January 15, 2020

I'll Take the Camels!

Judson Phillips states:

Australia wants to kill 10,000 camels because someone thinks they are drinking too much water.

Could we ask Governor Lee, in lieu of refugees, can we just take the camels?

Tim points out:

Camels may crap on your shoe, but thats better than blowing up stuff like these Muslim "refugees" will do.

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Arguing with Idiots, Free Trade Edition

Timothy Birdnow

I got into a fight on Facebook with someone arguing for unrestricted, unlimited, absolutist trade policies. The fellow argues bitterly against the tariffs against China, and I rebut him.

Below is the thread. Apologies for any misspellings or bad punctuation, as I wanted to leave this in the raw state. Also, there is some obscene language midway through from my interlocutor. I left it as is.  Below is the whole debate:

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January 14, 2020

Dems Cited for Contempt for Planned Vote Fraud

Timothy Birdnow

A Wisconsin judge has cited Democrats with contempt of court for refusing to clean voter rolls as ordered.

From the article:

More than 200,000 individuals who failed to respond to a deactivation notice sent by the elections commission are still on the state’s voter rolls.

Judge Paul Malloy ordered the elections commission to immediately remove these individuals from the system, but three Democratic members refused and fought the order.

Now, Malloy is fining the commission—which is made up of three Republicans and three Democrats—$50 a day. He is also fining its three Democratic members—Ann Jacobs, Julie Glancey and Mark Thomsen—$250 a day until they begin to clean up the system.

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"I can’t be any clearer than this,” Malloy said, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "They need to follow my order.”

This is going to be the dirtiest, most crooked election in American history. I hope Trump is taking this very seriously.

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Bernster Calls for Mass Murder

Timothy Birdnow

Project Veritas captures a Bernie Sanders' field organizer on tape calling for the mass murder of Trump supporters if he wins re-election.

From Conservative Angle:

Jurek call for a "reign of terror” and for opposition to be killed or thrown into a gulag:

"I’m Ready to Throw Down Now…The Billionaire Class. The F***ing Media, Pundits. Walk into MSNBC Studios, Drag Those M*****F***ers Out by Their Hair and Light Them on Fire in the Streets.”

• Kyle Jurek Suggests That Liberal Democrats Should be Placed in Gulags or be Put to Death: "Liberals Get the F***ing Wall First.”

• Jurek: "Well, I’ll Tell You What in Cuba, What did They do to Reactionaries? You Want to Fight Against the Revolution, You’re Going to Die for it, M*****F***er.”

• Jurek Affirms That "Free Speech Has Repercussions…There Are Consequences for Your F***ing Actions…You Should Expect a Violent Reaction. And You Deserve a Violent Reaction.”

• Jurek Lambasts Elizabeth Warren, Suggests That Warren Does Not Deserve Support Solely Due to Being a Woman.

• Jurek: "Like F**k if We Can Beat Donald Trump, as Long as We Nominated a Woman. Like F***ing Idiot. Like What the F**k? The World is on Fire. This is an Emergency Situation, and You’re Hung Up on Vaginas.”

But it's the Trump MAGA people we all have to worry about, right?

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Saudis Being Kicked Out of U.S.

Timothy Birdnow

Attorney General Bob Barr is kicking 21 Saudi Arabian "students" out of the country for kiddie porn and radicalism.

From the article:

The Attorney General of the United States William Barr made a startling announcement on Monday when he said that the DOJ has uncovered 21 Saudi Cadets who will be removed from the United States for child porn and extremist ideologies.

This announcement comes after 1 Saudi cadet in Florida did a grisly terrorist attack on the US military base he was supposed to be training at. The night before the attack, the terrorist cadet allegedly dined with fellow saudi cadets and watched mass shooting clippings together.

[...]

According to the FBI, a majority of the 21 cadets had shared some kind of jihadi propaganda on their facebooks, and at east 15 had some kind of contact with child pornography.

Did we learn nothing after 911? Why are we letting young Saudi men into this country to study? Especially to study military tactics and techniques.

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So Goes Rome...

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an article from 2016 about the decline of the Roman economy. It is shockingly familiar to modern Americans; we have gone down the exact same path.

From the article:

The Roman government also set price controlson wheat. In the fourth century, B.C., the Roman government would buy grain during periods of shortages and sell it at a price fixed far below the market price. In 58 B.C., this was improved upon; the government gave grain away to the citizens of Rome at a zero price, that is, for free.

The result was inevitable: farmers left the land and flocked to Rome; this, of course, only made the problem worse, since with fewer farmers on the land in the territories surrounding Rome, less grain than before was being grown and brought to the market. Also, masters were freeing their slaves and placing the financial burden for feeding them on the Roman government at that zero price.

In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar discovered that almost one-third of the Roman citizenry was receiving their grain supply for free from the State.

To deal with the financial cost of these supplies of wheat, the Roman government resorted to debasement of the currency, that is, inflation. Pricing-fixing of grain, shortages of supply, rising budgetary problems for the Roman government, monetary debasement and resulting worsening price inflation were a continual occurrence through long periods of Roman history.

Spending, Inflation and Economic Controls Under Diocletian

The most famous episode of price controls in Roman history was during the reign of Emperor Diocletian (A.D. 244-312). He assumed the throne in Rome in A.D. 284. Almost immediately, Diocletian began to undertake huge and financially expensive government spending projects.

There was a massive increase in the armed forces and military spending; a huge building project was started in the form of a planned new capital for the Roman Empire in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) at the city of Nicomedia; he greatly expanded the Roman bureaucracy; and he instituted forced labor for completion of his public works projects.

Read the entire article; it's fascinating!

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Accusations of White Priviilege is a Form of Terrorism

Timothy Birdnow

Lloyd Marcus takes aim at social justice warriors and their attack on "white privilege".

From the article:

Insane social justice warriors demand that white men be silenced; not allowed to have an opinion regarding reviewing movies, climate change and everything in between.

Folks, we have allowed leftists to create a generation of hate-filled social justice warrior terrorists who believe the world would be a much better place if we could get rid of scum-of-the-earth white guys like Pop Kern.

While I am pleased that more and more people are fighting back, we need more people telling SJWs, "No! Back off! Get a life and get a job!"

The Democrat Party is the greatest distributor of class envy, racial hate and division. They have disdain for all things patriotic, wholesome and good. The party has deteriorated to become a mob of hate-filled treasonous domestic terrorists who MUST be crushed in 2020.

Yeah; "white privilege" means a decreasing life expectancy (the only demographic doing so), being discriminated against when applying for a job, for a spot at a university, etc. It means being told you are the cause of all the world's miseries.It means being called a rapist. Lloyd is right; the whole "white privilege" accusation is an act of terrorism.

Any ideology that dehumanizes - be it against white or black or yellow or red or brown - is detestable and has no place in an enlightened society. We are essentially returning to our barbaric roots with the new "social justice", which is just retribalization. It is shameful.

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Iran state TV sees at least 2 news anchors quit

Dana Mathewson

Cracks in the armor! These people are not going to live long, or if they do, their lives are going to be exceedingly uncomfortable!

At least two Iranian journalists at a state-owned media outlet reportedly resigned from their jobs, with one of them apologizing to viewers for "the 13 years I told you lies."

As Tehran continues to grapple with the fallout from protests stemming from a cover-up of its accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner, TV anchor Gelare Jabbari addressed her viewers on an Instagram post that appears to have been deleted.

"It was very hard for me to believe that our people have been killed," the post read, according to The Guardian."Forgive me that I got to know this late. And forgive me for the 13 years I told you lies.”

Two other news anchors at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) thanked their supporters in separate statements.

"Thank you for accepting me as anchor until today," said Zahra Khatami. "I will never get back to TV. Forgive me.”

Fellow anchor Saba Rad said she was leaving journalism after 21 years.

"Thank you for your support in all years of my career," she said."I announce that after 21 years working in radio and TV, I cannot continue my work in the media. I cannot.”

The resignations come as Iranians again took to the streets in anti-government protests Monday. Many are calling for the ouster of government leaders after the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane that Iran initially denied responsibility for. Tehran later walked back its denial and admitted to downing the plane in a misfire during attacks on bases in Iraq where American troops are housed.The attacks followed the killing of Iranian Quds Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. airstrike.

 

Wow! Trump knocks off a monster and the regime shoots itself in the foot. And the walls begin tumbling down. The Left will blame Trump for everything; the Right will, I hope, bless him. Story here: https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-state-tv-news-anchors-quit

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Philippine Volcanoe

Timothy Birdnow

There has been a major volcanic eruption in the Philippines and many people have been evacuated. Residents urged not to return home as Philippines volcano continues to spew ash, lava fountains

:et Prayers for these people are in order, folks.

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January 13, 2020

Vikings left Greenland because they over-hunted walruses, research claims

Dana Mathewson

Admittedly, the title is a bit awkward, but I kept it the way I received it.

I'd always believed -- and obviously I was not alone -- that the Vikings left their farming communities in Greenland because of cooling temperatures which shortened the growing season to the point where they couldn't grow enough food. And they either left or starved.

But [n]ew research is shedding light on why they left the world’s largest island during the 15th century.

The study, led by Dr. James Barrett of the University of Cambridge, concludes that the overhunting of walruses played a major role in Norsemen’s vanishing from Greenland. Walrus tusks were a big commodity during the period, with Europeans willing to pay big money or trade iron and much-needed timber (trees are scarce in Greenland) for the ivory.

According to the research, by the time the 11th century rolled around, all ivory traded in Europe came from Greenland walruses. Starting in the 13th century, the walrus tusk gravy train started to splinter, as the West African Trade routes opened up and Europeans were now able to buy "superior” elephant ivory. Consumers preferred the larger, more consistently-colored elephant tusks to the smaller walrus ivory, which had a different color in the middle.

Instead of walrus hunting declining after their decrease in popularity, it had the opposite effect—Vikings killed even more walruses in an attempt to keep up with the market.

"We think that when elephant ivory became more popular in Europe, the unit value of walrus ivory decreased, meaning the Greenland Norse had to hunt more animals to maintain the volume of their trade with Europe,” Barrett told Fox News. "We think this led to overhunting.”

The common belief of why the Vikings left Greenland had been they overexploited the environment, then either died or left once temperatures declined.

For their study, the researchers analyzed 67 genuine medieval walrus skulls that served as "packaging" for tusks traded from Greenland to Europe. When shipped in the Middle Ages, the tusks were still attached to the front part of walrus skulls. They were then extracted for their ivory when they reached European towns such as Dublin, Bergen and London.

"We looked at how these skulls were modified for trade, which showed very similar methods of butchery and decoration, implying that they were produced by a single group of hunters or craftspeople (probably in Greenland),” Barrett explained. "We also used ancient DNA and stable isotopes to see where the walruses had been caught, and we considered archaeological and historical evidence regarding Norse Greenland and the medieval ivory trade.”

According to their analysis, during the 13th century, the skulls harvested became smaller and smaller in size, with the Norsemen having to keep traveling further north into the Arctic Circle to hunt any available walruses, male or female. These smaller skulls belonged to walruses from an evolutionary branch found in Baffin Bay, a large body of water far north of the settlements where the Vikings first hunted.

[...]

With so much effort spent hunting walruses for less money in return, along with unsustainable farming practices, the Black Death, and temperatures plunging, it’s believed the Vikings had no option but to leave the island.

[...]

Erik the Red [Thorvaldson] arrived from Scandinavia in 985 A.D. during the Medieval Warming Period, from 900-1300 A.D. In this time, Norsemen started communities, built towns, large houses and farms in the region.

If any of you are on speaking terms with that idiot "scientist" who promotes the "hockey stick" theory of Climate Change -- James Hansen, isn't it -- will you please forward this article https://www.foxnews.com/science/viking-left-greenland-overhunted-walruses to him after you've read it, and tell him to pay particular attention to the paragraph about the Medieval Warming Period, which is absent from his graph? He won't thank you for it, but you'll be doing a service nevertheless.

By the way, Eric the Red was quite a promoter. After exploring southern Greenland, he gave the island its name (at that time it was green) as part of his efforts to recruit settlers to come and farm with him. It worked, and the theory is that one of the Vikings, on his way to Greenland, got blown off-course by a storm and spotted the coast of North America. He wasn't interested in exploring it, but told Eric's son Leif about it. Leif was interested, and equipped an expedition, including his brothers Thorstein and Thorvald, to explore the coast. They got a nasty reception from the locals, and one of Leif's brothers was eventually killed -- I don't remember which one. But Viking artifacts have been found on the North American continent.

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Soy Prices Up

Timothy Birdnow

Good news for soy farmers.

Soy futures rose in December to highs better than any year since 2016.

Much of it is on the prospects of a deal with China.

Fears of tariffs have been greatly exaggerated.

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Huge Underground Office Park in Missouri

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a really fascinating story. The world's largest undergrond business complex in a limestone mine in Missouri.

From the article:

The 55,000,000-square-foot, 1,100-acre underground storage facility is believed to be the world’s largest site of its kind. In fact, it has trademarked the phrase "World’s Largest Underground Business Complex.” It was developed by late Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt via Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, Inc.

[...]

It was created by digging into the Bethany Falls limestone mine and is, in places, 160 feet beneath the surface.

It has a grid of 16 feet high, 40 foot wide tunnels separated by 25 foot square limestone pillars created by the room and pillar method of hard rock mining.

The complex contains almost 7 miles of illuminated, paved roads and several miles of railroad track.

This reminds me of Logans Run or THX; an underground city still alive after a nuclear holocaust.

Actually, it suggests a model for future settlements on the Moon or Mars or whatnot. We won't be able to build a habitat on the surface of any planet because, with no atmosphere (or little atmosphere) and no magnetic field there would be nothing to protect settlers from radiation from solar storms. We are going to have to learn to live underground at some point, or remain on Earth. This gives us a head start in developing the methods to do so.

And while older folks may find it disconcerting, the young who grow up in such an environment will think it perfectly normal.

And if you make the caves really big (as you can do in lower gravity on the Moon or Mars or Callisto or whatnot) you will lose the sense of being underground. In fact, you could make a habitat very Earthlike, with bluing on the ceiling to mimic blue skies, with an artificial sun, even projecting starts onto the dome at night.

Except for the air purifiers and water pumps, you could build a rural land, a pastroral paradise. It need never get really cold. Storms wouldn't be necessary, too; just gentle rains from springklers. Housing could be inside the rock walls, or you could live in a tent for all of that. Back to the Earth types could find a space habitat very appealing, because it could well be more in tune with nature than the home world.

I know; I'm a dreamer. But then, so were the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth. You have to start somewhere.

And eventually Mankind must leave this planet or be doomed to extinction like all the other species in history. The only way to avoid the dinosaur trap is to settle the rest of the solar system.

As Arthur C. Clark put it "Earth is Man's cradle, but you cannot stay in the cradle forever". 

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How to Manipulate Climate Data

This is a rather technical post.
Willis Eschenbach

A ? for my climate friends. The MODTRAN calculator gives the following TOA changes from a doubling of CO2:

200 ppmv -> 400 ppmv = 3.3 W/m2
400 ppmv -> 800 ppmv = 3.3 W/m2

The canonical IPCC change from a doubling is 3.7 W/m2.

Anyone know why?

Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama Huntsville replies:

Are you sure it's at TOA? Also, the 3.7 value is after the stratosphere has come into radiative re-adjustment, which I've never really understood. I suppose there is also a dependence on what atmospheric temperature profile (and humidity) you are using.

Willis Eschenbach replies:

It gets more curious. Mosher pointed me to a canonical paper by Myhre et al. I've stuck it in my dropbox, link below. Mosh said that the true number was based on a line-by-line (LBL) model, rather than a narrow-band model (NBM) or a broad-band model (BBM).

But in fact, it's not based on any of them. Instead, they use an "altered" narrow-band model. They say:

===
"The 'altered NBM' has been adjusted for the effects of
solar absorption by CO2, decay of the gases in the stratosphere, CFC-12 absorption band strength from HITRAN96, based on results from the BBM."
===

That's the model that gives the 3.7 W/m2 for a doubling.

In addition, they give the following figures for a doubling of CO2 in clear air:

LBL 4.96 W/m2
NBM 5.05 W/m2
BBM 5.08 W/m2

But the MODTRAN model says 3.3 W/m2, as noted above, for clear air ...

Mosh says it's because it is an older version (MODTRAN 3 V1.3), but that doesn't seem like it would give an error of that size.

That's the good thing about "settled science", there are always so many more questions ...

w.

PS—The figures in the paper are for the increase of CO2 from 280 ppmv (presumed pre-industrial)
to 358 (value used by IPCC SAR). I've calculated the doubling figures from those values.

https:// www.dropbox.com/ s/ 6t3qkqy210e0kq1/ myhre1998.pdf?dl =0

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LIes About Australia's Fire Season

Timothy Birdnow

The Australian Met office has been tampering with temperature data to blame the wildfires on the continent on Global Warming.

According to Jennifer Marohasy:

Blaming the recent fires on climate change is to rewrite our temperature history, something the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has been doing for some time. This has involved the:

  1. remodelling of measured values
  2. addition of hotter locations to only the most recent years in the compilation of a national average trend
  3. transition to electronic probes that are designed to record hotter for the same weather, and
  4. deleting of the hottest day in the official record, which was January 3, 1909.
She goes on to list a chronology of events:

Indeed, now absurdly corralled by the climate change meme, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is actively promoting the need for yet another Royal Commission as though this will prevent future bush fire tragedies. Yet recommendations of previous Royal Commissions have never been implemented. For example, a hazard reduction burn across at least 390,000 hectares was recommended for the state of Victoria.

[...]

Mr Morrison mentioned hotter and drier summers in his television address. The historical record shows that the land mass of Australia is not drying out. Last year, 2019, was exceptionally dry. But the long-term trend is not towards a drier continent but rather we have on average had consistently wetter years since the 1970, as shown in Figure 1.

The article is rather lengthy byt Jennifer does a fine ;job.

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Compelling Imperatives

Timothy Birdnow

Global Warming is SOOOO about world government:

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

Maurice Strong

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January 12, 2020

Trump's Message to Iran

This from our old friend Daren Jonescu:

Trump Finally Gets One Right in that Trumpy Way

From the essay:

Donald Trump tweeted out the following message to the Iranian people protesting (yet again) against their murderous Islamic regime:

To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I’ve stood with you since the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2020

This message, which was also tweeted in Farsi, strikes a very suitable tone. America’s position, in this and analogous cases around the world, need not have any suggestion of military intervention or nation-building. All that is needed — desperatelyneeded by those risking everything for their freedom in the face of tyrannical governments — is the confidence of having the moral support of the nation that, to all oppressed people on the planet in this age, represents the idea of liberty.

Read the entire thing at The View from Limbo.

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Is Pelosi Timing the Impeachment Articles' Release so as to Damage Bernie?

Selwyn Duke

The conventional wisdom regarding Nancy Pelosi’s holding of the impeachment articles is that, as someone put it, she’d pulled the pin on the grenade and then didn’t know what to do. Yet even if she has bumbled into her current predicament, which seems likely, is there now some method to her madness? Has she found a way to turn lemons into at least a thimble of lemonade by using the situation to damage the presidential candidate she doesn’t want to see capture the Democratic nomination — burgeoning Bernie Sanders — and help the establishment choice, Joe Biden?

It’s now being pointed out that if Pelosi releases the impeachment articles next week, as is rumored, it will hurt the campaignsof the five senators seeking the Democratic nomination, as they’ll have to leave the campaign trail to be present for the trial. This is at just the time when one of those senators, Sanders, is surging in the polls; is leadingin the first contest, Iowa, which is just weeks away; and who now, many Democratic observers say (and often fear), may very well be the nominee.

In reference to this forced campaign-trail absence, "‘Of course it matters,’ [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren said in an interview this week,” reports Politico. "‘We just did a 3½-hour selfie line. Don’t tell me it doesn’t matter to do face to face.’”

Yet the Massachusetts politician and the three other senators who aren’t Bernie are expendable. Warren’s star has been fading, her lies and fanciful policy proposals having caught up to her. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has risen a bit of late, but no one really believes she’ll be the nominee. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) now just serves as a token allowing the Democrats to say, "Look, our field isn’t entirely white!” (an unpardonable sin in their now "woke” party). As for Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), well, few people will notice his absence because few even notice his presence.

But Bernie matters. With him hitting his stride and the first contest (on Feb. 3) being significant because it can establish or kill momentum — and with the polls close — his absence is significant.

This has to please the Democratic establishment. Its power brokers hobbled Bernie in 2016, and they surely don’t want him now, either. First, he’s not actually a Democrat but an independent; he’s also anti-establishment, and the Democrat machine wants in the White House aDemocrat, and one who’ll play ball. It’s also likely that insiders consider the white and wizened socialist septuagenarian unelectable.

Evidencing this establishment antipathy was a November reportstating that Barack Obama had actually vowed to intervene if Sanders seemed poised to be the nominee. In fact, one could just imagine the ex-president on the phone with Pelosi strategizing on how to bury Bernie.

But Pelosi wouldn’t need any prodding. Not only is she a major head on the Democratic-machine hydra who has assuredly pondered how the impeachment articles’ release will affect the primary contest, but there’s another factor:

It’s quite likely that to Pelosi this is not just professional, but personal.

Remember that Bernie is the candidate of Pelosi’s nemesis, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In fact, the New York socialist upstart has been campaigning by his side, helping to rally younger voters, and is a major factor in his post-heart-attack campaign’s resuscitation.

Also note that it’s Ocasio-Cortez and her radical crew who pushed Pelosi into going forward with impeachment in the first place, an action the House speaker apparently opposed and which has been disastrous for her party. So she certainly must find the prospect of using Ocasio-Cortez’ tactic of choice (impeachment) to damage her candidate of choice quite poetic — and delicious.

Add to this that Ocasio-Cortez is now refusing to payher Democratic Congressional Campaign Committeedues and has been working to primary establishment Democrats — thus challenging Pelosi’s power — and one can only imagine how much the speaker despises the congresswoman.

Remember, too, that Pelosi is a political operator who’ll "cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding,” as her daughter Alexandra put itlast year. I suspect the speaker may believe that releasing the impeachment articles next week sticks a shiv in Bernie’s back — and by proxy in Ocasio-Cortez’ — and will relish every minute of it.

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Fake Science

This from Willis Eschenbach:

For all you good folks endlessly telling me that we need to depend on "peer-reviewed science" like that was some ironclad guarantee of accuracy, neutrality, and inerrancy ... not true in the slightest. Half the studies can't even be replicated.

Lancet Editor: Half of All Scientific Studies are False

2p from Tim:

It's funny; they demand peer review, but complain when any research is reviewed by scientists or others outside of the confines of the journals. Then it is somehow "fake science" or "big oil science" when all that is being done is the research is being critically examined. Somehow that invalidates the criticisms but we have to have absolute faith in the peer reviewers, many of whom are good friends of the researchers, as the Climategate e-mails prove.

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Volountary Human Extinction Movement: a Doctrine of Demons

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an example of the kind of monstrous idiocy of the Left and particularly the radical environmentalists aka the Gang Green.

Les Night speaks about his founding of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

From the Guardian:

Fifty years ago, I concluded that the best thing for the planet would be a peaceful phase-out of human existence. We’re causing the extinction of hundreds of thousands of other species. With us gone, I believe ecosystems will be restored and there will be enough of everything. No more fighting over resources. The idea wasn’t as well received as I had hoped.

Gee, people didn't embrace extinction? Why, who wouldn't?

And why care about "pristine" environments if there is nobody around to actually appreciate them? Animals certainly do not.

He continues:

After an involuntary stint in the army, I read Paul Ehrlich’s book Population Bomb, which argued that overpopulation would lead to food shortages and famine, and soon joined a movement called Zero Population Growth. Their slogan was Stop at Two, but it didn’t take much maths to work out that this would take too long. We were already overpopulated at 3.7 billion: instead of stopping at two children, we needed to stop at once.

At 25, I wanted to show I was serious. A medical school gave me a discounted vasectomy in exchange for being a student doctor’s first try at the procedure, which was successful.

I became a supply teacher, which gave me plenty of free time to study population issues. In the summers, I hitchhiked around the US, as many thousands did in the 1970s. Everywhere, people told me that their locale used to be so nice before all these people moved in, and it became too crowded. In the late 1980s, I settled in Portland, Oregon, and began to call this concept the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Our message is simple: we encourage people to stop procreating so the biosphere might return to its former glory, and everyone already here will be able to live life more abundantly.

Well, I certainly am glad this fellow has not procreated. I am sure it is part of God's plan. But he shouldn't insist others follow his lead.

How do you "live life more abundantly " with no future? That is what he is demanding we give up. With no children and immanent extinction there is no life.

This shows just how insane the Left really is; they embrace death and destruction. Theirs is a doctrine of demons, a belief system from the bowels of Hell.

Why is it the Left always supports things that end life?

(Oh, BTW, notice he's a West Coast native and too stupid to figure out that the overcrowding he experienced in his youth was because all of the idiot hippies were coming to enjoy his little slice of paradise. It had nothing to do with general population growth. And Ehrlich has been proven astonishingly wrong over the years, but this idiot can't see it or simply will not admit to it.

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Omar Supports Terrorists

Timothy Birdnow

Ilhan Omar has Openly thrown in with terrorists

From the Times of Israel:

On the 26th of August, Rep. Ilhan Omar made the following tweet:

Somali government and peacekeeping forces, need to protect @Hormuud and the Somali telecom industry as they make enormous contribution to the economy and provide vital services.

During my visit to Somalia in 2011, I was surprised by the quick evolution of technology in Somalia. https://t.co/u1vAht8sUo

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 25, 2019

"Peacekeeping forces”?

Mrs. Omar has publicly called for the protection of Hormuud. Yet Hormuud Telecom has been mentioned as a sponsor of terrorism, not once, not twice, but many, many times.

What is Hormuud?

Hormuud Telecom Somalia Inc. is a private Somalian telecommunications company founded by Ahmed Nur Ali Jimale in April of 2002.

The United Nations Security Council’s Report of the Secretary-Generalon the situation in Somalia, dated 20 July 2009, contained the following paragraphs involving the activities of Ahmed Nur Ali Jimale, his company Hormuud and his direct support for al-Shabaab, a jihadist militant Islamic terrorist group in Somalia (pages 10-11):

"Ali Ahmed Nur Jim’ale (Jim’ale)has served in leadership roles with the former Somali Council of Islamic Courts, also known as the Somali Islamic Courts Union, which was a radical-Islamist element. The most radical elements of the Somali Islamic Courts Union eventually formed the group known as al-Shabaab.

Al-Shabaab was listedfor targeted sanctions in April 2010 by the United Nations Security Council committee established pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 concerning Somalia and Eritrea (the "Somalia/Eritrea Sanctions Committee”).

Read it all.

If Omar so loves Somalia why did her family leave? Why doesn't she return to her beloved homeland?

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