April 22, 2020

Worthless Earth Day

Timothy Birdnow

On this fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day it's important to realize nothing they predicted came to pass.

An inconvenient truth:

#EarthDay at 50: None Of The Eco-Doomsday Predictions Have Come True

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Trump Pulls Plug on Funding for Wuhan Lab

From Warner Todd Huston:

]Trump Ending Obama Era $3.7 Million Funding to Chinese Lab that Caused the Coronavirus Pandemic

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The Harvard Gulag

Timothy Birdnow

Looks like the only tyrants the Progressives want are themselves.

Harvard prof calls homeschooling ‘dangerous,’ says it gives parents ‘authoritarian control’ over kids

In Harvard Magazine's May-June issue, Elizabeth Bartholet, a law professor and faculty director of the school’s Child Advocacy Program, worried homeschooled children will not be able to contribute to a democratic society.

"The issue is, do we think that parents should have 24/7, essentially authoritarian control over their children from ages zero to 18?" Bartholetasked. "I think that's dangerous. I think it's always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to give the powerful ones total authority."

So we should have the government do it? They're not powerful!

Civilization was established to benefit the family. The family is the core, the purpose of the larger civilization, not the other way around. The Progressive Left wants the individual to be property of the State. In Western Civilization it is the State that is to serve the individual and those associated with him or her. And children are given by God, not Man.

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Media Obsessed with Who is "Behind" Shutdown Protests

Warner Todd Huston observes:

The media is falling all over itself to track down "who is behind the social distancing protests." Gee, have you EVER seen them do stories on who is "behind" abortion protests, or women's day protests, or school protests?

Ah, but we must EXPOSE the evil conservatives "behind" these small government protests. Why, we all know that all the lefty protests are just nice folks spontaneously gathering to be good Americans. Heck, there could never be anyone "behind" that!

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California's Billion Dollar Mask Deal with China

This from Warner Todd Huston:

California Gov. Gave China $1 Billion Secret Mask Deal, But Still Has Nothing to Show for It

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April 21, 2020

Miichigan Vote Fraud

Timothy Birdnow

No vote fraud in America?  Ri-ight!

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2019/09/23/southfield-city-clerk-charged-six-felonies-november-2018-election/2416101001/

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Responsibility if you Treat People as Responsible

Timothy Birdnow

Treat people like children and they will behave like children. Treat them like adults and they will behave like adults.

https://fee.org/articles/sweden-s-top-epidemiologist-covid-19-infections-flattening-under-policy-of-individual-responsibility/

There’s a tendency to believe that free markets and cooperation work, except in difficult or "complex” situations that call for more assertive means.

The great Leonard Read saw the flaw in such thinking.

The more complex the economy, society, or situation, Read observed, "the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely.”


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Some Good COVID News

Timothy Birdnow

Lemonade from Lemons!

U.S. Newspapers Face Extinction Event from Coronavirus

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Punishing the Healthy

Timothy Birdnow

I had a Facebook discussion about the CV response and a thoughtful Kiwi wanted to know my reasoning. Michael asked:

So if this pandemic was real like Ebola at 80% death rate.
Would you still say social distancing is unconstitutiona

l?
Im not looking for a fight but as a Kiwi in NZ i am interested in you stance and reasoning..

I replied:

Social distancing is pointless in regards to an asymptomatic Ebola patient.Nobody is talking about this where someone is identifiably sick. We ARE talking about where everyone is being quarantined on the off chance they are sick. You cannot suspend Constitutional protections based on "might" or "maybe". That is the difference.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled quite plainly that Constitutional protections are not suspended except under the most extraordinary circumstances and a potential illness clearly does not qualify. By the reasoning being employed now we would have quarantined the entire country when that Ebola patient wandered loose in Texas. https:// www.dailymail.co .uk/news/ article-2778969/ Ebola-patient-DI D-tell-doctors- Africa-flaw-rec ords-meant-miss ed-let-loose-Da llas-WEEK.htmlOr at least we would have quarantined Dallas. We did nothing of the sort. In fact, I had this same argument back then with the same people now calling for the continuation of the lockdown who shrugged it off back during the Ebola epidemic. None of this is to say we shouldn't take this seriously - we should - but that we are essentially amputating a leg for a toe infection.

Oh, and bear in mind the Wuhan virus numbers have never been enough to justify this. Again, it is clearly unconstitutiona
l and the Constitution may not be abrogated. SCOTUS ruled that in Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2, that Constitutional protections cannot be suspended except in the most limited way. At the moment two provisions of the First Amendment are being violated - the free exercise of religion and the right to peaceably assemble.

The authorities are justifying this on a projection, a model that leads them to believe something bad might happen in the future. It clearly does not pass constitutional muster.

 BTW Oklahoma has not put any lockdown in place and they are doing just fine. If this had been limited to a week even there would be little complaint, because a very temporary emergency order is permissible. But not something that drags on like this. The numbers simply do not justify the draconian response.

And if the Constitution can be suspended based on expert projections, how do we have ANY return to normal Constitutional principles? Just declare an emergency and you wind up with permanent dictatorial powers. It's how Hitler became Fuehrer. Or how Chavez took over Venezuela.
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Layoffs in Academia

Timothy Birdnow

Washington University - St. Louis' "premier" institute of higher learning (in their own minds) is laying off 1300 people thanks to the Wuhan virus.

I sympathize. Heck, my own brother teaches adjunct at several universities in the area and he has been laid off. I feel for the average working stiff. But this is good news.

The Universities are the source of infection in America. Every terrible and destructive idea that has plagued this country has begun amongst the insane at these asylums. Anything that damages academia and weakens their power is a good thing for America.

But the U.S. will undoubtedly bail them out first - and that despite truly mammoth amounts of reserve cash gleaned from decades of cheating naive young people.

If you con a child you are considered a scumbag, unless you are an educator...

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The Bare Essentials

Timothy Birdnow

And the abortion mills are deemed essential too; don't forget that.

Democrat Governor Can’t Explain Why Everything Is Shut Down Except Liquor Stores

Actually, I understand; the authorities know that the public will get VERY testy if mood altering substances are denied them at this point. A lot of people go to happy hour after work, or just hang out in the local tavern for a beer or two, and this has been denied them. So the powers that be realized it was important to let people drink - and perhaps get inebriated - at home.

I would also point out alcoholism is considered a disability now; you cannot refuse to rent an apartment, for example, to an alcoholic. It's FEDERALLY PROTECTED so the states would have been in danger of falling afoul of the Civil Rights Commission.

And, so Carleson pointed out, they are losing all that tax revenue if they shut the taps off.

So abortions and booze are essential but operations are not. Go figure.

My wife has had a leaking blood vessel in her eye and they were going to operate before the blood swelled her retina and detached it. But the surgery center won't allow this, calling it "elective" despite her doctor being very worried she may lose the eye. That's not "necessary surgery" but a bottle of Maddog and some port rinds are?

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Media Mutters and Moans

Timothy Birdnow

This was a slow day for the news media.

BTW, why weren't there layoffs in the media when "shelter in place" was first imposed? Everyone else saw layoffs. But now it's about to happen because the economy is tanking, not to protect the public health.

Our Garbage Media

From the Powerline article:

Want to know how you can tell when the lockdown became a new great depression? It’s when the media starts experiencing large layoffs. Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of media layoffs currently under way that makes for the feel good story of the week for sure.

The New York Times reportsthat "Roughly 33,000 workers at news companies in the U.S. have been laid off, been furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications that rely on ads have shut down.” And it seldom gets better than this:

Read the rest at Powerline.

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April 20, 2020

Interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Mark Musser

So far, the best interview I have seen yet to date on this virus scare with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Los Angeles. Even better, he is both a M.D. and an economist. He has done some random testing, and has been able to sort out those who are well off financially vs. those who are poorer. Unsurprisingly, his testing has some good and bad news. The good news, which is actually very good news, is that antibody rate proves the death rate that so many are concerned about should be dropped significantly. He specifically said this virus is a bit worse than the regular flu. The bad news is that the tests show the virus is more or less just getting started - but - at least it has spread much deeper than officials are presently aware of so that this virus is not nearly as dangerous as first feared. He is skeptical of herd immunity because there is so much controversy surrounding it.

Armed with this information, which needs to be corroborated by much more such testing, the good doctor has some targeted instructions on how to handle the situation much better than what we are seeing now. As far as the shutdowns are concerned, that is water under the bridge that may or may not have helped, but is now not worth arguing about at this point as it is time to move on. The great problem with this virus, unlike other flus, is that it so targets the lungs in certain cases that once the hospitals have reached their capacity to try and help those particular patients, they are no longer able to help them - which makes the death toll go up more than it should because they cannot be properly treated in a timely manner. It is this problem that needs to be targeted if there is going to be any amelioration of the problem. The good doctor also said it is impossible to eradicate the virus, which is a fantasy, and that people are going to have to get used to it as a new normal to some extent.

The last 10 minutes of the interview then discussed what is not being talked about nearly enough, and, in fact, is being resisted politically and socially as all too many seem to like the panic mode that we are currently in - how much the economy has an affect on people's well being and health? The answer is much, much bigger than many of our officials are even talking about right now, and if they do not wake up soon to this reality, it is difficult to say what kind of state they will be in charge of. Worse, no one is showing us the stats on all that because they border on a semi-apocalypse of sorts.

The Fight against COVID 19 an Update Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Here is a link to the results of the study - .

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Alinsky, the Devil, and a New Disease

Timothy Birdnow

All I can say is "Right-On!"

From the Wati article:

Communist-minded community organizer Saul Alinsky, in his prologue to "Rules for Radicals,” explainedthat the most effective activists were those who worked within the established "system,” not against it, so as to stir the revolutionary pots of change through fear.

His words: "Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future,” Archives.org noted.

This is Coronavirus Chaos, exemplified.

[...]

In times of deceit, truth-telling becomes revolutionary.

In times of fear, critical thinking becomes a threat to those living in fear — to thoseembracing the fear.

America’s businesses and free market economy are in shambles.

Instead of heading to work each day, good, hard-working entrepreneurial spirited Americans wait at home for the stimulus check — or maybe, head to the liquor stores that remain open, or the marijuana shops allowed to operate under guise of "essential business.” They watch their dreams crash and burn with each televised real-time death and case count uptick in coronavirus — upticks that may or may not be accurate. The computer modeling for coronavirus is about as accurate as the computer modeling for climate change. The numbers mean what the inputters want them to mean.

"Weekly jobless claims hit 5.245 million, raising monthly loss to 22 million due to coronavirus,” CNBC reported.

[...]

"A revolutionary organizer,” Alinsky
wrote, "must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives — agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.”

It’s not just a fight for the Constitution and country.

It’s a fight of good versus evil

There's more - a LOT more. This essay by Cheryl Chumley is a must read!

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Some are More Equal

Warner Todd Huston observes:

Um, if we are supposed to have shut down "non-essential" jobs and are enforcing "social distancing," how are we seeing literally thousands of radio and TV commercials all made in the last month about how we are "all in this together" and other coronavirus themes? Are ad men a "vital job"? Are the literally millions of TV employees so "essential that they can keep shooting TV commercials while the rest of us have our jobs shut down?

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Leftist Group Sues Fox New Over Coronavirus Coverage

Timothy Birdnow

Fox News is being sued for it's coverage of the Coronavirus epidemic.

According to the Daily Mail:

A 10-page complaint was filed on Thursday in King County court by an organization known as the Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics (WASHLITE).

The network is accused of ‘willfully and maliciously’ engaging in a ‘campaign of deception and omission regarding the danger of the international proliferation of the novel coronavirus.’

I have little doubt this a George Soros/Open Society funded outfit.

So, not being content with trashing the free expression of religion and the right to assembly in the First Amendment they are going to go after free speech as well.

But did that surprise any Aviary readers?

Meanwhile organizers of a protest against the lockdown have been arrested and health care workers have been giving the names of infected to police who a judge ruled can arrest them.

Looks like America is slipping away.

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April 19, 2020

Claims of "Megadrought" All Wet

Timothy Birdnow

Anthony Watts says there is no "mega drought" on the horizon:

In the news claims of an "emerging megadrought" for the southwest USA - don't believe it

Claims of a Southwestern "Megadrought" are all Wet

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Coronavirus and the "Deaths of Despair"

This from Richard Cronin:

For how long, and at what cost, does the lockdown persist ?

Read up about the well documented studies of "Deaths of Despair”. Suicides due to loss of businesses, depression, drug overdoses, alcoholism, domestic abuse from helplessness and frustration. It is well documented that a 1% increase in unemployment produces a 3.3% increase in suicides. In our current situation that totals over 75,000 vs. the latest CDC estimate of 60,000 deaths from the Chinese Communist Party Virus. That is, the CCP Virus.

A small business owner who has devoted his life to his business and extended family of employees, lays off his workers, closes shop, and goes home to eat his gun.

Following the Brenner (1976) model, these figures all reflect the estimated cumulative impact of an increase in unemployment on mortality over a five-year lag period.

Lower bound. If the unemployment rate increases by 5 points as a result of the various lockdowns, then 294,170 additional lives will be lost, not from coronavirus, but from deaths of despair.

Mid-range. If the unemployment rate increases by 16.5 points (as predicted by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin), then 970,761 additional lives will be lost to deaths of despair.

Beyond suicides there are the shattered families with loss of the primary earner as well as lost months in education, training, church attendance, all the social mechanisms for families and communities which are also the life line to the elderly.

Dr. Fauci has said no relief until we have a vaccine. Bill Gates is throwing all of his money and influence echoing Fauci’s remarks. Of course Gates would. That’s what he does. Vaccines for everybody, for any conceivable malady. See link.

The loss of Freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Yes, the Bill of Rights include Religious Practice, Speech, Assembly, as well as Freedom of Movement — all upheld in multiple forms by repeated Supreme Court decisions.

How about farmers dumping milk because the farm workers are better off not working and on forced unemployment than working their normal job ?

Deaths in a Trial of the HPV Vaccine/Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

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Ultraviolet to Kill Wuflu

Timothy Birdnow

I remember when the big scare was destruction of the ozone layer. Liberals all had their pink Tinkerbell panties in a bunch over that one. So they banned freon and other chlorofluorocarbons (in fact, the final ban went into effect in the U.S. on January 1 of this year).

Now it's looking like we could use a bit more ultraviolet! Hey, using the global warming thinking of geoengineering, shouldn't we consider ramping up freon use to kill this virus? They keep talking about chemtrails in the atmosphere or putting aerosols to cool the planet; why not weaken the ozone to get rid of the virus? Just my modest proposal.

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Holder Cheers the Wuhan Virus Revolution

Timothy Birdnow

Obama's "wing man" and first Attorney General Eric Holder is thrilled with the Coronavirus pandemic.

According to WND:

"Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access,” Holder said.

"It would be foolhardy to take these pro-democracy measures off the table after we get on the other side of the virus. These are changes that we should make permanent because it will enhance our democracy."

What are the "pro-democracy measures” Holder is so ardent about? Measure like voting by mail and no-excuse absentee ballots -- the kind of voting "reforms” Democrats champion that would make national elections so open to tampering and fraud that they could be subject to endless challenges.

Does anyone doubt the over-the-top reaction to what is turning out to be nothing worse than a seasonal flu is intended for anything but fostering Revolution?

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