Harris for SCOTUS?

Warner Todd Huston

Sources inside the White House say that the Biden admin. has lit on a way to dump Kamala Harris as vice president: nominate her to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is hilarious and desperate. But, one thing is sure, one of the left-wing justices already there will have to retire first. So, will that happen after the midterms, but before the newly elected folks take their seats? Because everyone expects both the House and the Senate to flip to the GOP and if a SCOTUS appointment for Harris comes after a new GOP-led Senate is convened, she'll be denied the spot. So, would she be nominated, resign her VP seat, then quickly replaced, and then be denied confirmation as a judge by a GOP-controlled Senate!?? Now THAT would be the funniest thing ever. Or, will the midterms go GOP, but a SCOTUS judge retires and Biden tries to ram through a Harris appointment before the new Senators get seated? That may not work because it might annoy the Senate which doesn't like to be railroaded like that. In any case, the whole game is fraught with possibilities that Harris will be on the losing end of the stick. And that would be delicious if she ended up thinking she was going to the court, but ended up out of a job entirely.

Tim adds:

Harris "I know who I slept with to get this job. Who do I have to sleep with to get out of it?"

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Volcanoes and Climate Change

Timothy Birdnow

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201020131403.htm?fbclid=IwAR1tnKLEPehCEy6kBsLzyJEhnmwBLBTO85HSAEkCCPazRoD-r6M8AY1ft4g

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Red Pilled

Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/11/democrat-billionaire-gets-red-pilled-on-rittenhouse-realizes-the-media-has-been-lying.html


The power of the mob is incredible — especially when that mob controls the media. Consider common (mis)perceptions about Kyle Rittenhouse and his actions last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for which he has been on trial. we hear that billionaire investor Bill Ackman, a longtime Democrat supporter, has gone from woke to woken-up on the boy’s trial. This is for a very simple reason:

He has actually been watching the trial.

And he’s apparently struck by the chasm between its reality and mainstream media fantasy.

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Plague of Snakes and Scorpions

Timothy Birdnow

I usually don't touch the "news of the weird" kind of stuff but I found this interesting.

After a freak flood a plague of snakes and scorpions struck Egypt, and three people were killed by stings/bites while 500 were injured.

The governor of the local region Ashraf Attia said at least 503 people were hospitalized after suffering scorpion stings.

Schools have been ordered to close to protect children from the scorpions and snakes.

Professor at Agricultural Research Center Ahmed Rizk told the newspaper that heavy rains wash away scorpions and snakes.

The creatures then look to find new hiding places so they head to houses, particularly on high ground.

Reminds me of the plagues of Egypt in the Old Testament.

It further reminds me that the New Testament promises a return of the plagues of Egypt before the Parousia.

We seem to be seeing a lot of plagues these days. Covid being just one of them. Remember the Ebola outbreaks? And we face famine in the not-so-distant future as supply chain breaks lead to less food making it to the poor parts of the world. And wars? And earthquakes in diverse places?

It makes one wonder.

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Hypocrisy of the Covidiots

James Doogue

Every incidence of serious vaccine reaction where I have had personal knowledge of the victim, has involved the GP or the hospital health professionals insisting that the cause of the adverse medical situation was not the Covid vaccine. Even when hospital stays and ongoing treatment has been required the individual does not know if it has been recorded as a vaccine adverse reaction.

In this instance, it's funny the guy says even if the adverse heart inflammation rate was one in 10,000 he would have got the jab because he wants to protect the community.

Just shows how much he's bought into the propaganda. Including the belief that being vaccinated protects people around you from becoming infected.

But then he contradicts that position by saying he's reluctant to have his second jab. Even though he stated he didn't care if a serious adverse event wasn't rare, he wants to protect the community.

Now he knows the risk is very real, he's not saying he doesn't care, he just wants to protect the community. Not so selfless now, hey?

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Inventory and Supply Chains

Timothy Birdnow

Good explanation of how it works. And this has to operate at every conceivable level, from the mom-and-pop business to the giant mega corporation. Starting with raw materials through the sales floor. At every step the process has to be synchronized. It's why the Soviet Union used to either have a glut of shoddy products or nothing at all. They couldn't plan this in a boardroom, try as they might.

Courtesy of Sherrie Mathieson

It is a lot like bringing a nuclear power plant back online, all systems must come up at once, at the same levels and at the same timing.
Now, think about how a nation under communism is like that global supply chain.
Something we in manufacturing have dealt with since the implementation of the "pull” system inventory system, rather than a "push” system.
Push systems work on the production capacity of the producer – they run until the warehouse is full regardless of the consumption of the inventory. They are designed to maximize the efficiency of the producer, not the efficiency of the entire production system. In the bad old days, it was not uncommon to see piles of inventory stacked up between operations in a factory or racks full of pallets of product that sit for long periods of time before being used, then the faster operations have to stop and wait on the slower ones.
Pull systems set inventory levels based on the consumption of the next downstream operation. As product is depleted from storage, that is the amount of signal sent to the preceding operation to produce to refill the inventory queue. Pull systems are designed to maximize the efficiency of the entire system or production process by keeping product moving through the production process and avoiding investment in materials that just sit around collecting dust. Adding value is the name of the game, sitting product is dead money, something to be avoided.
Push systems are analogous to communist systems, where the plan determines inventory and balances (it never does) supply and demand.
Pull systems are analogous to capitalist systems where price is the signal to pull inventory to balance supply and demand.
It is not a perfect analogy but pretty close.
The point being is that Biden can’t issue a bunch of executive orders to restart an entire economy because there is no plan for this. Pushing by focusing on links in the chain guarantees imbalances and bottlenecks because there is simply not enough brain or computing power in concentration to foresee every single variable of an infinitely variable entity the size of a national economy.
The economy must restart itself and the best thing government can do is to get out of the way and let the market work to pull inventory through the system at the most efficient rate.
As the Special Operations community says, "Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.”

I used to be a grocery store manager many years ago. Inventory management was a constant struggle. It was necessary to have what you needed on hand and ONLY what you needed on hand because otherwise you were tying up money that could be earning interest. So the cardinal rule of ordering was to order as little as you could without running out.

That required experience and judgment and could only be done at the very local level.

We had a bread company come in who had automatic ordering. The system kept reording stuff, and we were throwing massive amounts of bread away every day (it was shameful.) We didn't mind that much as they would compensate the over-order, but a lot of that bread could have gone to the needy (we couldn't donate it because we had to wait for their rep to show up.)

That company was losing it's shirt. I think it is out of business now.

That's what happens when you rely solely on numbers and not on the intangibles of knowing the customers and their needs - and the market.

Socialism always assumes a clockwork demand. They try to make it a hard science. But it isn't. It is a myriad of personal choices and pressures.

If it snows people will buy bread. You can't predict snowfall more than a day or two out (except maybe in Alaska or whatnot). That shoots any sort of automated ordering system to hell.

There are a lot of other things that can trigger buying - or suppress it. A nice day can lead to you running out of beer.

So it has to be local and it has to be handled by intelligence.

Ordering was and is an art.

If just that one aspect of things is screwed up the producers cannot figure out how to produce adequately. Their natural response will be to cut production to avoid waste (and getting in trouble). Shortages are the inevitable outcome of a command economy as a result.

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The Chinese Seduction

Timothy Birdnow

Everyone in positions of authority seem to want China and China's despotic model to succeed. It's amazing. China has become the new Great Red Hope.

'Useful idiots' who let China off the hook: Why is there such an apparent lack of concern over their determination to keep burning coal, asks DAVID ROSE

China, the book says, seduces politicians, business people, academics and campaigners into supporting its aims. It regards them as 'useful idiots' – unwitting instruments of its goal of becoming the world's only superpower.

Evidence unearthed by this newspaper, working with researchers fluent in Mandarin, shows Western environmentalists have indeed become a target. Documents suggest they are enmeshed with bodies subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and staffed by figures from its most ruthless departments.

They include Xie Zhenhua, China's chief climate envoy. Until 2012, he was a member of the central commission for discipline inspection, which enforces state orthodoxy. According to Human Rights Watch, it has been responsible for illegal detention, torture and forced confessions.

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Two Sets of Laws at DOJ

Timothy Birdnow

Jason Chaffetz discusses the double standard at the DOJ.

Clearly we have two sets of laws.

The Democrats embedded themselves in the DOJ during the Obama years and now are taking aim at conservatives (like Steve Bannon) and STILL ignoring Democrats who have obviously broken the law - like Eric Holder or Hillary Clinton.

That is the hallmark of  a tyrant; let your friends corruption and lawbreaking slide.

And with this current AG we are seeing a complete disregard for the rule of law and equal protection.

This is the stuff of revolution.

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The Thurston Howell III Party

Timothy Birdnow

So, the Republicans are the "party of the rich" and the Democrats fight for the common man. Ri-ight.

Obama's economic adviser and Democrat Jason Furman himself has pointed out that the Build Back Better scheme gives one of the most massive tax cuts to the wealthy in hisotry.

This scheme is being heavily promoted in Democrat strongholds around the country.

Why? Because most of the rich are Democrats.

Name as many billionaire Republicans as you can. I can think of just a couple - Rupert Murdoch (who isn't an American) and the Kochs, and maybe Peter Thiel. Name Democrat billionaires - Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates, Soros, Buffet, Steyer, Dempsey, Theresa Heinz Kerry, Jane Harmen, Herb Kohl, etc. etc.

The big money is all with the Donkeys.

So it's natural they would want to give their friends something to keep them on their side.

But of course that will enrage the radical left. So they have to hide it.

They could only do that with the full complicity of the mainstream media.

The Democrats are truly the party of the rich. They are the Monopoly Man, Thurston Howell III, and Scrooge McDuck all rolled into one.

But they are the party of the Common Man!

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China Ramps Up Coal Production

Frank Lasee

Chinese coal production in October rose to the highest level since March 2015 as the energy crisis in the world’s second-largest economy prompted authorities to seek to increase coal supply and reduce coal prices.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinese-Coal-Production-Jumps-To-Six-Year-High-In-October.html

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More proof the government has been lying about COVID

Dana Mathewson, with a hat tip to Eddie Engebretson

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Punishing Cold

Jim Church

MSM reluctant to report this because it disproves their propaganda narrative.

https://electroverse.net/cold-breaks-167-year-old-records-in-australia-an-early-arctic-freeze-traps-ships-in-thick-ice/?fbclid=IwAR0bKuIlHNqBqYCVlgfJknyKTAYhcUmre2IW1vlQf2CVHyloW1Hif_ZlE0c

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Briggs And Masks

Timothy Birdnow

Statistician William Briggs shows masks do not work.

I Bring You Glad Tidings! Three New Papers Prove (Again) You Can Take Them Off Without Worry

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Persons of No Color

Fay Voshell

My recent article in American Thinker.

Persons of No Color

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Oh Say Can't UC

From Willis Eschenbach:

The UC-USC football game was canceled, because 44 Cal players and staff tested positive for coronavirus. These are breakthrough cases, since Cal says 99 percent of the team is fully vaccinated.

Remind me again ... just how is vaccination protecting either the vaccinated or the unvaccinated?

This is not a vaccine like say the polio, measles, or smallpox vaccines.

This is pre-exposure prophylaxis. Seems valuable, since it reduces death and hospitalization ... but not a vaccine in any sense.

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A Gay Old Time

Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/11/milo-yiannopoulos-straight-and-back-on-campus-to-pray-the-gay-away.html

Milo is back, on the straight and narrow and offering "conversion therapy." And with 39 percent of Americans aged 18-24 calling themselves "LGBTQ," he has his work cut out for him.

Indeed. My brother-in-law's daughter is a twenty-something and she calls herself "pansexual". Now I am pretty sure she has never indulged in anything but the most monogamous relationships, and certainly not experimented with homosexuality, but there you are. In our modern times it is one of the measures of being a "good person" as these kids have been taught. The destructive nature of this has never been properly explained to them, and now they will not believe it if it should be told. They see it as old Churchlady fuddyduds who want to rain on everyone's parade and never consider that there has always been a pretty much universal ban on homosexuality and that did not come from nothing.

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The Revolution is Here

Timothy Birdnow

It's coming. We are not a free nation any longer.

 I would add William Ayers once said 25 million Americans would have to be "liquidated" when the Revolution came. The Revolution is largely here.

Famed Chinese Dissident: U.S. Already in Authoritarian State" "Dangerous Wokism like Mao Revolution"

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Blunders of Government

From E. Calvin Beisner

"It may be affirmed, on the best grounds, that no small share of the present embarrassments of America is to be charged on the blunders of our governments; and that these have proceeded from the heads rather than the hearts of most of the authors of them. What indeed are all the repealing, explaining, and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of the deficient wisdom; so many impeachments exhibited by each succeeding against each preceding session; so many admonitions to the people, of the value of those aids which may be expected from a well constituted senate?"

---Federalist #62. (Would that the senate were such a guard!) (The whole of #62 is so, so applicable to our comprehensively failing governments, state as well as federal, and even local, today!)

Here's more:

"The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?"

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Oddities of the Rittenhouse Incident

Willis Eschenbach

An oddity about the Rittenhouse trial is that all three of the men he shot had felony records ... what are the odds?

One had a felony record as a pederast, leading an opinion journalist to comment "Joseph Rosenbaum died as he had lived, trying to touch an unwilling minor."

And what's with all the accusations of racism? This was an incident involving three white men trying to kill a white teenager ... it was white on white with white, where does the supposed "racism" come in?

The main take from the left seems to be "Mobs rioting, beating, and burning = good, self-defense = bad".

Sigh ... used to be they shot rioting looters. Now even if they're arrested, they're let out immediately to go riot again.

Tim adds:

So what are three felons doing at this riot? Isn't this a parole violation? Who recruited them to be there? To me the interesting question is not their presence but who sought them out. I doubt they just showed up on their own out of a sense of civic duty and hatred of racism.

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Cops Fleeing New York

Timothy Birdnow

Heh! Can't say I blame them.

At least a dozen NYPD officers have taken Gov. DeSantis’ $5,000 relocation bonus and signed on as cops in Florida.

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