Saturday, August 23, 2025

Bjørn Lomborg · The world isn't quitting coal:

 


Climate Narrative Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Duane Patterson

By the mid-teens of the new century, due to the fact that the Earth wasn't boiling over fast or severe enough to keep up with the prophets of doom predicting global apocalypse, the narrative had to shift again.
  • It wasn't cooling, and it wasn't really warming up all that much, so the term 'climate change' evolved as the preferred term of art...
Yesterday, The Guardian came out with this news - the climate isn't really changing much at all.
The melting of sea ice in the Arctic has slowed dramatically in the past 20 years, scientists have reported, with no statistically significant decline in its extent since 2005. 

The finding is surprising, the researchers say, given that carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning have continued to rise and trap ever more heat over that time. 

They said natural variations in ocean currents that limit ice melting had probably balanced out the continuing rise in global temperatures. However, they said this was only a temporary reprieve and melting was highly likely to start again at about double the long-term rate at some point in the next five to 10 years...

#1 This day 1989-----Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting (Official Music Video)

The House That Love Built: Caitlin Clark’s Parents Sold Their Home in Secret, and What They Never Told Her Will Change How You See Success

...Brent and Anne Clark held each other’s hands. Between them lay a piece of paper—a final mortgage receipt for a house they no longer owned.
For six months, they had lived with a secret so profound, a sacrifice so total, that it was both their greatest gift and their heaviest burden. 
  • They had sold their family home, the sanctuary where their daughter Caitlin had grown from a little girl with a basketball to a national phenom, and they had never told her the real reason.
How far can love push a parent?...

ZERO!

 


Things Democrats say:

The Democratic Party loves to cloak itself in noble rhetoric, claiming to champion the working man, free speech, traditions, democracy, diversity, and rule-following. - Michael Smith
  • - We are the party of the working man.
  • - We support free speech.
  • - We respect traditions and norms.
  • - We want to save democracy.
  • - We are for diversity.
  • - We follow the rules.
Well, no, no, no, nope, hell no, and you must be f*cking kidding me.
  • Let me tell you why Democrats are none of these.
The Democratic Party loves to cloak itself in noble rhetoric, claiming to champion the working man, free speech, traditions, democracy, diversity, and rule-following. 
  • But scratch the surface, and their actions tell a different story - one of hypocrisy, power grabs, and betrayal of the principles they profess. 
Let’s unpack why their self-proclaimed virtues are little more than a mirage...

AM Fruitcake

 


History for August 23

History for August 23 - On-This-Day.com 
Mark Russell 1932 - Comedian
  • 1839 - Hong Kong was taken by the British in a war with China.
  • 1914 - Tsingtao, China, was bombarded as Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
  • 1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
  • 1962 - The first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.
  • 1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."
  • 2011 - Near Mineral, VA, a 5.8 earthquake caused cracks in the Washington Monument and damaged the Washington National Monument.

Friday, August 22, 2025

Cracker Barrel Suffers Serious Financial Blow as Markets React to 'Woke' Rebrand

Cracker Barrel Suffers Serious Financial Blow as Markets React to 'Woke' Rebrand

Investors have suddenly found no comfort in comfort food.

On Thursday, the iconic Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant chain suffered a precipitous decline in its stock price, off as much as 12 percent in trading on Nasdaq as of early afternoon.

The selloff followed the company’s controversial rebranding effort, which some have described as “woke.”

The way we were-----The Victor Talking Machine Co.®

A "Poisoned Well"? Former Media Journalist Explains NPR’s Ideological Spread

Union-dominated "education" is a TOTAL FAILURE!-----Florida mom says teacher nominated son for "Most Likely to Become a Dictator" award because of his conservative values | Not the Bee

When teachers bring their politics into the classroom, this is the kind of rubbish that comes of it. - Cardinal Pritchard
  • Video out of deep-blue Alachua County, Florida:

Read this BEFORE you send you children to any college!-----Perpetual Disruption

A friend who works in the finance world would routinely caution his people not to get too used to high-flying salaries, or to commit themselves to lifestyles that required them going forward, because one disruption - one "better mousetrap" invented by a competitor - could knock them all back down to earth. - Peter Venetoklis
  • I saw his caution play out among other friends and acquaintances, as their big bucks jobs disappeared and they had to seek other professions as a result.
  • Heck, it happened to my gaggle in the 1990s, when Reagan's defense buildup ceased and a flood of young aerospace engineers moved into a range of non-engineering professions.
All this came to mind as I read about how Artificial Intelligence is killing jobs en masse in the tech sector, and drying up many of the perks for those that remain...
Such is the way of progress. 
In economics, it is called "creative destruction," and we find examples of it ranging back to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution...

'This is HUGE!' Appeals court kills wild half-billion dollar penalty against President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'This is HUGE!' Appeals court kills wild half-billion dollar penalty against President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

The Washington Examiner confirmed the five-judge panel of the appellate division in New York threw out the judgment delivered by Arthur Engoron, a judge at the entry court level who has been openly derisive of Trump. The ruling said his judgment was unconstitutional and violated the U.S. Constitution, which bars excessive fines.

Seattle business owner who banned cops from her store is now complaining...

How Easy It’s Been: Trump Outshines Predecessors In Work With Africa

Especially in comparison to his recent presidential predecessors.

The Guardian also took note of Nigerian support for Trump.
  • ​​Portraits of Trump have grown more common among the impressionist depictions of notable figures often sold from open stalls on the streets of Nigeria,” the outlet reports.
  • “Although perceptions of Trump vary across Nigeria’s diverse cultural and religious landscape, there is a large affinity towards him, fostered years before he entered politics when his larger-than-life image as a bombastic, straight-talking, self-made billionaire made his books a hit here.”...

Lunch video-----Why Do Jews Vote Left?

Noon-toon

 


Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down: Company 'Lost Its Grip'

Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down: Company 'Lost Its Grip'

The leadership change comes as Target reels from years of poor decisions, ideological distractions, and a consumer base that found other options.

Cornell’s departure was widely expected, but some analysts had urged Target to bring in an outside voice. Instead, the board stuck with an insider, CNN reported.

When democrats rule...

 


Wait...there's more!-----Meet Steve Descano — Democrat, Best Friend to Violent Illegals, and the Reason ICE Is So Busy - Teri Christoph

Oh, how smug and sanctimonious the terminally-online left was on Wednesday afternoon when a Washington, D.C.-based reporter posted a video of a Hispanic man being arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and federal law enforcement agencies.
  • The only context given by the reporter was that the poor man just wanted to be with his family.
Already incensed over President Trump's law enforcement takeover of D.C.—and ever-so-prone to taking things at face value and not asking questions—a stream of leftist voices immediately fired up their X accounts to condemn the arrest. 
Everyone's favorite Democrat stooge, Jessica Tarlov, showed her commitment to willful ignorance by retweeting the video and dramatically adding, "The cruelty is always the point."

There's just one thing: the man being arrested, David Perez-Teofani, a Mexican illegal, wasn't the hard-working family man the left and Jessica Tarlov so desperately wanted him to be...Perez-Teofani had been arrested in 2024 for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 15. Not only that, he had illegally entered the U.S. three times and had ignored "a final order of removal."..

Good intentions don't always lead to good actions or good results.

Milton Friedman understood that when we abandon voluntary cooperation for coercion—even with the best of intentions—we've already lost the moral argument. 

 

'You Didn't Earn That:' British Journo Insists on 100% Inheritance Tax Because It'll 'Incentivize Work' - Amy Curtis

They constantly advocate for policies and laws that run contrary to basic human nature because they run in small circles of like-minded Leftists and never talk to us normies.
Take British journo Lewis Goodall, for example. 
He thinks the inheritance tax should be 100%.
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#1 This day 1966-----Summer in the City (Remastered)