If you regard those who bear discomfort with the Khufu/Khafre orthodoxy, as promoting the red herring notions that aliens built these two particular pyramids or one is racist against modern Arabs or Old Kingdom Egyptians, then perhaps you should stop reading this article here.
Zero Income Earners
The emergence of another casualty of California’s decision to hike the minimum wage to $20 per hour comes as no surprise to anyone who understands basic economics: the real minimum wage is actually zero.
When making their way to work Monday morning, Navarro and her team learned upon arrival that the restaurant owner had made the decision to close its doors for good. The owner, Loren Wright, told local Fox affiliate KMPH that this was the “last thing” they wanted to do, but knew by Friday night the business likely wouldn’t be able to absorb the wage hike…
“And those who are still working in the areas around us that went up to $20 an hour, they got their hours severely cut.”
DEI The Friendly Skies
“DEI is the drop you put in the bucket, and the whole bucket changes.”
Rufo: If they have lost the love of building airplanes, what is the love, if any, that they bring to the job?
Insider: Status games rule every boardroom in the country. The DEI narrative is a very real thing, and, at Boeing, DEI got tied to the status game. It is the thing you embrace if you want to get ahead. It became a means to power.
DEI is the drop you put in the bucket, and the whole bucket changes. It is anti-excellence, because it is ill-defined, but it became part of the culture and was tied to compensation. Every HR email is: “Inclusion makes us better.” This kind of politicization of HR is a real problem in all companies.
If you look at the bumper stickers at the factories in Renton or Everett, it’s a lot of conservative people who like building things—and conservative people do not like politics at work.
The radicalization of HR doesn’t hurt tech businesses like it hurts manufacturing businesses. At Google, they’re making a large profit margin and pursuing very progressive hiring policies. Because they are paying 30 percent or 40 percent more than the competition in salary, they are able to get the top 5 percent of whatever racial group they want. They can afford, in a sense, to pay the “DEI tax” and still find top people.
But this can be catastrophic in lower-margin or legacy companies. You are playing musical chairs, and if you do the same things that Google is doing, you are going to end up with the bottom 20 percent of the preferred population.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
About bloody time
Six years ago, they scratched dirt on TMX. Finally, FINALLY, it is nearing completion, and expected to enter service May 1.
The original pipeline was built over 65 years ago with equipment that largely didn’t even have hydraulics, and absolutely did not have computers, GPS, laser measurement or anything else like that. And they did it in 16 months.
Also:
Brian Zinchuk on Evan Bray Show: Multilateral wells, oil royalties, TMX pipeline, lithium, helium and more
Pressing Legal Issue Of The Day
National Post- Court to decide if Ontario must pay for surgery to make vagina if patient also wants to keep penis
h/t Cameron
An Interview With Mark Steyn
They’re moving to control every aspect of your life.
Any Day Now
It’s a Feature Not a Bug
Trust The Evidence- The NHS has lost its way, and patients are paying the price.
In 2023, Cancer waiting times were the worst on record in England. While NHS waiting lists in England rose to a record NHS 7.75m in 2023, the Times reports more than 11 million patients are in need of follow-up hospital care, as they are on “hidden” NHS waiting lists.
The Telegraph now reports that the NHS waiting list could be two million longer than thought, based on ONS survey data that estimates 9.7 million are waiting for an appointment. The number waiting more than a year could be nearly 1.35 million.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
You thought that was hyperbole?
Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission heard Wednesday that Conservative MP Michael Chong, who was threatened by Chinese intelligence operators in Toronto, fears foreign agents could infiltrate closed party leadership races and effectively appoint Canadian prime ministers and premiers.
Chong’s testimony reflected concerns from CSIS intelligence documents exclusively reported by The Bureau, which found Chinese proxy agents have allegedly infiltrated leadership contests for provincial and national parties recently. […]
The inquiry also heard for the first time that Chinese agents or proxies could have targeted Chong with threats back in 2019.
But when Chong raised the concern of a “spoofed” email to Liberal Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, she neglected to respond.
Glavin: Trudeau said nothing, did nothing about MP’s recruitment of Chinese students
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Universities are supposed to be places of learning, of questioning, of understanding. Once upon a time, someone who went to a university was someone worthy of being looked up to to some degree, especially since most people didn’t have the opportunity to go.
Instead, we find them now to be little more than factories of indoctrination; places where wonderful students walk in and activists walk out.
Sure, many escape the brainwashing, but others don’t. What’s more, it’s not just in undergrad programs, either. It seems UCLA Medical School has fully embraced the stupid and seems intent on ramping it up based on a recent speaker they hosted.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
… paid $1.7 million for CEO Tony Aquila’s private jet bills, twice its total revenue last year. According to its earnings report released this week, Canoo lost $302 million in 2023 – but it’s apparently been champagne and caviar for its top executive.
Canoo, which hasn’t turned a profit as a public company, brought in $886,000 last year in revenue, according to its full-year earnings report filed Monday. But, as TechCrunch first cited, Aquila’s hefty travel bill included “air travel expenses for either, at our option, first-class airfare or the business use of his private jet,” the company said in the filing.”
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Thursday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: The American Psychological Association is harming society. Are smartphones making us miserable? A Chicago resident. The FBI’s ordinary men. Infiltration of the Republican Party.
Blackie’s Canada: Hamas education in diverse Toronto. MPs’ pensions average 78k. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Winnipeg, where Trudeau will announce more free stuff.
Trust The Science News: Pandemics are a business opportunity. Woke News: The transgender movement.
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April 4, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening we present Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart performing I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight.
Do share your most interesting tips!
Please: “stop adopting people as mascots”
…last week, a constellation of online right influencers all began in unison to practically cream over a young black gentleman called Coleman Hughes, who — judging by his various TV hits promoting his new book — really, really wants you to know that 1) he’s only voted for Democrats (including Biden), 2) that he’s a “political independent” (albeit one that has only voted for Democrats), and 3) that he’s a CNN contributor who also writes for Bari Weiss. On these points he is insistent.
Yet in an exchange with Sunny Hostin on “The View,” Hughes very capably and very effectively rebuffed what we’ve most of us come to expect as the typical racialist ambush, one leveled at nearly every black public figure who meets the legacy media having challenged the left’s racial orthodoxy — which sadly, is more and more becoming an overt return to racial essentialism.
It was a fine performance by Mr Hughes, to be sure. But this is “The View,” home to some of the dumbest women on planet earth.
Theory vs. Reality
Financial Post- Ross McKitrick: Economists’ letter misses the point about the carbon tax revolt
Yes, the carbon tax works great in a ‘first-best’ world where it’s the only carbon policy. In the real world, carbon policies are piled high.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Potemkin Presidency: She with a script, he with a teleprompter
Former ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that her 2021 interview with President Biden was “scripted” by network executives.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Steele recalled the “structured” nature of the pre-taped interview, so much so that her ESPN bosses handed her a “script” to go off of.
“That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured,” Steele said. “And I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go.’”
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Breaking: NDP Add A Free Granola Bar To Go With Your Child’s Free Fentanyl. Why? Because They Care.
Jagmeet Singh is boasting about the NDP forcing the Liberal government to provide a national school lunch program…
I guess all that free recreational fentanyl is making children hungry…
‘No minimum age listed in protocols for providing youth with taxpayer-funded recreational fentanyl.
It seems that parents will actually be powerless to stop the government from supplying their children with fentanyl, as safer supply technically counts as a health-care intervention and youth have substantial control over their own medical decisions in Canada.
While some provinces set a minimum age (typically between 14 and 16 years old) for when minors can make such decisions, British Columbia has no minimum and relies instead on a fluid idea of “capability” — youth in the province are considered “capable” if they understand what a medical intervention involves, why it is needed and its risks and benefits.
Yet it is hard to imagine any scenario where a drug-addicted minor would be capable of providing informed consent for safer supply fentanyl, given that addiction hijacks the brain and inhibits rational decision-making. While adults have extensive rights to personal self-determination, which permits them to make impaired or self-destructive decisions if they so choose, it is hard to see why this same freedom should be extended to youth when it comes to using hard drugs.
It is true that many drug-addicted youth are in foster care or estranged from their parents, and that, for them, securing parental consent is near-impossible. Yet making an exception for this subpopulation, and permitting them to receive free fentanyl, could incentivize other underage drug users to cut ties with their families and run away from home to secure free drugs.
As parents are often a youth’s greatest asset for recovery, any safer supply system that undermines child-parent relationships is harmful.
In a sad twist, the same laws that allow the government to give recreational fentanyl to kids without parental consent also prohibit parents from sending their children to involuntary addiction treatment — in other words, the government won’t help you force your kid to get clean, but they will give them unlimited “safe” drugs against your will.
As I argued in my MLI report, “By reframing the provision of unlimited recreational fentanyl as medical care, the provincial government may inadvertently turn itself into a parent’s worst nightmare — an unstoppable drug dealer with endless supply and unrestricted access to their child.”
While Health Canada confirmed to me in an email that it did not play a role in the development of these protocols, it did not respond to a follow-up email where I asked if the federal government had any objections to giving recreational fentanyl to minors.’
Let Them Eat Taser
Court proceedings for a number of those involved with the Coutts Freedom Convoy protest will be resuming soon; pre-trial hearings for Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert resume on March 18, and the trial of Marco Van Huigenbos, who had become the de-facto representative of the protesters at Coutts, and a number of his co-accused, get under way on April 2.
Pre-trial hearings for Van Huigenbos and Co. wrapped up recently, and some interesting responses from the Crown to defense applications took place.
Bookmark it for new developments.
Ezra was following the jury selection yesterday on X.
While we’re waiting for the next juror, the scene:
1. One judge.
2. Five clerks.
3. Three defendants.
4. Three prosecutors.
5. Four defence lawyers.
6. Two cops.
For a mischief trial.