July 14, 2020
They have been cooling the past to make the present just a bit warmer.
Another Climate Scientist with Impeccable Credentials Breaks Ranks "Our Models are Mickey Mouse Mockeries of the Real World
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This movement now shows it's true face. It is not about fairness to "people of color" or anything else, but is a rebellion against order, against law, and against the God who so ordained things.
Virgin Mary Statue Set on Fire at Boston Church
The arms, hands and face of the statue have burn marks. The plastic flowers placed in the hands of the statue were set on fire.
The fire is the latest in a series of acts of vandalism against the Catholic Church, according to the Catholic News Agency. On July 10, New York City police said they were investigating the vandalizing of a statue of the Virgin Mary at Cathedral Prep School and Seminary in Queens.
In Florida, a 24-year-old man was arrested after he drove into a church and lit it on fire with people inside. No one was injured during the incident.
But there's more.Catholic churches burned, vandalized over weekend as police investigate: 'Where's the outrage?'
Following George Floyd's police-related death in May, Black Lives Matter leaders and protesters called for the toppling of statues, from Confederate symbols to former U.S. presidents and abolitionists. Activist Shaun Kingcalledfor all images depicting Jesus as a "White European" and his motherto be torn down because they're forms of "White supremacy" and "racist propaganda."
Meanwhile, peopleon social media point out the lack of mainstream coverage of the weekend incidents.
"Churches are being burned to the ground. What?," Mike Cernovich, a controversial right-leaning author, said in a video on Twitter. "Why is this not the biggest story of the day."
Sean Feucht, a California worship leader and pastor, commenting on the incidents asked, "Where's the outrage?"
Where's the outrage indeed! Those churches were conveniently empty because of the Coronavirus lockout - a patently unconstitutional abrogation of our rights to freedom of religion. It was inevitable that this would happen.Notre Dame started this off. It appears likely that Notre Dame was an act of arson, and it went unpunished - one of the most famous churches in the world. And now we have vandalism across the country in churches.
Again, our enemy shows his true face.
I remember when Al Gore was running for President and the Democrats ran a vile campaign ad with a black man saying "every time you don't vote Democrat another church buns". This in response to a black church being torched. If it was bad then (and trying to profit from it politically was reprehensible) why isn't it bad now? I guess it is o.k. only when the burners are Democrats?
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Teen Daughter of Murdered Cop Forced to Remove Tribute to Dad Over Black Lives Matter Harassment
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Liberals hate air conditioning. Pope Francis came out against a/c because it uses too much energy, something he thinks is somehow immoral. He's not the only one, and so many environmentalists despise our ability to stay cool on a hot day because they think it somehow wrong to alter an unpleasant environment.
Well, never let a good crisis go to waste...
Turn off your air conditioning, experts say after WHO shifts stance on airborne coronavirus
Yes, they are linking air conditioning and the virus.
From the article:
Experts told the Telegraph that air conditioning units that only used recirculated air could exacerbate the spread of virus particles if someone was infected with Covid-19.
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, a fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering, said there were two types of air conditioning units - ones that take air in from outside and expel it out again, or those that recirculate the same air.
This second type, known as a "split†unit, draws air in, passes it over cooling coils and sends it back into the room.
Guidance from the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers, which Dr Fitzgerald helped draw up, warns that split air conditioning units that do not have a "dedicated source of outside air supply into a room… could be responsible for recirculating and spreading airborne viral particles into the path of socially distanced usersâ€.
Of course fresh air helps rid the home of bacteria, allergens, and yes a few viruses. But most viruses are caught from infected surfaces, not from the air. This type of virus especially so. The notion that we are going to get sick from our air-conditioner is merely as scare tactic to manipulate people into not using a life-saving device.People are going to DIE from heat this summer, more as a result of this sort of irresponsible "reporting".
This is disgraceful, but hardly surprising. The Left wants you poor, fat, uncomfortable, and stupid. And everything is political to them. This is nothing different.
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Maybe they should defund the teachers; that would shut them up!
L.A. Teachers: No Classes Until Police Defunded, Charter Schools Shut
Notice the hypocrisy; they want an end to the competition as well as the cops.
What are they going to do when an active shooter situation arises in L.A. schools?
No wonder America is circling the drain with these people teaching our kids!
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July 13, 2020
Here's true man-made global warming; they simply made it out of thin air!
New Zealand Showed No Warming in 130 Years - Then NASA Stepped In
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Here are photos of George Floyd's car. Floyd complained of feeling claustrophobic in the police cruiser, which was clearly a larger vehicle.
Seems to me somebody was lying.
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With my father squared away after getting out of the hospital, and my brother free yesterday in case of need, I decided to sneak away to the Ozark Hilton, that wonderland made from trash deep in the Ozarks.
It was quiet, too quiet. I didn't see or hear many critters yesterday, with the exception of a stray bird or two and a mouse late at night. But there were no crickets, and no wasps. I have yet to see a single wasp - even though I am normally overrun by them. No opossums or armadillos. It is as though the animals all had a meeting and decided to scram.
I take that back; I DID here something whacking on a board under the cabin. It sounded rather like my old friend, the black ratsnake, who lodged with me last year! My welcome mat is always out for HIM; he controls the rat and mice problem down there.
I didn't see him, but the black ratsnake often beats his tail when he is bothered (like a rattler only without a rattle) and my sudden appearance might have spooked him. At any rate, I heard a thud! Thud! Thud! and suspect it was my old friend.
(While I call him my friend I do worry I'll wake up one morning with him wrapped around my leg attempting to eat my foot. They are constrictors.)
Also, my "inner cabin" - the original room - had a big pile of torn up debris, a sure sign of rodents.
I was thinking about bringing D-Con down. I hate doing that, but I feared it was about time. Something ruined my heart and it was probably a disease caught from those rats, who also can carry plague. I don't much like sharing my cabin with the rodents. I don't mind the snake as long as he doesn't get TOO friendly!
At any rate, it was a quiet visit. I'm a bit disturbed by that; especially the lack of wasps, which overrun the place this time of year. I haven't seen any. I'm not complaining, mind you, but it sure is odd.
At any rate, it was too hot to do any real work down there, so I just sat on my porch and - sweated. Those lying meteorologists said it was going to be a good day, and it may not have been that hot temperature wise, but I really felt it. I was glad when the sun set and it cooled down.
Oh, and I sideswiped a tree again; my poor pickup deserves a better driver than me!
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July 12, 2020
The science journal Nature - the most influential scientific publishing outlet in the world - has gone full Marx.
Scientists Warning on Affluence
We no longer have science anymore; now we have political research posing as science, much like the South Sea Cargo Cults.
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Nuclear Power can Play a Big Role in the Energy Transition
He says:
Wait, what physics said solar can't provide a large portion of our electricity? It certainly can; the limitation is our current ability to harness it. That's an issue of research and funding though.
Darren replied:
A base load power plant is around 1,000 MW. Tell me how batteries can replace that. Batteries require recharging possibly from a 24/7 source.
The primary issue was settled during the Electric War Between Edison/Wall Street on one hand and Westinghouse/
The result was the electric grid which made modern civilization possible via high voltage power transmission.
Until the decentralized power generation espoused by Edison can replace the 24/7 mega power transmitted by high voltage lines espoused by Tesla and Westinghouse we're stuck with the grid and large base load plants.
Michael said:
The Earth absorbs roughly 174 PW of solar power. Cut that in half to account for night time (or really to account for the dark side of the Earth) and that would be just shy of 100,000,000 times the "base load power plant".
What? I reply:
Michael Leung your statement is completely illogical. It presupposed the entire surface of the Earth is covered with solar cells. Sure; that'll supply us with plenty of power but all life on Earth would die from lack of sunlight.
I further throw in:
What I find interesting is that proposals for building large solar satellites (where sunlight is raw, and plentiful) are as opposed by the fans of solar energy as is nuclear. Unless we have some major revolution in solar technology that would be a better way to go (notice I didn't say good; too much lost in transmission and the like.) In my humble opinion many of those who promote wind and solar do so not because they think it will provide for all our needs but because they want the world to do with less and eventually for the population to drop. Oh, and so they can control the populace as surely as ancient Egypt or China controlled their people by controlling the water supply. Energy is the measure of wealth.
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What Economists Can Teach Epidemiologists
Or you can't make an omelet with nothing but lard. That is what the epidemiologists
This COVID business, for instance, was unforseen by any economists, who could not have predicted a major economic downturn . Vast sums of money were lost because of a life form that requires an electron microscope to see!
I liked this quote from Dr. Ionnidis:
Sound familiar? Yeah; they've been doing this in climate science for decades now.
Other notable quotables from the article:
Ioannidis cites groupthink among epidemiologists as a source of forecasting error. When a doomsday prediction is made — especially by celebrity scientists — the act of introducing a more mitigating prognosis may bring substantial risk to one’s career, and thus be suppressed. Alternately, the published or broadcast results of thought leaders may be a form of anchoring. As Ioannidis and his team write,
Models can be tuned to get desirable results and predictions, e.g. by changing the input of what are deemed to be the plausible values for key variables. This is true for models that depend upon theory and speculation, but even data-driven forecasting can do the same, depending upon how the modeling is performed. In the presence of strong groupthink and bandwagon effects, modelers may consciously fit their predictions to what the dominant thinking and expectations are – or they may be forced to do so.
The economics profession is certainly not immune to this. It manifests in several ways, one of which is mainstream economists’ unwillingness to admit their errors (as the continued use of flawed models or bad data attests to). Many economists instinctively do not criticize theory or practices within their institution or school of thought owing to political expediency. The highly ‘siloed’ nature of journals and conferences attests to it, as do the veritable echo chambers in social media. This is not merely a personal observation; it and its effects have been cited elsewhere. Here, in no less prominent a place as the International Monetary Fund:
Analytical weaknesses were at the core of some of the IMF’s most evident shortcomings in surveillance … [as a result of] … the tendency among homogeneous, cohesive groups to consider issues only within a certain paradigm and not challenge its basic premises.
Farcical predictions, whether owing to one or all of the above elements, would nevertheless be innocuous if limited to circulating among small groups of scientists or within the rarified pages of peer-reviewed journals. But whether viewed as a vital democratic institution, a propagandistic organ of political parties, or somewhere in between, it’s far from a conspiracy theory to note that the dominant media outlets are massive businesses which fundamentally compete for revenue on the basis of attention. As with politicians, the loudest and scariest messages and interpretations garner the most attention and have the added perk of defensibility in the name of "vigilance.â€
This article is brilliant; read the whole thing!
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Under concerns for racial bias, profiling, etc., IBM and Microsoft have abandoned efforts at facial recognition technology.
It appears that Israel’s AnyVision is a leader in this field.
This technology will certainly play a big role in taking down U.S. domestic terrorists like BLM and the Antifa.
This Israeli Face Recognition Startup is Secretly Tracking Palestinians
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Why did IBM and Microlimp abandon this? Could it be they don't want to use it to find out who the BLM/Antifa thugs are?
Or do they have something nastier, like Bill Gates' tracking injection?
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It Is Racist To Claim Indiginous Australians Fail Because Of Historical Injustices And White Privilege.
The biggest hurdle for indigenous Australians is the 'soft-racism of low expectations'. This comes from white, non-white and indigenous Australians alike.
When a White Australian says there is nothing stopping indigenous Australians from succeeding, a common response from indigenous Australians, and their well meaning non-indigenous supporters, is to say that claim comes from position of 'white privilege'.
When anyone uses terms like 'white privilege' to characterise a person's comments they are being racist. That is, they are making a pre-judgement, or generalisation based on the person's skin colour.
How would it sound to person with indigenous heritage, if I were to say, "I think you are speaking from the standpoint of a part Aboriginal who wants to claim victim status"? Sounds racist doesn't it.
I would never say that, I'm just showing how a "white privilege" accusation comes across.
It is pretty racist to assume, simply because of a person's skin colour, that they have had a privileged life, compared to some other skin coloured person.
Such an accusation is demonstrably false. There are children in Australia with indigenous heritage who are born into loving and financially secure families with respected parents who hold important positions. There are also white children born into poor, abusive and dysfuntional families.
These children may not have the same skin colour, but both are Australians, equal under the law, and both, save for mental or physical disability, will reach an age where their lives can be successful or not, totally dependent on their own effort and determination. They just need to accept personal responsibility for their own lives.
Sure, some children will have a head start over others due to their family's financial position, or positions of influence, but that applies to every skin colour and to all citizens whether or not they, or their ancestors, were born in Australia.
White privilege, white guilt, original sin, are all human constructs. It is silly to suggest a newborn baby has tendency to evil innate in all human beings, inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall. It is just as silly to say a newborn white baby is born with the guilt of their forebears, or an automatic privilege compared to newborns with other skin colours.
How ridiculous would it be for the children of many successful, financially secure people of indigenous heritage, to claim either that the sins committed against their indigenous ancestors, will stop them succeeding in life. Or for them to claim something called 'white privilege' gives every white person a head start compared to them.
I'm talking about the children, (if they have them), of indigenous people like; Samantha Harris, Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Ken Wyatt, Cathy Freeman, Neville Bonner, Adam Goodes, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Mark Ella, Kyle Vander Kuyp, Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton, Stan Grant, Tony Dillon, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Linda Burney, (Patrick (Pat) Dodson, Jacqui Lambie, Malarndirri McCarthy, Adam Giles, Ernie Bridge, Marion Scrymger, Ernie Dingo, and many many other successful people who happen to have indigenous heritage.
Three years ago, Stan Grant wrote an article titled, 'Don't call them disadvantaged: Successful Australians redefining what it is to be Indigenous'. He was writing about his speech to a gathering of Australia's most successful indigenous people. He described how Australian indigenous people do succeed.
Stan Grant made a number of points worth noting by ALL Australians, not just indigenous Australians.
'I was born into poverty. My family was itinerant and we had no permanent home for much of my childhood.
For my parents it was a struggle to put food on our table.
Now, I live a privileged life.
Poverty need not be permanent. Suffering need not be a life sentence.
Instinct to prosper never wavered for us.
There is alternate history in Australia. It is a history of Aboriginal people struggling against adversity and successfully engaging with white Australia.'
They were not victims.
They hitched a ride on the post-World War II economic boom. They worked alongside the migrants of southern Europe and saw the face of this country change as the nation abandoned the old White Australia Policy.
Movement is change and Indigenous Australia changed. They married non-Indigenous people, sparking a black population boom, and gravitated to the cities.
Today the grandchildren of these pioneers are graduating universities in record numbers.
The Indigenous middle class is growing. Indigenous people are on our television screens, on our stages and our sporting fields.'
'Indigenous lawyer Noel Pearson blames what he calls a soft-racism of low expectations. White Australia can be disbelieving and black Australia can be sceptical if not hostile. Success is sometimes seen as betrayal, a sell-out to the struggle.
Academic Marcia Langton has called this out in her Boyer Lectures of 2012. She coined the term "The Quiet Revolution", but says success comes at a price.
"Those of us who are successful run the risk of being subject to abuse,
accused of being traitors to our own people, 'assimilationis
"These detractors will never help you and they can resent your success. They will become increasingly irrelevant as you become more successful."
There are deep, historical, structural problems in Australia; successive generations of policy failure and pockets of racism that lock too many Indigenous people out of the Australian dream.
But identity framed around misery can be a self-fulfilling
It was an excellent presentation by Stan Grant to what he said was the biggest gathering of indigenous millionaires ever.
We must all be wary of falling into the racism of low-expectation
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July 11, 2020
So this will really heat up just before the election, eh? I am not at all surprised by this timeline, although I thought maybe they'd move it all ahead of the election so there could be terrible outrage when these guys get off (which I think will happen as they have been overcharged.)
Courtesy of Jennifer M. Vanover:
First trial date for officers in George Floyd's case: Mar 8, 2021 @ 9am (location and trial for the individual defendants and whether some of all of them will appear together will also be determined at a later date)
The scheduling order deadlines for the case:
August 14, 2020: All discovery and notices required by Rule 9.01 or 9.02 or Rule 11.04 completed
August 28, 2020: Motions specific to the case and capable of resolution before the trial served and filed
September 11, 2020: Contested omnibus hearing
November 1, 2020: Draft of proposed jury questionnaire agreed upon by both parties and forwarded to chambers
February 8, 2021: Motions in limine filed
February 8, 2021: Proposed jury instructions served, filed and sent to chambers
March 1, 2021: Exhibit lists filed.
Trial Date, Case Deadlines Set for Minneapolis Police Officers Charged in George Floyd's Death
He should; these officers cannot get a fair trial in that Progressive hellhole paradise.
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Missouri has both open and concealed carry AND you can buy a gun without any sort of registration. We also have a castle doctrine. These people were on their own property with legally purchased firearms defending against a large group that broke down the iron gate and went past the "no trespassing" signs. There is no case. Kim Gardner was put in office with George Soros money, and she is nothing but a political activist. This is disgraceful.
McCloskeys Served with Search Warrant, Police Take Rifle Shown in Viral Picture
More on Gardner here.
The Fox article fails to mention anything involving the Eric Greitens crusade; Gardner engaged in multiple crimes and ethical violations in her pursuit of now former Mo. Gov. Eric Greitens, who she drove from office. I wrote about that here.
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I thought Obamacare was going to fix all that. Strange; after government took over health care we have rising maternal mortality. I guess Obama was a racist and the Democrats pushed Obamacare to eliminate the excess black poopulation.
Black New York Mother Dies During Childbirth as Deadly Trend Continues: 'They Tried to Revive Her Like Fifteen Times'
Oh, and if racism was an issue here why did they try to revive the woman fifteen times?
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Well, well, well...looks like Adam Schiff has been in bed with some really bad dudes.
F.B.I. Uncovers 256 E-Mails Between Schiff and Epstein
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ABC News says it's racist to go to National Parks.
ABC called National Parks "bastions of self-segregation".
You can't make this stuff up!
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Black Lives Matter Rioters Destroy 9/11 Memorial in New York Town
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And liberal heads explode. They don't see the hypocrisy; they were the ones calling for prisoners to be released just a couple of weeks ago, due to COVID and they are the ones who didn't want rioters and looters prosecuted, and yet they want an old man sent to prison to probable die of disease. I just wish Trump would have fully pardoned him, but that may come yet. Note he did this now, and didn't wait until just after the election.
Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence, days before prison term set to begin
Stone was sentenced to three years in prison by Obama-appointed judge Amy Berman Jackson, who seemed determined to put Stone away for ostensibly lying to the Mueller probe. Robert Mueller spent three years and millions in taxpayer dollars attempting to frame President Trump with colluding with Putin and the Russians to steal the election from Hillary "Can't Stay on Her Feet" Clinton.
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