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The actual meteorology of the Kentucky outbreak
Well, actually, they didn’t even wait for the funerals before Biden and the AP were using the tornado outbreak to push their climate virtue signaling agenda.
Never mind that violent tornados have been declining in the last 40 years.
But no weather event that results in tragedy can go unexploited. Bunch of damned ghouls.
On a regional Mensa forum, I posted analysis of problems in education. To my delight, an indignant parent left her assessment of how bad our schools have become. First-person reports from the trenches are the most reliable intelligence you can get about this murky and unintelligent demimonde:
“I read your article and couldn’t agree more. I have lived it with my twins for the last 13 years. I nearly cried when we moved from a NYC public school to a school district in an affluent part of NJ only to find out they had the same mind-numbing constructivist Math program (TERC, Everyday Math, etc.)….As someone who loved Math in school, I couldn’t believe how much I hated and was confused by their math homework. There were many tears and much throwing of pencils across the room….”
People not familiar with our K-12 situation will find this a quick way to catch up.
See short article on American Thinker.
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To those who still believe Jan. 6 was an “attack on our democracy” I say, enjoy your handiwork. You have undermined both common decency and the rule of law. There can be no recovery from this without calamity.
https://apple.news/AFJw3GxerSJ2GZv7kM
Christian Science Monitor tells how Vermont handles the pandemic. And why the have a close to 95% vaccination rate, and maintain business GAINS in 2020. it is a Republican state ,too.
Something to be thankful for.
There is an “argument from externalities” which holds that taxing carbon is a viable approach to reducing CO2 emissions. I reject the argument on the basis that externalities are almost always impossible to define or quantify. Because they are vague, they invite mischievous taxation schemes and market-distorting forms of rent seeking.
To keep everybody honest, externalities should be confined to litigation wherein an aggrieved party can show actual harm.
QAnon is still around, as a thing if not as a persona.
The mysterious Q’s last post was one year ago today, but the discussion forum Q inspired remains active. A safe way to view it on the clear web (as opposed to the dark web, where the original now resides) is here:
Now that all the fuss is over, a few thoughts may be in order.
Continue reading “QAnon”Russia has stated their position on Ukraine quite clearly. They want a binding agreement that Ukraine will not be part of NATO and not be a base for offensive weapons on their border, much as we did with Finland. If we don’t guarantee that, Russia will feel obligated to occupy the nation to preserve it as a buffer.
How is that different from our position on offensive weapons in Cuba, over which we nearly went to war 60 years ago?
This is not a partisan issue, repeated US Presidents have engaged in the same brinkmanship for a long time, but it is beginning to look like Russia is the reasonable player in this contest.
Scott Adams is taking heat in some corners of the Internet for this tweet:
It is way too early to know for sure, but what if Omicron is highly transmissible but non-lethal?
Smallpox was prevented with a vaccine made from Cow Pox, which doesn’t produce serious disease in people. If Omicron doesn’t kill, spreads widely, and leaves you immune to the other variants as well, this is over.
But I’d rather the FDA gets its act together and gets Plaxovid to market immediately.
“Earlier in the pandemic, many different groups expressed hesitancy toward getting vaccinated. African Americans, younger Americans and rural Americans all had significant portions of their demographic that resisted vaccination. But over time, the vaccination rates in those demographics have risen, while the rate of Republican vaccination against COVID-19 has flatlined at just 59%, according to the latest numbers from Kaiser.By comparison, 91% of Democrats are vaccinated.”
Operation Warp Speed, here and its international equivalents, was touted as a big Republican bragging point. What happened?
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