Again…
Got to take Jonna and Kortnee to a pretty good BBQ place last night…
Going to be busy, so little posting and even less commenting. I should be back in battery on Monday.
Go read the folks on the sidebar, they’re better at this than I am!
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They definitely ‘toe the line’ based on what their masters tell them…
“Science,” wrote the philosopher Karl Popper, “is one of the very few human activities – perhaps the only one – in which errors are systematically criticised and fairly often, in time, corrected.” The sub-title of Popper’s 1963 book Conjectures and Refutations, in which he argued that science progresses through inspired conjectures checked by attempts to refute them through criticism, is “The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.” Now, a six-person jury in Washington, DC has refuted Popper’s formulation of the uniqueness of science, finding in favor of climate scientist Michael Mann in the defamation suit he brought against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn dating back to 2012.
Full article, HERE from Real Clear Energy. h/t Eric
This one is…ridiculous, to put it mildly.
Mann’s hockey stick has been disproven multiple times, and it’s well known that he did as much as he could to keep any counter arguments from being published.
The $1 awards were fine, but the $1,000 in punitive damages from Simberg and $1 million from Steyn is when they went off the rails.
Steyn is a conservative, and the ‘masters’ said he must be PUNISHED for questioning the ‘science’…
Why does this sound…oh yeah, $350 M from Trump via a NYC judge…
Grrr…
Sigh…
Late last year, experts confirmed Yellowstone National Park’s first case of the infection — officially known as chronic wasting disease — after a deer carcass found in the Wyoming area of the park tested positive for the highly contagious disease.
Now, cases have been reported in deer, elk and moose in 33 states across the US, as well as in Canada, Norway and South Korea.
The disease “damages portions of the brain and typically causes progressive loss of body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation, and death,” according to the New York State Department of Health.
It is 100% fatal, and there are no treatments or vaccines.
Full article, HERE, and HERE from the NYP and HERE from the CDC.
It’s been in the ‘wild’ for over 40 years, but is just now getting ‘publicity’ outside the hunting community. I think the reason is, tourists/e.g. ‘regular’ people will start seeing them in Yellowstone and PETA et al will start raising a stink over it.
And yes, I do believe this is similar to ‘Mad Cow’, as the researcher, Sabine Gilch, a researcher at the University of Calgary, knows what she is talking about. I also know that people who count on deer, elk, moose, etc. for subsistence protein will continue to hunt the animals.
What are they planning to do with the predators that eat those deer, etc. after they die in the fields/woods? Are they going to put them down too? Cue PETA again…
Maybe PETA could ‘adopt’ all those poor critters and take care of them (pay no attention to their ‘no kill’ shelters that routinely kill dogs/cats).
I think this fall’s hunting season may be a ‘tad’ interesting, depending on where you’re hunting!
Are we peons to the elite?
Or are we ‘flyover country’ and only deserve to be denigrated and ignored by our ‘betters’ on the coasts?
We do pickup trucks, boots, and cowboy hats. And we know about oil, cows, and how to raise, butcher, and cook things. And we don’t think the stuff in grocery stores comes from trucks…
Most of us have travelled, not necessarily by choice, since a simple trip to the store can be 20 miles or more, not down the block to the bodega. A lot of us have also served in the military, or were ‘military adjacent’, e.g. military kids/family.
And yes, most of us believe in God, guns, and country. We don’t care about the color of a person’s skin either. It’s what they are inside that counts for us (that military thing again).
We want our children to be educated, to know readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmatic, and civics too! But we also appreciate those who work in the service side of things, as most of us, at one time or another, have been one of those people.
We value family, and the ‘family’ we choose to associate with. We will help folks at the drop of a hat, knowing that there, but for the grace of God, go us.
And we try to live within our means, although as inflation hits, that becomes harder to do each month. Either that, or I’ve grown so strong I can carry $100 worth of groceries with two fingers (well, it WAS only two bags…sigh).
Given the choice, we always prefer to laugh, not cry, and prefer to live our lives quietly, with dignity, and left in peace.
But if we don’t have that option, we do have other capabilities…
Thank you for attending my TED talk…
The cat is out of the bag…
MSNBC host Katy Tur is questioning the legitimacy of whether the ban against former President Trump’s businesses is “fair.”
Full article, HERE.
And it’s obvious a LOT of business folks are taking a hard look at New York and whether or not their business might be the next one to come to the state’s attention.
I’m betting there will be a quiet exodus in the next couple of years of major corporations to ‘friendlier’ states…
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People get…uncomfortable…
Ann Coulter stuns the Bill Maher crowd with a simple heuristic: "If it were a white male shooting, we'd know."
Maher: "We don't know who did this shooting. The Superbowl shooting"
Coulter: "If it were a white man shooting, we'd know."
Maher: "You think they're repressing that… pic.twitter.com/qbE27hU5QD— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 17, 2024
nuff said…
Another ‘issue’ for Disney to deal with in 2024…
The Walt Disney Company board wants to hide key financial data from the public, particularly as it relates to their funding of the transgender movement and donations to political candidates, documents reviewed by the Daily Caller reveal.
The 2024 proxy vote ballot for Disney’s annual shareholder meeting, scheduled for April 2, reveals the board doesn’t want the public, or even their own shareholders, to know how much Disney spends on “gender transition compensation and benefits” for its staff. Despite the board’s suggested vote to shareholders, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) and National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) are urging the company to release the data.
Full article, HERE.
As if the last couple of years hasn’t been bad enough with the losses in Florida, the Kennedy fiasco(s), their stock is down, and Trian Partners is trying to get people on the board, HERE, to try to straighten out the company to the point it’s actually making money again…
And the cost just keeps going up, and up, and up! My cousins have been taking grandkids to Disney for years, but have decided to quit doing that due to costs, ending a 30 year tradition. I feel for the kids, but when you’re looking at $6000+ for them and five kids for four days, I don’t blame them at all.
And honestly, Disney’s entertainment is in the tank, too!
Sigh…
By this one… So much for DEI in DC…
A plan to integrate two nearby Washington, D.C., schools with vastly different racial backgrounds is sparking fierce debate among parents in the predominantly liberal community.
Nearly 6 in 10 of the 500 children at Maury Elementary School are White. At Miner Elementary School, 80% of the kids are Black, many of whom are in foster care, receive public assistance or are homeless. Enrollment at the school has been declining, according to The Washington Post.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
I know in the South the schools were integrated in the 60s, with little to no problems. I ‘thought’ DC et al were supposedly the ‘leaders’ in this, knowing that the elites went to the high dollar private schools either in VA or MD.
Guess I was wrong, as usual… sigh…
And it looks like the ‘liberals’ are once again showing their true colors, when actions come at them and they have to put up with what they’ve forced down us peon’s throats for years…
Actually, I think it’s pretty funny to watch what is going on, and I think I need more popcorn for this one!
I have it around here somewhere…
Many leftists have made their allegiances clear in the war between Hamas and Israel. This includes members of the mainstream media who have sought to equivocate between Islamic terrorists and the Jewish state — and sometimes report outright lies.
One journalist has taken his bias toward Hamas to an extreme, and it won’t shock you when you find out what outlet he works for.
Full article, HERE.
Especially since this is NOT the first one that has been ‘outed’ so to speak.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since this has been going on for a while. Fifth and Sixth Columns go back to the Spanish Civil War in the mid-1930s.
And usually the ‘media’ was involved in one way or the other, but I don’t think it’s been as blatant as we’ve seen it in the last ten years or so.
What say you?
Welp, the House tried again for Mayorkas.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been impeached by the House of Representatives.
A Cabinet secretary has not been impeached by the U.S. Congress since 1876.
The office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Mayorkas’ impeachment trial will begin later this month.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
So, this will play out over the next month or so, with…predictable results in the Senate, with the Dems refusing to kick him to the curb. Meanwhile, crap that NEEDS to be done will be pushed to the side…
Again…
And there is still no action on the border, the Senate has still refused to take up HR2 which was passed last year, the administration has now decided that the VA should be treating illegals, there is no budget passed, and we are effectively in a 2 front war with Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza/Hezbollah and the Iranian proxies…
And in California’s senate debate, one of the candidates said Commie…er Californians ‘deserve’ $50/hr as a minimum wage to ‘survive’ in that state.
The loonies truly ARE running the asylum…