Not Trump would win in a landslide

Consider if Trump ran without being Trump.  With his record, he would win in a historic landslide.

Is this the whistleblower? Like in the sitcom "Cheers", this article says everybody knows his name.

Here's a moth pretending to be two flies sitting on bird poop. Scroll down for caterpillar disguised as bird poop.

I thought this cooking tip from the New York Times was worth sharing: the secret ingredient that makes meat better every time.

States are cutting university budgets. Taxpayers aren't interested in funding campus kooks.

FLASHBACK: Biden Lied for Years About the Driver Involved in His Wife & Daughter's Death.

New York state is having a natural gas shortage. Cuomo's answer? Pump imaginary gas.

Replica cars have difficulty meeting vehicle standards, so congress passed a law to allow them to be made. Of course the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is ignoring the law. I will never forgive them for making the Army chop up all those M151A1 jeeps that we had when I was in the National Guard. They were wonderful off-road vehicles.

The Babylon Bee features a new smart doorbell that will argue with Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon missionaries for you.

Here's a useful product for when you anticipate a hurricane or power shutoff, a bathtub water storage container.

This writer doesn't think that Trump sold out the Kurds for pulling out of Syria.

So liberal enclaves are banning plastic straws to save the oceans. The great majority of plastic debris comes from rivers in China.

When Hillary was a young lawyer working on the impeachment of Richard Nixon, she came up with four tests that should be applied first. Here's the list, and the current situation meets none of the criteria.

Obama made a rule requiring doctors to perform transgender surgery. A court struck them down.

White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Stephanie Grisham hit back at CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Sunday after Cooper ran a segment mocking her late last week.

Some global warming protestors decided to take their protest to an In-N-Out Burger. Some of the staff tossed them out.

Some parents stood up to the failing education establishment and the kids benefited.

Surely you have heard that the Polar Bears are dying out because of global warming. An expert on Polar Bears said no, there are more than ever. Of course she lost her job.

Anyone with an IQ higher than a rutabaga knows that Hunter Biden's job on the board at the Ukrainian gas company was a farce designed buy influence, but I hadn't realized that Biden didn't even go to the board meetings.

This article is a review of a video arguing for intelligent design. The Cambrian explosion is pretty difficult to explain with evolutionary theory.

As you may recall, the 6-mile wide Chicxulub asteroid collision wiped out the dinosaurs and most of the rest of the land creatures on earth about 66 million years ago. But what about the fishes? Shouldn't they be fine down in the cool ocean? Well, it turns out the asteroid also created an acid rain that wiped out most of the marine life at the same time. The article is worth linking to just to see the illustration in the NY Times of the crater.

And here's a follow-up article about the remarkably quick rise of the mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

How important is impeachment to voters in Iowa?  It turns out it's only important to 7% of them.

It seems that anybody who can is moving out of San Francisco because it costs too much to have a life.

The top James Bond films rated from worst to best.

If you are dying to know more details from Ronan Farrow's new book: "Catch and Kill", click this review.

The Aye-Aye in Madagascar has a pseudo-thumb to help him grip things. The rest of his hand is kind of interesting also.

An interesting photo of the Milky Way and other objects reflected in a rain-covered salt flat. Be sure and click on the photo to expand it.

In the latest Democrat debate, Biden bragged about defeating eminently qualified Robert Bork as a Supreme Court justice. This article has some excellent history for younger readers, espeically as the beginnings of the discourse we have in politics today.

Rolling Stone produces a list of the 100 best singers of all time. This author takes exception. You can read the list for yourself here.  As usual, Iowa Pundit had the best take on it:



The loudest bird in the world is the white bellbird. Listen here.

By the time you read this, it's probably too late to win Pete Buttigieg's contest for a free trip to San Francisco (the gay mecca) to see Hamilton with Pete's husband.

Frustrated with your Internet service? Fast affordable Internet is coming in 2020.

Probably you'll want to read this taste test of six vegetable-based hamburgers from the NY Times.

Abandoning the Kurds

Another take on the issue of abandoning the Kurds.

The Rolling Stone magazine, no admirer of Donald Trump, doesn't believe the whistleblower is real because of the reaction of the CIA.

I remember that during the 1955 flood, ham radio operators provided communications among the people working to handle the emergency. Now Cal Fire is working to dismantle the ham radio communications systems.

We teach nothing, we know nothing—and that could cost the United States everything.

Attorney General Bob Barr gave an important speech about religious liberty at Notre Dame.

Wildlife photographer of the year winners in pictures.

Adam Schiff (aka Pencil Neck) flipped on the need for the whistleblower to testify after it came out that his staff coordinated with the whistleblower prior to the complaint being filed.

California has rolled out an earthquake warning system with an ap that you can download to your smart phone. Unfortunately, earthquake waves move pretty fast, as much as a mile a second.  That means you will get lots of warning if the epicenter is a long ways away, and not much if it is close. So, if the earthquake is close enough to kill you, you don't get much warning. Download the program MyShake on your smart phone. Of course earthquakes don't kill people, improperly designed falling structures kill people.

Back in my youth, I worked on a survey crew measuring slip and creep on faults in California. One of these was the Garlock Fault, east of the San Andreas. It never went anywhere; all of a sudden it's moving.  This section of the San Andreas was the location  of the largest historical earthquake in California, the 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake.

What kind of watches do fighter pilots wear? Surprisingly, none of the watchmakers that advertise this claim are actually found on the wrists of fighter pilots.

Those of you in California may want to read what the CEO of PG&E has to say about power shutoffs.

If you watched the debate, you prob ably weren't too impressed with Biden's performance. His campaign seems to be faltering.

ABC wanted to show video of the alleged carnage in Syria, so they used some stock image from a gun range in the US. A less well-known journalist used some stock earthquake footage to show dead children.

Congress is spending billions at Boeing for rockets that private enterprise is building at a fraction of the cost.

Here's something you didn't see in the news: about one mile of the wall is built every day.

One of the impeachment witnesses says they tried to warn Biden in 2015 about the problem with Hunter working for the Ukraine gas company.

There's a new book out "The Bible is a Catholic Book". It's for Catholics that are intimidated by the Bible.

The media are claiming that the White House admitted to a "quid pro quo" on Ukraine. It appears to be an incorrect analysis of the actual statement.

Trump and Drudge

CNN thinks that Trump has lost Matt Drudge. Trump is losing me too.  The Ukraine thing was just stupid; Trump could have just tweeted the news about Hunter Biden's crooked deal. It's obvious that anyone with half a brain could figure it out without asking the Ukrainians to investigate, but abandoning the Kurds to the Turks seems to be unconscionable, at least as portrayed by the media.
However, read this interview with an expert on the Middle East.

An update on the whistleblower complaint. Shiff's committee advised the whistleblower how to file the complaint and the rules were changed to allow it.

Clarence Thomas opens up about finding God in a dark period in his life.

Want a private viewing of the Sistine Chapel? You can arrange one with the Vatican for a modest sum.

A central theme of the Biden campaign is a lie, and the media are supporting it with fake news. Here he is having fits of rage.

The Hogan twins are ten years old and joined at the brain. It makes for some strange connections. Here's their picture.

Five moons in this picture ours and four of Jupiter's moons.  Hint: look down in the bottom right corner.

There's a new fitness machine that works with virtual reality. Scroll down for the video of what you see while exercising.

Candidates agree on universal background checks, but don't want to address the issue of why gun homicides fell by nearly half.

Think the cost of housing in California is high?  How about $1050 a month to rent this shed in San Diego.

Portland is remodeling a government building eliminating urinals. This gender-neutral thing is certainly becoming stylish, as Dirty Harry would say.

The last Wooly Mammoths lived on an island in the Arctic Ocean, dying out just 4000 years ago. Maybe they were the behemoths in the book of Job.

A remarkable bridge design by DaVinci, tested by architecture students.

Tired of the hassle and expense of San Francisco? Move to Albuquerque and cut your expenses by 70%.

Costco is selling so many $5 chickens that they are building their own chicken factory. And of course the usual liberal activists are complaining.

People looking forward to Socialism in America should read this first hand account from Venezuela.

According to Newsweek, Greta Thunberg was denied the Nobel Peace Prize because Norway has lots of oil. Could it be because she is clueless?

Beto vows to strip tax exempt status from churches who don't support gay marriage, which I think is just about all of them.

Think health care is expensive? Americans spend more on taxes than on food, clothing and health care combined.

Be careful when buying tulips in Amsterdam.  Most of them never bloom and the vendors get away with it because the tourists don't come back.

When a DNA test reveals that your daughter isn't your biological child.

Howard Zinn is responsible for much of the bad press that Christopher Columbus gets. Turns out he lied.

The vaping crisis is a moral panic led by anti-smoking crusaders.

Californians had a chance last week to learn that solar panels don't work in a blackout.

And don't forget to visit the Babylon Bee for the latest satire.

Whistleblower roundup

Want to know who the whistleblower is? Sue Gordon was deputy director of national intelligence and wanted the director job. Trump appointed somebody else, and Gordon resigned in a snit. A few days later, the whistleblower complaint was filed. Who else could have heard the story from multiple leakers.

Even stranger, in August the rules were changed from "complaints had to be first hand knowledge" to "hearsay was OK".

This writer regularly publishes a column called the "clown car roundup" where he updates us on all the Democrats running for president. This issue has some interesting background on Hunter Biden. Scroll down.

The danger from 5G cell phone towers is in the news lately, with lots of opinions and very little science. Here's a roundup of research.

 How about an article on 12 airplane crashes that changed aviation.

In Seattle, the schools are changing the math curriculum to make it more woke. If you don't know what woke is, read the article.

I wasn't familiar with Napoleon Chagnon, but he was famous in archeology circles for reasons that won't surprise you.

Candidate Beto went to Kent State and argued that only the government can be trusted to have guns. I guess Beto is to young to know the history of the killings at Kent State.

Here's a fun story about a Lexus that went a million miles.

Duke University has been promoting Islam with out money.

A lot of Democrat voters are benefiting from Trump's economy, which might buy him some votes.

Les Miserables has been performed all over the world.  There was an anniversary concert, and at the end, they gathered 17 Jean Valjeans from different countries who performed vignettes in their native language. Watch this fun performance.

Global Warming

Dr. Mototaka Nakamura put out a small book in Japanese on “the sorry state of climate science”. It’s titled Confessions of a climate scientist: the global warming hypothesis is an unproven hypothesis, and he is very much qualified to take a stand.

More details on the Whistleblower from the New York Times. It was a CIA officer who worked at the White House.

This reporter suggests that Biden isn't telling the truth about the Ukraine, and there are memos confirming that.

China had a huge parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the revolution. 100,000 citizens and 15,000 soldiers participated. Here are some pictures.

Could President Trump be impeached and then run again?

The Sierra Club has some cool slideshows.  Here's one of the earth's weirdest landscapes. Other slide shows at the link.

Where does Trump get his ideas about illegal immigration? See if you can guess the names of these experts.

Citizenship is becoming meaningless. Illegal aliens can do just about anything and get free stuff.

Here's a fun video of Sheila Jackson Lee demonstrating her knowledge of firearms.

This is shocking. A major media actually covered Hunter Biden's gifts from foreign governments.