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Game Theory of Police Interrogation The CDC: Riddled With Metastatic Woke Cancer Journal fires editor after publishing research refuting ‘warming climate’ The Colorado River is in trouble. Some groups want the government to step up The Green Agenda Turned New England Into an Energy Price Punchline Game Changer: Meta and Zuckerberg May Be Ready to Fight for Free Speech Opposing views regarding the purpose of the state and the existence of Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump Get the Last Laugh as ABC Cancels Jimmy Kimmel Washington Post Guild Defends Editorialist Fired for Faking Charlie Kirk Quote Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next Memphis Mayor: Natl Guard? Didn't Ask for Them But I'll Be Happy to Use Them Crime Ridden Woke-Butt...Burlington, VT? Trackbacks
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Yes! I stopped trusting the CDC and most of the federal government. Yes! Covid 19 was the turning point. The federal government was fully weaponized by Obama for political and treasonous reasons. The left has become communists and have decided to corrupt our government for their personal enrichment and political reasons. The CDC has become useless and worse abusive of their power. It has gotten so bad that one can safely bet that if the Left leaning part of the political system says anything you can safely assume the exact opposite is true. If you watch FOX news you have kind of over time discovered this truth. If you watch CNN or any of the other fake news you are clueless and assume that indeed the right are all Fascists. The left has stacked our courts with radical left wing judges and our federal government is imbedded with left wing activists while the majority of right wing judges and politicians are weak and ineffective. I honestly do not think we can reverse this march to full on communism and Trump was a welcome but temporary interruption to the overthrow of our constitutional republic.
I read the Colorado River article. If you ask me, the greatest use of water that can be conceived of is feeding people. Do farmers ‘waste’ water, I suppose they do. Can you really ‘waste’ untreated water?
The premise of the article seems to be that by following the lead of California, and their management plan is the best way forward. This is the same California that blows up its dams and refuses to capture more of that sweet snow melt from the Sierras. Listen, or read Victor Davis Hanson to get a general picture of how stupid California is regarding water management. I live 50 miles, as the crow flies, from the headwaters of the Colorado. We’ve had very good snow pack for the last decade. Take a look at the path of the Colorado River as it meanders its way to the sea. It mostly runs through a desert. Take a look at the growth of populations that get their water from the Colorado River, particularly Las Vegas and Phoenix. People need water. Of all the states that live off that river, California has access to the most abundant supply of water, they literally live next to trillions of gallons. Yet they do nothing to help themselves. The answer is not restricting farmers to water. I’ll freely admit that keeping the Kentucky bluegrass green all summer long, is not the best use of water. Washing your car in the driveway is a thimble of the waste. We have been living off the hard work of our ancestors, that developed all the infrastructure that provided for the population growth in the American Southwest and California. It’s way past time to improve upon that infrastructure and quit blowing it up. I marvel at the number of people that live in the Southwest on the water available. I wonder how many more people can live there and how much longer it can go on without significant lifestyle changes?
Most of the water distributed throughout the Southwest from the Colorado is transported via open canals. My understanding is that more than half that water is lost through evaporation and seepage into the ground. In other words if they replaced all the canals with pipes they would take less than half the amount of water that they take today. Also, if you live in the Southwest you will see extravagant waste of water, i.e. golf courses, parks, school playing fields, all requiring excessive amounts of water to stay green. Yes, some of this is recycled or waste water but most is not.
As for farming; Israel has perfected watering crops in a desert climate and they use 10% of the amount of water American farmers use for the same crop grown in a desert climate. So again simple care and conservation would more than solve this problem. I will add that although I am no expert and haven't spent hours driving around to see farms in the Southwest I do live here and most of the "farming" is hay. With cheap water and a desert climate you can harvest hay year round. This hay is not used as part of our food chain. Some of it is sent overseas for feed for billionaires horses and a lot of it is sold in this country for horses. It is, in general, priced too high to be used as feed for cattle raised for market. Most of the water is wasted and the laws were designed over 100 years ago not only allow that it be wasted but mandate it. I think it is worth noting that a large majority of the ag. related water consumption is on what could be called luxury food like almons and other nuts, avocados, citrus, grapes, watermelon, etc. All of which I like, and with the exception watermelon, I consume from a regular to a daily basis. But if we're going to expend that much of the water budget of an arid region on luxury foods, then at a minimum, the water users should not have their water subsidized by the government. And it has been/is highly subsidized.
re Journal fires editor after publishing research refuting ‘warming climate’
The Narrative musn't be challenged. The editor and the paper's authors are guilty of Wrongthink. "Consensus is a political term, not a scientific on and should have no legitimate place in scientific discovery.."
There is near desperation on the part of the enlightened science gods to establish a consensus narrative to block any real investigation or study of their 'established science'. Climate science, vaccine science, Covid science, green science, TENS, and not to be left out, astrophysics. Consensus narratives were even applied to Russia, Russia, Russia and spy, spy, spy. Science became fake and gay as the MSM and the academy that produced the consensus narrative. The biggest scam of all in 'science' is Evolution and its off-shoot, Evolutionism. This has been going on for over a century, in a mendacious attempt to encourage atheism.
DeGaulle: The biggest scam of all in 'science' is Evolution
Evolution is one of the most strongly supported findings in all of science, and unifies observations from molecular biology, fossils, and biogeography. While there are valid criticisms of 'scientism', this is not one of them. What I find ironic about New England's energy situation is that one of the biggest opponents to a new natural gas pipeline between Pennsylvania and New England, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, was gravely concerned about the shortage of natural gas during last winter. She made no mention of the fact the reason there was a shortage due directly to her support of blocking the new pipeline.
On the other hand New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte has been pushing for more nuclear power in New Hampshire, making it one of the planks of her campaign last year. She sees Small Modular Reactors as one way to bring about a nuclear power renaissance in the state. re Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next
It has spawned a reaction. Dems Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder Spark Historic Party-Switching Wave to GOP https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/18/dems-celebrating-charlie-kirks-murder-spark-historic-party-switching-wave-to-gop-n4943853 Thank you, Bird Dog, for everything you do. I hope the IT stuff doesn't weigh to heavily upon you. Keep up your much appreciated good and important efforts here.
I don't care about Jimmy Kimmel and understand he was just one more late night host whose audience thought any insult of conservatives was funny. But I don't like the way this happened. Fire him because he isn't funny and the whole industry is down the tubes, losing you money. I completely get turnabout, but I don't like it. Bondi is as wrong about hate speech as the liberals were.
Re Bondi
NO ONE should be prosecuted for hate speech. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/pam_bondi_s_fatal_error.html As for Kimmel, blogger Ace makes the case: QUOTE: The left and some "both sides" libertarians are complaining that while ABC has the right to suspend this money-losing unfunny pudge-bag, it was wrong for FCC head to involve himself and "jawbone" Disney and its affiliates into "doing something." Two points about that: First: I was surprised to learn from 2Way today that the rule about networks being obligated to provide "equal time" to both political parties was still in force. I thought Reagan repealed it -- but no, it's still the law. I guess Reagan just stopped enforcing it, and other presidents followed suit. Brandon Carr believes it should be enforced. It is still on the books, and therefore the prior non-enforcement was just an executive choice to not apply the law, just as Biden chose not to enforce the border. But prior administration's choice to ignore the law does not bind Trump or his officials. Obviously, ABC is running an absolute propaganda shit-show with Kimmel and The View and their own rancid gayboy "News" unit. They are in violation of the equal time law every single day, and it is within Carr's right to use his regulatory power to force them to provide equal time. Second: The left and libertarians are now complaining that Carr "jawboned" -- used verbal pressure with the hint of future punishment if the pressure did not work -- ABC into taking this step. They point out that we conservatives opposed such "jawboning" when Biden "jawboned" social media and regular media into deplatforming all speech questioning the covid vaccine or the 2020 election results. Thousands of people were cancelled and deplatformed -- and even debanked -- due to Biden's "jawboning" of media companies and banks. We -- meaning conservative states and seven conservative individuals -- brought suit to declare this "jawboning" to be illegal. Leftists opposed us and insisted that Biden's "jawboning" was perfectly legal. The left won. Our three weak-sister "conservatives" -- Roberts, Coney-Barrett, and Kavanaugh -- joined with the three bloc-voting leftists to rule 6-3 that governmental "jawboning" of private companies into becoming de facto agents of government censorship was perfectly legal. Fine. I didn't like that outcome and was outraged at the time. I also said: Now that you have made your rule, we will also be using it going forward. And that's what we're doing. The left fought like tigers to both "jawbone" companies into censorship and then to establish in the Supreme Court that such "jawboning" is legal and just and necessary. We disagreed -- but we lost. The precedent is now established that we can "jawbone" companies into deplatforming RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION like Jimmy Kimmel's, and the left showed us how to do this and established the absolute legal permission to do this. So we'll do this. We're not going to play by the rejected rule we preferred, but the actual rule in place that we opposed. The rule for you is the rule for me. No more of this insane situation where the left uses its power and invents new powers to steamroll us but then relies on RINO and GOPe traitors to keep us from doing the same. We kicked those people out of party leadership for a reason. If the left wants to pass a law retroactively declaring Biden's "jawboning" to have been an unconstitutional act official government censorship, then let us know. We can work on that. But until then: We will "jawbone" companies just like you did. The days of One Rule for Thee Another Rule for Me are over. https://ace.mu.nu/archives/416532.php QUOTE: The left and libertarians are now complaining that Carr "jawboned" -- used verbal pressure with the hint of future punishment if the pressure did not work -- ABC into taking this step. The President, and by extension his staff, can jawbone; that is, use their platform to promote or criticize. Teddy Roosevelt was famous for using the "bully pulpit" {bully meaning excellent}. What they can't do is threaten government action to reward or punish based on the content of speech. The line can sometimes be fuzzy, but Trump has repeatedly crossed the line, with Trump recently saying the networks should lose their broadcast licenses for giving him "wholly bad publicity". You're wrong. Broadcast stations such as ABC affiliates can be punished for what they is said on their broadcasts. A fact established by law way back in 1934 and upheld multiple times by courts including SCOTUS.
The primary driver of ABC's decision was two large media companies who collectively owned 60+ ABC affiliates telling them they were going to preempt Kimmel. And the fact that his show's ratings have been horrible for years and are still declining. Which resulted in large monetary losses. OTOH, that does not hold for streaming, satellite, or cable broadcasters or social media. And you've repeatedly supported the government leaning heavily (aka threatening) such platforms. Go suck a rotten egg. James: Broadcast stations such as ABC affiliates can be punished for what they is said on their broadcasts.
Only under limited circumstances, which do not apply to Kimmel. Trump has come out and directly said that he wants to punish broadcasters that criticize him. After Trump forced out Colbert, he said Kimmel was next. That's a direct violation of the First Amendment. James: The primary driver of ABC's decision was two large media companies who collectively owned 60+ ABC affiliates telling them they were going to preempt Kimmel. The government threatened retribution and called on affiliates to take action before the affiliates took action. And those affiliates have mergers before the government. They even gloated about how they successfully used coercion. James: And you've repeatedly supported the government leaning heavily (aka threatening) such platforms. The President, and by extension his staff, can jawbone; that is, use their platform to promote or criticize. What they can't do is threaten government action to reward or punish based on the content of speech.
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Zachriel
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2025-09-20 16:15
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QUOTE: Trump (2025-9-23): ABC lied to me about canceling Jimmy Kimmel, the racist! Now they're bringing him back to attack me. We're going to go after them like never before—big league!
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Zachriel
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2025-09-24 09:32
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Hmmm. While I can’t really disagree with the notion of using the lefts rules against them, what good does it do if we become the left? If we abandon all of our principles, the principles that sets us apart from the left, we have done nothing but furthered the force of darkness.
The equal time rule was established with Communication Act of 1934. Yet another Roosevelt era manipulation to federalize everything. Granted, something needed to be done to ensure that every person with an antenna and a microphone could not broadcast, otherwise every signal would be unlistenable static. Roosevelt was soon sending, though through back channels and slights of hand, his wish that the FCC not grant licenses to those that opposed his agenda. What was changed during Reagan was the Fairness Doctrine. “The Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to present contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues. This change allowed for more editorial freedom but did not directly repeal the equal time rule.“ (Duck.ai) This change unleashed the conservative radio revolution. Pam Bondi was certainly not my first pick. She certainly was diminished in my mind after reading what she had done in Florida during the Treyvon Martin case, and her subsequent support for Red Flag laws. And when I find myself agreeing with Justice Sotomayor…well I guess I should be happy that we agree on this key point: “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” Sotomayor said on a panel at New York Law School Tuesday morning. I wonder what Justice Sotomayor’s thoughts are on the definition of a woman? "Fired for Faking Charlie Kirk Quote"
Is that another way of saying she lies? QUOTE: I'm sorry about that. Don't be sorry. Every post is a unique proffering. -- Engraving in Cemetery: BONA·EXPECTANTIBUS·EVENIUNT The most divisive thing Charlie Kirk has ever said, that is something he has said again and again that most offends the far left, was "god bless America". When they call him names and accuse him of hate this is what angers them most; his love and belief in god and in America. They will nitpick through his many speeches and debates and take something out of context that hey can twist to suit their own biases or they will just make up lies about things he is accused of saying to justify their hate. But in the end they hate god and American and therefore they hate Charlie Kirk who loved god and America. Simple as that.
JustMe: The most divisive thing Charlie Kirk has ever said, that is something he has said again and again that most offends the far left, was "god bless America".
Charlie Kirk painted his political adversaries as not just wrong, but genocidal: “The same way that Joseph Stalin went after the kulaks, they wanna go after you... they won't stop until you and your children and your children's children are eliminated.” He was murdered by a radical leftist and his murder was then publicly celebrated by thousands of radical leftists. With some saying more conservatives should be killed. Which tends to support Kirks position.
James: Which tends to support Kirks position.
Leaving aside the fact that there are plenty of people on the political right who celebrate violence against their perceived enemies, it’s a faulty generalization to ascribe to a group the characteristics of the most extreme members of the group. It’s like saying, because white supremacists are on the political right, then everyone on the political right must be white supremacists. Bullshit. How many Dems. refused to vote for a House resolution condemning his death? How many well-known Dems. have been able to condemn it or LW violence in general without trying to excuse or deny it? In contrast, the right always rushes to condemn the rare occurrences of RW political violence and condemns any conservative who says anything remotely positive about the violence.
The recent YouGov was revealing. Eight times as many very liberal respondents said political violence was acceptable as very conservative people did. Which clearly illustrates both who has been perpetrating the violence and who has been the victim of that violence. Here's a direct quote from the left's best-known podcaster. Given the comments you've made here, I'm pretty certain you're a fan Of Hasan Piker. "This is no fringe nobody. He is the biggest political streamer in the world, making millions of dollars, feted by the Democrat Party as the guy who is going to deliver them the young male vote again. He urges his listeners to “gut” Republians and “shank” them: “You have to shank these motherf***ers so that their intestines writhe upon the stage! Slice ’em up! Slice ’em and f***in’ dice ’em!” He also urges his followers to murder property owners, shouting “Kill them! Kill those motherf***ers! Murder those motherf***ers in the street! Let the streets soak in their red capitalist blood, dude!” He is embraced by mainstream LW publishers, not condemned. He has never been condemned by any Democrat official. And has one of the largest online audiences in the USA. How often have you referred to the bogus claim that most political violence comes from the right despite the claim being obvious bullshit?
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James
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2025-09-20 16:25
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James: How many Dems. refused to vote for a House resolution condemning his death?
Most Democrats voted for the resolution, including the Democratic Leadership. Most of those who voted against it were from the Congressional Black Caucus.The resolution did more than condemn Kirk’s murder, but also put him up as a “model for young Americans” and claimed that he “worked tirelessly to promote unity”. Many people reject this characterization, seeing many of his statements as being very divisive, such as saying Martin Luther King Jr. was an awful person, and the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. James: Eight times as many very liberal respondents said political violence was acceptable as very conservative people did. The “very liberal” demographic skews young, but more particularly, the interpretation of the question can bias the results. For instance, the U.S. Declaration of Independence argues when revolution is justified, and also when it is not. Someone who agrees with the reasoning therein would say that violence is sometimes politically justified. James: Given the comments you've made here, I'm pretty certain you're a fan Of Hasan Piker. Never heard of him. Looking at it, Piker claims to just being hyperbolic, and he has explicitly condemned violence, including the murder of Charlie Kirk. However, violent rhetoric is culturally corrosive and should be avoided. James: How often have you referred to the bogus claim that most political violence comes from the right despite the claim being obvious bullshit? The data shows that right-wing political violence is the more common. See, for instance, Jasco et al., A comparison of political violence by left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist extremists in the United States and the world, PNAS 2022. Part of the problem is selective memory. FBI Director Kash Patel was apparently unaware of the 2015 massacre at a Black church in Charleston by Dylan Roof, as well as a number of other murders by right-wing extremists.
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Zachriel
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2025-09-20 20:44
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More "whatboutism" from the KIddieZZ.
QUOTE: "The data shows that right-wing political violence is the more common." The so-called "data" shows no such thing or you would've cited it. Talk about selective memory.
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Zachinoff
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2025-09-21 16:53
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