Category Archives: Health
Di Leo: “Save Lives” or You’re a Horrible Person
By John F. Di Leo –
The nation’s reaction to the current CCP Virus epidemic has been fascinating.
It has revealed an impressive ability of many businesses to adjust their operations at a moment’s notice. It has demonstrated the great advantages offered by modern technology as tools like Microsoft Teams, Webex, GoToMeeting and Facebook Live have enabled employees and students to move their tasks from office to home. It has shown the flexibility of the logistics network as we switched over to home delivery at a moment’s notice. It has reminded the world, once again, of the huge generosity of the American people, as Americans make homemade masks and scarves, donate money and food to the needy, and generally rise to the occasion as only Americans do.
But it has also revealed such inherent cancers as individual viciousness – see how the self-righteous demonize those who don’t agree with the establishment line on dealing with it. It has revealed a tyrannical impulse in many governors, mayors and other politicians. And it has revealed some incredible hypocrisy in our body politic.
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Rich TAkes! on Climate Change
Our Dear Leader has recently threatened to take on limiting carbon emissions through regulatory agencies, since Congress “won’t act”. I’d like to remind everybody that a Democratic controlled Senate refused to ratify Kyoto years ago by a vote of 99-0. 
Many, if not most people believe than man is on the road to causing catastrophic global warming, after all, Al Gore, Barack Obama and legions of others tell us incessantly that the science is settled, why there is even scientific “consensus”, even though the very concept of scientific consensus is antithetical to the concept of science itself.
Climate Forcing! Feedbacks, The PDO and The AMO! Aerosols, Greenhouse gases, the Sun and the Clouds, oh my! Don’t forget La Nina and el Nino, the Little Ice Age, and the Medieval Warming Period, to say nothing of cows belching and farting…and especially politics!
Here is my RichTAkes! on Anthropogenic Global Warming!
(as always, my comments appear in cayenne, and the use of a flash-blocker to disable auto-play is recommended due to multiple embedded vids.)
US physics professor: ‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion.”
American Physical Society Sees The Light: Will It Be The First Major Scientific Institution To Reject The Global Warming ‘Consensus’?
Richard S. Lindzen: The Climate Science Isn’t Settled
– Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted.
Lindzen’s 2009 WSJ piece appeared after the Climategate CRU* email scandal erupted
Richard Lindzen: An Inconvenient Expert
Perhaps the preeminent US climate scientist, Lindzen was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was lead author of Chapter 7, ‘Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,’ of the IPCC Third Assessment Report on climate change.
Climategate
Anthony Watts has assembled a fine set of articles chronicling the Climategate scandal
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
from 2009
The Climategate Whitewash Continues: Don’t Believe the ‘Independent Reviews’ About Goings on at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia
from 2010
Lennart Bengtsson: The Science And Politics Of Climate Change
The science isn’t settled and we still don’t know how best to solve the energy problems of our planet.
Reflections on Bengtsson and the GWPF
Professor Judith Curry’s take on the recent Bengtsson controversy
Science as McCarthyism
One of the most telling features of climate science is just how few climate scientists changed their minds as the evidence changed. The pause in global temperature in the last 15 years or so has been unexpected. Now we know why:
Climate scientists slam Obama science czar on global warming
Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer and University of Colorado climate scientist Roger Pielke, Jr. slammed Holdren for his “pseudo-science rambling.” Plenty of links here
cfact.org/pdf/2010_Senate_Minority_Report.pdf
a primer on positive and negative feedback loops.
“We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest data. Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message.”
The Unaffordable Deadline TAkes!
Get your Obamacare by midnight tomorrow or face a penalty. Heck, just drop something in your basket, you might get covered even if you don’t check out*.
The missing 777 is still a mystery, the FBI breaks up a plot to traffic in military grade small arms, including shoulder fired rocket launchers, and the administration moves to give away control of the Domain Name System to the world…to foster “good will”????
Here is the
Late March Unaffordable RichTAkes!
[* just kidding, I’m not advising anyone to visit healthcare.gov for any reason]
last-ditch effort from our First health insurance salesman, on SNL
Democrats sinking in sea of charges
California Democrat And Gun Control Advocate Charged With Arms Trafficking
just the tip of the iceberg of the real culture of corruption, and they all have a (D) after their name
Wyoming welder faces $75,000 a day in EPA fines for building pond on his property
He had permits in hand, and built his pond legally. It’s difficult to imagine an illegal pond at any rate, unless you work for the EPA.
On Weddings and Conscience: Are Christians Hypocrites?
An interesting, thought-provoking read.
Open the floodgates? Indiana becomes first state to scrap Common Core
Hoosiers taking the lead in the race to restore Common Sense again.
Harry Reid is even worse than Joe Biden. Reid really means it.
Biden: ‘11 Million Undocumented Aliens Are Already Americans in My View’
On the other hand…
Harry Reid’s FEC Whoopsie Not His First
Just the tip of Reid’s corruption ice-berg. Cowboy Poetry, anyone?
Comrade Majority Leader Reid going off the deep end. “Our tax system is a voluntary system”
Related: Harry Reid’s Two Minutes Hate
Glorious Majority Senate Leader’s Koch obsession becomes a full-fledged mania.
Reid on need for ObamaCare extension: People ‘not educated’ about Internet
Surprise! White House To Delay ‘Firm’ Obamacare Enrollment Deadline Past March
It’s time for White House to start sweating over legal challenge to Obamacare subsidies
this one could change everything
RichTAkes! on Tyrants, Red Buttons, the IRS, Bears, and the Tipping Point
In 2009, Hillary was busy pushing a red reset button with Russia, and Obama toured the world apologizing for the United States. I have no idea what he was apologizing for, we have set more people free than any people in history. Obama and Hillary were happy to jump on the Arab Spring band-wagon tossing long-time friends under the bus. Okay, in Libya’s case, it was a bad guy who suddenly discovered civility of a sort after 9/11. Last year, in Syria, this administration had no trouble backing radical jihadis, and some A-Q affiliated groups in the conflict there, a stance which may have contributed to the tragedy in Benghazi. A “Red Line” was crossed, but no one had proof who did the chemical crossing. Some guy named Vladimir Putin saved the day, when the Red Line suddenly became pink and dotted.
“Putin is playing chess and Obama is playing marbles”
I think he’s lost his marbles, but he is performing exactly as I expected. Worse than Jimmy Carter, and I didn’t think that was possible.
Did you know that Kiev was once a part of Poland, and that Poland completely disappeared prior to WWI? Germany, Russia and Austria carved it up like kids at a candy store. Whatever. This story is still playing out, here’s a few stories for now.
And some links I’ve found interesting lately!
RichTAkes! on Tyrants, Red Buttons, the IRS, Bears, and the Tipping Point
Beware the Russian Bear
“History shows the Russian Bear’s ambitions never die, they just go into hibernation.”
~ Indiana Gov Mike Pence
Russia Prepares for Occupation After Winning Control of Crimea
▶ Mark Levin: Russia & Ukraine—Palin Was Right & The Eggheads Were Wrong – YouTube
Liberal Prof.: Obama Has Brought Us to ‘Constitutional Tipping Point’
Turley flatly rejected the Obama administration’s reason for using more executive powers, which the president claims is a gridlocked Congress. “It is simply untrue that we’re living in very different or unprecedented times. The framers lived in these times,” Turley said, noting that back then Congress used the Alien and Sedition Act to arrest opponents and Thomas Jefferson referred to his opponents as the “reign of witches.”
“This is not a different political time, and it shouldn’t be used as an excuse for extra-constitutional action,” Turley warned.
Self-identified Obama supporter delivers a must-see critique of the President
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Rich TAkes! on Canola Rapeseed Oil
I have long had an aversion to cooking with canola oil, it is produced primarily in Canada from rapeseed, a cousin of the mustard plant. It is essentially a weed. There are so many, far tastier cooking oils available anyway, why use an oil which contributes no flavor to your foods?
Here is my Rich Takes! on Canola Oil
I am not totally opposed to GMOs, I think that it is a good thing to be able to grow corn, for example, that is resistant to pests. Or tomatoes which are resistant to various diseases. Yesterday I learned a little more about rapeseed and canola oil. It is an excellent industrial penetrating oil. It is used to produce glossy paper in magazines and brochures. Lot’s of great industrial uses, but why would anyone want to eat this stuff? WD-40 might be safer, it’s primary water-displacement agent is derived from fish oil. (don’t fry with WD, it’s too expensive anyway!)
Canola is also used in many commercial peanut butters and thousands of other processed foods. I’m a firm believer in reading the labels.
This is one GMO that I am not in favor of using, and you probably won’t be either after reading the following cross post written by Albert T. Milligan for MyoneSource.com. Thank you Terrell for your taking the time to research this topic which affects us all.