July 31, 2025
Hawley Goes All RINO
Timothy Birdnow
Not sure what happened to Josh Hawley but he really messed up big time with this.
Trump Torches GOP Sen For Blocking Effort Investigating Pelosi Stock Trades
When Hawley first ran for the Senate he was Missouri's Attorney General and a good one. But he allowed the legal lynching of Republican (former Democrat) Governor Eric Greitens by a partisan hack BLM St. Louis city attorney named Kim Gardner, who broke multiple laws in her witch hunt. Greitens was railroaded and Hawley stood back and let it happen when he could have stopped it. I was very angry at him for that (even though Greitens was something of a dirtbag as any Democrat is). If you let them get away with that once they will do it again and again. Hawley could have shut her down, and could have prosecuted her for crimes (she solicited the complaint, for instance, going so far as to meet the complainant in a motel in Illinois before filing charges, and she hired a private investigator to find evidence rather than use the SLPD, she hid evidence, she gave surprise evidence, etc.) Hawley was running for the Senate and feared angering black voters by doing anything about Gardner, a black woman and BLM enthusiast.
Since then Hawley has been quite good, but he appears to be returning to form here. Why?
Not only has Hawley spiked a report on Nancy Pelosi's unsavory, perhaps illegal, trading practices but he also joined with Democrats in trying to limit President Trump's authority to trade and own stocks.
Trump smacks him down good:
Josh Hawley from the Great State of Missouri, join with all of the Democrats to block a Review, sponsored by Senator Rick Scott, and with the support of almost all other Republicans, of Nancy Pelosi’s Stock Trading over the last 25 years,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. "The Democrats, because of our tremendous ACHIEVEMENTS and SUCCESS, have been trying to ‘Target’ me for a long period of time, and they’re using Josh Hawley, who I got elected TWICE, as a pawn to help them.”
Pelosi was quite enthusiastic about the stock trading bill, and that should be a huge red flag.
Trump said:
"I wonder why Hawley would pass a Bill that Nancy Pelosi is in absolute love with — He is playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats,” Trump wrote. "It’s a great Bill for her, and her ‘husband,’ but so bad for our Country!”
Senator Rick Scott, who sponsored the bill to investigate Pelosi, was disgusted with Hawley and the scheme to ban stock trading (which Mr. Trump has long done). Scott rightly pointed out that this is just another weapon the Democrats are going to try to use against Mr. Trump.
The fact is this ban is aimed at getting Pelosi off the political hook; she can say she supported restrictions. It's like when John Mccain supported campaign finance reform after he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
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If you ask me (yes, I know you didn't, but I'm throwing my tuppence into the pot anyhow), I think the Republicans in Congress should take its cues from the President and not even bother to ask why. And quite frankly, I think any Democrats who have an IQ above 99 should go along, too -- if there are any such.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 31, 2025 10:55 PM (Gtb2F)
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I wholly agree Dana. Trump shows he's several moves ahead of his opponents on most occasions and the GOP is not. They are playing tiddly-winks and Trump three D chess.
They've also not yet learned the media will never like them, and the Democrats won't play fair with them. This is a war, not a cricket match.
Not sure what Hawley's angle is here. He no doubt is playing some sort of game, but it is a foolish game indeed. Piss Trump off and he can support, say, Andrew Bailey (Missouri AG) to fill Hawley's seat next time. I guess Hawley figures, since he was just re-elected, he can pull this kind of thing and all will be forgotten. But I suspect Trump has a long memory, and will still exert quite a bit of influence over the GOP after he's out of office.
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West Point Speech CzarFired
Timothy Birdnow
THIS is how woke our milittary has become!
Army Secretary Orders Removal Of Biden Censorship Czar From West Point
West Point had a CENSORSHIP CZAR! I thought we had a First Amendment! And I thought these people took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution!
According to The Federalist:
As described in a June 2023 report by the House Judiciary Committee, CISA was originally founded in 2018 "to be an ancillary agency designed to protect ‘critical infrastructure’ and guard against cybersecurity threats.” In the years that followed, however, it "metastasized into the nerve center of the federal government’s domestic surveillance and censorship operations on social media.”
A separate House committee report released later that year showed that CISA colluded with Stanford University to pressure Big Tech companies into censoring prominent conservative voices — including The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis — leading up to the 2020 election. The agency’s censorship operations would continue to grow under Easterly’s tenure, with House lawmakers noting its efforts to "camouflage its activities” from the public by 2022 and 2023.
In addition to ordering Easterly’s termination, Driscoll instructed West Point to "immediately pause all non-governmental and outside groups from selecting employees of the Academy, including instructors, professors, teachers, and shaping academic or developmental lectures.” He further requested the chair of West Point’s Board of Visitors to "conduct an immediate top-down review of the United States Military Academy’s hiring practices.”
Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher, admonished "seize that which the enemy holds dear" and West Point and the military were held quite dear by conservatives and Americans in general. So they Left targeted them both and dropped a huge load of Progressive Poop all over them.
What the Obama/Biden people tried to do was nothing short of a bureaucratic revolution. It was top down, bottom up, inside out as Marxist Van Jones put it. It would have worked too if they hadn't overplayed their hand with Trump. It still might.
Charges need to be brought; you cannot suppress constitutional rights in this way. And if there are no legal charges possible then lawsuits need to be filed - hundreds, thousands of them.
Unless this sort of thing is punished, and severely, these termites will try it again and again.
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VDH on Mexico
Timothy Birdnow
This is a condensed version of
a Victor Davis Hansen discussion from the Daily Signal.
VDH rightly points out Americans are subsidizing Mexico by allowing their citizens to send back remissions while enjoying government handouts - when they aren't supposed to be here in the first place.
As always it's well worth you time to read.
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Streaming Killed the Video Star
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an essay arguing that we all want less and not more, we want limitations on us. The author waxes nostalgic for Blockbuster Video and cocludes such nostalgia stems from our desire for fvewer choices. He's right in no small part (and the nostalgia stems from a home to which we can no longer return - our youth - but he doesn't discuss that.)
Again, he's right; we just have too many choices these days. I go to the grocer and have to spend half an hour looking over items because they have nearly a dozen of similar products. In times past you might have two or at most three competing items but now there are dozens, and a single company makes different versions of the same product too. Take Fritoes; they come in regular, scoops, jalepeno, twisties, low sodium, etc. And that doesn't mention the generic corn chips sold at the store. Every decision about every product is a big production. There is a kind of freedom in limitations.
Man was built for limitations. Whether it is the physical limits of our abilities, or laws (like the Ten Commandments) we are happy having choices BUT lines drawn to keep us moving straight. That is the thing the Left has destroyed; their idea of freedom is doing whatever they want or being whatever they want or having whatever they want. They don't understand that we are bound by Natural Law, and in that way we are bound by God Himself. Those boundaries are not tyrannical or capricious; they are there for our own happiness. You can't play a game if you don't adhere to the rules.
But liberals don't play by rules because they want to make their own. This is the sin of Lucifer, who wanted to be a god unto himself. He got it and is miserable because of his bad choice. It really sucks to be a god, but it is alluring. People want power.
So as a society we have rejected limitations. Boys now put on dresses and demand we all call them "her" and our insane society goes right along with it. Two dudes or two chicks can now adopt a child and claim they are married. Sexual restraint is completely disappeared. So too are other restraints, on anger, on discourtesy, etc. We do not have freedom now but license, and that is the greatest oppressor of all. The lines are drawn to act as guides, not prisons. Prisons are the inevitable outcome of license without reasonable restraint. Liberals want to use law to enforce guardrails to keep the crazies they have created from hurting themselves or others. True freedom lies in self-control, a control that can only be exercised if the lines are clear.
I would also add that this is a kind of proof of God; we all long for someone to guide us, and to set boundaries.
So this nostalgia for Blockbuster makes perfect sense if you are pondering the decline of our culture, even while we have more options on things. Spoiled children aren't spoiled because they were denied - they are spoiled because they were given more than they could handle.
At any rate I miss the old days of video stores too. It was fun; you wandered the aisled looking for a movie, found one, and looked forward to it the rest of the day. You appreciated it much more when you watched it. Now people just sit in the same spot they always sit in, glued to a computer screen, and click. There is nothing special about it; just part of the day.
In fact computer technology and home delivery has made most things mundane. The young have little to look forward to because they are never denied for even an hour. When you get everything you want you lose interest in everything. Anticipation is a big part of the joy of living. (Most things don't meet your expectations in the end anyway.)
I suspect this is why the young are chasing old stuff these days. They brought the vinyl record back, for example. They drink Pabst Blue Ribbon because their grandfather's drank it (at least those who drink, which most young people don't do these days.) This generation seems to be the most nostalgic of any and that's because modernity is just a bore, when it's not stressful and aggravating. The young realize there is something amiss but can't put their finger on it, so they try to capture a piece of the "good old days" through nostalgia. Of course most don't understand WHY they were "good old days" and in facet those days weren't always so good, but they were compared to today because everyone knew who they were, knew their place in this world, and had some sense of purpose. Everyone BELIEVED in something; God, country, their family. Now the young live in a gray paste, a world without borders, a word that gives them no guidance on how to live and what to believe. They are like people in a shipwreck floating in the sea helpless. They actually have less control of their own lives - and that in no small part because of all the choices they are offered and the lack of guidance given by society.
Many retreat into themselves, into the artifical world of the internet. Others join political causes (which is in no small part the intent of the Left who have systematically picked society apart for just this reason - to offer politics as the new religion). Few of them have actually realized they need to turn off the I-Phones and gadgets and start participating in life. You can't live if you don't choose to do so.
This is a volatile situation and will end very badly if our civilization continues to push relativism and unlimited freedoms. We are meant to have boundaries. Civilization will eventually collapse and be replaced by something new. If history is any guide that something new will not be good. It takes a LOT to put back together a fallen civilization. For athousand years or more people tried to put Rome back together. Heck; the German and Russian kings were called Caesar,and that in the 20th century! You just can't go home again.
Nor can you go back to the video store.
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I agree with the basic point. Do we really need twenty different brands of corn flakes? On the other hand, stores are prone to outages to a degree that was unknown prior to Covid. I go to Ralph's and without fail they do not have several things on my list. I then go to Von's and get the things that Ralph's did not have. It's never the same things, so it's not a case of one store carrying the item and the other one not. It's that stores are always out of stock on items that are in high demand.
"Supply chain" problems which started during Covid and which, after five years, are still problems.
Posted by: Bill H at July 31, 2025 09:27 AM (FRG6e)
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Well, I sort of miss Blockbuster, though I couldn't read this article without signing up for Blaze, which is the kind of thing I resent much more than having too many choices -- an idea that I think is dubious, to be sure. I agree that these days we do NOT have some of the choices we once had; for example, LPs and the equipment to play them on, and it seems like CDs are becoming extinct too (I remember when they first hit the world and we were so excited at their clarity of sound and ease of use -- wow!).
Tim, if you have to spend so much time trying to decide what to buy in the grocery store, I'm sorry for you, and would never want to send you to the store to buy my groceries. When I go grocery-shopping, I have a list printed from my computer spreadsheet program (we have them for every supermarket we patronize) that tells me which aisle to find the products in, with big checkmarks after the desired products; and if I have any problems selecting a brand it's almost always because of price or (sometimes) nutritional considerations. But if there is a large selection I usually buy based on past experience and/or prejudice (I won't buy Heinz ketchup because of the John Kerry connection and because of the high-fructose corn syrup). If the store is out of something, I mark it and go back a few days later, or go to another store if I need it NOW.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if the gummint were cutting down the number of choices we had in the marketplace, you'd be singing out the other side of your mouth on this subject. Indeed, if Joe Bite-Me or Kamala-Ding-Dong had been elected last November and continued on their anti-gasoline-powered cars mandate, you, I and everyone I know would have raised Holy Hell about the lack of choice.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 31, 2025 11:32 PM (Gtb2F)
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Yeah Bill; it gets a bit tedious picking brands sometimes. What I really hate is when brands I used to buy disappear from the shelf and are replaced by some sort of hipster variety "twisted jalepeno mango potato chips" or some such ridiculousness. Or worse the brand names completely crowd out the old stuff. Jays chips,for instance, is a Chicago-based brand that used to be big but has now mostly disappeared from the sshelves here, and that no doubt because they won't pay for shelf-space. We used to have a local brand called Old Vienna which was really good and is very hard to find now. We had a local soda company too (Vess) which is gone, replaced by brands I've never heard of. I would have been fine if they had replaced them with Shasta, but that can't be found either.
On the other hand, as Dana points out, a lack of choices would pretty much cheese us off too. I sometimes shop in Save-a-Lot, a small cut rate store and your options are really limited there. I like the store because it's small but often go to the big chains to shop because there are things I just can't get at SAL.
So I suppose it takes a healthy balance.
As you say the supply problems weren't there until Covid. I get it where imported stuff is concerned, but why are American brands made from American materials in short supply? That I do not understand at all.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at August 01, 2025 07:05 AM (l4Nr4)
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Dana, you had to sign up for the Blaze? I don't know why; I'm not signed up and read the article. Maybe it was freefor a day or something. On the other hand I might have read it second-hand and simply included the Blaze link. I just don't remember stuff like that anymore.
I agree; that IS uncool. The Blaze is supposed to be there to disseminate information and enlighten and should not require a sign-up. What are they - the New York Times?
Dana I think choices require a range. Other options should be available but not everywhere at once, which is rather where we are as a society.
You're right; we should be able to get lp's and cd's. I remember when cd's came out - magnificent technology. Yest there are otherways of doing it now, but it all requires the internet and you have to pay out the nose. I'm sick of having to go to a central clearinghouse to get anything via the internet. Albums and CD's meant you owned them and they were tangible things; you could hold them in your hand. Now everything is just electrons.
What frosts my begonias is that they got rid of vhs players alrogether. I had like a hundred vhs tapes and they are now worthless to me. And I have even more dvd's and will be furious if they eliminate the players for those.
Dana, a big part of my problems in the grocery store stem from my eyesight; I have a devil of a time finding the right stuff. I so often bring home the wrong thing because I couldn't see the label. Also, I have unique dietary needs and have to read the labels. It's o.k. for things like ketchup (I buy Heinz not because I want to enrich Herman Munster but because they make a low-sodium ketchup and nobody else does, or at least I can't find any.) The dizzying array of choices for each and every item makes it that much worse; I have to go through every item. And then I have to do the math all the time; regular Pace salsa (which I have used on one or two occasions) actually has LESS salt that their "low sodium" version! While it's o.k. for everyday items if I ever need or want something I don't normally use (like salsa) I have to spent ten miinutes trying to read the label and read other labels to make sure it's what I actually need. Drives me crazy.
Price makes a difference too. Always watching that.
Yes, I WOULD be spitting out the other side of my mouth if GOVERNMENT limited our choices; it'snot their business. But I think there is something to be said about sensory overload. I WANT all the choices on the market, do not misunderstand me. But I am saying the author of this essay (which I wish you could have read) made a cogent argument; we have so many choices now and it takes up so much of our time that many people feel overwhelmed. There is indeed a kind of paralysis that comes from having too many decisions to make - even just as consumers. (It also doesn't help that stores are forever moving stuff around too.)
In a state of nature Man had limited choices and we evolved with that. Now we have so many choices and we just aren't biologically or psychologically suited to that. Structure is a necessary thing to us, and most especially social sttructure, the limits imposed by any society. The kind of prosperity we now have is unprecedented, and it's going to take a long time for people to adapt to it.
You may remember Alvin Toffler and his seminal work "Future Shock". He postulated this very thing, that people would be unable to cope psychologically with an ever-changing world. I think Toffler was onto something. I think that world he postulated is now here.
You can't slow progress, and you really don't want to in the end. But we need to find a happy balance, a range where everyone is comfortable and yet everyone gets what they want. I forsee a time when stores start restricting their options and go back to the way it used to be a few decades ago. Specialty stores would exist to fill the gaps. But I know smaller stores are popular now, especially with old timers (a condition in which I find myself increasingly) and there is a market for it.
Years ago I worked as a grocery store manager and we had a "small" store. It was HUGe by 1950's standards, but small by today's standards. Our products were limited. But we did a gargantuan amount of business out of that little store. So did the other small store in our little chain. THAT store prompted the owners to build a big, new supermarket to replace it. Guess what? The supermarket never did all that well. It became a drag on the company, and they went out of business.
I predicted that at the time. I argued that we should simply give up the big bruiser stores and focus on the smaller market. But the higher ups knew better and they pushed the super centers because "that's the wave of the future". Sadly they were going into direct competition with chains that were well funded. Our company failed.
In a number of respects that was because we were trying to be all things to all people. We could have owned a niche if we had been smart. And all that goes back to trying to offer too many choices; oftentimes people just want to run in and run out.
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Monsters in the Midst
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Just another poor alien in search of a better life being harrassed by ICE!
'Cold-blooded' illegal alien murdered 15-year-old who was trying to stop him from raping his mother, ICE says
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Gildardo Amandor-Martinez, 36, is accused of shooting and killing Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez in an incident on July 20 where he tried to rape his girlfriend, the boy's mother.
'The Biden administration's open-border policies allowed this monster to walk American streets and commit these evil crimes, including murder, assault, and attempted rape, against a mother and her children.'
Court documents said that Amandor-Martinez had returned to the home from a bar at about 2:30 a.m. and tried to have sex with his girlfriend, who refused. When she screamed as he tried to force himself on her, Lopez intervened.
The teenager asked his mother if he should call the police, and Amandor-Martinez told him to leave the room. Amandor-Martinez then prepared to leave the residence when he fired three gunshots through a door, striking Lopez in the face.
But, but, but...we need people like this to clean our hotel rooms and cut our grass and wash our dishes! Hunter Biden says so!
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So, let Hunter Biden clean the damn hotel rooms! And make the crack.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 31, 2025 11:34 PM (Gtb2F)
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Yep. And I can do my own gardening if it comes to that, and do my own dishes.
BTW I have people who cut my grass - Americans. Two brothers who do a great job and charge little. They also keep bees and give me honey on occasion. Natural honey is a joy, although I can't eat it very often.
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Public Service Announcement
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Now for a public service announcement.
Popular Diabetes and Weight Loss Drug Doubles Risk of Eye Disease That Causes Blindness, Study Warns
The drug is Mounjaro, which I took for a short time. I'm thankful my pocketbook was allergic to it; I already have retinopathy, the blindness-causing eye disease the study warns about.
If you are on this drug I would suggest you speak with your doctor about switching.
Granted just a little over one percent of people suffered this, but it is twice the level of people NOT on it. No point in risking your vision.
I assure you that you won't enjoy retinopathy; you have to get shots in your eyeball or eyeballs all the time to try to stop your retina from detaching, and you may wind up getting surgeries.
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Glad I'm not on ANY diabetes drugs!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 31, 2025 11:36 PM (Gtb2F)
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You are indeed fortunattte Dana.
Type II diabetes runs in families yet nobody in MY immediate family has it butt me (and I was diagnosed in my early twenties, although it was suspected as far back as my childhood.) But my grandfathers both had it. Sadly I seem to have drawn the short straw on that one. I have a number of complications from diabetes and they aren't fun.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at August 01, 2025 06:23 AM (l4Nr4)
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I was diagnosed with Type II somewhere around thirty years ago, undoubtedly due to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. I've kept sugar pretty much out of my diet (my wife cooperates by cooking healthy for both of us); I suppose if I gave up alcohol it would help, though my blood readings don't seem to track with my drinking.
I'm supposed to go get a blood test next week; don't know what that will show. I'm always skeptical when someone asks my A1C because that's gotta wander every day. If this new GP I'm test-driving says anything about putting me on Metformin I'll show him I still know some colorful language, even though I have sworn that off years ago.
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Earth's Sea Level at Lowest Point Ever
Timothy Birdnow
Take a look at
this. A new study recreated the sea levelsfor the last 540 million years. Guess what? We are in a period of extremely low sea levels. Notice how the graph nose-dives at the end.
Here is an article discussing the issue.
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Fundamentally, what is more important is the volume of ocean basins, and the volume of terrestrial land (and its density). If the land is worn down to a peneplane, then the volume of high-standing mountains is absent, and former mountains have been turned into sandstones and shales, which end up in the oceans. Shortly after orogenies, the volume of mountains is large; similarly, after extended eruptions of Large Igneous Provinces, the volume of basaltic terrestrial rocks will be much larger than several ten’s of millions of years later. It is all in flux, and we lack detail on the location, altitude, shape, and even area of all the terrestrial rocks because they are continuously eroded, worn away, and recycled as igneous intrusions and metamorphosed roof pendants. The eroded sediments largely end up in the oceans, displacing water, and reducing the effective volume of the ocean basins.
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Also, what is an unstated assumption is that the volume of sea water, including liquid and frozen phases, has been essentially constant for the last 540 million years, and hasn’t been bound up chemically, isolated in lakes, retained in aquifers, diverted to the atmosphere, or temporarily removed from the oceans by subduction of plates. What do the phenomenally thick salt beds throughout the world tell us about evaporation of water and its temporary residency as the salt piles get thicker and thicker? The Clausius-Clapeyron relationship tells us that we can expect that during the Hothouse climates, much more of the water was to be found as vapor in the atmosphere and as droplets in clouds, and therefore, not residing in the oceans.
Soooo...sea levels can rise if more sediment pours into them - like the sediment coming from rivers that have levees on them to move the water and the sediment out to sea. Interesting in that we have been told sea levels are rising because of planetary warming from CO2.
The author of the article concludes:
"So, right now the ocean levels are at their lowest point in all of the last 540 million years. Hmmmm….. So, it wouldn’t take mush in the way of green house gasses to make that sea level rise a lot. Thus amplifying the effect of global warming caused my the burring of fossil fuels."
Why doesn't he see the obvious, that we are in a period of ridicculously low sea levels and that rising seas are NATURAL? And how does he think a very modest planetary warming is going to drive a huge sea level increase? I believe this study actually suggests the opposite as a rise in sea levels means an increase in planetary albedo thanks to more clouds acting as aerosols to blot out solar radiation.
Also the planet war much warmer during periods of low sea levels in days of yore.
The fact is sea levels have been dropping for 11,000 years now because the Earth is undergoing a climatic shift.
Also, what does he propse we do about it? End industrial civilization? Stop breathing? Stop breeding cattle for food? Stop planting soybeans and corn? The answer is to do what Mankind has always done - adapt.
I would point out yet again that nobody, especially the rich, are moving away from seasides. If it IS a problem it's a very slow problem and isn't causing anyone but liberals to lose sleep.
The Warmiacs never miss a chance to claim any phenomenon is proof of their pet theory.
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July 30, 2025
Moses Signature Found
Timothy Birdnow
Is an ancient inscription found in a mine the work of Moses? Some
think so.
From Arkeo News:
Mysterious Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions may point to Moses and Joseph as historical figures, sparking global scholarly controversy.
A groundbreaking proto-thesis by independent scholar Michael S. Bar-Ron suggests exactly that. After eight years of rigorous epigraphic analysis, Bar-Ron argues that two inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, contain the Semitic phrase "This is from MŠ” — a possible early rendering of the name Moses (Moshe).
The inscriptions, dated to Egypt’s late 12th Dynasty during the reign of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, are written in Proto-Sinaitic, considered one of the world’s earliest alphabetic scripts. According to Bar-Ron, this writing system reflects an early Northwest Semitic dialect remarkably close to Biblical Hebrew, but with traces of Aramaic structure.
"If correct, this could be the first inscriptional evidence of Moses as a historical individual,” Bar-Ron states. "And the implications for our understanding of the Exodus traditions are enormous.”
The cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University MainzThe cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University Main.
It's little surprise that there is no smoking gun evidence the fathers of Judaism really existed after all this time. Remember, the Jews were a minor tribe of people living in Egypt at the time and had no great historical significance as of yet. People save the writings of Pharoahs, not of shepherds.
At any rate this is an exciting development. Increasingly archaeology is turning up proofs of the historicity of the Bible. For example, scientists found coins inscribed with the name of Pontius Pilate, proving Pilate was a real person (some scholars thought he was just a myth). And elsewhere an inscription of Quirinius, the governor of Syria was found, proving the Bible was accurate in that.
We've also learned that the Dead Sea Scrolls are actually older than thought, nearly contemporary with the events in the Old Testament.
The more we learn the more accurate the Bible appears. Yet the more people reject it because it ultimately requires people repent of their sins and they don't want to do so.
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It always amazes -- and annoys -- me when I encounter articles like this and the headlines read something like "New discovery proves the Bible is real;" or some sort of garbage headline like that, implying that up until this discovery, nobody believed the truth of the Bible. (I'm not saying THIS article did that, I'm just taking the opportunity to rant.)
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I get that. The assumption is the Bible is hogwash and we've suddenly been enlightened. It's insulting.
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Not only that, but... the Bible's been hogwash for thousands of years until
just this one little discovery has somehow proven that it isn't, after all.
Thousands of years overturned with a single blow. Amazing.
They keep assuring us they're going to find evidence of Noah's Ark. Probably with some well-preserved animal shit on it?
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Good point Dana.
I still take discoveries of Noah's Ark with a grain of salt as I doubt it would still be around after all this time. But who knows? God might preserve it just to prove us smarty-pants wrong.
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Well, there's that. And to show that Islam is a crock, too. I don't think there's a flood story in Islam.
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Monkey Mafia
Timothy Birdnow
I've heard of monkey business, but monkey mafia?
Monkeys lift wallets and other things from tourists in Bali and turn them in to their Capos for rewards.
From the Wall Street Journal article:
Every week, they steal dozens of phones, wallets and other valuables from tourists in broad daylight and exchange them for handsome rewards. It’s been going on for decades and nobody’s been able to stop it.
The culprits? Long-tailed macaques.
"The monkeys have taken over the temple,” said Jonathan Hammé, a tourist from London whose sunglasses were stolen by a monkey during a visit last year. "They’re running a scam.”
On the southern tip of the Indonesian vacation hot spot known for its beaches, tourists flock to Uluwatu Temple for traditional fire dance shows and panoramic views at sunset with the Indian Ocean crashing below. The Balinese Hindu site dates back to at least the 11th century and the roughly 600 monkeys that inhabit it are considered by locals to be sacred guardians of the temple.
Primate researchers have found that the macaques steal belongings to use as currency to trade with humans for food. Some monkeys can distinguish between objects we highly value (smartphones, prescription glasses, wallets) and those we don’t (hats, flip flops, hair clips)—and will barter accordingly, according to a University of Lethbridge team that spent years filming the macaques and analyzing hundreds of hours of footage.
In other words, the monkeys have "unprecedented economic decision-making processes,” the researchers wrote in a 2021 academic paper. Talk about monkey business.
Monkey see monkey screw. They must have been trained by Democrats.
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Indeed they must. I hadn't heard of any of our Democrats going on junkets to Bali, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they have, perhaps undercover.
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Yeah Dana; if for nothing more than to learn from Nature.
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I found this article very helpful. The points you made are
spot on and easy to understand. Keep up the excellent work
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Roses are Red
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. economy
grew 3% in the last quarter, upsetting the alarmist predictions of many economists.
Joe Biden enjoyed an average GDP growth rate of 3.2%, but one must remember that he was starting with a low baseline due to the Covid shutdown of the economy. There was no way Biden would NOT have had a good growth rate. But it wasn't real growth, just a return to what had been before the economy was shut down. And it primarily profited illegal aliens and high dollar investors. What Trump has done is jump-start the economy while raising tariffs, and in the process he's seen a surplus in tax dollars. And he did so while adding 177,000 jobs during the first quarter. Oh, and inflation has slowed to a crawl at 2.3%.
Everything's coming up roses for America these days. Naturally the media will say it all sucks.
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I do not know at what rate the economy grew in the last quarter. I do know that the Commerce Department says it grew at a
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3%.
"Seasonally adjusted" could mean anything or nothing, and an
"annual rate" means that
"if it continues all year it will be 3% but we are already predicting that it won't continue all year, so enjoy the 3%." In similar manner they tell us that a bill will save $X in the next 10 years, which is not valid, because Congress only lasts for one year and can therefor only budget for one year. One Congress cannot tell subsequent Congress what to do, so these multi-year programs are pure fiction.
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Fair enough Bill. But the growth is just one more piece of a larger economic puzzle and most indicators suggest robust growth.
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Of course you're right in that Congress may well kill the gold egg-laying goose with some act of stupidity. They've done it before.
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The Return of the Reich
Timothy Birdnow
Never thought I'd be agreeing with an author at The Daily Kos but a stopped clock is right twice a day.
A Podcast for the Young Blames Jews for the Holocaust: What if Jews did something to the Germans
The author is himself in shock at this attitude by the New (insane) left and well he should be, but he shouldn't be surprised. Nazis were themselves leftists, and the Bolsheviks, despite preaching equality for all, actually suppressed the Jews in a big way (which is why New York has so many Jews now; they left Russia and Poland to get away from the Communists, who mistreated them.)
If you want to ask what the Jews did that made Germans so mad it was what they didn't do but were falsely blamed for doing. Hitler hated Jews because he believed they were the reason Germany lost WWI, and he noticed (correctly) that many of the communists involved in the labor unions were Jewish. Of course they were - and they were Germans, and they were every other ethnicity. But the Jews stoood out to Hitler, who had no doubt read the Czarist propaganda work "The Protocols of the Elders of Zionism" which was pure fantasy but many fell for it. Rosenberg, for instance, fell for it after finding a copy of the book in his hotel room in Moscow. Jew hatred was there from the beginning in the Nazi movement, and the German people, like all peoples, were looking for an easy answer to why the Communists were so influential. Just like we are today. But back then it was easy to say it was a Jewish conspiracy.
So the Jews are minding their own business and find their neighbors increasingly hostile for things they had nothing to do with. It is, of course, much like blaming white people today for slavery and many black folks do just that, even though a great many of the white people in America had their ancestors come AFTER the Civil War and the banning of slavery. Oh, and many more fought in that war to END an abominable practice. But it's easier to blame whitey, all whites, and also blame them for the failures of black culture, which has unfortunately turned quite malevalent under the kind tutelage of white liberals. So you get things like this mob attacking a white man recently and no doubt the attackers justified it by lumping all white people together as slavers.
Let me ask these geniuses who think the Jews did something evil and Hitler had no choice but take them out; why did Hitler do so in secret? The public was unaware of the nature of the concentration camps and most were shocked when they learned what was happening in them. I suspect most thought these people were being relocated outside of the Third Reich but they were not - they were being slaughtered. Why did Hitler need to hide that if the Germans were all on board with this? If the Jews actually did something to merit their deaths?
Here is one genius making an airtight argument:
"Jews, Jews are the reason why the healthcare system and everything around us, and the government, is collapsing. Because they’re sitting up, they’re stealing away from the American people."
Does it not occur to this benighted person that Jews dominate the medical profession and that a "collapse" of the healthcare system would cost them dearly? 14.1% of all doctors in America are Jewish despite them being just one percent and change of the U.S. population. It's one of their primary occupations. So I ask again, what value is there in destroying the medical field? Shouldn't they prefer to strengthen one of their own industries? It's like saying coal miners in West Virginia want to push laws banning coal fired plants. This is drool cup territory.
Sadly antisemitism is rising like a phoenix and it should scare the heck out of all of us. This won't end well I fear.
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In your next-to-last paragraph you ALMOST nailed the point, about why Jews "dominate" the healthcare profession: Jews tend to "dominate" professions that need (and reward) excellence. Put another way, Jews tend to be very good at whatever they do: medicine, music, other arts, etc.
Example: for many years I was lucky enough to be able to find Jewish dentists, because they are technically the best and they are the gentlest and most compassionate (at least in my experience -- and on the other hand Italian dentists are butchers). My last Jewish dentist, Arlen, retired from the place he was working for a few years ago, where I had followed him, and it turns out he was the last Jew working there. The man taking care of me is OK but I'm not as happy with him as I was with Arlen.
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Never had a Jewish dentist but I'm not surprised; they have Kosher laws against mistreating animals being killed for meat, so why wouldn't kosher apply to dentistry.
You're right; Jews value excellence.
BTW I saw my cardiologist yesterday. He's a young Jewish man, one of the kindest people you will meet. I'm very impressed with him.
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Climate is a State of Mind
Dana Mathewson
As regular readers of this site are aware, I never tire of pointing out that I live in the crazy-ass (at least politically) state of Minnesota, which contains the city of International Falls, home of the regularly seasonal coldest temperatures in the continental U.S. (New Hampshirites will carp that Mount Washington beats us, but that's not a city and people don't live on it.) And yet we often get summer temperatures in the high 90's, and it has more than once cracked 100 on my indoor/outdoor thermometer -- something that has happened only once in Tampa, FL (just the other day, in fact) since records began to be kept.
But the thing is, we (or at least my wife and I) don't look at those readings and say "Oh golly gee, that's two degrees hotter than last year on this day, the world must be heating up." We are more apt to say "It's a couple degrees hotter than yesterday." But the actual temperature may be a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Indeed, last week the temperatures were in the 60's for three or four days.
We are more apt to pay attention to the humidity, especially if we're spending much time outside; and "global warming" isn't causing that. Air quality is another thing: Canuckistan is still generating forest fire smoke on many days, cutting off sunshine and stinking up the air badly, causing us to grumble about Manitoba's lousy forestry practices -- are they run by a bunch of retired Californians?
The upshot of this is that we don't believe the Global Warmiacs and never have. We see a lot of people driving Teslas, including a couple of people in our group of town homes, and if that's what floats their boats, fine, but they're polluting the earth more than the air, considering the mining of materials to make those batteries. Same thing for batteries of hybrids.
Summer quandary? Get out of town! Same with winter quandary. For three years we lived just north of New York City, where they never got any snow, and my wife hated it. That's one reason we moved here, to get four seasons, only we didn't know that they'd be Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and Road-repair. That last CAN be a quandary!
Tim adds:
Yawp. Everywhere there is warm to hot summer temperatures. Heck; even the polar regions get them occasionally. But people just remember two days out at most.
I remember about ten years ago here in Missouri we were getting temps between 98 and 110 for almost two weeks. Nothing remotely like that since. That is the difference between weather and climate.
Dana, you guys have seasons that depend on which coat you will wear outside. And when it DOEs get warm you need to wear mosquito netting!
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I'll probably be sorry I said this, but here we are at the end of July and I don't believe we've seen a single mosquito this year, despite having ample areas of standing water. I can only chalk it up to a very early spate of warm weather that apparently discombobulated the little buggers, followed by a long bout of unseasonably cool temperatures, and by the time things evened out to where they should have been, well, the mosquitos we would have seen just never appeared.
Neither did the cottonwood that normally coats our lawns and everything else for a three to four week period in late spring to early summer.
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Hmm...interesting observattion. I wonder what caused that mosquito trick; hopefully it will be repeated there every year - and elsewhere.
Of course the Gang Green will bemoan the disappearance of the mosquito and wax poetic about the virtues of the vampiric monsters. Some people can find a dark cloud around every silver lining.
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July 29, 2025
Judge Issues Universal Ban on Defunding Planned Parenthood
Timothy Birdnow
What part of "you can't issue nation-wide injunctions" doesn't this puta understand?
Judge Indira Talwani Expands Order, Mandates Medicaid Funding for All Planned Parenthood Clinics
This was a law dutifully passed by Congress and signed by the President. There is no constitutional issue with it. She is simply imposing her personal prejudice on the matter and usurping lawmaking power.
She should be impeached for this.
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U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a President Obama appointee, granted a preliminary injunction, blocking the provision and essentially mandating Medicaid funding for all Planned Parenthood clinics as litigation continues. Talwani released the expanded order after issuing an order last week only partially blocking the provision for a subset of clinics that did not independently meet the provision’s "prohibited entity” definition: [Planned Parenthood Federation] members that do not provide abortions because of state law or those who received less than $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in 2023.
"Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Talwani wrote in her order. "In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.”
Talwani added that the court is "not enjoining the federal government from regulating abortion and is not directing the federal government to fund elective abortions or any healthcare service not otherwise eligible for Medicaid coverage.”
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Instead, this order grants preliminary relief that prevents Defendants from targeting a specific group of entities—Planned Parenthood Federation Members—for exclusion from reimbursements under the Medicaid program where Plaintiffs have established a substantial likelihood that they will succeed in establishing that such targeted exclusion violates the United States Constitution, and where Plaintiffs satisfy the remaining requirements to obtain a preliminary injunction.
Odd; I don't recall seeing a right to Federal dollars for abortionists in the U.S. constitution, not even in the amendments.
And her reasoning is that it somehow denies people healthcare access, but Planned Parenthood does little besides abortion and contraception and they almost always refer patients who need actual health care to another provider. They are almost exclusively an abortion mill.
She's going to be overturned on appeal, but since this is not a permanent injunction it will probably stay in her court (which is no doubt why she did it this way). This forked tongue Indian lass is playing for time, methinks.
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I doubt she hasn't heard that she's in violation of the Supreme Court's orders on this -- she can't be that dense -- so I assume she's just playing the old Throw In The Monkey Wrench game and see how long she can get away with it. It's too bad there isn't a rule that she gets slapped hard for this, and if she does it again she gets dis-benched -- or whatever they call it with judges.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 29, 2025 11:15 PM (/DT7Z)
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Planned Parenthood does a great deal more than abortions, but your points about the judge are quite on point.
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Dana, the Supreme Court should be able to remove judges who willfully violate their rulings. But of course there are no mechanisms in place to do that. You're right; a judge should have to defend his/her/xi disobedience, and if it happens more than once get debenched.
Bill, PP does indeed do more things, but in the end they almost always refer any medical issues out. Their primary purpose is contraception and abortion. Hell; the damned thing was created by eugenicist and racist Margaret Sanger and she founded it to eliminate minorities and "bad stock" as she saw it. Said so many times.
I don't know how PP ever got it's mitts on taxpayer money in the first place. Why should the government fund such an entity?
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Bolton Helped Frame Trump
Timothy Birdnow
The Walrus helped in Trump frame-up.
John Bolton Hid Memo That Could Have Cleared Trump on Russia Hoax
Will the warden make him shave his 'stash?
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The Walrus, as you so aptly call him, has been a problem from Day One. If memory serves, when "Dubya" wanted to plug him in to some job or other in his administration, he got a LARGE amount of pushback, and although most Republicans (I think) said "Oh come on, he's a good guy," time seems to have proven them wrong. Some of you other guys (Bill, Mike, and of course Tim) can check me out on this.
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I remember that it seems Dana. Yeah; he's a guy nott to be trusted.
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Hard to tell whether Bolton is more evil than he is stupid, or vice versa. I think stupid wins, but it's a close call.
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Good point Bill. Evil and stupid are a bad combination in politics. Everywhere else they usually cancel each-other out, but not in politics.
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The Kindness of Donald Trump
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Here is the soft side of Donnald Trump the media will never show America.
Trump takes time to send the grieving mother of slain DC intern a heartfelt letter…
Trump has done random acts of kindness many times over the years and did not seek any credit - and received none from the snarling media, of course.
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Yes, Trump is a fine human being, and whether he receives credit for it in this life or not, the Lord will reward him.
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Amen. We've always got to remember that there is an accounting coming one way or the other and that even those who get away with terrible things will eventually pay for them - and those who do quiet good deeds with no reward will be blessed.
I'ts a hard thing to suffer through when you are going through it but we have to keep our eye on the ball.
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What Did Gina Know?
Timothy Birdnow
Peter Schweitzer is calling for an investigation of former CIA lady hog Gina (Edwina) Haspel.
Another Former CIA Director Enters the Crosshairs After Recent Russia Hoax Revelations
From Lifezette:
Schweizer specifically raised questions about Haspel’s positioning in London during the time when the now-discredited Steele dossier and other intelligence alleging ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia were being circulated.
He pointed to her 2014 reassignment by then-CIA Director John Brennan to the agency’s London post, a move he described as "highly unusual.”
"One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel,” Schweizer said.
"She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London.”
Schweizer added, "So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”
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So Haspel was at the center of the whole plot at the critical moment of it's inception. What did she know and when did she know it?
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Maybe it's something in the water at CIA HQ, but higher-ups in that organization always seem to cause problems even when they don't have to. Something in the water, or something in the water of the places where CIA dudes get recruited from.
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I am utterly mystified by the hiring practices at the CIA. John Brennan admitted on his application that he voted for the CPUSA and STILL got hired - and still got promoted, all the way to director. That was in the seventies when the Cold War was raging. Most other security folks have checkered pasts. I applied for a job with them and never heard back from them, even though I was squeeky clean and had studied Russian for years. Nobody else in my Russian class at SLU got jobs in the field either. Yet here we have guys like Brennan getting hired and promoted. Something is seriously wrong. I rather doubt Mr. Brennan is any smarter than I, although he might have had better grades. Certainly he went to a prestigeous university where I went to school in the heartland.
Actually I found this about his education:
The University of Texas at Austin (1980) , Fordham University (1977) , and The American University in Cairo
So he wasn't Ivy League butt WAS an expat American. Yet he got a job and nobody I knew did. Now why is that?
It seems to me the Communists have been inside the CIA and other intel agencies for a long, long time.
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Fingers Pointing at Obama
Timothy Birdnow
Seasonal Global Warming is taking it's toll, most especially on the former President Barack Hussein Obama, who is now being exposed as the architect of the attempted coup against Donald Trump, and it appears his bathwater has become decidedly hot.
20 CIA and FBI agents CONFIRM Obama was behind Russia Hoax and reveal his hiding place…
Sadly Trump appears dismissive about prosecuting the former first lady, er, President. That is wise; he dare not cross that Rubicon lest they do it to him again. But then they are going to do it to him again no matter what, so he may as well dump all the dirty laundry into the street.
A failure to go after Obama because he was President will only reinforce the noion that there are two sets of laws - one for the Ruling Class and another for the faceless rabble (us).
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If they can truly and honestly get the goods on Zippy, then I'd like to see them do it. We should not let our "rulers" get away with crimes. That's what impeachment is for.
Republicans just need to do our level best to win office, as much as possible, in the Senate and House. To do this, our education system needs to be cleaned up, so kids no longer are seduced by the idea that socialism is desirable; they need to be taught that it has failed every time it has been tried.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 29, 2025 11:35 PM (/DT7Z)
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Amen Dana. Sadly the Karl Rove wing of the party still swings some lumber and the "move on" theory espoused by Rove (which led to the GOP failing almost completely under Obama) still sways the party faithful. It's foolish; if you just move on then you embolden the "loyal opposition". Imagine if we had that policy with criminals; if a guy gets away with murdering his wife we say "old news, let's just move on, shall we" and then everyone is murdering their wives or husbands or lovers. Laws only work when they are enforced.
You're right too about education. I overheard my niece a while back saying America's pronlem was capitalism. I was at a wedding so didn't jump in, but the utter and complete stupidity of that statement is beyond belief. Shows just how ignorant most young people are these days; I doubt she could actually define capitalism, or socialism either.
Until we start teaching history agains, real history, our culture will continue the long, horrible slide.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 30, 2025 06:35 AM (gvKVM)
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Of course she couldn't define capitalism. Or socialism, or fascism, or communism, or naziism, or probably any other "ism." And that just the way our "educators" want it.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 31, 2025 12:49 AM (/DT7Z)
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Climate Alarmism is a Mental Disorder
Timothy Birdnow
Climate alarmists are in competition with Lewis Carroll these days.
American Summers Are Starting to Feel Like Winter
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' '
The author argues that people are STAYING INSIDE MORE because of CLIMATE CHANGE. As if it didn't get hot in bygone years.
FTA:
Americans have a long history of enduring heat waves by going outside. In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People caught the breeze on open-air trolleys, climbed onto the back of ice trucks, and flocked to the beach. In the evenings, they slept in parks or dragged their mattresses onto fire escapes.
But since air conditioning went mainstream, in the 1960s, the easiest way to beat the heat has been by staying indoors—at home, the office, the mall—where cool air is a constant and blinds are often drawn to prevent homes from overheating (and electric bills from skyrocketing). For this convenience, Americans sacrifice the benefits of sunshine and the opportunities for fun it creates. As climate change turns up the temperature, summers in America are coming down to a choice between enduring the heat and avoiding it—both of which might, in their own ways, be making people sick.
In cities across the country, summers are, on average, 2.6 degrees hotter than they were some 50 years ago. In Phoenix, where a 95-degree day is a relief, schedules are arranged around the darkness; Jeffrey Gibson, an accountant who works from home, takes his eight-month-old daughter out for walks before 6:30 a.m.; after that, it’s so hot that she flushes bright red if they venture outside. He spends the rest of his day indoors unless leaving is absolutely necessary. It’s like this from April to October. Gibson recently told his wife, "Man, I think I’m a little depressed.”
And yet the fastest growing states are - Texas, Arizona, and Florida, all in the deep South, all hotter than the hinges of Hades (as my grandmother used to say). Why, if this scorching two degree rise in temperature is forcing everyone indoors, are people moving to hot climates? Wouldn't everyone be moving to North Dakota or Idaho? Wouldn't Canada be a vacation destination for many? I've never heard of anyone going on Spring Break to Saskatoon.Wouldn't Lake Superior be the new Ft. Lauderdale?
The author argues that seasonal affective disorder is now affecting people in summer, as if this is a new thing. People have long gotten depressed in summer heat waves.
I would add that this affliction hits people in the winter as much as in the summer, a point this author seems to not grasp; we should be seeing a decline in the winter version if the planet is warming. Her argument slays itself. But,but,but...we're only talking about a warming of two degrees (by her reckoning) and being 25* or 27* makes little difference. Well, the same is true of temps 95* compared to 93* as well.
The author boldly proclaims:
America’s summer quandary—suffer inside or out?—will become only more persistent as climate change intensifies. In the United States, heat waves have grown more frequent and intense every decade since the 1960s.
But that isn't true. Certainly the '30's was a hotter decade with more heat waves. Of course the EPA says it's so and we cannot possibly dispute so accurate an institution as government agencies.
But we know how this is achieved; the guardians of climate data simply "data smooth" prior decades to make it appear that the current weather is much hotter than in days of yore. Cute trick. NOAA has been
caught manipulating climate data repeatedly. So has NASA. So has the EPA.
(Missouri's official climatologist proclaimed last year the "hottest on record" despite the fact we had few days over a hundred and the winter was not unusually mild. He just made it up.)
So this two degrees of warming may not exist at all, yet we are now being told it's causing mental problems for our citizenry.
Odd; the same people pushing the climate change grift are the same people who are pushing transgenderism and giving children hormones and the like. So they don't seem to concerned about mental health in that case, but worry about a hot summer making people go all James Carvill on the world. Mental health has never been a high priority to the Left before.
The author suggests everyone move to a cold climate, completely ignoring the fact that in winter they will never go outside, thus gaining nothing. But that is the reasoning skills of most liberals and of most journalists.
The fact is this article came out at the peak of the summer heat for a reason; the Atlantic wouldn't dare run it in January because they'd look ridiculous, Al Gorian. And they know people forget how hot previous summers have been. This year it's been warm here in Missouri but hardly a horrible heat wave; we have not once cracked a hundred degrees. I remember years when we got as high as 110*, and had triple digit temperatures for weeks. Not this year, but they are acting like it as they do every summer. And of course the big thing now is to not even mention the actual temperature but the "feels like" temperature, which is a coefficient of humidity plus temps.
The reality is they need to constantly reinforce the climate change mantra in people's minds as it has never been a big deal to the public but it IS a big deal to the statists and Ruling Class, who have gotten fabulously wealthy from it and greatly expanded government power. Despite new science chipping away at the theory every day they now have a template and labor constantly to reinforce it. That is how gaslighting works.
The sad fact is that AGW theory was exploded long ago but was never about climate but political power and socialism. It's been a generations-long War of the Worlds scare, a bogeyman designed to panic weak minded people into handing over their freedom and their money.
PT Barnum was right, or at least that's what these people believe.
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As regular readers of this site are aware, I never tire of pointing out that I live in the crazy-ass (at least politically) state of Minnesota, which contains the city of International Falls, home of the regularly seasonal coldest temperatures in the continental U.S. (New Hampshirites will carp that Mount Washington beats us, but that's not a city and people don't live on it.) And yet we often get summer temperatures in the high 90's, and it has more than once cracked 100 on my indoor/outdoor thermometer -- something that has happened only once in Tampa, FL (just the other day, in fact) since records began to be kept.
But the thing is, we (or at least my wife and I) don't look at those readings and say "Oh golly gee, that's two degrees hotter than last year on this day, the world must be heating up." We are more apt to say "It's a couple degrees hotter than yesterday." But the actual temperature may be a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Indeed, last week the temperatures were in the 60's for three or four days.
We are more apt to pay attention to the humidity, especially if we're spending much time outside; and "global warming" isn't causing that. Air quality is another thing: Canuckistan is still generating forest fire smoke on many days, cutting off sunshine and stinking up the air badly, causing us to grumble about Manitoba's lousy forestry practices -- are they run by a bunch of retired Californians?
The upshot of this is that we don't believe the Global Warmiacs and never have. We see a lot of people driving Teslas, including a couple of people in our group of town homes, and if that's what floats their boats, fine, but they're polluting the earth more than the air, considering the mining of materials to make those batteries. Same thing for batteries of hybrids.
Summer quandary? Get out of town! Same with winter quandary. For three years we lived just north of New York City, where they never got any snow, and my wife hated it. That's one reason we moved here, to get four seasons, only we didn't know that they'd be Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and Road-repair. That last CAN be a quandary!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 30, 2025 12:12 AM (/DT7Z)
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Yawp. Everywhere there is warm to hot summer temperatures. Heck; even the polar regions get them occasionally. But people just remember two days out at most.
I remember about ten years ago here in Missouri we were getting temps between 198 and 110 for almost two weeks. Nothing remotely like that since. That is the difference between weather and climate.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 30, 2025 06:23 AM (gvKVM)
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Wow, what a
great read! The insights here are so helpful. I'm definitely bookmarking this
for future reference. Thanks for sharing!
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