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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Hope for the environment

Seven years ago, the news was grim. National Geographic headlined that “Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead” due to climate change. The Guardian solemnly pronounced, “Great Barrier Reef at ‘Terminal Stage.’” The Washington Post agreed: “The Great Barrier Reef Is Dying.”

By now, given the alarm in those headlines, Australia’s most famous natural treasure is surely lost, isn’t it? 

 

Well, no. According to an Australian Institute of Marine Science report from last summer, “the Reef has rebounded.” After successive years of cooler temperatures brought by La NiƱa, “hard corals have recovered significant ground,” the report said, reaching “record high levels in 2022 across two-thirds of the reef.”

 

Despite the many funerals held by media outlets for the world’s largest living structure, the report marveled at the Reef’s “impressive ability to recover from widespread disturbances.” Though scientists cautioned that the coral isn’t in the clear yet, it is still very much alive.

 

Life endures. Life recovers. Life is like that

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Supreme Court Victory for Voters on Trump Ballot Issue

The left is presently engaged in the psychology of projection as a method of distraction.  Projection is the process of displacing one's feelings onto a different person. The left plans the end of democracy, therefore they claim Republicans are doing it.  Witness the absurd claims about January 6, 2021 and how widely the left is casting their net.   

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From Judicial Watch

The United States Supreme Court’s ruling allowing Donald Trump’s name to appear on the 2024 Colorado primary ballot made a powerful and unified statement against the brazen, unconstitutional coup by leftists against the constitutional rights of tens of millions of Americans.

And, thankfully, a Supreme Court majority seems prepared to stop any shady Biden administration, judicial and leftist congressional efforts to overturn a Trump victory based upon false allegations of insurrection.

In January, we filed an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief along with the Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in support of former President Donald Trump in his challenge to the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision to remove him from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot (Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson et al. (No. 23-719)).

We and AEF argued that, if the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling was allowed to stand, presidential and other federal elections would be thrown into chaos:

In a basically standardless legal discussion, charges of insurrection can be leveled by imaginative partisans on the basis of many different kinds of inflammatory political actions or speech. Consider:

  1.      Vice President Kamala Harris promoted a bail fund that helped to free “those protesting on the ground in Minnesota” in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The protests in 20 states following that murder were among the costliest in U.S. history, persisting in some cities for months, and resulting in at least 25 deaths. Protesters attacked federal property and set fire to a federal courthouse. Protests also caused President Trump to evacuate the White House to a secure underground location, as rioters assaulted police officers outside the White House gates.
  1.      Discussing an anticipated abortion ruling, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a rally on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 5, 2020, “I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” His comments were reproved by the Chief Justice of this Court as “dangerous.” Two years later a man was arrested for threatening behavior directed at Justice Kavanaugh.
  1.      Recently a number of Republican officials have proposed retaliating for the instant lawsuit by seeking to remove President Biden from their state ballots for abetting an “invasion of eight million” at the southern border of the United States.
  1.      On June 10, 2017, Sen. Bernie Sanders called President Trump “the worst and most dangerous president in the history of our country.” Four days later, one of his supporters opened fire on congressional Republicans at a baseball practice, wounding four, including Rep. Steve Scalise.

All of these facts are fodder for interested partisans seeking to disqualify opposing candidates. If the nation does go “down that path,” presidential elections in the United States will become a more ugly business. Legal maneuvers to remove President Trump from the ballots of various states, and the retaliatory maneuvers they provoke, will create a new, anti-democratic front in the partisan wars. To be blunt, “blue states” will apply Section 3 to harass “red” candidates, while “red states” will apply that provision to harass “blue” candidates.

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The losers in this process, as here, will be the voters.

 

Friday, March 8, 2024

Record employment?

Lower unemployment rate?  The unemployment rate is a political figure that gets "adjusted" by politicians, usually to make them look better or make their rivals look worse.  

So when Mr Biden and the Democrats claim they have created "more jobs than ever" they are lying.

There is a another, more accurate, way to measure employment, published by the US Labor department.  Is called the civilian labor force participation rate.  It is a measure of how many people are seeking to be employed, or have jobs... i.e. How many people are participating in the jobs market.  According to that measure, fewer people, as a percentage of the population are employed or seeking employment.


https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm

(Blogger refused to publish this item when it was submitted March 6)

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Biden administration admits illegal migrant secret flying program

Lawyers for President Joe Biden 's immigration agencies admit disclosing locations of secret migrant flights would open up potential vulnerabilities. 

Customs and Border Protection refuses to disclose information about a program last year secretly chartering flights of thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign airports directly to U.S. cities.

MSM

If anyone had the thought that the Biden administration's immigration policies were not thoroughly thought out, this report answers that.

Thursday, February 22, 2024

No, not Washington state!

That didn't take long

Jeff Bezos, a billionaire Democrat donor, left his home in Washington state in November and moved to Florida to avoid Governor Inslee’s 7% capital gains tax.  (Amazon is still headquartered in Washington, for now.)

This week Bezos, founder of Amazon, is unloading $4 billion of Amazon stock.  Because of his move to Florida, Bezos will Not pay $280 million in personal capital gains income taxes to Inslee’s government.  Freedom Foundation

Ironically, this report comes via the Freedom Foundation, an operation of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, founded in the state of Washington. Wikipedia