Clown Show for Clowns

"First it was COLLUSION! Can you believe it? Trump was colluding with the Russians to steal the election from its rightful owner, H.R. Clinton."
https://spectator.us/impeachment-pathetic-clown-show/

Good luck democrats, I hope it works as well for you as it did for the GOP.

Back to the Syrian Future

Interesting. Not getting much coverage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-resumes-large-scale-operations-against-isis-in-northern-syria/ar-BBXhYhN

On the Former Secretary's Firing

Great comments and leadership by the former secretary. It will be difficult to replace him.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-richard-spencer-i-was-fired-as-navy-secretary-here-s-what-i-ve-learned-because-of-it/ar-BBXrcAS?li=BBnb4R5

Kanye, Meet Scott

Scott Peck describes the process of spiritual growth as going from:
-I am the most important thing, to
-There is a being greater than I am, and will do exactly as directed by that being; some folks term this fundamentalism. The person in this phase feels saved, because they are liberated from the tyranny of their own self importance. Then comes
-I can regulate myself and have a more liberal interpretation of the greater being's intent - may not go to church each religion day, may not interpret the holy text literally, will begin to see the application of the greater being's intent as less compliance and more cooperation for a bigger purpose
-Mysticism, which I don't understand fully enough to describe

And here's Kanye:

West has led church services that have attracted thousands of black youths, some of whom said they had never entered a church before. More than 14,000 thousand people jammed Joel Osteen’s megachurch when West confessed to his previous lifestyle of arrogance and self-aggrandizement and acknowledged his bouts with mental illness. Departing from conventional forms of worship, Kanye’s large chorus surrounded him and, hands raised, stepped to the beat of his new album, “Jesus is King,” which he rapped as an enthralled crowd swayed with the beat. 

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/472091-kanye-west-a-welcomed-disruptive-voice

Those Oh So Important Diplomats

I've been a fan of Atkisson since I was in flight school in the 90s and would see her delivering the news on CNN while eating lunch of the officer's club.

Many will debate the substance of the public impeachment testimony against President Trump. To me, each of the Democrats’ witnesses of the past two weeks appeared to be well-intentioned and hard-working, and seemed genuinely to believe they know what’s best.

But a picture also emerged of U.S. diplomats who appear to believe they, rather than the U.S. president, have the ultimate authority to determine our foreign policy. And if the president doesn’t go along? He clearly must be wrong — in their view. Or, even worse, he’s a traitor. He’s to be obstructed. Taken down. 

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/471643-impeachment-inquiry-its-a-question-of-who-should-run-the-show

Greta You Should Have Taken the Slow Boat to China

In summary, the paris climate treaty is still the same joke it always was, and the Chinese will make sure it is never worth discussing again. They are going from around 4000 coal plants and adding at least ten percent to that. That's more than the rest of the world could close even if they could do so. 

"The International Energy Agency notes that coal accounts for 46% of global carbon emissions. To meet the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change target of keeping global warming below 1.5°C through 2100, the world much achieve, as Global Energy Monitor puts it, a “58[%] to 70% reduction in global coal power generation by 2030.”"

If the world's most political scientific body, the IPCC's absurdly specious predictions happen to be true, that means we are all going to be toasty warm and all the climate alarmists can say "I told you so" assuming we live to see the day. 

I hate to repeat any of this conjecture, which is being treated as if it has any basis in reality, at all - the point is, even if one bites on the pretense that the IPCC can predict the future of climate based on their paranoia about the ferocious power of CO2 to warm planet earth; and they are right that warming will be worse for humans and not better; and that wealthy, healthy humans cannot adapt; there's nothing the non-Chinese world can do to stop it. Better build your survival strategy around being wealthy and adaptable.

https://nypost.com/2019/11/23/china-going-big-on-coal-guarantees-the-world-wont-meet-its-carbon-cutting-goals/

Well then - what is this impeachment about ....
"Yet Sondland noted that “we did not think we were engaging in improper behavior” — that no one expressed any concerns. And he admitted that Trump never told him of any “preconditions” for aid or a meeting.

Asked outright, “No one on this planet told you that President Trump was tying aid to investigations. Yes or no?”, he answered, “Yes.”

The followup: “So you really have no testimony today that ties President Trump to a scheme to withhold aid from Ukraine in exchange for these investigations.”

Sondland’s answer: “Other than my own presumption.”

Indeed, when he directly asked Trump what he sought from Ukraine, the president responded: “I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing.”

For weeks, Sondland testified, he saw no link between investigations and aid or a Trump-Zelensky meeting. And, he stressed repeatedly, he had no clue at all, ’til “late in the game,” that Joe or Hunter Biden was remotely tied to any of this."

https://nypost.com/2019/11/20/sondlands-bombshell-turns-out-to-be-merely-his-presumption/