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" "The rule is projected to eliminate more than seven billion tons of carbon dioxide..."
Your government is using this ploy to do what they want, take more of your money and restrict your rights. For them it is a win/win. The only questions(s) are: Are you stupid enough to be gas lighted this way and will you let them do it? This isn't complicated. It doesn't require a 100,000 word thesis to explain or refute it is simple as those three sentences above. BUT it will get worse. If you will fall for this than you will fall for anything and they will continue with new and more stupid ploys. QUOTE: The rule is projected to eliminate more than seven billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the next 30 years.... Is "seven billion tons" supposed to sound like a lot when we're talking about the earth's atmosphere? I realized I had no idea of the weight of the entire earth's atmosphere. The answer isn't in the article. It's 5.5 quadrillion tons. A quadrillion is a million billion. Which is nothing That's the wrong measure. Monatomic and homonuclear diatomic molecules do not interact in the infrared spectrum; consequently, nitrogen, oxygen and argon are not greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases, those that absorb and emit infrared radiation, include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and nitrous oxide, each with its own thermal footprint. The proper measure is to total anthropogenic emissions, which are about 37 gt per year. Fine, let's use that number. 7 billion tons over 30 years is roughly 200 million tons per year (and that also assumes the projection is accurate).
200 million tons out of 37 gigatons is ....... nothing. The Neon Madman: 200 million tons out of 37 gigatons is ....... nothing.
For some definitions of "nothing". The reduction would be about 50% of U.S. vehicle emissions. Meanwhile, global use of vehicles is exploding, so vehicles will be a significant source of emissions going forward, if green energy is not adopted. The U.S. can lead in the development of new green technologies, or pay to import it as the world transitions. The most likely scenario for the forced mass conversion to EVs by the US government is to make the US middle class and working class poorer and to increase pollution without any meaningful, and possibly an increase in greenhouse gas admissions.
Which was actually one of the intentions of the Soviet Union when they crated the environmental movement in the west, and the intention of many progressives.
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James
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2024-03-25 17:59
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James: Which was actually one of the intentions of the Soviet Union when they crated the environmental movement in the west, and the intention of many progressives.
Addressing conventions pollution has been highly successful in the United States and other developed countries. Contrariwise, people in Soviet states had little influence on addressing the problem, the result being vast ecological, economic, and health damage.
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2024-03-25 23:07
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I'll grant that my comment wasn't especially clear, but it's like you go out of your way to misunderstand and doubletalk.
When the USSR's KBG helped organize socialist and communist parties, and Green parties, they intentionally seeded those parties with radical environmentalists in the hopes of causing western countries to adopt environmental policies that would be economically destructive to the countries. Which explains why the environment in the eastern bloc and China was much worse than the west. The communist's alleged environmentalism was purely subversive propaganda. Much like the environmentalism of most progressives today. It's the same thing I've pointed out to you before: when what one does conflicts with what one says, what one says is a lie and what one does is the truth. Progressives do not have low carbon footprints (controlling for age and wealth) compared to moderates and conservatives, so they're liars telling a lie to advance their political cause, to feel superior to those who disagree with them, and to attempt to exercise control over others. As for the EV/ wind and solar energy part, the infrastructure buildout required to do the "green transition," in addition to being massively impoverishing to most of the population, would be so large and resource intense that it would do far more environmental harm than our current energy system. Also, in addition to that environmental and economic harm, we would end up with energy and transportation systems that had far less reliability and utility. It doesn't matter how much you wish that were not true, it is still true. It doesn't matter how often you say silly things like latitude not impacting polar power potential, hopes or wishes are not facts.
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James
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2024-03-26 18:43
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James: When the USSR's KBG helped organize socialist and communist parties, and Green parties, they intentionally seeded those parties with radical environmentalists in the hopes of causing western countries to adopt environmental policies that would be economically destructive to the countries. Which explains why the environment in the eastern bloc and China was much worse than the west.
So, the KGB subverted the West, resulting a highly successful, citizen-led environmental movement, which led to clear air and water, with ecological, health, and economic benefits; while the Soviets didn't allow citizen movements, which led to dirty air and water, with ecological, health and economic disasters. So, thank you, KGB?
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Zachriel
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2024-03-27 08:23
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Monte and bailey. Some of the more moderate ideas of the non-radical environmental movement were adopted in the west. None of the extreme ones were. They were adopted because the west was rich enough to be able to afford such luxury policies. Which is to say the Soviet subversion failed. To this point. The Russians and Chinese still use BOT and troll farms to push radical LW environmentalism, including net zero. Not out of concern for the environment, but to weaken the west economically. Is that really the best you can do?
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James
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2024-03-27 20:36
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James: Some of the more moderate ideas of the non-radical environmental movement were adopted in the west.
That’s how it’s supposed to work in a healthy polity. There’s a fire. Someone sounds the alarm, perhaps accompanied by a “We’re all gonna die (if no one does anything).” The crank says why worry, the town’s never burned down before. The town comes together to put out the fire. The naysayer, who didn’t bother to help, says told ya so. James: They were adopted because the west was rich enough to be able to afford such luxury policies. Limiting pollution was a wise investment, with ecological, health, and economic benefits. You had said the Soviets created the environmental movement, but that was not an accurate characterization. While they probably did provide help to more radical elements, the environmental movement was largely homegrown and had broad support in the United States.
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Zachriel
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2024-03-27 22:13
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James: Progressives do not have low carbon footprints (controlling for age and wealth) compared to moderates and conservatives
Hmm. Keeping in mind that, even though blue states have higher GDP per capita, they have lower carbon emissions per capita.
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Zachriel
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2024-03-27 13:48
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Is that the best you can do? Blue states have simply exported manufacturing to red states and thus exported their carbon dioxide production. They've switched to producing services, which cannot exist without the manufactured goods and energy they import from red states. Those service jobs also happen to tend towards creating more income inequality. Additionally, in terms of standard of living, (IOW, indexing cost of living to income), red state residents do significantly better than blue state residents. As I pointed out to you years ago. The disparity in respective standard of living is even greater now than it was when I made that point to you 5+ years ago.
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James
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2024-03-27 20:28
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James: Blue states have simply exported manufacturing to red states and thus exported their carbon dioxide production.
That's not how per capita emissions are usually stated. Notably, red states also export their emissions. You would have to provide appropriate data. For instance, you would have to transfer much of China’s emissions to the United States. You were apparently comparing the green movement to the environmental movement. But because the environmental movement was largely effective, you don’t seem to be making the argument you think you are.
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Zachriel
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2024-03-27 22:24
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Z: You would have to provide appropriate data.
Here is per capita consumption-based CO2 emissions by country. Notice that the United States has very high per capita emissions by this measure. Don't see a similar analysis for U.S. states. This study suggests that cities do generally have higher per capita emissions, largely due to their increased productivity (i.e. carbon intensity): Oliveira et al., Large cities are less green, arXiv Physics and Society 2014. As progressives tend to be concentrated in urban areas, that might lend support to your claim about progressives emitting more CO2. Your argument that progressives are therefore "liars" is still fallacious, as already noted.
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Zachriel
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2024-03-28 11:02
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James: Progressives do not have low carbon footprints (controlling for age and wealth) compared to moderates and conservatives, so they're liars telling a lie to advance their political cause, to feel superior to those who disagree with them, and to attempt to exercise control over others.
That is a fallacious argument. It is not generally possible to address carbon emissions on an individual basis, at least not to large effect. For instance, people don’t have much individual choice in how their electricity is generated. That requires a collective change. Also, individually implementing limits to emissions can put a business at a competitive disadvantage, the result being those business will shrink or die, resulting in no real change in emissions, a “tragedy of the commons”. As with controls on conventional pollution, it requires collective action. In other words, it can be perfectly reasonable to support the transition to a green economy without committing to individual action, which can be largely futile.
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Zachriel
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2024-03-27 22:36
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I have posted CO2 charts numerous times and they do not lead temperature change. Are you able to understand those CO2 charts?
I also posted the Climate movie and if you bothered to watch you would see that the IPCC only promotes 'research' from AGW cultists that are supported by the government. They refuse to include research that does not support AGW. The IPCC is a political group, not a science group. Like the Jan 6 committee, they repress evidence they don't like. The very same 'government science' is used to repress the Covid researchers. QUOTE: ASU paid Ibram Kendi $35,000 for 60-minute speech . . . He has a good agent There were over a thousand people in attendance. That's not an unusual speaking fee. Those are those of us who think that one who's only claim to notoriety is their being an outspoken, unrepentant racist ought not be normalized or legitimized by a government institution. So there's that. Despite the insistence by those of your ilk that blacks can't be racists, or that whites can't be the victims of racism, or if they are, they deserve it.
Then there's also the fact that a reputed institution of higher learning ought not be spending money to have a cognitive (and moral) tootler address the students they are charged with teaching and instilling the ability to think clearly in. One might think that it's a waste to have such a clown speak unchallenged, given that his go to response to anything other than100% fawning agreement is to announce that the other person is a racist. One might contract with oh say, Glen Lourey to debate Kendi. Or Douglass Murray. Or John Mcwhorter. Or Christopher Ruffo. Of course, Kendi, being the 4th class mind and con artists he is, would never agree to such a debate. He was chosen because people like you view him as a pet, and because rich white leftists want to be told they're one of "the good white people" by black people. Re: James Carville
Carville was famous for leading Clinton’s first campaign with the slogan “It’s the economy, stupid!” when the economy really wasn’t bad. Now that the economy really does stink, he’s complaining about “preachy females”? And then one wonders if he will be immune from cancellation by the preachy females who really do run the party he’s criticizing? Carvel also worked hand and glove with the criminal Hillary Clinton - talk about a preachy female - to stifle all the females that Bill couldn’t keep his hands off. Operation Bimbo Eruption.
“Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.” - James Cravel One of my all time favorite spoofs from the Rush Limbaugh Show. If they cancel him he can always play Gollum if they remake the Lord of the Rings. It would save a fortune on special effects. He both looks and sounds exactly like Smeagol. Also, he does nothing but lie all day long. Perfect!
The synagogue in LA didn't just lease space, they bent over to take it up the ***.
Apparently, the synagogue had an emergency meeting to deal with the fallout among members. The upshot was that "leadership" resigned. And there is to be more "transparency" in crap like this going forward. If I were a member, I would be demanding that they find a way to break the lease. Especially a way that limits their exposure. It is infuriating that illegal aliens are being given everything for free. How about giving them a free ticket back to their home countries, would that be so hard?
RebeccaH: It is infuriating that illegal aliens are being given everything for free.
The vast majority of undocumented migrants work. Many have legitimate asylum claims. No doubt you'll be accommodating some of them in your home but you'll have to ask your mom first of course.
They shouldn't be allowed to work. In fact no one who is not a citizen should be allowed to work in the U.S. No green cards, no H1B no one. Immediately place a $1000 a day fine on employers for every non-citizen employed by them. Then use those 82,000 IRS agents to hunt down anyone working under the table.
And we should end asylum forever. It is a scam. End it and revere it and send back all the previous asylum scammers. QUOTE: Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old Haitian national who entered the U.S. illegally, was arrested this month after it was alleged he assaulted and raped a disabled teen at Rockland, Massachusetts migrant shelter. Alvarez didn’t simply cross into the U.S. on his own accord. He took advantage of a taxpayer-funded flight from Haiti to New York City “as part of the Biden Administration’s illegal categorical parole program known as CHNV that ‘allows up to 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to fly into the U.S.’ each month,” House Republicans noted in a recent letter probing the illegal’s presence. Now STFU and go away. OneGuy: They shouldn't be allowed to work.
That would require a change in U.S. law. Under current law, people who are seeking asylum are allowed entry. They are allowed to work until their claims are adjudicated. OneGuy: And we should end asylum forever. It is a scam. It's clear many people claim asylum who don't qualify. However, some people certainly do have legitimate asylum claims. A Senate bill, which has been held up in the House, would strengthen requirements for making an asylum claim, limiting the endemic abuse of the current system. They are only allowed to work after they have completed their application with a 150 day waiting period and another, up to 30 day processing time. Who’s supporting these people until then? Feel free to make a contribution.
What percentage of them actually go through the process? There is absolutely no need for the NEW Senate bill. It is far simpler to rescind the 1965 immigration act and those that followed and operate immigration by the previous immigration act. It is simple and effective and even a cave man can do it. We are creating a low/no trust society with the current insane immigration standards.
End all legal immigration. Arrest and send everyone back home who is not a U.S. citizen. Only U.S. citizens can work or get any form of welfare or assistance. End the scam of birth citizenship. Build the wall. Declare an invasion. Use deadly force to repel invaders. Charge anyone who helps illegals in any way with a crime and give them the J6 treatment.
OneGuy: End all legal immigration.
That would require legislation. It would also be contrary to the ancient right of asylum enshrined in modern times in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, both of which agreements the United States is a party. OneGuy: End the scam of birth citizenship. That would require a constitutional amendment. (See 14th Amendment, Clause 1.) To forgive the student loans requires legislation too and yet...
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OneGuy
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2024-03-26 00:10
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OneGuy: To forgive the student loans requires legislation too and yet...
That seems a bit diversionary, but we'll address it. The original Biden plan was based on provisions of the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act allowing the government to waive or modify loan provisions in certain circumstances. The Supreme Court ruled that broad-based loan forgiveness was unconstitutional under the major questions doctrine. However, that decision didn't preclude more targeted loan forgiveness under other statutes, such as the Higher Education Act, which expressly grants the government the power to cancel student debt in some circumstances.
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Zachriel
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2024-03-26 09:05
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Ending birthright citizenship does not require a constitutional amendment. It is largely a judicial and bureaucratic creation (notice the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." phrase). It can be undone by a simple judicial ruling. In fact, the chances of such an occurrence is rapidly increasing, and I think is more likely than not to happen in the next 10-20 years.
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James
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2024-03-26 18:56
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James: notice the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." phrase
Birthright citizenship was the rule even before the 14th Amendment and has deep roots in the common law. Furthermore, the framers made their position clear: the Civil Rights Act of 1866 said that "... all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States."
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Zachriel
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2024-03-27 08:30
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I thought Zachriel was banned.
How the hell did that troll get back here? They never seem to ban him, he just disappears for long stretches. Long-winded, isn't he?
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