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George Rebane

Fossil Fuel Use and Human Progress: The Big Picture

FossilFuelsMore here (H/T to reader).

The Left’s riot lies are now historically astounding (more here).  And what makes this both sad and dangerous is that your Democrat neighbor completely believes what s/he hears from Maxine Waters, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and the other leading leftwing liars of the land.

[13jun25 update]  The countrywide ‘No King’ demonstrations scheduled for this weekend will truly be historic, especially when combined with the concurrent military parade in DC celebrating our Army’s 250th birthday.  The demonstrations illustrate the magnitude of the Left’s frustration over their ineptness in the political arena while at the same time providing ample evidence of a highly organized socialist cabal that forms the real foundation of today’s Democratic party.  My druthers would be to hold the parade on July 4th, a more appropriate date that would not coincide with President Trump’s birthday, which itself plays into the hands of the Left’s assertion that Trump is acting like a king and is seeking dictatorial control of the country.  When was the last time that America held a military parade composed of hundreds of combat vehicles and marching troops that mimic the parades common in dictatorships like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea?

Senator Padilla (D-CA) is a nationally ignored, desperate leftwing low-life jerk who staged yesterday’s rude interruption of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s press conference.  His anonymous entrance and shouting harangue under the guise of “just trying to ask a question” fooled no one even after his identity became known.  Well, that’s not entirely correct – it did fool a good half of the nation (also represented by the No King demonstrations), those who immediately fell in line with the contrived outrages by the Democratic leadership and promptly echoed by their lapdog lamestream media.  On their part the conservative media – e.g. Fox News – has not been smart enough in their reporting to include the fact that even if Padilla had identified himself, it still would have been impolite, insolent, and illegal to burst into a scheduled presser by a senior administration official, demand its peremptory interruption, and then dominate the proceeding with his own agenda.  Even though US senators are above the social norms of good behavior, they are not above the law.

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12 responses to “Scattershots – 10jun25 (updated 13jun25)”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    How the LA riots were touched off:
    “We arrested a murderer. We arrested several child sex predators. We arrested a rapist. We arrested someone who convicted of armed robbery. We arrested a Vietnamese national who murdered two teenagers at a graduation party. We made Los Angeles safer and people don’t want to hear that, they just want … to take action against ICE officers. They don’t want immigration enforcement but I’ve got news for them. We’re going to do it. We’re doing it today. We’re going to do it tomorrow. We’re going to do it every day.”

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  2. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    George, you missed an important graph. Readers will have to look on page 116, Figure 8.1, of a book by Tom Murphy – “Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet”. The first half of that graph resembles the exponential growth shown by the four you showed. But it continues on for another few thousand years.
    Prior to about 1850 AD, muscle & firewood were the sources of energy. Then, fossil fuels spiked for maybe 300 years (1850-2150 or so). Then ?? maybe back to muscle & firewood??
    Liquid fuels sure pack more energy per volume than our sorry excuse for battery storage.
    Maybe we can have small-fusion, to support the 13B folks just here in the U.S. (N.B. – there are only 106 total people living elsewhere on earth. All the free stuff still comes from here, and everyone is entitled to their share of our bounty. How do you say “free stuff” in Chinese, or Arabic?)

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Is there a link for your 4:28. It is a quote so who said it?

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Tom Homan said it, Punch. On the air. Being interviewed.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It would seem that a self-proclaimed radio Jounalist would have the resources to keep up with what is happening, did you get a limited use jazzy kinda phone? #sadoldman with no cogent thoughts.
    😉

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Db, punchy only listens to outlets that say what he wants to hear.

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Interviewed on what outlet or source? Can you provide a link?

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  8. gjrebane Avatar

    Efox 655pm – Condolences if you were looking for comprehensive coverage of the historical progress of energy usage. The scattershot just covered the material referenced to make a point about concurrences with the advent of fossil fuels.

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  9. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly
  10. George Rebane Avatar

    RH 741am – Neither delusional nor astounding. The asserted connection of the appointment is indeed a fact. But there were no assertions that Walz directed the attacks; only questions posed as to whether he could have directed them. This is different from Democrat lies such as Schiff insisting that he had direct evidence of Trump’s being a Russian puppet, and all Democrats insisting that the border was “secure” as millions of illegals poured into the country. I could go on.

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    “The Right’s lies…”
    What lies? The article neither hinted at nor accused anyone of lying.
    They posited theories which they knew could be wrong.
    I would say at the worst the tiny handful of people thinking it might be a political hit ordered by Walz should have simply waited for more info before saying anything.
    Which is what every conservative pundit that I follow did, to their credit.
    Are any of the named conservatives in the article still going with that theory?
    BeerBelly doesn’t care – his comments indicate he didn’t even read the whole article.
    Typical left-wing blather about nothing.

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