Why you should never believe corporate welfare promises

Why you should never believe corporate welfare promises - By Michael D. LaFaive 

• Planners’ forecast for Ford plant was comically wrong; will anybody be held to account?

Michigan seems to be ending 2023 the way it began, with surprise news about Ford Motor Company’s $1.7 billion, taxpayer-subsidized deal to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Marshall. 

In February, the head of a local development authority predicted the plant would directly employ 2,500 people. 

In late November, Ford announced a scaled-down version that would employ just 1,700. 

That’s a 32% reduction – just in the number of promised jobs, not even jobs that may ultimately exist.
The Ford case is more evidence that Lansing politicians and state officials should not be in the corporate handout business...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 20

History for December 20 - On-This-Day.com 

Harvey Firestone 1868 - Founder Firestone Tire and Rubber Company

• 1606 - The "Susan Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail from London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the first permanent English settlement in America.
• 1790 - The first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.
• 1803 - The United States Senate ratified a treaty that included the Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million. The transfer was completed with formal ceremonies in New Orleans.
• 1879 - Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ.
• 1892 - Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the pneumatic tire.
• 1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

Monmouth Poll: Biden's Approval Rating�Falls to Lowest of Presidency

Monmouth Poll: Biden's Approval Rating�Falls to Lowest of Presidency: 

President Joe Biden’s approval rating has hit a new low during his presidency, a Monmouth University poll found Monday, highlighting fears among Democrats who are unhappy the president, 81, is the party’s presumptive nominee.

The way we were-----Deadliest Avalanche: "White Friday", December 13, 1916

Watch Host's Face as Thomas Sowell Exposes the Real Origin of Jew Hatred

Biden Border Crisis: Texas Railways at International Crossings Suspended Due to Migrant Surge

Biden Border Crisis: Texas Railways at International Crossings Suspended Due to Migrant Surge 

• Remember the video of thousands of migrants trying to catch a train in Mexico to the border?

...“Beginning December 18 2023 at 8:00 AM local time, CBP’s Office of Field Operations will temporarily suspend operation at the international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas in order to redirect personnel to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody,” continued CBP...

Liberals destroy society - Don Surber

Liberals destroy society - Don Surber 

• From dams to cities to children, they demolish everything

"I see in the papers that Kanye West went off his meds. TMZ reported, “Kanye West is apparently in the grips of a serious mental health episode...Hates Trump. Hates Jews. Blames others for his problems...
What liberals appear to support changes constantly. 

• Liberals who once embraced feminism now dismiss it as a movement by suburban white women. Men in dresses replaced real women who are now called TERFs, an acronym for women without testosterone.
• I recall how women in the 1960s objected to being called broads and dames. Abracadabra, feminism came along. Liberals now call them bitches and ho’s. Problem solved.
• Liberals recently downgraded mothers to birthing people. A woman now is just a bonus hole in liberal land, which further downgrades women, as well as normal sex.

These changes came so rapidly that people cannot keep up, but people nonetheless must instantly pledge allegiance to whatever the core beliefs of liberalism are this week...

Jordan: Entire House GOP Approving Impeachment Inquiry Will Help in Court

Jordan: Entire House GOP Approving Impeachment Inquiry Will Help in Court: 

The House formally voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry into Biden on Wednesday in a vote that was 221 to 212. In other words, this was a unanimous vote, as Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who previously hinted that he would oppose the effort, voted alongside his GOP colleagues, as Breitbart News detailed.

“I think you hit on something really important: that every single Republican voted to do this,” Jordan said. “I think that is huge because the conventional wisdom was, ‘Oh, they don’t have to vote, and if they do, they’re going to be some Republicans [who] voted,’ but every single Republican voted for it.”

Toyota's New Transmission Shocks the Entire Car Industry

Dave Agema - In 2006 I knocked on doors to run for a State...

Dave Agema - In 2006 I knocked on doors to run for a State... | Facebook  

"In 2006 I knocked on doors to run for a State Representative position and won handily. 

• I ran on no tax increases and stopping illegal immigration. 

I was mocked by both democrats and republicans; however, I was right.

It’s a security issue, fiscal issue and crime issue. 

It must stop. 

• Biden encourages it which is treason. 
• Governors like Granholm, Whitmer and Snyder allowed it...

Lunch video-----The Climate Afterlife

"Five and a half years ago, United Nations climate envoy Greta Thunberg said 

"A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years."

Noon-toon

 

Biden silent on Kamala's success as 'border czar' as illegals surge

Biden silent on Kamala's success as 'border czar' as illegals surge: 

The Border Patrol has recorded record-high months of illegal crossings at the southern border, including in September when there were more than 218,000 migrant encounters, October when there were more than 188,000 and in August when there were 181,000, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

"Fetterman is right:

 

"...to show more warming, you change that to the 20th century average baseline.

Then to show more warming, you change that to the 20th century average baseline. - Eric Negrón
"You’re an alarmist. 

You want to show that warmer temperatures are now happening.

• First you start with a 1951 - 1980 baseline.
• Then to show more warming, you change that to the 20th century average baseline.
• But to throw the skeptics off, you lower the temperature baseline once again by pretending the 1880-1920 baseline is better...

https://www.co2.earth/global-warming-update

Notice how little temperature increase takes place between 1850 to 1920.

"... This highlights the stark difference between a democratic state and militant Iran-proxy terrorists.

A State-by-State Look at Noncitizen Voting - American Thinker

A State-by-State Look at Noncitizen Voting - American Thinker By Joe Fried

"Very recently, the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports released the shocking results of their survey of 1,085 national likely voters.
Of the ten questions asked, I think the most disturbing responses were related to these:

• “During the 2020 election, did you cast a mail-in ballot in a state where you were no longer a permanent resident?” (17% said, “Yes.”).
• “During the 2020 election, did a friend, family member, or organization, such as a political party, offer to pay or reward you for voting?” (8% said, “Yes.”).
• “Do you know a friend, family member, co-worker, or other acquaintance who has admitted to you that he or she filled out a ballot on behalf of another person?” (11% said, “Yes.”).

Those results are bad enough, but I’d like to expand them to include two groups that probably did not respond to the survey: noncitizens and dead people...

#1 this day 1965-----The Dave Clark Five - Over And Over

The Uncomfortable Truths of October 7 and Modern America - The Messenger

The Uncomfortable Truths of October 7 and Modern America - The Messenger - Jessica Tarlov 

• Jews across the globe knew that Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack was different. The scale and the planning it took. The medieval approach and butchery. The trauma inflicted. The sexual atrocities.
• But what we couldn’t have expected was how deeply the attack, and the ensuing fallout, would be felt here in America....

"I see six critical categories of American life that are potentially forever changed. 

These changes and realignments are especially pronounced for liberals, who find themselves with strange bedfellows more than they could have imagined.
Antisemitism...
Sexual atrocities: Very little renders me speechless, but the brutal rapes and abuse Hamas terrorists inflicted on Israeli women is enough to catch me startled and speechless. And if that doesn’t get you, the choice of global leaders to turn a blind eye — and sometimes excuse — their actions will...
Social justice movements...

"Here's the way forward on election integrity:

Senate staffer Aidan Maese-Czeropski accused of filming gay sex video in hearing room responds | Blaze Media

Senate staffer Aidan Maese-Czeropski accused of filming gay sex video in hearing room responds | Blaze Media: 

A sexually explicit video of two men having gay sex in a U.S. Senate hearing room went viral on Friday. The gay sex reportedly took place inside hearing room 216 in the Hart Senate Office Building.

One of the men allegedly in the video is Aidan Maese-Czeropski – an aide for Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland.

Maese-Czeropski responded to the allegations on Friday with a statement posted on LinkedIn. He seems to play the victim and hints that he was one of the men having gay sex in a Senate hearing room.

Good stuff!-----A Lesson in TLW's New Real Climate Science Course

A Lesson in TLW's New Real Climate Science Course

• What specific chemical properties of carbon dioxide causes the greenhouse effect? 
• Why, chemically, is carbon more reflective than other gases?

"Questions like these are indicative of widespread ignorance about radiative and thermal physics. 

I have deeply studied the subject for decades, so let me attempt to enlighten you. 

• Call it Climate Science 101.

...NOAA and NCAR are part of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global octopus of kept scientists, academics, journalists, politicians, and bankers that wants all world govts. 

• to shut down their fossil fuel industries to stop CO2 emissions, which they claim are causing global warming, 
• coincidentally costing trillions and destroying the entire Western capitalist understructure 
• to pave the way for their real goal of global Marxism, 
• which they no longer deny but brag about under the names Green New Deal and Great Reset, 
• whose real goal is now revealed to be massive redistribution of wealth from shorn Western sheep for their idea of Marxist social-racial justice...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 19

History for December 19 - On-This-Day.com

Leonid Brezhnev (Russia) 1906

• 1871 - Corrugated paper was patented by Albert L. Jones
• 1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column in "The New York Globe".
• 1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
• 1973 - Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show."
• 1989 - U.S. troops invaded Panama to overthrow the regime of General Noriega.
• 1996 - The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "ebonics." The board later reversed its stance.
• 1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 2008 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed a $17.4 billion rescue package of loans for ailing auto makers General Motors and Chrysler.

Harvard excluded Jews in identity-based graduations in now-deleted webpage amid school's anti-Semitism scandal | Blaze Media

Harvard excluded Jews in identity-based graduations in now-deleted webpage amid school's anti-Semitism scandal | Blaze Media: 

Harvard University reportedly hosted graduation celebrations for certain identity groups in 2023, and one of the groups excluded from such celebrations were Jews. Fox News Digital reported that the "Affinity Celebrations for Graduates" at the prestigious Ivy League institution had been deleted, but it strongly supported events that featured "Black Graduates," "Graduates with Disabilities," "Indigenous Graduates," "LGBTQ Graduates," "Arab Graduates," and "Latinx Graduates."

The way we were-----The Future Of The 1920s

The German Problem

Funding the enemy within!-----CCP-tied group is quietly fueling US-based climate initiatives: tax filings

CCP-tied group is quietly fueling US-based climate initiatives: tax filings 

"FIRST ON FOX: A climate-focused nonprofit with significant operations in Beijing has wired millions of dollars to fund climate initiatives and environmental groups in the U.S., according to tax filings first obtained by Fox News Digital...

Its recently filed tax form show the group, which refers to itself as "Energy Foundation China," contributed $3.8 million to initiatives in the U.S. like phasing out coal and electrifying the transportation sector...

In 2023 we've Burned a Ton of Coal for Every Human on Earth

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | In 2023 we've Burned a Ton of Coal for Every Human on Earth | Facebook - Gus Mahlr
"The best kept secret in the world is that humans are using more coal than ever
So much for the “stranded dead asset”. 

In 2022 the world set a new all-time record for coal use — reaching 8.4 billion tons. 

In 2023, despite all the Net Zero billions in spending, despite the boom in windmills and solar panels, global demand for coal will top 8.54 billion tons.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d...

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