The study, “The effect of political connections on COVID-19 stimulus,” was published in the journal of Accounting, Organizations and Society. It looked at more than 1,000 corporations’ donations to political action committees, or PACs, and lobbyists from 2017 to 2020, and the dollar amount of COVID-19 stimulus checks those corporations received

Andi: Thank you. Fixed.

My mother if from that area and went to a few of those camps. They are almost all private southern baptist church camps. Dozens and dozens of them all up and down the river.
They accept all, everyone from their church. many will accept any baptists. Some are even open to the public.

The idea they are racist is stupid. The idea that Trump cut the warning budgets is foolish.

The ideologies of the left are not thought out fully and in some cases vile. And in this case sick.
Logic has left the left and has been replaced with feels.

Bobby wrote “Don’t cede the language.” I agree whole-heartedly, and in fact have been saying this for decades. See for example this essay from 2023: Stop participating in the delusions of the insane

That coach was a real piece of work.
Used to be at Hoover, Alabama.

The best case scenario would be for her to be executed for murder. A more likely scenario would be her being seen by the general population as a murderer of children, to the point where she can no longer go out in public.

They also self describe as “progressives”. Impoverishing the nation and destroying the American dream ain’t progress.

In contrast, we are described as “right wing” or “far right”. How can people who voted for the majority candidate be “far right”? People who support the likes of Bernie Sanders are a small minority but are never described as “far left”.

Don’t cede the language. Don’t use their market group tested terms that the left uses for itself. Left wing, far left, leftists…How about we start a new moniker? AIF’s = anti-individual freedom is a good descriptor of them.

Just wait until this becomes more widespread. Peer review is rapidly becoming a bad joke.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers

“The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as “give a positive review only” and “do not highlight any negatives.” Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper for its “impactful contributions, methodological rigor, and exceptional novelty.””

The folks who label others as “denialists” I myself call gatekeepers. Mainstream geologists deemed anyone who saw flood evidence at the Channeled Scablands fools and creationists.

Peer review only works if there are no sacred cows–you’re supposed to try to poke holes in things.

Edward, it is ironic that they have become the new fundamentalists of our time, insisting on imposing belief after belief as The One True Way.

Playing God like that is above the pay grade of any human. Our founders knew that, and respected self-evident truths that we treat as meaningless words today.

We must regain that respect, throughout our society.

One problem liberals have is that they don’t understand “skepticism.” They also don’t understand science. “Climate Deniers” do not deny climate. Skeptics merely do not blindly accept the assumptions that make up the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis.* Liberals also do not seem to have any understanding that climates have naturally changed since the planet formed and that we humans are powerless to stop it from happening.

What we really need now are skeptics who are willing to do real science in order to create predictive climate models, not change the datasets to better match the AGW hypothesis and rationalize the failed models that the climate industry still relies upon.

Christina Propst mentions climate change because she is obviously associating floods with changes in climate, as though Texas has never seen a flood before.

“Propst apparently wasn’t satisfied working to destroy a fellow doctor’s life during COVID. This week she celebrated the death of others because they voted in a way she didn’t like.”

This is the mentality of the liberal. The end justifies the means, and if a bunch of children have to die in order to force the world to give them more power, then so be it. Why lament their loss when the end is achieved through their loss.

“Justice however has finally been served. Propst is now unemployed, with little chance she will ever be able to get another job as a pediatrician. Moreover, her ability to influence the medical community is now significantly reduced, if not ended entirely.”

Oh, look at that. She lost power, not gained it. Well, now she has no excuse not to lament the loss of the children and the others who were lost.
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* I misuse this word, here, because a hypothesis is supposed to be an educated guess based upon observation, and AGW relies solely upon assumptions and ignores several observations of natural changes in climate. It also is a young idea, having replaced the fear of the coming glacial period of the Ice Age.

I live about 30 miles from Kerrville, have friends there and my daughter works as a Nurse Practitioner there. We spoke with her today and she said the mood in Kerrville is very somber. My prayers are for all who are suffering from this tragic flood.