Nation's Progressives Give Thanks That They Have So Much To Be Angry About This Year
They shoot these things so far they can drive home, take a shower, eat dinner, and watch the bullet hit the target on live TV an hour later! Dude!
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Schiff Hits The Fan: First House Democrat Publicly Opposes Impeachment
The wackadoos from far-left progressive districts who will be reelected for pursuing impeachment are doing great damage to their fellow Democratic Party politicians in less wackadoo districts. The Democratic purity purges eliminated any remaining Blue Dog Democrats, now they are moving on to eliminate any with even the merest hint of moderation. Solar Minimum Madness: Is Thanksgiving's Winter Wonderland A Preview Of Bitterly Cold Winter To Come?
"This week, three major winter storms will batter most of the country with ice, snow and bitterly cold temperatures just in time for Thanksgiving. It is being projected that 55 million Americans will be traveling this week, and so this bizarre weather comes at a very bad time. But of course we have already seen a series of blizzards roar across the nation in recent weeks and hundreds of record cold temperatures have already been shattered and we are still about a month away from the official start of winter. Normally, it isn’t supposed to be this cold or this snowy yet, but we don’t live in “normal” times." What is normal for the weather? What is the normal Earth temperature for November? What evidence do you have for that number? What a bunch of twaddle. Normal does not exist in the weather. The first graph below is the GISP2 ice core data in Greenland. This shows us that temperature is not steady over time. It also shows us that the Earths's temperature has been falling for more than 2,000 years, and we exist at the end of the longest and coldest low-temperature period of the entire Holocene. The second graph shows 415,000 years of ice ages, followed by short interglacial periods where things warm up, and life thrives. Again, there is no such thing as a normal temperature. The third graph shows the average global temperature with a co2 plot for the past 600 million years. Again, there is no normal. While we are not in the coldest period of the last 600 million years, we are near the lowest. If you want to know what happens when CO2 is high, look back to the Cambrian period a bit over 500 million years ago, see the spike in CO2? Life exploded during the Cambrian period, in the seas, on land, everywhere. High CO2 leads to the explosion of life. The reason is simple, CO2 is the fertilizer plants use to grow. The more CO2, the more plants grow, the more plants grow, the more the herbivores can eat, the more the herbivores can eat leads to more herbivores. This, of course, leads to more carnivores and omnivores. None of this is difficult, well, except for the climate alarmist, and for them this level of logic is impossible. "Unless things change, and that is not expected to happen, we should prepare for a very cold and very snowy winter. And this upcoming week is likely to be a preview of coming attractions. According to CNN, holiday travelers will have three major winter storms to deal with… As Thanksgiving week starts, a record number of travelers will be dealing with three storms nationwide that will add to the holiday stress. One storm will lash the East and will affect travel through Sunday, another one will batter the Midwest on Tuesday and a third one will move through the West on Wednesday. Forecasters are telling us that Denver could receive a foot of snow, but it isn’t too unusual for Denver to get a lot of snow. But it is unusual for Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to get snow this time of the year, and apparently it looks like that could happen on Wednesday… By Wednesday Arizona could see snow, as could New Mexico, the northern Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma Panhandle." I would not get all excited about the fact that we are in for Snopacolapyse 2019. Maybe. Maybe not. The weather is fickle. But the sunspot theory is valid and needs to be taken into consideration. The problem is the weather is not a linear algorithm. It is much more difficult than a simple calculation of few sunspots = deep freeze cold. Yes, cold weather is likely over a period where sunspot activity is low, but any particular year within that low sunspot period may be anomalously warm or colder than expected. Our weather gurus cannot forecast the weather accurately for more than a few days to perhaps a week. Forecasting months or years is more in the realm of haruspicy than weather forecasting. But then people pay good money to have someone pretend to be able to divine the weather a few years into the future. 2021 Yamaha Ténéré 700 Adventure Touring Motorcycle - Photo Gallery, Video, Specs, Features, Offers, Inventory and more
The price starts at $9999 and has a destination charge of $425. The bike should have a good number of both factory aftermarket farkles since it has been out in other parts of the world for a year. The US will get three color choices, all at the same price point. $9,999 - Ceramic Ice - Available Early Summer 2020 $9,999 - Intensity White - Available Early Summer 2020 $9,999 - Matte Black - Available Early Summer 2020 Early summer would likely mean sometime around June 2020, maybe a few weeks earlier or later. I suspect the target is to have them in the dealerships during the peak riding season June through August. The link has a specifications sheet, and a list of factory farkles, oh, and loads of marketing promo materials. While I haven't ridden the bike, the bike is getting very good reviews, and many of the reviewers like the idea of a "dual-sport" positioned bike that can handle the freeways with aplomb. The price point is lower than many of the smaller KTM offerings in the dual-sport category that are undoubtedly more offroad oriented but much less on-road, highway and freeway oriented. What we've seen over the past many years is that dual-sport has come to mean a heavier than average dirt bike with legal street lights, indicators, and street farkles that can ride on the roads as long as speeds do not exceed about 70 mph, and only for shorter distances say under 100 miles. After looking at this bike, the KTM 790, the new Honda Africa Twin, and many of the other adventure category bikes and comparing them to the dual-sport category bikes that there is a considerable separation between the two. Part of the problem is there are no accepted definitions of the phrases "dual-sport" or "adventure bike." I've placed dual-sport under the following definition: a single-cylinder moto designed to run off and on-road with legal lights, indicators, horn, electric start, and knobby but street-legal tires. The basic idea is a bike that will be ridden over 55 mph only for short distances in search of off-road terrain. The fuel needs for this are relatively small, so fuel capacity usually runs to about150 miles per tank full and seldom more. Off-road, the bike needs to perform in moderate and technical single track but not necessarily in the hard enduro environment (this would be rider skill dependent). As for technical rider aids, most of these bikes have very few and are often limited to only the legally required rider aids. Suspensions in these bikes are always manual and often have only a few adjustments available. Adventure bikes are the on-road/off-road flipside: More than 200 miles per tank of fuel, capable of long-distance riding at US freeway speeds, and very good at highways, roadways, and city riding. Most of these requirements lead to the desire for a twin-cylinder engine, but there are a few good single-cylinder bikes that seem to fit the bill as well. Off-road performance needs to be mostly limited to a moderate single track or less technical riding, although this would be rider skill dependent. As for rider aids, these bikes tend to be festooned with all sorts of highly technical rider aids from Leaning ABS, to rider modes, and extensive traction control settings. The suspensions tend to be fully adjustable, including electronically adjustable suspension. I've long thought the KTM 690, and the Husqvarna 701 sit at the top of the dual-sport category as close to Adventure bike as one could get. But there was a long gap between the two. The Tenere 700 did much to fill that gap. The KTM 790 is a great bike, which costs $12,500 for the Adventure version and $13,500 for the Adventure R version. The difference is the suspension with the Adventure version more road-focused and the Adventure R more off-road-focused. Both are great bikes and deserve a look by any adventure rider. But - price, $12,500 - $13,500 is a lot of money. The bells and whistles are incredible, and the 95 bhp demands rider modes, and extensive traction control just to keep the less than expert rider alive. And this costs money, as does Leaning ABS. Enter the Tenere 700. It is not competing with the KTM 790s; it is making a new class in that vast area between the dual-sport and the adventure bike. The lower 74 bhp makes the engine more tractable in the wild, the average rider might like some traction control but he does not need it, the bike is well enough mannered at that horsepower to be controlled by the average rider. Non-leaning ABS is a downgrade, but $9999 is less than $12,500-$13,500 but a lot. I've heard the whinging about the weight of these bikes. They all run in the 450+ lbs range. KTM gives a dry weight, which is like your doctor giving you your weight after eliminating the weight of your internal organs. Frustrating by omission is still frustrating. It seems the Tenere 700 will be slightly lighter than the KTM, probably the reason for the KTM dry weight puffery. The weight seems to be a big divide, but if weight is your primary concern, there are myriad dual-sport motos which can be "adventured" like the Suzuki DR 400 and 650, various KTMs and many other bikes. If Yamaha wanted to shut up this section of the bike-sphere, I would suggest trotting out a Tenere 700 with a titanium frame, swingarm, and super lightweight alloys throughout the bike build, Price it at $13,500. I think the build could be done with the weight at about 385-400 lbs, although the price at that wight might have to be a bit north of $13,500. This would place the bike at the high end of the KTM dual-sport bikes but in comfort and road riding class apart from them and well in the adventure bike category. Please Yamaha, if for no other reason than to shut up the silly-billy Unicorn dreamers. There is no doubt there is a market for a bike like this at this weight, but it would likely just cannibalize the Tenere 700s existing market, costs a bundle in R&D which could not be recovered via sales so that no sane company would go down that path. Sigh. I'm in, I've been looking for a low tech moto that can do both street and dirt, and that I could ride down to visit family in the San Francisco Bay area. Dual-sports would be an incredibly uncomfortable ride over that distance. But I have decided after decades of riding that I am uninterested in bikes which weigh over 500 lbs. Heavyweight bikes are no fun; if dropped in the wild, they are unmanageable. While I would prefer the Tenere 700 weigh in at 400-425 lbs, I will take it at 450 lbs. Perhaps in time, I can drop the exhaust and replace it saving 15 lbs, and drop the rear pegs saving a few more pounds. Then I can add the needed Center Stand and call it good. I expect these bikes to sell well in the US due to the price point and the build quality/reputation of Yamaha. EICMA was all about the e-bikes, and honestly, motos are toys, but as far as I am concerned e-bikes are not yet ready for prime time. Give them 5-10 years and they might be ready to pick up toy status for many of the around-town bikes. But adv bikes are unlikely to fall prey to this change. Too hard to find e-fuel in the middle of nowhere, and too long to refuel from a standard outlet. As Central Banks Spark Trading Floor Chaos, Women Traders Blame Sexism
Where is all that Hear Me Roar BS now? Women are always shocked when they are exposed to how men actually treat each other in a harsh environment. Women are always on about "wanting to be treated equally" what they mean is they want to be treated like a Princess. What they do not want is to be treated like the other men in the pit. Being treated like the other men is a shock to the system, and to harsh, so the women whinge, and moan about sexism, and microaggressions. Grow up. Bloomberg Officially Enters 2020 Presidential Race To "Defeat Trump And Rebuild America"
Bloomy wants to do to America what he did to New York, which would be to implement soda pop taxes, dither, and set the place up for a fascist to take the next election. How cool is that? Hunter Biden-linked company received $130M in special federal loans while Joe Biden was vice president
Good thing the Dems decided to make Trump pay with this impeachment run. If they had not gone down the Russia, Russia, Russia and Impeachments rabbit holes, the Obama/Biden corruption and more likely than not other corrupt acts and practices by Obama officials, Hillary, hint, hint, and all of the corruption at the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and myriad other federal agencies would never have surfaced. Suicide by a thousand cuts, insane! Dear President Trump, you are gonna need a bigger investigation! The Utter Futility of Fighting Crime in San Francisco - Frontpagemag
The next step is homeowners resorting to self-protection from these miscreants. If it continues, the violence will mount until we have the "war zone" effect. Progressivism is designed to destroy itself, and the people it is used to control. Uber Takes Another Body Blow
"Waaaay back in April of 2015, I prophesied that California's efforts to turn Uber drivers into employees would kill Uber, though it would take some years to bleed out. California has since embodied that court ruling into law (a law which Uber is currently ignoring). Now, New Jersey is going after Uber: Two months after Uber decided to ignore new ignore new California legislation requiring companies to reclassify contract workers as employees - a measure which would affect up to one million residents who work as contractors and drastically impact Uber's bottom line - more states are lining up to demand a pound of flesh from the world's formerly most valuable startup (and subsequently one of the year's worst IPOs). On Thursday, New Jersey picked up where California left off and found that Uber owes the state about $650 million in unemployment and disability insurance taxes because the rideshare company has been misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, the state’s labor department said. As Bloomberg reports, Uber and its subsidiary Rasier LLC were assessed $523 million in past-due taxes over the last four years, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development said in a pair of letters to the companies. The rideshare businesses also are on the hook for as much as $119 million in interest and penalties on the unpaid amounts, according to other internal department documents. The New Jersey labor department has been after Uber for unpaid employment taxes for at least four years, according to the documents, which Bloomberg Law obtained through an open public records request. The legal battle goes back to 2015, when New Jersey first informed Uber that it had obtained a court judgment ordering the company to pay about $54 million in overdue unemployment and temporary disability insurance contributions. It’s not clear whether the company ever paid any of that bill. The tax issue in my mind is not the biggest problem. I still think that the worker "protections" states are starting to insist Uber adopt (e.g. minimum wage, shift lengths, shift scheduling, etc) are death for their whole labor model, and in fact will hurt most of their workers by killing what attracted drivers to Uber in the first place. To summarize that article, there is a huge irony in that for decades labor advocates have been decrying the loss of agency by hourly workers in a capitalist economy. Uber has given its drivers agency they don't have in almost any other hourly job, and labor advocates are doing all they can to kill it." This is the fascist socio-economic model, which is a blend of authoritarian socialism, with huge corporations that are extensively controlled by the government. This is the model that progressivism has been attempting to adopt since the end of WWII and the end of fascism. From the comments: "The_Big_W Its is clear that the modern American left wants to only deal with enormous companies that will bow to their will. Small companies, independent contractors, sole proprietorships, all of them are the enemy. They WANT centrally controlled government controlling big companies and all the "little people" out of the way. They could care less about "the workers", they just want all the workers under control of large companies only." They want the companies to do the hard work of dealing with the workers, but they want all companies, entrepreneurs, small businesses and employees under the direct thumb of the federal government. The politicians want the bureaucracy to enlist the help of the Academe to establish procedures and regulations which will control all, and in the end, make humans perfect. All it takes is a few laws, a smattering of regulations, and a good police force to ensure it works. When it doesn't, it never does, the academics will blame the people, and new, more draconian laws will come down to control the people more precisely with more threats, and violence. Lather, rinse, repeat sufficiently to get us to the Holodomor, and the mass murder, which is the end game. The perfection of man requires a lot of deaths. Frankly, it requires the deaths of everyone except the dictator; humans are imperfectable. The next election is about whether we wish to be serfs in the control of a fascist totalitarian state, or freemen in a republic founded on the principles of liberty, personal responsibility, republicanism, free markets, free religious expression, and tight limitations on state and federal government powers. The former kills, by the millions, the later works to optimize human flourishing, and in the end, flourishing for the entire world. Choose wisely. |
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