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Monday, June 19. 2023

Lots of Monday morning links

Are You Ready For Today's Juneteenth Federal Holiday?


 Index Investing is Misunderstood. The goal is to optimize, not to average


Table salt vs. Kosher salt 


Is Lightin The Box a Chinese scam company? 


 Bud Light Just Wants to Get Back to Making Beer, Sponsoring Pro-Child Mutilation Parades, But there's also a listening tour.


NYT: The moral crisis of America's doctors


 WILL THE REAL BLACK MAN PLEASE STAND UP?


 How the identity cult captured America. Equity was born in an ideological graveyard


 Research: 1-in-4 U.S. Children Live in Fatherless Homes, Spurring Mental Health and Behavioral Issues


Spectator:  My evening pretending to be a woman - I decided to give autogynephilia a try


 Girl sues hospital for removing breasts at age 13


Thus it begins 


 Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal - Under pressure, a journal once notable for its courage retracts a major paper on the social roots of gender-related distress—all over a minor, inconsistently applied technicality.


 BORIS JOHNSON: The wonder drug I hoped would stop my 11.30pm fridge raids for cheddar and chorizo didn’t work for me. But I still believe it could change the lives of millions


 New Cleveland Clinic Study Confirms Negative Efficacy of Covid Vaccine: Boosted 33% MORE Likely to Get Covid


 New York State’s Directive to Schools: Lie to Parents. Secret gender transition is now the default policy for the state’s public schools.


 New York Office Occupancy Breaks 50% for First Time Since Pandemic Hit


 Good Morning America Reporter in San Francisco Says They’re Not Filming Downtown Because They Were Told it’s too Dangerous


 California Is Killing Fast Food Jobs. California lawmakers and President Joe Biden seem determined to help fast-food workers by eliminating their jobs.


Here's a book: How to Diversify your Campus 


 Washington Post helps those who are intimidating lawyers into not working for Trump 


 "We Are Restricting Freedom... For The Common Good": Irish Green Party Calls For Limiting Free Speech


 The revolutionary power of heresy - Freedom of speech has toppled tyrants and propelled humanity forward. We lose it at our peril.


 Americans Assume the Jihad Is Over. In Africa, It's Bloodier and More Aggressive Than Ever.

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Disappointed. The salt link doesn’t work. I’m sad.
#1 B. Hammer on 2023-06-19 09:15 (Reply)
Curious, so I searched. I thought the chemical difference was that kosher has no iodine, which we all need. Plus the size of the salt. I had not considered the culinary effects of the two salts.
#1.1 B. Hammer on 2023-06-19 09:32 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Washington Post helps those who are intimidating lawyers into not working for Trump . . . So The 65 Project immediately went after me, and contrived a charge based on a case in which I was a constitutional consultant

An Arizona judge has sanctioned Dershowitz. Dershowitz had signed numerous court documents as counsel on Kari Lake's frivolous lawsuit. He was even granted court permission to practice in Arizona to participate in the case. But, Dershowitz now claims he was acting only as a consultant. The judge is reconsidering the sanctions, but the charge is hardly contrived.
#2 Zachriel on 2023-06-19 09:30 (Reply)
And...?
#2.1 mudbug on 2023-06-19 11:32 (Reply)
mudbug: And...?

The contention is that there is an intimidation campaign against Trump attorneys, which they support with the claim that Dershowitz was subjected to a contrived charge. However, the court sanctioned Dershowitz for participating in a frivolous lawsuit. That is evidence the charge is not contrived, and that undermines evidence for the original contention.
#2.2 Zachriel on 2023-06-19 13:27 (Reply)
Wait, because Dershowitz filed a lawsuit that was judged to be frivolous means that a leftist organization is not targeting him?

So the conservative contention after the Mueller report was released that is was a pile of BS is valid because the actual leader of the investigation, Weismann, was known as a corrupt prosecutor, right?
#2.2.1 mudbug on 2023-06-19 13:58 (Reply)
mudbug: Wait, because Dershowitz filed a lawsuit that was judged to be frivolous means that a leftist organization is not targeting him?

Not necessarily. What it means is that the evidence they provided doesn't support their claim. (Typically, one would present one's best case.)
#2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-06-19 15:22 (Reply)
Quibble-DickZ can't find a reasonable ChatGPT comment they haven't already used.
Be back later.
#2.2.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-06-19 15:55 (Reply)
Why are you ignoring The 65 Project? The 65 Project is the major claim, not the contrived charge. However, I’m sure you’ll have all sorts of Gish gallop in support of Tom Daschle, et al. spending 2.5 million, targeting over 100 of Trump’s former attorneys. How un-American that these attorneys, including a State Supreme Court judge, fill it necessary to threaten livelihoods of innocent attorneys, and obviously believe that every person is not entitled to the best defense possible, even if your name is Donald Trump. John Adams would be furious. But as with many of the founders of this country, many lefty democrats are left staring into the abyss, in trying to discover the magnanimity of the founders characters, in comparison to their own. It’s why they spend so much time trying to malign and cancel them.
#2.2.2.2 B. Hammer on 2023-06-19 18:43 (Reply)
Ignoring the real issue is what we do best. - - Quibble-DickZ --
#2.2.2.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-06-19 20:44 (Reply)
B. Hammer: Why are you ignoring The 65 Project?

We aren’t. Dershowitz was the central example of unfair targeting. The evidence suggests that it was not unfair. (He signed a bunch of stuff.)

Now, if you mean fair targeting, that is another matter entirely.

Taking a look at the other examples doesn’t support the claim about unfair targeting either. Giuliani had his license to practice law suspended by the New York appeals court for repeatedly making false statements to the court. Powell was sanctioned for a frivolous court filing.
#2.2.2.3 Zachriel on 2023-06-19 20:50 (Reply)
Are You Ready For Today's Juneteenth Federal Holiday?

No! While I do have the requisite 9mm pistols and plenty of ammo, I still need to get me some decent body armor. I think I'll sit out this year's celebrations (come for the sweet potato pie, stay for the drive bys!).
#3 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-06-19 09:34 (Reply)
Junteenth is the execution day of commie traitors the Rosenbergs.
Equity traces back to the Jacobins or comrade Trotsky?
Trotsky came up with the term racism but some say it was the Jacobins.
Viva Ramon Mercader, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Love the dark heart quote in the link as does Colonel Kurz.
Burning it all down is a feature that we can agree on with the comrades because Legacy America is long gone and never coming back.
AINO is an abomination of cultural desolation, and it started long before Weather Underground government Year Zero in 2009.
Transheiser Busch and their swill is no more, those who throw in with the Long March Great Leap Intersectionality are ENEMY.
I'll have a Cruz Campo, Schlenkerla, or Weihenstephaner when funds permit.
#4 Ice Ice Trotsky on 2023-06-19 09:36 (Reply)
One of the very few good things that came out of the Carter administration, was deregulation of home brew beer. Now there are so many good breweries out there, why waste your money on big beer?
#5 B. Hammer on 2023-06-19 09:44 (Reply)
"why waste your money on big beer?"

A few years back when we were all younger and our children were younger we had week end barbecues and get togethers every weekend. We were middle class, so it was hamburgers and beer. Inevitably we would run out of beer. Since I don't drink I would make the beer run. I was told what to buy, a 30 pack of Bud Light because it was cheaper. In fact with the 10 cent per can deposit the 30 pack of beer was less than $20 even at 7-11. THAT was why Bud Light was #1.

I still don't drink but I sometimes buy the beer and 100% of all the small brewery beers are way to expensive. We are talking 5 to 10 times as much as Bud Light. I admit to being cheap and it is probably the main reason I don't drink. It literally makes zero sense to me to walk into a bar and pay $5-$10 for a little drink of foul tasting liquid.
#5.1 OneGuy on 2023-06-19 10:43 (Reply)
Yes. Bud Light's biggest problem is that it is just plain lousy.
#5.2 JJM on 2023-06-19 11:49 (Reply)
I like quality beer, but I also like cheap American lager. I've just always gone with Coors or PBR. If you're outside all day and it's hot, there is nothing moe refreshing than an ice-cold lawn mower beer.
#5.3 jack walter on 2023-06-19 13:31 (Reply)
A response to all: I suppose that my question was a bit flippant. I have been known to buy 30 packs of PBR or MGD. I just don’t drink that much beer anymore. A 30 pack, unless there is a party would last me a couple months. When I was in the Navy, my go to beer was Budweiser. I still can recite the famous Budweiser logo printed on the can. I really like any cold beer, minus the IPA. Oh, and a gram cracker peanut butter beer brewed by a Denver brewer. Yuck…🤮
#5.4 B. Hammer on 2023-06-19 14:49 (Reply)
Our company is progressive enough to label Columbus Day as "Indigenous Peoples Day" on the work calendar, but apparently not progressive enough to give us "Juneteenth" off. Go figure.
#6 Maniac on 2023-06-19 09:46 (Reply)
The irony is there are no humans indigenous to North and South Americas. Everyone is a immigrant. Another fun fact is there is no tribe that was the "First Nation" a popular name for "indigenous" people. They are all colonialist, LOL. There were three major immigrations and each major immigration overwhelmed and killed or enslaved the "indigenous" population that had arrived before them. This genocide by the Indians was so common place that it was even happening after Europeans immigrated to the Americas.
#6.1 OneGuy on 2023-06-19 10:49 (Reply)
Federal?
You misspelled "feral."

JWM
#7 jwm (Link) on 2023-06-19 11:18 (Reply)
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

QUOTE:
The company charges guests $250,000 (£195,270) for a place on its eight-day expedition to see the famous wreck.

. . .The submersible can seat five people, the company says, which usually includes a pilot, three paying guests, and what it calls one "content expert".

A full dive to the wreck, including the decent and ascent, reportedly takes eight hours.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872
#8 feeblemind on 2023-06-19 11:30 (Reply)
In re: Juneteenth
On December 19, 1781, Lieutenant Forsythe Katzenjammer notified the English garrison at Pohanapunk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, that the English had surrendered at Yorktown, compelling them to free the colonists they had impressed at the maple mill. Ever after the residents of Pohanapunk celebrated Decteenth. They are now pressing their Congressional delegation to make it a national holiday.
#9 Ming O'Mongo on 2023-06-19 11:42 (Reply)
I'm waiting to hear the petition for Umpire Liberation Day, the day when the cameras finally take over at all the bases, evaluate all the pitches, and are governed by Artificial Intelligence, thus freeing an entire subgroup of oppressed humanity from the uniform, the pressure, the humiliation, the authority and crowd hate. It'll be called Umpteenth and will give an entirely new life and meaning to its present usage, mostly by exasperated parents..
#9.1 Aggie on 2023-06-19 13:30 (Reply)
Junteenth The liquor store was open today. That's all I care about.
#10 snopercod on 2023-06-19 11:43 (Reply)
Unusual troop movements going on round the U.S. The apologists are saying it is just the National Guard Summer training. But in fact some of the things that are happening are in civilian areas and in ways that have never happened before. Why? What are they getting ready for?
#11 Anon on 2023-06-19 12:10 (Reply)
As long as DEI remains in the teaching schools and monopoly laws are not enforced in the hospital arena there will be a crisis as the marxists can't let that crisis go to waste. The medical industry is as poisoned as the education industry. All government created.
#12 indyjonesouthere on 2023-06-19 12:50 (Reply)
That lightinthebox link seems to be borked, but they do sell some funny stuff: https://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&inc_subcat=1&search_in_description=0&keyword=bayeux
#13 Freddo on 2023-06-19 13:14 (Reply)
Beyond a Banana Republic

QUOTE:
Our once-free citizenry no longer has any means of holding our representatives accountable. Americans have never had less faith in the integrity of the electoral system, but even if we could trust election results, the truth is that we live under the rule of faceless, unelected politburos that are immune from any efforts toward accountability via the ballot box. These institutions exact punishment upon anyone who dares to oppose the growing power of the government.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/beyond_a_banana_republic.html
#14 feeblemind on 2023-06-19 14:15 (Reply)
BLM Pays 'Lip Service' By Extending Comment On Land Grab Rule

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“The administration’s proposal will have considerable implications, fundamentally changing the way the BLM carries out its multiple use and sustained yield mandate under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLMPA),” wrote Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee to the Interior Department last month.

. . . While the bureau put more days on the public comment calendar, the administration still has published no plans to hold additional meetings with key stakeholders in red state areas.

The new rules appear to come straight from the college playbook of BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, whose 2021 confirmation was controversial thanks to her history as an ecoterrorist. Stone-Manning’s 1992 graduate thesis condemned grazing on public lands and promoted a Chinese-style child cap.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/19/blm-gives-americans-15-more-days-to-comment-on-new-land-grab-rule-but-wont-show-up-to-hear-their-concerns/

In my view, the "conservation leases" are a done deal and the public comment is all a charade.

Meanwhile our GOP representatives whine and bloviate, but when it comes to reining in the BLM? crickets.

The Administrative State is out of control.
#14.1 feeblemind on 2023-06-19 14:23 (Reply)
The intent is to wipe out ranch grazing permits, oil and mineral exploration and timber harvesting. Public lands are being "groomed" to be Dacha country for the elite. Jackson Hole is the model for the Fed Reserve and financial elite. They need more elbow room.
#14.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-06-19 16:13 (Reply)
Absolutely right Indy.

Kicking the cattle off the western range dovetails nicely with the drive to get us to eat bugs, and of course they have long wanted to keep those filthy fossil fuels in the ground.
#14.1.1.1 feeblemind on 2023-06-19 20:53 (Reply)
breast amputation and transgender:
Malpractice is a good route to stop this. Legislation won't happen in California for instance, which has just passed law against parents who don't agree with child's wish for transgender medical and surgical approach ("not treatment").
but the defense will likely be that the hospital and docs were doing according to the "Standard of Care." And the Standard of Care at the moment is that a small covey of doctors have set a standard of care which is to amputate healthy tissue (testicles, ovaries, breasts) to "treat" a child's discomfort with gender . (which is a normative experience for many kids, especially girls).
BTW, for those who don't believe in "penis envy": here it is.
#15 ns on 2023-06-19 21:27 (Reply)
It must come as a shock to young women when they realize their main purpose in life is to make babies. Many women embrace that fate but it must take some getting used to.
#16 snopercod on 2023-06-20 07:48 (Reply)
Sometimes a "fate" turns out to be a gift. But humans are often ungrateful for the gifts that are given to them.

Also (while we're doing pop psychology), many humans are unhappy. Could there be a connection?
#16.1 Hairless Joe on 2023-06-20 17:12 (Reply)

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