September 24, 2026
The Snows of Maxwell Montes
Timothy Birdnow
Like I've BEEN saying! The unique character of the Venusian atmosphere explains why it is so hot, not the carbon dioxide levels. Mars, which also has a carbon-dioxide atmosphere, is bitterly cold, colder than it should be.
Newly published research identifies convective heat transfer and the consequent lapse rate, and not radiation, CO2 concentration, or the so-called greenhouse effect, as the predominant mechanisms warming Earth from its effective radiating temperature, ~255 K, to ~288 K.
Proponents of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) narrative necessarily believe (1) CO2 is the Earth’s temperature "control knob,” (2) longwave (LW) radiation from greenhouse gases like CO2 and water vapor is what keeps the Earth’s surface ~33 K warmer than it would otherwise be in an imaginary world with no CO2 or water vapor.
This thought-experiment-based position relies on the presumption that LW radiation is the main heat transfer mechanism in the Earth’s lower atmosphere, or troposphere. It is not.
Convection, not radiation, dominates heat transfer near the surface. And convection sets the lapse rate, which means that as the density of the atmosphere falls the temperature drops 6.5°C for every km of altitude above the surface. This is why the snow-covered summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro is, for example, about -29°C colder than its base.
"The warming (from ~255 K to ~288 K) is a necessary consequence of the lapse rate, which in turn appears because of convection. Indeed, there would not be a lapse rate without convection.”
"Because the dominant mechanisms operating in the atmosphere are in several respects opposite to that of a greenhouse, the traditional label ‘greenhouse effect’ is arguably inaccurate. …
he expression ‘anti-greenhouse effect’ would be more accurate in describing the behavior of the atmosphere, namely the fact that the convection establishes a lapse rate and thereby a surface temperature above the column-mean temperature, while a greenhouse warms mainly by suppressing convection.”
Not only that, but the variations in LW radiation (attributed to variations in CO2 and water vapor) cannot explain either the lapse rate nor the temperature. Instead, it is the temperature variation that determines the variation in LW radiation, and not the other way around.
"The temperature variation full explains and predicts the variation in the LW radiation.”
"The small changes in the lapse rate cannot be attributed to changes in any component related to radiation. …
he lapse rate is invariant with respect to changes in LW radiation.”
Over the tallest mountain range on Venus, Maxwell Montes, the atmospheric pressure drops from around 92 bars to roughly 45 bars, and the temperature consequently drops about 82°C compared to the average Venus surface temperature. So convection and lapse rate, not CO2 or radiation, dominate heat transfer in the Venus atmosphere too.
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Post contains 478 words, total size 6 kb.Carbon Ratio is NOT Smoking Gun for Human EmissionsTimothy Birdnow
One of the Global Warmist's strongest arguments for the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide is the fact that lighter-carbon isotopes are what is rising in the Earth's atmosphere. If the rising carbon were from volcanic emissions, the argument goes, it would see heavier isotope - carbon 13 - in higher proportions. That the main gas rising in the atmosphere is carbon 12 rich they say "see!" and say this is the smoking gun that proves it is entirely man-made and not natural (since both wood and coal and petrochemicals are all rich in C12 and lacking in the heavier isotopes.)
Well, here are two papers that disprove that hypothesis.
This first argues rising temperatures causes greater outgasing from plants, and that is rich in c12.
August 2024
The abstract states:
The impact of certain factors on the changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations has yet to be elucidated. In particular, the impacts of sea surface temperature (SST) on the balance of CO₂ emissions and absorption in the atmosphere and the human use of fossil fuels have not been rigorously compared. In this study, the impact of each factor was examined using multivariate analysis. Publicly available data from prominent climate research and energy-related organizations were used. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed using the annual changes in atmospheric CO₂ levels for each year as the objective variable. The SST and human emissions for each year were the explanatory factors. After 1959, the model using the SST derived from NASA best represented the annual CO₂ increase (regression coefficient B = 2.406, P < 0.0002, model R² = 0.663, P < 7e-15). However, human emissions were not a determining factor in any of the regression models. Furthermore, the atmospheric CO₂ concentration predicted, using the regression equation obtained for the SST derived from UK-HADLEY centre after 1960, showed an extremely high correlation with the actual CO₂ concentration (Pearson correlation coefficient r = 0.9995, P < 3e-92). The difference was 1.45 ppm in 2022. In conclusion, this study is the first to use multiple regression analysis to demonstrate that the independent determinant of the annual increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration was SST, which showed strong predictive ability. However, human CO₂ emissions were irrelevant. This result indicates that atmospheric CO₂ has fluctuated as natural phenomenon, regardless of human activity.
Journals Sci Volume 6 Issue 1 10.3390/sci6010017Comment published on 8 October 2024, see Sci 2024, 6(4), 62.Download PDFsettingsOrder Article ReprintsOpen AccessArticleNet Isotopic Signature of Atmospheric CO2 Sources and Sinks: No Change since the Little Ice Ageby Demetris KoutsoyiannisORCIDDepartment of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechneiou 5, 157 72 Zographou, GreeceSci 2024, 6(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/sci6010017Submission received: 19 December 2023 / Revised: 23 February 2024 / Accepted: 29 February 2024 / Published: 14 March 2024(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers—Multidisciplinary Sciences 2023)Downloadkeyboard_arrow_down Browse Figures Review Reports Versions NotesAbstractRecent studies have provided evidence, based on analyses of instrumental measurements of the last seven decades, for a unidirectional, potentially causal link between temperature as the cause and carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) as the effect. In the most recent study, this finding was supported by analysing the carbon cycle and showing that the natural [CO2] changes due to temperature rise are far larger (by a factor > 3) than human emissions, while the latter are no larger than 4% of the total. Here, we provide additional support for these findings by examining the signatures of the stable carbon isotopes, 12 and 13. Examining isotopic data in four important observation sites, we show that the standard metric δ13C is consistent with an input isotopic signature that is stable over the entire period of observations (>40 years), i.e., not affected by increases in human CO2 emissions. In addition, proxy data covering the period after 1500 AD also show stable behaviour. These findings confirm the major role of the biosphere in the carbon cycle and a non-discernible signature of humans.
In fact new research shows that carbon 13 has in fact been increasing in the atmosphere along with carbon 12 and that puts the lie to the claim that there is the smoking gun, the fingerprint, the Gang Green has been so desperate to find.
Read all about it at at Climate Dispatch.
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Post contains 757 words, total size 6 kb.Club TexThis from the Federalist Papers:
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered Texas on Tuesday to air-condition every state prison by December 31, 2029.He said the heat in most lockups violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.Pitman is an Obama appointee sitting in Austin. He put that finding in a 150-page order.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice already said it will appeal. Good.Federal judges have gotten too big for their britches. They need to stay in their lane or be ignored.The Eighth Amendment was written to stop torture, not to turn a Texas prison into a hotel. A district judge does not run the Texas Legislature.Prison is supposed to be harsh and unpleasant.It is not a country club. It is not a vacation spot. A man who earned a cell did not earn central air on the taxpayer’s dime.About 108,000 Texas households have no air conditioning at all. Working people live through the same summers without a federal judge rewriting their utility bill.Nobody calls that cruel and unusual. Requiring air conditioning for prisoners is coddling them.Just over a third of TDCJ’s 104 units were fully cooled as of September 1. The rest run fans, water, and respite rooms. That is prison. That is the point.This ruling is insane. Texas should appeal it and keep appealing it.If the appeals court will not correct it, the state should treat the order the way it treats any other overreach.A judge in Austin does not get to seize the state budget and the meaning of punishment because a lawsuit landed on his desk.If a law-abiding family can sweat through August in a house without AC, a convicted inmate can sweat through it in a cell.Do you think requiring air conditioning in prison is a minimum standard or is it coddling prisoners?Source: The New York Times X account
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Post contains 322 words, total size 2 kb.September 23, 2026
We the (English) People! This from Daniel Jupp:
"The English are a mongrel people not an Aryan master race”.That’s a CONSERVATIVE speaking.Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has spent his whole life cosplaying as an 18th century aristocrat in 19th century attire.The mongrel people lie goes back to 1701 when William III (William of Orange, who had been installed by essentially an elite coup) was perturbed by people complaining that a Dutch King was surrounded by Dutch courtiers and excluding the English from senior posts in their own country.William’s response was not to include more Englishmen in his inner circle.It was to get his State supported propagandist Daniel Defoe (also of foreign extraction) to write a poem insulting the English as a ‘mongrel race’ composed of the products of centuries of rape by every invader who had ever troubled our shores.That poem was called ‘The True-Born Englishman’ and it contains every sneering lie and insulting dismissal atill used today against the ethnic English.You are not real. You are mongrels. You don’t exist. You have no right to advocate for yourselves.In other words, shut up and obey.In a way this attitude stretches back even further.The ethnic English, after all, are really the Anglo-Saxons. And in 1066 20,000 Normans conquered 2.5 million Anglo-Saxons by winning a single battle. Just 1% of the population are directly descended from those Normans. Incredibly, a thousand years later, this 1% are still the same 1% who have most of the wealth and power in the UK.So long before the self hatred in British intellectuals that Orwell spoke about (the only people whose intellectuals hate their own nation), long before mass immigration imported people who never integrated, and long before the poison of leftism endorsed these attitudes too…..the rulers of the English were used to considering the vast majority of the people they ruled inferior beings.This is why in England it has been especially easy for a ruling elite to become a leftist elite. Both the snob and the radical are instructed from birth that the ethnic English are ‘a mongrel people’-that we deserve to be ruled, that we should not be allowed to rule ourselves, that we are good for throwing into wars that others have decided on but not good for being the people who decide if we actually want such a war.Jacob Rees-Mogg has finally exposed what lies behind the aristocrat act. It turns out, the worst kind of aristocratic sneer at his own nation’s majority populace. And the great irony is, given that the Left despise him and would happily murder him, it is the same sneer that the Left turn towards those who actually are English.He is the essence of the failure of conservatism and the incredible position the ethnic English find themselves in. Not since the immediate years after the Norman Conquest and another surge of elite contempt in the State propaganda poems of 1701 have the ethnic English been viewed with such naked contempt by every one of their rulers.JRM and Andy Burnham are united on this.The role of the English is to be politically ignored, mocked and betrayed, their very existence denied, while indeed their children are treated as sex slaves in a new conquest with the indifferent and even encouraging support of the ruling class, Left or ‘Right’.
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Post contains 563 words, total size 4 kb.The Oily Bird Catches the WormTimothy Birdnow
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse makes an interesting argument that oil prices are not being driven by supply and demand but by speculators and governments and that the whole reason prices are high now is to try to influence the upcoming elections. Sundance thinks prices will drop in a spectacular way come January.
Maybe. I do know American oil companies have not tried to increase production for some baffling reason despite being in the most production-friendly period in their history as far as government is concerned. Now why do you suppose that is?
(Hint; it's because the companies fear the Democrats will get back in power and shut it all back down, and they do so because the Democrats have made it plain they intend to punish anyone who seems to work with Trump.)
Our "friends" the Saudis refused to increase production despite there being high demand right now. Why is that?
Everyone is gunning for Trump. Trump is the turd in the punchbowl of Globalism. Everyone was happy, making money, moving where they wanted the world to go. Trump came along and ruined all that. They all want him out.
So there has been a manipulation of futures and that has manipulated the price at the pump. The public doesn't understand how it works and blame Trump, the only guy who has ever tried to promote more drilling since, well, probably Reagan.
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Post contains 240 words, total size 2 kb.Come Out of BabylonTimothy Birdnow
I agree.
A big part of it was the infiltration of the universities by communists and other radical leftists who subverted science and research to the service of their ideology. But there is a systemic problem with it too.
Every academic wants to make a splash. They want a Nobel Prize, or a MacArthur award. They want to be noticed, feted, have their names in the news. You don't get that with solid research most times. If your research does not cross a line it is just one pebble on a very large beach.
So everyone in academia is pushing the envelope. The guy who studies human sexuality and says there are just two sexes will at best be ignored and possibly wind up being blackballed. The guy who says there are seventy two of them gets noticed. So a clever academic will work up a ridiculous theory and "prove" it by messaging data and using dubious statistical analysis.
And since that guy succeeded the next guy will have to go further. It reaches a point where you are just doing works of fantasy.
That's academia for you. It has reached the point where it is no longer grounded in reality.
Frederich Nietzche saw this coming. He said science would eventually fall of it's own weight because it would begin questioning it's own fundamental assumptions, that the universe is knowable, that there is a reality that cannot be dismissed, that the scientific method works, etc. Nietzche was right and we have passed that point now.
It is part of why physics has produced nothing new in decades; it has gone off the rails and is chasing the will-o-the wisps of things largely unprovable like string theory or dark matter.
And every study, no matter of ridiculous, gets trumpeted by the media as certain, a major breakthrough, unless, of curse, it supports the old way of thinking, tradition, what have you. Those studies die in darkness because nobody hears about them.
Few academics will throw away their careers by doing a study that shows the old way was right. If you are an economist you won't defend capitalism. If you are a physicist you won't dare say the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics is wrong. It would be the end of your career.
So everybody is racing for the craziest re-interpretation of everything.
And because papers have become insane, it has become impossible to do peer review. Nowadays papers are retracted as fast as they are published. There are things called paper mills, which are computer systems that generate bogus papers, often full of absolute gibberish. They always pass peer review because the reviewer does not want to admit he doesn't understand what the paper is saying. Nobody wants to be the guy to reject Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. (Nobody understood it then and few do now). So these gibberish papers get published in prestigious journals.
That is, of course, the kindest interpretation of what we are seeing in academia these days.
A big part of the problem was and remains government and NGO funding of research. Everyone wants their slice of that pie, and to do that one would logically give the government or the NGo or the Foundation what they want. We see that in the climate change issue; government wants it, Green NGO's want it, big foundations want it, Silicon valley wants it. So is it any surprise few are doing solid research to rebut the theory? The models have never worked but most papers, even those that hurt the theory, kowtow to climate change in order to keep the funding. Then the Gang Green crows about how 97 percent of scientists agree when in fact most are just afraid of losing funding, or of pissing off their bosses who are afraid of losing funding.
It's a deep-seated corruption that infests the entirety of science and academia.
And the professional organizations have all been taken over by radical leftists. My brother is a history professor and he was a member of several professional historian organizations. He has since quit them all as they have all made sharp left turns. And he has pretty much been blackballed by them; his most recent submissions to their journals have been rejected for no good reason. He's retiring soon so he doesn't care but it is still infuriating. We will have an altered history in the future as those whose task is to preserve knowledge of history are twisting the truth with revisionism.
The crazy left is advancing on all fronts and now control all institutions involving research or education.
In the end the only way to reform this is for it to collapse. The special interests are too entrenched.
And even conservative universities will eventually fall as they hire liberals for "balance" and that is like hiring smallpox to balance good health. There are liberals at Hillsdale and Ave Maria. They hire them because they have this idea that academia needs "balance" and that they have to succumb tot he spirit of the age. But liberals are like a disease and if you let them in they will quickly overrun your antibodies. Get just one of them in the chairmanship of a university department and she'll hire all leftists to fill any vacancies.
My brother discusses that. He taught at McKendree College in Illinois for some time. They wouldn't give him a tenure track position because they said they needed "diversity" and they wanted a woman. Hired a woman to be department chair. My brother left (and they lied about his credentials to justify not hiring him - he saw their file) Now there is not one single man in the department. Not one. Yeah; that's "diversity"!
Leftists operate that way; they are all for diversity until they are not. Traditional thinkers need not apply!
So we have all of the universities now completely controlled by the Progressive Left and there is no alternate views allowed (which is true diversity). That means no papers will be submitted that do not comport with the leftist worldview being foisted off on everyone. In academia it's publish or perish and you can't publish if you will lose your job. So the few conservatives who are left have to tiptoe around, hoping some innocuous paper makes it past peer review into journals without promoting radicalism too much.
Nobody who worked for years to get their doctoral degrees is going to risk that.
We need to completely eliminate the universities. We have the tools now; there are online universities, and trade schools. But they lack the prestige and they lack the social life, the college experience. We need to find a way to make these alternatives more viable in both regards. The only way for us to succeed is to come out of Babylon.
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Post contains 1151 words, total size 8 kb.Memories, all Alone in the MoonlightTimothy Birdnow
I get this; I remember very little from my youth.
In my case it's not just my childhood but my youth; my friends will talk about stuff we did and I will draw a complete blank. Most of the time in fact. But I remember things I read from when I was nine. Go figure.
Medical science has been trying for some time to perfect memory erasing techniques to use on those who have suffered terrible trauma - being raped or seeing a loved one murdered or whatnot. But they can, at best, nuke the memory and not erase targeted parts of it. Should we learn enough about how childhood memories are erased we may be able to simply erase targeted memories.
But we are the sum of our memories; it's the core of our identity. Do we have a right to erase memories, even if they are bad? God gave us those experiences for our ultimate good, even though we suffer from them. Destroying memories is rather like targeted suicide.
And if we can erase key memories, can we not then control minds by eliminating important memories that shape how we think? The next step would be implanting memories.
I am mindful of an original series Star Trek where the administrator of a hospital for the insane uses a machine to erase memories and implant false ones. He uses it on Kirk. Eventually the villain winds up in his own chair and is emptied out by the machine as it erases everything from his mind.
There are serious ethical questions involved in this. But I can see why some people would want to be able to forget some horrible tragedy.
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Post contains 295 words, total size 2 kb.Alaska Drunk on PowerTimothy Birdnow
I'll bet if he was flying marijuana in he would have been fine.
FTA:
The case dates to 2012, when longtime Alaska charter pilot Ken Jouppi agreed to fly a passenger from Fairbanks to Beaver, where alcohol was prohibited. The passenger had 72 cans of beer in her luggage. Most were boxed, but a six-pack was visible in a grocery bag.
Troopers found the alcohol before takeoff. Jouppi was convicted of a misdemeanor after a court determined he had been willfully blind to the beer. He received three days in jail and a $1,500 fine, but Alaska law also required forfeiture of his airplane, worth about $95,000.
Just for flying BEER into a dry county!
America tried prohibition and found it did no good for society. It just increased crime (and for that matter drinking; my grandfather, who drank little, made moonshine during that period) and it did little to prevent alcoholism. You can always make booze in your own home to drink.
The really ridiculous thing is that the state supreme court upheld the judgment. Their reasoning is that the state has a compelling interest in controlling drinking by residents, who literally have nothing to do in their lives during the winter months. The justices on the court apparently do not see this as excessive. It most certainly fits "cruel and unusual punishment", especially the loss of the beer!
This is the kind of thing that leads people to go postal and shoot up a court or whatnot. Juppi was not just wronged - he was abused something awful by the state of Alaska.
Alaska should be a deep red state. The people there pride themselves on being independent and self-reliant. But it's purple at best and the government is quick to send people to jail. Oh, and it is socialistic too; they give dividend checks for oil sales to the residents (the dad and son on the t.v. show Bush People went to prison for taking the dividend while living half-time in the lower 48). I did not know they had dry counties. That suggests a nanny-state attitude in the state that treats people like children. If a guy wants a drink it's his business; if he drives drunk or whatnot then it becomes the states. Otherwise the state should bugger off.
No wonder Alaska has foisted off Lisa Murkowski on America.
Seems to me this is fertile ground for organized crime. I wonder if Alaska has it's own version of the Dixie Mafia?
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Post contains 423 words, total size 3 kb.Canada Murders GrandmotherTimothy Birdnow
Canada just murdered an unwilling elderly woman who cried and begged them not to inject her in exercising their new assisted suicide law.
The poor woman was confused when they asked her about it and then when she understood what she had agreed to she tried to stop it but they went forward with it anyway.
That's what happens when you make yourself judge, jury, and executioner.
Funny; if a normal citizen were to kill a criminal, say, a person who murdered your wife, he would go to jail for vigilantism. But medical authorities can do it in Canada and it's just tough luck old gal!
Frankly, were I her daughter (who is quoted in this article) I may decide on some vigilante action myself with this. I'm sure the Mafia operates in Canada.
At any rate this is a horrible thing but it was entirely predictable. This was, in fact, predicted by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, a society that values human life only insofar as how it contributes to society. Once someone stops tangibly contributing aka working it's time to simply eliminate them. The plastic paradise of Huxley is exactly what the Left has long wanted and now they are getting it in Canada.
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Post contains 212 words, total size 2 kb.Former Fox Host and Producer Commits SuicideTimothy Birdnow
A Fox reporter and rising star was found dead of suicide.
The 33 year old woman, Jennifer Eckhart, was found dead in her bathtub by her mother, having killed herself with a knife.
This is a sad situation. Eckhart had accused a Fox host - Ed Henry - of forcibly raping her in 2017, leading to Henry bein ing fired by Fox (and moving to Newsmax). Eckhart did not file criminal charges but did bring a lawsuit, which was settled one day before going to trial.
So what led to Eckhart committing suicide? Was it depression from being raped (a horrible, tragic experience) or was it a guilty conscience for falsely accusing an innocent man? I do not know the circumstances of the case and since it was settled we never will. I rather doubt a woman who settles with a rapist, especially a reporter who is used to public attention. I would think she would want more than just money for her troubles (taking money for being raped makes would feel like prostitution, would it not? She should have wanted jail time for him.)
Eckhart, who left Fox for podcasting, had filed a suit against her former employer, claiming they knew what Henry was doing. It had just been dismissed by a federal court as having been unproven.
I don't know what to think about this case but I do know that what Eckhart did was a terrible thing. Suicide is a form of violence that destroys other people. This woman had at least a mother who loved her and probably others. And what does it accomplish? She didn't hurt Henry, the man she blamed for ruining her life, nor Fox News. It only hurts her family and friends. And the most tragic thing of all is it means eternal damnation; suicides do not go to Heaven. It's a tough rule but the Bible is quite clear on the subject - thou shalt not murder. And people who have had near death experiences via suicide speak of being in a very sad, depressing place with others who looked haunted and were uncommunicative. It's clear there is a pretty severe penalty for suicide.
That said, some people are driven to it by suffering beyond what they can stand. One assumes God knew He was pushing them too far and will excuse the act. But that will not always be the case.
At any rate this is very sad and our prayers should be with the family and with thee woman too. Suicide tears a huge hole in everyone who is associated with the suicide.
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Post contains 444 words, total size 3 kb.El Sayed Wants to Tobacco American OilTimothy Birdnow
How about he go suck on a tailpipe then.
I'm always hearing variations of this from the Gang Green, the global warming hysterics, who equate "Big Oil" with the cigarette companies.
The fact is the cigarette companies got a raw deal; they were selling a legal product and nobody ever tried to make them illegal, just tried to strangle them through the backdoor, through taxation and other means. The public used to smoke and enjoyed smoking.
What terrible things did Big Tobacco do? They increased the nicotine in cigarettes - something their customers WANTED. People used to hate European cigarettes because they had lower nicotine levels.
Did the tobacco companies hide the dangers of smoking? Maybe, but one can hardly expect them to advertise with "smoking causes cancer" after all. It was a legal product and control of smoking was up to the authorities. Tobacco companies owed a fiduciary duty to their shareholders; public health was not their responsibility. A kitchen knife can be misused too.
When I was a child, I mean six or so, my mother would give me five dollars "go up to Gasens and get me a pack of Camels" and I would walk up there and tell the clerk who would pull them down and hand them over to me. In those days we did not control every aspect of life. Now the clerk would go to jail for doing that. That is how far America has fallen from a free society. When a kid can't buy cigarettes...
America has become a nanny state, where the "best and brightest" tell everyone else how to live. There used to be a term for that "Noblesse Oblige" also sometimes called the White Man's Burden (in he colonial era) It was the presumption of superiority by the aristocracy over the "benighted" lower classes. Very Medieval. It was soundly rejected by the Enlightenment thinkers and especially the Founding Fathers who believed in the wisdom of masses. But it never died and it reigns supreme in the Western World these days, the concept that the elites are, by their very nature, smarter and wiser than we and should rule. If they decree something bad then the masses must be made to do without.
At any rate the Gang Green has tried to use the tobacco model on oil and is using the same lawfare tactics that took out tobacco. (BTW my brother lives in Kentucky which has a lot of wineries now, almost all of them planted on former tobacco farms.) They are picking the target, freezing it, personalizing it, and polarizing it. This is just one example.
But there had always been a dislike for tobacco in America and it tapped into a deep-seated disapproval of the product. The old puritanical Protestants thought it frivolous and decadent. Oil is a whole different thing; it's the very heart of our technology and the only way we can get around by and large. Nobody has wood-fired steam engines anymore, after all.
Also, the public is losing faith in global warming as the spectacular predictions made by the warmiacs have no panned out.
So El Sayed can go huff on a tailpipe and do America a favor. He is telegraphing what he will do if elected; he'll go after the lifeblood of the American economy because, like, climate and stuff.
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Post contains 575 words, total size 4 kb.AffordabilityTimothy Birdnow
The poverty rate was cut in half since Trump took office.
If "affordability" is the key to the current election seems Mr. Trump should do pretty well. Half of poor Americans are no longer poor. That's what I call affordability.
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Delivered what exactly? Vacation time mostly.
Oh, wait; they DID pass a college sports bill. We all know how that was high on the priority list of every Amerrican.
Thune led what was the epitome of a do-nothing Senate. He kept senind his people on vacation without passing key legislation, most notably the SAVE America Act. He said he didn't have the votes. Fine; no votes no vacation. That is how you whip. It's Thune's job to GET the votes. But he did nothing to push any of his caucus.
From the Gateway Pundit:
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) tried to take a victory lap Tuesday night. The grassroots took the lap away from him.
Thune posted a slick message claiming Republicans have spent the last two years delivering "more money in your pocket,” "safer streets,” and "more opportunities to get ahead,” while Democrats opposed the agenda "at every turn.”
The numbers tell the story. As of Wednesday morning the tweet had about 1,400 likes and more than 10,500 replies. That is not engagement. That is a public flogging.
Then came the Community Note.
X users attached a note that read:
The 119th Congress was the least productive in history — No Congress has enacted less legislation or laws. Johnson has cancelled a total 63 scheduled voting days in the House, granting members an extra 2 months PTO, with no House votes scheduled until after the election.
It zeroed in on Johnson because the House at least has tried to deal with the issues, passing the SAVE America Act and other legislation. By virtue of having more members the House is more difficult to move than the Senate, which is a more manageable caucus.
Thune has done virtually nothing as Majority Leader. That shouldn't surprise us; he was McConnell' protege' and McConnell hated Trump and obstructed Trump's agenda when he was Majority Leader. Thune has done likewise.
IF the GOP loses either or both houses of Congress it will be precisely this reason; Nero fiddling while Rome is burning. America elected Trump because we know the country is in trouble, that it was going the wrong way, and we wanted laws passed to restore her. What we get from Thune and company is just more of the same stuff; they are unwilling to do the work of America. Maybe we should replace THEM with illegal aliens, to do the work Congress Just Won't Do?
And everything Thune crowed about here had nothing to do with the Senate; it was all Trump acting alone.
John Thune is just an Establishment Republican who wants to return to the status quo where the two parties sail in the same direction and enjoy the good life without having to work hard while America declines. We voted against that in '24.
The GOP does not deserve power. Sadly the only replacement for them is worse.
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Post contains 504 words, total size 4 kb.Fox Hunt Timothy Birdnow
This from Sebastian Gorka on X:
Keep you eye on those special moments when people and organizations reveal themselves for who they truly are. In the last 48 hours both @JacquiHeinrich and @FoxNews have exposed themselves as fully paid up members of the Establishment. Instead of standing on principle against the propagandists who have lied to the American people about everything from RussiaGate, COVID, illegal immigration, election integrity and Biden’s cognitive impairment, they decided to circle the wagons against the most accountable and transparent President in our Republic’s 250 years, @realDonaldTrump. Do not forget what you have witnessed.
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This is over Fox joining with the Corporate Media to protest Trump kicking CNN and others out of the White House briefings.
I get it; the Corporate Media helped Fox get back into them during the Obama era but I've argued Fox is moving leftward and this is evidence of it. They hate Trump too, just not as much as does the other guys. Fox is full of Bush people, the Establishment Republicans like Karl Rove. And Rupert Murdoch himself, while being conservative, has always been Establishment conservative. Oh, and his children are mostly liberals who have vowed to turn Fox "mainstream" meaning into another liberal outlet.
Gorka is right to chastise them.
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Post contains 220 words, total size 3 kb.Pennsylvania Goes All Medical GestapoTimothy BIrdnow
Pennsylvania Republics are warning about a new Department of Health scheme that would allow health officials to enter people's homes without a warrant.
From the article:
You can review the proposed regulations for yourself, but here are some of the most concerning parts:
Expanding the authority of the Department of Health and local health agencies to enter any home, school, apartment, healthcare facility or other building without a warrant. (See p. 66, p. 208-209.)Giving the Department of Health the power to speak to a student in private without the consent or knowledge of a parent, and making it illegal for anyone to "interfere.” (See p. 66-67, p. 211.)Giving the Department of Health greater authority to access a private citizen’s health records. (See p. 67, p. 192.)Requiring healthcare providers to input every vaccination into a mandatory statewide government database. (See p. 60-61, p. 199-200.)Allowing the Department of Health to unilaterally issue statewide mask mandates and other disease mitigation measures. (See p. 65, p. 206-207.)
This is what they wanted to do during Covid, and hoped to make it a permanent thing. It's backdooring governmental power to circumvent the Constitution.
This should disqualify Josh Shapiro from any higher Federal office.
Notice the provision about talking to minor children behind the parent's back;; that is so they can trans the kids without the parents knowing or consent.
This is medical tyranny and the People of Pennsylvania need to rise up against this. If anything should cause a blue wave in the Commonwealth it should be this.
Josh Shapiro shows himself to be the same authoritarian leftist as the rest of the Democratic Party. He needs to go. The only sane Democrat is the guy who had a brain tumor removed (John Fetterman, also from Pennsylvania). I think the rest of them need brain surgery as well.
So Shapiro, who is Jewish, is happy with Brownshirts storming people's homes or transing their children. What are they going to do if anyone resists? Put them in camps? Pennsylvania has a castle doctrine, so how is the homeowner going to know it really is a health official and not a robber? Or maybe they'll just shoot the poor citizen. Yavol!
We ought to win big in Pa. if the public is made aware of this. Naturally the media will try to keep this quiet. We need to shout it from the rooftops.
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Post contains 407 words, total size 3 kb.Pritzker Living Off the Fat of the LandTimothy Birdnow
If Pritzker is on it the state will surely go bankrupt.
The Rotund J.B., Governor of the great Sleaze State of Illinois, said he has lost eighty pounds on the weight loss drug GLP-1 after being diagnosed with Type II Diabetes.
That's rather like pulling water out of the ocean one bucket at a time but good for him for trying.
He says he was overweight since he was seven or eight and I sympathize, having been overweight since I was three or four. I lost most of it in my teens bt it crept back over the years. Like Pritzker I have Type II Diabetes, among other halth issues relate to weight.
So if I make sport of him I have the right to do so. As he would of me.
Problem is, the bovine socialist plutocrat got his drugs via taxpayer dollars.
I don't use this drug or any of the others for weight loss precisely because my Obamacare plan does not cover it. I can't afford to buy it on my own either, unlike the billionaire Pritzker.
He also walks four miles a day, something his money and his job as Governor allows him to do.
I will admit the photo of him looks good; he almost has a neck in that picture.
Donald Trump accepts one dollar for payment to be President of the United States, donating the rest of his pay to charity. Pritzker should do likewise. But he'll attack Mr. Trump while getting skinny at taxpayer expense. Typical socialist.
I'm glad he's losing weight, but he should do it on his own dime. He has a LOT of them, after all.
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Post contains 301 words, total size 2 kb./Where are All the Hurricanes: Global Warming Hot AirTimthy Birdnow
Three months of hurricane season is now under our belts and there has yet to be a single hurricane in the Atlantic.
They told us global warming would cause more and stronger hurricanes and tornadoes and storms in general. Funny that the hurricanes have disappeared. We've looked all over - under the bed, in the couch cushions, etc.
Seems to me this completely upends the alarmist climate models.
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Post contains 90 words, total size 1 kb.September 22, 2026
Should Women Sit on Juries?Dana Mathewson
Lately it's difficult to tell! This is a thought-provoking article by an experienced female lawyer.
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Post contains 30 words, total size 1 kb.Driven Mad by feminismTimothy Birdnow
Yep - women (especially white women) be crazy.
According to this article a whopping 20% of women are on anti-depressants.
We know white women are a huge part of our political problem in this country and in fact in the world. They vote crazily, and in fact think crazily. Maybe it's the SSRI's making them so nuts?
Depression is anger turned inward. So what are white women so angry about?
They got what they wanted. They wanted to be free of sexual stereotypes and they got that. They now have big jobs, often as CEO's or Senators or whatnot. They wanted that and got it. They wanted "control over their own bodies" by being able to have sex without consequence and to abort babies conceived when the contraceptives failed and they got that. They wanted to "have it all" - a career and a family - and they got it. They wanted to be educated and they now make up a vast majority of the universities. They wanted to be treated like men and they got it. They wanted to be able to walk around dressed any way they wanted, including half naked, and they got it.
So why are they so unhappy? They got almost everything they wanted. The feminists promised them paradise and paradise is what they now have.
Could it be they feel spiritually empty? That what they wanted did not satisfy them? That the plastic paradise turned out to have a snake in the garden?
Men, who have far less to be happy about these days, aren't abusing these kinds of narcotics they way women are. White males life expectancy is the only one declining in America. White males are not getting into colleges. White males are finding it increasingly difficult to find a decent woman who is not a total rag. White guys get beat up for wearing MAGA hats. White males are insulted on a daily basis, called toxic and treated like lepers. But they use far less antidepressants than do women.
Feminism was a trap, a lie that seduced millions of women. They act tough and pretend but in the end God made them women and that means they WANT what their parents or grandparents had - a world where men and women are different and it is no shame to be a feminine woman, a stay at home mom, a good, loving wife to a faithful husband. They rejected all that and the cost is terrible. And even now they won't admit what the problem is because they bought into this as an article of faith, as a religion, and to admit it was a mistake would be to destroy their entire worldview. So they double down on the cause of their misery. And blame men for their own mutilated emotions.
That is why White women be crazy; they drove themselves mad through feminism.Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 11:52 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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