November 17, 2024
The Politics of Personal Destruction at the Pentagon
Timothy Birdnow
Here they Once again, the Democrats are going to deploy the politics of personal destruction and use allegations of sexual misconduct to try to bring down a Trump appointee. This time it is Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense.
Strangely, a bimbo eruption just erupted right after Trump made his pick. This woman followed the recently divorced Hoseth to his hotel room then told her husband he raped her when caught.
It's odd; none of this was known until after Trump announces his choice. And after the Deep State howls their displeasure.
Here they Once again, the Democrats are going to deploy the politics of personal destruction and use allegations of sexual misconduct to try to bring down a Trump appointee. This time it is Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense.
Strangely, a bimbo eruption just erupted right after Trump made his pick. This woman followed the recently divorced Hoseth to his hotel room then told her husband he raped her when caught.
It's odd; none of this was known until after Trump announces his choice. And after the Deep State howls their displeasure.
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Selzer Quits
Timothy Birdnow
Ann (alki) Selzer is retiring from polling after her vain attempt to create a Harris bandwagon in Iowa failed miserably.
For those who are unaware, Selzer predicted Iowa by 3% for Harris in her final poll, and she has been accredited with being an extremely accurate pollster by the mainstream media, so there was "joy" in the Democratic ranks (a place not known for joy of any kind). But Trump won bigely - taking 56.21% of the vote. After the election she admitted to weighting her final poll heavily towards Democrats.
Error or intent? I always follow the rule that in politics few things are by chance. It's odd that she found a sudden, dramatic shift in polling just days before the election. I don't believe in happy coincidences, not in politics.
So I'll play aloha on the steel guitar for her!
Ann (alki) Selzer is retiring from polling after her vain attempt to create a Harris bandwagon in Iowa failed miserably.
For those who are unaware, Selzer predicted Iowa by 3% for Harris in her final poll, and she has been accredited with being an extremely accurate pollster by the mainstream media, so there was "joy" in the Democratic ranks (a place not known for joy of any kind). But Trump won bigely - taking 56.21% of the vote. After the election she admitted to weighting her final poll heavily towards Democrats.
Error or intent? I always follow the rule that in politics few things are by chance. It's odd that she found a sudden, dramatic shift in polling just days before the election. I don't believe in happy coincidences, not in politics.
So I'll play aloha on the steel guitar for her!
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False Prophets
Timothy Birdnow
Here's something a little lighter for a Sunday morning. Last night I was surfing channels and Story Television (the minor league ball club for the History Channel) was running an apocalypse day. I watched one episode, and it was discussing Nostradamus, but also a guy named Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Now, I know a fair amount about Nostradamus and have read his entire treatise "Centuries" and know that while some of his predictions were disturbinglly accurate others were either unintelligible or just plain wrong. For starters, he warned that the AntiChrist would appear in Asia, not Europe, and would do so shortly after the year 2000. In my best Maxwell Smart voice "missed it by THAT much!"
But what interested me was this good mosquito guy. The documentary waxed poetic on his prophetic skills. He was not a seer or prophet though; supposedly he has a computer algorithm that looks at multiple connections and uses math to sort them all out.
Ri-ight.
The first thing I thought of was Isaac Asimov's "psychohistory". Some 20,000 years from now a scientist would invent a form of mathematical sociology that can predict the future given enough people. Modeled on gas theory, you had to have the trillion plus population of the Galactic Empire to make accurate predictions in the Foundation stories. In the stories (they started as short stories in Astounding Science Fiction, but later Asimov wrote several full-length novels where he worked in his other great stories, such as robots and alternate universes).
The point is Asimov, a very smart guy, more or less argued the extreme difficulty of such a science.
Which brings us to this fellow. My first impression of him was a medicine show man, a sort of Professor Waldo Wigglesworth from the old Jay Ward Hoppity Hooper cartoon. He wasn't openly smarmy but he seemed sort of smug. He is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Not sure how a political scientist can devise a mathematical model that predicts the future, but he claims it is so.
He also refuses to divulge his methods. That is a YUUUGGe red flag.
Science is about repeatability. If you perform an experiment you have to hand over the details so others may repeat it. And if you have a method that could revolutionize our foreign policy and other policies and it works better than what we are currently doing, don't you owe it to humanity to hand that over?
Supposedly this guy has been a consultant with the government - state department, CIA, etc.
If so, one wonders why we have made so many dreadful mistakes, and why our situation is in far worse shape now than it was in times past. Maybe they ARE taking his advice? That may well be the problem.
Look; we use computer models to predict the weather and those are frequently wrong, and after more than a few days they are usually profoundly wrong. Why? Because the weather is a chaotic system. In fact, Chaos Theory was invented precisely because of a weather prediction program. The inventer of Chaos Theory was a guy named Edward Lorenz from MIT. He got the idea from a weather prediction program that had stopped and restarted the next day. It was found to be WAY off. It was run again with the exact same conditions and gave a wildly different result. It occurred to Lorenz that the weather was a chaotic system, and micro-influences had a drastic effect on the outcome of any such program.
Now, we know many of the variables involved in weather and can take them into account in forecasting. They are mathematically hard numbers; temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, air speed, etc. The problem is they are not absolutes, and it may be a degree cooler just a little ways away from the spot you measure, or it could be raining in one place and not in another. The end result is IN THEORY weather should be Newtonian, easily predicable, a clockwork system. In practice not so much.
But what Bueno de Mosquita is proposing is far, far more complicated as it goes to fundamental human psycghology and sociology that cannot be mathematically modeled. How do you quantify some things, like the public reaction to events? And how do you include extenuating factors? Speaking of weather, the weather will actually influence the outcome of events in some cases. That is a well known phenomenon in elections; bad weather usually means lower turnout and thus the government winds up looking different than it would have had the weather been nice. But there are an infinite number of variables that would have to be quantified and fed into the computer.
Good Mosqquito argues the computer is better at handling large numbers of permutations than are humans and he's right, but they can ONLY handle what is fed into them. They have no judgement. They are at best logical but not reasonable (another point Asimov made in his robot stories; robots often came to terrible conclusions because they weren't reasonable, just machines that crunched numbers).
A model is a simplification of reality by necessity. If you have a model as complex as the thing you are modeling it is useless; you can get the information you want from the thing iself. So we create models that are simpler than that thing and hope we can extrapolate from that. That's where human thinking and intuition comes into play. And of course a model is only as good as the data it is fed, and the assumptions of the programmer often have a huge impact on what the models tell us.
That's why climate models are so bad at predicting events; they have been programmed by the same people using the same assumptions and the same often faulty data. Most climate models, for instance, assume a low climate sensitivity. Most assume the atmosphere has no top (it was easier to just pick a zone in the stratosphere and not go beyond that). Most do not factor in negative feedbacks like cloud formation from evaporated water, etc. These models have failed miserably to predict current conditions, and have failed when fed historical data, yet climate scientists continue to cling to them because they cannot think of anything else to do and because they want that lucrative funding that climate doomsaying provides.
This, I think, is more of the same. This Bueno de Mosqita fellow may have a computer model that he believes is taking everything into account, but it is impossible to program such a model. May as well say you have a computer algorithm that will predict the name and appearance of your future spouse. (Another great example; computer dating has mixed results and always has despite the great advances in computer technology. Computer dating sites can only match up a number of self-identified characteristics and beliefs and find another person who is willing,but they hardly KNOW the people and so mismatch more than they match.)
The article I cited mentions investment aps. Well, if there were such things that actually worked wouldn't there people people exploiting it? You would have wizards of hedge funds who would guarantee huge profits and their clients would clean up. The sad fact is usually when you find such a thing it turns out to be a pyramid scheme or other con.
This guy claims to have a 90% accuracy rate. Pardon me if I sound a bit skeptical. He may be above 50%, which would mean a coin toss, but somehow I doubt he can make any predictions that high. I suspect he gets that number by making a bunch of easy calls that boost his percentage. Hell; I predicted the Russian invasion of Georgia back in '08 just by reading Pravda. Often these things aren't that hard, especially when the crisis is almost upon us. The Ukrainian invasion was fairly predictable too, and our State Department would have known it had they bothered to just read what the Russians were saying and to use basic common sense; Putin saw an opportunity and knew there wouldn't be repercussions. Some things can't be predicted though; I doubt anyone saw the terror attacks on Israel coming, although if this guy's idiot machine predicted some sort of terrorist attack at some point it wouldn't be much of an intellectual stretch.
This guy was talking about Iran in the program I watched and said "we need to de-escalate with Iran. If you push them it will insult their sense of national pride and they will become more aggressive" and yet it was when Mr. Biden de-escalated that Iran became more aggressive - not the other way around. Score one for the Human mind. Every time we've de-escalated with Iran we've seen them re-emerge as bad actors on the world stage.
Sadly a lot of people will probably believe in a guy like this. He has all the right features; he uses computers, writes fancy equations,keeps his supposedly highly successful algorithms secret, and prophecies the future. Humans want to know the future. One of the great stresses in our lives is the fact that we have minds capable of thinking ahead to the future and planning and yet cannot see it. I've heard it argued by some preachers that the fruit from the tree of the knowlede of good and evil was what stole humanity's peace of mind, and that because suddenly we were aware of the dangers of what is to come and had no way to see it coming. I don't know. Certainly one can argue that attempts like this are a kind of modern witchcraft, divination to foretell and to prophecy. There is a reason why the Bible condemns witchcraft (thou shalt not suffer a wtich to live, it says) and if nothing else it leads us to make really bad mistakes and to stop relying on both our own intellects and on God.
That's not to say attempts at predicting the future are necessarily evil. Certainly knowing if a tornado is coming is a good thing. But there is a human tendency to worship things like computers and science, and there is an increasing tendency in the young to believe not in God but in algorithms. That way will ultimately lead to ruin.
So my view is that this guy is a charlatan, like the oracles in the ancient world who had all sorts of gadgets to give the illusion to worshippers of miraculous events. Archaeologists have unearthed many such temples and found they were nothing but illusionist tricks. I think our worship of the machines is a sign of a modern form of sorcery, the kind mentioned in the Book of Revelation "neither would they repent of their sorceries" (Rev.9:21)
Add to that the renewed interest in UFO's (Satan's lying wonders 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12) and belief that men can become women by an act of will, or that men laying with men is "natural" or that "science has disproven God" or any other profoundly ignorant and self-serving ideas believed by our modern world, and one does have to wonder at why God still puts up with us. I would long ago have smote them hip and thigh were I the Almighty. They should count their blessings I am not He.
One final thought; there are no good nosquitoes. The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. I think the first punishment God visited upon Adam and Eve were those evil little creatures!
Here's something a little lighter for a Sunday morning. Last night I was surfing channels and Story Television (the minor league ball club for the History Channel) was running an apocalypse day. I watched one episode, and it was discussing Nostradamus, but also a guy named Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Now, I know a fair amount about Nostradamus and have read his entire treatise "Centuries" and know that while some of his predictions were disturbinglly accurate others were either unintelligible or just plain wrong. For starters, he warned that the AntiChrist would appear in Asia, not Europe, and would do so shortly after the year 2000. In my best Maxwell Smart voice "missed it by THAT much!"
But what interested me was this good mosquito guy. The documentary waxed poetic on his prophetic skills. He was not a seer or prophet though; supposedly he has a computer algorithm that looks at multiple connections and uses math to sort them all out.
Ri-ight.
The first thing I thought of was Isaac Asimov's "psychohistory". Some 20,000 years from now a scientist would invent a form of mathematical sociology that can predict the future given enough people. Modeled on gas theory, you had to have the trillion plus population of the Galactic Empire to make accurate predictions in the Foundation stories. In the stories (they started as short stories in Astounding Science Fiction, but later Asimov wrote several full-length novels where he worked in his other great stories, such as robots and alternate universes).
The point is Asimov, a very smart guy, more or less argued the extreme difficulty of such a science.
Which brings us to this fellow. My first impression of him was a medicine show man, a sort of Professor Waldo Wigglesworth from the old Jay Ward Hoppity Hooper cartoon. He wasn't openly smarmy but he seemed sort of smug. He is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Not sure how a political scientist can devise a mathematical model that predicts the future, but he claims it is so.
He also refuses to divulge his methods. That is a YUUUGGe red flag.
Science is about repeatability. If you perform an experiment you have to hand over the details so others may repeat it. And if you have a method that could revolutionize our foreign policy and other policies and it works better than what we are currently doing, don't you owe it to humanity to hand that over?
Supposedly this guy has been a consultant with the government - state department, CIA, etc.
If so, one wonders why we have made so many dreadful mistakes, and why our situation is in far worse shape now than it was in times past. Maybe they ARE taking his advice? That may well be the problem.
Look; we use computer models to predict the weather and those are frequently wrong, and after more than a few days they are usually profoundly wrong. Why? Because the weather is a chaotic system. In fact, Chaos Theory was invented precisely because of a weather prediction program. The inventer of Chaos Theory was a guy named Edward Lorenz from MIT. He got the idea from a weather prediction program that had stopped and restarted the next day. It was found to be WAY off. It was run again with the exact same conditions and gave a wildly different result. It occurred to Lorenz that the weather was a chaotic system, and micro-influences had a drastic effect on the outcome of any such program.
Now, we know many of the variables involved in weather and can take them into account in forecasting. They are mathematically hard numbers; temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, air speed, etc. The problem is they are not absolutes, and it may be a degree cooler just a little ways away from the spot you measure, or it could be raining in one place and not in another. The end result is IN THEORY weather should be Newtonian, easily predicable, a clockwork system. In practice not so much.
But what Bueno de Mosquita is proposing is far, far more complicated as it goes to fundamental human psycghology and sociology that cannot be mathematically modeled. How do you quantify some things, like the public reaction to events? And how do you include extenuating factors? Speaking of weather, the weather will actually influence the outcome of events in some cases. That is a well known phenomenon in elections; bad weather usually means lower turnout and thus the government winds up looking different than it would have had the weather been nice. But there are an infinite number of variables that would have to be quantified and fed into the computer.
Good Mosqquito argues the computer is better at handling large numbers of permutations than are humans and he's right, but they can ONLY handle what is fed into them. They have no judgement. They are at best logical but not reasonable (another point Asimov made in his robot stories; robots often came to terrible conclusions because they weren't reasonable, just machines that crunched numbers).
A model is a simplification of reality by necessity. If you have a model as complex as the thing you are modeling it is useless; you can get the information you want from the thing iself. So we create models that are simpler than that thing and hope we can extrapolate from that. That's where human thinking and intuition comes into play. And of course a model is only as good as the data it is fed, and the assumptions of the programmer often have a huge impact on what the models tell us.
That's why climate models are so bad at predicting events; they have been programmed by the same people using the same assumptions and the same often faulty data. Most climate models, for instance, assume a low climate sensitivity. Most assume the atmosphere has no top (it was easier to just pick a zone in the stratosphere and not go beyond that). Most do not factor in negative feedbacks like cloud formation from evaporated water, etc. These models have failed miserably to predict current conditions, and have failed when fed historical data, yet climate scientists continue to cling to them because they cannot think of anything else to do and because they want that lucrative funding that climate doomsaying provides.
This, I think, is more of the same. This Bueno de Mosqita fellow may have a computer model that he believes is taking everything into account, but it is impossible to program such a model. May as well say you have a computer algorithm that will predict the name and appearance of your future spouse. (Another great example; computer dating has mixed results and always has despite the great advances in computer technology. Computer dating sites can only match up a number of self-identified characteristics and beliefs and find another person who is willing,but they hardly KNOW the people and so mismatch more than they match.)
The article I cited mentions investment aps. Well, if there were such things that actually worked wouldn't there people people exploiting it? You would have wizards of hedge funds who would guarantee huge profits and their clients would clean up. The sad fact is usually when you find such a thing it turns out to be a pyramid scheme or other con.
This guy claims to have a 90% accuracy rate. Pardon me if I sound a bit skeptical. He may be above 50%, which would mean a coin toss, but somehow I doubt he can make any predictions that high. I suspect he gets that number by making a bunch of easy calls that boost his percentage. Hell; I predicted the Russian invasion of Georgia back in '08 just by reading Pravda. Often these things aren't that hard, especially when the crisis is almost upon us. The Ukrainian invasion was fairly predictable too, and our State Department would have known it had they bothered to just read what the Russians were saying and to use basic common sense; Putin saw an opportunity and knew there wouldn't be repercussions. Some things can't be predicted though; I doubt anyone saw the terror attacks on Israel coming, although if this guy's idiot machine predicted some sort of terrorist attack at some point it wouldn't be much of an intellectual stretch.
This guy was talking about Iran in the program I watched and said "we need to de-escalate with Iran. If you push them it will insult their sense of national pride and they will become more aggressive" and yet it was when Mr. Biden de-escalated that Iran became more aggressive - not the other way around. Score one for the Human mind. Every time we've de-escalated with Iran we've seen them re-emerge as bad actors on the world stage.
Sadly a lot of people will probably believe in a guy like this. He has all the right features; he uses computers, writes fancy equations,keeps his supposedly highly successful algorithms secret, and prophecies the future. Humans want to know the future. One of the great stresses in our lives is the fact that we have minds capable of thinking ahead to the future and planning and yet cannot see it. I've heard it argued by some preachers that the fruit from the tree of the knowlede of good and evil was what stole humanity's peace of mind, and that because suddenly we were aware of the dangers of what is to come and had no way to see it coming. I don't know. Certainly one can argue that attempts like this are a kind of modern witchcraft, divination to foretell and to prophecy. There is a reason why the Bible condemns witchcraft (thou shalt not suffer a wtich to live, it says) and if nothing else it leads us to make really bad mistakes and to stop relying on both our own intellects and on God.
That's not to say attempts at predicting the future are necessarily evil. Certainly knowing if a tornado is coming is a good thing. But there is a human tendency to worship things like computers and science, and there is an increasing tendency in the young to believe not in God but in algorithms. That way will ultimately lead to ruin.
So my view is that this guy is a charlatan, like the oracles in the ancient world who had all sorts of gadgets to give the illusion to worshippers of miraculous events. Archaeologists have unearthed many such temples and found they were nothing but illusionist tricks. I think our worship of the machines is a sign of a modern form of sorcery, the kind mentioned in the Book of Revelation "neither would they repent of their sorceries" (Rev.9:21)
Add to that the renewed interest in UFO's (Satan's lying wonders 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12) and belief that men can become women by an act of will, or that men laying with men is "natural" or that "science has disproven God" or any other profoundly ignorant and self-serving ideas believed by our modern world, and one does have to wonder at why God still puts up with us. I would long ago have smote them hip and thigh were I the Almighty. They should count their blessings I am not He.
One final thought; there are no good nosquitoes. The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. I think the first punishment God visited upon Adam and Eve were those evil little creatures!
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Dems Vow to Ignore the Law
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats clearly have not learned their lesson as blue state governors and mayors vow to simply ignore immigration law and act as sanctuaries for illegal aliens anyway.
Amazing; they just lost a huge election because of this and yet they plan to double-down on the very thing that cost them so dearly.
They also plan to implement the rest of the Biden/Harris program in their states - you know, the program America just rejected.
The immigration issue is truly astonishing as it shows they care more about remaking the country than they do the citizens. Most people think it is purely political benefit, but I have long argued it is to replace the American People with a more compliant lot. I argued that well before we were hearing the term "replacement theory", and I got the idea from a fellow named Fredo Arias-King, a former top aid to former Mexican President Vicente' Fox. I wrote about Mr. Arias-King's theory here.
Now it's considered an established "conspiracy theory" but how is it a conspiracy theory if it's true? There is no other rational explanation for the Democrats being willing to lose elections to cling to this. (This also explained the Republican eagerness to open the border and keep it open as well; the watering down of the American electorate meant all incumbents would have an easier go of it come re-election time.)
Well, laws are on the books and if Democrats willfully refuse to enforce them the U.S. marshalls should come and take said Democrats away. It's not like these laws were just added to the books; they've been there for years. Trump just plans to enforce them. We've got to stop pussy-footing around with this open lawlessness.
That, of course, is why Biden is desperately trying to get all of his judicial appointees confirmed now; he needs to pack the courts to have a fail-safe to protect the Democrats. We've seen this happen with sanctuary cities, for instance, where Democrat courts have said Trump couldn't withhold federal funds from them or remove government facilities from their states for their willful refusal to obey the law. They need these partisans in black robes in power to throw a monkey wrench in the works.
There's a new sheriff in town folks, and with the popular support of the People. Learn or go under!
The Democrats clearly have not learned their lesson as blue state governors and mayors vow to simply ignore immigration law and act as sanctuaries for illegal aliens anyway.
Amazing; they just lost a huge election because of this and yet they plan to double-down on the very thing that cost them so dearly.
They also plan to implement the rest of the Biden/Harris program in their states - you know, the program America just rejected.
The immigration issue is truly astonishing as it shows they care more about remaking the country than they do the citizens. Most people think it is purely political benefit, but I have long argued it is to replace the American People with a more compliant lot. I argued that well before we were hearing the term "replacement theory", and I got the idea from a fellow named Fredo Arias-King, a former top aid to former Mexican President Vicente' Fox. I wrote about Mr. Arias-King's theory here.
Now it's considered an established "conspiracy theory" but how is it a conspiracy theory if it's true? There is no other rational explanation for the Democrats being willing to lose elections to cling to this. (This also explained the Republican eagerness to open the border and keep it open as well; the watering down of the American electorate meant all incumbents would have an easier go of it come re-election time.)
Well, laws are on the books and if Democrats willfully refuse to enforce them the U.S. marshalls should come and take said Democrats away. It's not like these laws were just added to the books; they've been there for years. Trump just plans to enforce them. We've got to stop pussy-footing around with this open lawlessness.
That, of course, is why Biden is desperately trying to get all of his judicial appointees confirmed now; he needs to pack the courts to have a fail-safe to protect the Democrats. We've seen this happen with sanctuary cities, for instance, where Democrat courts have said Trump couldn't withhold federal funds from them or remove government facilities from their states for their willful refusal to obey the law. They need these partisans in black robes in power to throw a monkey wrench in the works.
There's a new sheriff in town folks, and with the popular support of the People. Learn or go under!
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Taking Their Ball and Going Home
Timothy Birdnow
Don't let the door hit your gluteous maximus on the way out!
Great: Some Federal Employees Considering Mass Quitting in Protest
I wish it were nott just SOME talking about leaving; I want them all to just go. But of course these are people who could not possibly hold a real job.
Don't let the door hit your gluteous maximus on the way out!
Great: Some Federal Employees Considering Mass Quitting in Protest
I wish it were nott just SOME talking about leaving; I want them all to just go. But of course these are people who could not possibly hold a real job.
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November 16, 2024
Here They Go Again!
Timothy Birdnow
The Earth is hotter than it has been in 120,000 years, according to the the wizards of smart in the climate establishment, and it began heating in 1910 in a classic hockey stick (hew boy!).
Odd that nobody noticed that until now, isn't it!
I take that back; Michael Mann noticed it, yet somehow he had to use bogus data to make that case and was caught cheating. His hockey stick graph came from the splicing of different data sets together ("Mike's Nature trick") and ignoring evidence that contradicted his pet theory. In his Yaral reconstruction he chose just three trees to prove his point! Of course Mann ignored the Medieval and Roman warming periods. Oh, and the way he did ran the data in his models was guaranteed to produce a hockey stick - you could add random numbers and get the same results - Steve McKintyre did just that.
The Left is funnny this way; they will cling to an exploded idea and hope the next generation forgets it was already roundly disproven. They do this with everything. I mean, we are STILL arguing about socialism despite it being an abject failure everywhere it has been tried.
The Earth is hotter than it has been in 120,000 years, according to the the wizards of smart in the climate establishment, and it began heating in 1910 in a classic hockey stick (hew boy!).
Odd that nobody noticed that until now, isn't it!
I take that back; Michael Mann noticed it, yet somehow he had to use bogus data to make that case and was caught cheating. His hockey stick graph came from the splicing of different data sets together ("Mike's Nature trick") and ignoring evidence that contradicted his pet theory. In his Yaral reconstruction he chose just three trees to prove his point! Of course Mann ignored the Medieval and Roman warming periods. Oh, and the way he did ran the data in his models was guaranteed to produce a hockey stick - you could add random numbers and get the same results - Steve McKintyre did just that.
The Left is funnny this way; they will cling to an exploded idea and hope the next generation forgets it was already roundly disproven. They do this with everything. I mean, we are STILL arguing about socialism despite it being an abject failure everywhere it has been tried.
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Toasted Nuts
Timothy Birdnow
Federal debt consumes no less than 93% of all of America's wealth, according to a U.s. Treasury report.
FTA:
There is no way to dig out from under this. Trump will putus on the right track and we'll do well for a time but we will not remain on that path. The key to success in our government is to blow money. Republicans are as bad as Democrats. The only people who want fiscal responsibility are a minority who live in flyover country; most city dwellers like their government checks too much.
We are SOOOOO toast!
Federal debt consumes no less than 93% of all of America's wealth, according to a U.s. Treasury report.
FTA:
The federal government has amassed $142 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations. This staggering figure equals 93% of all the wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s founding, estimated by the Federal Reserve to be $152 trillion.
Unlike other measures of federal red ink that cover an arbitrary period, extend into the infinite future, or ignore government resources, the figure of $142 trillion applies strictly to Americans who are alive right now and includes the government’s commercial assets. Thus, it quantifies the financial burden that today’s Americans are leaving to their children and future generations.
Unlike other measures of federal red ink that cover an arbitrary period, extend into the infinite future, or ignore government resources, the figure of $142 trillion applies strictly to Americans who are alive right now and includes the government’s commercial assets. Thus, it quantifies the financial burden that today’s Americans are leaving to their children and future generations.
There is no way to dig out from under this. Trump will putus on the right track and we'll do well for a time but we will not remain on that path. The key to success in our government is to blow money. Republicans are as bad as Democrats. The only people who want fiscal responsibility are a minority who live in flyover country; most city dwellers like their government checks too much.
We are SOOOOO toast!
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Sexual Armageddon
Timothy Birdnow
If one wants to see how the media twists things with the assumptions they make and the way they frame issues one need but look at this Politico story about the House Ethics Committee and the fight over whether to release the report on Matt Gaetz.
Here are a few snippets:
Now the article fails to mention the fact that Biden's own Department of Justice under the extreme partisan Merrick Garland had already investtigated these charges and dismissed them. There were no charges filed against Mr. Gaetz. This ethics investigation only began when Gaetz alienated the Republican establishment by opposing McCarthy and then Johnson. But you have no way of knowing that by reading this article.
Furthermore it acts as if a committee leak would be highly unusual, but it happens all the time. The assumption here is Gaetz is guilty and it's pure politics holding this up. It may well be quite the opposite, with the report exonerating Gates. That may be why the Democrats on the committee are so reluctant to make this a hill to die on - it could well show Gaetz is just another victim of the Deep State.
Here's more:
Uh, Speaker Johnson was the guy Gaetz tried to remove from office. He tried to stay out of this to avoid the obvious conflict of interest charges that would be made. But now he doesn't want it released. You cannot tell me it's because he wants to PROTECT Gaetz! More likely he wants a cloud hanging over the Attorney General Nominee. If Gaetz is exonerated there would be no reason to not confirm him, and from Mr. Johnson's perspective that would be a bad thing.
Gaetz resigned precisely because Trump was offering him a better job, dummies! Notice how we aren't told WHICH Republicans are incensed. We know who they are though; they are the ones who have always knifed the conservative wing of the party in the back.
TEN paragraphs into the article they finally mention the DOJ pressed no charges against Gaetz. They were hoping most people would have stopped reading by then.
The House Ethics Committee is a group with five Republicans and five Democrats, so it does not have proportional representation. And the ranking member is Democrat Susan Wild, who took over in January of 2023.
It is chaired by Michael Guest, a Republican from Mississippi, a solid Conservative.
This may not be a partisan committee but with a fifty-fifty split you can bet your bottom dollar it leans against anything smacking of MAGA, even if the chair doesn't support it.
Already we have anonymous sources claiming they saw Gaetz In flagrante delicto. How many times have we heard THAT before? Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh both come immediately to mind. The fact is IF this is true this witness sure chose an interesting time to come forward. Again, there was no charges filed after an investigation done by Biden's own DOJ. So either this woman didn't worry about a teenage girl being statutorially raped by just a Congressman but is quite concerned now. It fails the smell test. It's just like Stormy Daniels suddenly coming out with claims Trump fondled her.
I remember when Bill Clinton was credibly accused of all manner of sexual misconduct and James Carville said "drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park you never know what you'll find" when sued by Paula Jones. Yet every utterance against Republicans by every trailer park bimbo is Gospel because "women don't lie about such things". It's pretty much true - as far as Conservative women are concerned.
Democrats aren't much concerned when it is they doing the misconduct. Ashley Biden wrote in her diary that her father had sexual intercourse with her, taking naked showers with her when she was underage. This seems totally outrageous except we know and have seen videos of Mr. Biden inappropriately touching and fondling small children. Yet the Democrats didn't worry about that because "that's Joe!"
So drop the holier-than-thou posture; you guys have no problem at all with sexual misconduct provided the person doing it holds the "correct" political positions. Like Carville used to say, Bill Clinton was "the most moral man in America" not because of his personal conduct but because he was a leftist.
If you guys want a sexual armageddon I have little doubt we have plenty of targets too.
If one wants to see how the media twists things with the assumptions they make and the way they frame issues one need but look at this Politico story about the House Ethics Committee and the fight over whether to release the report on Matt Gaetz.
Here are a few snippets:
"Lawmakers on the historically bipartisan committee have two main options: Release their long-running report into his alleged misconduct and risk incurring President-elect Donald Trump’s wrath, or keep it under wraps and face accusations of burying potentially scandalous information about a nominee for attorney general, the most powerful law enforcement official in the country.
And if leading members decide to go rogue and leak it to the press, they could destroy the bipartisan reputation of the committee.
And if leading members decide to go rogue and leak it to the press, they could destroy the bipartisan reputation of the committee.
Now the article fails to mention the fact that Biden's own Department of Justice under the extreme partisan Merrick Garland had already investtigated these charges and dismissed them. There were no charges filed against Mr. Gaetz. This ethics investigation only began when Gaetz alienated the Republican establishment by opposing McCarthy and then Johnson. But you have no way of knowing that by reading this article.
Furthermore it acts as if a committee leak would be highly unusual, but it happens all the time. The assumption here is Gaetz is guilty and it's pure politics holding this up. It may well be quite the opposite, with the report exonerating Gates. That may be why the Democrats on the committee are so reluctant to make this a hill to die on - it could well show Gaetz is just another victim of the Deep State.
Here's more:
"Plus, Speaker Mike Johnson just added pressure to keeping the report buried, telling reporters Friday morning that he doesn’t believe it should be released — a switch from a couple of days ago, when he said he wasn’t involved in the decision.
"I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set,” he said Friday."
"I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set,” he said Friday."
Uh, Speaker Johnson was the guy Gaetz tried to remove from office. He tried to stay out of this to avoid the obvious conflict of interest charges that would be made. But now he doesn't want it released. You cannot tell me it's because he wants to PROTECT Gaetz! More likely he wants a cloud hanging over the Attorney General Nominee. If Gaetz is exonerated there would be no reason to not confirm him, and from Mr. Johnson's perspective that would be a bad thing.
"And many lawmakers — including Republicans — are incensed by their belief that Gaetz resigned specifically to avoid the release of a report that is rumored to hold explosive allegations against a potential attorney general. They’re publicly pressuring the panel to share the report, though they have no power to force its release."
Gaetz resigned precisely because Trump was offering him a better job, dummies! Notice how we aren't told WHICH Republicans are incensed. We know who they are though; they are the ones who have always knifed the conservative wing of the party in the back.
TEN paragraphs into the article they finally mention the DOJ pressed no charges against Gaetz. They were hoping most people would have stopped reading by then.
The House Ethics Committee is a group with five Republicans and five Democrats, so it does not have proportional representation. And the ranking member is Democrat Susan Wild, who took over in January of 2023.
It is chaired by Michael Guest, a Republican from Mississippi, a solid Conservative.
This may not be a partisan committee but with a fifty-fifty split you can bet your bottom dollar it leans against anything smacking of MAGA, even if the chair doesn't support it.
Already we have anonymous sources claiming they saw Gaetz In flagrante delicto. How many times have we heard THAT before? Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh both come immediately to mind. The fact is IF this is true this witness sure chose an interesting time to come forward. Again, there was no charges filed after an investigation done by Biden's own DOJ. So either this woman didn't worry about a teenage girl being statutorially raped by just a Congressman but is quite concerned now. It fails the smell test. It's just like Stormy Daniels suddenly coming out with claims Trump fondled her.
I remember when Bill Clinton was credibly accused of all manner of sexual misconduct and James Carville said "drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park you never know what you'll find" when sued by Paula Jones. Yet every utterance against Republicans by every trailer park bimbo is Gospel because "women don't lie about such things". It's pretty much true - as far as Conservative women are concerned.
Democrats aren't much concerned when it is they doing the misconduct. Ashley Biden wrote in her diary that her father had sexual intercourse with her, taking naked showers with her when she was underage. This seems totally outrageous except we know and have seen videos of Mr. Biden inappropriately touching and fondling small children. Yet the Democrats didn't worry about that because "that's Joe!"
So drop the holier-than-thou posture; you guys have no problem at all with sexual misconduct provided the person doing it holds the "correct" political positions. Like Carville used to say, Bill Clinton was "the most moral man in America" not because of his personal conduct but because he was a leftist.
If you guys want a sexual armageddon I have little doubt we have plenty of targets too.
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How Nations Die
Timothy Birdnow
From the Captain Obvious files:
Democrat Governors and Congress Members Vow to Form Shadow Government
This is rather like reading the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1944. There has BEEN a shadow government all along, especially during Trump's first term.
So Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy" and yet these people are perfectly content to overturn the will of the People with a Mafia-style organization to thwart that will. Who are the insurrectionists? That they would even suggest such a thing openly shows the Democratic (sic) Party is turning into a purely Bolshevik entity.
J.B. "No Neck" Pritzker wants an entente, a coalition of Democrat-controlled states to join together to resist Trump. That is illegal, as Article 1, Sec. 10, clause 3 of the U.S. constitution makes perfectly clear.
So these clowns are advocating breaking the law, but then when did the Demo-Left worry about such things as the Constitution or the law? I mean, the Constitution has a whole amendment specifically for the rights to own firearms and the Left simply dismisses that as a suggestion as long as they allow Kamala Harris to own a gun, and perhaps losing Missouri Senatorial candidate Lucas Kunz, who accidentally shot a reporter while showing off about how big a gun nut he was. (Kunz is the poster boy for gun control, if you ask me. And Harris has no need of one; who would touch her?)
They have ALWAYS ignored the Tenth and Ninth Amendments. And the First? Fuggetaboutit! They suppressed free speech on the old Twitter, on Facebook, and that in cooperation with the government. They suppressed freedom of religion in many states during the Covid pandemic. They spied on numerous conservative (and some not so conservative) journalists and charged them with crimes and whatnot. Just ask Sharyl Atkisson for one example. They created forfeiture laws, thus violating the constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure. Currently a bunch of people are sitting in jail for extended periods or facing prosecution for exercising their right to assemble and petition for the redress of grievances.
So don't tell me these jackasses are even remotely interested in "democracy". They are interested in power and reshaping America into the moldy oldie mold of 19th century democratic socialism.
If anyone like Pritzker tries to pull this there should be a warrant issued for their arrest. Maybe we can't pluck them out of their lairs, but we can make sure they can't leave. They would do that to us. Shoot; they DID that to us, even worse - look at the raid on Mar-a-Largo where the FBI was sniffing Melania's panties!
I don't think we should use that approach; it would only turn the public from a noble cause. But we can issue arrest warrants and pick up a guy like J.B. if he tries to disembark from a plane anywhere.
One thing is certain; this is the spirit of 1860 and by the same Party. What Pritzker and the governor of Colorado are doing is essentially nullification. They seek to nullify the law because they do not agree with it. Nullification and hatred of the man who won the Presidency in 1860 led the Southern States to secede (something I believe they had a right to do) but plunged America into the nastiest war in our history and left countless Americans dead and created a wound that still has not healed. At least back then the Confederates had a point. Today the Left's point is they lust for power and we aren't giving it to them. They are vile, and they are prepared to burn it all down if they can't have it.
Naturally they refuse to just leave and make their own country. They demand it all.
This is how nations die.
From the Captain Obvious files:
Democrat Governors and Congress Members Vow to Form Shadow Government
This is rather like reading the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1944. There has BEEN a shadow government all along, especially during Trump's first term.
So Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy" and yet these people are perfectly content to overturn the will of the People with a Mafia-style organization to thwart that will. Who are the insurrectionists? That they would even suggest such a thing openly shows the Democratic (sic) Party is turning into a purely Bolshevik entity.
J.B. "No Neck" Pritzker wants an entente, a coalition of Democrat-controlled states to join together to resist Trump. That is illegal, as Article 1, Sec. 10, clause 3 of the U.S. constitution makes perfectly clear.
So these clowns are advocating breaking the law, but then when did the Demo-Left worry about such things as the Constitution or the law? I mean, the Constitution has a whole amendment specifically for the rights to own firearms and the Left simply dismisses that as a suggestion as long as they allow Kamala Harris to own a gun, and perhaps losing Missouri Senatorial candidate Lucas Kunz, who accidentally shot a reporter while showing off about how big a gun nut he was. (Kunz is the poster boy for gun control, if you ask me. And Harris has no need of one; who would touch her?)
They have ALWAYS ignored the Tenth and Ninth Amendments. And the First? Fuggetaboutit! They suppressed free speech on the old Twitter, on Facebook, and that in cooperation with the government. They suppressed freedom of religion in many states during the Covid pandemic. They spied on numerous conservative (and some not so conservative) journalists and charged them with crimes and whatnot. Just ask Sharyl Atkisson for one example. They created forfeiture laws, thus violating the constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure. Currently a bunch of people are sitting in jail for extended periods or facing prosecution for exercising their right to assemble and petition for the redress of grievances.
So don't tell me these jackasses are even remotely interested in "democracy". They are interested in power and reshaping America into the moldy oldie mold of 19th century democratic socialism.
If anyone like Pritzker tries to pull this there should be a warrant issued for their arrest. Maybe we can't pluck them out of their lairs, but we can make sure they can't leave. They would do that to us. Shoot; they DID that to us, even worse - look at the raid on Mar-a-Largo where the FBI was sniffing Melania's panties!
I don't think we should use that approach; it would only turn the public from a noble cause. But we can issue arrest warrants and pick up a guy like J.B. if he tries to disembark from a plane anywhere.
One thing is certain; this is the spirit of 1860 and by the same Party. What Pritzker and the governor of Colorado are doing is essentially nullification. They seek to nullify the law because they do not agree with it. Nullification and hatred of the man who won the Presidency in 1860 led the Southern States to secede (something I believe they had a right to do) but plunged America into the nastiest war in our history and left countless Americans dead and created a wound that still has not healed. At least back then the Confederates had a point. Today the Left's point is they lust for power and we aren't giving it to them. They are vile, and they are prepared to burn it all down if they can't have it.
Naturally they refuse to just leave and make their own country. They demand it all.
This is how nations die.
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Be More Here!
Timothy Birdnow
(In my best Lou costello voice) Hey Abbooootttt....and Desantis! Time to turn chicago into the next NYC or Martha's Vineyard.
Illinois Gov. Confirms He’ll Try to Block Trump Immigration Agenda... After Complaining About Illegals Being Bussed to His State
I suggest setting these vagrant migrants up in Hyatt hotels across northern Illinois and in Springfield. Let's see how the neckless Oliver Hardy clone with the billions of dollars likes his hotels being run by street gangs from Venezuela.
The Hyatt Hotel's branding slogan is "It's good not to be home”. Wonder if that will apply to gangsters and non-paying aliens?
Another of their slogans is "Be More Here" . Well, if you insist...
(In my best Lou costello voice) Hey Abbooootttt....and Desantis! Time to turn chicago into the next NYC or Martha's Vineyard.
Illinois Gov. Confirms He’ll Try to Block Trump Immigration Agenda... After Complaining About Illegals Being Bussed to His State
I suggest setting these vagrant migrants up in Hyatt hotels across northern Illinois and in Springfield. Let's see how the neckless Oliver Hardy clone with the billions of dollars likes his hotels being run by street gangs from Venezuela.
The Hyatt Hotel's branding slogan is "It's good not to be home”. Wonder if that will apply to gangsters and non-paying aliens?
Another of their slogans is "Be More Here" . Well, if you insist...
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Dems and the Popular Vote
Timothy Birdnow
On November 6 Donald J. Trump was up in the popular vote by over 5 million.
California Still Has 1.7 Million Uncounted Ballots From 2024 Election in Latest Reminder of Liberal Incompetence
This is not "incompetence". It serves a number of purposes. It is designed to steal down-ballot races, and take more House seats. It also is designed to run the numbers up so as to perhaps overturn the popular vote victory, or failing that to at least make it very close so they can claim Trump just squeeked by and does not have a mandate. I couldn't find the current popular vote tally but I know it has dropped significantly and with 1.7 million ballots being added at the last minute probably won't drop it below a popular win but it will make it razor-thin. I found dozens of articles on a Google search talking about how this was no landslide at all, for instance. They will use every vote they can manufacture to create the image of a close race and thus justify total resistance to the duly elected President and his program.
Chuck Schumer was saying this the other day, saying the Senate needs power-sharing because it's so close. Sadly I see John Thune pulling a Trent Lott and actually doing that!
Politics is all about perception, and with the Democrats complete control of the media and of social media and the search engines they control that perception and thus the narrative. We have to be on the offensive. I fear we are already sliding into lethargy as our side is too busy high-fiving to actually stop the Left from turning our victory into dust in our mouths.
The real work has only just begun!
On November 6 Donald J. Trump was up in the popular vote by over 5 million.
California Still Has 1.7 Million Uncounted Ballots From 2024 Election in Latest Reminder of Liberal Incompetence
This is not "incompetence". It serves a number of purposes. It is designed to steal down-ballot races, and take more House seats. It also is designed to run the numbers up so as to perhaps overturn the popular vote victory, or failing that to at least make it very close so they can claim Trump just squeeked by and does not have a mandate. I couldn't find the current popular vote tally but I know it has dropped significantly and with 1.7 million ballots being added at the last minute probably won't drop it below a popular win but it will make it razor-thin. I found dozens of articles on a Google search talking about how this was no landslide at all, for instance. They will use every vote they can manufacture to create the image of a close race and thus justify total resistance to the duly elected President and his program.
Chuck Schumer was saying this the other day, saying the Senate needs power-sharing because it's so close. Sadly I see John Thune pulling a Trent Lott and actually doing that!
Politics is all about perception, and with the Democrats complete control of the media and of social media and the search engines they control that perception and thus the narrative. We have to be on the offensive. I fear we are already sliding into lethargy as our side is too busy high-fiving to actually stop the Left from turning our victory into dust in our mouths.
The real work has only just begun!
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Trump to Appoint Review Board for Generals, Admirals
Timotthy Birdnow
A very wise policy.
Trump Assembling a "Review Board” to Investigate Our Military Generals
Why should generals have eternal appointments? These clowns can't win wars; we've lost every war we've fought with the exception of the fight against ISIS under Trump, at least since Gulf War I. If a sports coach had that kind of record he'd be long gone.
If an employee of a corporation lost the amount of money and hardware they lost in the Afghanistan withdrawel they would be fired.
But here we are with the very same people running the military after having done an atrocious job over the years. All the generals seem to care about is social engneering.
I guess fighting climate change or racial discrimination is easier than actually facng down bullets. What does that make them? We used to call them cowards.
A very wise policy.
Trump Assembling a "Review Board” to Investigate Our Military Generals
Why should generals have eternal appointments? These clowns can't win wars; we've lost every war we've fought with the exception of the fight against ISIS under Trump, at least since Gulf War I. If a sports coach had that kind of record he'd be long gone.
If an employee of a corporation lost the amount of money and hardware they lost in the Afghanistan withdrawel they would be fired.
But here we are with the very same people running the military after having done an atrocious job over the years. All the generals seem to care about is social engneering.
I guess fighting climate change or racial discrimination is easier than actually facng down bullets. What does that make them? We used to call them cowards.
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November 15, 2024
Commie Editor of Scientific American Resigns
Timothy Birdnow
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American went on a tirade, insulting much of America, on social medoa on election night and has been forced to resign.
Laura Helmuth had such choice comments as:
and
Also
This not only shows her utter disdain for the average American it also shows she is a radical who was using Scientific American as yet another tool of propaganda.
After an explosive backlash on the Sci-Am boards, she deleted all the critical messages and then posted up a ridiculous article in the magazine about dealing with "the very real" stress of Trump Derangement Syndrome Election Grief (Good Grief!)
Sci-Am claims she chose to resign (right!) but she did so only after making a spectacle of herself.
She is par for the course in our modern times - a radical activist who somehow worms her way into a position of authority and then corrupts a once venerable institution.
Helmuth (To paraphrase Rick Moranis in Spacceballs "I'll bet she gives great helmuth")has a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from UC Berkeley (is any of that a surprise - "cognitive neuroscience is pretty much a pseudoscience and what it has given us are ridiculous claims that conservatives are fearful and despotic based on junk science like the study I rebutted a few years ago) and anything from Berkeley is red and infected. She went on to U.C. Santa Cruz’s science communication program, then from there as an editor at leftist Smithsonian magazine, leftist Slate, Science magazine, and the leftist Washington Post. None of her previous employment suggests anything but a radical in a lab coat.
I'm glad she's gone but we need to be much more proactive. The Left would guarantee a right-winger would never work again and we should return the favor, seeing to it people like this are blackballed. What always happens when these radicals cross the line is they simply keep their heads low for a while then emerge with another important job, usually better than the last. Our people wither away. It's time we start holding grudges.
Now is the time to push Sci-Am to find a real editor, one who will have scientific objectivity, at a minimum. I favor Steven Milloy, for instance, or Mark Morano.
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American went on a tirade, insulting much of America, on social medoa on election night and has been forced to resign.
Laura Helmuth had such choice comments as:
"Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f–k them to the moon and back,”
and
"I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f–king fascists.”
Also
"Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist. The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself,”
This not only shows her utter disdain for the average American it also shows she is a radical who was using Scientific American as yet another tool of propaganda.
After an explosive backlash on the Sci-Am boards, she deleted all the critical messages and then posted up a ridiculous article in the magazine about dealing with "the very real" stress of Trump Derangement Syndrome Election Grief (Good Grief!)
Sci-Am claims she chose to resign (right!) but she did so only after making a spectacle of herself.
She is par for the course in our modern times - a radical activist who somehow worms her way into a position of authority and then corrupts a once venerable institution.
Helmuth (To paraphrase Rick Moranis in Spacceballs "I'll bet she gives great helmuth")has a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from UC Berkeley (is any of that a surprise - "cognitive neuroscience is pretty much a pseudoscience and what it has given us are ridiculous claims that conservatives are fearful and despotic based on junk science like the study I rebutted a few years ago) and anything from Berkeley is red and infected. She went on to U.C. Santa Cruz’s science communication program, then from there as an editor at leftist Smithsonian magazine, leftist Slate, Science magazine, and the leftist Washington Post. None of her previous employment suggests anything but a radical in a lab coat.
I'm glad she's gone but we need to be much more proactive. The Left would guarantee a right-winger would never work again and we should return the favor, seeing to it people like this are blackballed. What always happens when these radicals cross the line is they simply keep their heads low for a while then emerge with another important job, usually better than the last. Our people wither away. It's time we start holding grudges.
Now is the time to push Sci-Am to find a real editor, one who will have scientific objectivity, at a minimum. I favor Steven Milloy, for instance, or Mark Morano.
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House Fails to Pass Bill to Defund Pro-Hamas NGO"s
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
"Fears Trump could use bill to target ‘enemies’ by deeming groups ‘terrorist-supporting’ to withhold tax-exempt status"
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
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Alaska STILL Counting Voteson Ranked Choice
Timothy Birdnow
So, Ranked Choice is losing in Alaska but by a whisker as the vote continues to be counted.
Now, why is it taking so long to count the vote? The population of Alaska is a scant 733 THOUSAND souls and no doubt many of them don't vote. Yet here we are over a week out from the election and they STILL don't have them counted! Something stinks about that.
Apparently 35,000 ballots remain uncounted.
Rank Choice (pew!), er, Ranked Choice is a scheme adopted by Alaska and other states to choose people from a list where you rank your preferences. So someone who loses the total vote but wins more runner up slots can wind up in power. It is rightly seen as a tool to allow Democrats to win more offices as freqUENTLY THE RUNNER UP WILL BE A Democrat (since most of the time they are also on the ballot) and while the people who vote Republican may not be doctrinaire MAGA types but they will fill out the ballot while Democrats simply won't list a ranking.
Ranked choice also complicates the vote tabulation, as is seen right here, and allows more time for the Left to manufacture votes.
Here are some reasons why Conservatives should worry about ranked choice.
So, Ranked Choice is losing in Alaska but by a whisker as the vote continues to be counted.
Now, why is it taking so long to count the vote? The population of Alaska is a scant 733 THOUSAND souls and no doubt many of them don't vote. Yet here we are over a week out from the election and they STILL don't have them counted! Something stinks about that.
Apparently 35,000 ballots remain uncounted.
Rank Choice (pew!), er, Ranked Choice is a scheme adopted by Alaska and other states to choose people from a list where you rank your preferences. So someone who loses the total vote but wins more runner up slots can wind up in power. It is rightly seen as a tool to allow Democrats to win more offices as freqUENTLY THE RUNNER UP WILL BE A Democrat (since most of the time they are also on the ballot) and while the people who vote Republican may not be doctrinaire MAGA types but they will fill out the ballot while Democrats simply won't list a ranking.
Ranked choice also complicates the vote tabulation, as is seen right here, and allows more time for the Left to manufacture votes.
Here are some reasons why Conservatives should worry about ranked choice.
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The Pennsylvania Hustle
Timothy Birdnow
The Bucks County Commissioner who is acttively working to steal the election for Bob Casey in Pennsylvania admitted she was breaking the law by counting bad ballots and in fact was quite proud of herself for doing so.
Diane Marseglia was caught on tape admitting they were keeping ballots that did not comport with Pennsylvania law.
This should get the whole recount business stopped, but of course the courts have to rule on this evidence and they will be reluctant to do so.
Election after election Philadelphia tampers with the vote and nothing is ever done. This woman needs to be put in jail.
Hornswaggler, er, Marseglia actually endorsed Harris before the election and promised to deliver the country for her in a gross violation of ethics.
There has to be a day of accounting for these people.
The Bucks County Commissioner who is acttively working to steal the election for Bob Casey in Pennsylvania admitted she was breaking the law by counting bad ballots and in fact was quite proud of herself for doing so.
Diane Marseglia was caught on tape admitting they were keeping ballots that did not comport with Pennsylvania law.
This should get the whole recount business stopped, but of course the courts have to rule on this evidence and they will be reluctant to do so.
Election after election Philadelphia tampers with the vote and nothing is ever done. This woman needs to be put in jail.
Hornswaggler, er, Marseglia actually endorsed Harris before the election and promised to deliver the country for her in a gross violation of ethics.
There has to be a day of accounting for these people.
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American Stasi
Timothy Birdnow
The FBI, in a case of pure Stasi tactics, made a six a.m. raid on the home of the head of Polymarkets in what appears to be retribution for that company predicting a Harris loss.
CEO Shayne Coplan had his New York City home raided by the jackbooted thugs who took his computers and phone.
Why? Probably looking for contact with Donald Trump's people.
Speculation is that ostensibly this was done because Polymarkets - an offshore company - allowed U.S. citizens to bet on it's site in violation of the law. But when did this lawless regime give a flying frig about the law?
There has been no comment from the FBI or DOJ.
The point is this bears a striking resemblence to raids made against Trumpers - be it the raid on Guilliani's home, or on Roger Stone's home, or on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (where they seemed more interested in a panty raid than in actually seeking evidence for some crime). This has become a common tactic of the FBI, under the thumb of Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland.
This Newsweek Article from last year shows that many groups associated with Trump were targeted by the FBI. Also, the FBI appears to have run a purge on Conservative and Trump-supporting agents and employees.
The FBI is now more akin to the East German Stasi than to the honorable law enforcement agency we used to believe it had been.
The FBI, in a case of pure Stasi tactics, made a six a.m. raid on the home of the head of Polymarkets in what appears to be retribution for that company predicting a Harris loss.
CEO Shayne Coplan had his New York City home raided by the jackbooted thugs who took his computers and phone.
Why? Probably looking for contact with Donald Trump's people.
Speculation is that ostensibly this was done because Polymarkets - an offshore company - allowed U.S. citizens to bet on it's site in violation of the law. But when did this lawless regime give a flying frig about the law?
There has been no comment from the FBI or DOJ.
The point is this bears a striking resemblence to raids made against Trumpers - be it the raid on Guilliani's home, or on Roger Stone's home, or on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (where they seemed more interested in a panty raid than in actually seeking evidence for some crime). This has become a common tactic of the FBI, under the thumb of Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland.
This Newsweek Article from last year shows that many groups associated with Trump were targeted by the FBI. Also, the FBI appears to have run a purge on Conservative and Trump-supporting agents and employees.
The FBI is now more akin to the East German Stasi than to the honorable law enforcement agency we used to believe it had been.
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Chicago Mayor "Trump Will Deport Black People"
Timothy Birdnow
Oh for crying out loud!
Chicago Mayor Johnson labels Trump a ‘threat’ to ‘black families’ in vow to shield illegal aliens from deportation
If the U.S. didn't deport black people during the eugenics era how can this dimwit think that would happen now? This fool doesn't understand the meaning of the word CITIZEN - or legal.
Yes, blacks will be deported IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS just as will be Hispanics, whites, and Asians.
What kills me is he does know how ridiculous this is, I am sure, but thinks so little of his black constituents that he tries to pull this on them and expects them to swallow it.
We might be better off just deporting HIM.
Texas and Florida need to start loading Chicago with busloads of illegals and make Johnson explain to Chicagoans the benefits of being a sanctuary city then.
Oh for crying out loud!
Chicago Mayor Johnson labels Trump a ‘threat’ to ‘black families’ in vow to shield illegal aliens from deportation
"The president-elect, former President Trump, his threat is not just toward new arrivals and undocumented families. His threats are also against black families," he stated. "We're going to stand up and protect undocumented individuals."
If the U.S. didn't deport black people during the eugenics era how can this dimwit think that would happen now? This fool doesn't understand the meaning of the word CITIZEN - or legal.
Yes, blacks will be deported IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS just as will be Hispanics, whites, and Asians.
What kills me is he does know how ridiculous this is, I am sure, but thinks so little of his black constituents that he tries to pull this on them and expects them to swallow it.
We might be better off just deporting HIM.
Texas and Florida need to start loading Chicago with busloads of illegals and make Johnson explain to Chicagoans the benefits of being a sanctuary city then.
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Casey's Trainwreck
Timothy Birdnow
Tthe sore loser Democrats are about to try the big steal in Pennsylvania as they have triggered a recount in the Senate race lost by Bob Casey.
As is usual the Republican Dave McCormick was ahead and a sudden surge made this into a "photo finish" and now the incumbent Casey - who has refused to concede - has "found" enough votes to send this to a recount. This is par for the course with the Democrats; they cannot accept losing, especially when it's an old incombent.
The GOP will face a daunting challenge as the Pa. courts were packed by Democrats and if this is litigated (something the sore loser Casey is vowing to do) the GOP will likely lose in court. The only way they will get a fair shake, in my opinion, is if this is appealed to the Feds, who generally won't take wsuch cases as elections clearly fall within the purview of the states.
That might well steal this seat.
Tthe sore loser Democrats are about to try the big steal in Pennsylvania as they have triggered a recount in the Senate race lost by Bob Casey.
As is usual the Republican Dave McCormick was ahead and a sudden surge made this into a "photo finish" and now the incumbent Casey - who has refused to concede - has "found" enough votes to send this to a recount. This is par for the course with the Democrats; they cannot accept losing, especially when it's an old incombent.
The GOP will face a daunting challenge as the Pa. courts were packed by Democrats and if this is litigated (something the sore loser Casey is vowing to do) the GOP will likely lose in court. The only way they will get a fair shake, in my opinion, is if this is appealed to the Feds, who generally won't take wsuch cases as elections clearly fall within the purview of the states.
That might well steal this seat.
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November 14, 2024
Light Blogging
Timothy Birdnow
Light blogging today and tomorrow. I've been very busy here of late and it will give you all time to catch up with older posts.
Thanks for your patience!
Light blogging today and tomorrow. I've been very busy here of late and it will give you all time to catch up with older posts.
Thanks for your patience!
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