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Saturday, April 12. 2025

Saturday morning links


Ten Environmentalist Myths


Dysfunctional parenting may lead to adult problems through personality traits like low conscientiousness


Feds’ $4.6B furniture splurge is beyond-telling abuse of taxpayer funds


California's Disastrously Run College Financial Aid Program Is Filled With Fake 'ChatGPT' Students


Saturday Miscellany


Democrats continue to run 2024 playbook, apparently unaware they have already lost


The lesson of DOGE is that there is an enormous amount of waste and fraud in everything the government does.


U.K. Educators Rewrite History to Include Gender Ideology Nonsense


 America Poured Billions into DEI Initiatives. Who Benefited?


Bill Maher Finally TELLS ALL About His Meeting at the White House With President Trump (VIDEO)


High Tax + High Welfare + Low Defence = European Good Life Threatened by Trump

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Ten Environmentalist Myths ... there remains vigorous—if suppressed—debate over whether the data actually supports this claim. There is ample evidence that average global temperatures are not rapidly increasing, if they are even increasing at all.

There is no reasonable scientific debate as to whether the Earth is warming. The scientific confidence is based on multiple, independent observations which show a warming trend; including data from surface stations, ocean heat content, cryosphere, and satellites. The trend is consistent with the anthropogenic greenhouse effect.
#1 Zachriel on 2025-04-12 10:25 (Reply)
The essence of the environmental AGW grift is to keep the 'spice' flowing to the grifters and to continue building a power base for the authoritarian state to micromanage the lives of everyone for the benefit of the authoritarians. Government is NOT our friend and never will be.
#1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-04-12 13:07 (Reply)
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"How Deep the Fraud ... {the sum of $382M} in benefits" ... Taxpayers do not get their money’s worth, and as a result (along, of course, with other factors) we run a $2 trillion annual deficit.

As $382 million is less than 0.02% of $2 trillion, even if one were to accept DOGE's assertions unskeptically, the claimed fraud does not explain the deficit.

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The lesson of DOGE is that there is an enormous amount of waste and fraud in everything the government does.

There is waste and fraud in any human endeavor. That's not news.

DOGE has a record of spreading misinformation, so it would behoove one to be skeptical of their claims. Meanwhile, DOGE has lowered their sights from $2 trillion in savings to less than a tenth of that. When all is said and done, when it comes to actually identifying waste and fraud, much of the savings will probably prove illusory.
#2 Zachriel on 2025-04-12 10:42 (Reply)
There are many budget items and departments that Doge has yet to get to and seeing what they have uncovered is most enlightening. They have just started to uncover decades of grift and crime. Accountability is what we really want to see.

The waste and fraud are primarily in government endeavors where we see little accountability. If I waste my own assets that is my problem. If government wastes my assets I want accountability. The government needs drastic downsizing in order to downsize the waste.
#2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-04-12 13:27 (Reply)
$150,000,000,000 in annual savings of taxpayer money is nothing to sneeze at... and DOGE is just getting started.
#2.1.1 Zachinoff on 2025-04-12 14:47 (Reply)
The environmental pollution comes from China to a staggering degree. Debates about what the US should do are merely symbolic.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-04-12 11:15 (Reply)
Assistant Village Idiot: The environmental pollution comes from China to a staggering degree.

Chinese per capita emissions are considerably less than the United States (which is relevant, assuming you think people have an equal right to the world's shared resources). Furthermore, China also has lower cumulative emissions (which is the relevant factor for the anthropogenic greenhouse effect). That doesn't mean China shouldn't further restrain their emissions, but it is the baseline from which they view the issue.
#3.1 Zachriel on 2025-04-12 12:01 (Reply)

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