MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Archive for 2019
December 25, 2019
SILENT NIGHT: Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914. Had the truce led to an end of fighting, as some top brass feared, it would now be regarded as the miracle that saved Christendom. But it didn’t, and it wasn’t, and it hasn’t.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! The Power Line Christmas Day in Pictures: Special Edition.
SADLY, THAT’S NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM HERE: In Hong Kong crackdown, police repeatedly broke their own rules — and faced no consequences.
BORIS JOHNSON: We Will Stand Up For Persecuted Christians.
In his Christmas message, the Prime Minister called on the British people to remember “those Christians around the world who are facing persecution.”
“For them, Christmas Day will be marked in private, in secret, perhaps even in a prison cell,” he said. “As Prime Minister, that’s something I want to change.”
“We stand with Christians everywhere, in solidarity, and will defend your right to practice your faith.”
The Prime Minister began his message by acknowledging that Christmas Day is “first and foremost, a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.”
“It is a day of inestimable importance to billions of Christians the world over,” he added.
If you live in this world, you’re feeling the change of the guard.
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IT’S A ZOMBIE: The last thing 21st century feminists should want is the Equal Rights Amendment. It would make various female-friendly government policies a lot harder to defend in court. But that’s what they say they want.
A not-so-odd fact: In 1996, when feminist organizations had the chance to support an amendment to the state constitution that prohibited California from discriminating on the basis of sex, they went crazy in opposition. “It will destroy affirmative action!” they cried. They even ran a television ad in opposition to the measure in which a women in a white coat with a stethoscope was stripped down to her underwear by male hands. Are we now supposed to believe they think a Constitutional amendment banning discrimination is a great idea?
MERRY CHRISTMAS: ‘Awakening’: Black voters ‘abandoned’ by Democrats warm to Trump.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS: The decade that blew up energy predictions.
In 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected that in 2019, the U.S. would be producing about six million barrels of oil a day. The reality? We’re now producing 12 million barrels of oil a day.
Meanwhile, EIA projected oil prices would be more than $100 a barrel. They’re currently hovering around $60 a barrel.
What’s happening: A pair of extraction methods — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — have unlocked far more oil and gas than experts had predicted, and companies have gotten hyper-efficient extracting more oil from each well.
EIA had projected in 2010 that the U.S. would be importing a net eight million barrels of petroleum by now, which includes crude oil and petroleum products like gasoline. In September, the U.S. actually exported a net 89,000 barrels of petroleum.
Flashback: A driving reason behind this is Congress lifting the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports in 2015, a policy change few thought possible a decade ago.
In 2010, EIA projected that the U.S. would be producing about 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas by now. In 2018, the last full year of annual data, we produced more than 30 trillion.
What’s happening: Horizontal drilling and fracking are the key drivers here too — though oil is typically more valuable than gas, so the increase has been greater with oil than gas.
Meanwhile greenhouse emissions, predicted to be up, are down. And all of this happened . . . wait for it, wait for it . . . unexpectedly!
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: U.S. Box Office Revenue Falls 4 Percent in 2019, Sharpest Decline in 5 Years.
I’M SORRY, QUILL WAS RIGHTLY DECIDED AND WAYFAIR IS WRONG: Wayfair decision hammering catalog sellers into extinction. “For big companies, he said, complying with the various state laws is ‘painful and expensive but not at all fatal.’ However, the smaller the company, the more painful it becomes.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Pope Announces Any Time Spent Watching The View Counts As Time Served In Purgatory.
From the Babylon Bee, America’s Paper of Record.
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IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN’T DO? Christmas Weight Gain Could Be Offset With Coffee, Study Finds.
WAR ON CHRISTMAS UPDATE: Trump Admin Investigating Ban on Religious Christmas Displays at Missouri Senior Home.
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