At a distance, it is, of course, difficult to tease apart mischief and mentalism. And even up close, it’s not clear to me how a teacher, dutifully observing the Sensitivities Of The Current Year, could dismiss as mere prankery some farcical claim. As opposed to some other farcical claim.
Where the classroom affirmation of furries and themness can take you.
This evening we travel back to 1959 to examine the Life of the Pennsylvania Dutch
Your Dutch-focused tips are welcome. So are others from other parts of the world!
And then plummeted to the concrete below.
This morning I’m listening to this recent discussion between Viva Frei and Robert Barnes. About 2/3 of the way through, they’re discussing the recent Twitter spat between Dr. Peter Hotez, Joe Rogan, and RFK Jr. According to Barnes:
It’s somewhat of a mystery why Hotez, who has appeared on Rogan’s podcast before, is refusing to debate RFK Jr. on the show now.
If ya can’t abort em, sterilize em: Planned Parenthood is now the second-largest provider of cross sex hormones in the US.
Planned Parenthood collaborated with now-Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, along with gender clinics and LGBT groups, in its effort to provide cross-sex hormones at its clinics, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Levine, who was acting secretary of health for Pennsylvania in 2017, ran a working group of medical providers and LGBT activists called the Transgender Health Working Group, which included representatives from Planned Parenthood, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) gender clinic and the Mazzoni Center. Levine’s office played an active role in connecting a local Planned Parenthood affiliate with transgender clinics throughout the year it began offering hormones, documents obtained through public records requests show.
The collaboration was part of a broader push from Levine’s office to promote cross-sex treatments that coincided with a meteoric rise in state funding for the procedures, including for children. Six years later, Levine is now a high-ranking Biden official with power to steer federal policy on health care.
“This is such a dangerous ideology, far from any form of health care or medical science,” PA Family communications director Dan Bartkowiak told the DCNF. “Anyone responsible for overseeing the push for more children permanently harmed by these drugs and irreversible surgeries should not be in public office, let alone be given promotion to higher office.”
Related: Now 18, Kayla Lovdahl is suing the medical professionals responsible for her transition more than five years ago – claiming doctors spent just 75 minutes vetting her before setting out on the life-altering ordeal.
U of R professor Jim Warren asks about freezing in the dark, 2023 Version. How many do Canadians do Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault anticipate the “just transition” will kill?
Also, on Friday a Wisconsin First Nation (what they call “tribe”) was successful in getting a judge to punt Enbridge Line 5 off their land, but gave them three years to do so. Given how long it takes to get environmental approval for anything pipeline, that could be a tall order. But the fact this order was given in the first place could be an enormous precedent in the US. If tribes can retroactively punt mainline pipelines off their land, there will be utter chaos. Think Standing Rock, times 100.
As anyone who has watched the TV series The Curse of Oak Island knows, ground penetrating radar isn’t quite the equivalent of Superman’s X-Ray vision. But according to journalists at APTN, the problem does not lie with the limitations of the technology, but rather with some dastardly people seizing on these limitations to disrupt a narrative.
Indigenous communities searching for unmarked graves with ground-penetrating radar have encountered a rising number of individuals questioning, or outright denying, that children disappeared or died in residential schools, says a new report from an independent special interlocutor.
… First Nations that have detected possible unmarked graves are exploring the possible options. Many communities are hoping to avoid disturbing the sites even more.
Upon discovery of a possible crime scene, wouldn’t the first priority be to have forensic investigators exhume and examine the remains? Apparently not, since that would “undermine” things. Far better to obscure the issue with a rambling discussion about actual versus potential:
“It’s also really dangerous because we do know how to distinguish a rock from a potential grave. But sometimes when denialists get a hold of some of these narratives, they use that to undermine.”
These current and former Members of Parliament undermined Canadian security and democracy by seeking to stop CSIS pursuing People’s Republic of China interference in Canadian elections [in 2010]. They tried to get then CSIS Director Richard Fadden fired for publicly warning about Chinese electoral interference.
Each of them owe Canadians and Mr Fadden an apology, and we ought to ask some serious questions about any potential relationships they have with Chinese Communist Party and United Front members.
See the shocking report from the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security here and with screen-shots below…
A suggestion if you’re early Christmas shopping for the teenager or member of parliament in the family. Judith Curry has a new book out: Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response
Victor Davis Hanson writes about the illegal efforts of Ukrainians.
Biden’s America: The Fetterman and Biden show (JW). Trusting the science. Self-assembling nanoparticles. Joe’s joke military. Soros wants another migrant crisis in Europe. A Clinton grifter. Biden’s DOJ wants police to stop fighting crime. A vote for Biden is really a vote for President Harris. Your morning meme. Bonus meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: CBC explains climate anxiety. And the CBC celebrates grooming kids in Hamilton. Global News promotes mental illness. A parent speaks out. The Moms for Liberty. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Nova Scotia. There he will rant about global warming and wildfires or something. Need Africans to save French.
Woke Britain: Sex education in schools. I identify as a cat.
Today In islam: Muslim shoots priest in the back (JW). Some Islamic outreach in Austria (JW).
Global Warming Scam News: Global warming turns out to be a guy named Ed.
Tonight we remember The 8 Track Revolution
Your tips on any track are most welcome!
"The weather agency issued a snowfall warning for Highway 93 in Banff National Park from Lake Louise, Alta., to Saskatchewan River Crossing, Alta., and from Jasper, Alta., to Saskatchewan River Crossing."#ableg #abpolihttps://t.co/swoS0TPbfD
— Alberta Institute (@AB_Institute) June 19, 2023
…has executed a near flawless energy policy. It produces more than 90% of its electricity from carbon-free hydropower, with the balance coming from other renewable resources like wind. The country’s nearly 1,700 hydroelectric dams are buttressed by approximately 1,000 water reservoirs that collectively represent a backup power supply equivalent to 70% of its annual consumption. Norway produces so much clean electricity that it routinely exports a meaningful amount to its neighbors in Europe. Most Norwegian homes are warmed in the winter using heat pumps or electric heaters, and more than 90% of its new vehicle sales are either full battery electric (BEV) or plugin hybrids (PHEV). In essence, Norway is an “electrify everything” green utopia.
Norway is also blessed with an abundance of oil and natural gas reserves—far more than it could ever consume domestically— and the country has been incredibly thoughtful as to how it exploits its resources and who ultimately benefits from them. In 1990, the Norwegian parliament passed legislation creating what is now the Government Pension Fund Global, and surplus revenues from its petroleum sector have been swept into it ever since. The fund is used to dampen the impact of economic volatility on government budget planning, diversify the country’s wealth beyond its borders, and secure the well-being of its future generations. As of March 31, 2023, the fund had a value of $1.36 trillion, or approximately $250,000 per citizen.
Given this fact set, the data on Norway’s annual oil consumption may come as a surprise.
Earlier this year, the Grocery Gazette reported that the UK was set to be a world-leading developer of lab-grown meat. In the recent past, Guardian climate hysteric George Monbiot claimed lab-grown food “will soon destroy farming – and save the planet”. Alas, such boosterism is being challenged by hard facts. Lab-grown meat is up to 25 times worse for the environment since it needs ‘pharmaceutical-grade’ production to make it fit for human consumption. In particular, there is a need to remove endotoxin from the cultured mix, a substance that in concentrations as low as one billionth of a gram per millilitrie can reduce human IVF pregnancy success rate by up to four fold.
These are the startling conclusions of ground-breaking work recently published by a group of chemists and food scientists from the University of California. It turns out that ‘pharma to food’ production is a significant technological challenge. The major problem with lab meat is that it uses growth organisms that have to be highly purified to help animal cells multiply. Compared with environmental savings on land, water and greenhouses gases, the whole bio-process is noted to be “orders of magnitude” higher than rearing the actual animal.
The promoters never really explain how they plan to feed the “meat”.
The cells will start to divide after they are cultured in an appropriate culture medium, which will provide nutrients, hormones and growth factors. The best medium is known to contain fetal bovine serum (FBS), a serum made from the blood of a dead calf, which is going to be rate-limiting, and not acceptable for vegetarians nor vegans. More than one trillion cells can be grown, and these cells naturally merge to form myotubes which are no longer than 0.3 mm; the myotubes are then placed in a ring growing into a small piece of muscle tissue…
They want you to assume that petri dish proteins just grow on their own like magic.
The irony is thick here.
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.
They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.
This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property that had – like many others being flown around the country – been intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
Biden’s America: Who appointed you Pope? The Queer Constitution. A transgender children’s book. The John Fetterman farce. On the front lines. White leftist threatens black reporter. Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Destroying Canada’s history. Lesbian cabinet minister wants online censorship. Leftist violence in Calgary. The 10 billion dollar Indian settlement in Ontario. A Line 5 court order.
Today In Islam: Muslim outreach in Uganda (JW). An Indiana woman (JW).
Neil Oliver: The misery unfolds.