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Eco-Crap, Resistance, Watermelons

Here’s one we all knew about — and by “we”, I mean anyone with the faintest degree of rational thought — and therefore it should come as no surprise to us:

Skepticism about climate change has resurfaced, as some experts claim the exact causes of global warming remain unclear and that the policies addressing it are motivated more by money than by science.

And in other breaking news, we can report that Gen. George Custer is experiencing some difficulty with various Indian tribes in Wyoming.

But to return to our main story:

Lindzen explained the basic math behind what he called ‘climate alarm.’ He said the emphasis on lowering specific emissions like carbon dioxide (CO₂) simply doesn’t produce the worldwide temperature changes advocates say it will.

The scientist noted that the planet’s temperature has fluctuated significantly throughout recorded history and science still can’t definitively prove what the exact cause of both extreme warming and cooling events has been.

‘We don’t understand the glaciation that occurred in the 15th century. You know, so what was going on then? Inadequate CO₂?’ Lindzen said of the event in the Northern Hemisphere known as the Little Ice Age.

It was caused by all those 15th-century SUVs and trucks, you idiot.  And of course they had SUVs and trucks back then, but they were called “carts” and were powered by horses (and oxen) — a major source of methane pollution, as we all know.

And:

Lindzen said the financial implications of controlling the multi-trillion-dollar energy industry have been the true motivation for politicians to support flawed research that argues small temperature increases will lead to immediate disasters.

‘The fact that you have a multi-trillion dollar industry and you have an opportunity to completely overturn it had a great appeal to a lot of politicians,’ he explained. ‘They go wild on it. Another half degree and we’re doomed, and so on. The public knows this is nonsense.’ 

I leave it for you to decide which political parties have supported the eco-panic most rabidly, and why.

I find it interesting that this article comes to us courtesy of the dreadful muckraking rag Daily Mail, a newspaper which has provided us with panic-stricken apocalyptic warnings of ecological doom for well over twenty years.  (Because “scare” headlines sell newspapers, also duh.)

And the only reason that they’ve decided to publish this little article is that people no longer believe the climate alarmists, and are starting to rebel against all those idiotic and destructive “NetZero by 2030” political goals.

Yee Hah

Business

“Come and do yer bidness in Texas” seems to be the current thing.

Coinbase followed other companies reincorporating in Texas after the state legislature in 2023 created the first-of-its-kind specialized trial court to oversee complex business-to-business litigation. It first convened last September. 

This year, the legislature passed SB 29 to create a series of corporate reforms governing certain business entities. It “enhances the predictability and efficiency of Texas entity law and governance while maintaining strong protections for entity owners and transparency,” The Center Square reported. They include codifying the business judgment rule to allow corporations to establish a minimum ownership threshold before a shareholder or group of shareholders can pursue a derivative claim, among other provisions.

The legislature also passed HB 40 to amend state law to enhance Texas Business Court operations statewide, expanding subject matter jurisdiction to include intellectual property, clarifying its supplemental jurisdiction, allowing companies to designate the court as the exclusive venue in their governing documents for dispute resolution, among other measures.

The new laws provide business decision makers “with certainty that sound business judgments made in the best interest of shareholders will not be second-guessed by courts. Absent acts of violent crime, business decisions are to be made by the elected officers and shareholders, not by unelected judges,” Abbott said when signing them into law. “It also eliminates rogue shareholders with just a handful of shares of stock in a company from being able to hold a company hostage from the ability to make sound business decisions.”

Just make sure that your employees become Texans, i.e. they have to leave all their East-Coast politics and -beliefs behind.  Especially that Woke/DEI bullshit and fondness for Big Gummint, because we don’t do that here.

And they need to buy some guns as soon as they can — just to establish their bona fides, so to speak.

Granite State Call-In

Disaster

I may need a little personal help from my Readers in New Hampshire — it doesn’t involve me, but someone very dear to me, and it is not financial.

So if you live in New Hampshire, please drop me an email and I’ll supply the details.

Many thanks.

Monday Funnies

Funny Stuff

And in a more classical vein, after last Friday’s annual physical:

But let’s move on from that, and into the usual mixture of smut, bad taste and slander:

Now for the “smut” part:

And if that’s what awaits you at your workplace, you should hit the road…

Boldini’s Portraits

Fine Art

I may have mentioned before that one of my favorite artists, Giovanni Boldini, made a name for himself as a portrait artist during the late 1800s and early 20th century.  But I didn’t feature too many of those portraits — which oversight I’m now going to rectify.

Here’s La Contessa Speranza:

…Madame E.L. Doyen:

…Madame Juillard:

…Madame Veil-Picard:

…Mrs. Howard Johnston:

…Lina Bilitis (with her two Pekinese):

…and one of his favorite subjects, La marchesa Luisa Casati:

All these, and many more can be seen here.  It’s only when you look at portraits done by other artists of the time that you can see how different Boldini was, and why he was one of the most popular.  Here’s one (Florence Chambres) that he himself painted in about 1862, before he developed his signature style:

I think you get my point.

But just in case you were getting sick of all those society dames, here’s another of my non-portrait Boldini favorites, At The Paris Opera:

This one was painted sometime during the late 1880s, as I recall, and just looking at it makes me want to go back in time to the fin-de-siècle period.  What a riot.