Hottest day ever?

AP News recently ran a headline claiming, actually shouting, that Monday, July 22, 2024 was the hottest day ever in Earth’s history. My questions are many, but most importantly, do they really expect to be taken seriously when making such claims? This is followed by “Do they believe their own lies?” It appears to me that these screaming headlines are designed to reach gullible people who don’t read beyond headlines and who can’t think properly anyway. That must be the target market – most Americans.

Let’s have a look of some of the many problems with this headline:

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Life in pre-evac

Look up the “Quarry Fire” on any search engine, and you will be as up-to-speed are we are, that is, wanting a little more information. The best I can usually do is information that is 11 hours or one day old. When I use the Brave search engine, it rolls  its AI down from the top and is not reliable. Yesterday it said that the fire was at 9,000 acres and was definitely caused by arson. The fire is at 450+ acres, and arson is suspected. Authorities will only say “human-caused”.

There’s a somewhat wild area to the east of us, and last Wednesday at 9PM a deputy on patrol saw something on a steep trail, one that has switchbacks. He saw a 10×10 area of fire. By morning it was at 200 acres and growing.

We’ve had no rain, no lightening. How that 10×10 area came about is under investigation, and is, according to law enforcement, “very suspicious”. That’s all we know.

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A trillion dollar idea

I had a vague memory of an exciting idea some years ago. I watched a report where a Treasury official held up what he called a “Trillion dollar coin*.” He claimed he could use it to march across the street to the Federal Reserve, and pay down the national debt.

I ran with that thought, but did not understand what was going on well enough. I thought the Treasury official was merely making light of our monetary system. At that time I had not theorized deeply on things, but all by myself in subsequent years came to believe

  • We could eliminate the national debt tomorrow, and nothing would change. Just eliminate it, draw a line through it with a #2 pencil, not pay it off. It’s all funny money.
  • Budget deficits are political tools used to deny funding to some things while funding others. For instance, what I consider a noble cause, funding college education for well-performing students, would be denied due to “deficit constraints.” But a new war? We have tons of money, no restraints!
  • Social Security and Medicare could be perpetually funded.
  • The Social Security Trust Fund, an illusory “fund” at best, could be eliminated.
  • Medicaid, which is in part funded by individual states, could be funded in full by the federal government. States are truly constrained by real budgets and would be relieved to be free of paying for Medicaid.
  • Taxes on the public, merely a means of controlling spending and inflation, would continue. But the idea that the federal government is using that money to pay its bills is nonsense. The money just evaporates.

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Furry Affairs

Note to readers: Dave reminds me that he has used the characters contained in the story below in other writings, so he does not ‘develop’ them here, since we already know them. Dave’s Substack page can be found at https://dsklausler.substack.com.

  1. Operation: Rabbit

“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote, genius.”

The unusually large alpha led his estrous scented second-year mate through the trees and spiky undergrowth to the human path. She followed closely, this protector and provider; he did not ever waste energy or endanger her. He knew things she did not. Food had been sparse this winter. She knew inherently that she must eat and prepare for pups to come.

He stopped; she stopped. They had the foreign scent minutes before, but now both could hear the approach of the strangers with a small not-coyote nearby. He silently directed and nudged her into the tall flopping dead grass near the hard human path. He pushed her head down gently with his long muzzle and her mixed tan, gray and black body was completely concealed. Her scent was not. He knew this. He moved off out of her view. The strangers were close. Their strangely scented small not-coyote came her way as nature took control of it. She held her assigned position.

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Covid and climate change – a one-two punch against humanity

This is written for Substack, as it is all old news here. I don’t yet know what to make of that outlet, but time will tell. I linked to this piece on X (Twitter), so I might endure there, as with Facebook, another lifetime ban. Censorship is wild and unchained, not even hidden from us anymore. 

Every day we hear new scare stories about climate change, most recently that our days are getting longer, and before that other nonsense tales, like the Great Barrier Reef going to hell, Siberia melting, Antarctica caving into the ocean, and polar bears (which are alive and well in such numbers that natives up there want them dead), are going extinct. It is as if Mrs. Olsen’s high school freshman creative writing class is now published on the front pages of the New York Times. 

These are agreed upon lies told by fake scientists and blindly repeated by fake journalists. If you are reading this and cannot stick your head out your car window while driving your highly efficient and nonpolluting fossil fuel motorcar, and see that the climate is not (or just barely) changing, then leave now. You won’t like what I write. Do not, under any circumstances, subscribe. It does not get better.

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A conversation with my dentist

I’ll recount this as faithfully as I can and with a caveat: I was not about to ‘clue him in’ on anything I might know or suspect. That does no good, and anyway, his own curiosity has brought him quite a ways farther than most Americans. I like the guy, and he is a smart man. It so happened I was having a crown put in place, and that involved a lot of sanding and stuff to make sure it fit properly, which is why my mouth was not full of dental equipment as we spoke.

Dr. D: “Did you happen to watch news over the weekend? There was an assassination attempt on Trump.”

M: “I did! Some odd stuff going on there. Did you notice that the Secret Service stood him up, making him a target even as there was, as far as anyone knew, shooters about?”

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Trump’s smoking gun (what the hell is that?) (By Omar Jordan)

h/t Petra Liverani

Petra says “I hope Omar doesn’t mind me republishing his post which entertainingly points out a few key features of this event and makes interesting connections.”

by Omar Jordan

July 15, 2024

Don’t you worry, I’ll make it quick so that you don’t have to read through pages and pages of analysis. As usual, this is just my opinion, based on the available evidence, the vast majority of it, bullshit and misdirects.

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There were real people on a phantom flight?

James Burrows, now 83 years old, is indeed a “legendary director”, having directed Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace and other stuff. He wrote a book, a fun one about his professional years and all the people he came to know and work with. Normally I would not keep a book like that, called Directed by James Burrows. But I kept it for sake of the following paragraph on page 218

David Angell, God rest his soul, was a wonderful man. He was always teased about how he could write so funny and still be the dullest person in the room. David and his wife, Lynn, had been in Cape Cod and were flying back to Los Angeles for the Emmys (as executive producer of Frasier, he had been nominated  for Best Comedy Series) when their plane, Flight 11, was taken over by terrorists during the 9/11 attacks and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. We had a memorial ceremony for him at Paramount. Steve Weber, who worked closely with David on Wings, said “I can only imagine the last moments, when David and Lynn looked into each other’s eyes and held one another, knowing what was going to happen.” Continue reading “There were real people on a phantom flight?” →

The origins of European dominion over the New World


By: Steve Kelly

Newsflash! Property law in the U.S. is not rooted in the Constitution. America’s legal foundation for property law (possession), “anti-Indian law,” and the concept of nation-states is religious, not secular.

Where did this deep sense of entitlement, hierarchy, and dominion over unknown lands and its original sovereign peoples originate?

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