Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Friday, May 3. 2019

Friday morning links

Your Love Of Wine Is Driving ‘Climate Change’ Or Something


Berkeley Cracks Down on Coffee Cups


Saving the earth, one Starbucks cup at a time 


 Most Austrians don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust


 Leftist comedian Bill Maher: 'Nothing is free...Neither is college'


At Williams College, Zionists Need Not Apply. The hall of shame.


What are they drinking at Williams? And where are the adults? 


 Here Comes the Government, Protecting You from Cauliflower Rice


French:



 Yesterday I had the privilege of appearing as the lone conservative on a panel at the Milken Global Institute Conference called “What Happened to American Masculinity.” The conversation was excellent, my co-panelists were interesting and gracious, and I left the event more convinced than ever that the great American dispute about masculinity is rooted in differences in starting presumptions and first principles...



 High School Mulls Removing George Washington Murals Because They 'Traumatize' Students


New York Times issues correction after calling Jesus a 'Palestinian man' instead of Jewish as it continues to face criticism for anti-Semitic cartoon of Trump and Netanyahu 


 DePaul professor defends pro-Israel op-ed, says he 'will not be silenced'


 When Loretta Met Bill on the Tarmac


Baltimore Mayor Pugh resigns after month on leave amid investigation into her business deals


 NYT: New Details Emerge About Connection Of Bidens To Ukrainian Corruption Scandal


 DIGENOVA LOOKS AHEAD


Spying on Trump:  AZRA TURK, IF THAT REALLY IS YOUR NAME


 FBI Sent Investigator Posing As Assistant To Meet With Papadopoulos In 2016


Trump Campaign Responds to NY Times Report Finally Admitting Obama Admin Spied on Him and His Campaign


"Democrats and the media are turning the AG into a villain for doing his duty and making the hard decisions that special counsel Robert Mueller abdicated."


 Barr laid it on the line with the simple question the Russia Hoaxers can’t answer


 Liberal Hack and Idiot Mazie Hirono Attacks the President and Slanders AG Barr and Demands he Resign — It Gets So Bad Lindsey Graham Jumps In 


It is war. They lost the Mueller battle, now want to find ways to continue the war. 


Ilhan Omar Says U.S. to Blame for Venezuela's Problems


 Why do other member states feel so positive about staying in the EU?


 European Elections: "The Battle for Europe has Begun"


The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Can’t Get a Divorce. Despite Yemen, Khashoggi and U.S. energy independence, the relationship is critical for both sides.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:55 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (3)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

PingBack
Weblog: www.thepiratescove.us
Tracked: May 05, 09:43
PingBack
Weblog: www.thepiratescove.us
Tracked: May 05, 10:28
PingBack
Weblog: www.thepiratescove.us
Tracked: May 05, 10:50

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Wine and climate change, spelling reform and climate change:

"Wired" ran a recent article about Jakarta's subsidence from aquifer depletion, which is running at something like 10 inches a year. There also presumably is some kind of sea-level rise occurring or expected, at a rate so minuscule or uncertain that the article never dares to put any number on it. One centimeter a century? A negative number? We're left to guess. But sure enough, no solution can be found to Jakarta's destruction but the elimination of climate change. Doom! Doom!

Also, the article assures us the same thing is happening to coastal cities all over the world, because they're all pumping water out of their aquifers too fast and subsiding for other completely non-climate-related reasons. Some are subsiding up to a foot a year. But they, too, face doom from climate change, which is raising the sea levels at a mysterious rate that not only can't be quantified, it can't even be mentioned. Oh, and there's storm surge, too, which the article doesn't bother tying to climate change at all except by dark and indirect implication.

But it's totally about climate change, you deniers.
#1 Texan99 on 2019-05-03 08:25 (Reply)
Wired isn't what it used to be. But then... what magazine is these days? I've got a few issues of Popular Mechanics from the 1940s, and they're college-level compared to the current grade-school level they've dropped to.

And Popular Science is down to bi-monthly. (Probably soon to be quarterly... and then gone.)

BTW, I'm thinking NOAA's going to be dialing back on the "Oh, we're so screwed" narrative. Apparently a lot of the warming is due to bad station siting and urban heat island effects... which people have been pointing out since the early 2000s.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/03/big-news-verified-by-noaa-poor-weather-station-siting-leads-to-artificial-long-term-warming/

It would also seem that the raw data from long-term rural stations aren't seeing a significant rising trend.

The more reality departs from the AGW models that show catastrophic warming, the louder the screaming about how WE MUST DO SOMETHING!!!! - which seems to solely consist of throwing more taxes on carbon. I wouldn't even mind them that much if the money was going towards research and a crash-build of nuclear power plants - but atomic power is icky so we can't use THAT nasty stuff. Instead we're supposed to count on windmills and solar to keep the lights on...
#1.1 JLawson on 2019-05-03 09:07 (Reply)
I like the "NO HATE HERE" signs at Williams. It shows how ignorant the sign holders are.

Trump on Times Report: He'll hammer the NYT with that for the rest of his life. As well he should!

Did the Gang Of Z just run away and hide? I've seen nothing from him/them for some weeks.
#2 Sam L. on 2019-05-03 09:58 (Reply)
Z's funding probably got pulled...
#2.1 JLawson on 2019-05-03 09:59 (Reply)
Re: When Loretta Met Bill on the Tarmac

What if Bill and Loretta's meeting was about much more than that column suggests. What if Bill was giving Loretta a heads up on the shenanigans they had set in motion so she didn't accidentally mess it up. If she had stumbled on and compromised one or more of the players or noticed some strange goings on and had not realized that it was part of a scheme (with aims she certainly agreed with) she might blow the whistle on it.

If she to make sure the scheme was not impeded, she had to know something about it so she could look the other way or even lend a hand.

This theory does not preclude the possibility that Bill used some threats to ensure her cooperation but willing or not, the result would be the same.
#3 mudbug on 2019-05-03 10:37 (Reply)
Old Bill is to sly to make an open demand.
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2019-05-03 11:35 (Reply)
A number of people have pointed out that he didn't need to make any demand at all. Simply giving Lynch the appearance of being compromised would give her the plausible deniability to punt on deciding if Hillary should be indicted. Comey had no standing to make such a decision.

Everybody knew what their part was, and didn't have to be told.
#3.1.1 Christopher B on 2019-05-03 12:22 (Reply)
I was disappointed that DiGenova was not picked for AG (though his confirmation would surely have been even more difficult). I have had very little confidence in the various IGs in place and I wasn't sure that I really trusted Barr except that DiGenova has had nothing but good things to say about him. Again, I'll defer to DiGenova and start to become optimistic that most of the facts of the coup attempt will come out and instigators will be prosecuted!

I'm starting to believe that Mrs. Mudbug and I will be sitting in the same place we were when Trump was elected eating popcorn and watching people like Comey, Brennan, and Clapper fitted for orange jumpsuits.
#4 mudbug on 2019-05-03 11:22 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.