Simple, rugged, cheap, low-maintenance… what the hell is a cropduster doing in today’s U.S. dotmil?
Just about everything, it seems.
Sheesh, pretty soon the Pentagon will announce that the Jeep Wrangler will replace the Hummvee and the Colt Government 1911 is going to be re-adopted as the official military sidearm.
Okay, maybe not.
…Steve Milloy, that is, using actual data (!) to prove — as he’s being doing pretty much ever since I can remember — that the Eco-Loons are a bunch of lying assholes:
Not a single extreme weather event can be:
1. Factually shown to be unprecedented; or
2. Scientifically shown to be linked to emissions.
This, in the middle of a heatwave both here and in Europe that is nowhere close to what’s happened in the recent past, let alone in the long-ago pre-SUV era when, as he points out, Greenland was once completely ice-free, and had been for centuries. And even now, as people have been buying more and more large SUVs and trucks:
“No global warming in almost 9 years despite 500 billion tons of emissions.”
You fool, Milloy: it’s not global warming, it’s Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©.
Maybe at some point some kind of collective — wait, “common”? — sense will kick in, and we’ll stop listening to the climate alarmists and implementing their insane policies.
Just not while we’re being governed by addled fools like Joe Biden and his cabal of watermelons.
Asks some guy:
How Do You Know When It’s Time To Flee A Deep-Blue Hellhole?
Oh, I dunno. Let me take a stab at it. Here are what I would call good reasons, not in order but as they occur to me. When:
Ironically, the original article was written by a guy living in Australia, where leaving one state for another is pretty much akin to choosing to die from slow-acting poison or from cancer. In U.S. terms, that’s like someone leaving California to live in Massachusetts.
That’s not completely true: the base hasn’t been cut up and used for firewood.
We’re always being told how bad Eeeevil Oil is for us, for the environment and of course for the pore likkel beasties in the fields.
First off, we have to stop using oil-powered vehicles and start using Duracell-powered cars and trucks (lol) instead. Except that it turns out that electric cars are worse for the environment than gasoline-powered ones (see here for the !SCIENCE!).
So if Teslas and Priuses are doubleplusungood after all, then we need to start using “sustainable” eco-fuels like corn-based ethanol because sustainable. (Even Formula 1 is moving towards using ethanol-only fuel in the next couple of years, the idiots.)
Sounds good, right? Errrr, nazzo fast, Guido. Add this little snippet to the “Solution Is Worse Than The Problem” category:
The US biofuel program is probably killing endangered species and harming the environment in a way that negates its benefits, but the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is largely ignoring those problems, a new federal lawsuit charges.
The suit alleges the EPA failed to consider impacts on endangered species, as is required by law, when it set new rules that will expand biofuel use nationwide during the next three years, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which brought the litigation.
Not that we need any further proof that the EPA is to the environment as cancer cells are to the human body, but I digress.
The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to set minimum levels of biofuel usage for the transportation sector. The new rule approved by the agency calls for about 15bn gallons (57bn liters) of conventional corn ethanol for each of the next three years, plus an increase from 5.9bn gallons to 7.3bn gallons of advanced biofuels during the same time period.
About 40% of all corn grown in the US is used for ethanol production, and nearly half is used as animal feed.
While the fuels are designed to decarbonize the transportation sector, their production eliminates wetlands and prairie land that act as carbon sinks, Hartl noted. The EPA in 2018 estimated that up to 7m acres (2.8m hectares) of land had been converted to grow corn for ethanol fuel.
Ethanol production also pollutes water. Regulations around pesticides and fertilizers used in corn grown for ethanol fuel are much looser, which means much higher levels of dangerous chemicals run into surface and groundwaters. The pollution probably plays a significant role in dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico after pesticides flow down the Mississippi River, Hartl said.
Read the rest to see how the EPA is ducking and diving to avoid doing anything that might actually, you know, alleviate the problem.
One by one, every single alternative proposed by the Greens (and their lickspittles in academia and the media) is proving to be a complete fiasco: wind- and solar power generation instead of nuclear, electric vehicles (EV) instead of internal combustion engines, and now biofuels instead of gasoline.
But Oh No! we have to preserve the Gaia Cult — even if it kills us (and Gaia).
Fucking bastards.
Looks as though Fargo ND dodged a bullet — more specifically, several bullets and a bomb — when they whacked a terrorist of the Religion Of Peace persuasion recently:
When he came upon a fender bender last Friday afternoon, [Mohammed] Barakat was armed with multiple weapons, explosives and grenades and had spray painted the back windows of his car.
“Based on the time and the direction he was going he was either likely to be taking a right when he got to main avenue going downtown and taking a left when he got to main avenue and going to the fairgrounds,” Wrigley said.
Video footage reveals he came upon the crash, circling and casing the scene for about 15 minutes before parking his car and opening fire, killing 23-year-old officer Jake Wallin and critically injuring officers Andrew Dotas and officer Tyler Hawes, as well as, civilian Karlee Koswick (who was involved in the initial car accident).
Barakat was eventually shot by officer Zach Robinson and later died at the hospital.
Given how much the Powers That Be (even in Fargo ND FFS) are keen to downplay the motives of this asshole, I’m surprised the D.A. didn’t describe him as a “street vendor, on his way to peddle his wares at the fairgrounds”. (That the wares happened to include bombs and stuff are irrelevant, of course.)
Of course, the Fibbies had no fucking idea of this tool’s intentions, they being too busy tracking down terrorists in the Angry Anti-Grooming Parent Brigade.
Just a bunch of incompetent poltroons, the lot of them.