The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 37)
March 4, 2022
THE GOOD
KARMA: Top Russian general killed in Ukraine.
VERY GOOD ESSAY ON A VERY BAD DUDE: Vladimir Putin, Tyrant.
DISCOVERING WHAT’S OUT THERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS A VERY COOL THING: Possible 3rd planet spotted around Proxima Centauri, the sun’s nearest neighbor star.
INTERESTING ARTICLE ON A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC: 'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves'
NOW YOU CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ALFERD PACKER STORY. The Sierra Mountains in California get a ton of snow: Couple and dog saved from remote cabin after being snowed in nearly two months
THERE IS A WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE BURIED IN LOTS OF CAVES ALL OVER THE WORLD. We need to discover what’s in the skies and what’s below: French cave reveals evidence of first modern humans in Europe
GOOD: Federal Court Rules In Favor of Navy SEALs Who Rejected Vax
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: The Science Behind Why Children Fare Better With Covid-19
THE REDNECK INTELLECTUAL DOES NOT CONDONE THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOR, BUT HE IS IMPRESSED BY THE BOY’S CHUTZPAH: Boy, 9, googles how to sneak onto a plane, ends up flying 2,000 miles
A SERIOUS AND THOUGHTFUL ESSAY BY MY OLD AND DEAR FRIEND, BRADFORD P. WILSON (James Madison Program, Princeton), AND HIS OLD AND DEAR FRIEND, JEFF POELVOORDE (Converse College): Finding the Mean Between Political Extremes
THE BAD
THEY (I.E., THE CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH THE REACTIONARY RIGHT) TOLD US THAT WE SHOULD STOP WORRYING ABOUT MUNDANE ISSUES SUCH AS THE DEBT AND INFLATION. They were wrong. They are roaring back and they are going to bite us in that place where the sun does not shine. The 3 Greatest Economic Threats Facing America in 2022 (and Beyond)
CIVILIZATIONAL DECLINE AND FALL. Every year we drop a little bit, which means we lose a little bit of our freedoms. Heritage Foundation: U.S. Economic Freedom At Lowest Point Ever.
In just one year of Joe Biden’s presidency, America’s economic freedom index has fallen to its lowest point ever in the survey’s history.
In its annual survey, the Heritage Foundation reports that the U.S. has fallen 2.7 points to an all-time low score of 72.1 and has hit its lowest rank globally of 25th place among nations with the freest economies. The 25th ranking is down from ranking 20th a year ago. Despite the drop in economic freedom, “the Biden administration is still barreling full steam ahead to implement a socialist agenda that would add trillions to the debt, hike taxes, and centralize more federal power over the economy.”
The survey, launched by the Heritage Foundation in 1995, scores countries based on government size, regulatory efficiency, and open markets.
I’M PRETTY SURE THIS IS NOT TRUE, BUT, HEY, IT IS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND WHAT THE HELL DO I KNOW! ‘I Have The Biggest D*ck In Chicago,’ Lori Lightfoot Brags
I THINK I’LL STICK WITH REALITY AS IT IS. It’s worked out pretty well so far: Individuality will dissolve into mindless conformity...
WELCOME TO THE CLOWN SHOW. Children are being incinerated by Russian bombs and CBS thinks this is a story about a “war within a war.” Pretty sure the reporter who did this report went to Yale: CBS News Does Story About Transphobia in Ukraine as Bombs Fall on Country.
GEE, DO YA THINK? Education activists: Dems' flip-flop on mask mandates motivated by 'political science'
As Democrats change tune on mask mandates, education activists argue the policy shift is based on “political science” motivations rather than scientific evidence.
Democrat politicians’ change in tune regarding mask mandates is an attempt to help their case politically, Fight for Schools Executive Director and America First Legal Senior Adviser Ian Prior told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“When far left politicians and their legacy media allies talked about following the data and science, what they really meant was following the polling data and the political science,” Prior said. “Parents are not going to fall for this kind of gaslighting, now or ever.”
THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IS THE ONE LAW THAT THE “SMARTS” NEVER THINK ABOUT WHEN THEN MAKE DISASTROUSLY STUPID LAWS. This article only deals with children who have hearing and speech disorders (e.g., Joubert Syndrome), but the moral crime here applies to all young children learning how to read. The English language/alphabet is phonetic, which means that children must see the mouths, lips, and tongues of their reading teachers and they must clearly hear how their teachers and fellow students enunciate the phonemes of the English alphabet. If you know anything about how children learn to read, then you know that masking teachers and small children could only lead to a reading disaster. And, to be clear, if you supported masking young children and their teachers, then you are morally responsible for the result: Speech Therapy Shows the Difficult Tradeoffs of Wearing Masks.
THE GOVERNMENT LIED AND PEOPLE DIED. That kinda-sorta seems to be what happened, no?. New study: Pfizer COVID shot converts into DNA in human cells!
TURNS OUT IT’S BEEN A PANDEMIC OF THE VACCINATED. The Covid Cartel Lied, People Died. Now They Say It’s All Your Fault
In July 2021, President Biden, members of his administration, and the rest of the Covid cartel – federal health agencies, Big Pharma, legacy media, and Big Tech – began blaming the unvaccinated for the prolonged pandemic and calling it a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” . . .
The timing of scapegoating the unvaccinated for the ongoing pandemic was no coincidence. For anyone paying attention and not blinded by the siren song of Fauci, it was becoming apparent that the vaccines were not as safe or effective as we all hoped and prayed they would be. Because the Covid cartel was so vested in vaccines as the only solution to the coronavirus, evidence that their strategy was failing required a response. . . .
The American people were manipulated and turned against each other to hide government mismanagement, while many died unnecessary deaths due to suppression of early treatment options. Countless workers had to choose between losing their jobs or being coerced into accepting a medical treatment – Covid vaccination – they preferred to refuse. Businesses were disrupted, closed, and harmed, and the fabric of American society was deeply scarred.
To add insult to injury, on Feb. 7, 2022, the National Terrorism Advisory System issued a bulletin summarizing a new terrorism threat to the U.S. homeland which included “false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM).” According to Biden’s Department of Homeland Security, the justification for this statement includes “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding … COVID-19.” So those with a second opinion on the pandemic are now suspected terrorists?
GEE, DO YOU GET THE FEELING THEY HAVEN’T BEEN TELLING US THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? Whilst you’ve been distracted by Russia’s Invasion, the UK Gov. released a Report confirming the Fully Vaccinated now account for 9 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths in England
THE AGE OF MORAL PANIC: Sometimes I feel like I’m living in Salem, Massachusetts circa 1692 (without the hangings). America’s Ruling Class seems to have gotten just about EVERYTHING wrong on the whole Covid thing. Pfizer Covid vaccine was just 12% effective against omicron in kids 5 to 11, study finds
THE NEW AGE OF INQUISITION. Back in the day, they used to have lists of banned books. Today, they have lists of banned medicines. Targeted doctor spills the beans how gov't suppressed COVID treatments
ARE YOU OK WITH THIS? Doctors threatened with punishment for disagreeing with official COVID narrative
WE NEVER HAD TO BELIEVE ANY OF IT, DID WE? 'Did any of us EVER need the mask?': Now NBC shreds vaccine narrative
NO KIDDING, SHERLOCK: COVID-19 infection may confer long-lasting immunity, study shows.
THE UGLY
COURTESY OF GENERAL MARK MILLEY, WE CAN ALL WATCH AMERICA’S CIVILIZATIONAL DECLINE AND FALL IN SLOW MOTION FAST FORWARD. We wouldn’t want to send our sons off to war to die in some shitty hellhole unless they’ve had their “Gender Identity” training first because that’s what soldiers need most before they fight a war. And what punishment should the U.S. Army dish out to soldiers who misapply their pronouns in the heat of battle? As Russia Wages War, US Army Trains Officers on Gender Identity.
While Russia wages a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Army is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery, according to an official military presentation on the subject obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The mandatory presentation, "Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria," was given to officers earlier this month along with instructions for them to train their subordinates on the material. Portions of the presentation were provided to the Free Beacon by a whistleblower who was ordered to undergo the training as a high-ranking officer in the Army Special Forces.
BUT IT GETS WORSE, MUCH WORSE. It’s bad enough that they’re doing this to our soldiers, but they’re also coming for the children. Forcing transgender 'treatments' on kids is child abuse, advocates say. Are you ok with this?
THIS IS PART ONE OF AN EXCELLENT THREE-PART PODCAST BY JAMES LINDSAY ON ONE OF THE UGLIEST THINGS HAPPENING IN AMERICA TODAY. (I will publish parts two and three in the weeks ahead.) Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education
Through brand names like “comprehensive sex education” and one of its parent programs, “Social-Emotional Learning (SEL),” our government schools have been turned into Groomer Schools, and parents are beginning to notice. What many will not understand, however, is that this isn’t just a fluke of our weird and increasingly degenerate times. It is, in fact, a long-purposed Marxist project reaching back into the early 20th century. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he explains the long history of the sexual grooming that has come into our schools through Critical Gender Theory and Queer Theory as they have crept into educational programs. If you want an explanation for how sexually explicit materials, gender ideology, pornography, and strippers have made their way into our government schools, including for young children, this is a must-hear.
. . . and THE BEAUTIFUL