Author: Crowhill Report

268: The Canadian teacher with the huge pretend boobs

And how dare you say otherwise!

Former Congressman Sentenced to Prison for Stuffing Pennsylvania Ballot Boxes

There had to be some cheating. There’s always cheating. You can’t possibly have such a huge event, involving so many people, and with such big things at stake, without there being some cheating. (In this case, it was a Democrat. In Michigan, some Republicans submitted fraudulent petitions to get on the ballot.)

The question has always been whether there was significant cheating (enough to change the results), but The Narrative is always more important than truth and clear speaking.

This is an interesting video.

Most of the water is not being used by residents or by non-agricultural companies. It’s being used for agriculture, and specifically for agriculture aimed at feeding cows. That’s interesting. First, it means we need to stop blaming swimming pools and water fountains in Vegas. But second, this means there’s a lot of room for innovation.

Some nags are going to say we can solve this by cutting down on our meat consumption, but there’s another and better option. Innovation!

My understanding is that Israel has done great work in extending the reach of their water resources — using drip irrigation and other things. Rather than scolding everybody, or trying to get people to change their lifestyle, why not make a big effort to make our agriculture more efficient in its water use?

“Dark Brandon” started off as a Chinese meme that mocked Joe Biden. It was then taken up as a theme for t-shirts and has now — based on Biden’s recent speeches — been adopted as a good strategy by the White House. I heard clips recently of happy Democrats, gleeful that they’ve unleashed “Dark Brandon.”

Good.

Generally speaking, I like things to stay civil among politicians. I like them to say “my distinguished colleague from New York,” and “the gentleman from Kentucky,” and so on. I like them to dress decently, avoid using profanity, and maintain an acceptable public decorum.

But “generally speaking” doesn’t apply to the absolute insanity we’re living through. The two parties aren’t arguing about how much gun control we need, or how much we should spend on social programs. They’re at war. Democrats hate and mistrust Republicans and Republicans hate and mistrust Democrats.

I don’t like saying this, but it’s about damn time.

Democrats have been pushing completely insane policies.

• Allowing men to compete in women’s sports.
• Teaching children to hate their country.
• Insisting that boys and men are toxic.
• Promoting a divisive and incoherent “diversity” ethic.
• Failing to protect the border.

And those are just the insane policies. There are also lots of misguided / stupid policies, like …

• Opposing fossil fuels when they don’t have a realistic replacement.
• Spending lots of money during a recession.
• Revitalizing Obama’s naive Iran deal.
• Promoting misguided bail / policing reform.

I could go on, but it’s not to the point. The point is that the Democrats have been waging an aggressive war against traditional America for a very long time, but they’ve been able to hide behind the false (but somehow marketable) idea that they’re the nice guys who love tolerance and acceptance and kindness, and it’s only The Bad Orange Man and his followers who are causing all the trouble.

Biden — and through Biden, the Democratic establishment — has finally, openly owned this hatred. Those who oppose their agenda are “full of anger, violence, hate.” They are a threat to the Republic.

Very good. Give in to the dark side, Brandon. Maybe conservative America will finally wake up to what we’re facing here.

This is not your father’s politics, where the Democrats say “let’s do all this,” and the Republicans say, “okay, but only half.”

It’s far more serious.

Just as the parents of school children finally (belatedly) realized how nutty school had become when they could see it on Zoom at the kitchen table, the public is finally seeing the clash of these two ideologies.

They are diametrically opposed. One must die.

Dark Brandon has pulled back the veil. America will now see what’s at stake.

Do we have the balls to deal with it?

The story is that research has shown that having women on boards of directors helps a company’s profitability. That may be true, but there’s cause to doubt the conclusion because you’re not allowed to say the opposite. Any research that showed that having women on boards hurts a company would be suppressed. It would end careers, the researchers would be labeled as Nazis and driven to suicide, etc. (I’m exaggerating, but only a little.)

IOW, you can’t believe conclusion A if nobody is allowed to contradict it.

But let’s set that aside and assume it’s true, for the sake of argument. Let’s say honest research has clearly demonstrated that companies that have more women on their board of directors outperform companies that do not.

Personally, despite what I say above, I think there might be something to the idea. Women can bring a different perspective, and viewpoint diversity is very important. As a side note, that illustrates the cognitive dissonance on the left, because they want to say “men and women are equal” and also say “adding women to a board of directors makes it better.”

Moving on …. Would such research justify a rule that all companies must have some number of women on their board?

I don’t see how that follows, and I think such a rule contradicts everything we’ve concluded over the years about discrimination. That is, you can’t judge an individual situation on the basis of group characteristics.

Even if we are 100 percent sure that having more of such and so group is correlated with better outcomes, that does not justify a bias in favor of hiring people in that group. This is elementary and basic stuff, but if you need convincing, just run it through your mind a few times with some other groups. Irish, Calvinists, basketball players, former Marines, people who can play the piano. Pick any group you like. Then imagine a hiring situation where a company picks applicants based on their membership in that group.

You can’t do that. It’s insane.

“Oh, sure, Bob is way more qualified than Jack, but Jack can play the piano, and we don’t have enough piano players on the board.”