It is really strange that anyone would object to a film like ‘Sound of Freedom’.
Unless of course, those who object have … well … creepy connections to pedophile groups and have attempted to make pedophiles sound like the real victims here.
Leader Of The Free World
BIDEN: *mumbling* pic.twitter.com/OF6YvAHg5l
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2023
Everything Is Fine
Who are you going to believe? Us or your own lying eyes?
Amazing story telling by the camera operator here.
— Blaise (@boehmerB) July 18, 2023
BTW, that’s Deborah Flint CEO Toronto Airport Authority.
“an invented term with a bogus pedigree”
The ‘two-spirit’ identity is based on a crackpot rewriting of Native American history.
The term two-spirit was first formally endorsed at a conference of Native American gay activists in 1990 in Winnipeg in Canada. It is a catch-all term to cover over 150 different words used by the various Indian tribes to describe what we think of today as gay, trans or various forms of gender-bending, such as cross-dressing. Two-spirit people, the conference declared, combine the masculine and the feminine spirits in one.
From the start, the whole exercise reeked of mystical hooey. Myra Laramee, the woman who proposed the term in 1990, said it had been given to her by ancestor spirits who appeared to her in a dream. The spirits, she said, had both male and female faces.
Incredibly, three decades on, there are now celebrities and politicians who endorse the concept or even identify as two-spirit. The term has found its way into one of Joe Biden’s presidential proclamations and is a constant feature of Canadian premier Justin Trudeau’s doe-eyed bleating about ‘2SLGBTQQIA+ rights’.
Read the whole, ridiculous thing.
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
Roger Pielke Jr: A whistleblower shares shocking details of corruption of peer review in climate science
I have been contacted by a whistleblower with a remarkable story of corruption of the academic peer-review process involving a paper published in 2022. The whistleblower has provided me with relevant emails, reviews and internal deliberations from which I recount this disturbing episode — which ends with an unwarranted and politically-motivated retraction of a paper that some climate scientists happened to disagree with.
The paper at the center of this story is not particularly significant, as it mainly reviews the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on trends in weather extremes. The paper does venture a bit too far (in my view) into commentary, but that is neither unique nor a basis for retracting a paper – if it were we’d have a lot of retractions!
To be clear, there is absolutely no allegation of research fraud or misconduct here, just simple disagreement. Instead of countering arguments and evidence via the peer reviewed literature, activist scientists teamed up with activist journalists to pressure a publisher – Springer Nature, perhaps the world’s most important scientific publisher – to retract a paper. Sadly, the pressure campaign worked.
The abuse of the peer review process documented here is remarkable and stands as a warning that climate science is as deeply politicized as ever with scientists willing to exert influence on the publication process both out in the open and behind the scenes.
The Greatest Canadian
please please please please…
#TommyDouglas, founding leader of @NDP, is under review as historic figure due to “controversial beliefs and behaviour,” according to Historic Sites and Monuments Board. https://t.co/TjGWBg0r8G @RealKiefer #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/LhK6P4DFTO
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) July 18, 2023
This is too delicious for words.
Down The Primrose Path
A thread by Franz-Stefan Gady;
@konrad_muzyka , @RALee85 , @KofmanMichael, & I spent some time this month visiting the frontlines in Ukraine to gain new insights into the ongoing counteroffensive & the war overall. Here are some general observations… we spoke to NCOs, officers, a number of brigade commanders (national guard & regular army) in the field plus senior intel & defense officials in Kyiv.
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The narrative that Ukrainian progress thus far is slow just because of a lack of weapons deliveries and support is monocausal & is not shared by those we spoke to actually fighting & exercising command on the frontline.
Good Question
Trust the “experts”.
Maryanne Demasi, reports- What’s in the placebo?
We tried to find out what was in the “placebo pill” of one of the most controversial statin trials ever conducted.
…the exact formulation of a placebo is rarely disclosed in the peer-reviewed publication of a clinical trial. Further, medical journals do not require authors, nor drug manufacturers, to disclose the contents of a placebo or publish the CoA. Placebos may contain excipients such as chemicals, dyes, or allergens, which might unintentionally cause side effects, raising concerns about the reliability of trial data and the transparency of important information.
Fear-Mongering Over High Temperatures
Neil Oliver and Dan Wootton on the incessant attempt to keep us frightened.
Update from Kate, via Roger Pielke Jr.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: Old Joe and Kamala Harris honour a racist. A transgender bank robber. Welcome Walmart shoppers. The elites are panicking. Kamala Harris blasts Republicans. AG compares Clarence Thomas to house slave. How China controls the DOJ. Your morning meme.
Global Warming Scam News: The climate playbook is replete with hollow morals. The Just Stop Oil lunatics. Biden’s John Kerry praises China. A related meme.
Woke Britain: Christian councillor suspended. A family theme park drag show.
Today In Islam: A girl can marry from the age of nine (JW). Which has done more damage to America? (JW)
Trudeau’s Canada: Get ready to eat bugs. The gender affirming care for federal workers. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to diverse Toronto. His loyal media will make sure nothing negative is reported. A public sector holiday grows. Will this upset the Liberal/NDP coalition?
Mama Needs Her Hit
Ah, but “highly gendered” and “offspring-focussed” health care – for pregnant women and their babies – makes it “challenging” for sexually dysmorphic women who wish to be perceived as men, even while heavily pregnant. In short, “Screw the wellbeing of the baby, the inhibited lactation, and the risk of serious birth defects. Just jack me up on testosterone and refer to me as Sir.”
I paraphrase, of course. But nowhere near as much as one might hope.
On the unspeakable; on pronoun leverage; and on “queered” health care.
Reader Tips
Make them good ones.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Embrace Hollywood!
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.“ – Michael Moore
Former Paramount CEO Barry Diller delivered a grim prediction for Hollywood on Sunday, warning that the industry is facing an “absolute collapse” if the Writers’ and Screen Actors Guild joint strike extends into the fall.
“What will happen is, if in fact, it doesn’t get settled until Christmas or so, then next year, there’s not going to be many programs for anybody to watch. So, you’re gonna see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these movie companies, television companies, the result of which is that there will be no programs,” Diller said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “And at just the time, [the] strike is settled that you want to get back up, there won’t be enough money.”
Well, that’s a story I suppose.
Created by Geniuses, Inherited by Morons
Bad Information, mass formation
Thank God the CBC has our back when it comes to misinformation and “media-literacy”. Anyone with even a tenuous grasp of basic logic can ferret out the double standards contained in the article. To add to the putrid mix, the bizarrely named MediaSmarts spokesman is invited to weigh in with these examples of twisted logic:
“Disinformation quite often is true information that is presented in a misleading context, like a genuine photo that’s presented as being from a different time and place than it actually was,” he said.
“Knowing how to use fact-checking tools is one of the quickest and most efficient ways of finding out whether a claim has already been verified or debunked.”
Fact-checkers? Anyone with a Facebook account already knows what their purpose is, and it’s not to add to the free flow of information.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
It couldn’t possibly be its complete and utter uselessness, no not that: Ford Slashes Price of Electric F-150 as Demand Weakens
Ford Motor on Monday reduced prices of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck by between $6,000 and nearly $10,000, the latest sign of sluggish demand for electric vehicles.
The price cuts come as inventories of unsold electric vehicles are rising on dealer lots, and follow several rounds of discounting by Tesla, the dominant seller of electric cars.
Ford is lowering prices after it temporarily halted production of the truck this year to upgrade its assembly line and increase output. By the fall, the company expects its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center near Detroit to be able to churn out 150,000 Lightnings a year, triple its current production capacity.
Competition in the electric vehicle business is growing more intense. Tesla said on Saturday that it had started producing its much delayed Cybertruck pickup, and General Motors is expected to soon begin delivering an electric version of the Chevrolet Silverado truck.
Ford began making the Lightning in the spring of 2022 and raised prices several times by a total of around $20,000, citing increasing cost of raw materials for its batteries.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Trudeau got booed when he tried making a speech at the 2023 North American Indigenous Games pic.twitter.com/M4LmJZjPf2
— Hussein Ebrahim (@therealhebrahim) July 17, 2023
Yes, it’s real.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
