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The Actual Question Concerning the Left

Posted: August 15, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Today Glenn Reynolds had a piece up noting that according to the university of Chicago 30 million Americans think that violence would be justified to keep Donald Trump from being president again.

It would be nice if I could say this report surprised me at all but it does not because of what the left has become.

Reynolds finishes thus:

The people running things seem either oblivious to, or hopeful for, the prospect of a civil war.

Given that they are bought and paid for by China that isn’t a surprise but I think there is a better question to be asked namely:

If an enemy was trying to foment civil war in the United States what would they be doing differently than what the Biden Administration and the left are doing now?

Only idiots who have never studied history or never lived though a civil would consider this a positive thing.

Rethinking support for Ukraine

Posted: August 15, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

With the Biden administration proposing another $24 billion to support Ukraine’s military, I think it may be time to reassess my enthusiastic backing of the fight against Russia.

The United States is by far the largest donor to Ukraine. Congress has already approved $113 billion in military, economic, humanitarian, and other aid for Ukraine, including around $70 billion for security, intelligence, and additional war-fighting costs. An estimated 90 percent of that total has already been spent or designated to be spent.

In the past year, overall support for Ukraine has waned. According to a poll released by CNN last week, fifty-five percent of Americans now oppose more aid to Ukraine. The party breakdown is stark—71 percent of Republicans oppose additional assistance, while 62 percent of Democrats favor it.

Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. His invasion of Ukraine, which began in 2014 with the seizure of Crimea and the subsequent attacks a year ago, is anathema to world peace and security.

But is the wholesale support of Ukraine worth the cost and the potential downside of exhausting the ability of the United States to keep its military ready to fight against other threats, such as China?

The Heritage Foundation has put together a rather convincing case against continuing aid to Ukraine at its current levels.

In a recent opinion piece, Kevin Roberts, the president of the foundation, wrote the following:

–“It is simply untenable for Americans to bear the vast majority of the burden among our allies in standing up to threatening states.”

–“Our concentration on Ukraine has undermined our ability to address the worsening military situation in Asia, especially around Taiwan.”

–“However just and noble Ukraine’s cause is, continuing to focus on it at the expense of confronting and deterring China is not wise, moral, or conservative.”

Roberts makes a variety of good points. I take away three important ones. First, U.S. foreign policy must focus mainly on China’s economic and military threat rather than Russia’s. Second, the United States must take a strategic approach toward Ukraine rather than depleting American military stockpiles. Third, Russia poses a more significant threat to Europe than the United States, so NATO countries should assume a substantial burden of the cost. See https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-correct-conservative-approach-ukraine-shifts-the-focus-china#

I’m not arguing that we should cut off Ukraine. We just need to figure out a better strategy there and an even better one in dealing with China.

The Single Best Explanation of “Woke” Christianity Actually is…

Posted: August 13, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

…was recorded on TV over 40 years ago:

It’s about status and income and the best part about woke Christianity instead of one sins becoming something one has to approach Christ with as a humble penitent seeking forgiveness, you get to flaunt them with pride and be celebrated by the world for being stunning and brave.

If you want to find out which side of the divide Sir Humphrey describes the penitent vs pride is the best way.

Cutting down 16 million trees to fight climate change is truly asinine

Posted: August 10, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Wherever large-scale green energy facilities are built forests are first cut down, grasslands are cleared, and other natural habitats are destroyed. This is all done in the name of saving the environment from climate change.

Liberals are apoplectic when a land is cleared for a single housing development, factory, or shopping center, yet they remain completely silent, and often cheer loudly, when nature is destroyed so that a green energy boondoggle can be built.  That to me makes no sense at all. 

In my town I’ve witnessed the clearing of many acres of forest so that solar farms can be built.  I was absolutely outraged at the destruction of the beautiful ecosystems that were the home of countless animals and birds.  I’ve seen the erosion and soil runoff that results.

This has been repeated over and over again all across the United States for solar and windfarms.  The same holds true in Europe.

The worst environmental carnage so far has taken place in Scotland where 16 million trees have been cleared away to build wind farms.   

Since 2000, the Scottish government has felled around 1,700 trees on a daily basis, all to make way for “green” initiatives. Leave it to the government and their leftist abettors to harp on the “destruction of the environment” then chop down literal trees to create barren wastelands—all to make room for obtrusive, industrial, inanimate behemoths that obliterate all sorts of animal populations, and create massive amounts of environmental pollution (in production, maintenance, and disposal).

According to an article by Frank Bergman and posted to Slay News yesterday, the Scottish government’s scheme of systematic deforestation was implemented to “meet the goals” of the climate agenda. Is that not one of the most ludicrous and asinine things you’ve ever heard? Or perhaps, the move is right in line with the climate agenda, because the goal isn’t environmentalism… but rather communistic destruction?

A Scottish government official has admitted that almost 16 million trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for ‘green energy’ farms.

These fools seem oblivious to the fact that trees, bushes, and other plants, absorb Carbon Dioxide.  Will the windmills and solar farms eliminate even a tiny fraction of the CO2 that these millions of trees would have absorbed?  That is extremely doubtful.

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