Fear Porn Surrounds Us

 Today at the American Thinker Vijay Jayaraj and Calvin Beisner in a post entitled Climate Scientist Admit Exaggerated Warming, points out that now even some scientists within the UN IPCC are beginning to admit this climate alarmism is just more fear porn propaganda. Greta Thunberg, take note.

Last week, a group of scientists sent shock waves through the climate-science community. They boldly pointed out that current climate models exaggerate greenhouse warming.

In other words, they confirmed what climate skeptics have been arguing all along: that most computer climate models forecast unrealistic warming -- warming not observed anywhere in the real world.

The authors take some time to explain what science is really all about. Science is not a group of facts that one can point to. Instead, various facts grow out of the scientific method. That method is first to imagine a hypothesis. Then, design an experiment to test the hypothesis and prove it wrong. Either way, you publish your results so that others can design experiments to prove your hypothesis is wrong. Assuming enough people can not prove you wrong, your hypothesis is provisionally accepted as the "truth" and enters the world of scientific "facts." But everything we know from science is just a theory. In theory, even the so called "law" of gravity is just a provisional theory that hasn't been proven wrong yet. Issac Newton can rest easy in his grave. But don't think there is someone out there that will put a dent in Newton's theory, because we do not know how or why it does what it does. We just know the effects.

Science is not a body of facts. It is a method of finding facts -- a method that is inherently skeptical. Not cynically skeptical, but humbly skeptical. It insists, as the motto of the Royal Society, nullius in verba, roughly translated “take nobody’s word for it,” that a scientist’s every claim be tested -- over and over and over. Thus, as the philosopher of science Robert K. Merton put it in 1938, “Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”

Science is also not a computer model that has not be successfully tested against past climate conditions. In other words, if you wanted to test the model, you would put the actual variables into that model which were obtained in a certain year. You would then run it, and then see if the results match what actually happened. You would think that this had been done. You would be wrong. Not a single model can accurately predict past climates, therefore why trust them to predict the future? But that is not why you are inundated with climate alarmism. You are being alarmed because if you panic enough, you might buy into the snake oil they are selling, which will leave you much poorer and they much richer.  Oh, and you know who the "they" are.

Look, there are hundreds of things of late where the "party of science" spouts absolute lunacy, and where the so called "facts" have so far proven them wrong. It is not just the Global Cooling...er...Warming...er... Climate Change issue. It is the whole transgender issue. Whatever you think you are, the fact is you are born with either xx or xy chromosomes.  Those chromosomes do not change no matter that you mutilate yourself with surgery.  There really is no such thing as a "transgender."  Then there are the mask mandates and vaccination mandates. When people wear masks, it is a sign that they have bought into the very unscientific idea that masks will protect them. This is the sort of magical thinking that says a St. Christopher medal wards off traffic accidents.  But viruses are so small, that when confronted by a thread of a mask, it "sees" a grove of trees, each tree representing a strand of the fabric that is twisted into a thread. The virus easily rushes through that grove. When it sees a pore between threads, it looks to the virus like an open football field. Hundreds go through per second. that is the point Clay Travis is making here. You don't have to take my word for it, do your own research.

There are a bunch of other things that are untrue that the Left claims are true, and if you disagree with them you are a racist, Nazi, fascist nogoodnick. CRT is in reality racism against white people. The truth? Everyone must be judged by his or her own character and not the melanin in his or her skin. Then there are the Georgia Election laws that are so...so racist...not.  Oh, and 19 Republican Senators just betrayed their voters and their country, for what is yet to be learned. Those Senators include Burr and Tillis. They voted for the $1.6 trillion infrastructure bill. Now these things may not be the results of science, but they are truth nonetheless.

Please go read the article, and realize that you are daily being pounded with fear porn propaganda.  The only thing that may be relatively free from the fear is the weather report, and frankly I am not sure about that.

Joy Pullman Excoriates Republican Politicians For Cowardice

 Joy Pullman over at The Federalist calls out Republican politicians, and it is long past time. The article is entitled Vaccine And Mask Coercion Is A Purge Of Republican Voters And Republican (Politicians) Are Letting It Happen. She has some pretty harsh words for Republican Politicians who stand idly by while people are brow beaten, and threatened with loss of freedoms and even employment for refusing the vaccine and masks.

After laying out the various false narratives that have been over hyped by the government and the media, which seems to be on a tear to create as much fear as possible, she goes on to explain how these false narratives are being used to purge Republican voters.

That brings us to the COVID protocols as purge. I live in Indiana, where both legislative houses and our governorship are controlled by Republicans — not that they’ve protected my family’s freedoms or quality of life in the last year. Throughout this state that voted 57 percent for Donald Trump in 2020, where people largely don’t believe the lying corporate narrative wildly overhyping COVID, children are still being forced to mask and cycle through rounds of Zoom school to access the public funds set aside for their education.

Businesses are pressuring workers to take the novel therapies regardless of whether the workers are at significant risk from a case of COVID. In-state universities are forcing faculty and students into novel COVID injections, with no response from the state legislature. Our state attorney general even issued an opinion supporting universities forcing low-risk young adults into these novel COVID prophylactics.

This spring, constituents pestered our legislature to protect us from this kind of medical coercion, and to ban public and private vaccine passports. State Republican leaders punted, then adjourned until next spring.

Now their voters are being threatened with loss of their livelihoods and the state-sponsored abuse of their children this fall if they don’t consent to unnecessary medical treatments or evidence-free “virus mitigation” procedures that dehumanize interactions, delay children’s development, and destroy the joy of living. People who rightly judge that their college-age children are at low risk for COVID and therefore don’t need experimental injections face the prospect of cutting their kids off from access to higher education as punishment for this reasonable risk assessment.

A friend who is a maintenance worker received a “mandatory” survey from his employer asking for his “vaccine status” — which is private health information protected by HIPPA. (Imagine if an employer sent around a survey asking people to list their BMI or whether they use contraception!) Merely receiving the survey is coercion — any decent man who loves his children is now put on notice that his ability to take care of them may hinge on his compliance with totalitarian demands. This man has voted Republican all his life and moved from a blue state to a red state specifically to protect his family.

What are Republicans doing to defend his ability to freely provide for his family? Jack nothing. Do everything the Biden administration says about COVID, or unemployment bread lines for you.

You should read the entire article. You don't see that much criticism of Republican politicians, but really, we need more people to stand up and be counted. We need more Ron DeSantises to tell the Left "No." What we don't need more of are people like Senator Burr and Senator Tillis to stab Republican voters in the back by voting with the Dems and giving them cover. The Left may be going to do what the Left does, but Republicans don't need to help.

Make the Tyrants Think Twice

 Over at The Federalist is an article by Gabe Kaminsky entitled Rand Paul Urges Lockdown Defiance: 'They Can't Arrest All Of Us'.

Sen. Rand Paul ridiculed President Joe Biden and other Democrats on Sunday for being “tyrants and bureaucrats,” floating further lockdowns and COVID-19 mask mandates ostensibly in response to the spread of the delta variant.

“It’s time for us to resist,” the Kentucky Republican said.  “They can’t arrest all of us. They can’t keep all of your kids home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed. Although, I’ve got a long list of ones they might keep closed or might ought to keep closed.”

“Nancy Pelosi, you will not arrest or stop me or anyone on my staff from doing our jobs,” Paul continued. “We have either had COVID, had the vaccine, or been offered the vaccine. We will make our own health choices. We will not show you a passport. We will not wear a mask. We will not be forced into random screenings and testings, so you can continue your drunk-with-power reign over the Capitol.”

Actually, I have been defying mask mandates since last July. I would go into a store, and force them to ask me to put on a mask. Sometimes they did, but more times than not nobody said a word. Oh, some people would stare with daggars in their eyes, but I didn't really care. Masks do nothing to prevent the spread of the virus, and I wasn't going to pretend it does. And you should too. Now, am I suggesting that you lose your job over it? Well, of course not. Pick your battles.

A related topic is this post from the American Thinker by one Mark S. Maker (a psuedonym of course) wherein he destroys the lie of asymptomatic spread. I have long contended that if you have the virus, it will trigger your immune system and that activity will raise your temperature. No temperature, no ability to spread the virus. Of course then proponents of the asymptomatic spread theory will point out that "Typhoid Mary" could spread typhoid fever without herself getting sick from it. True. But she is also the only person I have ever heard of doing this. So, if it happens, it must be an exceedingly rare occurance. In any case, you can find his post at The Biggest Lie About Covid.

Excluding the origin story of COVID, I believe the biggest lie in the handling of COVID is the lie around asymptomatic spread — i.e., you could have the virus and not know it and kill people. This has been the great distraction of COVID, and it is being used even today to distract from major issues.

For those who have been monitoring the research, we have suspected since fairly early on that having otherwise healthy people and asymptotic people wear a mask has no known benefit in preventing viral spread. Even the peer-reviewed journal articles on the CDC website testify to this. If this statement was true then and is true now, then how did the CDC come to recommend in April of 2020 that healthy people wear masks? Why does the CDC continue to recommend mask-wearing? Just as importantly, how did we the people come to believe that forcing healthy people to wear a mask might be necessary?

Why, indeed? I think the answer is to test how compliant the general public is. I think the general good will shown by the public during the early stages of the pandemic emboldened these wannabe tyrants to feel free to impose ever more and more onerous restrictions. At this point, I am hoping that the good will has run out, and that enough of us are defying this intrusion into our lives to make them think twice.

The Communists are Coming

 Yesterday, at the American Thinker Frank Liberato (a psuedonym) had a very accurate post entitled Biden's Six Months In Office Have Us On The Road to Communism. I noted above that Frank Liberato is a psuedonym. But one has to use psuedonyms now to protect one's family if one is to speak out the truth. And this is the truth. Many don't know the horrible history of Communism, and its brother and sister Socialism and Fascism. Communism and Fascism have been totalitarian tyrannies wherever they have been tried. Communist China is a great example, but Cuba is only less so because it is so small. Venezuela is another horrible example. The Progressives want to implement what they call "Socialism" but one must understand that socialism always leads to either a Communist or Facsist dictatorship.

In his piece yesterday, Liberato spoke at length about the lunacy and the insanity of Socialistic societies. That quality is both how you know we are headed for a dictatorship, but it is also to the Socialist a feature not a bug. They want the insanity. It quite literally demoralizes people, as in takes away their moral sense.

Capitalism, with all its warts and pimples, is the way people organize themselves of their own volition. It is economic freedom. Socialism and its children – communism and fascism -- can only be foisted on a population through tyrannical coercion and brute force. Dean Koontz, in Icebound, summed up communism, writing,

This was senseless, pointless lunacy…but nothing the communists had ever done made sense, not anywhere in the world.…Their ideology was nothing but a mad hunger for unrestrained power, politics as a cult religion divorced from morality and reason and their bloody rampages and bottomless cruelty could never be analyzed or understood by anyone not of their mad persuasion.

We’re not there yet but, as our friends from Venezuela have tried to warn us, we’re well on our way and following closely in their footsteps. We’re now immersed in “senseless, pointless, lunacy,” while our politicians dabble in “a mad hunger for unrestrained power.” Liberato goes on to describe a few of the things that don't make sense, such as the immigrations situation. While millions of people pour across the Southern border, Biden refuses to let Cuban refugees come into the country, apparently because most of them would vote Republican. Can't have that. Meanwhile, the Canadian border is shut. Clearly the Democrats think these invaders from the South will be reliable Democrat voters. . But then he asks where are the Republicans? Good question>

Where are the Republicans? I know they didn’t sign up for this. “Congressman” is supposed to be a pretty cushy gig. An upper-class salary for life, the best healthcare the country has to offer, and their own police force with a budget now over half a billion dollars a year to protect a few hundred people. Is anyone trying to defund the capital police budget? On the contrary, it is increasing.

Unfortunately for the pampered egotists in Congress, the good times can’t keep rolling. Leftists want to burn the country down and then rebuild it as a third-world communist hellhole, as they’ve done in so many other places around the world. Republicans must start earning their overinflated paychecks or they will be responsible for a great nation’s demise.

We’ve been waiting a long time for them to grow a backbone and start standing up to the left. Some, having gauged the gravity of the moment, are pushing back against the Democrats, but most are still sitting on their hands or actively opposing any effort to rein in all the madness.

Please go read Liberato's entire article, and share it far and wide.  There isn't much time.  We can not wait until 2022, for by then at this rate, the Left will have it sewn up.  

If you have to debate with gun grabbers

 Over at the Truth About Guns there is an article today by Sheldon Richmond entitled Some Things Never Change: What the Second Amendment Says and What It Actually Means. Richmond points out that the amendment says exactly what is meant, but some people deliberately misread the Second Amendment because the clear meaning goes against their political aspirations.

Richmond goes into great detail explaining not only what the Founders meant, but the errors of the other interpretations. Also, contrary what many people think, the Constitution in general, and the Second Amendment in particular are easy to understand even today. There is no archaic language; no "thees" and "thous." The Founders intended to write a document that was easily understood by any reasonable person with what would be today a high school education.

But the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights is indeed a well-crafted sentence. By that, I mean that its syntax permits only one reasonable interpretation of the authors’ meaning, namely, that the people’s individual right to be armed ought to be respected and that the resulting armed populace will be secure against tyranny, invasion, and crime. Someone completely ignorant of the 18th-century American political debates but familiar with the English language should be able to make out the meaning easily.

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Before proceeding, let’s understand the competing interpretation. As the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California put it, “The original intent of the Second Amendment was to protect the right of states to maintain militias.” Dennis Henigan of Handgun Control, Inc., says the amendment is “about the distribution of military power in a society between the federal government and the states. That’s all they [the Framers] were talking about.”

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Henigan and company are in the untenable position of arguing that while the Framers used the term “the people” to mean individuals in the First (the right to assemble), Fourth (the right to be secure in persons, houses, papers, and effects), Ninth (unenumerated rights), and Tenth (reserved powers) Amendments, they suddenly used the same term to mean “the States” in the Second. That makes no sense.

Richmond goes into the syntactical implications of the Second Amendment showing that any interpretation other than that it protects and individual right is in error. Then he goes on to discuss what language experts say about the Second Amendment.

It is also important to realize that, as a matter of logic, the opening phrase does not limit the main clause. As the legal scholar and philosopher Stephen Halbrook has argued, although part one of the amendment implies part two, it does not follow that if part one doesn’t obtain, part two is null and void. The sentence “The earth being flat, the right of the people to avoid ocean travel shall not be infringed” does not imply that if the earth is round, people may be compelled to sail. The Framers would not have implied that a right can properly be infringed; to call something a right is to say that no infringement is proper. As another philosopher and legal scholar, Roger Pilon, has written, the amendment implies that the need for a militia is a sufficient but not a necessary condition for forbidding infringement of the right to have firearms. The sentence also tells us that an armed populace is a necessary condition for a well-regulated militia.

Please go and read the whole article. It will provide ammunition for those who may have to debate with gun grabbers.

The Communist Tyrants and Dictators Are Coming

 Wayne Allen Root today has an interesting piece at Townhall.com entitled This Is 1938: First They Came For the Unvaccinated, in which he compares calls for vaccine passports to the Jews being forced to wear yellow Stars of David on their clothing. Root claims to be a Jew, and like Naomi Wolf is sensitive to the loss of freedom because because of being a targeted minority.  He writes:

It's time for alarm bells. It's time for me to play the part of Paul Revere: "The communist tyrants and dictators are coming! The communist tyrants and dictators are coming!" They're coming first for unvaccinated Americans. 

This is 1938. I'm a Jew. I now understand just a little of what it felt like to be a Jew in 1938. No, it's not the Holocaust. Nothing can be compared to the Holocaust. Ever.

But 1938 was not the Holocaust. It was the pre-Holocaust. It was the time before the nightmare, when the foundation was being laid to destroy the freedom, free speech, businesses and lives of millions of Jews.

Everything happening today to the American people ... to the U.S. Constitution ... to freedom ... and particularly to unvaccinated Americans reminds me of 1938. This is only the beginning. It gets much worse from here.

I don't think anyone is listening to us anymore. I have two Republican Senators, both of whom voted for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill with the many violations of freedom included, not to mention the inflation this bill will cause. Chipman is still on the table as ATF director. Still, I have to add my voice to Root's and Wolf's that there is no reason, either legal or scientific to treat Americans as they are being treated. The only reason can be for seeking power and to crush those who would oppose that power.

And yes, it only gets worse from here.

When the Revolution Comes

 We are, sadly, being ruled by Marxian socialists of various stripes.  At the same time, we are being herded into the "Great Reset" by oligarchs pushing a Fascist line that "you will own nothing and you will like it" said with a German accent.  But of course you will not like it because you will be living in the middle of the "tragedy of the commons."  It is why you must cling to the truth.

Today, at the American Thinker we have to pieces that tie into the idea that the only way we might get out of the box they are attempting to put is into is if we refuse the lies. 

The first article, for a good history of Socialist lies comes form L. K. Samuels No Truth in Socialism: Why the 'Crisis of Marxism' Matters.

Samuels takes us on a journey back to the end of the 19th Century, when Marxism and Socialism were the bright, shiny new toy that would overtake Capitalism, a term invented by the Marxist, but essentially the way business had been done since the beginning of time. But then a strange thing happened: captialism kept improving the lives of ordinary people, contrary to Marx's philosophy.

This realization occurred in the late 1890s, when a crisis of confidence began to reach a fever pitch. Before that, Marxian socialists were seen as the bright new kids on the political block. They were gaining acceptance and recognition. They thought they had it made. Socialists had long predicted capitalism's inevitable demise. In anticipation, they prepared to be capitalism's pallbearers, and they breathlessly awaited the birth of a glorious socialist-proletarian revolution.

But then something unexpected happened: socialism started to decompose. Marxist leaders and revisionists looked inward and noticed serious flaws in Marx's socioeconomic predictions. Across Europe, the truth of Marxian socialism was called into question. As the defects and failures started to pile up, Marxian socialists faced an ideology both false and unworkable. Instead of witnessing capitalism in its last stage of life, it was apparent that Marxism and socialism were dying on the vine.

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To Marxist socialists' dismay, the bourgeois system of market economics had gotten a clean bill of health. Capitalism was flourishing. Objective reality refused to comply with socialist demands. Instead, Marxian socialism was found guilty and given a sentence of rejection. To the public, Marxian socialism had lost its credibility.

Up until this time, the benefit of the doubt could be given to the Marxist Socialists and other various stripes of collectivism. But accepting that they were wrong was not what the Marxists did. No, they decided that if the truth went against them, they would have to throw out the truth. Thus, the "Big Lie" was born.

Nonetheless, Marxism and socialist revolutionary activity did not die. A French Marxist and Revolutionary Syndicalist, Georges Sorel, had already figured out the next course of action. His prescription was to inject heavy doses of "myth-making" into public discourse, confusing political issues, and overriding truth. His plan was to reinvigorate the socialist brand by releasing mountains of lies. Sorel understood that unconstrained truth would crush socialist theories and their fledgling movement, forcing socialists to master the art of slick propaganda to prevent being invalidated once again by the power of truth.

Georges Sorel went on to make lies sound truthful in an effort to defend the fallacies and failures of Marxism, propping up the advocacy of labor violence in the streets, anti-democracy, autocratic socialism, and revised Marxism. His myth-making propaganda became an inspiration to Marxists, fascists, and a host of socialist elites. To Sorel, truth was no longer important; it was an impediment to progress and had to be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Please go read Samuels' entire article. As usual, it is not overly long and you will learn a lot. I did.

But, we must go on now to an article by Ted Noel, MD entitled The 'Centers for Disease Control' Is No Such Thing. What Noel is getting at is that the CDC (also called the Conspiracy for Deceptive Calculations) can't really "control" diseases."  The name itself is a lie. More profoundly though, most of the "advice" given by the CDC and the NIH has been of the same type: lies that they knew were lies when they told them.  

He writes about the stupidity of lockdowns, which we have never done before. We have isolated the sick. Never have we quarantined the entire population of healthy people. This decision was either manifestly incompetent, or diabolical. I vote for the latter.

He also writes in great detail about the uselessness of masks. Masks can stop large droplets and are helpful with even smaller ones. He points out that masks are worn by surgeons because if they cough or sneeze during surgery, they are staring down into the patient's sterile field. But cloth masks as worn by the general public do not stop the virus, or even impede it.  From the virus's perspective, the mask isn't even there.

I had an experience the other day that shows the utter lack of scientific evidence on which these mask mandates are based. I take guitar lessons, and I went to my lesson as usual. I am fully vaccinated. Everyone in the store was without a mask, so I had no idea the store had a new policy. But then my instructor came out and said they had changed policy, and that we would have to be masked in the studio. Now, if I had the virus, I would be breathing out hundreds, if not thousands of virus bodies with each breath, so lets say 40,000 virus particles per minute. It would have done no good to have me masked in the studio because I had already been in the store for 20 minutes. If I was going to infect anyone else, I would already have done so, and that assumes the masks are protective, which they are not.  I refused and left.  I will not put up with this nonsense.

He also discusses treatments for Covid, which are available, safe, and work if given early in the disease process.  Again, the CDC seems to not be following the science, so what are they following?

So, why the lies? Why can't the CDC tell the truth? Why doesn't anyone seemingly in government tell us the truth? I suspect it has to do with power. The Marxist collectivists (read Socialist, Facsist, Communists, Progressives, Fabians, etc, etc,) want power, and if they told the dismal truth, nobody would give it to them. We would be crazy to do so. Do you want the United States to look like Cuba, or Venezuela, or Cambodia, or China, or North Korea or...I could go on. Suffice it to say that the only people who are comfortable in these places are the leader and the very well connected. And as history shows, many of those now shilling for the collectivists will be the first ones thrown against the wall when the revolution comes. Sure, I will be shot too, but first they will get rid of those who know where the bodies are buried.