Reading, Understanding

 "A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anit-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx." President Ronald Reagan

Where Socialism Works

 "Socialism only works in two places. Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." President Ronald Reagan

Science? What about passion and strongly held belief?

It is a sad irony that the teaching of science in American schools is so unscientific. In a more rational world, children would learn about nature and a mode of inquiry—the scientific method—that would awaken them to the awe, fascination, and surprise that the universe should inspire. Instead, the chronic problems afflicting K–12 education and the growing politicization of science have pushed us ever further from that ideal.

Science has been misused and poorly taught for centuries.

https://www.city-journal.org/k-12-science-curriculum-environment

Now we teach passion and strongly held belief and call it "climate science". There is, of course, real climate science and hopefully those engaged in it will eventually start calling out those who use strongly held belief wrapped in the sheep skin of science.

The new version of speaking truth to power ....

 Whatever you do, don't dare to speak the truth about tragic events.

"We will never hear the last of these names. Eric Garner. Alton Sterling. Michael Brown. George Floyd. Rashad Brooks.

"And now Daunte Wright.

"We will never hear the last of them because there will always be more. And because certain people are invested in forcing us to hear about them.

But what they demand we hear isn’t the truth.


"Is it a tragedy that Daunte Wright is dead? Of course it is. Should he have been shot dead on Sunday by a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer? Why, no, he shouldn’t have been."

https://spectator.org/daunte-wright-shooting/

Worried about inflation? Just spend more!

I don't have any idea what to say about the so-called president's ideas. Maybe he's "crazy like a fox", but I doubt it. Who knows how many cronies you can pay off with a 6 trillion dollar spending spree.

"On the menu today: No, really, you can’t keep track of the Biden administration’s trillion-dollar spending bills without a scorecard — and this administration appears to be whistling past the graveyard on the threat of inflation; there’s some easily overlooked good news on COVID-19 over the past two weeks; another police controversy, this time in California’s Bay area; and looking ahead to Thursday night’s NFL Draft."

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/bidens-trillion-dollar-train-wreck/

AGW Alarmism as Obvious as Ever

 What the science can determine versus what the Alarmists say - it’s just stupid. People make claims in the name of science that science cannot possibly have determined. 

Science is conjecture, attempt to disprove, reassess or refine conjecture, attempt to disprove. If unable to disprove, conjecture may become hypothesis. 

Alarmism is pure conjecture, strongly held belief. In other words, some weak assed shit.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-media-vs-climate-science-11618355224?mod=djemalertNEWS

Deming reportedly said “It’s not what we don’t know that gets us, it is what we know that isn’t so.”

https://nypost.com/2021/04/24/obama-admin-scientist-says-climate-emergency-is-based-on-fallacy/

Who will you believe, your lying eyes or the climate alarmists?

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/23/how-global-warming-isnt/

Do you believe in cooperation or coercion? It's that simple

"I won’t quibble over the word “free,” for my interlocutor didn’t mean these benisons of modern society cost nothing but that the cost isn’t borne by the user in the form of fees. He knows full well that we pay for them with taxes and borrowing. And it can be conceded that they’d provide strong if not necessarily compelling grounds to support socialism if it deserved credit for them.

"But does it? Does our impulse to help others start with a socialist impulse or any ideology? Or is the truth entirely different?" 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-selfishness-at-the-heart-of-socialism