SDA regular, Denise, has sent in the following:
Years ago I clipped an article with the headline “Man Saws Off Foot to Avoid Work.” Bemused by this commitment to an idle lifestyle, It was the epitome of weird. Not anymore. Bizarre human behaviour has gone mainstream. Basement musician and husband James Frazer penned this quirky song describing the peculiar people who populate this clown world. How are we different from squirrels & birds? Listen to Strange Species here.
How much would you pay to see a Taylor Swift or Beyoncé concert? I couldn’t be bothered in any event but price doesn’t seem to be an object for quite a number of concert goers these days. I’ve heard similar things from a friend who looked into purchasing tickets for an Adele concert in Vegas recently but changed his mind after seeing the prices.
A perusal of ticket-purchasing sites makes the sticker shock clear. On reseller Stubhub, the cheapest seat for a July Taylor Swift show in Seattle is $1,200; tickets for an August Mexico City show cost $500 each.
“I had to get nine phone numbers for three different accounts on Ticketmaster under three different credit cards,” said Joel Barrios, a Beyoncé fan in Los Angeles. He spent about $7,000 on three U.S. shows for himself and friends – as well as another $6,650 for several shows in Europe.
The Woke Leftists have NO IDEA what massive can of whoop-ass they’ve just opened up:
Give us pizza or give us death! #pizza #coalovens pic.twitter.com/BphArBzKaC
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 26, 2023
In a real country politicians would be outraged and there would be calls for police to investigate. Rallies for Air India terrorist.
For firewood in Saskatchewan?
https://twitter.com/RoseAlberta1/status/1673386321887256576?
Okay, “firewood providers” but still.
To paraphrase Mark Steyn: you can take the man out of Austria, but you can’t take the Austria out of the man.
The Nuclear Theory You Never Knew Was Nonsense
In 2018, I was asked to submit a paper and make a presentation on the fraud of LNT to a joint meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the Health Physics Society (HPS) on low-level radiation hazards and risk management. I was asked because the organizers of the meeting knew that I was critical of LNT radiation biophysics — I thought it was a crock.
LNT says there is no safe level of radiation exposure, but obviously, the better rule is the rule of Paracelsus: “All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes that a thing is no poison.” (The dose makes the poison.) No threshold of LNT throws that maxim out the window.
My negative attitude about LNT was nurtured by a twenty-plus-year interest in the work of Ed Calabrese, U. Mass Amherst, reigning expert on low-level radiation hazards and the theory of heresies that asserts a tri-phasic effect of exposure of all kinds — 1) a no effect level, 2) a beneficial effect at low exposure levels, and 3) a toxic effect at higher levels of exposure. My medical experience with drug effects shows that same hermetic diphasic effect — drugs have a sweet spot between no effect and toxic effect.
h/t PG
It turns out Mother Nature felt Alberta didn’t need any solar or wind power last night around midnight.
The climate, or perhaps weather, struck back at oil and gas on Monday, with lightning striking an oil battery northeast of Stoughton, Saskatchewan on Monday. Mother Earth gets her revenge about once or twice a summer.
U of R professor Jim Warren writes in Pipeline Online: What can supporters of the conventional energy industry do to stem the tide of public opinion flowing against them? “Catch up”. This is part 4 of 4, concluding this series.
Biden’s America: The depopulation bomb. A new type of Marxism. The Biden crime family. Pride is the flag of American occupation. The trashing of colonialism. A gay sex celebration in Seattle. The lords of lies. Western man and the suicide porn of our age. A rich white man. Your morning meme.
Woke Britain: The kid identifies as a fox. And lawless Britain.
Today In Islam: Hello Muddah, hello Faddah (JW). Muslim mob beats a man to death for blasphemy (JW).
Trudeau’s Canada: Liberals show up at Toronto’s Gay Sex Parade. China’s friend in the Canadian Senate. Another reason not to watch Canadian shows. A government keepsake. The Ze/Zir university. Diverse Toronto goes full communist. Free stuff for everybody!
Lightning struck a oilfield battery near Stoughton SK a few hours ago pic taken by Kris Cheaters #skstorm pic.twitter.com/Erz6aOdADW
— Brandon Houck ⚡️ (@HouckisPokisewx) June 26, 2023
This evening we present Away All Boats (1956).
Your best tips of recent days are appreciated!
We all know that Westerns aren’t accurate representations of Old West history.
Forget about wood fired pizza, peasants, if New York’s edict gains traction. Or maybe far fewer and way more expensive pizza choices. Either way, the impact on CO2 levels will be unmeasurable, but no sacrifice is too great when it comes to stopping climate change.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon emissions by up to 75%.
The rule could require pizzerias with such ovens installed prior to May 2016 to buy pricey emission-control devices — with the owner of one Brooklyn joint saying he’s already tossed $20,000 on an air filter system in anticipation of the new mandate.
Russian Collusion And The Death Of Journalism
Ashley Rindsberg, investigative journalist and author of “The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History,” outlined the broad strokes of the Russian Collusion narrative that was manically propagated by the mainstream media and then quietly ignored after its claims were categorically discredited.
In January 2023, the Columbia Review, a highly respected journalistic publication, published an in-depth review of the “Russiagate” scandal written by industry veteran Jeff Gerth. Gerth concluded that every major claim made about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion was false. “Let’s step back and consider what this means: for some five years, the Mainstream Media, the New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN fed a grotesque lie to the public, that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to subvert an American election.”
A similar fact pattern would emerge in many of the allegations — initial sourcing from opposition research or highly disreputable sources would be referenced by the FBI or other government agents in anonymous statements to the media, who would then parrot the claims as if they were credible because the FBI was investigating them.
Jordan & Tammy Peterson interview Tamara Lich about the Truckers Protest
h/t James MacMaster
