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The great Grizzly Bear comeback

Fact is, Grizzlies do not prefer mountains. They like river bottoms and damp prairies.

The trans Ideology Cult Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Absurdity

Net Zero Is Stalling Out. What Now?

Nuke plants would make everybody happy

Biden Regime to Reinstate COVID-19 Restrictions Beginning with Mask Mandate as “COVID Cases Rise”, Say TSA and Border Patrol Whistleblowers

I doubt that

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

Let's force gov't censors to take Remedial Free Speech classes

China Embracing Western Cultural Greatness

Vivek interviewed by the Breakfast Club (video)

"I'll Be Blunt, It's Failed," Says Congressional Ukraine Caucus Co-Chair On Offensive

"The End Is Nearing" - Seymour Hersh Slams The White House's "Wishful Approach" To Ukraine War

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re The trans Ideology Cult Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Absurdity

The author gives precious little evidence that the transgender cult is collapsing.

I see no collapse. I just see a local setback.

I expect that we will have our noses rubbed in the transgender ideology for sometime to come.

#1 feeblemind on 2023-08-19 08:47 (Reply)

re Net Zero Is Stalling Out. What Now?

The author, who clearly resides in Happy Land is certainly not happy about European voters and politicians becoming dimly aware that "net zero" may not be a good idea.

He says

QUOTE:

Above all, what’s needed is leadership. Decarbonization can drive economic growth, create jobs and bring substantial benefits to the environment and public health. But it must be done purposefully and strategically. If voters can’t see the advantages or find the costs too burdensome, all those fine pledges will go up in smoke.

It was leadership and the fact that de-carbonization has exactly the opposite effect on economic growth that brought us to this point to begin with.

He is too blinded by ideology to see it.

It's the same old leftist response to failed leftist policies. "If we just had smarter leaders and more able bureaucrats, our policies would work."

So . . . . what now? How about you abandon the climate worship and rejoin the real world?

#2 feeblemind on 2023-08-19 09:03 (Reply)

You are 100% correct except that there is no hope that these climate religion zealots will abandon their faith.

Some of them are like many martyrs before them and would rather die.

Some of them are con-men making a lot of money scamming the gullible and they won't change until the gullible are out of money or wake up, neither of which seem imminent.

#2.1 Fred Z on 2023-08-19 10:31 (Reply)

feeblemind: It was leadership and the fact that de-carbonization has exactly the opposite effect on economic growth that brought us to this point to begin with.

Straw man argument. The vast majority of researchers understand that there will be significant costs involved in transitioning to a green economy. However, the economic, social, and environmental costs are reckoned to be much higher with inaction.

That brings up the tragedy of the commons. Polluters can gain an economic advantage over those who expend resources to reduce their pollution impact. This can lead to a race to the bottom, where non-polluters are driven out, and the survivors pollute as much as they can, even if it means people downstream in space and time pay even higher costs.

#2.2 Zachriel on 2023-08-19 11:44 (Reply)

Mixing pseudoscience with a pseudo-economic theory does not make a valid argument..

At least not a realistic one anyway..

#2.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-08-19 12:26 (Reply)

"The vast majority of researchers understand that there will be significant costs involved in transitioning to a green economy."

GOOD! Let them pay for it and do without fossil fuels. The rest of decline to learn the hard way that their ideas don't work. I think all of those pushing the climate change agenda should have a large "C" branded on their forehead and they should not be allowed to travel or heat/cool their homes or eat meat and vegetables but the rest of us can continue to live in the 21st century.

#2.2.2 OneGuy on 2023-08-19 16:49 (Reply)

OneGuy: Let them pay for it and do without fossil fuels.

You missed the part about the tragedy of the commons.

#2.2.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-08-19 17:42 (Reply)

You missed the part about this is all afke and a scam by rich and powerful people to steal our wealth and freedom.

#2.2.2.1.1 OneGuy on 2023-08-20 10:16 (Reply)

OneGuy: You missed the part about this is all afke and a scam by rich and powerful people to steal our wealth and freedom.

Your diatribe doesn't address either the straw man argument or the tragedy of the commons implicit in feeblemind's original comment. Are you pointing out that attempting to address the problem may have unintended consequences, or are you just handwaving away the evidence for global warming? If the former, doesn't all government action entail the same concerns?

#2.2.2.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-08-20 11:12 (Reply)

The Other McCain Aug 19,2023 21st-Century Digital Stalinism

It is not hard to see how the DC elitist are airbrushing not only science but history. The narrative must be approved by the self-appointed ruling elite or it is 'disappeared' from the public view. The narrative is fed into the government schools and MSM where it is mandated as the one true religion that is to be reinforced and reaffirmed by every government agency. You must color between the lines or face heresy charges in their tribal court system. AGW, Covid, 1619 history, Joebamas guild, gender benders and free trade are sacred texts of the NWO/BBB/WEF bible. Truth and beauty are ALL relative to the marxists.

#2.2.2.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-20 14:07 (Reply)

"just handwaving away the evidence for global warming?"

Bailey: Global warming exists.

Motte: Mankind is affecting the climate in a major way and we are all going to die.

#2.2.2.1.2.2 eeyore on 2023-08-21 08:00 (Reply)

The one thing that the Borg Collective will defend tooth and nail, to the death, is manmade climate change. They need everyone to be a psychological pansy, just like they are.

#2.2.3 eeyore on 2023-08-20 09:14 (Reply)

The landmark report on climate impact and mitigation costs is the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, 2006. For something more recent, you might look at Köberle et al., The cost of mitigation revisited, Nature Climate Change 2021.

#2.3 Zachriel on 2023-08-19 12:08 (Reply)

The stern review ... commissioned by Brown and Blair (AGW politicians)
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/a-flawed-conversation-about-the-stern-review/

Robert Pindyck, Prof of econ and finance at MIT ... economic models used to generate many estimates of economic impacts contain "crucial flaws that make them close to useless as tools of policy analysis", and that "the models' descriptions of impact of climate change are completely ad hoc, with no theoretical or empirical foundation'.

Using models to judge the impact of models.

#2.3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-19 13:06 (Reply)

Something like this. https://files.americanexperiment.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/dt170514.jpg?_gl=1*zfzww5*_ga*MTMzODk3Nzg1OC4xNjkyNDkyOTk5*_ga_03BRYTYNY0*MTY5MjQ5Mjk5OS4xLjAuMTY5MjQ5Mjk5OS42MC4wLjA.

#2.3.1.1 John Fisher on 2023-08-19 20:57 (Reply)

Ahhh, Scott Adams recognized the "science".

#2.3.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-19 21:40 (Reply)

John Fisher: Something like this.

Feeblemind’s original claim was that the economic costs of transition were not being considered. That was false. While, it is correct that there is a lot of uncertainty concerning the economic, social, environmental, and mitigation costs of global warming, it is not completely unknown or unknowable.

It’s The Relativity of Wrong: “when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”

#2.3.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-08-19 21:54 (Reply)

It isn't completely known OR unknowable. But for the political class of elitists it really doesn't matter as it is all about the power, the control, and the money. That is the science we are all familiar with today.

#2.3.1.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-20 01:12 (Reply)

Stuart's miscellany ... diversity in Lahaina and a grotesque failure of local governance. Software engineers at Microsoft accept the cost of diversity and remain mum. Lawrence Summers on a cautionary note over China bashing and finally a strategist with Merrill Lynch on the three stages of bear markets as we move into the third stage. Elliotticians are close to confirming stage three.Beware.

#3 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-19 10:39 (Reply)

"Nuke plants would make everybody happy."

They won't make the left happy. The left is riding the climate 'emergency' to destroy the basis of modern civilization - high density energy sources. Nuclear power can't be sanctioned because it eliminates the 'emergency' the holy war is based on.

#4 John Fisher on 2023-08-19 11:17 (Reply)

Just remember that anybody questioning the course of the war in Ukraine is a Putin supporter and an enemy of democracy.

#5 Jerryskids on 2023-08-19 16:17 (Reply)

The war in Ukraine is going exactly as anyone with two or more brain cells knew it would go. There are only two things that matter regarding the war:
1. Ukraine has a right and a duty to defend itself.
2. All those Russian deaths and injuries will do more to make Europe safe than anything else we could do. I figure that if another 100,000 or so Russian soldiers die that the Russian people will revolt against their government. They can't keep this up.

#5.1 OneGuy on 2023-08-19 16:53 (Reply)

What we are observing is that the Ukraine cannot keep it up. And the State Dept., CIA, Nuland and company, and NATO led them down this path since the 1990's.
And still, we wonder why other countries are questioning our judgement and expertise and forming trade and other associations outside our influence.

#5.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-19 17:52 (Reply)

The Ukrainians have suffered 8 casualties for every 1 Russian casualty. Their hospitals are filled to the breaking point and there have been at least 50,000 amputations. I understand if you 'have a dog' in this utterly preventable conflict but you don't get to make up your own facts. Anyway you're in for one hell of a disappointment mate.

#5.1.2 Lord Heathen on 2023-08-20 15:23 (Reply)

1. If the Ukraine were capable of making independent decisions without massive interference by western powers, and hadn't helped instigate and provoke the entire situation, yes.

2. Unnecesarily infuriating the Russians will make Western Europe's future highly uncertain. Not that their suicidal impulses with regard to illegal immigrants won't spell out their doom anyway. Putin is more popular with his people than ever. This idea that we can force a color revolution on Russia is more State Department delusional thinking, like they've spewed about Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan.

#5.1.3 ruralcounsel on 2023-08-21 14:59 (Reply)

found at Citizen Free Press ....

jonathanturley dot org Aug 18, 2023

Washington's 'Whoo-Hoo'moment" Trump indictment coverage borders on the indecent

It is an awakening to view an open air, lock free asylum.

#6 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-19 18:04 (Reply)

Western Greatness?
Isn't that a construct of the white male patriarchy?
The ruling class of the workers utopia enjoys capitalism while the proles enjoy egalitarian equity?
Two thumbs up to Testicle Safety Assessors and other apparatchik hive comrades for the heads up on the Final Lockdown, someone should update Europe and do a cover!
Don't tell the faculty lounge but Russia has ten times the manufacturing and recruitment of the GAE and rump vassals.
These things happen when you hecho en China and raise several generations to hate America.
Sad trombone on the world conquering tour, Moscow by winter cancelled, Beijing by spring not happening.
Send the Mission Accomplished t-shirts to the African children mining lithium/cobalt for the Baizuo.

#7 Sino-American Friendship Center on 2023-08-20 19:51 (Reply)

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