June 27, 2024
The Irony of AI Being "Deflationary"
Diane M. Kimura
Electricity consumption has skyrocketed, and this is just the beginning.
The surge in electric cars, electric heating, and new AI advancements is dramatically increasing our electricity needs.
The global economy is not prepared for these changes.
Paradoxically, I believe AI will initially be profoundly inflationary, yet highly deflationary in the long run.
The extensive infrastructure necessary to harness AI as a significant
force for reducing inflation and advancing societal productivity will
likely increase inflationary pressures over the coming decade of
required hardware expansion, while commodities (particularly metals)
remain historically constraine
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Pay to Play
A-Greg Delany
Here is how real Pay to play Democrat funded charities work!
THey pay huge sums of money to help fix a man made crisis and the money is all taxpayer funds. They use this money to bribe jurors, judges and prosecutors to keep the tax dollars rolling in, so they can buy votes and buy new homes and cars.
5 charged with bribing juror with $120K in cash during Feeding Our Future fraud trial
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Here is how real Pay to play Democrat funded charities work!
THey pay huge sums of money to help fix a man made crisis and the money is all taxpayer funds. They use this money to bribe jurors, judges and prosecutors to keep the tax dollars rolling in, so they can buy votes and buy new homes and cars.
5 charged with bribing juror with $120K in cash during Feeding Our Future fraud trial
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June 26, 2024
DNC Paying for Lawfare Against Trump
Timothy Birdnow
The DNC has given millions of dollars to law firms to engage in lawfare against Donald Trump.
The Daily Caller has the story:
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has sent millions of dollars to law firms that are intimately involved in an "unprecedented lawfare” campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller.
The DNC has paid close to $2 million since August of 2021 to Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP for "legal services,” according to the DNC’s FEC filings. Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP founding partner Roberta A. Kaplan represented E. Jean Carroll in her sexual assault and defamation suits against Trump. The New York Times previously reported that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, helped pay for Carroll’s lawsuits.
The DNC did not pay the firm for any services from its founding in 2017 until August of 2021. Carroll initiated her first lawsuit against Trump in 2019.
The firm states that it was founded to "build a law firm for the future rooted in principles of equity, integrity, and justice.” Partner Joshua Matz served as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the first Trump impeachment trial. He was invited back to serve on the second impeachment trial, according to the firm’s website. The firm also touts "representing former U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson as a court-appointed amicus in United States of America v. Michael T. Flynn.”
The DNC has also paid Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP several million dollars for "legal services” since 2021, according to FEC filings. ABC News previously reported the firm has "represented the DNC for a long time.” Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP has filed numerous Amicus briefs in the United States v. Donald Trump case, which concerns Trump’s potential criminal liability for actions related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6, and currently sits before the Supreme Court.
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The DNC has given millions of dollars to law firms to engage in lawfare against Donald Trump.
The Daily Caller has the story:
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has sent millions of dollars to law firms that are intimately involved in an "unprecedented lawfare” campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller.
The DNC has paid close to $2 million since August of 2021 to Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP for "legal services,” according to the DNC’s FEC filings. Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP founding partner Roberta A. Kaplan represented E. Jean Carroll in her sexual assault and defamation suits against Trump. The New York Times previously reported that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, helped pay for Carroll’s lawsuits.
The DNC did not pay the firm for any services from its founding in 2017 until August of 2021. Carroll initiated her first lawsuit against Trump in 2019.
The firm states that it was founded to "build a law firm for the future rooted in principles of equity, integrity, and justice.” Partner Joshua Matz served as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the first Trump impeachment trial. He was invited back to serve on the second impeachment trial, according to the firm’s website. The firm also touts "representing former U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson as a court-appointed amicus in United States of America v. Michael T. Flynn.”
The DNC has also paid Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP several million dollars for "legal services” since 2021, according to FEC filings. ABC News previously reported the firm has "represented the DNC for a long time.” Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP has filed numerous Amicus briefs in the United States v. Donald Trump case, which concerns Trump’s potential criminal liability for actions related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6, and currently sits before the Supreme Court.
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Censor Cool with SCOTUS
Timothy Birdnow
The so-called "right wing" SCOTUS has just declared the Biden Administration my collude with big tech to censor political opponents.
We are doomed.
The so-called "right wing" SCOTUS has just declared the Biden Administration my collude with big tech to censor political opponents.
We are doomed.
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Mike Johnson, the Bad Shepherd
Timothy Birdnow
I generally like the Epoch Times. Solidly Conservative and little pandering. But this?
This was more a commercial for Mike Johnson and the RINO wing of the Party than a news story, or even opinion piece.
Here's a prime example:
"Asked by The Epoch Times if there are circumstances in which he would favor all-or-nothing House votes, Mr. Johnson noted that "President Reagan often told [his White House chief of staff] James Baker and other aides that he would rather get 80 percent of what he wants than to go over the cliff with his flag flying.”
The unavoidable reality, said Mr. Johnson, is that, with Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House, and House GOP having only a one- or two-vote majority, "Congress is a body built on legislative consensus, and, while there may be scenarios where it seems prudent to plant our flag and refuse to compromise, those decisions must be driven by consensus and also the possibility of success.”
Uh, Reagan actually got something for his troubles, something Mr. Johnson has yet to accomplish. He got eighty percent. We got the big Easter Egg.
Johnson acts as if he is powerless. He is not. He and the House can withhold funding for things they disagree with. Johnson simply refused to hold the line in that.
In fact, Mikey, why did the GOP not do anything when they had the majority in the Senate or the Presidency? You guys STILL refused to do anything. I suspect it was cowardice and not political realities as you try to claim.
Three times now Johnson betrayed the Conservatives. He funded Democrat priorities and killed regular order on funding bills, putting forth a massive, budget-busting omnibus. This after a huge effort to restore regular order and put out normal spending bills. This omnibus fully funded the FBI, including buying them new offices, thus taking any leverage away from Congressional Republicans investigating FBI abuses.
He reauthorized FISA despite the fact it was used to spy on Donald Trump and other Conservatives and was a tool to silence opposition. They should have faced serious budget cuts but Mike Johnson rode to their rescue.
So now the FBI can get a rubber stamp for any warrantless searches or seizures and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.
In fact it was worse; there was an amendment put in place to prevent the FBI from doing completely warrantless surveillance. Mike Johnson cast the deciding vote to kill it.
The Johnson also had pledged to secure the American border before funding the war in Ukraine. Guess what? Our border is still wide open and the enormous Ukraine-funding bill was passed at the insistence of one Mike Johnson.
These are not the acts of a powerless man trying to get the best deal he can; these are the acts of a Quisling.
He also was quite sneaky about it, tying it to Israel funding (we had a golden opportunity to force Biden to veto Israeli funding and split him from the Jewish vote) and it was originally tied in with veterans funding so nobody would vote against it.
So to act as if Johnson is simply trying to use the "smart approach is bull. In fact his approach is the same tired and worthless one that has led us where we are now.
How, pray tell, does Johnson think the Democrats always seem to get their way, even when in the minority? Because they fight for what they believe and we have - Mike Johnson.
It's so bad Chuck Schumer and other Democrats are calling Johnson "their Speaker". And Johnson kept the Speaker's gavel not through Republican votes but by getting Democrat support. He has done such a fine job for them they backed him. Fat lot of good it does to have a Speaker supported by the Democrats.
I found this line horribly offensive from the Johnson:
"I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment.”
So The Lord God Himself anointed Mike Johnson to surrender America in his mind. It doesn't occur to him that maybe he's doing what he chooses and rejecting the desire of God?
Johnson talks a lot about praying and God but then acts more like Judas Iscariot than St. Peter. He sold America out for fifty pieces of silver.
I would add Mr. Johnson bemoans the tiny majority the GOP holds in the House. Whose fault is that? He was the fool who expelled George Santos. Santos needed to go but wasn't that up to the people of his district? You don't kick out members when your in a neck-and-neck race. Does Johnson think the Democrats would have done what he did?
I don't know why we cannot get adequate leadership. Our side uses the same tactics over and over, tactics which have been proven failures. The ball moves ever Leftward as we don't really even try to hold the line.
If Mr. Johnson wants to bring God into this I will say God gives a nation the leadership it deserves.
Zechariah 11:4-17
4 Thus said the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich’; and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord. I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbour, and each into the hand of the king; and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.
7 So, on behalf of the sheep dealers, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favour, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep. 8In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9So I said, ‘I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another!’ 10I took my staff Favour and broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep dealers, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12I then said to them, ‘If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.’ So they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver. 13Then the Lord said to me, ‘Throw it into the treasury’*—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury* in the house of the Lord. 14Then I broke my second staff Unity, annulling the family ties between Judah and Israel.
15 Then the Lord said to me: Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. 16For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering,* or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy,* but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
17 Oh, my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be completely withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!
I generally like the Epoch Times. Solidly Conservative and little pandering. But this?
This was more a commercial for Mike Johnson and the RINO wing of the Party than a news story, or even opinion piece.
Here's a prime example:
"Asked by The Epoch Times if there are circumstances in which he would favor all-or-nothing House votes, Mr. Johnson noted that "President Reagan often told [his White House chief of staff] James Baker and other aides that he would rather get 80 percent of what he wants than to go over the cliff with his flag flying.”
The unavoidable reality, said Mr. Johnson, is that, with Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House, and House GOP having only a one- or two-vote majority, "Congress is a body built on legislative consensus, and, while there may be scenarios where it seems prudent to plant our flag and refuse to compromise, those decisions must be driven by consensus and also the possibility of success.”
Uh, Reagan actually got something for his troubles, something Mr. Johnson has yet to accomplish. He got eighty percent. We got the big Easter Egg.
Johnson acts as if he is powerless. He is not. He and the House can withhold funding for things they disagree with. Johnson simply refused to hold the line in that.
In fact, Mikey, why did the GOP not do anything when they had the majority in the Senate or the Presidency? You guys STILL refused to do anything. I suspect it was cowardice and not political realities as you try to claim.
Three times now Johnson betrayed the Conservatives. He funded Democrat priorities and killed regular order on funding bills, putting forth a massive, budget-busting omnibus. This after a huge effort to restore regular order and put out normal spending bills. This omnibus fully funded the FBI, including buying them new offices, thus taking any leverage away from Congressional Republicans investigating FBI abuses.
He reauthorized FISA despite the fact it was used to spy on Donald Trump and other Conservatives and was a tool to silence opposition. They should have faced serious budget cuts but Mike Johnson rode to their rescue.
So now the FBI can get a rubber stamp for any warrantless searches or seizures and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.
In fact it was worse; there was an amendment put in place to prevent the FBI from doing completely warrantless surveillance. Mike Johnson cast the deciding vote to kill it.
The Johnson also had pledged to secure the American border before funding the war in Ukraine. Guess what? Our border is still wide open and the enormous Ukraine-funding bill was passed at the insistence of one Mike Johnson.
These are not the acts of a powerless man trying to get the best deal he can; these are the acts of a Quisling.
He also was quite sneaky about it, tying it to Israel funding (we had a golden opportunity to force Biden to veto Israeli funding and split him from the Jewish vote) and it was originally tied in with veterans funding so nobody would vote against it.
So to act as if Johnson is simply trying to use the "smart approach is bull. In fact his approach is the same tired and worthless one that has led us where we are now.
How, pray tell, does Johnson think the Democrats always seem to get their way, even when in the minority? Because they fight for what they believe and we have - Mike Johnson.
It's so bad Chuck Schumer and other Democrats are calling Johnson "their Speaker". And Johnson kept the Speaker's gavel not through Republican votes but by getting Democrat support. He has done such a fine job for them they backed him. Fat lot of good it does to have a Speaker supported by the Democrats.
I found this line horribly offensive from the Johnson:
"I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment.”
So The Lord God Himself anointed Mike Johnson to surrender America in his mind. It doesn't occur to him that maybe he's doing what he chooses and rejecting the desire of God?
Johnson talks a lot about praying and God but then acts more like Judas Iscariot than St. Peter. He sold America out for fifty pieces of silver.
I would add Mr. Johnson bemoans the tiny majority the GOP holds in the House. Whose fault is that? He was the fool who expelled George Santos. Santos needed to go but wasn't that up to the people of his district? You don't kick out members when your in a neck-and-neck race. Does Johnson think the Democrats would have done what he did?
I don't know why we cannot get adequate leadership. Our side uses the same tactics over and over, tactics which have been proven failures. The ball moves ever Leftward as we don't really even try to hold the line.
If Mr. Johnson wants to bring God into this I will say God gives a nation the leadership it deserves.
Zechariah 11:4-17
4 Thus said the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich’; and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord. I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbour, and each into the hand of the king; and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.
7 So, on behalf of the sheep dealers, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favour, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep. 8In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9So I said, ‘I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another!’ 10I took my staff Favour and broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep dealers, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12I then said to them, ‘If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.’ So they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver. 13Then the Lord said to me, ‘Throw it into the treasury’*—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury* in the house of the Lord. 14Then I broke my second staff Unity, annulling the family ties between Judah and Israel.
15 Then the Lord said to me: Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. 16For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering,* or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy,* but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
17 Oh, my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be completely withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!
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Production Up, Usage Down, Cost Up
Timothy Birdnow
If anyone remembers how the end of cigarettes came about it was started with the Surgeon General issuing such a report, then heavy regulations imposed and heavier taxes. They didn't kill smoking all at once; they strangled it python-style. That is exactly what they hope to do here.
AS a kid I would run up to Gasen's drug store and buy my mom a pack of cigarettes. Did it all the time when I was eight or nine. Now you have to present an I.D. in Walgreens to buy any tobacco products, no matter how old you are. I bought a pack of cigars to take to my cabin and had to present I.D. - and I'm about to turn sixty years old.
It's how they killed smoking, and how they hope to end firearms.
Surgeon General declares gun violence a public health crisis
brproud.com
Timothy Birdnow
American energy production increased by 4% and consumption decreased by 1%. So why haven't we seen a decrease in our costs?
U.S. energy production exceeded consumption by record amount in 2023 - U.S. Energy Information
In fact the consumer price for electricity rose by 6.2%, from 15.04 cents per kilowatthour (kWh) in 2022 to 15.98 cents/kWh in 2023. And it is expected to rise even more next year.
So why is it costing more if we have more electricity and less demand?
If anyone remembers how the end of cigarettes came about it was started with the Surgeon General issuing such a report, then heavy regulations imposed and heavier taxes. They didn't kill smoking all at once; they strangled it python-style. That is exactly what they hope to do here.
AS a kid I would run up to Gasen's drug store and buy my mom a pack of cigarettes. Did it all the time when I was eight or nine. Now you have to present an I.D. in Walgreens to buy any tobacco products, no matter how old you are. I bought a pack of cigars to take to my cabin and had to present I.D. - and I'm about to turn sixty years old.
It's how they killed smoking, and how they hope to end firearms.
Surgeon General declares gun violence a public health crisis
brproud.com
Timothy Birdnow
American energy production increased by 4% and consumption decreased by 1%. So why haven't we seen a decrease in our costs?
U.S. energy production exceeded consumption by record amount in 2023 - U.S. Energy Information
In fact the consumer price for electricity rose by 6.2%, from 15.04 cents per kilowatthour (kWh) in 2022 to 15.98 cents/kWh in 2023. And it is expected to rise even more next year.
So why is it costing more if we have more electricity and less demand?
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Court Blocks Biden Loan Giveaway
Timothy Birdnow
Unconstitutional and a court is agreeing.
Federal court backs Missouri AG motion to block Biden's 'illegal' student loan handout plan
foxbusiness.com
Unconstitutional and a court is agreeing.
Federal court backs Missouri AG motion to block Biden's 'illegal' student loan handout plan
foxbusiness.com
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Unscientific Age
"we live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television-word
Richard Feynman
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The Current Era
"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
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Bidenocracy
Timothy Birdnow
Even if we HAD a "democracy" (which we don't and the Founders never inteded that we do) Biden's every action is in gross violaton of those principles. Letting millions of aliens in so they can vote illegally is just one example of how he tries to subvert democracy. Seeking to disenfranchise the voters by arresting his main political rival and his opposition is another. Biden is closer to Lenin than Plato, closer to Moscow than Athens.
Biden’s insufferable democracy hypocrisy - NewsBreak
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Even if we HAD a "democracy" (which we don't and the Founders never inteded that we do) Biden's every action is in gross violaton of those principles. Letting millions of aliens in so they can vote illegally is just one example of how he tries to subvert democracy. Seeking to disenfranchise the voters by arresting his main political rival and his opposition is another. Biden is closer to Lenin than Plato, closer to Moscow than Athens.
Biden’s insufferable democracy hypocrisy - NewsBreak
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June 25, 2024
Follow the Science
Roy W. Spencer
Follow the science:
"Our data suggest a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccination and death." -- new journal paper...
A Systematic REVIEW of Autopsy findings in deaths after covid-19 vaccination
sciencedirect.com
Follow the science:
"Our data suggest a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccination and death." -- new journal paper...
A Systematic REVIEW of Autopsy findings in deaths after covid-19 vaccination
sciencedirect.com
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It's All About Religion
James Doogue
Someone claimed that The hatred of Jews by Gazans has nothing to do with religion. They said if Israelis were Muslims, Hindus or Christians and 'did the same thing' Gazans would hate them just as much.
If that is so, how come Gazans' HAMAS soldiers are not firing rockets or attacking towns in Egypt? Egypt has a security fence separating them from Gaza, and Egypt participates in a similar blockade as Israel which attempts to stop Gaza importing material which can be turned into weapons.
Unlike Israel, before 7 October, Egypt did not
have thousands of Gazans citizens entering Egypt for work, or to
receive medical treatment. In addition Egypt did not provide Gaza with
communications,
So how come Gazans aren't furious with Egypt?
The rest of French and British Mandated Palestine, many times larger than Israel, were handed over to be ruled by dictatorships. Those areas, which include Lebanon, Syria, part of Iraq and the whole of Jordan, do not treat their Arab citizens as equal members of society.
Those countries forced out or expelled the bulk of Non-Muslims and their leaders have enjoyed lavish lifestyles. Meanwhile their people lack democracy and a fair share of natural resources. Most of those countries have suffered sectarian civil wars as well as wars with their neighbours.
Arab citizens in Israel who enjoy equal citizenship with Jews are not forced to serve in the IDF.
Many Arabs have fled as refugees from Israel's neighbours over the last 50 years, particularly from Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. But you don't see Arab-Israelis fleeing Israel to live in neighbouring countries.
All the Arabs in those countries should be living a life at least as free and privileged as Arabs in Israel, particularly given the abundance of oil revenue. They could all be living in modern cities like Tel Aviv and enjoy the free education and health services Arabs in Israel are entitled to equally with Jews.
So Arabs from the non-Israeli part of former French and British Mandated Palestine have more reason to hate those countries and their leaders, than to hate Israel. The only explanation for them hating Israel is that they hate Jews.
If the UN had allocated the area of Israel to perhaps Bedouins there would be no neighbouring Arab nations looking to wipe them out.
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A Tale of Two Timmies or a Tree Grows in Garwood
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.Mr. Dickens could have named this episode of the Ozark Hilton saga "A Tale of Two Timmies" although there was only one of me. And it was more worse than best although neither is strictly true so I shouldn't have brought it up in therfirst place, I suppose.
I've had a lot of worst; attacked by Yellow Jackets, by wasps, caught the cabin on fire, been beset by floods and violent storms, fell and broke five ribs once. So this hardly qualified as worst. And best? I've seen some amazing sights. One of the most beautiful in my life happened when I had to answer the call of nature at three a.m. and saw the hollows filled with mist and the sky was clear and lit brilliantly, truly a glorious sight (and I use that word sparingly.) This trip featured neither so this whole soliloquy is just pointless.
Anyway I went to the cabin and lived to tell the tale (never a wholly sure thing).
As anyone outside of Australia or New Zealand knows, we have had a rather unpleasant heat wave (and no, it's not unusual for this time of year). The "peach" of the week was Sunday, where temperatures were expected to rise only to 94* fondly fahrenheit. (For those who do not know, "Fondly Fahrenheit" was a short story by Alfred Bester about a crazy robot that went on a killing spree in heat waves.) I HAD to get down to the Ozark Hilton; my absence was not good for the old wreck of a place. I needed to fix problems before they turned into catastrophes. I woke up feeling pretty good Sunday morning and had a decent bit of philosophizing in the philosopher's room, so had no excuse not to take to the open road. Away I went.
It was an uneventful drive, although traffic was beastly. Now sure why. (I had gotten a late start as it was Sunday and I had to observe my religious obligations, plus I just plain didn't want to go early as I knew it would be hot and didn't plan to do much - fate had the last laugh on that.) I knew something was amiss when I passed the Timothy Birdnow Memorial Outhouse with nary a stirring. My body was just fattening me for the slaughter; I would have to stop at gas stations TWICE before reaching the junkyard palace in the pines!
Still I was in a good mood. I listened to some classic rock on the CD player and my air conditioner was working great.
When I arrived I had trouble finding the drive to turn off the road. It was so overgrown as to be nearly invisible and I had to take it on faith when I turned; if I was wrong I could get stuck in the ditch or blow a tire running over the bent mile market sign as I did once before. I guessed right and made it into the deep woods.
About two thirds of the way in I reached the roadblock. A tree about seven or eight inches in diameter had fallen and blocked the road.
I didn't bring a chainsaw but I did have a cross-cut saw and a hatchet. I used to have axes as well as a wedge and sledgehammer at the cabin but thieves stole them, so now I have to lug everything of value down with me. No worries though; I wasn't sure what kind of tree had fallen but it melted away to my saw and hatchet. i was through it in fifteen minutes and on my way!
Or so I thought. i came around a bend and wouldn't you know it - there was ANOTHER fallen tree. This was no sapling but a full blown tree, possibly as old as I (although probably younger but certainly decades old). Worse it was OAK, and had been healthy. Why it fell and died I can't say. But it did and it was about 14 inches in diameter and when I used the hatchet it felt hard as diamond.
Now my hatchet was new and the saw almost, but I began working on the tree with little to show for my troubles. I thought to just unload and ignore the roadblock until next time but I was in a bad spot and getting turned around wasn't an option. I was in trouble actually. You don't back up on my logging trail road! There was only one way and that was through.
I walked to the cabin and got a plastic chair I leave outside; this was going to take some time.
So I started chopping and sawing, sawing and chopping. The heat was just brutal as was the humidity and I seemed to be in some sort of facsimile of Hell, heat and sweat and wood chips and bugs biting my legs. I couldn't get a good position for the chair either and it kept wanting to fall over when it swayed from the motion of my body as I used the tools.
I stopped frequently to cool off in the car. The lying temperature gauge in the car read 89* and never changed all day. Liar. It was over 95, probably nearly a hundred. I drank most of my water as I labored. I bring two quarts, almost always more than enough. I had to restrict myself near the end lest I run out and be in trouble. I didn't relish drinking water from the cooler, which was less than pristinely clean.
Saw, chop, saw, chop...
It took about four hours to cut through that accursed tree. By the end my hands were a mass of blisters, my body ached, and I was at the very end of my strength.
But suddenly I realized one side of the cut was moving and the other wasn't! I had won!
It was a real bear to get the tree pulled out of the road. I dragged it with much difficulty. Of course my body was exhausted and that made it worse. But I got it clear and drove down to the cabin.
That was, rather, after I felt the onset of a low blood sugar. I am diabetic and take insulin and have to watch my sugar levels closely. I felt it coming on and my vision bgan going out - a bad sign. I use a continuous glucose monitor and went to check it but I had sweated so much the sensor fell off. DRAT! I had just started that one; thirty bucks down the drain! I felt better after taking some glucose tablets and drinking some water (saving about ten ounces in case of even greater need; I had some beer I could drink and a couple of sodas.) I drove on to the fabled Ozark Hilton.
Which looked pretty bad. I had started building a screened porch which I never got finished and THAT was collapsing, the framework had fallen. What's more the porch I built a year or two ago was starting to rot out. I never did get the roof over it thanks to wasps who didn't like me hammering on it. (The thieves didn't steal the plastic roof I planed to put on but the stole the hammers I needed and the nails.) I still hadn't cleaned up from the heist fully either. Also, my health has made it, uh, problematic to do any major construction work. Building the porch was easy; just a matter of stacking boards at knee level. But anything beyond that becomes tricky. I fell and broke my ribs trying to put on a roof over my planned screen porch, for instance. I pretty much broke all of them.
I went in the cabin to find another mess. Not thieves but something that may be worse; plenty of droppings to indicate rats. A lot of stuff was knocked over and chewed up and a new nest was under construction.
Now rats are generally peaceable critters who hide from humans, but that isn't the problem. They carry diseases - lots of 'em. In fact I suspect it was exposure to such a disease that caused my catastrophic heart condition. You don't want to share a cabin with rats.
By now it was getting late and I was out of gas so I settled for sweeping up the rat poop into a pile in a corner and just getting set up for the night. I knew the rats would make themselves scarce (unlike mice who are too stupid and arrogant to avoid poking the bear, which in this case is me.)
I once had a black ratsnake in the cabin. I had NO rodent problems for some time after that. He was a good roommate but he didn't like me nailing on the cabin. Used to beat his tail to show his displeasure. But he earned his keep.
Anyway I went out and sat in my chair on the porch. A wasp buzzed me, sounding like a WWII B29 bomber. That was bad; when they fly around your head that way they usually want you to leave. It is unwise to not take their hint. But I wasn't going anywhere.
So I sat and waited for stage II, which is where the wasp flies into you. That is your final warning and you'd better step lively after that. Most wasps give you very little time after the bump before they sting. But it never progressed past stage I. I guess it was too hot and too late in the day for him. I watched him fly over to one of the eaves and back to some hidden nest and he troubled me no more.
I wish I knew how to get rid of wasps. I sure have no idea. I don't begrudge them for taking advantage of a natural shelter but they need to get the point that this is MY shelter and they need to show proper courtesy.
Indoor wasps aren't like that. I have had many settle inside the cabin over the years and they don't bother me. In fact, one time I had a "pet wasp". The fellow was buzzing around me and I had thought to whack it with a newspaper, but I didn't and eventually the was settled down on my futon next to me. Just hung out all evening, buzzing occasionally. Me and my wasp! I suppose it was there just to keep an eye on me and the occasional buzzing was it communicating with the others "all quiet with the big white thing". But I prefer to think of it as a case of puppy love, or in this case waspy love.
But the outside wasps are different and I've been stung multiple times by such, usually the red wasps but the black wasps can get nasty too.
At any rate the wasp troubled me no more, which is good because I was too tired to tangle with him and too hot to sit inside.
The rest of the evening was uneventful. I sat on my chair as the light died away and enjoyed the modest cooling of the thick, sultry evening air. It was dark as the inside of a stomach, and my lights (a combination of kerosene lamps and battery-operated gadgets) created an island of light in a sea of total darkness. I could have been at sea, or on top of a mountain, or anywhere as far as I could tell. Just the trees near the cabin were visible.
No critters to mention this trip. I miss them. They are good company for a man alone in the wild. Plenty of bugs though; I was overrun by bugs on the porch, the worst I ever remember. Moths and gnats and what I suppose are Junebugs. They bugged me, they really bugged me! And no cicada sounds but plenty of crickets chirping. I didn't hear any owls, which I usually do.
I went in around 11 O'Clock and put in a movie "Quest for Fire". I also had 'Armageddon" starring Bruce Willis and Steven Tyler's foxy daughter Liv. I fell asleep about halfway through the second feature but I've seen it before so no biggie.
The morning was uneventful. I put out my lights (which I leave burning all night; it's WAY too dark otherwise and you hear THINGS in the night) and loaded up the truck for home. Stopped at the McDonalds in Piedmont for breakfast. By the time I got home I was a massive cramp and the chiggers had my legs itching like mad. I checked for ticks and found none I could fully identify, but I did scrape some suspicious bumps off my grizzled old hide. I slept about three hours during the heat of the day (and the cool of the air-conditioning.)
I really need to get down to the OH more often; it requires better attention than it is getting. I really wish I hadn't gotten sick in 2011; it would be so much better now than it is. I had big plans that got derailed. But it is what it is. I take some comfort in knowing that it will be a local legend among the youths of the area, who will talk about the crazy old shack that some dude from the city built. Maybe horror stories will be told about it. At least it will not be forgotten when I am no longer able to go there. Heaven knows few people I know have visited the place. It's been strictly for me, even though that was never my intention.
Some day it wil become a dim memory, and eventually forgotten as are all things. But not yet
I've had a lot of worst; attacked by Yellow Jackets, by wasps, caught the cabin on fire, been beset by floods and violent storms, fell and broke five ribs once. So this hardly qualified as worst. And best? I've seen some amazing sights. One of the most beautiful in my life happened when I had to answer the call of nature at three a.m. and saw the hollows filled with mist and the sky was clear and lit brilliantly, truly a glorious sight (and I use that word sparingly.) This trip featured neither so this whole soliloquy is just pointless.
Anyway I went to the cabin and lived to tell the tale (never a wholly sure thing).
As anyone outside of Australia or New Zealand knows, we have had a rather unpleasant heat wave (and no, it's not unusual for this time of year). The "peach" of the week was Sunday, where temperatures were expected to rise only to 94* fondly fahrenheit. (For those who do not know, "Fondly Fahrenheit" was a short story by Alfred Bester about a crazy robot that went on a killing spree in heat waves.) I HAD to get down to the Ozark Hilton; my absence was not good for the old wreck of a place. I needed to fix problems before they turned into catastrophes. I woke up feeling pretty good Sunday morning and had a decent bit of philosophizing in the philosopher's room, so had no excuse not to take to the open road. Away I went.
It was an uneventful drive, although traffic was beastly. Now sure why. (I had gotten a late start as it was Sunday and I had to observe my religious obligations, plus I just plain didn't want to go early as I knew it would be hot and didn't plan to do much - fate had the last laugh on that.) I knew something was amiss when I passed the Timothy Birdnow Memorial Outhouse with nary a stirring. My body was just fattening me for the slaughter; I would have to stop at gas stations TWICE before reaching the junkyard palace in the pines!
Still I was in a good mood. I listened to some classic rock on the CD player and my air conditioner was working great.
When I arrived I had trouble finding the drive to turn off the road. It was so overgrown as to be nearly invisible and I had to take it on faith when I turned; if I was wrong I could get stuck in the ditch or blow a tire running over the bent mile market sign as I did once before. I guessed right and made it into the deep woods.
About two thirds of the way in I reached the roadblock. A tree about seven or eight inches in diameter had fallen and blocked the road.
I didn't bring a chainsaw but I did have a cross-cut saw and a hatchet. I used to have axes as well as a wedge and sledgehammer at the cabin but thieves stole them, so now I have to lug everything of value down with me. No worries though; I wasn't sure what kind of tree had fallen but it melted away to my saw and hatchet. i was through it in fifteen minutes and on my way!
Or so I thought. i came around a bend and wouldn't you know it - there was ANOTHER fallen tree. This was no sapling but a full blown tree, possibly as old as I (although probably younger but certainly decades old). Worse it was OAK, and had been healthy. Why it fell and died I can't say. But it did and it was about 14 inches in diameter and when I used the hatchet it felt hard as diamond.
Now my hatchet was new and the saw almost, but I began working on the tree with little to show for my troubles. I thought to just unload and ignore the roadblock until next time but I was in a bad spot and getting turned around wasn't an option. I was in trouble actually. You don't back up on my logging trail road! There was only one way and that was through.
I walked to the cabin and got a plastic chair I leave outside; this was going to take some time.
So I started chopping and sawing, sawing and chopping. The heat was just brutal as was the humidity and I seemed to be in some sort of facsimile of Hell, heat and sweat and wood chips and bugs biting my legs. I couldn't get a good position for the chair either and it kept wanting to fall over when it swayed from the motion of my body as I used the tools.
I stopped frequently to cool off in the car. The lying temperature gauge in the car read 89* and never changed all day. Liar. It was over 95, probably nearly a hundred. I drank most of my water as I labored. I bring two quarts, almost always more than enough. I had to restrict myself near the end lest I run out and be in trouble. I didn't relish drinking water from the cooler, which was less than pristinely clean.
Saw, chop, saw, chop...
It took about four hours to cut through that accursed tree. By the end my hands were a mass of blisters, my body ached, and I was at the very end of my strength.
But suddenly I realized one side of the cut was moving and the other wasn't! I had won!
It was a real bear to get the tree pulled out of the road. I dragged it with much difficulty. Of course my body was exhausted and that made it worse. But I got it clear and drove down to the cabin.
That was, rather, after I felt the onset of a low blood sugar. I am diabetic and take insulin and have to watch my sugar levels closely. I felt it coming on and my vision bgan going out - a bad sign. I use a continuous glucose monitor and went to check it but I had sweated so much the sensor fell off. DRAT! I had just started that one; thirty bucks down the drain! I felt better after taking some glucose tablets and drinking some water (saving about ten ounces in case of even greater need; I had some beer I could drink and a couple of sodas.) I drove on to the fabled Ozark Hilton.
Which looked pretty bad. I had started building a screened porch which I never got finished and THAT was collapsing, the framework had fallen. What's more the porch I built a year or two ago was starting to rot out. I never did get the roof over it thanks to wasps who didn't like me hammering on it. (The thieves didn't steal the plastic roof I planed to put on but the stole the hammers I needed and the nails.) I still hadn't cleaned up from the heist fully either. Also, my health has made it, uh, problematic to do any major construction work. Building the porch was easy; just a matter of stacking boards at knee level. But anything beyond that becomes tricky. I fell and broke my ribs trying to put on a roof over my planned screen porch, for instance. I pretty much broke all of them.
I went in the cabin to find another mess. Not thieves but something that may be worse; plenty of droppings to indicate rats. A lot of stuff was knocked over and chewed up and a new nest was under construction.
Now rats are generally peaceable critters who hide from humans, but that isn't the problem. They carry diseases - lots of 'em. In fact I suspect it was exposure to such a disease that caused my catastrophic heart condition. You don't want to share a cabin with rats.
By now it was getting late and I was out of gas so I settled for sweeping up the rat poop into a pile in a corner and just getting set up for the night. I knew the rats would make themselves scarce (unlike mice who are too stupid and arrogant to avoid poking the bear, which in this case is me.)
I once had a black ratsnake in the cabin. I had NO rodent problems for some time after that. He was a good roommate but he didn't like me nailing on the cabin. Used to beat his tail to show his displeasure. But he earned his keep.
Anyway I went out and sat in my chair on the porch. A wasp buzzed me, sounding like a WWII B29 bomber. That was bad; when they fly around your head that way they usually want you to leave. It is unwise to not take their hint. But I wasn't going anywhere.
So I sat and waited for stage II, which is where the wasp flies into you. That is your final warning and you'd better step lively after that. Most wasps give you very little time after the bump before they sting. But it never progressed past stage I. I guess it was too hot and too late in the day for him. I watched him fly over to one of the eaves and back to some hidden nest and he troubled me no more.
I wish I knew how to get rid of wasps. I sure have no idea. I don't begrudge them for taking advantage of a natural shelter but they need to get the point that this is MY shelter and they need to show proper courtesy.
Indoor wasps aren't like that. I have had many settle inside the cabin over the years and they don't bother me. In fact, one time I had a "pet wasp". The fellow was buzzing around me and I had thought to whack it with a newspaper, but I didn't and eventually the was settled down on my futon next to me. Just hung out all evening, buzzing occasionally. Me and my wasp! I suppose it was there just to keep an eye on me and the occasional buzzing was it communicating with the others "all quiet with the big white thing". But I prefer to think of it as a case of puppy love, or in this case waspy love.
But the outside wasps are different and I've been stung multiple times by such, usually the red wasps but the black wasps can get nasty too.
At any rate the wasp troubled me no more, which is good because I was too tired to tangle with him and too hot to sit inside.
The rest of the evening was uneventful. I sat on my chair as the light died away and enjoyed the modest cooling of the thick, sultry evening air. It was dark as the inside of a stomach, and my lights (a combination of kerosene lamps and battery-operated gadgets) created an island of light in a sea of total darkness. I could have been at sea, or on top of a mountain, or anywhere as far as I could tell. Just the trees near the cabin were visible.
No critters to mention this trip. I miss them. They are good company for a man alone in the wild. Plenty of bugs though; I was overrun by bugs on the porch, the worst I ever remember. Moths and gnats and what I suppose are Junebugs. They bugged me, they really bugged me! And no cicada sounds but plenty of crickets chirping. I didn't hear any owls, which I usually do.
I went in around 11 O'Clock and put in a movie "Quest for Fire". I also had 'Armageddon" starring Bruce Willis and Steven Tyler's foxy daughter Liv. I fell asleep about halfway through the second feature but I've seen it before so no biggie.
The morning was uneventful. I put out my lights (which I leave burning all night; it's WAY too dark otherwise and you hear THINGS in the night) and loaded up the truck for home. Stopped at the McDonalds in Piedmont for breakfast. By the time I got home I was a massive cramp and the chiggers had my legs itching like mad. I checked for ticks and found none I could fully identify, but I did scrape some suspicious bumps off my grizzled old hide. I slept about three hours during the heat of the day (and the cool of the air-conditioning.)
I really need to get down to the OH more often; it requires better attention than it is getting. I really wish I hadn't gotten sick in 2011; it would be so much better now than it is. I had big plans that got derailed. But it is what it is. I take some comfort in knowing that it will be a local legend among the youths of the area, who will talk about the crazy old shack that some dude from the city built. Maybe horror stories will be told about it. At least it will not be forgotten when I am no longer able to go there. Heaven knows few people I know have visited the place. It's been strictly for me, even though that was never my intention.
Some day it wil become a dim memory, and eventually forgotten as are all things. But not yet
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June 23, 2024
European Paper: Get Used to Irregular Electricity
Timothy Birdnow
Just like the Third World:
European Newspaper Says Citizens Better Get Used To Not Having Electricity All The Time
wattsupwiththat.com
Just like the Third World:
European Newspaper Says Citizens Better Get Used To Not Having Electricity All The Time
wattsupwiththat.com
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Buffet of Evil
A Greg Delany
Who is funding the Liberal Left's push to dominate the world and reduce global population?
The News purports that Warren Buffet is donating his Billions to charities.
The problem is, they are just Global Shill Foundations created by the NWO to bolster the Elite Ruling Class.
He is not a saint, but he is a demon!
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light
Here are the so called charities he contributed to.
Buffett teamed up with Bill Gates and Gates’ ex-wife Melinda French Gates to create the Giving Pledge and vowed to donate nearly all of his fortune to charity.
Who are the lucky recipients of Buffett’s latest largesse?
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation got $3.5 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares. (To create another Pandemic in the future, that will be more deadly and more control oriented)
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, founded by his late wife, got $350 million worth. (This is a foundation that funds all Abortion issues. The more they kill in the womb, the less they have to kill with the jab later.)
The foundations of his three children pocketed $250 million apiece.
(These of the Buffet Novo Foundations. One of the funds is used to support transgender activists and organizations, the other supports projects that promote holistic and healing visions for humanity. The last one is dedicated to catalyzing a transformation in global society, moving from a culture of domination to one of equality and partnership)
Sounds like a full blown Satanic vision for our world!
Buffet’s not done yet. He has billions more stowed in five foundations and he has his 15% stake in Berkshire Hathaway, one of the world’s most valuable companies.
"My will provides that more than 99% of my estate is destined for philanthropic usage," Buffett said.
Forbes estimates Buffett’s total donations could eventually exceed $160 billion.
Who is funding the Liberal Left's push to dominate the world and reduce global population?
The News purports that Warren Buffet is donating his Billions to charities.
The problem is, they are just Global Shill Foundations created by the NWO to bolster the Elite Ruling Class.
He is not a saint, but he is a demon!
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light
Here are the so called charities he contributed to.
Buffett teamed up with Bill Gates and Gates’ ex-wife Melinda French Gates to create the Giving Pledge and vowed to donate nearly all of his fortune to charity.
Who are the lucky recipients of Buffett’s latest largesse?
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation got $3.5 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares. (To create another Pandemic in the future, that will be more deadly and more control oriented)
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, founded by his late wife, got $350 million worth. (This is a foundation that funds all Abortion issues. The more they kill in the womb, the less they have to kill with the jab later.)
The foundations of his three children pocketed $250 million apiece.
(These of the Buffet Novo Foundations. One of the funds is used to support transgender activists and organizations, the other supports projects that promote holistic and healing visions for humanity. The last one is dedicated to catalyzing a transformation in global society, moving from a culture of domination to one of equality and partnership)
Sounds like a full blown Satanic vision for our world!
Buffet’s not done yet. He has billions more stowed in five foundations and he has his 15% stake in Berkshire Hathaway, one of the world’s most valuable companies.
"My will provides that more than 99% of my estate is destined for philanthropic usage," Buffett said.
Forbes estimates Buffett’s total donations could eventually exceed $160 billion.
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June 22, 2024
Farage: We Pushed Russia Into It
Timothy Birdnow
Across the pond Nigel Farage speaks the unspeakable; admits that the West pushed Russia into the war in Ukraine.
Farage just cooked his own goose. The Ruling Class doesn't permit such truth-telling.
Across the pond Nigel Farage speaks the unspeakable; admits that the West pushed Russia into the war in Ukraine.
Farage just cooked his own goose. The Ruling Class doesn't permit such truth-telling.
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China "Doesn't Care" Who is President?
Timothy Birdnow
My big fat white posterior!
China has no favorite in Biden-Trump race, US intelligence finds
No way they don't care; Biden is bought and paid for by China and everyone knows it.
More psy-ops from the good people who brought you Russian Collusion and the Hunter Biden Laptop is a Russian disinformation plot swindle.
My big fat white posterior!
China has no favorite in Biden-Trump race, US intelligence finds
No way they don't care; Biden is bought and paid for by China and everyone knows it.
More psy-ops from the good people who brought you Russian Collusion and the Hunter Biden Laptop is a Russian disinformation plot swindle.
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Rewilding
Beverly McCall Goff
Really interesting read that covers the dangers of the Biden (WEF) 30x30 plan to "rewild” 30% of public lands! When I say public lands I mean the government using coercion & eminent domain to take land out of production including farming & food production! It turns out this idea was started by Nazi Germany so it’s no surprise this is being forced onto America by a dictator! These zealots are taking our ability to feed the citizens at the same time they’re planning to take hydroelectric dams down for fish with no power source to replace this "green” energy!
It’s all part of their degrowth agenda & it looks like they plan to starve out as many people as possible to reduce the population! If we survive this & turn it around this period of history is going to be viewed as the worst assault on humanity in history!
Tim adds:
The Nazi comparison is apt. Mark Musser wrote a book about how the Nazis were the first "Green" regime in history and that was at the core of the holocaust. What we are seeing today is the return of the swastika in the Gang Green.
Nazis killed Jews because they thought them an "invasive species" not evolved in the sylvan German countryside which they so desperately sought to "rewild".
BTW how did that "rewilding" work out for Maui? The Mauri fires of just a few months ago happened because the old sugar and pineapple plantations were kicked out by the Hawaiian government and allowed to go fallow to "rewild". This made them ripe for wild fires.
You don't get aboriginal forests and the like when you kill agriculture and development - you get moth-eaten scrubland which is not sustainable. You get soil erosion and pollution and habitat loss. How many birds enjoy a farmer's reservoir? How many fish? How much wildlife lives off the changes made to land by humans?
And how many people must die to satisfy the green dreams of the Malthusian leftists?
Anyone remember the Central Park jogger who was beaten and raped by young black thugs who were out "wilding" as they called it? That is pretty much what they want to do to America now.
Really interesting read that covers the dangers of the Biden (WEF) 30x30 plan to "rewild” 30% of public lands! When I say public lands I mean the government using coercion & eminent domain to take land out of production including farming & food production! It turns out this idea was started by Nazi Germany so it’s no surprise this is being forced onto America by a dictator! These zealots are taking our ability to feed the citizens at the same time they’re planning to take hydroelectric dams down for fish with no power source to replace this "green” energy!
It’s all part of their degrowth agenda & it looks like they plan to starve out as many people as possible to reduce the population! If we survive this & turn it around this period of history is going to be viewed as the worst assault on humanity in history!
Tim adds:
The Nazi comparison is apt. Mark Musser wrote a book about how the Nazis were the first "Green" regime in history and that was at the core of the holocaust. What we are seeing today is the return of the swastika in the Gang Green.
Nazis killed Jews because they thought them an "invasive species" not evolved in the sylvan German countryside which they so desperately sought to "rewild".
BTW how did that "rewilding" work out for Maui? The Mauri fires of just a few months ago happened because the old sugar and pineapple plantations were kicked out by the Hawaiian government and allowed to go fallow to "rewild". This made them ripe for wild fires.
You don't get aboriginal forests and the like when you kill agriculture and development - you get moth-eaten scrubland which is not sustainable. You get soil erosion and pollution and habitat loss. How many birds enjoy a farmer's reservoir? How many fish? How much wildlife lives off the changes made to land by humans?
And how many people must die to satisfy the green dreams of the Malthusian leftists?
Anyone remember the Central Park jogger who was beaten and raped by young black thugs who were out "wilding" as they called it? That is pretty much what they want to do to America now.
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Gain of Dysfunction
Greg Malakoff
This began under Obama when he told Fauci to get that shit out of Chapel Hill North Carolina. It was news when the pandemic started but the dems's media suppressed it just like they are telling you now that Biden is incredibly agile and that there is no one being killed by the known felons he has transported into the country.
As I like to remind people Bill Maher demanded that the entire country suffer so that Trump would lose and then the dems remembered this little item was lying in wait.
BTW, they are promising us another one if things don't go there way and they promised it would be worse than the first time around. You might want to read what they can do to us now.
Pentagon makes horrifying admission about its funding of Chinese gain-of-function experiments | Blaze Media
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This began under Obama when he told Fauci to get that shit out of Chapel Hill North Carolina. It was news when the pandemic started but the dems's media suppressed it just like they are telling you now that Biden is incredibly agile and that there is no one being killed by the known felons he has transported into the country.
As I like to remind people Bill Maher demanded that the entire country suffer so that Trump would lose and then the dems remembered this little item was lying in wait.
BTW, they are promising us another one if things don't go there way and they promised it would be worse than the first time around. You might want to read what they can do to us now.
Pentagon makes horrifying admission about its funding of Chinese gain-of-function experiments | Blaze Media
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Third Warmest on Record My Eye!
Timothy Birdnow
According to Missouri's climate big cheese last year was the third warmest on record in the Show Me State and the warmest year on record ever in the world.
Well I'm from Missouri and you'd better show me!
He's full of it. The claim 2023 is warmest on record has been debunked by several people and it is essentially Michael Mann's Nature Trick, eliminating the Medieval and Roman warming periods as Mann did (the hockey stick graph), and also assuming we have proper date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (we don't; proxy data is far less accurate than what we have now and "Mike's Nature Trick" was splicing proxy sets onto real data sets and pretending they were the same so he could "hide the decline" in temperature rise as was revealed by the Climategate e-mails.)
We also know NOAA and NASA and CRU have been systematically altering historical data to make this era appear warmer. https://science.house.gov/2017/2/former-noaa-scientist-confirms-colleagues-manipulated-climate-records
and
https://reason.com/2017/02/06/climate-scientists-manipulated-temperatu/
Of course the media is dutifully reporting this to reinforce the hysteria of man-made global climate warming, a hysteria that is wholly unwarranted. IF climate change is caused by Man it is mostly through land use changes and increased atmospheric water vapor (which we had last year thanks to volcanic eruptions). I would add that humans have been drilling for fossil water in deep aquifers and thus increasing the amount of water in the atmosphere. But carbon dioxide? It is a trace gas and human contribution to the rising levels is but a fraction of that. There are just four molecules of carbon dioxide in every TEN THOUSAND molecules of air, up by one and a half molecule from pre-industrial days. And those were low thanks to the Ice Age; we saw much higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in prior eras.
We need MORE CO2; it is what plants breathe. And it has a logarithmic warming effect; 2* C is the absolute most it will warm.
There are many reasons why Earth has warmed slightly. It is not Industrial emissions or cow farts or human exhalation. And it poses zero danger to civilization.
The REAL danger is in our response to it. We are systematically wrecking the system that made it possible for us to live at all.
Socialism and Malthusianism and Luddite thinking are what pose the real dangers to our health and survival. Pre-industrial civilizations were unhealthy and unwholesome places. There were wars. Losers were usually enslaved. Those who weren't enslaved were serfs, forced into labor for a Lord who offered protection. So if you like slavery and serfdom then by all means stampede like good little cattle into the pens they have prepared for us, and let them cull the herd as people like Bill Gates have openly said they aim to do.
P.T. Barnum warned there was a sucker born every minute. Global Climate Change alarmism is proof positive of that.
According to Missouri's climate big cheese last year was the third warmest on record in the Show Me State and the warmest year on record ever in the world.
Well I'm from Missouri and you'd better show me!
He's full of it. The claim 2023 is warmest on record has been debunked by several people and it is essentially Michael Mann's Nature Trick, eliminating the Medieval and Roman warming periods as Mann did (the hockey stick graph), and also assuming we have proper date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (we don't; proxy data is far less accurate than what we have now and "Mike's Nature Trick" was splicing proxy sets onto real data sets and pretending they were the same so he could "hide the decline" in temperature rise as was revealed by the Climategate e-mails.)
We also know NOAA and NASA and CRU have been systematically altering historical data to make this era appear warmer. https://science.house.gov/2017/2/former-noaa-scientist-confirms-colleagues-manipulated-climate-records
and
https://reason.com/2017/02/06/climate-scientists-manipulated-temperatu/
Of course the media is dutifully reporting this to reinforce the hysteria of man-made global climate warming, a hysteria that is wholly unwarranted. IF climate change is caused by Man it is mostly through land use changes and increased atmospheric water vapor (which we had last year thanks to volcanic eruptions). I would add that humans have been drilling for fossil water in deep aquifers and thus increasing the amount of water in the atmosphere. But carbon dioxide? It is a trace gas and human contribution to the rising levels is but a fraction of that. There are just four molecules of carbon dioxide in every TEN THOUSAND molecules of air, up by one and a half molecule from pre-industrial days. And those were low thanks to the Ice Age; we saw much higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in prior eras.
We need MORE CO2; it is what plants breathe. And it has a logarithmic warming effect; 2* C is the absolute most it will warm.
There are many reasons why Earth has warmed slightly. It is not Industrial emissions or cow farts or human exhalation. And it poses zero danger to civilization.
The REAL danger is in our response to it. We are systematically wrecking the system that made it possible for us to live at all.
Socialism and Malthusianism and Luddite thinking are what pose the real dangers to our health and survival. Pre-industrial civilizations were unhealthy and unwholesome places. There were wars. Losers were usually enslaved. Those who weren't enslaved were serfs, forced into labor for a Lord who offered protection. So if you like slavery and serfdom then by all means stampede like good little cattle into the pens they have prepared for us, and let them cull the herd as people like Bill Gates have openly said they aim to do.
P.T. Barnum warned there was a sucker born every minute. Global Climate Change alarmism is proof positive of that.
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