Jack Kemp

Someone connected with Hillary stole some intellectual property? Why I'm shocked, shocked. Next thing you know there will be gambling allowed in Rick's Cafe Americano and that Dolly Parton will be found to be wearing a wig!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/08/14/hillary-clintons-pastor-plagiarized-portions-of-new-book-n2368663?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Hillary Clinton’s Pastor Plagiarized Portion of New Book

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Jack Kemp

Looking at alternatives to Google, there is Dogpile.com and DuckDuckGo.com (which states they don't track which websites you go to).

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/google_wars_youre_next.html

August 15, 2017
Google Wars: You're Next
By Karin McQuillan
To nice, nerdy James Damore’s surprise, Google does not want to engage in a discussion of how their hiring discrimination against white and Asian males can be justified. Google’s corporate culture has been exposed as an Orwellian pig farm, where social justice warriors (SJWs) send daily missives on the correct way to think. Those who express contrary opinions are bullied, sent to HR for reprogramming, fired and – not punished enough - put on Silicon Valley blacklists to ruin their careers.

Several managers have openly admitted to keeping blacklists of the employees in question, and preventing them from seeking work at other companies. There have been numerous cases in which social justice activists coordinated attempts to sabotage other employees’ performance reviews for expressing a different opinion. These have been raised to the Senior VP level, with no action taken whatsoever.

This would just one more sorry tale of progressive bullying, but for one thing. This is the company that runs the largest search engine in the world. Political bullying is supported and instigated by top management. Groupthink is official HR policy. These SJW Marxists are not content with a reign of terror within the company. They are after your free speech on the internet.
Our Brave New World is in Silicon Valley, and is coming to you right now, with growing internet censorship of conservative viewpoints.
Allum Bokhari has a series of must-read Breitbart Rebels of Google interviews with whistleblowers who have had enough:

AB: Many people now fear that Google, Facebook, and other companies are moving to control and censor their content. Are these fears justified?
Hal: That is absolutely what Google is trying to do. The pro-censorship voices are very loud, and they have the management’s ear. The anti-censorship people are afraid of retaliation, and people are afraid to openly support them because everyone in their management chain is constantly signaling their allegiance to far-left ideology.

Google employees in the advertising department are trying to stop ads that support conservative websites. They are fiddling with search engines "to demote results” to web content that is anti-Communist, anti-Islamist, or non-PC.
Think about Google blocking internet content that is anti-Communist. The progressive left is a euphemism for old left Marxists. They are the ideological and often literal grandchildren of Stalinists. (As are Obama, Valerie Jarret, David Axelrod and Obama’s head of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, all red diaper babies). No wonder tyrannical behavior comes to naturally to them.
Damore is not alone. He is only the first casualty of Google’s war on free thought to make headlines. The company immersion in leftist politics and punishment of rebels reached critical proportions in Obama’s second term. Google is facing trial in November for an earlier complaint to the National Labor Relations Board.

(F)or interfering with employees’ legal right to discuss "workplace diversity and social justice initiatives.” The complaint alleges that Senior Vice President Urs Holzle and numerous managers in his organization actively stoked up witch hunts in 2015 and 2016 intended to muzzle low-level employees who raised concerns about the company’s practices.

Senior V.P. Urs Holzele is a prominent computer scientist and Google’s eighth hire, a power within the company.
Management is 100% behind hard-left employees mixing politics and politically correct crusades into the daily workflow and weekly digital "meetings.” Any dissent can lead to "humiliating forms of ‘training’ that resemble Maoist struggle sessions.”

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Wil Wirtanen

Interesting take on the lackluster economy

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Timothy Birdnow

A new report shows that the "Russian hack" meme is fake news.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/14/manafort-spokesman-new-report-shows-concrete-evidence-that-russia-collusion-is-fake-news.html

From the Fox article:

"According to the Post, Papadopoulos sent at least six requests for Trump or team members to meet with Russian officials. But Manafort, who had his home raided by the FBI last month, allegedly rejected in May 2016 a proposal from the adviser to have Trump partake in the meetings.

In response to the requests, Manafort allegedly forwarded the email to an associate, with a note: "We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”

"Mr. Manafort’s swift action reflects the attitude of the campaign – any invitation by Russia, directly or indirectly, would be rejected outright,” Jason Maloni, Manafort’s spokesman, said. "His request that the response come from a low level staffer sent a clear signal that the invitation did not merit consideration. This is concrete evidence the Russia collusion narrative is fake news."
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This should be the end of it - but it probably won't. Mueller needs scalps and the Democrats needd votes.

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Wil Wirtanen

Some real investigative journalism

http://dcwhispers.com/breaking-charlotsville-unite-the-right-organizer-was-occupy-wall-st-activist-obama-supporter/#RK1fGo7kJUiJvWXm.97

From the article:

"Well this is fishy. His name is Jason Kessler. He is the one cited as the organizer of the now infamous "Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The thing is, Mr. Kessler’s arrival on the "alt right” and/or "White Nationalist” scene didn’t occur until November 2016.

That’s right – Kessler didn’t start his white nationalist activism until after Donald Trump won the White House. Prior to that it appears he participated in the far left/socialist Occupy Wall Street movement as noted by the far-left, George Soros-funded Southern Poverty Law Center

Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler’s ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.

At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association.

It also appears Mr. Kessler was actually a CNN on site correspondent during the Occupy protests: (these are being archived as it appears CNN is attempting to scrub its former affiliation with Mr. Kessler"

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Dana Mathewson

What a brilliant thinker! http://www.dcstatesman.com/maxine-waters-surrender-option-north-korea/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=llc&utm_campaign=n81417

The guy who predicts that she'll be the next Speaker of the House is obviously off his meds, too.

A NOTE FROM JACK KEMP:

Speaking of crazy people in power who are in over their heads...

I don't recall if I mentioned this one today, but there is an article at AT about a woman who had a weird boss in a high tech company and a Wiccan coworker. It only seemed like there were flying monkeys there. The author relates it to Trump fighting with Kim Jong Un and it is something you can relate to, as well as other people here who worked for wierd bosses - and editors.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/sabotage_and_destruction_from_my_house_to_the_white_house.html

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Jack Kemp

In a blog piece at American Thinker, Silvio Canto Jr., a Cuban born immigrant, makes a wise observation that the typical low turnout of non-Presidential year elections will not occur as many Southerners, including those who considered themselves Democrats, will show up at the pollls to vote against the Democratic Party. And he states it also isn't wise to deny our common U.S. History. See http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/removing_confederate_symbols_will_hurt_democrats_comments.html#disqus_thread

I added this comment to his words, based on what Michael Savage said recently.

BEGIN COMMENT

I happened to hear a bit of the Michael Savage show yesterday on the radio and he made a point, although somewhat inaccurately, particularly for his being the son of a Holocaust survivor mother. Savage stated that the Germans kept part of Auschwitz as a museum for future generations to see. In fact, the Germans kept some of the Dachau concentration camp near Munich as a museum. Auschwitz is inside of Poland - and the Polish government keep part of that as a museum for future generations.

Although the Holocaust isn't exactly the same thing as the U.S. Civil War, there are great similarities in some respects, particularly this: We don't want to forget or deny our human history by covering it up, even if that history has examples of horrible events and needless, tragic deaths.

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Timothy Birdnow

Yesterday was a banner day! I witnessed not one but TWO real acts of journalism yesterday evening, it what must be considered one of the rarest of events, far more rare than the upcoming total solar eclipse, on a par with seeing the Loch Ness monster playing pinocchle with Bigfoot.

First, the Fake Media's venerable old program 60 Minutes did a report craftily entitled "Your Fired" which actually was not about Donald Trump (although the title was intended to make people think Trump is the guilty party) but rather about the abuses of the h1b visa program.

The show spoke with a number of Americans who were canned solely because the companies they worked for could hire foreign labor for cheaper - and they were then forced to train their replacements before leaving! While this has been going on for some time (Disney is particularly guilty of this) it is never reported by the Mainstream Media, which wants as many foreign settlers in the U.S. as possible. Almost all of these people (largley coming from India where the h1b is concerned) will wind up voting Democrat.

And this played no small part in the election of Donald Trump, who recently proposed major reforms to these visas despite howls of protests from corporations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It was amazing to see a report that didn't slam Trump and actually took the side he has taken.

It is a total disgrace; those visas were never intended to be used to take American jobs away, but rather to allow companies who simply couldn't find qualified people to bring them in. The Y2K scare led many companies to insource Indian or Chinese computer people temporarily, and yet the temporarily has turned into permanently.

Americans are becoming second class citizens in their own country.

Second (and less surprising) Sharyl Attkinsson did a report on Congressional fundraising. I was shocked; I never knew that you had to pay dues to the Party for committee assignments and whatnot. The higher you go the more you have to cough up. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has to pay $20 MILLION dollars for the privilege! No wonder we can't find anyone good to take the Speaker position! And all this is done through cold calling, like an annoying telemarketing firm.

Tom Daschle was interviewed and he said Congress comes back on Tuesday, works through Thursday, and spends at least a third of that time on the telephone trying to solicit donations. No wonder America is sliding into the abyss!

And, as a former GOP congressman said, if you fail to meet the quota you will be publicly called out for it, and perhaps lose your committee assignments and possibly even any help from the National Committee to retain your seats.

In short, Congress is a brothel and our representatives and Senators are call girls. (By the way, John McCain is one of the worst, devoting almost all of his time to fundraising.)

Does anyone still wonder at the hatred for Donald Trump? He's actually demanding these people do their jobs. And it also explains why the GOP are so afraid of doing things like eliminate Obamacare; they are beholden to this big money to such an extent they would rather infuriate the voters than the donars.

America is in great peril and the election of Donald Trump has made that clear.

At any rate, it was shocking to see not one but TWO stories that actually did some real journalism. I feel like a lucky man today.

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Timothy Birdnow

President Donald Trump is going to be assassinated by the Deep State, according to CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd.

Thomas Lifson has the story at American Thinker:

From CNN:

""Let me give you one bottom line as a former government official," Mudd began. "The government is going to kill this guy."

"[Trump] defends Vladimir Putin, their State Department, and CIA officers are coming home. And at Langley and in Foggy Bottom (State Dept headquarters), CIA and State they're saying, this is how you defend us? We saw the same thing in his transgender comments. What is the military saying to him on transgender? Show us the policy. You know what that means inside government, ain't going to happen. What did the Department of Justice say on Paul Manafort? You can say what you want, a judge told us we cause to search his home early in the morning because we don't trust the guy who was your campaign manager," he said.

"The government is going to kill this guy because he doesn't support them," Mudd declared.

Jake Tapper attempted to clear up Mudd's comments, "obviously, when you're talking about killing you're using that as a metaphor."

"What I'm saying is government – people talk about the deep state – when you disrespect government officials who've done 30 years, they're going to say, 'Really? You send Vladimir Putin sends U.S. officers home and you support him before us?" Mudd replied."

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I strongly suspect this is correct. If Trump can't be forced out there will be a "crazed lone gunman" who will kill Trump because he "is a racist" or for his "dirty dealing with Russia". The fact is, the permanent government class cannot allow Trump to succeed at fundamental reforms. Shoot, they can't have him succeed in even pointing out the corruption in Washington.

If I were The Donald I would stay out of public events. Oh, and I'd make perfectly sure my food was safe before I ate anything.

See more at Real Clear Politics.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/12/former_mueller_deputy_phil_mudd_trump_deep_state_government_kill_this_guy.html

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Daren Jonescu

Is Kim Jong-un's level of rhetoric indicative of madness or a death wish? Though it is impossible to know the mind of such a protected figure, I would argue that his behavior is merely the reasonable result of lessons he has learned from past responses to his and his father's aggression, which makes the current situation far more complicated than it needed to be.

Part of the problem is that the world is still treating Kim as a man who is pushing his luck on bluffing and provocation. The truth is, the North Korean regime, including Jong-un's iteration of it, has been far beyond the bluffing and provocation stage for many years, but has breached that line so many times with impunity that they now feel almost impervious to retaliation.

Over the years, they have fired missiles directly over Japan. They have shelled an inhabited South Korean island, killing several people. They have torpedoed a South Korean navy ship, killing 46 seamen. In each case, apart from a brief exchange of fire when Yeonpyeong Island was attacked in 2010, the response from South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. has been little more than stern rhetoric and dire warnings, rather than serious military retaliation to demonstrate that under no circumstances will lethal attacks and overt violations of sovereign territory be treated as mere "provocations" or "escalations of tension." These allies have never taken decisive action to show the Dear Leaders Kim that an attack is an attack, and will be dealt with as such.

The result is what we see now. Kim Jong-un has been conditioned by past leniency -- by always getting away with it -- to regard his current behavior as safely within the bounds of flexing his muscles for his indoctrinated people, or of begging for attention from the North's stoic older brother, China.

He's acting like those idiots who get out of their cars at safari parks and dance around to tease the lions, imagining that those lions are so lazy and drugged up they could never really spring into action.

Or like a kid who shoots his mouth off in the schoolyard because he always assumes his older brother is nearby, ready to defend him against anyone who might try to shut him up.

However, he feels so sure of himself partly because these particular lions have never shown any serious signs of life before, and also because his older brother always has been standing nearby up to now.

What about this time? President Trump has somewhat carelessly moved his own "red line," now claiming that even an uttered threatfrom Kim will be met with military action. But such utterances are Kim's whole game, and everyone knows it. This either paints Trump into a corner in which he must now pull the trigger merely to avoid handing Kim yet another psychological and optics victory -- "Once again, they backed down in fear of our dear leader" -- or else it tips Trump's hand unnecessarily by revealing that a first strike is already planned. In either case, it was a sloppy move, it seems to me, and unhelpful, as it actually complicates the situation by effectively sweeping a lot of useful uncertainty and strategic options off the table.

If you want to interrupt Kim's breakfast, then do it -- don't suggestively ask, "Hey, Jong-un, what are you planning for breakfast tomorrow?"

And if you intend to do it, then take a long, hard look in the mirror and make sure your soul is prepared, and that your allies are prepared, for South Korean and possibly Japanese civilians to pay a terrible price -- and for Older Brother to get involved. You didn't expect him to get involved back in 1950. To belittle that possibility this time would be the heights of folly.

Whatever the Chinese say now, they willintervene at some point, as the DPRK is a geographical buffer against South Korean democracy that they will not willingly relinquish. They don't care about the Kim dynasty itself, but they do care about the territory and ideology. And they should be expected to defend these as they deem necessary. Anyone wishing to take action against North Korea must be prepared to deal with that eventuality, given the tendency of military engagements to spray off in unanticipated directions.

So Kim Jong-un may be somewhat delusional, but his delusions are born of historical precedent.

His enemies have shown absurd levels of forbearance in the face of outright aggression from his nation before, in effect responding to artillery fire as though it were only fiery rhetoric. They have emboldened him like adults whose response to a child's repeated violent outbursts is merely to say, "Now cut that out!" The lions have been consistently sleepy up to now.

And China really has played phoney arbiter in the DPRK's defense for ages, claiming, for example, that they would join the world in condemning their satellite state if evidence were to prove them responsible for sinking the ROK navy ship in 2010 -- but then conveniently rejecting the rest of the world's evidence as inconclusive.

The Chinese now claim they will not intervene in North Korea's defense if the latter initiatesa war with the U.S. But, given their history, one would be wise to assume they would simply deny the North's culpability in almost any case -- a denial that would necessarily imply that the U.S. was the instigator, a condition in which the Chinese have suggested they wouldintervene in Kim's defense. In other words, barring an extreme act of carelessness by the Kim regime, it is almost certain that China will intervene on their behalf. The Older Brother is nearby, as usual.

Thus, there are no neat and clean military options here, and anyone who fantasizes that there are is still playing Cowboys and Indians in his imagination. This does not mean a military solution may not be required at some point. But the men who would choose and undertake that solution would have to be men of great moral gravity, nerves of steel, and principled statesmanship, à la Churchill or Reagan, who understand the full significance of what they may be leading the world into, are prepared in their souls to accept full responsibility for it, and are able to make the principled case to their citizens and allies for taking such an enormous risk.

Pray 'em if you got 'em.

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Dana Mathewson

All the people that are using Kaepernick as some kind of mascot TOTALLY ignore the fact that the NFL is a business, and is run to generate a profit. Anything that gets in the way of that needs to be weeded out. A player who decides to make himself a "flash point" and therefore inflames a large number of the fans gets in the way of the bottom line -- and therefore needs to be weeded out. It's as simple as that. It doesn't matter what kind of point he's trying to make. He's getting in the way of the ultimate business of the team -- and embarrassing the team in the process.

Somebody should take him out behind the barn and beat the living s**t out of him, after explaining all this to him. And tell him that if he wants to get another NFL job, he needs to come back with his tail (and maybe a few other things) between his legs and tell people that he's seen the light, finally, and realized that IT AIN'T ABOUT HIM. Or the way blacks are treated -- all those who are making a gazillion bucks in professional sports, for example -- or those who are getting shot in the ghetto while dealing drugs.

The NFL isn't run for identity politics.

JACK KEMP REPLIES

Dana,

The NFL has, for many, many decades made a big point of the singing of the National Anthem before its games. During the Superbowl, they've arranged military flyovers of jets or helicopters. They've often had military Color Guards present the Flag at the beginning of games. At the fairly recent Superbowl in Giants Stadium in New Jersey, they had Metropolitan Opera star Renee Fleming sing the National Anthem, but backed up by a chorus of uniformed military singers. To put this in marketing terms, this has been their patriotic brand image of the NFL. Now Colin Kaepernick makes a major dramatic effort to destroy this patriotic image before every game for a whole season, is on a team that loses most of its games, gets fired (the NFL also reveres winning), and team owners are asked to forget all about the patriotic bond with the fans and hire this loser Kaepernick? He belongs doing something else or playing football, not in Canada, but in one of those small European semi-pro teams in Italy or elsewhere on that Continent.

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Jack Kemp

https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2017/08/14/googleshocked-n2368167?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Google-Shocked

From the article:

Last Monday, Google fired an engineer named James Damore who was technically great at his very technical job. There was one small problem. Damore’s personal and political opinions differed from those of Google’s left-wing corporate management. Damore said in a YouTube interview shortly after his firing: "Definitely those [at Google] who aren’t on the left feel like they need to stay in the closet and not really reveal themselves.”

Damore was canned shortly after distributing this 10-page memo to Google employees and sharing his belief that Google’s so-called "diversity” policies are "illegal” and unjust. Damore stated that he considers himself to be a "classical liberal” (similar to what we today refer to as "conservative” or "libertarian”) who "strongly value individualism and reason.”

Google may seem "neutral” because it’s a search engine. In truth, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc.—Eric Schmidt—endorsed Barack Obama in 2008. His loyalty was rewarded when the Obama administration gave one of Schmidt’s other companies a special $1.6 billion "1705” stimulus loan for the development of Ivanpah, a massive solar thermal project along the California-Nevada border. As if a billionaire like Schmidt needs taxpayer help for anything, let alone a solar thermal experiment.

Google’s current CEO, Sundar Pichai, is the first major tech CEO to have "gender-balanced” his executive team to be comprised of seven men and almost the same number of women (six). So Pichai was particularly peeved with Damore for using his memo to express traditional beliefs on gender roles. Precisely, Pichai was perturbed by Damore’s assertion that the tech "gender gap” is largely due to the fact that "men and women biologically differ in many ways” that "aren’t just socially constructed.”

In defending his decision to fire Damore, Pichai said it was "not OK” for a Google employee to express an opinion that differed from his own, specifically that women "have traits that make them less biologically suited” for working in tech.

Men Are Not Women (just Google it)

Type the word "man” into Google’s search field. As of yesterday, you’ll get 6.91 billion results. Now, type the word "woman” into Google’s search field. You’ll obtain 133% fewer (2.97 billion) results. Now try "men” versus "women” and you’ll still get millions more results for "men” than for "women,” showing that females literally can’t best males in a Google search—even by strengthening their numbers.

By Pichai’s own standards, Google seems to be sexist (and therefore hypocritical) because its search results indicate that it finds men to be 133% more worthy of discussion than women. Who is he to preach on gender parity?
In truth, women are doing very well in the business world. In 2016, the average female CEO made $13.1 million, or roughly 15% more than the average salary for a male CEO ($11.4 million). But Pichai won’t be happy until equal numbers of men and women are CEOs. Even if more women don’t want to be CEOs.

As Damore elucidates in his memo, research shows that men put premiums on "systemizing,” "status” and "competition” whereas women prioritize "empathizing,” "people” and "work-life balance.” Hence, men are eager to do what many women are simply uninterested in doing even if it means forgoing a higher paycheck: working longer, less interactive, more stressful and often more dangerous hours in fields ranging from tech to coal mining.
The Brain Gap

There is one thing which Pichai seems to value more than gender diversity at Google: thought uniformity.

Read the rest!

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Paul Driessen

The drumbeat for a fossil-fuel-free energy utopia continues. But few have pondered how we will supposedly generate 25 billion megawatts of total current global electricity demand using just renewable energy: wind turbines, for instance. For starters, we’re talking about some 830 million gigantic 500-foot-tall turbines – requiring a land area of some 12.5 billion acres. That’s more than twice the size of North America, all the way through Central America.

But where it really gets interesting is what life would actually be like in a totally renewable electricity world. Think back to Colonial Williamsburg – the good old days. The way they really were. Not the make-believe, idyllic version of history they teach in school these days. Read on, to take a journey to the nirvana of the "stabilized climate” future

Life in fossil-fuel-free utopia

Life without oil, natural gas and coal would most likely be nasty, brutish and short.

Paul Driessen

Al Gore’s new movie, a New York Times article on the final Obama Era "manmade climate disaster” report, and a piece saying wrathful people twelve years from now will hang hundreds of "climate deniers” are a tiny sample of Climate Hysteria and Anti-Trump Resistance rising to a crescendo. If we don’t end our evil fossil-fuel-burning lifestyles and go 100% renewable Right Now, we are doomed, they rail.

Maybe it’s our educational system, our cargo cult’s easy access to food and technology far from farms, mines and factories, or the end-of-days propaganda constantly pounded into our heads. Whatever the reason, far too many people have a pitiful grasp of reality: natural climate fluctuations throughout Earth history; the intricate, often fragile sources of things we take for granted; and what life would really be like in the utopian fossil-fuel-free future they dream of. Let’s take a short journey into that idyllic realm.

Suppose we generate just the 25 billion megawatt-hours of today’s total global electricity consumption using wind turbines. (That’s not total energy consumption, and it doesn’t include what we’d need to charge a billion electric vehicles.) We’d need more than 830 million gigantic 3-megawatt turbines!

Spacing them at just 15 acres per turbine would require 12.5 billion acres! That’s twice the land area of North America! All those whirling blades would virtually exterminate raptors, other birds and bats. Rodent and insect populations would soar. Add in transmission lines, solar panels and biofuel plantations to meet the rest of the world’s energy demands – and the mostly illegal tree cutting for firewood to heat poor families’ homes – and huge swaths of our remaining forest and grassland habitats would disappear.

The renewable future assumes these "eco-friendly alternatives” would provide reliable, affordable energy 24/7/365, even during windless, sunless weeks and cold, dry growing seasons. They never will, of course. That means we will have electricity and fuels when nature cooperates, instead of when we need it.

With backup power plants gone, constantly on-and-off electricity will make it impossible to operate assembly lines, use the internet, do an MRI or surgery, enjoy favorite TV shows or even cook dinner. Refrigerators and freezers would conk out for hours or days at a time. Medicines and foods would spoil.

Petrochemical feed stocks would be gone – so we wouldn’t have paints, plastics, synthetic fibers or pharmaceuticals, except what can be obtained at great expense from weather-dependent biodiesel. Kiss your cotton-polyester-lycra leggings and yoga pants good-bye.

But of course all that is really not likely to happen. It would actually be far worse.

First of all, there wouldn’t even be any wind turbines or solar panels. Without fossil fuels – or far more nuclear and hydroelectric plants, which rabid environmentalists also despise – we couldn’t mine the needed ores, process and smelt them, build and operate foundries, factories, refineries or cement kilns, manufacture and assemble turbines and panels. We couldn’t even make machinery to put in factories.

Wind turbines, solar panels and solar thermal installations cannot produce consistently high enough heat to smelt ores and forge metals. They cannot generate power on a reliable enough basis to operate facilities that make modern technologies possible. They cannot provide the power required to manufacture turbines, panels, batteries or transmission lines – much less power civilization.

My grandmother used to tell me, "The only good thing about the good old days is that they’re gone.” Well, they’d be back, as the USA is de-carbonized, de-industrialized and de-developed.

Ponder America and Europe before coal fueled the modern industrial age. Recall what were we able to do back then, what lives were like, how long people lived. Visit Colonial Williamsburg and Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Virginia, or similar places in your state. Explore rural Africa and India.

Imagine living that way, every day: pulling water from wells, working the fields with your hoe and ox-pulled plow, spinning cotton thread and weaving on looms, relying on whatever metal tools your local blacksmith shop can produce. When the sun goes down, your lives will largely shut down.

Think back to amazing construction projects of ancient Egypt, Greece or Rome – or even 18th Century London, Paris, New York. Ponder how they were built, how many people it took, how they obtained and moved the raw materials. Imagine being part of those wondrous enterprises, from sunup to sundown.

The good news is that there will be millions of new jobs. The bad news is that they’d involve mostly backbreaking labor with picks and shovels, for a buck an hour. Low-skill, low-productivity jobs just don’t pay all that well. Maybe to create even more jobs, the government will issue spoons, instead of shovels.

That will be your life, not reading, watching TV and YouTube or playing video games. Heck, there won’t even be any televisions or cell phones. Drugs and alcohol will be much harder to come by, too. (No more opioids crisis.) Water wheels and wind mills will be back in fashion. All-natural power, not all the time.

More good news: Polluting, gas-guzzling, climate-changing cars and light trucks will be a thing of the past. Instead, you’ll have horses, oxen, donkeys, buggies and wagons again … grow millions of acres of hay to feed them – and have to dispose of millions or billions of tons of manure and urine every year.

There’ll be no paved streets – unless armies of low-skill workers pound rocks into gravel, mine and grind limestone, shale, bauxite and sand for cement, and make charcoal for lime kilns. Homes will revert to what can be built with pre-industrial technologies, with no central heat and definitely no AC.

Ah, but you folks promoting the idyllic renewable energy future will still be the ruling elites. You’ll get to live better than the rest of us, enjoy lives of reading and leisure, telling us commoners how we must live. Don’t bet on it. Don’t even bet on having the stamina to read after a long day with your shovel or spoon.

As society and especially big urban areas collapse into chaos, it will be survival of the fittest. And that group likely won’t include too many Handgun Control and Gun Free Zone devotees.

But at least your climate will be stable and serene – or so you suppose. You won’t have any more extreme weather events. Sea levels will stay right where they are today: 400 feet higher than when a warming planet melted the last mile-thick glaciers that covered half the Northern Hemisphere 12,000 years ago.

At least it will be stable and serene until those solar, cosmic ray, ocean currents and other pesky, powerful natural forces decide to mess around with Planet Earth again.

Of course, many countries won’t be as stupid as the self-righteous utopian nations. They will still use fossil fuels, plus nuclear and hydroelectric, and watch while you roll backward toward the "good old days.” Those that don’t swoop in to conquer and plunder may even send us food, clothing and monetary aid (most of which will end up with ruling elites and their families, friends, cronies and private armies).

So how about this as a better option?

Stop obsessing over "dangerous manmade climate change.” Focus on what really threatens our planet and its people: North Korea, Iran, Islamist terrorism – and rampant poverty, disease, malnutrition and early death among the billions who still do not have access to electricity and the living standards it brings.

Worry less about manmade climate cataclysms – and more about cataclysms caused by policies promoted in the name of controlling Earth’s climate.

Don’t force-feed us with today’s substandard, subsidized, pseudo-sustainable, pseudo-renewable energy systems. When better, more efficient, more practical energy technologies are developed, they will replace fossil fuels. Until then, we would be crazy to go down the primrose path to renewable energy utopia.

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death. (August 2017)

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Jack Kemp

Hillary has an exceptional tin ear to all kinds of regular people. She is the personification of two somewhat tasteless old jokes about the religiously ignorant.

This one has been told about Jimmy Carter. Pres. Carter, in the old days, invited the Pope to visit him in the White House. After a pleasant exchange, just as the Pope was leaving, Carter says to him, "Y'all come back. And next time, bring the Misses."

A Gentile television host was introduced on the air to a rabbi. He is told that rabbis often hold outside jobs. The television host then asks, "So tell me rabbi, what do you do to bring home the bacon?"

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Wil Wirtanen

This is the best analysis of the Charlottesville Incident.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267562/one-easy-way-democrats-can-stop-neo-nazis-daniel-greenfield

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Jack Kemp

It has been 9.5 hours since I posted their error of saying the NFL protest in NY City will be on Aug. 24th (it will be on the 23rd) and no one at AT has given a tinker's damn to fix the error. I guess the editors are all drinking pina coladas and hanging out on the beach today.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/colin_kapernick_not_yet_rehired_is_the_entire_nfl_racist.html

Daren, also see http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/american_thinker_phd._author_cant_use_a_calendar_as_he_advocates_for_kaepernick_

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Warner Todd Houston has an outstanding article in which he scoffs at the Lefts moral outrage over what happened in Charlottsville.

http://www.publiusforum.com/2017/08/13/sorry-liberals-dont-get-moral-outrage-charlottesville-murder/

from the article:

"After literally years, now, of liberals claiming people from "the right” are "dangerous,” "bloodthirsty,” "murderous,” "violent,” and any other label they care to use, the left finally got their monster. But on the way to this ONE guy "from the right” who committed murder, they’ve time and again ignored murderers when they came from within their own ranks.

Before we get to the left’s wasted moral authority, though, we need to clear up so definitions.

There is factually no difference between Nazi-styled racists and the Black Lives Matter movement. Both are racist groups bent on separating their favored races from society and creating a segregated section for themselves. Both constantly spout hate against every race but their own. Both have been responsible for riots, property destruction, and deaths. In fact, BLM is guiltier of such things than any Nazi, Alt-Right, or white supremacist group. But they should be loathed equally, and both denounced as domestic terrorist groups.

Yet, the left will use this James Alex Fields, Jr., as a rallying point to claim that "the right” is dangerous and deserves to have their free speech curtailed.

First, we need to clear up this "the right,” nonsense"

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And how great was the outrage of the Left when Islamists used automobiles to mow down innocent pedestrians in England? Most liberals tried to de-couple it from Islam, and to excuse it in some fashion. Oh, and how much outrage was there against the Bernie Sanders fan who tried to gun down the Congressional Republicans? Funny how the Left is now morally outraged.

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Six people have been charged with selling fake i.d.'s to illegals so they can vote.

https://www.youngcons.com/doj-report-charges-filed-against-six-people-who-sold-ids-to-illegal-aliens-for-voting-purposes/

But no, there is no problem with illegal voting in this country...

Hat tip; Warner Todd Houston

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Jack Kemp

That "D or R" part was a rhetorical question. College is in Virginia.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/08/11/locked-up-liberal-college-student-heading-to-jail-for-registering-dead-people-n2367283?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Well, if you try to register voters who aren’t actually living, you’re probably going to jail. That’s the fate for one James Madison University student who tried to register dead people. Andrew J. Spieles, who worried for an organization with ties to the Democratic Party, will be spending 100 days in jail for this attempted fraud.

THIS FROM TIM:

He was just the one dumb enough to get caught in a state run by TERRY MCCAULIFFE! How many of them got away with it?

No vote fraud in America my eye!

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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2017/08/11/journalist-who-offered-bill-clinton-oral-sex-decries-mrs-trumps

A journalist who famously offered Bill Clinton oral sex as a thank you for keeping abortion legal is now decrying the Trump women for encouraging sexism by wearing high heels. Writing for Newsweek on Friday, Nina Burleigh seethed, "Six months in, and the Trump women are well on their way to normalizing the footwear of the beauty pageant.”
Burleigh quoted a British psychologist to decry Ivana, Ivanka and Melania for playing into male stereotypes..

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