December 30, 2024
The Triumph of Junk Science
Timothy Birdnow
When Michael Mann questions climate alarmism, you are talking about very, very bad science indeed.
Read it here.
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A study published early this year found Earth is on course to reach 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) of warming relative to preindustrial levels by the late 2020s — more than a decade earlier than current projections. Global warming of 2 C is considered a critical threshold to prevent the worst effects of climate change; warming beyond this would greatly boost the likelihood of extreme weather and other destructive impacts.
The study authors said in a news conference that their results mark "a major change to the thinking about global warming," because they bring forward the advent of human-made climate change by four decades, meaning scientists have been underestimating the level of warming all along. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that global warming began around 1900, but the recent study says the start date is more likely to have been in the 1860s.
The authors based their results on climate indicators found in old skeletons of sponges from the Caribbean Sea. But other experts criticized the findings, saying the authors wrongly extrapolated from highly local data to draw conclusions about the whole world. "The study fails to support its global claims with robust evidence, and it fails by a huge margin," Jochem Marotzke, a professor of climate science and director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany, told Live Science.
"Skepticism is warranted here," Michael Mann, director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, told Live Science. "It honestly doesn't make sense to me."
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Now, in 1860 we were just departing the Little Ice Age; the Dalton Minimum ended just around 1830, and the planet was in a warming trend. The Little Ice Age is always dated to around 1850, so it was a natural warming that was occurring during this period. Duh.
And atmospheric co2 in the late 1860's was believed to be around 285 ppm (parts per million) which was actually lower than most periods in history. It was certainly no higher; during the Medieval Warming Period atmospheric co2 was also at 285 ppm.
I would add a rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere generally follows a warming period - does not proceed it. And that by a good 500 to 1000 years. What was happening in 1300? The Medieval Warming Period. The MWP is generally thought to have ended around 1350, though it persisted for a time in some places. Interestingly enough, multiple civilzations collapsed when it ended - the Mound Builders in the midwest, the Mayans moved out of the Yucatan at about this time, and a number of city states in South America collapsed.
As we now enjoy the modern Holocene Warming Period we are so incredibly ungrateful we complain about the warming as though it is somehow toxic and blame ourselves for it. Crazy; warming periods have always been beneficial to humanity.
At any rate this article also has other science nonsense (such as the photo of the black hole at the galactic center, something I doubt they could take as it is covered by gas and dust - nobody has ever seen the core and probably never will.
And then there is the silly idea that space debris will weaken the Earth's magnetosphere.
It's interesting and illustrates what I have been saying for a long time; science is dead and has been replaced by a kind of false religion, much like Elmer Gantry faith healing types tried to replace Christianity. There is the "publish or perish" paradigm and scientists are so eager to make a name for themselves they concoct ridiculous ideas and then promote them -and the academics all goalong with it because nobody wants to be the first to say the emperor is nude. And of course government money has corrupted the whole thing; a novel thesis gets big bucks; good, solid research that confirms what we already knew does not.
Science is what made the Western World strong. AS it declines so too declines our whole civilization. Training more people and throwing more money at it won't help; it's been the cause of the problem in many ways. What is needed is common sense and an end to the "look at me" culture that has invaded science research.
Michael Mann is a prime example.
When Michael Mann questions climate alarmism, you are talking about very, very bad science indeed.
Read it here.
FTA:
A study published early this year found Earth is on course to reach 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) of warming relative to preindustrial levels by the late 2020s — more than a decade earlier than current projections. Global warming of 2 C is considered a critical threshold to prevent the worst effects of climate change; warming beyond this would greatly boost the likelihood of extreme weather and other destructive impacts.
The study authors said in a news conference that their results mark "a major change to the thinking about global warming," because they bring forward the advent of human-made climate change by four decades, meaning scientists have been underestimating the level of warming all along. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that global warming began around 1900, but the recent study says the start date is more likely to have been in the 1860s.
The authors based their results on climate indicators found in old skeletons of sponges from the Caribbean Sea. But other experts criticized the findings, saying the authors wrongly extrapolated from highly local data to draw conclusions about the whole world. "The study fails to support its global claims with robust evidence, and it fails by a huge margin," Jochem Marotzke, a professor of climate science and director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany, told Live Science.
"Skepticism is warranted here," Michael Mann, director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, told Live Science. "It honestly doesn't make sense to me."
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Now, in 1860 we were just departing the Little Ice Age; the Dalton Minimum ended just around 1830, and the planet was in a warming trend. The Little Ice Age is always dated to around 1850, so it was a natural warming that was occurring during this period. Duh.
And atmospheric co2 in the late 1860's was believed to be around 285 ppm (parts per million) which was actually lower than most periods in history. It was certainly no higher; during the Medieval Warming Period atmospheric co2 was also at 285 ppm.
I would add a rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere generally follows a warming period - does not proceed it. And that by a good 500 to 1000 years. What was happening in 1300? The Medieval Warming Period. The MWP is generally thought to have ended around 1350, though it persisted for a time in some places. Interestingly enough, multiple civilzations collapsed when it ended - the Mound Builders in the midwest, the Mayans moved out of the Yucatan at about this time, and a number of city states in South America collapsed.
As we now enjoy the modern Holocene Warming Period we are so incredibly ungrateful we complain about the warming as though it is somehow toxic and blame ourselves for it. Crazy; warming periods have always been beneficial to humanity.
At any rate this article also has other science nonsense (such as the photo of the black hole at the galactic center, something I doubt they could take as it is covered by gas and dust - nobody has ever seen the core and probably never will.
And then there is the silly idea that space debris will weaken the Earth's magnetosphere.
It's interesting and illustrates what I have been saying for a long time; science is dead and has been replaced by a kind of false religion, much like Elmer Gantry faith healing types tried to replace Christianity. There is the "publish or perish" paradigm and scientists are so eager to make a name for themselves they concoct ridiculous ideas and then promote them -and the academics all goalong with it because nobody wants to be the first to say the emperor is nude. And of course government money has corrupted the whole thing; a novel thesis gets big bucks; good, solid research that confirms what we already knew does not.
Science is what made the Western World strong. AS it declines so too declines our whole civilization. Training more people and throwing more money at it won't help; it's been the cause of the problem in many ways. What is needed is common sense and an end to the "look at me" culture that has invaded science research.
Michael Mann is a prime example.
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China Will Lose a Trade War
Timothy Birdnow
China is talking tough on Trump's tariffs (I dare you to say THAT five times fast!)but can they actually pull it off.
Here is one guy who says no.
A point nobody will make is that China holds considerable amounts of American debt - $859.4 billion worth. They cannot afford us to simply default on it, which we could do if push came to shove.
Also, China imported $154.0 billion from the U.S. in 2022, and no doubt that number has climbed significantly. While the U.S. imports significantly more from them $536.3 billion) as of '22 we can get much of that stuff elsewhere.
Byt what does China get from us?
Here are a few items:
Most of this cannot be bought from just anyone. And the U.S. has a long arm, unlike many of the third parties that may sell to them. We can threaten any of these countries with similar treatment and they probably won't undercut us, at least not with Trump being in office.
While China exports to us:
We are clearly in a better position for a trade war than are they. We get more cheap goods or commodities - they need more of the high tech stuff we can provide.
I dare China to try this, especially now when their economy is struggling and appears to be deep trouble.
This should be a fascinating four years.
China is talking tough on Trump's tariffs (I dare you to say THAT five times fast!)but can they actually pull it off.
Here is one guy who says no.
In December, Beijing tightened controls on exports of raw materials used in the manufacture of advanced electronics and batteries and in other high-tech fields. That move was in response to the Biden administration’s decision to cut China’s access to certain memory chips used in artificial intelligence. Beijing has also extended controls over parts used in the manufacture of drones, which have proved vital to Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s full-scale invasion.
China also has announced an antitrust investigation of Nvidia, the U.S. chip juggernaut, saying it might have violated the terms of a conditional approval it received from Beijing in 2020 for its acquisition of an Israeli networking company.
Beijing also maintains an "unreliable entity list” of companies that face extra hurdles in doing business in China. In September, it said it was considering placing PVH, the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, on the list because of reports that the U.S. company had boycotted cotton products from China’s Xinjiang region, where China is accused of using forced labor in its factories. Beijing denies the forced-labor allegations.
Yet analysts said this mix of export restrictions and the targeting of U.S. companies isn’t such a potent set of countermeasures.
Although China dominates the production and refining of critical minerals, it isn’t the sole supplier worldwide. Last year the U.S. imported more raw gallium from Canada than it did from China, and its top supplier of processed germanium was Germany, according to Census Bureau data. Both minerals are critical to the production of semiconductors, missile systems and solar cells.
China’s dominance of critical minerals relies in part on its ability to supply global markets at low prices, making it uneconomic for rivals to invest in alternative production. But export controls risk pushing up the market price, changing that calculus.
"The more of a strain it is to get these things, the more investment goes into processing,” said Matthew Gertken, chief geopolitical strategist at BCA Research.
Moreover, as Russia’s ability to evade Western sanctions has shown, third countries are usually prepared to act as middlemen in global trade, allowing eager buyers to sidestep efforts by sellers to impose restrictions on sales to a particular country. If China got tough on exports of minerals to the U.S., American companies could potentially secure what they need through re-exports by third countries, Gertken said.
Nor is punishing U.S. companies that do business in China the potent threat it once was. China’s sluggish economy and its push to edge out Western brands in favor of domestic rivals mean many U.S. companies are struggling there. As a result, China has become less important to American corporations than it was.
China also has announced an antitrust investigation of Nvidia, the U.S. chip juggernaut, saying it might have violated the terms of a conditional approval it received from Beijing in 2020 for its acquisition of an Israeli networking company.
Beijing also maintains an "unreliable entity list” of companies that face extra hurdles in doing business in China. In September, it said it was considering placing PVH, the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, on the list because of reports that the U.S. company had boycotted cotton products from China’s Xinjiang region, where China is accused of using forced labor in its factories. Beijing denies the forced-labor allegations.
Yet analysts said this mix of export restrictions and the targeting of U.S. companies isn’t such a potent set of countermeasures.
Although China dominates the production and refining of critical minerals, it isn’t the sole supplier worldwide. Last year the U.S. imported more raw gallium from Canada than it did from China, and its top supplier of processed germanium was Germany, according to Census Bureau data. Both minerals are critical to the production of semiconductors, missile systems and solar cells.
China’s dominance of critical minerals relies in part on its ability to supply global markets at low prices, making it uneconomic for rivals to invest in alternative production. But export controls risk pushing up the market price, changing that calculus.
"The more of a strain it is to get these things, the more investment goes into processing,” said Matthew Gertken, chief geopolitical strategist at BCA Research.
Moreover, as Russia’s ability to evade Western sanctions has shown, third countries are usually prepared to act as middlemen in global trade, allowing eager buyers to sidestep efforts by sellers to impose restrictions on sales to a particular country. If China got tough on exports of minerals to the U.S., American companies could potentially secure what they need through re-exports by third countries, Gertken said.
Nor is punishing U.S. companies that do business in China the potent threat it once was. China’s sluggish economy and its push to edge out Western brands in favor of domestic rivals mean many U.S. companies are struggling there. As a result, China has become less important to American corporations than it was.
A point nobody will make is that China holds considerable amounts of American debt - $859.4 billion worth. They cannot afford us to simply default on it, which we could do if push came to shove.
Also, China imported $154.0 billion from the U.S. in 2022, and no doubt that number has climbed significantly. While the U.S. imports significantly more from them $536.3 billion) as of '22 we can get much of that stuff elsewhere.
Byt what does China get from us?
Here are a few items:
Most of this cannot be bought from just anyone. And the U.S. has a long arm, unlike many of the third parties that may sell to them. We can threaten any of these countries with similar treatment and they probably won't undercut us, at least not with Trump being in office.
While China exports to us:
We are clearly in a better position for a trade war than are they. We get more cheap goods or commodities - they need more of the high tech stuff we can provide.
I dare China to try this, especially now when their economy is struggling and appears to be deep trouble.
This should be a fascinating four years.
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Trump and his Johnson
Timothy Birdnow
Trump has given his endorsement to Mike Johnson. I guess Trump doesn't learn after all.
Remember when he endorsed McCarthy? Or Mitch McConnell for that matter? Why does Trump think these swamp rats are going to drain the swamp?
Anyone remember this '70's commercial? I guess Trump is singing along now.
Just Trump and his Johnson!
Trump has given his endorsement to Mike Johnson. I guess Trump doesn't learn after all.
Remember when he endorsed McCarthy? Or Mitch McConnell for that matter? Why does Trump think these swamp rats are going to drain the swamp?
Anyone remember this '70's commercial? I guess Trump is singing along now.
Just Trump and his Johnson!
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Shoo Flu Shot
Timotthy Birdnow
Why the flu vaccines suck.
I never get one and rarely get the flu. I've had five vaccinations in my life for influenza and come down with a terrible case of the flu every single time - within ten days of getting it. One time they were giving free shots at the place I was working and they wound up having to close the office due to the whole staff getting the flu after.
You're welcome to get one and if you believe in it fine, but you won't catch me ever getting another one of those things.
Why the flu vaccines suck.
I never get one and rarely get the flu. I've had five vaccinations in my life for influenza and come down with a terrible case of the flu every single time - within ten days of getting it. One time they were giving free shots at the place I was working and they wound up having to close the office due to the whole staff getting the flu after.
You're welcome to get one and if you believe in it fine, but you won't catch me ever getting another one of those things.
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The Blue Plague
Timothy Birdnow
This is actually probably bad news; it means the Democrats are coming to our states to subvert them.
The top five Democrat states to lose population were California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachussetts. The top Republcan states to gain population were Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
What that means is not that these sttates will turn redder but purplish as many of these folks were liberal to begin with - just not crazy leftists. Some ARE crazy leftists trying purposely to change the states too, I might add. But in the end we lose out because we play fair and they cheat. They will hold their states because they have political machines in place that make it nigh unto impossible for Republicans to win. On the flip side our states are open to whoever comes and the contests are fair so they may well flip a few of these.
If we lose Texas we lose it all. They know that. Florida is in better shape but it's a must hold too, and Tennessee is no slouch.
So where many see this as good news I do not. I want to cordon off crazy leftist states, sort of like Manhattan in Escape from New York, and let the Progressive Experiment play itself out completely (sorry Bill). Think of it as a pandemic that requires a total quarantine.
Timothy Birdnow
This is actually probably bad news; it means the Democrats are coming to our states to subvert them.
The top five Democrat states to lose population were California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachussetts. The top Republcan states to gain population were Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
What that means is not that these sttates will turn redder but purplish as many of these folks were liberal to begin with - just not crazy leftists. Some ARE crazy leftists trying purposely to change the states too, I might add. But in the end we lose out because we play fair and they cheat. They will hold their states because they have political machines in place that make it nigh unto impossible for Republicans to win. On the flip side our states are open to whoever comes and the contests are fair so they may well flip a few of these.
If we lose Texas we lose it all. They know that. Florida is in better shape but it's a must hold too, and Tennessee is no slouch.
So where many see this as good news I do not. I want to cordon off crazy leftist states, sort of like Manhattan in Escape from New York, and let the Progressive Experiment play itself out completely (sorry Bill). Think of it as a pandemic that requires a total quarantine.
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Biden Mad Garland Didn't Take Trump Out Early
Timothy Birdnow
Joe Biden wanted Trump prosecuted in 2022, and was angry at Merrick Garland for not pursuing him more aggressively, according to a new report.
From the article:
Soooo....whatever helps you sleep at night Joe! But in the end it is YOU who politicized, nay, weaponized the DOJ (and your boss before you with ERic Holder) and in fact Garland was enough of a lawyer to know he couldn''t just file wild charges nilly-willy. You apparently don't understand that, do you Joe?
Biden can take solace from one fact; until yesterday he was only one of the two worst Presidents alive. Now he holds the singular honor of being the worst - possibly worst ever.
Not sure how he's going to defend himself when he meets his final judgment, but I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.
Joe Biden wanted Trump prosecuted in 2022, and was angry at Merrick Garland for not pursuing him more aggressively, according to a new report.
From the article:
The report, published in the Washington Post on Saturday, echoes reporting nearly three years ago by the New York Times, which suggested in 2022 that Biden was frustrated with the slow pace of Garland, a "ponderous judge.”
The Post noted:
In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments.
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Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, pushed for Garland. He stressed that Garland — a federal judge with a sterling reputation for independence and fairness — would show Americans that Biden was rebuilding a department badly shaken by Trump’s political attacks.
Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe the decision had devastating results. Had the Justice Department moved faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, they say, the former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before the election. (Others blame the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in Florida for repeatedly siding with the former president and delaying the cases; the Justice Department declined to comment.)
The Biden White House claimed throughout his presidency that it was not politicizing the Department of Justice, and was in fact depoliticizing it. Democrats claimed that the department had been politicized by then-Attorney General William Barr, who refused to release grand jury materials related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into so-called "Russia collusion.” Barr noted that it was against the law for him to release grand jury materials.
The Post noted:
In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments.
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Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, pushed for Garland. He stressed that Garland — a federal judge with a sterling reputation for independence and fairness — would show Americans that Biden was rebuilding a department badly shaken by Trump’s political attacks.
Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe the decision had devastating results. Had the Justice Department moved faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, they say, the former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before the election. (Others blame the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in Florida for repeatedly siding with the former president and delaying the cases; the Justice Department declined to comment.)
The Biden White House claimed throughout his presidency that it was not politicizing the Department of Justice, and was in fact depoliticizing it. Democrats claimed that the department had been politicized by then-Attorney General William Barr, who refused to release grand jury materials related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into so-called "Russia collusion.” Barr noted that it was against the law for him to release grand jury materials.
Soooo....whatever helps you sleep at night Joe! But in the end it is YOU who politicized, nay, weaponized the DOJ (and your boss before you with ERic Holder) and in fact Garland was enough of a lawyer to know he couldn''t just file wild charges nilly-willy. You apparently don't understand that, do you Joe?
Biden can take solace from one fact; until yesterday he was only one of the two worst Presidents alive. Now he holds the singular honor of being the worst - possibly worst ever.
Not sure how he's going to defend himself when he meets his final judgment, but I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.
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Carter at Room Temperature
Timothy Birdnow
Jimmy Carter is dead at the ripe old age of 100.
They say if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all. This will be quite brief.
If I am bothered enough I will write up a long, long list of why Carter was the worst President of the 20the/21st centuries, and why he was not the wonderful old grandfather he is usually portrayed as being.
But not today. Today we'll wish him well wherever he is (hopefully not a place that is too hot).
Addendum:
Carter's funeral is set for January 9.
It has been confirmed that the former President will not be attending Donald Trump's inaugural next month.
Jimmy Carter is dead at the ripe old age of 100.
They say if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all. This will be quite brief.
If I am bothered enough I will write up a long, long list of why Carter was the worst President of the 20the/21st centuries, and why he was not the wonderful old grandfather he is usually portrayed as being.
But not today. Today we'll wish him well wherever he is (hopefully not a place that is too hot).
Addendum:
Carter's funeral is set for January 9.
It has been confirmed that the former President will not be attending Donald Trump's inaugural next month.
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December 29, 2024
Smith and Tariffs
Timothy Birdnow
Here isw an interestting defense of tariffs from the perpecttive of Adam Smith and his economic ttheories. As the author claims, Smith was not ab ABSOLUTE free trader; if another country didn't play fair he was fine with restrictive policies like tariffs.
It's an interesting read.
Here isw an interestting defense of tariffs from the perpecttive of Adam Smith and his economic ttheories. As the author claims, Smith was not ab ABSOLUTE free trader; if another country didn't play fair he was fine with restrictive policies like tariffs.
It's an interesting read.
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America and Canada Anschluss?
Timothy Birdnow
Ya think?
"They Got Problems”: Fox News Contributor Warns That Absorbing Canada Could Infect America With All Its Leftist Lunacy
Former W. Bush jokewriter, er, speechwriter Marc Thiessen is taking Trump's trolling of "Baby Doc" Trudeau seriously and tells us what we already know.
First, most Canadians would probably be Democrats and that is out of a population of 40 million.
Second, Canada wouldn't come into the Union as one state but as at least ten and probably 13 as the territories - The Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territory - would likely come in as states as well, or would be groomed to quickly become states. And since the Canadian provinces and territories are much larger than American states they may well be broken up into more states. All of these with two Senators and as many representatives as their population would allow.
Then there is the problem of Quebec. America has no national language; English is our primary language by custom alone. (We are also the second largest Spanish speaking country on Earth, with more people speaking Spanish as their primary language than any other country except Mexico.) Quebec would force us into doing what Canada has done for generations; do everything in a bilingual manner. And of course if we do it for the French Canadians we will have to do it for the Spanish speakers at least. How many languages will be on our currency, on our road signs, etc.?
And then there is Nunavut, which would demand the speaking of whatever Eskimo tongue they have.
The addition of all this multiculturalism on an already stretched-too-thin U.S. would break our country and culture into pieces. Canada barely manages it. Oh, and Canada is known for being polite; why do you think that is? Canadians have to be or they'd be at each-other's throats.
I agree with Thiessen; we might want parts of Canada, notably Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon and perhaps the Atlantic provinces (maybe). I don't think Nunavut would be very helpful to us, except maybe for oil (which it may have) and uranium, perhaps. But we'd have to take in their low population and cater to their unique culture. Not sure there's a whole lot of benefit. Nor is a "northwest passage" unless you blieve the lie of "climate change" which has been claiming we'd have an ice-free northwest passage for decades. That didn't happenp and in fact there has been an increase in sea ice there.
The U.S. doesn't want Ontario or Manitoba or Quebec or whatnot. Too liberal. Too unproductive.
And in fact Canadians pride themselves on their national identity, which is entwined with their NOT being Americans. I don't think the proposal would go over well.
Sadly Canada has largely conquered the world; it's policies are now worldwide, it has infected even the U.S. with it's disease of socialized medicine, and it now makes many of the movies and television shows we see. Not sure how that happened with a country of 40 million but they did it.
I do not believe Trump was even remotely serious; it was his way of trolling them. He likes to do stuff like that. This is his way of getting in Trudeau and the rest of the great white north's heads. It's how you win negotiations.
At any rate even if Canada wants admission to the U.S. I don't think we should want admission into the Dominion of Canada.
Ya think?
"They Got Problems”: Fox News Contributor Warns That Absorbing Canada Could Infect America With All Its Leftist Lunacy
Former W. Bush jokewriter, er, speechwriter Marc Thiessen is taking Trump's trolling of "Baby Doc" Trudeau seriously and tells us what we already know.
First, most Canadians would probably be Democrats and that is out of a population of 40 million.
Second, Canada wouldn't come into the Union as one state but as at least ten and probably 13 as the territories - The Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territory - would likely come in as states as well, or would be groomed to quickly become states. And since the Canadian provinces and territories are much larger than American states they may well be broken up into more states. All of these with two Senators and as many representatives as their population would allow.
Then there is the problem of Quebec. America has no national language; English is our primary language by custom alone. (We are also the second largest Spanish speaking country on Earth, with more people speaking Spanish as their primary language than any other country except Mexico.) Quebec would force us into doing what Canada has done for generations; do everything in a bilingual manner. And of course if we do it for the French Canadians we will have to do it for the Spanish speakers at least. How many languages will be on our currency, on our road signs, etc.?
And then there is Nunavut, which would demand the speaking of whatever Eskimo tongue they have.
The addition of all this multiculturalism on an already stretched-too-thin U.S. would break our country and culture into pieces. Canada barely manages it. Oh, and Canada is known for being polite; why do you think that is? Canadians have to be or they'd be at each-other's throats.
I agree with Thiessen; we might want parts of Canada, notably Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon and perhaps the Atlantic provinces (maybe). I don't think Nunavut would be very helpful to us, except maybe for oil (which it may have) and uranium, perhaps. But we'd have to take in their low population and cater to their unique culture. Not sure there's a whole lot of benefit. Nor is a "northwest passage" unless you blieve the lie of "climate change" which has been claiming we'd have an ice-free northwest passage for decades. That didn't happenp and in fact there has been an increase in sea ice there.
The U.S. doesn't want Ontario or Manitoba or Quebec or whatnot. Too liberal. Too unproductive.
And in fact Canadians pride themselves on their national identity, which is entwined with their NOT being Americans. I don't think the proposal would go over well.
Sadly Canada has largely conquered the world; it's policies are now worldwide, it has infected even the U.S. with it's disease of socialized medicine, and it now makes many of the movies and television shows we see. Not sure how that happened with a country of 40 million but they did it.
I do not believe Trump was even remotely serious; it was his way of trolling them. He likes to do stuff like that. This is his way of getting in Trudeau and the rest of the great white north's heads. It's how you win negotiations.
At any rate even if Canada wants admission to the U.S. I don't think we should want admission into the Dominion of Canada.
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Alien Invasion? There's an App for That!
Timothy Birdnow
Trump needs to take 'em to the woodshed, sez I!
Mexico Develops App to Aid Its Citizens in US Facing Deportation
There's an app for that! We call it a tariff...
Trump needs to take 'em to the woodshed, sez I!
Mexico Develops App to Aid Its Citizens in US Facing Deportation
There's an app for that! We call it a tariff...
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America Dying
Timothy Birdnow
This is how nations die.
Births From U.S. Citizens Account for Just 16% of Population Growth
Natture abhors a vacuum. If we don't replace ourselves others will come and fill in our space. And they will have very different ideas and ways of life. The glory that was Americawill die as it becomes a hybrid of multiple other cultures.
This is how nations die.
Births From U.S. Citizens Account for Just 16% of Population Growth
Natture abhors a vacuum. If we don't replace ourselves others will come and fill in our space. And they will have very different ideas and ways of life. The glory that was Americawill die as it becomes a hybrid of multiple other cultures.
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The High Cost of Illegal Aliens
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We are paying for this invsion of aliens in ways nobody has yet even fathomed. Here is one example:
Migrant crisis spurred nearly 3 million overtime hours for two NYC agencies— costing taxpayers $139M
BTW I hate the fact the conservative media uses the leftist terminology. They are NOT "migrants" but invaders, illegal alien invaders. Use the proper terminology! As Confucious said, you cannot restore a nation until you first true the language. Migrants come and then go home.
We are paying for this invsion of aliens in ways nobody has yet even fathomed. Here is one example:
Migrant crisis spurred nearly 3 million overtime hours for two NYC agencies— costing taxpayers $139M
BTW I hate the fact the conservative media uses the leftist terminology. They are NOT "migrants" but invaders, illegal alien invaders. Use the proper terminology! As Confucious said, you cannot restore a nation until you first true the language. Migrants come and then go home.
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Musk v. Bannon
Timothy Birdnow
The big fight over H1B Visas heats up.
Bannon Calls H1B Support a Dark Contempt of Americans Just Hours Before Trump Publicly Supports Program
Musk told people to "f*** themselves in the face" if they don't agree with him and Bannon replied by calling him a man-child and sneering at Musk for claiming he was going to go to war over this issue.
We don't need this right now, but I suppose it was inevitable; the Trump coalition is a hodge-podge of differing views and this kind of coalition is hard to hold together. Now we are seeing the first cracks appear.
BTW I've never trusted Elon Musk. He made his money by gaming the system and taking money from taxpayers. Smart business? Sure but it bespeaks a worldview that is quite different from my own.
Of course that is equally true of Trump himself, a man I opposed when he first ran. He won me over by his willingness to fight and his generally good common sense and that he actually tried to keep his campaign promises. Trump is not a Conservative in the traditional sense, but he is the best we can do in this era. But here is one example of where Trump is wrong.
Trump was quite sheepish about it though, so I suspect he'd rather avoid this whole fight, and rightly so.
In the final analysis we simply have too many immigrants in this country - both legal and illegal. We need at least fifty years, and probably longer, to assimilate the ones we have. And we don't need any characters around to give the joint atmosphere! (Sorry; couldn't help quoting Sheldon Leonard just after Christmas.) In point of fact all this immigration does is make Americans just give up on certain fields, and eventually most white collar fields as they know they will be passed over for these jobs in favor of the favored H1B workers.
The big fight over H1B Visas heats up.
Bannon Calls H1B Support a Dark Contempt of Americans Just Hours Before Trump Publicly Supports Program
Musk told people to "f*** themselves in the face" if they don't agree with him and Bannon replied by calling him a man-child and sneering at Musk for claiming he was going to go to war over this issue.
We don't need this right now, but I suppose it was inevitable; the Trump coalition is a hodge-podge of differing views and this kind of coalition is hard to hold together. Now we are seeing the first cracks appear.
BTW I've never trusted Elon Musk. He made his money by gaming the system and taking money from taxpayers. Smart business? Sure but it bespeaks a worldview that is quite different from my own.
Of course that is equally true of Trump himself, a man I opposed when he first ran. He won me over by his willingness to fight and his generally good common sense and that he actually tried to keep his campaign promises. Trump is not a Conservative in the traditional sense, but he is the best we can do in this era. But here is one example of where Trump is wrong.
Trump was quite sheepish about it though, so I suspect he'd rather avoid this whole fight, and rightly so.
In the final analysis we simply have too many immigrants in this country - both legal and illegal. We need at least fifty years, and probably longer, to assimilate the ones we have. And we don't need any characters around to give the joint atmosphere! (Sorry; couldn't help quoting Sheldon Leonard just after Christmas.) In point of fact all this immigration does is make Americans just give up on certain fields, and eventually most white collar fields as they know they will be passed over for these jobs in favor of the favored H1B workers.
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December 28, 2024
More on H1B Visas
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a good reply to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami:
And here is a good overview of the mess that is the H1B visa program. It is little more than corporate welfare.
Read the rest of the Revolver article here.
This touches on many of the points I made in this morning's post about the H1B visa program and why we have a "culture of mediocrity". Nobody has any reason to work hard if you are just going to be passed over for some foreign guy because they know they can pay him less and he'll be content - and because, like white dudes suck and all!
Back in the old days the complaint about black labor was the black workers were lazy and inattentive, but whose fault was that? Why be a good worker when you are just going to get passed over and mistreated? Black folks aren't lazy but it was a rational response to a culture that treated them as worthless and offered them little in the way of opportunity.
Now the white community is larning this same lesson, alas, and our response is much the same. If we needed to offer greater opportunity to black folks shouldn't we offer greater opportunity to white folks too? Now no native born American has the kind of opportunities they should as we import people to take our jobs.
H1B visas are little more than tools to outsource in our own country.
BTW the worship of cheap labor has been a destructive force in America for it's whoel history. Slavery was a prime example, and the places that allowed slavery wound up being economic backwaters and slavery was highly destructive to initiative and economic growth. During the industrial revolution we saw cheap labor squeeze the life out of America's farming industry and kill whole towns. What did we get for our troubles? Several deep economic depressions followed by the Great Depression. The quest for cheap labor, be it skilled or not, inevitably leads to economic malaise.
I made this case at American Thinker a number of years ago, and the blogger Bookworm seconded my post.
(Interesting; I had to search for the article using Yahoo because Google has "disappeared" it.)
While I concentrate on grunt labor it is equally, perhaps even more, true where skilled labor is concerned. And it is a national security issue; we need to be able to do this stuff ourselves. How many Cinese are working in high tech in America, stealing our technology for the Communists?
Unless there is an incentive to hire American and train people corporations will continue to hire foreigners; it's easier and cheaper. Keeping H1B visas is nothing but an incentive to continue marginalizing native born Americans.
Here is a good reply to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami:
Eric S. Raymond:
Today’s big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk
and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don’t want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
To be honest, I think both sides are making some sound points. But I’d rather focus on a different aspect of the problem.
When I entered the job market as a fledgling programmer back in the early 1980s, I didn’t have to worry that some purple-haired harpy in HR was going to throw my resume in the circular file because I’m a straight white male.
I also didn’t have to worry that a hiring manager from a subcontinent that shall not be named would laugh at my qualifications because in-group loyalty tells him to hire his fourth cousin from a city where they still shit on the streets.
It’s a bit much to complain that today’s American students won’t grind as hard as East Asians when we abandoned meritocracy more than 30 years ago. Nothing disincentivizes working your ass off to excel more than a justified belief that it’s futile.
Right now we’re in and everybody-loses situation. Employers aren’t getting the talent they desperately need, and talent is being wasted. That mismatch is the first problem that needs solving.
You want excellence? Fire the goddamn HR drones and the nepotists. Scrap DEI. Find all the underemployed white male STEM majors out there who gave up on what they really wanted to do because the hiring system repeatedly punched them in the face, and bring them in.
Don’t forget the part about paying competitive wages. This whole H-1B indentured-servitude thing? It stinks, and the stench pollutes your entire case for "high-skill” immigration. You might actually have a case, but until you clean up that mess Americans will be justified in dismissing it.
These measures should get you through the next five years or so, while the signal that straight white men are allowed to be in the game again propagates.
I’m not going to overclaim here. This will probably solve your need for top 10% coders and engineers, but not your need for the top 0.1%. For those you probably do have to recruit worldwide.
But if you stop overtly discriminating against the Americans who could fill your top 10% jobs, your talent problem will greatly ease. And you’ll no longer get huge political pushback from aggrieved MAGA types against measures that could solve the rest of it.
Doesn’t that seem like it’s worth a try?
Today's big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don't want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
To be honest, I think both sides are making some…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 26, 2024
Today’s big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk
and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don’t want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
To be honest, I think both sides are making some sound points. But I’d rather focus on a different aspect of the problem.
When I entered the job market as a fledgling programmer back in the early 1980s, I didn’t have to worry that some purple-haired harpy in HR was going to throw my resume in the circular file because I’m a straight white male.
I also didn’t have to worry that a hiring manager from a subcontinent that shall not be named would laugh at my qualifications because in-group loyalty tells him to hire his fourth cousin from a city where they still shit on the streets.
It’s a bit much to complain that today’s American students won’t grind as hard as East Asians when we abandoned meritocracy more than 30 years ago. Nothing disincentivizes working your ass off to excel more than a justified belief that it’s futile.
Right now we’re in and everybody-loses situation. Employers aren’t getting the talent they desperately need, and talent is being wasted. That mismatch is the first problem that needs solving.
You want excellence? Fire the goddamn HR drones and the nepotists. Scrap DEI. Find all the underemployed white male STEM majors out there who gave up on what they really wanted to do because the hiring system repeatedly punched them in the face, and bring them in.
Don’t forget the part about paying competitive wages. This whole H-1B indentured-servitude thing? It stinks, and the stench pollutes your entire case for "high-skill” immigration. You might actually have a case, but until you clean up that mess Americans will be justified in dismissing it.
These measures should get you through the next five years or so, while the signal that straight white men are allowed to be in the game again propagates.
I’m not going to overclaim here. This will probably solve your need for top 10% coders and engineers, but not your need for the top 0.1%. For those you probably do have to recruit worldwide.
But if you stop overtly discriminating against the Americans who could fill your top 10% jobs, your talent problem will greatly ease. And you’ll no longer get huge political pushback from aggrieved MAGA types against measures that could solve the rest of it.
Doesn’t that seem like it’s worth a try?
Today's big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don't want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
To be honest, I think both sides are making some…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 26, 2024
And here is a good overview of the mess that is the H1B visa program. It is little more than corporate welfare.
Read the rest of the Revolver article here.
This touches on many of the points I made in this morning's post about the H1B visa program and why we have a "culture of mediocrity". Nobody has any reason to work hard if you are just going to be passed over for some foreign guy because they know they can pay him less and he'll be content - and because, like white dudes suck and all!
Back in the old days the complaint about black labor was the black workers were lazy and inattentive, but whose fault was that? Why be a good worker when you are just going to get passed over and mistreated? Black folks aren't lazy but it was a rational response to a culture that treated them as worthless and offered them little in the way of opportunity.
Now the white community is larning this same lesson, alas, and our response is much the same. If we needed to offer greater opportunity to black folks shouldn't we offer greater opportunity to white folks too? Now no native born American has the kind of opportunities they should as we import people to take our jobs.
H1B visas are little more than tools to outsource in our own country.
BTW the worship of cheap labor has been a destructive force in America for it's whoel history. Slavery was a prime example, and the places that allowed slavery wound up being economic backwaters and slavery was highly destructive to initiative and economic growth. During the industrial revolution we saw cheap labor squeeze the life out of America's farming industry and kill whole towns. What did we get for our troubles? Several deep economic depressions followed by the Great Depression. The quest for cheap labor, be it skilled or not, inevitably leads to economic malaise.
I made this case at American Thinker a number of years ago, and the blogger Bookworm seconded my post.
(Interesting; I had to search for the article using Yahoo because Google has "disappeared" it.)
While I concentrate on grunt labor it is equally, perhaps even more, true where skilled labor is concerned. And it is a national security issue; we need to be able to do this stuff ourselves. How many Cinese are working in high tech in America, stealing our technology for the Communists?
Unless there is an incentive to hire American and train people corporations will continue to hire foreigners; it's easier and cheaper. Keeping H1B visas is nothing but an incentive to continue marginalizing native born Americans.
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Shame on Walmart!
Timothy Birdnow
Retail giant Walmart (based in Arkansas, home of the Clintons) recently withdrew terrorist tees featuring the odious Hamas terrorist Yahyay Sinwar after a big public backlash over their rather insane merchandising move to sell to the terrorist demographic in America.
What were they thinking?
Well, apparently they love revolutionaries and terrorists. For example, they sell Che Guevara tee shirts and other Bolshevik apparel featturing the the butcher of Cuba.
They also had to pull a Nazi logo tee and were selling "Impeach 45 tee shirts a few years ago.
Heads need to roll in the online apparel department.
Retail giant Walmart (based in Arkansas, home of the Clintons) recently withdrew terrorist tees featuring the odious Hamas terrorist Yahyay Sinwar after a big public backlash over their rather insane merchandising move to sell to the terrorist demographic in America.
What were they thinking?
Well, apparently they love revolutionaries and terrorists. For example, they sell Che Guevara tee shirts and other Bolshevik apparel featturing the the butcher of Cuba.
They also had to pull a Nazi logo tee and were selling "Impeach 45 tee shirts a few years ago.
Heads need to roll in the online apparel department.
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Sue the DOJ!
Timothy Birdnow
There is a class action suit about to be filed against the Department of Justice and Merrick Garland over the abuse of patriots by the J6 prosecutions and their loss of liberty and property as a result of the weaponization of the Justice Department for political reasons.
The group is logically waiting until just after inauguration day; you can't sue the government without permission, and Biden won't grant it, naturally.
I hope they are careful about which court they file in; Biden has appointed 235 judges as of Dec. 20 and has appointte more judges than did Donald Trump. Most of his appointments have been women or minorities in an effort to pack the courts with woke DEI acctivists. And Barack Obama appointed 329 judges who were confirmed. So there are 564 judges on the federal bench who will actively work to subvert justice, both in this case and in a great many others.
This was an is the problem in America; the Left cares not about the rule of law, nor the Constitution, nor playing by any rules save their own, and when they lose the political portion of the government they turn to the courts. It's about winning and winning alone.
So justice may not be done here. But at least there are those who are trying.
There is a class action suit about to be filed against the Department of Justice and Merrick Garland over the abuse of patriots by the J6 prosecutions and their loss of liberty and property as a result of the weaponization of the Justice Department for political reasons.
The group is logically waiting until just after inauguration day; you can't sue the government without permission, and Biden won't grant it, naturally.
I hope they are careful about which court they file in; Biden has appointed 235 judges as of Dec. 20 and has appointte more judges than did Donald Trump. Most of his appointments have been women or minorities in an effort to pack the courts with woke DEI acctivists. And Barack Obama appointed 329 judges who were confirmed. So there are 564 judges on the federal bench who will actively work to subvert justice, both in this case and in a great many others.
This was an is the problem in America; the Left cares not about the rule of law, nor the Constitution, nor playing by any rules save their own, and when they lose the political portion of the government they turn to the courts. It's about winning and winning alone.
So justice may not be done here. But at least there are those who are trying.
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Why is the NFL Soaring?
Timothy Birdnow
Why is the NFL prospering while going woke?
Here is an essay at Red statethat tries to find the answer. His answer is they promote heavily, and the players who are always seen on television and in commercials are more likable.
Perhaps, but I think there must be a deeper answer (ortwo).
I will say this; the NFL gets big, big bucks from the government both through subsidies and through massive tax breaks. This at a time when the country is broke.
Time to close all these loopholes; the NFL is still riding high while every other major sports league is scratching around.
At any rate this makes me wonder. Is, perhaps, the NFL a tool of the government to promote all this nonsense?
The NFL occupies a wholly unique position in the world of sports; a violent game where people get injured and there has been speculation the govenrment would impose regulations on it for decades now. Brain trauma has been repeatedly cited, yet the NFL continues to not only enjoy salutary neglect by the Feds but actually receives big bucks from them.
(I often speak of the '70's movie Rollerball where Mr. Bartholemew - the bigwig who runs the leavgue - explains the purpose of the game. It is to "teach the futility of individual action" as no one player can dominate the sport - until Jonatahan E, the main character, does and must be forced out. Anyway, I suspect the NFL is given a pass precisely because it teaches these sorts of lessons.)
Also, while black players are predominant in the NFL, they hardly dominate the league in the same ways as black players in the NBA. This offers a morality play, that we all need each-other. Baseball is too white and Hispanic, while Hockey too white. Football offers the mix the Ruling Class likes.
The more conspiratorial of us believe the CIA is involved with the NFL, leading the Murdoch owned New York Post to complain about "conspiracy theories". But since we now have solid evidence of conspiracies involving the CIA aND OTHERS, WHO IS TO SAY? The creator of NFL Challenge, a video game product, certainly wanted to get the CIA involved.
I don't know but I do know this; the Supoer Bowl has been a nail-biter almost every year since the turn of the century. For twenty years before that we generally had blowouts. But then the referees started calling bad calls at critical moments on the team gaining momentum, and I do not for a minute believe that was by accident. I will never, ever believe the Rams lost fair and square to the Patriots in 2001. I saw what was happening; no calls as several players mugged Marshall Falk at the line of scrimmage when he didn't have the ball. Also, holding a-plenty, and all sorts of other dirty tricks. Then we found out the Pats had the Rams playbook. I think that Superbowl was a setup; it was after 911 and Paul McCartney said before the game "wouldn't it be wonderful if a team called the Patriots won the Superbowl". I knew the fix was in then.
Anyway, I don't know if the government is behind the NFL or not, but something is happening that goes beyond personality. The public still supports the horribly woke monstrosity. They shouldnt; there are alternatives. The UFL comes to mind. (Here in St. Louis we have a UFL team but they don't put it on commercial television so I never get to watch it. Also, the city is promoting professional soccer heavily to compete with the Battlehawks.)
Yes, people want a break from politics and their lives. Sadly the NFL isn't it anymore.
Any thoughts from readers will be reposted in a follow-up to this.
Why is the NFL prospering while going woke?
Here is an essay at Red statethat tries to find the answer. His answer is they promote heavily, and the players who are always seen on television and in commercials are more likable.
Perhaps, but I think there must be a deeper answer (ortwo).
I will say this; the NFL gets big, big bucks from the government both through subsidies and through massive tax breaks. This at a time when the country is broke.
Time to close all these loopholes; the NFL is still riding high while every other major sports league is scratching around.
At any rate this makes me wonder. Is, perhaps, the NFL a tool of the government to promote all this nonsense?
The NFL occupies a wholly unique position in the world of sports; a violent game where people get injured and there has been speculation the govenrment would impose regulations on it for decades now. Brain trauma has been repeatedly cited, yet the NFL continues to not only enjoy salutary neglect by the Feds but actually receives big bucks from them.
(I often speak of the '70's movie Rollerball where Mr. Bartholemew - the bigwig who runs the leavgue - explains the purpose of the game. It is to "teach the futility of individual action" as no one player can dominate the sport - until Jonatahan E, the main character, does and must be forced out. Anyway, I suspect the NFL is given a pass precisely because it teaches these sorts of lessons.)
Also, while black players are predominant in the NFL, they hardly dominate the league in the same ways as black players in the NBA. This offers a morality play, that we all need each-other. Baseball is too white and Hispanic, while Hockey too white. Football offers the mix the Ruling Class likes.
The more conspiratorial of us believe the CIA is involved with the NFL, leading the Murdoch owned New York Post to complain about "conspiracy theories". But since we now have solid evidence of conspiracies involving the CIA aND OTHERS, WHO IS TO SAY? The creator of NFL Challenge, a video game product, certainly wanted to get the CIA involved.
I don't know but I do know this; the Supoer Bowl has been a nail-biter almost every year since the turn of the century. For twenty years before that we generally had blowouts. But then the referees started calling bad calls at critical moments on the team gaining momentum, and I do not for a minute believe that was by accident. I will never, ever believe the Rams lost fair and square to the Patriots in 2001. I saw what was happening; no calls as several players mugged Marshall Falk at the line of scrimmage when he didn't have the ball. Also, holding a-plenty, and all sorts of other dirty tricks. Then we found out the Pats had the Rams playbook. I think that Superbowl was a setup; it was after 911 and Paul McCartney said before the game "wouldn't it be wonderful if a team called the Patriots won the Superbowl". I knew the fix was in then.
Anyway, I don't know if the government is behind the NFL or not, but something is happening that goes beyond personality. The public still supports the horribly woke monstrosity. They shouldnt; there are alternatives. The UFL comes to mind. (Here in St. Louis we have a UFL team but they don't put it on commercial television so I never get to watch it. Also, the city is promoting professional soccer heavily to compete with the Battlehawks.)
Yes, people want a break from politics and their lives. Sadly the NFL isn't it anymore.
Any thoughts from readers will be reposted in a follow-up to this.
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New York Plans Energy Money Grab
Timothy Birdnow
Shakedown.
New York to Force Oil, Gas Companies to Pay Reparations for ‘Climate Change’ Damage
Oil and gas companies ought to simply pull out of New York state. Let's see the Empire State operate without them!
This is a bold move by Hockum Hochel. What if she and her government are sued by people in class actions over the problems THEY caused? Perhaps over the many Covid deaths that were caused by bad government policy in New York? I seem to remember they spread Covid throughout the retirement community by forcing nursing homes to admit Covid patients...
There are many more things that can be done to state government than state government can do to corporations in the long run.
New York Democrats inexplicably are determined to reduce their state to a backwater. I say let's help them do it!
Shakedown.
New York to Force Oil, Gas Companies to Pay Reparations for ‘Climate Change’ Damage
Oil and gas companies ought to simply pull out of New York state. Let's see the Empire State operate without them!
This is a bold move by Hockum Hochel. What if she and her government are sued by people in class actions over the problems THEY caused? Perhaps over the many Covid deaths that were caused by bad government policy in New York? I seem to remember they spread Covid throughout the retirement community by forcing nursing homes to admit Covid patients...
There are many more things that can be done to state government than state government can do to corporations in the long run.
New York Democrats inexplicably are determined to reduce their state to a backwater. I say let's help them do it!
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9.9% and Rising
Timothy Birdnow
Vivek Ramaswami has sparked a controversy on his views that we need more technically savvy aliens admitted to the U.S. via H1B visas, and this was seconded by Eon Musk.
I try to avoid weighing in on these sorts of internecine squabbles if I don't think one side is quite wrong,and unfortunately I have to weigh in on this one. 'Swami and the Muskrat are wrong, at least from a big picture perspective.
Their argument is that we need the top 1% of foreigners to be allowed in to do tech and science since America no longer values excellence but instead rewards mediocrity. I agree with that latter statement; we DO reward mediocrity, even failure, these days. But will we be served by bringingin these one percenters?
First, when we get the best of the rest of the world we often are getting people who are not eager to become Americans so much as advancing their economic interests and making a name for themselves. In some ways the laborers are more likely to become Americans than are the technical classes, who often see themselves as "citizens of the world" and espouse an internationalist philosophy. Becoming American means more than just living in America and enjoying what America offers; it means throwing yourself into it heart and soul. I rather suspect these H1B guys won't do that. Many will stay for jobs, but their hearts won't belong to America. They will never have experienced the totality of America, seen what itmeans to be American. It's like importing the Ruling Class from somewhere elese; the RC doesn't know America either. Barack Obama was a prime example.
I wrote about Obama once at Canada Free Press and cannot locate the article, alas. The thrust of it was Obama never knew America,never saw the interior, never experienced this country at the grass-roots level and so really didn't believe in it. I fear thatmay often be true of many of these H1B visa types.
Also, often these guys come in to take "jobs Americans just won't do" by displacing the people doing those jobs - the AMERICANS doing them - who are then forced to train their foreign replacements.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) dishes on this.
Do you ever wonder how so much of this Progressive stupidity reigns in America? In many instances it's because Americans aren't running America any longer but LEGAL immigrants who view us in a very different light.
There is a reason why the Democratic Party supports these visas, and it isn't because they care about the success of American business.
Ramaswami and Musk are looking at this purely from an economic perspective; they are missing the big picture.
The point is, yes, Americans won't work for less money, and you no doubt can get better workers for less if you import them. The point is that is equally true of migrant farm workers or maids or immigrant handimen too. Why should these big corporations be allowed to import labor when,say, a landscaping company isn't allowed?
And Americans won't LEARN anything if we import people to do "the jobs Americans just won't do". How do we change the cultural disfunction if we don't hire Americans and make them learn? Time was companies trained their own people; now they want them pre-trained and ready to go. Yes, that gives them an edge,but it ultimately only serves the corporations and helps them make higher profits, but it destroys the American work ethic. Kids don't work at McDonalds anymore to learn the basics. Their first jobs are usually when they are in their twenties, and they treat them as they treated their schooling,w hich taught them that everybody gets a trophy. We need to break them of that early but are failing to do that.
Yes, that is as much caused by minimum wage increases and other liberal programs which make it possible for kids to remain children far too long,but the companies out there can actually fix a lot of this if they would be willing to actually train employees and not just look for quick profits. H1B visas destroy the incentive these corporations have for fixing the American labor force.
The Old Tesament warned Israel that they would become second class citizens in their own country, borrowing from the immigrants and serving them, if they disobeyed His word. That is what is happening in America right now, and that will only accelerate if we continue to allow so much immigration, especially of the educated and capable. We are building our own replacements.
No nation can survive if too many alien ideas are allowed to come in. Bringing the creme-de-la-creme of foreign societies only brings in a host of alien ideas to be implemented in America. So America continues to dominate in technology or science? So what? If we lose the country in the process is it worth it?
When Odoacer was crowned king in the Western Roman empire the Byzantine Emperor sent him the trappings of Caesar. Odoacer sent a terse reply along with the cloak and staff and whatnot back with "no thanks". That was the end of Rome. It happened because Odcoacer and the German immigrants into Rome no longer saw any point in pretending they were Romans. Rome hadn't been conquered so much as simply erased by immigrants.
That's where we are headed if we don't wake up.
So I disagree with 'swami and Muskrat. I appreciate what they are trying to do but we need a complete moratorium on immigration of all sorts for at least twenty years so we can assimilate the ones we already have (and kick out those not allowed to remain.) After the big surge of immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries we had a moratorium on all immigration (the Johnson Reed Act of 1924) - until 1965 when Ted Kennedy revived it. (And look how much America changed in that span of time.)The immigration then was nothing compared to what it is now, and we need to HATE immigration as a threat to our way of life. (Not hate the immigrant but the whole procedure.) It is, you know. And it will remain a political football until Americans turn against the entire concept. That won't happen if we have a pathway to immigration of any sort. You can only breath in so much carbon dioxide before you die (10%).
We are now at 9.9% and rising.
Vivek Ramaswami has sparked a controversy on his views that we need more technically savvy aliens admitted to the U.S. via H1B visas, and this was seconded by Eon Musk.
I try to avoid weighing in on these sorts of internecine squabbles if I don't think one side is quite wrong,and unfortunately I have to weigh in on this one. 'Swami and the Muskrat are wrong, at least from a big picture perspective.
Their argument is that we need the top 1% of foreigners to be allowed in to do tech and science since America no longer values excellence but instead rewards mediocrity. I agree with that latter statement; we DO reward mediocrity, even failure, these days. But will we be served by bringingin these one percenters?
First, when we get the best of the rest of the world we often are getting people who are not eager to become Americans so much as advancing their economic interests and making a name for themselves. In some ways the laborers are more likely to become Americans than are the technical classes, who often see themselves as "citizens of the world" and espouse an internationalist philosophy. Becoming American means more than just living in America and enjoying what America offers; it means throwing yourself into it heart and soul. I rather suspect these H1B guys won't do that. Many will stay for jobs, but their hearts won't belong to America. They will never have experienced the totality of America, seen what itmeans to be American. It's like importing the Ruling Class from somewhere elese; the RC doesn't know America either. Barack Obama was a prime example.
I wrote about Obama once at Canada Free Press and cannot locate the article, alas. The thrust of it was Obama never knew America,never saw the interior, never experienced this country at the grass-roots level and so really didn't believe in it. I fear thatmay often be true of many of these H1B visa types.
Also, often these guys come in to take "jobs Americans just won't do" by displacing the people doing those jobs - the AMERICANS doing them - who are then forced to train their foreign replacements.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) dishes on this.
Do you ever wonder how so much of this Progressive stupidity reigns in America? In many instances it's because Americans aren't running America any longer but LEGAL immigrants who view us in a very different light.
There is a reason why the Democratic Party supports these visas, and it isn't because they care about the success of American business.
Ramaswami and Musk are looking at this purely from an economic perspective; they are missing the big picture.
The point is, yes, Americans won't work for less money, and you no doubt can get better workers for less if you import them. The point is that is equally true of migrant farm workers or maids or immigrant handimen too. Why should these big corporations be allowed to import labor when,say, a landscaping company isn't allowed?
And Americans won't LEARN anything if we import people to do "the jobs Americans just won't do". How do we change the cultural disfunction if we don't hire Americans and make them learn? Time was companies trained their own people; now they want them pre-trained and ready to go. Yes, that gives them an edge,but it ultimately only serves the corporations and helps them make higher profits, but it destroys the American work ethic. Kids don't work at McDonalds anymore to learn the basics. Their first jobs are usually when they are in their twenties, and they treat them as they treated their schooling,w hich taught them that everybody gets a trophy. We need to break them of that early but are failing to do that.
Yes, that is as much caused by minimum wage increases and other liberal programs which make it possible for kids to remain children far too long,but the companies out there can actually fix a lot of this if they would be willing to actually train employees and not just look for quick profits. H1B visas destroy the incentive these corporations have for fixing the American labor force.
The Old Tesament warned Israel that they would become second class citizens in their own country, borrowing from the immigrants and serving them, if they disobeyed His word. That is what is happening in America right now, and that will only accelerate if we continue to allow so much immigration, especially of the educated and capable. We are building our own replacements.
No nation can survive if too many alien ideas are allowed to come in. Bringing the creme-de-la-creme of foreign societies only brings in a host of alien ideas to be implemented in America. So America continues to dominate in technology or science? So what? If we lose the country in the process is it worth it?
When Odoacer was crowned king in the Western Roman empire the Byzantine Emperor sent him the trappings of Caesar. Odoacer sent a terse reply along with the cloak and staff and whatnot back with "no thanks". That was the end of Rome. It happened because Odcoacer and the German immigrants into Rome no longer saw any point in pretending they were Romans. Rome hadn't been conquered so much as simply erased by immigrants.
That's where we are headed if we don't wake up.
So I disagree with 'swami and Muskrat. I appreciate what they are trying to do but we need a complete moratorium on immigration of all sorts for at least twenty years so we can assimilate the ones we already have (and kick out those not allowed to remain.) After the big surge of immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries we had a moratorium on all immigration (the Johnson Reed Act of 1924) - until 1965 when Ted Kennedy revived it. (And look how much America changed in that span of time.)The immigration then was nothing compared to what it is now, and we need to HATE immigration as a threat to our way of life. (Not hate the immigrant but the whole procedure.) It is, you know. And it will remain a political football until Americans turn against the entire concept. That won't happen if we have a pathway to immigration of any sort. You can only breath in so much carbon dioxide before you die (10%).
We are now at 9.9% and rising.
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Mad Hatter's Tea Party at CNN
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Bellylaugh of the day!
Deluded CNN ‘Journalists’ Blame Sinking Ratings on ‘Not Being Tougher on Trump’
To quote Bugs Bunny "what a maroon!"
It was their "being tough on Trump" that gave him his path to the White House in the first place. They were unfairly harsh with him and the public rebelled. He won a lot of black votes because he was seen as a ghetto kid "pursued by the Man", for instance.
CNN now accounts for just 11% of prime time cable news viewers, and that in all likelihood because they have a monopoly on airports and other such things. During the election cycle they dropped by a whopping 52%. By comparison Fox holds a 48% share in prime time and 50% overall. And those numbers were even higher as the election cycle wound down. Fox is just crushing CNN drawing in 69% share in total day (6 AM-6 AM/ET) and 72% share with primetime (8-11 PM/ET).
Fox has grown by about as much as CNN has fallen.
Viewership at MSNBC dropped 53% this election cycle and THEY did not temper their message where Trump was concerned. The Big MS is seeking a buyer now, and cutting the salaries of their top hosts. So saying that CNN's problem was a lack of attack jounralism againstt Trump is like saying an alcoholic's cirrhosis of the liver is caused by not drinking enough Old Overcoat bourbon whiskey.
I hope this view remains in place. As long as they continue to lie to themselves they cannot mount any credible attacks on the future POTUS. They are just hysterical, spittle flying from their flourid faces as they scream incoherently. That's a defeated group.
Bellylaugh of the day!
Deluded CNN ‘Journalists’ Blame Sinking Ratings on ‘Not Being Tougher on Trump’
To quote Bugs Bunny "what a maroon!"
It was their "being tough on Trump" that gave him his path to the White House in the first place. They were unfairly harsh with him and the public rebelled. He won a lot of black votes because he was seen as a ghetto kid "pursued by the Man", for instance.
CNN now accounts for just 11% of prime time cable news viewers, and that in all likelihood because they have a monopoly on airports and other such things. During the election cycle they dropped by a whopping 52%. By comparison Fox holds a 48% share in prime time and 50% overall. And those numbers were even higher as the election cycle wound down. Fox is just crushing CNN drawing in 69% share in total day (6 AM-6 AM/ET) and 72% share with primetime (8-11 PM/ET).
Fox has grown by about as much as CNN has fallen.
Viewership at MSNBC dropped 53% this election cycle and THEY did not temper their message where Trump was concerned. The Big MS is seeking a buyer now, and cutting the salaries of their top hosts. So saying that CNN's problem was a lack of attack jounralism againstt Trump is like saying an alcoholic's cirrhosis of the liver is caused by not drinking enough Old Overcoat bourbon whiskey.
I hope this view remains in place. As long as they continue to lie to themselves they cannot mount any credible attacks on the future POTUS. They are just hysterical, spittle flying from their flourid faces as they scream incoherently. That's a defeated group.
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