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Tuesday, May 30. 2023

Tuesday morning links

 The Most Honored Photograph of WW2


10 Years after Sheryl Sandberg’s book ‘Lean In,’ women are on the outs


 No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Holds Line Against Calls To Cancel Scene In 'Life Of Brian'


 When will the lawsuit come? For doctors, it’s a matter of time


 The Futility of School Reform


 America’s Dangerous Shortage Of Free Thinkers


 Memory-Holing of COVID False Narratives Picks Up Steam


 Gorsuch rightly slams freedom-crushing ‘rule by indefinite emergency edict’


 CNN: Work Requirements Are “Offensive To Poor People”…


The Nation:  Biden Must Remake His Candidacy


 Ukraine war is an existential struggle — for the West


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"The Most Honored Photograph of WW2" Very interesting story as both my spouse and my fathers were over there in WWII. Mine was fascinated by New Guinea and would have liked to see it again.
#1 JC on 2023-05-30 08:49 (Reply)
CNN’s Ashley Alison is mad because of the Republican obsession with work requirements. She goes on to say the poor already have the fight in them to work hard. Well then, what’s the big deal asking the poor to do some work for the paycheck? The truth is, and history records, that most welfare recipients are perfectly happy with being lazy. Furthermore, they have shown that what is handed to them unconditionally they take no pride in ownership. They abuse and destroy said property because it cost them nothing to get. The growing homeless population in every blue city, is a perfect example of what free money will do to end that which the government subsidizes.
#2 B. Hammer on 2023-05-30 09:42 (Reply)
It makes no sense unless you understand the one thing. This isn't about helping people it is about buying votes.
#2.1 OneGuy on 2023-05-30 09:55 (Reply)
I'm so old I remember when there were Democrats who support work requirements.
#2.2 John Fisher on 2023-05-30 15:45 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Memory-Holing of COVID False Narratives Picks Up Steam . . .More than 300 COVID-19-related articles have been retracted — long after they’d done their damage

We browsed the list of retraced papers. The list included papers on the biological effectiveness of Zinc-Oxide nasal spray, improved clinical outcomes due to Vitamin D supplementation, benefits of ivermectin, and vaccinating children being more harmful than COVID.

COVID created something of the wild west in terms of publication. Far more papers than usual were submitted, often by people with little expertise in the subject. An overwhelmed peer review process and the urgency of the moment meant many papers were published that were of questionable quality.
#3 Zachriel on 2023-05-30 10:40 (Reply)
Browsing the list, I find very few with those topics. So you cherry-picked out of the 330 papers listed.

That's the kind of unethical "research" that got a lot of these papers retracted.
#3.1 ruralcounsel on 2023-05-30 13:16 (Reply)
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea on Racket News Looking back on the Sadism of the Covid-19 shaming Campaign

https://www.racket.news/p/looking-back-on-the-sadism-of-the

Covid created something of the wild west in the MSM fear and panic narrative.
#3.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-30 13:33 (Reply)
ruralcounsel: Browsing the list, I find very few with those topics.

As noted, it was a cursory look, but sufficient to substantiate the point. The claim was that the retractions were due to partisan "propagandists in the mainstream media" and Democrats, when there were clearly retracted papers of all kinds.
#3.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-30 13:23 (Reply)
Road Trip! U.S. Route 30 in 1948

In the summer of 1948, LIFE photographer Allan Grant set out on a trip from Omaha, Neb., toward Salt Lake City, Utah, traveling west through Nebraska and Wyoming along one of the most storied stretches in America: Route 30, part of the early transcontinental Lincoln Highway.

For reasons lost to time, none of Grant’s marvelous photos from that epic post-war road trip were published in LIFE. Now LIFE offers a series of Grant’s pictures from Nebraska and Wyoming made more than seven decades ago, in tribute to the human desire to get up and go

https://www.life.com/destinations/road-trip-photos-from-us-route-30-in-1948/
#4 feeblemind on 2023-05-30 11:18 (Reply)
Liked seeing the pictures on the link you posted. We were poor like many people but if we took a trip to visit some place The women frequently slept in the car and the men would put up a cot next to the car. I didn't know any difference and we survived.
#4.1 JC on 2023-05-30 11:54 (Reply)
Those pictures do bring back a flood of memories. I can remember bits and pieces of our families move from Spokane to Minnesota in 1950. The part I won't forget is driving over the mountains on a 2 lane highway and probably no going more than 20 mph.
I better remember the first family vacation going back to Washington to visit relatives in 1959. We happened to make it to the first campground at Yellowstone NP the night of the big Yellowstone earthquake. Mom nixed any further exploration of the park after that. The roads still had not improved a great deal over all those years. We camped all the way. My
#4.2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-30 19:27 (Reply)
The Vote Fraud Monster Is Coming for Ted Cruz

Why wouldn't they cheat? Other than an occasional foot soldier, no one is punished.

QUOTE:
There's a bigger story here. Texas is preparing to go purple in 2024 and take out Ted Cruz.

To do that, there must be industrial-scale voter fraud from the large cities. Ken Paxton stood in the way.

Our Fractal team runs the voter rolls in Texas for voter integrity groups, so we have a bird's-eye view. Republicans hold every major office — you would think they demand clean voter rolls.

Nope.

The Texas voter rolls are abhorrent — and when you get into the large metro areas, superlatives fail.

In 2024, election fraud in Texas, like all states, is going into overdrive.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/the_vote_fraud_monster_is_coming_for_ted_cruz.html
#5 feeblemind on 2023-05-30 11:26 (Reply)
And you wonder why Brandon lets in so many illegals.
#5.1 Zachinoff on 2023-05-30 13:23 (Reply)
It Would Appear Kevin McCarthy Somehow Did Worse Than Doing Nothing at All on the Debt Ceiling

I expected that he would pull a Paul Ryan on us and such has proved to be the case.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/05/29/it-would-appear-kevin-mccarthy-somehow-did-worse-than-doing-nothing-at-all-on-the-debt-ceiling-n753096
#6 feeblemind on 2023-05-30 11:29 (Reply)
Plants cause global warming now

QUOTE:
How does their argument go? How, on Earth, could more plants absorbing more CO2 be a bad thing?

The gaslighting goes like this:

Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere leads to more plants growing more quickly

Plants don’t absorb CO2 at 100% levels–some goes back into the atmosphere as respiration

More plants mean more respiration, which means that CO2 levels increase when plants respire

Therefore more plants mean more respiration and hence more CO2

This is quite the sleight of hand they are trying to pull. Consider a similar argument regarding human beings:

Human beings breathe in oxygen

When we breathe out, most of the oxygen we inhaled goes back into the atmosphere

Therefore human beings are adding to the quantity of oxygen in the air as we breathe out


https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/30/plants-cause-global-warming-now-n554237
#7 feeblemind on 2023-05-30 12:28 (Reply)
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Plants cause global warming now

No. That's not what the paper finds. Plants sequester carbon, and more plants mean more carbon is sequestered. However, as the planet warms, plants will not sequester as efficiently as they otherwise would due to higher rates of respiration. Assuming the paper is correct, that means calculations of the increase in atmospheric carbon will be somewhat higher than expected. See Huntingford et al., Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate, Nature Communications 2017.
#7.1 Zachriel on 2023-05-30 13:32 (Reply)
Quibble-DickZ: Assuming the paper is correct,..

Weasel logic.
#7.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-05-30 17:36 (Reply)
Medical malpractice is a tough issue ... a combination of (1) overly generous juries when they hear a good sob story, and (2) incompetent doctors who practice pharma-mandated protocols instead of good medical judgment.

Lack of work mandates is offensive to those of us who work and pay for the support of the nonworking.

Ukraine is a local territorial dispute which we should never have been involved in. But for our hegemonic interference in Ukrainian politics mimicking our interference in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, and Syria. State Department neo-con hubris at work,

Public schooling is designed to destroy free thinkers. It should probably be abandoned as a failed social experiment.
#8 ruralcounsel on 2023-05-30 12:50 (Reply)
I sometimes think Americans seem to want to remain the most important and powerful people in the world while simultaneously remaining completely isolationist.

Good luck with that.
#8.1 JJM on 2023-05-30 15:10 (Reply)
Nothing wrong in being powerful and isolationist. In fact, without the power, it would be impossible to be isolationist.

Our problems arise because we (or rather our ruler-elites in government and corporate America) want to tell everyone else what to do. Our puritanical we-know-what's-the-right-way to run other countries, contaminated with kleptocratic leadership. Essentially fascism wielded against the rest of the world.

We fail to MYOB.
#8.1.1 ruralcounsel on 2023-05-30 19:27 (Reply)
Amen. There is a minority that want empire. Most of us are happy to live an honest life with well defended borders. Nation building is for the marxist/fascist authoritarians.
#8.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-30 19:33 (Reply)
> Ukraine is a local territorial dispute which we should never have been involved in.

In the 1990s the US promised that if Ukraine gave up the nuclear weapons on their soil, we would "help" protect them.

Should we have gone back on our word?
#8.2 William O. B'Livion on 2023-05-31 09:00 (Reply)
Yes.

Or rather we should have never made such a promise to begin with, without caveats about Ukraine's own behavior. And that is Ukraine's own behavior which we manufactured with our interference in their internal affairs. We started this war by our own CIA and State Department's meddling at least as far back as 2014, if not earlier.
#8.2.1 ruralcounsel on 2023-05-31 09:19 (Reply)
William O. B'Livion: In the 1990s the US promised that if Ukraine gave up the nuclear weapons on their soil, we would "help" protect them.

That is incorrect. Under the Budapest Memorandum, Russia, UK, and US agreed "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine," and "to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of political independence of Ukraine". There was no promise of direct military intervention to defend Ukraine if they were invaded.

ruralcounsel: And that is Ukraine's own behavior which we manufactured with our interference in their internal affairs.

Ukraine, UK, and US met their commitments under the Budapest Memorandum—and more. Russia, on the other hand, directly violated the agreement.
#8.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-31 09:46 (Reply)
Regards Ukraine existential war: This is Mearsheimer:
"Mearsheimer also received obloquy for his 2007 book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” co-authored by Harvard’s Stephen Walt."
He was wrong about Israel (one of the US greatest allies, the only democracy in the Middle east, the source of much of our software innovations), and he is also a hawk on China (Not smart from Kissinger on). he's wrong again, but this time jeapordizing the US with a potential war against Russia.
#9 ns on 2023-05-30 12:59 (Reply)
The recent events in women's sports hi-lights another problem. Why do we have women fire fighters? For the most part they cannot pass the physical tests and in fact we have lowered the standards just so we can get in more than the occasional female who might actually pass the tests. In general they can't do the job and it becomes necessary to add more men to a crew to cover for the lack of ability of the women. This is also a problem in the military. Certainly women can do some military jobs but the last line of defense is that every swinging dick, oops, sorry, every soldier must be prepared to fight and carry his load. The women can't do this. for natural biological reasons the women cannot carry the same load or exert the tremendous amount of energy over extended periods of time that combat often requires. It is like issuing the police pellet guns because it will appear that you are armed but when you need them most they will fail you. It is easy for a military unit to take in 20% women and through jiggering the standards and a little stretch of the imagination make it appear everything is fine but when the shit hits the fan it isn't fine. The bottom line is if it is obvious to all that men shouldn't compete in women's sports because they have a biological, genetic advantage then it should be just as obvious that women should be in men's jobs that depend on that biological, genetic advantage to succeed.
#10 JustMe on 2023-05-30 13:50 (Reply)
https://tldavis.substack.com/p/those-who-speak-for-the-earth
"The pandemic was a test that Americans failed and now, a few short years later, the WHO is taking that test as a green light to proceed with a world government where local police forces and medical systems will be used to trap and enslave you to achieve climate change goals. Climate Change, they say, is the root of all health issues in the world and so all 194 nations who are signatories to the WHO treaty being negotiated in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the WEF and other nefarious global actors, will forfeit their national sovereignty in order to allow the WHO to make and enforce health-related restrictions on the world’s populations."
#11 Anon on 2023-05-30 14:06 (Reply)
This request is not affiliated with today's comments, but I hope someone here will have the answer.

Several years ago I read about a swath of trees being cut through the New England states--Vermont, Maine (?) for electricity, I believe. People were very upset about this large project. I cannot remember what states, or where they were cutting other than it was somewhere in New England. I also cannot remember the details of the story. Can you help? Thank you
#12 Apple Pie on 2023-05-30 19:19 (Reply)
I can recollect a Navy project back in the 60's for constructing large area ELF antennas for communications with submarines but I don't know if others were also constructed. The one I remember was Wisconsin/Michigan. That likely doesn't help your search.
#12.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-30 19:44 (Reply)
Nov 3 2021 (Reuters) - Maine voters on Tuesday rejected a $1 billion project to bring hydropower from Quebec into New England, after a years-long battle that pitted clean energy advocates against local residents seeking to preserve the state’s pristine woodlands.
[url] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/maine-voters-reject-quebec-hydropower-transmission-line-2021-11-03/ [/url]
#12.2 Doug on 2023-05-31 00:33 (Reply)
Thank you Doug. That is the story I was looking for!
#12.2.1 Apple Pie on 2023-05-31 01:25 (Reply)

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