SDA’s 2022 Naughty & Nice List

Baiting The Left Mischief Is Important 52 Comments

After consulting a few SDA regulars, here are 2 lists for your consideration and critique:

The Naughty List
– Vijaya Gadde
– Yoel Roth +
– Jack Dorsey
– Anthony Fauci
– Rochelle Walensky
– Justin Trudeau
– Chrystia Freeland
– Theresa Tam
– Albert Bourla
– Mark Rutte
– Katie Hobbs
– Larry Fink
– Jim Watson
– Steve Bell
– Brenda Lucki
– Taylor Lorenz
– Nina Jankowicz

The Nice List
– Elon Musk
– Matt Taibbi
– Bari Weiss
– Jay Bhattacharya
– Chaya Raichik
– Dave Rubin
– Kari Lake
– Glenn Greenwald
– Tamara Lich
– Vivek Ramaswamy

Note: There were some obvious people who were deliberately kept off this list to avoid the comments discussion going off the rails.

Who are some others that should have been added?

My Woke Will Go On

Embrace Hollywood The Tolerant Left 24 Comments

[James] Cameron is one of Hollywood’s most eco-aware celebrities, and he’s putting millions into that sentiment. He made his “Way of Water” cast go vegan, invested in plant-based food initiatives and is spending his Hollywood capital on message projects like “The Game Changers.”

Respect the environment … or else. Except he hasn’t stopped there.

Recently, Cameron extolled the pregnant female warriors in “The Way of Water,” saying they trump the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it comes to female empowerment. Next, he blasted male testosterone, calling it a “toxin” that needs to be purged from the body.

None of that woke messaging protected him from even more woke critics.

Some New Heroes Are Coming to the Fore

Baiting The Left 6 Comments

An emerging name in the anti-woke movement that you may not be so familiar with is Vivek Ramaswamy. He wrote Woke, Inc.. This past year he started an asset management firm called Strive. Strive creates opportunities for investors to “invest in the stock market without mixing business with politics”. The old Milton Freedman idea that “There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”  Strive launched an ETF called “DRLL” which exclusively invests in US energy. It’s a vehicle for investors to counter the fossil fuel divestment campaigns. Strive wrote a powerful letter to the Chevron board suggesting that they pursue a “post-ESG” mandate. In other words, instead of kowtowing to environmental activists like Larry Fink, they focus on selling oil and gas and making money for their shareholders.

Guest post by William McNally

Race To The Bottom

Children R Our Future entitlement generation Khmer Noir 18 Comments

City Journal;

For years, two administrators at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) have been withholding notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s families, most of them Asian, thus denying students the right to use those awards to boost their college-admission prospects and earn scholarships.

This episode has emerged amid the school district’s new strategy of “equal outcomes for every student, without exception.” School administrators, for instance, have implemented an “equitable grading” policy that eliminates zeros, gives students a grade of 50 percent just for showing up, and assigns a cryptic code of “NTI” for assignments not turned in. It’s a race to the bottom.

An intrepid Thomas Jefferson parent, Shawna Yashar, a lawyer, uncovered the withholding of National Merit awards. Since starting as a freshman at the school in September 2019, her son, who is part Arab American, studied statistical analysis, literature reviews, and college-level science late into the night. This workload was necessary to keep him up to speed with the advanced studies at TJ, which U.S. News & World Report ranks as America’s top school.

Last fall, along with about 1.5 million U.S. high school juniors, the Yashar teen took the PSAT, which determines whether a student qualifies as a prestigious National Merit scholar. When it came time to submit his college applications this fall, he didn’t have a National Merit honor to report — but it wasn’t because he hadn’t earned the award.

It’s Thursday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 19 Comments

Woke Britain:  Time to change the lyrics of Christmas carols.  The Karens are upset about the all white Aladdin.

Biden’s America:  Public schools during Christmas time.  The reparations are not enough.  A Brittney Griner’s homecoming.  Biden to provide funds for tracking microaggressions on social media.  The woke comic books.  Victor Davis Hanson explains why universities are doomed.  Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Justin’s CBC is excited about Halal mortgages.  Despite Islamophobia Brampton will get a new mosque.  The renaming of everything in Canada continues.  Communist Edmonton to spend millions on bike lanes.  Rex Murphy writes about the latest Trudeau ethics scandal.

Today In Islam:  Socialist government in Australia provides money to spread Islam.  Far left Muslima elected to Ohio legislature.

Global Warming Scam News:  No one should enjoy Christmas during a climate emergency.  A global warming emergency in the UK.

Honey, I Finished The Coffee Grinder

stuff 33 Comments

There’s an International Harvester deep freeze in my brother’s basement that dates to the 1950’s. Still running.

About five years ago, for seven dollars, I bought an old citrus juicer at a thrift shop. It was one of those vintage small appliances which seem built to survive gas explosions and hammer attacks. When I turned on the motor with a metal toggle switch, a drive shaft spun a heavy ceramic knob that gouged out the hearts of lemon and orange halves, leaving not a scrap of pulp uncrushed. The thing worked beautifully, almost like new, so I looked up its serial number on the internet to see when the unit was manufactured, guessing it might be almost 40 years old. 

Wrong. It dated to the 1940s. It was 70, the stubborn monster, still giving satisfaction with every use.

The New Economy

Great Moments In Socialism It's Probably Nothing 24 Comments

Self-inflicted assault, perhaps. When interest rates were falling to zero, there were very few complaints. When the cycle inverts, the wealth effect turns into a wealth siphon.

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