March 27, 2025

Judge Overturns Biden Energy Lease Cancellations

Timothy Birdnow

So we finally win one from a judge.

Judge Rules Biden Admin Unlawfully Canceled Oil, Gas Leases in Alaska Refuge

Sadly I disagree with the judge's reasoning; tthe courts are not the ultimate rulers here and this notion that the Department of the Interior does not in any way have to get "approval" from them. IF there is a lawsuit and the courts say this violates the law fine, but essentially this judge is saying the DOI had to go to the courts and get their policy rubber-stamped. That is NOT the way this is supposed to work.

Of course it's not supposed to work the way it does, either, where unelected bureaucrats simply cancel legal contracts, but this is what happens when government is intimately involved in all facets of life.

From the Epoch Times:

"A federal judge in Alaska ruled on Tuesday that the Department of the Interior (DOI) acted unlawfully when it canceled seven oil and gas leases issued for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) because the agency failed to obtain a court order beforehand.
In a 22-page order, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason stated that DOI needed to obtain a court order to cancel the seven leases that had been awarded to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) before the Biden administration took office in 2021.

"There is no reason DOI could not file an action seeking declaratory relief in such circumstances,” Gleason stated. "Accordingly, Federal Defendants’ cancellation of AIDEA’s leases was not in accordance with law because it failed to seek a court order.”

AIDEA filed the lawsuit against the Biden administration in 2023 after DOI canceled oil and gas leases it won in January 2021, during the final days of President Donald Trump’s first term."

"There is no reason DOI couldn't file"? There is no reason why they SHOULD file. The courts are WAY out of balance with their funciton.

But this is good; it means Biden's dirty trick has failed, at least as long as it's not overturned by an appelate court.

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Pea Pickin' Ridiculous

Timothy Birdnow

Oh for the love of all things holy!

Rogue Judge Looking to Prevent Terrorists from Being Deported To Preside Over Signal Chat Lawsuit

Bosoburger is going to be ruling over the mistake that let a journalist onto a chat about national security.

How is there even a lawsuit in this; nobody has standing here. There is no injured party. And with national security involved nothing about this can be brought out in discovery anyway.

This is pea-picking ridiculous (to quote Dana Mathewson's  brother in law.)

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More Winning

Timothy Birdnow

Tired of winning yet?

Investment Commitments in U.S. Nears $3 Trillion Since Trump Took Office - Equal to 10% of GDPp.

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Light Blogging Continues

Dear friends,

Blogging will remain light for the next few weeks no doubt. I promise to post as/when I can and will no doubt be back up to speed after a week or so.

Thank you for your patience.

Tim

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March 24, 2025

3 Dem Senators to Retire

Timothy Birdnow

Three Donkey Senators are packing it in after losing power in the Happiest Place on Earth (Washington) and this offers a huge opportunity for the GOP to cement their control of the Senate.

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) have announced their retirements and next year's off-year elections will offer an unique opportunity to the GOP.

Of course they often blow it and I have great confidence in Republicans to foul things up. Also, as these are liberal states the GOP will probably run RINO republicans, thus making our task more difficult even if we win.

But at least we can pump up the numbers and perhaps that may make all the difference if t

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The Kids are Allright (now)

Timothy Birdnow

Gen Z, the much vaunted "youth vote" is turning away from the Democrats and increasingly embracing MAGA.

According to Hot AirDemocrats Have Lost the Youth Vote

They are also losing the black and hispanic votes as well, and the labor Democrats are going Orange.

This trend can be reversed if the Democrats play their cards right but they don't seem capable of doing so. Dems are playing Old Maid in a high stakes poker game.

That's why they desperately need a game changer. Watch for something very, very big (like a major terrorist attack).

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You Can Make Returns After All

Timothy Birdnow

Ron DeSantis is Returning $878 million to Washington in unspent allocations after getting a letter from Musk and DOGE.

"for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and unjust"

Matthew 5:45

DeSantis did what every governor in America should be doing.

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Bondi's Boo Boo

Timothy Birdnow

Another reason to suspect Pam Bondi isn't the person for the job.

Pam Bondi — Supreme Court will stop judge Boasberg.

If she believes that she's a bigger fool than I took her for. Maybe they will get around to it eventually, but there is every reason to believe the Administraion will lose this fight at SCOTUS despite the law being entirely on Trump's side because Roberts has now gone on record chastising Trump and he's not about to allow Trump this sort of victory. Also, these radicals just make Roberts look bad, incapable of handling his own branch of government. So at least HE has every reason to not side with Trump, and his mini-me Amy Conehead Barrett will probably follow suit.

No Pam, SCOTUS is like Charlie Brown - you can't depend on it to do ANYTHING right, as Lucy says in Charlie Brown Christmas.

Increasingly Bondi appears to be too weak and vacillating and perhaps even a deep stater to do this job. We needed U.S. Grant and we got George McLellan instead.

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USIP gets usnipped

Timothy Birdnow

Possible charges for the US Institute for Peace obstructionist board of directors.

They changed locks on their building to keep DOGE out and sent out memos telling employees not to cooperate with DOGE.

Such insubordination must be punished, and legally.

From the article:

"USIP leadership began preparing for a confrontation weeks before the executive order was issued. A Feb. 6 internal document exclusively obtained by the DCNF outlined plans to deny building access to outside officials and reasserted the institute’s discretion over security systems and facilities. Flyers with the names and photos of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials were posted throughout the building, instructing staff to report their presence and avoid conversation.

After Jackson and other DOGE officials arrived on March 14 with law enforcement and a copy of Trump’s order, they were turned away by USIP’s legal counsel, sources previously told the DCNF. Over the following weekend, USIP leadership escalated its resistance — terminating its private security firm, disabling internet and phone systems and resorting to walkie-talkie communication inside the building.

DOGE officials returned Monday to find the building locked down and staff barricaded on the fifth floor. USIP officials called the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), sources previously told the DCNF, who only later arrived at the request of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. after reports of obstruction by institute staff. MPD entered the fifth floor through emergency stairwells and removed former USIP President George Moose and other senior officials from the premises.

While a federal judge declined to issue a restraining order halting the leadership transition Wednesday, she sharply criticized DOGE’s cooperation with law enforcement, despite the circumstances surrounding USIP’s refusal to comply."

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Reps Take Long Island

Timothy Birdnow

Anyone tired of winning yet?

Republicans win special election on Long Island, in heavy democrat district.

The times they are a-changin'!

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Insurrection Obama

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Obama shoveled U.S. tax money through USAID for "rent a riots".

Obama USAID Scandal Exposed

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MIA Love RIP

Timothy Birdnow

Mia Love RIP

Love was the first black woman elected to Congress as a Republican. She was only 49 when she passed away in her home after a long struggle with brain cancer.

Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord and let the perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace.

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Enemy Mine

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill … The real enemy, then, is humanity itself”

Club of Rome 1991

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Record Arctic Ice Growth

This from Tony Heller at Real Climate Science:

The Arctic has gained a record amount of sea ice so far this month, even as the press claims the exact opposite.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt

Greenland has also gained record amounts of glacial ice this winter.

Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

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India Raids Soros Offices

Timothy Birdnow

The dominoes are starting to fall!

India just RAIDED Soros’ Open Society Foundation offices… NGO scam is crumbling…

Soros and his cronies are anarcho-socialists and any country that has anything to do with them should be ostracized.

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Either Way

"Nothing much has changed with the Democrat party…they used to burn a cross in your front yard..now they are burning Teslas”

Real Ben Garrison on X

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Is Roberts Compromised?

Timothy Birdnow

Is John Roberts compromised? At least one writer believes so.

I agree; this guy's nose has been firmly lodged in the Ruling Class rectum for his entire life and I suspect they have the goods on him.

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A Burma Shaved is a Burma Burned

Timothy Birdnow

FBI agent Burma gets a close shave and a brand new pair of bracelets.

An anti-Trump FBI agent was just arrested at JFK before he could flee the country…

This guy accused Trump of weaponizing government and said Rudy Giulliani was a Russian agent.

He leaked excerpts from a tell-all book he wrote that contained classified information. When he realized the jig was up (and gone!) so was he - but they caught him at the airport.

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March 23, 2025

Climate Scientists FINALLY Admit Ignorance!

Timothy Birdnow

FINALLY climate scientists are admitting they can't predict squat about Antarctic ice because they don't have enough data.

"Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the physics driving large-scale ice movements in Antarctica. Their findings reveal that existing models lack critical complexity necessary for accurately predicting the Antarctic ice sheet’s dynamics and mass loss, both now and in the future.

Climate realists have argued this very point all along. The models are two-dimensional and woefully inadquate to make these lofty and confident predictions. And in fact Antarctica as a continent has been faining ice mice, not losing it.

FTA:

The Antarctic ice sheet, Earth’s largest ice mass and nearly twice the size of Australia, acts like a sponge for the planet, keeping sea levels stable by storing freshwater as ice. To understand the movement of the Antarctic ice sheet, which is shrinking more rapidly every year, existing models have typically relied on assumptions about ice’s mechanical behavior derived from laboratory experiments. But Antarctica’s ice is much more complicated than what can be simulated in the lab, Lai said. Ice formed from seawater has different properties than ice formed from compacted snow, and ice sheets may contain large cracks, air pockets, or other inconsistencies that affect movement.
Web of Deep Cracks AntarcticaA web of deep cracks, or crevasses, span the icescape of an area of the Getz ice shelf in Antarctica. Credit: Jeremy Harbeck, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Operation IceBridge

"These differences influence the overall mechanical behavior, the so-called constitutive model, of the ice sheet in ways that are not captured in existing models or in a lab setting,” Lai said.

Lai and her colleagues didn’t try to capture each of these individual variables. Instead, they built a machine learning model to analyze large-scale movements and thickness of the ice recorded with satellite imagery and airplane radar between 2007 and 2018. The researchers asked the model to fit the remote-sensing data and abide by several existing laws of physics that govern the movement of ice, using it to derive new constitutive models to describe the ice’s viscosity – its resistance to movement or flow.
Compression vs. strain

The researchers focused on five of Antarctica’s ice shelves – floating platforms of ice that extend over the ocean from land-based glaciers and hold back the bulk of Antarctica’s glacial ice. They found that the parts of the ice shelves closest to the continent are being compressed, and the constitutive models in these areas are fairly consistent with laboratory experiments. However, as ice gets farther from the continent, it starts to be pulled out to sea. The strain causes the ice in this area to have different physical properties in different directions – like how a log splits more easily along the grain than across it – a concept called anisotropy.

"Our study uncovers that most of the ice shelf is anisotropic,” said first study author Yongji Wang, who conducted the work as a postdoctoral researcher in Lai’s lab. "The compression zone – the part near the grounded ice – only accounts for less than 5% of the ice shelf. The other 95% is the extension zone and doesn’t follow the same law.

We've long known there are different sorts of ice; the Eskimos knew that long ago and have different words for different types. But that has never been factored into icepack and glaciars before.

Also, Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003–08) show mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded discharge losses by 82 ± 25 Gt a−1. Icesat II is showing some ice loss since then, but that after gains during what was supposed to be increasing warming. Most of the losses detected by Icesat II has been in West Antarctica, which is primarily sea ice and not land ice. In fact it is almost entirely caused by saltier, warmer sea water intruding south of the Antarctic convergence. The movement of that water has nothing to do with carbon-dioxideinduced climate change and everything to do with the El Nino and likely with the planetary wobble.

I suspect we'll be seeing more and more science showing up in the literature as global warming has peaked as an issue and failed to catch the public imagination enough to justify things like the Paris Accord. Without the jackboot on the throats of the journals the science will start coming out showing this whole thing had nothing to do with carbon dioxide in the first place.

At least we can hope.

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Juan Williams Blamed Musk for Tesla Burning

Timothy Birdnow

On Fox News Sunday the idiot Juan Williams just blamed Elon Musk for the torching of Teslas owned by private individuals. His logic was that Musk's meme with a chainsaw so angered people that basically he had it coming.

THAT is the best and brightest of the Left. And neither Shannon Bream nor anyone else dressed him down for it.

Imagine if this had been a group of MAGA people torching, say, Costcos. Williams would call for the death penalty.

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