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Tuesday, July 12. 2022

Tuesday morning links


An Expert Answers Democrats' Most Burning Question: Why Does Anyone Need an AR-15?


What does "need" have to do with it? 


There’s No Despot So Tyrannical As A Green Politician


  The Worsening Crisis of Europe’s Climate Follies


 What Say To Bubbles Around The Earth To Solve ‘Climate Change’


 Sri Lanka Just Fell. What Do We Have to Do With It? The anti-growth environmental movement deserves much of the blame.


 Deceivers, Skeptics, and Enablers: The Political Ecosystem


 DoT Power Grab Ignores Supreme Court Ruling


 There has been nothing aimless or rudderless about anything Biden has done. The Biden administration has been misguided, not unguided.




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Re Sri Lanka, look to the Chinese to be benefiting, Maybe the 1/6 committee should see what a real insurrection looks like.
#1 grant1863 on 2022-07-12 09:37 (Reply)
"The Biden administration has been misguided not unguided."


No one is going to fix all of this. The destruction of our economy and government institutions was intentional.
#2 OneGuy on 2022-07-12 09:58 (Reply)
Climate change - I'm actually reading articles that are referring to the ongoing climate "catastrophe" as if it's fact. Not only is climate change very speculative (and based on dubious scientific claims) there is no catastrophe as of yet. The overt dishonesty pushes me more toward believing the whole thing is a scam.

What does "need" have to do with it?

Great question. We shouldn't allow people to reframe the debate. It's assumed to be a right, one protected wholly by the Constitution. Any breech of that is illegal. Period.
#3 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-07-12 10:17 (Reply)
Why does anyone need the latest electronic gadgetry? Why do you need a new car? Why does America need the democrat party? Why does anyone need the thousands of bureaucrats that line their pockets from my tax dollars? I need oxygen, clean water and food. I need small affordable, less intrusive government, to get the hell out of the way.
#4 B. Hammer on 2022-07-12 10:30 (Reply)
The world could have as little as 10 weeks left in its global stockpiles of wheat, according to one food expert. But the U.S. turns hundreds of tons of corn into ethanol everyday. Interestingly the process from start to finish to put ethanol in your car uses 130% more energy (mostly gas, diesel and NG) that it produces as ethanol. It is a net energy loser but the program exists because corn farmers vote and contribute money to congress elections. But the time is perfect to end this wasteful program. Today, corn is worth more as food than it is as fuel. End the ethanol program and use corn for food.
#5 JustMe on 2022-07-12 10:53 (Reply)
I reaily agree that ethanol production consumes more energy than it produces. It's just physics.

However I have never seen a number as high as 130%.

Can you provide a link to support that 130% figure?
#5.1 feeblemind on 2022-07-12 12:12 (Reply)
I cannot. It is from something I read 7-8 years ago and I never kept the source info.
#5.1.1 JustMe on 2022-07-12 12:36 (Reply)
Here is one analysis that is highly critical

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/08/ethanol-corn-faulted-energy-waster-scientist-says

There is also no mention of corrosion, which is facilitated b/c EtOH absorbs water. Destruction of pipelines, storage tanks and engines by corrosion will always cost more than EtOH can ever save.

Amusing that zachriel comments even as it just shows she knows nothing about the subject.
#5.1.2 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-07-12 16:33 (Reply)
feeblemind: I reaily agree that ethanol production consumes more energy than it produces. It's just physics.

Energy return on investment (EROI) for ethanol is the ratio of energy in a liter of ethanol to the nonrenewable energy required to make it. Ethanol production represents a net gain in energy (due to the captured solar energy), but the EROI is probably less than two, so the EROI is not particularly good.
#5.2 Zachriel on 2022-07-12 13:45 (Reply)
In California the fire fighters are going the extra mile to save the Sequoias. They have set up water pumps and sprinklers to protect them. Good, right! But IMHO now everyone who lost a home to a forest fire should be allowed to sue the state. If they didn't set up pumps and sprinklers to save homes and lives than they were derelict in their duties.
#6 IdahoBob on 2022-07-12 10:59 (Reply)
Oh-oh! https://www.theepochtimes.com/emails-confirm-why-cdc-changed-definitions-of-vaccine-vaccinated_4590628.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport I'm shocked!
#7 JustMe on 2022-07-12 11:39 (Reply)
Steve Kirsch's newsletter...the "safe and effective" narrative is falling apart.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/the-safe-and-effective-narrative
#7.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-12 14:38 (Reply)
More sad VAXX news on VAXXED children.

https://www.captainsjournal.com/2022/07/12/vaccinated-children-are-30200-more-likely-to-die-than-unvaccinated-children/
#7.2 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-12 19:37 (Reply)
indyjonesouthere: More sad VAXX news on VAXXED children.

What is the vaccination ratio of sick children to healthy children?
#7.2.1 Zachriel on 2022-07-13 08:01 (Reply)
I'm afraid that too many people have invested far too much in the Green Energy scam for it ever to be reversed.
#8 Jerryskids on 2022-07-12 11:42 (Reply)
The "people" invested in the green energy scam happens to be the taxpayer. It is only the political mandates that drive the programs. End the programs and the taxpayer will be happy to not pay for the green energy wasteland. Those that gain from the scam do so through tax credits or by being the chosen political grifters at the receiving end of government grants.
#8.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-12 12:26 (Reply)
"NYC puts out PSA on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack"

I'm sure everything is fine! It's not as though the world is going mad around us and that NY City would be every enemies prime target. Just remember if you see Manhattan go up in a mushroom cloud go back into your 3rd floor apartment and shut the door and wait for the authorities to tell you what to do next. It's fine!
#9 JustMe on 2022-07-12 12:40 (Reply)
The DHS has put up a similar message;

https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion

The question is, why have they done it now?
#9.1 feeblemind on 2022-07-12 13:29 (Reply)
By "now" do you mean in 2018 during the Trump administration?

The Wayback Machine
#9.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-07-12 13:49 (Reply)
So are you saying that the new PSA that NY City just produced and distributed is Trump's fault? Are you that effing stupid?
#9.1.1.1 JustMe on 2022-07-12 16:32 (Reply)
JustMe: So are you saying that the new PSA that NY City just produced and distributed is Trump's fault?

We were clearly querying feeblemind about the DHS message from 2018.
#9.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-07-12 20:27 (Reply)
Why Does Anyone Need an AR-15?

This guy explains it simpler.
#10 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-07-12 14:11 (Reply)
I agree that rights do not depend on needs, but I do appreciate him addressing the needs nonetheless.

But for a right, the question of need not come up. You can have an AR-15 because you like the sound of it, or think it looks cool, or it reminds you of your grandfather's back porch for some reason. The shoe is on the other foot. What is the need to forbid you?
#11 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-07-12 16:04 (Reply)
Ahhhhhh, Europe! The STUPID was STRONG in these ones!

What Say To Bubbles Around The Earth To Solve ‘Climate Change’: See comment above.

Sri Lanka Just Fell. What Do We Have to Do With It? Nothing that I know of.

"Hopelessness is all the Democrats have left", and I am SOOOOOO NOT BUMMMMMMED for them!
#12 Sam L. on 2022-07-12 16:05 (Reply)

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