February 27, 2026
Foreign Affairs: Ukraine War Unwinnable
Timothy Birdnow
Foreign Affairs is the magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations, which is the ultimate internationalist/New World Order organization, the very people who promoted the Ukrainian war as a way to stop Russia from building their own power block and cutting out the NWO and European Union. Now they are admitting the truth.
This really isn't accurate; the war is actually lost, they are not just "losing" it. Only direct outside military intervention can change this fact.
This article is long but worth reading.
Essentially they are saying what I've been saying all along; there is mathematically no way for the Ukrainians to win. While Russia has expended a lot more effort than they thought they would have to they are still in the catbird seat because they have fought a war of attrition, slowly strangling the Ukrainians and it was guaranteed to work. Russia has an economy that is ten times the size of the Ukrain's. It has more troops, more drones, better weapons by and large, and more oil and gas to fuel the war machine.
Meanwhile the Ukrainians are growing increasingly desperate with many soldiers being shanghaied, impressed into service without so much as a "greetings" letter. Old men and teenagers are now being conscripted into service. And the cities are all starting to starve. A number of Ukrainian officials have been trying to sneak out of the country. It is the last stand, or soon will be anyway.
Ukraine's only option is to surrender territory, painful though that is. Had Zelensky not been such a horse's petunia over the last year or two and refused to cut a bad deal they wouldn't be at the point of losing as much. Being a leader oftentimes means having to take a bad deal rather than a worse one.
Will a surrender by Ukraine stop Russian aggression? Probably not, but the Russians need to buy time to rebuild. They will probably take a deal that is less to their liking than they could demand otherwise. But the Ukraine absolutely MUST have a cessation of hostilities; they are reaching the point of collapse and could well lose their whole country. What they need to do now is buy time - a lot of time. It's going to take several years to rebuild and rearm.
The sad thing is the Europeans kept pushing Zelensky to continue the fight with promises he would eventually get more troops from the West. It was a lie and always has been; the Europeans are constitutionally incapable of mounting so an effort anymore and so it all depended on the U.S. and there is no appetite among the American People to involve ourselves in a remote war in Eastern Europe that has nothing to do with us. Despite hysterical claims that Putin is Hitler (ridiculous on the face of it - Germany had been the most powerful European state and the most advanced in terms of technology and culture before wWI and even during the Depression it was a powerhouse despite being disarmed, unlike Russia which is a Third World country) the public realized that this has little to do with us. The Ukraine has always been a vassal of the Russians.
Granted, it would have been nice to sever that abusive spousal relationship. But at the cost of American lives?
Actually there are arguments to be made about saving Ukraine. It has oil. It has natural gas It is the breadbasket of Europe. It has rare earth elements. It is the natural pipeline for Asian oil and gas. It controls the Black Sea to a fair degree, and especially the approach leading to it's exit. But it's hard to convince Americans that the long-term strategic benefit of sending American troops into the region is worth it. And it is EXTREMELY difficult to risk a nuclear war with Russia (who has an arsenal that is both larger than ours and much newer) for oil and gas for the Europeans, who have never been grateful for anything we've done for them.
Only internationalists like the good folks at the Council on Foreign Relations want us involved in this war. Oh, and the Democrats and RINO Republicans.
As I have said previously, the way this war could have been ended was to defund Russia by driving the price of oil and gas down. Biden refused to do that, actually working to increase the price and thus make Russia flush with cash. Trump has been slowly but surely getting the price down but it has not been fast enough or low enough to REALLY hurt the Russians and it won't happen in enough time to save Ukraine. Trump is in a pickle; he needs prices to drop but not so low as to make American oil and gas uncompetitive. If prices drop too low our domestic oil industry will collapse and Trump knows it. He dare not move too quickly or too aggressively in this. (American oil has boomed because of Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, and that is a more expensive way to acquire it than just drilling into the ground and waiting for it to blow to the surface as they do in the Arab countries. The Russians don't use fracking so much but they do have very high drilling costs, what with their oil fields being in tundra and the like.)
The article states:
"Russia’s objectives seem reasonably compatible with its capabilities and trends on the battlefield. Ukraine’s objectives, in contrast, seem beyond its reach.”
And indeed that is so. That Foreign Affairs recognizes this is what is the real shocker.
It seems likely Ukraine will have to surrender all of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk to get Putin to stop. Zelensky should have made a deal while he had the chance.
The article repeats the rather sad little mantra that "Russia is losing more troops than Ukraine" which I am fairly certain is nonsense, and in fact I think the Russian casualties being reported by the Western media are entirely the fiction coming from the Ukrainians themselves. Much like the claim of all the Palestinians who were supposedly dying from Israeli airstrikes during the war last year were numbers coming from the Palestinian Authority and not some objective third party. I have little doubt Russia is losing what we in the West would consider an unacceptable number but they are nowhere near exhausted and I am sure those numbers are far less than our media is reporting. I also suspect the Ukrainians are LOSING more than are being reported.
This war was always unwinnable and it could have been avoided through diplomacy. But the Biden Administration and the Europeans wanted this war in hopes of exhausting Russia and forcing her into the New World Order. How's THAT working out?
And while Trump has found ending this war far more difficult than he imagined I think he would have been able to prevent it in the first place before blood was spilled. Now both sides are entrenched; you can't help but be after so bloody and angry a conflict.
I suspect this war will continue until Russia is just about at the point of overrunning the whole country. Zelensky probably will have to be removed from office, or he will flee, and then and only then will the Ukrainians sue for peace.
It's sad; they wanted more - and deserved better. But they never accepted Russia's taking of Crimea and they, lie the toady of the big bully, felt strong with the backing of the West. Now they are learning a hard lesson about trusting in foreign protectors.
I will end this with a quick mention of Isaiah 30:1-5
"What sorrow awaits my rebellious children,”says the Lord."You make plans that are contrary to mine.You make alliances not directed by my Spirit,thus piling up your sins.2 For without consulting me,you have gone down to Egypt for help.You have put your trust in Pharaoh’s protection.You have tried to hide in his shade.3 But by trusting Pharaoh, you will be humiliated,and by depending on him, you will be disgraced.4 For though his power extends to Zoanand his officials have arrived in Hanes,5 all who trust in him will be ashamed.He will not help you.Instead, he will disgrace you.”
Sounds a lot like what Ukraine did, trusting Europe and the United States to back them. It is never sound strategy to trust in foreign powers to keep you safe. Zelensky and the Ukrainian leadership should have understood that the assurances they were given were like the morning dew, evaporating in the heat of the day.
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Target Gets Soaked Breaking Minneapolis Lease
Timothy Birdnow
Yikes! The Target corporation just plunked down $110 MILLION to break their lease in Minneapolis!
That's how bad it's gotten in Minneapolis!
Target's vast office facility was closed during Covid as employees worked from home, and while it reopened the corporation was only making employees show up three days a week. But the endless barrage of demands from radical groups has led to it's final closure as Target skuTalks out of town, tail between their legs.
This is what you get for trying to appease the Woke crowd; they will eat their own.
Target has been at the forefront of most of the woke corporate nonsense and ] that way. Their policy in letting trans men into women's bathrooms and dressing rooms cost them dearly.
And once you go woke you can never go back. The Anti-Ice movement was pressuring them hard and they are now realizing how difficult it is to walk away from the radicals Sell your soul to the Devil and you will pay a dear price to get it back.
At any rate I'm glad they are being taught this lesson in so painful a manner; they had forgotten who their customers were - and their stockholders. Go woke go broke!
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Oklahoma RINO: Dems Don't Want the Great Replacement
Timothy Birdnow
With friends like these...
Oklahoma is arguably the most Conservative state in the Union.
How does this Stitt for Brains guy explain their rather transparent and desperate desire to bring in more illegals and "regularize" them? This is one of the Democrat's top priorities despite the fact it polls extremely poorly with the general public. How does this guy explain that?
"Even my Democrat governor colleagues, they’re not trying to get illegals here to turn them into voters. I don’t believe that’s what Democrat politicians are trying to do,”
Then what pay tell Kevin Stitt ARE they trying to do?
Stitt has come out as a Nevertrumperteer and he wants to play paddycake with Democrats to "restore integrity".
Schumer and Pelosi are both on record saying they want to legalize all illegal aliens who are here. Why? What value is there to the Democrats in this? Is it just they have such big hearts?
I don't know why it's so hard to find men of character to run for public office on the Republican side. They are out there. Of course there ARE no people of character, not men nor women nor xi, in the Democrats, but a Republican who is elevated to the candidate for Governor of Oklahoma should not be such a fool. Nor such a political opportunist; this guy is building bridges with the old RINO coalition on the theory that Trump won't be there forever and the "natural order" will resume once he's gone. It's a fair bet too. Otherwise he wouldn't be where he is at present.
Guys like this are just parasites, feeding off the dying America.
Until we rid ourselves of this type of Republican we ae going to suffer. It's why American has slidden into the morass.
Thank God this guy is term-limited.
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Hillary Weasels Out
Timothy Birdnow
Watch as Hillary leaves the room almost immediately after beibg asked why Ghislaine Maxwell was at her daughter's wedding.
When a reporter for Sky News asks her about it she gives a quick answer which answers nothing - she says Maxwell was the plus one of a guest and then turns and leaves.
This of course raises more questions than it answers. The guest of whom? This was already after the indictment of Epstein and Maxwell was under investigation.
What's fun about this is that Hillary was all jacked up about coming to Congress to testify and she proclaimed how she was open to utter transparency (after being forced to show up under threat of Contempt) and then she won't be transparent in this.
The Clintons have a diabolical ability to slither out of trouble. But at some point they won't be able to get away with it any longer. In the end Justice will be served - by God if not man
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February 26, 2026
The Road to Fascism
Timothy Birdnow
It's only logical:
Devon Eriksen
@Devon_Eriksen_
If you repeatedly tell people they can't have the basic requirements of the good life, such as "not being murdered by drug gangs", because that's fascism...
Then pretty soon they will conclude that fascism is the way to get those things, and it sounds like an excellent idea. https://x.com/ctizzie/status/ctizzie/status/2025989507003154678
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Omar Says White Men Cause Most of the Violence in America
Timothy Birdnow
'I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country."
Ilhan Omar D-Somalia
I love the accompanying photo with this story' she looks like she has horns coming out of her head.
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Trump Gaining Ground with Black Voters
Timothy Birdnow
This study was done by a consortium of black and Leftist voting organizations including SEIU and Way to Win and the Black Opposition Project.
It found that black voters, even opponents of the President, are on board with his policies, or nearly enough.
FTA:
Woodbury said the share of Black people who took concrete action to resist Trump — including voting, protesting or signing a petition — had dropped from 2020, from 34% to 28%. That drop was concentrated among younger Black men, he said, an alarming trend for a group that showed a small but significant shift toward Trump in 2024.
According to the research, 41% of this group (defined as Black men under 50) thought Trump’s policies had hurt them. That’s a much lower share than other groups of Black voters, including men over 50, 68% of whom said the president had negatively affected them.
Nearly one-in-five young Black voters, or 17%, said Trump’s policies had helped them, more than double any other group surveyed.
"My warning to Democrats has been what it’s always been, and that is that these are swing voters,” Woodbury said. "They swung in ‘24, they swung back in ‘25, but in 2026 they have the risk of swinging again.”
As things get better for them under Trump they are starting to realize that the Democrats never had their interests at heart, but rather wanted simply to use them as cannon fodder. It is now dawning on them they have always been the expendables.
If the GOP picks up an extra five percent of the black vote they will win.
Suck on that Haakim and Chuck You!
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Iran Didn't Attack Us?!
Timothy Birdnow
Ths is one of the stupidest statements I have ever read, and it comes from American Thinker.
When you get right down to it, there really is no good reason to pre-emptively attack Iran, which has never attacked the U.S. and has no immediate capability to do so. When you cut through the excuses, it’s basically because Iran has a repressive, fundamentalist theocratic government, and we don’t like that.
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Whatever you think about the prospects of us attacking Iran this is an incredibly ignorant and myopic paragraph. No good reason to attack Iran? We've had nothing BUT good reasons to attack Iran, going all the way back to their seizure of our embassy in the late seventies. We never punished them for that. And how many terrorist attacks have the Iranians had a hand in against us?
Here is a list of attacks by Iran and her terrorist proxies since 1979.
So that claim is pure nonsense. But what of the claim Iran has no ability to do so? Does he not know Hizbollah is still around? That in fact Iran sent hundreds of terrorists to the United States and in fact the assassination attempt on Pesident Trump (that almost succeeded) may well have been orchestrated by Iran?
Attacks are not always with missiles.
Furthermore, claiming there is no good reason to attack Iran is just idiotic; there are GREAT reasons to attack Iran. If nothing else it would be worthwhile to topple the Mullahcracy. Certainly no replacement government would be any worse.
As I say, there are reasons that can be given to not attack Iran. But if someone wants to post in American Thinker they should at least post something that makes a lick of sense.
"So what if they do, though? When did it become our business to depose foreign governments we deem "repressive”?"
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We've always claimed that right from the time of the Tripolitan War onward (what does he think we were doing in Libya but attempting to topple a repressive regime). We generally don't take those steps unless they pose a direct threat to us, which Iran clearly does. Even though we stopped their nuclear program for the moment they have vowed to restart it and are actually already trying to rebuild. And they still spend money to fund terrorism against us and against Israel.
He goes on to blame Woodrow Wilson and says military intervention was his idea, which is as ahistorical as it gets. Has he never heard of the Mexican war? The Texas revolution? The Revolution and creation of the Republic of West Florida? The Spanish American war?
He is correct in that we had no business getting involved in WWI, but that is beside the point. We were doing this well before the War to End All Wars.
Furthermore the author confuses the wars America fought and losing the peace, as was done in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why did we lose the peace? Because we thought to remake the nations we invaded (and we did that with ground assaults; we have happily bombed countries for a hundred years and never had much of a problem) and that didn't work because these people were not just Americans with funny accents. I remember Sean Hannity talking about the "yearning to be free" and other such American shibboleths which were not applicable. We always thought we had to not just win the war but then stay and show what nice fellows we are.
What we should have done in Iraq was support whoever could bring order. We didn't do that.
The fact is we've had all sorts of successful interventions in foreign countries over the century. Look at Chile' where we kicked the Communist out.
Taking action against a nation that regularly chants "death to America" is as conservative as it gets. Lefties like to chant that stuff too.
The Iranians have a missile they call "the Ambassador of Death". I say let's show 'em some real Wild West diplomacy, shall we!
Oh, he also quotes Founding Fathers on avoiding foreign entanglements. Fine and dandy but the fact is that was when America had three million people spread across the whole eastern seaboard and our nearest enemy was all the way across the Atlantic. A different policy for a different age. When times change you either change or go under. This author des not seem to understand that this is a whole different era with different conditions.
Again, I can see where people don't want to get into another war, and there is a case to be made to NOT attack Iran, but at least make sense with it. This thing was pure sophistry and unfitting for American Thinker.
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FBI Spied on Patel
Timothy Birdnow
The FBI was operating more like the Stasi than a law enforcement agency under Biden.
The previous junta certainly operated like a Communist regime. Spying on political rivals is as unamerican as it comes.
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Dem Judge Defies SCOTUS - Again
Timothy Birdnow
Oops; they did it again!
This despite the fact the Supreme Court has ruled that the Administration may indeed deport to third countries.
Judge Murphy, who was previously overruled by SCOTUS on this issue, said the law does not allow the deprivation of life, liberty, or property.
In what way is deporting aliens depriving them of "life liberty or property? And the law doesn't say "any person"; it is applicable to citizens, not illegal aliens, not criminals.
SCOTUS has already slapped this guy down once and fairly hard, yet here he is imposing his personal views on the country (and making yet another blanket ruling outside of his jurisdiction), essentially legislating from the bench.
I believe this is strategic on the part of Democrat judges; they know they will be slapped down again by the Supreme Court but they want to tie said Court up, waste their time covering old ground. And if SCOTUS doesn't have time to deal with abc gum then they win.
We have got to find a way to punish judges who pull this. You can't fire them or cut their pay but there has to be other things that could be done. Simply close their court, perhaps, or assign them no cases. Put their office in a broom closet. Something.
At some point Trump is going to just have to stop obeying these kinds of rulings.
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February 25, 2026
Spamberger Stepped in it
Timothy Birdnow
Old Spam really stepped in it in her response to Trump:
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47Abigail Spanberger can spare us the sanctimonious bullshit.
For Spanberger, criminal illegals > Americans.
FACT: Weeks after becoming Governor, she swiftly terminated Virginia’s agreement with ICE, halting state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement — giving criminal illegal alien killers, rapists, and gangbangers a pass.
FACT: During her time in Congress, she repeatedly undermined border security by voting againstthe Secure the Border Act, supporting a pathway to citizenship for more than two million illegal aliens, co-sponsoring an amnesty bill for millions of illegals, and twice voting to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration at the southern border.
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Trump's Triumph at State of the Bunion
Timothy Birdnow
Many were saying this last night and I have to concur; that was probably the best State of the Bunion speech ever.
It was upbeat, positive, and yet full of Trumpian good humor. Very Reaganesque in so many ways. But it still had the Trump edge.
I won't bore everyone with a rehash of it. In fact it wasn't really a SOTU speech at all, more of a celebration of America. Trump gave out TWO Congressional Medal of Honor awards to soldiers - one a young chopper pilot who finished his mission despite being very seriously wounded and an old Vet who fought in WWII and Korea and who was shot down in his fighter jet. Trump also awarded Purple Hearts. And he promised to award to the American Men's Olympic Hockey Team's goal tender the Freedom Medal, which he said the team heartily agreed to his doing.
There were victims of crimes, including the parents of that Ukrainian woman who was stabbed to death on the subway for no good reason by an illegal. There was a young lady who had been pressured into being trans but who walked away and was now a pretty girl, there with her parents who fought so hard to get her out of the clutches of Progressives in her state. There were the parents of a young girl and the girl herself who was hit by a vehicle being driven way too fast by an illegal alien.
And always crickets from the Democrat side of the aisle. So Trump conducted an experiment; he asked everyone to stand who agreed with the proposition that the government's job is to protect citizens over illegal aliens. Not one of the Democrats stood and Trump waved his hand in their direction "see!".
At one point he said they were insane. He was right.
At any rate Rashida Thalib and Ilhan Omar were heckling, making spectacles of themselves. Mike Johnson would say after the speech that he was just about to remove them but then realized Trump had it under control and he figured this was a teachable moment; let them embarrass their party.
Al Green was not so fortunate, being kicked out within three minutes of the beginning of the speech.
In addition to praising Americans Trump of course effusively praised his own accomplishments, and when strung together in that fashion they are indeed impressive.
And he laid off the Supreme Court. Only five of the Justices showed - and of those only Kavanaugh can be said to be in Trump's camp. Roberts and Conehead Barrett were also present and I had hoped/feared Trump would have a few choice words for them (hoped if it was light hearted, feared if it was not). But he only mentioned as an aside the Court ruling overturning his tariffs and promised to impose them in a different way.
One of about four times the Democrats stood was when Trump promised Iran would never, ever get a nuclear weapon. He said he preferred to get there diplomatically but if he had to he would use force.
They really hated it when Trump said America was returning to God.
At any rate it was a triumph of a speech and I feared it was going to be too long but the President knew what he was doing. It was entertaining and heart-warming and made me proud to be an American again.
Meanwhile the response (which the media started allowing to counterbalance Ronald Reagan, you may remember) was given by Virgia's new Prog governor Spamberger and it was what we have come to expect; angry, sullen, self-serving, and gaslighting. She couldn't even damn Trump with faint praise; she just dripped with rage and condescension. I only watched a couple of minutes of it and then flipped on The Big Bang Theory. At least THAT is funny.
Trump may not pick up any new support, but he might too. If the GOP moves forward with his program and doesn't cower in the shadows as they are prone to do they can pick up seats rather than lose them in November. If.
Certainly any independents watching this had to be reassured that Trump isn't the monster they have made him out to be. And he loves America, something that was juxtaposed against the Democrats, who clearly, unequivocally, do not and last night proved that.
BTW I had a fantasy that Mike Johnson and John Thune would call a vote last night and ram DHS funding through just before the speech. With so many Democrats boycotting it they could have passed the funding they want and the Democrats would have howled. I did a little research; technically there is NO reason they couldn't do it as far as I could see. But of course Johnson isn't an outside-the-box thinker nor is Thune and they know that would have been a declaration of war (as if the Democrats weren't already at war with the Republicans). 70 Democrats skipped this joint session of Congress.
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February 24, 2026
Whole Milk is "White Supremacist Dog Whistling
Timothy Birdnow
"Please ask for the science-based regimens, not whatever RFK Jr. is getting kickbacks on or whatever whole milk white supremacy dog-whistling that's happening right now,"
Democratic rep Maxine Dexter Oregon on HHS efforts to promote whole milk in schools over low fat versions.
So even milk is now "white supremacy".
And what does she mean by "science-based"? Her party believes there are 72 different sexes and a woman can have a penis and men can menstruate. They say that is "science". They also believe the end of the world is nigh because we are exhaling too much and that's going to turn the Earth into a twin of Venus.
The frightening thing is this Dexter babe is a medical doctor. Where did she get her M.D. from? Anyone who links whole milk to white supremacy isn't very bright. I sure would hate to have her treating me.
Oh, by the way, she was one of the dimwits who flew to El Salvador to try to get Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.
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Pirro Drops the Ball
Timothy Birdnow
Jeanine Pirro's office dropped the ball on the prosecution of the treasonous folks who told the military to disobey Trump's orders, and now they are just dropping the case.
I'm starting to have serious doubts about Judge Jeanine. Even if she can't get a conviction the reality is the process is the punishment and she should be going after these clowns hard, whether she can get a conviction or not.
That's what the Democrats would have done in a similar situation. We have GOT to start fighting like they do.
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February 23, 2026
Drop in Planetary Albedo Explains Climate Change
Timothy Birdnow
A new paper suggests that aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere cancel each-other out in the northern and southern hemispheres, but that changes in planetary albedo (cloudiness which reflects more sunlight into space) explains planetary warming.
From the article in physorg:
"The study also shows that the recent increase in Earth's energy imbalance is driven mainly by changes in reflected sunlight, rather than by changes in heat escaping to space. From 2003 to 2023, Earth gained heat at a rate of about half a watt more energy per square meter each decade, largely because the planet is absorbing more sunlight."
This was put in almost as an afterthought, but it demolishes the theory of Carbon Dioxide driven climate warming.
The article mainly discusses aerosols. As it points out, the southern hemisphere has more in the way of aerosols because of naturally occurring sources, like volcanoes and wildfires.
"The findings also highlight a potential limitation in some climate modeling studies, which focus mainly on pollution reductions in the Northern Hemisphere and may underestimate the growing influence of natural aerosol events in the Southern Hemisphere."
Again, the paper argues that aerosol cooling balances out, but that the decline in planetary albedo means more heat is coming into the climate system rather than the climate system retaining more heat from a layer of carbon dioxide.
'"Many earlier studies suggested that cleaner air might explain much of the recent increase, but our results show that aerosol changes largely cancel out between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. That means we need to look more closely at changes in clouds and natural climate variability to understand why the planet is continuing to gain heat."
The authors of the study include Chanyoung Park and Brian Soden of the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.'
Couple this with land use changes and we have to realize that planetary warming is being driven by more heat in the system and that heat is being retained because the forests and savannahs are giving way to blacktops and cityscapes.
In fact land use changes, the Urban Heat Island Effect, explains much of the warming we have seen.
Carbon dioxide has little to do with it. Land use changes have been largely at the center of the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, for instance.
Carbon dioxide driven climate change increasingly resembles the Medieval concept of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Over time we learn about more forcings that impact climate that are unrelated to industrial carbon dioxide emissions. At what point do we finally say "enough" and simply dismiss this as a generations-long War of the Worlds scare?
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Man of Buttmuncha; Jack Smith's Report Permanently Supressed
Timothy Birdnow
Judge Aileen Canon has permanently blocked the release of the Special Counsel Jack Smith's report, saying that not only Pam Bondi but no future Attorney General may release the fake document.
The Trump Administration sought the ban on it's release because it was full of lies and Judge Canan, a Trump appointee, agreed.
Smith, who was improperly appointed as Counsel, has waged a war to get Trump for years now, but increasingly it appears he has failed in his quixotic quest. (Something to get off my chest; people often pronounce that word "quicksotic" which is daft as the word was derived from Don Quixote, the insane lead character from Miguele de Cervantes novel. It should be pronounced Keyhotic.)
At any rate judge Canon has shined the mirrors of sanity on the quixotic Democrat Smith, and he's reacting much like the crazy man of LaMancha.
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Canada: Where the Poor People Live
Timothy Birdnow
Canada is poorer than Alabama and generally poorer than most of the states in the U.S.
From the article:
To measure this, they calculated gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. In simple terms, it’s the size of the Canadian economy in a given year divided by the population. The same was done for Alabama. After adjusting for foreign exchange and some cost differences in both countries, the average for Canada’s 10 provinces was estimated at at US$55,000 in 2022, the same as Alabama. Shortly after, the IMF found Canada had actually fallen behind the southern state. (Canada has since edged ever-so-slightly higher than Alabama; the numbers are volatile from year to year.)
So why are the Canadians so resistant to becoming the 51st state? Seems to me that would be a great deal for them.
This is what years of quasi-socialism gets you.
Here are the states/provinces in order:
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Roberts Was Compromised
Timothy Birdnow
Ever wonder why Chief Justice John Roberts has appeared to be compromised? Because he is compromised.
Norm Eisen is one of the worst, most radical Democrats out there and he said he was partying with John Roberts in the Czech Republic. At the time Eisen was Ethics Czar to the BHO.
According to Eisen himself, who was ambassador to the Czech Republic at the time:
"John Roberts is not corrupt. I know the Chief Justice well. He stayed when I was ambassador, stayed under my roof, came and spent a week with us. We worked on American and European rule of law issues together.”
So his "good friend" was there hobnobbing with one of the most partisan hacks in D.C.
Sounds to me like John Roberts is corrupt - very.
Mike Benz had this to say about Roberts and his working to rig the European legal system for the New World Order with Eisen:
"So having a program, a rule of law program, sometimes will be called governance programs or anti corruption programs, but they’re all about control over the judges, the prosecutors, the courts, the law schools. So this is what we’re running into right now with all these district court judges who are nullifying everything Trump does, blocking him from shutting down agencies, blocking him from firing people. This is what it looks like when you’ve got these rule of law programs in a foreign country, and they try to change their laws, or they try to clean up their country.”
John Roberts is a consummate insider and I warned about this when Bush first nominated him. My reasoning was simple; Roberts had been hanging around D.C. from his youth and had made no enemies in all that time. In fact, then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Bush that Roberts was the ONLY acceptable candidate to the Democrats. If they like him you know he's a bad egg.
He was a brown-nosed son of a, well, fellow who made it by keeping his head down and sucking up to the powerful. (Reminds me of the general in Mars Attacks "I told you if I stayed quiet and said nothing good things would happen". That guy was one of the first people vaporized by the Martians while the general played by Rod steiger, who was a fighting man, was one of the last.)
At any rate he was a man guaranteed to be seduced or blackmailed. I think that explains some of his rulings - especially his legal gymnastics to find Obaamacare Constitutional.
Somebody really should look into Roberts, his money and his behavior, while Trump is stil President and could replace him (assuming the Congress would impeach him.)
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Newsom Insults Black People, Says They Can't Read
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Yikes! Imagine if Trump had said something this insulting!
I'm surprised he didn't say he was like black folks because he loves fried chicken and watermelon while he was at it!
This would have forced a Republican governor out of office but in our insane double-standard world it will probably go unnoticed.
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The British are the Butt of the Joke
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What a Butt!
This is, of course, in Britain. The man, one aptly named Shahid Butt, served time in prison for a bomb plot to blow up the British Consulate in Yemen in 1999. Now he's running for a seat on the Birmingham City Council. And given the few numbers of native born in that district he's likely to win.
I seem to remember another convicted terrorist who served time in prison and came out to go into politics in a European country, and plunged the whole world into war. His name was Adolf Hitler.
It's not a good idea to let terrorists run for public office. Britain has lost it's marbles.
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