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,”
Those Moderate Muslims
The French Ministry of Interior has deported 800+ extremists since 2017, the question is: Why did you let them in to begin with? Here, I explain France’s biggest problem: pic.twitter.com/dSAJsX2K29
— Imam of Peace (@Imamofpeace) October 14, 2023
The Libranos: ArriveScam
“When you go with a deep dive into the particular story, it goes beyond misconduct. It goes into criminality. And that’s why the RCMP is investigating it,” he said during the meeting. “There are allegations regarding identity theft, fraudulent forged resumes, contractual theft, fraudulent billing, price fixing, collusion, all with senior bureaucrats with the Government of Canada and the three contractors in question.”
Rollin, Rollin, Rollin
In a recent survey by Siena College Research Institute, 82 percent of New Yorkers called the arrival of so many migrants a “serious problem,” with 58 percent saying it’s time to slow the flow. New York is starting to think — and act — like a Southern border state now…
It’s clear that the city’s well-earned reputation for welcoming immigrants has played a role in making New York the top destination. Nevertheless, Mr. Adams blames that “madman” — Mr. Abbott — for the crisis, even though only about 13,100 of the roughly 140,000 migrants who arrived over the past year were sent on buses chartered by Texas.
The Next World War Will Be Won With Typewriters
Safe and Effective®
@zerohedge – Pfizer Crashes After Slashing Profit Guidance By More Than Half On Collapsing Demand For Covid Meds
The Sound Of Settled Science
How Could the IPCC Make an Error this Large?
Earlier this week I discussed the mystifying continued prioritization of the outdated and implausible RCP8.5 scenario by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in its scenarios expected to guide Dutch climate policies for the next decade. Since then I have heard from many friends and colleagues in the Netherlands offering a wide range of perspectives on what happened and what should happen next.
These exchanges have prompted me to summarize how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has treated climate scenarios in its most recent assessment reports. Today I document a major error made by the IPCC in its fifth assessment report (AR5) which has had profound consequences for climate research and policy in the decade since.
Settle in, this one is a doozy.
“Deception”
“Everything that Anthony Fauci and his cohorts, these other virologists were saying publicly, they were saying the opposite privately,” Paul said. “Then it turns out that many of the people that were appointed to be part of this all had quiet interests that they weren’t willing to reveal. Including Anthony Fauci. When I asked him directly under oath whether or not he was receiving royalties from any of the companies manufacturing vaccines, he refused to answer. When I asked him whether anybody on the committee was receiving royalties he lashed out and accused me of something but would never answer the question.”
The rest is here.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Related: Things you’ll never see on the @CBC.
“Hamas does not represent the Palestinians”
… you will hear this a lot in the next few days.
So here’s a reminder from former President Jimmy Carter:
“On election day, Rosalynn and I visited 25 polling sites, in East Jerusalem and its outskirts, Hebron, Ramallah, and Jericho. It seemed obvious to us and other observers that the election was orderly and peaceful and that there was a clear preference for Hamas candidates even in historically strong Fatah communities. Even so, we were all surprised at the enormity of the Hamas victory.
They won such a clear majority of parliamentary seats (76 of 132 members) that the Fatah government immediately announced their resignation.”
Hamas plainly state their goal: to eradicate Israel in violent means. Their Palestinian voters understand this well. Hamas proceeded a year later, 2007, to murder all their opposition in Gaza, literally throw them off the rooftops, massacre *Palestinians* from opposition parties in the streets.
The writing was on the wall. In blood.
Montgomery 2023
As many of our regular readers know, each September my friend Karen and I embark on a two week trip to Michigan and Pennsylvania to show our dogs, culminating on the first Sunday in October with the most prestigious terrier event on the planet – Montgomery County Kennel Club.
This year, I took my own AmGCHCanCH Minuteman Life Below Zero, who captured the first specialty we competed at in Michigan, but she was soon eclipsed by a young male I’ve been handling for a friend from Osaka, Japan sired by my 2019 Montgomery Best of Breed winner, AmCanGrCh Minuteman Colder Weather.
Luca and I, waiting our turn in the Montgomery group ring.
AmGCH Cherry Field’s Super Fly not only captured five of seven shows he was entered in, he repeated his sire’s 2019 win, going Best of Breed at the American Miniature Schnauzer Club National Specialty, placing fourth in the terrier group at Montgomery to defeat nearly 1000 dogs.
With Hiromi, Luca and some of the loot.
We were back in Saskatchewan on Tuesday night, but it’ll be another day or two before I’m fully caught up on sleep and back to my regular routine.
Thank you once again to our guest bloggers – Francisco, Dennis, OJ, Robert, David and Brian – who donate so much of their time to support the site and diversify the content, and keep our readers informed and amused while I escape to this peculiar alternate universe with my dogs, where the news of the world seldom penetrates, and the only politics under discussion are a judge’s choices on a muddy horse grounds in Pennsylvania.
