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If there even is a convention, which I suspect the Powers That Be are maneuvering to prevent.

Note that none of them are wearing masks.

Lawsuit: Aussie Government Not Applying Climate Disclosure Rules to Government Bonds

Settled Science? New Climate Study Shifts the Goalposts to 2.6-3.9C

Chaos and Weather

A Billion More Tons of Plastic Could Blanket Earth by 2040  Blanket!

UNSW Report Mixes Climate Change with Chinese Legal Reform

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Tequila inspires strong opinions in people, just like the Beatles, goat cheese, and the 1988 Detroit Pistons. Some can’t stand the smell or taste of it; others relish every sip and wait for the “tequila!” feeling to hit.

But the fact is, tequila and its smokier sister, mezcal, have never been more popular outside of their Mexican homeland. The spirits rocketed to the top of the US drinking charts in 2019, and are projected to surpass rum in buying volume in the next few years. And while they both may be mainstream at this point, there’s still a lot consumers don’t know about the distillation process. Here are five essential questions and answers about the fiery desert libations.

Bottom line: There is no potable liquid so obscure that somebody won’t ferment an alcoholic beverage out of it.

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An interesting take.

Steve Sailer.

The unforgivable fact of 2020 is that white men have done most of the great things of the last 600 years. This deeply angers many nonwhite people today that their ancestors didn’t accomplish much.

NYT Slams Bjørn Lomborg’s New Climate Economics Book

Thunberg Donates 100,000 Pounds to Criminalize ‘Ecocide’

Louis-Dreyfus Short Circuits For Joe: Vote Biden Or ‘Octopuses’ Will Be ‘Stuck In Trees’

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I laughed when I saw The Washington Post headline: “Minneapolis had progressive policies, but its economy still left black families behind.”

The media are so clueless. Instead of “but,” the headline should have said, “therefore,” or “so, obviously.”

Of course, progressive policies failed! They almost always do.

“If you wanted a poster child for the progressive movement, it would be Minneapolis,” says Republican Minnesota Senate candidate Jason Lewis in my new video. “This is the same city council that voted to abolish the police department.”

The council, which has no Republicans, spends taxpayer money on most every progressive idea.

They brag that they recycle most everything. They have a plan to stop climate change. They tell landlords to whom they must rent. They will force employers to pay every worker $15 an hour. They even tell supermarkets what cereal they must sell.

Despite such policies, meant to improve life for minorities and the poor, the Minneapolis income gap between whites and Blacks is the second-highest in the country.

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I suspect foul play. Maybe he had dirt on Hillary or some life-shortening condition like that.

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Be the first on your block to do likewise, I guess. FOMO informs a lot of what passes for journalism these days.

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According to CNBC, anyway. If that’s important to you.

First Methane Leak Found on Antarctic Sea Floor Confirms Researchers’ Fears  Fears!

Climate-change hysteria costs lives — but activists want to keep panic alive

After 40 years, researchers finally see Earth’s climate destiny more clearly  Took ’em long enough.

Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change  Almost!

Is the demise of polar bears being exaggerated?

University Appeal Upheld, Peter Ridd Loses – We all Lose

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With almost 150,000 COVID-19 deaths, the United States, putative leader of the free world, now is competing with Brazil and Russia for global supremacy in pandemic mismanagement. Not only does the United States lack any kind of coherent federal leadership on this issue, but even state and city leaders have fallen into bickering—and even lawsuits—over the correct response. While many Western nations have all but extinguished COVID-19 within their borders, the American pandemic is raging with a new ferocity. Yet some conservatives continue to protest even basic public-health measures, including masks. How could some of America’s best and brightest abet their country’s collapse into dysfunction in the face of a once-in-a-century pandemic?

Maybe, just maybe, they’re not buying what you’re selling.

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Twitter was accused of anti-Semitism after locking multiple accounts of users with profiles that feature images of the Star of David, which the platform called “hateful imagery.” Days later, the platform then unlocked the accounts, but one group that fights anti-Semitism called that response “inept.”

The users got a message from Twitter saying: “We have determined that this account violated the Twitter Rules. Specifically for: Violating our rules against posting hateful imagery. You may not use hateful images or symbols in your profile image or profile header. As a result, we have locked your account.”

The Campaign Against Antisemitism said it received complaints from users over the last few days saying their accounts had been locked by the social media platform.

Melting permafrost linked to impending environmental disaster — study  Disaster! Impending!

It Was NOT Climate Change That Caused Neanderthal Extinction

Activism: Colbert, Thunberg Hope Govt. Will Take ‘Extraordinary Measures’ Like With Coronavirus, For Climate  This would have a greater chance of success if Greta were black or transgender.

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There is, I think, a growing awareness of the fact that, however much the current unrest in cities on both sides of the Atlantic owes to anger over the killing of George Floyd, police brutality, and racial injustice, other factors are also at work, most notably a struggle within the elite, or more broadly, within the elite and those who would be in it, much of it a consequence of what the University of Connecticut’s Peter Turchin has dubbed “elite overproduction”.

Too many potential Crustians for the Crust to absorb.

Polar Bears Could Face Extinction By 2100 Due To Climate Change, Study Says  Extinction!

Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100  Lost!

Greta Thunberg wins prize worth €1m – but pledges to give it away to climate change charities  It’s not as if she needs to go to college or anything, since she already knows it all.

Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”

DOJ is Right to Limit Enviro Groups’ Free-Riding on Its Enforcement Actions

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And who could blame them?

Firms in New York’s financial district are facing an onslaught of headwinds amounting to great reasons to simply pick up and leave: employees working from home, unused office space, a mayor who has squelched law and order in the city and a state legislature obsessed with taxation, just to name a few.

That’s why we weren’t surprised when Bloomberg reported that New York’s financial and professional-services industries are considering eliminating up to 20% of their footprint in the city.

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I think he just did it to see what sort of dance moves the Democrats can come up with.

This is one of those “let’s pull their chain and see what happens” moments that he likes to do when he gets bored.

Steve Sailer keeps asking inconvenient questions.

For months I’ve been asking for somebody to calculate the cost of COVID-19 deaths in terms of the medical research standard of Quality Adjusted Life Years lost (a.k.a., Disability Adjusted Life Years lost). For example, assuming that average life expectancy is 80 and the average age of people who die in car accidents is 40, then car accidents take somewhat less than 40 years of Quality Adjusted Life Years (due to downward adjustments for quality of life).

Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook

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The University of California has been admitting underqualified international students ahead of some of the state’s top students, according to a lawsuit.

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“Over the past several years, the university has undermined its commitment to residents in an effort to increase its revenue by recruiting and enrolling nonresidents,” state auditor Elaine Howle wrote in 2016.

Money money money mon-ey … MONEY….

4 new products that show Corporate America is getting serious about climate change CNN.

Scientists: Climate Change Will Get So Hot Your Organs Shut Down  Scientists!

As the world heats up, converting to energy-efficient cooling systems will curb greenhouse gas emissions If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

The EU’s Climate Change Effort Is Comically Exaggerated

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And what they want is, of course, far more important than what anybody else might want.

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In recent decades, income inequality in the United States has increased sharply, and the novel coronavirus crisis seems to have exacerbated the problem. Some blame tax cuts for creating billionaires and leaving the middle class behind, but it’s not that simple. While lower taxes did influence inequality, taxes alone are a red herring. Mounting evidence shows something else driving the uptick in inequality: Regulation.

Taxes are salient to this conversation, while regulation is silent. Every year on your W-2, and even more frequently on your paycheck, you see how many dollars of income you lose to taxes. Yet there is no such accounting for the unseen power of regulation to lower the average American’s income, raise prices and protect the position of the wealthy.

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I’ve known people like that.

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Follow the science.

Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’ BBC. Or maybe not….

US farmers’ beef with Burger King over cow fart ad

The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time  Sure, I believe that….

Apocalypse never

Freeberg lets loose.

Most of the frustrations involved in living as an adult human, have to do with conflict between appealing narratives vs. inconvenient realities. And perhaps the best example of this is the narrative that conservatives & liberals can, and should, “sit down and work out their/our differences, find common ground, labor toward the common good and learn from each other.” I think deep down both sides really do want that…so long as it doesn’t involve giving up anything. If it’s cost-free, most people with political opinions would like to be Archie & Meathead after they’ve softened up and learned to see eye-to-eye.

Our parents did that with other grown-ups who didn’t share the same political affiliations, right? Should be easy!

The problem is that what we today call “liberalism” has eschewed any & all notion that its adherents have anything at all to learn from those who are not adherents. This is non-negotiable. All electoral contests and all differences of opinion involve illegitimacy and ignorance on the side of the argument that is not theirs. Every election they lose, was cheated. Every dissenting opinion, indeed every statement or question that bleeds off some of the momentum, intentionally or not, comes from someone who shouldn’t have opinions at all.

Liberalism has devolved into a slightly off-center “I know something you don’t know” smirk. Worn by people who haven’t accomplished anything. And want to make all the decisions that matter, without accepting any ownership of the eventual results.

Polar bear survival contradictions: sea ice decline vs. documented harm

Methane rises to highest level on record

Federal Court Allows Dakota Access Pipeline To Keep Pumping Oil, Dealing Blow To Environmental Activist

Vice: The New Ford Bronco Is An Obscene Monument to Climate Denialism

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But nevertheless we have to PANIC!

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Letting anarchists roam the streets will do that.

Democrats: Party of Fear — Party of Hate — Party of Death.

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Cats can transfer a variety of infections, including MRSA, toxoplasmosis, ringworm, and hookworm.

Gee, thanks, guys.

Federal Court Allows Dakota Access Pipeline To Keep Pumping Oil, Dealing Blow To Environmental Activist

COLLUSION: Nets Hide Skyrocketing Costs of Biden’s ‘Clean Energy’

Against Environmental Pessimism

The future of flooding and how it may affect waterside cities

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People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now I’ve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.

Steve Sailer.

In accordance with our culture’s declining intellectual prowess, our new creed is a very simple faith, with one black-and-white dogma:

Blacks are best and whites are worst.

In 2020, all you need to know is who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change

UK government support for modular reactor deployment : New Nuclear

BBC Asks Dr. Willie Soon to Respond to Climate Conspiracy Claims

Acid Oceans? & Oyster Shells

Claim: Climate Change is Helping Herbivorous Crabs To Wreck Salt Marshes  Feel free to wring your hands and hyperventilate.

Reducing Cows´ Methane Emissions  And saving the planet!

Your Car Is Spewing Microplastics That Blow Around the World  Wired ‘Science’.

Burger King Posts RANK Climate Change Video: ‘Cow Farts & Burps Are No Laughing Matter’  Fooled me.

Global Warming Disaster: Dangerous Amounts Of Methane Released As Republicans Rush To Buy Goya Beans  Babylon Bee.

Biden steps up his clean-energy plan, in a nod to climate activists