July 07, 2021
There's a lot more, and it's very clear and to-the-point, like all of Murdock's writing. Go here https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-electric-car-tesla-battery-energy to read the rest."We need plug-in hybrids!" a young Leftie once chirped at me after I addressed students on his college campus.
"OK," I asked. "When you go home and plug your car into the electric socket in the garage, where do you think that electricity comes from?"
He stood there in silence for a couple of seconds and then slowly dropped his head in grief. It was clear that this idealist never had asked himself how electricity gets into the wall socket.Until something huge changes, Teslas, Chevy Bolts, Nissan Leafs, and other sexy electric cars will be powered chiefly by natural gas, uranium, coal, or dams. Renewables generated just 13 percent of U.S. electricity in 2020, according to the latest Department of Energy data. Fuels the Democrat-Left hates: 87 percent. (Natural gas, 41 percent; Nuclear, 20; Coal, 19; Hydroelectric, 7).
Those who oppose the energy status quo have given little apparent thought to this, as they try to re-build American society on a foundation of daydreams. In a sense, this is too bad. Life would be so easy if everyone lived in the Democrat-Left’s Green’s Fantasyland. In that carefree place, tough questions about electric cars go unasked.
Here’s another one:
How would life look for e-car drivers trying to escape hurricanes?
Imagine that Hurricane Dave is churning through the Caribbean. The furious Category-Three storm is barreling toward Miami and forecast to roar northward and wreak havoc on America’s state of paradise. Some models show Dave trashing Florida’s Atlantic beach cities. Others envision 120-MPH winds ravishing the Gulf Coast.
The safest bet is to flee Miami, speed as far away as possible, and perhaps make a sharp left into the Panhandle and toward Alabama.
The 347-mile drive from Miami to Jacksonville exceeds today’s median range for e-cars, whose batteries die after 259 miles.
Imagine tens or even hundreds of thousands of Miami-area e-drivers pulling over on the side of Interstate 95 near Daytona Beach to replenish their batteries. Most would find charging stations shambolically oversubscribed. Those lucky enough to plug in would have to sit still while powering their batteries, devouring two or more hours for many models.
Meanwhile, Dave spins his deadly pirouette with mounting menace, growing closer by the minute — and angrier, too. While these e-cars sip voltage, Dave has grown into a 140-MPH Category Four tempest.
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I got this from Jennifer Ann in the group End the Stay; Missouri Governor Parsons is a Republican but he's about as conservative as Gerald R. Ford, and about as fiery a speaker.
Jennifer Ann says:
Governor Parsons called for Federal "Surge Response Teamsâ€
Teams will work on vaxxxxxine confidence efforts, SURVEILLANCE, and sequence support.
WH: We will be going DOOR to DOOR to Americans that have not been vaxxxxed; https://youtu.be/UDy0kOKOx64
What YOU can do to 🛑 stop this gross overreach;
1. Immediately call 📱 Governor Parson’s office at 573-751-3222 Ext. 2. Respectfully state you do NOT want the FEDS at our door! Please keep politics out of medicine. If we want the j a b we know how to get it.
2. Call, text, or email your State Senator and Representative and ask why are the FEDS being called to Missouri. SAPA passed to PROTECT us from Federal overreach. Why are they being asked to come here now?
https://house.mo.gov/MemberRoster.aspx.
https://www.senate.mo.gov/2021-senator-listing-2/
3. Contact your local sheriff 👮â€â™‚ï¸ requesting his support for protection from Federal overreach!
Parsons became Governor when Eric Greitens was removed from office, although he was elected in the last election (nobody was going to vote for the idiot running as a Democrat here.)
The man belongs back on his farm. He has caved to just about everything. Had Parson ended the state of emergency the county execs and mayors could not have imposed the ridiculous mask mandates and other tyrannical policies that bedeviled us here for the last year and a quarter.
So now Nostones is fine with the Feds spying on Missouri citizens. Just appalling.
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Despite marijuana being legal in California, the Golden State is engaged in a far bigger war on drugs than ever was the old pre-legalized state ever had been.
Daniel Greenfield gives us the scoop.
And, as he points out, it's all about the money they are losing to illegal pot, not about morality or saving lives or anything else.
Basically, there are drug cartels doing what Capone and his boys did during Prohibition.
And Governor Nuisance Knewsome Newsome shows yet again what a partisan hack he is, pulling National Guardsmen from the border to fight the great drug war against tax scofflaws.
California should be sawed off the country and allowed to float away. (Nothing personal Bill.)
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A guy emailed me about one of my articles, thanking me for the "female perspective.†He believed I had something to say to the ladies. The implication appeared to be that as a woman, I could speak more authentically to other women than I could to men. As a woman, I have a completely different lens through which I see truth. Ah, nooo.
But I got to thinking.
It struck me that major institutions, including the Church, succumbed to the core tenets of critical race theory long ago when church leaders bought into the notion of separate races—an essentially Darwinian notion--a long story deserving of longer treatment.
When church leaders desert the idea of one human race created by a living God in his image; when they accept the idea of humans as being differentiated by and thus intrinsically differing from one another because of skin color (or class), they have already accepted a foundational idea of CRT. When they believe, for instance, that Christian blacks can speak more authentically to fellow blacks than they can to white Christians; (or vice versa), they embrace yet another foundational premise of CRT; namely that you have your truth and I have mine; and race is definitive of the kind of truth each of us possesses. When they began to accept the idea that there is something intrinsically bad about a particular race—a specifically genetic evil found in one particular kind of human being--they made the final step toward embracing CRT.
In short, many gradually have accepted a distorted idea of the biblical concept of original sin, placing the onus of sin on skin color and have discarded the universality of the plan of salvation for offered to all human beings regardless of color. In its stead is placed a works-oriented plan of salvation in which reparations for the sins of the fathers are to be put into effect. Certain skin colors reveal that person to have been born bad, and he or she will inevitably display the stamp of the unforgiveable sin of racism, which sin must be continually repented of and which sin never is expiated.
In brief, the mark of Cain as interpreted by some in the past has merely shifted to another category of people.
CRT must be entirely and thoroughly repudiated as unchristian.
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The group involved in the standoff with police in Massachusetts are not Moroccan as the media keeps reporting but African Americans pretending to be Moroccan.
Robert Spencer points out that this is just a far-left hate group known as the Moorish Science Temple of America, a group going back to 1910. They have just updated their image with the so-called "Moorish sovereign citizens movement".
I find this interesting because I just had a fight with someone on Facebook who claimed to be of "Moroccan descent" and said the Moors came to America - and settled here - centuries before the English.
She kept insisting America was well known prior to Columbus. I kept asking her for evidence to support that fact and she scoffed and sneered but provided none. She kept talking about DNA, and I kept pointing out that at best we might find some European DNA mixed with Native Americans, but that only tells us there was interbreeding; it's impossible to tell when this happened, and it is most likely relatively recent. In fact, I suspect she had no evidence at all.
At the time I didn't know I was up against a coordinated trolling. I pointed out this is entirely an attempt to lift up a certain segment of the population for purely political reasons. She didn't like that.
So who is funding this bunch? George Soros maybe?
When I demanded she provide evidence she disappeared. I'm not surprised; that is the standard operating procedure of trolls when caught.
Oh, and this dope kept saying they had boats before Columbus. My rejoinder? They didn't have a prow, or any way to make a mainsail mast. That's why ships stuck close to shore until the Middle Ages when the Vikings developed ships that could traverse the oceans - and the rest of Europe caught up with them.
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In Minneapolis BLM thugs surrounded the car of a city councilwoman and demanded charges against them for rioting be dropped.
From Fox Snews:
The vice president of the Minneapolis City Council says she was "held hostage" while attending a Pride celebration over the weekend, as video shows a large group of protesters blocked her vehicle until she agreed to sign a list of their demands that included dropping criminal charges against rioters.
Andrea Jenkins, who represents Minneapolis’ 8th Ward and identifies as the first Black openly transgender woman to be elected to office in the U.S., said in a statementTuesday that it is also time to stop the holding of Black-owned businesses, the neighbors and residents of the neighborhood near George Floyd Square hostage more than a year after Floyd's death on May 25, 2020.
The incident happened Sunday afternoon while Jenkins was attending the Taking Back Pride event in Loring Park, as video shows her sitting in the front passenger seat of a white vehicle being blocked by a group of extreme Black Lives Matter demonstrators, many with their cellphones out recording.
"It might be three days before I get out of here," Jenkins is heard telling someone over the phone while sitting in the vehicle, according to a 23-minute-long video shared to Facebook by activist Donald Hooker Jr.
Imagine if MAGA people ahd done something similar to an authority; the National Guard would have been deployed, and the "insurrectionists" sent to Guantanamo Bay.But little is said in the mainstream media about this. And of course liberal Minnesota will simply ignore it as "justifiable rage".
We live in two Americas; one where you can do whatever you want and another where you just have to take it and like it - or else!
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William F. Buckley must be rolling over in his grave.
National Review's David French (who lives up to his surname as an effete surrender monkey) has written a defense for
Yes, the hero of the NeverTrump wing of the once conservative NRO is actually arguing CRT is just fine.
According to Redstate, French has argued in the New York Times that laws against CRT are somehow "speech codes" and a violation of the First Amendment. He seems to fail to grasp that in fact the speech codes are the rules of CRT and the parents have absolute authority over what the teachers - their employees - teach their kids.
French is a guy who sold his soul for a modicum of fame and whores his talents out in attacking "his" own side. And National Review has become a ridiculous tabloid style hamster cage liner.
From the Redstate article:
The general arguments presented by [David French and his leftwing coauthors] are ludicrous on their face, assuming that public schools exist as a "marketplace of ideas" when they clearly have always been heavily regulated. Curriculums are chosen based on their ability to educate students. They are not fleshed out via teaching wild, racist theories like CRT without any boundaries. There are hundreds of different schools of thought that are not taught in K-12 education. You can't teach Holocaust denial, for example, nor would any student be educated by such tripe. The same is true for CRT, which exists as racial essentialism pushing the notion that certain races of people are inherently oppressive. It's pseudo-science garbage.
But my point in writing this is not to take the Times article apart or to do another breakdown of why CRT is bad. Rather, it's to point out that French (he's one of the multiple authors of the piece) represents a type of Republican that is always looking to surrender. The idea that there is any danger to freedom of speech or ideas because CRT isn't allowed in school curriculums is obviously ridiculous. Yet, French makes that argument because he needs some way to counter the fact that Republicans are actually making headway regarding a major culture war issue.
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Here is a bit of local news that illustrates the political nature of the pandemic and shows how the progressive mindset has come to utterly dominate our culture.
Jefferson County, Missouri is an exurban part of the St. Louis area. South of St. Louis, it lies in the foothills of the Ozarks and is populated by "hoosiers" as we call them around here; a "hoosier" is local term for redneck or hillbilly, only it usually applies to urban hillbillies. As St. Louis underwent a population shift the old South Side Hoosiers migrated to Jefferson County and reside there, so now are more rural. The area is poorer than most of the exurbs and underdeveloped. And there are a lot of true country folk out there.
But many of the hoosiers usually vote Democratic as most were labor union workers. On the other hand it was Trump country too.
Which is what makes this story of interest to me.
Suzy Davis has been a vocal opponent of lockdowns and masking orders and has helped keep Jefferson County from being overrun by the pandemic frenzy oppression.
She sits on the county's board of health and has stopped a number of power grabs by the board.
So now they are censuring her. The reasons are multiple (as is always the case with the Left) including "being aggressive" in meetings and tardiness, but the reality is it is over her stance on Covid.
I caught an exchange between her and another council member last night; he kept accusing her of risking lives for politics (something he and his buddies on the council were in fact doing themselves.)
I do not know much about Davis, but I do know how progressives think, and know she is bitterly opposed to masking and lockdown rules.
Here
is an exchange between board members about implementing a mask mandate.
As I pointed out in a Facebook page devoted to getting her removed, the anti-science people are on their side, not ours. I know of at least 26 peer-reviewed studies that contradict masking, and here is a recent one from Kentucky U.
The argument is always about the public good and never about the rights of the citizen to be free of public coercion.
We are living in an era where people seem to care nothing for their liberty or autonomy. And so many simply believe whatever the media tells them to - or the civil authorities who have a vested interest in increasing their power over the individual.
And of course all of the medical people pushing this are getting their marching orders from Washington and the CDC - and from the Chinese controlled World Health Organization.
Frankly, these bodies have been politicized for this very purpose. We've been lied to more than once over Covid; remember "flatten the curve" and "three week lockdown"? Remember them laughing at claims this was created in a lab? But they are absolutely correct about masking and lockdowns! Yessireee Billy Bob!
The totalitarian mindset has infected the whole stinking country.
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Oh my!
Steve Chase observed:
Not one 'journalist' challenged that statement. Not....one....
I think I concussed myself smiting my own forehead over this. They are getting hurt by it so are now trying to turn the tables, and think we are so stupid we won't notice.
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Cold in East Africa. Hurting crop yields caused by the cold. Not part of the narrative.
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After more than four years of going after Donald Trump with every weapon in its considerable arsenal, the best the state of New York could come up with is a charge that requires it to prove that the Trump Organization provided fringe benefits to its employees with the intent to allow them to commit tax fraud.
Now, I’m aware that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if asked to do so, but can someone tell me what might conceivably constitute proof of intent in this case? This sandwich isn’t filled with ham; it’s filled with hog manure.
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In a discussion with the Wattsupwiththat community a few observations on the current problems with alarmism and children were raised.
Steven Yaskell observed:
Ignoring choice bits of history - ramping up the horror of others - is a way for the recent dens of idiots who ruin our country (only this time, it's by using Marxist-Leninis
John Lees responded:
They grow up surrounded by lies and liars. It must be a horrific experience. Everyone has to triple check whether they might be accused of triggering some clown's sensitivities with their next mundane observation.
And therefore they are reduced to recycling glib cliches or shutting up altogether and reserving their true identity for the anonymity of online chat.
A grim corner which the leftists have painted themselves into. Utterly bereft of freedom or humour.
And I toss in my 2c:
That is what helicopter parenting and endless regulation of their early lives have nequethed them John Lees. These kids have grown up being sheltered from any sort of unregulated experience. They play sports only under supervision, they do not go around outside, they are forever being watched. And they are told to trust authorities, like teachers, who are in fact child abusers in therapeutic form who teach them to be afraid of their own shadows and to only act and say what is approved. The young are raised like veal. You said it so well; a grim corner bereft of freedom of humour!
John adds:
It's been going on a long time. I left my primary school in the 1970's. A few years later when I was in secondary school I heard that the headmistress at that primary school had banned competition during sports day. This was jawdropping for us to imagine, at the time. Apparently the kids were to walk around a course and jump onto and off of boxes etc.
They were not to have any aspiration to succeed or drive to demonstrate any skill or determination.
These things were now verbotten.
And I'm talking about maybe 1983...
Tim replies:
Ah yes John; you and I are about the same age, it seems, and I remember this thing rising like a kraken from the sea too. We just missed it, to our mutual good fortune. That was the whole "self-esteem" kick they got on, trying to promote self-esteem by removing competition. All it did was instill unwarranted arrogance in many and a lack of ability to deal with the trials and failures of life. It was a kind of child abuse, in my opinion.
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20m of sea level rise over less than 500 years.
So an average rate of around 60mm/yr. Equal to over 20x the rate observed during the 1930's-40's or estimated for the last few decades.
Now - that's what I call climate change.
Somebody remind me, why is it that we are always being told that 20th-21st century climate change is more rapid than at any time in history?
Only if we conveniently ignore the many other far more rapid periods of change, it seems.
An Ancient Meltwater Pulse Raised Sea Levels by 18 Meters
I always feel that statements along the lines of "changes in the past were less rapid" should be read as "records of changes in the past tend to be of lower resolution".
i.e.. the further that you go back in time the more the lumps on the graph get smoothed out.
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https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/07/can-you-guess-why-theres-a-media-blackout-on-this-unarmed-17-year-old-shot-by-a-cop.html
Unlike Michael Brown, he didn’t attack a cop. Unlike George Floyd, he didn’t have a criminal record and drugs in his system. In fact, he wasn’t even being arrested. But just like those two men, 17-year-old Hunter Brittain is dead, in his case the victim of a suspicious police shooting.
Yet unlike Brown and Floyd again, you haven’t heard a peep about Brittain’s story from national media.
And you likely won’t.
See more on this here.
Tim adds:
I was having an argument with a black girl I knew from long ago about "systemic racism". She blew her stack when I mentiooned the killing of that Australian woman in Minneapolis; it does not fit with the leftist narrative that blacks are "hunted" by racist white cops. I was trying to make the point that there are racist black cops too, and in fact there are just bad cops of every stripe and race need not be brought into it. That is infuriating to many, who want to believe that it's just an excess of melanin that somehow infuriates white police officers.
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The alleged fraud involves 22 research papers authored by Philip
Munday, a marine ecologist at JCU (James Cook University) in
Townsville, Australia and Danielle Dixson, a U.S. biologist who
completed her PhD under Munday’s supervision in 2012. The fraud charges
were made in August 2020 by three of an international group of mostly
biological and environmental scientists, plus the group leader, fish
physiologist Timothy Clark of Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.
The Clark group says it will publicize the alleged data problems
shortly.
The research in question studied the behavior of
coral reef fish in slightly acidified seawater, in order to simulate
the effect of ocean acidification caused by the absorption of up to 30%
of humanity’s CO2 emissions. The additional CO2 has so far lowered the
average pH – a measure of acidity – of ocean surface water from about
8.2 to 8.1 since industrializati
Munday and Dixson claim that the extra CO2 causes reef fish to be attracted by chemical cues from predators, instead of avoiding them; to become hyperactive and disoriented; and to suffer loss of vision and hearing. But Clark and his fellow scientists, in their own paper published in January 2020, debunk all of these conclusions. Most damningly of all, the researchers find that the reported effects of ocean acidification on the behavior of coral reef fish are not reproducible – the basis for their fraud allegations against the JCU work.
Tim adds:
So how do coral manage to live normal lives around volcanic vents? Coral thrive around islands which spew out all sorts of acids. I don't believe the reefs are a bit disturbed by acidified oceans around those vents.
BTW the Oceans are not acidic by highly alkaline. The oceans have moved from maybe 8.2 to 8.1, but the scale measuring acidity is logarithmic, which means a .01 decrease in alkalinity. The Warmmongers know people will not understand that.
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July 06, 2021
It takes an Australian to say what millions of Americans are thinking. Worth the 4 minute watch.
The Free World is Run by a Person Who Probably Couldn't Find His Way Home After Dark
And more...
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I used to say, "there's places with rotting fish guts miles deep on the bottom of the ocean so it has to release gas when it rots, right?"
Climate change may be real...but may be just real-LY inevitable be more correct. Man-made climate change will eventually be moot.... except, the earth will balance out once the fish die off...
Oddly,
you could argue drilling for oil to prevent spontaneous oil deposit
collapse and mass fishing could be best thing for humanity...mayb
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-powerful-greenhouse-gas-is-on-the-rise-from-ocean-dead-zones
In the same way that human emissions of atmospheric CO2 are almost undetectable in the atmosphere, the same sleight of hand is used in this article to confound the reader into believing all N2O emissions are human caused.
Absolute nonsense and should be slapped with a 'Fact Check' by FB, but of course it isn't.
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On Facebook Andy Garcia argues that the First Amendment does not justify separating religion from government. He says:
The Bible and the Constitution are not supposed to be separate.
David Short, an obvious atheist, takes umbrage with that statement:
The 1st Amendment says different.
I dispute that:
No it does not David Short. The Firsrt Amendment says "CONGRFSS shall make no law concerning the establishment of religion, nor prohibit the free exercise thereof". It says nothing about religion having to stay out of politics. more...
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No, we have not witnessed an increase in extreme weather.
And that according to the IPCC AR5 WGII Chapter on Extremes:
"Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basinâ€
"In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scaleâ€
"In summary, there is low confidence in observed trends in small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms because of historical data inhomogeneities
"In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century..
etc.
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On Facebook Willis Eschenbach and Dr. Roy Spencer got into a disagreement on sea level rise. Another poster claimed it was clearly rising, and Dr. Spencer said it MAY be rising. I tried to find data to disprove the commenter (something I couldn't do; once again the search engines expunged this stuff.)
Willis found and presented this graph:
You can see clearly there has been no net increase in sea level rise during the 20th century.
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