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Is that ironic? I’ve lost track.

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Past time. Inflation has made it effectively worthless.

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The headlines are screaming about recent increases in coronavirus cases, with some suggesting that the essential problem is the loosening of the lockdowns and restrictions. A number of media sources note that many of the problematic locations are “red” states with Republican leadership.

NY Times Fakes a Climate Change Debate

Climate Wars: Try Removing the Word “Denier” from a Wikipedia Entry

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #416

The Ideological Corruption of Science

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In 2019, people working outside their homelands sent $554 billion of their earnings back to their native countries. Nearly all of this cash flowed from developed nations to less developed ones. The $554 billion in remittances eclipsed the total of all foreign investment in these receiving nations, and three times the amount these nations received in foreign aid.

Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis touched off a global economic crisis, resulting in millions of lost jobs and restrictions on travel that make it difficult for foreign workers to get to a job in another country, even if one is available. For countries like the United States, the long-term impact of millions of foreign workers – legal and illegal – and the resulting loss of job opportunities and wages for native workers and the outflow of $150 billion each year is a problem.

ZMan points out a trend.

Bertrand Russel said, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” It is a pithy aphorism that has now been amplified by modernity into a description of liberal democracy. In every Western country, the stupid drown out everyone else in the court of public opinion, but do so with a breath-taking degree of self-righteous sanctimony. The hallmark of the modern man is to have an opinion on everything, almost all of them wrong.

It is not that the stupid have been made supreme, although it certainly seems that way when you encounter public opinion. It’s that everything has been politicized to the point where every issue, no matter how small, becomes a moral signifier. Where you stand on the issue says something about you and your position in society. If you don’t have an opinion on an issue, it is assumed you are ignorant or possibly in league with dark forces, those who hold the “horrifically” wrong opinion.

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‘Voter Suppression’ is DemSpeak for actually enforcing the rules.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

How climate change alarmists are actually endangering the planet

Climate Change Dilemma: Rescuing Nature Through “Assisted Migration” vs Invasive Ecosystem Disruption

Arctic Ocean changes driven by sub-Arctic seas

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As data accrues on both a national and state-by-state basis, the parameters of COVID-19’s lethality is firming up. Two new papers from Dr. John Ioannidis point to the growing shortfall between apocalyptic pandemic predictions and the vastly more destructive policies implemented in observance of them.

Math is hard.

Jonathan Turley has forgotten more about law than you or I will ever know.

But criticism of this commutation immediately seemed to be decoupled from any foundation in history or in the Constitution. Indeed, Toobin also declared, “This is simply not done by American presidents. They do not pardon or commute sentences of people who are close to them or about to go to prison. It just does not happen until this president.” In reality, the commutation of Stone barely stands out in the old gallery of White House pardons, which are the most consistently and openly abused power in the Constitution. This authority under Article Two is stated in absolute terms, and some presidents have wielded it with absolute abandon.

Followed by a laundry list of such questionable pardons going back to Thomas Jefferson.

Funny how the Democrats and the DemLegHump Media scream bloody murder about stuff that their side would do in a heartbeat — and often have. One could make a long list of political shenanigans indulged in by Obama and Eric Holder.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

The trick, of course, is distinguishing between the two.

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A few days later, a retired mechanic named Charlie buys your grandfather’s watch for $150. A 19-year-old line cook acquires your Beats headphones. And a nurse from Florida becomes the proud new owner of the scarf your mom knitted you for Christmas.

Yet another reason not to fly.

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You can count on it.

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“Patty” refers to Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, who became famous for her kidnapping and brainwashing by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. To my knowledge, Stella Morabito (Why Do So Many White Women Hate Themselves?) is the first to make the comparison between Hearst and the woke white women torching and terrorizing our communities and verbally abusing policemen — including policemen of color (POC). She contends they have been similarly brainwashed and convinced to hate who they are….

Carbon dioxide level unprecedented in 15 MY… More evidence it’s not the climate control knob!

Time:  Covid Economic Contraction “just in time” to Delay the Climate Crisis  What a confidence.

‘As a child, I was prepared for the end of the world. Now I know it is coming’  The Guardian.

‘Deniers’ of the World, Unite!

PANIC! New TIME Cover Says 2020 Is ‘One Last Chance’ to Save Planet  Our One Last Chance #11,435,678.

Climate News Updates

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But of course that’s not possible because ‘election fraud’ is just a Republican myth.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

I remember that my father habitually wore a hat until some time in the early 1960s, and then never did again. Nowadays it is very jarring to see e.g. Roger Stone wearing a hat in public; makes you wonder what he’s up to.

It seems that the only people who wear hats these days are the goobers who wear ball caps in restaurants. I hate those guys.

Steve Sailer lays out the brackets.

Facebook Accused of Allowing Climate Deniers to Promote Their Views

House “Climate Crisis Committee” issues massive meaningless wish list

2020: A Rough Year For Greta?

10 fallacies about Arctic sea ice & polar bear survival refute misleading ‘facts’

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While the old adage says that money can’t buy happiness, several studies have determined that the more your income increases, the happier you are, up until US$75,000 a year. After hitting that threshold, more income doesn’t make a difference.

But in a new analysis of more than 40,000 U.S. adults aged 30 and over, my colleague and I found an even deeper relationship between money and happiness.

Because the survey data spanned five decades, from 1972 to 2016, we were also able to see if the link between money and happiness changed over the years. That’s where things got interesting: Today, money and happiness are more strongly related than they were in the past. It seems money buys more happiness than it used to.

The toys have gotten a lot nicer.

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She’s still looking for the perfect Clinton Crustian no-show job.

Steve takes the long view.

A .17 HMR varmint round is pretty gross. It goes into an animal and blows up immediately. It’s not great for going deeply into a big creature like a human being. Most experts claim deep penetration is crucial for incapacitation, but anything that goes in a couple of inches and then wrecks a baseball-sized region of flesh is likely to discourage a 20-year-old racist snowflake who thought it would be easy to enter your home, cleanse it of scary genocidal pancake syrup, kill or enslave you and your family, and set up housekeeping.

Life is so much easier if you just RTFM.

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Hey, he forgot, alright? It could happen to anybody.

Steve Sailer deals with some pretty blatant cultural appropriation.

Before I finally watched Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s colossally popular Broadway musical depicting the Founding Fathers as rapping Men of Color, I had never heard that it’s so childish. I don’t know how to judge hip-hop, but after a while the endless rhymes about the Constitutional Convention started sounding less like Eminem and more like Dr. Seuss. Hamilton is like if The Butter Battle Book took two hours and 45 minutes to recite.

Steve Sailer has an idea.

What America needs is an annual Homicide Awards show where cities compete over their Achievement in the Field of Homicide. Winning mayors would receive from celebrity presenters like O.J., Phil Spector, and Ramzan Kadyrov 2-foot-tall figurines of a criminal firing a Hi-Point held sideways, the Homie.

The Arctic Is On Fire, and We Should all Be Terrified  Terrified!

A heat wave thawed Siberia’s tundra. Now, it’s on fire.  On fire!

The law that could make climate change illegal  BBC.

Bushfire Royal Commission: Climate Change has “Gone Nuclear”

*False Alarm*, the new book by Bjorn Lomborg

Litigation Against Fossil Fuel Producers Is An Obnoxious Money Chase

Arctic Siberia saw exceptionally high temperatures as global warmth matched last year’s record levels for June

Activists have shut down two major fossil fuel pipelines—at least for now

It’s time to grieve the world we’ve lost to climate change—and start to move on  And for God’s sake shut up about it already.

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Why subject yourself to a Democrat dystopia if you can escape?

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Harvard will be teaching solely on-line this fall (with some students in residence), yet charging full tuition rates. Many commentators are thus suggesting this supplies evidence for the signaling theory of education.

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Not just ‘rich’, not just ‘super-rich’, but MEGA-RICH! So if you’re one of the merely rich, you can forget about it.

(Journalism 101: It’s never ‘the right’ but always ‘the ultra-right’; it’s never ‘the rich’ but always ‘the mega-rich’.)

The Guardian: “Stop making sense: why it’s time to get emotional about climate change”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #415

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Within the past few years, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Farydak for treating multiple myeloma, Avycaz for abdominal infections, Vraylar for schizophrenia, Idelvion for hemophilia, Luzu for athlete’s foot and Byvalson for high blood pressure.

Saying these names aloud, some may hear a strange and lovely music, while others may imagine aliens arriving from distant planets. Similarly, naming a drug is a complicated process.

Claim: Global Warming Could Stress Tropical Plants  Quick! To the therapists, Batman!

Michael E. Mann – wrong again

Weaknesses of solar and wind, Myths and Questions that require an answer

Claim: 60% of Fish Can’t Cope with Worst Case Global Warming

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On Friday night’s PBS NewsHour, David Brooks gaffed. He called the Lincoln Project of ex-McCain advisers the “Jefferson Project.” He claimed they are conservatives, Trump is merely an anti-leftist.

“Republicans for Biden” is very exciting for all the leftists at PBS, who take conservative money and make Democrat propaganda. David Brooks is precisely this kind of fraudulent pseudoconservative supporting Biden each week.

Anti-leftist is enough for me; I don’t care about conservative.

Freeberg does a deep dive.

A third of a century into arguing with them on the Internet, I’m still struggling to figure out what the true difference is between liberals vs. normal people who think competently.

A lot of it has to do with feelings. When we grown-ups make a decision feeling a certain way, we are troubled by the possibility that deciding it at another time, with the facts remaining the same, in a different mood we might make a different call. This inspires reflection: Would we be wrong then, or are we wrong now? To a liberal, that proclivity toward emotional reasoning is a feature and not a bug. It seems like they live in a world in which all feelings have to be expressed, and making decisions about things is just another way of expressing them.