Tyler O’Neill over at PJM the other day:
On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) said that hurricanes, superstorms, and tornadoes did not occur before climate change. In the same breath, he said that anyone who questions the left’s climate-alarmist hysteria is “just delusional.” He may want to check in a mirror.
After he finished berating President Donald Trump in an interview with MSNBC, Cuomo turned to his latest attempt to enforce climate change orthodoxy.
“You know, anyone who questions extreme weather and climate change is just delusional at this point,” Cuomo said. “We have seen in the State of New York what everyone is seeing. We see these weather patterns that we never had before. We didn’t have hurricanes, we didn’t have superstorms, we didn’t have tornadoes.”
Tyler gets into a fairly detailed rebuttal of Cuomo on the matter and concludes:
Unless the Iroquois and their ancestors were secretly burning fossil fuels — and cleverly erased the evidence they did so — Cuomo’s statement about there having been no hurricanes and superstorms in New York prior to climate change is flat-out wrong. A simple Google search would have set him straight.
Ehhh… I doubt it.
He would simply discount the evidence in front of him, because it doesn’t match with his predetermined politically based wet dream.
An interesting parallel would be the Democrats and their claims of quid pro quo with the president of the Ukraine and Donald Trump. The entire world has free access to the contents of that conversation in the transcript. It was unedited. Yet, the Democrats continue to claim that there was something in that conversation that was totally illegal and moral and that Donald Trump deserves to be impeached because of it. We’re supposed to believe them and that the content of the actual conversation.
I submit that in much the same way, Mario Cuomo ignores the facts in front of him and sticks to the script, because he knows darn well that his power comes from the common misconception that the emperor has beautiful new clothes.
That may well work with the denizens of NBC and its various forms and their viewers. But the numbers of people that adhere to this climate change religion are falling rapidly which is why the left is in such a panic recently. (And why the viewership numbers for MSNBC have been in the toilet these last several years.)
From the Strategy Page,
After Delta Force nailed al-Baghdadi, President Trump used Twitter and television to attack al-Baghdadi’s arrogance, swagger and narrative of invincibility. Trump said: “He died after running into a dead-end tunnel. … The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread.” The ghoul detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and three of his children.
Trump targeted potential recruits the fanatic might inspire: “(I)t’s something that should be brought out so that his followers and all of these young kids that want to leave various countries … see how he died. … He didn’t die a hero. He died a coward — crying, whimpering, screaming.”
Overblown language, a “yuge” exaggeration? Perhaps, but useful, strategic information warfare. Trump’s global damning damages al-Baghdadi as a terrorist icon.
In comparison, The Washington Post’s coddling in its now-changed headline “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48” was a depraved distortion of reality that undermines anti-terror efforts.
Well, no kidding. Indeed, were we to hold ourselves up to the same standards the Democrats have been holding Trump to, it would be clear that everyone that the Washington Post and the Democrats complaining about the death of this thug, are in fact ISIS assets.
Of course, the reality is somewhat different. The truth is I find very little in the way of evidence that all but a paltry few Democrats do not possess the intelligence to understand Trump’s strategy embodied in his announcement of the other day…. That this is rhetorical warfare as much as anything else, and in that realm, Trump’s message was a masterstroke… particularly as compared to the Obama strategy. Obama never understood that kissing backside is not a strategy, but capitulation.
Pictured below is the face of an American hero. Not only is the President taking the war to ISIS, killing both their religious and political leader, the President is rubbing salt into the enemy’s wounds.
Hero
President Trumps tweet picturing and praising the “wonderful dog (name not declassified) that did such a GREAT JOB in capturing and killing the Leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi!” was a brilliant bit of psychological warfare, in addition to good domestic politics, tugging at the hearts of Americans who love their canine friends.
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Muslims, you see, are taught that dogs are unclean. Have al Baghdadi taken down by an “unclean” animal is an extra dose of humiliation, somewhat akin to the perhaps apocryphal story of General “Black Jack” Pershing ordering Muslim terrorists he was fighting in the Philippines in the late 19th century buried with pig carcasses in order to prevent their entry into heaven.
Americans love their dogs. On the other paw, Muslims believe dogs are dirty. Not only is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead, his not going to Heaven, and our Commander-in-Chief wants every Islamic terrorist to know it.
Bravo Zulu Mr. President.
I am neither a Catholic, nor do I play one on television. That puts me in the same company as Pope Francis and a bevy of democrat politicians. from Daniel John Sobieski, American Thinker:
In an age of “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose which church doctrines they will adhere to and which they will ignore, an age where we have a Pope Francis, who would have us pray for the oceans and invites Amazonian “priests” and their fertility gods into the Vatican, it was refreshing to see a Catholic priest speak truth to power and tell a craven Catholic politician that abortion-on-demand is a moral evil opposed by the Catholic Church and to approve of it means you are unworthy of receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion. You cannot be personally opposed to a moral evil such as abortion any more than you can be personally opposed to slavery.
Biden, while campaigning in South Carolina, presented himself for Holy Communion and was refused communion at the 9 a.m. mass at Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church, where Father Robert E. Morey serves as pastor.
No law forces Joseph Biden to be a Catholic. However, should Biden proclaim himself to be Catholic, he should respect Catholic dogma.
Matt Margolis reports:
On Monday evening, a federal judge in Kentucky reopened the $250 million defamation case filed by Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann. The judge had previously dismissed the case in July, but is now allowing the lawsuit to proceed with a narrower focus.
Well, it’s about time. Amazing, what you have to go through to get leftists to admit they’ve gone over the line.
One need not look too deeply into this to see that the Washington Post’s reporting on this was absolutely biased. And frankly, the trends that we’ve seen coming out of the Post, the New York Times and for that matter the entirety of the supposed mainstream media is permanently biased against anything that doesn’t fit with the leftist manttra.
A comparison of the case of the Covington kids, v the case of our taking out someone who was unquestionably the worst of the worst in the world of Islamic terrorism, and how each is treated in the Press, tells the entirety of the tale…
The tragic part about all of this is that the mainstream media still doesn’t understand why nobody trusts them anymore.
Mollie Hemingway looks at these things and says in part:
Corporate media have moved from at least projecting concern for reporting the actual news into unembarrassed political actors. That enables them to flamboyantly spin — as opposed to their previous method of subtly spinning — even major news with indisputable facts.
Mollie is writing specifically about press coverage of Donald Trump these last three years, but frankly there is no question whatsoever in my mind the quote above can be applied to anything the mainstream media “reports” on these days. the constant drumbeat of anti-conservative bias coming out of the mainstream media is undeniable.
Will this change things in the long run? Probably not. There’s far too much in the way of history, far too much in the way of momentum on this thing. But a successful lawsuit here would be a step in the right direction.
I said a few years ago that there was a pattern to government takeovers..
Witness if you will the automobile industry in this country, which in my view is drowning under the weight of over-regulation over taxation and over unionization. How did the government respond to the bankruptcy or near bankruptcy is off the automobile industry? Did they lower the amount of regulations and red tape did they lower the amount of Union demands? No, they nationalized the Industries. Took over the companies, Lock Stock & Board Room.
Ponder as well the passenger railroad industry in this country. The past is strikingly similar. In the middle seventies, the regulation Burden had gotten to the point where the major railroads were going broke. Government killed the goose that laid the golden egg. And so what happens? Government steps in takes over the then bankrupted railroads, nationalizing them which to this day still serves an agonizingly small number of riders, mostly in the big government Northeast and in Washington DC. Ever heard of the Northeast Corridor?
So here we go again, more of the same:
The City of San Jose, Pacific Gas and Electric’s largest covered city, may soon have its own electrical system, due to frustration over numerous planned blackouts during the last several months.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo presented the plan to the San Jose Rules Committee late Wednesday. The plan states that the city should buy all of the bankrupt PG&E’s electrical utilities and create their own consumer-owned public utility, similar to several other cities in California such as Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Other cities are also currently weighing in on taking over electrical duties from PG&E following the planned blackouts, including San Francisco.
The thing is, as government takeovers increase in a particular field, service invariably gets cut. Have you been watching for example, the number of lines that Amtrak no longer runs? Have you noticed their prices increasing?
It’s not hard to predict where this is going, out in California. The advantage here, I guess, is the last smart person out of California won’t need to turn the lights off.
Ed Driscoll has been watching this business in Syria with regards to the leader of ISIS being killed in a raid;
LIKE CLOCKWORK, THE “ACTUALLY, IT’S BAD THAT BAGHDADI WAS KILLED ON TRUMP’S WATCH” REACTION HAS BEGUN:
● James Clapper on CNN: Baghdadi’s Death Could ‘Galvanize’ ISIS — We Can’t Stop Worrying.
● Major kill of ISIS leader Baghdadi confirmed so of course the Left is out in full force claiming it’s not a good thing.
● Washington Post headline: “Austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State dies at 48.”
As Ann Althouse writes regarding that last item, “It’s as though the paper is honoring him.”
Though to be fair, it doesn’t take much to become an “austere religious scholar” at the Post.
And Glenn Greenwald of all people has been watching the reaction, and I’m amazed that he actually gets it:
“It’s genuinely fascinating watching Democrats in real time struggle to figure out what to say about this. They want to be patriotic and anti-ISIS, but also need a way to malign Trump without contradicting their gushing Obama praise over OBL: not an easy balancing act. Good luck!”
I must say however that what amazes me the most about all of this:
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., were not informed in advance of the U.S. special operations forces raid in northwestern Syria in which ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died, Schiff told ABC’s “This Week”
That’s probably because they didn’t want ISIS finding out about the attack in advance, which is something I would definitely would not put it past the Democrats these days.
And isn’t it interesting that while Adam Schiff is defending secrecy in his attempt to impeach the president, he is complaining about secrecy here?
There is some real tightrope dancing going on here, and will be for the next several weeks on this.
Oh by the way, the ISIS spokesman was killed by our people the next day.
so all the complaining that the Democrats have been doing about withdrawing from the region? It’s been revealed is uneducated noise-making. At some point they’re going to have to start admitting that the man knows precisely what he’s doing.
Record labels: There was a time when they used to mean something. If nothing else, it was a filing system for my over-large record collection.
They set the mood for what you were about to listen to. With the Advent of the CD and the more or less demise of viny, the labels started being significantly less important. There was certainly less of a platform to put liner notes on. With the Advent of downloading and no hints of physicality involved in the replaying of music the importance of the appearance have a record and the package it comes as close to zero as no matter. I can’t help but think the music enthusiast has lost more than they gained in the digital age because of that lack of physicality…. that lack of something to hold in your hand.
If you ever get a chance to play poker with Adam Schiff, remember that his eyes get bigger when he’s bluffing.
The implications for the news of the day should be obvious. He’s got nothing, and he’s betting from a busted flush.
Speaking of which, with the news yesterday that the investigation into the origins of the Russia hoax has become a criminal investigation, (as I wrote yesterday) the stock market is going up a hundred and fifty three points. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the market on Monday.
As for the criminal investigation, I’m still far from convinced that they’ll be any serious consequences coming out of this for the Democrats, but the panicked way they are acting suggests that they think there will be. I’m cautiously optimistic there. I’ll tell you the truth, nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to see Adam Schiff frog marched in front of the cameras on his way to the vertical bar hotel but honestly, Adam Schiff is not the problem, he is a symptom of the problem.
By the way, this stuff is all going to end up coming to a head precisely when I said it would… October or November of next year.
Fall Colors: Because of a minor schedule screw up I ended up taking a trip into Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut the last several days. In the doing I got a chance to see the Fall colors at their peak in those areas.
The views were spectacular to say the least and with the exception of the spectacular lack of truck parking in those States I actually had a good time. Random chance provided simple pleasure then I got paid for it, too. I won’t complain.
Funny how seldom this angle even gets mentioned, much less headlined:
The 737 MAX was trumpeted as “Boeing’s game changer.” It reduced emissions by 14 percent and Boeing raced it into production to compete with a climate-friendly new offering from Airbus.
But in order to achieve its green goal, Boeing had to use much bigger engines that didn’t fit in the usual position under the wing of the repurposed, 53-year-old 737 design.
The engines had to be moved forward and hoisted higher.
As a result, the aerodynamics changed, and the planes had a tendency to pitch up and potentially stall on takeoff. Boeing’s solution to this hardware defect was an imperfect software bandage that would automatically correct the pitch. In both crashes, preliminary investigations found this software kicked in even when the plane wasn’t stalling, with lethal consequences.
So, once again, the Green nonsense claims not only jobs, but lives. but nobody will ever dare say anything about this in the mainstream media for fear of the Green Mafia.
Personally I’m still waiting for somebody trying to develop a battery powered airplane.
Here we go again. The Democrats just can’t help themselves.
“There’s nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There’s nothing weak about looking out for others.”
“There’s nothing weak about being honorable. You’re not a sucker to have integrity and to treat others with respect,” Obama continued causing most observers to view this as an implicit criticism of Trump.
Obama would apparently have us ignore the charitable acts that Trump is known for. As in, personal acts of charity, not governmental largesse.
Paul Wellstone was unavailable for comment.
I said, just a couple of months ago:
Consider the Brexit movement. Consider the recent elections in Germany. Consider the rather startling unpopularity of Macron in France. Consider Viktor Orban over in Hungary. The umbrella movement in Taiwan.
Everywhere you look around the globe, we are seeing long empowered establishment politics being removed or at least resisted, and for the most part the people taking this action have not been heretofore involved with politics all that much.
And now, surprisingly enough we see it happening in Canada;
Following the reelection of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister with a Liberal minority, #Wexit, or Western exit (a play on Brexit), immediately began trending on Twitter, with separatist accounts gaining thousands of new followers.
One of the most important takeaways from the election is the blue sweep throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan. Both provinces have expressed growing indignation over the other provinces’ dependence on the oil industry, while simultaneously trying to stifle Alberta’s business prospects and economic growth by opposing pipelines.
Apparently Western Canadians like a goodly number of Americans, and as I suggested in the earlier article, people around the world, are tired of their government having its strings pulled from the offices of George Soros and company.
At the moment, I’d have to say that the likelihood of this actually happening, is rather small… But we shouldn’t discount the amount of anger outside of the domain of the Eastern leftist.
Remember the definition of a hero: someone who is just cold enough. Just tired enough, and just angry enough that he doesn’t care about the consequences anymore… And so does what needs doing.
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting:
Attorney General William Barr’s expanding review of the Russia probe has evolved into a criminal investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter, giving a federal prosecutor who is leading the inquiry the ability to subpoena witnesses and use a grand jury.
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The ramping up of the review into an investigation that could bring criminal charges comes as Congress pursues an impeachment inquiry centered on President Trump’s efforts to persuade Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. Mr. Trump and his Republican allies have long urged the Justice Department to prove whether the president and his associates were unduly targeted for surveillance during the 2016 campaign by politically biased investigators.
So as it turns out, it’s precisely what we have suspected all along… And what I said just the other day… The entire purpose of the impeachment effort is to create confusion so as to protect Democrats.
“These reports, if true, raise profound new concerns that the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr has lost its independence and become a vehicle for President Trump’s political revenge,” said Reps. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) and Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), chairmen of the Judiciary and Intelligence committees, respectively.
Revenge?
No, Butterball.
Justice.
Crimes have been discovered and will be prosecuted.
Oh… and physicality aside, guess who’s going to be making one of the biggest targets?
The former Broward county sheriff…. Hmm…. well, actually that’s the headline. Scott Israel was removed by the Florida Senate, and is the former Broward county sheriff.
His stupidity, and his lack of courage got a lot of kids killed, and the only reason he lasted as long as he did is because he was well connected in Democrat Party circles as evidenced by the way the vote went down in the Florida Senate.
In a just world it wouldn’t have taken a vote to make this happen, and it blessedly sure wouldn’t have taken this long.
Ponder this for just a moment…
Scott Israel was a Democrat Party political power wannabe. The evidence of his cowardice of his poor leadership and his direct responsibility for the deaths involved at that school is incontrovertible. And yet the Democratic party power structure defended him and likely will continue to do so.
That he wasn’t even a major player in the party is important here. Think, now, how much more protection is going to be provided the major players in the Democrat Party as their corruption is called out?
Margolis and Cox pass along the following;
“Hillary Clinton accused Tulsi Gabbard — a combat veteran, soldier and Major in the Army National Guard — of being ‘groomed’ to be a ‘Russian asset,’” reads a fundraising email sent by Gabbard’s campaign on Saturday.
“Tulsi fights back and demands Hillary join the race and face her directly,” it continues.
Gabbard in the email said Clinton “finally came out from behind the curtain yesterday, accusing me of being a Russian asset” while asking supporters to pitch in $25 to her campaign.
“If this a fight she wants to have, one that has implications for all of us and the future of our democracy, then I challenge her to come out from behind her proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media, and face me directly,” Gabbard added.
Look, I like a good cat fight as much as the next guy, but this back-and-forth is taking on a level of absurdity, which is extraordinary even in one of the most absurd Democrat primaries this country has ever seen.
Don’t misunderstand, to a large degree I will give Tulsi Gabbard serious credit for having nailed Hillary Clinton to the wall on her corruption. But the idea that she, Tulsi Gabbard is the answer to Hillary Clinton’s corruption is almost equally wack doodle to the idea that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian plant.
In watching all of this the one thing that we can easily conclude is that the world will not be a better place if governmental power of any serious degree is ever again placed in the hands of either one of these two.
Welcome to today’s Democrat Party…
