Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Clean Energy Has a Dirty Little Secret
Clean Energy Has a Dirty Little Secret"Clean energy has a dirty little secret, just revealed by MIT science writing student Shel Evergreen:
Its “unsustainable” appetite for minerals and the dirty ways they’re obtained.
From Evergreen’s report for Ars Technica:
From Evergreen’s report for Ars Technica:
- In South America’s Atacama Desert, salt flats are dotted with shallow, turquoise-colored lithium brine pools.
- In the Democratic Republic of Congo, children chip at the ground for cobalt.
- In China, toxic chemicals leach neodymium from the earth.
All that extraction “presents humanitarian, environmental, and logistical challenges,” she writes..."
Student-Debt Forgiveness: A Brazen Gift to the Rich | National Review
Student-Debt Forgiveness: A Brazen Gift to the Rich | National Review link
- The plan being mulled by the Biden administration to cancel and forgive up to $1.6 trillion of federal student-loan debt is a brazen act of class warfare by the affluent against everyone else.
- It is a politically, and cosmically, unjustifiable robbery that offers yet more rope for the decadent and totally indefensible American college system to become even more decadent and indefensible.
- The overwhelming majority of student debt is held by the affluent; less than 10 percent of it is held by the bottom third of earners.
- Nearly 40 percent of it is held by students who earned advanced degrees — many of them now doctors and lawyers. Unemployment for the college-educated is less than 2 percent..."
"...one day he decides he is a walrus..." (Read it all!)
Facebook link Harriett Lublin 
HT Stuart Sullivan--"You know, when we went to Florida, our 7 year old expressed the desire to be an alligator.
It was really heart-breaking to leave him there in the swamp, but, a 7 year old is mature enough to know what he really wants...sarcasm."
Jeffrey S Malashock link From my friend Neil Chernoff
"Matt Walsh wrote a book called, "Johnny the Walrus".
"Matt Walsh wrote a book called, "Johnny the Walrus".
It is about a boy who imagines himself as many things, but one day he decides he is a walrus. [The rest is spoilers -- but you are not going to pay $18 for a comic book that is 30 pages long anyway.]
The "internet" people then decide that Johnny should be allowed (in fact pressured) to be an actual walrus.
The "internet" people then decide that Johnny should be allowed (in fact pressured) to be an actual walrus.
His mother, feeling pressured takes him to a doctor who prescribes worms and grey makeup, followed by a minor procedure to change his hands into fins so he can be an actual walrus...
There is no "trans" here except in metaphor.
...And yet the staff at Amazon were massively triggered. One guy crying because the, "book teaches children to 'kill transgenders' or 'bully them into committing suicide'" ..Read all!!
YouTube Censors Strike Again for No Good Reason, Then Do About-Face
YouTube Censors Strike Again for No Good Reason, Then Do About-Face:
You can judge for yourself whether we engaged in any “misinformation” or whether YouTube just repeated its egregious, partisan behavior of censoring any discussions that it doesn’t like politically to ensure that any factual information that it thinks the public shouldn’t have is suppressed. It appears it was embarrassed when it got caught and reversed its decision.
History for May 3
History for May 3 - On-This-Day.com
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Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel
- 1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
- 1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
- 1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."
- 1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.
- 1966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
- 1971 - James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, was caught in a jailbreak attempt.
- 1986 - In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff. Safety officers destroyed it by remote control.
- 1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
Monday, May 02, 2022
Left IGNORED the warning signs of Twitter's POLITICAL Climate Change and are panicking - TheBlaze
Left IGNORED the warning signs of Twitter's POLITICAL Climate Change and are panicking - TheBlaze:
"People like Elon Musk, hats off to him, Jason said. "The man with the money is fed up with their censorship and tactics, the whole climate around media, the woke media, CNN collapsed. Rachel Maddow running away from her TV show. Netflix collapsing, losing subscribers. We're in the middle of the climate change America needs, and the left is losing its mind. Don't look up, and they're all scared," Jason said.
Douglas Andrews: The Military's 'Extremism' Hoax | The Patriot Post
Douglas Andrews: The Military's 'Extremism' Hoax | The Patriot Post link
- Contrary to the disgraceful claims of the Biden administration, the U.S. military isn’t a hotbed of “extremism.”
"Last year, according to Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, the U.S. military spent $1 million and 5.8 million man hours on programs meant to root out extremism, improve diversity, and prepare for the national security challenges of climate change.
That’s a lie, of course. Unless we’re paying our military personnel 17 cents per hour. In fact, the average hourly wage for our warriors works out to just under $21 per hour. So if we spent 5.8 million man hours rooting out extremism last year, then we spent somewhere around $122 million, not $1 million..."
That total is larger than the population of Boston, Mass!
Facebook NumbersUSA
"According to a court brief dated April 14 and filed in the Supreme Court, Biden’s administration has released more than 750,000 border-crossers into the United States since he assumed office.
"According to a court brief dated April 14 and filed in the Supreme Court, Biden’s administration has released more than 750,000 border-crossers into the United States since he assumed office.
That total is larger than the population of Boston, Mass., and represents just how much Biden’s DHS has put its Catch and Release mechanisms into overdrive."
Disney Exec Quits Following Florida Debacle After Three Months on the Job
Disney Exec Quits Following Florida Debacle After Three Months on the Job:
Geoff Morrell, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at The Walt Disney Company, is calling it quits after just three months on the job during which Disney took significant hits for its embrace of woke ideologies and decision to vocally oppose a parental rights law in Florida where Walt Disney World is located. That showdown saw the Sunshine State's legislature pass a bill to strip Disney World of its special district status that allowed the park to enjoy autonomy since the 1960s.
'Extraordinarily frustrated': Renters can find no place to plug in electric vehicles
'Extraordinarily frustrated': Renters can find no place to plug in electric vehicles link
"...Even as it appears electric car sales are hitting a tipping point, those living in apartments and condominiums around the nation can find it difficult, expensive or outright impossible to find a way to plug in when they’re at home.
With nearly 1 out of 3 households living in apartments or condominiums, the goal of switching to electric vehicles to fight climate change and save on gas becomes all the more challenging..."
Clay Higgins: DHS Chief Mayorkas Carrying Out 'Insidious Agenda' to Transform America with Illegal Immigration
Clay Higgins: DHS Chief Mayorkas Carrying Out 'Insidious Agenda' to Transform America with Illegal Immigration:
“We’ve lost our sovereignty down there [at the border],” Higgins said. “The nation has been generationally impacted. There’s no guarantee we can ever really recover.”
“They have effectively injured America to the extent of the collapse and open border … they have potentially injured America to the extent that we’ll have generational change that will be sort of a post-Biden reality of what America looks like because of what’s going on at the border,” He continued. “Mayorkas knows this and he’s like talking to a machine … he is quite focused as he delivers the insidious agenda and chosen lines and talking points of the Left.”
Imagine the media response if she worked for a democrat-approved business-----Dollar General Did Something No Company Should Ever Do. Now It Must Live With the Consequences
Dollar General Did Something No Company Should Ever Do. Now It Must Live With the Consequences link
- What would you do if someone posted a viral video about working conditions at your company?
- Employee hours were severely limited by the company, she said, leading to her or another employee often working alone in the store.
- Shipments arrived unexpectedly, and with no staff to unpack them, she was forced by company policy to leave boxes stacked up in the aisles, blocking the store shelves and leading to customer complaints.
The TikTok videos went viral, and Dollar General fired her, even though it had informed her a couple of months earlier that she was in the top performing 5 percent of store managers.
That was just one of a series of mistakes that has led the company down what must be a very uncomfortable path..."
Zurawik: 'We Are Headed to Hell' If Congress Doesn't Regulate Musk | Newsbusters
Zurawik: 'We Are Headed to Hell' If Congress Doesn't Regulate Musk | Newsbusters link
"On Sunday’s episode of CNN’s Reliable Sources, media analyst and rabid leftist David Zurawik claimed that Congress needs to step in to regulate social media platforms now that free speech advocate Elon Musk has bought Twitter.
- “...There's a bigger problem here about how we are going to control the channels of communication in this country.
- ...Becoming more and more unhinged, Zurawik cried: “This is dangerous. We can't think anymore in this country.” This caused host Brian Stelter to audibly laugh.
- ...Ending his rage-filled tirade Zurawik whined: “You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell. We are there. Trump opened the gates of hell and now they're chasing us down.”
This shows how detached from reality they truly are..."
Gaetz Highlights Troops Fighting Biden's DOD Vaccine Mandate
Gaetz Highlights Troops Fighting Biden's DOD Vaccine Mandate:
Gaetz said that at a recent event in his district, which has the highest concentration of active duty military members in the country, a number of service members expressed frustration to him about the mandate.
“It is a purposeful Biden purge of our military,” Gaetz said Thursday on his podcast Firebrand.
Despite a broad reduction of pandemic-related restrictions by cities and businesses across the country, and despite the low number of service member deaths due to the coronavirus, the Biden administration is insisting that troops continue to get vaccinated or face discharge.
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