Note they warn "blackouts", not "brownouts".-----The Energy ‘Transition’ — a Leap into the Dark

The Energy ‘Transition’ — a Leap into the Dark

• Not for the first time, it strikes me that the transition away from fossil fuels may be moving rather more quickly than the technology upon which it is supposed to rely.

"The Wall Street Journal:
Summer is around the corner, and we suggest you prepare by buying an emergency generator, if you can find one in stock. 

Last week the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned that two-thirds of the U.S. could experience blackouts this summer. 

Welcome to the “green energy transition.”

We’ve been warning for years that climate policies would make the grid more vulnerable to vacillations in supply and demand....

...Meanwhile, the WSJ adds:
Natural-gas-fired plants can help pick up the slack, but there aren’t enough of them to back up all of the renewables coming onto the grid.
...Even Bloomberg...“The pace of our grid transformation is out of sync” with the physical realities of the existing power network, Moura said.
Moura? 

That would be John Moura, director of reliability assessment and performance analysis for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a regulatory body that oversees grid stability. Oh.
Perhaps now would not be the moment to overload the grid further by “nudging” (or more) drivers into electric vehicles..."

Nov. 12, 2020--Always trust experts. Always!

 

DOLT!-----Chevy Volt Short-Circuit: Virtue-Signaling GM Exec Gets Owned on Clean Energy

Chevy Volt Short-Circuit: Virtue-Signaling GM Exec Gets Owned on Clean Energy

“What really powers electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt” is not a question GM Environment and Energy Policy executive Kristin Zimmerman is comfortable answering, as you’ll see in today’s must-watch clip.
...Then things went south when someone asked, “So what’s charging the batteries right now?”
Just to be clear, Zimmerman is no dummy. She has multiple degrees, including a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics. 

As you’re about to see, it isn’t that she doesn’t know the answer — it’s that she doesn’t seem to want to admit it while showing off GM’s renewed EV efforts.
“Well, it’s here,” Zimmerman said. “It’s coming from the building.”
You can’t make this stuff up. Just watch the clip already.

When pressed, Zimmerman said, “Actually, Lansing feeds the building,” referring to the local utility company. “Lansing feeds power to the building.”..."

#1 This day 1975-----America Sister Golden Hair

They can't even teach simple arithmetic!!-----Personal finance would be a required class under bill headed to governor’s desk

Personal finance would be a required class under bill headed to governor’s desk

"Legislation that would require Michigan high school students take a personal finance course in order to graduate is headed to the governor’s desk after earning broad bipartisan support in the state legislature.

...It was approved with a 94-13 vote..."

That experiment in government "education" failed!

 

Louisiana Bans Transgender Athletes from Women's Sports

Louisiana Bans Transgender Athletes from Women's Sports: 

The state of Louisiana has now officially banned biological males from competing in women’s sports.

The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act passed the Republican-led state legislature and became law after Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards agreed to neither approve nor veto the bill.

Progressive America is the Twilight Zone - American Thinker

Progressive America is the Twilight Zone - American Thinker

"...America’s troubles aren’t from “We the People.”  

We the People are decent, law-abiding folk.  

We’re working jobs and raising our kids.  

We’re good neighbors.  

We play between the lines, as they say. "...

We’re being crushed, increasingly daily.  

• Inflation climbs...   
• The U.S.-Mexico border – what border, you say?...
• Crime grows worse and keeps spreading....
• Is an ominous, long, hot summer in the offing?  The Department of Homeland Security warns “yes.”  But do we trust Biden’s DHS?    

From Fox News, June 7:

"Threat actors have recently mobilized to violence due to factors such as personal grievances, reactions to current events, and adherence to violent extremist ideologies, including racially or ethnically motivated or anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism," DHS said...

Is DHS hinting that hordes of white supremacists and American First patriots will cause mayhem in an election year?  Curiously coincidental, no?..." 

AM Fruitcake

 

History for June 10

History for June 10 - On-This-Day.com

Saul Bellow 1915

• 1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. 
• 1898 - U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
• 1903 - Binney & Smith Company began developing a product line of wax crayons. The product was named Crayola.
• 1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.
• 1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.
• 1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
• 1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.
• 1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

CNN data reporter lays out devastating case why Republicans are in 'best position' to dominate midterm elections - TheBlaze

CNN data reporter lays out devastating case why Republicans are in 'best position' to dominate midterm elections - TheBlaze: 

After observing that midterm election results are closely linked to presidential approval, Enten explained the real problem for Democrats: Biden's approval on the economy is -26%, the lowest since Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s. Biden's embarrassing marks on the economy are thus the "big drag" for Democrats because Americans overwhelmingly are concerned about the economy, especially in a year of sky-high inflation and record-high gas prices.

The way we were-----World War II - Summary on a Map

Armed Teachers

On the Menu In Detroit: A Heapin’ Helpin’ of Red Tape

On the Menu In Detroit: A Heapin’ Helpin’ of Red Tape  - Genevieve O'Gara
"Detroit ranks among the hardest places to start a restaurant, in a recent survey of 20 cities conducted by the Institute for Justice. 

The Motor City is near the top in almost every category of regulatory obstacles for new dining establishments.
“Entrepreneurs in Detroit face serious regulatory hurdles,” says the February report “Barriers to Business,” which was written by Andrew Meleta and Alex Montgomery. 

The challenges are acute for
aspiring restaurant owners, who must 

• pay 15 separate fees, 
• get clearance from nine city agencies, 
• submit to twelve in-person visits, 
• fill out 20 different forms, and
•  perform a total of 77 steps to comply with various regulations..."

"Good thing they’re not Trump supporters..."-----Molotov Cocktail Lawyers Plead Guilty to Reduced Charges, Likely Will Get Only Two-Year Sentences

Molotov Cocktail Lawyers Plead Guilty to Reduced Charges, Likely Will Get Only Two-Year Sentences
“Under revised agreements, the defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit arson and possess an explosive device, with prosecutors recommending sentences of 18 to 24 months.”



The two former lawyers who threw a Molotov cocktail at a police car during the George Floyd riots have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and are expected to receive reduced sentences.
As we noted previously, they were originally facing a much harsher sentence.
...Prosecutors in this case have bent over backwards to ensure shorter sentences for these two.
Good thing they’re not Trump supporters..."

Journalist attempts road trip in electric car, ends up spending more time charging than sleeping. 'Fumes never smelled so sweet,' she says upon returning to gas fuel. - TheBlaze

Journalist attempts road trip in electric car, ends up spending more time charging than sleeping. 'Fumes never smelled so sweet,' she says upon returning to gas fuel. - TheBlaze: 

In a column for the newspaper published this month, the reporter chronicled the difficult journey with all of its pitfalls. It included a shorter range than expected, finicky charging cords, loads of slower-than-advertised charging stations, and large swaths of the country without any "fast" charging stations at all, among other hardships.

In the end, Wolfe said she and her road trip companion, Mack, spent more hours waiting to charge than they did sleeping — which is not exactly a recipe for a successful and enjoyable trip.

LA Anti-Gun Protesters Know Nothing About Guns

EU leaders as dumb, lazy and irresponsible as they were in 1912 and 1935-----E.U. lawmakers endorse banning combustion-engine cars by 2035 | Just The News

E.U. lawmakers endorse banning combustion-engine cars by 2035 | Just The News

• Environmentalists applauded the vote while German automakers warned there is a lack of charging stations to make the plan feasible.
  

"...Lawmakers voted to mandate automakers to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 100% within 13 years,  essentially banning the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel.

EU lawmakers also endorsed a 55% reduction in automobile carbon dioxide emissions..."

Lunch video-----There was an unexpected 40% increase in 'all cause deaths' in 2021

Noon-toon

 

WH press secretary crashes and burns when confronted over Biden's latest use of Defense Production Act: 'What's the real emergency?' - TheBlaze

WH press secretary crashes and burns when confronted over Biden's latest use of Defense Production Act: 'What's the real emergency?' - TheBlaze: 

On Monday, Biden authorized the Department of Energy to use the DPA to "rapidly expand" American manufacturing of solar panel components, building insulation, heat pumps, "equipment for making and using clean electricity-generated fuels," and power grid infrastructure.

Where is the outrage?

 

Lies don't matter to leftists!-----The last vestiges of fact-checker integrity

The last vestiges of fact-checker integrity  - Tom Knighton
"So-called fact-checkers have shown their bias for a while now. 

• Politifact, for example, will call criticism of President Biden’s actual words false based on what the president meant, for example, while affording Republicans no such benefit.

...Yet there was still a hope that eventually, a sense of integrity would surface and they’d knock it off.

They brutally murdered that sense of integrity with this stunt.

"But recently Politifact, a Facebook-approved partner in so-called “fact-checking,” went to even more desperate lengths to protect a Democrat from legitimate criticism by way of using their vast power to slap a “missing context” label on some stories shared to Facebook that were critical of Politifact’s May 24th “fact check” of a tweet from Georgia’s attorney general that claimed Stacey Abrams supported Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game out of Georgia last year after the state’s election reform bill was signed into law. Politifact labeled the claim “false,” but our sister site Twitchy was among several that noted in their write-ups about it that Politifact left out the fact that the USA Today editorial Abrams wrote that they cited as “evidence” was actually stealth-edited after publication and after MLB made their decision in what some suggested was a deliberate editorial move designed to soften Abrams’ stance on boycotts in order to make her seem less supportive of them.

Here’s the thing about the stealth-edit, though. 

Everyone knew it had been edited. 

USA Today was blasted for the edit. 

There are numerous news reports with evidence that the edits happened..."

Do they really know it's fake?

Wising up!-----College degrees are becoming irrelevant, career coach says | The College Fix

College degrees are becoming irrelevant, career coach says | The College Fix

• The percentage of job listings that require a degree has dropped

Employers have started to look at training on the job as a better measure of skills than a college degree, according to one career expert.
...“On-the-job training is replacing the college diploma,” Coleman told The Fix through a spokesperson.

 “To put it simply, the ‘knowledge’ that comes with a degree isn’t relevant to the job.”
...He said on his show that in 2017, 51 percent of job listings required at least a 4-year degree...in five years he could see the number of jobs that require a college degree drop to 25 percent..."

#1 This day 1963-----Kyu Sakamoto ~ Sukiyaki (Official Music Video) [Ai Upscale Remaster]

A cautionary tale. Read it BEFORE you buy!-----I rented an electric car for a 4-day road trip. I spent more time charging it than I did sleeping. | Fox Business

I rented an electric car for a 4-day road trip. I spent more time charging it than I did sleeping. | Fox Business  -By Rachel Wolfe Wall Street Journal

• 
  Four days and 2,000 miles from New Orleans to Chicago totaled $175 in charging costs
• I thought it would be fun.
  

"That's what I told my friend Mack when I asked her to drive with me from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric car.
...Over four days, we spent $175 on charging. 

We estimated the equivalent cost for gas in a Kia Forte would have been $275, based on the AAA average national gas price for May 19. 

That $100 savings cost us many hours in waiting time.
But that's not the whole story..."

Signs and virtue preening instead of real protection for children.

 

Ron DeSantis warns woke corporations of Disney's huge mistake - TheBlaze

Ron DeSantis warns woke corporations of Disney's huge mistake - TheBlaze: 

He continued, "I took an oath to support the laws and Constitution of the U.S and the state of Florida. I did not take an oath to subcontract out my leadership to a corporation based in Burbank, California. They don't run this state ..."

Another bogus "study" weaponized against those who oppose leftist hegemony!!-----People Living In Pro-Trump Counties More Likely To Die From Covid, Study Finds

People Living In Pro-Trump Counties More Likely To Die From Covid, Study Finds
"People living in counties that voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election were more likely to die from Covid-19 than those living in counties that voted Democrat, according to a study published in Health Affairs on Monday, underscoring the effects of a partisan response to the pandemic as officials move to counter another surge in cases.

...Disparate mortality rates are likely due to structural, policy and behavioral differences in more conservative counties, the researchers said...
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“The impact of partisanship doesn’t only impact people of one political stripe,” Sehgal said. 

“Not everyone who lives in a Republican county votes Republican... 

• Even in the reddest counties, you have people who aren’t able to vote or aren’t able to leave, and yet are subject to the policies and behaviors that surround them.”...

The bogus study" correlating covid deaths:

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00085

The bogus "study" correlating ALL deaths:

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069308