No country for burly men

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

In a reprise of the 2009 protests against Obama’s “shovel ready” recovery projects, the Left is screaming that Biden’s New Green Eel Project isn’t addressing the needs of diaper changers and bedpan dumpers. Of course, the real goal here is to destroy America’s energy industry and return the country to the mercy of the Saudis and Putin, but the secondary objective is to skyrocket spending for every long-dreamed-of socialist program. Neither has anything to do about saving the planet.

WaPo: Biden's climate plan will not address gender and racial inequality

Women and minorities have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic recession and must be part of any comprehensive recovery program. 

The Biden administration's quest to green the American economy promises to create millions of good jobs "filled by diverse, local and well-trained workers, including women and people of color." But these jobs will exacerbate long-standing and worsening economic injustices due to their concentration in male-dominated fields. 

Due to COVID-19, gender disparities in unpaid care work have more than tripled (sextupled for Black and Hispanic women) and women have experienced job losses at a higher rate than men for the first time in history. Non-whites have simultaneously suffered significantly higher pandemic mortality rates and lower resilience in the face of recession due to systemically weaker pre-pandemic economic positions. The interaction of these realities has undermined the economic stability of women of color, in particular. 

To tackle these injustices, the Biden administration should adopt a broader "green-plus" recovery that prioritizes inherently low-carbon jobs in the care, education and service sectors, in addition to the valuable unpaid labor overlooked in conventional measures of economic wellbeing.

Have we heard this before? Yes, we have. The first time as tragedy, the second as farce

Christina Hoff Sommers June 29, 2009

Last November, President-elect Obama addressed the devastation in the construction and manufacturing industries by proposing an ambitious New Deal-like program to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. He called for a two-year "shovel ready" stimulus program to modernize roads, bridges, schools, electrical grids, public transportation, and dams and made reinvigorating the hardest-hit sectors of the economy the goal of the legislation that would become the recovery act. 

Women's groups were appalled. Grids? Dams? Opinion pieces immediately appeared in major newspapers with titles like "Where are the New Jobs for Women?" and "The Macho Stimulus Plan." A group of "notable feminist economists" circulated a petition that quickly garnered more than 600 signatures, calling on the president-elect to add projects in health, child care, education, and social services and to "institute apprenticeships" to train women for "at least one third" of the infrastructure jobs. At the same time, more than 1,000 feminist historians signed an open letter urging Obama not to favor a "heavily male-dominated field" like construction: "We need to rebuild not only concrete and steel bridges but also human bridges." As soon as these groups became aware of each other, they formed an anti-stimulus plan action group called WEAVE-- Women's Equality Adds Value to the Economy.

They were right indeed. Our incoming president did what many sensible men do when confronted by a chorus of female complaint: He changed his plan. He added health, education, and other human infrastructure components to the proposal. And he tasked Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, Joseph Biden's chief economist, with preparing an extraordinary report that calculated not only the number of jobs the plan would likely create, but the gender composition of the various employment sectors and the division of largess between women and men. 

Romer and Bernstein delivered "The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan" on January 10. They estimated that "the total number of created jobs likely to go to women is roughly 42 percent." Lest anyone miss the point, they added that since women had held only 20 percent of the jobs lost in the recession, the stimulus package now "skews job creation somewhat towards women." 

[snip] A recent Associated Press story reports: "Stimulus Funds Go to Social Programs Over 'Shovel-ready' Projects." A team of six AP reporters who have been tracking the funds find that the $300 billion sent to the states is being used mainly for health care, education, unemployment benefits, food stamps, and other social services. According to Chris Whately, director of the Council of State Governments, "We all talked about 'shovel-ready' since September and assumed it was a whole lot of paving and building when, in fact, that's not the case."

Hell yeah —

We share a pedigree

Germany to round up and intern violators of lockdown orders

Gives new meaning to the term "sitting President"

Next man up

White House Executive restroom “feminized”

White House construction workers have now remodeled the Presidential restroom and replaced it with a female restroom.

“Hey! There goes the Presidential urinal!” shouted a frustrated Joe Biden. “Barack never let me use that, even as Vice President. What gives?!”

The construction crew ignored him and continued working silently.

“C’mon, man, I’m supposed to be the President. What kinda malarkey is this? Why is there a women’s restroom here now?” continued Biden trying to piece together what was happening. 

According to an anonymous source who could not stop cackling for a single sentence, these changes were just a necessary precaution to make sure everything is in order for her inauguration day. “We all know that if something unfortunate, and definitely unplanned were to happen to Joe that I-- I mean, uh, Kamala would need to be ready to take over immediately,” the source said. “And let’s be honest, OK, that bathroom was an outdated symbol of patriarchy."

Despite it being mere days before becoming President, Biden fears he may never get to use the historic urinal. Making matters worse, Biden also noticed that the seat had been permanently attached in the down position, never to be lifted again. “KAMALAAAA!!” shouted the President-elect. But it was too late for him to do anything since it was time for his meds and a long, long walk into the sunset.

Job One

Biden to cancel Keystone Pipeline on his first day in office

“Who do you want our country to get its oil from”, Sleepy Joe pointed out to FWIW, “those treacherous, sneaky Canadians, or our friends and allies, the Saudis? Com’on, Man”.

Next on the chopping block is the transmission line meant to carry Canadian hydro-power through Maine to Massachusetts, because we all know that hydro-power, ah, eh, well, we all know it!

Chaser:

Would I screw you?

But our teachers have grown so used to collecting their pay from home

Full pay for no work — nice job, if you can get it

COVID-19 transmission in schools “almost non-existent”

A new study shows that transmission of COVID-19 is extremely low in K-12 schools providing face-to-face instruction. The study examined eleven school districts in North Carolina. It included nearly 100,000 students and staff and monitored the virus transmission over a nine-week period.

To complete the study, they looked at each case identified and determined whether it was community-based or in-school spread. The determination was made by local health departments and showed that in-school transmission was extremely rare. The results were described by the researchers as follows:

Over 9 weeks, 11 participating school districts had more than 90,000 students and staff attend school in-person; of these, there were 773 community-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections documented by molecular testing. Through contact tracing, NC health department staff determined an additional 32 infections were acquired within schools. No instances of child-to-adult transmission of SARS-CoV-2 were reported within schools.

Because they looked at both primary and secondary spread, the researchers are confident in their findings. According to county-level data for the school districts being studied, a person diagnosed with COVID-19 transmitted the virus to slightly more than one other individual. Given the 773 community-acquired infections in the eleven school districts, researchers assert that there should have been between 800-900 secondary infections in the school. There were only 32, indicating that transmission in the school environment is far less likely than in the community.

The schools were using the three W’s as primary mitigation strategies: Wear a mask, Wash your hands, and Watch your distance. District leaders also credited detailed planning for learning activities and collaboration with the local health department as important parts of the program.

The study also cites a recent research review that estimates COVID-19 deaths would only be reduced by 2-4% through school closures alone. The researchers note that this is much lower than other social-distancing measures. They continue to say that most of the transmission within the schools involved individuals not wearing face coverings. These occurred in very young children during lunch and among children with special needs. Masking is not always possible in these populations, and school personnel emphasized increased distancing in the special needs setting and increasing ventilation.

The virus’s risks to young children are exceptionally low, so the lack of secondary COVID-19 cases spreading from child to adult is an encouraging finding in such a large population. It should also make school closures a last-resort measure to prevent community spread. The risks to children educationally and emotionally from long-term school closures are significant. Hospitals are reporting treating more children with severe child abuse injuries. Suicides among young peopleare also up significantly in some areas of the country. School districts nationwide, where lockdowns have persisted, are also reporting significant increases in failure rates.

More Democrat voters on the way

Even before Biden takes office, his promise to reopen our southern border and grant amnesty to all illegal aliens has spurred the resumption of people caravans.

Fortunately, these new citizens will surely self-quarantine before hitting California.

And the crushing of dissent continues apace

(Stalin probably didn’t say this, but his current D.C. followers did)

“Misinformation” dropped dramatically after Twitter banned Trump” (and free citizens)

Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Donald Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively.

The new research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm reported that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned from Twitter.

Election disinformation had been a major subject of online misinformation for months, beginning even before the Nov. 3 election, pushed heavily by Trump and his allies.

Zignal found it dropped swiftly and steeply both on Twitter itself and other platforms in the days after the Twitter ban took hold on Jan. 8.

The president and his supporters also have lost accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, Spotify, Shopify and others. Facebook called its suspension “indefinite” but left open the possibility Trump’s account could later be restored.

The findings, from Saturday through Friday, highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites — reinforcing and amplifying each other — and offer an early indication of how concerted actions against misinformation can make a difference.

I've had so many draft posts readied, then left unpublished as the country has fallen apart around us, but this sums it up

Robert Shibley

JANUARY 13, 2021

JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH ON THE NOSE TO BE FUNNY. Seen around the internet – it’s real, from a workplace mental health organization. I checked, because it was so on the nose that I thought it might be a clever fake. Save it before it’s inevitably purged, or definitions conveniently change.

Biden appoints eugenicist racist to head DOJ Civil Rights Division

It’s all about bloodlines

I’ve been off-air the past week, simply because I’ve been too sorrowful about our country to write. I’ll be back later today, probably, to address the Great Suppression, but in the meantime, here’s a thought experiment:

Kirsten Clarke’s past comments no barrier to her appointment.

While at Harvard (oh, the oppression!) Clarke … thought it would be a good thing to explain her scientific views about race.

“One: Dr. Richard King reveals that at the core of the human brain is the ‘locus coeruleus,’ which is a structure that is White, because it contains larger amounts of neuro-melanin which is essential for its operation. 

“Two: White infants sit, stand, crawl and walk sooner than Blacks. 

“Three: Carol Barnes notes that human mental processes are controlled by melanin–that same chemical which gives Whites their superior physical and mental abilities. “

Four: Some scientists have revealed that most Blacks are often under-calcified or non-functioning. Pineal calcification rates with Africans are five to 15 percent, Asians 15 to 25 percent and Europeans 60 to 80 percent. This is the chemical basis for the cultural differences between Blacks and whites. 

“Five: Melanin endows Whites with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Afrocentric standards.”

Of course, Clarke, who is obviously of “mixed-blood” heritage, actually claimed all these genetic advantages for her African ancestors. Had this entitled Harvard grad actually said what I’ve edited her to say, is there any question whether she’d be our incoming head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice?

Genetically deficient at birth

Clueless Uncle Tom

UPDATE: White female college student rejected for an intern position because of her race.

The internship in question was offered by Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a professional development organization with ties to major financial corporations such as CitiBank, IBM and Goldman Sachs. It was advertised as the “SEO Career 2021 Paid Summer Internship” and the description was for a financial position.

In its emailed rejection statement to the student, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix, SEO outlined the reason for its rejection.

“Thank you for your interest in SEO Career! Unfortunately, you are not eligible for the program. SEO Career targets Black, Hispanic, and Native American undergraduates, who are underrepresented in the careers they seek,” reads the rejection statement the student received.

The letter then goes on to suggest other ways to develop her career instead of interning for the company, such as making a LinkedIn account and attending career fairs.

Do the few white parents who read this blog realize that their children, and especially their sons, will never be eligible for professorships or high-corporate positions, and will be discriminated against during their entire careers? Perhaps that’s a turn-about-is-fair-play example, but it seems like vengeance, to me.

Nothing in his presidency became him like the leaving of it.

Cawdor Castle

If only.

Sadly, Trump proved to be no Cawdor, and his leaving was tawdry and damaging to the Republic.