Milquetoast

Why was Diane Francis ever hired to write for a supposedly conservative newspaper in the first place? Note that skyrocketing borrowing is not mentioned as the main problem here, but rather Republican efforts to use Debt Ceiling legislation as leverage to restrain spending.

If you don’t feel alarmed yet, just look at the horrors that Diane Francis lists. Horrors, I tell you, horrors!

Some of the Republicans are isolationists and want to use their newfound leverage to slash financial support for the Pentagon and cut military aid for Ukraine.

Legislative control seems prudent, but some Republicans are threatening not to increase the debt limit unless severe cuts are made to Social Security and Medicare.

In a liberal nutshell, debt ceiling legislation is just fine….provided that you unquestioningly raise the debt ceiling limit in perpetuity.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Matt Strauss, MD;

1/ I am glad @bruce_arthur took the time to speak with me about my views and my record.

Unfortunately, his article is full of mistruths and misquotes, starting with the headline.

2/ I did *not* say I won’t “miss public health.”

Based on all the kind farewell notes I have received from professionals in the field this week, I daresay I might be missed back.

3/ I did *not* compare prom to “a living death.” I did *not* “compare mask mandates to the MeToo movement.”

4/ I did *not* say that “only randomized control trials are sufficient evidence for pandemic policy.”

5/ I did *not* say that “vaccine delivery was the only intervention in the pandemic that [I believe] was justified.”

6/ I understand that Bruce and the Toronto Star are in an awkward position. They were wrong about vaccine mandates, wrong about mask mandates, wrong about border restrictions, wrong about school closures.

7/ Haldimand-Norfolk had 30% less Covid mortality over the pandemic than the provincial average. Their success throws the Toronto Star’s mistakes into sharp relief.

8/ I wish @TorontoStar would acknowledge its mistakes, rather than double down by misrepresenting the facts of the matter and my views. I have texted Bruce to try and figure out how my comments were misinterpreted this way but so far no response.

The Libranos: Greed Transition

This is truly pathetic.

On that theme: Justin Trudeau said that buying the F-35s would be a “nightmare” for taxpayers. Now he is buying 88 of them.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

Biden’s America:  Fatherless in America.  The McCarthy and Gaetz episode.  I guess Biden is checking out his investments in Mexico.  Help for Joe Biden.  A Candace video.  Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  More on Dr. Jordan Peterson.  What is going on at Sick Kids Hospital?  The CBC explains, that too many white men receive the Order of Canada.  Never let a tragedy go to waste.

Today In Islam:  Barber jailed for sending COVID cash to ISIS.  Another Biden achievement.  China buys Afghanistan.

China Virus News:  Trust the fake science in Scotland.

Pervert News:  I wonder if Justin will make a guest appearance?  Down Syndrome Drag Shows.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

As I watch my family strike out on foot across the fields into driving rain and gathering darkness, my wife holding each child’s hand, our new year plans in ruins, while I do what I can to make our dead car safe before abandoning it a mile short of home, full of luggage on a country lane, it occurs to me not for the first time that if we are going to save the planet we will have to find another way. Because electric cars are not the answer.

Yes, it’s the Jaguar again. My doomed bloody £65,000 iPace that has done nothing but fail at everything it was supposed to do for more than two years now, completely dead this time, its lifeless corpse blocking the single-track road.\

I can’t even roll it to a safer spot because it can’t be put in neutral.

And this isn’t a car, it’s a laptop on wheels.

The Most Interesting Man In The World

Washington Free Beacon;

An Arkansas court may soon force Hunter Biden to disclose the identities of the buyers of his expensive artwork, information the White House has tried to conceal as it faces accusations of influence peddling.

The recovering crack addict cited “a substantial material change” in his “financial circumstances” in a request to lower his child support payments for four-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, the New York Post reported. That request prompted Navy Joan’s mother, Lunden Roberts, a former exotic dancer at a Washington, D.C., strip club, to formally demand information about Biden’s lucrative art transactions.

“The plaintiff asked for detailed information about the defendant’s works of ‘art’ and the purchasers of the same,” Roberts’s attorney wrote in a Dec. 27 court filing.

The request comes as Biden, a “self-taught” artist, unveils paintings at a gallery in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. One painting, part of Biden’s “Haiku” exhibition, has a price tag of $225,000, which is higher than the selling price for some works by Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.

The White House has faced accusations that Hunter Biden’s art sales present a conflict of interest, allowing anonymous buyers to curry favor with the Biden administration. The administration, which has attempted to shield information about the buyers from the public, has denied the claim, saying buyers’ names would not be revealed to the White House.

Tangentially related – ‘Roughly 10’ classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential days have been discovered in his office in a Washington think tank. AG Garland has assigned a US attorney to investigate.

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Ron’s predictions

In a word, it’s looking bleak out there. Ron Butler is quick out of the gate with his outlook for the Canadian real estate market in the first five minutes of the interview.

“…it would appear that the December numbers that will roll off in Ontario,…in terms of house sales, will fall to the incredibly low point of the height of Covid….We’re talking about catastrophic levels of volume reduction in terms of house sales.”

He goes on to talk about interest rate trends and the economy in general. He believes that rates won’t go much higher, but they won’t go down for at least a year either. Variable rate holders and HELOC users are in for a world of hurt.

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

Having lived in San Francisco full-time for 7 years, I learned a few things: Most of the people there are great. But there is a sizable minority of extremely passive aggressive entitled princesses (male & female) who are unhinged to the extreme and the LEAST open-minded people you’ll ever meet.  Such folks have a thin veneer of “kumbaya” but, in reality, are consumed with deep rage inside, ready to explode at any moment.

Such appears to be the case with a 51 year old woman named Stacey Randecker who went from 0 to 11 on the anger scale in two seconds flat. The reason why is truly unbelievable.

Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia

Post Millenial;

A Dutch investigative report has revealed that the 2006 study upon which the entire medical experiment of child sex changes is based was funded by a maker of puberty blockers.

The NRC article, published on Dec 31, takes aim at the treatment approach known as the “Dutch protocol,” which involves blocking the puberty of adolescents who are suffering from gender dysphoria and forms the basis for the “gender-affirming care” model adopted by pediatric gender clinics all over the world.

The Dutch protocol was the result of a deeply flawed 2006 study which it has now been revealed was funded by Ferring pharmaceuticals, the company that markets the drug Triptorelin as a puberty blocker. 

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