April 23, 2022

Florida and Disney

Willis Eschenbach

Folks keep saying Florida will die w/out Disney.

Orlando tourism brings in about $75 billion/year, about $1000/person.

Disney Magic Kingdom has about 7 million visitors/year. So they bring in a maximum of ~ 9% of the tourism dollars.

Florida will be fine.

Disneyworld, Seaworld, and the Rest of Tourism Industry Bank Big

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Facebook Spying on Customers

Timothy Birdnow

Does it surprise anyone to learn Facebook is spying on the content of it's customers - even including private chats?

https://­www.latimes.com/­business/­la-fi-tn-facebook-mes­senger-privacy-20180­404-story.html

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The Great Chicken Die-off

Mike

Read at the Huff Po that bird flu has caused the destruction of over 5 million chickens and turkeys in Iowa. Blaming it in migratory birds and its also spreading across Europe as the flu has been found in their migratory birds as well.

Tim adds:

The "free range" movement allowing farm animals to wander around loose probably ties in with this. If you let chickens wander around loose you are going to see them catch diseases from other birds. It's how Nature works.

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Thank God for Petroleum

Dana Mathewson

Half the products we buy -- excluding food -- are petroleum-based. You couldn't build a modern computer without plastics. Or a modern car. Or a TV.

Tim adds:

Even food uses oil sometimes Dana. Some of the best preservatives we used to use to keep food fresh was made from petroleum biproducts. I think they've gotten rid of that, which is why bread is now stale all the time straight from the supermarket.

Oil was truly God's gift to humanity - and we have thrown it back in His face.

There is BHA and BHT, both petroleum based products used to maintain food freshness. Also THBQ. And most food coloring is petroleum based.

Our old friend, the late Alan Caruba, used to write about these a lot. He analyzed the health patterns and saw they were safe and effective, but a left-wing campaign was launched against them years ago and while they haven't won yet they have managed to minimize the use of these products. That's why so many things lack freshness these days.

Pop Tarts, Pringles (well, you probably guessed that), Kraft macaroni and cheese, M & M's, Cheerios, are just a few of the foods that use petroleum-based preservatives to make them delicious.

Many health nazis try to claim this is the cause of autism, or HDAD, or other modern problems, but there is no evidence of that fact.

We eat all manner of Earth-based stuff. Petroleum is completely natural and comes out of the Earth - something the hippie Back To The Earth types claim to want. It is not a synthetic material devised in a lab (like many other preservatives). Attacks on it are merely a part of the war on petroleum being waged by the morons.

Before we had such preservatives we ran the risk of food spoiling and our getting sick from it.

Bear in mind, too, that these same people resist irradiating food (which kills the germs), and also resist using DNA to create foods resistant to rot.

Why, it's as if they don't want us to have safe food at all! I think that is the case; they want a lower population and safe, long lasting food does not comport with that.

Nor does oil, the lifeblood of our economy.

Also, how are we going to package food without petroleum based products? Go back to glass? Most glass has plastic in it these days.

Decades ago my friend and I would drive over to Illinois to liquor store where we could get "bar bottles" which were solid glass. They tasted so much better - but you had to watch the chips on the lip when you drank them! They had to be returned. Another friend's brother in law ran the Jacksonville bottling plant for Anheuser Bush and he told us that the throwaway bottles had considerable plastic in them. Yes, there was glass, but plastic was added to increase their strength and make them cheaper to boot.

So petroleum is responsible for our entire civilization and we should be on our knees thanking God for it!

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The Price of Stubbornness

Dana Mathewson

According to history I've read, Hitler willingly went to war with Russia because -- against all advice from his generals, who were not stupid and wanted nothing to do with a two-front war -- he "needed Russia's oil." It was one of many instances where Hitler ignored his generals. If he hadn't, and had not taken over operational command early in the war, we might all be speaking German here.

Germany had no petroleum reserves, but they did some clever things with synthetic oil. Every time you buy a can of Mobil One, you're buying Hitler's technology. Posted by: Dana

Tim adds:

Hitler's great misfortune was he got lucky rolling the dice early with HIS plan and not the Wehrmacht's. Had he been spanked early he probably would have known to stay out of military affairs and let the pros do it. He had the best in the world, after all. But he bucked the generals and won and so believed he was omnipotent.

The V2 was a prime example of Hitler's meddling costing them. The military people wanted mobile V2 launch sites so the Allies couldn't bomb them. Hitler insisted on stationary sites and got them - and the Allies bombed them. Had they gone with the mobile sites the V2 could have wrecked total havoc on Britain. But they wound up being reasonably ineffective because the Allies could get planes to the sites faster than the sites could be constructed.

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April 22, 2022

Food Processing Plants Burning, According to Carlseson

Timothy Birdnow

Interesting if true. There are no mainstream media reports of this.

Multiple Large Food Processing & Distribution Plants in US Have Recently Exploded or Burned


This at a time when food is starting to get scarce and prices skyrocketing.

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Mesoamerican Civilizations?

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a Facebook discussion worth reproducing here.

Steven Chase says:

"The question of whether we have allowed western MATH to dominate is no less relevant than whether we have allowed western authors to dominate the field of literature."- Oxford University.
Again, the slow, self-inflicted destruction of Western Civilization.

..."the geometry of a teepee, canoe or a woven basket is just as important as theoretical physics or organic chemistry" -According to WOKE Academia

Ricardo Bacquera objects:

So you think all the Native Americans, the Mayans, Aztecs Incas & those before them that their height of intelligence was the teepee, canoe or a woven basket ? Do you happen to know where the largest pyramid in the world is? The Mayans had discovered the Solar System knew more about astrology and Math way before any other civilization!! But of course when the Europeans came they label them savages and barely human so that they could have a reason to pillage, steal their gold & silver and kill them. Ignorance is Bliss! more...

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Biden Killing Fast Food

Warner Todd Huston

Biden Economic Failures Causing Cost of Fast Food to Soar

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Border Agents Cleared

James Hatem

Border patrol agents accused of whipping migrants have been cleared of any wrongdoing. Another hoax by the left exposed. Watch the montage of Biden and company rushing to judgement 6 months ago. Think he will apologize?

Watch Psaki squirm to get off the hook.

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Buffetted

Timothy Birdnow

Check this out; Warren Buffett is being pushed out at Berkshire Hathaway.

https://on.wsj.com/3rHQt4u?fbclid=IwAR3dnPZEtaY2NiXmySlFp6iLR9Dgkbeik1v8Qj2dy7AApmmM-90IuH4Y9XE

The nation’s largest pension fund is planning to vote for a proposal that would unseat Warren Buffett as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

There seems to be a lot of discontent with the leadership of the anointed these days.

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More Runs, More Hits, One Big Error

Timothy Birdnow

Boo!

Half Century Holdout Over the DH Comes to the National League

Now the two leagues are one - something I do not like at all.

I liked having different rules for different leagues. Some players did better in one league, some in another.

Now MLB is a gray paste, a victom of merger mania.

The DH rule was always about increasing hits and runs and making the game more about offense. It subtracts strategy in favor of flash. There was considerable strategy employed by managers in the National League to find ways to succeed with a poor-hitting pitcher.

Baseball joins Football, which did that some time ago with changes to the rules protecting receivers and quarterbacks so as to make passing a regular play (rather than a suprise play). Now there is little running in football; most plays feature passes. The Fullback is largely obsolete.

Basketball did this long ago, with changes to the rules making incidental contact illegal. The result was the big, fast players dominated and the stouter, stronger ones disappeared. Now basketball is just run and jump and little else. I have no use for it because it's the same tired thing. There is no strategy, which used to be a key element of the game.

So MLB is going downt he same path. More runs, more hits, one big error.

P.S. Why is the Players Union involved in setting League rules? There is nothing involving health or safety here. It is the union interfering with how baseball is being played. That is unacceptable.

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Self Flagelating

"The first and fatal charm of national repentance is, therefore, the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing--but, first, of denouncing--the conduct of others."

C.S. Lewis

Courtesy Debbie Beisner

Tim adds:

Great catch Debbie! That is the perfect quote for our modern "woke" era. We are in an era of self-flagelation whose purpose is not to actually repent of sins but rather to whip the majority into line.

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Baby Steps

Tom DeWeese

Simple Steps; Powerful Results - Hall shares simple and inspiring success stories and practical steps you can take for winning in your local community. Sometimes small acts can yield powerful results.

Tim adds:

Confucious allegedly said (Confucious was a wordy one, wasn't he!) "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" and that is right. A movement isn't born at the top. That is like starting your business career as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. No, it starts in the mail room.. If we are to restore the nation it must start at the grass roots. School boards. Precinct captains. All of the drudge work of politics is where we must shine. We have the numbers after all; they don't. It must be like the tide coming in; they see it but can't stop it. Sadly, too often in this day and age our side is too busy with the labors of life that we fail to participate and the enemy ignores those labors in favor of political activism. We need more balance.

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April 21, 2022

Biden Ships Oil from U.S. Reserve to Europe

Timothy Birdnow

Joe Biden tapped the strategic oil reserve ostensibly to lower fuel prices here in the U.S.
But what is he doing with it?

Oil from U.S. Reserve Heads to Europe Amid Global Supply Crunch

Yes, he's sending it to Europe and not using it here to help Americans.

Don't tell me he's America's President. He's clearly bucking for President of the World.

And that oil is intended for belligerent purposes. No doubt he's topping up the war machine so he can intervene in the Ukrainian/Russian war and maybe start the Big One.

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CNN+ Fails

This from Russell P. Green

It took less than a month for Warner Media to realize that nobody, not even seriously infected TDS liberals are willing to pay a dime to hear the morons on CNN!

CNN+ is Shutting Down Effective April 30, Sources Say

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Twitting

Warner Todd Huston

Even Twitter's Former CEO Is Lashing Out at Twitter's Board as Elon Musk Attempts to Buy Big Tech Company

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The Two Kingdoms

Fay Voshell

I’ve been reading The Bright Ages, a book that seeks to demolish the still common idea that the Middle Ages were "dark.”

One of the things that struck me was the consensus among clergy and laymen and women on what was called "The Peace of God.” Meetings were called during which people of all classes as well as the departed saints and martyrs were assumed to attend. The idea was that in times of confusion and conflict, an attempt to understand God’s plan for the world should be attempted. The gap between the temporal and the supernatural was to be filled.

"People believed generally in divine intervention as a real force in their world,” and the determination was "to make this world as much like the next as possible.”

It struck me that the Church’s loss of belief in God’s sovereignty over temporal matters and the failure of belief in the interface of Heaven and Earth has been catastrophic. The erosion of the idea of the sovereignty of God has been evidenced by the separation of the supernatural from the world’s affairs. "…religion became something internal; all else, all actions were politics.”

Matters became even more exacerbated by the separation of disciplines in universities, as Cardinal Henry Newman pointed out in his "Idea of a University.” The idea of Christian theology as a separate discipline and the establishment of seminaries as opposed to the Christian universities once characteristic of the Middle Ages (think University of Paris) and of America until relatively recently (think Harvard, Yale and Princeton) has meant the establishment of a narrow Christian subculture heavily influenced by and competing more and more unsuccessfully with other disciplines such as science.

As theology become a discipline that excised the affairs of the world, politics took its place, with political ideologies taking the place of theology.

In turn, the loss of the idea of God’s absolute sovereignty except within an individual’s heart led to strong emphasis on personal pietism; on the emergence of the idea of an infallible "inner light.” That idea in turn became secularized and has found its extreme form exhibited in the trans movement and in such ideologies as CRT and other critical theories.

Still thinking. I recommend the book.



Tim adds:

Very astute observations Fay! I think you have found the truth here.

The Middle Ages get a bum rap. The Renaissance people turned against them hard because they wanted to promote neo-classicism, and saw the classical period as so much better than the era they were coming out of. The Enlightenment saw the Middle Ages as corrupt and decadent, enemies of reason. The Reformation hated them because they were triumphantly Catholic.

So, with all those enemies, and those enemies gaining the upper hand in terms of propaganda via the printing press, the Middle Ages came to be seen as barbarism, violence, ignorance, and utterly worthless.

But they weren't. The University was born then. All manner of innovations were invented - eyeglasses, telescopes, the compass, sails capable of moving ships into the wind, fireplace chimneys (before the Middle Ages fires were open on the floor and a hole was in the roof to let the smoke out), and a host of other things. Politically it was a time of ferment, too, with concepts like the Magna Carta.

The Medieval period suffered from enormous problems early on which ended the classical world. There were multiple invasions, and many were ongoing (like the Vikings, or the Mongols or Islam). Supply chains broke down. Also, there was a volcanic eruption in the 536 led to a dust cloud blotting out the sun for well over a year - a year of total darkness in Ireland and partial darkness many other places. (Ireland's civilization collapsed completely). Temperatures plummeted. Crops failed around Europe. It must have seemed like doomsday.

So Europe was trying to come out of that, and recover from the multiple invasions, and fight off Islamic aggression as well.

They did remarkably well despite all that. That was because the Church kept people's minds centered on the important things.

Even the trial of Galileo is misunderstood, as is the roll of the Inquisition. Galileo was tried not because he was a seeker after truth in an ignorant, superstitious world but because he was a jackass. He wrote his "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" about Copernicanism (which the current Pope was kindly disposed towards) and he had his character Simplicio - the fool - who mirrored exactly the Pope's position on Copernicanism. The Pope was both his boss (he worked for the Church) and his sovereign (he was a citizen of the Papal states) and anywhere else he would have lost his head. He received a light house arrest. Bear in mind he was repeatedly warned to teach Copernicanism as a theory, not as settled science. Like Michael Mann he insisted on saying the debate was over when ti was not (his system did not eliminate epicycles any more than did the old Ptolemaic system.)

As for the Inquisition, it was mostly an investigative body and often actually helped accused by taking over when they were about to be executed or lynched, then quietly releasing them. Thomas Madden of St. Louis University wrote a book on the subject.

But all of that was spun to the benefit of the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment, and now to the benefit of the Progressive revolution.

Fay I think your point here really makes a strong case. The embrace of Reason and Science over Faith has led to a situation where religion no longer matters in the world to people. And the glittering world we have created here on Earth leads many to reject eternal truths because they are enthralled by the wealth we hold now. People reject the eternal for the temporary, the Creator for the Creature, because they can see, touch, taste, smell and hear the fruits of our material wealth. They think that is enough, but it isn't and it leads to terrible discontent. All the riots we saw in the last few years are a testament to the unquenchable thirst for something more than a lot of toys.

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April 20, 2022

The Inevitable Clash of Tyrants

Richard Cronin

If history is any lesson, autocratic regimes make opportunistic alliances but ultimately turn on one another when they perceive weakness in their putative ally.

Hitler joined with the Soviets to partition Poland, then he turned on Stalin.

Napoleon joined with French anti-royalists in eliminating the last elements of the ancien régime, then declared himself as emperor.

Putin has formed an alliance of convenience with the Chinese regime, but he has also diverted significant forces to suppress a popular uprising in Kazakhstan as well as committed a far greater force to invade Ukraine. Finland and Sweden are scrambling to join NATO. The Baltic nations are already members of NATO. Putin would be stretched even thinner to divert forces to the Baltic region as well as suppress popular protests.

During the 1960s there were open hostilities between China and Russia over border incursions.

Not the best of sources, but per Wikipedia:

"Russians typically believe that Chinese come to (Eastern) Russia with the aim of permanent settlement, and even president Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying "If we do not take practical steps to advance the Far East soon, after a few decades, the Russian population will be speaking Chinese, Japanese, and Korean."

Tim adds:

That last about the Chinese and Russia is important. The Chinese have been filtering people into Siberia for a long time now. There are whole communities of Chinese who settled in Siberia with the intent of simply snatching it away from Russia when the opportunity presents itself.

In fact, when George W. Bush was president he and Putin discussed how to deal with illegal immigration, and Putin was the guy who pioneered guest worker programs for Chinese laborers, something Bush tried to run with here in America.

China wants complete dominance of Asia. Putin knows this, but he also knows he has an even more formidable enemy in the West and seeks to dominate Europe through energy. He is allied with China now but somebody is going to screw somebody before it is over.

Russia could not defeat the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war, and I suspect Russia won't be able to defeat the Chinese if war comes. China is there and the Russians largely are not.

Ian Beverege adds:

Stalin turned on Hitler!

Hitler NEVER wanted war on 2 fronts and wrote in Mein Kampf that Germany could never win such a war. The Molotov Ribbentrop treaty was signed in Moscow and on September 1st Stalin failed to move into Poland - letting war be declared on Germany before making his own move on the 17th - but due to the Polish government being dissolved by the 14th this was not considered (by the allies) to be invasion by Stalin - it was a classic set up. Later on Stalin started to move on Hitler's oil supplies in Romania - so Hitler had no choice but to engage. Good source "Ice Breaker" and "The Chief Culprit" Suvorov.

We went to war to save half of Poland - but lost half of Europe to Stalin - yet still pretended to have won. Stalin's goal was all of Europe.

The West is being played/
destroyed by the globalist Cabal - but it looks to me like Putin is one step ahead of the Cabal and is successfully playing them - while watching the West turn into pure shit. This is still WW1 - act 3.

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Wallace Failing at CNN

Timothy Birdnow

Chris Wallace, who left a dream gig at Fox News to be among his own kind (liberals) has found the grass is not greener, nor does it mellow him out any better.

Just Months After Chris Wallace Turned on Audience, Big Failure at CNN Reportedly Set Off 'Daily Breakdowns' and Strange Rituals

Wallace trashed his former network when leaving, I might add. For twenty years he took their money and thumbed their viewers in the eyeball.

And now he's meeting the same fate as Shep Smith and Megan Kelly.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

It should come as no surprise; these liberal networks have their own people, who have always sided with the Left. Why would they accept a Fox guy?

When Benedict Arnold switched sides he was commissioned as a British officer. But the Rrits never trusted him; he had betrayed his own side, after all. A traitors word is no longer good.

So these refugees from Fox do not succeed and are not intended to by their new sponsors. The only value they offer CNN or the like is the headline of "Fox News Man turns on right wing". After that novelty is worn off there is no longer any useful purpose to be served.

Wallace destroyed his career for fifteen minutes of fame.

Well, nobody needed him anyway. His behavior during the Trump/Biden debate, where he openly aided the mentally deficient Joe Biden, was Wallace's way of auditioning for CNN. But they never wanted him. Now he's finding that out.

Buh bye!

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Woz Ditching Facebook

Timothy Birdnow

Steve Wozniak - the Great and Powerful Woz - is ditching Facebook because, well, they suck.

https://cnb.cx/3iYMWd4?fbclid=IwAR2EMmTDaiU4zx7sRsBqy1cGAXwVUcIaKyfjf19BPW9pml3t-qquxbXTRdc

Steve Wozniak, inventor of the first commercial PC, says he recently deactivated his Facebook account — and he doesn't trust the platform's privacy standards.

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