December 22, 2021
Gas to Europe Dries Up
Frank Lasee
It’s plain silly to rely on a front of me for a critical substance like natural gas. It’s even sillier with Europe sitting on plenty of natural gas, oil, and coal but refuses to use it. As they genuflect in front of the green altar.
Natural Gas Prices in Europe Explode to All Time High as Russian Flow Stops
Tim adds:
You think they would have learned when the Russkies did this to the Ukrainians a number of years ago. I guess there is no expiration date on stupidity.
It’s plain silly to rely on a front of me for a critical substance like natural gas. It’s even sillier with Europe sitting on plenty of natural gas, oil, and coal but refuses to use it. As they genuflect in front of the green altar.
Natural Gas Prices in Europe Explode to All Time High as Russian Flow Stops
Tim adds:
You think they would have learned when the Russkies did this to the Ukrainians a number of years ago. I guess there is no expiration date on stupidity.
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December 21, 2021
Pentagon Bans Free Speech
Timothy Birdnow
The Biden Pentagram, er, Pentagon has completed it's destruction of free speech in the military, banning tweets, posts, and other private examples of opposition to the party line.
Read all about it.
The military is claiming there is a rise in "extremism" in the military ranks and that they want to snuff it out. Of course, "extremism" means supporting traditional America and daring to oppose the radical agenda being imposed by the leftist Biden administration.
Now soldiers can be discharged or imprisoned for support of Donald Trump in tweets and facebook posts and other social media.
And don't kid yourself; they SAY they won't be actively searching but they will.
This is just more of the mopping up process after their November coup.
This applied to the military now, but how long before they impose it on the rest of us?
The Biden Pentagram, er, Pentagon has completed it's destruction of free speech in the military, banning tweets, posts, and other private examples of opposition to the party line.
Read all about it.
The military is claiming there is a rise in "extremism" in the military ranks and that they want to snuff it out. Of course, "extremism" means supporting traditional America and daring to oppose the radical agenda being imposed by the leftist Biden administration.
Now soldiers can be discharged or imprisoned for support of Donald Trump in tweets and facebook posts and other social media.
And don't kid yourself; they SAY they won't be actively searching but they will.
This is just more of the mopping up process after their November coup.
This applied to the military now, but how long before they impose it on the rest of us?
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Sandmann settles with NBC
Timothy Birdnow
Well, well, well!
Seems NBC is joining CNN and the WaPo in paying off Nicholas Sandmann after they defamed his name.
Sandmann, you may remember, is the Covington High School boy who was accused by the media of hate speech and attacking a "person of color" - falsely, as it is now quite clear.
Well, well, well!
Seems NBC is joining CNN and the WaPo in paying off Nicholas Sandmann after they defamed his name.
Sandmann, you may remember, is the Covington High School boy who was accused by the media of hate speech and attacking a "person of color" - falsely, as it is now quite clear.
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Biden Enriches Iran and OPEC
Timothy Birdnow
Thanks to Joe Biden's energy policy the price of Iranian oil rose 42% in 2021, giving them a lot more money to fund terrorism around the globe. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/468059/Iranian-heavy-crude-oil-price-rises-over-42-in-2021-OPEC
This while prices have been going down as a result of OPEC ramping up production. Please note the drop is being attributed by the powers that be to the Omicron variant against all reason (most of the world remained as open as it had been prior to Omicron.) This is money the U.S. and Canada could have kept had Biden not strangled our domestic production.
These high prices have everything to do with the Biden Administration's hostility to energy and is not being caused by some spike in demand as they are dishonestly claiming.
Thanks to Joe Biden's energy policy the price of Iranian oil rose 42% in 2021, giving them a lot more money to fund terrorism around the globe. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/468059/Iranian-heavy-crude-oil-price-rises-over-42-in-2021-OPEC
This while prices have been going down as a result of OPEC ramping up production. Please note the drop is being attributed by the powers that be to the Omicron variant against all reason (most of the world remained as open as it had been prior to Omicron.) This is money the U.S. and Canada could have kept had Biden not strangled our domestic production.
These high prices have everything to do with the Biden Administration's hostility to energy and is not being caused by some spike in demand as they are dishonestly claiming.
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Trust Who?
Frank Lasee
"Any reasonable person would have questions and suspicions. Those who do not have been indoctrinated into a cult they don’t even know they are a part of.â€
Critical Thinking v. "Trusting the Science"
Tim adds:
When they say "trusting the science" they mean trusting the scientists.And when they say that they mean trusting the approved scientists. Otherwise they are called shills for big oil or big pharma or big (fill in the blank).
And in the process we are to suspend all disbelief because, well, it's like SCIENCE dude! Wheter it makes a lick of sense or not is immaterial.
"Any reasonable person would have questions and suspicions. Those who do not have been indoctrinated into a cult they don’t even know they are a part of.â€
Critical Thinking v. "Trusting the Science"
Tim adds:
When they say "trusting the science" they mean trusting the scientists.And when they say that they mean trusting the approved scientists. Otherwise they are called shills for big oil or big pharma or big (fill in the blank).
And in the process we are to suspend all disbelief because, well, it's like SCIENCE dude! Wheter it makes a lick of sense or not is immaterial.
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Free Cars!
This from Les Poole
Imagine why insurance costs are so high.
1,140 Cars were Stolen in Portland in November; Mine was One of Them
Imagine why insurance costs are so high.
1,140 Cars were Stolen in Portland in November; Mine was One of Them
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Russia Cuts European Gas Supply
Frank Lasee
Russia Cuts Gas Supply to Europe as Temperatures Drop
Tim adds:
I don't know why Europe didn't learn their lessons after the Russians did that to Ukraine, but they seemed to believe Putin and his merry band of thugs would treat them differently. Stupid.
Because of Europe’s keep fossil fuels in the ground policies. They are relying on Russia for natural gas and energy. This is stupid. They have plenty of oil, natural gas, and coal within Europe to supply their own energy needs. Energy security is important. I like a warm house in the winter so do people in Europe. Many may not be able to afford it.
"Russia’s state-controlle
Tim adds:
I don't know why Europe didn't learn their lessons after the Russians did that to Ukraine, but they seemed to believe Putin and his merry band of thugs would treat them differently. Stupid.
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Comet Fever
Timothy Birdnow
Irrational fears are not new, and we've seen wild panic in the public in the past. Scientists have often been misquoted by the media and "following the science" has led to fear and panic.
Take the case of Halley's comet.
From the article:
I would add there were hucksters selling "comet pills" which ostensibly protected you from the ravages of comet dust. And people bought them, too.
Does Global Warming or the Covid pandemic look much different than this?
Irrational fears are not new, and we've seen wild panic in the public in the past. Scientists have often been misquoted by the media and "following the science" has led to fear and panic.
Take the case of Halley's comet.
From the article:
In 1910 Halley’s comet first became visible to the naked eye on April 15, remained so until July 5.
The fear of Halley’s comet stemmed from two facts. First, its closest approach in 1910 was 23 million kilometres from the Earth, just 60 times the distance to the Moon. The comet’s tail even crossed the Earth’s trajectory on the night of May 18-19. Second, a toxic gas, cyanogen, had just been detected in the tail of the comet Morehouse. In short, Halley’s comet was perceived by many as a huge ball of toxic gas approaching Earth at an astronomical speed of 190,000 km per hour.
Faced with mounting fear, French authorities asked Camille Flammarion, a trustworthy and popular astronomer, to speak to the public. Flammarion considered the possibility that life on Earth might be extinguished should there be a celestial collision with Halley’s comet. Should a sufficient quantity of hydrogen in the comet’s tail be combined with atmospheric oxygen, all animal life could suffocate in just a few moments.
Flammarion considers the event unlikely due to the scarcity of gas in comet tails – a fact that would be confirmed later – but he admits uncertainty.
Of course, Flammarion, as a respectable scientist, recounted all the known elements in his possession: the facts, arguments, and causes, all accompanied by probability. However, the press echoed the most extraordinary part of his words – the possible suffocation of all of humanity – and passed over its low probability and its supposedly hilarious effect. Thus "informedâ€, the general public became understandably terrified of the potentially lethal effects of the comet’s passage.
When the comet approached in February of that year, spectroscopic observations at the Yerkes observatory in the United States confirmed the presence of cyanogen in the tail. Scientists detailed what would happen if the Earth’s orbit and the tail’s orbit cross paths: the cyanogen will decompose in the upper atmosphere, eliminating any danger of suffocation. Yet their reassuring conclusions went largely unnoticed by the press and the general public.
Following the dissemination of the information of an imminent danger, the reactions were diverse. Some people began to sell all their worldly possessions to take advantage of the short time remaining. Others risked death by alcohol overdose rather than gas intoxication. Others in the United States caulked their windows in a fruitless attempt to prevent the poisonous gas from entering their homes. In France and Italy, others took refuge in churches, the doors of which remained open during that famous night in May 1910. Several tens of thousands of believers gathered to pray in St. Peter’s Square. A Hungarian preferred to commit suicide rather than risk being suffocated.
In this context, charlatans seized the opportunity to sell anti-comet pills, based on sugar and quinine, and even an anti-Halley’s comet elixir…
The fact is a comet tail is near vacuum. Just a few particles of dust and gas that phosphoresce when heated by the Sun. The fear of Halley’s comet stemmed from two facts. First, its closest approach in 1910 was 23 million kilometres from the Earth, just 60 times the distance to the Moon. The comet’s tail even crossed the Earth’s trajectory on the night of May 18-19. Second, a toxic gas, cyanogen, had just been detected in the tail of the comet Morehouse. In short, Halley’s comet was perceived by many as a huge ball of toxic gas approaching Earth at an astronomical speed of 190,000 km per hour.
Faced with mounting fear, French authorities asked Camille Flammarion, a trustworthy and popular astronomer, to speak to the public. Flammarion considered the possibility that life on Earth might be extinguished should there be a celestial collision with Halley’s comet. Should a sufficient quantity of hydrogen in the comet’s tail be combined with atmospheric oxygen, all animal life could suffocate in just a few moments.
Flammarion considers the event unlikely due to the scarcity of gas in comet tails – a fact that would be confirmed later – but he admits uncertainty.
Of course, Flammarion, as a respectable scientist, recounted all the known elements in his possession: the facts, arguments, and causes, all accompanied by probability. However, the press echoed the most extraordinary part of his words – the possible suffocation of all of humanity – and passed over its low probability and its supposedly hilarious effect. Thus "informedâ€, the general public became understandably terrified of the potentially lethal effects of the comet’s passage.
When the comet approached in February of that year, spectroscopic observations at the Yerkes observatory in the United States confirmed the presence of cyanogen in the tail. Scientists detailed what would happen if the Earth’s orbit and the tail’s orbit cross paths: the cyanogen will decompose in the upper atmosphere, eliminating any danger of suffocation. Yet their reassuring conclusions went largely unnoticed by the press and the general public.
Following the dissemination of the information of an imminent danger, the reactions were diverse. Some people began to sell all their worldly possessions to take advantage of the short time remaining. Others risked death by alcohol overdose rather than gas intoxication. Others in the United States caulked their windows in a fruitless attempt to prevent the poisonous gas from entering their homes. In France and Italy, others took refuge in churches, the doors of which remained open during that famous night in May 1910. Several tens of thousands of believers gathered to pray in St. Peter’s Square. A Hungarian preferred to commit suicide rather than risk being suffocated.
In this context, charlatans seized the opportunity to sell anti-comet pills, based on sugar and quinine, and even an anti-Halley’s comet elixir…
I would add there were hucksters selling "comet pills" which ostensibly protected you from the ravages of comet dust. And people bought them, too.
Does Global Warming or the Covid pandemic look much different than this?
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Crypto and the Chinese Economic crisis
Judson Phillips
The Chinese debt crisis could take out a crypto issuer.
Tether Owns Billions in Chinese Debt: Bloomberg Report
The Chinese debt crisis could take out a crypto issuer.
Tether Owns Billions in Chinese Debt: Bloomberg Report
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The Christmas Squirrel
Timothy Birdnow
Just thought I'd share a Christmas memory.
I remember the year of the Christmas squirrel.
My parents always had a real Christmas tree. My mother was particular about that; no fake, phony plastic monstrosity would do; she always insisted on a real tree.
So my dad and usually me would dutifully trot out every year to a tree lot and purchase the best tree that could be had for the very paltry sum my father was willing to pay. Often they would be acceptable if you kept the huge bald spot turned toward the wall and added a LOT of garland and ornaments.
And tree trimming time was always a nightmare. My dad hated it. He'd get out the tangled lights and ornaments and whatnot and grumble through the whole process. I remember one year he got the whole tree up and then the lights wouldn't light. He exploded and tossed some strand of twinkling strangler's cord, using language wholly inappropriate for so blessed and holy a season.
I noticed our cat batting at something on the bottom of the tree; a pull chain. I calmly said "well dad, you first have to turn the tree on" and pulled the chain. Voila! The cat had turned off Christmas.
(That cat was a menace. I was home alone once when in my early teens and the movie The Exorcist was on. I went to bed and awoke to my bed shaking and an unearthly moaning. I was out the door in less then a second, let me tell you! Turns out the cat had torn a hole in my box spring and climbed in - and gotten stuck. The shaking was her thrashing about, and the moan was her cries of pain muffled by the thickness of the mattress. Almost gave me a heart attack.)
At any rate, the year of the squirrel saw the Christmas tree sit outside for several days before being put up. Dad left it in the back yard because the house wasn't yet ready when he bought it.
So in came the tree and up it went. We decorated it and had it all ready.
My nephew Max was just a little squirt at the time and he was over. He noticed the tree was shaking and a noise coming from it. Out popped a squirrel! I suppose it had nested there; but it had been quiet as can be while we were putting the tree up.
What followed was a mad scramble as we tried to evict the squatter tenant from our Christmas tree and our home.
No luck. The squirrel, after leading us a merry chase, bolted out of the family room and into the sole bathroom. We locked it in.
And called animal control. They sent out a man who prepared to capture the poor frightened creature.
I was reminded of a Medieval knight preparing for battle; the animal control guy donned big thick gloves, vest, and goggles. He then told us solemnly "no matter what you hear do not open that door". It was reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, where Gene Wilder tells his staff to keep him locked up with the monster.
What followed was 20 minutes of thumping and crashing and angry sounds. I didn't know squirrels could be so ferocious! I think that little beast was half badger.
Eventually the man, now looking quite weary as though he had fought in a major military engagement, emerged with the squirrel in a trap.
The next year we gave my mother a special ornament for the tree - a squirrel.
My little nephew never forgot that Christmas. He's a man now but he still brings it up when we get together.
Anyway, a very Merry and Blessed Christmas to everyone! Don't let the squirrels eat your figgy pudding!
Postscript:
I once had a squirrel at the Ozark Hilton give me fits. For a couple of years I didn't have a roof on the cabin - just some tarps. One winters eve I was there in the pouring rain and the roof started leaking something terrible. A squirrel had torn a hole in the roof to get in and another to get into the cabin, and had nested between the two tarps. The rain was filling up the gap between the two and the whole thing was draining out into the cabin and onto my pointy littlle noggin. And even the squirrel's nest of leaves and twigs was soaking up water. I pushed a broom handle up to try to get the water to drain, and did what I could to buttress the spot. The squirrel came out into the cabin and was really cheesed. I remember it looking right at me and shaking it's fist with an angry growl, then going off into the night. If it had been a human it would have called me an M-F or whatnot. I spent a miserable night trying to stem the flood into the cabin. You can bet I made roofing that thing top priority after that! I imagine the squirrel didn't enjoy the night any more than I did, though.
Just thought I'd share a Christmas memory.
I remember the year of the Christmas squirrel.
My parents always had a real Christmas tree. My mother was particular about that; no fake, phony plastic monstrosity would do; she always insisted on a real tree.
So my dad and usually me would dutifully trot out every year to a tree lot and purchase the best tree that could be had for the very paltry sum my father was willing to pay. Often they would be acceptable if you kept the huge bald spot turned toward the wall and added a LOT of garland and ornaments.
And tree trimming time was always a nightmare. My dad hated it. He'd get out the tangled lights and ornaments and whatnot and grumble through the whole process. I remember one year he got the whole tree up and then the lights wouldn't light. He exploded and tossed some strand of twinkling strangler's cord, using language wholly inappropriate for so blessed and holy a season.
I noticed our cat batting at something on the bottom of the tree; a pull chain. I calmly said "well dad, you first have to turn the tree on" and pulled the chain. Voila! The cat had turned off Christmas.
(That cat was a menace. I was home alone once when in my early teens and the movie The Exorcist was on. I went to bed and awoke to my bed shaking and an unearthly moaning. I was out the door in less then a second, let me tell you! Turns out the cat had torn a hole in my box spring and climbed in - and gotten stuck. The shaking was her thrashing about, and the moan was her cries of pain muffled by the thickness of the mattress. Almost gave me a heart attack.)
At any rate, the year of the squirrel saw the Christmas tree sit outside for several days before being put up. Dad left it in the back yard because the house wasn't yet ready when he bought it.
So in came the tree and up it went. We decorated it and had it all ready.
My nephew Max was just a little squirt at the time and he was over. He noticed the tree was shaking and a noise coming from it. Out popped a squirrel! I suppose it had nested there; but it had been quiet as can be while we were putting the tree up.
What followed was a mad scramble as we tried to evict the squatter tenant from our Christmas tree and our home.
No luck. The squirrel, after leading us a merry chase, bolted out of the family room and into the sole bathroom. We locked it in.
And called animal control. They sent out a man who prepared to capture the poor frightened creature.
I was reminded of a Medieval knight preparing for battle; the animal control guy donned big thick gloves, vest, and goggles. He then told us solemnly "no matter what you hear do not open that door". It was reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, where Gene Wilder tells his staff to keep him locked up with the monster.
What followed was 20 minutes of thumping and crashing and angry sounds. I didn't know squirrels could be so ferocious! I think that little beast was half badger.
Eventually the man, now looking quite weary as though he had fought in a major military engagement, emerged with the squirrel in a trap.
The next year we gave my mother a special ornament for the tree - a squirrel.
My little nephew never forgot that Christmas. He's a man now but he still brings it up when we get together.
Anyway, a very Merry and Blessed Christmas to everyone! Don't let the squirrels eat your figgy pudding!
Postscript:
I once had a squirrel at the Ozark Hilton give me fits. For a couple of years I didn't have a roof on the cabin - just some tarps. One winters eve I was there in the pouring rain and the roof started leaking something terrible. A squirrel had torn a hole in the roof to get in and another to get into the cabin, and had nested between the two tarps. The rain was filling up the gap between the two and the whole thing was draining out into the cabin and onto my pointy littlle noggin. And even the squirrel's nest of leaves and twigs was soaking up water. I pushed a broom handle up to try to get the water to drain, and did what I could to buttress the spot. The squirrel came out into the cabin and was really cheesed. I remember it looking right at me and shaking it's fist with an angry growl, then going off into the night. If it had been a human it would have called me an M-F or whatnot. I spent a miserable night trying to stem the flood into the cabin. You can bet I made roofing that thing top priority after that! I imagine the squirrel didn't enjoy the night any more than I did, though.
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December 20, 2021
Fake Fact Checkers at Facebook
This from Anthony Watts
FB 'fact checks' roasted by British Medical Journal.
FB 'fact checks' roasted by British Medical Journal.
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Smolletting in Missouri
Timothy Birdnow
I call bullshit.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/black-history-mural-on-washington-university-campus-vandalized-with-racist-symbols/article_93f5d9e0-dc00-5b74-8d3a-62dccbe791ba.html
Isn't it convenient that this happened right after Jussie Smollett was convicted of staging a fake hate crime!
Why, it's as if someone wanted to divert attention away from that with another fake hate crime.
Nobody on the Washington University campus would do that. Wash U. isn't known as a hotbed for sheet wearing hillbillies. It's one of the most "Progressive" colleges in the country.
What I find horribly offensive is the lockstep way the media has covered this. There has been no suggestions that it was a fake hate crime. I saw the story on Fox2 news and they dutifully reported it as it was supposed to be reported; it was true and that was that. No suggestion whatsoever that it may well have been staged by BLM.
There have been multiple fake hate crimes going back decades. Remember Al Sharpton promoted the fake rape story by Tawana Brawley? She claimed a bunch of white men took her to the woods and raped her - including a state prosecuting attorney. It turned out to be a total fabrication but nothing happened, and indeed Sharpton went on to become a major force in the civil rights movement.
Remember the fecal swastikas at Mizzou?
Here is a partial list of staged hate crimes. Here is another.
So excuse me for not believing the Boy who cried Wolf.
St. Louis has been a hotbed for this sort of thing, especially after the Michael Brown shooting (and subsequent rioits with the fake "Hands up! Don't Shoot!" slogan.)
We don't have a big Klan presence (nobody does anymore) here and there would be nothing to gain by doing this.
But Black Lives Matter has everything to gain.
It's past time we start challenging every claim of racial hatred. Very few of them turn out to be legitimate.
I really don't believe this one at all.
I call bullshit.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/black-history-mural-on-washington-university-campus-vandalized-with-racist-symbols/article_93f5d9e0-dc00-5b74-8d3a-62dccbe791ba.html
Isn't it convenient that this happened right after Jussie Smollett was convicted of staging a fake hate crime!
Why, it's as if someone wanted to divert attention away from that with another fake hate crime.
Nobody on the Washington University campus would do that. Wash U. isn't known as a hotbed for sheet wearing hillbillies. It's one of the most "Progressive" colleges in the country.
What I find horribly offensive is the lockstep way the media has covered this. There has been no suggestions that it was a fake hate crime. I saw the story on Fox2 news and they dutifully reported it as it was supposed to be reported; it was true and that was that. No suggestion whatsoever that it may well have been staged by BLM.
There have been multiple fake hate crimes going back decades. Remember Al Sharpton promoted the fake rape story by Tawana Brawley? She claimed a bunch of white men took her to the woods and raped her - including a state prosecuting attorney. It turned out to be a total fabrication but nothing happened, and indeed Sharpton went on to become a major force in the civil rights movement.
Remember the fecal swastikas at Mizzou?
Here is a partial list of staged hate crimes. Here is another.
So excuse me for not believing the Boy who cried Wolf.
St. Louis has been a hotbed for this sort of thing, especially after the Michael Brown shooting (and subsequent rioits with the fake "Hands up! Don't Shoot!" slogan.)
We don't have a big Klan presence (nobody does anymore) here and there would be nothing to gain by doing this.
But Black Lives Matter has everything to gain.
It's past time we start challenging every claim of racial hatred. Very few of them turn out to be legitimate.
I really don't believe this one at all.
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The Death of Critical Thinking
Jim Church
Why Don't People "Trust the Science"? Because Scientists are Often Caught Lying
There has been an unfortunate shift in Western educational practices in the past few decades away from what we used to call "critical thinking.†In fact, critical thinking was once a fundamental staple of US colleges and now it seems as though the concept doesn’t exist anymore; at least not in the way it used to. Instead, another brand of learning has arisen which promotes "right thinkingâ€; a form of indoctrination which encourages and rewards a particular response from students that falls in line with ideology and not necessarily in line with reality.
Why Don't People "Trust the Science"? Because Scientists are Often Caught Lying
There has been an unfortunate shift in Western educational practices in the past few decades away from what we used to call "critical thinking.†In fact, critical thinking was once a fundamental staple of US colleges and now it seems as though the concept doesn’t exist anymore; at least not in the way it used to. Instead, another brand of learning has arisen which promotes "right thinkingâ€; a form of indoctrination which encourages and rewards a particular response from students that falls in line with ideology and not necessarily in line with reality.
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Delete
Warner Todd Huston
The left and its power trips, Zuckerberg deletes your posts, Bezos deletes your books, Wojcicki deletes your videos, Biden deletes your job, Fauci deletes your freedom, and Gates tries to delete YOU.
The left and its power trips, Zuckerberg deletes your posts, Bezos deletes your books, Wojcicki deletes your videos, Biden deletes your job, Fauci deletes your freedom, and Gates tries to delete YOU.
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The Price of Doing Business
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year
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Heretic Francis
On Facebook I observed that Pope Francis is flirting with heresy.
A man named Paul Wagner didn't like it and demanded proof. He said a Pope cannot be a heretic.
I reply:
Paul Wagner I'm not the one saying it. Raymond Burke and a bunch of other high Catholic officials said it. They warned him he was in error and in danger of heresy in a letter a few years ago. https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/card-burke-no-catholic-bound-pope-francis-call-gay-civil-unions
Homosexuality is a grave sin in Catholicism, in case you forgot. Pope Francis has held heretical beliefs on that.
Francis never responded to the letter sent him asking for clarification. https://www.ncregister.com/news/church-leaders-respond-to-the-dubia
But he did demote Burke to a purely ceremonial position From head of the Apostolic Signatura (aka the Vatican Supreme Court) for opposing him.
Yes a Pope can be a heretic. He is not absolute ruler. The only time he is infallible is when speaking ex cathedra, which Francis has never done.
Here is another site about Francis and his heretical views. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pope-francis-accused-of-heresy-by-clergy-and-theologians And here. https://vaticancatholic.com/anti-pope-francis-heresies/
Francis is an antipope. The Real Pope remains Benedict XVI.
A man named Paul Wagner didn't like it and demanded proof. He said a Pope cannot be a heretic.
I reply:
Paul Wagner I'm not the one saying it. Raymond Burke and a bunch of other high Catholic officials said it. They warned him he was in error and in danger of heresy in a letter a few years ago. https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/card-burke-no-catholic-bound-pope-francis-call-gay-civil-unions
Homosexuality is a grave sin in Catholicism, in case you forgot. Pope Francis has held heretical beliefs on that.
Francis never responded to the letter sent him asking for clarification. https://www.ncregister.com/news/church-leaders-respond-to-the-dubia
But he did demote Burke to a purely ceremonial position From head of the Apostolic Signatura (aka the Vatican Supreme Court) for opposing him.
Yes a Pope can be a heretic. He is not absolute ruler. The only time he is infallible is when speaking ex cathedra, which Francis has never done.
Here is another site about Francis and his heretical views. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pope-francis-accused-of-heresy-by-clergy-and-theologians And here. https://vaticancatholic.com/anti-pope-francis-heresies/
Francis is an antipope. The Real Pope remains Benedict XVI.
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California Fire Dance
Al Moscowitz
Let me give you just one specific example of California "logic". There are dozens of examples, and NONE of them are traditional Republican stances. This example is pure liberal, left-wing nonsense.
The laws and ordinances against burning dead foliage (in the name of climate change mitigation) are almost solely responsible for the exacerbation of destruction from the wild fires in California in the last 20 years.
Controlled burns are the only defense for wildfire mitigation and those are all but gone in California - and why - because the fool-hearty have convinced everyone of the fallacious notion that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are changing the climate. Then, if that isn't bad enough, they are also under another fallacious belief that ALL burning that releases CO2 into the atmosphere is a bad thing - including the burning of wood. Burning wood does NOT release CO2 that has been trapped for millions of years, but that is a topic for another day as, even if it did, it wouldn't matter.
Other than COVID-19 hypersensitivity and overreaction, human-caused climate change at it relates to the burning of fossil fuels will be looked upon as the greatest mass delusion in the history of mankind - that is if the idiots that believe it EVER wise up.
So, the increasing severity of the wildfires and associated destruction in California are a DIRECT result of nonsensical policies aimed at mitigating a problem that doesn't exist, and, by so doing, creating a VERY REAL problem today - and Gavin Newsom is the poster child for promulgating this nonsense.
Let me give you just one specific example of California "logic". There are dozens of examples, and NONE of them are traditional Republican stances. This example is pure liberal, left-wing nonsense.
The laws and ordinances against burning dead foliage (in the name of climate change mitigation) are almost solely responsible for the exacerbation of destruction from the wild fires in California in the last 20 years.
Controlled burns are the only defense for wildfire mitigation and those are all but gone in California - and why - because the fool-hearty have convinced everyone of the fallacious notion that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are changing the climate. Then, if that isn't bad enough, they are also under another fallacious belief that ALL burning that releases CO2 into the atmosphere is a bad thing - including the burning of wood. Burning wood does NOT release CO2 that has been trapped for millions of years, but that is a topic for another day as, even if it did, it wouldn't matter.
Other than COVID-19 hypersensitivity and overreaction, human-caused climate change at it relates to the burning of fossil fuels will be looked upon as the greatest mass delusion in the history of mankind - that is if the idiots that believe it EVER wise up.
So, the increasing severity of the wildfires and associated destruction in California are a DIRECT result of nonsensical policies aimed at mitigating a problem that doesn't exist, and, by so doing, creating a VERY REAL problem today - and Gavin Newsom is the poster child for promulgating this nonsense.
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December 19, 2021
Last Coal Mine in Britain Closes
Timothy Birdnow
Take a look at this;
The last coal mine in Britain just closed, forcing an historic railroad to ship in coal from overseas.
The Welsh identity is bound up in coal mining. No more.
This is what "climate change" has done to us. Britain now must depend on whatever oil and gas it can get from the North Sea or buy Russian oil and gas.
It's a fancy form of economic suicide the West is imposing on itself. Crazy.
Take a look at this;
The last coal mine in Britain just closed, forcing an historic railroad to ship in coal from overseas.
The Welsh identity is bound up in coal mining. No more.
This is what "climate change" has done to us. Britain now must depend on whatever oil and gas it can get from the North Sea or buy Russian oil and gas.
It's a fancy form of economic suicide the West is imposing on itself. Crazy.
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Wildfires in Australia
This from Michael Sherry
In Australia, our big fires last year were caused by government policy from 20 years ago and greenies stopping fire reduction guys. The state government stopped people going down fire trails because of greenies. They blocked the trails with large stones which also stopped the bush fire brigades from accessing areas for reduction burns and to put out small fires before they got bigger. That caused massive build up of ground level fuel over many years and we had horrific fires early last year as a result of those policies and a bad drought. I have no doubt it was orchestrated to claim global warming, which many claimed it to be. I also saw a picture of greenies stopping the bush fire brigade from going into a large area south of me, signs in hand(don't burn the birds) and forming a line. The fires went through just a few months later and killed everything; that is what fires do without reduction burns, they kill everything for a whole heap of reasons that are too long to mention here.
In Australia, our big fires last year were caused by government policy from 20 years ago and greenies stopping fire reduction guys. The state government stopped people going down fire trails because of greenies. They blocked the trails with large stones which also stopped the bush fire brigades from accessing areas for reduction burns and to put out small fires before they got bigger. That caused massive build up of ground level fuel over many years and we had horrific fires early last year as a result of those policies and a bad drought. I have no doubt it was orchestrated to claim global warming, which many claimed it to be. I also saw a picture of greenies stopping the bush fire brigade from going into a large area south of me, signs in hand(don't burn the birds) and forming a line. The fires went through just a few months later and killed everything; that is what fires do without reduction burns, they kill everything for a whole heap of reasons that are too long to mention here.
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December 18, 2021
Terry Gilliam Pokes the Wokes
Warner Todd Huston
Monty Python Star Terry Gilliam Blasts Woke 'Ideologues' Who Got His Musical Canceled
Monty Python Star Terry Gilliam Blasts Woke 'Ideologues' Who Got His Musical Canceled
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