On the Fact that (According to Danish Economist, Bjorn Lomborg, Using the Paris Climate Conferences Own Data) the Paris Climate Agreement Will Run the World Between 70 and 140 Trillion Dollars and Will Only Prevent Approximately 0.17 Degree C (0.3 Degrees for the Fahrenheit Crowd) In Warming Over the Next 80 Years

 Lomborg also shows that the Unites States could literally fall off the earth and it would have no measurable effect on warming come the end of the Century (a few thousandths of a degree, MAYBE). But, sure, let's destroy the economy and bring the poverty rate back up to 90% (i.e., where it was before the discovery and utilization of abundant, affordable, reliable, dispatchable, and instant-on-demand energy forms), that's the ticket. 

And this Asshat Wants to Be My Latex Salesman?

I DON'T THINK SO!!!

On My (Probably Unacceptable) View that Canada's Prime Minister, the Castro-Worshiping Justin Trudeau, Is a Moronic, Puerile, Demagogic, and Fascistic Pile of Shit Whose Policies Have Gotten so Venal that He Needs to Be Brought Before a Human Rights Tribunal and if Found Guilty Needs to Hung by the Neck Until Lifeless

Either that or voted out of office.......Had ya' goin' there, huh?

On the Fact that Trump Could Never Quite Mesh His Incessant Romanticizing of the Military with His Reasonably Decent Instincts Regarding the Utilization of it, for Example His Frequent Inability to Confront Military Brass

Trump gets a lot of well-deserved credit (from sane and reasonable people, I'm saying) for not starting any new wars but if that constitutes the new criteria for non-interventionism we're probably in some trouble. The brutal fact is that Trump dragged his heels on both Afghanistan and Syria (apparently believing the preposterous claim that Assad had gassed his own people) and continued the Obama-era policy of selling weapons to Saudi Arabia where they were being used to perpetrate genocide in Yemen. So, yeah, while I did have some high hopes for Trump's foreign policy, now that the rubble has settled, it's very hard to give the dude more than a C.

Mikhail Bakunin On the Perils of Communism, 50 Years before the Russian Revolution

 .....,.,there will be a government and, note this well, an extremely complex government, which will not content itself with governing and administering the masses politically, as all governments do to-day, but which will also administer them economically, concentrating in its own hands the production and the just division of wealth, the cultivation of land, the establishment and development of factories, the organization and direction of commerce, finally the application of capital to production by the only banker, the State. All that will demand an immense knowledge and many “heads overflowing with brains” in this government. It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant and contemptuous of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and pretended scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe betide the mass of ignorant ones!................................................................................................Wow, short of having a crystal ball at your disposal, it doesn't get any more prescient than that. Thankfully there aren't any politicians in America who would herd us down such a dystopian, nightmarish path. Unless............

On the Fact that We're Commanded (and, no, that Isn't too Strident of a Term When One's Livelihood and Autonomy Are at Stake) to Believe Everything that the Institutional Left Says WHEN THEY SAY IT and Are Only Permitted to Change Our Minds When They Do (as They Did with the Lab-Leak Theory, Cloth Masks Being Boffo, the Vaccines Stopping Infection and Transmission, Lockdowns Having No Deleterious Consequences, etc.)

 Another obvious example is hospitalizations and deaths WITH Covid versus hospitalizations and deaths BECAUSE OF Covid. We all knew about this distinction 18 months ago and tried repeatedly to get our point across. But because our name wasn't Anthony Fauci and we didn't have any political or economic purpose to keep the entire country in a state of fear we either weren't listened to or denigrated as conspiracy ramrods and purveyors of disinformation. Of course, now that Fauci is saying the exact same thing it isn't any longer disinformation but rather ole Fauci following the science (probably a difficult task in that he's the science himself, we're told). It's disgusting and hopefully there's an orange jumpsuit for him real soon. 

On the Fact that Steven Seagal's Films Are so Crappy that He Brings Them to Big City Walmarts Where Pilfering Is Essentially Legal, Puts Them On Shelves, and Then Literally Begs the Shoplifters to Add These Train-Wrecks to Their Bounty

Something I read.