April 23, 2026
Trump Appoints "Queen of Vaccine" to Head CDC
Timothy Birdnow
President Trump's nominee to head the CDC is known as
the Queen of Vaccines and is infamous for mandating an endless string of mandatory vaccinations.
I don't know what's wrong with President Trump sometimes. He just sucks at personnel.
The nominee Erica Schwartz (you give 'em the schwartz!) was the person responsible for the bad policies during Trump's first term, the policies that lost him the election. And he's recycling her now.
The only thing I can think of is that Trump plans on pretty much cutting the CDC to nothing and figures he'd put her there to preside over a toothless agency. But that is a big risk; he can't just close the CDC.
Vaccine injury lawyer Aaron Siri said (in a freaky computer voice?):
"Her prior promotion, let alone mandates, of nearly a dozen different vaccines leave little hope she will objectively oversee CDC’s vaccine program," which ballooned from three to 29 jabs, "including in utero, by an infant’s first birthday"
"This agency does not need another cheerleader for industry; it needs a regulator over industry."
This former Navy doc also worked for United Healthcare and made millions in that position.
Apparently Trump is burning his bridges with MAHA, something he can ill-afford to do as he needs all the friends he can get. He has now alienated the isolationist wing of the Republican Party and MAHA. He needs to remember who his friends are.
I think he's doing this sort of thing now because he's looking at his legacy and wants some good press, at least in the history books. But he will never get it and he should know better.
This is how you get impeached successfully. The Democrat strategy is the same as it was with Nixon; isolate the President and when his friends are all gone take him out. Mr. Trump seems to be doing this all by himself. Foolish.
I'm not a MAHA man so much but I do think the CDC shouldn't be able to push all these vaccines on Americans. Medical doctors get paid for their patients getting these, and patients who refuse often lose their physicians or worse. And some vaccinations - like Covid - do more harm than good.
Frankly, I never get the flu shot; I get the flu every time I get the vaccination.
I'm also not an isolationist and I think Trump has handled foreign affairs properly, but a lot of Republicans are mad about Iran and it's a dangerous place to be. Trump needs all the support he can get.
So why he made this foolish appointment is beyond me. I hope he knows what he is doing.
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It certainly looks like a bad choice, but there may be things behind the scene that we aren't aware of. Trump has a very good track record, after all.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 01:23 PM (5FaDg)
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He has a good track record on a lot of things Dana but he's always seemed to be pretty bad when it comes to hiring. Some of his picks are great but others? Jeff Sessions. Christopher Wray, Anthony Scaramucci, etc.
I think Trump forgets he's hiring these people for fairly long term and not just one project.
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Mass Migration in Europe
Timothy Birdnow
This is comfortably larger than the population of Canada.
Canada, at a little over 42 million, is 22 million less than the alien population of Europe. Australia only has 28 million so if you ad Canada and Australia together you get just six million more than the alien population of the Continent.
This is completely untenable.
Western elites aren't even trying to pretend they want to save western civilization anymore.
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Is Starbucks Turning Right Wing?
Timothy Birdnow
Uh, no.
Starbucks isn't moving away from it's crazy progressive values but rather away from the consequences of those values. It is trying to escape the high taxation and crime riddled landscape created by the policies they have espoused over the years. And by moving to Tennessee they are hoping to turn the red-as-blood state blue as the arteries of Martha's Vineyard dwellers, or at least purple as a people eater.
This isn't about changing values - it's about dropping the radical pose to achieve radical ends.
If you want coffee try Folgers.
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Well, fer sherr it ain't about the coffee, since Starbuck's is just a fancy-schmancy drink.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 01:00 PM (5FaDg)
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I never thought Starbucks coffee was that great either. It was decent but too strong and lacked elegance (I like my coffee like my wine - elegant rather than just powerful).
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RNC Chair Gruters "You are the Weakest LInk: Goodnye!"
Timothy Birdnow
Does this surprise you? A late night surge in votes to approve the Virginia measure to gerrymander the state pushed it over the top. It had been trailing up until the very end.
Everyone is aware of the extremely misleading wording of the amendment (which only authorizes this one-time change, that returns to the old map once the Democrats consolidate their power) which spoke of "fairness" and "fixing" the actions of other states.
Fortunately a judge has struck this new map down. nut they will produce another and still gerrymander, albeit maybe a bit less obviously so.
This needed to fail.
I wonder if we can call another election and vote on it again?
At any rate the GOP failed to fund the fight against this while spending well over three times the amount they spent here to finance John Cornyn's efforts to win the Republican primary.
So why does this keep happening?
Party chairman Joe Gruters appears to be the weakest link. According to Wikipedia:
Gruters lost his first two elections and worked behind the scenes on several more losing campaigns.[5] He joined Vern Buchanan’s original successful 2006 campaign for Congress.[6] Gruters subsequently was chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota for ten years, longer than any of his predecessors.[7]
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Yes, he was there in Florida for the GOP takeover but was that his policies or rather the rise of Ron DeSantis and others who made Gruters look good when in fact he is a mediocrity?
I don't know but clearly he dropped the ball in the last few weeks and that was inexcusable. This guy needs to be treated like the weakest link "goodbye!"
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Kick Arlington and Alexandria Out of Virginia?
Timothy Birdnow
While I admire the spirit of this it would be a disaster, in all probability.
Deep blue Arlington and Alexandria both had belonged to the District of Columbia after Virginia ceded the territories when Washington was first created, and remained so until 1847 when Congress returned them to Virginia as a concession to protect slavery. The issue has never been fully resolved, and the President could call for the return of these areas to the District of Columbia, thus disenfranchising the inhabitants there and taking the blues parts out of Virginia, flipping the state red.
It sounds like a great plan except there is a catch; this will certainly drive a credible call for statehood for D.C. Who could argue against that, with two major cities being incorporated into the nation's capital? We would be hard-pressed to stoop statehood and the public would think that only fair.
We do not want to create another left-wing Democrat state.
As I say, bravo for the spirit but this would probably backfire on us in a Yuge way.
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These days I wish there were some way to kick Virginia out of the U.S.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 01:28 PM (5FaDg)
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Me too. Or move it away from D.C., since it is those counties near Washington that are the problem in the Old Dominion.
Part of Virginia already seceded from the state; maybe the rest of 'em can do so as well.
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"She was bred in old Virginnie but she's just a crumb up here".
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Va. Power Grab Shot Down
Timothy Birdnow
That didn't take long.
No doubt this ruling will be overturned by some pet Democrat court, and have to move up the appeals ladder swiftly. I expect this to go to SCOTUS in short order and who knows which way they will jump?
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Negative Mass
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Vedddy Eeeenterestink!
Scientists have discovered something long theorized - evidence of negative mass in a liquid in a Bose-Einstein Condensate.
A Bose-Einstein Condensate is formed when a gas is cooled to near absolute zero and the bosons (particles with integer spin) go into a collective state and behave as a single entity.
The researchers found that they could produce negative mass in some of the BEC's.
Negative mass was one of those things that Einstein dismissed as a mathematical artifact (much as he did a solution for his E=mcsquared which had a positive number for an electron, something rectified by Paul Dirac and the discovery of the positron in 1932.)
Negative mass would see a reversal of everything we know about matter; it would drop UPWARD and not down. It would move in reverse when you shoved it from behind. Fascinating stuff.
If we could find a way to make it and do so cheaply we would have tools making all sorts of things possible; antigravity to propel spacecraft, etc.
Of course producing minute amounts of the stuff in a Bose Einstein Condensate is a world of difference from making the stuff commercially (just as making antimatter is possible but we can't do it in any quantity). We are a LONG way from antigrav spaceships.
Below is the abstract:
A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an expanding spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate whose dispersion features a region of negative effective mass. We observe a range of dynamical phenomena, including the breaking of parity and of Galilean covariance, dynamical instabilities, and self-trapping. The experimental findings are reproduced by a single-band Gross-Pitaevskii simulation, demonstrating that the emerging features—shock waves, soliton trains, self-trapping, etc.—originate from a modified dispersion. Our work also sheds new light on related phenomena in optical lattices, where the underlying periodic structure often complicates their interpretation.
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Michael Mann Gets Major Award
Timothy Birdnow
Look at this; Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann, the guy who fudged data to promote climate change alarmism and who spent much of the rest of the time since suing people for no good reason and losing, was just
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in a disgusting display of political theater trumping real accomplishment.
After honoring that sleazeball Mann the university has the audacity to proclaim:
"We celebrate the achievement of each new member and the collective breadth and depth of their excellence—this is a fitting commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary,” says Academy President Laurie Patton. "The founding of the nation and the Academy are rooted in the inextricable links between a vibrant democracy, the free pursuit of knowledge, and the expansion of the public good.”
Execrable more like it. Mann has done very little decent science in his day, jumping on board the Climate Change gravy train early on. He was the father of the "hockey stick graph" which simply eliminated the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods and he did that by a sneaky trick "Mike's Nature trick" in which he switched from proxy data (which was dubious at best as he only used three trees from Yamal in Siberia to show warming) to temperature station data without telling anyone that was what he was doing. He did this to "hide the decline" as Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia, said in one of the Climategate e-mails. The reality is the proxy data showed a temperature decline (actually a decline in the rate of growth, but you get the point) and Mann couldn't have that so he switched to the very poor-quality station data to make it appear to be warming. In other words, he lied.
And this guy gets a great honor like this!
He should have been fired for this. Academic dishonesty is grounds for termination, tenure or not.
This is how Leftism works. They protect their own, and then reward them for services rendered. Now Mann will spend his old age with a bunch of honors and medals and statues and plaques. The only good thing about it is he won't be able to persuade his conscience. Hopefully he'll always know he was a fraud.
So what do you get for a major award? Hopefully a leg lamp like in A Christmas Story; that's about Mann's speed.
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Give him a turkey. No, he IS a turkey.
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A butterball with a beard!
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9th Circuit Blocks California's Nude Face Law
Timothy Birdnow
And this was the notoriously liberal 9th Circuit too!
Bill Melugin
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an injunction blocking enforcement of California’s new law that requires ICE agents to unmask and wear visible ID, arguing it violates the Supremacy Clause because it "attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions.”
California is enjoined from enforcing the law, pending appeal. Big win for the Trump administration & U.S. DOJ.
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How The Dems Stole Pennsylvania in 2020
Timothy Birdnow
Hat tip: Diane Kimura
Janet Atkins
April 20 at 5:04 PM
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USPS whistleblowers expose that around 280,000 completed ballots for the 2020 election were shipped across state lines from Bethpage, NY to Lancaster, PA to steal the 2020 election.
Trump was ahead in PA by 700k votes with 70% already counted before they stopped the count. Fraudulent ballots were then injected into the count and the 2020 election was stolen.
Coincidentally, the 280k fraudulent ballots from Lancaster and the 630k fraudulent ballots found by data expert Phil Waldron in Philadelphia equals the amount needed for Biden to overcome Trump's lead in PA.
These fraudulent ballots were found to be printed in China and coming into the U.S. through the Mexico border and flown in by aircraft. An enormous national security threat to the U.S. and foreign involvement in our elections.
The 2020 election was stolen using a combination of fraudulent mail-in ballots and compromised election equipment with engineered backdoors and remote internet access.
https://t.me/TheIntelSCIF/1668
Executive Order 13848 of September 12, 2018
Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election
https://www.federalregister.gov/.../imposing-certain...
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Rats and Sinking Ships
Timothy Birdnow
Bet this guy got the money for this from the war relief aid sent to Ukraine by the West.
Ukraine Billionaire Spends $554 Million for World’s Most Expensive Apartment in Monte Carlo
The corruption in the Ukraine is legendary, and the kleptocracy is setting themselves up for the day when the war ends (badly for the Ukrainians).
He purchased this property just before the start of the Russian invasion, and after speaking with his bestie Paul Manafort
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April 22, 2026
The Biden Spy Den
Timothy Birdnow
I said this was the tip of the iceberg.
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Republicans Fumble for TD in Va.
Timothy Birdnow
They were outspent by a whopping amount - $62.3 million vs. $20 million to barely scratch out an 81,188 vote gap. The GOP spent less to win this than they did to save John Cornyn from a primary challenge. Two to four million more would probably have won the election for the GOP. Now Democrats pick up four more seats and completely own the state, a state that went 49% for Donald Trump just last year.
As of now the Republican National Committee is sitting on a warchest of $109 million and couldn't be bothered to spend it on saving a critical state.
They gave $91 million to John Cornyn.
I've long argued the Establishment doesn't want to gain ground; they prefer a neck-and-neck Congress where the voters cannot afford to lose a single seat. That means RINO Republicans can keep the "radical" MAGA types from running away with the show. They have a cozy little relationship with the Democrats, are making money and enjoying the fruits of being in Congress, and don't want to actually win and have to do anything useful. Also, many of them are fellow travelers with the Democrats in terms of what they believe. So they want to keep Congress razor thin so that they don't have to worry about being primaried. The aforementioned John Cornyn is a prime example of that. The fought bitterly to keep him in place and shut out Ken Paxton, who is a Middle American - type MAGA guy and who will be a solid vote for Conservatism.
Now it's up to the liberal Virginia Supreme Court, which has twice before refused to act against this travesty. And until the state supreme court acts it cannot be appealed to Federal Court, and then it will go through the notoriously liberal district of Northern Virginia.
I want to know, too, about voter integrity in this election. Who voted and how many times? If there was ever a chance for vote fraud this would be the time for Democrats to utilize it.
Until we get a Republican Party that actually wants to win we are never going to make any headway. We aren't losing America because we are being outplayed so much as because our leadership doesn't want to take the field.
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Potok for Alcatraz
Timothy Birdnow
Here's one of the things the Southern Poverty Law Center did.
You may remember the Left used this to juice up the violent Antifa and BLM riots, and they falsely claimed Trump called fascists "good people" when he did no such thing (he said there were good people on both sides of the issue that had sparked the rally, which was the removal of statues of Confederate heroes). It was used to paint Trump as a neo-Nazi.
And Mark Potok and the SPLC gave money to the organizers of the Unite the Right rally. They wanted violence.
I need to remind everyone that it is not illegal to be a Nazi or Fascist or Klansman, provided you do not break the law, and money is free speech so the SPLC has a legal right to fund them, but as a 501c3 charity organization they are required by law to disclose to whom they are giving the money. They did not do so.
They couldn't; it would show they were staging events to "prove" there was rising hate among American Conservatives and not only help Democrats win elections but swell the coffers of the corrupt and leftists radical SPLC.
While I appreciate what Red State is doing here even they get it wrong, buying into the false narrative by claiming one white supremacist at the rally (James Alex Fields Jr.) "deliberately drove into a crowd of counter protesters". That is not necessarily correct; that driver was SURROUNDED by counter protesters who threatened him. See
this clip (Notice the crowd is predominantly white and female, btw.) It was oergaos less the fault of the alleged "white supremacist" (who called him or her that?) then of the rioting "counter protesters". But the narrative was written by the media and even now everyone sticks to it. Yes, the driver was charged and convicted (there was no way he was getting a fair trial), but that doesn't change what happened and we need to stop letting the Left write the narrative.
When someone dies as a result of a felony it is murder. The SCLP murdered that woman as much as, if not more than, the driver of the car.
So hopefully some of the top brass will be perp-walked and spend a lot of time behind bars.
The SPLC will be disbanded, only to change their names and operate in the same way as before; that's how these leftist groups do things. (It's what
ACORN did) The SPLC will no doubt do likewise.
Like the Devil the Left has many names. When one becomes tarnished they just switch to a new one.
The only way to stop the Left from this sort of thing is to incarcerate and punish it's leadership (and many of it's rank and file too). Just breaking the organization does nothing to get rid of the people who are plotting to do evil.
I hope Mark Potok winds up being the first person in a refurbished Alcatraz...
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Good idea! Or maybe the Alligator Alcatraz?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 12:55 PM (5FaDg)
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The Bible - Now a "living Document" to Liberals
Timothy Birdnow
Unhappy with what the Bible says on moral issues the United Church of Christ wants to add a "third testament" to update what it sees as outdated beliefs from the Old and New Testaments.
If I understand correctly the United Church of Christ is quite loosey-goosey about matters of morals and welcomes all sorts of people the New Testament refers to as sinners. The New Testament specifically says that if a brother in Christ is in an open state of sin and refuses to repent he ultimately must be cut off from the rest of the church. This is an attempt to circumvent that.
Years ago a black southern church wanted to put the letters of Martin Luther King from prison into the New Testament but that idea fizzled. That was the only movement of which I'm aware to alter scripture (with the exception of the Inspirationalists in Amana, Iowa, that is) and it failed.
Why? For one thing the Book of Revelations warns that if anyone alters Scripture in any way his name will be removed from the Book of Life and all the plagues in the final book portending doom will be added unto him. A pretty harsh thing to risk.
At any rate this is classically liberal; just change that which doesn't suit you.
Watch for this sort of thing to metastasize over time.
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Back quite a few years ago, before my wife got her steady church accompanist gig and was free-lancing, we used to occasionally play at a UCC congregation in St. Paul, and it used to honk me off that they would have a plug for man-caused climate change every Sunday.
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If you fear man-caused climate change you are essentially saying God is not in control. It's a form of apostacy.
They worship the creature rather than the Creator, methinks.
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I think this is a really complex issue, and people approach it from very different perspectives. Some see scripture as unchanging
Geometry Dash Lite, while others view interpretation as something that evolves over time with society.
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SPLC Charged with Funding White Supremacists
Timothy Birdnow
This is long overdue. SPLC is a hate group and always has been - and has ruined so many reputations by calling others "haters".
Gateway Pundit dishes:
The Justice Department on Tuesday indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
The SPLC was indicted for secretly funneling more than $3 million in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups, the DOJ said.
A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the SPLC.
The case was assigned to Judge Emily Marks, a Trump appointee.
So, agent provocateurs eh? They were funneling money to the people they claim to be in business to stop in order to justify their own existence. Then when something would happen they would say "see!" and their own fundraising would explode.
That's just evil, plain and simple.
Thanks God Todd Blanche is now at the helm at DOJ! These charges would never have been brought under Pam Bondi, who seemed to do very little in her tenure of office.
The SPLC was paying leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, a largely extinct organization, and other such hate groups through shell corporations.
They had labeled Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA as a "hate group" but somehow TPUSA didn't get any funding from them.
Mark Potok, the Grand Cyclops of the SPLC, has designated many conservative groups over the years, including the Family Research Council, the Center for Immigration Studies, Christ the King Reformed Church, The H.L. Mencken Club, The Legion of St. Ambrose, VDARE, Oathkeepers, Infowars, Natural News, The Constitution Party, the Eagle Forum (Phyllis Schlafley's old outifit), Faith Baptist Church, Watchman Bible Study Group, The American College of Pediatricians, Campus Ministries USA, D James Kennedy Ministries, ACT! for America, David Horowitz' Freedom Center, Jihad Watch, Most Holy Family Monastery, The Fatima Crusader/International Fatima Rosary Crusade,The Thomas Moore Law Center, Tea Party Nation, and a host of others, including the Sisters of Charity.
All of these groups have been targeted and in some cases destroyed by Potok and his hateful group. And now it's coming to light that he and his ilk have been funding real hate groups.
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I always wondered how they got their name, or, more accurately, just what it stood for. And I still wonder.
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Yes, it is a mixed bag, isn't it. Trying to sound as if they care about poverty and abuses of poor black folk down in old Dixie. But that is the furthest thing from the mission they have chosen for themselves, isn't it.
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And in fact, there is not nearly enough racism in this country; we need outfits like the SPLC to gin up lots more of it.
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Biden and Pro-Abortion Lobby Colluded to Oppress Pro-Life Groups
Timothy Birdnow
We knew about it but here is the proof.
This is the stuff of tyrants, not American Presidents.
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And it's also no surprise where Democrats are concerned.
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No it's not. Why didn't Bondi go after this during her tenure of office?
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April 21, 2026
Zelensky Restores Russian Oil Pipeline to Hungary Now that Orban is Gone
Timothy Birdnow
He waited until Orban was gone before restoring the pipeline to Hungary.
JUST IN - Zelensky says the damaged Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil to Eastern European countries will be restored to operation by the end of April — Reuters
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Now, just what did Zelensky have against Orban? I must have missed the memo.
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Climate Extreme Temps have Declined
Timothy Birdnow
Guess what? Contrary to the claims by the climate alarmists and their brain-damaged models temperature extremes have
actually declinedsince 18j99.
Here is the abstract from this new paper by Nobel-Prize-winning climatologist John Christy:
Knowledge of temperature extremes, and their potential changes within a climate system of increasing greenhouse gases, is of vital interest for humans and the infrastructure which supports them. To produce a better understanding of how daily extreme temperatures have changed over time in the conterminous US (CONUS), the United States Historical Climate Network (USHCN) database was extended back to 1899 and forward to 2025. The original 1,218 stations, selected in the 1980s by NOAA as capable of addressing climate concerns, have since been neglected - almost half of the stations have closed since 2000. Incomplete station records were supplemented with nearby stations with high correlation and removeable biases to provide time series for 1,211 of the stations with at least 92% of data present. Extreme temperature metrics for summer daily maximum temperatures and winter daily minimum temperatures were calculated. The general result is that metrics for extreme summer heat, e.g., hottest values, number of heatwave days, etc., show modest negative trends since 1899. Extreme cold temperature metrics also indicate a decline in their occurrences especially since the 1990s. In sum, instances of both hot and cold extreme metrics have declined since 1899. To demonstrate an application of this dataset we examined the claims of one source regarding changing temperature extremes, The National Climate Assessment 5.
We've been told that one of the fingerprints for carbon dioxide-driven warming is greater extremes in temperature and yet this data says no way Jose.
Of course, as Dr. Christy points out, the temperature stations have been neglected and "data smoothed" and this is why the entire thing is in doubt; we can't trust the datasets coming out of NOAA and NASA. So will the alarmists now criticize the data they've used to predict catastrophe' for all these years, or admit their theory has problems?
No, they will try to simply ignore this and pretend it's not happening.
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The Phoniness of Peer Review
Timothy Birdnow
This from Christ Martz, Senior meteorologist at Millersville University:
Peer-review is not a part of real science. Period.
The peer-review system, as it exists in its current form, has only existed since the 1970s (maybe 1960s in some cases). It is a relatively modern academic gatekeeping process, not an ancient pillar of science. Issac Newton, Galileo, Charles Darwin, and even Einstein's work (specifically, his four Annus Mirabilis papers in 1905) were all written or published without "peer-review.”
Science advances with evidence, replication, and falsifiability. "Peer-reviewers” typically do none of the above things when reading over a paper submitted to an academic journal. Reviewers are just anonymous "experts” that stamp approval for any papers they happen to agree with and reject ones that challenge their own biases.
But as I have previously said, any of my online critics that demand I publish a paper in a journal can pay me to do it themselves. I am not an academic. I am not a federal employee. I work in the private sector. It is not reasonable to expect me to drop thousands of dollars on a paper to cover paywalled data access fees and a journal's submission and/or publication fee(s). Either put your own money where your mouth is, or shut up about it and drop the stamp-collecting credentialism.
I don't need a M.S. or Ph.D. to analyze data or assess claims made by scientists and find errors in them. For hundreds of years, valid science happened outside of peer-reviewed journals because they simply didn't exist, at least in modern form. I also do not believe in using taxpayer dollars to conduct scientific research via NSF grants, etc.
Just because something has been "peer-reviewed” does not mean it is accurate.
And just because something hasn't been subject to academic circle jerks doesn't mean it isn't valid.
Your peers agreeing with your ideas does not make your theory valid.
"Peer-review” approval not the arbiter of truth.
It's gatekeeping because people are biased, scientists included.
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