Well of course he did

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The genius behind the Democrats’ war on the great unwashed.


Kerry and his fellow “elites” feel free to indulge themselves like this because they know their Global Warming campaign is just a shuck, designed to keep them atop of the pyramid, with their class growing ever-higher and the peasant class growing ever-larger.

2021:

Kerry admits zero emissions in US wouldn’t make difference in climate change

2023 (NPR):

China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report finds

It's the equivalent of about two new coal power plants per week. The report by energy data organizations Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air finds the country quadrupled the amount of new coal power approvals in 2022 compared to 2021.

We will suffer if we invite the little children to come unto us

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Perhaps no human is illegal, but our new voters sure do get up to a lot that is illegal

Trump, 2015: “They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people"

North Carolina, July 12, 2024:

Suspect behind Charlotte shooting spree in the US illegally: report

Two suspects were arrested in connection with a string of five shootings in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area, with one believed to be in the U.S. illegally after crossing the Southern Border, according to reports.

Carlos Roberto Diaz, 18, and an unnamed 16-year-old juvenile have been arrested in connection with the shootings. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are not searching for any additional suspects.

"These were brazen crimes. These were crimes that put our community at risk and created a safety hazard for our community," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said in a press conference.

Diaz's charges include one count of first degree murder, two counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle, one count of felony conspiracy to commit murder, five counts of attempted murder, two counts of shooting into an occupied dwelling and one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury.

The 16-year-old suspect is charged with first degree murder, and additional charges are expected.

Diaz, of Honduras, was in the U.S. illegally when he was arrested, sources told WSOC.

Shocker: after a careful, considered review of his policies and past performance, the NYT has concluded that Trump is "unfit to lead"

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Whoever expected this? The editors of the NYT, whose last endorsement of a Republican presidential candidate was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, have decided, reluctantly, no doubt, that they must withhold their approval from Donald J. Trump.

David Strom is as stunned as the rest of us:

With deep sorrow and after great reflection, The New York Times has come to the unexpected conclusion that Donald Trump is unfit to lead America. 

This reversal of their longstanding support for President Trump and his policies will surely persuade the country that a man that both liberals and conservatives were united in supporting, despite some disagreements on policy issues. But as new information has come out in recent weeks and months--Russia Russia Russia, the pee tape, "fine people on both sides," and his plan to install himself as dictator for life--the Times is forced to tell us that the Editorial Board no longer thinks highly of the Orange Man. 

OMG, this is hilarious. 

The Times even tells us how much respect they have had for Republicans in the past. They loved how patriotic they were. 

No, really. Until Trump they backed us 110%!

The Republican Party once pursued electoral power in service to solutions for such problems, to building “the shining city on a hill,” as Ronald Reagan liked to say. Its vision of the United States — embodied in principled public servants like George H.W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney — was rooted in the values of freedom, sacrifice, individual responsibility and the common good. 

The Times loved loved LOVED John McCain and Mitt Romney. But Trump...sadly, they have concluded he is not a good man. 

Our media propagandists at work: “Spewing emissions”, vs “releasing steam”.

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To illustrate its article on U.S. Representatives and Senators predicting that the Administration’s new rule shutting down coal-fired generating plants will have “a catastrophic effect on the nation’s electrical grid” — it will — Fox News used the picture above and falsely described the steam coming from the plant’s boilers as “emissions spewing from a coal-fired …power plant”.

While technically, steam emerging from a vent stack can be considered an “emission”, the intent of the caption is clear, and that is to lead readers to believe that they’re seeing evil, death-bearing (and invisible, but never mind) CO2 and pollutants “spewing” into the atmosphere. It’s probably a minor issue, but it’s this steady diet of hoax and duplicity that has caused the public to fall for the Green Panic. I’m only surprised that the caption didn’t read, “spewing Monkey Pox cooties into our precious atmosphere”.

Unloved and unwanted in 2020, bidding war today

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The listing for 5 Pilgrim Drive then priced at $724,999 expired in February, 2020. Four years later it came back on at $899,000, essentially untouched, but with a different broker and a new agent, and it went in 4 days. Obviously, this is a far different market than the just-emerging COVID one, but I believe at least part of these different results can be attributed to the use of a professional photographer instead of the Raveis agent’s inexpert use of her cellphone camera. Houses are first seen by buyers on the Internet, and there was absolutely nothing appealing — in fact, it had to have been a total turn-off — about the presentation in 2021-2022. If you can’t or won’t do a decent job, regardless of the price of a listing, just don’t take it, and find another line of work instead: Red Lobster isn’t, but I believe The Olive Garden is still hiring.

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THE THIS YEAR, A PROFESSIONAL TEAM TOOK OVER. HERE ARE SOME MORE EXAMPLES:

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Florida Man is going to be hard pressed to reclaim his title in the coming week

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PJ Media’s Stephen Green always concludes his Florida Man Friday feature with a challenge by a random whacko from another state. There were, as always, some strong Floridian contenders this week – the gentleman shown above was one of them — but Green gave the win to his former state, California, and I can’t disagree.

San Francisco nudists save a Brazilian tourist after a "pirate" tried blowtorching him.

It's nice to know that in the 30 years since I left San Francisco, the important things haven't changed. Blowtorch-wielding pirate-hippies are still free to roam the streets and the city's apex predators — middle-aged nudists — are still there to keep the pirate-hippies' numbers in check. 

A story like that can mean only one thing: Florida Man has exactly one week to reclaim his crown of glory in time for the next exciting episode of...

So much for THAT deed restriction

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The 900 sq. ft. cottage at 19 Lakeview Drive (Riverside NoPo) was listed for $2.375 million in 2022, but, though it sat on one acre in the R-12 zone, the listing admitted that “Deed Restriction = one house”. That limited its value somewhat, and it finally sold in 2023 for $1.9 million. Those buyers must have found a way to break the restriction scheme, because an 0.24 portion of the property has just been listed at $1.550.

If, as Joe said in 2019, "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids", goldarnit, what could explain this?

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chicago teachers on strike

Glenn Reynolds:

TO BE FAIR, THE POINT OF THE MONEY ISN’T EDUCATING STUDENTS, IT’S GRIFT AND GRAFT AND VOTE-BUYING, AND THAT PART HAS SUCCEEDED BRILLIANTLY: Chicago Teachers Union fails to turn $68K per student into even 1 academic win. “Douglass Academy High School spends the most per student compared to any other school in CPS, according to the Illinois State Board of Education’s 2023 Report Card. With that kind of spending, one would expect academic proficiency to soar, but that’s not the case. The most recent test data available shows no 11th grade students could read or perform math at grade level on the SAT in the 2021-2022 school year, and 86% of tested students scored in the lowest proficiency level for reading.”

Yet the parents of these children, in Chicago and around the country, continue to vote for the unholy alliance of politicians and teachers unions, continue to believer that their children can learn without parental supervision and guidance, if only the teachers and administrators in this system are paid some magic, if undiscovered-as-yet number of dollars.