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Daily Broadside | Sunny Hostin Eclipsed By (Brighter?) Minds On Eclipse of Sun

There was a lot of oompah-oompah leading up to yesterday’s solar eclipse. Where I live the moon covered 92 percent of the sun, so our favorite star was a thin crescent and didn’t go completely dark.

Still, a solar eclipse produces a bit of a spooky atmosphere. The world is there, in color, and it’s clearly daylight, but it’s like looking through a screen door. Everything has sort of a gray hue to it.

One of the littles was present along the path of totality and experienced the mid-day darkness.

Some Christians speculated that this solar eclipse finished the “X” across America that was started by the last solar eclipse seven years ago and is a sign of impending judgment for our nation. Scripture does say that one of the purposes of the heavenly bodies is to provide “signs.”

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years. Genesis 1:14

Of course, this is great fun for skeptics and CHINOs (CHristians In Name Only).

Hostin’s unhinged conspiracy theories may have been the wildest, but they were not the first during the episode. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin rhetorically scoffed at the idea that the Friday earthquake in New Jersey was a sign that Jesus was returning, but suggested former President Trump’s gold club had something to do with it:

So, what’s kind of crazy is with the earthquake on Friday and then the eclipse today, people are having all sorts of conspiracies about the end of the world. And then I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey. Fun fact. So it originated with Trump.

Hostin, a self-proclaimed devout Catholic, laughed about how their studio makeup artist “put on her coat” and “ran down the hallway” during the earthquake saying “Jesus is coming” and “the rapture is here.”

She also bloviated about how it was the first time in 100 years that two different cicada broods were emerging for their mating seasons at the same time.

Apparently, all the pieces were on the table and only Hostin was smart enough to put them together, and “climate change” was the answer. â€śAll those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on,” she proclaimed.

You knew things were bad when Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg were the voices of reason.

“Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground. It can’t,” Behar pushed back. But Hostin wouldn’t listen to reason. â€śHow about the warming of the planet?” she huffed in what she seemingly thought was a checkmate, without evidence of how it would cause earthquakes miles below the earth’s surface.

“No, it happens. And the eclipse, they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen,” Goldberg argued.

“The View” is the last place to go to get an opinion or news (which are often the same thing with them). But the absolute lack of self-awareness in mocking believers for thinking Jesus is coming and then demonstrating your sheer ignorance of how the earth and the planets work is astonishing, even for “The View.”

The only explanation is that she’s an indoctrinated climate change cultist.

Nobody can be that … um, what’s the word … clueless? Although at this point, given the state of our world, I’m ready to believe that anything is possible.

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Daily Broadside | I’m Not the Only One Calling Democrats Liars

Daily Verse | Luke 5:1-2
One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God, he saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets.

Thursday’s Reading: Luke 8-11

Happy Thursday and welcome to the blog. Thanks for joining me this morning.

One of the claims I’ve made for years is that the Democrats are liars. In fact, I wrote about that less than a week ago, here. “But Dave,” you might say, “isn’t that a little strident? All politicians lie. Surely the Democrats don’t lie all the time.”

Allow me a little humble brag, as I call your attention to a commentary from Philip Carl Salzman, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. In “When Was the Last Time That the Democrats Told the Truth About Anything?” he writes,

Lies, damn lies, and Democrat Party claims.

As a sometime registered Democrat, I was astonished to discover, once I retired a few years ago and started to pay attention to national politics, that just about every Democrat Party assertion fell in the range of deception through dishonesty to outright falsity. You know them all.

We call this “getting red-pilled.” It’s when the blinders suddenly fall off and you see the Democrats and their insanity for what it is.

Donald Trump is a Russian asset elected through Russian meddling. The Trump-Russian collusion hoax was the main talking point of Democrats for years. The “evidence” was a phony document paid for by the Clinton election campaign. The Democrat FBI misled the FISA Court into granting permission to spy on Trump affiliates. Top Democrat leaders, such as the shifty Adam Schiff, claimed repeatedly that they had conclusive evidence of collusion but never produced it. Even the Department of Justice’s Special Counsel and his large team could not, after two years of investigation, find any evidence in support of the collusion hoax.

As the Black Lives Matter riots destroyed American cities across the land, with Democrat voters assaulting police, massively looting, intentionally burning vehicles and buildings, and occasionally killing anyone who resisted, the Democrat media declared that the protests were “mostly peaceful,” even as buildings burned in the background. Democrats declared their fealty to Black Lives Matter, worked to release rioters who had been arrested, and donated $80 million to the self-declared Marxist Black Lives Matter organization. Democrat business executives and university officials declared their organizations’ support of Black Lives Matter, making public declarations and flying BLM flags.

Democrats endorsed the Black Lives Matter slander that the police everywhere were racist and that they murdered blacks freely and in great numbers, libels that were endorsed by Democrat politicians across the land. Many national and state Democrats advocated that every jurisdiction “Defund/Disband the Police,” and many jurisdictions did that, for example, New York, which cut its police budget by a billion dollars.

Salzman then goes on to describe the mountains of evidence that flatly refute the claim that police everywhere are racist or that they murder blacks in disproportionate numbers.

Continuing to list the lies, Salzman writes,

Which Democrat lie is more monstrous is difficult to decide, but the Democrat New York Times “1619 Project,” an extensive, multi-article campaign, is among the worst. The thesis is that America was founded to protect and advance slavery, that its founding documents, including the Constitution, were designed with this purpose, that the country has never been about anything but slavery, and consequently that the country was and is rotten from its foundation up. There are many specific theses, such as that American wealth was built on nothing but slave labor.

He goes on to mention the suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop; the false claim that the COVID vaccines would keep you from getting or giving COVID; that the new voting laws in Georgia were “voter suppression” and “Jim Crow on steroids” (Georgia is seeing record numbers turning out in early voting right now: “It was already clear after Georgia’s primary election set new turnout records this spring, but it bears repeating once again: Democrats don’t tell the truth about voting rights“); that America is “systemically racist” and why that’s untrue; that both blacks and whites use marijuana equally; “the science-denying claim that men can become women and women can become men, and that men can become pregnant, and that mutilating children is ‘health care,'” and that “the border is secure.”

Allow me to add a few more:

  • “Biden falsely claimed he did nothing to slow or stop oil production in the United States“
  • San Fran Nan Pelosi rejected polls that “clearly show the economy and inflation as the top issues for voters in the midterm elections” and says the top issue for voters is abortion”
  • Anthony Fauci claims “he had nothing to do with the damaging policy” of shutting down schools during COVID, when his own statements clearly show he did
  • Brandon accidentally let slip that re-joining the Paris Accords and eliminating all fossil fuels to fight so-called climate change “isn’t going to matter” because global emissions are outpacing whatever reduction we could muster.

Democrats live in the world as they wish it was, not as it is. That’s why they deliberately lie about everything.

And, no, that’s not strident—that’s the truth.

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Daily Broadside | Climate Lies and The Liars Who Sell Them

Daily Verse | 2 Chronicles 33:9
But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

Happy Tuesday, my friends. When this virus is gone, there are still some people I want to stay away from me.

Quick, tell me who’s the world’s worst polluter in the world? China? The EU? India? Russia? The United States? If you live in the United States, you could be forgiven for thinking that we’re the worst and we only have a few short years to turn it around before we cause the seas to rise and the continents to sink and all of mankind goes into a long winter of the cold sun.

But—turns out that China is actually the biggest polluter on planet earth. Not only that, but they are polluting more than all other developed countries combined.

Despite climate change alarmists who claim the U.S. has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the Rhodium Group exposes China as the world’s overwhelming leader of greenhouse gas emissions.

Researchers said China was responsible for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, nearly three times the amount emitted by the United States and more than the entire developed world combined.

The U.S. contributed 11%, while India and the European Union were each over 6%.

The percentages reported by a different group in 2018 were China at 28% and the U.S. at 15%. Taking the numbers at face value, that means that the U.S. has dropped its output of CO2 by four percent while China dropped theirs by one percent. And we did it all without eliminating airplanes and cows. Liz Peek reports that,

U.S. carbon emissions will decline from 2023 to 2035 as we continue to shift away from coal and towards greater use of natural gas and renewable energy. After 2035, a growing population and consequent rise in energy demand will tilt emissions slightly higher; by 2050 our energy-related emissions will be roughly 5% more than the amount in 2020, which was severely depressed by Covid.

But that didn’t stop Resident Biden from pledging to rejoin the Paris Accords, which is, in fact, an international wealth transfer scheme that even Bernie Madoff could be proud of. That’s important because the point of Peek’s article is that the current occupant of the White House made an inadvertent admission while reciting the list of things he wants to buy with taxpayer money during his “State of the Union” speech.

It was a whopper that went unnoticed on Wednesday night; with just a few ill-chosen words Biden utterly toppled any justification for the Green New Deal, which plays a central role in his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and which, without a doubt, puts our economy at risk.

This is what he said, according to a New York Times transcript of the president’s remarks: “The United States accounts, as all of you know, for less than 15 percent of carbon emissions. The rest of the world accounts for 85 percent. That’s why I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord, because if we do everything perfectly, it’s not going to matter.“

That was not in the version of the speech the White House handed out ahead of time.

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And, for once in his life, Joe Biden was completely correct. Even if the Biden White House clobbers our economy, puts every last coal miner and oil driller out of work and drives down U.S. fossil fuel production and consumption, it will barely bend the curve on rising global emissions.

This isn’t new. Back in January, climate czar John Kerry said the same thing.

“He knows Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry told reporters at a White House press briefing, referring to Biden re-entering the US in the Paris Climate Agreement in one of his first acts as president.

“Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet’s global emissions come from outside of US borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn’t solved,” Kerry conceded.

We don’t need to be in the Paris Climate Accords. We don’t need to ban fracking, air travel or bovines. But Biden, doing the bidding of his puppet masters, “took executive actions to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and direct agencies to review and reverse more than 100 Trump actions on the environment.”

So why is the junta dragging us into this?

It’s not that we shouldn’t be aware of our impact on the environment. We should. But rather than pursue available technologies like nuclear energy and fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline, this administration is lying about the emergency, is surrendering our independence to an international organization of busybodies and grifters, and is ignoring the impact on us as gas rises above $3/gal. in the U.S.

Recent studies indicate that “68% of Americans wouldn’t be willing to pay even $10 more a month in higher electric bills even if the money were used to combat climate change.” And rightly so. Spending $10 trillion on the Green New Deal, as Biden said, won’t matter.

But solar panels! Electric cars! They’ll continue to sell it to you, just as CNN confessed last month in the latest videos from Project Veritas. More concerning is that banks are lining up behind this idea for a very familiar reason.

Why are banks so willing to go along with the left’s goals? This is just speculative – and there are many other potential reasons, including fear of regulatory retribution – but the catalyst most likely driving their decisions is that many banks, financial institutions and big Wall Street investors are convinced that the infrastructure and energy policies that Democrats are now attempting to put into place, as well as actions taken by central banks, offer a massive financial opportunity.

Yeah, it’s always about the money.

Keep that in mind the next time you hear climate alarmism. While we can do our part, it’s the rest of the world and their carbon output that truly matters.

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Daily Broadside | The Left Means to Destroy Our Country As Founded

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 24:20
It was because of the Lord’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.

It’s Thursday and the slow burn of the country formerly known as the United States of America continues apace. At the top of the list is the sacrificial white man Derek Chauvin who was tossed to the braying mob by the jurors in the false hope that it would appease the gods of woke. That of course won’t happen because once you feed the beast instead of starving it, it only wants more.

So now the activists that reside in Washington, D.C. will push their advantage by opening a “civil investigation to determine whether the Minneapolis police department has engaged in a pattern and practice of unconstitutional … policing,” announced yesterday by Merrick Garland, the US attorney general.

The probe will also determine “whether the Minneapolis police department engages in a pattern and practice of using excessive force during protests.” Garland said this new civil investigation was “separate from and independent of the federal criminal investigation into the death of George Floyd.”

So now we’re going to harass the cops who are trying to keep the streets safe and protect innocent civilians during “protests.” Anyone want to bet on what the findings will be? Wouldn’t want any mostly violent protesters getting hurt by the police while they’re breaking windows, setting fires, beating passersby, and looting stores. Gee, I wonder why cops are retiring in record numbers?

In spite of the convictions the Chauvin jury returned, these BLM activists demand that people trying to eat at a local restaurant leave New York City (NSFW language). See how pacified the black and white Marxists are? Let the healing begin!

Then there’s the insipid tendentiousness of the Bronx ditz Ms. AOC. She offered a take on climate change that challenges our understanding of the English language and all rules of logic.

“We must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change, that the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change, because … we are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to health care, the right to housing and education.”

Seriously, what does one do with that Gordian verbal knot?

“Trampling indigenous rights is a cause of climate change.” Who knew that populating America with white people would cause the climate to “change”?

“Trampling racial justice is a cause of climate change.” Same. Can you believe that the Democrats and their defense of slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow laws would cause the earth to cool, then to heat up!?

“Because …” Here come the reasons …!

“We are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights …” Wait, wut?

“… and deny people the right to health care …” Seriously? I thought Obamacare took care of that. It didn’t?

“… the right to housing and education.” Who in this country is denied housing or education? You know that we’re even providing all the illegal alien children with in-person schooling, right?

And this somehow all translates into the dreaded “climate change.”

She’s speaking English but it’s all Greek to me. Sometimes I think progressives just blurt a stream of consciousness that in their own head makes perfect sense—or maybe not—but that normal people can’t understand and therefore can’t respond to. Mind you, she wants to introduce legislation based on this mindless mishmash of unproveable claims. In days past, AOC would’ve been roundly mocked for her delirium, but that is verboten in today’s climate of change. (See what I did there?)

Finally, here’s one I bet you didn’t see coming. The United States Post Office has been spying on your social media posts.

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.

The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.

Oh. Gone are the days of holding envelopes up to the light. Now the postman is reading through what you post on social media in order to rat you out to “government agencies.” I thought they delivered mail, not intelligence. This is part of a troubling trend of an expanding U.S. surveillance state.

A conviction for murder is a validation of racism. Racism is a cause of climate change. And the United States Post Office is taking notes on your social media accounts and passing them “across government agencies.” Like the FBI, DOJ, IRS and who knows who else.

Our once proud nation is being eroded at a faster and faster pace. I’ll give the last word to David Horowitz who, in a piece about the Chauvin verdict, writes about the activists pushing the narrative about racism.

In fact, we won’t be able to stop these destroyers until we recognize that they regard us – America – as the criminals. They have no respect for us and our laws and institutions. They hate us. They are busy spreading the Hate-America-Lies of our enemies Communist China, Islamo-fascist Iran and Putin. And they mean business. Their goal is the destruction of America. They will succeed unless we start taking them seriously and work to expose and crush them.