vxbush 6/28/2023 5:51:12 AM

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Tuesday, we learned from Comer’s committee that another message shows Hunter Biden doing business with his contact at CEFC for another payday. This time, Hunter’s message shows that he was doing direct business with “the Chairman” and telling his contact to reassure “the Chairman” that “The Biden’s [sic] are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants from this [partnership.]”

And who is "the Chairman"? "It turns out, “the Chairman” is a Chinese billionaire with ties to the CCP’s intelligence agency, and the “Biden’s [sic]” were doing business with them."

vxbush 6/28/2023 5:52:03 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

THE NEXT DAY:

One of Hunter's shell companies, OWASCO PC, received $100,000 from CEFC.

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 5:53:07 AM

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vxbush 6/28/2023 5:56:16 AM

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Vladimir Putin has dropped all charges against Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for leading an armed revolt against Putin’s own defense ministry last weekend.

So what was the purpose of the gaslighting, then? 

vxbush 6/28/2023 6:15:05 AM

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‘Lawlessness’: Mark Levin Blasts SCOTUS Decision Denying State Regulation of Elections

Gotta admit, I agree with Levin here. The Constitution is extremely clear on this fact. 

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 6:23:07 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: So what was the purpose of the gaslighting, then? 

What "gaslighting'? 

vxbush 6/28/2023 6:39:04 AM

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In #6 Occasional Reader said: What "gaslighting'? 

Sorry, probably the wrong word choice. This isn't media gaslighting, but I would classify it as Russian theatre in the sense that given Putin has killed his opponents in the past but hasn't touched Prighozhin. How does that make any sense? All charges against Prighozhin dropped after he basically gave up over the weekend? No radiation poisoning? What gives? 

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 6:40:05 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Levin might be right on this one, but he veers off course with the following:

"According to Levin, “It’s not a conservative court, regardless of the [pro-life] Dobbs decision (in which Roberts voted with the leftists).  Dobbs merely left the issue of abortion to the states.  It outlawed nothing.”

The issue before the court in Dobbs was not whether abortion should be "outlawed". 

JCM 6/28/2023 7:05:37 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

You don't get to do business in the PRC without having ties to the CCP or more likely the PLA.

vxbush 6/28/2023 7:19:38 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: Levin might be right on this one, but he veers off course with the following:

Yeah, that I agree with. But the court had clear language in the Constitution about who controlled voting, and it is absolutely the states' prerogative to decide how to vote. They essentially turned it over to the federal government. 

Things will get much worse from here on out. 

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 8:05:06 AM

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In #9 JCM said: You don't get to do business in the PRC without having ties to the CCP or more likely the PLA.

BB King!

And Doris Day!.... 

buzzsawmonkey 6/28/2023 9:30:20 AM

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Some think the world's climate status is drastic
But that's a lie
But that's a lie
They think that use of fossil fuels and plastic
Should quickly die
Should quickly die
But I---I love to spend some time explaining
How much they're wrong
How much they're wrong
Sadly, the comprehension of their braining
Is far from strong
Is far from strong
Do not, do not listen to these fools!
Remember that fossil fuels rule!
Vehicle EVs---just ridicule
Vehicle EVs---just ridicule
Make more folks aware
Vehicle EVs---just ridicule

---apologies to "Finiculi, finicula"

vxbush 6/28/2023 10:56:54 AM

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Okay, random data analysis time. Here in the Midwest, we are having horrible haze and air pollution issues, with daily pronouncements of how dangerous it is to be outside. Every single time, the blame is laid on Canadian wildfires. 

Based on this, I thought, certainly there should be a page controlled by some Canadian forestry group that can show me which fires are impacting us, and then I can use the wind charts from NOAA or Accuweather to see when this might improve. If I can find a pretty interactive map, so much the better. 

I can't find confirmation of a single active Canadian fire on an interactive map. The one chart that keeps getting used for its pretty maps-- the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System--is, by default, actually a chart of the fire weather index. You have to go in and change the settings to switch from the index to the list of actual fires, but the news articles I've checked are all posting the fire index map instead. Not cool, media people.

If I go to NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System map, it shows specific fires in the US and you can click on them and get details. But if I look at Canada, I can only see "hot spots" located by satellite,  not actual active fires, and I can't click anything to get details. 

There is a list of fires at Canada's National Wildland Fire Situation Report, but it's static and doesn't show anything visually. 

Now, compare all this to today's Ryan Hall, Y'all video that includes a video simulation at around 7:45 of the haze cover in the midwest. This is what I wanted; a demonstration of the coverage and the change over time. I wish it included where the fires are generating the smoke that is covering us, but this is better than anything else I've seen.

Amateurs for the win, people. 

vxbush 6/28/2023 11:01:44 AM

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In #13 vxbush said: Now, compare all this to today's Ryan Hall, Y'all video that includes a video simulation at around 7:45 of the haze cover in the midwest.

I'm assuming that Ryan is actually borrowing this video from some weather geek source (or has permission to use it) or this is his own coding, but in any case, he's sharing more information than I can find anywhere else.

JCM 6/28/2023 11:16:42 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 13:

Reporters and urinalists are no longer capable of actually doing the 5w's of their job. If it is not handed to them on a platter they would be totally lost.

vxbush 6/28/2023 11:38:52 AM

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In #15 JCM said: Reporters and urinalists are no longer capable of actually doing the 5w's of their job. If it is not handed to them on a platter they would be totally lost.

I know. I really do. But I keep thinking that the organizations that are supposed to know this stuff would also be putting up decent stuff, and they aren't. It's frustrating, as pretty much everything these days is.

JCM 6/28/2023 11:51:59 AM

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First they came for our cigarettes, and no one spoke out.

Then they came for our hamburgers, and no one spoke out.

Then they came for our sodas, and no one spoke out.

Then they came for our pizza...

NYC pizzerias torch Dem-run city over coal, wood-fired oven crackdown: 'More important things to worry about'

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 12:07:26 PM

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Reply to JCM in 17:

First they came for Ray's Original Famous Pizza, and I said nothing... 

JCM 6/28/2023 12:19:08 PM

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Body cam video of the cop who took out the Allen TX mall shooter.

Nothing graphic, but very tense.

Cop hears gunfire.... and heads straight for it.

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 12:53:54 PM

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In #19 JCM said: Cop hears gunfire.... and heads straight for it.

I need to remind some of the "who needs cops?" ultra-libertarian crowd at Insty about this aspect, from time to time. 

JCM 6/28/2023 12:57:27 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

You listen to him, he was stressed and still put lead on target.

Having done stress shooting drills.... it's not easy.

He did it and got the job down.

vxbush 6/28/2023 1:10:28 PM

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In #20 Occasional Reader said: I need to remind some of the "who needs cops?" ultra-libertarian crowd at Insty about this aspect, from time to time. 

What sort of magical thinking do these people possess to think that we don't need cops? 

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 1:15:37 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 22:

They smugly believe they’ll just stop the bad guys themselves.

JCM 6/28/2023 1:26:02 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 22:

The New Soviet Man... aka Rousseauian thinking. Or in Sowell's lexicon unconstrained worldview.

Man is inherently good, it is only inequity that makes man act badly. Solve the inequality, solve bad behaviors.

The Soviets believed their utopia would follow Lamarckian evolutionary thinking, and the New Soviet Man would emerge.

An astonishing number of logical fallacies each proven wrong and the left STILL acts on them with predictable results and we get NYC, Chicago, SF and Seattle.

JCM 6/28/2023 1:30:50 PM

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Reply to JCM in 24:

What I can't wrap my head around is how otherwise intelligent people are so blinded by ideology that reality fails to penetrate.

It's not just a difference of opinion, or have a different solution.

What scares the snot out of me we've seen the results of blind ideology.

Results that killed more people in the 20th century than all the wars.

vxbush 6/28/2023 1:31:13 PM

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In #24 JCM said: The New Soviet Man... aka Rousseauian thinking. Or in Sowell's lexicon unconstrained worldview. Man is inherently good, it is only inequity that makes man act badly. Solve the inequality, solve bad behaviors. The Soviets believed their utopia would follow Lamarckian evolutionary thinking, and the New Soviet Man would emerge. An astonishing number of logical fallacies each proven wrong and the left STILL acts on them with predictable results and we get NYC, Chicago, SF and Seattle.

Ah, but you have to be aware of several things: 

• That there is a such a thing as a logical fallacy 
• That you have to believe that you can be wrong about things 
• You have to *accept* that you can be wrong
• You have to be willing to change your beliefs or perceptions

I'm not certain I'm seeing that kind of behavior from these people. There's no indication that they have ever had to change their thinking. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/28/2023 2:47:38 PM

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In #16 vxbush said: But I keep thinking that the organizations that are supposed to know this stuff would also be putting up decent stuff, and they aren't. It's frustrating, as pretty much everything these days is.

I do not believe that this is due to "wildfires"---but if it is, I have to wonder why all of a sudden Canada has a spate of "wildfires" unless arson is involved, and why the Canadian government is not going all-out, as it appears they are not, to quash them.  And I will remind you of the following:

All the people who want to "regulate the planetary climate" and demand the power and unlimited resources to do so are people who have proven themselves incapable of competently managing and running recently-built, closed, man-made systems. They cannot competently run power grids, or municipal water systems or trash pickup; they cannot competently maintain, let alone repair, the "roads and bridges" they are always prating about; they cannot competently run or maintain the public housing they increasingly want people to live in, or the public transportation systems that they want people to rely on.

More than that; they cannot competently direct disaster recovery/relief from floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, wildfires, volcanic eruptions or earthquakes---let alone control or prevent such disasters.

Yet they want people to believe that they can, and should, be permitted to try and regulate the planetary climate, which is infinitely more subtle and varied and complex than any of the recently-built, closed, man-made systems they have already repeatedly proven incapable of managing.

JCM 6/28/2023 6:07:38 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:

Like above, these people are impervious to reality, results, data. We've known for decades how proper wildland fire control SHOULD work.

However they insists doing the same old failing way.

IMAO opinion they DO KNOW but prefer the failed policies when they can sell the narrative of climate change, and increasing Statism in response.

Occasional Reader 6/28/2023 10:01:17 PM

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