Saturday Miscellany

First, our president, wanting to make us all proud to be Americans, nibbled on the shoulder of a small child in Helsinki, Finland. Then he stuck his nose in her hair, horrifying the girl, but indulging his notable hair sniffing fetish.

Anyone who thinks that the adults are now in charge of the American administration should shut up, now and forever. 

Anyone who persists in defending Joe Biden’s behavior should also have the decency to shut the fuck up. 

No one with an ounce of self-respect can claim that Hunter’s father possesses anything resembling decency.

Second, there is Kamala. She cannot, one commentator commented, be that stupid. And yet, but how does it happen that Kamala speaks as though she is addressing a room full of five-year-olds.

Some examples of her imbecility, from this week.

On transportation:

This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go.

On artificial intelligence: 

I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is, is it’s about machine learning.

And so, the machine is taught — and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine — and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process.

So to reduce it down to its most simple point, this is part of the issue that we have here is thinking about what is going into a decision, and then whether that decision is actually legitimate and reflective of the needs and the life experiences of all the people.

This is the mind that is a heartbeat from the American presidency. Excuse the mixed metaphor, but she certainly merits it.

Third, given their reputation for corruption, and wanting to revive the respect that we normally accord to science, the Centers for Disease Control is now promoting what it calls chestfeeding. It’s like breastfeeding, only it is not as nourishing.

I am advised that a man who wants to chestfeed must take a drug like Domperidone? As it happened, the FDA warned breastfeeding women in 2004 not to take Domperidone. Apparently, it produces negative side effects for infants. 

Evidently, the fools who work at the CDC do not care about science.

Suck on that one, if you will.

Fourth, you will never hear the CDC and the teachers'unions apologize for the damage they did to American children by shutting down schools. One recalls that they told us that children would easily catch up.

Well, not so fast, bunky. The New York Times reports what we have long since suspected:

Despite billions of federal dollars spent to help make up for pandemic-related learning loss, progress in reading and math stalled over the past school year for elementary and middle-school students, according to a new national study released on Tuesday.

The hope was that, by now, students would be learning at an accelerated clip, but that did not happen over the last academic year, according to NWEA, a research organization that analyzed the results of its widely used student assessment tests taken this spring by about 3.5 million public school students in third through eighth grade.

In fact, students in most grades showed slower than average growth in math and reading, when compared with students before the pandemic. That means learning gaps created during the pandemic are not closing — if anything, the gaps may be widening.

Now that the horse has left the barn, so to speak, the Times is on the story. When they could have prevented the learning loss, the Times was not on the story.

Fifth, apparently, no one wants to buy electric cars. They are languishing in car dealerships, as we speak.

Sixth, on the Bud Light death watch, it turns out that Costco has placed what people call the star of death on its remaining cases of Bud Light. For those not in the know, it means that once Costco sells out its supply of Bud Light, it will not be reordering the tainted beer.

Dylan Mulvaney ran off to Peru and has now returned to grace us with his presence.

Seventh, meanwhile on the global warming climate change front, an eminent physicist, Dr. John Clauser, winner of a Nobel Prize, has declared that climate change is a hoax. He called it “a dangerous corruption of science.”

He added:

… there is no climate crisis and that increasing CO2 concentrations will benefit the world…

Someone phone Greta Thunberg.

Eighth, I suspect that you no longer trust the United Nations to lead the war against the weather, but, in case you were still lending some credence to the nonsense its climate scientists have been purveying, the Daily Mail sets things straight. It turns out that hysterical bureaucrats have told climate scientists to skew the data, in order to make it appear that the planet is getting hotter and hotter, when it is not.

Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change were urged to cover up the fact that the world’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years, it is claimed.

A leaked copy of a United Nations report, compiled by hundreds of scientists, shows politicians in Belgium, Germany, Hungary and the United States raised concerns about the final draft.

Published next week, it is expected to address the fact that 1998 was the hottest year on record and world temperatures have not yet exceeded it, which scientists have so far struggled to explain.

The report is the result of six years’ work by UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is seen as the world authority on the extent of climate change and what is causing it – on which governments including Britain’s base their green policies.

So much for world authorities.