Promising Signs?

Bill H.
According to the San Diego Tribune Biden's pick of Kamala Harris was offered "promising signs".

The San Diego paper had quite a lot to say about public opinion of Biden’s pick for Vice President. They said that it "changed few minds” but that a USA survey showed that there were "promising signs” for Biden nationally, which seems a bit contradictory.

"Overall support for Biden went from 54 percent to 56 percent,” they told us, while "Trump showed a slight bump” going from 25% to 28% in the poll. So a 3.7% increase for Biden deserves no modifying adjective, while a 12% increase for Trump is "a slight bump.” Interesting. Do we detect a slight bias in this reporting?

If there were any "promising signs” in the survey, they were entirely for Trump, as his numbers improved in nearly every category by more than Biden's did, in some important categories dramatically more.

In addition to overall support above, where Trump’s increase was larger than Biden’s by 12% to 3.7%, Trump had higher gains within his own party. Biden gained nothing among Democrats, remaining at 86%, while Trump gained 6 points among Republicans, going from 76% to 78%.

Each gained a single point in the opposing party, which represents a 9% gain for Biden and a 25% gain for Trump.

Biden gained a single point among white voters, from 44% to 45% which represents a 2.3% increase, while Trump gained 3 points, from 39% to 42% for a 7.7% increase.

Biden got utterly destroyed in the black vote, which is really weird, since he selected Harris for the specific purpose of courting the black vote. It seems to have had the opposite effect. Biden actually lost ground, dropping from 83% to 80%, which represents a 3.6% decrease. Trump’s support among blacks went from 7% to 15%, giving him a 115% increase which is simply stunning.

And somehow, Democrats can look at this survey and see "promising signs” for Biden’s election. Can he win the election with 15% of the black vote going to Trump?

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More about that explosion in Beirut

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Trump Outraising Democrats?

From Joe Bastardi

https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race

So Trumps campaign has raised close to 5x more money than "outside sources. Joe Biden campaign 2x more than outside sources (pacs etc) and close to 2x MORE than Trumps outside sources. This site is non partisan and you can go back and look thru the years and come to your own conclusions. But if you are going to label Trump as a tool of special interests, the facts suggest otherwise. Now for you Joe Biden fans that is not to say it about him but if you level it at Big Orange than the facts say Biden is even much more. Also suggests more grassroots support for Trump, but hard to believe that can overcome the kind of big money investing from outside sources that s evident here. That kind of money is not spent without a need for results You know what is ironic about all this? This is exactly what populist democrats in the 60s and 70s used to look at, which I did. I guess some habits die hard ( of course it was on a smaller scale, but Big money was solidly behind the republican candidate) Keep an eye on the site, will be interesting to watch

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Helping Bombers Grow Big

Timothy Birdnow

Funny; why bother? In Yemen women have to wear face coverings anyway.

From Unicef

They need to keep these kids healthy so one day they can grow big enough to wear a suicide bomber vest!

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Welcome to the New World Order

This from Joseph Bast

China and the United States continue to merge: In Hong Kong, "Protesters are being arrested for simply wearing t-shirts or holding signs with pro-democracy slogans, 'sensitive' books are being removed from libraries and students are at-risk for discussing certain political topics in classrooms," noted Marion Smith, an international human rights activist and executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC).” Sounds like a college campus in the U.S.!

China's national security law triggering radical transformation of Hong Kong's human rights

In a subversion to Beijing's seeming squashing of a free press, hundreds in Hong Kong hurriedly rushed out to purchase copies of his Apple Daily newspaper while protesting his arrest, sending shares for parent company Next Digital temporarily soaring, as per the Wall Street Journal. The crackdown on Lai and his publication – which were also subjected to an office raid – have prompted critics to decry that this marks the very beginning of a news media suppression.

As part of the new law and the guise of national security, Hong Kong police are now permitted to execute search and seizures without a warrant.

Moreover, 12 opposition politicians – including former journalist turned freedom advocate Gwyneth Ho – have also been prohibited from participating in legislative elections, which have now been postponed for at least a year. The city's chief executive,Carrie Lam, citied the coronavirus pandemic as the reason to invoke emergency powers. Murky reasons given for their ban entail "obstructing government proceedings."

The new law also contains abroad extraterritorial reach – meaning that their laws apply to anyone in the world, even those who have never gone near Hong Kong – and authorities have wasted no time in putting the provision to practice. Samuel Chu, a Hong-Kong born U.S. citizen who is based in Washington and lobbies politicians on issues related to Hong Kong immigration to America and the limitation of Beijing's rule, is now wanted – 6,500 miles away – by his homeland government.

From Tim:

After all, the Wuflu came from China and so did the idea of a lockdown. And strongarming people to obey is China's stock in trade.

I believe this is no accident; the Globalists want world government and socialism and they tricked us into tying our economy to China's to the point we may never get away from them. And now we are starting to synchronize our political and social values.

Welcome to the New World Order.

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Fox's Worthless New Poll

Timothy Birdnow

According to a new Fox poll, Biden is up by Seven.

But it gets worse!

The new survey finds Trump ahead by 38 points among white evangelicals, by 17 among no degree whites, and the candidates tie among men. Plus, he won seniors by 9 points and now they prefer Biden by 9.

Biden is also favored by women (+12 points), suburbanites (+16), Hispanics (+20), and Blacks (+70). While those numbers might look good, he trails Hillary Clinton’s performance among Hispanics (+38) and Blacks (+85). It’s too early to say whether the Harris announcement changed support among women or Blacks.

Some 62 percent are extremely interested in the election -- and among just those voters, Biden’s lead expands to 55-41 percent. He’s helped by more of his backers (71 percent) than Trump’s (61 percent) being extremely interested.

In addition, more of those supporting Biden (73 percent) than Trump (66 percent) say they are extremely committed to voting for their candidate.

How will they actually do that? Twice as many Democrats (41 percent) as Republicans (20 percent) say they will cast an early mail or absentee vote. In contrast, twice as many Republicans (45 percent) as Democrats (23 percent) plan to vote in person on Election Day.

While voters split over whether Biden is a strong leader (47-47), they decisively say Trump is not by 10 points (44-54).

By a narrow 2-point margin voters say Biden is honest and trustworthy (48-46) and by a wide 25-point spread they say Trump is not (36-61). Views on Trump’s honesty are the same as those in the Fox News survey just ahead of the last election (35-61 percent, November 3-6, 2016).

Biden is also preferred over Trump on top issues. He’s seen as better to handle race relations (by 19 points), health care (+15), coronavirus (+14 points), relations with China (+11), nominating the next Supreme Court justice (+10), immigration (+7), and policing and criminal justice (+6).

There’s one exception: more trust Trump on the economy, by 3 points.

Meanwhile, Trump’s personal favorable rating is negative by 12 points (43 favorable vs. 55 unfavorable), while Biden’s is positive by 10 (53-43). These ratings are mostly unchanged since June.

Vice President Mike Pence is underwater by 10 points (41 favorable vs. 51 unfavorable), while Harris is in positive territory by 4 points (44-40).

Overall, 44 percent approve of the job Trump is doing as president and 54 percent disapprove. In July, it was 45-54 percent. Trump’s approval has never hit 50 percent, although it came close in April when it was 49-49 percent.

Trump’s best rating is on the economy (+4) -- it’s the only issue where more voters approve than disapprove (50-46 percent). He gets negative ratings on race relations (-22 points), foreign policy (-15), health care (-13), immigration (-12), and coronavirus (-10).

I wouldn't wipe my behind with this poll. Notice it was of a thousand REGISTERED VOTERS, not likely voters. And I rather suspect the Republican - Daren Shaw - is a NeverTrumper. At any rate, this poll smells. It's just another attempt, in my opinion, to depress us. Fox has become increasingly Establishment under Karl Rove and James (donated a couple of million to Biden) Murdoch.

Here are a few other tidbits that make me suspect the value of this stupid poll:

-- Fifty-five percent of voters say they will get a coronavirus vaccine, and 74 percent favor requiring everyone in the U.S. to wear a mask when outside of their home. To varying degrees, majorities of Democrats (90 percent), independents (67 percent) and Republicans (58 percent) favor requiring masks. On the vaccine, Democrats (66 percent) and independents (54 percent) are more likely than Republicans are (43 percent) to say they will get it.

-- By a 20-point margin, more voters have a favorable than an unfavorable opinion of ObamaCare (56-36 percent), the most positive views recorded in a Fox News survey.

-- Nearly half, 47 percent, say the pace of civil rights in the U.S. is too slow. That includes 66 percent of Blacks, 57 percent of suburban women, and 53 percent of suburban Whites. Three times as many Democrats (69 percent) as Republicans (23 percent) feel it is too slow.

Unless there has been some sort of sea change, this makes no sense.

The article does not tell how many people identified themselves as Republican or Democrat or independent.

IF America is so easily swayed then she deserves what she will get.

This Coronavirus business was a Wag the Dog scenario from day one.

I don't believe this at all.

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Robert Trump RIP

Timothy Birdnow

Robert Trump, younger brother of President Donald Trump, has passed away. He was 71.

President Trump wrote:

Joe Biden at least showed some class:


The nastiness began almost immediately.

Here's another example of liberal love.

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Disney Brainwashing

Timothy Birdnow

Not only have we lost the culture wars, we are being systematically routed.

Disney and Diversity: Disney Confirms it's First Bisexual Lead Character, Who is Also Multicultural

This is aimed at getting the kids early. As the Jesuits used to say, if you get them before they are seven you own them for life.

It's called Brainwashing, folks.

Past time to ditch Disney.

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Man Punches Shark

Timothy Birdnow

This is a story that could only come out of Australia.

Australia surfer saves wife by punching shark

Gives a whole new meaning to their phrase "knocking up me mate!"

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Man Who Cured Stomach Ulcers Ignored Over Covid Treatment

Timothy Birdnow

Experts, experts, experts. How often have we been told to "listen to the experts" and "follow the science"? Yet how often are some experts ignored because they don't follow the talking points?

Here is a prime example.

Medical science used to treat ulcers as stress-related illnesses, and people with ulcers had to follow strict diets of bland food and suffer outbreaks. Medical science assured us that ulcers were a result of excess stomach acids.

One man refused to believe the conventional wisdom - and he was right. Now ulcers are easily treated with antibiotics, because they always were the results of an infection and not stress and poor diet.

Well, the man who bucked conventional wisdom and ended stomach ulcers is now saying there is a good treatment for Covid 19.

From the Australian Spectator:

Professor Thom Borody isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. Indeed, the world-famous gastroenterologist who teamed up with Nobel prize-winners Barry Marshall and Robin Warren to take on the medical establishment, is seen by some as a sh-tstirrer. Yet Borody’s innovative treatments have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and more than $10 billion in avoided medical costs.

So, you would think, when Borody says there is a cure for the coronavirus, the medical establishment and Australia’s political class would sit up and take notice. Yet, the fact that so far they haven’t should surprise no one. Marshall, Warren and Borody had to fight for almost two decades until the simple idea was accepted that peptic stomach ulcers were caused not by stress and spicy food but bacterial infection.

Resistance came not just from scientific sceptics but an ‘Acid Mafia’— big pharmaceutical companies who made a lot of money selling drugs under the old premise that gastric juices not helicobacter pyloriwere to blame. It was Borody who came up with a cheap triple therapy of low-cost antibiotics to cure ulcers, but it wasn’t until Marshall and Warren had won the Nobel prize that the Acid gang stopped attacking the innovators.

‘It just takes courage and years and years of perseverance to change paradigms,’ Borody says. The trouble is we don’t have decades. More than 300 Australians have already died of Covid-19, since Dr Kylie Wagstaff announced on 3 April that ivermectin, a drug that’s been around for almost 50 years and kills everything from head lice and scabies to the parasites that cause river blindness, also kills Sars-Cov-2 virus in test tubes.

Since then, doctors using ivermectin have saved thousands of people around the world who were sick with Covid, even many close to death; the mortality rates for those on ventilators dropped from 81 per cent to 39 per cent. As for people who have just been infected with the virus, there is an almost 100 per cent cure rate. And it is also working as a prophylactic, protecting healthcare workers.

Yet, other than Borody, almost nobody in Australia is treating patients with ivermectin. Why?

So, why? Because the powers that be DON'T  WANT A WORKING TREATMENT. They want to continue with locking people up and forcing them to wear masks. It's why there has been such a war on Hyrdochloroquine as well; we are seeing a fundamental transformation in the way we live based on our reaction to this virus, and it means money and power and a chance to revolutionize the human condition. George Soros called it revolutionary, for example. And tinpot dictators in multiple blue states and around the globe have power undreamed of by their predecessors.

So Dr. Borody isn't an expert to the media or Big Health. He isn't saying the right things.

We are well on the other side of the looking glass.

The article absolutely nails it:

The two main reasons that doctors aren’t yet prescribing ivermectin and doxycycline for Covid-19 are, first, that medical litigation has created an ultra-cautious culture even when there is virtually no risk, and second, doctors are mostly imprisoned in the prevailing paradigm which holds that there is no effective treatment to cure Covid-19 and that the only way out of Australia’s pandemic penitentiary is a vaccine. That’s a message that is promoted by powerful pharmaceutical companies who hope to make a motza out of expensive patented medicine and who would make nothing from a cheap generic cure.

It is extraordinary how little thought has been given to an effective cure. In part that’s because the only drug, other than ivermectin, that has shown promise as a prophylactic, an anti-viral and in dampening down Covid’s fearful cytokine storm is hydroxychloroquine, which has been demonised both by Big Pharma and by US Democrats. It is now an article of faith on the Left that it doesn’t work, despite remarkable results at some of America’s leading hospitals and support from Ivy League academics. Indeed, it has become a slur. Paul Krugman, economist at the New York Times and Nobel Laureate beloved of leftists, damned President Trump’s payroll tax cut as ‘the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy,’ and ‘quack medicine’ from ‘a pitchman hawking snake-oil policy from his Country Club.’

This ‘hydroxy hysteria’ as Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro calls it, has been adopted holus bolus by the ABC. However, it’s not just ‘hydroxy hatred’ that is a dogma on the Left; merely to seek a cure is, as a fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy told the ABC, ‘an individualistic solution’ which appeals to those on the right, in opposition to ‘more left-leaning values around social responsibility.’ It’s a ‘quick fix, a magic cure’ for the ‘problem’ of the virus, he says, not ‘a social solution that implies we have to work together’ — with government —‘to address larger, more complex, and interrelated issues in society to battle the disease.’ In this toxic environment, it takes someone with guts to wade into the sh-tstorm and save Australian lives. It is our nation’s great good fortune that Thom Borody could be just that man.

In other words, their social engineering scheme won't work with a medical cure.

Never let a good crisis go to waste!

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More on Melting Greenland

Timothy Birdnow

As I recently reported the media is once again making dire warnings about global warming melting the Greenland ice cap. It's melting away faster than Joe Biden's sanity, we are told.

Well, here are two more reasons why it 'taint so.

I think the real key here is how warm the air is around the Greenland ice cap, or rather how warm it isn't.

I would direct everyone's attention to this from the National Snow and Ice Data Center about why we had a big melt last year.

So, it was lack of cloud cover that has driven this recent ice melt, not warm temperatures. And it was caused by high pressure in the Arctic, something that has nothing whatsoever to do with carbon-dioxide caused warming.

It should also be pointed out that the Arctic is sensitive to volcanism, and Greenland's sheet is subject to ice melt as a result.

In 2010 Eyjafjallajökull erupted in Iceland. While this was ten years ago, it may well have triggered a good deal of the ice melt we see now. It takes a long time for ice to melt, and new ice melts far more easily than old.  And certainly it lead to years of weak ice growth in winter.

Mt. Merapi also erupted in 2010, leading to a major decline in the arctic ozone in 2011.

So what? Doesn't that suggest an overall greater radiation insolation? (It should be pointed out that UV levels have risen globally over thirty years; interesting, no? Especially in light of the fact that our very modest global warming started about the same time.)

One wonders at how this affects the Greenland ice sheet.

Volcanoes can and do accelerate ice loss in the arctic. See this article too.

How long does it take for the effects to be witnessed? That is unclear, but what is clear is Greenland's ice loss may or may not be tied to it. But that makes more sense than global warming when temperatures haven't been all that anomalous.

So, there are multiple factors that help explain what is happening in Greenland, and few of them are tied to carbon dioxide.

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Tightening on Voter I.D.

This from Sasha Savitri

How Hillary won the popular vote, most lefty states don't have photo ID requirement @ time of voting. VA is new to this as well, updated in 2020.


https://www.whsv.com/content/news/House-Democrats-vote-to-remove-Virginias-photo-ID-requirement-for-voting-567766151.html

I'm assuming more fraudulent Dem governors desperate for votes have changed as well.

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Aiding and Abetting

Warner Todd Huston

Facebook Helps Antifa Terror Group Plan Attack on White House, Allows Page While Deleting Conservatives

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Evolution in Action

Timothy Birdnow

I am reminded of the pithy phrase from the novel "Oath of Fealty" which said "think of it as evolution in action":

Climate Scientist is Claimed by Ice Melt

From the article:

Don't they teach guys like this to avoid walking on thin ice? I learned that as a child.

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County Every Vote!

This from James Doogue

The Democrats want mass mail-out voting in the US. Trump says that will lead to mass voter fraud.

When you send out 117% more official ballot papers than there are voters what could possibly go wrong?

McEnany: "Doesn't Make Sense" that L.A. County has 117% Voter Registration

A word from Tim:

This way, even if they lose in the Electoral College, they will be able to claim victory in the popular vote and continue the "resist" campaign that has bespoiled the last four years. It's disgusting.

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G-Man to Plead Guilty in Russia Probe

This courtesy of Cornelius Carroll

A former FBI attorney will plead guilty to making false statements in documents used to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump aide Carter Page.

Ex FBI Attorney to Plead Guilty in Probe of Russia Investigation Origins

From Tim:

Betcha this will be the end of the line. This guy is the fall guy and probably was tossed out to shield those he was working with.

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Facemask Pushback

Timothy Birdnow

The worm is turning on facemasks, or at least some are starting to rethink them.

Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19

Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

That’s less than one-third of the number of Danes who die from pneumonia or influenza in a given year.

Despite this success, Danish leaders recently found themselves on the defensive. The reason is that Danes aren’t wearing face masks, and local authorities for the most part aren’t even recommending them.

This prompted Berlingske, the country’s oldest newspaper, to complain that Danes had positioned themselves "to the right of Trump.”

"The whole world is wearing face masks, even Donald Trump,” Berlingske pointed out.

This apparently did not sit well with Danish health officials. They responded by noting there is little conclusive evidence that face masks are an effective way to limit the spread of respiratory viruses.

"All these countries recommending face masks haven’t made their decisions based on new studies,” said Henning Bundgaard, chief physician at Denmark’s Rigshospitale, according to Bloomberg News. (Denmark has since updated its guidelines to encourage, but not require, the use of masks on public transit where social distancing may not be possible.)

Denmark is not alone.

Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data showthat 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they "never” wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they "always” wear masks when they go out.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they’re not recommending masks.

Read the entire article!

Strange; how often have we been told America needs to be more like their enlightened bretheren across the Atlantic? We've been told that European mecicine is so much better than our own, yet now they are wrong?

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Fatuous Fauci

This from Richard Cronin:

When the dust settles, Fauci will just walk away, saying he took a conservative outlook and followed the best information money could buy.

"The Death Toll Would Be Enormous" Fauci Says of Herd Immunity to Coronavirus in the U.S.

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The Experts have no Clothes

Timothy Birdnow

Here is why it's so hard to penetrate the thick skulls of so many well-meaning and even rather small c conservative individuals.

From the article:

If facts won’t convince others, what’s left? Instead of facts, consider helping to uncover beliefs that are driving confirmation bias.

A common mistaken belief, invisible to a believer, is that individuals can be trusted with unchecked power. Driven by that unexamined belief, some focus on getting the "right” individuals into power.

Like North Koreans, many Americans don’t know the natural rights they have and so do not know when their rights are being violated.

The frightened believe some politician or expert must decide COVID-19 policy. They see no other way to deal with the threat and experience more order.

Read Hayek’s famous observationabout order, replacing the words "that in complex conditions” with the words "during a pandemic:” "To the naive mind that conceives of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions [during a pandemic], order and adaptation to the unknown can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions.”

With that simple substitution, we expose a core belief shared by many Americans. They believe centralizing decision-making is effective in unknown, complex conditions and they want their politicians to do something. Like Dr. Fauci, they believe the path forward is obedience.

In short, people cling to a belief in the power of experts and the good intentions of the ruling class.

Growing up we are all told to listen to our teachers and other adults, and to trust authorities. How many times were we told to seek out a policeman or fireman or teacher or whatnot if we were lost or in trouble? While that is sage advice for children one must grow up at some point and become the one doing the leading and protecting - and at that point it is necessary to educate yourself on HOW to do that - and that means understanding issues and taking charge yourself.

There are many who just don't want to do that. They still want to be told what to do and how to think.

It's ultimately a religious faith. Many in our modern world seek the guidance of lesser gods; government, "experts", media people, scientists, labor unions, political parties,  etc. Where once the public largely sought guidance from priests and monks and the like and followed Biblical teaching they now turn to civil authorities for their marching orders.

The Christian seeks the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but they are growing scarce in these parts; the post-Christian seeks to the guidance of the world.

At any rate, it is still a religious phenomenon. But a very different, neopagan sort. Science, technology, and government are now our gods in America.

So you can present facts all day long to no avail. You aren't going to change the minds of the masses with logic. Logic is the enemy of blind faith.

And while most Americans instinctively know something is very wrong here, they are completely at a loss as to what that is. So they do what they were taught as children, and listen to the "experts" and authorities who have always cared for them. Well, these are the very same people who have hopelessly mired our country in quicksand. They have told us we can spend our way to prosperity, and we now owe more titanic sums of money we cannot repay. We were told it was o.k. to screw around outside of marriage and we now have a lost generation of people who are desperately grasping at any radical idea as they were born out of wedlock or ignored while growing up. We have a growing acceptance of insane ideas, like transgenderism. And yet the public doesn't understand that all of this will lead to our ruin; they trust the powers that be.

Well, if these experts were so smart why do we have so many problems?  Seems to me we would be living in paradise by now.

Every fix, every bold policy initiative, has only led to more problems. We have worse race relations than we did in prior days. We have poverty and homelessness, despite decades of money poured out to fix the problem. America's crime rate soared as a result of the "fix" by our betters. Every time these busybodies tell us to do something we obey - and the problem just seems to get worse.

But the public clings doggedly to their belief in the benevolence and efficacy of the ruling class, because they can think of nothing else to do and they don't want to admit their lifelong philosophy was bankrupt.

So we continue down the path to destruction. And not only will people not wake up but rather they grow wroth with those who have. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a prime example of that; so many hate Trump not because of anything the man has done but because he is pointing out imperial nudity. So many people don't want to face reality.

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More Global Warming Stupidity

Timothy Birdnow

Yawn! There they go again!

Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, according to new study

From the article:

You will notice how there is not even the slightest effort in the article to balance the hysterical claims.

No mention of the fact that Antarctica is gaining ice mass. No mention of volcanism under the Greenland ice cap. (Ditto Antarctica. Also, volcanic activity has been shown to accelerate ice melt in Greenland, even if it is as far as Iceland.

From the Weather article:

"Over a time span of 1,000 years, we found thatvolcanic eruptionsgenerally correspond with enhanced ice sheet melting within a year or so," lead author and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory postdoctoral fellow Francesco Muschitiello said in the release.

In some instances, the volcanoes were thousands of miles away from the sheets, but the massive clouds of ash from the eruptions took to the skies and fell across the ice sheets, the researchers report. This caused them to absorb more heat than usual and become darker in color.

No mention of the amount of time it would take for the Greenland ice cap to melt (at least ten thousand years). No. Nothing but "it's all over; we're going to die!"

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