Nothing About The Bakken -- Wednesday, March 27, 2019, T+84, Part 1

Is the narrative about to change? If this was outside the mainstream, that would be one thing, but this is being reported by NBC News. Now that the Mueller report has been released, perhaps NBC News is trying to divert attention. Look at this:

We've been trying to point this out for years. Finally. 

Link here.

A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds.

The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Monday’s Nature Geoscience. Study authors and outside scientists think this is temporary.

“That was kind of a surprise. We kind of got used to a runaway system,” said Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ice and climate scientist Jason Box. “The good news is that it’s a reminder that it’s not necessarily going that fast. But it is going.”

It may or may not be temporary, but when we start talking about glaciers growing at this speed, we are talking "climate," not "weather."

Box, who wasn’t part of the study, said Jakobshavn is “arguably the most important Greenland glacier because it discharges the most ice in the northern hemisphere. For all of Greenland, it is king.”

And then look at this:

The water in Disko Bay, where Jakobshavn hits the ocean, is about 3.6 degrees cooler than a few years ago, study authors said.

By the way, the "glacier" story was the second story in two days to try to divert attention from the Mueller report.

The first story was what the Chicago mayor says was a "whitewash of justice."

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Exhibit A: if we have less than twelve years to get started if we want to save the earth from global warming, why did not one US senator vote to pass a simple non-binding resolution?

Not even the senator who co-sponsored the bill with Occasional-Cortex voted for the bill.

I don't think I've ever seen such a lopsided vote on anything. It looks like a few Democratic senators must have "crossed the aisle" and voted with the GOP. I don't see what the big deal was: vote "yes" and move on. It was a non-binding resolution, for heaven's sakes, and easily defended in any campaign: simply making a statement that "we" need to take action now to stop global warming. Either you believe in the scam or you don't.

Voting "present" -- at least, I guess, we know they were hard at work in Washington, DC. Not only that, but apparently it was labeled a "test vote." LOL.

By the way, in poll after poll after poll, in which respondents are asked the most pressing issue(s) facing the nation, global warming never, never, never makes the list if the poll is "open-ended." That is, the pollster does not provide a list of issues. In every poll in which Americans are simply asked to list the issue(s) that worry them most, global warming is never, never mentioned. And yes, I'm sure someone will find an example to prove me wrong.

Imagine: if any US Senator introduced any of the following non-binding resolutions, and the outcome was 57 against, and not one for it, during the noted administration. A non-binding resolution supporting:

• access to health care insurance for all Americans: Barack Obama
• the president's wish to be the first US president to visit China: "Tricky Dick"
• sending a man to the moon, and safely back to earth: JFK
• the Manhattan Project: FDR 
• freeing the slaves: Abraham Lincoln

We can't even get a single US senator -- even the one who introduced the non-binding resolution -- to vote in support of the US doing its part to "save the earth." I find that amazing.

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Fallout From The Mueller Report

Losers following the release of the Mueller report:

• first tier losers: President Obama, Hillary Clinton
• second tier losers: the entire US intelligence community, but particularly the three 'C's"; Comey; McCabe; and, Clapper
• third tier loser: all by himself -- Tom Steyer
• fourth tier losers: too many to list but includes Adam Schiff; Chelsea Clinton;

Except for sports, I have not watched television in months. Can someone tell me if Tom Steyer's "impeach Trump" ads are still playing?

The mainstream media: not among the losers. Mainstream media is all about making money and they made a lot of money off the "Russian-collusion" trope. There is no evidence to suggest that the mainstream media will change their habits.

Biggest winner on talk radio: Rush Limbaugh. 

Let's see what others are saying.

John Hinderaker over at Powerline: Democrats punt on the green new deal.

To say that it has been a tough week for the Democratic Party is an understatement. Yesterday Mitch McConnell obliged grandstanding Democrats by bringing the Green New Deal resolution up for a vote in the Senate. The Democrats regarded this as a dirty trick, evidently because they do not intend their policy proposals to be taken seriously.

The Senate vote was 57-0 against the Green New Deal. Almost all Senate Democrats voted “present,” taking a leaf from the Obama playbook. The six senators who are running for president–Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand–all co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution, yet all voted “present.” All Republican senators voted against the resolution, joined by Democrats Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Doug Jones and Angus King.

From Paul Mirengoff over at Powerline: less than full disclosure from the New York Times:

What’s notable about the article is how the New York Times identifies Bauer. The Times states:

Mr. Bauer is a professor of practice and distinguished scholar in residence at New York University School of Law.

That’s true as far as it goes. But for purposes of an op-ed about the Mueller investigation of alleged collusion with Russia, it doesn’t go very far.

Until May 2018, Bauer was a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm. Moreover, when Bauer left the firm, it announced that he “will maintain his representation of a number of key clients in an individual, solo capacity and will co-counsel with Perkins Coie on a number of those representations.”

At Perkins Coie, Bauer headed the firm’s “political law practice” — the largest in the country. It became the go-to practice for prominent Democrats trying to use lawyers to win elections.

During the 2016 presidential race, Perkins Coie served as the private lawyers for the Democratic National Committee. According to The Hill, both the DNC and the Clinton campaign used Perkins Coie secretly to pay Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the preential election.

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Wow, Was I Wrong!

Updates

March 28, 2019: Fox News dominated cable talk last night --

Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC's combined average primetime viewership on a night when CNN hosted a Town Hall special with Democratic presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker, and Fox News Sean Hannity interviewed President Trump. Nielsen's early ratings:

• Fox News: 3.685 million; 653K in the prized 25 - 54 age-group demo
• MSNBC: 2.141 million; 333K
• CNN came in dead last, 904K overall; 235K, prized demo
• each of Fox News Channel's primetime shows also boasted impressive wins over their time-slot competition of MSNBC and CNN, besting the other shows' combined total in each hour  

Original Post 

 

Rachel Madcow (this will be re-posted later)

Wow, look at this. I thought Rachel Madcow was bullet-proof. Apparently not. From The Daily Beast:

And it’s also possible that the Mueller disappointment drove loyal viewers away in much the same way that people avoid looking at their 401(k)s when the stock market is down. Maddow, who has consistently vied for the first or second top-rated cable news program, was sixth on Monday evening, down almost 500,000 total viewers from the previous Monday, as was MSNBC’s second top-rated program in primetime, The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell. 

But I was really, really wrong. I was sure Rachel Madcow's ratings would soar: with millions tuning in to see her cry.