[Alas Babylon!]

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Job 23:10-11 KJV

The Democrat Cult wants you to take a vow of poverty over their largest fraud of Global Warming or is it Change or as we used to call it Global Weather. Man has always wanted to control the weather and now the Marxists believe they can. Even though none of their cataclysmic GW disasters predicted ten years ago have occurred we are supposed to believe they can predict accurately over the next hundred years. The Dems are that guy with the sign ”The world ends tomorrow”.

Not only have they not gotten any of them right or most of the predictions such as Acid Rain, Ozone hole disaster and DDT we are supposed to rid our economy of all gasoline, coal and nuclear power within a dozen years or we are all going to die. This plan would make Valenzuela look like a roaring success and many Americans in Florida would be swimming the shark infested waters to escape to the Cuban paradise for food. You ready to line up for your million dollar loaf of bread?

A world without gas and coal would be the most desolate desert on the face of the planet. There would be mass starvation and poverty the world has never seen before. There would be no transportation including no trains, planes or automobiles. Sorry darling, those electric trains run on fossil fuels which would be outlawed, so no 2 day train to Hawaii.

Those Green jobs would never happen just as they never happened for Barack other than the pockets which were padded by the shysters like Solyndra and the failed electric cars foisted on the American people. The only people who make out from Green energy are corrupt Commissars.

Cheap energy is the lifeblood of a capitalistic society. The reason for our boom right now can be directly traced to the low cost abundant energy we are pulling out of the ground. When oil is below a hundred dollars a barrel and electricity is below ten cents a kilowatt then transportation and every other component of production is reduced and the economy thrives. The lower energy prices go the better chance of making a profit which stimulates even more economic activity. Lower energy lowers the cost for everything from freight to food making lives better.

For the average person drawing a paycheck, lower gas and electric prices means more money in their pockets at the end of the month or money spent on other items. Whether it means an extra dinner out or a new coat or more food, lower energy costs stimulates the economy and continues to energize it while making people’s financial lives better. Now, if we could come up with abundant healthcare somehow?

Abundant low cost energy is the lifeblood of America which is why it is such a threat to the Marxists. They want people to have to go to gummit for the answer to all of their problems. They want to end low cost energy and replace it with gummit developed and designed energy which will be a hundred times more expensive or in the latest AOCrazy idea eliminate energy completely. The end of low cost energy will be the end of this economy and she says she has a plan no matter how bad it is a plan which nobody else has making her the boss. Marxists cannot fathom the Capitalistic model is a plan.

Here is a plan, prove that Global Warming is happening and if it is let capitalism fix it. If it does not exist pull all of the wasteful GW regulations off of the economy and let it create more energy. If GW was actually occurring rather than a natural weather cycle determined by the sun’s relationship with the world’s radiator and weather creator, the ocean then the last months record rains and cold could never happen. There would not be polar ice caps and certainly not record snows in the mountains let alone El Nino. If the Marxist cult is ready to drive this economy off a cliff over a religious belief we need some objective auditors to review every one of their claims and disclose if this has been a gigantic fraud or real science. If people are willing to jump off that cliff to escape the fire shouldn’t we make sure there is a fire first?

The weather and climate are controlled by the ocean. It is so immense and diverse there is no possible way of being able to predict what it is doing or going to do. We cannot predict with certainty when and where a hurricane or storm is going to come from the massiveness of it, yet it is affected by minute amounts of CO2? How does CO2 trap heat in the ocean when it is warmed by the sun every day since creation? Yet, we are supposed to believe a group of scientists can predict what the ocean temps are going to do fifty years from now? That is absurd.

The reason people are so willing to follow this AOCrazy scheme, is they are trying to work their way to heaven or nirvana. They believe if they are good to Mother Dirt then they will be good people and by the 51% rule will go to heaven. They have abandoned God although know the tenants of the Bible and are using a version of a New Age Bible to keep their cultists in line.

This cult is every bit as radical and vicious as Islam and its followers every bit as fanatic. If you do not believe the way they do you are a denier and the definition of evil trying to destroy the world. You are dumb and do not believe in science like those great scientific giants such as Albore and his latest darling who claims that like there is a consensus so like, it must be true. Well, there was a consensus Hillary was going to win and how did that turn out?

The Marxists no more believe in GW then they believe in abortion protects the mother while they chop off the head of a live baby. They use these issues to manipulate their cult with cute catch phrases like choice and know their followers will blindly swallow and regurgitate whatever they put in front of them. If the leaders of the cult say it is true and especially if the Three Pillars (Academia, Media and DNC) agree then they will goose step and parrot whatever they are told. If anyone disagrees they will be targeted for destruction with whatever means possible.

It is time for GW to put up or shut up. None of the predictions from ten years ago have occurred and if anything the world has gotten healthier. There are not stronger hurricanes there are fewer. There are no unusual draughts we are having record rains and snows in areas they said could not occur. The polar bears are not disappearing they are thriving and the hockey stick is not happening.

Let’s have a group of scientists who are skeptical of GW, which more and more are coming forward as it falls apart; and do an analysis of the evidence. If it is as real as these mental giants claim and willing to sacrifice America, then it should be able to withstand a deep analysis. We are seeing the damage done in places who have accepted draconian regulations like France where gas is approaching $10/gallon and the revolt resulting. Before we jump off this cliff, let’s find out how true this is and if it is one giant scientific hoax like so many before.

Science has been corrupted by politics, but if there are some real scientists left in the climate field this needs to be investigated and revealed. By the extreme tone of the supporters it looks like it is falling apart just like all the others but they have to rally the cult. If it is real it will withstand skeptics, if not it won’t and time to move on to the next Global scam. To imagine this many millions are willing to jump off a cliff to reach heaven when they can simply accept Christ as their savior is mind boggling.

Man always wants to deny God, but thankfully God does not deny man.

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

[Fishtalk]

Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Tuesday date-2/26/19

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In fact I did not watch the Oscars though I used to be a big fan. I did tape the show, planning to watch on Monday daytime as by 9pm I am usually asleep.

First thing in the morning I hear that wonderfully , intelligent and erudite Spike Lee spoke political and that was it for me.

I will not watch any show/game that has the actors/players preaching to me about politics. I don’t see Colin Kapernick or Spike Lee as being smarter than me although, go with me here, Colin probably plays better football than me and Spike Lee, well I don’t know what he does but he probably does it better than me. But I do my own politics better than both of them put together so I will not watch them lecture me with their stupidity.

Whew.

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A big note inserted here….the Dow has gone up 11.9% this year so far. And this included a few deep drops so capitalism was at worked and it still works well.

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As of this writing President Trump is going to Vietnam to meet with Kim Jung-Un. Trump has done farily well with this North Korean matter, you got to give him that.

He got Warmbier back, he got dead soldiers interred in North Korea back to be buried in their homeland. And so far, ole rocketman has not been sending up rockets.

And Vietnam! Wow. I came to adulthood when the Vietnam War was blazing. My boyfriend, then husband-to-be, was about to be drafted and considering a move to Canada. No way I would move to Canada though I didn’t want him to be drafted, taken from me, to maybe die in a distant war that nobody quite understood.

Now Vietnam is a tourist paradise, featuring “The Bachelor” and “Survivor” on its land.. Now it is serving as a sort of Geneva, Switzerland type of place.

I been pondering this huge change in Vietnam, including to my granddaughter who only knows of the Vietnam War from her history book. She listened to me narrate and said the wisest thing, which sums it up….

“Mom-Mom, Vietnam is a country, NOT a war”.

Indeed it is. Indeed it is.

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Wednesday date-2/27/19

So the wonderful and honest Michael Cohen, already called a liar for lying before congress, is going to testify before congress again. Rumor has it that Cohen, a liar who lies with lust, is going to say that he paid the Stormy Daniels a bunch of money, something already widely known, that Trump talks badly about African Americans while in office, that he tried to reduce property tax, insinuating he did something dishonest.

Just yet another way to say bad things about President Trump that we hate him and want to impeach him.

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And how about the senate voted AGAINST an anti-infanticide bill? 53 voted against it and 44 voted for. The law provided that a baby who survived an abortion should be considered alive and given necessary medical care to keep it alive.

53 of our senators thought the baby should NOT be forced to live, that the health of the mother should be the primary consideration.

I never thought it would be legal to kill a baby after birth and further, my elected representatives would vote to allow the newborn to die with no assistance.

What awful road has America gone down?

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Thursday Date-2/28/19

First a cultural note….I’ve been watching the show called “The World’s Best”. This show features talented acts that put on a performance that amazes. There’s magic, female contortionists, singers, dancers, acrobats.

Most amazing….guess what?

THESE PEOPLE GIVE THEIR PERFORMANCES, ENTERTAIN US AND DO NOT DISGUST US WITH THEIR POLITICAL POSTURING.

So it is possible.

Let’s get rid of Hollywood and ring in “the world’s best”.

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Yes I did watch some of the hearing of the wonderful and honest Michael Cohen. Guy is going to jail for lying to congress yet congress brings him again to testify.

And they believe him?

One astonishing thing said was that there was a tape of President Trump in an elevator beating on Melania!

Say what? The President beats his wife?

This guy lied all over the place and the Democrats should be ashamed this show they’re putting on. Even if Trump did give the lovely and chaste Stormy Daniels hush money, it happened before he became president and he used his own money.

No, folks. This was a really dumb idea and conduct their show of lies while the President is in Vietnam dealing with North Korea is thoughtless and will not endear the Democrat party to America.

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I don’t know much about what’s going on between Pakistan and India but somebody shot a plane out of the sky. This little show too took place while Trump is in Vietnam dealing with Kim Jung-Un.

We’ll investigate and report tomorrow.

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Friday date--3/1/19

North Korea, China and America.

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So the grand summit, held in Vietnam of all places, turned into a bust.

Good and wise Kim Jung-Un refused to rid North Korea of all nukes and all to do with nuclear activity.

President Trump said the meetings went well but since ole Kim would not meet America’s requirements, no sanctions would be lifted.

Which makes me wonder if President Trump reads this page. Because I complained, in a recent post, that Trump seemed to praise Kim Jung-Un quite a bit for a guy responsible for the horrific death of Otto Warmbier.

And yesterday don’t you know Trump comes out with a declaration that when he queried good ole Kim how he could do that to such a bright young man, Trump said Kim said he had nothing to do with that.

So Trump, evidently, feels okay with liking the fine Kim as he had nothing to do with Warmbier.

Yeah, right.

For those who declare that President Trump failed in his endeavor, I say pshaw!

We did get Warmbier back, mostly dead but with some life left. We did get our dead soldiers back to be buried in their homeland. And, I remind, ole Kim has not fired rockets for over a yea

r. Our relationship with North Korea is much better and I’m thinking he knows who’s in charge.

Rush Limbaugh asserts that the reason this summit failed to produce a resolution was due to Kim Jung-Un’s relationship and dependence on China. And China is not about to let North Korea out from under its thumb.

While I love Rush, and while he’s right on most everything, I can’t for the life of me figure out how China benefits in any way with having a third-rate country attached by hip.

Give me some more time with Rush and I will figure it out.

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Saturday date-3/2/19

Time for a cultural Update

Let us begin with former NJ Governor Chris Christy, who’s been desperate to get his fat nose under the tent of the Trump administration. My sense is that President Trump doesn’t much like Governor Christy but that’s just me.

I have a grudge against Christy for the day he shut down the George Washington bridge between NJ and NY, a nasty act against a political opponent who dated to challenge him. But working folks like me were stuck on that bridge, paying with time stolen from our families for Christy’s pettiness.

I also didn’t like too much when he shut down all beaches but kept his own little waterfront all to himself. I know there’s more to it than that but I don’t like the guy.

Anyway, Christy has a book, you can look it up himself. He’s been promoting this book so you shall see him on every those, even The View, who knows?

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Here’s a tidbit. Famed pillow seller, Mike Lindell, is attending CPAC. He might even be a speaker, I dunno.

Damn but he is handsome and darn if I wouldn’t share a pillow with him.

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And it’s time for a little “Punkin’ Chunkin.

First, to all Delawareans, there will likely NOT be a punkin chunkin event in Delaware this upcoming year.

Punkin chunkin is a folksy type of event where a bunch of folks (Americans, of course, who I always say have too much money and time on their hands) use all manner of mechanisms to hoist pumpkins in the air and send them flying into the stratosphere.

Here in Delaware for a few years it was held in Bridgeville, a nothing burger of a town famed for having a town motto that applies to every city, hamlet and burg in America “If you lived here, you’d be home now”. Bridgeville is not near any of Delaware’s more famous beaches or lakes so the punkin chunkin festival became big stuff, complete with games, food and a carnival type atmosphere.

Only a few years back somebody got hurt badly.

Punkin chunkin in Bridgeville Delaware has stopped.

For a few years there have been efforts to get punkin chunkin back in Delaware, somewhere, perhaps the Dover raceway. At one point I think they did move it somewhere and, again, someone got hurt.

Insurance companies refuse, adamantly, to insure such an event.

Well hey, you got inexperienced operators brining in cannons and big earth moving machines, all manner of mechanics to send those pumpkins flying. You got all kind of people running around under big spherical objects flying through space, all to achieve the furtherest launch into space.

Nobody passed a law against punkin chunkin. The gubmint did not have to be involved. Capitalism in the form of an insurance company that didn’t want to throw money down the drain, determined, ahem, that punkin chunkin is probably not such a good idea.

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On a personal note

It’s a sort of silly anecdote but, of late, I’ve noted such strange things when one “buys one, get one free.”

Back in the day when an advertisement offered to buy one, get one free, and one only wanted ONE, usually that one would be offered half price.

At least as my ageing memory recalls.

So I am in Giant foods and they had Pepsi 6 packs advertised, again bear in mind my ageing memory, buy two, get one free. This may be an error on my part, more on this later.

So I put three Pepsi 6-packs, Diet, non-caffeinated, in my cart. When I got home I checked my store receipt and, sure enough, I got charged for all three 6 packs, FULL PRICE!

So I go online and research the current week’s circular for this store. IT shows that at Giant, through first week in March, if one buys TWO 6 pack, one gets two 6 packs Pepsi at half price.

That’s the Pepsi 6 pack at half price. Though I am pretty sure that my Giant had advertised that if one buys two 6 packs they get ONE free. Why else would I have put three in my cart? Still, I could have been in error and either way, I got cheated.

At least as I saw it.

I wrote a letter to Giant corporate headquarters, yada, yada, yada….because even if my memory was correct and the sign said buy two get one free….I still paid FULL PRICE and if the corporate circular was right, I got cheated out of TWO Pepsi 6 packs.

At some point I got through to the local store and the store manager was real good about. Somebody from corporate had evidently contacted him.

“I tell you what,” he said, “at your convenience come in and I will give you a free 6 pack of Pepsi PLUS I will give you a full refund for one 6 pack.”

I thanked him and said I would be in Tuesday and I told him I was pretty sure his store advertised “buy two get ONE free” which is why I took 3.

“If you should see any advertisement for buying an item, getting one free, always do it like it says,” he explained, though it made no sense to me.

I did NOT put three 6 packs of Pepsi in my cart based on an advertised sign that said BUY TWO AND GET TWO FREE. In that case, as the store manager explains, I would pay FULL price for the three 6 packs in my cart.

But I put 3 6 packs in my cart because that’s what his store, in error perhaps, advertised. The cash register was programmed to look for FOUR 6-pack Pepsis in the cart, based on the corporate circular.

I think the store made a mistake because had I seen, plainly advertised, to buy two get two free, I WOULD HAVE PUT 4 6 PACKS IN MY CART!

Further, why is he giving a refund PLUS a free 6 pack? I have no proof what I saw but one cannot have too much Pepsi. I would have put all four 6 packs in my car, to effectively, pay half price for them.

Still and so, good service and I shall get my Pepsi 6 packs this coming Tuesday.

[rodguy911]

The lure of free this or free that has always been the last resort of those who have nothing to offer but promises that are never kept. Obamacare,free this free that Solyndra, all the other failed programs or programs that continue today that threaten to bankrupt the nation are the sole party platforms of a failed institution:the demoncrats.

Next year they will fail miserably as their party is divided into so many parts none will have even have a prayer of a chance.

The Bernie coalition of free this free that will still be alive but nothing as crazy as bullet trains to Honolulu or Havana which will be the ABC coalition of true wackjobs buying into the the AOC/Beto idiots of 12-25 years old many of whom still live in their parents basement.

Perhaps the biggest threat for the dems will come when the third partly guys take hold and further split their dwindling vote.

Today over at AT here's what we learned from Clarice:

About 3-in-4 American voters favor a populist-nationalist “America First” legal immigration, trade, and foreign policy platform from candidates running for office that prioritizes protecting the way of life and economic security of United States citizens above all else.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/the_political_suicide_hotline_ringing_nonstop_comments.html#disqus_thread

Pretty much says it all. When 3 of 4 voters vote "America First" the free lunchers are in big trouble.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Here is a plan, prove that Global Warming is happening and if it is let capitalism fix it."

The Left has stolen the language, and are using it against us. One important way of fighting back is to take the language back - by using appropriate, exact words. Global Warming (or the latest 'Climate Change') IS happening. Recorded temperatures from thermometers are slightly higher today than they were a century ago. What is NOT happening is Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. These words are very important.
Catastrophic means that the results are drastic and must be addressed immediately.
Anthropogenic means caused by humans.
Global Warming means temperatures are going up.

Whereas, Global Warming and Climate Change simply mean there is a continuing of the climate that has existed for the last four and a half billion years, or so on earth.

The recorded Global Warming (Climate Change) for the last century is the equivalent of moving from Toledo Ohio to Dayton Ohio. Similarly, the same as moving a couple dozen feet higher on a hill side. If that new climate bothers you, you may have to move back now that it's cooling down, again. The crops that feed the world will grow in both locations.

So, let's be consistent with the words:

Global Warming (and it's latest brother Climate Change) - Ho Hum
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming - Ain't Happenin'

[spokeshave]

Cheap energy is the lifeblood of a capitalistic society. The reason for our boom right now can be directly traced to the low cost abundant energy we are pulling out of the ground. When oil is below a hundred dollars a barrel and electricity is below ten cents a kilowatt then transportation and every other component of production is reduced and the economy thrives.

It gets better

1). Low energy costs (electricity and LNG)

2). Abundant supplies of low cost raw materials (LNG and Oil)

And the result is a growing plastics raw materials industry

For example:

West Virginia's Chemical & Polymers Industry chemicalswv.com

Chemical and polymer manufacturing in West Virginia is home to nearly 140 companies that employ 12,800 workers. The state is ranked sixth in the share of overall gross domestic product that comes from chemicals and polymers and nearly 25 percent of the state’s $4.8 billion in international exports are chemicals and polymers.

And from 2016

A $6 billion ethane cracker plant coming to western Pennsylvania could bring thousands of new jobs to Ohio, including the Akron area’s plastics industry.

A subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell announced plans Tuesday to build the plant on the Ohio River at Monaca in Pennsylvania’s Beaver County after studying the idea for four years.

The long-awaited decision could have sweeping implications for the petrochemical and plastics industries in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where some experts say tens of thousands of jobs could be created as a result. The news also makes it more likely Ohio could get its own cracker plant.

The cracker plant planned by Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC in Pennsylvania will turn ethane from drilling in the Utica and Marcellus shales into polyethylene for plastics, textiles, automotive components and pharmaceuticals.

Ethane is a low-cost natural gas liquid that serves as the U.S. chemical industry’s main feedstock.

The Pennsylvania plant would be the first cracker plant in the three states and the first major cracker to be built outside the Gulf Coast in the last 20 years.