More ROP Stuff

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-quietly-drops-thousands-deaths-122557133.html

For all those who've been whining about the casualty rates in Gaza (already far below the threshold in international law to be considered problematic),  maybe it's time to consider that Hamas is simply lying to gain your sympathy and support.  

https://x.com/africanjewish/status/1907427916725518401?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

BVMLTT.   

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/1907297601717735769?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Because the majority of Muslims want democracy.  Or we can listen to what they say about themselves.  The UK will probably be a Muslim country within 20 years at this rate, and the Brits are just going to roll over an allow it.  

 https://x.com/chailife613/status/1907270260413092209?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Again, not wrong.  

More Trans Stuff

 https://www.foxnews.com/sports/womens-fencer-reveals-why-she-refused-face-transgender-opponent-accepting-punishment-backlash

 Congratulations, bravery should be applauded.   FYI, the guys could have entered in the open category but intentionally chose the women's category.  

 https://x.com/martina/status/1907272143790023104?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/martina/status/1907494732323836151?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Navratilova is an LGB icon, maybe y'all should pay attention.   

 https://x.com/sappholives83/status/1907734298934817176?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

What in the actual hell is this?

 https://x.com/ariellescarcell/status/1907208753608352127?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Why do the "trans" everyone folx ignore the detransitioners? 

 https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1907104565222117876?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Again, pay no attention to the LGB, bow down to the TQ+.

 https://x.com/rob_thabuilder/status/1907409504901251274?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Lets ignore this, plus the studies that back it up across a wise spectrum.  

 https://x.com/rob_thabuilder/status/1907439056956350795?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 He's not wrong.  You could argue that it's not intentional, but regardless it's still not wrong.  

 

 

Tariff Stuff

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1907883583228051964?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

2008, Bernie liked tariffs.

 

 https://x.com/tanvi_ratna/status/1907880105369845865?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/charlieshrem/status/1907785903877087578?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 "Tariffs are not the story! Since Trump took office in Jan 2025, the 10-year yield has dropped from 4.79% to 4.17%. Look how much it’s dropped today! That 0.62% drop may not sound like much—until you realize the U.S. has $36.5 trillion in debt. This is stealth refinancing on a historic scale. Lower yields = trillions in interest savings. More breathing room. Less inflationary pressure. And the market is front-running it. Everyone’s watching tariffs. But this yield curve shift? It’s the real game. Trump isn’t just cutting spending— he’s restructuring America’s balance sheet in real time."

 

 

I'll try to post more from the first thread, which goes into more detail, but not only will these yield drops help the lower the debt, especially the debt that needs to be refinanced this year, but it'll continue to push mortgage rates lower. Lower mortgage rates will very likely result in a significant increase in home sales for a multitude of reasons. Like it or not, an increase in home sales is a good thing for the economy. 

 

 

 

 

Self Own

Alright, I can't copy the jpeg, so I'll recreate what it says.

HOW CAN A POPULATION BE CONVINCED THAT A LIE IS THE TRUTH?

21% of Americans are illiterate.

54% of Americans can't read beyond the level of an 11 year old.

57% of Americans have no education past high school.

America ranks 36th in the world for literacy levels.

White US-Born adults are the largest group with low literacy.   

This is a graphic posted by my high school band teacher.  He had a lengthy career and I've been able to maintain a friendship with him to this day.      He is politically extremely left, and very vocal about his politics on social media.  Most of the people he interacts with echo  his positions.  

I suspect that he posted this graphic to own someone, without realizing the message it was sending.    Assuming these numbers are correct, and most of what I've seen makes this look less somewhat better,  then there is a glaringly obvious series of questions to ask.  

What federal department could have some responsibility for these dismal numbers?

What union also might have some responsibility here?

What profession might have some responsibility here? 

What political party are teachers unions most closely affiliated with?

What political party controls the majority of urban areas with poorly performing schools? 

Now the 57% have no education past high school is interesting.   Especially when you consider how many billionaires/successful people don't have an education beyond high school.   Also considering that is is totally possible to have a high earning potential without a college degree.    

Of course, the spin is that people without college degrees aren't very intelligent.    Yet, we see plenty of evidence that the education industrial complex is happy to take students who's test scores indicate a likelihood that they won't succeed in college and can't afford college and saddle them with loans that they have to repay even though they didn't do well in college.   There is a sense of credentialsim on the left that prizes the credential of the degree above all else.  

As for the last point, US born whites are (for now) the largest demographic group in the US.   This is a situation where it'd be nice to look at the per capita breakdown of the raw numbers as a way to determine what this "statistic" really means.   If that raw number is in line with the per capita/percentage then it means nothing.   If not, then we can talk.  

Personally I don't think I'd be touting the failure of the education system, and my political party,  if I was a retired teacher

 

Predictions

 

"Here’s an excellent article from Daily Signal by famous black economist Walter Williams, who explains the connection:

As reported in The New York Times (Aug. 1969) Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich warned: “The trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. We must realize that unless we’re extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”

In 2000, David Viner, a senior research scientist at University of East Anglia’s climate research unit, predicted that in a few years winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”

In 2004, the U.S. Pentagon warned President George W. Bush that major European cities would be beneath rising seas. Britain will be plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020. In 2008, Al Gore predicted that the polar ice cap would be gone in a mere 10 years. A U.S. Department of Energy study led by the U.S. Navy predicted the Arctic Ocean would experience an ice-free summer by 2016.

In May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry that “we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.”

Peter Gunter, professor at North Texas State University, predicted in the spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness:

Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. … By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.

Ecologist Kenneth Watt’s 1970 prediction was, “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000.” He added, “This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

Williams concludes:

Today’s wild predictions about climate doom are likely to be just as true as yesteryear’s. The major difference is today’s Americans are far more gullible and more likely to spend trillions fighting global warming. And the only result is that we’ll be much poorer and less free."

 

 

It used to be that one of the keystones of science was repeatability.  That if you combine X,Y, and Z in the same proportions that you will get the same result every time.   This then leads to the conclusion that science has a degree of predictive ability.   So, if one does the same experiment multiple times in exactly the same way, and the results aren't the same that you have no way to predict what the results would be the next time you did the experiment.  

Except when it comes to climate change.  I can't think of a field of study with a worse track record of predicting outcomes than climate studies.    Given that they base everything on models, many of which are based on faulty or incomplete data, it's no surprise that the predictions are wrong.  Not just wrong, but spectacularly wrong.   Strangely enough some folx are convinced that eventually they'll get it right someday and that we need to spend trillions of tax dollars on the low chance that they might be right.  

H/T WK

An L For Feminsim?

 US Rep Brittany Snow seems confused.  She seems to think that the rules on voting in the House should be changed to accommodate her.    I'm a little confused.  Was she not aware of the whole in person voting rule when she decided to run for congress?   Was she unaware of this when she got pregnant?   Was she unaware of the fact that millions of women with children go to work on a daily basis?   Was she unaware of things like hotels and babysitters?   It appears as though she feels so privileged that she can demand that the rules be changed for her.    By all means, let's open up remote voting for everyone in congress.  That means that they don't even need to bother rolling Pelosi's corpse onto the floor and make one of her aides lift her hand up to mash the button.   What's to stop an ancient congressman or woman from staying at home to hide their Alzheimer's and "vote" remotely.  

I get it, children are a wonderful blessing and we absolutely need to raise the birthrate ( I guess we should be glad she didn't un-alive the fetus), but why try to get a job if you are just going to demand that things be changed to accommodate you?   Sounds selfish as hell, and the message it sends to the millions of working women with children doesn't seem like one that's in line with the feminist manifesto. 

Last One For Today

Lately there's been a bit of a controversy on social media about men relate to and act around women.  It's started with women complaining that men in the workplace either are strictly formal with them and don't interact beyond specifics about business, or that they treat them like one of the guys (insults, off color jokes, arm punches, etc).   Then we started getting women complaining that men won't hold the door for them, or won't give up seats on public transportation.   Personally, I think it's pretty obvious.  It's women getting what they said they wanted, equality.   If men and women are equals then why wouldn't a man treat a woman as he treats other men in the workplace?   Yet, given the very real fear of a complaint, why wouldn't men err on the side of caution and of not doing anything that could be misconstrued?   Finally, if you wouldn't hold a door or give up a seat for a man, why do it for a woman, if they're really equal.  

It sounds like (some) women want an unequal equality.   They want an equality that's biased towards them.  They don't like the term chivalry, but they sure do like the effects of chivalry.