Biden Avoids Blame for Bad Economy

Timothy Birdnow

Joe Biden wrecks the oil and gas industry and the economy is in the tank. But the public blames - high gas prices, not the guy who actually made them go up!

Americans Blame High Gas Prices For "Bad Economy”

Some 64 percent of respondents in a CBS News poll believe the U.S. economy is in bad shape. Of these, 74 percent are blaming the bad economy on high prices at the pump, the news outlet reported.

According to the poll results, about 50 percent of Americans are worried about being able to afford to fill up their cars.

This is how the Democrats skate by; the media twists things in their favor. Biden is clearly at fault for all this but the media endlessly repeats a half-truth or outright lie and eventually the public accepts it as conventional wisdom.

This problem lies squarely with Biden. No other reason.

And this poll claims the public worries about inflation. Well, where do they think inflation comes from? It comes from expanding the money supply, which is what we have been doing since Biden took office. These multi-trillion dollar spending bills of Captain Peachfuzz are driving up prices.

But the media lies and claims it's oil prices (which are a contributing factor, but not the main one) and the public falls dutifully into line.

I don't know when America stopped producing critical thinkers.

Here is a chart chronicling the growth of the money supply. Any questions as to why we are seeing inflation?

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Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation

George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789:

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be -- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks -- for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation -- for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed -- for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted -- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions -- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually -- to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed -- to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord -- To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us -- and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

George Washington

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The Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower Compact:

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.

IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.

Mr. John Carver,
Mr. William Bradford,

Mr Edward Winslow,

Mr. William Brewster.

Isaac Allerton,

Myles Standish,

John Alden,

John Turner,

Francis Eaton,

James Chilton,

John Craxton,
John Billington,
Joses Fletcher,
John Goodman,
Mr. Samuel Fuller,
Mr. Christopher Martin,
Mr. William Mullins,
Mr. William White,
Mr. Richard Warren,
John Howland,
Mr. Steven Hopkins,
Digery Priest,
Thomas Williams,
Gilbert Winslow,
Edmund Margesson,
Peter Brown,
Richard Britteridge
George Soule,
Edward Tilly,
John Tilly,
Francis Cooke,
Thomas Rogers,
Thomas Tinker,
John Ridgdale
Edward Fuller,
Richard Clark,
Richard Gardiner,
Mr. John Allerton,
Thomas English,
Edward Doten,
Edward Liester.

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Most Mass Shootings in the U.S. are Black on Black

From John Lees

I was surprised to see this article in the Guardian. I was wondering if they were going to tell people the truth about this issue.

Finally, about 2/3rds of the way down the article we get this line:

"Nearly three-quarters of those were black, as were about three-quarters of alleged assailants."

Wow, so three-quarters of the suspects are black. Even though blacks only represent 14.2% of the U.S. population.

I never thought that I'd encounter this blatant racism at the Guardian. But, it looks like they accidentally let some facts get into one of their articles.
This was in 2016, though. We'll probably never see this happen ever again:

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Why the Pilgrims Dumped Socialism

From Doug Thorburn

The real history and significance of Thanksgiving. Great story of the triumph of free market property-based capitalism over fascism of the socialist variety.

Why the Pilgrims Abandoned Common Ownership for Private Property

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Extinction NOT Caused by Asteroid Strike

Richard Cronin

Gerta Keller was the first to challenge the Alvarez Hypothesis of the great extinctions.

The Alvarez Hypothesis is that a single large meteor strike threw up ash and debris of such magnitude and duration as to block solar radiation for several years.

Keller presents the evidence for very lengthy episodes of volcanism producing ash of such magnitude and duration, leading to the extinction events. Oviously, such volcanism increased atmospheric concentration of CO2. All ice core data shows that in past epochs an uptick in warmth preceded an uptick in CO2.

Furthermore, deeply acidic SO2 from submarine volcanoes and hydrothermal vents acidified the ocean waters to destroy nearly all marine life. There is no way that a single meteor strike could acidify the oceans to such extent.

The Alvarez Hypothesis is based upon the existence of a thin layer of Iridium spread around the globe at the time of the extinction. It was thought that Iridium of such magnitude could only be delivered by a large meteor. In his theory of Plate Climatology, James Edward Kamis presents evidence that Iridium exists in large quantities deeper inside the Earth and was thus delivered to the surface via extensive volcanism.

The swings in the GeoReactor kicked all the exothermic Geochemical reactions to increase or decrease.

Herndon’s GeoReactor is a type of Soliton Fast Neutron Breeder Reactor. Supporting evidence includes observations of the signature isotopes of fission found in anomalous locations.

Chlorine 36 in Antarctic ice cores and trending upward. (Pivot & Baroni 2019). Carbon 14 in deep marine sediments which are also dated to two (2) major deglaciations ( Stott, et al 2019) as well as C-14 in mussels and mollusks around hydrothermal vents inside the Mariana Trench. (Wang, et al 2019).

Tritium, Sodium 22 and Chlorine 36 found 50 meters deep inside of a mud volcano in the Caucuses.(Nevinsky et al 2001)

 

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Judge Strikes Down Covid Rules; Authorities Tell Him to Bugger Off

Timothy Birdnow

A Missouri judge has ruled the draconian Covid protocols implemented by the authorities violate the Constitution and has vacated all the mask mandates and other restrictions placed on the populace by overreaching executives throughout the state.

Cole County judge Daniel Green issues his ruling on a 2020 lawsuit.

From the article:

"This case is about whether Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services regulations can abolish representative government in the creation of public health laws, and whether it can authorize closure of a school or assembly based on the unfettered opinion of an unelected official. This court finds it cannot," said Green, according to the Post-Dispatch.

"Missouri's local health authorities have grown accustomed to issuing edicts and coercing compliance. It is far past time for this unconstitutional conduct to stop," added Green, a Republican who was first elected as county judge in 2010.'

Green ruled these edicts are a violation of the separation of powers enumerated in the state Constitution.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt has announced he will not appeal the ruling. That makes it the law of the land.

Except...

So Sam "the Man who would be King" Page is simply going to ignore the court order. The court will simply be immaterial and Page will impose his will on the public regardless.

The Republican-controlled Missouri State Legislature has a duty to impeach Sam-I-Am and he should be imprisoned for contempt of court.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has also stated she won't obey the order.

Imagine if a Republican did that; the media would explode.

But now it's largely ignored or even applauded when a Democrat is involved. Hillary Clinton willfully violated orders to hand over her computer and e-mail, then used bleachbit to wipe her server clean. Nothing happened to her. She is just one example of many. Barack Obama violated multiple court orders during his tenure as President. Among his violations are his implementation of DACA despite a court order, among others. And his Attorney General Eric Holder was clearly guilty of Contempt of Congress and suffered no penalties. (You may remember he openly disobeyed a court order to turn over documents related to Fast and Furious.) I could go on but you get the point.

The Rule of Law is SO for the little people. If you are a liberal you can ignore it.

And so now two small fish in small ponds are simply going to flip the court the bird.

And the pusillanimous Missouri GOP who control the state legislature will not dare impeach Jones because she is a black woman. And if they don't impeach Jones they won't impeach Sam Page.

We no longer have the Rule of Law. We live in an oligarchy.

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Car Chargers Not Optional

Frank Lasee

"It said that to achieve planning permission builders are required to fund substations so that electricity companies can provide enough load to new and old developments.” Only a question of time before more costs for a new home are added. So much For affordable housing"

Scroll down to the bit about " in perpetuity"!!!!

Construction Enquirer: Builders slam plans for electric car chargers in all new homes.

Builders Slam Plans for Electric Car Chargers in All Homes

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A Tale of Two Car Rammings

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Self-Serving Fictions

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More Corruption from the Biden Admin

Willis Eschenbach

As usual, another bureaucrap in the Brandon Administration is making a killing off of insider knowledge ... hey, good enough for Hunter, good enough for her.

This is the Energy Secretary who, just after Biden announced with great fanfare that they are drawing down the Strategic Oil Reserve (and selling the oil to China), she admitted that she doesn't even know how much oil the US uses per day.

Me, as soon as "President" Brandon announced the drawdown, I calculated how much oil he'd release, claiming it would reduce gasoline prices.

The answer?

Two and a half days worth. Meaningless. A feel-good gesture that might fool a few Democrats but which will do NOTHING to gas prices.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right ...

Granholm's Green Energy Millions

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Fauci Goes Maskless

Willis Eschenbach

As usual, the highest-paid Federal employee thinks the rules he makes don't apply to him ... how long are people going to keep bowing to this false god?

He should not only be fired. He should be jailed.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/fauci-mask-mandate/

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Irony is Lost

From Ronnie Bell Sylvester

Betcha the same people who have antivirus/ adblockers up the wazoo (because they KNOW bad people can easily hack into everything), are the same people who don't believe the 2020 election was rigged.

Margo Cleveland on Twitter

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Greenland Melt? What Greenland Melt?

Jim Church

So Antarctica isn’t melting. But what about the other big, though smaller, land-based ice mass at the other end of the planet? Once in a while the news breaks that a massive melt event has occurred over the entire face of Greenland. And it’s all your fault, greenhouse gases, etc. etc. But a recent study has shown that while those big melt events are dramatic when they occur, they are very rare and remarkably insignificant:

About that Big Greenland Melt

Tim adds:

They keep making a big deal about sections of Greenland melting, but what is it really telling us?

We keep finding Viking villages and even WWII aircraft frozen under the ice.

What does that mean? It means there was no ice there prior to the last few decades. In other words, we are getting back to normal after a particularly nasty cold period.

BTW the Vikings grew barley in Greenland, something that could not be done now.

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Children of the Corn

Timothy Birdnow

Ethanol blending mandates are a part of the exploding cost of gasoline.

From the Wall Street Journal:

The price spike is adding grist to a years­long po­lit­i­cal de­bate over the federal ethanol blend­ing man­date, known as the Re­new­able Fuel Stan­dard. Politi­cians from oil-and-gas states have sought to re­peal the re­quirement, call­ing it in­effec­tive and ex­pen­sive, while corn-state politi­cians have defended it, ar­gu­ing it has added to U.S. fuel sup­plies and de-creased con­sumer costs.

Since the Re­newable Fuel Stan­dard, or RFS, be­came law in 2005, ethanol has traded at around the same price as unblended gaso­line, or at a dis­count to it. The two have diverged this year as ethanol has in­creased about 157% to $3.42 a gal­lon in 2021, while un­blended gaso­line is up about 61% to $2.28 a gal­lon, ac­cord­ing to Fact­Set data.

The price of the fin­ished U.S. gaso­line con­sumers buy, which in­cludes ethanol and other ad­di­tives, is up about 62% this year, the high­est lev­els since 2014. It was about $3.40 a gal­lon on av­er­age Wednes­day.

The price of corn has skyrocketed along with other commodities and yet we are wasting so much in gasoline. This was imposed on us by the feckless and fatuous George W. Bush, who went all Jimmy Carter after the terrorist attacks. This was to ostensibly help diminish our need for foreign oil, something that hydraulic fracturing actually accomplished. But the Biden Junta doesn't want fracking, and has kept the mandate in place. So the price of corn rises and the price of gasoline does likewise - at a time when we are producing less oil.

And refining less. Several U.S. refineries were shut down during the deep freeze last winter and will not be coming back online thanks to our government. And we will not build any more.

So, less oil being drilled, less being refined, and spiking ethanol prices are driving up costs. All of this is a result of government regulation.

But it's in no way BIDEN'S fault!

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The Racist Mr. Brooks

Timothy Birdnow

How much do you want to bet the FBI does not call this a hate crime?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10235869/Waukesha-suspect-shared-social-media-posts-promoting-violence-white-people.html?ito=facebook_share_article-facebook_preferred-top&fbclid=IwAR3j7VXKuzrqZEzETiWnzFZE5yHnlI7lk5eqf50AkZ30KD6AH-P_NL9wTA4

EXCLUSIVE: 'The old white ppl…knock dem TF out!' Waukesha suspect shared social media posts promoting violence towards white people and claiming black people were the 'true Hebrews'

• WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT
• Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, is charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide and more charges are pending, prosecutors said Tuesday
• Social media posts show the suspect was a staunch supporter of BLM and also encouraged 'knocking out white people'
• 'so when we start bakk knokkin white people TF out ion wanna hear it...the old white ppl 2, KNOKK DEM TF OUT!! PERIOD,' he wrote in June 2020
• Five of the six victims - all white - who died on Sunday were aged 52 to 82 and part of a Waukesha club known as the Dancing Grannies
• Victims of November 21 attack are Virginia Sorenson, 79, Leanna Owens, 71, Tamara Durand, 52, Jane Kulich, 52, and 82-year-old Wilhelm Hospel
• On Tuesday eight-year-old Jackson Sparks was named by relatives as the sixth victim, having died in hospital from his injuries
• Brooks was bailed out of jail on November 19 after posting a $1,000 cash bond on charges of battery, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and resisting an officer
  

Tim adds:

He was an amateur rapper who went by the name MathBoi Fly. A "boi" is a term used by homosexuals for a youngster who wishes to engage in sodomy with an older man. So Mr. Brooks is a sodomite in addition to being a racist murderer.

He also expressed the opinion that Jews are "white interlopers" and that black people were the real Hebrews.

I've encountered that before, and had an argument with such a person. It is impossible to reason with them. I pointed to DNA analysis, to historical records, to the Bible (which says quite plainly Abraham came from Ur in Chaldea), and asked how black people came to be in the area. None of that made any sort of dent in this guy's closed mind.

Brooks is one serious whackjob.

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The Duck Billed Democrat

Timothy Birdnow

No, this isn't a story about Claire McCaskill...

Skeleton of New Dinosaur Species Found in Missouri

The Duck Billed Democrat? Nah.

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No Reinvestment in Shale

Frank Lasee

"U.S. shale producers saw reinvestment rates hit an all-time low in the third quarter and saw record levels of free cash flow."

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Why-US-Shale-Is-Refusing-To-Reinvest.html

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Two and a Half Days of Oil

Steven Chase

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Apportionment Act of 1929

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a tidbit from history most people do not know.

In 1929 Congress passed a law setting the number of representatives in the House at 435. Prior to that the number could and did change as the nation grew.

This was in no small part because of complaints by rural states that they were losing political clout as the more urbanized states added Congressional seats.

So the Apportionment Act of 1929 was passed, based on 1910 census figures.

This gives rural areas a larger piece of the pie. A lot of congressional pork is thrown into these rural areas.

I suspect it's why, despite farm folks being generally pretty conservative and self-reliant, they elect lukewarm Republicans or even Democrats; there is a lot of bacon to be had and the parties try very hard to buy the votes of these rural people.

Missouri's GOP is controlled almost completely by the rural areas. And so many of these Republicans are moderate RINO types. Certainly our current Governor is one such.

That's because the rural areas have more clout then their numbers warrant thanks to this law.

Hat tip; Jeff Howe

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