The first openly transgender person elected to public office in New Hampshire has been jailed on charges related to stalking a victim who had a protective order against him. Stacie Laughton’s arrest comes just days after he was re-elected to the New Hampshire House as a Democrat.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Humans mined 700 million tons of copper over the last 5,000 years.
The same 700 million tons will need to be mined over the next 22 years to meet energy transition targets using wind, solar, & electric vehicles.
And mining runs on diesel.
From ice we came, to ice we shall return
Ask a farmer about rocks. He’ll tell you all about them. Then ask him where he came from.
The answer is the retreating glacial ice sheet that once covered nearly all of Saskatchewan. The ice melted, the rocks in it got dumped in glacial till (the top layer of our land in nearly all of Saskatchewan). And that’s why your combine just chewed a rock. The climate changed, the ice left rocks, and your combine ate it.
Letter to the editor: 25,000 years from now, most of Canada will likely be covered by ice sheets, again. As it was 25,000 years ago
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
Its a good thing we have Little Potato to protect us.
It’s Tuesday On Turtle Island
Woke Britain: PETA celebrates Christmas. Schools must instill female traits in boys. Civil servants should have heating paid for at home. The eco-terrorists are getting creative.
Woke New Zealand: Maybe this is what Justin and Ardern were discussing in Asia. It would keep both in power forever. Lowering the voting age to 16.
Biden’s America: The Paul Pelosi story. The U.S. is a functional oligarchy. Thanksgiving and genocide. Joe Biden’s fascist regime. Your morning meme.
Fight For Socialism News: Rebranded Marxism.
Trudeau’s Canada: Mining is not allowed in this country. CBC explains that we must give up our cars and live in concrete apt. blocks. White historical leaders must be erased from Canada’s history. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Toronto. Question: Does anyone spew more carbon into the air than Trudeau?
World Premiere: Died Suddenly
From Kate – Don’t turn your brains off when watching these. At least one of the examples of a collapse – Florida Gators basketball player Keyontae Johnson – was filmed pre-covid. He returned to the court this year. That’s a clue that the video was created to grift or to discredit. Maybe both.
Poetic Justice
The Simulation does have a mean streak.
A criminal justice reform advocate who helped pass sweeping changes to the criminal code including reducing sentences for those convicted of crimes in Washington, D.C., was shot and killed in the city last Tuesday, just hours before the city council passed the bill.
Kelvin Blowe, 32, worked as a policy and advocacy associate at DC Justice Lab and testified before the DC city council about reforming the city’s justice system.
Around 5:25 a.m. on Nov. 15, he was on the way home from his job as a security guard when he was shot and killed in the southeastern part of the city.
“It’s kind of hard to put into words what it feels like to see his work come to fruition without being able to share in that celebration with him,” Patrice Sulton, Executive Director DC Justice Lab, told Fox 5 DC. “In some ways the timing of it is an added injury on top of the loss. And I think we lost a really powerful voice in a really important movement and that’s not something that we’ll be able to replace.”
The city council passed the criminal justice overhaul hours after his death. If it is signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser, then it will get rid of most mandatory minimum sentences, expand who is eligible for jury trials, and reduce maximum penalties for burglaries, carjackings and robberies, according to the Washington Post.
November 22, 2022: Reader Tips
On November 22, 1963, at 12:30 PM, on Elm Street in downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade slowly approached a triple underpass. Shots rang out. The President was struck in the back, then in the head. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where fifteen doctors tried to save him. At 1 PM, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was pronounced dead. On board Air Force One, at 2:38 PM, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President.
Your latest tips, which might be historic 50+ years from now, are appreciated.
Bonus: If you’ve never been to Buc-ees, you truly don’t know what you’ve been missing!
Blog Notes
I’ve tweaked the comments a little — enabled avatars and downgraded the number of links allowed in a comment to a maximum of two before it goes to moderation (which I don’t bother checking, because I don’t have time).
So — if your comment goes to moderation or you think it’s been deleted, reflect on what might have sent it there. 95% of the time, it’s the software: you used a term that the filter doesn’t like, or dropped too many links. It’s annoying, but it’s just how it has to be to prevent filling the place with spam. And if it was a blog author who deleted your comment because you insulted them — try a different approach, Einstein.
On that note, I remind that minority of regulars who insist on engaging in insults and namecalling that you need to stop. Quit pissing on the carpet. Stay on topic. You know who you are.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Associated Press scared much of the world last Tuesday when it alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”
That report, which was widely cited across the internet and on cable news, was taken offline the following day and replaced with an editor’s note admitting the single source was wrong and that “subsequent reporting showed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defense against a Russian attack.”
On Monday, the AP fired James LaPorta, the investigative reporter responsible for that story, Confider has learned.
The piece, which was originally co-bylined with John Leicester (who is still working at the AP), attributed the information to a single “senior U.S. intelligence official,” despite the AP’s rule that it “routinely seeks and requires more than one source when sourcing is anonymous.”
The only exception, according to its statement of news values and principles, is when “material comes from an authoritative figure who provides information so detailed that there is no question of its accuracy”— a situation that seemingly did not occur, as the report was fully retracted last Wednesday.
I wonder who that might have been. Discussion here.
The Repeated Failures of the American Left’s Covid Policies
Wither logic, wither science, wither honesty.
“Brought to You by Pfizer”
Some Questions About the G20 Vaccine Passport Declaration
The recent vaccine passport declaration “passed” at the G20 should be disturbing to every Canadian, at least those who have not spent the past 2.5 years acting like sheeple.
Here are some open questions:
- What is the stated position by Pierre Poilievre on this?
- What are the stated positions on this by other Conservative MPs?
- Have any lawsuits be launched against Trudeau and anyone else from Canada who signed it?
- Will the Conservatives be demanding a referendum on this declaration?
Rand Paul sets forth an example of what Canadian Conservatives should be saying … loudly & endlessly.
Infinity Mortgages
In the short term, this gambit allows banks to delay the embarrassing possibility of insolvency. In the longer term, it may mean that mortgage holders will never own their home. Welcome to the new economy!
But with TD and CIBC variable-rate mortgages, borrowers may be allowed to go past the trigger rate and stick with payments that don’t even cover the full amount of the interest owed, up to a certain threshold. The unpaid portion of the interest is deferred and added to the mortgage principal and the borrower’s loan balance grows, or negatively amortizes.
The fact that CMHC rules allow for balances on insured mortgages to grow past the original amount raises questions, said Ben Rabidoux, founder of market-research firm North Cove Advisors.
“Is that prudent?” Mr. Rabidoux asked, saying CMHC is a “manager of risk on behalf of Canadian taxpayers” in the housing market.
There’s one problem with that last statement: central planners cannot manage risk; they exist primarily to force it upon the unwilling.
This Is The Way
Pizzagate, Come Back!
Safe and Effective®
More than a year after the FDA added heart inflammation warnings to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — amid the second academic year of campus vaccine mandates on a demographic at higher risk of severe adverse events — vaccine makers are finally studying the long-term consequences of vaccine-induced myocarditis and pericarditis.
Moderna already has two trials running, while Pfizer said its first trial will start “in the next couple months” and include up to 500 teenagers and young adults under 21, NBC News reported last week. Neither has disclosed the studies on their websites.
The CDC isn’t much further ahead in studying long-term post-vaccination harm. In late September, the agency started contacting people who meet the case definition of myocarditis and have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System.
While an “independent entity” should be reviewing long-term consequences, it’s “puzzling” why Pfizer and Moderna waited so long to follow through on the FDA’s approval conditions, said MIT professor Retsef Levi, lead author of a study on post-vaccination “emergency” heart problems in 16-39 year-olds in highly vaccinated Israel.
“My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea”.
Numeracy is racist!
Since we obviously stole it from the Arabs, how long will it take for our numeric system to be completely banned from Western schools? Probably not that long, given current trends.
Oxford has announced it is “decolonizing” computer science courses over alleged slavery links to machine learning.
The faculty, one of the oldest computer science centers in the UK, says there is “a growing awareness” that “new technologies can have adverse effects on individuals, communities and whole societies”.
No revolution, however, would be complete without eating its own children:
But the department, headed by Prof Leslie Ann Goldberg, has come under fire for being “colonized” itself by American radical critical racial theories.
The Most Interesting Man In The World
CBS News has obtained data from a laptop purported to have belonged to Hunter Biden. The data came directly from the source who said they provided it to the FBI under subpoena.@CBS_Herridge shares what was found during an independent forensic review.pic.twitter.com/RFi1OVRldG
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) November 21, 2022
The New Class
Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas called these party hacks the “New Class,” noting that instead of workers and peasants against capitalists, it was now a case of workers and peasants being ruled by a managerial new class of technocrats who, while purporting to act for the benefit of the workers and peasants, somehow wound up with the lion’s share of the goodies. Workers and peasants stood in long lines for bread and shoddy household goods, while party leaders and government managers bought imported delicacies in special, secret stores. (In a famous Soviet joke, then-leader Leonid Brezhnev shows his mother his luxury apartment, his limousine, his fancy country house and his helicopter only to have her object: “But what if the communists come back?”) . . .
But the New Class isn’t limited to communist countries, really. Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements. And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change.