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April 12, 2023

Rumors of War and Economic Disorder

Nikki Grace

The banks are made wobbly by ESG and DEI, demands of this administration. Yellen is still blithering on. The government can't backstop all the potential draw down of deposits. Money is fungible and moving as quietly as it can be moved. The Japanese yen is getting some.

Economists of note are predicting high interest rates for many years.

1.7 trillion bipartisan bill last December was a final insult to the currency. Higher taxes are on the horizon and must be planned for.

A patriot in the military released the documentation on the true conditions in Ukraine. The Intelligence Community is apparently not making any reports on the Ukraine disaster. If they did it would be too ominous, they are remarkably quiet. Other sources say we have troops on the ground. It is all but admitted by the administration that they took out the Nordstream, a blatant act of war. Journalists are not on the battlefield in Ukraine. Perhaps the slaughter of young Ukrainians kidnapped off the streets and thrown into uniform is too grisly to report.

A coven of harpies at the administration and their sexually freaky friends are running the country and the culture into the ground and perhaps a military disaster. Surely the population of the USA does not support another land war in Europe.

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Population and Volcanism

Richard Cronin

File this under "We’ve never seen these levels of CO2 and warming since 50 million years ago.”

Not anything as severe as the Permian nor K-T extinction due to very extensive volcanism (Dr. Gerta Keller), but certainly there were minor, less severe extinctions accompanied with volcanoes and flood basalts. Remember that the oceans demonstrate far greater seismic activity than continental activity.

Quaternary extinction events - 640,000, 74,000, and 13,000 years ago. Cause not definite. May include climate changes, massive volcanic eruptions (Keller)

Neogene Pliocene–Pleist ocene boundary extinction — 2 Ma. Possible causes include a supernova or the Eltanin impact (which would trigger volcanism).

Middle Miocene disruption - 14.5 Ma. Climate change due to change of ocean circulation patterns. Milankovitch cycles may have also contributed. (Note the reference to Milankovitch cycles, affecting tectonic plate movement).

Eocene–Oligocen e extinction event - 33.9 Ma. Multiple causes including global cooling, polar glaciation, falling sea levels, and the Popigai impactor (again, the proximate cause of volcanism).

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U.S. Troops in Ukraine

Carlos Velazquez

We do have troops in Ukraine after all making them an obvious target for Russia. If they're attacked and take casualties, then what?

US Special Forces in Ukraine at embassy, official confirms, as Pentagon document leak probe heats up
foxnews.com

Tim adds:

Keeping special forces at our embassy is sensible (and I didn't think the Biden junta had the good sense) but it also is a dangerous thing in a hot war like this. Certainly if our embassy would be hit by a stray bomb this could trigger a response leading to open war.

And one must wonder if guarding the embassy is the only activity in which they are engaged.

We are playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship here.

I wonder who leaked those documents and why; could this be something the current Administration wants the Russians to know? I suspect this leak was intentional by the Biden camp.

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Walmart Closing up Shop in Chicago

Timothy Birdnow

Walmart had just pulled out of Portland, now they are having to begin to disentangle themselves from Chicago.

Walmart closing 4 Chicago stores, blaming millions in annual losses
foxbusiness.com

When will they ever learn?

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Fast Charge Means Fast Battery Death

Jim Church

They’re not hiding the facts about EVs. You just have look for them.

A good place to start is in the owner’s manual. That’s where I found out that Ford recommends avoiding the "fast” chargers you hear a lot about to charge up the F-150 Lightning electric pick-up, because regular use of "fast” chargers isn’t good for the "health” – Ford’s word – of the battery.

Now this is interesting because "fast” charging is the only way to get an EV back on the road again in less than several hours, which is the amount of time it takes to recover a partial charge using 240V household power (basically, a stove/dryer type outlet). It typically takes at about 8-11 hours to get a full charge at home this way.

Put another way, if you burn through most of your range today, you won’t be able to use the EV again until the next day. Unless you charge it up at a "fast” charger. But if you do that, you risk the "health” of the battery – by which is meant its capacity to hold a full charge, which will degrade faster and sooner the more you "fast” charge it.

More Fine Print . . . - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk
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The Good Old Days

David Nabhan

Pretty campy those 50's and 60's movies' smoking and drinking scenes: judges are smoking, and doctors too--during surgery even--and if someone gets shot the first thing they do is put a cigarette in his mouth. Watched Hitchcock's "The Birds" and just as soon as they rescue poor Tippi Hedren from a mass bird attack, immediate first aid is a shot of whiskey. We dared to laugh, but I'm convinced now their culture was heads and shoulders above what passes for ours today, no?

Tim adds:

Perhaps these things cost pepple a couple of years at the end of their lives - when they wouldn't enjoy them anyway. But now the State steals all the joy from everyone's life in their "best interest" and our society is teetering. Now why is that? Could it be those little vices were necessary for a psychologically healthy society? Now we don't smoke or drink - but we shag everything, animal, vegetable, or mineral, and half of our people have some sort of venereal disease and the rest come from broken homes, broken by their parents shagging just as much. And we have drug abuse, we have kids wanting to cut off their johnsons, we have all manner of nsanity. So who were the crazy ones? Seems a cigarette or martini was a small price to pay for a sane society.

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1 I never smoked, though both parents did and it killed 'em both. Dad died at 65, Mom at 76, I've made it to 80 in good shape. I've never enjoyed being around smokers, from the get-go, and was very happy when Minnesota made it illegal to smoke in public buildings quite a few years ago.

They both introduced me to "Demon Rum", though, for which I've been eternally grateful, as I figure it's helped preserve me in the state I find myself in currently (and I don't mean Minnesota). Actually, rum's about the only offering from the bar that I seldom imbibe...

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 12, 2023 10:56 PM (QlyGH)

2 Same here Dana, except my parents lived a lot longer. My mom died at 82 from a stroke/heart attack and I am certain it was because she smoked. She had high blood presCOPD a few years ago and threw the cigs away and just celebrated his 92nd birthday in March. He looks to be good for another ten years at least! His mother, who smoked regularly, lived to 102.

I tend to think smoking affects different people differently.

I never cared for it though and I don't like being around smokers either, but they do tend to be mire fun than the non-smokers. There is a local bar near my home Cathy and I sometimes drop in on. They have a "garage" where people can smoke. We usually go out into the garage even though we aren't smokers; the people out there are more fun!

At any rate I understand your not liking it. But I do wonder which vice was worse. Now our society says smoking is evil and banging the entire cast of Hamilton at the same time is simply hunky-dory.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 13, 2023 08:24 AM (P9nlt)

3 Pretty campy those 50's and 60's movies' smoking and drinking scenes: judges are smoking

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4 We dared to laugh, but I'm convinced now their culture was heads and shoulders above what passes for ours today, no?

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The Trans Social Contagion

This from John Madric

Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light reveal this shocking truth about the gender insanity cult

In prior decades, social contagions disappeared over time because people became skeptical and eventually rational people said "enough is enough."

The difference today is that the left has turned transgenderism into an essential pillar of its ideological dogma and uses it as a cudgel to beat its political opponents into submission – by crying "bigot" at anyone who dares question this new cult.

Tim adds:

Amen. Do you remember the "regression hypnotism" movement where they would hypnotize kids who would then say they were molested? It was just such a psychological craze as this, only this is systemic and far, far worse because it can't be undone once done.

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SpyRS

This courtesy of Katie Tracey

IRS Unveils New Spy Plan

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April 11, 2023

Bud Lite Bombing

Timothy Birdnow

Go woke go broke!

Bud Light Fiasco Tops $1 Billion In Losses – Investors Furious – –
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Bud Lite was dying anyway, long before this fiasco.

Why? It was terrible beer.

People used to buy it up because it was lower in calories and they thought it healthier. But it was also lower in alcohol (which is how they kept it lower in calories) and you had to drink more of it. The flavor was bad; it had a kind of nasty undertaste.

There are so many other options now for low-cal beer and so many better beers on the market. The microbrew craze has elevated the public tastes. Gone are the days when an A-B can tout a beer with "drinkability" as the main selling point. People want a little flavor.

This especially was true after the pandemic, where people were stuck inside and had little to do but drink beer. They upped their game.

So woke AB Inbev hired some teenie bopper from Harvard to find a way to increase sales of a beer they are probably going to stop making and she comes up with marketing to "young" people, and by that she means to trannies (who make up just one half of one percent of the population) on the theory young people like trannies and will be drawn to bad beer as a result.

This works at woke universities but not in the real world.

Young people don't want Bud Lite. On the one hand it's considered blue collar and they have champagne tastes these days, and on the other it's old school, something their parents might drink (but not their grandparents; there is a resurgence of "heirloom" beers.) Bud lite is the equivalent of a compact disc; clean, fairly modern, but colorless and tasteless. The youths who drink beer want more.

And the rest of the beer drinking public will be turned off by this.

So this rather dim chick who is probably making half a million a year or more comes up with this staggeringly bad campaign to sell a bad product. And everyone - including her bosses - think it a good idea.

I'm glad this is costing AB Inbev dearly. I hope they learn their lesson. But they probably won't.

Anheuser Busch has always been a woke company, ever since it became a global powerhouse under the younger Busch. It supported the gay lifestyle and gay marriage well before that was trendy. And they haven't made good beer in decades. Budweiser used to be a good beer; flavorful and worth drinking. Now it's basically colored water with some fruitiness. And that's the flagship.

I used to rather like Red Wolf from them too. Haven't had it in decades though.

Now is the time for some other big brewer to strike. I'd like to see one of the older breweries move to take the market. Coors would be my choice (although they've gone woke too; the old days of the conservative Joseph Coors are long gone.) I have always liked Hamms, which is made by Miller now, alas.

I was listening to the radio and a local conservative talk host was saying he drinks Stag. I would have to be truly desperate to touch that, and even not then. Stag tastes like toilet water run through a filthy athletic shoe, then dirty socks and underpants were soaked in it tea-bag fashion. The worst beer ever made, in my opinion. It was a local product once; the Stag Brewing Company was based in Belleville Illinois, just outside of St. Louis, but so what? It's made in Milwaukee now by Pabst. Pabst is a far better beer.

Now I love a microbrew but sometimes it's nice to have a picnic beer, something cheap you don't mind spilling on a float trip or whatnot. Budweiser was always good for that. Hamms is good for that. Stag is good for spilling but not drinking.

My brother and his friends used to use Stag as an insult "you drink Stag!" was a popular insult among his high school friends.

At any rate, I would still drink Stag over Bud lite, especially now.

(If I had lots of money I would collect old recipe's for beers made in St. Louis and create an heirloom brewery which made all of the old, forgotten beers, like Hyde Park or Alpenbrau or Green Tree. Sam Adams was, after all, the defunct Koch Brewery beer of St. Louis, Mo. We need to remember these old brews and cherish them.)

At any rate, I'm glad AB is taking it in the shorts over this (or in this case taking it in the drag-queen pantsuit.)

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1 It used to be we were stuck with the offerings of nationwide brewers, and it was all "heavy" beer. Schlitz, Blatz, Carlings, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller High Life, and of course Budweiser (ugh); all the standard "macrobrews." Not anymore. Craft beer abounds everywhere, from local product to nationally produced stuff that is really good. And most of it keeps free of politics. While sitting on our deck with my wife this afternoon, enjoying brisk breezes that kept the 80-degree temperatures at bay, I slowly ingested a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, managing to keep it out of the sun (our deck faces west). Sierra is pretty much our "suds of choice" these days.
That strange creature who is in the process of revamping the Bud Lite world these days (the VP) sure has a tough row to hoe, and I must say that she impresses me as somebody who has probably never drunk more than two or three beers in her life -- and those being from a glass, as opposed to properly straight from a bottle, so she's proceeding with a great lack of knowledge of the product itself. Not that Bud Lite is real beer to begin with... Rather than trying to find a "spokesface" for the product, she'd do much better to improve the beer.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 11, 2023 10:55 PM (KPMaG)

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Posted by: Real estate in pakistan at April 12, 2023 02:07 AM (7iOWJ)

3 Amen Dana!

At one time there were many breweries all over. St. Louis had over a hundred of them, most of which used the extensive cave system under the city - primarily Cherokee cave - as lagering cellars.

Prohibition ruined most of them, but many still came back and for a time were around. But AB and Falstaff squeezed the life out of all the little brewers and cornered the market. Falstaff, like AB products, began declining in quality and lost all their customers. I see that happening with AB now.

Falstaff and Greisedick and Lemp were all from the Lemp family, but the other two died. My dad said he had friends who were Griesedick fans and bought up dozens of cases of it when the brewery went under.

By the sixties they were all gone except AB and Stag, and Stag went under in the '70's.

So AB didn't have to put out a good product; just try to market it to foreigners. Oh, and when Major League Baseball denied them the name "Budweiser Statium" because it was too commercial they named it Busch stadium - then introduced Busch Beer a year later. It was wildly popular in St. Louis (and made using a digfferent formula than the Busch made for outstate, so was a bit better) but still a wtery, sweet beer that could fool nobody into thinking it was a craft brewed beer.

The microbrewing craze restored the balance, with a lot of new, small breweries. There are currently 65 breweries in the immediate St. Louis metropolitan area and more if you look at the greater region, and include the Illinois side of the river. There is plenty of good beer everywhere around here. I am particularly interested in the Stubborn German, a brewpup in Waterloo Illinois (just across the river from St. Louis). I highly recommend it.

At any rate there is no reason to spend money on thin, watery, tasteless product any longer. And people seem to have realized that the modest savings on calories from drinking a lite beer is not worth the lack of taste. I would add that AB also has promoted alternatives to beer, like seltzer, which sell to the foo-foo drinking crowd in place of Bud Lite.

AB had too many lines doing the same thing. They had Budweiser, Bud Lite, Bud Lite Lime, Bud Select, Busch, Busch lite, Michelob, Michelob Lite, Michelob Select, now Michelob Golden and Golden Lite, Natural Lite, etc. All lite beers, all weak, low alpha acid ratings, little in the way of malt. They saturated the market in weak, watery stuff. And they raised prices to levels that just weren't worth it. They believed marketing would carry the day as it had.

But it only worked when there was little competition. How hard is it to capture market share when you have only two or three competitors?

And Coors was not allowed east of the Rockies for decades, plus it was under a union boycott.

AB's answer to the micro brewing craze was to put out Stella Artois and other "bridge" beers that were aimed at the novice craft drinkiers.

Yes, this chick's job was daunting. But her product is just bad and I rather doubt she even knows that.

As you say Dana, she probably only drinks one or two of them at any time.

On a side note AB is one of the most powerful companies in the city of St. Louis and they demand that the city water works put out water to their standards so they can just run water straight from the tap into the brew kettles. This is a great thing for us here; it means we have some of the best water in the country! Our treatment plant is second to none here. And they pull water out of the Mississippi river, that filthy, muddy, stinky river! By the time it comes out my tap it is clean and fresh and delicious. So we owe AB a debt of thanks!

Too bad the beer doesn't have much more taste than the water.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 12, 2023 07:08 AM (ZAl/h)

4 Too bad the beer doesn't have much more taste than the water.

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Rolling Away the Stone

Mark Musser

In the early part of the 20th century, a tantalizing marble inscription was discovered upon the death of an archaeological collector. According to his own records, it was sent to him from Nazareth in 1878. It is thus called the Nazareth inscription which in the ancient Greek language reads:

"Edict of Caesar. It is my decision, graves and tombs, whoever has made them for the religious observances of parents, or children, or household members, that these remain undisturbed forever. But if anyone legally charges that another person has destroyed, or has in any manner extracted those who have been buried, or has moved with wicked intent those who have been buried to other places, committing a crime against them, or has moved sepulcher-seali ng stones, against such a person, I order that a judicial tribunal be created, just as concerning the gods in human religious observances, even more so will it be obligatory to treat with honor those who have been entombed. You are absolutely not to allow anyone to move. But if so, I wish that one to suffer capital punishment under the title of tomb-breaker.”

While secular leftist scholars have more recently been trying to promulgate that this inscription goes back to a certain king of Kos whose body was desecrated in the 20s B.C., this is very unlikely. The scholars who first examined the inscription initially agreed it was to be dated back to the first half of the first century A.D. that would have coincided with all of the controversies over the fact of the empty tomb which the Christians brought to the Roman world of that time. Concerning events which occurred around 50 A.D., Roman historian Suetonius wrote that Caesar Claudius evicted all the Jews from Rome because of all of the sharp controversies centered around the Christ. Luke also mentions this in Acts 18.

In a detailed section of his book, "Excavating the Evidence for Jesus," Dr. Titus Kennedy concludes, "the Nazareth Inscription was probably a reaction to rumors about the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth .... After hearing the story of Jesus and how widespread it had become, Emporer Claudius seems to have attempted to prevent any future claims of the resurrection of the dead that would spark religious revolution and departure from standard Roman beliefs. Therefore, the edict recorded on the Nazareth Inscription appears to be the Roman response to the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ." Indeed, the official story coming out of Jerusalem at the time was that the disciples stole the body at night while the soldiers were sleeping (Matthew 28:11-15) - which itself is also fraught with many incredulities on a par with the resurrection itself for a variety of reasons.

More to the point, the Nazareth Inscription is an edict which seems to be far more concerned about desecrating common graves in general than related to a very specific situation as seen in Kos. Meaning that the Nazareth Inscription is also strangely concerned about forbidding the practice of moving bodies from one grave to another, which again, does not match what happened at Kos. Further, the edict also forbids moving "sepulcher-seal ing stones” like that which would have covered the tomb of Jesus in Judea - and again - does not match the circumstances of Kos.

In addition to the New Testament documents where in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John affirm that Jesus was raised from the dead, there were many other eyewitnesses of His resurrection mentioned by the apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians 15. Even Jewish and Romans historians like Josephus and Tacitus were well aware of the resurrection stories of Jesus being taught and spready by Christians. Whatever the controversies may be in all this, the facts are this: The tomb of Jesus is still empty today. Yet, the very bones of Caiaphas, one of the judges of Jesus at His fake show trial were recently found in an ossuary with his very name on it.

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How did Bragg Get So Rich?

Julio Del Valle

Alvin Bragg's net worth in 2021 was 2 million and in 2023 it is 41 million. We need to demand to know where he got that money.

Here is what I found.

Tim adds:

He was hired by Elliott Spitzer, for crying out loud!

We have to start taking crooks like this down. The GOP fears going after guys like Bragg because they fear investigations into their own finances and whatnot, but unless they do the Left will keep picking them off, like wolves pick off buffalo or lions gazelles.

The fact is the Democrats tend to be far dirtier than Republicans. It's time to start showing America that fact. Take out two for every one of our people they go after.

That is how you fight these battles. Until the GOP learns to do that we will continue to lose.

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Icebergs All Over

Timothy Birdnow

So, what happened to that ice-free Arctic we were supposed to have by now?

Meteorologist Eddie Sheerr

As of today (April 10, 2023) there are hundreds, if not thousands, of icebergs off the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador.

This is shaping up to be one of the best seasons since 2017.

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Biden had gone after Clarence Thomas in the Past

Al Moscowitz

The person who led the witch hunt regarding Anita Hill when Thomas was confirmed. JOE BIDEN... And of course to his immediate left is Senator Ted Kennedy, who, if there is any justice in the universe, is currently spinning on a rotisserie in the deepest, darkest pit of hell... I know that Senator Ted Kennedy was a Democrat, but even the renowned Democrat hypocrisy can't explain how someone like Ted Kennedy could bring himself to sit on a panel while impropriety associated with female staffers is being discussed. I wonder what Mary Jo Kopechne would say about that?

Anyway, here is a clip of Joe Biden speaking during the Thomas confirmation hearings. He could actually still speak back then. He was just as intellectually vacant and pedantic then as he is now, but the stupidity and empty arrogance were delivered MUCH more clearly.

Thomas Second Hearing Day 2, Part 4
c-span.org

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Horrors of the Gender "Cyber Sect"

John Madric

Survivors of the Trans Panic: Detransitioner Reveals Horrors of Gender ‘Cyber-Sect’ https://

Survivors of the Trans Panic: Detransitioner Reveals Horrors of Gender 'Cyber-Sect'
breitbart.com

Estella called herself "Phillip” and took testosterone injections over a period of over seven years before realizing her emotional ills could not be healed by changing her hormonal composition and physical appearance. Estella was recommended for hormone therapy at the age of 18 by a counselor who identifies as "transgender.” Her mother was deployed with the U.S. Air Force at the time.

She is now in early menopause at the age of 27, despite having stopped taking testosterone a year ago.

Estella views the transgender movement as a pseudo-spiritual belief system she describes as "modernGnosticism,” which includes initiation, rituals, and rules.

"If you are thinking about how to describe the sect, it is very much connected to, like, the modern Gnostic principles. This is a syncretic cyber sect of modern Gnosticism,” Estella said, "and I love how complicated it sounds, because the trans community loves language, and they love to complicate language to the nth degree. So, I think that this term is just very — from my experience — very accurate to explain what I went through, that’s what I think happened, and that’s how I can articulate it.”

"The trans community has this stupid line, ‘When you become trans you become your authentic self.’ It’s actually the complete opposite,” Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), told Breitbart News. "You’re actually becoming somebody else, you’re actually, in a way, killing off, or getting out of touch with your authentic self, and you’re now becoming this almost fake identity.”

Tim adds:

I would call this a form of witchcraft. They are calling it a cyber-sect and there is much to it. But I would argue the fundamental premise is that a largely-immutable quality of life is being rejected in favor of something else based on human will and human desire. This is much like necromancers or other magical practitioners who perform certain rituals on the theory they can change reality.

And it only works where everyone believes it does, as they point out in this article; anyone who deviates is cast out. Everyone has to BELIEVE for this to work.

May as well be standing around a bubbling cauldron and casting spells...

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April 10, 2023

Az. Gov. Vetoes Election Reform

Timothy Birdnow

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (who won election probably by stealing it) vetoed a reform package by Republicans to tighten mail-in voting procedures.

This is particularly noxious. According to Arizona Clean Elections.Gov a full 80% of voters have voted by mail-in ballot in times past. Is it any wonder the Democrats are starting to take that state from the GOP?

So Hobbes wants the steal to continue.

This dovetails with a recent veto by the Governor of Pennsylvania of reform legislation to tighten mail-in voting in that battleground state.

Hobbes also vetoed a pro-life bill.

This is how you build a political machine that cannot be defeated. You make it very easy to vote and very, very hard to prove someone actually voted. Then you can manufacture as many votes as you need to win.

Political machines such as this are unbeatable once entrenched.

If anyone thinks there will be a fair election in '24 they need to think again. Trump will have to win by a huge landslide to barely squeek by a victory. The fake votes will see to that.

How long will those of us in Red States continue to allow elections to be stolen from us by the Blue State people?

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Stupidification

Timothy Birdnow

The stupidification of America.

Any wonder we have such a train-wreck running the country?

American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Reverse Flynn Effect'
finance.yahoo.com

The study, ublished;elm:context_link;itc:0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156">published in the journal Intelligence, used an online, survey-style personality test called the Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment Project to analyze nearly 400,000 Americans. The researchers recorded responses from 2006 and 2018, in order to examine if and how cognitive ability scores were changing over time within the country. The data showed drops in logic and vocabulary (known as verbal reasoning), visual problem solving and analogies (known as matrix reasoning), and computational and mathematical abilities (known as letter and number series).

On the flip side, however, scores in spatial reasoning (known as 3D rotation) followed the opposite pattern, trending upward over the 12-year period. "There’s a debate about what’s causing it, but not every domain is going down; one of them is going up,” Elizabeth Dworak, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University and one of the authors on the study, says in a news release. "If all the scores were going in the same direction, you could make a nice little narrative about it, but that’s not the case. We need to do more to dig into it.”

That spacial reasoning is increasing should come as no surprise; with computers kids are always doing the three D thing. The rest is no surprise either, especially when one considers the 60 million immigrants to this country. And the total abdication of teaching by the public schools.

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Dark Ages

Al Moscowitz

Here's a good one. And before anyone asks why I care about Maryland, there are two reasons. Number one, I own a house there, and number two, it's part of the United States.

Democrats in Maryland are trying to pass a bill that would prohibit the state from prosecuting anyone under the age of 25 for FELONY MURDER.

There are several so-called reasons the Democrats are using to justify this ridiculous notion, but the one that stood out for me the most is that the Democrats argue that the brains of people under the age of 25 have not yet fully developed so they can't and shouldn't be held responsible for their actions.

So let me agree with that premise for argument's sake for just a moment. Brain development is not the problem... It's not nature, it's nurture... and if one wants to argue the age at which sufficient development occurs related to nurturing, then today I'd say they would raise that threshold to at least 35 years of age.

And if one adds the preferred political party affiliation of Democrat to the evaluation criteria, then the age stipulation can be removed completely. It's very difficult to imagine any rational person supporting Democrat policies these days.

If someone is judged to be incompetent to the point of not being accountable for their actions, then they are certainly not competent enough to vote. If we were to remove the right to vote from the people being described, regardless of the specific parameters used to classify them, the problems in this country would disappear, practically overnight.

Here's the supporting data. In the 2020 election, 64% of the people between the ages of 18-29 voted for Joe Biden. I don't have the statistic, but I'm sure it's MUCH higher if that range were limited further to 18-25 years of age...

Voting is a right that is given to ADULTS in this country. If a person is not being held accountable for their actions, then they should not be considered an adult and should NOT be able to vote.

Oh, by the way, they shouldn't be able to run for public office either.

One cannot have one's cake and eat it too... If you're not accountable, then you can't be given any responsibility.

Tim adds:

If they want to move the age of responsibility up they need to raise the voting age too. The Left wants to have their cake and eat it too, it seems.

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Son of Soros

Kurt Womack

We know about George, I didn't know the devil spawned a Leftist influencer. This is the entity behind the curtain with this junta. I would think he could afford to shave.

Son of George Soros scoring easy White House access, records show
nypost.com

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The Cool Earth

Chester McAteer

At the end of 2017 researchers discovered that the island of Zhokhov, once a peninsula, in the high Arctic was forested with a species of birch trees and inhabited by various types of warm weather flora and fauna just 9000 ybp until about 4800 ybp when the climate became so cold that nothing grew on the island. Today nothing grows but certain types of lichen. The now uninhabitable area was inhabited by humans who enjoyed temperatures at least 4°- 6°C hotter than current temperatures just in the high Arctic, the Tropical temperatures were much higher of course. An interesting point is that the humans hunted Polar Bears, Seals and Walrus in an Arctic that was almost free of sea ice for most of the year. Oh, the poor polar bears! They have been around for an estimated 1.7 million years and survived every climate whether warm or cold. Does that raise any questions in your mind given the current ideas about global warming? Obviously, temperatures today are nowhere close to what they once were otherwise, the island of Zhokhov would once again be habitable by forms of flora and fauna as it once was during the Holocene Optimal. It’s called Observable Evidence.

Temperatures peaked between 7800 and 8200 BC years ago, the period is known as the Holocene Optimal because temperatures were ideal for all plant life, animal and sea life, but since the peak temperatures they have been falling to the point that our temperatures today are closer to those during the period immediately after the end of the last ice age than to those of the peak during the Holocene Maximum.

From the peak temperatures of the Holocene Optimal they dropped to the Minoan Warming Period, then cooler to the Roman Warming Period. Between the Minoan and Roman Warming Periods Scandinavia and Northern Russia enjoyed a Mediterranean like climate. During the Roman Warming temperatures were high enough for the Romans to import ancient Mediterranean wine grape vines and cultivate them in the northern part of Britain, not only that but there is evidence that Mediterranean wine grape vines were cultivated in Finland and Northern Russia. That's impossible in today's cold temperatures.

After the Roman Warming Period came the Medieval Warming Period, it was so warm during that time the Vikings colonized Greenland and thrived, importing ancient European Barley, they grew fruit trees, many of the roots can be found in Viking graves and warm weather vegetables until once again it became too cold and they starved. Fruit tree roots have been found in Viking graves, but instead of arable land, today that same area is permafrost. Few realize that most of the Glaciers were gone or greatly reduced during the Holocene Optimal until they began to greatly advance during the Little Ice Age.

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The New Ancient Regime

Jerry S. Rainforth

The past three years of our lives.

"We thought we were free, surrounded by institutions that protected free speech. We had newspapers, the Internet, universities, courts, and think tanks – hundreds of thousands of people whose job it was to be a corrective to mass mania and government overreach.

They failed. Worse, the silence of March 2020 mostly continues to this day.

Meanwhile, a new regime was born out of the catastrophe. It goes by many names: the biosecurity state, the digital leviathan, the security hegemon, rule by the overlords of techno-primitiv ism.

Whatever it is, it bears little in common with anything we’ve previously experienced, though it has a lot in common with ancient depotisms. What began in disease panic mutated into a new way of life that disregards the values of the Enlightenment, particularly individual and universal human rights."

Brownstone Institute

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