Merry Christmas!

 

Sweden protects kids, Biden- not so much

Sweden gets another thing right. 

Just as Sweden managed COVID better by keeping schools open and avoiding lockdowns they seem to be better at managing children’s mental health issues. 

Unfortunately, this is opposite of Biden’s woke policies that are pressuring health care to quickly promote non-reversible treatments to children with mental health issues regarding their gender. 

And, by the way, I felt the need to include a short lesson on what cis and trans mean, as over the holidays I learned that teachers, at least 2 liberal ones related to me, are actively “learning” and teaching their students woke material that are factually incorrect. For anyone interested: 

What is the difference between cis and trans?

Cisgender, or cis, means that the gender you identify with matches your biological sex while Transgender, or trans, means you the gender you identity with is the opposite of your biological sex.

And for those who claim or believe their is a large number of people who actually have unclear biological sex, the actual data would say that there are only about 0.05% of humans that have a genetic defect, a gene transcription issue or a protein or hormonal biochemical processing issue that they may have unclear genitalia. (1)

(1) https://isna.org/faq/frequency/

Biden butchers women’s rights

 We are seeing how well Biden’s botched withdrawal from Miss Janice. Dan is affecting women in Afghanistan

https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistans-taliban-ban-all-education-for-girls-11671642870

https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/biden-to-address-end-of-afghan-war/amp/

Colorblind not Racist

“But color-blindness is neither racist nor backwards. Properly understood, it is the belief that we should strive to treat people without regard to race in our personal lives and in our public policy.” 

https://www.thefp.com/p/actually-color-blindness-isnt-racist

Woke Norway Nightmare

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11545859/amp/Gay-Norwegian-filmmaker-faces-three-years-prison.html

Weingarten a risk to America?

Spring 2022 California Test Scores are in.  Looking at overall Math and English scores compared to the scores in 2015 we see that there was a dramatic drop (loss of learning?) especially among black and Hispanic students. 

We know that countries like Sweden and health experts in the US like Dr. Jay  Bhattacharya recognized early on that COVID was not a significant threat to/through children and that remote schooling would have a significant harmful effect (Great Barrington Declaration).

We know that teachers' unions and Democrats worked to keep schools remote.

Maybe Randi Weingarten was (is) a significant risk to America.

Consumer Price Increases Still High

CPI, Consumer Price Index, released today, shows that while the rate of price increases has slowed down, we are still seeing significantly higher price increases than were seen in the previous two administrations.

Producer Price Increases still a problem

PPIFIS - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Final Demand was released today by FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).

An increase of 0.3% from previous month.

Inflation is still a problem.deral Reserve Bank of St. Louis

No Wonder Border’s Broken

 https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2022/11/broken-border.html?m=1

My read: Moore v Harper December 7, 2020

Liberal SCOTUS judges don’t want legislators, at least Republican ones, to determine the manner (districting) of choosing electors. 

The alternative being political, appointed and/or elected, state courts deciding election maps?

The US Constitution says legislatures.  

State constitutions may be able to define their state legislatures, but they are not given the right to determine the manner of elections.

Article I  Legislative Branch

Section 4 Congress

• Clause 1 Elections Clause

• The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

Where are you?

There is an interesting test you can take to see where you fall on the spectrum of left or right, and libertarian or authoritarian. 

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Question-Boosters for 18-29?

Boosters for adults aged 18-29 - expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given the modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission

Kevin Bardosh

University of Washington; University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Medical School

Allison Krug

Artemis Biomedical Communications LLC

Euzebiusz Jamrozik

University of Oxford

Trudo Lemmens

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Salmaan Keshavjee

Harvard University - Harvard Medical School

Vinay Prasad

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Martin A. Makary

Johns Hopkins University - Department of Surgery

Stefan Baral

John Hopkins University

Tracy Beth Høeg

Florida Department of Health; Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital

papers.ssrn.com

 

Gas Prices Still Up

 

People Still Not Working

Broken Border

Biden’s border policies are a mess, put many innocents at risk AND allow Mexican cartels to get rich.

I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based  (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead). 

(Note-The numbers are the apprehensions. We do not know how many people get through without being apprehended)

Why don’t these black lives matter?

Where’s the outrage? Where’s BLM? Where’s Lebron?

Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will I change.

Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.

Racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force exists (though rare), it's  bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.

BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy, lack of agency) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.) 

 

Biden helps dictator. Ukraine-not so much

Biden still limits aid to Ukraine and now happy to help a dictator. 

The U.S. Treasury on Saturday granted Chevron a license for a limited expansion of energy operations in Venezuela https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/world/americas/venezuela-chevron-oil-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

While the US has provided more military assistance to Ukraine than any other country, Biden continues to dither by worrying more about provoking Putin and ignoring the 10's of thousands of deaths, the rubbling of Ukraine and the consequences of letting Russia invade and stay in Ukraine.

From the beginning of Russia's threats to continue their 2014 invasion of Ukraine Biden has dithered.  He actually stopped providing Javelins to prevent provoking Russia until the weeks before the actual invasion.  He took military option off the table. He encouraged Zelensky to leave Ukraine.  Rather ineffective sanctions were imposed. It was only after the heroically brave fighting and sacrifice of the Ukraine army and people and the discovery of the inept capabilities of the Russian army that Biden began increasing military aid.  But he has done it in a slow incremental way and still continues to limit the capabilities and range of weapons assistance.

Biden needs to LEAD the world to stop Putin. 

Disparity not equal to racism

Roland G. Fryer  (Harvard)  one of the most prominent economists  has a great article discussing disparities versus racism.  

Some excerpts below:

“Taken together, an honest review of the evidence suggests that current racial inequities are more a result of differences in skill than differences in treatment of those with the same skill.”

“The solution isn’t to look away from discrimination. It does exist. But we also can’t point at every gap in outcomes and instantly conclude it’s racism.”

“Disparity doesn’t necessarily imply racism.”

“A black kid who believes he will face daunting societal obstacles is likely to underinvest in trying to climb society’s rungs. Every black student in the country needs to know that his return on investment in education is, if anything, higher than for white students.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/disparity-doesnt-necessarily-imply-racism-skills-wages-black-white-afqt-research-discrimination-jim-crow-grandmother-11669383926?st=oxh7248pm1pfve3&reflink=article_copyURL_share

What would really help? (Not 2 deg climate target)

For everyone focused on fixing the existential threat of climate change note the importance of the current 2 degree target relative to other ideas. 

https://twitter.com/bjornlomborg/status/1593222467153281025?s=46&t=12xSOC2hn44dx4VYofPfzg

University free speech?

A great talk from Jonathan Haidt regarding why Universities have changed from free speech and truth to social justice. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oiu8_kNw3tqe3WYdcuBDaSwQRK6x8k4t/view?usp=drivesdk

This was one talk from the Academic Freedom Conference recently hosted at the Stanford Business School addressing the growing concern, that truth and free speech, is being replaced by social justice at our major Universities. 

“ Academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech are under threat as they have not been for decades. Visibly, academics are “canceled,” fired, or subject to lengthy disciplinary proceedings in response to academic writing or public engagement. Less visibly, funding agencies, university bureaucracies, hiring procedures, promotion committees, professional organizations, and journals censor some kinds of research or demand adherence to political causes. Many parts of universities have become politicized or have turned into ideological monocultures, excluding people, ideas, or kinds of work that challenge their orthodoxy. Younger researchers are afraid to speak and write and don’t investigate promising ideas that they fear will endanger their careers. 

The two-day Academic Freedom Conference, arranged by the organizing committee, aims to identify ways to restore academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech and expression on campus and in the larger culture and restore the open debate required for new knowledge to flourish. The conference will focus on the organizational structures leading to censorship and stifling debate and how to repair them.”

For anyone interested in learning more about what may be happening to free speech as relates to universities, all of the talks are available at: https://cli.stanford.edu/events/conference-symposium/academic-freedom-conference