Price of Gas Reaches Five Bucks in California

Timothy Birdnow

More proof California should be sawed off the continent and allowed to float away to China.

Gas Prices Reach $5 at Some California Stations, Including in Los Angeles Area

This in the era of fracking where America is producing more gasoline than ever. California is strangling her own fuel supply. 

These are heading towards European prices. 

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Leila Arrested for Kiddie Porn

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an interesting story; a British citizen was arrested for possession of child pornography. A woman.

That is very rare; men usually are the filthy perverts in any society.

So what gives?

Well....

Julie Marshall, of Warbreck Drive, appeared at Blackpool Magistrates' Court last week charged with three counts of downloading images between June 2004 and April 2018.

At the time of Marshall's arrest, police found 677 category A photos - which is the most serious category, 465 category B photos and 79,958 category C photos.

Marshall, who also has the alias John Robert Marshall, will be sentenced at Preston Crown Court next month.

She has been granted unconditional bail.

To quote Austin Powers "That's a MAN baby!"

And unconditional bail?

Britain has lost whatever marbles they used to possess. I guess decades of Labor governments and membership in the E.U. will do that to you.

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Canned Spam

Timothy Birdnow

Due to a deluge of spam comments I have turned up the junk threshold. Hopefully it won't affect any real comments, but I have to take some action.  If I miss any regulars after a couple of days I'll jimmy the settings. Please check back if you can't get your comment posted.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Tim

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Ukraine Investigation on the Way

Timothy Birdnow

It appears an investigation of Ukrainian influence is revving up at the DOJ.

 From the article:

The Justice Department wrote a letter responding to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler after he demanded answers last week regarding news that the President’s "personal lawyer,” Rudy Giuliani, was relaying information on the Biden’s to the department.

Jerry Nadler claimed the DOJ accepting information from Giuliani "would seem to be a significant departure from traditional channels,” and says it raises "conflicts of interest-both for the Department, generally, and for you [Barr], specifically.”

In the response, the DOJ confirmed a new investigation into Ukraine, and revealed that Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen has picked U.S attorney Richard Donoghue to supervise all investigations into Ukraine by federal prosecutors.

According to the DOJ, Richard Donoghue will "assist in coordinating … several open matters being handled by different U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department components that in some way potentially relate to Ukraine."

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DHS Whistleblower During Obama Era Found Dead on Roadside

Timothy Birdnow

Does this smell of Arkancide to you? 

Philip Haney, DHS whistleblower during Obama era, found dead, police say

Yeah I know; it may be the Obama Chicago Way instead of Bubba and the Dixie Chicks, but...

From El Zoro News:

This was just outside of Sacramento, Ca. Police found the man dead on the ground at an intersection of two highways.

Haney was recently in contact with DHS officials about a possible return to the agency, the Washington Examiner reported, adding that he was also engaged to be married.

In June 2016, Haney testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he allegedthat the Obama-era DHS had ordered him to delete hundreds of files about reputed associates of Islamic terrorist groups. Haney made the case that several attacks in the U.S. could have been prevented if some of the files had not been deleted, the Examiner reported.

Writing in The Hill in February 2016, Haney claimed Obama had thrown the U.S. intelligence community "under the bus" for failing to "connect the dots" after a Nigerian Muslim terror suspect was linked to a failed terror plot on Christmas Day in 2009.

"Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused," Haney wrote, referring to Obama. "His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away."

Haney, who worked for DHS for about 15 years, was also the author of"See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad."

And now he's dead.

Arkancide? Chicagocide?  Jihad? Who knows.

But I really doubt it was suicide. Most suicides don't kill themselves while walking along a highway.

No, I suspect foul play. And I really suspect someone killed him either to keep him quiet or to punish him for NOT keeping quiet.

It's sad that we have to suspect our own government of such things, but we know it happens.

Speaking of which, any word on Jeffrey Epstein?

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Trump Didn't Sign Off on Bringing Coronavirus to America

Timothy Birdnow

According to Fox News President Trump was furious that Americans infected or exposed to Coronavirus were brought back to the U.S. without his authorization.

From the article:

President Trump was furious that 14 Americans infected with the coronavirus returned to the United States without his permission rather than remain in quarantine overseas, according to a new report.

Trump hadbeen briefed that the healthy U.S.passengers who spent weeks quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan would be allowed to flyhome on two chartered planes -- while those who were sick or infected would stay in Japan to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.

The president became "furious" with senior advisers after learning the 14 Americans who tested positive had been put on aplane with healthy passengers,according to The Washington Post. One official told the paper that the failure to inform Trump of the decision in advance of the plane's departure was a "big operational mistake.”

Indeed it was - especially flying those exposed people home on a crowded flight! If any were infected the whole plane could have come down with the disease.

If the authorities are as worried about this disease as they seem to be, they should be isolating people who have been exposed to it.

This reminds me of the Ebola outbreak a few years ago. I had a nasty argument with a guy claiming to be a microbiologist who insisted it was perfectly acceptable to bring Ebola patients into the U.S. While this argument took place at Tea Party Nation's website, the guy was a liberal and he was eager to bring a bunch of Guinneans here. I looked up a number of papers by credible people on the subject - Peter Jahrling of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for example, and showed that Ebola could indeed become airborn. Also, I showed that Ebola mutated and that it could mutate here in the States and we could wind up with an epidemic. He was having none of it, and kept insisting it was safe.

Why?  Why not err on the side of caution?  It's the Liberal mindset; America has to take whatever everyone else gets. The idea is we deserve no special place and have no right to protect ourselves from the vicissitudes of the rest of the world. It's a kind of moral judgement they pass on America. What right have WE to keep our borders closed to people with a lethal illness when other countries can't! Eventually my inerlocutor lost patience (because he lost the argument) and insulted me and left the group. (Typical liberal.)

I rather suspect something similar was happening here. The State Department is full of Progressives from the Hillary Clinton school, and they believed they had no right to keep the Coronavirus out when China and other nations were stuck with it. No doubt a few of the more radical there actually would like to see America taken down a peg or two, and of course they would like to see Donald Trump embarassed by this. It would illustrate the folly of national borders, too.

At any rate, if Trump is furious he has every right to be. Hopefully heads will roll.

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NY Times Gives Taliban a Platform

Timothy Birdnow

A senior correspondent for the New York Times in Afghanistan has criticized the rag paper for publishing an op-ed by the Taliban.

From the article:

The New York Times’ senior correspondent in Afghanistan criticized the paper’s editorial branch for publishing an opinion-editorial article Thursday written by Taliban deputy leader Sirajuddin Haqqani and claiming the group’s commitment to peace.

Mujib Mashal, the lead New York Times reporter in Afghanistan, drew distance between the paper’s news operations and its editorial branch in a Thursday tweet.

"Siraj is no Taliban peace-maker as he paints himself,” Mashal wrote. "He’s behind some of most ruthless attacks of this war with many civilian lives lost.”

The piece by Siraj Haqqani in @nytopinion– which’s independent of our news operations & judgment – omits the most fundamental fact: that Siraj is no Taliban peace-maker as he paints himself, that he’s behind some of most ruthless attacks of this war with many civilian lives lost

— Mujib Mashal (@MujMash) February 20, 2020

In his editorial, "What we, the Taliban want,” Haqqani claimed the Taliban was committed to a tentative peace process in the country and denied claims the Taliban would favor a return to harboring radical Islamic extremism.

Haqqani wrote that the Taliban favored a chance to build a government with all Afghan stakeholders and that the Taliban favored an "Islamic system in which all Afghans have equal rights, where the rights of women that are granted by Islam — from the right to education to the right to work — are protected, and where merit is the basis for equal opportunity.”

Haqqani also noted "concerns about the potential of Afghanistan being used by disruptive groups to threaten regional and world security.”

The Taliban’s deputy leader claimed the Taliban was weary of decades of fighting and that the group favors a return to stability. Haqqani’s claims towards peaceful resolution appear subject to doubt, as the pre 9/11 Taliban government had been regarded as a safe-haven for extremism, with the likes of Osama Bin-Laden’s Al-Qaeda terror group.

Really?

Notice the weasel words "Islamic" in front of just and the like. Also notice he says they won't harbor terrorists. Right. Taqqiya, anyone?

But that last is the kicker; if they truly are tired of fighting it means we could win this. Yes, WE are tired of fighting too, but that only means they must be exhausted. We are using a fraction of our resources while they are throwing everything they have into it every day. If what he says is true it means they could be persuaded to eventually surrender.

I'm not saying we should take  any of this at face value. I believe it is a lie from the paper's byline.

The big question is why is the New York Times publishing it?  What kind of treasonous snakes run the Times (well, we know.)

If anything this op-ed should make us more concerned about pulling out than ever, in my opinion.

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Obama at Heart of Blago Case

Timothy Birdnow

Report: How Obama Weaseled Out of a Damning Subpoena in Blagojevich Corruption Case
From the article:

Blagojevich was accused – and convicted – of trying to "sell” the vacated U.S. Senate seat in Illinois that was once held by then-President Barack Obama.

However, the governor’s defense team had an "ace in the hole.” They planned to subpoena Obama as a star witness.

"First, Mr. Obama contradicts the testimony of an important government witness,” the lawyer’s motion read.

"Second, President Obama’s testimony is relevant to the necessary element of intent of the defendant.

"Intent of the defendant….” Yikes, sounds damning.

Lastly, the defense lawyers said, "President Obama is the only one who can say if emissaries were sent on his behalf, who those emissaries were, and what, if anything, those emissaries were instructed to do on his behalf.”

We know what that was. Obama wanted that seat for his Au Pair Valerie Jarrett and Blago didn't want to just give the seat away for Obama's gratitude. So the BHO saw to it that Rod the Clod wound up doing serious time.

The article continues:

But President Obama managed to weasel his way out of that mess and avoided being dragged into the scandal thanks to an "internal investigation” by his own people.

Give me a break.

After an internal report by Obama’s own lawyers cleared the president, a judge ultimatelyshot downthe motion.

For Obama, it was a perfect scenario. Blagojevich was convicted and sentenced to prison, taking the fall for the scandal. Any discussion about Obama’s involvement, which was seemingly so minimal that a court refused to subpoena him, could safely be declared a right-wing conspiracy.

That is, until President Donald Trumpcommuted Blagojevich’s sentenceTuesday.

Redactions in Blagojevich’s original motion seem to hint Obama was more involved than he let on.

Theclaimslink Obama to a convicted fraudster, a quid pro quo scheme and secret phone calls. If this subpoena had been granted 10 years ago, there’s a good chance we would know a great deal more than we do now.

It’s unclear what plans, if any, Blagojevich has to revisit the 2010 trial and subpoena request. [Western Journal]

 

This sounds like a massive scandal that could have Obama’s fingerprints all over it.

Indeed it does and I've never doubted the President got the Illinois Governor put away - and for so long.

In essence, Blagoyavitch was a lying, scheming, corrupt weasel, but no more so than any other political hack from Illinois. He's been largely a political prisoner, held in detention because His Highness was angry he wouldn't play ball.

I would LOVE to see Obama investigated; there are so many dirty undies in that pile of laundry. But nobody ever will because Obama was the first black President and nobody wants to admit he was corrupt or a failure.

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U.S. Health Care Outperforms Canada

Timothy Birdnow

If Canada has such a great healthcare system, why do they have to come to the U.S. to get treatment?

Here's  why:

Canadian Medicare, our northern neighbor’s universal health care system, generally receives rave reviews from proponents of nationalized or socialized health care, but the Fraser Institute found that more than 63,000 Canadians left their country to have surgery in 2016.

As Americans contemplate overturning our health system in favor of one similar to Canada’s, we must ask why so many leave.

The Canadian system consistently ranks low or lowest across numerous metrics in the Commonwealth Fund’s extensive survey on health care. With regards to specialists and surgeries, the United States ranked best or nearly best.

After being advised that they need a procedure done, only about 35 percent of Canadians had their surgery within a month, whereas in the United States, 61 percent did. After four months, about 97 percent of Americans were able to have their surgery, whereas Canada struggled to achieve 80 percent.

America is significantly outperforming Canada in surgery wait times even as it’s likely that tens of thousands of Canadians come here to use the American system.

General surgery, procedures such as appendectomies, cholecystectomies, and hernia repairs, make up the largest portion of those who leave Canada for care. Based on the latest available date from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the total Canadian caseload for many of these procedures is about ten percent of America’s.

Question; where will these Canadians go when America adopts their system? And how will Canada's system survive?  Right now they can indulge their socialist whimsy because they have the U.S. as a safety valve. When that ends the Canadian system will no doubt collapse.

But by then the damage will have been done and the U.S. market will be gone.

Thanks Canada!

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A Darwin for Mad Mike

This from Dr. Roy Spencer:

RIP, Mad Mike Hughes. I nominate this guy for the Darwin Award

'Mad Mike' Hughes - Homemade Rocket Daredevil 64 - Killed in Mishap

From the article:

In March 2018, Hughes, who believed the Earth is flat, propelled himself about 1,875 feet into the air before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert.

"My story really is incredible,” Hughes told the AP at the time. "It’s got a bunch of story lines — the garage-built thing. I’m an older guy. It’s out in the middle of nowhere, plus the Flat Earth. The problem is it brings out all the nuts also, people questioning everything. It’s the downside of all this.

...he claimed that he can prove the Earth is flat by flying to an altitude of 2,000 feet (I guess he's never heard of airplanes), and then laments that he attracts "nuts". Go figure.

A WORD FROM TIM:

Unless anyone knows somene who tried to box a polar bear or try to use a modified Ford Escort as a submarine I'd say we have a winner! Especially since he thinks the Earth is flat! He should have contacted that guy who parachuted from the edge of space; they sound like kindred spirits, but at least that guy knew the world was round.

That said, there is some value in this kind of crazy.

Benjamin Franklin, while not a kook by any measure, did an incredibly stupid thing in flying that kite in the storm; he should have been killed by the lightning bolt. His folly there gave us proof of concept that lightning is electricity. I imagine there were people who thought Franklin mad for flying the kite in the storm. That said, he knew a lot more about what he was doing than a guy like this, but as you say, these kind of eccentrics do indeed help drive progress in their own way. Look at Tesla; he was clearly nuts but he gave us much of our modern technology.

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More on Coronavirus as Bioweapon

Timothy Birdnow

Evidence the Coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon is mounting.

From Conservative HQ:

Kim Hyo-sun of Arirang News, the global news agency based in Seoul, South Korea, reports that as the world struggles to contain the new virus, "a new speculation from the Chinese scientists... who believe it may have originated at a research facility not far from the Wuhan fish market.”

While they say more research needs to be done to find solid proof, such labs are known to contain disease-ridden animals, including hundreds of bats, reported Ms. Kim.

Ms. Kim further reports that, "Amid the continued spread of the COVID-19 virus... there's rising speculation the virus could have originated from a government laboratory in Wuhan rather than the widely-held belief that it emerged from the city's Huanan seafood markets.”

Citing a report published by Chinese scientists, a Chinese-language newspaper published in Hong Kong, Ming Pao, and the British daily, The Mirror, Ms. Kim explained Sunday that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control, or WHCDC, could have spawned the contagion in Hubei Province.

According to the report penned by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao of the South China University of Technology, the research lab, which is only 280 meters away from the Huanan seafood market, kept disease-ridden animals including more than 600 bats.

The report also raised the possibility that the Wuhan Institute of Virology could have leaked the virus while it was carrying out tests involving Chinese horseshoe bats. Ms. Kim’s report stated that while it's plausible the virus was leaked from the lab and contaminated initial patients in this epidemic, more solid evidence is required through future study.

Against such a background, reported Ms. Kim, an article published by The Washington Timeslate last month is garnering attention, as it raised the possibility that the disastrous outbreak could be the accidental result of biological weapons research. This comes as a renowned law professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Xu Zhangrun, is now known to be missing after publicly condemning Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to contain the spread of the virus at an early stage.

Prof. Xu even added the condemnation could be the last message of his life.

It's far from certain this is the case, but it is interesting speculation, no?

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Pence to Promote Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

Timothy Birdnow

I've always had some misgivings about Mike Pence. I remember when he caved and didn't sign a bill to protect Christian businesses from lawsuits by homosexuals and the like because there was some internet pushback. I've always feared Mr. Pence was at heart a coward, or at least weak willed.

But I didn't know he was an open borders guy.

Conservative HQ has an article about the so-called Farm Modernization Act, a piece of legislation moving through the Senate that would backdoor amnesty for illegal aliens and is supported by Lindsay Graham, Thom Tillis, and other Big Donor Republican types.

Turns out Pence is going to make a big push for this.

From the article;

There is no longer wisdom in Thaeman, as Jeremiah prophecied against the Edomites. There is no wisdom in Washington, and the Republicans look very much like the ancient Edomites, paying lip service to Yahweh but worshipping whom they pleased.

Now here we have the Vice President of the United States, whose boss was elected to shut down the flow of illegal aliens and stop any amnesty, promoting the very thing the American People rebelled against in the first place. It is shockingly, monstrously fatuous.

And just plain wrong. 

Why can't we find any leaders who will give their loyalty to America first rather than the money grubbers and internationalists?

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Russian Collusion - with Sanders

Timothy Birdnow

Looks like the Russians are trying to help Comrade Bernie win the Presidency.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/russia-trying-to-boost-bernie-sanders-not-only-trump-reports

Sanders has known about this for at least a month. Question; why did the FBI tell him when they apparently made it their policy not to tell candidate Trump last time? And have they infiltrated a spy into the campaign?

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Claim: Climate Change "Denial" Driven by Bots

Timothy Birdnow

They are the ones who have been caught manipulating temperature data to make it appear there is global warming. They are the ones who have been caught strategizing how to circumvent peer review. They are the ones who have been caught bullying journal editors and boycotting journals that publish "denier" science. They are the ones who have called for the death penalty for "deniers" or "Nuremberg trials". And now we are expected to believe it is our side that is pulling this kind of dirty trick? Ri-ight...

[linkhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis?fbclid=IwAR2olgqobQXYBx48DC38wD75GcIVHIlItYKp4HUXQGimTIWvElb92ssheHc]Revealed: Quarter of All Tweets about Climate Crisis Produced by Bots

From the Guardian article:

An analysis of millions of tweets from around the period when Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement found that bots tended to applaud the president for his actions and spread misinformation about the science.

The study of Twitter bots and climate was undertaken by Brown University and has yet to be published. Bots are a type of software that can be directed to autonomously tweet, retweet, like or direct message on Twitter, under the guise of a human-fronted account.

"These findings suggest a substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages about climate change, including support for Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement,” states the draft study, seen by the Guardian.

On an average day during the period studied, 25% of all tweets about the climate crisis came from bots. This proportion was higher in certain topics – bots were responsible for 38% of tweets about "fake science” and 28% of all tweets about the petroleum giant Exxon.

Conversely, tweets that could be categorized as online activism to support action on the climate crisis featured very few bots, at about 5% prevalence. The findings "suggest that bots are not just prevalent, but disproportionately so in topics that were supportive of Trump’s announcement or skeptical of climate science and action”, the analysis states.

Well, what does that mean?  The Global Warming crowd is always talking about "fake science" whenever research is mentioned that contradicts the climate meme, and the Gang Green are the ones who hate Exxon Mobile.

It sounds to me like pretty much all of the tweets manufactured by bots are on the side of the Climate Change crowd. This sounds like academic sleight-of-hand.

The researcher tips his hand:


The science is NOT more or less settled. That has been the latest mantra from these people. I encounter it every day with alarmists saying things like "wow! Nobody doubts this anymore" when in fact there are plenty of people who doubt it - including many top scientists in the field (Roy Spencer, John Christy, William Happer, Joseph D'Aleo, Roger Pielke Sr. and Jr., etc. etc. etc.)

This shows that this researcher is approaching this with an agenda.

Here's where we learn this study is crap:

John Cook, an Australian cognitive scientist and co-author with Lewandowsky, said that bots are "dangerous and potentially influential”, with evidence showing that when people are exposed to facts and misinformation they are often left misled.

John Cook is the climate activist and head of the Center for Climate Change Communications at George Mason University who runs the alarmist talking points website Skeptical Science and who was the author of the endlessly cited "95% agreement" study. He's a partisan hack.

This was a nice try but in the end it fails.

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A Behind is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Timothy Birdnow

I've heard of butt chugs, but butt tokes?

Hemp Toilet Paper Could Save the World

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Democrat Closed McCabe Case

Timothy Birdnow

Well...seems Eric Holder, Obama's former "wing man" and Attorney General, had some connections to the non-prosecution of Andrew McCabe.

From Western Journalism:

"Molly Gaston, the asst US Attorney who signed letter to McCabe’s lawyer informing McCabe she was closing criminal case against him,” Sperry reported, "is Democrat who’s given thousands to Dems including Obama & who once worked for Dem side of House Oversight & whose mother worked for [The Washington Post].”

BREAKING: Molly Gaston, the asst US Attorney who signed letter to McCabe’s lawyer informing McCabe she was closing criminal case against him, is Democrat who’s given thousands to Dems including Obama & who once worked for Dem side of House Oversight & whose mother worked for WaPo

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 18, 2020

McCabe, who allegedly lied to investigators, was told that no charges would be brought against him thanks to "underlying” facts in a related DOJ inspector general’s report.

[...]

Thanks to work by journalists like Sperry however, this entire situation is beginning to look like a partisan mockery of justice.

This line of investigative journalism went too far for Holder, who reacted to Sperry’s news with hatred and vitriol.

[...]

Why don’t you shut the hell up. Your bias is showing. I bet you’ve never been a prosecutor or have any idea how DOJ works. People like you-who want to use the justice system for political reasons-are both dangerous and ignorant. The case was-like you-an obvious loser. https://t.co/MdOq8u78Yy

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) February 19, 2020

Of course, this personal insult appears to have only fired Sperry up, who quickly discovered Holder is more connected to McCabe’s case than the public realizes.

"The father of the Obama Democrat-donating prosecutor who let admitted perjurer Andrew McCabe off the hook happens to be partners with Eric Holder at the DC law firm of Covington & Burling,” Sperry wrote. "Did the former AG have something to do with McCabe getting off?”

When Trump called it a swamp he wasn't kidding. This is really more of a viper's den.

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Britain to Ban Wood Stoves

Timothy Birdnow

Environmentalism is essentially anti-human. They claim they are not, but environmentalists essentially want a world free of people - and of those who remain they want them corralled and controlled. Most environmentalists have bought into Malthus, that old churchman from the late eighteenth century who predicted an apocalypse caused by too many people. (Funny, most of these types are atheists or pagans, but they do celebrate Malthus.)

Doubt that?  May I enter exhibit A into the evidence?

From our friends at the U.K. Telegraph:

Domestic coal and certain types of wood are to be banned from sale from next year in a bid to cut air pollution, ministers will announce on Friday.

The Environment Secretary said the move was necessary as wood-burning stoves and open fires were now considered "the most harmful pollutant" affecting people in this country.

The announcement comes just weeks after a ban on the sale of new diesel, petrol and hybrid cars from 2035 was announced. It is also expected that the 10-year freeze on fuel duty will end next year under plans that could be set out as soon as next month's budget.

The government is keen to be seen at the forefront of global efforts to tackle climate change and air pollution.

[...]

The ban also includes wet wood, and could pave the way for the end of all indoor stoves.

Wood burning stoves and coal fires are the biggest single source of small particle pollutants PM2.5, which have been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and cancer, emitting three times as much as road transport.

A quarter of all sales of wood for domestic use are from wet wood, which is usually available in small amounts and can be more convenient than dry wood, but creates twice as many pollutants.

The ban will mostly affect households in rural areas, as most cities are in smoke control areas where the use of coal is already restricted.

 

Wood stoves are a way for the poor to heat their homes inexpensively. It makes them independent of oil and gas companies, or the electric grid. If they want to ban wood stoves they want to force people to live under their thumbs on the grid.

How often have we been told that we need renewable energy? Wood is the ultimate in renewable energy; trees and shrubs grow every year, and a plentiful supply is always at hand - at least in Britain and in the eastern half of the U.S.

When I stay at the Ozark Hilton I heat with wood. I had a kerosene heater but the evil thing almost killed me; I woke up one morning with a spike in my head and was about to vomit. I went outside and immediately felt better. Went back in and WHAM!  I've never used that thing again (which is a pity; it cost me a hundred bucks.)

Wood stoves are a blessing to country folk, and even of some value to city people. So why don't the environmentalists like them?

They used to. That was when people didn't seriously consider using them as a primary heat source, back when they were first getting this global warming thing going. Now they realize the wood stove offers independence from their control, and that is unacceptable.

So now Britain is trying to ban them. Barack Obama tried to regulate them out of existence, with the EPA banning the older, cheaper models and forcing people to buy expensive high tech stoves that complied with EPA regulations. They aren't going to stop folks. Energy is one of the tools the Left has been using to control the populace. It is exactly what ancient China or Egypt did with water; control the water and you had complete control of the public. Now we are doing it with energy as well as water.

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Son of Collusion; it's Bigger, it's Better, it's in Sensaround!

Timothy Birdnow

So now we're back to the "Russian Collusion" narrative to explain why Trump wins the next election. Like a bad Dracula movie, the Russia hoax rises from the grave to menace pretty young girls and to damage the eyeballs of moviegoers as they roll them violently at the cheesy plot.

But not even the media is on board this time.

For instance, CNN is backtracking on the claim.

This story goes back to claims made by the Washington Post and the New York Times, both bitter enemies of President Trump.

WaPo claimed the President sacked Joseph MaGuire as DNI for letting his deputy give a secret briefing to Adam Schiff . The reality was MaGuire briefed the entire Intel Committee, including Republicans. The WaPo story did not say what the briefing was about.

But the NY Times did, claiming it was about more "collusion" between Russia and Donald Trump. Those rascally Russians are at it again, the Times claims, trying to get Trump re-elected. Naturally, Trump wants to keep his dirty dealings quiet.

Now, the Russians have gained absolutely nothing from their alleged support of Trump. He has been tough on them, and there have been sanctions imposed for the last "meddling". Trump has promoted hydraulic fracturing, seriously injuring the Russian oil and gas industry. He wiped out ISIS. He is rebuilding the U.S. military. None of these are things the Russians can be the least bit happy about.

A Democrat would be far better from their viewpoint, especially a good socialist like Bernie Sanders, the man who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and who wants to lead America down the path of European-style democratic socialism. That would be wonderful from their perspective; we would go into economic and military decline. The Russians aren't stupid; they know it destroyed THEM.

Enter Jake Tapper. Tapper's sources pointed out that national security apparatus may have evidence the Russians are going to tamper with the upcoming election, but not necessarily in favor of Trump.

So why did Trump fire Maguire?  He had to learn about all this from House Republicans; his own acting Director of National Intelligence didn't bother to brief him first.

The article concludes that Trump is in a pickle because the woman who actually briefed the House Intel Committee appeared to exaggerate, meaning she is probably part of the cabal out to get the President BUT if Trump fires her it will be used as evidence of "obstruction" and tampering with a whistleblower.

I disagree with Allahpundit's conclusion that the Russians may prefer Trump to Bloomberg or Buttigiege; his reasoning is that they may try to punish the Russians, and they would be more hawkish. Really?  Any Democrat is going to have to appease the internationalists and the anti-war wing of their party. As for punishing the Russians, we've already done that. Right now the Russians know Trump won't take things lying down. Booteycall probably would, and Bloomberg has the spine of a Portuguese Man-O-War.

No, the Russians want Bernie or Giggabutt or Cherokee Lizzy Warren.

THEY will try to stop fracking, will kill what is left of our coal industry, will impose new taxes on energy and manufacturing. They may spread American troops around, but will never dream of actually using them. They will renew the Iran deal allowing the Iranians to get atomic weapons and do business all over the world -- and spread terrorism. They will let the Russians control the Arctic.

The only downside the Russians would have would be the Democrats would increase support for the Ukrainian government. Other than that, they have everything to lose by supporting Trump.

At any rate, reinvigorating the moth-eaten "Russian collusion" narrative shows how desperate they have become.  They forget Saul Alinsky "a tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag". This is really getting to be a drag.

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Polar Bare

This from Stephen Heins:

Polar Bear Scare Unmasked; The Saga of a a Toppled Global Warming Icon

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Some are More Equal than Others

Timothy Birdnow

In America some are more equal than others, and freedom of speech is limited by certain taboos established by the Left.

What do I mean? Well, this is an example.

Apparently the FCC rejected the license renewal of radio station KQQZ in Belleville, Illinois because they are home to a shock jock named Bob Romank. Now, I've never heard of Romanik and definitely never heard his show. He sounds like a braying jackass, frankly, the kind of shock jock that has become prevalant in modern times (like Howard Stern.) So what makes this guy different?

He dared to use the so-called N-word on air.

According to an earlier story at BND:

In January, Romanik used the N-word to denigrate rapper Waka Flocka Flame. The rapper had used a Trump supporter T-shirt to wipe his buttocks on stage. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an editorialThursday lambasting Romanik for "hate speech” and calling on the Federal Communications Commission and "Illinois electoral authorities to give Romanik a serious second look for his abuse of the airwaves.”

The Post-Dispatch editorial says Romanik wrongly used the airwaves to campaign for the 114th House District seat in 2016, a contest he lost to Democrat LaToya Greenwood of East St. Louis. Romanik did not list the free radio time on his campaign finance report, the newspaper reported.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay took to Twitter on Monday to call for "sanctions” to Romanik’s show for using the N-word on the air.

Bob Romanik's hate speech on public airwaves deserves sanction. https://t.co/QTowTZmNFL #fgs

— MayorSlay.com (@MayorSlay) February 6, 2017

So, three years ago this Romanik fellow called a guy who wiped his filthy bottom with Donald Trump a N****r on air and that was considered unacceptable but the rapper's actions were not?

And if using his own show to promote his political campaign is wrong, then so too is every single "news" show on the air, as they are all free advertising for Democrats.

This is all arguable and debatable, and the case can be made for sacking old Romanik, but it just rubs me the wrong way that the governmental regulatory agency is pulling the license of the station for not firing this guy.

I don't know if this is a word that is formally banned on air or if it is just done by agreement. But the retribution is so immense for the use of one word.

I've heard rappers use that with impugnity.

Had this been a leftist activist I doubt any of this would have happened.

There is clearly a double standard in our society.

After all, Andrew Cuomo used that word live without serious repercussions. So did Gary Landrieu of Louisiana. So too did a Democrat state legislator in Providence named Anastasia Williams while on the House floor. And of course everyone remembers America's favorite Klansman, Robert Byrde, used it on several occasions quite publicly. Nothing ever stuck to any of these individuals, largely because they are/were Democrats.

Shoot, even President Barack Obama said it.

Now, I'm opposed to the endless degrading of social standards, especially on broadcast radio and television. But I don't like the fact that these rules are not applied across the board. Some are more equal than others.

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