Tech & How They Will Be Enforced 2/ pic.twitter.com/YnqEtUGdBR
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) February 2, 2021
The Democrats in power in Washington will do nothing. The censorship is all in their favor. I have not heard any Democrat on the national level speak out against censorship of conservative speech. Maybe there has been one or two and I just missed it. I have heard numerous Democrat calls for additional censorship of conservatives. State action is the only possible response at this point. DeSantis is one of the leaders in this effort.
Covid is politics and people notice
On the divergence between climate research and reality
The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science
Roger Pielke Jr.:
“…A 2015 literature review found almost 900 peer-reviewed studies published on breast cancer using a cell line derived from a breast cancer patient in Texas in 1976. But in 2007 it was confirmed that the cell line that had long been the focus of this research was actually not a breast cancer line, but was instead a skin cancer line. Whoops.
Even worse, from 2008 to 2014 — after the mistaken cell line was conclusively identified — the review identified 247 peer-reviewed articles putatively on breast cancer that were published using the misidentified skin cancer cell line. A cursory search of Google Scholar indicates that studies continue to be published in 2020 mistakenly using the skin cell line in breast cancer research.
The lesson from this experience is that science has momentum, and that momentum can be hard to change, even when obvious and significant flaws are identified. This is particularly the case when the flaws exist in databases that underlie research across an entire discipline.
In 2020, climate research finds itself in a similar situation to that of breast cancer research in 2007. Evidence indicates the scenarios of the future to 2100 that are at the focus of much of climate research have already diverged from the real world and thus offer a poor basis for projecting policy-relevant variables like economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions…
…As a result of the growing recognition of the divergence between scenarios and the real-world, the climate research community is in a similar place to where the breast cancer research community was in 2007. Evidence is now undeniable that the basis for a significant amount of research has become untethered from the real world. The issue now is what to do about it.
The challenges for climate research are significant. Consider that in contrast to the 900 articles that misused a skin cancer line as a breast cancer line, our literature review found almost 17,000 peer-reviewed articles that use the now-outdated highest emissions scenario. That particular scenario is also by far the most commonly cited in recent climate assessments of the IPCC and the U.S. National Climate Assessment. And every day new studies are published using outdated scenarios.
The elevated role of scenarios across climate research means that there is a huge momentum behind their continued use. A research reset would be a massive endeavor and would require essentially writing off the policy, economic or other real-world relevance of thousands of studies, and perhaps even their scientific utility. Though to be fair, there are reasons to use exploratory scenarios in modeling or theoretical studies, but such uses shouldn’t be confused with practical relevance — just as studies of skin cancer lines should not be confused with breast cancer lines…”
Related:
Qasem Soleimani redux. Reaper drone over the safe house right now?
Her expertise is victimhood…
Ocasio-Cortez says she’s a sexual assault survivor, suggests Capitol riot compounded earlier trauma
The New York congresswoman compared her experience after Jan. 6 to that of being told by an abuser to ‘move on’ after sexual trauma.
Maybe she is a sexual assault survivor. So many liberals make up stories about personal victimhood, that I would like to see proof before I accept that claim.
Conservative Momma parodies Jen Psaki and the liberal White House press corps
Hat tip to Conservative Momma
Related:
Ms. Psaki does not like being ridiculed in the press and social media. The “circle back” phenomenon has apparently resulted in this:
White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance
It’s not fair. How can the White House Press Secretary be prepared for all the questions?
Gender identity. We live in the age of stupid.
Female athlete speaks out against new Biden executive order on gender identity
Idaho college runner says it’s ‘frustrating’ to compete against biological males.
Democrats are more concerned with the small fraction of the population that suffers from transgenderism than they are with normal women. I feel for the the people who suffer from transgenderism. It must be terrible. However, I don’t view them as heroes to be emulated, or special people to be put on a pedestal above others. Why should the unusual needs of a few override the normal needs of the many?
Democrats.
We live in the age of stupid.
At the intersection of a military coup and the imbeciles that run our government
CNN is reporting that the Biden administration can't decide whether the armed, military takeover of the civilian government in Myanmar is a "coup" or not.
Meanwhile, they are certain the Viking Hat guy and his selfie army were a coup.#TheBigLie
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 2, 2021
At the intersection of liberals and political power
Whenever liberals acquire power their supporters in the media make sure to incessantly hype cartoonish right-wing fringe figures in order to deflect from what liberals are actually doing with their newly acquired power (Marjorie Taylor Greene is just Michele Bachmann 2.0)
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 1, 2021
On climate religion and the madness of crowds…
The 19th century author Charles McKay had thoughts relevant to today’s climate religion. In his 1841 book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” McKay writes:
“…In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do.
We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.
We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity.
At an early age in the annals of Europe its population lost their wits about the sepulcher of Jesus, and crowded in frenzied multitudes to the Holy Land; another age went mad for fear of the devil, and offered up hundreds of thousands of victims to the delusion of witchcraft. At another time, the many became crazed on the subject of the philosopher’s stone, and committed follies till then unheard of in the pursuit…”
Hat tip to Willis Eschenbach
Covid
Feminism
We live in the age of stupid.
The wacky left has captured our education system and destroyed it.
More on what modern “antiracism” does to schools
John McWhorter:
“…In my Atlantic article about antiracism manifestos that threaten to destroy institutions’ basic missions as educational, I mentioned that the Dalton School in New York was considering transformative antiracism measures.
However, I have it on good authority that in fact, the damage was already done as of last semester. Here are some snapshots from Dalton, Fall 2020 from concerned parents who, because if they went public with their names they would be pilloried as bigots nationwide, are staying anonymous.
“Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity, ‘racist cop’ reenactments in science, ‘de-centering whiteness’ in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class.”
“In place of a joyful progressive education, students are exposed to an excessive focus
on skin color and sexuality, before they even understand what sex is. Children are
bewildered or bored after hours of discussing these topics in the new long-format
classes.”
“Why would anyone voluntarily send their children to be taught that they are guilty regardless of their decency and kindness? A school where they are constantly reminded of the color of their skin, not the content of their character. What Black parent wants the other children to feel sorry for their kid and look at them differently? We have spoken with dozens of families, of all colors and backgrounds, who are in shock and looking for an alternative school for their children.”
Now – The Elect (my term for the hyperwoke who are hijacking constructive leftist ideals in this nation) will claim that this sort of thing is exactly what education needs to be, and that white (or “white”) parents who object are displaying “fragility.” However, we get that “fragility” notion from one of the worst books ever written, as I have argued here. What Dalton is doing is a tragic and grisly substraction of what education should be…”
We live in the age of stupid.
Biden administration cites climate change as a ‘racial justice issue.’
It is hard to understand how people believe this.
it is stupid.
Democrat.
Ed Driscoll is a master at showing the incredible lunacy of the climate believers
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST:
Shot:
I remember watching my first Winter Olympics in 1980. We were on a family ski trip at Copper Mountain in Colorado, where my brother and I skied the first powder run of our lives. It was on a gentle slope just off one of the main trails. We wiggled down the hill in chaotic rapture then skied the run again and again. The snow was soft and the turns effortless. You don’t have to be a skier to feel nostalgia for those whitewashed days — or to see the writing on the wall.
—“The End of Snow?”, the New York Times, February 7th, 2014.
Chaser:
Hat tip to Ed Driscoll
Unity and unifying by the unity president and unity party. All unity all the time. Unity does not mean bipartisanship.
Pelosi, Schumer File Resolution to Let Democrats Pass Relief Package Without GOP Support
“…Democrat congressional leaders on Monday introduced a budget resolution that will let lawmakers pass a fresh COVID-19 relief package without any Republican support.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the joint budget resolution.
The measure is the first step in potentially enacting a budget reconciliation bill, which would let Democrats pass the package even if no Republicans back it because they hold majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate…”