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After watching a Halloween broadcast of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", I realized that Linus van Pelt is like those who preach global warming . Linus doesn't let the failure of the Great Pumpkin to appear destroy his belief that the Great Pumpkin exists. Similarly, the climate shaman who preach global warming won't let colder than normal winter weather in recent years destroy their belief that someday their "Great Pumpkin" will rise from the pumpkin patch and distribute warming throughout the world. When I started examining the claims about global warming I was surprised by the total lack of...

The Democrats control of the media allows them to misrepresent issues like the "climate change" scam as legitimate issues Republican journalists need to make an extra effort to discover and expose those scams. Weather Channel founder John Coleman calls global warming "the greatest scam in history." Lawrence Solomon published an expose' in the May 30, 2009 Financial Post detailing how the Enron corporation paid scientists and environmental groups to falsely claim increases in carbon dioxide would increase global air temperature. https://ep.probeinternational.org/2009/05/30/enrons-other-secret/ Physicist R.W. Wood disproved this warming theory in 1909. Philosophical magazine , 1909, vol 17, p319-320. Cambridge UL shelfmark...

President Donald Trump should stop letting Democrats get away with treating Enron's global warming scam as a valid scientific theory. His response to the "climate change" debate question was weak. He needs to discredit the theory. Republicans need to charge Congressional Democrats with supporting the crooked energy corporations that benefit from Enron's global warming scam. Weather Channel founder John Coleman calls global warming "the greatest scam in history." Lawrence Solomon published an expose' in the May 30, 2009 Financial Post detailing how the Enron corporation paid scientists and environmental groups to falsely claim increases in carbon dioxide would increase global...

Why Do So Many Black Americans Support White Racist Controlled Democratic Party? Don't they know that Dr. Martin Luther King’s niece, Dr. Alveda King, accuses Democratic Party supported Planned Parenthood of what Rev. Dr. Clenard H Childress Jr. calls "Black Genocide"? King points out “The leading cause of death in the African-American community is not gang-violence, gun violence, heart attack, stroke, HIV, high blood pressure, diabetes. People will name all these. No, it’s abortion. And the reason we have come to that conclusion, statistically, you’ve got 60 million plus abortions legal in America since 1973. About a third of those...

The global warming priests have presented no evidence that the process they claim causes "global warming" exists. They just illogically claim that any increase in what they call the "global average temperature" can only result from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Paul Homewood has reported on questionable manipulation of temperature data used to calculate this global average temperature. Anthony Watts has documented problems with temperature data for several years on his blog. The controversy over the accuracy of the data can be viewed as much ado about nothing because the so-called global average temperature "is thermodynamically as well as mathematically...

The claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) can increase air temperatures by "trapping" infrared radiation (IR) ignores the fact that in 1909 physicist R.W. Wood disproved the popular 19th Century thesis that greenhouses stayed warm by trapping IR. Unfortunately, many people who claim to be scientists are unaware of Wood's experiment which was originally published in the Philosophical magazine , 1909, vol 17, p319-320. Philosophical Magazine might not sound like the name of a science publication, but a century ago leading scientists published their discoveries in it. During the early 19th Century many physicists supported the theory postulated by Benjamin Franklin...

Remember Enron, the corrupt firm whose failure should have disproved the myth "too big to fail", but didn't? At the time it was the seventh largest corporation. It's bankruptcy was the largest in history until Lehman Brothers failed. Incidentally, Lehman Brothers was also involved in carbon trading. Enron owed part of its early success to emissions trading. Basically emissions trading was established as a way for some companies to profit from pollution while allowing some companies to continue to produce the chemicals that can cause acid rain. Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe has reported that Enron played a...

It seems strange to talk about child sacrifice in 2020, but it continues to be part of "traditional African medicine". According to Wikipedia: "Witch doctors, who also identify as traditional healers, will consult the spirits for anyone who can pay their fee.[6] The spirits will communicate via them the kind of sacrifice for appeasement that they want. Often these sacrifices are chickens or goats, but when such sacrifices fail to make the client prosper instantly, 'the spirits' will demand human sacrifices.[8]" Witch doctors may suggest child sacrifice to help with matters involving "health or good fortune" or perhaps " to...

American People Daily reports that the Evanston/Skokie school board District 65 " has determined that African American kids will have the first option to return to the classroom.....The school board determined that there was a pandemic before COVID-19 ever showed up. They stated that it came in the form of 'inequity and racism, and classism.' " The school board is lying to black parents by telling them their children might benefit if they started school before the white kids. Nobody knows what will happen when schools reopen during a pandemic. .The degree of risk varies among school districts . Evanston/Skokie...

Vote selling concerned some a century ago. Many voted for Prohibition to stop taverns from trading beer for ballots. Vote selling hasn't been practical in this century because would be sellers cannot prove how they voted. New mail in voting procedures will make it easier for Americans to sell their votes because the seller could show the buyer the completed ballot or give the buyer the blank ballot and envelope. Drug dealers would be the first ballot buyers because they can trade drugs for ballots and their organizations want to affect some races. Their customers might know other vote sellers....

The SCOTUS Justices who ended segregation qualify as liberals. Justices who require that states allow continued operation of Jane Crow health facilities don't qualify as liberals. . A Jane Crow facility provides health care to black women but doesn't have to meet the same high standards as facilities that treat white men. The 14th Amendment requires states to guarantee "the equal protection of the laws." Unfortunately ultraconservative Supreme Court justices such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg don’t believe states should be allowed to protect women from unsafely operated abortion clinics. Yes, I said "ultraconservative". I know people such as Ginsburg...

Teen athletes have traditionally been classified as "boys" or "girls" so that girls can participate in sports without having to compete against boys who are usually stronger and faster than girls. This system worked as long as everyone agreed on which athletes were girls and which athletes were boys. Today some disagree about who qualifies as girls and who qualifies as boys. One thing hasn't changed. There are two different genetic types of athletes. One type has two "X" chromosomes. The other has an "XY" combination of chromosomes. Athletes who have an "XY" combination of chromosomes are usually stronger and...

Washington Celtics could replace Washington Redskins because the Irish are proud of their heritage and many North Americans are simply ashamed of their heritage. The word "redskins" is a physically descriptive term that doesn't have inherently negative characteristics. The word is one of the English translations of the Ottawa term "Oklahoma". If we consider the characteristics of the people the term "redskins" was first applied to, it's a positive term. I'm attempting to understand why some of the descendants of the people Christopher Columbus called "Indians" say they are ashamed to be called "redskins". The only explanation I can think...

Demonstrators who want to stop racism should switch from toppling old statues to facing active threats like "black genocide". Some governments pay Planned Parenthood to kill black babies with abortions so those governments won't have to deal with as many black adults in the future. Dr. Day Gardner points out that Planned Parenthood is a worse threat to black lives than the police and the Ku Klux Klan. "The KKK brutally killed about 3,500 black people since it began in 1865, [Margaret] Sanger’s Planned Parenthood is responsible for 19 million black deaths since 1973." Demonstrators should attempt to shut down...

Members of Black Lives Matter [ BLM] and others who talk about defunding the police seem to have forgotten that in February two white men chased and killed a black man in Georgia. Similar vigilantes would probably volunteer to maintain their version of "law and order" in policeless cities. When a football team is making mistakes, they don't disband the football team. They fire the coach. If leaders in Minneapolis or other cities can't figure out how to run a police department they should resign so voters can elect leaders who can figure out how to run a police department....

Media are perpetuating racism by falsely claiming color divides us into different races. Jesse Washington has reported that many dark skinned Americans recognize that they are not "African" Americans in spite of what some racists say. The term "African-American" perpetuates the principle tenet of Southern racism: "part black, all black" under the "one drop rule". Those who use the term are in effect segregating Americans with dark complexions from the rest of the population they may be related to. Those who use the term believe that those with dark complexions should only be able to claim their African ancestors and...

The George Floyd rioters may identify with Floyd because they feel that state or local government is kneeling on their necks. The claim that Floyd died of strangulation ignores the fact he was able to say "I can't breathe!" The fact Floyd could speak means he could exhale air through his throat. Thus the statement "I can't breathe!" probably indicates he could not expand his lungs so he could draw in air. He would have had trouble expanding his lungs lying face down with a man on his back. If the men involved in Floyd's death are typical of those...

[Is the Bill of Rights a Bad Joke? pt. 2] . Attorney General William Barr should send a letter to the Supreme Court stating that the 2016 election investigation violated the Constitution because it was based in part on an unverified dossier provided by a British MI6 agent who conceded that it might only be 70% to 90% accurate. Most people don't understand that the Bill of Rights provisions regulating law enforcement weren't added to the Constitution to protect killers and thieves. The provisions were added to the Constitution to prevent corrupt law enforcement agencies from misusing the criminal justice...

The following is a repost of a discussion about what the Russian hackers were really doing in 2016. Robert Mueller and his staff may be covering up the biggest act of espionage in the United States since the acquisition of atomic secrets by the Russians at the start of the Cold War. Mueller is supposed to be investigating what the Russian hackers called "Fancy Bear" did during the 2016 election. However, he continues to ignore an Associated Press expose indicating Fancy Bear focused on non-partisan email users including defense industry employees and those in the intelligence community. According to the...

Lockdown without compensation violates the spirit if not the letter of the Fifth Amendment provision: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." The lockdown may not involve government permanently taking possession of property as is usually the case, but the action deprives the owner of the right to use the property to generate income which in effect is the. same situation. States have been compensating owners of property commandeered for use to treat COVID-19 patients. States should be compensating owners of lockdown property. Firefighters may construct a firebreak to stop a major wildfire. They will...