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PBS should stand for Propaganda Broadcasting System. It is little more than the PR arm of the left wing of the Democrat Party. Spewing partisan propaganda is NOT NOT NOT "quality journalism". And Taxpayers should not be tapped to pay for it.
Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 11:30 am
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Commented on Nuclear Is Obviously Clean EnergyNuclear is cleaner than wind and solar which generate lots of toxic waste as well as lots of otehr environmental harm. It is also much cheaper. Finland just opened its first big nuclear power plant, and electric rates fell by 70% the next day.
Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 11:25 am
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RINOs spend and spend way too much. Mitch McConnell is an example of that, and he often colludes with Democrats to spend too much money. John Boehner was a similar example. However, CONSERVATIVE Republicans oppose spending, like our longtime former Congressman from this district, Walter Jones, Jr. who routinely voted against all debt ceiling increases and against all budgets with too much deficit spending, which was about all of them. Walter refused to go along with Boehner's rotten spending deals with the Democrats and Boehner took away Walter's best committee assignments in punishment. Repubican voters in primaries need more like Walter Jones and fewer like McConnell and Boehner. Also fewer like Phil Berger and Tim Moore who gave us the big spending Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 10:58 am
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Biden is a hypocrite on this issue. As a Senator, he supported forcing the president to negotiate for debt ceiling increases. Why does he think he is entitled to a different path now that he is (at least the figurehead) president?
Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 9:54 am
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My tax money should NOT be going to the heavily politicially slanted PBS, which ought to be called the Progressive Broadcasting Scam.
Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 9:51 am
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Biden has declared war on our quality of life, and is using the eco-fascist climate cult to attack middle class America.
Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 7:19 pm
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The EPA got really creative with the Clean Air Act to try to include CO2 which is not a pollutant. If the case brought by the fishermen now pending at the Supreme Court is decided the way most expect, I think that power grab is going to be rammed down their throat. That case should be decided in the next few months.
But the last time the EPA tried a power grab to impose these sort of restrictions on power plants, that power grab was itself shot down by the SCOTUS.
Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 9:17 pm
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This is bad in the US, with all sorts of new mandates by order of the EPA, without going through congress, that are making lots of applicances more expensive and less functional, with their climate delusions as the excuse for doing so. Then they are trying to force us into very expensive self-combusting electric cars and trying to sned our electric bills to the moon.
Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 2:45 pm
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The Biden regime imposing your Climate Scientology religious cult on our country is impairing the quality of life of the rest of us. Biden is making Climate Scientology a state religion.
Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm
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So the climate cult getting their predictions WRONG time after time after time but NEVER getting them right to date makes them "smart people" in your book????? Most of us would say they are either dumb people or conmen.
Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 2:02 pm
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EVERY ONE of the dozens of dire warnings from the climate cult that were supposed to have already happened have turned out to be false alarms. None of them even came close. Only a fool believes the hot air of the self-serving clique pushing this narrative.
The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor, which is responsible for over 90% of the Greenhouse effect. Water vapor is impacted heavily by solar radiation, which is why the last multi-century climate cold period, the Little Ice Age, corresponds with the Maunder Minimum of low sun spot activity. If the predictions of astronomers that we are approaching another long cycle of low sun spot activity, and a decrease in solar radiation, is true then it is much more likely to be getting cooler soon rather than warmer.
Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 8:51 pm
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Southerners pay for the upkeep of Arlington National Cemetery, including millions of Confederate descendants, along with everyone else. Monuments for our soldiers deserve to be there with their graves. What will the woke bastards try to do next? Take up the tombstones of southern soldiers? The land itself was stolen from General Lee and his family.
It is bad enough to go after monuments to our veterans at parks and courthouses, but to go after them on battlefields and cemeteries as the woke bastards are now doing is absolutely outrageous. That is the sort of thing that totalitarians do.
Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 7:21 pm
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Instead of responding, BOb, you deflect. It is what the left likes to call "whataboutism". See? I know your side's lingo.
Kennedy got it right. The wealthy elite want to use this climate smoke and mirrors to sucker the rest of us into giving them totalitarian control. Kennedy has been a lawyer for major environmental groups for years, so he has the inside knowledge on what they are up to. He surely knows a heck of a lot more about it than a foot soldier in the far left's internet troll brigade like yourself. All you think you know is their narrative and the talking points they give you.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:50 pm
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As usual, you are the one speaking with a forked tongue, Big Government Bob when you accuse others of not being truthful. You seem to think the far left narrative is "the truth". It isn't. Here is what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said, for instance:
www.thegatewaypundit.com The rules of this site only let me put up one link, but I could add others. YOU are the one posting untruths, something you do all the time, Bob.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:56 am
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The "big money" is what we need to be very wary of in the climate cult scam. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently spoke to that very thing, declaring that a group of the world's billionaires were using the climate scare to impose a totalitarian system on the rest of us. This is one of the key gambits of the globalist totalitarians of the World Economic Forum.
The climate cult is the biggest doomsday cult in history, but the snake oil salesmen who run it have repeatedly been shown to be wrong. They have already made dozens of dire predictions that they claimed would have happened by now if they were correct, and not a single one of them has come true or even come remotely close to coming true.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 7:10 am
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Industrializing the oceans with offshore wind turbines damages the tourism industry, damages the commercial fishing industry, damages the environment by killing seabirds and marine mammals like whales, and is the most expensive way to produce electricity. It makes our entire grid vulnerable to very long term outages from hurricanes. It is a rotten political fix for a fantasy "problem".
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 12:09 pm
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China leads the world in PRODUCTION of wind and solar equipment, which they con western coutnryies into buying, making western countries dependant on Red China for energy. How stupid is that for the west? For themselves, they are building scores of new coal fired power plants, with useful economic lives of over half a century. If you think they are going to abandon them after a few years use, Bobbie, then I have a bridge up in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.
China is building electric capacity for industry, NOT airconditioning. With the cheap and reliable coal fired power, they will run circles around the west's espensive and undependable wind and solar. And they are laughing that gullible fools like John Kerry actually believe the things they say.
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 12:04 pm
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You Climate Scientologists are just pure nutjobs. The Earth is simply in one of its natural multi-century warming cycles. The last cooling cycle, the Little Ice Age or Maundaer Minimym ended in the 19th century. This warming cycle is not as warm as the last one, the Medieval Warm Period, nor the granddaddy of all warming cycles, the Holocene Maximum. These cycles have always rotated, and do so naturally. The fact that some self serving scientists now want money and power by claiming manmade CO2 has something to do with it is laughable.
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 7:40 am
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To rational people, those not in the crazy climate cult, coal is a great option. It is cheap and reliable. Regualr coal is fine, but if you have your panties in a twist over CO2, then there is always clean coal technology, using coal gassification.
China and India are building hundreds of coal fited power plants, while they push the wind and solar that China manufactures on us. That is a deliberate effort to make us dependant on CHina for our electricity and gain an economic advantage of cheaper and more dependable electricity for themselves.
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 7:33 am
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ESG is a "woke" dogma like DEI and CRT. The "S" in ESG stands for "social justice" which most of us would call plain old socialism. That woke / common core math curriculum just approved by our school board is packed with that "social justice" far left political indoctrination. Our school board let us down.
But it is good to see our State Treasurer Dale Folwell standing strong against use of our state's pension investment funds by Blackrock to push ESG. Folwell took the proxies away from Blackrock to put a stop to that. One of the reasons Silicon Valley Bank failed was its coroprate risk officer was spending her time on pushing ESG instead of dealing with the real world of corporate risk.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:44 pm
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Commented on Massive Offshore Wind Turbines with Flashing Lights Would Be Major Features on the Coastal Horizon, Part 2These Democrats are trying to visuallly pollute our coastlines by industrializing the oceans. These whirling demons also kill lots and lots of sea birds. Biden and Cooper are trying to destroy our coastal environment. And what happens to our electric grid when a hurricane destroys most of these wind turbines?
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:35 am
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The point is that it is the Biden Democrats trying to force global warming in our personal spaces by artificially forcing up the cost of air conditioning.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:27 am
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Now we know who is causing global warming. When we can't afford air conditioning because the Biden Democrats have run up the cost, they will be the ones directly responsible for our own personal warming inside our homes.
In the last multi-century warm cycle, the Medieval Warm Period, air conditioning was not invented yet and people made it through until the following cold cycle, known as the Maunder Minimum or the Little Ice Age arrived for several centuries. During this natural warm cycle, we do have air conditioning if the climate cult would just let us use it!
Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 10:23 am
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Commented on What the Blue Cross Blue Shield bill is really aboutWhat this guy calls "big business Republicans" most of the rest of us would call establishement Republicans, RINOs, or liberal Republicans. Big business no longer aligns with free market capitalism but instead pushes crony capitalism, and this is quite frankly a crony capitalist bill. Small and medium sized business still generally follow the free enterprise concept, and that is why they have been dropping their membership in the crony-capitalist US Chamber of Commerce in droves. A "big business bill" is almost always going to be a bill giving some aspect of big business an undeserved favoritism and that is what crony capitalism is all about, using government to give your business an unfair advantage over competitors. That usually means big business getting an advantage over smaller competitors.
A good ecample was the NC Green New Deal bill. While small and medium sized businesses came out to the hearing on the bill, HB951, to oppose it because it will raise their electric costs significantly, and consumer representataives did the same, the crony capitalist NC Chamber of Commerce supported the bill, because one of its influential members, the state electicitry monopoly Duke Energy would make money off of it. This writer with Long Leaf Politics just doesn't seem to get it, while the Daily Haymaker understands it perfectly. Crony capitalists are not the friends of ANYONE else, not small and medium sixed business, and not consumers. The Chamber of Commerce, state or national, has not represented the interests of small and medicum sized business in years, but pushed corrupt crony capitalism instead, and this bill is but one example of crony capitalism. The politicians who hook their wagon to crony capitalism are not the friends of free enterprise or of consumers, either.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 1:48 pm
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The far left is workinig to destroy free speech here in America, too. That was the purpose of their "disinformation" board. Our First Ameendment makes it harder to do than in Europe, and free speech is disappearing in Europe. The "hate speech" hoax is largely respponsible there.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 7:41 am
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Commented on What makes Electric Vehicle Fires so dangerousThe Biden regime wants to force us all into these fire traps through rules of his authoritarian EPA without even sending it through Congress. The out of control eco-fascist EPA needs to have its powers severerly stripped as it is a threat to democracy by being able to do these things by decree.
Commented: Sunday, April 30th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
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The maddening thing is watching RINOs like Berger Moore, and this district's Sen. Jim Perry (RINO-Kinston) following the path of Biden, AOC, John Kerry, Al Gore, and Greta THunbuerg on this Climate Cult nonsense. The NC RINOs have given us NC's Green New Deal, HB951, which had already given us one double digit (17%) electric rate increase and will be certain to give us lots more based on what the EU's less radical Green Deal has done.
Offshore wind is the most expensive way to make electricity, and that is what the liberal Democrats and the RINOs seem to be all-in for. Our electric bills will soar, and come a moderate hurricane, we may be without electricity for a long time. Not to mention the huge harm to the environment by industrializing our oceans.
Commented: Sunday, April 30th, 2023 @ 9:05 am
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Want to see some of the reasons Common Core math is so disliked by parents? Here are some examples; www.businessinsider.com
Commented: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 4:09 pm
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If you look at all the data, going all the way back, including the tree ring data and ice core data, what emerges is a cycle of long term multi-century warming and cooling cycles that have gone on throughour Earth's history. We came out of the last such cooling cycle, known as the Little Ice Age or the Maunder Minimum in the mid-19th century and have been in a warming cycle since then, so, of course temperatures are rising. Because of the way sun spots impact water vapor on Earth (which is the most important Greenhouse gas of all), we may be due for a reversal soon if the astronomers predicitions on sunspots come true.
An interesting aspect of the data that blows the whole theory of manmade global warming due to CO2 out of the water is that the study of ice core samples shows that the rise in CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere FOLLOWS the rise in temperature by several hundred years, meaning it is a RESULT of the warming, NOT a cause.
Commented: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 9:23 am
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Clearly, you know nothing on this subject outside the globalist narrative you parrot. There are quite a few books out by honest scientists which blow away the myths of the climate cult, and also an excellent British TV documentary that does so. Oh, and I got an A in igh school biology.
Commented: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 6:57 am
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The bill that matters is the one to change the governance structure of NC's public schools at the state level. We now have a very "woke" state Board of Education due to appointees of leftwing governor Cooper. The change that is sought and that would empower parents and other citizens is to elect the state Board of Education from Congressional districts. That is a very needed reform.
Commented: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 10:32 am
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You are parroting one of the climate cult's big lies, their claim that CO2 is "pollution" which it is NOT. CO2 is a necessary nutriet for plants. Without it, all plant life would die, followed by all animial life as the food chain collapsed. Plants take in CO2 in photosynthesis and give off Oxygen. It is part of the cycle of life. It is profoundly ignorant to call CO2 a "pollutant".
Alos, you climate cultists deny that the Greenhouse Effect is necesary for life to exist on Earth. Without it, the planet would be too cold to sustain life. You denigrate something that is necessary for life on earth. And you focus on some of the most minor greenhouse gasses. The most important greenhouse gas, responsible for over 90% of the Greenhouse Effect is water vapor. The pagan cult of Climate SCientology ignores climate history to make claims that have no basis in fact and demand that policy be massively adjusted to meet their demands.
Commented: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 10:29 am
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Biden is mixing religion and polictics but in his case it is pagan cult of Climate Scientology which has become like a state religion in the US these days.
Commented: Monday, April 24th, 2023 @ 11:43 am
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This smells an awful lot like we have some woke school board members who are determined to adopt a woke curriculum, or they are just rubber stamps for our liberal superintendant.
The educrats in Raleigh are woke and anything they put their stamp of approval on will be woke. This is NOT what parents want in our schools.
Commented: Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 @ 10:05 pm
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