NBC’s Bennett Sucks Up to Kerry, Wonders What Americans Must ‘Sacrifice’ to Save the Earth

Bombshell finding: Automobile tires, not climate change – is killing west coast salmon

The natural ‘Himalayan aerosol factory’ can affect climate

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In past presidential election years, the day the Electoral College convenes to vote goes largely ignored, as most of the public stops paying attention after Election Day.

This year is different. Amid allegations of voter fraud, litigation in key states, and state legislative hearings, the public is more focused on the electors’ voting set for Monday.

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Executive board member of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya has said “fuck you” to every rich millennial on a trust fund attacking capitalism and claiming they’re socialists.

Appearing on the All-In Podcast alongside Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, the quartet got to discussing trust fund kids claiming to be socialists, specifically naming a recent New York Times article titled ‘The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism’ as highly misguided since capitalism is exactly how those rich kids got to where they are now.

I can hear it plotting….

Glenn Greenwald.

Hunter Biden acknowledged today that he has been notified of an active criminal investigation into his tax affairs by the U.S. Attorney for Delaware. Among the numerous prongs of the inquiry, CNN reports, investigators are examining “whether Hunter Biden and his associates violated tax and money laundering laws in business dealings in foreign countries, principally China.”

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Seventeen states whose elections were won by President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected Electoral College victory.

The filing backing Paxton by those states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which Biden won, over their voting processes.

Steve Sailer.

I’m coming around to the notion that a Polygamy Push is fairly likely to follow Transmania the way it followed gay marriage.

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

What we get is a Hollywood melodrama. It’s not really a bad movie in my opinion, but it’s not a worthwhile one. If you read the book, there’s not much reason to see the movie unless you like to grumble. If you haven’t read the book, you might enjoy the movie, depending on your tastes, but you won’t get much out of it.

The film has not received favorable reviews from critics — far from it — although the audience reviews are pretty good. Glenn Reynolds thinks the critics’ negativity is politically based.

Victor Davis Hanson.

America traditionally has not reinvented reality after an election, although prior presidential winners have often tried, as in the fashion of our politics. But the new powers of social media, Silicon Valley, and a woke media have made reality-changing now a reality.

Suddenly Antifa and BLM have all but disappeared from their heroic barricades. Where and why did they go? Did they ever really exist?

Apparently the cucks at National Review have instituted a paywall — which is good, because that means that their me-tooism will be restricted to those who already buy into the Establishment party line and they will no longer be leading innocents astray.

ZMan observes the Pandemic Panic.

In ordinary times in ordinary countries, the prospect of a vaccine for even a nuisance ailment like the Chicken Pox would be welcome news. After all, one measure of society is the technology to improve human health. In a technologically advanced society, members not only live longer, the quality of life is better. An extra 20 years as a feeble old man is not exactly a reward for a life well-lived. Therefore, the promise of a Covid-19 vaccine next year should be welcome news.

As with everything else, it seems, the news of a possible vaccine just reveals how deranged and bizarre life has become in the West. The majority of Americans are highly skeptical of the vaccine. If people were honest, you would find large majorities unwilling to take the vaccine at all. Even in the medical professions, where faith in their own skill is beyond reality, close to half distrust the vaccine. It does not help that the rulers feel the need wrap the vaccine question in their racial madness.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Yesterday the State of Texas filed pleadings in the U.S. Supreme Court alleging that the electoral processes followed by Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin in this year’s election were unconstitutional and the results in those states should be negated. Because this is a lawsuit between states, the Supreme Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction. Texas’s pleadings are embedded below.

The Texas motion and supporting brief are well-drafted and make a plausible case–importantly, one that, if accepted, does not require extensive fact-finding into alleged voter fraud. Reduced to its essentials, the motion alleges 1) that under the Constitution’s Electors Clause, state legislatures have plenary authority over appointment of each state’s electors; 2) that in each of the defendant states, non-legislative actors (e.g., the Secretary of State) unconstitutionally changed the rules governing this year’s election without legislative approval or ratification; 3) that these changes favored some voters over others, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause; and 4) in each state, the number of ballots that were counted pursuant to unconstitutional changes in election procedures exceeds the margin of Joe Biden’s alleged victory.

UPDATE: Number Of States Joining Texas Suit Against PaGaWiMi Hits 7

Newly discovered Greenland (mantle) plume drives thermal activities in the Arctic

Fauci: “We have entered the Pandemic Era” because of Climate Change

The blame game

Just trying to help….

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #434

Fearmongering CNN Talks Up Biden Fighting off ‘Climate Crisis’  If he can remember.

Claim: The climate changed rapidly alongside sea ice decline in the north

The Danish climate minister closing down the oil industry for good

California To Require All Rockets To Run On Wind Power By 2030  Babylon Bee.

In rare show of solidarity, 14 key nations commit to protect oceans  More accurately, in a common show of virtue-signaling.

Pennsylvania Governor’s Climate Regulations Draw Bipartisan Opposition as Hearings Begin

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Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue says sales spiked so dramatically after her calls for a boycott that he named Democratic New York Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “employee of the month.”

Unanue told Michael Berry that his sales spiked 1000% after Ocasio-Cortez supported calls to boycott Goya Foods in mid-July.

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The group shouted with bullhorns and held signs during the evening protest, where individuals contested the results of the race between President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, according to video. Genevieve Peters, who took the footage while donning a “Trump 2020” snow hat, called the election “bullshit,” before police eventually arrived at the scene, the video showed.

“We are over here in the fricking dead of night, man,” Peters said, according to the Washington Examiner. “We are letting her know that we’re not taking this bullshit election, we are not standing down, we are not giving up. You are not going to take this election from a man that has earned it completely 100% by a freaking landslide. Let me tell you: This ain’t over.”

Claim: The Great Barrier Reef is “Critical” because of Climate Change

Biden’s Coming China Headache: Climate Change And “Developing Countries”

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The first presidential election in which the District of Columbia participated was in 1964. Before that, DC was excluded from presidential elections. It was designed as a neutral site, for Americans to meet to discuss their differences and to establish our government. The Democrat Party pushed hard, for years, to add DC to presidential elections. And you can certainly understand why. Those who prefer big government, like Democrats, tend to gravitate to DC.

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I think this illustrates why the Republican Party needs someone with the personality of Donald Trump. Who else can be effective in a town in which 95% of the people hate you? I couldn’t work there. Could you? But he seems to thrive on the combat. So not only can I understand why he was elected, but perhaps that is the only realistic option that Republicans have, for the foreseeable future.

The genial Reagan/Bush types may no longer be an option. Not if we want to get anything done. It appears that we need Donald Trump, or somebody like him. I’m not saying that’s good or bad. I’m just saying that’s the way it is.

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Whenever a Democrat gets elected it results in booming gun sales. Think about it.

Bill Gates Urges $35 Billion per Year for Renewable Energy Research  Send us a check, Bill.

New Climate Theory – Jupiter Herding Micrometeors Towards Earth?

Lancing the Lancet’s global-warming pustule

Climate Report: $100-150 Trillion over 30 Years to Fix Global Warming

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Wonder why comedy feels like it’s on life support these days?

Just give the latest edition of “SmartLess” a listen. You’ll figure at least part of it out.

The podcast, hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, is described as a show that “connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity.”

The hosts’ idea of “shared experiences,” sadly, is bowing to Cancel Culture and slamming anyone who doesn’t self identify as “liberal.”

Victor Davis Hanson.

Matt Larson (“Hoover has gone too far,” Nov. 19, 2020) cited me among others in his Stanford Daily angry attack on Hoover Institution scholars. He alleges that we at Hoover are purportedly “more interested in making money and promoting right-wing politics than in doing actual academic research.” Larson also charges that “Hoover fellows constitute a veritable wall of shame. They have been involved in just about every type of skeezy behavior imaginable.” These are serious writs against our institution and yet mostly leveled without substantiation.

My colleagues can address these particular loaded charges of “every type of skeezy behavior imaginable” in their own fashion. But to the degree that these unfounded stereotypes pertain to me, and for the record, I have never received any compensation for media appearances. I am not “making money” on corporate boards. Nor have I ever worked in “right wing politics” — or on any campaign of either party. I am a registered independent voter without party affiliation, and the author of over 20 scholarly books on classical, agrarian and military history and culture. Scholarship, and its dissemination among the broader public, are the major criteria by which all Hoover senior fellows are annually reviewed.

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

New Paleoclimatology Finding Shows Earth’s Climate Was Typically Warmer than Today

UN Paris Agreement Architect Blasts Australia’s “Lack of Integrity” on Climate Action

The Climate Warriors are Eyeing Your Plate  And not in a kindly way.

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The stunning discoveries recently made in northern Mexico’s Chiquihuite Cave raise more questions than they answer. Even so, they change the conversation: The who arrived 15,000 years ago in the Western Hemisphere were not the first people here as previously believed. The 30,000-year-old tools and animal remains of Chiquihuite Cave belonged to someone else. We have no idea who, but they were gone for thousands of years by the time the Clovis culture began.

“For decades people have passionately debated when the first humans entered the Americas,” says co-study lead DNA scientist Eske Willerslev of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. “Chiquihuite Cave will create a lot more debate as it is the first site that dates the arrival of people to the continent to around 30,000 years ago — 15,000 years earlier than previously thought.”

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Following an FBI investigation this summer, more than 1,000 researchers who had hidden their affiliation with the Chinese military fled the United States, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

We’re Saved! New Zealand just Declared a Climate Emergency

CBS Goes Full Climate Propaganda: Why Are Humans ‘at War With Nature?’

Severian draws a distinction.

Back at the old Rotten Chestnuts, we discussed the difference between a revolution and a rebellion. Briefly: Revolutions are programmatic, rebellions are pragmatic. A revolution seeks to overturn the existing order of society; a rebellion aims, at most, to churn a society’s leadership. The American and French Revolutions really were revolutions, but so were the American and English Civil Wars. Pretty much all others are mere rebellions, whatever title they might have in the history books.

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I don’t doubt that Orange Man has a sincere love of his country. He might even, given enough time, be able to articulate it. The problem is, “his country” hasn’t existed since the late 1980s, and even then it was mortally wounded. If “Trumpism” actually existed, it would amount to little more than “Wouldn’t it be nice if it were still 1982?” Alas, demographics is destiny.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

For most of Europe, this has been the explicit arrangement. In Scandinavia, what is often called socialism is actually corporatism. Workers get generous benefits, but the state protects business from competition. In other parts of Europe it is not as explicit, but the social contract is based on the cooperation of the government, business and labor unions. The irony is that this was the approach favored by fascist movements, but no one dares mention that bit of history.

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The new system is an informal arrangement between Silicon Valley, Wall Street and the political class in Washington. Left out of this is not only labor, but the bulk of business, which does not operate globally. You see this with Covid. Exceptions were made for the giant corporations, but the small and midsized business forced to knuckle under to draconian measures. A great transfer of power and money is underway from the middle-class to the elites.

UN Climate Agency Slapped With Corruption Allegations 

Climate Emergency! Save the Great British Bakeoff

EXPOSED: Return of Sue-and-Settle: State AGs, DC Swamp Preparing Biggest End-Run in History — “Green New Deal” with No Legislation, No Rulemaking Process, Just a Sweetheart Consent Decree

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None.

The Other McCain sees a glimmer of hope.

People worried about the climate crisis are deciding not to have children because of fears that their offspring would have to struggle through a climate apocalypse, according to the first academic study of the issue.

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The NFL ran a “We may be filthy rich but we’re nice Democrats, not evil Republicans!” ad during one of their Thanksgiving day games. It featured Michael Thomas, an NFL player who is qualified to speak on the complex social problems which face our nation because he is black, an exceptional athlete, and with a prominent beard.

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There’s just so much here. But what really struck me was that he wanted to reduce arrests, so he went to the police department. That would be like trying to reduce car crashes by going to the auto body shop.

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From Julia Child to Paul Bocuse to James Beard, some of the biggest names in food history are also people who have professed their love for the same french fry—a french fry that, in no exaggerated manner, birthed an empire. A french fry that no one has eaten in more than 30 years.

McDonald’s original french fries were cooked in beef tallow. For that fact, they were bullied out of production by a well-funded, well-intentioned businessman and self-proclaimed health advocate named Phil Sokolof, who unknowingly dethroned what many fans claim was the greatest french fry to ever meet mass production. “The french fries were very good,” Child said in a 1995 interview, “and then the nutritionists got at them … and they’ve been limp ever since … I’m always very strong about criticizing them, hoping maybe they’ll change.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #433

Slight, beneficial warming from more carbon dioxide!

The Climate Hustle

Claim: Autonomous EVs will Help Solve the Climate Crisis

What A Biden Presidency Means For Cleantech And Energy Startup Funding

Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener  (Wired ‘Science’)

Polar bear habitat update for late November

Climate change is affecting fall foliage, but not in the way you think  (Popular ‘Science’) Not the way they think, either.

Climategate: Another Anniversary (never forget ….)

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Napoleon Bonaparte was a famous military commander with some interesting information management habits. But he died about 200 years ago (1821), long before computers, the internet, and electronic communication.

So what could we possibly hope to learn from his life about handling email in our digital age?

Turns out, quite a bit.

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One of the recurring questions amid the year’s countless BLM protests and associated riots has been why instead of burning and looting innocent businesses, the angry mob does not target the source of all wealth, income and social inequality – not just in the US but the world – the central bank, i.e. Federal Reserve (located at 2051 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20418 for those unaware).

Yet while US protesters and rioters still need guidance what buildings to burn down, their French peers are finally catching on.

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I am an immigrant and a naturalized citizen. I came to this country at the age of ten, grew up in a blue-collar immigrant household, was raised around primarily Central-Eastern European and Hispanic working-class immigrants, and ultimately married another immigrant. So, according to the left, I represent a demographic that should support open borders and unchecked mass immigration (both legal and illegal), both out of self-interest and for moral reasons. I see things differently, however, and opt for national sovereignty, secure borders and common-sense immigration policies that benefit the United States and its people.

This stance often elicits shock, anger and sneering from leftists, including pro-illegal alien advocates, cheerleaders for increasing already historically high immigration levels and the radical purveyors of divisive identity politics that attempt to pit immigrants against natives. Many foreign born people who don’t buy into the open borders insanity and believe that rational limits make sense are no doubt eye-rollingly familiar with the hostile reactions.

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In 2020, officeless workers learned to doze off between Zoom calls. Maybe now we can admit that the post-turkey crash is nothing to be ashamed of.

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“Petitioners appear to have established a likelihood to succeed on the merits because petitioners have asserted the Constitution does not provide a mechanism for the legislature to allow for expansion of absentee voting without a constitutional amendment,” McCullough wrote.

She also noted that “petitioners appear to have a viable claim that the mail-in ballot procedures set forth in Act 77 contravene” the state’s constitution.