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Points West Online: Seven Days in Glasgow with Buffalo Bill, 1904, Part 1

Posted on June 22, 2023 by dgr

Sunday, July 31, 1904

Following their departure from Dumbarton, a few miles to the west, the first of Buffalo Bill’s special trains steamed into the Caledonian Railway’s Gushetfaulds goods station in Glasgow’s Gorbals district on the south bank of the River Clyde. It was three-thirty in the morning; the remaining trains arrived shortly thereafter and unloading commenced at five. By seven-thirty, the whole impedimenta were in place and breakfast had been served, leaving the company free to enjoy its customary day of rest.

Three weeks after the Glasgow run, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West “advertising brigade,” pictured here, coordinated details for the Wild West’s venue in Ayr, Scotland, “the county town for where we live” says author Cunningham. This image is from the Harrison H. Gunning scrapbook; Gunning was at one time one of the Wild West’s advertising agents. Note attached reads: “The Buffalo Bill advertising brigade. H.H. Gunning on right. A Sunday outing in the land of Burns a trip to his birth place showing his monument & the Bridge of Doon is close by also the cottage where he was born. Ayr Scotland Sunday August 27 1904.”’

Source: Points West Online: Seven Days in Glasgow with Buffalo Bill, 1904, Part 1

Category: Blog, Cities, History, People, Words | Tags: Dumbarton, Glasgow, westerns

Biden’s Solar Push Is Destroying The Desert And Releasing Stored Carbon

Posted on May 30, 2023 by dgr

There are two very good articles reprinted in this piece. If you are looking for serious research coming to honest conclusions with contextually appropriate commentary, read this.

We might first look at Mojave yucca (Yucca schidigera), an ancient, extremely slow-growing plant that is very common across both the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, and that has been found to reach ages of 2000+ years. We could calculate how much carbon one plant captures each year, then extrapolate how much carbon an individual yucca plant would sequester in say, a 1000-year lifespan. Then figure how many Mojave yuccas are expected to be ripped from the ground in a typical industrial solar field such as the newly-approved 5,000-acre Yellow Pine Solar Project in the Mojave Desert (Pahrump, Nevada) – in this case, over 80,000 Mojave yuccas will meet their demise during the construction of an array expected to operate for perhaps twenty years before becoming obsolete. Will the reduction in carbon that would have been sequestered (and stored underground) by those 80,000 Mojave yuccas actually be offset by possibly twenty years of the solar project that replaced them?

Source: Biden’s Solar Push Is Destroying The Desert And Releasing Stored Carbon | ZeroHedge

Category: Analysis, nature | Tags: carbon, desert, plants

The Transgender Activist Community Is About to Be Taught a Long Overdue Lesson – RedState

Posted on May 2, 2023 by dgr

This is what a bunch of losers looks like just before they lose.

The thing about the silent majority is that they’re very slow to anger and will tolerate being poked, prodded, and harassed for a shockingly long time. However, after enough victims have been created and events have transpired, that same majority that tolerated all of this will begin to lose its goodwill.

Source: The Transgender Activist Community Is About to Be Taught a Long Overdue Lesson – RedState

Category: Health, nature, Politics | Tags: hubris, patience, trans

VIDEO: Norman Traversy’s speech on corruption in Canada – Diverge Media

Posted on April 30, 2023 by dgr

Diverge Media is an independent news organization covering Canadian politics. We are dedicated to bringing you the stories that matter.

OTTAWA – Thousands of patriotic Canadians flooded Parliament Hill this first of July to rally together in the name of civil liberties.

Norman Traversy has been fighting Trudeau in court since September 2019 — but to no prevail — he was left unheard by the Ottawa courts.

https://youtu.be/VVKYcHqtJPQ

WATCH: Norman Traversy gives a speech on Parliament Hill on July 1, 2020.

This afternoon, after his speech, Traversy and his mass of Canadian patriots peacefully marched to the U.S., embassy in Ottawa, Ont., to hand over a 192 page document on corruption within the Trudeau government and Canada.

As of noon on July 1, 2020, U.S., President Donald Trump has received the electronic version of this document.

To find this document visit Justiceforcanada.ca.

Diverge Media spoke with Traversy after the handoff and asked him what he would like to see happen following the handoff to the U.S., Embassy.

“We’re going to hold their feet to the fire and make sure they do what they’re obliged to do in the treaty – especially section 27 – and this is not going away, this is just step one,” he said.

The treaty he is referring to is the United States, Mexico, Canadian trade agreement called the USMCA. This new agreement was put in place of NAFTA and just went into effect today.

Section 27 of the USMCA refers to anti-corruption within each party of the agreement and says:

“The parties recognize that the description of offenses adopted or maintained in accordance with this chapter, and of the applicable legal defenses or legal principles controlling the lawfulness of conduct, is reserved to each party’s law, and that those offenses shall be prosecuted and punished in accordance with each party’s law.”

This could mean that if the U.S., or Mexico find corruption within Canada, Canadians could see tariffs placed on the goods they receive from the United States and Mexico.

Time will tell what will happen in regards to these events.

Diverge Media will continue to cover this story as it develops.

Stay tuned.

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Source: VIDEO: Norman Traversy’s speech on corruption in Canada – Diverge Media

Category: People, Politics, Words | Tags: agreement, corruption, USMCA

The Growing Consumer Revolt Against Woke Ideology

Posted on April 26, 2023 by dgr

Do you see what is happening here? We are watching the rise of genuine consumer awareness and hence sovereignty. The public is finally fighting back.

Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

It’s likely true: No executives at Anheuser-Busch knew what the Bud Light marketing people were planning when they decided to deploy an absurdist and deeply offensive transgender TikTok influencer to sell their beer. But soon after it happened, public disgust became rather obvious. The crisis began, but for weeks, the company was in denial.

A six pack of Bud Light sits on a shelf for sale at a convenience store in New York City on July 26, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Finally, the CEO made a statement that only infuriated people more, simply because it wasn’t an apology or even an honest admission of anything that was happening. It had that sterilized and robotic quality we’ve come to associate with government statements that pretend that all is well when everyone knows it isn’t.

Two weeks ago, the line about Bud Light on the streets was that the consumer protest would run the news cycle and then disappear, that the protests were limited to the “far right” and “conservative activists” but that most consumers don’t care either way. Every story in the mainstream media said the same thing. They further suggested that if you don’t drink Bud Light, you are likely a dupe of dangerous fanatics.

But here we are three weeks later and finally, the company stepped up again to address the growing meltdown. They put both the vice president of marketing and her boss “on leave,” which one supposes is a way of firing them while minimizing the legal liabilities and the sense that the company was facing a real crisis.

“Given the circumstances, Alissa [Heinerscheid] has decided to take a leave of absence which we support,” an Anheuser-Busch spokeswoman wrote in an email to The Wall Street Journal. “Daniel [Blake] has also decided to take a leave of absence.”

I just love that “given the circumstances” line.

Source: The Growing Consumer Revolt Against Woke Ideology | ZeroHedge

Category: Business, economics, History, Politics | Tags: corporate, gender, woke

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