Timothy Birdnow

They are lying to us about the glories of electric vehicles.

Courtesy of Andy Rowlands:

The Truth About Living with an Electric Car

Anyone who understands marketing knows that immoderate praise for something usually indicates you are being suckered.

And the government is pushing these things hard. Now why is that?

These are Trojan horses. They are intended to get people to move from gas powered vehicles, which are safe, clean, and allow us to move about as we wish, and to move to a potentially dangerous and impractical machine that costs a small fortune. Once the gas powered car is gone the subsidies will end and we'll find they are unaffordable - and we will be forced onto public transit, as the Ruling Class so desires.

This is a way to pen most people into the cities, where they will be under the thumb of our betters.

In the end only the rich and powerful will own EV's and the rest of us will be on foot - or riding the bus, as is fitting for our station in life.

You can't control what you can't catch. The Left has always hated the automobile for the freedom it afforded most of us. Now they have a way to take them from us and so many of us are following along blindly.

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Chester McAteer

If it had not been for fossil fuels the whales would be extinct by now. Without fossil fuel, which is a primary energy source, versus a secondary source such as electricity, you could literally walk around your home and imagine that over 90% of the products there were not available or so massively expensive that few could afford them. Practically everything we make either contains oil products or requires them during its manufacturing process and would increase in price if available at all without petroleum and other fossil fuels being around.

Life without oil products would be completely unimaginable to most people…like pre-1900 was not easy. Now imagine a collapse of the Global Supply Chain…we would be 12th Century bound.

Tim adds:

People do not understand how little the average person had before oil. Clothes were expensive and had to to be mended when torn. "Darning socks" was a common thing; now we just throw them away and buy new ones when they get holes. Furniture was expensive and hand made. People lived in simple houses, one or two rooms, or in crowded apartments. Travel was a nightmare; you had to walk everywhere, or ride a horse or whatnot. Oil gave us the lavish lifestyle we now enjoy. Anyone who can't see that is quite foolish, but sadly most can't because the media keeps telling them oil is bad. Well, oil is good and always was. Poverty is bad and that is what we are going to have if we don't turn away from this foolishness.

And oil lubricates all our machines. Without it we would have no industry at all.

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Bob Clasen says:

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t care if you want to pretend to be something you aren’t, like a Vulcan or an Elf or a bunny rabbit or a velociraptor or Napoleon or Jesus Christ. Pretending to be something can be fun. Kids are good at it and adults usually not so much. However, pretending to be something is not the same as actually transforming into that thing by magical power.

Tim adds:

Writer Phillip K. Dick gave us a good working definition of reality "Reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away". Sadly our modern times are full of the insane, as so many believe reality is malleable based on our will. If you think it so shall it be! But that isn't true, never was true, and never will be true.

In point of fact that is a form of witchcraft, an attempt to alter reality through force of will and magical thinking. It doesn't matter how much you believe something at odds with reality; in the end the real world will win and you will lose. It won't go away.

History is replete with societies who nurtured illusions. They die because when the tide finally comes in they are sand castles and dissolve under the water.

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Jim Church

Listen to Greta admit that the 'climate crisis doesn't exist"!

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Mark Musser

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Warner Todd Huston

Next Up for Cancelation: Disney Claims Tinker Bell and Captain Hook Not Woke Enough

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Bill Weisberg

She proved to me that she is more competent that the liberal minority on our Supreme Court.

Judge Who Struck Down CDC Mask Mandate was Deemed "Not Qualified" by the American Bar Association

Tim adds:

The ABA spends too much time in bars. They should stick to rating taverns and leave endorsements of judges alone.

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Warner Todd Huston

Middle of April, and it's still frikkin' SNOWING in Chicago. What happened to all that global warming the libs keep braying about?

Tim adds:

I hear you! We had a hard freeze last night - below thirty degrees - here in St. Louis. I had to wear a winter coat out yesterday. On April 18!  Global warming can't get here soon enough for my tastes.

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1 I'm with both of you on this. Of course, living in Minnesota, we don't put away our winter gear till about the middle of June. And get it out again about the third week of September. So, as Dear Abby used to say, "Kwitcherbitchin."

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2 I believe THAT Dana! I visited the North Shore on Lake Superior years ago and had to bring a fall jacket - and it was still too cold! In JULY!

I found it amazing to have a room without air conditioning in mid summer like that. Part of why we took the trip was because it was so boiling hot here in the 'Lou.

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3 Middle of April, and it's still frikkin' SNOWING in Chicago. What happened to all that global warming the libs keep braying about?

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Russell Cook

When I say enviro-activists have one — and only ONE — set of viable-looking "leaked industry documents evidence" to say 'Big Coal/Oil' colluded with skeptic climate scientists to spread disinformation, I'm not exaggerating. The CBS Sunday Morning program telegraphed that 31 year-old fatal fault on two literally worthless bits out of that pile to the country only yesterday morning.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-disinformation-suing-fossil-fuel-companies/

Tim adds:

They've been beating that dead horse forever. They completely ignore the collusion between government, NGO's, and the meia itself, of course.

I would add why shouldn't climate skeptics take information from oil and coal companies? Research is suppressed that disagrees in any way with the government-approved narrative. Scientists who even moderately disagree with the official position find themselves forced to work for the hated energy companies. And don't they have the right to their own opinions? Not in modern America, alas.

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Timothy Birdnow

Joe Biden broke his promise. He  promised to end oil and gas drilling on government owned property.

But he has broken that in a strange way. While opening land for drilling, he has opened only sparse amounts of it. And he has done it in a way guaranteed to raise prices and slow the production of fuel.

Jazz Shaw has the skinny:

The Interior Department announced that on Monday it will release a sale notice for leases to drill on 144,000 acres of government land — 80 percent less than what was initially being evaluated for potential leasing.

President Joe Biden, who on the campaign trail called for an end to drilling on federal lands, has been looking for ways to temporarily increase U.S. energy production to help drive down the price of gas.

In fairness to Joe Biden, I will have to give him at least a partial thumbs up for approvinganynew leases. But with that said, we should also be realistic about what’s really going on here. Biden’s base is going to be upset at the idea of new leases being offered, but not upset enough to go running into the arms of anyone in the "drill baby drill” crowd. And Biden’s handlers are clearly aware of that and weighed the risks before approving this idea.

The messaging here seems clear and it was included in the announcement. Biden wants to make a public show of attempting to do something to "drive down the price of gas.” Gas prices are further cratering his approval rating numbers and the Democrats’ chances of avoiding a wipeout in the midterms, so this is a purely political move.

But the underlying reality is that this relatively small number of new leases will have zero direct impact on gas prices for quite a long time. The oil and gas companies will have already sent people to do preliminary surveys on these parcels of land before putting in bids, but in-depth surveys will be required after they are awarded the lease. That takes time. Then the land has to be put on the drilling schedule. You don’t just wake up and move a bunch of huge oil rigs overnight. Then, once the drilling starts, assuming it’s a productive stretch of turf, the oil needs to be brought up out of the ground and scheduled for transfer to a refinery. In reality, the soonest that any of these leases will produce the first barrel of oil is almost certainly more than two years in the future, if not considerably more.

Also, you will note that the Biden administration couldn’t bring themselves to offer new drilling leases without including some sort of "punishment” for the evil oil barons. They significantly increased the royalties that the oil and gas companies have to pay for the privilege of drilling. Do you know what those companies do when you increase the cost of obtaining the oil they need? If you guessed ‘they pass the cost on to the consumer‘ give yourself a cookie. So when these leases finally do go into full production, the government will have managed to actually increase the price of the resultant gasoline, not decrease it.

The U.S. oil industry has both developed and undeveloped leases and it pays the government fees for renting them, regardless of whether oil and gas is eventually found and produced. It generally takes 7 to 10 years for oil companies to determine whether a lease will become productive and for them to invest in the infrastructure that is needed to produce the oil. With the Biden administration trying to push banks away from funding oil and gas projects and instead spend money on renewable energy, it is no wonder that the industry is hesitating to make the investment needed. Besides the need to obtain necessary capital to make the investment, the oil industry is faced with the uncertainty caused by Biden and his administration about imposing new taxes and regulations on the industry that were contained in the Build Back Better Bill. Further, the Department of Interior agreed with upping the royalty rates on the industry when they performed the review Biden requested when he placed the ban on new oil and drilling on public lands.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is pausing the publication of a rule that would make large American banks unable to deny lending money to oil and gas companies until the Biden Administration’s pick for head of the watchdog reviews the final rule and the public comments received.

OCC saidon Thursday it had paused publication of its rule that aims to ensure large banks provide all customers fair access to their services.

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Frank Lasee

Global cooling then global warming. Some of the same experts claiming both. $$$$

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3780993/posts

"Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast"
The Guardian, 1974

Here are more such failed predictions.

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Richard Cronin

Those hidden costs will get you every time. This analysis doesn’t even mention the cost to replace a battery of an EV.

Which Really Costs More; Charging an EV or Filling Up Your Gas Tank

Tim adds:

Research suggests in the end gas is cheaper. https://www.motortrend.com/features/are-electric-cars-worth-it-long-term-value/

https://news.yahoo.com/more-expensive-charging-electric-vehicle-150723451.html

https://www.andersoneconomicgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EVtransition_FuelingCostStudy_10-21-21.pdf

In a Yahoo article based on the Anderson Economic Group study, it becomes evidence EV's cost more to run:

A mid-priced internal combustion car that gets 33 miles per gallon would cost $8.58 in overall costs to drive 100 miles at $2.81 a gallon, the study found. But a mid-priced EV, such as Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf or a Tesla Model 3, would cost $12.95 to drive 100 miles in terms of costs that include recharging the vehicle using mostly a commercial charger.

On a yearly basis, assuming the mid-priced cars traveled 12,000 miles, it would cost $1,030 to drive an internal combustion car and $1,554 to drive an EV.

For luxury cars that get 26 miles per gallon and use premium gas at $3.25 a gallon, the cost to drive an internal combustion car 100 miles is $12.60. The cost to drive a luxury EV, such as a Taycan, Tesla Model S or X or Jaguar I-Pace, is $15.52 to travel 100 miles. That is using mostly commercial chargers.

"That’s apples to apples and includes the extra EV taxes, the commercial charging and the home charging and the allowance of driving to a gas station, which, for most Americans, is very short compared to driving to a commercial charger for an EV owner,” Anderson said.

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Gregory Wrightstone

CO2 Coalition Research Associate Vijay Jayaraj reports that an entire shop selling EV motorcycles caught fire in his home state. In an effort to save the face of EV vehicles, the news reporters were asked to change the cause of fire - from "battery" to "short circuit in the shop".
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/chennai-store-gutted-blaze-after-okinawa-electric-scooters-catches-fire-162975

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Timothy Birdnow

In honor of this Easter day, I have composed a new poem remembering Jesus' death and resurrection:

In one moment we died in rebellion and pride
preferring the venom of Lucifer's lie

one promise, one hope of redemption foretold
as our fathers and mothers were cast in the cold

The ages they passed marked by zodiac wheel
ages of stone, bronze and iron and  steel
Ever in darkness  and locked in our cage
as the blood stained the sands of the subsequent age

Where is the promised Emmanuel
the deliverer who will break down our cell?

The cruel one laughed and he sneered at our hope
he locked us away, he tied us with rope
And the storms fiercely raged in the black of the night
we were animals caged without thinking or sight

He looked down with pity on our miserable fate
He came down from His city to tear down the gate

But the Evil One hissed for he knew time was nigh
betrayed with a kiss and some silver did buy

Creator of all, both the great and the small led away on that day to the terrible hall

Beaten and mocked and  His priesthood defrocked
His body was battered and torn
forced to his knee and then nailed to a tree
abandoned was He, forsaken, forlorn

Unto God He cried out for abandoned was He
there is no more cruel fate than to die on  a tree

The skies darkened and swirled as the light of the world
reached the end of His mortality
and the Earth quaked and shook
while His guards feared to look
and the birds of the air sought to flee

"Clearly He was the Son of God" spoke the man with the rod
"we have done such a terrible thing"
while the demons took flight
in delight at the sight
at the murder of Heaven's Great King

"It is finished!" He cried then he exhaled and died
and the soldiers cast lots for his things
while they pierced his dead side
and the people did hide
they did murder the great King of Kings

Locked away in a grave
in a cold stony cave
a great stone rolled to seal Him tight
for three days He remained in death's icy domain
forsaken, forlorn, out of sight

But the stone it was gone on the third early dawn
and His body was nowhere around
an angel appeared and calmed what they feared
Even death could not hold Him bound

And nevermore shall it  reign, Jesus washed off the stain
of our sins and He rescued our souls
Forty days He'd remain then Heaven attain
so will we if we drink of His bowl

We are no longer bound
it has come all around
with one man all our sins kept us bound
Now another was raised and to Him be all praise
It's not our end when we're put in the ground

Death and Hell are defeated
our great enemies retreated
the war is now fully won
Praise be unto Him and to God Elohim
And all glory to His only Son

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This courtesy of Teresa Beebe:

Whistleblower Drops Hard Evidence that Seal Team 6 was Murdered

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Guy F. Beebe

Arguing with liberals, particularly online? Make sure you know when they are just parroting propaganda ploys. Know your enemy.

25 Rules of Disinformation, Propaganda, "PSYOPS”, Debunking

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The resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Matthew

1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. 5 The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.” 8 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9 Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” 11 While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12 When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13 telling them, "You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ 14 If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15 So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day. 16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Mark:

1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3 and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” 4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 6 "Don’t be alarmed,” he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’ ” 8 Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. 9 When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. 10 She went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping. 11 When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it. 12 Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country. 13 These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either. 14 Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen. 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” 19 After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. 20 Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

Luke:

1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they remembered his words. 9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened. 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him. 17 He asked them, "What are you discussing together as you walk along?”They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” 19 "What things?” he asked. "About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. "He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.” 25 He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. 28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. 30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” 33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, "It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread. 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you.” 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence. 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, "This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” 50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. 52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.

John:

1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying. 11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13 They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?” "They have taken my Lord away,” she said, "and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 15 He asked her, "Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary.”She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!” (which means "Teacher”). 17 Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ” 18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her. 19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. 21 Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” 24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus ), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” 26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” 28 Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!” 29 Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” 30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

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Timothy Birdnow

Twitter adopts a "poison pill" to keep Musk at bay.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/twitter-poison-pill-elon-musk?fbclid=IwAR0dlr83FgPWVgD7eAcpELaL1twsJIU5aa-Cz4vqV0kAF9CZXRbi_WPfC0w

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Gregory Wrightstone

Oopsie! The great energy transition is dying a death of a thousand self-inflicted cuts, and good riddance.

https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/energy-transition-in-agony?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR29gcmqbZm_b65LyIgG8xPROzGg46bdaCDBltRLMmtC0cMbRauAZghgGYw

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Dana Mathewson

The prospect of incarceration is horrifying. I imagine that a large majority of men, if given the choice, would opt to be incarcerated in a women’s prison for a number of reasons beginning with safety. Until recently, that wouldn’t have been possible. But today, in what we might call the Shania Twain era ("Man…I feel like a woman!”), a transfer request is apparently all it takes.

In New Jersey, 27 men are being housed in a women’s prison, with predictable consequences.

Two women at New Jersey’s only all-women’s prison…

Evidently not.

…have both fallen pregnant after having sex with transgender inmates.

I.e., men. Otherwise they would not have gotten pregnant.

Prison bosses said that in both instances, the sex was consensual.

Again: utterly predictable. The inmates, whatever their faults, are evidently smarter than the bureaucrats who bought the "trans” line.

Edna Mahan houses 27 transgender prisoners, and over 800 women altogether. … An investigation has been launched.

This investigation could be really groundbreaking. If conducted by biologists, it might finally solve the age-old mystery of how women (actual women) get pregnant.

Edna Mahan, the only women’s prison in the Garden State, does not require transgender inmates to proceed with reassignment surgery in order to be housed at the correctional.

Yes, we had figured that out.

This is all, of course, a matter of "rights.”

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