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Sun- Terrifying threats made against Jewish school and daycare
“Multiple bombs have been placed in your buildings, and in your car lot. Many Jews will die today.”
Margin Of Fraud
The Thing I like Best About Harm Reduction Programs
Is the way they reduce harm.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’ve been binge watching Bug-out Bus Youtube.
As you should: You’ll Smash Your Kid’s Smartphone After Reading This
The Libranos: Greed Fund
Uh oh! there’s the roar of a $100 fine barreling down the tracks…
The federal ethics commissioner has launched an investigation into the chair of the board of directors of a federal green fund after she participated in the approval of more than $200,000 in grants to a private firm she directed.
In a letter to Conservative MP Michael Barrett on Thursday, Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein said he will examine the conduct of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) board chair Annette Verschuren.
Verschuren is also chair and chief executive officer of NRStor Inc., a Toronto-based energy storage firm. She confirmed to a parliamentary committee last week that as SDTC’s chair, she participated in approving grants to NRStor totalling $217,000 in 2020 and 2021.
Previous: “free money” to well connected Liberals.
Simulation alert: …how did someone, in this day and age, named Konrad von Finckenstein get this position?
They Were Promised There Would Be No Math
it’s been an article of faith for decades that those with college degrees out earn those without. and it clearly shows up in the data.
the correlation is unmistakable. but, and this is a massive but, that does not mean what many suspect. it does not mean that “college creates earnings and opportunity.” for many, it starts to seem to mean the opposite: college is lost opportunity and vast expenditure and debt accumulation that will never pay for itself. and a lot of this comes down to bad expectations and a form of “lake wobegon fallacy” of statistical illiteracy.
the percentage of americans getting college degrees has exploded from around 4% in 1940 to the mid 37%’s now and this actually understates the issue as this is just the number who successfully completed a 4 year degree. over 70% of recent high school grads enroll in college which means that around 45% of 16-24 year olds are enrolled in college and more than half were at some point. what was once 1 in 20 is now 1 in 2. and that’s a VERY different thing and this is where the cargo cult emerges:
an institution for the top 5 percentiles of a society is a very different place than an institution for the whole top half. it must be structured differently, work differently, place different demands, and perhaps most of all: it’s output and the outcomes of those who attended are going to be different. college is not magic. it does not make people more motivated or smarter. it may select for these traits, it does not make those who attend “higher percentile” in terms of innate ability or expected outcome.
past a point, it may be inflicting harm and i would argue that based on the promises and expectations, it’s creating a mathematical impossibility.
it seems like every kid who enrolls in college is expecting to be in the top 10-20% of earners. this is sort of “the deal” that folks are buying into. but if 50% of society is enrolling, it’s obviously impossible. the real world is not lake wobegon. we cannot all be above average. half of society cannot be a top 10% earner and that’s the sort of outcome being mistaken for the marker of “went to college” a thing that used to all but unerringly signify “top decile” but that does so no longer. somewhere on the order of 3/4 of them are going to wind up being disappointed. they have to be. it’s just math. (perhaps this is why high schools and universities seem so increasingly loathe to teach it?)
It just so happens: “The average scores in three of the four subjects featured on the test – mathematics, reading and science – were below the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks. The benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students taking the test to have a high probability of success in college.”
‘In a cold winter, the pump can howl like a small jet engine’
You’ll eat bugs, own nothing, wear earmuffs and be happy.
… and the horse you rode in on…
Before, it was talk. Now, the Saskatchewan government takes action on home heating carbon tax.
“The mistake of Hamas’ enemies and its disappointed allies was to assume the decision-makers would be sane.”
The big build-up of Gaza as an impregnable Hamas tunnel fortress has turned, in a comparatively short time, into the saga of a martyr city, soon to be a displaced person’s camp, the West’s wards. Leaving politics and ethics aside, the military collapse suggests Hamas soldiers have been poorly served by their leadership. Gaza was designed as a terror base, not for the conventional war Hamas got itself and the whole strip into. It was never configured and could not conceivably have resisted the IDF. Their survival plan depended on Israel reacting as they anticipated, and not as it could. Hamas’ high command was so sure they could predict Israel’s intentions that they just plumb ignored its capabilities.
Recent reports suggest the IDF now has what’s left of Hamas’ northern Gaza battalions, which are now between a hammer and anvil, the hammer descending from the Mediterranean coast against the anvil of the open spaces on the Israeli border. When the IDF hammer reaches Salah Deen Road, probably on multiple axes, Northern Gaza will have essentially fallen. The Economist already proclaims, “The battle of northern Gaza is almost over.” The buzzards, like Abbas, are already circling overhead in anticipation. “The Palestinian Authority is ready to assume responsibilities in the Gaza Strip as part of a comprehensive political solution for the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said,” according to the Jerusalem Post. The downfall is so calamitous that some analysts now believe Hamas never calculated strategy beyond its Oct 7 raid.
It’s also likely the October 7 attack went further than Hamas anticipated. A retired CAF member who had been stationed in Israel as a Peacekeeper in the 70’s recounted to me how they began each morning by firing a single shot into the air. And each morning, the hills would light up in gunfire in response revealing where the forces opposite had moved to during the night. As he explained – “Once an Arab starts shooting, he can’t stop”.
Friday On Turtle Island
China Virus News: Rand Paul on Covid. I was investigated by counter terrorism agencies.
Corrupt Media News: Bill Gates and The Guardian. Neil Oliver: Lies keep coming.
Dementia Joe’s America: Biden caters to a commie. The Working Families Party. Newsom ignores intelligence warnings. The whitewashing of Xi. Meanwhile in Clownafornia. When Buffy met Barack.
Religion Of Peace News: Hamas supporters trash factory. Muslims cancel Christmas in Bethlehem. Diversity is our strength in Germany (JW). Diversity is our strength in Arizona (JW). Terrorist explains the Palestinian war.
Blackie’s Canada: Gender transition for a 10 year old. The renaming of everything continues. Anti-Semitism in Canadian schools. Our Great Leader is having a wonderful time in San Francisco. Trudeau’s consultants.
Your morning meme. A cartoon. Another cartoon.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including some inadvertent melting; some meaty nourishment; mastering a foreign tongue; how to wage interstellar war; and the perils of conducting a court hearing via Zoom.
November 17, 2023: Reader Tips
Tonight we begin our movies from the 1960’s with Sink the Bismarck (1960).
Your non-sinking tips are very much encouraged!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Toyota Prius converted into camper.
Centrally planned retirement
Most of us are likely familiar with elderly friends and family who are struggling financially with the costs of assisted living, and as the population ages this problem is likely to get worse, not better. What the mainstream media misses, however, is that the real culprit is years of falling interest rates which results in capital being consumed faster than it can be produced. The collapse of defined benefit pensions is but one side effect, and this won’t be remedied by having the state assume responsibility for everyone’s retirement.
Millions of families are facing such daunting life choices — and potential financial ruin — as the escalating costs of in-home care, assisted-living facilities and nursing homes devour the savings and incomes of older Americans and their relatives.
“People are exposed to the possibility of depleting almost all their wealth,” said Richard W. Johnson, director of the program on retirement policy at the Urban Institute.
The prospect of dying broke looms as an imminent threat for the boomer generation, which vastly expanded the middle class and looked hopefully toward a comfortable retirement on the backbone of 401(k)s and pensions. Roughly 10,000 of them will turn 65 every day until 2030, expecting to live into their 80s and 90s as the price tag for long-term care explodes, outpacing inflation and reaching a half-trillion dollars a year, according to federal researchers.
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Well, first they have to make us buy them: National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Speed-Limiting Tech in Cars
Temporary Setback
Global- The Federal Court just overturned Ottawa’s single-use plastic ban
The Federal Court has quashed a cabinet order that listed plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
The court says in a decision released today that it was not reasonable to say all plastic manufactured items are harmful because the category is too broad.
The decision has implications for the government’s ban of six single-use plastic items, including straws, grocery bags and takeout containers.
They’re not going to stop.
If It Wasn’t for Double Standards
There wouldn’t be any standards at all.
Lest We Forget
Can anyone forget this scene from Sunday, February 6th, 2022 when an old man in Ottawa was brutally handled by 2 police officers and then arrested?
Fast forward 1.5 years and all charges against him have been dropped:
A 4ft-10inch great grandfather was handcuffed and arrested by two Canadian cops for honking his horn in support of Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa on Sunday – a day before a judge outlawed blaring horns due to left-wing backlash against the anti-mandate protesters who have been smeared by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as ‘swastika-wavers’.
A bystander filmed while two officers pulled over Gerry Charlebois, 78, for beeping his horn.
‘What did he do wrong?’ the bystander asked. ‘None of your f****** concern, man,’ one officer responded.
h/t James MacMaster
Involuntary Megaslaughter
Loay Alnaji, a computer science professor at Ventura County Community College, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with involuntary manslaughter after he was involved in a deadly confrontation with pro-Israel demonstrator Paul Kessler.
In early November, Kessler died of his wounds following “a physical altercation with counter-protestor(s),” in Los Angeles, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement afterward. “During the altercation, Kessler fell backward and struck his head on the ground. The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be blunt force head injury and the manner of death homicide,” the statement continued.[…]
“We are devastated to learn of the tragic death of an elderly Jewish man who was struck in the head by a megaphone wielded by a pro-Palestinian protestor in Westlake Village.”