Trust the Science

Right now, most of you have heard of the wildfires in Canada, but you may not be aware of the scope of the problem. According to reports I’m seeing Canada is basically on fire Coast to Coast with 400 separate incidents going on simultaneously. Already, I’m suspicious. Is it just me or do you find it strange that this is only happening in Canada?

Rochester New York this morning, with the imported Canadian smoke

In any event, if you’re living anywhere in the Northeast you are fully aware of it’s consequences in air quality.

What interests me is the remarkable silence from the climate change activists. I’ve been just waiting for one of them to pop off about how the whole thing is our fault because climate change,fossil fuels, etc. etc. Ad nauseum.

But it hasn’t happened. They’ve been keeping their silence, rather like a bunch of school kids nervously looking about the classroom while the teacher figures out who it was the tossed that water balloon.

The same view, about a week earlier

There’s a reason for this unusual silence, of course. As we have begun to get our mental arms around the scale of this thing, there is a realization that the man made climate change they’ve been trying to sell us for a century, simply isn’t selling with the Smoky skies provided by mother nature (without any help from man) as a backdrop.

It’s not easy to argue that man is going to end the planet while nature is single handedly providing an occurrence that has broader consequences than anything that man has ever done, or ever will do.

So, the church of Saint Greta has been holding its silence, at least temporarily, while we wait for the first group of mental midgets to start pointing their fingers at they massive fires up in the great white North, and claim that it’s all because of man-made climate change.

But frankly I doubt they’re going to be able to sell that argument with the evidence in our eyes and in our noses.

All together, children…

“Trust the science”.

https://youtu.be/qJv1IPNZQao

So one of the victims on Jeffrey Epstein’s island is now planning on releasing videos of all the animals who were abusing kids or at least a number of them. It seems a reasonable question to ask what are chances are of living that long.

Here’s the story

So while North Korea can’t seem to fire missiles reliably to the other side of the Sea of Japan, North Korea manages to place a probe into lunar orbit.
Can the differences between big government socialism and capitalism be placed in any sharper relief than this?

Another one that probably isn’t going anywhere is that death Star on legs Chris Christie. At least, I assume there’s legs down there somewhere. I can pretty much guarantee you he’s not going anywhere either. (Him running is a metal picture I didn’t need.)

The reason for their impending failure is simple enough. They are both far too GOP establishment for the rank and file to take them seriously. Their records are both not that of conservatives, or even populists, but Democrat light. And that, dear reader, it’s precisely what the Democrats want. The GOP rank and file understands this, and they’re not having any of it.

We will revisit these two in a month once the polling numbers start coming out.

Now, before you start getting all worried about a rift in the party, I’ll point out that there’s nothing new here, and certainly very little that’s unique to the GOP. Indeed, my thought is that neither Biden nor Harris will be on the ticket a year from now.

You may think that a odd prediction, but I think not. Every single bit of polling data I have seen suggests that the majority of rank and file Democrats want the both of them, Biden and Harris, out of the running. The polling data suggests that rank and file democrats, you know, the voters… are expressing this loudly.

See, their White House performance in the last few years has been nothing short of absolutely disastrous.  They clearly understand that most rank and file Democrats and Independence are completely turned off by what they’ve been witnessed to from this administration.

Uncle Creepy in particular, given his obviously increasing frailties, is a particular concern with people on both sides of the aisle speculating on whether or not he’ll actually make it to election day much less for another 4 years. It sounds cruel to say, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the Democrats didn’t have a martyr flag to wave between now and a year from now. A cynical viewpoint, certainly. But for the Democrats it is probably the least objectionable scenario in terms of being able to maintain political power

The one point I have not mentioned is the deep state, particularly the fully weaponized doj, fbi, cia,. With their obvious biases and proclivities for illegal Acts to favor those biases, the smart money is on those trends continuing in spite of their previous actions being increasingly exposed. There’s a lot of desperate people making up those organizations that have begun to recognize that Donald Trump gets into office a lot of them are going to jail and at the very least their power will be gone.

The one thing that I’m absolutely certain about is that I’ll have no shortage of things to write about.

There is a single-minded effort in our current administration to appear stupid to the rest of the world. Here’s part of it:

The Biden administration is prepared to shell out up to $12 million to teach Iraqis how to fight climate change and appreciate “gender diversity,” an effort it says will help strengthen democracy in the Middle Eastern nation.

President Joe Biden’s State Department on May 15 posted a grant solicitation offering three universities in Iraq up to $4 million each to develop programs to help fight climate change and advance gender equity. Recipients must develop “fields of study, course offerings, and/or majors” centered on “gender issues” and “the adaptation to and mitigation of the , impacts of climate change,” the grant offering shows. Additionally, the State Department wants Iraqi universities to develop recruitment programs for students who will work toward advancing “greenhouse gas reduction” and “other areas of study related to climate change.” Programs approved for funding must also have “progressive curricula” and “strengthen the diversity of the student body of American-style Iraqi institutions of higher education.”

I detect the fingerprints of one John Kerry, who has single-handedly done more damage to the United States and the world at large than most people I can think of.

With protests occurring around the world against the draconian government “green” nonsense, it’s obvious the will of the people is not on his mind.

Tolerance of itself cannot be a virtue, nor pride, nor are they particularly moral. In both cases they are contextual to what it is you’re tolerating or being proud of.

It’s time to recognize that the people most actively trying to tear down and reform our society are invariably the ones who have nothing to contribute to the existing society.

99% of what gets passed off as racial differences, are actually cultural differences.

The reason that governments become corrupted is because that’s where the power is. Therefore the way to curtail corruption is to reduce to a bare minimum the power that government has.

Problems in the economy are either caused by or exacerbated by governmental intrusion into the free market.

Similarly, always remember that the virus covid-19 was created by government healthcare which they then proceeded to lie about on several levels.

It’s now been proven beyond reasonable doubt that the fbi, the cia, and the doj as a whole interfered in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Do not believe for a second that they won’t try it again. They have more to lose this time around. They know if Trump wins the White House again, their power will be seriously curtailed and many will go to jail.

Problems caused by government are not going to be solved by more government. Those problems will only be solved, or at least reduced, by less government.

Interesting that it’s only leftist parents seemingly that produce transgender kids. When you figure out how that works, you’ll know what to do.

It seems that when you actually talk to the people coming across our border it’s a completely different picture from the one that Joe Biden and his people are painting

And all because some rich morons who fly their private jets into Davos, emitting more pollutants into the air in that one trip then you will in your entire lifetime, tell you so.

Are we clear on this?

So, what is going on here? I don’t get it. We obviously are not
dealing with traditional assumptions about corporate behavior. These companies are not appealing to a substantial customer segment. They evidently don’t mind incurring the puzzlement, if not wrath, of much of their customer base. They can’t possibly be profit maximizing, as economists tell us they do, and ought to do.

Some say that companies are being dominated by left-leaning HR and
marketing departments. Maybe so. But HR departments don’t make decisionso of this sort, and the normal assumption is that marketing departments
are trying to market. That is, to maximize sales. These days, that
doesn’t seem to be the case. And the worst offenders are often CEOs who
have been hired as PR face men, not nuts and bolts managers.

What’s going on here really isn’t all that hard to guesstimate. The large investors in places like Target are not the average American whence all this angry reaction to woke marketing is coming from.

The large investors are people like Bill Gates, George Soros, to name two possible examples … All appropriately hidden behind mutual investment firms of course. I have no doubt China has their hand and this as well.

Market Realist is kind enough to provide the numbers this morning:

Mutual funds own over 42 percent of Target, while other institutional investors own more than 39 percent of the discount retailer. The Vanguard Group and SSgA Funds Management, Inc. are Target’s top two shareholders. They own an 8.88 percent and a 7.18 percent stake, respectively, in the company. Another top shareholder is Capital Research & Management Company.

Now, obviously this is speculation, but it does fit the available facts, rather snugly.

I mean, think about it: average Americans are reacting to something that’s as popular with them as a skunk is at a church picnic. Their voices are being heard but it doesn’t seem to be changing much of anything in terms of what the corporations want to do. As an example we have the Target CEO, one Brian Cornell, claiming that we’ll capitalism is just great for Target, and he says just the thing for society as a whole. (Yeah, right.)

While this seems a rather blatant appeal to morality, while embracing immorality, it should be said that corporations, particularly those involved in sales, have never been particularly moral in the past. They tend to lean where the money is. For as long as I’ve been alive anyway, the money is with Middle America. But now suddenly they seem to be ditching Middle America in favor of leftism as embodied by the Uber rich leftists who seem bent on taking over everything. And places like Target, Disney, Budweiser,etc, all seem to be acting as if it’s a coordinated script.

Which raises the question:

What would explain them all marching off to the same drummer? What else would explain the coordination of all of these now woke businesses, besides direction / threats from the group of large scale investors who also happen to be left leaning?

And isn’t it interesting that the leftists among Us who traditionally have been against the Uber rich now suddenly find themselves aligned with them?

As for the title of this post, please excuse my paraphrasing Pogo. But it does seem clear that the origin of this lunge to the left by some American corporations, talking among them, is not coming from Middle America.

I’ve been saying for quite some time that there is an anger brewing in Middle America that will be difficult to control if not impossible. But by golly, these people are trying. They don’t seem to care very much about the anger being directed at them which tells me that there is a larger motivation than the money of Middle America.

Having watched this stuff for 60 years and more, it’s my take the these moves are being directed by the larger investors… Who all see their political aims coming to fruition through these moves.

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I’m going to pass along something I wrote to our younger boy when he graduated from high school a few years back, in the hope that both graduates and parents of today will get something out of it.

Ok, , so you’re graduating.

It’s of course a huge day in your yet young life, and one that you should be proud to have accomplished. Certainly, I want you to know that your Mom and I are proud of you for having gotten here, and I want, in a fatherly way, to advise you on what you’re going to find of the far side of this milestone.

The first thing you’re going to find is that you’re the same person, that you always were. I know that might come as a bit of a shock to you, or perhaps even a disappointment, so I thought to get that out in the open, right off. This might not make sense to you right now, but given a few years, it will. We, many of us, spend our childhoods thinking that some milestone will change us, like someone’s tapped us on the bean with a magic wand. … Presto-chango, you’re an adult. Well, it’s not quite that straightforward a process.

I once wrote that at our core, we’re still, and always, the same scared little 12 year old we have always been. By that I mean, there’s always the self-doubts that drive us, and they never go away. They keep us questioning ourselves, and our actions…. Do I really want to do this? Do I really not want to do that? That’s a good thing, actually, because it helps to keep us from doing really stupid stuff.

But inherent in that same 12 year old is a sense of wonder. Its important that you never lose that, because once you do, you really do start changing, and growing old. I wrote to this point a few Christmases ago. That bit contains some lessons you should never forget.

The second thing I want you to know is that you already know right from wrong, and good from bad. I and your mom have taught you that much, hopefully by example. All the rest of it is mere application of those principles, and I know you’re capable of dealing with such matters out of hand.

The third thing I want you to know, in case this wasn’t made clear to you, this milestone doesn’t mark the end of your learning process, but the beginning. The last 12 years worth of schooling was about teaching you how to learn. Yes, you learned stuff along the way, but mostly this was about training your brain to adapt correctly to conditions you and I cannot yet see. You’ve gotten to this point because you’ve proven your ability there. And that brings me to…

The fourth thing…Change is part of life. Often as not that change is painful to accept. Usually, its harder if we don’t accept such change… but always remember, within that context, the right and wrong you know so well. Remember that those who tolerate everything stand for nothing. It comes down, my son, to what you will and will not stand for. You are defined by those choices.

The fifth thing is simple and yet broad in its implications. There will never be a better spokeman for you, than you. Don’t be waiting for someone to come along to express your desires, your needs, and your perceptions. While that statement is certainly applicable to the political, it also involves your personal life as well. If we hold, as I have for decades, now, that our politics is the expression of our most closely held beliefs, and needs, then this part of my writing here cannot be separated from the political, OR the personal. Don’t depend on government. Not only will government never be the perfect spokesman for you, but anything that government provides, can only be given to you after being taken from someone else. Right and wrong, again.

The sixth thing you need to know is that you need to cut yourself some slack. There are always disappointments in our lives… both the professional and the personal. Failed relationships, jobs, etc… places we zigged when we should have zagged. And often, some of the most painful disappointments are where we didn’t do anything wrong, at all. Trust me when I tell you that some situations will be hard to live with, and we all have them. Old jobs. Old relationships. Things we have done that we’re not particularly proud of. Avoid, if you can mulling these over for extended periods. These things will rip you up faster than a coral reef. You need to forgive yourself and others… and continue on.

And finally, know that your Mom and I love you… and that will never change. We think you’re a very special person. We know the good things you are capable of. We are here for you.

Congratulations on your graduation. Now, for the next step.

Let’s set up a quick overview of the situation. The numbers are more than a little rough but they will give you an idea of what we’re facing:

At the moment, you and I are giving up on the order of 65% of our income to cover taxes and fees and unfunded mandates, if we are counting all levels of government. Businesses are paying even higher tax, particularly small businesses (which the left considers wealthy individuals by the way).

Thing is, businesses don’t pay tax, you and I do, when we do business with them. That heavy tax load is simply passed on to us as a cost of doing business. So in fact the taxation goes well over 65%. Taxation of businesses is simply a way to hide the tax the government imposes on you and I.

Now with that as a backdrop let’s consider the national debt, which at the moment is going up on the order more or less of 2 trillion dollars a year. In other words, we are actually taking into the tax coffers 2 trillion dollars less than the drunken sailors known as Democrats are spending year over year. This is the very definition of unsustainable and yet they’ll never mention it.

Now this is a bit rhetorical, but when is the last time you actually heard of Democrats actually cut expending?

Nine times out of 10 they’re going to give you an argument if you even try to cut the rate of increased spending year over year…. And you can forget about actual spending cuts.

And by the way the military spending? We are rapidly approaching the day, if we haven’t arrived there already, where just the service on the debt… Not actually paying it down, but just paying the interest on it is about on par with what we’re spending on the military.

I don’t know about you, but in my book that constitutes an unsustainable economic situation. Something has to give… And trust me on this, one way or the other it will.

Does anybody think that the economy is going to withstand the additional two trillion dollars of taxation that would be required to balance the budget?

Me, neither.

And history bears this out.

Back in the ’80s, Ronald Reagan made a deal with the Democrats then infesting Congress. the idea was we lower the tax rates to get the economy going and in turn Congress would agree to rain in on spending. The lowering tax rates got the economy going to the point where the text income at the Federal coffers better than doubled. Thing is, the Democrats in Congress who are always about buying votes, saw that extra money coming into the Federal coffers and spent approximately 165% of it. In short we’re still waiting for the cuts they promised

Does anybody believe that the Democrats are going to even consider 2 trillion dollars worth of spending cuts, not cuts on the rate of inflation not cuts on the rate of increase but actual cuts?

Me, neither.

We are headed for a economic crisis of nuclear bomb proportions. And the sad part is the Democrats will be pointing the fingers at everybody else for the economic crisis they themselves have caused. And it’s not like we haven’t been warning about this for decades now.

This is what Donald Trump was talking about the other day when he suggested in that CNN interview, that default on the debt is going to happen anyway. He understands as Maggie Thatcher did that eventually, you run out of other people’s money.

There will come a time… and it’s not too far down the road… where we simply won’t be able to keep printing money anymore to remain solvent. There’s a number of economists already who are suggesting that default on our debts is unavoidable, now.

And it’s not like warnings weren’t issued.

If you haven’t seen Jonathan turley’s extensive and well-written write-up on the Durham report, you seriously need to. Here you go.