Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Feelings... Nothing More Than Feeeelings!
It seems some of today's college students feel they're correcting something by taking vandalism out on hunks of metal; once again!
While Chicago was reeling from another 60 people getting shot last weekend, a mob of “anti-racism” protesters were busy toppling a hundred-year-old Confederate statue in North Carolina, proving once again that social justice warriors would rather virtue signal at an ancient hunk of metal than address actual threats to minority communities.
Watch this MRCTV video of Brittany Hughes explaining how this action is part of the laziest "anti-racism" campaign ever!
Monday, August 20, 2018
Putting Our National Culture At Risk
The media narrative today is that America in the “xeno-phobic” Trump era is turning its back on new immigrants. But that narrative is sharply contradicted by the fact that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. In this week’s new video, CRTV host and best-selling author Michelle Malkin explains how ill-conceived immigration policies threaten to destroy the American Dream for everyone.
A Tale of Two Individuals
Perhaps this story will adequately illustrate why I, who was the guy who didn't get recruited to a "big time" college because I chose distance running in cross-country and track during high school, feel the way I do about the current situation regarding taking a knee.
You 'graduated' high school in 2011. Your teenage years were a struggle. You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Your mother was the leader of the family and worked tirelessly to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate. Academics were a struggle for you and your grades were mediocre at best. The only thing that made you stand out is you weighed 225 lbs and could run 40 yards in 4.2 seconds while carrying a football. Your best friend was just like you, except he didn’t play football. Instead of going to football practice after school, he went to work at McDonalds for minimum wage. You were recruited by all the big colleges and spent every weekend of your senior year making visits to universities where coaches and boosters tried to convince you their school was best. They laid out the red carpet for you. Your best friend worked double shifts at Mickey D’s. College was not an option for him. On the day you signed with Big State University, your best friend signed paperwork with his Army recruiter. You went to summer workouts. He went to basic training.
You spent the next four years living in the athletic dorm, eating at the training table. You spent your Saturdays on the football field, cheered on by adoring fans. Tutors attended to your every academic need. You attended class when you felt like it. Sure, you worked hard. You lifted weights, ran sprints, studied plays, and soon became one of the top football players in the country. Your best friend was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. While you were in college, he deployed to Iraq once and Afghanistan twice. He became a Sergeant and led a squad of 19 year old soldiers who grew up just like he did. He shed his blood in Afghanistan and watched young American's give their lives, limbs, and innocence for the USA.
You went to the NFL combine and scored off the charts. You hired an agent and waited for draft day. You were drafted in the first round and your agent immediately went to work, ensuring that you received the most money possible. You signed for $16 million although you had never played a single down of professional football. Your best friend re-enlisted in the Army for four more years. As a combat tested sergeant, he will be paid $32,000 per year.
You will drive a Ferrari on the streets of South Beach. He will ride in the back of a Blackhawk helicopter with 10 other combat loaded soldiers. You will sleep at the Ritz. He will dig a hole in the ground and try to sleep. You will “make it rain” in the club. He will pray for rain as the temperature reaches 120 degrees.
On Sunday, you will run into a stadium as tens of thousands of fans cheer and yell your name. For your best friend, there is little difference between Sunday and any other day of the week. There are no adoring fans. There are only people trying to kill him and his soldiers. Every now and then, he and his soldiers leave the front lines and “go to the rear” to rest. He might be lucky enough to catch an NFL game on TV. When the National Anthem plays and you take a knee, he will jump to his feet and salute the television. While you protest the unfairness of life in the United States, he will give thanks to God that he has the honor of defending his great country.
To the players of the NFL: We are the people who buy your tickets, watch you on TV, and wear your jerseys. We anxiously wait for Sundays so we can cheer for you and marvel at your athleticism. Although we love to watch you play, we care little about your opinions until you offend us. You have the absolute right to express yourselves, but we have the absolute right to boycott you. We have tolerated your drug use and DUIs, your domestic violence, and your vulgar displays of wealth. We should be ashamed for putting our admiration of your physical skills before what is morally right. But now you have gone too far. You have insulted our flag, our country, our soldiers, our police officers, and our veterans. You are living the American dream, yet you disparage our great country. I encourage all like minded Americans to boycott the NFL.
National boycott of the NFL for Sunday, is November 11th, Veterans Day Weekend. Boycott all football telecast, all fans, all ticket holders, stay away from attending any games, let them play to empty stadiums. Pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military, some of whom come home with the American Flag draped over their coffin.
8/23/18 Update: Here's the latest development on this issue from Bill O'Reilly's site.
Trump Demands ESPN Air National Anthem During 'Monday Night Football'
President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding ESPN show the national anthem during Monday Night Football games. On Wednesday, an email signed by the president was sent to supporters asking them to sign a petition. "I’m calling on you to join me in denouncing this SPINELESS surrender to the politically correct liberal mob," read the email, signed by Trump. ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro announced last week that the network will not air the anthem during MNF games this season, which has been the standard in the past. There may be exceptions as the season rolls along, but otherwise, the network will not show that portion of the game. CBS Sports will also reportedly not show the anthem portion of pregames. ESPN declined to comment on Trump's demand and petition.
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Joke of the Day
Bill and Hillary are at a Yankees home game, sitting in the first row, with the Secret Service people directly behind them.
One of the Secret Service guys leans forward and whispers something to Bill.
At first, Clinton stares at the guy, looks at Hillary, looks back at the agent, and shakes his head "no".
The agent then says, "Mr. President, it was a unanimous request of the entire team, from the owner to the bat boy."
Bill hesitates but begins to change his mind when the agent tells him the fans would love it.
Bill shrugs his shoulders and says, "Ho-Kay! If that is what the people want. C'mere Hilly baby."
With that, Bill gets up, grabs Hillary by her collar and the seat of her pants, lifts her up, and tosses her right over the wall onto the field
She gets up kicking, swearing, screaming, "Bill you"!$#@&!".
The crowd goes absolutely wild.
Fans are jumping up and down, cheering, hooting and hollering, and high-fiving.
Bill is bowing, smiling and waving to the crowd.
He leans over to the agent and says, "How about that; I would have never believed how much everyone would enjoy that!"
Noticing the agent has gone totally pale, he asks what is wrong.
The agent replies, "Sir, I said they want you to throw out the first 'pitch'."
One of the Secret Service guys leans forward and whispers something to Bill.
At first, Clinton stares at the guy, looks at Hillary, looks back at the agent, and shakes his head "no".
The agent then says, "Mr. President, it was a unanimous request of the entire team, from the owner to the bat boy."
Bill hesitates but begins to change his mind when the agent tells him the fans would love it.
Bill shrugs his shoulders and says, "Ho-Kay! If that is what the people want. C'mere Hilly baby."
With that, Bill gets up, grabs Hillary by her collar and the seat of her pants, lifts her up, and tosses her right over the wall onto the field
She gets up kicking, swearing, screaming, "Bill you"!$#@&!".
The crowd goes absolutely wild.
Fans are jumping up and down, cheering, hooting and hollering, and high-fiving.
Bill is bowing, smiling and waving to the crowd.
He leans over to the agent and says, "How about that; I would have never believed how much everyone would enjoy that!"
Noticing the agent has gone totally pale, he asks what is wrong.
The agent replies, "Sir, I said they want you to throw out the first 'pitch'."
An Intelligent Analysis on Climate Change
How Do You Tell If The Earth's Climate System "Is Warming"?
The earth's climate
system "is warming." True or false? The answer is that there is no
definitive answer. And if someone tells you there is, then that person
doesn't know what he or she is talking about.
A more precise answer
to the question is that whether the earth's climate system "is warming"
or "is cooling" entirely depends on who gets to pick the start date for
the analysis. If you are the one who gets to pick the start date, then
you can make it so that the system is either warming or cooling,
whichever you would like for your purpose of the moment.
But of course, there
are many people out there today with a lot invested in the proposition
that the climate system "is warming." That proposition is a key tenet
of global warming alarmism. To "prove" the point that the system "is
warming," advocates use the simple trick of picking a start point to
their liking, making for a presentation that appears to support their
position. Have you been fooled by this simple trick? The advocates
leave it up to you to figure out that if you picked a different start
point, you could just as easily make an equally convincing presentation
showing that the climate system "is cooling." A lot of seemingly
intelligent people can't figure that out, and get taken in by the scam.
I raise this point
today because it appears that, as part of the campaign to suppress
disfavored political speech, Google has begun within the past few days
adding a legend at the bottom of YouTube videos that express politically
incorrect views in the field of climate science. For example, here is
the legend that they have added to a video made for Prager University by
eminent MIT atmospheric physicist and climate skeptic Richard Lindzen:
"Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming."
The quote comes from the first two sentences of this Wikipedia entry with the title "Global warming." Well, Wikipedia says it, so I guess it must be true!
According to this post at BuzzFeed on August 7, others who have been subject to having the same legend affixed to their work include Tony Heller of the Deplorable Climate Science Blog, Mark Morano of Climate Depot, and the Heartland Institute. (So far, nothing comparable has happened to the Manhattan Contrarian; but then, I don't make YouTube videos.)
So let's investigate
the question of whether the earth's "climate system" is or is not
warming. You could, for example, look at the chart presented by
Wikipedia in that entry. Here it is:
That looks rather
dramatic. On the other hand, the whole vertical scale of the chart is
only about 1.5 deg C; and they picked 1880 as their start date. (The
slope here is also greatly accentuated by some very large and
questionable "adjustments" that have made earlier years cooler and more
recent years warmer. You can read my eighteen part series "The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time" for much more detail. But those details are not critical for understanding the current issue.)
Does your skeptical
mind possibly think, when they use that phrase "century scale," is that
just a bias-free description of the issue at hand, or is it instead a
hand-wave to provide a fake justification for picking a preferred start
date? Why do we need to go back 138 years when we are considering a
question phrased in the present tense -- whether the climate "is" warming?
Wouldn't the present tense normally be used to cover a much shorter
period, like a year or two or three at most? So you ask, what has the
climate system been doing during that time? For the answer, how about looking for temperature data to the far more accurate UAH satellite-based serieswhich provides monthly data points going back to 1979. Here is the latest chart from that source:
This time, you get to
pick the start date. To cover the last few years, how about picking
early 2016? After all, these last couple of years should be a much
better indicator of whether the climate "is" warming or cooling than the
entire last 138 years. Really, what do temperatures more than 100
years ago, or even 30 or 40 years ago, have to do with the question of
whether the earth's climate "is" warming? So we look at the UAH chart,
and we find our answer: since early 2016 temperatures have fallen by
more than 0.5 deg C. Thus, once we get to pick our preferred start
time, it is obvious that the climate system "is cooling."
Or, you can pick a
different start date to your liking. How about 1998? That will give
you an entire 20 year run. It's hard to say that the verb "is" should
cover a period of more than 20 years. On the UAH series you can see
that temperatures have also fallen about
0.4 deg C since early 1998. Again, even on this substantially longer
scale, the earth "is cooling." (Note, however, that there is a
significant difference between the Wikipedia chart and the UAH satellite
series as to what has happened since 1998. On the Wikipedia chart the
latest reading (2017?) is up about 0.3 deg C from 1998; while on the UAH series, the latest reading (July 2018) is down about
0.4 deg C from the then-records set in 1998. That's those
"adjustments" in the surface temperature record that I was talking
about. I would say that there is no credible position that the heavily
adjusted surface temperature record that Wikipedia relies on should be
used for this purpose over the far more accurate and un-tampered UAH
satellite record.)
But how about if we
decide that there is something to this "century-scale" thing? Let's
agree that we're going to go back many, many decades to determine if the
earth "is warming." But if we're going to do that, where do we stop?
If you want, you can go back a hundred million years; or even a
billion. And if you follow this subject a little, you probably know
that the 1700s and 1800s are a very suspect era to start a series like
this, because those centuries are a known cold period sometimes referred
to as the "Little Ice Age." Picking a date in the "Little Ice Age" as
the start point to prove warming is what's called "cheating." Let's
pick something more fair. How about going back a nice round millennium?
Was that time warmer or cooler than now?
OK, they didn't have
networks of thermometers set up around the globe in the 11th century,
let alone the highly accurate satellites that we have today. But scores
of scientists have done hundreds of studies based on many sorts of
"proxies" to determine at least whether it was warmer or cooler at that
time than today. It turns out that the evidence is rather overwhelming
that it was warmer. Actually, this is what is known as the "Medieval
Warm Period." But picking a date in that period as your start date for
deciding whether the earth "is warming" is no more fair or unfair than
picking a date in the "Little Ice Age."
Here is a compilation of dozens of studies reaching the conclusion that the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the present: "More
than 700 scientists from 400 institutions in 40 countries have
contributed peer-reviewed papers providing evidence that the Medieval
Warm Period was real, global, & warmer than the present." Examples:
- "Paper finds Medieval Warm Period in Arctic was much warmer than the present."
- "Medieval Warming Exceeds Modern Warming, Per New Research Using 120 Proxies."
- "Earth was warmer in Roman and Medieval Times say German researchers."
There are literally
dozens more, if you follow the links. The conclusion is inescapable: on
a centuries-scale basis, the earth's climate system "is cooling."
And by the way, if
you want to keep going back farther and farther, you can keep finding
time periods that were warmer than the present. Examples: the Roman Warm Period, from around 250 BC to 450 AD; and the Holocene Climate Optimum, about 5000 to 3000 BC.
So here's the real answer to the question of whether the earth's ciimate system "is warming":
- If your start date is June 2018, it "is warming."
- If your start date is January 2016, it "is cooling."
- If your start date is January 1998, it "is cooling."
- If your start date is 1880, it "is warming."
- If your start date is the year 1000, it "is cooling."
- If your start date is the Dark Ages, it "is warming."
- If your start date is Roman times, it "is cooling."
In short, the question is completely meaningless.
It's hard to believe
that the supposed geniuses at Google could be taken in by a scam so
obvious and so transparent.
But that's the world we live in.
Monday, August 13, 2018
What Was the Cold War?
Having grown up and lived the majority of my life during this period in international history, I can personally attest to the veracity and accuracy of this presenter's account of what the cold war was actually about; something most millennials know very little, to nothing about because our public education system doesn't teach it much anymore.
Some of my prior posts have shared how many of the tactics and strategies used by Stalin, Kruschev, and other communist leaders used to impose tyranny on their people, we are seeing today many similar tactics and strategies being disseminated through our colleges and universities today; promoting propaganda about the virtues of socialism (communism without a gun to one's head) and the degrading lies about how the United States was horrible throughout its history as a capitalist nation. (Just think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has recently become the new face of the Democrat Party.)
Prager U's latest video provides a brief overview of what occurred. I would recommend viewing this short piece at least two or three times so that one can really grasp the complexity of what's revealed here. It may provide a broader context about what's going on now in international foreign relations.
To Kill An American
You
probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a
report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer
of a reward to anyone who killed an American; any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion...... For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God-given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return........
When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ..
The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These, in fact, are the people who built America .
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must.. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other bloodthirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion...... For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God-given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return........
When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ..
The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These, in fact, are the people who built America .
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must.. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other bloodthirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
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