Thursday, July 25, 2019
'Blood on your hands if you open up that burger joint' - WND
'Blood on your hands if you open up that burger joint' - WND:
An American burger joint is postponing its scheduled opening due to fierce backlash from Arab-Americans over the popular company’s Israeli roots.
Sam Zahr, a Lebanese-American who lives in Dearborn, Michigan, made the decision to delay the opening of his local Burgerim franchise after his children were bullied and he received “blood”-filled threats from people opposed to the eatery founded in Israel, according to the Detroit Free Press.
An American burger joint is postponing its scheduled opening due to fierce backlash from Arab-Americans over the popular company’s Israeli roots.
Sam Zahr, a Lebanese-American who lives in Dearborn, Michigan, made the decision to delay the opening of his local Burgerim franchise after his children were bullied and he received “blood”-filled threats from people opposed to the eatery founded in Israel, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Non-Renewable Resources Never Really Run Out | PSI Intl
Non-Renewable Resources Never Really Run Out | PSI Intl
"There’s a remarkable confusion in the modern debate over energy sources.
Informed by geological rather than economic considerations, energy sources and some raw materials are thought of either as “Renewables” or “Non-Renewables” — and the former is somehow much preferred to the later...
Simply put: we found more of it.
"There’s a remarkable confusion in the modern debate over energy sources.
Informed by geological rather than economic considerations, energy sources and some raw materials are thought of either as “Renewables” or “Non-Renewables” — and the former is somehow much preferred to the later...
- How Non-Renewable Resources Don’t Run Out
In 1944 the world’s amount of proven oil reserves were 51bn barrels of oil.
In 2018 the world’s proven oil reserves were almost 1,500bn (BP estimates 1,730bn ), i.e., about thirty times that of 1944 — and this despite humanity’s pretty voracious appetite for oil during the seven-odd decades in between. Anyone immersed in the naïve resource depletion theory has to incredulously ask himself — how can this be?
In 2018 the world’s proven oil reserves were almost 1,500bn (BP estimates 1,730bn ), i.e., about thirty times that of 1944 — and this despite humanity’s pretty voracious appetite for oil during the seven-odd decades in between. Anyone immersed in the naïve resource depletion theory has to incredulously ask himself — how can this be?
Simply put: we found more of it.
Markets with well-defined property rights use prices and profit motives to guide the allocation of resources — including, in this case, the investment resources that go into prospecting for oil or digging up metals in the ground. Markets use prices to convey information about the present and future availability of raw materials — with innovation allowing us to find, extract, and use them more efficiently and substitution regulating our want for them.
The remarkable contrast to this point is the reverence often given to so-called renewables, i.e., energy sources that don’t run out.
The ideal example is the sun, ceaselessly blasting the Earth with more energy than we’ll ever need.
...Some of these are truly “renewable” in that their sources never run out (wind, thermal, ocean, sun), but they come with well-known problems of capture, scale, storage, and distribution.
...Simon pointed out that
- …But Renewables Do
The remarkable contrast to this point is the reverence often given to so-called renewables, i.e., energy sources that don’t run out.
The ideal example is the sun, ceaselessly blasting the Earth with more energy than we’ll ever need.
...Some of these are truly “renewable” in that their sources never run out (wind, thermal, ocean, sun), but they come with well-known problems of capture, scale, storage, and distribution.
...Simon pointed out that
Over the course of history, up to this very moment, copper and other minerals have been getting less scarce rather than more scarce, as the depletion theory implies … natural resources are not finite in any meaningful economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion may be.
Simon’s assessment almost forty years ago still rings true today: raw materials have become more plentiful, not scarcer — contrary to what the depletion theorists would have you believe.
While renewable energy sources do run out — often as a result of insufficient property rights — non-renewable resources don’t.
The conclusion from a century-plus of raw materials’ extraction can thus be neatly summarized as: burn all you want — we’ll find more .-Read more at mises.org"
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While renewable energy sources do run out — often as a result of insufficient property rights — non-renewable resources don’t.
The conclusion from a century-plus of raw materials’ extraction can thus be neatly summarized as: burn all you want — we’ll find more .-Read more at mises.org"
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History for July 25
History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com
Morris Raphel Cohen 1880, Walter Brennan 1894, Eric Hoffer 1902
Barbara Harris 1935, Walter Payton (NFL) 1954, Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Mueller’s serial senior moments today revealed he was a front-man for Trump-haters
Mueller’s serial senior moments today revealed he was a front-man for Trump-haters:
This revelation is huge problem for the media that has portrayed Mueller as a legend in his own time, a man of unquestionable integrity, brilliance, and devotion. Their puffery has exploded in their faces like an Acme cigar in a Warner Brothers cartoon. The entire narrative that the media and other Democrats have peddled since shortly after Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 is busted on multiple levels.
Crenshaw On Border: Dems ‘Don’t Want Solutions,’ Just To Make Trump Seem ‘Evil’ | The Daily Caller
Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw chastised New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for not working to fix the border crisis and painting President Donald Trump as “evil” Monday on “Fox and Friends.”
Legal extortion?-----Neil Armstrong’s Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement - The New York Times
Neil Armstrong’s Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement - The New York Times
"When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut’s millions of admirers around the globe.
...But in private, the family’s reaction to his death at 82 was far stormier.
His two sons contended that incompetent post-surgical care at Mercy Health — Fairfield Hospital had cost Mr. Armstrong his life, and even one expert retained by the hospital would find serious problems with his treatment.
The hospital defended the care, but paid the family $6 million to settle the matter privately and avoid devastating publicity, documents show.
The hospital insisted on keeping the complaints and the settlement secret.
...In a scorching July 2014 email to the hospital’s lawyers, Wendy R. Armstrong, a lawyer and the wife of Mr. Armstrong’s son Mark, noted that Mark and his brother, Rick, would soon be traveling to Florida to speak at a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing.
“This event at Kennedy Space Center will receive national news coverage,” Wendy Armstrong wrote. “Rick and Mark have been solicited by several book writers and filmmakers for ‘information about Neil that no one already knows.’”
The lawyer suggested that unless the parties reached a quick settlement, the hospital would be publicly criticized for giving lethally flawed care to one of America’s most famous and revered public figures..."
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"When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut’s millions of admirers around the globe.
...But in private, the family’s reaction to his death at 82 was far stormier.
The hospital defended the care, but paid the family $6 million to settle the matter privately and avoid devastating publicity, documents show.
The hospital insisted on keeping the complaints and the settlement secret.
...In a scorching July 2014 email to the hospital’s lawyers, Wendy R. Armstrong, a lawyer and the wife of Mr. Armstrong’s son Mark, noted that Mark and his brother, Rick, would soon be traveling to Florida to speak at a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing.
“This event at Kennedy Space Center will receive national news coverage,” Wendy Armstrong wrote. “Rick and Mark have been solicited by several book writers and filmmakers for ‘information about Neil that no one already knows.’”
The lawyer suggested that unless the parties reached a quick settlement, the hospital would be publicly criticized for giving lethally flawed care to one of America’s most famous and revered public figures..."
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Too much "sad" or "angry" gonna git you in trouble with the FB police!-----Upcoming Facebook Changes | The Admin Zone
Upcoming Facebook Changes | The Admin Zone:"...Negative ratings reflect poorly on the admin team.
Negative ratings are the angry face, the sad face, member reported content, and the number of people who block you.
These things also reflect poor ratings on groups and suppress reach.
Facebook wants the user experience to be positive.
Sad or angry face reactions tells Facebook that the user is having a bad experience, therefore diminishing your organic reach..."
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There’s A Full-Fledged Fight Over The Wall Going On In The Supreme Court | The Daily Caller
There’s A Full-Fledged Fight Over The Wall Going On In The Supreme Court | The Daily Caller:
The Trump administration asked the high court to rule on its stay application by July 26 because of budget issues. The $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds at issue in this case will not be available for assignment after the fiscal years ends Sept. 30 and the Defense Department needs several months to finalize contracts for each barrier project, according to government lawyers.
The Trump administration asked the high court to rule on its stay application by July 26 because of budget issues. The $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds at issue in this case will not be available for assignment after the fiscal years ends Sept. 30 and the Defense Department needs several months to finalize contracts for each barrier project, according to government lawyers.
Air-conditioner maker Lennox cuts forecast, citing ‘significantly cooler temperatures’ | Watts Up With That?
Air-conditioner maker Lennox cuts forecast, citing ‘significantly cooler temperatures’ | Watts Up With That?"Key Points
- Lennox International lowers its 2019 guidance, partially based on colder temperatures.
- “Significantly cooler temperatures and higher precipitation across the United States adversely impacted the HVAC market in the second quarter,” says Chairman and CEO Todd Bluedorn....
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German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future - SPIEGEL ONLINE
German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future - SPIEGEL ONLINE
"In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future.
Since then, however, progress has been limited.
Berlin has wasted billions of euros and resistance is mounting.
...Germany's Federal Court of Auditors is even more forthright about the failures.
The shift to renewables, the federal auditors say, has cost at least 160 billion euros in the last five years.
Meanwhile, the expenditures "are in extreme disproportion to the results,"
Federal Court of Auditors President Kay Scheller said last fall, although his assessment went largely unheard in the political arena. Scheller is even concerned that voters could soon lose all faith in the government because of this massive failure..."
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"In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future.Since then, however, progress has been limited.
Berlin has wasted billions of euros and resistance is mounting.
...Germany's Federal Court of Auditors is even more forthright about the failures.
The shift to renewables, the federal auditors say, has cost at least 160 billion euros in the last five years.
Meanwhile, the expenditures "are in extreme disproportion to the results,"
Federal Court of Auditors President Kay Scheller said last fall, although his assessment went largely unheard in the political arena. Scheller is even concerned that voters could soon lose all faith in the government because of this massive failure..."
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Deregulation explodes under Trump, 13 regulations killed for every new one, $33B saved
Deregulation explodes under Trump, 13 regulations killed for every new one, $33B saved:
It was an odd, geeky campaign promise for a populist presidential candidate to make. But when Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild.
Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.
“We’ve hit 13 to 1,” he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.
Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.
“We’ve hit 13 to 1,” he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.
Forget reading and math — Carranza wants focus on racial privilege, activism
Carranza wants focus on racial privilege, activism"City kids are struggling with basic math and English — but a new (NYC) Department of Education curricular initiative focuses instead on racial privilege and activism, The Post has learned.
Pushed by Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, the “Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education” program will require schools to “identify and interrupt policies and practices that center historically advantaged social/cultural groups and lead to predictable outcomes of success or failure for historically marginalized students.”
...The DOE directive further states that classroom activities should “foster critical consciousness about historical and contemporary forms of bias oppression” and that schools should now “promote student agency to end societal inequities.”...
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Always a "Must Read"--Kurt Schlichter--The Democrats’ 2020 Campaign Theme Is 'You Americans Are Terrible'
The Democrats’ 2020 Campaign Theme Is 'You Americans Are Terrible'"The Democrats’ 2020 theme is that you are terrible and the party’s slogan will be “Americans suck, vote for us.”
The precise candidate who will employ it is not important because they all embrace the notion that punishing the essential moral failure of you and me and every other Normal American is the key goal of the Donkey Party.
...What are your crimes?
Heck, what aren’t your crimes?
- You’re greedy because you don’t want to pay taxes so foreign freeloaders can get better free medical care than our vets.
- You’re stupid because you think there’s just two genders and that you don’t consider a “bi-curious femme-friendly questioning two-spirit” an option.
- You’re a monster for wondering why boys in drag are competing (and setting “records”) in girls’ sports and for not accepting that men have periods too.
- You’re terrible for interfering in things you know nothing about by rejecting any new endless wars – how dare you question the experts who have laid down such a solid track record of success over the last three decades!
- You’re a superstitious knuckle-dragger for believing in God and a heretic for denying that last week’s thunderstorm was not a direct result of Trump’s failure to enter into the Paris Accords 2.0 and finally ban drinking straws.
- You’re a brute for liking guns and big cars and being able to do a push-up.
- You’re everything bad, including things that aren’t even things. Just take a word and stick an -ist or a -phobe on it and that’s what you are.
...No matter what, it’s you’re fault and it’s your responsibility to give up more of your money and more of your freedom to undo whatever is the elite’s designated crisis du jour.
It’s so tiresome.
The Democrat debates weren’t debates; they were creepy clusters of consensus about why normal people are the problem..."
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12 Girls Suffer Genital Mutilation In UK Everyday - Gov't Turning Blind Eye
12 Girls Suffer Genital Mutilation In UK Everyday - Gov't Turning Blind Eye:"A new case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is recorded in the UK every two hours, new official figures reveal — and in a situation that mirrors the decades-long Muslim grooming gangs cover up, UK government and officials are turning a blind eye to the barbaric practice because they are terrified of being seen as politically incorrect and offending Muslim communities.
...Shockingly, there has not been a successful prosecution against FGM in the UK since it was outlawed in 1985.
According to figures released last week by the NHS, 6,196 women and girls visited doctors across the country for FGM treatment between April 2017 and May 2018.
Of these, 4,495 were newly recorded cases of FGM..."
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Report: Comey Was Secretly Trying To Build Case Against Trump, IG Investigation Found | Daily Wire
Report: Comey Was Secretly Trying To Build Case Against Trump, IG Investigation Found | Daily Wire:
"Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that Comey was misleading the president," Sperry reports. "Even as he repeatedly assured Trump that he was not a target, the former director was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent."
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