The Sunday Rumble: 25.8.19

Uncork the 'Champers' and celebrate!   My 'recce patrol leader' (aka: JK) informed me yesterday in comments below that the odious Michael Mann, he of the infamous 'hockey stick' graph which purports to prove global warming, has just lost his case against Dr. Tim Ball whom he sued over the good doctor's refutation of Mann's dodgy statistics.  (Actually, JK, I had picked up the news but I was too 'knacked' yesterday to post a triumphant 'Hoorah'.)  Mann and his lawyers, ducked and dived to put off the court hearing for 8 years but eventually, "Truth will out".  In the meantime, Mann's case against Mark Steyn remains mired in the US court system - with more than little help from Mann's lawyers.  Can't wait for the truth to come out in that court case!  (I should live so long my life already!)

 

So it's war!   And, of course, like all wars the collateral damage to bystanders will be enormous.  I refer, of course, to the US/China trade war.  I am simply - because I am simple! - unable to comment with any authority on the pros and cons of it except to say that I suspect that an increasingly belligerent and powerful China has been using underhand tactics in furtherance of its trade/political ambitions.  No other western politician would dare to call them on it except the equally belligerent Trump.  I just hope that he can fight the good fight as well as talk it!

 

MDJ writes excellent sense today:   Well, actually, My Darling Jane (Daley) writes excellent sense every Sunday in The Telegraph and today she attempts to search and make sense of the swirling, contrary tides beneath the surface of Anglo-European discussions.  On the whole she is hopeful which is more than I am - but what the hell do I know?

 

Now this will shake the rafters 'over there'!   I refer to the sad news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (86) of the US Supreme Court has been re-admitted to hospital for pancreatic cancer treatment.  I would not wish that upon anyone, er, well, maybe a few, but certainly not her who, despite her silly political views, appears to have led an honourable life.  Even so, the fact is that she is a hopeless old Leftie and her retirement would provide 'The Donald' with a gift to his presidential record.  No doubt RBG will cling on for absolutely as long as possible but were she to fall off the twig, hopefully 'The Donald' will have the chance, against a sea of opposition - remember Kavanaugh? - to choose an 'originalist' Justice, that is, a judge who bases his rulings on the original constitution. 

 

In which I worry about Brigitte Macron:   Of course, the lady is in a dire situation being, at 66, some 25 years older than her 41-year old squirt of a husband and, even worse, being constantly in the publicity eye of the world.  Thus, such are her Herculanial efforts to appear as young as her husband that she is in danger of appearing mummified!  Show your age, dear, and don't pay any attention to him!

 

But, Barack-baby, what about all that rising sea level you promised?  Apparently, rumours that President Obama is actually President Canute are true!  This is the new multi-multi-zillion palace country cottage that Mr. ex-President is thinking of buying in Martha's Vineyard.

  

Mind you, I'm sure he is only thinking of it as a chance to invite some boys from the Chicago 'hood' over which he ruled all those years ago to enjoy a Summer vacation!

It was the best of cricket, it was the worst of cricket:  Very, very sorry, my Aussie friends - er, we are still friends, aren't we? - but this must rank as the most incredible Test Match of all time.  In their first innings, England were skittered out for a truly embarrassing 67 runs!  They went in for their second innings facing a monstrously 'yuuuuuuge' Australian lead which most people doubted they would even reach halfway.  But they did it, by Jove, they did it, so now it is one each and two more matches to play.

 

 

No more rumbles 

 

 

Comments

[Loz]

Here's a good reference link ref Eco-Fascism ...

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/electricity-for-africa/

The self-same folks who kiddy-fiddle African kids, traffic them to their homes in the West, like assorted slebs and royals, support vast racist positive discrimination and public money spent on black slavery museums, also refuse to let Africa develop with fossil-fuel powered elecrity, thereby by gassing them to death in their own homes as they use open-fire log burners to cook. 600,000 excess respiratory disease deaths per annum in Africa due to 70% of the population being off-grid on account of the Melons. That doesn't include those others who die due to underdevelopment of the continent, like those who perish seeking a better life elsewhere.

I hope those Eco-Fascists like Michael Mann and Greta Thunberg all end up in court with suitable punishments for gassing to death 6 million in the last decade.

Maybe hold the trials in Nuremberg?

SoD

[Whitewall]

Sounds like "hockey stick's" media cheer leaders left him quickly.

[Whitewall]

China should have been confronted like this decades ago. Doing so is necessary even this late in the game. Western capitalists won the debate about opening up China and all will work out. What they didn't figure on was the very long period of time it would take for "all to work out". The totalitarian power that rules China will not let go anytime soon. Even if they have to shoot their own people dead in the streets.

[Whitewall]

Concerning China and Trump's ongoing ability to spread FUD within China:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/24/why_trumps_partial_delay_of_tariffs_makes_sense.html

[Wigner’s Friend]

In which I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with SoD.

[Pat]

WF you got there first dammit!
Except that its not indoor log burning but indoor dung burning.

[Scobs]

re:- Globule worming, this post found elsewhere seems pretty well constructed.

https://cambriandissenters.blogspot.com/2019/08/creating-climate-hysteria-in-pursuit-of.html

(Apols if you've seen it elsewhere, I don't get out much...)!

[Scrobs]

You could say the last post was by Scrobs if you like..:0(

[Hank]

Dviid

We all join you wn wishing Justice Ginsberg a long and happy retirement.

President Trumps Short list from which Justice Kavanaugh was chosen included three lady judges. All of whom you would surely prefix with "My Darling."

I would bet that one on them will be chosen to replace Justice Ginsberg, and she will be the justice who authors the decision overturning "Roe v Wade."

[Loz]

And you'll never hear anyone applauding the benefits of climate change. Here's an example, my hand next to Fluffbun's Mum's tomato, grown with zero chemicals and anything else, the biggest one she's ever harvested in her 70 years on the planet, youjust seeds dropped on the ground in Czech Republic ...

https://1drv.ms/u/s!An0TAR5hO_KkjYlXy_o0UKn9sY7NpQ

Not sure if the link works, as you can see from my empty Slivovice glasses, I'm not going to try and find out just now! ...

SoD

[JK]

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/michael_mann_creator_of_the_infamous_global_warming_hockey_stick_loses_lawsuit_against_climate_skeptic_ordered_to_pay_defendants_costs.html

That's the most current state I've been made aware of that's "reliably publicly sourced."

Too I have been made aware of an official site where I can view what's been released from that nation's courts for a more reasonable price - 6 bucks - however until Mr. M.W. Mann allows (or carries through on) his thirty days of the appeal period to pass filing (or not) said appeal, all the available documentation states is "Case dismissed for lack of Courts ordered evidence not provided."

Now me being me and Barney being Barney, I consider my six bucks better spent paying for the economy-sized Barney's Finest in Grade #2™ which ought get me trough the three weeks and some days that'll need pass before the full exposition is published.

[JK]

I closed my italics dammit.

Mayhaps the Internet Gods come down on me so unmercifully a'cause I left out the first 'h' in through. Or maybe it was because I had the temerity to put Mann's middle initial in which most folks being ignorant of his even having a middle name which, in my opinion, his parents recognized the appropriateness of pre-natal.

The 'W' spelled out being Weasel.

[David Duff]

Sorry, JK, I can only give you 'E' for Effort - again! Not to worry, I have done it for you. Go easy on Barney's 'Grade #2"!

SoD, that is no tomato, it's a bloody pumpkin! (And take it easy on the slivovitz, it's nearly as lethal as Barney's Grade #2!)

[Pat]

As to global warming, one question to be addressed is how do we stop the Chinese especially raising their CO² emissions? They are increasing every year by more than our current annual total. They've heard everything the IPCC has to say, and not only do they fail to act, but they forecast cooling.
The inevitable conclusion is that to stop Chinese CO² emissions we need to defeat China. I'm sure that the Greens would sign up immediately, after all they're prepared to chain themselves to railings.
And failing all else perhaps the resultant nuclear winter will counteract global warming anyway.

[JK]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/25/president-trump-and-uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-working-breakfast-video-and-transcript/

Sounds amiable enough.

[Glesga]

Whitewall, China has been exterminating its popution for centuries. Since Mao and the great move forward they have been fertilising the earth with millions of humans. Adolf was honest about Jews and the disabled, China kills anyone whether they are for or against the present party thinking. They have to be opposed.

[Jack the dog]

Re Martha's Vineyard - well, there goes the neighbourhood (somebody had to say it).

[David Duff]

Jack, you are, of course, a very naughty boy - but you made me chuckle, so that's alright then!