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Daddy Needed to Record a Weather Promo. Henry Needed to Go on a Bike Ride With Daddy

This is the funniest, sweetest, 78 seconds you will ever watch. Just click here .  I'm still laughing. 

Extremely Disappointed in Apple

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I would have expected this from Android but not Apple. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there isn't a good alternative to the iPhone if you wish to preserve any privacy. The article, which includes at least a temporary way to stop a tracking app, is here . Steve Jobs would never have allowed this.

Even Worse: The Washington Post's Shocking Disregard of Facts

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You know, if you are going to purport to publish a "fact-checking" book, you might want to check your facts. See below. And, the mainstream media wonders why no one trusts it. What a bunch of clowns.

The Evil of False Science

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Rabbi Michael Barclay writes, I have two responses: "No kidding?!" (sarcasm in case you were not sure) "What science?" (dead-on serious) Rabbi Barclay begins, As a rabbi, I have always looked at patterns and historical repetitions, and I have to admit… I am starting to get truly frightened. Not of coronavirus, earthquakes, or an increase in crime. I am starting to get scared of “science”. Not the scientific method that I grew up with of hypothesis, proof, and conclusion. But this strange and questionable “science” upon which public policies are now getting based. It is starting to remind me all too much of other policies based on “science” in the past. Historically, when public policies have been based in the science of the time, the policies have often led to dangerous and painful results. When over 100 Chicago clergy opened their doors this past weekend to provide the essential services of spiritual nurturing through prayer in defiance of th...

Ninth Anniversary of the Joplin Tornado

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The Joplin Tornado about twenty seconds after it touched down. Basehunters' photo. Used with permission.  Today is the anniversary of a tragic event in American history.  The City of Joplin was blindsided by the tornado.  It was one of the rare days in which weather science let down its fellow countrymen.    Joplin has rebuilt and is proud of what it has achieved in the wake of that awful evening. We salute them . And, while -- even today -- some tornadoes are incredibly difficult to warn-of effectively, that wasn't the case for Joplin's. It was straightforward. Still, weather science and emergency management both failed. Plus, everything that could have gone wrong did, all the way town to the fact that the tornado was rain-wrapped and no one could see visually (the above photo was from behind  the tornado). One hundred sixty-one people died; probably 100 to 120 more than necessary (a tornado of this violence in a densely populated area kills re...

At Long Last: Huge News

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Want to decarbonize? Want energy independence at low to reasonable cost? Finally, the government of the United States (and, separately, Canada) are moving forward on Next-Gen Nuclear . This is a great move.

Let Me Get This Straight: The Additional Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere is Preventing Another Ice Age -- And, That is a BAD Thing?!

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We knew that once the coronavirus crisis began to ease, Big Climate would try to get back on the front page. No surprise there. Still, I have to give Big Climate and their expensive public relations agencies credit for moxie for trying to twist wonderful news for humanity into something bad. After twenty years of, preposterously, asserting that changes in the sun's energy don't matter to earth's climate, even the climate alarmists have to now concede something is very wrong with the sun. As this blog and numerous other publications have pointed out, our sun is on vacation: record low numbers of sunspots which many scientists believe is morphing into a Grand Solar Minimum (GSL). In past centuries, GSL's have been associated with extreme cold and even the "Little Ice Age." What happened during the last Little Ice Age? According to Wikipedia, Historians have argued that cultural responses to the consequences of the Little Ice Age in Europe consisted of...