Steve Sailer.

Do you think that when Admiral Hyman Rickover was a cadet at the Naval Academy he had learn the names for various knots? Or was every knot back then some kind of noose like they are today?

I don’t recognize the knot from the tiny picture but it certainly isn’t a noose.

Climate Hysteria Is Damaging Children

Mont Blanc glacier could collapse at any moment  ‘could’

New IPCC report on ocean warming cites a flawed and retracted paper

Special NY Times Editorial Takes Greta Thunberg’s Side: ‘Climate Kids and Right-Wing Media’

Here Are The Climate Alarmist Predicting The Apocalypse

Climate Bully Plays The Race Card At #ShutDownDC

Team Trump’s Unconvincing Ukraine Spin  Jonah Goldberg

Ukraine Transcript Confirms Trump Asked Zelensky to ‘Look Into’ Biden, Prosecutor  Jack Crowe

The Trump–Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo  David French

Excuses, Excuses  Ramesh Ponnuru

The Impeachment Train  Yuval Levin

Can going nuclear combat climate change?

Dozens of Failed Climate Predictions Stretch 80 Years Back

Steven Novella’s Junk Science About Climate Change Acceleration

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Environmentalists love their trains. Apparently, the cutting edge of 19th-century technology is the solution to our transportation problems. The City of Austin recently spent about $150 million on a commuter rail system. This expenditure has reduced traffic congestion approximately 0 percent. If you stand next to I-35 during rush hour, more people will pass you in one minute than ride the train all day. A while ago, I was stopped at a railroad crossing for one of these trains. When it went by, I could see that there were fewer people in the train than cars stopped for it. It was only for a short time, no longer than a long traffic light. Still, that means that a couple of dozen cars were idling so 20 people could ride the train. If you multiply that by every railroad crossing in the city, that means that more gas is being wasted and more CO² being generated by the idling vehicles than if those twenty people had driven their cars.

A Line-By-Line Response to Greta Thunberg’s UN Speech

Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate

A Clean Kill of the Carbon Dioxide-Driven Climate Change Hypothesis?

We’re Killing the Oceans, and We’ll Pay Dearly for It

Climate for You: The Big Picture

Surprise! Climate Activists Declare UN New York Climate Conference a Failure

Mont Blanc glacier ‘close to collapse’, experts warn, as roads are closed and mountain refuges evacuated

Climate change now irreversible due to warming oceans, UN body warns  So maybe now they’ll shut up about it.

After Release of Ukraine Letter, Andrea Mitchell Compares Trump to Gangster ‘Godfather’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Ukraine Transcript Shows Trump Committed ‘An Outright Betrayal Of Our Country’  Guess she didn’t bother to read it.

Adam Schiff Accuses Trump Of ‘Mafia-Like Shakedown’ Of Ukrainian President  Guess he didn’t bother to read it either.

EU Could Be Spending More On Private Jet Travels For Climate Crusading Officials: Report

Will Making People Late For Work Save The Environment?

Aussie PM Trying to Please Everyone on Climate Change But that trick never works….

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A student who sued Boston College over its mishandling of a sexual assault allegation against him won a $100,000 judgment. The case is considered legally significant because it is the first lawsuit to reach a jury since the Obama administration altered rules for adjudicating sexual assault allegations back in 2011.

Victor Davis Hanson.

So upset are our woke progressive candidates that they insist that the rich, the privileged, the white, and the native-born must now pay ever more penance. Amid such acrimony is an inconvenient truth, though one that remains utterly unspoken: Most of those on stage who are so livid at the exploitative “system” have become wealthy and quite privileged through it — especially since they have spent so much of their adult lives gaming supposedly poorly compensated political service.

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In their paper, Krapivsky and Redner map three simple parking strategies onto an idealized, single row parking lot. Drivers who grab the first space available follow what the authors call a “meek” strategy. They “waste no time looking for a parking spot,” leaving spots near the entrance unfilled. Those who gamble on finding a space right next to the entrance are “optimistic.” They drive all the way to the entrance, then backtrack to the closest vacancy. “Prudent” drivers take the middle path. They drive past the first available space, betting on the availability of at least one other space further in. When they find the closest space between cars, they take it. If no spaces exist between the furthest parked car and the entrance, prudent drivers backtrack to the space a meek driver would have claimed straightaway.

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Thank God white people are no longer running the country or who knows what sort of hellhole it would be.

Babylon Bee.

It’s always worked  before.

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Dont confuse our Narrative with facts!

Scott Adams has come up with a taxonomy of the various stages of a Trump Impeachable Offense, by analogy to the well-known Stages of Grief:

1. Bombshell report in either the New York Times or the Washington Post. ‘We can’t name any of our sources , but it’s A  BOMBSHELL!’
2. The softening — turns out that the situation isn’t exactly the way it was originally reported.
3. The inversion — turns out that whatever took place is perfectly legal and in line with what Presidents are supposed to be doing.
4. Carl Bernstein is trotted out to squawk that it’s Worse Than Watergate.
5. Mitt Romney is trotted out to show that there’s at least one (nominal) Republican who is Deeply Disturbed by the situation.
6. The media try to flog life back in the story by shouting ‘It really happened! It did! You’re talking about it wrong!’

He goes through this about halfway through the linked podcast.

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Which points up a foundational aspect of Trump’s strategy: Use of selective tariffs as a means of leverage againsg both China and domestic corporations.

Ignorant chatter-heads can’t follow this and just complain about ‘Trump’s whims’.

No One Seemed To Notice Greta Thunberg’s Critique Of The Green New Deal

The Washington DC Climate Strike Gets Crashed By A Polar Bear

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #377

Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country

New York Times Pushes ‘Ecocide’ as ‘International Crime Against Peace’

Climate Change Protesters Descend On DC, Nuke Their Own Cause

SolarCity Panels Spontaneously Ignite On Colorado Residential Rooftop  Gotta love that Global Warming.

Global Warming Cooling Change

Zealot Moppet Greta Thunberg Damns Adults as “Evil,” Curses Alexandria Donkey-Chompers’ Cowardly, Lethal Green New Deal

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I’ve always been suspicious of green tea.

Joel Kotkin.

From Jefferson and Madison’s republic of yeoman farmers to the suburban homeowners of the postwar era, the notion of dispersed property ownership shaped our democracy. The founders understood the role of small property owners in ancient Athens and the Roman Republic, as well as contemporary examples in such places as the Netherlands. Those who own something — a house, a farm, a small business — tend to be far more engaged with their communities than those who rent or work merely for wages.

This era may now be coming to an end. In the United States, the proportion of land owned by the nation’s 100 largest private landowners grew by nearly 50 percent between 2007 and 2017. In 2007, according to the Land Report, this group owned a combined 27 million acres of land — holdings larger than the entirety of New England.

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The term “useful idiot,” often credited to Vladimir Lenin, applies to people supporting a cause or movement injurious to their own self-interest. Nowhere is this more relevant these days than in Silicon Valley, a place dominated by brilliant technologists and marketers who often seem to have the social and political acuity of middle schoolers, as evidenced by their strong support for progressive Democrats poised to destroy the underpinnings of their businesses.

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When it comes to the impact of automation (robots, AI, etc.) on jobs, there are two schools of thought: one holds that technology has always created more and better jobs than it destroys, and this will continue to be the case. The other holds that the current wave of automation will destroy far more jobs than it creates, but the solution is to tax the robots and use these revenues to distribute the wealth to everyone who no longer has a livelihood.

John Hinderaker at Power Line gives it to you straight.

If, like me, you have wondered how a left-wing loony like Jeremy Corbyn can remain in control of the Labour Party, this poll, reported in the Sun, suggests the answer: Labour is a party of left-wing loonies.

All of the adults have abandoned the Labour Party. That’s why they suck in the polls even though progressivism is more popular in Britain than it has ever been.

Ace of Spades throws up his hands.

I am sure that all of you are, like me, breathlessly waiting for the next blockbuster charge to be flung against the White House walls by the barking-mad moonbats of the media. Those charges are so often based on the sleazily leaked half-truths and disinformation leaked to them by their compatriots and handlers in the Deep State. But as Angelo Codevilla writes, the Constitution gives the president essentially all the power to conduct foreign policy, and all of the braying and whining and backstabbing in the media arsenal isn’t going to change that.

Climate-Alarmist Parents Warned Not To Cause ‘Eco-Anxiety’ By Terrifying Children  Too late.

In media coverage of climate change, where are the facts?

The Radical Green Road To Venezuela – Poverty, Misery And Dictatorship

90% Of Plastic Waste Polluting Earth’s Oceans Comes From Asia and Africa

Extinction Rebellion protesters cause ‘carnage’ by ‘gluing’ themselves to A20 exit road near Port of Dover

Do Models Run Hot Or Not? A Process Control View

‘Absurd Medieval Witchcraft’: ‘Hannity’ Panel Deconstructs Climate Change ‘Lunacy’

Watch Climate Activists Try To Explain Why They Use Products Made From Fossil Fuels

The best pushback to the misinformation of @GretaThunberg you’ll find

America’s Great Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida Keys  When it hits Malibu, I’ll worry.

Panicky NY Times’s Climate Crusade Feeds Kids’ Fears: ‘Our Terrifying World’

Democrat Candidate: One Year Climate Crisis Mandatory National Service for 18-26 Year Olds

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I’m surprised it wasn’t made mandatory. (Of course, it might have been. Students skip ‘mandatory’ meetings all the time.)

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Houellebecq argues that the social structures which maintained Western hegemony by checking the societally harmful excesses of this competition, namely religion and the family unit, have been gradually lost to individualism and the market. Without any institutional checks on this competition, a growing number of individuals have been left behind. The recognition that one has lost out leads to despair and resentment, emotions which further destabilise society. For Houellebecq, this widespread “atomisation” of society is the principle cause of a perceived decline of the West. His evidence for this demise is the declining birth rates in Western countries. Unlike other broadly right-wing figures, however, Houellebecq is sceptical that the social stabilising force of Christianity can be called upon anytime soon, and he accepts the decline of religion’s influence over society as a logical consequence of scientific progress.

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Liberals who view our meritocracy as a fraud aren’t entirely wrong about their ability to game the system at various stages. It is possible, I take it, to leverage “privilege” to get one’s three year-old into a fancy pre-school program. Indeed, as has been confirmed recently, it’s possible through bribery, in effect, to get one’s 18 year-old into a fancy college (although it’s not clear how widespread this practice is).

Where these liberals (and not just liberals) go wrong, I think, is in hugely overestimating the advantage they bestow on their kids through manipulation. Actual merit will have a vastly greater say in determining ultimate success — success as adults — than will successful parental manipulation of various admissions processes.

‘This is science’: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg she wants action, not praise

The Climate Circus Comes to Town Again

Why 100% Renewable Energy Is Less Realistic Than a Unicorn

Climate Concerned India’s Coal Imports Surging

Climate Confessions

Doomsayers

Century-old ship logs show how much ice the Arctic has lost  Have they looked under the couch?

GOLDSTEIN: Feds scrapped 100 years of data on climate change

Government That Wants You To Take Climate Change Seriously Invites Foreign High School Kid To Testify Before Congress

Birds Are Vanishing from North America  Women and minorities hardest hit.

The Climate Faith

The world is striking for climate action on Friday, and teens made it happen  Which underlines what a stupid idea it is.

ZMan does a deep dive.

In the social realm, there are hidden taxes that are not really hidden, as they are experienced every day, but no one thinks of them as taxes. For example, people living in Lagos on the Chesapeake are well aware of the tax. This is the daily cost of insulating yourself from crime and mayhem. It may be a direct tax like alarm systems or bars on the windows. It can also be an indirect tax, like the two hour commute from one part of the suburbs to another. Time is just another form of money.

There is also an emotional cost that comes with living around so much vibrancy. When you live in a place like Lagos, around the tax, you can never relax. Life in diverse areas is a constant struggle between two species that were never meant to occupy the same ecosystem. The fragile peace is a source of stress, because it is so fragile. You know that the cost of that peace is tolerating the endless inconveniences. The pale face just assumes maintaining the peace is his burden alone.

It is not just the anxiety of living in constant danger. The tax shows up in a million little ways in your daily life. If you go into a lunch place in certain parts of town, you can expect to see a local struggling to order from the menu. The inculcated sense of entitlement means they will waste time ordering odd things that slow up the whole process for everyone. In the grocery store, shoppers will pick checkout lines, based on the assumed tax in each option. Everyone tries to be a tax dodger.

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Our language is full of interjections and verbal gestures that don’t necessarily meananything beyond themselves. Most of our words – ‘baseball’, ‘thunder’, ‘ideology’ – seem to have a meaning outside themselves – to designate or stand for some concept. The way the word looks and sounds is only arbitrarily connected to the concept that it represents.

But the meanings of other expressions – including our hmms, hars and huhs – seem much more closely tied to the individual utterance. The meaning is inseparable from or immanent in the expression. These kinds of expressions seem to have meaning more how a particular action might have meaning.

Audacious Epigone runs the numbers.

It has been funny to watch Woke whites caterwauling over Joe Biden’s alleged racism with increasing frequency and intensity.

Meanwhile, he remains at the top of the polls of because of his thus far unshakable black support and, to a lesser extent, his support among Hispanics and Asians.

In the latest YouGov poll, taken after the third debate where Biden made another unforgivable remark about something or other having to do with how black parents raise their parents, Warren is beating Biden among white primary voters but he is crushing her among non-whites in general and blacks in particular (where he beats her 47% to 11%) and as a consequence has a six-point edge overall:

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The future of nuclear power has long been part of the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT’s Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, built in the 1950s, is the second-largest university reactor in the United States. But it’s small — operating at just 1% of the energy of the recently closed Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

‘Reboot’: CBS Admits Climate Accord Signees Not Living up to Commitment

If You Put Junk Science In, You’ll Get Junk Science Out

Only 38% Of Americans Believe Humans Mainly Responsible For Climate Change

If Sir David King is scared about global warming, we needn’t worry

Fossil Fool Divestment Achieves New Level of Really Stupid and Futile Gesturing!

“Scientific” Predictions About Humanity and Resources

Getting Religion: NBC Solicits Confessions of Climate Change Sins

Climate Protestor Thieves get a Free Pass from a French Judge

Blowing-up asteroid to block out Sun could stop global warming – it’s happened before, say scientists 

In Pakistan’s warming mountains, farmers fish for a new living

How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’

Climate claims and weather predictions.

MSNBC Hosts Mock Their Own Kids as Way of Praising Climate ‘Voice for Change’

Telemundo Joins NBC’s Corporate Climate Alarmism

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Dongyuan Li pleaded guilty to two federal criminal charges, one count of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, for her involvement in a birth tourism business that was based in Orange County, California, according to a press release from the Justice Department.

Babylon Bee.

At a panel on climate change held yesterday, the Senate brought in a group of excited third graders for ideas on fighting climate change.

By contrast with the Senators, the children were focused, polite, and full of ideas.

Jean-Louis Gassée.

Moving past a brief apology for the unavoidable wordplay, we take a look at Trump’s simple motto for his 2020 campaign. Even simpler and probably more effective than his 2016 Make America Great Again.

A certified Crustian sounds the alarm for his own side.

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Oh, if only it were that easy….

(Be aware that The Register is run by ‘progressive’ British tech nerds so their knowledge of Orthodox religious practice is pretty superficial.)

Steve Sailer.

In an era obsessed with how white guys down through the centuries have hurt the feelings of nonwhite guys by inventing so much, male creativity increasingly shrinks back to obscure bailiwicks that nobody else cares much about, such as baseball.

Since the 1970s, smart whites and Asians who like working with data have increasingly turned to their safe space: baseball. So far, at least, you can recognize all the patterns you want in baseball statistics without a Twitter mob canceling your career.

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If you’ve ever stood in front of your recycling bin—unsure if the trash in your hands is recyclable—and threw it in anyway, this article is for you.

Over on Mother Jones, writer Jackie Flynn Mogensen followed the effects of “wishcycling,” when a consumer commits this trash faux-pas in the hopes that somewhere down the line, their garbage will find its rightful place whether it be with other, similar recyclables or in a landfill.

People who write for Mother Jones are like that.

Roker ‘Thrilled’ By NBC’s Climate Unit, Hypes ‘Crisis’ in Greenland

Board of Supervisors: Albemarle County

The Dim-Bulb Tide of Climate Crisis Alarmism

Guardian Suggests UN is Boosting Greta Thunberg to Undermine President Trump’s Climate Policy

CJR Brags About Putting Climate Agenda in Front of One Billion People

Leading snowboard brand to close all stores in support of the Global Climate Strike – what else is the ski industry doing to combat global warming?

Why today’s renewables cannot power modern civilization

‘Climate Rebels’ Plan To Blockade Traffic To Push For Green New Deal  I’m not sure that inconveniencing people is effective in getting them to support your cause.

D.C. Drowns: NBC Makes Same Hysterical Prediction as 30 Years Ago  I keep waiting and it never happens.

Tim Flannery Admits His 20 Years of Climate Activism are a “Colossal Failure”

Babylon Bee.

Can’t say that I blame him.