We, We, We…all the way Home

Shiny Pony The Libranos WECharity 18 Comments

Sometimes they(CBC) do some decent work

CBC- WE Charity misled donors about building schools in Kenya, records show

“They’re relying on the good grace of donors to just not ask too many questions? That’s just wrong. It’s a breach of trust,” she said.

The documents show that schoolhouses were routinely double-, triple- and quadruple-matched to large donors, a practice confirmed to The Fifth Estate by former WE employees. In one example, eight major donors are stated to have funded the same schoolhouse.

Then again they seem to have missed some well known, key details.

And why is it they always have friends?

98% effective!

It's Probably Nothing Wuhan Flu 47 Comments

Waterford, Ireland, with a 99.5% adult vaccination rate, now has the dubious honor of also having the highest Covid infection rate in the country.

Naturally, the news item trots out the usual host of experts who are trying to explain this conundrum without challenging the standard narrative.

“…function of vaccines is to prevent illness and death…” The immunologist should tell that to the fully vaccinated guy who spent 66 days in hospital.

The culprit? Why, that’s due to the “…decrease in people taking mitigation measures like keeping 2 meters from each other and wearing masks…” In other words, when Covid cases rise in fully vaccinated populations, that’s because those people foolishly attempted to return to a normal state of existence. How dare they!

Best Health Care System in the World

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 42 Comments

Global- Manitoba man travels overseas for knee surgery, bills province for cost

The cost of the trip to Lithuania, which included the knee replacement and full two weeks in rehab, was $14,500, compared to the over $21,000 price tag for the surgery at home in Manitoba.

Johnson said part of the problem is that the term ‘elective’ doesn’t necessarily reflect the seriousness of many Manitobans’ conditions.

“‘Elective’ sort of implies somehow it’s voluntary, not totally necessary. But there are many people in this city, in this province, who are waiting for hip and knee surgery who are simply immobile.

“They call it a waiting list, but that implies management, and in reality, it’s more akin to a large corral that they put people in.”

Update: ‘I won’t be here next year’: Canadians robbed of life by delayed diagnoses amid pandemic

She said the situation is frustrating for doctors because COVID-19 restrictions imposed by federal and provincial governments are “really out of our control,” she says. Despite this, Malak said it is usually the doctors who get the brunt of a patient’s anger over these disruptions to health services.

If Your Friend Xohnny Cut Off Her Tits, Would You Do It, Too?

Children R Our Future I, Napoleon 43 Comments

Peer contagion;

Between 2016 and 2017, the number of gender surgeries for natal females in the US quadrupled; in the UK, the rates of gender dysphoria for teenage girls are up 4,400 percent over the previous decade. An ailment that typically began in early childhood, and overwhelmingly afflicted males, suddenly has a new dominant demographic: teenage girls.

In 2016, Brown University public health researcher Lisa Littman was scrolling through social media when she noticed that a group of teen girls from her small town in Rhode Island — all from the same friend group — had come out as transgender.

Intrigued by the statistical unlikelihood, Littman began to study the phenomenon and, in 2018, published the results. She hypothesized that transgender identification had become one more peer contagion among adolescent females. Anxiety-ridden, middle-class girls who once engaged in cutting or anorexia were now wearing “binders” (breast-compressing undergarments), taking testosterone and undergoing voluntary double mastectomies.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy Roadkill 47 Comments

Following a tumultuous year for Tesla including a company relocation helmed by CEO Elon Musk, viral reports of cars on fire and other self-admitted quality control issues…

The electric car manufacturer now ranks 27th out of 28car brands on Consumer Reports’ list, above only Ford-owned legacy luxury brand Lincoln. Much of it has to do with the overall instability of electric vehicles in general — especially SUVs — which Consumer Reports’ Jake Fisher said during a presentation are the “absolute bottom in terms of reliability,” according to Reuters. […]

Among the concerns Consumer Reports had for the Tesla Model S, X and Y lines, according to CNBC, were issues with “heat pumps, air conditioning” and notoriously, misaligned panels. It’s also worth noting that Tesla’s Model X ranked dead-last among all cars for reliability, scoring a 5 out of 100.

h/t Raymond

America After Saying NO to the Radical Left

Baiting The Left Democrats 15 Comments

Good sources to follow as day turns into night:

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Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Media 42 Comments

It used to bother me…

…that journalists were portrayed in pop culture as sniveling, amoral weenies. Take William Atherton’s iconic portrayal in Die Hard of “Thornburg,” the TV-news creep who gasps, “Tell me you got that!” with orgasmic awe when an explosion rocks the Nakatomi building. I got that — I’d seen that face on reporters.

But risking the life of hero John McClane’s wife Holly by putting her name on TV, and getting the info by threatening the family nanny Paulina with an immigration raid? We’re bad, I thought, but not that bad. I got that it was a movie, but my father was a local TV man, and that one stung a bit.

MSNBC Thursday pulled a Thornburg in real life. Police stopped a man named James Morrison who was apparently following a jury bus, and said he was acting at the direction of a New York-based MSNBC producer named Irene Byon. Even if all you’re after is a post-verdict interview, if a jury gets the slightest whiff that the press is searching out their names and addresses, that’s clear intimidation. People will worry about the safety of their spouses and children as they’re deliberating. Not that it matters to anyone but the defense, prosecution, judge, jury, and taxpayers, but you’re also putting the trial at risk. I’ve covered plenty of celebrity trials, from Michael Jackson to the Enron defendants, and know the identifying-jurors practice isn’t unheard of. However, in a powder-keg case like this, it’s bonkers to play it any way but straight.

We’ve seen Die Hard-level indifference to social consequence from the beginning of this case. The context of the Rittenhouse shootings involved a summer of protests that began after the police killing of George Floyd, and continued in Kenosha after the death of Jacob Blake. We saw demonstrations of all types last summer, ranging from solemn candlelight vigils and thousands of protesters laying peacefully on their backs across bridges, to the burning of storefronts and “hundreds” of car thieves stealing “nearly 80” cars from a dealership in San Leandro, California. When the population is on edge, and people are amped and ready to lash out, that puts an even greater onus on media figures to get things right.

In a tinderbox situation like this one, it was reckless beyond belief for analysts to tell audiences Rittenhouse was a murderer when many if not most of them had a good idea he would be acquitted. But that’s exactly what most outlets did. …

The rest is paywalled, but this stands well enough on its own.

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