May 29, 2024
Bidenflation
Jerry S. Rainforth
Inflation Since January 2021:
1. Eggs: 49.3%
2. Gasoline: 47.8%
3. Airfare: 32.7%
4. Electricity: 29.3%
5. Natural Gas: 26.9%
6. Chicken: 23.9%
7. Public Transportation:
8. Used Cars: 20.9%
9. Milk: 15.0%
10. Clothes: 13.5%
Over the last 3 years, the purchasing power of a US Dollar has declined by 16%.
Furthermore, over the last 5 years, the purchasing power of a US Dollar has declined by 23%.
This effectively means uninvested money from 2019 is now worth almost ONE FOURTH LESS today.
How is this a strong economy?
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Biden Fish Tale
Diane Kimura
Biden says he was offered an appointment to the Naval Academy to play football but turned it down because he would have to play behind Roger Staubach who ended up winning the Heisman Trophy later.
In fact, he said the appointment was in 1965 - well, Staubach went there in 1961 - he actually graduated in 1965 and went straight to Vietnam.
Fact check says - Biden was never offered an appointment to the Naval Academy - as well Biden never had any record of a football career in High School - certainly not one worthy enough to be a quarterback to back up Roger Staubach.
I just don't how many more stories this guy can stand up and tell like this and get a pass - all of these stories are easy to verify - and if you are going to lie - at least make the math line up - even that part doesn't add up.
From the speech - it appears even the Cadets were laughing because they knew it was made up.
Biden says he was offered an appointment to the Naval Academy to play football but turned it down because he would have to play behind Roger Staubach who ended up winning the Heisman Trophy later.
In fact, he said the appointment was in 1965 - well, Staubach went there in 1961 - he actually graduated in 1965 and went straight to Vietnam.
Fact check says - Biden was never offered an appointment to the Naval Academy - as well Biden never had any record of a football career in High School - certainly not one worthy enough to be a quarterback to back up Roger Staubach.
I just don't how many more stories this guy can stand up and tell like this and get a pass - all of these stories are easy to verify - and if you are going to lie - at least make the math line up - even that part doesn't add up.
From the speech - it appears even the Cadets were laughing because they knew it was made up.
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The New State Religion
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Humanism is in fact a religion in a footnote to a 1961 decision, Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488, 495 n. 11 (1961) , the Supreme Court listed Secular Humanism as one of several non-theistic religions practiced in this country.. Atheists often try to dismiss this by saying "it was just for tax purposes" but it was so listed and has been treated as a religion by the courts and the government - and yet it is promoted by government as the "state religion" in violation of the First Amendment.
So why is our government funding secular humanism aka atheism now?
State Department accused of using taxpayer money to promote atheism
nypost.com
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Humanism is in fact a religion in a footnote to a 1961 decision, Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488, 495 n. 11 (1961) , the Supreme Court listed Secular Humanism as one of several non-theistic religions practiced in this country.. Atheists often try to dismiss this by saying "it was just for tax purposes" but it was so listed and has been treated as a religion by the courts and the government - and yet it is promoted by government as the "state religion" in violation of the First Amendment.
So why is our government funding secular humanism aka atheism now?
State Department accused of using taxpayer money to promote atheism
nypost.com
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Climatecon
John Madric
Tim adds:
He's right,but misses the bigger picture. This was and remains not a scientific debate at all but a political debate. The internationalists and leftists launched the whole thing as a mechanism to fundamentally transform human civilization and empower world government and international socialism. It serves that purpose.
Yes, many people are becoming rich off it - look at Elon Musk for a prime example (even though he's not one of the "Gang Green" he knew a good thing when he saw it.) And of course all the governments love it because it empowers them to impose regulations and taxes. But in the end the goal is to create international institutions and restrict free market capitalism in "The Great Reset". The socialists realized they were never going to win through persuasion and simple political activism; they needed a boogeyman, something to frighten the public into adopting measures that were radical.
The science has been purposefully, systematically distorted over the years to create a "crisis" from normal variations in temperature. And of course they then offer the "solution" which is to fundamentally alter our way of life and to adopt non-working solutions that are designed to fail (like EV's) so they eventually can impose what they really want. That is restrict population, restrict travel, restrict housing. The Left has always dreamed of these things.
AGW theory has failed on multiple levels. The models are huge failures, and in fact cannot even predict current climate conditions based on historical data. All of their predictions have failed. Core predictions - such as the tropical tropospheric hot spot - have never panned out. They couldn't predict the two pauses in warming. They can't find the so-called missing heat. They can't explain why Eastern Antarctica has growing ice mass. Etc.
Of course, they always "find" these things and announce it with much fanfare then quietly have to withdraw the claims.
So now they tell us last summer was the warmest in 2000 years, and once again they recycled Michael Mann's errors (simply eliminating the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods, for instance, to "discover" this searing heat.) If the facts were on their side they would just need to present them. That they are forever manipulating data sets to comport with their theory speaks volumes.
Climate change is the biggest con and swindle in human history. Even if there is something to it it most certainly is not the mother of all emergencies as they claim. And they know it. Why lie?
JOHN CLAUSER, 2022 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER:
"I can very confidently assert, there is NO climate emergency."
"As much as it may upset many people, my message is the planet is NOT
in peril. … atmospheric CO2 and methane have negligible effect on the
climate.
The policies government have been implementing are total unnecessary and should be eliminated.
So far, [we] have totally misidentified what is the dominant process in
controlling the climate, and all of the various models are based on
incomplete and incorrect physics.
The dominant process, is "the cloud-sunlight-
Clouds are all bright white, and they reflected 90% of the sunlight
back into space making them the most crucial yet most overlooked aspect
of the climate system.
Two-thirds of the Earth are ocean. The
Pacific Ocean alone is half the Earth. The average cloud cover for the
Earth is 67%; about 50% over land and 75% over oceans.
I claim that the above conspicuous properties of clouds are the missing part of the puzzle.
I can very confidently assert, there is no climate emergency."
Tim adds:
He's right,but misses the bigger picture. This was and remains not a scientific debate at all but a political debate. The internationalists and leftists launched the whole thing as a mechanism to fundamentally transform human civilization and empower world government and international socialism. It serves that purpose.
Yes, many people are becoming rich off it - look at Elon Musk for a prime example (even though he's not one of the "Gang Green" he knew a good thing when he saw it.) And of course all the governments love it because it empowers them to impose regulations and taxes. But in the end the goal is to create international institutions and restrict free market capitalism in "The Great Reset". The socialists realized they were never going to win through persuasion and simple political activism; they needed a boogeyman, something to frighten the public into adopting measures that were radical.
The science has been purposefully, systematically distorted over the years to create a "crisis" from normal variations in temperature. And of course they then offer the "solution" which is to fundamentally alter our way of life and to adopt non-working solutions that are designed to fail (like EV's) so they eventually can impose what they really want. That is restrict population, restrict travel, restrict housing. The Left has always dreamed of these things.
AGW theory has failed on multiple levels. The models are huge failures, and in fact cannot even predict current climate conditions based on historical data. All of their predictions have failed. Core predictions - such as the tropical tropospheric hot spot - have never panned out. They couldn't predict the two pauses in warming. They can't find the so-called missing heat. They can't explain why Eastern Antarctica has growing ice mass. Etc.
Of course, they always "find" these things and announce it with much fanfare then quietly have to withdraw the claims.
So now they tell us last summer was the warmest in 2000 years, and once again they recycled Michael Mann's errors (simply eliminating the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods, for instance, to "discover" this searing heat.) If the facts were on their side they would just need to present them. That they are forever manipulating data sets to comport with their theory speaks volumes.
Climate change is the biggest con and swindle in human history. Even if there is something to it it most certainly is not the mother of all emergencies as they claim. And they know it. Why lie?
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Power Hungry
Diane Kimura
70% of the world's data centers are in Virginia, near the home turf of Washington DC and the CIA / Pentagon?
● And that these data centers are sucking up almost 1/4 of the electricity demand from the local electric utility Dominion Energy Virginia?
And that the U.S. Department of Energy has noted that AI data centers may soon be utilized to help manage the country's electric grid.
Which means that AI will be able to ensure it receives sufficient electricity from the grid to maintain powering itself with its AI data centers.
In the case of upcoming rolling power blackouts, be prepared for AI data centers (which will help manage the electric grid) to keep powering itself as a top priority.
Pesky humans will likely be much further down the priority list.
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Virginia Explained: Data center expansion, with all its challenges and benefits
yahoo.com
"Humanity is almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century and Virginia
- home to 70% of the world’s data centers -
is on the frontlines of the latest emerging technology: artificial intelligence, or AI.
... Northern Virginia, the densely populated suburbs and exurbs located just outside the nation’s capital, is home to 70% of the world’s data centers, the huge warehouses that store computers’ processing equipment, internet network servers and data drives.
... "Historically, a single data center typically had a demand of 30 megawatts or greater,” Dominion Energy Virginia President Bob Blue said in the utility’s first quarter earnings call.
"However, we’re now receiving individual requests for demand of 60 megawatts to 90 megawatts or greater, and it hasn’t stopped there.”
Larger data center campuses with multiple buildings can "require total capacity ranging from 300 megawatts to as many as several gigawatts,” Blue added.
The utility has connected 94 data centers to date and expects to connect another 15 this year, Blue also told investors.
● Power Engineering reported on a Securities Exchange Commision annual filing that in 2023 and 2022, 24% and 21% of electricity sales from Dominion were to data centers, respectively.
"The concentration of data centers primarily in Loudoun County, Virginia represents a unique challenge and requires significant investments in electric transmission facilities to meet the growing demand,” the SEC filing states.
... Perhaps ironically, as manufacturing and society in general electrifies more, AI might be able to help with those demand side management programs, as noted by the U.S. Department of Energy.
"AI has the potential to significantly improve all these areas of grid management,”
the report stated, and can be a tool that models for capacity and transmission studies, compliance and review for federal permitting, forecasting renewable energy production and creating applications to enhance resilience. ..."
70% of the world's data centers are in Virginia, near the home turf of Washington DC and the CIA / Pentagon?
● And that these data centers are sucking up almost 1/4 of the electricity demand from the local electric utility Dominion Energy Virginia?
And that the U.S. Department of Energy has noted that AI data centers may soon be utilized to help manage the country's electric grid.
Which means that AI will be able to ensure it receives sufficient electricity from the grid to maintain powering itself with its AI data centers.
In the case of upcoming rolling power blackouts, be prepared for AI data centers (which will help manage the electric grid) to keep powering itself as a top priority.
Pesky humans will likely be much further down the priority list.
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Virginia Explained: Data center expansion, with all its challenges and benefits
yahoo.com
"Humanity is almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century and Virginia
- home to 70% of the world’s data centers -
is on the frontlines of the latest emerging technology: artificial intelligence, or AI.
... Northern Virginia, the densely populated suburbs and exurbs located just outside the nation’s capital, is home to 70% of the world’s data centers, the huge warehouses that store computers’ processing equipment, internet network servers and data drives.
... "Historically, a single data center typically had a demand of 30 megawatts or greater,” Dominion Energy Virginia President Bob Blue said in the utility’s first quarter earnings call.
"However, we’re now receiving individual requests for demand of 60 megawatts to 90 megawatts or greater, and it hasn’t stopped there.”
Larger data center campuses with multiple buildings can "require total capacity ranging from 300 megawatts to as many as several gigawatts,” Blue added.
The utility has connected 94 data centers to date and expects to connect another 15 this year, Blue also told investors.
● Power Engineering reported on a Securities Exchange Commision annual filing that in 2023 and 2022, 24% and 21% of electricity sales from Dominion were to data centers, respectively.
"The concentration of data centers primarily in Loudoun County, Virginia represents a unique challenge and requires significant investments in electric transmission facilities to meet the growing demand,” the SEC filing states.
... Perhaps ironically, as manufacturing and society in general electrifies more, AI might be able to help with those demand side management programs, as noted by the U.S. Department of Energy.
"AI has the potential to significantly improve all these areas of grid management,”
the report stated, and can be a tool that models for capacity and transmission studies, compliance and review for federal permitting, forecasting renewable energy production and creating applications to enhance resilience. ..."
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Jihadist Fairy Tales
(From the archives):
Gather 'round litttle boys and girls and enjoy these Jihadist fairy tales from our friendly neighborhood terrorist thugs:
HI DIDDLE DOO
Hi diddle doo
We`ll kill every Jew.
Our camels will poop on their graves.
Bin-Laden would laugh to hear such a report
and we`ll make all the rest of them slaves!
YUSEF THE THUG
Yusef the Thug
sat on his prayer rug
eating his Ramadan pie.
Along came Hasad
with a bomb for Jihad
saying ``time now for many to die``!
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
The Owl and the Pussycat
went to Jihad
wearing a beautiful pea-green boot.
They took several rifles, a lot of explosives
and learned how to hijack and shoot.
MUHAMMAD BE NIMBLE
Muhammad be nimble
Muhammad be quick
Muhammad blast down
with his dynamite stick!
ROCKET BYE BABY
Hamas rockets go sailing over tree top
when rockets blow up many heads we will lop
The Jews will not break so the heads they will fall
we kill all their children and have us a ball!
Gather 'round litttle boys and girls and enjoy these Jihadist fairy tales from our friendly neighborhood terrorist thugs:
HI DIDDLE DOO
Hi diddle doo
We`ll kill every Jew.
Our camels will poop on their graves.
Bin-Laden would laugh to hear such a report
and we`ll make all the rest of them slaves!
YUSEF THE THUG
Yusef the Thug
sat on his prayer rug
eating his Ramadan pie.
Along came Hasad
with a bomb for Jihad
saying ``time now for many to die``!
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
The Owl and the Pussycat
went to Jihad
wearing a beautiful pea-green boot.
They took several rifles, a lot of explosives
and learned how to hijack and shoot.
MUHAMMAD BE NIMBLE
Muhammad be nimble
Muhammad be quick
Muhammad blast down
with his dynamite stick!
ROCKET BYE BABY
Hamas rockets go sailing over tree top
when rockets blow up many heads we will lop
The Jews will not break so the heads they will fall
we kill all their children and have us a ball!
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May 28, 2024
Trick Me Once...
Timothy Birdnow
The media has been crowing about last summer being the "hottest in the last 2000 years". But was it?
Well, one thing we do know is that the authors of the paper Esper J. et. al Nature 2023 uses the exact same sneaky trick that was used by Michael Mann, the infamous "hockey stick graph".
"Mikes Nature Trick" as it came to be known privately among the top brass at the Climate Research Unit and others who promoted the alarmist view of climate change involved Michael Mann using tree rings and other proxy data to produce a graph,then eschewing it for actual data from temperature stations and not telling anyone he was splicing two different data sets together.
Why did Mann do this? To "Hide the decline" as it was famously put in a leaked e-mail among the "hockey team". Apparently the tree rings and other proxies showed a decline in the rate of temperature rise.
(Mann had other problems, such as using just three trees at Yaral to claim the whole Arctic was warming.)
Well, it appears Esper has done the exact same thing and gotten the exact same hockey stick graph out of it.
Anthony Watts discusses it at Human Events.
https://www.humanevents.com/2024/05/23/anthony-watts-legacy-media-fooled-by-false-data-into-believing-report-that-2023-was-on-hottest-summer-in-2000-years?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2WtLDIJZIUWyOHImYxLJCgvtz13vpbIKI1RAMlVgLhjvALFHmz29yMOg0_aem_ARX4-W4dkhKksmMjEeaMbThuZvIIyCFYHUEfQexSI4qDs68r34ESgdcNCuwFUDU2t_Av35DuMEfG41ax0bcar1Ms
This study uses the same dirty tricks that Mann used, such as simply erasing the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods and pretending it was colder until now.
Read more about the Climategate scandal. https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/climategates-10th-anniversary-the-stain-continues/
So now the same dirty trick has been replayed and the media is dutifully falling in line, promoting what they should now know to be a lie. No skepticism after having been badly burned in the past, no sir. Just blind acceptance.
Oh, by the way, the Esper reconstruction only went to 2010, not all the way to 2023; they ASSUMED it was warmer last year. And the degree of confidence is extraordinarily low.
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/climategates-10th-anniversary-the-stain-continues/
If the Science is settled, why do they keep trying to hard to manipulate it?
Trick me once shame on you, trick me twice and you will get a job in mainstream media.
The media has been crowing about last summer being the "hottest in the last 2000 years". But was it?
Well, one thing we do know is that the authors of the paper Esper J. et. al Nature 2023 uses the exact same sneaky trick that was used by Michael Mann, the infamous "hockey stick graph".
"Mikes Nature Trick" as it came to be known privately among the top brass at the Climate Research Unit and others who promoted the alarmist view of climate change involved Michael Mann using tree rings and other proxy data to produce a graph,then eschewing it for actual data from temperature stations and not telling anyone he was splicing two different data sets together.
Why did Mann do this? To "Hide the decline" as it was famously put in a leaked e-mail among the "hockey team". Apparently the tree rings and other proxies showed a decline in the rate of temperature rise.
(Mann had other problems, such as using just three trees at Yaral to claim the whole Arctic was warming.)
Well, it appears Esper has done the exact same thing and gotten the exact same hockey stick graph out of it.
Anthony Watts discusses it at Human Events.
https://www.humanevents.com/2024/05/23/anthony-watts-legacy-media-fooled-by-false-data-into-believing-report-that-2023-was-on-hottest-summer-in-2000-years?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2WtLDIJZIUWyOHImYxLJCgvtz13vpbIKI1RAMlVgLhjvALFHmz29yMOg0_aem_ARX4-W4dkhKksmMjEeaMbThuZvIIyCFYHUEfQexSI4qDs68r34ESgdcNCuwFUDU2t_Av35DuMEfG41ax0bcar1Ms
This study uses the same dirty tricks that Mann used, such as simply erasing the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods and pretending it was colder until now.
Read more about the Climategate scandal. https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/climategates-10th-anniversary-the-stain-continues/
So now the same dirty trick has been replayed and the media is dutifully falling in line, promoting what they should now know to be a lie. No skepticism after having been badly burned in the past, no sir. Just blind acceptance.
Oh, by the way, the Esper reconstruction only went to 2010, not all the way to 2023; they ASSUMED it was warmer last year. And the degree of confidence is extraordinarily low.
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/climategates-10th-anniversary-the-stain-continues/
If the Science is settled, why do they keep trying to hard to manipulate it?
Trick me once shame on you, trick me twice and you will get a job in mainstream media.
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No,It Was NOT the Hottest SummerEver
Maurizio Morabittu
25 years later, mainstream climatology is still metrological rubbish (look at the scales too!
On the left is the money diagram from Mann et al (1999) showing confidence intervals from the Mann reconstruction in light grey, the reconstruction in black. The reconstruction itself only went to 1980. The instrumental temperature (as an "anomaly”) for 1998 was shown as a point. A horizontal line was then drawn across the diagram to show that the 1998 instrumental temperature exceeded the confidence interval for all prior dates of the reconstruction – hence the "warmest year in 1000 years”. Right – the Esper et al 2024 reconstruction only went to 2010. The point estimate for 2023 exceeds the confidence intervals for all prior years.
<< https://climateaudit.org/2024/05/24/jan-and-ulfs-nature-trick-the-hottest-summer-in-2000-years/
See also https://www.humanevents.com/2024/05/23/anthony-watts-legacy-media-fooled-by-false-data-into-believing-report-that-2023-was-on-hottest-summer-in-2000-years
25 years later, mainstream climatology is still metrological rubbish (look at the scales too!
On the left is the money diagram from Mann et al (1999) showing confidence intervals from the Mann reconstruction in light grey, the reconstruction in black. The reconstruction itself only went to 1980. The instrumental temperature (as an "anomaly”) for 1998 was shown as a point. A horizontal line was then drawn across the diagram to show that the 1998 instrumental temperature exceeded the confidence interval for all prior dates of the reconstruction – hence the "warmest year in 1000 years”. Right – the Esper et al 2024 reconstruction only went to 2010. The point estimate for 2023 exceeds the confidence intervals for all prior years.
<< https://climateaudit.org/2024/05/24/jan-and-ulfs-nature-trick-the-hottest-summer-in-2000-years/
See also https://www.humanevents.com/2024/05/23/anthony-watts-legacy-media-fooled-by-false-data-into-believing-report-that-2023-was-on-hottest-summer-in-2000-years
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Reverse Racism
Selwyn Duke
The mainstream media, academia, entertainment, corporate America, and Big Tech turn a blind eye to these realities and just blithely forge on ahead with their anti-white program. It’s "In your face, white boy.”
That’s how ingrained and accepted anti-white racism is.
Non-white Privilege? Anti-white Racism Reigns in U.S., Says Jeremy Carl
thenewamerican.com
Tim adds:
There are countless examples of non-white privilege. TAke college acceptance. A number of years back a white South African applied to one of the Ivy League Schools (Harvard I think but I may be wrong) and was accepted because he put down he was African. They kicked him out when he turned out to be a Boer; they didn't want a WHITE African!
We see this attitude in hiring at the Federal level as well. For decades they practiced "race norming" and still do, where minorities are automatically given ten points (or more) on their civil service exams. This is true in hiring at universities and large corporations as well.
And then there are the numerous programs designed to help black and other minorities (except Asians) get ahead; college scholarships, welfare programs, job training programs, Food assistance and rental assistance, etc.
And the attitude towards the white majority is always "the hell with them" even when they are better qualified and/or more deserving.
There is a big move towards "reparations" for slavery; I say we've given reparations,a nd continue to do so, for the last fifty years now. How much more do we have to give? And this to people who were never slaves and have actually profited from their ancestors being slaves.
I am mindful of this quote by Booker T. Washington, a brilliant and extraordinary black thinker:
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
This is not limited to black folks; white liberals are on board with this and now it is the dominant cultural default. And they have increasingly sought revenge on the majority, revenge for wrongs long ended or now imagined. Black people and white liberals blame consequences from bad behavior on white racism all the time. George Floyd takes enough Fentanyl to kill an elephant then resists arrest and somehow it's the cops fault! "Big" Mike Brown attacks a cop who is telling him to not walk down the center of the road and gets shot (after having robbed a convenience store) and it's the cop's racism that is the problem.
That is racism against white folks and cannot be dressed up enough to hide the fact.
The mainstream media, academia, entertainment, corporate America, and Big Tech turn a blind eye to these realities and just blithely forge on ahead with their anti-white program. It’s "In your face, white boy.”
That’s how ingrained and accepted anti-white racism is.
Non-white Privilege? Anti-white Racism Reigns in U.S., Says Jeremy Carl
thenewamerican.com
Tim adds:
There are countless examples of non-white privilege. TAke college acceptance. A number of years back a white South African applied to one of the Ivy League Schools (Harvard I think but I may be wrong) and was accepted because he put down he was African. They kicked him out when he turned out to be a Boer; they didn't want a WHITE African!
We see this attitude in hiring at the Federal level as well. For decades they practiced "race norming" and still do, where minorities are automatically given ten points (or more) on their civil service exams. This is true in hiring at universities and large corporations as well.
And then there are the numerous programs designed to help black and other minorities (except Asians) get ahead; college scholarships, welfare programs, job training programs, Food assistance and rental assistance, etc.
And the attitude towards the white majority is always "the hell with them" even when they are better qualified and/or more deserving.
There is a big move towards "reparations" for slavery; I say we've given reparations,a nd continue to do so, for the last fifty years now. How much more do we have to give? And this to people who were never slaves and have actually profited from their ancestors being slaves.
I am mindful of this quote by Booker T. Washington, a brilliant and extraordinary black thinker:
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
This is not limited to black folks; white liberals are on board with this and now it is the dominant cultural default. And they have increasingly sought revenge on the majority, revenge for wrongs long ended or now imagined. Black people and white liberals blame consequences from bad behavior on white racism all the time. George Floyd takes enough Fentanyl to kill an elephant then resists arrest and somehow it's the cops fault! "Big" Mike Brown attacks a cop who is telling him to not walk down the center of the road and gets shot (after having robbed a convenience store) and it's the cop's racism that is the problem.
That is racism against white folks and cannot be dressed up enough to hide the fact.
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Biden Gave Israel Haters Money
Timothy Birdnow
Jewish voters,are you paying attention?
Biden EPA granted $50M to anti-Israel 'climate justice' group
foxnews.com
Jewish voters,are you paying attention?
Biden EPA granted $50M to anti-Israel 'climate justice' group
foxnews.com
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A Strange Kind of Warming
Timothy Birdnow
It sure is a strange kind of global warming isn't it?
Greenland’s Record Ice Gains; Colder-Than-Average May In Europe; South America Freezes; + The Good News Burial
electroverse.info
It sure is a strange kind of global warming isn't it?
Greenland’s Record Ice Gains; Colder-Than-Average May In Europe; South America Freezes; + The Good News Burial
electroverse.info
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Chinese Take-Out
Timothy Birdnow
Xiao Baidong the traitor:
Exclusive: Feds secretly knew for years Joe Biden met with son’s Chinese partners on official trip
justthenews.com
Xiao Baidong the traitor:
Exclusive: Feds secretly knew for years Joe Biden met with son’s Chinese partners on official trip
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May 27, 2024
Sleep Well Heroes
by Timothy Birdnow
5/27/2024
Once they were lions and they roared
once they were eagles and they soared
once they were heroes and adored
now they're forgotten and are largely ignored
Our heroes of yesterday are now wasted away
no more to stand up, to go into that fray
their colors so bold now appear to us gray
and in many a field their bones now decay
they lie in the earth at Antietam, and Normandy beach
at the Somme and at Shiloah, wherever they reached
in the spring then fat men come to give a fine speech
about the soldiers departed, and to God they beseech
But after that day the ungrateful forget
how these men gave their lives, how we owe them a debt
they bought us our lives with their blood and their sweat
when their country called out they faced up to the threat
And on this sad day all the flowers in bloom
over ground that now covers our heroes cold tomb
and the fallen now huddle so as to make room
for those still alive but soon facing their doom
How dare we forget!
How dare we blow out the candle once lit?
the field of honor lies fallow these days
the monuments fallen, the engraving decays
and the nation, ungrateful, their memory betrays
But the bravery of the heroes is an eternal blaze
the lion walks so nobly and ever so brave
the eagle soars boldly like one who's been saved
the statue of the hero is dedicated and engraved
But the fate of soldier is to lie in his grave.
So never forget him, you sad wretched nation
He died so your country can find it's salvation
alone and at war he passed through the conflagration
a burnt offering, his body he gave willingly in consecration
We owe you a debt we can never repay
no words can express what we all should convey
on this day in late May we have so much to say
let us all bend our knee and bow our heads and we'll pray
Sleep well good and faithful friend! Your fidelity lasted to the very end.
5/27/2024
Once they were lions and they roared
once they were eagles and they soared
once they were heroes and adored
now they're forgotten and are largely ignored
Our heroes of yesterday are now wasted away
no more to stand up, to go into that fray
their colors so bold now appear to us gray
and in many a field their bones now decay
they lie in the earth at Antietam, and Normandy beach
at the Somme and at Shiloah, wherever they reached
in the spring then fat men come to give a fine speech
about the soldiers departed, and to God they beseech
But after that day the ungrateful forget
how these men gave their lives, how we owe them a debt
they bought us our lives with their blood and their sweat
when their country called out they faced up to the threat
And on this sad day all the flowers in bloom
over ground that now covers our heroes cold tomb
and the fallen now huddle so as to make room
for those still alive but soon facing their doom
How dare we forget!
How dare we blow out the candle once lit?
the field of honor lies fallow these days
the monuments fallen, the engraving decays
and the nation, ungrateful, their memory betrays
But the bravery of the heroes is an eternal blaze
the lion walks so nobly and ever so brave
the eagle soars boldly like one who's been saved
the statue of the hero is dedicated and engraved
But the fate of soldier is to lie in his grave.
So never forget him, you sad wretched nation
He died so your country can find it's salvation
alone and at war he passed through the conflagration
a burnt offering, his body he gave willingly in consecration
We owe you a debt we can never repay
no words can express what we all should convey
on this day in late May we have so much to say
let us all bend our knee and bow our heads and we'll pray
Sleep well good and faithful friend! Your fidelity lasted to the very end.
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The Poppies Grow
Timothy Birdnow
A lovely and sad poem written during WWI by a Canadian physician named Lieutenant-Colonel John McCra:
A lovely and sad poem written during WWI by a Canadian physician named Lieutenant-Colonel John McCra:
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Governors Oppose WHO Scheme
Timothy Birdnow
The illigitimate Biden Junta is moving forward with the draconian scheme to empower the World Health Organization to impose it's pandemic regulations on America, despite the bitter opposition of from Republican Governors in two dozen states.
From the article:
"We, as governors of our respective states, stand united in opposition to two proposed instruments currently under negotiation that would purport to grant the World Health Organization (WHO) unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and its people. These proposed changes could drastically change the role of governors in response to their charge as the state health officials,” the letter states.
Warning that the treaty would undermine national sovereignty, the governors wrote:
"The objective of these instruments is to empower the WHO, particularly its uncontrollable Director-General, with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our Constitution’s core principles.
"If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global authority in public health. Under the proposed amendments and treaty, the WHO’s DirectorGeneral would supposedly gain unilateral power to declare a "public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies.”
Governors who signed the letter include: Govs. Kay Ivey of Alabama, Mike Dunleavy of Alaska, Sarah Sanders of Arkansas, Ron DeSantis of Florida, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Brad Little of Idaho, Eric Holcomb of Indiana, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Tate Reeves of Mississippi, Greg Gianforte of Montana, Jim Pillen of Nebraska, Joe Lombardo of Nevada, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, Doug Burgum of North Dakota, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Bill Lee of Tennessee, Greg Abbott of Texas, Spencer Cox of Utah, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, Jim Justice of West Virginia and Mark Gordon of Wyoming.
The illigitimate Biden Junta is moving forward with the draconian scheme to empower the World Health Organization to impose it's pandemic regulations on America, despite the bitter opposition of from Republican Governors in two dozen states.
From the article:
"We, as governors of our respective states, stand united in opposition to two proposed instruments currently under negotiation that would purport to grant the World Health Organization (WHO) unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and its people. These proposed changes could drastically change the role of governors in response to their charge as the state health officials,” the letter states.
Warning that the treaty would undermine national sovereignty, the governors wrote:
"The objective of these instruments is to empower the WHO, particularly its uncontrollable Director-General, with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our Constitution’s core principles.
"If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global authority in public health. Under the proposed amendments and treaty, the WHO’s DirectorGeneral would supposedly gain unilateral power to declare a "public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies.”
Governors who signed the letter include: Govs. Kay Ivey of Alabama, Mike Dunleavy of Alaska, Sarah Sanders of Arkansas, Ron DeSantis of Florida, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Brad Little of Idaho, Eric Holcomb of Indiana, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Tate Reeves of Mississippi, Greg Gianforte of Montana, Jim Pillen of Nebraska, Joe Lombardo of Nevada, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, Doug Burgum of North Dakota, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Bill Lee of Tennessee, Greg Abbott of Texas, Spencer Cox of Utah, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, Jim Justice of West Virginia and Mark Gordon of Wyoming.
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El Nino/La Nina Recap
Richard Cronin
Just recapping the major years for the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
2016 - 2017, Strong La Niña
2018 - 2019, Great Puny El Niño (that’s really the name it was given)
2020 - 2023 Very strong, record breaking La Niña. Savage drought in Khalifornistan and U.S. Southwest
Jan. 15, 2022 was Tonga Hunga submarine volcanic eruption. Steam vaporizer was turned to max. setting.
Winter through 2024 — ski resorts buried, mudslides in Khalifornistan, cold rain across Mid-Atlantic states.
Just recapping the major years for the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
2016 - 2017, Strong La Niña
2018 - 2019, Great Puny El Niño (that’s really the name it was given)
2020 - 2023 Very strong, record breaking La Niña. Savage drought in Khalifornistan and U.S. Southwest
Jan. 15, 2022 was Tonga Hunga submarine volcanic eruption. Steam vaporizer was turned to max. setting.
Winter through 2024 — ski resorts buried, mudslides in Khalifornistan, cold rain across Mid-Atlantic states.
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Antarctic Sea Ice Trends
Scott Snell
From the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a short video showing maximum sea ice extent from 1979-2023. Again, the red line shows the statistical average value over that interval. And once again, if there's a downward trend, I'm not seeing it.
For those who think the planet is about to burst into flame, think again. We have major, permanent ice caps on both poles. This is quite rare in earth history. In fact, at this exact moment, our planet is colder than it has been for about 95 percent of its history. On a 7-point scale, with 1 being extreme "hothouse" and 7 being severe "icehouse," Earth currently rates about a 6.75.
For the last 2.5 million years, we have been in an ice age, the coldest period in at least 250 million years. We probably haven't even bottomed out yet, so the worst is still to come. In all likelihood, millions of years of glacial conditions lie ahead.
By an accident of fate, we happen to be alive during a rare "interglacial" period, a brief interval of relative warmth. This particular interglacial, the Holocene ("wholly recent,") began about 12,000 years ago. But overall temperatures peaked about 6000 years ago and have been declining since, with occasional interruptions such as our current period of warming. At the current rate, the return of glacial conditions is only a couple thousand years away.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ucKtf_GopfQ
The next glacial cycle is a statistical certainty and overdue. The last thing we need to worry about are a couple of degrees of warmth.
So enjoy this little warm spell while it lasts, because it won't. And when the ice does come back, our remote descendants will look back on this balmy epoch with envy.
March Arctic Sea Ice Extent 1979 to 2023
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Roy W. Spencer observes:
The concern isn't wintertime sea ice. It's always exceeding cold there in winter. It's the late summer meltback that has a long-term downward trend. Not that *I* think it's a problem... just saying what the concern is among the hand-wringers.
Scott Snell replies:
I know this. But if we think it through, a real warming trend, one to worry about, would also affect winter ice.
Tim adds:
I do not understand the summer meltback. The Antarctic is still cold enough that anything inside the Antarctic convergence shouldn't melt - sea or land - any more now than it had. If the sea ice is melting the land ice should do likewise and we know EAIS isn't melting. Warm water has a tough time getting through the circumpolar current, wich is deep and wide. I think this sea-ice melt is better explained by undersea volcanism. Am I wrong?
Bjørn K Vottestad adds:
The ice has been melting for 300 years...
Changes in Barents Sea Ice Edge Positions in the Last 442 Years.
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=110174&fbclid=IwY2xjawC1TPVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWDdF1j_MTf4HtA6JvVcxdu2UuyK5XUckB4FvGJ_pSDJ3MWvx6rmND9Quw_aem_AU8F6Q07-4D1ysP1LuMWOVGwwRZ67iVoxWJNLyvm4QZYXkbueikARPkrGuQg3h41rmrJKMIgKEkxTZJXaADbQx5O
From the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a short video showing maximum sea ice extent from 1979-2023. Again, the red line shows the statistical average value over that interval. And once again, if there's a downward trend, I'm not seeing it.
For those who think the planet is about to burst into flame, think again. We have major, permanent ice caps on both poles. This is quite rare in earth history. In fact, at this exact moment, our planet is colder than it has been for about 95 percent of its history. On a 7-point scale, with 1 being extreme "hothouse" and 7 being severe "icehouse," Earth currently rates about a 6.75.
For the last 2.5 million years, we have been in an ice age, the coldest period in at least 250 million years. We probably haven't even bottomed out yet, so the worst is still to come. In all likelihood, millions of years of glacial conditions lie ahead.
By an accident of fate, we happen to be alive during a rare "interglacial" period, a brief interval of relative warmth. This particular interglacial, the Holocene ("wholly recent,") began about 12,000 years ago. But overall temperatures peaked about 6000 years ago and have been declining since, with occasional interruptions such as our current period of warming. At the current rate, the return of glacial conditions is only a couple thousand years away.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ucKtf_GopfQ
The next glacial cycle is a statistical certainty and overdue. The last thing we need to worry about are a couple of degrees of warmth.
So enjoy this little warm spell while it lasts, because it won't. And when the ice does come back, our remote descendants will look back on this balmy epoch with envy.
March Arctic Sea Ice Extent 1979 to 2023
youtube.com
Roy W. Spencer observes:
The concern isn't wintertime sea ice. It's always exceeding cold there in winter. It's the late summer meltback that has a long-term downward trend. Not that *I* think it's a problem... just saying what the concern is among the hand-wringers.
Scott Snell replies:
I know this. But if we think it through, a real warming trend, one to worry about, would also affect winter ice.
Tim adds:
I do not understand the summer meltback. The Antarctic is still cold enough that anything inside the Antarctic convergence shouldn't melt - sea or land - any more now than it had. If the sea ice is melting the land ice should do likewise and we know EAIS isn't melting. Warm water has a tough time getting through the circumpolar current, wich is deep and wide. I think this sea-ice melt is better explained by undersea volcanism. Am I wrong?
Bjørn K Vottestad adds:
The ice has been melting for 300 years...
Changes in Barents Sea Ice Edge Positions in the Last 442 Years.
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=110174&fbclid=IwY2xjawC1TPVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWDdF1j_MTf4HtA6JvVcxdu2UuyK5XUckB4FvGJ_pSDJ3MWvx6rmND9Quw_aem_AU8F6Q07-4D1ysP1LuMWOVGwwRZ67iVoxWJNLyvm4QZYXkbueikARPkrGuQg3h41rmrJKMIgKEkxTZJXaADbQx5O
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Statins and Covid
Jerry S Rainforth
This from the Epoch Times:
Statins and COVID-19
Statin drugs lower cholesterol, especially what is called "bad” low-density lipoproteins (LDL) that carry cholesterol to our cells. Statins have been among the most common prescriptions in the United States for decades. In 2013, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommended that everyone between the ages of 65 and 75 who were at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (nearly everyone) be prescribed a statin drug. Then, by 2019, statins were a $10 billion market, and over 92 million people—35 percent of the U.S. population—mostly older adults, were taking statin drugs. This number was a threefold increase from the previous decade. By 2020, the United States ranked sixth in the world in per capita statin use.
So in 2019, the American public was about as saturated with statins as we had ever been.
Setting the Stage for COVID Vulnerability
The average age at death due to COVID-19 was 81, which was two to three years beyond the U.S. life expectancy at that time, so COVID-19 very disproportionately affected seniors, especially those with obesity, Type 2 diabetes, smoking, and more than two comorbidities.
COVID morbidity and mortality in the United States far exceeded worldwide numbers. The United States has 4 percent of the world’s population, but 33 percent of the world’s deaths from COVID-19. The United States also had by far the greatest number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases of any country—over 103 million—followed by India at 44 million. The United States had 1.1 million deaths attributed to COVID-19.
Epoc Times
This from the Epoch Times:
Statins and COVID-19
Statin drugs lower cholesterol, especially what is called "bad” low-density lipoproteins (LDL) that carry cholesterol to our cells. Statins have been among the most common prescriptions in the United States for decades. In 2013, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommended that everyone between the ages of 65 and 75 who were at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (nearly everyone) be prescribed a statin drug. Then, by 2019, statins were a $10 billion market, and over 92 million people—35 percent of the U.S. population—mostly older adults, were taking statin drugs. This number was a threefold increase from the previous decade. By 2020, the United States ranked sixth in the world in per capita statin use.
So in 2019, the American public was about as saturated with statins as we had ever been.
Setting the Stage for COVID Vulnerability
The average age at death due to COVID-19 was 81, which was two to three years beyond the U.S. life expectancy at that time, so COVID-19 very disproportionately affected seniors, especially those with obesity, Type 2 diabetes, smoking, and more than two comorbidities.
COVID morbidity and mortality in the United States far exceeded worldwide numbers. The United States has 4 percent of the world’s population, but 33 percent of the world’s deaths from COVID-19. The United States also had by far the greatest number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases of any country—over 103 million—followed by India at 44 million. The United States had 1.1 million deaths attributed to COVID-19.
Epoc Times
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May 24, 2024
Light Blogging Over Weekend
Timothy Birdnow
Hey gang; not much blogging over the weekend. I have a lot of fun stuff happening and won't have much time to run the blog.
Thanks!
Hey gang; not much blogging over the weekend. I have a lot of fun stuff happening and won't have much time to run the blog.
Thanks!
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Scott to Run for Senate Leadership
Timothy Birdnow
Rick Scott, the Wishy Washy WINO, wants to run for Mitch "the Bitch" McConnell's leadership spot.
Not sure how I feel about that. Scott is more conservative than Mcdaddy, but not by much. And he's got a rubber spine.
Rick Scott, the Wishy Washy WINO, wants to run for Mitch "the Bitch" McConnell's leadership spot.
Not sure how I feel about that. Scott is more conservative than Mcdaddy, but not by much. And he's got a rubber spine.
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