I Want a New Left

Just for Fun

Here is a YouTube video by two Egyptian guys giving a review of a restaurant in Cairo called Heart Attack: Taste Worth Dying For. Possibly, this restaurant is modeled on something with a similar name in Las Vegas. Anyway, even though they are speaking Arabic, there is enough English to understand what they are getting at.

And here are some images of cats in hammocks on naval ships.

And here is a giant, 3-d image of a cat in Tokyo.

Leftist Variant Tourette Syndrome

I’ve concluded that most leftists suffer from this condition since they just can’t seem to keep their mouth shut about race, racism, or white supremacy. Anything might set them off, and then they will blurt out something hopelessly stupid about these topics. For example, they will see in the news a story about a white man with a black wife and they can’t help themselves: they have to declare that such men are racist. They see that blacks don’t do as well as other groups at math, so they declare that math is racist. They may see a rope coiled into a loop and so they conclude it’s a noose designed to scare blacks (even though it never is). Anything will set them off. Yesterday, I saw several items that exemplify this syndrome. One was the claim that responsible pet ownership is a racist concept, another was that pollution from fireworks hurts blacks more than anyone else, and a third was that blacks in America aren’t free.

How do we get these people to shut up about race? This isn’t the 1950s. We have even had a black president. Yet, somehow these people have decided that blacks lead terrible lives dominated by racist whites. Everything they say is utterly and completely stupid. As Aristotle says somewhere about some thinker, one doesn’t need to reduce his thoughts to absurdity because they already are absurd, and that is the case with what leftists are saying today. They are not only making themselves look stupid, they are dragging down our entire education establishment, indeed our entire culture, with it.

The Stupidity of the Greens

The greens have long thought that somehow, if Western nations, especially America, turn away from fossil fuels, then everything will be fine, even though they know that countries like China are building new coal-burning plants. Some may be waking up. See here for the following quote (which is from the Guardian):

Five Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world’s planned new coal plants, according to a report.

Jeopardising? Absolutely. I remember pointing this out at least twenty years ago to a green, who didn’t seem to get it. If there is a “climate emergency,” then no one should be excused from avoiding coal, right? But no, she couldn’t see this. All she could see was how awful we are and how we needed to make changes.

Then there is this quote:

Carbon Tracker, a financial thinktank, has found that China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units, even though renewable energy is cheaper than most new coal plants.

I’ve italicized the stupid part. Even if renewable energy is cheaper than most new coal plants, which I doubt, coal plants have the advantage of always working. Sheesh.

Energy Production: Some Good News

Happy Fourth, everyone! Here is some good news. A new nuclear power plant in Wyoming will be built. I strongly support nuclear power, especially in light of all the talk of a “climate emergency” because it renders all the talk of how dangerous the used nuclear material is completely irrelevant. Which is the greater priority: dangerous nuclear waste or the possibility that we will have runaway global warming in a few years? Most of us can figure that out (except the Greens, who aren’t quite rational). Forget solar and wind, which require large amounts of space for unreliable energy production. Nuclear is what we need.

Some Sense on the Future of Electric Vehicles

See here. This is a report from the Powerline blog about testimony in Congress by Robert Bryce, an energy expert. It contains his summary of his testimony, and here are my highlights of that summary:

(1) "In 1990, the California Air Resources Board mandated 10% of car sales be zero-emission vehicles by 2003. Today, 31 years later, only about 6% of the cars in California have an electric plug.” Let me add that some people seem to think that we can mandate innovation. We cannot. It happens when it happens. We can throw money into research in an area, and maybe we will get some great results. But maybe we won’t. Thomas Edison spent a lot of money trying to deal with low-grade iron ore by crushing rocks and then using magnets to separate the iron ore from the waste. I read this in a biography of him a couple decades ago, so my memory may not be accurate, but he ran into problem after problem trying to do this, and he never got it to work.

(2) Right now electric vehicles are for the rich, yet others will have to pay (via their taxes) for the subsidies that are used to make them viable. There will need to be upgrades in the electrical grid, and the poor will help pay for these with much higher electric bills, even though they may never own an electric vehicle themselves.

(3) Right now, California is facing lots of blackouts, so it is very far from having the electrical capacity to deal with the transition to a large number of electric vehicles.

(4) There are supply-chain issues with manufacturing them. We will require 9 times the current cobalt production to have half of our vehicles be electric vehicles.

All the talk about how everyone will be driving an EV by 2030 seems wildly unlikely.

BLM and the CRT Crowd Are Wildly Ignorant about the Rest of the World

See here. It’s a report on non-Persian minorities in Iran and how badly they are treated by the Persian elites who run the country. They can’t be schooled in their own language, they must put up with police from a different ethnicity rather than their own, they generally live in awful parts of the country that are environmentally contaminated, etc. Ok, most of this is pretty mild, but then so is what is happening in the U.S. these days with respect to our minorities. Yet, one would think that we had enslaved all of them.

But my point is that there is nothing particularly unique about America in terms of how it treats minorities. This happens throughout the world. It’s just that our elites try to make it seem that whites are somehow uniquely evil. Take a look at that photo at the link of the demonstrators, with one carrying a sign saying, “Stop Iranian racism against Ahwazis.” There is racism everywhere.

The cancer of the world isn’t the white race, but our elites.

The End of Islamophobia?

See here. Google and YouTube took down videos by an activist who is trying to help the Uighurs. Heh. Placating the Chinese seems to be more important than helping Muslims for our elites, despite all the support they have given them over the last twenty years.