Radioactive Dust Is Sweeping Over Parts Of Europe From The Sahara

An alarming health disaster could be in the making as it's being widely reported this week that radioactive dust has been sweeping out of the Algerian desert and broader Sahara region across the Mediterranean. Further scientists say the ominous sounding 'radioactive Saharan dust' is causing a pollution spike even over parts of Southern Europe.

The Association for Control of Radioactivity in the West (Acro) reported that scientists have observed the phenomenon happening since February when the dust was found to be over parts of France. Samples confirmed what was found to be radioactive particles in the dust which had been kicked up by a major storm that recently swept Morocco, creating huge dust clouds that picked up the radioactive material that had been left over from past nuclear tests conducted by France on its then colonial possession of Algeria in the early 1960s.

While some scientists have claimed it's "not dangerous" - others have cautioned that residues of Caesium 137 - a radioactive isotope - may require cautions like staying indoors.

Citing the French NGO which monitors Europe for signs of nuclear contamination, Euronews reported this week that "Acro said it did tests on recent Saharan dust that it collected in the area of Jura, near the French border with Switzerland."

"Considering homogeneous deposits in a wide area, based on this analytical result, Acro estimates there was 80,000 bq per km2 of caesium-137," the organization said in a statement.

"This radioactive contamination, which comes from far away, 60 years after the nuclear explosions, reminds us of the perennial radioactive contamination in the Sahara, for which France is responsible,"it added.

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— Barcelona Dust (@Dust_Barcelona) March 1, 2021

While the health effects to exposure could be negligible in the short-term, we doubt too many Europeans are comfortable with such a threatening cloud of particles hovering over the continent.

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How Much Suppression is there for James to Fight?

Timothy Birdnow

Given we had dead people voting, fictitious people voting, people voting more than once, in multiple states, and just voting machines voting, I don't see how much good Lebron will do to fight "suppression". Seems to me no vote is being suppressed anywhere these days.

LeBron James, NBA to Fight ‘Voter Suppression’ During All-Star Weekend

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The Stupidity of Reparations

Willis Eschenbach observes:

Here's a question. Suppose your great-great-grandfather cheated someone out of some money in a business deal 170 years ago.

If their great-great-grandson turned up on your doorstep demanding the money, how would you respond?

Now, suppose your great-great-grandfather had absolutely nothing to do with some guy cheating someone out of some money in a business deal 170 years ago.

If their great-great-grandson turned up on your doorstep demanding the money, how would you respond?

Those are the issues in the current push for "reparations" for slavery.

Me, I think the idea that I owe Oprah and Michael Jordan money for something that happened 170 years ago is a sick joke ... but hey, that's just me.

Tim adds:

What good was served by the Hatfield and McCoy feud? I mean, was there any point to continuing a fight over generations over something long gone? In fact the Hatfields and the McCoys have long since buried the hatchet (and not in each-other's skulls) and now live in peace together in the same area. At one point the younger generation realized how ridiculous it was to keep carrying this grudge. So what makes this different? It's as if the U.S. is going to make the Hatfields pay the McCoys for starting the feud. That would do nothing but serve to perhaps reopen the feud anew. Any fool should be able to see that.

We've already given reparations, through multiple programs like Race Norming in federal hiring or Affirmative Action, or in social welfare programs like AFDC or set asides in college admissions and special scholarships. Now we are going to be forced to pay yet ANOTHER round of reparations!

And it won't be enough; the demands will only increase. Ever fed a flock of birds in the park? Feed one and they all come pecking at you. That's what this will do. It's theft, plain and simple, and it will further the divide between the races, while doing nothing to improve the plight of anybody (except temporarily at best).

We've already handed out enough reparations. Perhaps we can bill the recipients of reparations for all the money we have handed over in these programs over the years? Maybe we can bill them for the social disruptions, too, like the riots and looting and crime? Two can play at this game.

I once had an argument with a black person who favored reparations and she kept demanding "justice". I told her, well, the white community forgives YOU (which made her explode, of course). My point? There are grievances in both communities at the other side, legitimate grievances. The white community has had to support the black community to a large degree for generations now, and had to endure crimes and other such things. It's horribly non-pc, but the fact is everyone has to forgive everyone else and let the past be in the past. But how do we do that with the damned Progressives bringing it back up all the time? Reparations will only make everyone angrier.

 And who gets them, and who pays them, and why should someone whose family immigrated in 1900 pay someone whose family immigrated in 1970? There is no justice in any of this, nor rationality.

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Lamps, Mao Jackets, and Paul Krugman

Timothy Birdnow

Eliminating choices is what tyrants do. Remember the old Soviet Union? If you wanted to buy something (and it was in stock - a rarity) you had to buy exactly what your neighbors had. If you wanted a lamp there was only one style of lamp. Otherwise you would have inequality in the society, and we can't have that! So the Soviets made only one kind of lamp, one kind of pants, one kind of shirt. Everyone dressed the same, used the same stuff, and depression and alcoholism ran rampant in a colorless, regimented, restricted world.

Remember that tre chic Mao Jacket? Everyone looked like they were on the same bowling team. You had to wear that in Mao's Communist China or face the wrath of the Cultural Revolution (which was surprisingly similar to modern American cancel culture.)

Paul Krugman Thinks You'll be Happier with Fewer Choices

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Democratic Jizya and Forgiveness

Warner Todd Huston

Here is another reason why you can't be both a Christian and a Democrat. As the left continues its cancel culture, realize that it is based on a zero-redemption policy. If you did something wrong yesterday, last month, or 50 years ago, you are to be permanently wiped out of society. This policy of zero forgiveness is unChristian. So, if you advocate for the cancel culture, you cannot also be a Christian.

Tim adds:

Well, they have forgiveness o'plenty for pedophiles and rapists, embezzlers and others if they support the Left wing causes. You can buy whatever indulgence you like if you are willing to pay for the privilege. Look at Jeffrey Epstein, or Bill Clinton. But that is only if you are a zealous supporter and pay your political jizya to the Democratic Party.

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The Roots of Identity Politics/Cancel Culture

Mark Musser

Karl Lowith’s (1897-1973) "Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same" was surprisingly published in Berlin in 1935 during the rise of National Socialism which increasingly glorified certain aspects of Nietzsche’s thought as the Third Reich wore on. Lowith was Jewish. Lowith was also a former student of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), who was already a card-carrying Nazi at the time Lowith’s book was published. Heidegger spent much of his time during the Third Reich researching Nietzsche (1844-1900) to prepare the iconoclast’s controversial style of proverbial aphorisms for National Socialist consumption. Lowith was also sympathetic to Nietzsche, but for different reasons. While Heidegger failed to ‘bring into line’ Freiburg University into the orbit of National Socialist education in 1933-34, Lowith was forced to leave Germany in 1934 – first for Italy, secondly to Japan, and then off to America. He returned to Germany in the 1950's.

In 1941, Lowith became professor at Hartford Theological Seminary thanks to much help coming from American existentialist theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr – both of whom were deeply influenced by German theological existentialism. Lowith too was an existentialist of sorts, as was Heidegger. Friedrich Nietzsche, following Arthur Schopenhauer, was certainly one of the founders of European existentialism. What they called "Being” was at the very heart of their thought. Each of them tried to disinherit Judeo-Christian transcendence, metaphysics and/ or heavenly values through an emphasis upon existential ‘Being’ which they presumed had plagued western philosophy even going so far back as Plato. Existential Being, as opposed to transcendence and metaphysics, was thus the basis upon which they tried to build what one might consider an anti-transcendental philosophy purified of unwarranted abstractions bereft of life. Lowith suggests one may call such existentialist teaching as a metaphysics of the physical.

Lowith received his doctorate under Heidegger’s tutelage in 1928 studying Nietzsche. They were close friends up until his master teacher took upon himself the Nazi banner in the early 1930’s which caused them to become estranged. Though Heidegger later became critical of National Socialism, he never repented of his loyalty to the regime that lasted throughout the entire history of the Third Reich. As such, Lowith increasingly took a critical view of Heidegger’s philosophy. Lowith even concluded in his Appendix of the book a critical appraisal of Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche in which the most outstanding philosopher of the 20th century claimed that Nietzsche was not grounded in "Being” nearly enough.

Here, Lowith counters that grounding oneself too much in "Being” invariably leads to nihilism, which Nietzsche expressly wrote to overcome. Nietzsche famously warned his readers to read him slowly, deeply, and cautiously, which Lowith rebukes Heidegger for not doing. Lowith even labels Heidegger’s philosophy of being as an ‘essence’ of nihilism, which is the biggest insult one can use against a committed existentialist who routinely declares holy war against any and all forms of transcendence and/or abstractions. Lowith concludes, "Despite Nietzsche’s express statement that the total character of life and of the living world cannot be assessed or evaluated, Heidegger interprets Nietzsche’s philosophy as a ‘metaphysics of values’ and interprets values as a ‘point of view,’ the simple meaning of which he artfully misinterprets.”

Yet, Lowith acknowledges that in spite of Nietzsche’s commitment to existential aphorisms which comprise much of his writings, the iconoclast himself does contradictorily have a transcendental ‘view’ which indeed puts his teaching into the classical philosophy department after all – the last great philosopher according to Lowith. Once one does his homework on Nietzsche properly, the ‘essence’ of his ‘philosophy’ is the namesake of Lowith’s book where the title includes the phrase, "The Eternal Recurrence of the Same.” Lowith spends much time throughout his book developing this theme that Mr. Nietzsche was thus the philosopher of the "Eternal Recurrence of the Same.” The longest chapter in the book is chapter three where Lowith entitles it accordingly, "The Unifying Fundamental Idea in Nietzsche’s Philosophy.”

At this juncture, Lowith begins by showing how the forced moral conformity of the Judeo-Christian worldview summarized as "Thou Shalt,” is now being replaced by a new European order of "I will” according to Nietzsche. Religious morality is in the process of being replaced by existentialism where the human will itself shall determine what is to be valued rather than be subjected to an outmoded theology or philosophical religion which modernity does not know which way to turn. This crossroads has been reached because reason and rationality has killed the Judeo-Christian God so that modernity now needs to find a new direction. According to Nietzsche, since God is, for all practical purposes, dead, men must overcome themselves without God. In so doing, they will become supermen in order to legislate a new set of values for the future based on what is willed to be rather than upon western rationality and ethics so that a new post modernity can avoid the dangerous meaningless of nihilism which Europe has since entered into with the collapse of the Judeo-Christian worldview. Since Nietzsche believed the weakest part of man was his rational consciousness, and that things like the physical body, willpower, and instinct were his strengths, such a new set of values rooted in the latter would necessarily need to govern the future by transcending the Enlightenment and redeeming the sickness of mediocrity and weakness bequeathed upon Europe thanks to religion and superstition.

The process of Nietzsche’s secular redemption or recovery from the death of God, and then from nihilism to superman, can thus be easily characterized as an European eschatology of sorts which changes and progresses from "Thou Shalt” to "I will” to "I am.” Man thus needs to get away from the gods and God in order to overcome those divine interferences which prevent his proper growth. Yet, with divine transcendence now murdered, nihilism has taken over Europe in Nietzsche’s day, which is potentially dangerous and destructive. European nihilism is the "interim condition,” even an "advent” in between a religious past and a superman future, a present dispensation that is described as a fork in the road where there is now a choice to overcome or not. What comprises the interim condition of nihilism is romantic pessimism and scientific positivism that had completely permeated the 1800’s of Europe. This nihilism now needs to be overcome, "What must necessarily arise after the decline of the Christian interpretation of existence is the problem of the value of existence as such. For what is the purpose of being-there if no more purpose is available and will of existence is goalless.”

Incredibly, Lowith further writes, "A superman will of the man of the future, a will that creates itself and the world as its own, takes the place of God, who creates Being out of nothing.” To state it more nakedly, "The will is actually the ‘principle’ of faith, because the man of faith does not will himself.” Yet, Europe is still in its present interim state, and needs to move on to the new will which has replaced the will of God murdered by Reason. Europe is thus at the crossroads and needs to move on to a willing of its own will so that the last metamorphisis can be accomplished in the future which Lowith describes as going "from the heroic principle of ‘I will’ into the godlike principle of ‘I am.’” Lowith then shows how Nietzsche’s will to power is directly related to the eternal recurrence of the same which is the final destiny of the superman, "Nietzsche characterizes himself as the teacher of eternal recurrence, and he knew this – his authentic – ‘teaching’ as his ‘destiny.”

Nietzsche’s eschatology is thus a counter-eschato logy as he presumes that since divine transcendence is dead, this must require a replacement of Christian eschatology where history is seen as a straight line heading for a progressivist goal of salvation. The eternal recurrence of the same thus will become the new ‘philosophy’ of history for the European superman. Lowith points out, "The teaching of the superman is the precondition for the teaching of the eternal recurrence, because only the man who overcomes himself can also will the eternal recurrence of all that is.”

For Nietzsche, the man who wills himself as such, wills himself in such a way that he has no regrets, and hence would do it all over again. As European man overcomes his nihilism through the death of Christian eschatology, the prophecy of eternal recurrence becomes a new resurrection of sorts, rooted in the ancient Greco-Roman historical consciousness known as "Eternal Return,” yet without the superstitious transcendence of its gods. Fittingly, Nietzsche’s "philosophy does not, in principle, go beyond this prophecy. The will to the superman and to the eternal recurrence is Nietzsche’s ‘last will’ and his ‘last idea,’ in which the whole of his experiment is systematically summarized.” The main point of Nietzsche’s philosophy, it seems, is therefore to replace the Judeo-Christian historical consciousness and eschatology with his own eternal recurrence of the same.

Yet, in the process of so doing, Nietzsche inextricably ties himself in knots trying to escape what he claims has already died. Both Heidegger and Lowith thus unsurprisingly claim that Nietzsche was never able to free himself of the Judeo-Christian

tradition in spite of his mad drive to do so. Nietzsche became insane during the last decade of his life before he finally died in 1900 at the relatively young age of 56. The Fuhrer also died at the age of 56. Many have rightfully presumed that he too was insane when he shot himself at the end of the war in which the "Thousand Year Reich" National Socialist "Triumph of the Will" came to an apropos catastrophic.

Tim adds:

Outstanding Mark! This explains our modern concepts of identity politics and cancel culture perfectly; this self-willing into "being" means adopting tribal attitudes for those of like "being", and destroying those deemed unworthy by virtue of undesirable "being".

 

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Fallout from Wuhan Lockdowns?

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an essay that makes the case that eventually the public is going to turn quite nasty over the Covid lockdowns.

From Jeffrey Tucker at the Bastiat Society:

It
also put the emphasis on the correct point: the protection of American
libertarians not from some shadowy foreign enemy but from our own
governments. It also draws in the left that has long been suspicious of
the place of big business, and, in this case, rightfully so. The
largest corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook, for all the
good that they achieve in this world, have leaned decisively in favor
of lockdowns. Same with large media. The reason is not just that they
are harmed less by lockdowns and, in many cases, actually benefited
from them. It’s because the people ruling these companies enjoy
ruling-class lives, and they see the world through them. Lockdowns were
the favored policy for cultural and political reasons, which is itself
a scandal.

...

Then
you have the increasingly ridiculous "track-and-trace” regime that
pretends to hunt down and control the virus, even though the CDC now
speculates that as many as 1 in 4 or perhaps 1 in 3 people have caught
this virus with a 99.8% survival rate (it approaches 100% for people
under 50 years of age). Get a positive test (never mind that more than
half or more could be false positives) and you find yourself kicked out
of school and work for two weeks, stigmatized like the lepers in the
bible. It’s grotesque and pre-modern, and it has no public-health
benefit.

Why
have the people put up with this? Under normal conditions, they never
would have. None of this would have been possible. The one reason they
did this time: fear. Fear of getting sick and dying or, if not dying,
experiencing permanent health effects. This emotion can last far longer
than one might think. But eventually emotions do catch up with facts,
among which is that the danger of severe outcomes was wildly
exaggerated and the lockdowns achieved nothing in terms of disease
mitigation. You mean all this suffering and horror was for naught? Once
that realization dawns, fear turns to anger, and anger to action. If
you understand that dynamic, you can see why the architects of
lockdowns from Dr. Fauci to the CDC are doing their best to delay that
dawning, with daily doses of alarmism designed to keep people hiding in
their homes.

...

The
fear cannot last. When it breaks, we are going to see multitudes of
people – small business owners and workers, parents of kids in school,
patients who couldn’t see their families while in the hospital, adults
with parents in long-term care facilities from which they’ve been
locked down, families who canceled one vacation after another, people
of faith whose religious communities were shattered, and all those
people who were forced for the better part of a year to live life with
zero fun or entertainment outside the confines of their homes – lash
out at those who did this to us. And they will be inspired to
understand why and make sure nothing like this happens again.

I suspect Mr. Tucker is being a bit optimistic about the pushback this will generate; the public STILL believes what the media tells them, and they still like a good scare story, and the media will eventually turn this so that the public forgets. We've seen this movie before. The longer it goes the more it will be forgotten (which is why the authorities will end this gradually rather than all at once; they need to keep the fear alive until they get out of it and can distract the dullards with shiny objects) and they will find a new fear to replace it. They seem to be working on "insurrection" and "right wing terrorism" as the new boogieman. Whether that will work or not I don't know, but they are going to try it.

Frankly, I don't know what will rouse America from her slumber. If an openly stolen election didn't do it I really don't know what will.

One thing is for certain; we have to keep reminding people of this. Our fatal flaw on the Right is that we let the Left set the agenda, and "move on" when we shouldn't. I hear dopes like Mike Gallagher or Ben Shapiro talking about "no stolen election" for instance; they want to "move on". That was Karl Rove's policy and it led to George W. Bush becoming one of the least popular and most poorly respected Presidents in American History.

To win you first have to make Americans remember who they once were. You can't do that if your policy is to "move on".

I hope this thing chokes these social revolutionaries pushing the demise of the U.S. But I don't think it will.

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The Proof is in the Pudding

Timothy Birdnow

This about says it all:

What percentage of blue checkmarks and experts flipping out about the Texas mask mandate do you think could correctly identify that New York, despite all the masking, currently has the highest Covid hospitalization rate in the country and that it’s 44% higher than Texas? pic.twitter.com/DwVNBrIPmk

— IM (@ianmSC) March 4, 2021

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Twitter Suspends Crowder Over Vote Fraud Evidence

James Doogue

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Climate change in context

This from David Redfern:

Tim adds:

We know that carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere after a warming period - generally in about eight hundred years. 800 years ago it was 1220 - at the tail end of the MWP. Coincidence?

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Speculation Masquerading as Science

From Richard Cronin:

Quoting from link:

may, might change, in my opinion, unanswered question, complicated influence, data suggests, can cause....but also can cause opposite effect, are likely, contrasting process, conflicting effects, on the other hand, may also affect, could be linked, still trying to figure out, probably, models suggest, research suggests, scientist suspect, could be linked, may increase, may cause, if, that could change.

But the topper is: "scientists don’t think”Huge Atmospheric Rivers Could Quicken Antarctic Ice Melt

Tim adds:

Might be, maybe, should be, could be...it's never anything but idle speculation masquerading as science these days.

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The Biden Crime Wave

Timothy Birdnow

How could anyone not think this was coming?

Arizona Sheriff says Biden Halting Border Wall Construction Left Area Wide Open for Cartels

An Arizona sheriff is speaking out against President Joe Biden’s decision to halt border wall construction, saying the decision has created a "crime scene" at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"When President Biden rescinded the emergency order on the southwest border, it stopped resources and stopped construction on our border," Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Arizona, told "Fox & Friends" on Friday.

"As a result of that one area where the fence is not complete, we get five or six groups a day coming across there."

"This administration owns this decision," he added. "And what it’s doing is, is forcing us back to 2019, when we had the largest, what I call, crime scene in the country to include the largest humanitarian situation going on."

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A Family Affair

Timothy Birdnow

I took my wife to a doctor yesterday. Since SLU is a teaching hospital we saw a resident first, a nice young man and eager beaver who asked a lot of questions about her medical history.  She has serious eye problems as do I and she was having trouble reading her notes so I took the paper and the magnifying glass from her and checked it.

Now Cat and I have do not just use a magnifying glass but the little super magnifier hole on the bottom to read anything. I do, even  though I have prescription glasses which make some reading of large print possible.

So here I am peeping through the tiny hole just as she had done and the resident, a serious and earnest fellow, asked:

"Do you have eye problems too?"

"Yes, oddly enough we both have the same eye problems, or mostly."

He put his foot in his mouth:

"Oh wow! Is that some kind of congenital thing?"

"No, we're not from Arkansas."

There was a moment of silence and there appeared o a hamster on a wheel in his eyes.

Suddenly he broke out in a big grin, getting his mistake and the joke.

Missouri, and particularly around the Ozark Hilton, may have it's share of cousin nuptials, but we can't compete with the Razorbacks for those truly family affair marriages.

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Senate Dems add Hillary Clinton to women's history celebration tweet after spokesperson complains

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The "Domestic Terrorist" Lie of Chris Wray

Timothy Birdnow

FBI Chief Wray Accuses Capitol Hill Attackers of Domestic Terrorism

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California's Energy Impoverishment

This from Stephen Heins:

But the Poor are being Punished Nonetheless.

More energy poverty is likely to become a growing part of California and American life if energy taxes go up, while new pipe lines and fracking are banned. The European Union already has that problem. The EU further estimates that fully one-quarter of residents, or 128 million people (and that includes the existing 54 million), are at risk of being energy poor.
……

California’s Climate Contradictions
New evidence that green policies punish the poor and subsidize the rich.

The state requires renewables like wind and solar to make up 60% of electricity generation by 2030. The study says renewable prices (albeit with subsidies) are now roughly the same as other power sources, but utilities signed long-term contracts with solar and wind producers years ago when prices were higher. Utilities also need backup power when it’s cloudy, which adds costs. Yet the state sometimes has to pay Arizona to take its excess solar power to avoid overloading the grid.

And here’s the kicker: Folks with solar panels get paid for surplus power they don’t use—sometimes at two to three times the rate of wholesale power. So California pays the well-to-do to generate solar power it doesn’t need and then pays Arizona to take it.

We’ve written for years that state "net-metering” programs shift the grid’s fixed costs to low- and middle-income people without solar panels. The Next 10 study estimates that this cost shift translates into $230 more for an average annual electric bill and $124 for lower-income customers with subsidized rates in San Diego.

Yet 25% to 30% of all residential electricity is discounted for low-income customers, and "the cost of this subsidy is borne by all other customers,” the study says. In other words, the middle class ends up financing rate subsidies for the poor aimed at ameliorating the higher costs of solar subsidies for the well-to-do. California’s cap-and-trade program and utility "public purpose programs” like battery subsidies add several more cents per kilowatt hour.

The study concludes that the state’s electric rates are so regressive that they could discourage people from buying electric vehicles and electrifying their homes by replacing gas-fueled appliances. Instead of raising electric rates, the study suggests making policies more progressive by increasing income taxes to promote its climate goals. So subsidize the rich, then tax them more.

This is especially hilarious since Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento leaned on utilities to finance their climate spending so they wouldn’t have to divert general fund revenues from social welfare. But the poor are being punished nonetheless.

Read the rest!

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Bidenbots, AOC blame lack of "Green Energy" for Failure of Texas Grid

Timothy Birdnow

So, Texas froze as a result of their power grid going down. So, what is the answer?

Why, more wind and solar power of course!

Yes, the same dufi (is that the plural of dufus?) who brought us the Texas frozen toe two step now want to make it a permanent feature of life in the Lone Star State (and beyond).

From the Washington Times:

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"What happened in Texas is a preview of what the climate crisis will look like — coast to coast — if we fail to make transformational infrastructure investments now,” said Ms. Lodes. "President Biden knows we have to build back better and work together towards a clean energy future.”

Not buying it was climate change skeptic Marc Morano, founder of the ClimateDepot.com. He cited a Center of the American Experiment study that gave nuclear power the highest score for performance and reliability from Feb. 15-17, the height of the outages, with failing grades for wind, hydro and solar.

"The proponents of the Green New Deal are desperately trying to push the theme that the more green energy fails, the more green energy must be mandated,” Mr. Morano said. "But there is no scientific, economic, or energy reason to expand wind power even more in Texas.”

Of course Alexandria Ocasio Cortez chimed in in her inimitably stupid way :


So it's because there aren't enough wind mills and solar panels, not because those wind mills and solar panels failed when the weather didn't cooperate!

Texas gets about a quarter of it's power from renewables, and it was those sources that failed in the cold and snow. Wind mills in Texas aren't heated (as that would require fossil fuels) so they froze up. Solar panels stopped working because of snow loads. (Granted, solar is a minor part of the Texas power generating scheme.)

Natural gas generates about half of the power in Texas. But there is no gas storage in place and pipelines froze up. With no gas in reserve the system had to rely on wind to a far greater extent. Coal, which accounts for just 13.4% of the energy distribution, is easily stored and utterly reliable but was such a small part of Texas energy it scarcely mattered.

Biden's "Climate Czar" Gina McCarthy said:

"The reason why the president is focused on this is because the time is now,” Ms. McCarthy told NBC’s "Today” on Feb. 20. "But it also is an opportunity for us as we start rebuilding our economy to build it on the most firm base that we can, and the one that’s going to grow the most jobs, that happens to be clean energy.”

Except it didn't. And there have never been "green jobs" as promised overseas. Biden has killed many jobs in the fossil fuel industry by his high-handed cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline and other efforts to kill American oil and gas and coal. His promises of "green jobs" rings hollow for those thrown permanently out of work by this fantasy of "renewable energy".

Thirty two people died in the cold snap/blackout and countless businesses and consumers suffered massive bills for the unreliable energy thanks to rolling blackouts.

According to the Texas Energy Information Administration:

Texas leads the nation in wind-powered generation and produced about 28% of all the U.S. wind-powered electricity in 2019. Texas wind turbines have produced more electricity than both of the state's nuclear power plants since 2014.

Texas produces more electricity than any other state, generating almost twice as much as Florida, the second-highest electricity-producing state.

Texas is the largest energy-producing and energy-consuming state in the nation. The industrial sector, including its refineries and petrochemical plants, accounts for half of the energy consumed in the state.

So you have a state that leads the country in energy CONSUMPTION putting a quarter of it's eggs into leaky a basket as wind. Is it any surprise that wind failed when the Polar Vortex blew chill?

But that doesn't comport with the Green narrative.

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Mining "Rare Earth Metals" is Dirty Business

This from Jim Church

Mining Magnets: Arctic Island Finds Green Power can be a Curse

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Suess Fashions a Noose

Timothy Birdnow

Suess Fashions a Noose

With apologies to Ted Geisel, who actually hated Hitler, attacked Charles Lindbergh for his racism, and praised Joseph Stalin (in other words, was hardly a Trump supporter).

Why Dr. Suess?
Surely they aren't so obtuse
or can it be true, the man with the zoo really hated the black and the Jew?

Why Dr. Suess?
was it all just a ruse?
Was the Cat in the Hat just a big Nazi rat? Was Horton a Ku Klux Klan stooge?

Why Dr. Suess?
Are you racist like Mother Goose?
Are those cute little Sneetches just Brownshirt sons of beeches? When Horton hears a Who did he then go kill a Jew? Did the Grinch (who'd never floss) cut down trees for burning cross?

Why Dr. Suess?
Did you scare Bubba Wallace with a noose?
Are the Lorax and Max bearing unfair attacks
Were they hit by a big red caboose?

Why Doctor Suess?
Did supping on green eggs and ham get their colons all dammed and their bowels badly jammed? Or did smelly blue fish make their stomachs go swish, a very bad dish?

Why Dr. Suess?
Could it be they just hate you and me
like the Grinch their hearts are too small?
They're too blinded to see a Thing One or Thing Three
and they've got not a thing on the ball
Or is it perhaps that some Bolshevik chaps just really don't like you at all?

Why Dr. Suess? Did you fashion a noose?

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The Dangerous "Equality Act"

From E. Calvin Beisner

I predict this will be ruled unconstitutional if it passes the Senate (by no means certain), but it's going to take time, and it will do a great deal of damage first

Think the "Equality Act" will  Spare Churches and Religious Schools? Think Again

Tim adds:

Let us HOPE the Courts rule against this. I'm not entirely sure (especially with John Roberts at the helm). Churches and religious schools need to practice civil disobedience here, and the individual states need to have the backbone to refuse to enforce this corrupt and evil law.

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