April 11, 2024
A senior NPR editor just blasted his own network for left-wing bias.
He's been with them for years and is still with them. But he's forced to do this becausehe realizes they have lost all credibility.
It's BAD when one of their own has to admit they are no better than Pravda was.
I a scathing rebuke of the "groupthink" of NPR journalists, Senior Editor Uri Berliner warned that they had lost the public trust. He showed that statistically a huge majority of NPR writers and editors were registered Democrats and wrote their news with that bias. As if we didn't already know.
I had my 15 minutes of fame when I wrote about PBS altering a transcript of an Obama gaffe years ago; got allsorts of attention both from conservatives and from the Left, who were desperate to defend their guy. They twisted and squirmed to deny what had happened. PBS put a notification after the fact saying "as prepared" but that's not how it was shown in the morning. They tried to claim it was just carelessness on their part. Strange how such carelessness never seems to hurt Democrats.
But it's gotten much worse since then. Bad enough that the radio equivalent of PBS has to have a senior editor call them out.
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Hell has reclaimed one of it's own.
OJ Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76
The Juice is a deuce.
Yes, the former football star and acquitted murderer has run his last yard, driven his last mile in a slow speed chase, is now food for worms.
At this stage few will miss him I suspect.
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So the wife and I planned a trip to see the eclipse (we saw it back in '17 but wanted to catch it again) and there was no room at the inn - or any inn. We started trying to plan this thing eight months ago and were at the point of giving up when a motel down in the little town of Pilot Knob (where there had been a big Civil War battle long ago) and this was in the zone of totality so we loaded up the truck and we moved to Pilot Knob (kind of a reverse of the Beverly Hillbillies.)
I had wanted to go to my cabin, which was in the totality zone and in fact in the best part of it. But it's still a mess and without power or water my poor wife, who is disabled, simply would have to stay home.
So a motel in the beautiful Arcadia valley had to suffice.
My plan was to drive down to Van Buren, in the sweet spot, then drive back up to the motel (about an hour away). It didn't pan out that way.
Everybody in America decided to go there too.
I eschewed the interstate because of reports of traffic snarls but it did me no good. We rode the broke the entire way, rarely getting above 35 mph and stopping frequently. It should only have taken two hours but it wound up taking five. At one point I had to stop to use the bathroom and there were eight other road warriors - obviously more folks from St. Louis - waiting to go. This in a little one horse town by the roadside.
It soon became obvious my plan of going to Van Buren wasn't going to fly. Frankly, I wished I could fly myself before long. My legs were cramping from the endless gas to brake to gas cycle. My eyes felt like boiled onions which had been left on way too long from watching the taillights ahead coming on and going off in an endless cycle.
After hours of driving we came to the quaint little French town of Caledonia (one of the oldest towns in Missouri) and it looked like the battlefield at Fort Davidson I mentioned earlier at the peak of combat; people EVERYWHERE! I pressed on, hoping to get to our motel before the event began; time was growing short.
We didn't make it; we reached Elephant Rocks state park and the cops had the parking lot closed. It looked like the Biblical description of Armageddon, with every people, race, and tongue being present. But there had been a patch of roadside available facing north so I turned around and grabbed that. Got out the lawn chairs and Cath and I were just in time for the big show.
It was quite inspirational. I can see how ancient peoples would think it some sort of angry display from whatever gods they worshipped.
I made the mistake of taking off my glasses thinking we'd hit totality and one amazing starburst ray was visible (and unfortunately hit my battered eyeballs for a moment before I could tear them away.) Then it was as if someone used a dimmer switch and turned the light off.
Truly an amazing sight!
As soon as it was over everyone got in their cars and left without ceremony. We turned around and drove into Pilot Knob (the opposite direction from the crowd) without incident, and settled into our motel room.
This little country motel was jammed full and we tried to get food from the restaurant on site. They were running out of EVERYTHING. No salad, many of the other things out as well. We took the food we were able to get back to our room and ate it there.
The rest of the trip was rather disappointing. We explored a bit but found nothing really to do the next day. It was raining non-stop the whole time. I was looking for a winery that was supposed to be somewhere around there but never did find it.
The bad thing is we were fairly far away from our room and I developed double vision. I had to drive that way! It always looked like there were two cars coming and one was passing the other in my lane. I'd describe how it feels for you but I think you have an idea; like riding a rollercoaster that might fly off the rails at any moment.
I don't know if the double vision was caused by fatigue (I had pushed them very hard) or the momentary sunlight but whatever it was it mainly troubled me on the road. Went away once I got out of the car for a while.
So we spent the rest of our second day watching television and listening to the rain and waiting for my double vision to subside.
I also had not one but four blood sugar crashes in those two days. I'm diabetic and take insulin and it's a fairly dangerous thing to crash like that. I kept drinking Dr. Pepper (which was available from the soda machine by our room) and I would come back but go down again. Spent the whole trip eating sugar I didn't want.
Next morning I awoke and my back was out too. I've gotten used to sleeping in an easy chair and a bed is just too flat. This one was too soft too. I was hunched over worse than Quasimodo, in the shape of a question mark.
So we spent the morning packing and waiting for my double vision to clear and my back to unwind itself and hoping my glucose levels didn't tank.
The drive home was also rather perilous; it was raining, mostly a heavy soaking rain, and at one point we hit a fog bank that was thicker than the current POTUS. I needed a fog horn! Fortunately for me I had been getting lots of practice driving without that pesky sense of vision the last few days! Cathy sat silently next to me, reciting the Rosary in mortal fear. But we made it home alive, so what the heck!
I'm glad we did this even if it was a brutal trip. I sincerely doubt we'll be alive for the next eclipse.
But it illustrated to me the fact that that SOB Old Man Time is catching up with us. It's sad to admit it but I fear we aren't much able to do these kinds of things any longer.
At least my vision has returned to normal. And I slept quite well last night in my Lazyboy.
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WOW.
Scientific fact: Life begins at conception. Every newly conceived child is unique, has unique DNA, and is made in the image of God.
However, I am presuming a less scientific motivation. I think they probably ruled this way to mobilize the very committed and fanatic pro-abortion crowd to turn out in the upcoming election and vote against all republicans in a swing state barely won by Biden with less than 0.5% of the vote. And where many "irregularities" occurred.
Arizona Supreme Court Reinstates Civil War-Era Abortion Ban
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April 07, 2024
Skyrocketing Voter Registration via Soc. Sec. Numbers in 3 Swing States is 'Extremely Concerning'.
Skyrocketing Voter Registration via Soc. Sec. Numbers in 3 Swing States is 'Extremely Concerning' - The Lid
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THREE DIFFERENT BRIDGES ALL ON THE SAME DAY. Hmmmm.......thoughts?
Valleyview Bridge-Ohio
Indian River Bridge-Delaware
Baltimore Bridge-MD
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So, the official food for the eclipse must be moonpies.
And you wash that down with some moonshine, I suppose.
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This is about the eclipse:
I’ve read that the cooling effects suppress upward convection so the clouds clear. More than that the lunatics are out there, openly admitting that they’re using the eclipse to gather information on "solar radiation management”, aka geoengineering.
Low-Level Clouds Disappear During a Total Solar Eclipse
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The internet is FOREVER. And the mainstream media doesn't seem to want to highlight or expose the truth. So let's do it for them.
2021 - If inflation happens, it will be very small and temporary.
2023 - I take no blame for inflation, it was already here when I got into office.
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"If Abraham Lincoln had lived Mr. Davis would never have been captured. This fact is well known, and is made apparent in the memoirs of Grant, Sherman and others.”
In his book on Lincoln a very significant paragraph is published by Col. A. K. McClure, as follows:
"He [Lincoln] intimated to Sherman very broadly that he desired Jefferson Davis to escape from the country. Sherman in his memoirs repeats a story told by Lincoln to him illustrative of his wish that Davis should escape 'unbeknownst to him,' and, discussing the same subject in the white house in the presence of Gov. Curtin, Col. Forney, several others and myself, he told the same story to illustrate the same point, obviously intending to convey very clearly his wish that the southern leaders should escape from the land and save him the grave complications which must follow their arrest.
Secretary Welles, in an article in the Galaxy, quotes Lincoln as saying on this subject: 'No one need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country; open the gates; let down the bars, scare them off.... "
The Bouttineau Courant
Bottineau, N. Dak.
July 9, 1898
Lincoln knew that if Davis were caught he would have to be hanged, and the outrage that would spawn would lead to renewed hostilities. The war would switch from standing armies to guerrilla warfare and would burn on and on for decades.
Robert E. Lee had forbade such tactics near the end and Grant wisely treated Lee's army fairly when he accepted the surrender. Had mass executions been done the South would have turned to terrorism and it wouldn't have stopped.
And the South already had great guerrilla fighters; Quantril, Bloody Bill Anderson, Nathan Beford Forrest, etc. These guys could live off the land and resupply from angry locals. And you had Joe Selby down in Mexico trying to prepare for a renewed push. He could have coordinated with the guerrilla bands. Lee's forces weren't the only troops in the Confederacy. There were plenty who hadn't surrendered and could fight on. I think Lincoln knew this (and so did Grant).
If they started shooting or hanging Confederate leaders it wouldn't take long for the will to resist to return. Look at how long the fighting went on in Northern Ireland if you want a model of how this could have played out.
Booth and his co-conspirators
So Lincoln had every reason to offer an olive branch after having destroyed the South. It was like the Mafia protecting your business after firebombing it to make you pay protection, but that certainly is a pragmatic solution. You can only push so far.
The Communists and the Ruling Class in today's America may learn that sooner rather than later. At some point Americans may turn to guerrilla warfare to resist the octopodal government and it's state-sponsored terrorism against Middle America.
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I posted this in 2018. Things have changed for the worse since then!
It is a wonderful time to be a conservative in America.
It has been a long time since we have had a President that actually practiced what he preached.
We have not seen capitalism being practiced since Ronald Reagan, and President Trump is showing the world how effective Capitalism is when Practiced.
Venezuela is showing the world how effective Socialism is when practiced as well.
It is a contrast that should be used as a teaching moment. I hope you will hear my story.
I have been blessed to work for our government with the DOS and DOD in the USSR, and Iraq. This gave me an opportunity to see how our government works or doesn't work first hand.
Too many people in our government are trying to tell us how we should live and how we should be governed, without having any life experience.
I worked in the USSR and former Soviet Republic countries for more than six years and in Iraq for three years. I have seen first hand the fallout on a society when there is an all controlling government, and how if our Government is not held accountable to spending and the corruption of Power. We will all become slaves to Government and we will also be bankrupt.
I was shocked and unprepared for what I experienced when I first moved to the USSR. At first glance I thought, How could this be the country we feared? The entire society spent large portions of their days trying to find food and basic necessities. Their Government promised to supply every need to live a happy life.
I could not believe how run down the buildings were and how primitive the autos, machines, equipment and products were. I could not believe the shortages of food and goods in the stores. I lived in the center of Soviet Power, the city of Moscow where things were better than in the cities outside of the center.
I traveled to every corner of the USSR and the further from the center the harsher the conditions.
After a few months, I met a Soviet Army Captain , Sergi. He was a linguist and wanted to practice his English. He asked me what I thought of his great country. I explained to him that I thought it was a third world country with nuclear weapons.
He was offended at first, but it lead to a wonderful debate and friendship that lasted years. That first day he asked me why I thought the great Soviet Union was poor.
I explained that the standard of living I found in Moscow was lower than the standard of living in India. I asked him if he thought India was a third world country. He agreed it was. I told him that I had just returned from New Delhi and while I was there I went into a restaurant. I sat down and ordered from a menu, I ordered and ate my dinner, then paid for my food and left.
I asked him, where in Moscow could I do that?
He replied that these were difficult times, but they would get better.
Then I said, after I ate I went to a store to buy shoes. I tried on my size, paid for the shoes and left.
I asked him, where could I do that in Moscow?
He wanted to know why I said I bought shoes.
I said I actually needed shoes and bought some Nike running shoes while I was there.
He told me he had spent most of that day in line at a store to buy shoes.
Four hours to get to the counter to try them on, then the clerk gave him a receipt to pay the cashier. 45 minutes in that line at the cashier.
When he returned to the counter with the paid receipt, the store no longer had his size. He had to take a smaller size and go outside to sell someone in line the smaller shoes to get his money back.
I proclaimed to him, This is the Truth about Socialism, you are a third world country with nuclear weapons.
3 years later the USSR was gone and the Soviet TV and News Programs began to open the eyes of the Soviet people to the lies and propaganda that had held them in bondage their entire lives.
We today have the same propaganda being used on us to push us toward a third world style of government.
I also saw how wasteful our government was. I learned that if it is not your money, you will not care how it is spent and if you can benefit from someone else money. You will soon take advantage of it and become corrupt.
Here is just one of my examples and there are too many examples to talk about.
When I first got to the Embassy. I needed to find transportation because I lived seven miles from the Embassy. Someone told me to go to the Embassy's surplus silent auction.
The Embassy sells off autos, furniture, food and goods that are outdated or no longer useful. They invite the diplomats from western counties to our parking garage where they can bid on our supposed junk. The furniture is two years old and the top of the line because nothing is too good for our Embassy staff. The diplomats pay pennies on the dollar for basically new stuff. So while I was entering the garage I noticed a Chevy Suburban 4x4 with a full snow plow package for sale. There was a small sticker in the window that said place a cash only bid. The truck had 17 000 miles on it and it was two years old. It had a stick shift and no one at the Embassy liked driving the stick shift so they ordered an automatic to replace it.
It could not be replaced until the old one was sold first, so they put it in the silent auction. I only just arrived in Moscow and only had $500 cash with me and it was a cash bid only. So as a joke I placed a $500 bid. The staff called me at the end of the day and told me to come pick up the keys to my vehicle. After 4 years of hard driving and an additional 100 000 miles on the truck. I sold it for $35 000 CASH. The Embassy could have sold it for much more than that but it was not their money, so they did not care!
The moral of the story is we can do better. When we vote, we need to vote people into office who will run our government like it were their own business.
Be careful what you watch and what you listen to for News and Information, because the Democrats/
They will do anything, say anything and enslave you to take control of power.
In the days ahead you will witness how they work. They do things in the
dark, they cover up, manufacture a false crisis and fill your heads
full of lies.
They will do all they can to destroy our President
Trump, destroy our Economy and our Nation if they have to keep
themselves in power.
We must vote in people who will be
accountable to individuals liberty, that promote self reliance and they
must be accountable with our tax dollars.
We need to find a way to make our elected officials live by the rules they prescribe for us to live by.
I think term limits and tort reforms are essential to our Constitutional Republics Survival!
Now Support our Country and Defend of Constitution!
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When enviro-terroris
GREY hydrogen is all smoke-and-mirro
CH4 + H2O (steam) —> CO2 + 3H2
This process is net endothermic (requires heat input to boil water to produce the steam).
The blunt truth is that the CO2 is just emitted but the oil companies are doing this for transferable tax credits and good PR. They claim that they need to keep working on the carbon capture magic while your tax dollars build out the distribution infrastructure for Hydrogen.
ELECTROLYSIS of water, splitting it into Hydrogen and Oxygen with power supplied from such sources as hydropower or nuclear. It is very energy intensive and costly. This route comprises almost all of the remaining 5%.
GREEN Hydrogen provides less than 1% of Hydrogen on the market. It also uses electrolysis but the power comes from wind or solar.
BLUE Hydrogen is the same as GREY Hydrogen but with the aforementioned carbon capture magic. "Sequestration”
BLACK Hydrogen comes from gasification of bituminous coals. Air at high temperature and reduced conditions (oxygen deficient) is blown through a pulverized coal bed. There is only partial combustion of the coal to produce carbon monoxide then you proceed to steam reformation of CO. Again, this is endothermic to provide steam and preheat the air:
CO + H2O —> CO2 + H2
Ergo, BLACK Hydrogen is essentially the same as GREY Hydrogen but it uses bituminous coal and is more endothermic (greater heat input required).
BROWN Hydrogen is essentially the same as BLACK Hydrogen but uses lignite coal as a feedstock. Lignite (also called Brown Coal) comes from peat bogs or wetlands which were often covered over by pyroclastic ash. The Brown Hydrogen process is a little better than the BLACK process because lignite has some Oxygen in its composition.
TURQUOISE hydrogen uses a process called methane pyrolysis, which directly splits methane – the main component in natural gas – into hydrogen and solid carbon. Also called ‘carbon black’, this byproduct has a variety of industrial applications, including in the production of car tires, coatings, plastics and batteries.
It gets worse from there.
Notice how this hydrogen is essentially a rainbow flag. Even energy is now woke and in the service of the LGBTQ movement.
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April 06, 2024
Georgia Republicans passed a bill to help secure elections by tightening up the voter rolls and making ballots public record once the election has been certified. Also, if any candidate gets on the ballots of any 20 states they will automatically get on Georgia's (meaning Robert Kennedy Jr.)
Tha ACLU is threatening to sue Georgia over this.
But what is interesting is Republican Governor Brian Kemp has yet to sign this bill. Now why is that?
I suspect he wants to screw Trump one more time and he'l probably be happy to sign such a bill only AFTER the next election.
Kemp hates Trump, that much is clear, and he was the reason Trump lost in 2020. Had he done his job Trump would have taken Georgia and the election.
With friends like these...
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The Biden DOJ is seeking to move the wrongful death trial of Ashlii babbit from California to Washington D.C.
No doubt the government will win in D.C.
They murdered that woman in cold blood and now want to cheat her heirs out of compensation.
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Looks like Big Fat Fani Willis (Left alone with big fat fani she was such a naughty nanny) was illegally recording Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd's attorney. As one party was in Maryland and there is a law against that Ms. Willis has yet again violated the law and her oath of office.
When will the Republicans in Georgia take action?
BTW why can't Brian Kemp just pardon all of these people being charged now and end this circus?
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The Biden Treasury Department is issuing debt at pandemic levels to fuel it's war machine (war against the American People). This is at a rate that is double the 231 year previous record.
Well, we DO have a pandemic. It's called socialism, and it's like that flesh eating staph. It's hollowing America out from the inside.
That is $7 TRILLION in new debt issued in Q4 of 2023 alone.
No nation can survive this. We will be going belly up really soon.
The Treasury Market now stands at a whopping $27 TRILLION dollars. That's up 60% since the pandemic.
And despite this titanic spending we still see a sluggish and ailing economy. This proves Keynsianism does not work; you cannot spend your way to prosperity, no matter what that dope Paul Krugman thinks.
Hyperinflation is coming folks. Or the U.S. will default and we'll probably get hyperinflation anyway as nobody will extend the U.S. credit.
It's time to start stocking up and keep your powder dry.
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Grocery prices are up almost 40% since the usurper took office.
Food and fuel are not calculated into the national inflation rate, which is why it appears lower than it is.
Remember who caused this when you go to the grocer.
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It was just a matter of time before some 2 watt bulb said it.
Yes, she really did say climate change caused the New York Earthquake.
Now I'm sure they'll tie this to Donald Trump.
BTW Fracking, has been banned for a decade in New York State and was permanently outlawed in 2021 so they can't blame the quake on that.
Christina Khalil - who made the ridiculous accusation - is running for the Senate on the Green Party ticket.
At any rate she cannot explain the mechanism that caused the quake. I guess nature is now no longer a factor.
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Biden lost the paperwork on 200,000 deportation cases, leading to the dismissal of these cases and the release of the invaders.
That's a fifth of a million cases dismissed because of negligence or more likely malfeasance.
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As early as 2021 the Lefty media were helping Joe Biden with scripted interviews.
Former ESPN sports broadcaster Sage Steele told Bill Maher how heartbreaking it was to talk to the President who was clearly in no mental condition to be in the spotlight.
This won't be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Clearly Joe Biden is not in a fit state to be president.
What is disappointing is that the mainstream media is prepared to cover up for Biden because of the politics.
Former ESPN host says her Biden interview was entirely 'scripted' by network execs: 'Every single question'
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