Tag: Carbon Cult
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It’s “Earth” Hour!
I’ve missed this fake anti-holiday several times. Let’s go back to 2011 when I marked “Earth” Hour for the third time. I wouldn’t change a thing. = = = = = START UNCHANGED REPRINT: Polistra and Happystar continue their annual salute to Earth Hour, this time with a special emphasis on Edison’s light bulb. You…
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We’re not using what we have
The local paper has an article about a recent bus crash. A driver was following the computer instead of his eyes, and crashed one of the new double-decker buses into a railroad overpass. I’ve been riding STA buses for 35 years, so I know something about the setup. I’ve been programming for 45 years, so…
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Monster stopped killing. GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE.
Paul Unehrlich, the philosophical source of total genocide, finally stopped killing. Unehrlich persuaded all governments and corporations that life is exponential. Corporations loved him because their God, the Dow, is exponential by definition. Infinite orgasm for billionaires. Governments loved him because an exponential happens when you eliminate negative feedback. Governments require open-loop systems because open-loop…
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Show, don’t tell.
If you want to sell a product or a religion you have to SHOW the product, not just tell us to buy it. Churches quote the New Testament and then viciously reject lonely and poor people. In 2020 the Democrats talked “resistance” and then lethally assisted Trump’s torture chamber, continuing it for two years after…
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Logical conclusion
Unscientific Unamerican is screeching as usual about BURNING BURNING CLIMATE EMERGENCY. = = = = = START SCREECH: Award-winning Burundian journalist Arthur Bizimana and his collaborator Martin Leku, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, risked their safety by travelling deep into the rainforest — the world’s second-largest — to gather material for their exclusive…
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Copying the New Deal
Good is good no matter who does it. Bad is bad no matter who does it. In 2020 Trump did the evilest thing in 70 years, and the most widespread evil in all of human history. In his second term his admin is doing the standard American evil things like bombing foreign countries and enriching…
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Omnicidal fashions
The “environmental” omnicidists go through fashions and phases. For a while they try one way to obliterate life on earth. Like all psychopaths they get bored easily, and move on to another form of torture and obliteration. In today’s local “news”, the city’s Waste To Energy Plant was built at great expense 20 years ago…
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Good work.
Good is good no matter who does it. Bad is bad no matter who does it. In 2020 Trump committed the most hideous crime since 1945. Now he’s doing some unquestionably good things in the energy realm, and some unquestionably bad things on the foreign war front. On the energy front, Chris Wright is working…
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No mother-in law or cliff here!
Trump’s first term set a historical record for maximum evil and genocide. Trump’s second term is mixed bad and good. Trump’s energy policy is PURELY GOOD and CRITICALLY NECESSARY FOR NATIONAL SURVIVAL. Previous admins, both R and D, were moving ahead steadily to make war on this country. Bomb all the dams, cover all the…
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Small and large mother-in-law / Cadillac
Small MIL/Caddy: Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations. The push to close the offices appears to contradict a federal judge’s order from April, which required Trump officials to resume operations at V.O.A. Cadillac: I hate to see any shortwave station abandoned. I used to enjoy shortwave. Mother-in-law: VOA never fulfilled…
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That’s exactly the problem
Columbia Journalism Review takes an inside look at Kirn’s ‘County Highway’ publication. They focus on the close connection with RFK, which happened after I stopped reading it. I subscribed at first, hoping it would have the qualities of a real newspaper. After reading the first two editions, I decided it fails the test in every…
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Rare wisdom
Via RealClear, one economics writer actually understands the New Deal! This is unique! Nearly all modern writers on politics and economics either hate FDR because he was “commie” or hate FDR because he was “fascist”. Nobody understands why the New Deal worked, why it created such long-lasting fierce loyalty. = = = = = START…
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50 year unsync
In 1958, TV Radio Life magazine interviewed Martin Klein, who hosted a weekly science program on LA television station KCOP, listed as ‘independent’. It’s still there, still on channel 13 with the same call letters. They asked Klein to predict 50 years into the future. How would we live in 2008? Klein worked for Cohu…
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Could have been a good idea
Via RealClear: The Methodists are trying a new way to maintain a central managing body while allowing more modularity. Instead of a universal orthodoxy, regions will be allowed to set their own standards for SOME hot-button stuff like homosexuality and women pastors. In any system, living or mechanical or social, modularity is crucial. = =…
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Not entirely predictable
This is one of the EXTREMELY RARE cases where journalists actually work both ways. Via Nieman, journalists have universally derided Trump’s Napoleonic effort to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This, of course, is more predictable than gravity. Journalists NEVER go along with anything ordered by Official Wrong Party. Locally, journalists…
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