It turns out a lot of the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio are not legal citizens as the Democrats said.
Two reports state climate change is BS. One of them is coming out from the government.
And, if you can believe it, we have a dumbass that is still pushing masks. Go figure.
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I Thought They Were Legal?
Springfield, Ohio — Ketlie Moise fled unspeakable violence in her homeland of Haiti hoping to find peace and a slice of the American dream, settling in Springfield, Ohio.
“I stay here,” Moise told CBS News. “I do two jobs to make my business. That’s why I don’t go back to Haiti.”
Moise saved money for years and recently opened a restaurant. She is one of the thousands of Haitian migrants building a life in Springfield who now find themselves in the crosshairs of the incoming Trump administration. About 12,000 to 15,000 Haitians reside in the Springfield area, according to city estimates.
It was during President-elect Donald Trump’s Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that Springfield came to forefront, when Trump repeated false and debunked claims about the Haitian migrants living there. Local officials have said there are no credible reports to back up such allegations.
Trump made the issue of mass deportations a major pillar of his presidential campaign.
You Don’t Say!
According to Red State:
True story: 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous, Antarctica was covered mostly in temperate forest. Dinosaurs roamed the woods, and while the winters were still cold and the winter nights long, Antarctica was in those days green, not white.
These days, of course, that continent is the world’s southern icebox. It’s the only continent with no indigenous human population because it’s a pretty forbidding place, surrounded by sea ice. That sea ice has been the subject of a lot of panicked screeching by climate scolds in recent years, as they claim that the ice is melting at an accelerating rate – but a new study described by The Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor Chris Morrison shows that the sea ice around Antarctica has actually been increasing since satellite monitoring began in 1979.
Sea ice around Antarctica has “slowly increased” since the start of continuous satellite recordings in 1979 with any changes caused by natural climate variation. In a paper published earlier this year, four environmental scientists further state that any sign that humans are responsible for any change is “inconclusive”. Not of course for mainstream media that have been crying wolf about the sea ice in Antarctica for decades to promote the Net Zero fantasy. Last year there was a reduced level of winter sea ice and this caused the Financial Times Science Editor Clive Cookson to exclaim that the entire area “faces a catastrophic cascade of extreme environmental events… that will affect climate around the world”.
Over the satellite record, the scientists note there was a “prolonged and gradual” expansion of sea ice to around 2014 followed by a short period of sudden decline from 2014-19. Growth was then resumed, although there was a temporary downturn around 2022. These variations, which can also be observed before 1979, were caused by a number of natural atmospheric and oceanic factors. All of this is known of course, with the EU weather service Copernicus admitting recently that sea ice extent as a whole “shows large year-to-year variability and no clear long-term trend since 1979”. At the other end of the Earth, Copernicus correctly states that the cyclical decline in Arctic sea ice “has levelled off since 2007”.
Thoughts and prayers are also the order of the day for those who set great store in all the coral disappearing. Three years of record growth on the huge Great Barrier Reef put an end to that headliner. Polar bears are just as bad and keep breeding to top up new Arctic highs. Satellites keep discovering vast colonies of penguins in Antarctica, and mainstream media seem shocked into complete silence to report that the eyes in the sky have detected a vast recent plant greening of the Earth. There is a growing trend to debunk any ‘extreme’ weather claim – the great citizen journalist Paul Homewood even writes a book about the BBC’s more egregious climate howlers, every year no less, such is the volume to process.
The Net Zero project is starting to crumble around the world as citizens make their feelings known with votes, and sometimes with rocks. Nobody can or wants to live in a world without hydrocarbons. Crucial to this trend is an emerging understanding that the scientific process when it comes to climate has been trashed for decades and replaced with an increasingly laughable junk ‘settled’ science narrative.
More Surprises
According to Red State:
We have seen plenty of hand-wringing on the threats of climate change not only from climate activists but many in our own, United States government. We are hectored almost daily about the risks we face by our refusal to surrender cheap, abundant energy and our modern technological lifestyle; we are told we risk literally setting the planet on fire.
Now, plenty of us are skeptical about that. Plenty of us have looked into the issue and realize that, yes, the climate is changing; it always has, it always will. Sure, humans have some effect, although one good volcano can blow us away – not to mention a major asteroid impact, like the one that ended the Cretaceous, that impact being the reason you aren’t dodging T-Rexes every time you go for a morning walk.
Now, a report required by the U.S. government per the 2022 Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act has given us an assessment of the various risks humanity faces. Climate change didn’t make the cut.
Here is are some excerpts from the report:
Global catastrophic and existential risks hold the potential to threaten human civilization. Addressing these risks is crucial for ensuring humans’ long-term survival and flourishing. Motivated by the gravity of these risks, Congress passed the Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act in 2022, which requires that the Secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinate an assessment of global catastrophic risk related to a set of threats and hazards. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate and the Federal Emergency Management Agency requested the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center’s support in meeting this requirement. The authors of this report document findings from the resulting analysis.
This report summarizes what is known about the risks associated with six threats and hazards: artificial intelligence; asteroid and comet impacts; sudden and severe changes to Earth’s climate; nuclear war; severe pandemics, whether resulting from naturally occurring events or from synthetic biology; and supervolcanoes.
The risk summaries cover the following aspects: where feasible, estimates of the likelihood and potential consequences of each risk; factors causing the risk and associated uncertainties; and whether the risk is likely to change in the next decade.
Congress requested that the assessment focus on six areas of risk:
- the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI);
- asteroid and comet impacts;
- sudden and severe changes to Earth’s climate;
- nuclear war;
- severe pandemics, whether resulting from naturally occurring events or from synthetic biology;
- supervolcanoes
Using the key definitions across these six categories, the table below summarizes my reading of the report.
Hmm, maybe we can keep driving our gas-powered cars.
Have You Ever Watched Barney?
According to the Post Millennial:
A University of Tulsa (UOT) professor has claimed that the reason why some adult men do not like Barney the dinosaur character is because they are attempting to rebel against a “different model for masculinity” and have a “resistance to homosexuality.”
Dr. Emily Contois, a media studies professor at the UOT in Oklahoma made the claim about cultural resistance to Barney coming from adult men, per the Daily Wire. The backlash against Barney that went on in the 1990s has been documented, and the professor reflected on the backlash in an episode of the series, “Generation Barney.” The podcast is about the history of the purple dinosaur and its reception culturally.
During an episode titled, “Love 2 Hate,” host Sabrina Herrera brought Contois on for the conversation. Herrera told the college professor, “Understanding particularly why adult men didn’t like Barney reveals a lot about gender and power in our current society. There were women who didn’t like Barney, but the high-profile hate was really coming from men.”
Contois replied, “He offered up a different model for masculinity, even as a purple dinosaur and not a human. This message about love, about nurturing, about looking after others, that these are emotions and also sort of social practices and responsibilities that in our culture are constructed and understood to be sort of feminine and feminizing.”
The college professor said that Barney as a character was “pushing back against that, offering a different model of sexuality and gender” and added that some men reacted badly to the show. She then added, “A part of that white masculine sort of set of authorities is also this incredible resistance to homosexuality.”
The professor’s university profile claims that she is a “public expert on a wide variety of topics” and adds that she has written for the left-wing publication, Jezebel, as well as NBC News. She has research interests in media studies, gender studies, fat studies, and others.
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