May 03, 2024
Macron Wants to SendTroops to Ukraine
Timothy Birdnow
French President Macron wants to send troops to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
Crazy SOB thinks he's Napoleon. And like Napoleon he'll be bringing his troops home in body bags and on carts.
WWIII anyone?
French President Macron wants to send troops to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
Crazy SOB thinks he's Napoleon. And like Napoleon he'll be bringing his troops home in body bags and on carts.
WWIII anyone?
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Climate, Rush, and More
Roy Spencer
Victoria Taft's podcast interview with me (1st comment). In addition to the usual climate stuff, we got into my relationship with Rush Limbaugh in this one.
The Postmodern Prophets: Questioning the Cult of Climate Change with Dr. Roy Spencer - Victoria Taft
victoriataft.com
Victoria Taft's podcast interview with me (1st comment). In addition to the usual climate stuff, we got into my relationship with Rush Limbaugh in this one.
The Postmodern Prophets: Questioning the Cult of Climate Change with Dr. Roy Spencer - Victoria Taft
victoriataft.com
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Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
Greg Malakoff
I've been around a lot of cats my whole life so I wouldn't trust my opinion on this, but this kind of news seems to be total bullshit. I don't trust any of these types of science studies anymore. I think the real purpose of this is to get people to comply with the New World Order and they want everyone on earth to be miserable.
Cat owners could be at higher risk of schizophrenia, study suggests, but more research needed
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Tim adds:
The Left, especially the World Economic Forum, has begun a jihad against pet ownership. They want us to give up our pets to "save the planet" from the dangers of something they made up in the first place.
They want us to "reduce our carbon footprint" and that means ending our millenia-long association with our furry best friends. No room in the New World Order for Fido.
So don't be surprised to see many more articles like this inthe next few years.
BTW you notice it was Fox writing this too. Fox is a part of the Empire of Sin as surely as is NBC or ABC orPBS. It's purpose is to give Middle America the illusion of opposition so we don't take matters into our own hands.
I've been around a lot of cats my whole life so I wouldn't trust my opinion on this, but this kind of news seems to be total bullshit. I don't trust any of these types of science studies anymore. I think the real purpose of this is to get people to comply with the New World Order and they want everyone on earth to be miserable.
Cat owners could be at higher risk of schizophrenia, study suggests, but more research needed
foxnews.com
Tim adds:
The Left, especially the World Economic Forum, has begun a jihad against pet ownership. They want us to give up our pets to "save the planet" from the dangers of something they made up in the first place.
They want us to "reduce our carbon footprint" and that means ending our millenia-long association with our furry best friends. No room in the New World Order for Fido.
So don't be surprised to see many more articles like this inthe next few years.
BTW you notice it was Fox writing this too. Fox is a part of the Empire of Sin as surely as is NBC or ABC orPBS. It's purpose is to give Middle America the illusion of opposition so we don't take matters into our own hands.
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Signs of Extraterrestrial Life?
Carlos F.Velazquez
DMS, dimethyl sulfide, a substance that on Earth is only seen in the oceans and is produced by algae. However, that is a far cry from asserting that DMS is ONLY produced by living algae. But of course, extra terrestrial life enthusiasts become jubilant over such minute "evidence" as signs of DMS found on distant planets. However, the astrophysicist who made the discovery, Nikku Madhusudhan, says that basically it's too early to jump to conclusions.
Quote: "While the researchers could say with over 50 per cent confidence that DMS was present based on the data sent by the James Webb Telescope last year, Madhusudhan said it was far from "conclusive evidence." "
50% has a Sigma value of 0σ. Whereas a Sigma of 3σ, for example, means a confidence level of approximately 99.7%. See ChatGPT calculation in the comments.
An Earth-like planet? Tantalising proof of life on THIS exoplanet has scientists in 'shock'
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Lyle Hancock Sr. adds:
I have difficulty reasoning a 50% confidence in a scientific inquiry. It seems a subjective term that has little meaning. In statistics, 0σ (50% confidence) is pretty much the same as a random guess. In practical terms, they may or may not have found DMS. The sensitivity and specificity of whatever instrument made the measurement must be quite low.
But it does make for a sensational article.
Tim adds:
While I know little about DMS and thus cannot speak on the subject this does remind me of the discovery of methane on Mars, and the big rush to say it was proof of Martian life. I pointed out to all the enthusiasts back then that methane is common in the solar system and exists on Titan and many other outer planets.
I also pointed out that methane on Mars suggested the planet was warming - thus confirming a solar cause for "climate change" much to the rage of the Gang Green.
Now I don't know the process of making this DMS stuff but I suspect thereare abiotic processes that can make it too and the principle of Occam's Razor says we should assume the simplest answer, which is not life. We've never found alien life, not in anything we've ever encounterred - meteors or on the Moon or on Mars. So we should assume this is abiotic until we prove otherwise. That's how science is SUPPOED to work.
Richard Cronin adds:
It’s a b.s.
The lowest Sigma value is 1. It assumes a normal bell curve data distribution with 68% of your data points fit beneath the bell curve. You can get 1 Sigma by averaging a scatter plot. It’s meaningless.
The very, very minimum to be considered significant is 2 Sigma, where 95% of your data lies beneath the bell curve.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule
DMS, dimethyl sulfide, a substance that on Earth is only seen in the oceans and is produced by algae. However, that is a far cry from asserting that DMS is ONLY produced by living algae. But of course, extra terrestrial life enthusiasts become jubilant over such minute "evidence" as signs of DMS found on distant planets. However, the astrophysicist who made the discovery, Nikku Madhusudhan, says that basically it's too early to jump to conclusions.
Quote: "While the researchers could say with over 50 per cent confidence that DMS was present based on the data sent by the James Webb Telescope last year, Madhusudhan said it was far from "conclusive evidence." "
50% has a Sigma value of 0σ. Whereas a Sigma of 3σ, for example, means a confidence level of approximately 99.7%. See ChatGPT calculation in the comments.
An Earth-like planet? Tantalising proof of life on THIS exoplanet has scientists in 'shock'
wionews.com
Lyle Hancock Sr. adds:
I have difficulty reasoning a 50% confidence in a scientific inquiry. It seems a subjective term that has little meaning. In statistics, 0σ (50% confidence) is pretty much the same as a random guess. In practical terms, they may or may not have found DMS. The sensitivity and specificity of whatever instrument made the measurement must be quite low.
But it does make for a sensational article.
Tim adds:
While I know little about DMS and thus cannot speak on the subject this does remind me of the discovery of methane on Mars, and the big rush to say it was proof of Martian life. I pointed out to all the enthusiasts back then that methane is common in the solar system and exists on Titan and many other outer planets.
I also pointed out that methane on Mars suggested the planet was warming - thus confirming a solar cause for "climate change" much to the rage of the Gang Green.
Now I don't know the process of making this DMS stuff but I suspect thereare abiotic processes that can make it too and the principle of Occam's Razor says we should assume the simplest answer, which is not life. We've never found alien life, not in anything we've ever encounterred - meteors or on the Moon or on Mars. So we should assume this is abiotic until we prove otherwise. That's how science is SUPPOED to work.
Richard Cronin adds:
It’s a b.s.
The lowest Sigma value is 1. It assumes a normal bell curve data distribution with 68% of your data points fit beneath the bell curve. You can get 1 Sigma by averaging a scatter plot. It’s meaningless.
The very, very minimum to be considered significant is 2 Sigma, where 95% of your data lies beneath the bell curve.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule
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May 02, 2024
Another Day Another Outrage
Steven Chase
Let's see... in today's news...
1. Zuckerberg sent an email to his top underlings confirming the White House's order to censor the lab-leak.
2. A top CIA official, admits (on secret video recording) that the Deep State deliberately withheld intel from Donald Trump.
3. Biden defies the Supreme Court - giving BILLIONS to forgive student debt, and a Billion to Milwaukee, buying votes.
4. Biden Administration admits to considering resettling Palestinians in America. Neither Egypt nor Jordan will take any Palestinian refugees.
5. More evidence (and testimony under oath) is piling up that the Russia Hoax was a CIA project to discredit Trump with Brennan as the mastermind.
6. And our congress furthers Orwellian thought-control
Let's see... in today's news...
1. Zuckerberg sent an email to his top underlings confirming the White House's order to censor the lab-leak.
2. A top CIA official, admits (on secret video recording) that the Deep State deliberately withheld intel from Donald Trump.
3. Biden defies the Supreme Court - giving BILLIONS to forgive student debt, and a Billion to Milwaukee, buying votes.
4. Biden Administration admits to considering resettling Palestinians in America. Neither Egypt nor Jordan will take any Palestinian refugees.
5. More evidence (and testimony under oath) is piling up that the Russia Hoax was a CIA project to discredit Trump with Brennan as the mastermind.
6. And our congress furthers Orwellian thought-control
Oh, and District of Columbia passed a law ALLOWING illegal aliens the right to vote. What a world....
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Jewish Lives Don't Matter
Bill Weisberg
If these were white nationalist calling for the death of black people, Senile Biden would not hesitate for minute to call in the National Guard to protect them. But not Jews. Once again, the Democratic party makes it abundantly clear that Jewish Lives Do Not Matter and that appeasing Hamas loving Democrats is more important.
Joe Biden Issues Decision on Sending National Guard to Campus Protests
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If these were white nationalist calling for the death of black people, Senile Biden would not hesitate for minute to call in the National Guard to protect them. But not Jews. Once again, the Democratic party makes it abundantly clear that Jewish Lives Do Not Matter and that appeasing Hamas loving Democrats is more important.
Joe Biden Issues Decision on Sending National Guard to Campus Protests
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It's a Dog's Life
Timothy Birdnow
Many people are very upset with Kristi Noem over her killing her dog. I get that. But I have to ask, is this not EXACTLY what the media and the Demo-Left want? By getting US to do their dirty work and hosting a circular firing squad we are taking out one of the brighter lights in the GOP and someone who could have gone on to become President.
Many country folk put down their own animals. They figure it's their duty. Remember Old Yelller? His family loved him but had to put him down in the end. They didn't take him to the Humane Society for a cold, clinical death but did it themselves.
Now, I don't know the details of Noem's dog and what led up to her seemingly heartless killing of the poor beast. It attacked and killed some chickens, a neighbor's chickens. I have heard conflicting reports that it bit some people. If the latter the dog needed to be put down. Many states have the three bite rule which requires a dogs euthanization. And of course Noem would be legally liable for damages for the chickens as well as medical bills for the bitten.
So I just don't know. I do know the Left has tried to use cruelty to animals against Republicans in the past. Remember the dog controversy with Mitt Romney?
I detest people who are cruel to animals. Utterly detest them. When I worked for a property management company I was always finding abandoned cats, left by their evicted owners. Often these cats were abused - like the tiny kitten I found in a trash can outside of an apartment. The kitten was blind; it's eyes pussed shut. The vet said someone had kicked it before tossing it into the trash. I would have gleefully taken a bullwhip to these evil people. I gave that kitten to my mother and she was the best cat ever. Sadly she died young from feline Leukemia.
My own cat Blackberry was also a rescue. He was trapped outdoors when his drug-dealing owners were arrested - trapped in winter. He was living in an abandoned house with a bunch of feral cats, and was starving. A dog got a hold of him and tore up his tail. I never saw a sadder creature when he approached me that cold November day. He was meowing pathetically to me. I put him in the car and took him home. I had nothing for him to eat so I gave him some leftover seafood pasta (which gave him bad diarrhea but he gobbled it up - he probably hadn't eaten in over a week. He wound up being the best pet a man could have and utterly loyal to me. When I was sick he'd stay by my side - for days on end. He would only leave to use the bathroom or get a drink. When there was an earthquake he came up and woke me to get me to safety. He was truly my best friend.
I had to have him put to sleep when his heart failed. Oddly enough just a couple of months before my own failed in the exact same way!
So I really do care about our furry friends. And I think Noem's apparent pride in killing her dog is a bit...disturbing.
But I also don't like the way people on our side are so quick to condemn her without all the facts. The MSM is having a field day with this - and we are reacting exactly as they wanted us to react.
I'm all for removing people for bad policy or betrayal (like Mike Johnson) but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt in matters like this; we often don't get the whole story.
But I sure wouldn't trust Noem to babysit my dog.
I just think there are more important issues to grow indignant over right now. The Biden people are treating human beings worse than Noem treated her dog. How many infant lives has Mr. Biden helped take over the years? How many good people are now rotting in prison cells so Biden could protect his power?
Yet more people are probably upset by Noem than by some of the most aggregious acts by our wonderful rulers. And we are happy to let the media choose our leadership for us by promoting scandals such as this.
Many people are very upset with Kristi Noem over her killing her dog. I get that. But I have to ask, is this not EXACTLY what the media and the Demo-Left want? By getting US to do their dirty work and hosting a circular firing squad we are taking out one of the brighter lights in the GOP and someone who could have gone on to become President.
Many country folk put down their own animals. They figure it's their duty. Remember Old Yelller? His family loved him but had to put him down in the end. They didn't take him to the Humane Society for a cold, clinical death but did it themselves.
Now, I don't know the details of Noem's dog and what led up to her seemingly heartless killing of the poor beast. It attacked and killed some chickens, a neighbor's chickens. I have heard conflicting reports that it bit some people. If the latter the dog needed to be put down. Many states have the three bite rule which requires a dogs euthanization. And of course Noem would be legally liable for damages for the chickens as well as medical bills for the bitten.
So I just don't know. I do know the Left has tried to use cruelty to animals against Republicans in the past. Remember the dog controversy with Mitt Romney?
I detest people who are cruel to animals. Utterly detest them. When I worked for a property management company I was always finding abandoned cats, left by their evicted owners. Often these cats were abused - like the tiny kitten I found in a trash can outside of an apartment. The kitten was blind; it's eyes pussed shut. The vet said someone had kicked it before tossing it into the trash. I would have gleefully taken a bullwhip to these evil people. I gave that kitten to my mother and she was the best cat ever. Sadly she died young from feline Leukemia.
My own cat Blackberry was also a rescue. He was trapped outdoors when his drug-dealing owners were arrested - trapped in winter. He was living in an abandoned house with a bunch of feral cats, and was starving. A dog got a hold of him and tore up his tail. I never saw a sadder creature when he approached me that cold November day. He was meowing pathetically to me. I put him in the car and took him home. I had nothing for him to eat so I gave him some leftover seafood pasta (which gave him bad diarrhea but he gobbled it up - he probably hadn't eaten in over a week. He wound up being the best pet a man could have and utterly loyal to me. When I was sick he'd stay by my side - for days on end. He would only leave to use the bathroom or get a drink. When there was an earthquake he came up and woke me to get me to safety. He was truly my best friend.
I had to have him put to sleep when his heart failed. Oddly enough just a couple of months before my own failed in the exact same way!
So I really do care about our furry friends. And I think Noem's apparent pride in killing her dog is a bit...disturbing.
But I also don't like the way people on our side are so quick to condemn her without all the facts. The MSM is having a field day with this - and we are reacting exactly as they wanted us to react.
I'm all for removing people for bad policy or betrayal (like Mike Johnson) but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt in matters like this; we often don't get the whole story.
But I sure wouldn't trust Noem to babysit my dog.
I just think there are more important issues to grow indignant over right now. The Biden people are treating human beings worse than Noem treated her dog. How many infant lives has Mr. Biden helped take over the years? How many good people are now rotting in prison cells so Biden could protect his power?
Yet more people are probably upset by Noem than by some of the most aggregious acts by our wonderful rulers. And we are happy to let the media choose our leadership for us by promoting scandals such as this.
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The Language of God
Carlos Velazquez
It was bound to happen. And, as always, it can be used for good or evil.
It was bound to happen because we now know that DNA is basically a language that contains the information on how biological systems develop and function. Francis Collins, PhD, the head of the human genome project, despite his errors and sins during covid, became a Christian when he realized DNA is a language that carries information. As a result, he wrote a book "DNA: The Language of God".
Sooner or later someone would use AI, which is very good at analyzing languages, to analyze all the combinations and permutations of different DNA from different species.
New Harvard-Developed AI System Unlocks Biology’s Source Code
scitechdaily.com
Tim adds:
Isaac Asimov once wrote a story that comes to mind with this. A famous scientist committs suicide after analyzing the human genome. The reason? He had found alien splices in the human DNA and when he analyzed it it said something, something like "don't forget to pick up milk and bread on the way home". He couldn't live with the knowledge of how trivial humanity was.
This comes to mind not because we are trivial so much as that Francis Collins clearly realized we are trivial and unimportant compared to the Creator. And of course Collins realized that this sort of code couldn't spontaneously come into existence.
As you say it was inevitable that someone would use AI for this. Sadly, knowing human hurbis, it will soon follow that they will seek to alter that language. At first it will be for beneficial purposes; to prevent hereditary diseases like Huntingtons. But soon it will be for matters of vanity. And somehow it will wind up going bad.
I often think about the plagues of Revelations and wonder if this isn't caused by genetic damage done by tampering with the human genome.
It was bound to happen. And, as always, it can be used for good or evil.
It was bound to happen because we now know that DNA is basically a language that contains the information on how biological systems develop and function. Francis Collins, PhD, the head of the human genome project, despite his errors and sins during covid, became a Christian when he realized DNA is a language that carries information. As a result, he wrote a book "DNA: The Language of God".
Sooner or later someone would use AI, which is very good at analyzing languages, to analyze all the combinations and permutations of different DNA from different species.
New Harvard-Developed AI System Unlocks Biology’s Source Code
scitechdaily.com
Tim adds:
Isaac Asimov once wrote a story that comes to mind with this. A famous scientist committs suicide after analyzing the human genome. The reason? He had found alien splices in the human DNA and when he analyzed it it said something, something like "don't forget to pick up milk and bread on the way home". He couldn't live with the knowledge of how trivial humanity was.
This comes to mind not because we are trivial so much as that Francis Collins clearly realized we are trivial and unimportant compared to the Creator. And of course Collins realized that this sort of code couldn't spontaneously come into existence.
As you say it was inevitable that someone would use AI for this. Sadly, knowing human hurbis, it will soon follow that they will seek to alter that language. At first it will be for beneficial purposes; to prevent hereditary diseases like Huntingtons. But soon it will be for matters of vanity. And somehow it will wind up going bad.
I often think about the plagues of Revelations and wonder if this isn't caused by genetic damage done by tampering with the human genome.
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Meet the New God
A Greg Delany
Government can not replace God!
"Solzhenitsyn said: 'We better start arguing for an objective basis for law—e.g., that a "person” is a human being whose life comes from God—or we will have a totalitarian government before long.' Someone has to decide what it means to be human, and if the Creator God does not fill that role, then some person or group of persons will have to be substituted for God."
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Double Standard
Jerry S Rainforth
Oh, yeah...
Mike Huckabee
I bet you haven't heard this story: A new Harvard-Harris poll shows that a solid majority of Americans believe that the prosecutions of Trump are just Democrat election interference. But how can anyone believe any longer that we have a blind justice system when it’s been utterly and transparently corrupted, politicized and weaponized? Here’s an infuriating case in point. While violent, pro-terrorist leftist college students follow in the footsteps of violent Antifa rioters in being released scot-free (as the Squad Dems claim, they have a right to "peaceful protest”), look at the draconian sentences handed out to Trump supporters who merely stepped inside the Capitol for one minute on January 6th…Or to pro-life protesters railroaded into prison for praying outside abortion clinics. And once they’re in prison, the harassment continues. LifeSiteNews reports that Heather Idoni, who was sentenced to prison under the FACE Act for protesting at the only sacred space the Biden White House recognizes (an abortion clinic), was put in solitary confinement for 22 days with the lights on 24/7 (aka, "tortured”) for the crime of sharing her food with another inmate. She was allowed out to walk around for only two hours in the middle of the night.
Oh, yeah...
Mike Huckabee
I bet you haven't heard this story: A new Harvard-Harris poll shows that a solid majority of Americans believe that the prosecutions of Trump are just Democrat election interference. But how can anyone believe any longer that we have a blind justice system when it’s been utterly and transparently corrupted, politicized and weaponized? Here’s an infuriating case in point. While violent, pro-terrorist leftist college students follow in the footsteps of violent Antifa rioters in being released scot-free (as the Squad Dems claim, they have a right to "peaceful protest”), look at the draconian sentences handed out to Trump supporters who merely stepped inside the Capitol for one minute on January 6th…Or to pro-life protesters railroaded into prison for praying outside abortion clinics. And once they’re in prison, the harassment continues. LifeSiteNews reports that Heather Idoni, who was sentenced to prison under the FACE Act for protesting at the only sacred space the Biden White House recognizes (an abortion clinic), was put in solitary confinement for 22 days with the lights on 24/7 (aka, "tortured”) for the crime of sharing her food with another inmate. She was allowed out to walk around for only two hours in the middle of the night.
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All Quiet on the Ozark FRont
Timothy Birdnow
All Quiet on the Ozark Front or the Moonshine's Brightly on my old Ozark Home.
It's been a while since my last Ozark Hilton visit, and the diurnal temperature has been rising in recent days. I needed to get down to the dumpster paradise, especially as I had a lot of cleaning up to do from the thieves.
Tuesday was supposed to have a low in the mid '60's and it was going to be sunny and low eighties during the day.I could go and wouldn't need a fire. That would be good; fires necessitate wood, and wood necessitates me hauling it into the cabin. Worse, since the thieves stole my firewood, it necessitates either going early and cutting some or buying it and hauling it down. Also, only one room is heated in the luxury resort and I wanted to sit in the outer, unheated room, which is brighter as I had painted that room, unlike the inner one which I never finished off.
Also the storms of last week were over, and although I like being there in the rain (it's a most poetic sound, the sound of raindrops beating on the tin roof, especially at night when you are safe and warm in the middle of nowhere with a storm outside) It's tough to drive in and I run the risk of getting stuck down there, as I did on two separate occasions. Once some locals towed me out. The second time I was almost to the state road and the Auto Club actually showed up in the middle of a monsoon and towed me out! I swear my truck sunk six inches into the mud that day.
At any rate I was reluctant to go. I knew it was going to be a huge amount of work. But when I did my thinking in the philosopher's room my last excuse was gone. So off I went, with the exhortation of my dear wife, who no doubt was looking forward to my getting out of her hair for a day.
As it was early and a pretty morning I decided to take a little-used route, one I seldom take but enjoy taking nonetheless. It went out of the way to no small degree, but that's what I like about it; quiet country roads most of the way. I went south to Perryville and turned west, driving over a little-used state highway.
And since I wouldn't pass the Birdnow Memorial Outhouse my body decided it was going to protest and I had to stop at a gas station for mor "thinking". Right about the time I would have been passing the outhouse had I taken Highway 67.
At any rate I was off on this quiet rural road. Everyone else was too!
The Missouri Department of Transportation decided to redo the rural road, having it down to a single lane for miles with flagmen and stop-and-go traffic the whole way. If I had wanted that I could have gone anywhere in St. Louis and gotten it!
It probably tacked on an extra 45 minutes to the drive at least. But it was a beautiful day so I didn't get too upset - especially given the amount of work waiting for me.
Eventually I got through the massive botttleneck and traffic was moving again. Moving too fast as everyone was antsy to make up time. Moving way too fast, actually, for these winding country roads. I had cars riding up my tailpipe the whole morning, whizzing past me in non-passing lanes, even though I was going the speed limit.
Eventually I got down to the Hilton, and turned onto my drive, which any sane person would be concerned about walking much less driving on this, well, it looks like a game trail. I weaved my way around trees that were growing into the "road" and came to the clearing and there it stood, the magnificent jewel of the Ozarks! Construction material all over the place, rickety half covered porch, weathered plank siding, all the trappings of a, well, Ozark shack. The amazing thing is my cabin is the spiffy "rich city boy" dude resort for down there. The locals mostly live in worse. One guy was living in tow old school buses buttedup emergency door to emergency door!
I schlepped all my stuff into the cabin, or onto the porch anyway. I always have a lot of stuff to take in; cooler, box of accessories which includes movies and cords and medical supplies, portable DVD player etc. a 12 volt battery to run my portable DVD player, and now I have to lug kerosene and four lanterns (as the thieves stole all of the ones I left down there). I also bring several battery-operated lights to augment the four kerosene lamps (I used to have ten but can't bring that many down with me.)
At any rate I was soon unloaded and had work to do. The cabin appeared rather trashed again and I was unsure if someone had been in or not. I think some THING had been in; in fact I'm sure of it.
I started cleaning up a pile of refuse and soon realized there was far more than I had expected. It was a bunch of debris torn into little pieces - an enormous rats nest. As I set all the knocked-over stuff back up and moved things around I realized the cabin was chock-full of nesting. I no longer have a shovel down there but had brought a dustpan and shoveled, shoveled, shoveled mounds of debris into toilet paper case boxes I had brought. I filled no fewer than FIVE boxes with it! It had been hidden by all my furniture and other stuff the thieves had tossed around.
So I spent the afternoon sweeping and scooping, scooping and sweeping. Only when I was done did I realize how stupid that was; this was no regular pile of debris, but had been in the mouth of rats or other feral creatures. I needed rubber gloves and a mask. I didn't have rubber gloves down there but I still had a Covid mask in the car that would have helped keep dust out of my lungs. Stupid of me - If I come down with some horrible disease it's my own fault! And the thieves had even stolen my soap so I had no way to actually WASH my hands. I had to settle for pouring some kerosene on them then rinsing them off with some of my drinking water.
By the time I finished filling the boxes and putting them in the truck to take for disposal (to a nearby state park) it was getting late and I settled onto my chair on the porch. It was quiet out, with few bird songs or the sound of other critters. I sat on the porch and enjoyed the evening. It really was too bad I didn't have any visitors; I always enjoy visits from opossum or armadillos or other critters.
It was time to light my lanterns. I filled them, trimmed the wicks (with my fingers, not a cutting tool) and lit them up.
I turned my attention to my battery operated lights. I had two Atomic Beam lanterns and two cheap hand-held flashlinghts/lights. One of those was low on battery power but to replace the batteries in those requires removing the back with a small machine screw in it, thus needing a very small screwdriver. I would have to make do with just the one.
But I started trying to replace the batteries in the Atomic Beam lanterns and all of my batteries were dead. I kept trying new ones and it was always the same. I eventually settled on batteries that were clearly weak. They went out soon after sunset, leaving me with just four lanterns and one flashlight. The light level was woefully inadequate, especially for me as my night vision sucks.
At this point I started having a lot of problems, I had set my "junk box" on one of the chairs and it dumped over - twice. I had to pick everything up, and then it did it again (I'm a slow learner I supposed). I had set one of my lanterns on a storage box that was also tipped and IT fell while lit, imperiling the entire cabin as had it broken it would have started a fire and the thieves stole my fire extinguisher. I would have had to dump my cooler on it and failing that the whole place would have gone up! Lucky for me the lantern didn't break, or even go out. But it was a disaster narrowly averted.
Then, in the middle of watching a movie the DVD player went out. I noticed the problem; I had pulled the plug loose, and as soon as the internal battery went dry the thing went off. I had to plug it back in and wait half an hour. When it finally came back on the movie made it to the point it went off and then locked up! I eventually had to give up on the movie and choose another.
I went to the door to go out on the porch and use the "bathroom". Something bit my hand on the door knob. It hurt quite a bit too but I never saw anything. My guess is a spider, and I feared it may have been a brown recluse.
I don't think so now,but my hand is swollen and itching all the way down past my wrist. I'm going to have to keep an eye on it. If it gets worse I'll go to an urgent care place.
Anyway I did what I always do down there; I stayed up very late and enjoyed the peace of the place. I was up at first light and on the road as soon as I was loaded. Stopped for breakfast at McDonalds. Traffic wasn't too bad and the drive home uneventful.
I'm going to have to get back there quite a bit in the coming months, before the big heat hits Missouri. I have a LOT of work left to do there.
I am worried though; if the place is infested with rats or something else my health could be in jeopardy. But I've always lived on the assumption that God appoints the time of our death and it is only our job not to be too stupid. That attitude has only strengthened in the last decade as I came so very near to a permanent reservation in the sub-basement level back in 2011. I'm going to live while I can.
So, barring the very unfortunate, I will have more Ozark Hilton tales to tell.
Can't wait for the next one.
All Quiet on the Ozark Front or the Moonshine's Brightly on my old Ozark Home.
It's been a while since my last Ozark Hilton visit, and the diurnal temperature has been rising in recent days. I needed to get down to the dumpster paradise, especially as I had a lot of cleaning up to do from the thieves.
Tuesday was supposed to have a low in the mid '60's and it was going to be sunny and low eighties during the day.I could go and wouldn't need a fire. That would be good; fires necessitate wood, and wood necessitates me hauling it into the cabin. Worse, since the thieves stole my firewood, it necessitates either going early and cutting some or buying it and hauling it down. Also, only one room is heated in the luxury resort and I wanted to sit in the outer, unheated room, which is brighter as I had painted that room, unlike the inner one which I never finished off.
Also the storms of last week were over, and although I like being there in the rain (it's a most poetic sound, the sound of raindrops beating on the tin roof, especially at night when you are safe and warm in the middle of nowhere with a storm outside) It's tough to drive in and I run the risk of getting stuck down there, as I did on two separate occasions. Once some locals towed me out. The second time I was almost to the state road and the Auto Club actually showed up in the middle of a monsoon and towed me out! I swear my truck sunk six inches into the mud that day.
At any rate I was reluctant to go. I knew it was going to be a huge amount of work. But when I did my thinking in the philosopher's room my last excuse was gone. So off I went, with the exhortation of my dear wife, who no doubt was looking forward to my getting out of her hair for a day.
As it was early and a pretty morning I decided to take a little-used route, one I seldom take but enjoy taking nonetheless. It went out of the way to no small degree, but that's what I like about it; quiet country roads most of the way. I went south to Perryville and turned west, driving over a little-used state highway.
And since I wouldn't pass the Birdnow Memorial Outhouse my body decided it was going to protest and I had to stop at a gas station for mor "thinking". Right about the time I would have been passing the outhouse had I taken Highway 67.
At any rate I was off on this quiet rural road. Everyone else was too!
The Missouri Department of Transportation decided to redo the rural road, having it down to a single lane for miles with flagmen and stop-and-go traffic the whole way. If I had wanted that I could have gone anywhere in St. Louis and gotten it!
It probably tacked on an extra 45 minutes to the drive at least. But it was a beautiful day so I didn't get too upset - especially given the amount of work waiting for me.
Eventually I got through the massive botttleneck and traffic was moving again. Moving too fast as everyone was antsy to make up time. Moving way too fast, actually, for these winding country roads. I had cars riding up my tailpipe the whole morning, whizzing past me in non-passing lanes, even though I was going the speed limit.
Eventually I got down to the Hilton, and turned onto my drive, which any sane person would be concerned about walking much less driving on this, well, it looks like a game trail. I weaved my way around trees that were growing into the "road" and came to the clearing and there it stood, the magnificent jewel of the Ozarks! Construction material all over the place, rickety half covered porch, weathered plank siding, all the trappings of a, well, Ozark shack. The amazing thing is my cabin is the spiffy "rich city boy" dude resort for down there. The locals mostly live in worse. One guy was living in tow old school buses buttedup emergency door to emergency door!
I schlepped all my stuff into the cabin, or onto the porch anyway. I always have a lot of stuff to take in; cooler, box of accessories which includes movies and cords and medical supplies, portable DVD player etc. a 12 volt battery to run my portable DVD player, and now I have to lug kerosene and four lanterns (as the thieves stole all of the ones I left down there). I also bring several battery-operated lights to augment the four kerosene lamps (I used to have ten but can't bring that many down with me.)
At any rate I was soon unloaded and had work to do. The cabin appeared rather trashed again and I was unsure if someone had been in or not. I think some THING had been in; in fact I'm sure of it.
I started cleaning up a pile of refuse and soon realized there was far more than I had expected. It was a bunch of debris torn into little pieces - an enormous rats nest. As I set all the knocked-over stuff back up and moved things around I realized the cabin was chock-full of nesting. I no longer have a shovel down there but had brought a dustpan and shoveled, shoveled, shoveled mounds of debris into toilet paper case boxes I had brought. I filled no fewer than FIVE boxes with it! It had been hidden by all my furniture and other stuff the thieves had tossed around.
So I spent the afternoon sweeping and scooping, scooping and sweeping. Only when I was done did I realize how stupid that was; this was no regular pile of debris, but had been in the mouth of rats or other feral creatures. I needed rubber gloves and a mask. I didn't have rubber gloves down there but I still had a Covid mask in the car that would have helped keep dust out of my lungs. Stupid of me - If I come down with some horrible disease it's my own fault! And the thieves had even stolen my soap so I had no way to actually WASH my hands. I had to settle for pouring some kerosene on them then rinsing them off with some of my drinking water.
By the time I finished filling the boxes and putting them in the truck to take for disposal (to a nearby state park) it was getting late and I settled onto my chair on the porch. It was quiet out, with few bird songs or the sound of other critters. I sat on the porch and enjoyed the evening. It really was too bad I didn't have any visitors; I always enjoy visits from opossum or armadillos or other critters.
It was time to light my lanterns. I filled them, trimmed the wicks (with my fingers, not a cutting tool) and lit them up.
I turned my attention to my battery operated lights. I had two Atomic Beam lanterns and two cheap hand-held flashlinghts/lights. One of those was low on battery power but to replace the batteries in those requires removing the back with a small machine screw in it, thus needing a very small screwdriver. I would have to make do with just the one.
But I started trying to replace the batteries in the Atomic Beam lanterns and all of my batteries were dead. I kept trying new ones and it was always the same. I eventually settled on batteries that were clearly weak. They went out soon after sunset, leaving me with just four lanterns and one flashlight. The light level was woefully inadequate, especially for me as my night vision sucks.
At this point I started having a lot of problems, I had set my "junk box" on one of the chairs and it dumped over - twice. I had to pick everything up, and then it did it again (I'm a slow learner I supposed). I had set one of my lanterns on a storage box that was also tipped and IT fell while lit, imperiling the entire cabin as had it broken it would have started a fire and the thieves stole my fire extinguisher. I would have had to dump my cooler on it and failing that the whole place would have gone up! Lucky for me the lantern didn't break, or even go out. But it was a disaster narrowly averted.
Then, in the middle of watching a movie the DVD player went out. I noticed the problem; I had pulled the plug loose, and as soon as the internal battery went dry the thing went off. I had to plug it back in and wait half an hour. When it finally came back on the movie made it to the point it went off and then locked up! I eventually had to give up on the movie and choose another.
I went to the door to go out on the porch and use the "bathroom". Something bit my hand on the door knob. It hurt quite a bit too but I never saw anything. My guess is a spider, and I feared it may have been a brown recluse.
I don't think so now,but my hand is swollen and itching all the way down past my wrist. I'm going to have to keep an eye on it. If it gets worse I'll go to an urgent care place.
Anyway I did what I always do down there; I stayed up very late and enjoyed the peace of the place. I was up at first light and on the road as soon as I was loaded. Stopped for breakfast at McDonalds. Traffic wasn't too bad and the drive home uneventful.
I'm going to have to get back there quite a bit in the coming months, before the big heat hits Missouri. I have a LOT of work left to do there.
I am worried though; if the place is infested with rats or something else my health could be in jeopardy. But I've always lived on the assumption that God appoints the time of our death and it is only our job not to be too stupid. That attitude has only strengthened in the last decade as I came so very near to a permanent reservation in the sub-basement level back in 2011. I'm going to live while I can.
So, barring the very unfortunate, I will have more Ozark Hilton tales to tell.
Can't wait for the next one.
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April 30, 2024
The REAL Rulers
John Madric
Does the CIA Run America?
Does the CIA Run America?
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A Rigged Game
Glenn Glazier
Even Chunk Yogurt and Ana Kast-aspersions are admitting that Big Gov't (i.e. Democrats & RINOs) have set up the system so that the wealthy become SUPER WEALTHY, and the Average Americans becomes impoverished.
Be careful there, Young Turks, you're starting to sound like Conservative MAGA country!
MSNBC Accidentally Airs The Truth
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Tim adds:
The strange thing about the young is they do understand the corporatism of the Democrats but their solution isn't to return to true capitalism but to promote socialism. They don't realize you are trading one set of thieves for another if you do that, and the new set has even more power. They don't understand these megacorporations love big government and use it as a tool to get wealthier at the average person's expense. What is neededis what G.K. Chesterton called Distributism, which is small enterpreneurs running a decentralized economy.
Even Chunk Yogurt and Ana Kast-aspersions are admitting that Big Gov't (i.e. Democrats & RINOs) have set up the system so that the wealthy become SUPER WEALTHY, and the Average Americans becomes impoverished.
Be careful there, Young Turks, you're starting to sound like Conservative MAGA country!
MSNBC Accidentally Airs The Truth
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Tim adds:
The strange thing about the young is they do understand the corporatism of the Democrats but their solution isn't to return to true capitalism but to promote socialism. They don't realize you are trading one set of thieves for another if you do that, and the new set has even more power. They don't understand these megacorporations love big government and use it as a tool to get wealthier at the average person's expense. What is neededis what G.K. Chesterton called Distributism, which is small enterpreneurs running a decentralized economy.
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Stephanopoulis: We Must Lie
Greg Malakoff
The democrats that relentlessly accuse their opponents of disinformation are busy lying at levels never imaginable before. The only thing worse than a lie, is telling half truths with everything out of context. We have many dangerous enemies on the world stage, China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Mexico, but none are as diabolical as the democratic party and their filthy disgusting media.
ABC's George Stephanopoulos says 2024 race can't be treated normally after Biden urges press to alter coverage
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The democrats that relentlessly accuse their opponents of disinformation are busy lying at levels never imaginable before. The only thing worse than a lie, is telling half truths with everything out of context. We have many dangerous enemies on the world stage, China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Mexico, but none are as diabolical as the democratic party and their filthy disgusting media.
ABC's George Stephanopoulos says 2024 race can't be treated normally after Biden urges press to alter coverage
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The Empire Strikes Back
Jerry S. Rainforth
This is an excerpt from a long article on the effects and results of the recent pandemic.
By Jeffery Tucker
It was about a growing global revolt that needed to be tamped down. The most extreme trick in the shock-and-awe playbook was infectious disease.
This provoked a global establishment, backed by intelligence agencies and the world’s richest corporations, into extreme action with the purpose of reminding populations of the world about who was really running things. As part of that, global media companies, tech companies, and Pharma companies became rich with subsidies and forced consumption. It was not only a political coup but an industrial one too.
We are left today to pick up the pieces even as elite forces are attempting another power grab through the World Health Organization, as its international health regulations imagine many world scenarios of "lockdown until vaccination.” Many nations in the world today are working to stop these efforts.
What was my main takeaway from these meetings? It became very obvious to me that we are facing today a beast of a different sort than we’ve ever seen. The problem is not only national but global. It is not only government but an international government/industry combine that seeks to become a ruling cartel that utterly disables freedom and democracy all over the world.
This is an excerpt from a long article on the effects and results of the recent pandemic.
By Jeffery Tucker
It was about a growing global revolt that needed to be tamped down. The most extreme trick in the shock-and-awe playbook was infectious disease.
This provoked a global establishment, backed by intelligence agencies and the world’s richest corporations, into extreme action with the purpose of reminding populations of the world about who was really running things. As part of that, global media companies, tech companies, and Pharma companies became rich with subsidies and forced consumption. It was not only a political coup but an industrial one too.
We are left today to pick up the pieces even as elite forces are attempting another power grab through the World Health Organization, as its international health regulations imagine many world scenarios of "lockdown until vaccination.” Many nations in the world today are working to stop these efforts.
What was my main takeaway from these meetings? It became very obvious to me that we are facing today a beast of a different sort than we’ve ever seen. The problem is not only national but global. It is not only government but an international government/industry combine that seeks to become a ruling cartel that utterly disables freedom and democracy all over the world.
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April 29, 2024
Ukrainian Lawmaker Votes Against Aid
Timothy Birdnow
Congress has one and only one Ukrainian in its membership. And she voted against the Ukrainian aid package.
What does that say about it?
If U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz,who was born and raised in Ukraine, thinks this is a boondoggle why do we doubt it?
Congress has one and only one Ukrainian in its membership. And she voted against the Ukrainian aid package.
What does that say about it?
If U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz,who was born and raised in Ukraine, thinks this is a boondoggle why do we doubt it?
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U.S. Buying Old Soviet Fighters
Timothy Birdnow
Your tax dollars at work!
Business InsiderBusiness Insider
US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says
Yes, we really ARE buying old Soviet MIGS from Khazakstan!
Hopefully we're giving them to Ukraine and not using them ourselves, but given the problems with Boeing who knows?
Any way you slice it it's a bad deal. It's perhaps better than nothing for Ukraine but not much.
Your tax dollars at work!
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US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says
Yes, we really ARE buying old Soviet MIGS from Khazakstan!
Hopefully we're giving them to Ukraine and not using them ourselves, but given the problems with Boeing who knows?
Any way you slice it it's a bad deal. It's perhaps better than nothing for Ukraine but not much.
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Ukraine's Defensive Perimeter About to Collapse
Timothy Birdnow
Ukraine's defensive line is about to collapse, according to The Institute for the Study of War.
All the money we are about to pour into the Ukraine is money down a rat hole.
Russia will win this. They have the manpower, the equipment, and the determination. While Ukraine has Western aid they don't have the manpower to win; they will need NATO troops, boots on the ground.
I suspect we're going to see a movement to get "peacekeepers" in the region, and then an "incident" will occur to turn this war into a world conflict.
Ukraine's defensive line is about to collapse, according to The Institute for the Study of War.
All the money we are about to pour into the Ukraine is money down a rat hole.
Russia will win this. They have the manpower, the equipment, and the determination. While Ukraine has Western aid they don't have the manpower to win; they will need NATO troops, boots on the ground.
I suspect we're going to see a movement to get "peacekeepers" in the region, and then an "incident" will occur to turn this war into a world conflict.
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