December 23, 2023

Biden Hidin Balloons

Timothy Birdnow

Counsel Report: Biden Admin First Hoped to Cover Up Chinese Spy Balloon Incident

Did anyone doubt it? And why did he take no action until he was forced?

Remember this?

The Balloon Man

by Timothy Birdnow

2/17/23

The Balloon Man's in trouble
he turns to the Hubble
and blames all his woes on spacemen
his spokeswoman swoons as she rails at space goons
he shoots down balloons
with the stroke of a pen

It's one epic fail
As the trains all derail
and the Chinese set sail for our bases
all his policies fail
he should be in jail
Little children are not safe from embraces.

It's all gone to heck
the economy a wreck
and wars are all over the Earth
Inflation unchecked
still he tries to deflect
as he sucks us for all we are worth

he peddles green dreams as he spoons up ice cream
and he drives up the oil and the coal
all his radical themes
and his dimwitted schemes
take their toll and we end on the dole

So the Balloon Man with his spray-on tan
and his brain turned to oatmeal mush
while it all hits the fan
And they kick hard our can
and our liberties down the toilet get flushed.

He lies to us all
from gentle breezes he falls
He locks up our brothers without trial
he tears down our walls
and radicals he installs
Breaking laws is considered his style,

How expensive our debt
had enough yet?
How long can we stand for the sad Balloon Man?

Fin

Or how about this one?

Unaware in Delaware
by Timothy Birdnow
4/11/22

The sleepy old man
on his creepy old can
in his boat that is battered and tossed
living a dream as he scoops up ice cream
while his ship barely floats and is lost

He eats lots of bran
and forgot why he ran
while it all falls apart at the seam
he seems at a loss, not a thought for the cost
while he charts all his radical schemes

Sniffing little girl's hair as he sits in his chair
all the dominoes fall in a row
while the hunter will pose with the powder and hoes
He appears to his peers rather slow

War in Ukraine or our wealth down the drain
the old man seems to care not a wit
he's a witless old fool
pointy hat on a stool
one wonders if he shouldn't quit.

Fin

And then there is this:

The China Doll Party

Timothy Birdnow

See the
china doll on the shelf
eating ice cream all by itself
in mindless amusement the sugar it spoons

at the door the wolves howl and they moan
while it plays with balloons and takes another cone.

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Smith Lacks Standing

Lynn Chu

According to former Attorney General Ed Meese and prominent lawyers Gary Lawson and Steven Calabrese, Jack Smith lacks any authority to represent the United States. This is a jurisdictional requirement that must exist at all stages of litigation and cannot be waived. Amicus brief here:

nysd.uscourts.gov

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On a Cold Dark Winter's Night

Timothy Birdnow

Global Warming sure is a bust!


Russia Dithers In -60°C Cold, Munich Breaks December Snow Record | Principia Scientific Intl.
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End of Days

A reading from the Book of Malachi:

1 "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the LORD Almighty.
4 "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
5 "See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.
6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”

Then there was silence from Heaven for four hundred years.

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Protest Colorado Justices

Diane M. Kimura

Members of the public can file a formal complaint against the Supreme Court justices.

Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline
ccjd.colorado.gov

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December 22, 2023

Do Not Retain

Timothy Birdnow

In Colorado Supreme Court Justices face retention elections. Maybe the guys who voted for this ruling should be left off of voter ballots too? Boycott Colorado!

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Political Shell Game

Timothy Birdnow

Here's how the Democrats flipped Colorado deep blue, and how they are stealing America.

CALDARA | Embrace vote harvesting

FTA:

It takes a bit to explain, but to understand Colorado’s vote harvesting system is to understand why Democrats rule every lever of power in this once liberty-loving state.

Democrats created the system and do the long, hard, boring, expensive work to legally identify and reap ballots. Colorado is one of the rare states with all mail-in ballots AND same-day voter registration (meaning you could register and vote on the same day, even on election day).

Thanks to remarkably accurate consumer data, algorithms know exactly how you are going to vote. Don’t act like this freaks you out. You get micro-targeted all the time now from grocery store coupons to web ads.

My favorite story on how detailed political data is comes from when Mitt Romney was running for president. His opposition dug up the story of him driving with his dog on the roof of his car.

Even back then voter data was so good they targeted certain key voter demographics who owned dogs and sent them postcards of Romney driving a car with a dog on top to scare the dog lovers. It gets better. The data was so good they knew what kind of dog the voter had. If you had a poodle, there was a poodle on top of Romney’s car. Own a Labrador, it was a Labrador.

Point being… they know how you are going to vote.

Next point. Colorado doesn’t have an election day. It has an election month thanks to all mail ballots. After ballots are sent out the Secretary of State’s Office creates out a list of everyone who has returned their ballot. This publicly available list is updated daily.

So… if a well-run organization knows how any voter is going to vote, and every day they see who has voted, they know the exact running score of which candidates are winning and losing. Then it just becomes a ground game to get "your” voter to return a ballot.

If their data shows you’d vote their way, their job is to get YOUR ballot. And it won’t be by glitzy TV ads. It will be by someone, a human being, calling you, emailing you, maybe someone knocking on your door offering to take it for you. They may have a friend call and offer to pick it up. By law a person can bring in up to 10 ballots, as if there were any way to enforce such a law."

End excerpt.

So they know exactly who voted, who didn't, and can take steps to get the votes they need to win.

The article continues:

"The "creepy letter” technique is when some civic-sounding organization sends you a letter saying they are going to publish who has and has not voted in your neighborhood, and you are the only one who hasn’t yet. The intent of this lie is to bully you to return your ballot.

If their score keeping still shows that their candidate is behind by an attainable number of votes in a district, but there might not be enough of "their” voters to harvest, that’s when same-day registration comes in.

They use the data to find folk that aren’t registered but only IF they would vote their way. So, they go register them! This is particularly doable in college areas where there are a lot of out-of-state, liberal kids. A recent Colorado law requires voting centers on most college campuses for just this purpose. They think of everything."

End except.

Of course this also makes it impossible to stop cheating. They can simply fill out ballots for their chosen candidate in the name of those who have not voted or can register people who are not registered and fill out those ballots.

Joe Biden "won" 81 MILLION ballots in 2020 - 18 million more than Hillary Clinton won in 2016. And he beat Barack Obama, the former top vote-getter, who won by 69,498,516 in 2008. And this without even campaigning. How? The implementation of these leftist voting tactics. Colorado implemented ballot harvesting in 2014 and is now solidly Blue.

There are at present 24 states and the District of Columbia that have mail-in voting and harvesting permitted under the law.

BTW while my home state of Missouri does not allow full harvesting there are still plenty of dirty tricks happening here. My wife used to work for a "polling" company which was in fact a Democrat get-out-the-vote organization. (We REALLY needed the money then). They were calling people on election night at two minutes to seven (when polls close) and offering to send cars to pick up potential Democrat voters. In other words, they would find a way to keep the polls open until they wrung out every last vote.

They don't play fair and they don't care about being honest.

The Left is starting to run the table on us now and the GOP is still in a fog. We MUST learn how to do this sort of thing, and then ban it when we get into power.

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Aluha Akhbar from Doctors Without Borders

Jerry S Rainforth

"He concluded that the MSF has "a systematic bias in favor of Hamas and hostility to Israel” and that it violates its own charter.

"Doctors Without Borders has failed in its humanitarian purpose and violated its own charter, which proclaims the impartiality, neutrality and independence of the organization with regard to any political or religious power.”

Doctors Without Borders NGO; friends of Hamas, hostile to Israel, according to scathing report
allisrael.com


Peanut Gallery comments from Tim:

Instead of reciting the Hppocratic Oath they are reciting the Shahada...

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Little White Lies

A. Greg Delany

I want to share my story of censorship.
I was working at US Embassy in Moscow 1989.
I met a Russian Captain in the Soviet Army, named Sergei, who wanted to practice his English.
We struck up a conversation. He proclaimed he thought the USSR was the only true superpower in the world.
I laughed and asked him why he would think that.
He told me what he had read and seen on TV and learned in school from his youth, that the USA was a paper tiger out to conquer the world.
American citizens lived in poverty, with the threat of acid rain and riots in the streets every day. He had seen our very own TV News reports shown on Soviet TV.
I told him that these ideas were all false and the USSR was only showing negative news to deceive the Soviet public.
The real truth is the USSR was in fact a third world country with nuclear weapons.
He was offended at first, but wanted to know why I thought that.
I explained that the lack of freedoms and the lack of basic goods and services for a comfortable life in the USSR was because the government did not want to take care of their population, just control it. The quality of their life in every Communist country,, was an ever present reminder that this Communism experiment was a total failure.
The Politburo and ruling class, had simply replaced the Czars and replaced it with a restricted life. Disconnecting them from the world to hide their corruption.
The government would not let it citizens travel abroad or read or listen to broadcasts from abroad, for fear of exposing their lies. It was a sign that they were hiding something. The fact that the borders were closed, for both foreigners incoming and Soviet citizens outgoing was in fact a life in a prison.
He called me a liar and said they had everything the people needed and it was the most progressive society on earth.
I asked him a question to find common ground. I asked if he thought India was a third world country. He agreed it was.
I told him I had just returned from a trip to New Delhi. While I was in India I went into a restaurant and was seated.
I was given a menu;
I order what I wanted,ate my food, payed for it and then left.
I asked him where in Moscow can I do that right now.
He responded that the country was going through difficult times.
I then told him while I was in India I went into a shoe store. I tried on a pair of shoes, size 44 cm.
I paid for them and I left with the shoes in my possession.
Where could I do that in Russia?
He asked why I said a "shoe” store?
I told him I needed shoes.
He then told me he had been in line on, Prospect Mira, for more than four hours that very day, trying to purchase American made Converse High top basketball shoes.
When he finally got to the counter he tried on shoes and got his receipt to go pay for the shoes. He then went to the cashiers line and waited another forty five minutes to pay. When he returned to the counter with his paid receipt, the shoe size he needed were all gone.

I then told him these shoe can be purchased at any store at any time in the states in five minutes. Your country is a third world country with nuclear weapons.
We parted ways and agreed to stay in contact.
After the USSR broke apart we met again and he thanked me for opening his mind to the fact that his government had lied to him and his people since his youth.
The now freed State controlled media was exposing the lies and propaganda and explaining how they were deceived .
Every high school had a preparedness for War classes. They were taught to defend themselves against the American threat . Foundation classes on Marxist/ Leninist theory.
He later went to work for our Embassy and loved learning the truth about a nation he was taught to hate.
We all must look at the US State run Media News we are given and the News that is being suppressed.
The liberal news is allowed and the conservative news is Banned or distorted.
We too are being lied to in our schools, in the Media and on Social media.
Speak the truth and be ready to defend your belief even when everyone is trying to bully you into their mindset.
Americans are being fed the same propaganda the Soviets fed the citizens of the USSR to keep power and control the masses. America needs to wake up and see the truth!

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Sodium Ion Batteries

Carlos Velazquez

New battery technology exceeds performance of both cobalt and LFP batteries without their issues in material handling. And the company has received a large scale order for their storage product that competes with Tesla's PowerWall. What's noticeable and remarkable here is the validation again of the adage "science does not stand still."

Quote: "Due to this combination of properties, sodium ion batteries are emerging as the next big wave in battery technology. UNIGRID’s unique approach, the use of a tin anode instead of hard carbon, is a breakthrough for sodium-ion batteries; it increases the volumetric energy density to be competitive with and even exceed that of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, overcoming a previous competitive disadvantage."

UC San Diego spin-off company receives MWh-scale purchase orders of their advanced sodium-ion batteries - Batteries News
batteriesnews.com

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Crocodile Tears

Timothy Birdnow

Oh boo hoo! The Democrats and their allies have been making death threats to conservatives for decades and now they don't like it. Well don't simply impose your will on America and abrogate the Constitution then.

Don't start nothing and there won't be nothing!

Colorado supreme court justices face death threats after Trump ruling
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The Left made such threats to Donald Trump all the time. They made cute little things like photos of his severed head. And don't forget the death threats received by SCOTUS over their overturning RoeV. Wade.

These are crocadile tears.

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December 21, 2023

Ice Up in Antarctica

From Sasha Zilger

Ice melting in Antarctica alarmingly? Nope it's the opposite!!!

Satellite measurements reveal Antarctic ice plates have gotten bigger.
There's an increase in ice by 5,305 km2, or 661 gigatons of ice.

Credit: European Geosciences Union

Translated from German

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The Christmas Tree Squirrel

The Christmas Tree Squirrel

by Timothy Birdnow

12/21/23

When I was much younger our Christmas, I must confess
Was a time of great tumult, a time of great distress
my mother grew quite desperate to clean up all our mess
and my father in frustration often had much to confess

He would put up the tree just before Christmas eve
it was a source of great frustration, he was sorely aggreived
that tree was his enemy, he truly believed
and he used some strong language, such as sailors could conceive

Yes our Christmas was always frantic and quite rowdy an affair
often much more than my mother,bless her soul, could truly bear
she would sit in pure exhaustion and sip her tea, worn out with care
or would furrow her brow and brood with a dark and angry stare

I remember one Christmas many years long ago
when my father brought the tree in with the help of myself and of my bro
I curled on the coach in dread silence as I watched the Christmas show
I knew at some point that old Dad was going to blow

he labored for hours untangling the lights
one eye on the t.v. while the tangles he did fight
he struggled for hours well waging war into the night
angrily cursing at his his fate, it was quite miserable plight

When finally things all appeared to be done
He turned on the tree but the lights there wwere none
I sure am glad he did not possess a gun!
He raged against the tree, it appeared the pine had won

Then I gazed upon the tinseled beast and saw the cause of all of his pain
and knew right then and there what had made him goinsane
our cat, a cheeky and annoying beast, had been playfully yanking his chain
I reached down to the pullcord and they lit up again

That was one year out of many we stoically endured
and as dry as our tress so often grew I was thankful we were insured
but no matter how exhausting or how much we came unmoored
there was one Christmas Day that can never be obscured

That was the time of that terrible business
when a squirrel came to visit our tree just at Christmas

We had brought the tree in from the yard and had trimmed it with all pride
little did we realize there was the thing that darkly lurked inside
we had noticed nothing when we bought it, nor on our short car ride
we could never know that there would be great evil lurking inside

Now my nephew Max - he was prone to so much worry -
was fearful of creatures like alligators here in Missouri
so he was quite distraught when a head oh-so-furry
jumped from the tree and in panic flee; the beast in a tearing big hurry
and quick as a flash away it did scurry

The furry invader was mean and fierce, a best quite lean and vicious
the furry beast made such a scene; he was on no-one's wish list
Angry, mean, and sharp of claw, nothing any human being would ever have dared kissed
Sharp of tooth, sharp of claw, a visage quite malicious

across the family room floor it bounded, and through our family dinette
through the open kitchen door it ran; as far as it could get
that squirrel it raced like lightning as though fleeing fromit's doom
It ran for allit's life out the door and straight into the bathroom

we called for the man and he said he would come
it was his job, after all, to catch the animals great and small, to nab the beasts so dumnb
and it would not cost us very much, no too lavish or lordly a sum
so keep our chins up, the great man said, and to despair do not succumb

the man came to take it, and he warned us and admonished us to pray
and to keep that door quite stoutly locked no matter what he'd say
then intotheroom the man was sealed and it erupted in a frighening fray
it was man and his hands versus the spawn of Satan, the furry gray on this great Apocalyptic Christmas Day

Inside of the john it all came to a boil
the man and the beast locked in mortal turmoil
our passibles thrown about, strewn, and were roiled
we prayed for success for the man's dangerous toil

After what seemed like hours the man fianlly appeared
He had defeated the critter; we applauded and cheered!
the damage inside was far less than we feared
I remember my mother's relief as her eyes filled with tears

So unto this day we hang up a totem
a squireel on a hook (and not hanging by it's scrotum)
to honor the beast that had haunted our tree
and had made a memorable Christmas as we all would agree

I still remember those Christmases dear
I still see it all with a memory clear
even though many of them are a bit cloudy from beer
but as time marches on they grow dimmer I fear
But I cling to them all lest they all disappear

So remember your loved ones, always answer their call
And remember these times as you carry your haul
enjoy the time while you have it, make merry, have a ball
Merry Christmas to you, to you one and to all!

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December 20, 2023

Historical Date of Christmas

This courtesy of Daniel Holtrop:

Daniel Allgood

When I taught medieval history at the Catholic university in Hawaii (which satisfied the school's requirement of taking one of two religious courses to graduate), I enjoyed reading student papers summarizing research that said Christians stole the timing of Christmas to purposely place it on top of pagan festivals. Here's a more recent Christian response that in many ways it was pagans fighting a last ditch dying cultural defense who began to copy the Christian date of Dec 25 that they set for biblical interpretations l reasons (that IMHO may be wrong but I don't care what the real date was -- I tend to think spring for lambing time in the Judean foothills, a simple explanation). The only pagan festival also on Dec 25 was set on that date well after Christians began using it for Christmas, while most other pagan Dec festivals were 8 or more days removed on the calendar earlier in the month.

Original post, or someone two steps back, name at bottom:

The establishment of December 25th as the date for Christmas traces its roots back to the late second and early third century, a period marked by the contributions of the historian Sextus Julius Africanus. In his work, "Chronographiai ," an early Christian treatise encompassing world history from creation to his contemporary era, Africanus endeavored to chronologically order events based on his interpretation of Luke and Matthew’s Gospels. Concluding that Jesus was conceived on March 25th, Africanus then calculated nine months forward, pinpointing December 25th as the date of Christ's birth (Sextus Julius Africanus, On the solstices and equinoxes of the conception and birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and John the Baptist).
It is noteworthy that Africanus was not the sole proponent of December 25th as Jesus' birthdate. Hippolytus of Rome, a contemporary of Africanus, echoed this sentiment in his commentary on the book of Daniel during the early third century (Hippolytus of Rome, Commentary on Daniel 4.23.3.).

While acknowledging the concurrent celebration of Sol Invictus, the festival venerating the Roman sun God on December 25th, historical evidence suggests that its original date was earlier in December. Historian Thomas Talley, in "The Origins of the Liturgical Year," proposes that the Roman Emperor Aurelian likely moved Sol Invictus to December 25th in competition with the rising influence of Christianity (The Origins of the Liturgical Year, 88-91).

The shift in religious practices during the third and fourth centuries becomes apparent as Christianity gained momentum, while traditional Roman paganism dwindled. The observations of figures such as Pliny the Younger and Julian, the Roman Emperor, highlight this transition, with the latter attributing the decline in Roman religious devotion to the influence of Christians (P.T.Y. Epistle to Trajan, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae).

The question arises: Did Christians imitate pagan practices as a last-ditch effort to convert holdouts, or did desperate pagans emulate the growing popularity of Christianity? Existing evidence increasingly points to the latter conclusion. Despite Sol Invictus being placed on December 25th after Christians recognized it as Jesus' birthdate, none of the other ancient pagan feasts and festivals align precisely with this date. Saturnalia, for instance, occurred on December 17th by the Roman calendar of the time, preceding Christmas (which fell on December 25th) by a notable interval.

Moreover, the Brumalia and Bacchus feasts were celebrated earlier in the season, in late November. If these were attempts to replace pagan festivals, they would have been poorly executed, as they preceded December 25th. The evidence suggests that Christians had been acknowledging and celebrating the incarnation and Jesus’ birth for decades before firm designations for other pagan celebrations on December 25th emerged.

In AD 386, John Chrysostom attested to the long-standing tradition of celebrating Christmas on December 25th (John Chrysostom, Homily on the Date of Christmas). The Philocalian Calendar, created in AD 354 for a Roman Christian named Valentinus, also confirms Christmas as a holiday on December 25th. This historical context challenges the notion that December 25th was a mere appropriation of pagan festivities, indicating a distinct and early Christian observance of this date in connection with the birth of Jesus Christ.

The Christian acknowledgment of December 25th as the birth of Jesus predates the solidification of pagan festivals on the same date. As we delve further into the historical record, it becomes apparent that the Christians were not reactive imitators but rather bearers of a unique tradition. The AD 354 Philocalian Calendar, crafted for Valentinus, is a particularly illuminating artifact, categorizing Christmas as a significant holiday on December 25th. This explicit designation indicates not only the early Christian recognition of the date but also its institutionaliz ation within the Christian liturgical calendar.

Additionally, the testimonies of influential figures like John Chrysostom in AD 386, referring to Christmas as a "long time tradition," further solidify the notion that December 25th held a distinct and established significance within Christian communities (John Chrysostom, Homily on the Date of Christmas). Chrysostom's commentary provides valuable insight into the continuity and endurance of Christmas celebrations, suggesting that by the late fourth century, the observance had already become deeply ingrained in Christian tradition.

The contention surrounding the origin of December 25th as the date for Christmas often revolves around the potential influence of pagan festivals, especially Sol Invictus. However, the meticulous examination of historical timelines and cultural dynamics reveals a nuanced picture. The Christians' celebration of Christmas on December 25th appears to have developed independently, and any perceived overlap with pagan festivities may be attributed to subsequent adaptations or coincidences rather than direct imitation.

More importantly, the Christian celebration of Christmas served a distinct theological purpose, emphasizing the incarnation of Jesus Christ. This focus on the theological significance of Christ's birth distinguishes Christmas from pagan celebrations, establishing it as a unique and purposeful observance within the Christian faith.
In the final analysis, evidence from historical records, early Christian writings, and calendars reinforces the idea that December 25th emerged as a significant date for Christmas independently within Christian communities. Rather than a borrowed or adapted tradition, the celebration of Christ's birth on this date reflects a genuine and early Christian observance that was born out of Christian devotion to Christ.
~ Daniel Allgood

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And then there is the fact that because of the weather -- the rain, and all that stuff, which made the grass (that the sheep had been cropping) grow again, the sheep were kept out of the fields during the winter months, and therefore could not have been "abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night" as detailed in the Gospels, to receive the glad tidings from the angels. This had to be at a time other than Dec. 25 or any time near then.

~ Dana Mathewson

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Ocean Chemistry

Richard Cronin

A few things more about the Chemistry in the depths of the oceans, Calcium, CO2, and volcanism.

"The carbonate compensation depth (CCD) is the depth, in the oceans, at which the rate of supply of calcium carbonates matches the rate of solvation. That is, solvation 'compensates' supply. Below the CCD solvation is faster, so that carbonate particles dissolve and the carbonate shells (tests) of animals are not preserved. Carbonate particles cannot accumulate in the sediments where the sea floor is below this depth.”

"Adding a reactant to the above chemical equation pushes the equilibrium towards the right producing more products: Ca2+ and HCO3−, and consuming more reactants CO2 and calcium carbonate according to Le Chatelier's principle.”

(Note: HCO3- is the bicarbonate ion which is the conjugate base of carbonic acid and a buffering agent which inhibits large swings in pH).

"At the present time the CCD in the Pacific Ocean is about 4200–4500 metres except beneath the equatorial upwelling zone, where the CCD is about 5000 m.” (Notes: The average depth of the ocean floor is 3700 m and there are vertebrate mussels and mollusks around the Challenger Deep at 11,000 m depth. That signifies that dissolved Ca 2+ is taken up by these vertebrates.)

"In the geological past the depth of the CCD has shown significant variation. In the Cretaceous through to the Eocene the CCD was much shallower globally than it is today; due to intense volcanic activity during this period atmospheric CO2 concentrations were much higher. Higher concentrations of CO2 resulted in a higher partial pressure of CO2 over the ocean. This greater pressure of atmospheric CO2 leads to increased dissolved CO2 in the ocean mixed surface layer. This effect was somewhat moderated by the deep oceans' elevated temperatures during this period.[6] In the late Eocene the transition from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth coincided with a deepened CCD.”

That damned submarine volcanism heating the deep abyssal waters and screwing with the Chemistry of the atmosphere. Just like today.


The volcanism, by heating the ocean waters, caused more exolution (degassing) of CO2 ….. after a little lag time. Just as observed in ice cores.

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Another Day, Another Democrat Insurrection

Lance Sjogren

Colorado declares itself a dictatorship.

Democrats sure seem to want a civil war.

This time the confederates occupy the White House.

But it figures, it's the Democrats once again, just like in the 1860s.

Next question will be: Does this encourage other states to go outright fascist, or does it turn Colorado into a laughingstock?

I just hope all the corruption the Democrats have been engaging in causes enough voters to wake up to what an utter fraud the Democratic Party is that a majority will vote to save our country from oblivion.

And I hope that every time the Democrats commit yet another abuse of the judicial branch of government that a couple more percent of the people shift from Democrat to Republican.

As I have always said, the only way to cure the Democratic Party of its madness is to subject it to a massive electoral defeat, and to do that at least 2 or 3 times. By then it may start sobering up.

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Boycott Colorado!

Timothy Birdnow

So the Colorado Supreme court, waiting until the beginning of primary season, has allowed the Colorado Democrats to kick Donald Trump off the ballot for "insurrection" pursuant to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

That, my friends, is the REAL insurrection.

While Colorado is a blue state Donald Trump was withing striking distance of Joe Biden there.

Yet the Colorado AG and now their Supreme Dorks, er, Court has utilized an obscure post-civil War amendment designed to keep enemy combatants who had renounced their citizenship in the U.S. from running for public office.

Not only has Mr. Trump not renounced his citizenship, he was not even convicted of a crime by any court of law over the January 6 business, a minor riot at most, and one egged on and pushed by the powers that be in Washington (especially Nancy Pelosi who refused the National Guard when Capitol Police asked for it). After four years of rioting by Democrat supporters a minor riot broke out in protest of a stolen election and it became an "insurrection" immediately, and they accused Donald Trump of fostering it, even though he specifically called for peaceful protests then asked protesters to stop and go home when it became violent.

No guns were used. No bombs. No fires were set. Lamest insurrection EVER!

But then Donald Trump was actually tried for this by the U.S. Senate and acquitted.

So a former President and current candidate for President who has been acquitted of the crime in question can be kept off the ballot for a crime we must assume he did not commit.

What kind of banana republic are we running here?

The timing of this is interesting too; right before the kickoff of the primaries. Why, it's as if it were timed to interfere with the GOP nominating process!

I have no doubt Trump will win in Federal court eventually, but it will take time and may well (probably) come too late to restore him to the ballot.

What the Democrats are doing is trying to frighten Republican voters into dumping Trump, the only man they truly fear. They know they can beat Nikki Haley and if not they can live with here; we'll return to Bush-era policies at the very worst. But they FEAR MAGA because it is a fundamental attempt to restore the Republic and not just slow down the triumphant march to international socialism.

They figure kicking Trump off the ballot is a danger but something must be done to slow the juggernaut. It's a Hail Mary pass.

They are hoping to buy time and then they hope Smith or Willis or James will come through with a conviction and then Trump can be kept off the ballots all over.

And if nothing else those who do not pay attention will think "where there's smoke there's fire!"

The Democrats are always accusing Republicans of voter intimidation and suppression, yet here they are suppressing voters in Colorado and they are happy to do it. Their hypocrisy is astounding, and the hypocrisy of their media lackeys is beyond belief.

Something will have to be done in reprisal to this. This cannot be allowed to simply stand.

I propose a complete boycott of Colorado for starters. No Coors beer. No skying in Vail. Nothing from Colorado whatsoever. We need to crush them economically.

We saw the effectiveness of that with Anheuser Busch; we need to employ it with the whole state.

We also need to start using our own prosecutors to go after people like the Attorney General in Colorado, or the Colorada Supreme Court, or anyone else who pulls this kind of thing. We need lawyers on the ground. We need private investigators going through their garbage. There will be something.

BOYCOTT COLORADO! Write your state legislators,your governor, your local businesses. Demand a reckoning for these people. They are the true insurrectionists, the real vote suppressors. We must make it clear anyone who tries pulling this sort of thing will pay dearly.

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The Amazing Brain

Carlos Velazquez

Neuroscientists keep making new discoveries about the human brain. I'm not a scientist but, like many mysteries in God's Created Universe, I maintain that we will never fully know all the intricacies of our brains, specially the mind-brain connection as each new discovery raises more questions.

"Researchers discovered a unique feature of the human brain’s communication networks: the transmission of information via multiple parallel pathways, a trait not observed in macaques or mice. This finding emerged from a study using diffusion and functional MRI data, combined with information and graph theory. The team mapped "brain traffic” to compare signal transmission in different mammalian brains. Their research indicates that these parallel pathways in humans might contribute to our advanced cognitive abilities and could have implications for understanding brain evolution and potential medical applications."

Human Brain's Unique Parallel Pathways - Neuroscience News
neurosciencenews.com


Tim adds:

That is why large parts of the human brain can be extacted without lasting harm, I suppose. The human brain is truly a marvel. It could not have evolved through random chance.

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Seek His Face

This from E. Greg DeLaney

In the beginning of1989, if you would have told me that the Berlin wall would fall in my lifetime, I would have told you it is impossible.
This leads me to the words of Jesus ,
"With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
I was Blessed to see God moving across the USSR.
Jesus has called us to be witnesses, and that does not mean to preach, but to proclaim the good works that we have witnessed the Lord doing and that you have seen GOD perform.
I only told people what I had witnessed.
I worked in Moscow, Ukraine and Azerbaijan from 1989-1997.
I met and prayed for 5, US Presidents, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Shevardnadze.
I worked with and Interceded in prayer for the Secretary of State Baker and his working party. During negotiations for the START II TREATY.
I met and prayed with a three star Lieutenant General, Howard Graves, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I witnessed the hand of God during the START II negotiations, and Germany was later unified because of those meetings.
I witnessed and prayed during the signing of the Two Plus Four Treaty document ceremony, that unified Germany. I then took a chisel and hammer, flew to Berlin and took my piece of the Berlin Wall off while I was singing Praises to God.
I walked around the walls of the Kremlin, the seat of the corrupt Communist Soviet Government. I prayed for religious freedoms, seven days in a row and seven times on a Sunday and witnessed religious reform throughout the USSR.
I traveled to 25 countries during this time period and shared my experiences and told the churches I visited, what I had Witnessed God doing in the USSR.
The believers in each country rejoiced and Blessed me by sharing with me, as they wept, how they had ALL been burdened with the task to pray for the people trapped in the USSR.
Not just word prayers, but tearful heart felt, God directed Prayer. They were overjoyed to hear that God's hand was moving and changing hearts and minds and pouring out His Spirit in the USSR.
There is Great Power in Prayer, and when we all pray together nothing is impossible.
Let us have a mind to be earnest in our prayer and believe Nations and Man, will repent and be healed.
Jesus said, God has written his laws on our hearts and that the Kingdom of Heaven is here, in us!
Go and love one another and Bless one another and you will be the Blessed hand of God to the sinful world.
Do not wait to die before you experience the Kingdom of Heaven. His Kingdom comes and His will is done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Be a Blessing today and tell someone about the great works you have witnessed in your life in God.
Now we pray for healing in our country.
I see again the hand of God moving.
This time here in America. It is not an accident God chose this nation to be the first free nation on earth. This nation was founded by men and women seeking a promised land to worship God freely.
Pray for Righteousness and Justice.
Do not be afraid of the chaos that is happening around us.
These are signs the World is in travail. Waiting for the revealing of the Sons of God.
Before we open our mouths to speak, let us speak words to Bless and not curse. Words of Life and not death.
He has called us to be Life Giving Spirits, and not a people living selfishly for ourselves.

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Colorado Sups Insurrection Against Trump, America

Timothy Birdnow

Stealing America.

JD Vance: Colorado Supreme Court using legal process as 'political weapon' against Trump | Fox News Video
foxnews.com


The timing of this is the important thing here. They waited until just before the beginning of the primaries to do this so as to take Trump off the ballot and hopefully stop him before he gets the nomination. Then, with Trump off in Colorado, other blue states will follow suit and then the RINO wing - already skittish - will use this to justify dumping Trump, something they already want to do. It's a hail mary pass but it's a measure of their desperation.

I still would like to know how it can be legal to punish someone, to disenfranchise them, without their being convicted of a crime. Not only has Trump not been convicted but he was actually acquitted of insurrection by the U.S. Senate.

Trump will take this to Federal court but it will no doubt work it's way through the system and wind up at SCOTUS, and probably too late to restore him to the ballot. As planned.

If Trump is going to lose why do they so fear him?

This is the REAL insurrection, and it is voter suppression. There must be real and terrible consequences for the people behind this.

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