Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Climate change Elitism - 1500 private jets

It doesn't get any more in-our-faces than this: 3,000 attendees to the World Economic Forum go to Davos Switzerland in 1,500 private jets. Most of the jets have luxury seats for 8 to 12 in them. Two elites per airplane this time and they are already trying to get us out of our fuel powered cars. No, not just your Earth-Thumper SUVs, now it's all fuel-driven cars, even your 57 mpg Prius'. 

I don't give a flying eff what they discussed there, for me, this is elitism at it's worst.

Safely dispose of a AIO Printer

(Large amount of destroyed panels removed before the picture was taken)

I have heard that ROM in these printers stores EVERY document ever printed, scanned or faxxed. So, you can't just junk the thing when it fails, you have to DESTROY it, in detail. The "re-cycle centers" are NOT going to do that, and paying minimum wage to their peeps, those slaves might be incentivized to remove your docs and sell them to an evil person.

I suppose I could build a fire and torch the thing, but I am a CONSERVATIONIST, and I don't want to foul the air without cause to do so. One never knows what poly-ethyl-badshit plastic they build these things out of, so, no torch. Take it to the gun range and give it an AR Funeral? My range frowns on that.

So, I removed each screw I could get at and used a heavy crowbar on the rest to get it down to chunks and get the digital boards out of it. BTW, I DID spend some time online trying to find a diagram which would tell me just where the data cache was on one of those boards, but never found that. I had planned to chuck a big wall-drill in a drill-motor and hole out the offending part, but without a diagram of where that offending part was, couldn't do that.

Eye-protection, gloves and crowbar did the work in about 15 minutes.

When I think of the sensitive crap I copied and scanned on that machine, it gives me the willies thinking that someone else might get it...

 

Deep State Uniparty

Trump will have a hard time now. NOW the Hard Left's gloves are on the ice but they still have their sticks in hand and sharp skates on.

Trump now writes an order to rescind Obama's coal-killing regs and restore coal-fired power generation to the US grid. This is a big deal in Oregon, where the only coal-fired plant is scheduled to go offline and our power bills are scheduled to skyrocket.

Word is out that this, and now ALL his EOs which seek to overturn the Deep State's commie agenda, will be challenged in court, and since that Court IS the province of the Hard Left, the Deep State will likely succeed at first.

Trump's error was to NOT make replacement of the Assistant US Attorneys his HIGHEST priority.

 

Trump is going into battle with too few of his troops on the battlefield.

 

That's a scenario for a lost battle. Get your shit straight, Mr. President.

Obama defines "leadership"

Prepare to L.O.L.

In an interview somewhere else, but encapsulated on Fox News in the last hour, Obama replied to criticisms about his leadership re: Syria thusly:

(paraphrased) "My leadership is best illustrated by Climate Change discussions, on which I am the world's leader".

RRIIIIIIIIght...

Assorted Sunday growls

That was the Week that Was:

Politics, two growls:

1. The PopeScams. His Hollowness, Pope Francis, comes to the US of A to spread Catholicism Socialism. He says nothing against our enemy, radical Islam (the same as ordinary Islam). He is all re-distribution of income, all the time. He is also all greenscam PopeScam all the time.

2. The GOPe political season. The news here is that Fox News has turned unabashedly RINO. They are all Dump Trump, all the time. Their only salvation is that they don't seem to be pushing any RINO very hard, just railing against the three non-insiders, Trump, Carson and Fiorina. The lack of Fox enthusiasm for RINOs seems to be more about waiting for a clear front-running RINO to emerge. What Fox is too stupid to realize is that Trump IS the RINO they are looking for. They would be all for Trump if he would just agree to play with the RNC's ball and not keep tossing that one over the fence.

Sports, several growls:

1. The Ducks suck, but I have already written about that.

2. The Eagles suck. I thought that decent talent plus a superb coach would be the magic formula for success, but I may have missed that train, boat, whatever...

3. The Seahawks suck. The vaunted Defense is no more. The offense doesn't dazzle anyone. No Championship for them.

4. I played soccer before it was popular, in the Fifties. I know the game, and I know that the MLS Portland Timbers suck.

Let's find something to cheer about.

1. My wife's old High School, Roosevelt, had an alumni dinner event, and we were graciously hosted by a local sportsman of note. The alumni have a Pep Band, and it was GOOD, albeit a bit much for the confines of the banquet room we were in. This fine evening was capped off with your blogger winning a raffled $50 gift cert to a fine local restaurant!

Also at this event, I was advised of a fine program the school and alums are putting on to steer some citizenship towards the students: it's called "Youth and the Law", and it gives the kids the lowdown on what's legal activity and what isn't. Yes, the parents ought to be teaching their kids this, but sadly, in many cases at RHS, the parents never learned those lessons either.

2. Fall is here! Aside from the leaf messes, it's my favorite season. It was a delicious 34 degrees at 0700 when I went out to get my Sunday blatt. Hottest Summer on record, you are HISTORY!

Enough growling. Now that my throat is clear enough to cheer, I will watch the Titans kick some Colt butt, and sip a Hot Honey, Lemon and Bourbon to ward off whatever attacked me last night.

 

Popescam

Given the propensity of the Vatican to engage in shady banking operations, and given the sudden and forceful entry of the Vatican into the highly suspect GreenScam arena of wealth transfer, this blogger feels that it is appropriate to connect the dots and ask what other GreenScam ideas the Vatican Bank is involved with. The previous Pope, Paul VI, endorsed Carbon Credit Trading, and presumably, had the Vatican Bank involved in that shady scheme. Pope Francis wrote a papal bull opposing this position, but does that mean that GreenScamming by the Vatican has ceased?

Since Pope Francis has endorsed forced re-distribution of income on the basis of "carbon reduction", one might easily imagine that there are some sticky Vatican banking fingers in this pie.

Based on the Socialist Pope's green-thusiasm, I think we can refer to any such discovered hanky-panky as "PopeScam" from now on.

I suspect Peace or Freedom would go along with my idea...

"Farfromtruthen"

So, Volkswagen, who builds decent cars overall, and outstanding cars in some lines, got caught cheating on EPA emissions tests for their line of "clean diesels".

Pardon me, but why am I not insulted? The EPA's rules ARE the Law of the Land, are they not? A failure to obey them should bring sanctions, should it not? Wake up, George, your country has been INSULTED here by a foreign manufacturer, hasn't it?

Pardon me again while I yawn.

Will someone please tell me which people been hurt here (EPA Gauleiters are NOT "people")? Where are the millions of victims, where is the genocide? Hasn't Volkswagen done the "planet's health" a big solid by putting out millions of high-efficiency DIESEL engines replacing millions of GASOLINE-fueled engines? You do realize that diesel is a more efficient fuel to burn, don't you? You do realize that diesel fuel takes less emissions-damaging processing to refine from crude oil, don't you? You do realize that the entire idea of diesel-fueled cars should have been promoted far more vigorously starting about 40 years ago, don't you?

As I understand it, what VW did was create an engine-control chip that mis-reported what the emissions levels of the engines were, so the EPA gave their "blessing" when they otherwise might not have.

My experiences are more direct. A close friend has a VW compact wagon with the TDI engine, and cruising to Phoenix, AZ and back from Fairview, OR, he averaged over 45 MPG. I was a diesel "early adopter". I bought a new 1976 diesel Peugeot 504D sedan 38 years ago. It was the most fuel-efficient vehicle I have ever owned. This 40+ year-old design of diesel engine could crank out 35 MPG on long highway trips, and it got 28 MPG in the city.

I ask again, just who has Volkswagen victimized here with the #farfromtruthen scandal?

Further time-bomb to watch for: VW-designed diesels are in use in several AMERICAN car lines: the Chevy Cruz, the Dodge Ram half-ton pickups and the Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV, IIRC. What will the Emissions Nazis do about THOSE vehicles? Could it be time to re-examine the actual RESULTS of EPA emissions standards?

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Trumped out?

For me, Donald Trump has been the "Anti-PeeCee", and that is his sole value as a candidate. Quite frankly, I care not if he ever gets to the GOPe primary, it's what he is accomplishing NOW that will make a difference. He is showing, without a doubt, that the GOPe base is fed up to here with the party acting like a bunch of Democrats, and being indistinguishable from them. Of late though, he has slipped a bit in the polls, most likely due to a decent performance by Carly Fiorina in the dee-bate last week. Carson is also up, and between Carson and Fiorina, both of them are trashing PeeCee mightily.

Political Correctness is nothing but thought control, and through thought control, speech control and behavior control. PeeCee depends for it's very existence as a concept on the idea that none of it's core precepts is ever challenged. Concepts such as the perceived "right" to take offence at anything and have that perceived offence translated into political action (or riot, which then must be overlooked regardless of the crimes involved), or political lying of the most blatant order (see the Climate Change death cult), none of which is ever challenge-able, you get the idea.

Our political system works if, and ONLY if, people are free to speak their minds, and when a political movement arises that runs against the very idea of free speech, that MOVEMENT MUST DIE!

Trump, Fiorina and Carson are killing PeeCee, bit by bit. Now, if we could only get the rest of the candy-dates to take up these cudgels, the GOPes might be able to present a real difference to the Left in next year's Election.

WTF, enviros?

From the Coyote Kid, who notes that these environazis may be long on enthusiasm, but they are woefully short on smarts.

Environazi attack planning:

1. Pick the next four people in the cell seeking placement in the Environazi Hall of Fame.

2. Gather equipment: bicycle u-locks and chain to chain the protestors to the target, also some glue to create further mischief.

3. Transport selves to target, an eeevilll Fracking Energy Company gas station.

4. While proprietor is distracted, chain selves to the gas pumps, deploy the glue to further damage the equipment.

5. Smile for the cameras of the sympatico news media, read the official and obligatory statement condemming fracking and other non-socialist activities.

6. Wait for the constabulary, who had to spend a lot of time delicately cutting locks and chains off of protesters.

7. Declare a victory in the name of Gaia.

According to this report, the op plan was flawlessly executed, save for one thing: the gas station these environazis attacked didn't belong to the eeevilll targeted Fracking Energy Company anymore, it belonged to an individual private person, one Mr. Patel.

DOH!

In one swell foop, these e-nazis have not only made laughingstocks of themselves and their cause, they attacked the property of a friendly foreign-born person. These Indian immigrants have sufficient numbers and cohesiveness in England to cause grave political consequences for any who attack them. They are the equivalent of our Latin voting bloc.

Sic semper tyrannis.

C'mon, Rush...

According to this Newsmax article, Rush Limbaugh has hammered the MSM for sensationalizing the cold wave to further the aims of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Agenda fraudsters.

I have to call out Rush on this one. I have listened to maybe ten MSM TV reports on the cold wave, as they have been Story #1 for 4 days now, and not ONE of them mentioned ANY connection to any AGW bulltwaddle.

Yes, the previously-unheard term "Polar Vortex" was used, but the term was explained with the graphic Rush mentioned. That graphic is a standard scientific depiction of an upper-air low pressure area, which have been called (correctly) by the term "vortex" in the past. All the explanations of the displacement of the Arctic Low, or Polar Vortex, have been accurate.

If Rush had been premptive, he would have been correct, but he presented something as fact which didn't happen, the AGW connection to the new use of weather terminology, and I have seen none of that connection.

Technology changes, and so the language changes to present that new technology. That is normal and proper. The fight against the AGW fraud is trending in the favor of real science, and this trend is good news. Phony political hype against the trend of scientific correctness is not useful, no matter who slings that feces into the news-fan.

More Global Warming bulltwaddle

...this time it's about the "acidification of the ocean" by carbon dioxide. If you've heard of this, you are to be congratulated: you keep up with Global Warming News.

If you believe it, you've been drinking the Kool-Aid, it HAS killed off your brain, and you are a Zombie.

Here's the refutation.

Professor Cliff Mass is an Adjunct Professor of Climate at the University of Washington. He usually leans more towards the weather side, but he is an absolute bear on the misuse of science.

Good on'ya, Professor.