They swaggered through the jewelry store.
They thought they’d have some fun.
They’d seen cool gangstas on YouTube.
Like those, they had a gun.
But then they nearly peed their pants
‘Cause the owner of the store
Emerged with loaded 12-gage.*
They went racing for the door.
Run, you cowards, run!
‘Cause you’re no match
you’re no match
For a grandpa with a gun!
FK – The rest of this is pretty good too…
Plant Community Interactions under Elevated CO2
A number of experiments have found that some plant species that respond positively to elevated CO2 when grown alone experience decreased growth under elevated CO2 when grown in mixed plant communities (Poorter & Navas 2003). This effect likely results because the direct positive effects of elevated CO2 are outweighed by negative effects due to stimulation of the growth of competitors. Rising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 may therefore lead to changes in the composition of plant communities, as some species reap more of an advantage from the increased CO2 than do others. In mixed-species experiments under high fertility conditions, C4 plants decrease as a proportion of the biomass of plant communities under elevated CO2. Similarly, under low fertility conditions, legumes increase as a proportion of the biomass of plant communities under elevated CO2 (Poorter & Navas 2003).
Summary
Current evidence suggests that that the concentrations of atmospheric CO2 predicted for the year 2100 will have major implications for plant physiology and growth. Under elevated CO2 most plant species show higher rates of photosynthesis, increased growth, decreased water use and lowered tissue concentrations of nitrogen and protein. Rising CO2 over the next century is likely to affect both agricultural production and food quality. The effects of elevated CO2 are not uniform; some species, particularly those that utilize the C4 variant of photosynthesis, show less of a response to elevated CO2 than do other types of plants. Rising CO2 is therefore likely to have complex effects on the growth and composition of natural plant communities.
FK – Don’t know much about biology, but I know we can’t blindly trust either ‘side’ in this debate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMREFxPwoaU
FK – How far are we from ‘shoot, shovel and shut up?’
To review the bidding: The Senate was slated, last week, to consider amendments to the giant appropriations bill funding the Justice and Commerce Departments.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) had submitted an amendment to prohibit Attorney General Eric Holder from continuing Operation Choke Point — a program designed to shut down gun stores by forcing banks to dry up their credit and to stop processing their credit card purchases.
FK – Gridlock is good. Now shut down the BATF Nazi trash and try them for treason and execute them for enforcing evil laws that don’t belong in a free country. Then repeal GCA ’68 and the NFA.
FK – One can only imagine the evil that would commence in the ‘blue’ states, which are of course really ‘red'(commie) states if they were left to their own devices. Imagine having to present a passport to cross into New York State or New Jersey and automatically having your vehicle and personal belongings searched and if they found so much as a bullet or a gun magazine or just a paper magazine or book about guns you’d get an automatic jail term, like going into Mexico or Canada is damn near already. Imagine the unmeasurable corruption that would prevail in those places.
No. The answer is an extensive and thorough “Liberal”(commie) trash season whereby we eradicate enough of the trash to restore Liberty here, from shore to shore, form border to border. Then we look at Canada and Mexico because that trash doesn’t belong on this continent.
I suppose we’ll find out soon enough, as soon as Mark Meckler’s latest article begins being bounced around the Twittersphere and Facebook.
FK – Meckler’s article on Breitbart and my comment on it:
“States are the laboratories of democracy,” Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore David Long said. “If something gets done properly, it doesn’t come from Washington. It comes
from the states.”
Uh huh. Send democracy to hell where it belongs. Demand Liberty. Demand a restoration of the Bill of Rights. Some to most of the delegates will have the opposite intentions in mind. You can bank on it.
I’ll go along with this if there’s a militia encampment outside the front door to immediately arrest, try for treason and execute any “Liberal”(commie) trash or republicrats that show up.
FK – And we let them vote!
All would-be voters should have to do three things:
Prove citizenship.
Prove literacy in English.
Pass a test to show they have at least a basic understanding of our history and what form of government we’re supposed to have here, i.e. a very limited representative republic not a democracy!
Why? Because a lot of the parasites the commies depend on for constituency wouldn’t bother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pLRndRtc5g
FK – The commies want the illegals here so they can vote commie. In 2-3 generations or less most of this country won’t be recognizable because the commies will control the cities even more than they do now.
Here is a truth so fundamental that it should be self-evident: When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger. And yet that is exactly what happened at Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch this spring: An alleged criminal defeated the cops, because the forces of lawlessness came at them with guns — then Bureau of Land Management officials further surrendered by removing the government markings from their vehicles to prevent violence against them.
What Perlstein doesn’t mention, but undoubtedly knows, is that if the armed federal muscle had not backed off, the only other option would have been a bloody battle. Killing in wholesale numbers, over a dispute about where cows eat. This guy wants the government to go into combat against American citizens, very possibly igniting civil war, and has the audacity to claim that it’s the “gun nuts” who “are terrorizing America.”
FK – Is the trash finally admitting what’s it’s really about? Are you ready for what will be required?
Laments Kagan at the article’s outset:
Almost 70 years ago, a new world order was born from the rubble of World War II, built by and around the power of the United States. Today that world order shows signs of cracking, and perhaps even collapsing. The Russia-Ukraine and Syria crises, and the world’s tepid response, the general upheaval in the greater Middle East and North Africa, the growing nationalist and great-power tensions in East Asia, the worldwide advance of autocracy and retreat of democracy — taken individually, these problems are neither unprecedented nor unmanageable. But collectively they are a sign that something is changing, and perhaps more quickly than we may imagine. They may signal a transition into a different world order or into a world disorder of a kind not seen since the 1930s.
FK – The NWO is many things to many authoritarians… but mostly a way to squabble over and maintain power.