When they say what they're going to do, believe them. and, when they insist that that's NOT what they intend, then don't.

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No man's life, liberty, or cattle are safe while the legislature is in session

Cutting emissions could cause food production to fall by a QUARTER as experts admit there is a 'strong trade-off'

  •  Experts have said lowering greenhouse gasses will result in less food supplies

  •  This could be offset however by reducing food waste and eating less meat

Food production could fall by 25 per cent in England under the most ambitious plans to reduce carbon emissions, a Government study has concluded.

Experts at conservation body Natural England who looked at nine scenarios to change land use found that it was not possible to deliver a strong reduction in greenhouse gas emissions without reducing the food supply.

Their report said: 'At the UK scale, there is a strong trade-off between emissions reduction and food production.'

It added: 'Under the most ambitious climate change mitigation scenario, food production is expected to decline by up to 25 per cent. 

'A decline in food production is unavoidable under these mitigation scenarios.'

But, and here it comes …

According to the report, losses in food supply could be offset with changes such as reducing food waste and eating less meat.

Meanwhile, lowering meat consumption would reduce the need for using farmland to grow animal feed crop; plants for human consumption could be grown instead.

Why should the Secret Service be run any better than any of our other government agencies or departments?

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Kevin Downey Jr. PJ Media:

KDJ Clown World Report: Secret Service Agent Reportedly Steps Away From Trump Rally to Breastfeed

Susan Crabtree of RealClear Politics tweeted some news we would have not believed in earlier times, but it doesn't surprise me at all today. A Secret Service agent allegedly ditched her post at a recent Trump rally in North Carolina to breastfeed her kid. Three sources have backed up Crabtree's story.

FACT-O-RAMA! I had no idea the Secret Service has a "bring your kids to work day." Kidding, they aren't allowed to do that.

The shocking/not shocking story alleges that the leading Secret Service agent at the rally did a last-minute check of Trump's walking route from his motorcade to the stage roughly five minutes before the former/future president arrived and discovered the agent, hungry baby, and two other family members in a room set aside for potential Secret Service emergencies (such as the president getting shot because a Secret Service agent suddenly realized it was wet-nurse o'clock).

Crabtree reports that the agent didn't bother to alert anyone before she pulled what might be the world's first "dash 'n dine." 

FORMULA-O-RAMA! Enfamil offers a convenient store locator to help people find places to buy baby chow.

Apparently, "Agent Lactate" had an "unpinned" staffer sneak two relatives and the infant into the rally without going through security checkpoints ("unpinned" means that the person was not cleared by the Secret Service to be at this location).

As we saw last month, the Secret Service is once again covering its own bahookie.

"All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards," Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi stated. "While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further."

As of this writing, the unnamed agent is still employed by the government agency that is supposed to protect various elected leaders, including the guy who took a bullet in Pennsylvania just over a month ago.

I was going to append this to a previous post, but heck, it deserves a place of its own UPDATE: How can anyone keep up with this woman?

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And she’s still at it today.

I've given up being surprised by selling prices in this market

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106 Lockwood Speedway was listed in May at what once would have seemed an astonishing price, $4.695 million, a bidding war erupted, and it closed today at $5,302,000. These sellers paid $3,762,500 for the place in August of ‘21, so I imagine they were pleased with this result.

Right down the street, 86 Lockwood sold for $6.150 in July, so I suppose this is the new benchmark for relatively new houses (106 in 2016, 86 in 2011 ) here, but, gee, Lockwood?

Details don't matter, feelings do!

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I’d say the WaPo has the Democrat’s strategy pretty well down, and why not? They just transcribe what their masters tell them.

Kamala Harris, amid a furious battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019, embraced a ban on fracking and offshore drilling. She supported Medicare-for-all. At one point, she advocated abolishing private health insurance. And she signaled an openness to a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Now, the vice president’s campaign says she would not pursue the fracking and offshore drilling ban — it’s a highly unpopular position in states like Pennsylvania where natural gas drives the economy — if she becomes president. She does not support a single-payer health-care system, instead focusing on what she and President Joe Biden call “corporate price-gouging” by pharmaceutical companies. And she is taking a much harder line on illegal immigration, arguing that Republicans are to blame for blocking a tough border-control measure this year.

Since Harris catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket less than a month ago, she has been forced to reiterate that she rejects a wide array of positions she embraced five years ago, a dynamic likely to become even more evident as she rolls out pillars of her agenda in coming days. On Friday in North Carolina, she is set to outline her economic plan, which is expected to largely mirror Biden’s efforts to lower costs for middle-class families, including by curtailing late fees, hidden costs and junk fees. But Harris’s aides stress that she will roll out myriad policies that are unique to her.

In 2019, Harris articulated a series of liberal positions as she sought to distinguish herself among a crowded group of Democratic contenders, many of them tacking to the left to court voters in the primaries. Now her singular focus is taking on Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a big emphasis on winning over swing voters.

But Harris’s critics say her dramatic shifts on so many issues point to a deeper issue — that Harris has few core political beliefs and only a vague governing philosophy. That lack of a clear political identity, Republicans contend, gives them an opening to frame her image for voters.

“It’s clear the Kamala Harris who wanted to ban fracking, who supported Medicare-for-all … couldn’t win Pennsylvania or a single swing state,” said Corry Bliss, a Republican campaign consultant. “The average voter does not have a well-defined vision of her, so we have a great opportunity to define her simply on her record.”

John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who worked for Biden, said a broad message is far more important than gritty policy details.

“What is driving the contrast is Harris talks about that she’s going to be for everyone and for the middle class, while Trump is going to be for himself and corporations,” Anzalone said. “That’s the big umbrella message, and all the policies are underneath it.”

I share her despair

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PJ Media’s Athena Thorne asks a question that probably must be answered in the negative

Is It Even Possible to Overcome the Left's Grip on Information Anymore?

I don't want to face it any more than you do, but the fact is that the Left has a near-total grip on the information most Americans receive.

This had been the case before the onset of the internet age, of course, but the country still had a fairly homogenous culture back then, so globalist, Christophobic anti-Americanism repulsed most people. Then came Fox News and the Drudge Report, and suddenly, people's eyes were opened to the extent of the media's bias. A brief golden age of equal media representation ensued, and it was no coincidence that we enjoyed eight years of Republican leadership under President George W. Bush and a Republican-led Congress.

But Big Left has marched through the new institutions as relentlessly as it did the old. Fox News is now compromised, and Big Tech is thoroughly infiltrated. Staffed by leftist intel assets who job-hop back and forth from government positions, social media platforms suppress anything unfavorable to their party — even if it's true — while boosting positive news — even when it's inaccurate.

The extent of the Left's control of information was driven home during the 2020 campaign season. Two things happened that year that made it impossible to ignore what we are up against any longer: the Laptop From Hell and the Basement Campaign.

Never forget what they did with the Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell story. This was arguably the greatest October Surprise in history — a presidential candidate’s son was so drug-addled that he literally handed his opponents a laptop full of tawdry photographic, email, text message, and video evidence of significant criminal behavior that ran the gamut from trafficking prostitutes to drug and gun crimes to tax evasion to FARA violations — all the way up to likely bribery of the number two guy in the White House.

And the Left disappeared it.

I remember a few months after the election, I asked a liberal friend if she had even heard of Hunter's laptop before the election, and she said she had not. "And I also heard it was fake," she sneered.

If the Left was able to suppress something that breathtaking (and juicy), then what chance do we have to get any information about their current candidates into public awareness?

Then there was Democrat candidate Joe Biden's Basement Campaign, so-called because Biden's handlers effectively hid him in a basement and didn't let him embarrass or weaken himself with public appearances. They were aided in this endeavor by the compliant media, which never called them out on it. It just went along with the campaign's COVID excuse — but also didn't even insist on a video interview. In the absence of major public stumbles or tough questioning, Biden appeared to the unquestioning public as the seasoned, steady statesman the Left said he was.

And my friends, it worked. They won. 

Now, the campaign has swapped in Vice President Kamala Harris, and she is running a basement campaign of her own. She and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. "Tampon Tim" Walz, stump at meticulously controlled rallies and private fundraisers — and that's pretty much it. They don't do interviews. They don't take questions. They respond to any criticism that may have found its way into public view with glib replies at their own events, which the media will accept and move on from.

"Kamala Harris seems to be doing everything she can to avoid answering reporters' questions," Nick Arama writes at our sister site, RedState. "She hasn't done an interview since she was handed the Democratic nomination for president without one vote of the people. She's put off the media, saying, well, maybe she'll do an interview by the end of the month. She doesn't even have any policies on her website. That makes it easier for her just to say whatever she thinks will be most appealing to whatever audience she's talking to, so she can be all things to all people, even if those things contradict each other."

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Finally, we can't force people to see something they don't want to know. Liberals want their version of reality to be true and are wholly uninterested in hearing anything to the contrary. Meanwhile, normies and low-information voters don't even know what they don't know, so they don't realize that there is an alternative to what they have been told, let alone where to go to seek it out.

The Left's control of the flow of information is the most vein-poppingly frustrating thing we are up against. It is near-total, it is devastatingly effective, and it has only grown stronger since the last election. 

Just wait until Kampallawalla announces her plan to impose price controls on food tomorrow: the flying monkeys will be gibbering and dancing and flinging clumps of approval at her podium. “Brilliant!” “Such breathtaking genius!” “Courageous!” “Sure to work, this time.”

Too bad there’s no flying monkey willing to bring this up and give her the opportunity to tell how her memory has “evolved”

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April 25, 2021

And now ….

THIS PARADE BROUGHT TO YOU BY BIDEN-HARRIS: Taliban parade US military vehicles, weapons to celebrate 3 years in power, AP reports.

Members of the Taliban on Wednesday celebrated three years since their return to power with a display at a former U.S. air base, according to the Associated Press.

Images circulating social media show uniformed troops flying helicopters and parading a convoy of armored trucks through what was once the Bagram Airfield. The hardware had reportedly been left abandoned since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021