Buying power from Chicago will "lower blackout risk and costs"??!! What moron believes this?-----Are submarine cables through Lake Michigan the best way to help Michigan go green? | WOODTV.com

According to WPC, the state requires power drawn from Indiana and Ohio corridors almost 90% of the time.

• 
  Michigan already imports electricity. 
• According to WPC, the state requires power drawn from Indiana and Ohio corridors almost 90% of the time. 

A project like the Lake Michigan Connector would allow Michigan to tap into other markets — easing the burden of drawing from Chicago-based networks, lowering the risk of blackouts and likely even lowering costs...

Lunch video-----EXCLUSIVE: Riot photographer shares never-before-seen photos, says Walz ...

Noon-toon

 

Body of Trump's would-be assassin is 'gone,' congressman reveals FBI's 'unheard of' act in investigation 'obstruction' | Blaze Media

Body of Trump's would-be assassin is 'gone,' congressman reveals FBI's 'unheard of' act in investigation 'obstruction' | Blaze Media: 

Acongressman released a preliminary investigative report on the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump this week, in which he declared the body of the would-be assassin is "gone." The congressman also revealed an "unheard of" act committed by the FBI that he deemed an "obstruction to any following investigative effort."

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) — a member of the House Bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump — released his preliminary investigative report, in which he noted some of the eye-opening revelations that he had uncovered during his "boots on the ground" fact-finding trip to Butler, Pennsylvania, August 4-6.

Gotta wonder what the fine folks at Blackstone gonna do with all that info.

 

Junk Temperature Measuring Network Means the Met Office Cannot Prove There’s Been a “Dramatic Increase” in Temperature

...the state body funded by over £100 million a year is clearly riddled with green activists who, on the evidence that a number of sceptical journalists have presented, are using unreliable figures, carefully-curated statistics and inaccurate measurements to promote their own attachment to the insanity of hydrocarbon elimination - From THE DAILY SCEPTIC - by Chris Morrison.

• That would be the network where nearly eight out of 10 stations are deemed by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) to have ‘uncertainties’ – i.e., potential errors – between 2-5°C.
• The same junk stations that provide ‘record’ daily temperatures often in the same places, such as the urban heat furnace that is Heathrow airport.
• The same junk measurements that the Met Office uses to claim collated measurements down to one hundredth of a degree centigrade...

Michi-fornia!

 

We're not reporting crimes cuz we don't trust the government to protect us!-----Democrats hide the rise in violent crime with tricky stats

Between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022. - John Lott

• “Make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz warned in his first speech as Kamala Harris’ running mate.
• “If you look this up at home,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed last month, “you will know that crime went down under Biden and crime went up under Trump. Why would America want to go back to the higher crime we experienced under Donald Trump?”

But the opposite is true: Between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022.
...But Democrats and the media don’t understand the difference between the number of crimes reported to police and the total number of crimes.
There are two measures of crime: 

• One, the FBI’s NIBRS, counts the number of crimes reported to police yearly.
• The other, the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, asks about 240,000 people each year whether they have been victims of crime, in an attempt to measure both reported and unreported crimes....
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#1 This day 1982-----Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger (Official HD Video)

When you've lost the WaPo!-----This was written by the WaPo's Editorial Board.

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Facebook - Donald Sensing

"...The vice president instead opted for a less forthright route: Blaming big business. She vowed to go after “price gouging” by grocery stores, landlords, pharmaceutical companies and other supposed corporate perpetrators by having the Federal Trade Commission enforce a vaguely defined “federal ban on price gouging.”
Never mind that many stores are currently slashing prices in response to renewed consumer bargain hunting.
Ms. Harris says she’ll target companies that make “excessive” profits, whatever that means. (It’s hard to see how groceries, a notoriously low-margin business, would qualify.)
Thankfully, this gambit by Ms. Harris has been met with almost instant skepticism, with many critics citing President Richard M. Nixon’s failed price controls from the 1970s.
Whether the Harris proposal wins over voters remains to be seen, but if sound economic analysis still matters, it won’t....
Even adjusted for the pandering standards of campaign economics... Ms. Harris’s speech Friday ranks as a disappointment."

An understatement, if you ask me.

But... it's true!

 

Meta ditches 'misinformation' tracking tool CrowdTangle | Blaze Media

Meta ditches 'misinformation' tracking tool CrowdTangle | Blaze Media: 

Mark Zuckerberg-owned social media giant Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, a researching tool used to monitor social media posts that include alleged misinformation.

"We are already paying taxpayer money for those not to work and now they want to pay them to actually show up to work...

 

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 18

History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com 

Caspar Weinberger 1917

• 1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child to be born on American soil of English parents. The colony that is now Roanoke Island, NC, mysteriously vanished.
• 1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I.
• 1920 - Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment guaranteed the right of all American women to vote.
• 2004 - Donald Trump unveiled his board game (TRUMP the Game) where players bid on real estate, buy big ticket items and make billion-dollar business deals.

Tim Walz gave almost $100,000 in COVID-19 funds to 'abortion doula' trainers * WorldNetDaily * by Mary Margaret Olohan, The Daily Signal

Tim Walz gave almost $100,000 in COVID-19 funds to 'abortion doula' trainers * WorldNetDaily * by Mary Margaret Olohan, The Daily Signal: 

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, spent almost $2 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds without the approval of the state Legislature, using his emergency powers, according to the Minnesota-based outlet Alpha News. Part of those funds went to SPIRAL Collective, a "reproductive justice nonprofit" that describes itself as a "queer, trans, disabled, BIPOC lead organization committed to the values of reproductive justice and decolonial practices."

The way we were-----Dragnet: Homicide: The Nickel Plated Gun - June 10, 1949 (Old Time Radio)

Dave Agema - Jihad update: Iran is Helping the Kamala Campaign.... | Facebook

The Mullahs create pro-Kamala site...

Why? 

The Mullahs create pro-Kamala site, hack Trump accounts, leak materials to media and the media spreads it!

• Palestinian Muslim Arrested After Threatening to Bomb Florida Gas Plant. What’s next with all the Muslims the democrats let in?..
• Afghanistan: Taliban orders Kabul clothes shops to cover mannequin faces...
• Walz’s Minnesota administration gave $2,000,000 to Muslim group fundraising for al Qaeda-linked charity...

Much more!

Foreign flops: Top 5 national security & diplomatic blunders from the Biden-Harris administration | Just The News

Foreign flops: Top 5 national security & diplomatic blunders from the Biden-Harris administration - Charlotte Hazard

Here are the top five national security failures that have occurred under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris:
1. The chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in August of 2021...
2. U.S. bases in the Middle East have been attacked 173 times since Oct. 7...
3. Red Sea becomes a war zone with Houthi attacks on shipping, U.S. aircraft carriers...
4. Biden's weak diplomacy in the Israel-Hamas war...
5. Wide open southern border leads to potential national security threat...

Report: Basic groceries cost 21% more because of Biden-Harris policies * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Report: Basic groceries cost 21% more because of Biden-Harris policies * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Harris's plan, reported by multiple outlets on Thursday, said her idea is to pursue a "price control" scheme, a tactic that repressive governments often pursue to try to make their economies look better. It is the Post-Millennial that documented, "Americans are experiencing the consequences of increased grocery prices under the economic policies of the Biden-Harris administration. The cost of food has not been this high since the Carter administration."

SENIORS: THE EASY STEPPING EXERICE THAT FIXED MY BALANE

She lied!-----Another J6 Lie Goes Into the Wood Chipper With the Release of Secret Service Report Victoria Taft

Hutchinson's "source" for the gossip was, she claimed, former Secret Service agent-turned-Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato. Ornato says he never witnessed the event, much less told her.

• As you may recall, Hutchinson said that on January 6, as President Donald Trump was driven from his speech at a Save America rally to the White House, he "lunged" at the Secret Service driver when he learned that he wouldn't be going to the Capitol Building for a "peaceful and patriotic" protest. That was the story she told the January 6 Committee.
• Hutchinson, immediately turned into the darling of the Never Trump left.
• In 2022 she testified that "The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel [lead Secret Service detail agent] grabbed his arm, and said, ‘Sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we’re going back to the West Wing, we’re not going to the Capitol.’ Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel."...

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson: Kamala is a ‘linguistically challenged’ candidate

Noon-toon

 

Trump and Elon's UNCENSORED interview TERRIFIED Democrats | Blaze Media

Trump and Elon's UNCENSORED interview TERRIFIED Democrats | Blaze Media: 

These critics of Musk’s interview are either blissfully unaware that the tech billionaire invited Kamala Harris to do a similar interview — or they simply don’t care. Harris declined the opportunity.

Glenn Beck is horrified, calling the response “V for Vendetta, or 1984 kind of stuff.”

“They’re saying that he should not be running this interview because it’s too risky. Now, let me ask you something, America, when has speech become too risky? What was it Donald Trump said yesterday that was so scary,” Glenn says.

“These people are trying to shut down your access to any other point of view. 

Kamala says she'll wait til after the election to "fix" it.

 

This Harris Campaign Job Application Is Absurd, but Real

The Harris campaign is hiring, though applicants will be asked several questions about their pronoun preferences as part of the process. - Rebecca Downs

• As Mark McCaig of the Texas Voice highlighted on Tuesday, applicants can choose from nine pronoun choices, though there's also an option to check off "Use name only" and for "Custom" pronouns...

"Experts"?

 

Yet, they have same "protection" for Trump with the same reported "shortage" of agents.-----Biden Ordered Secret Service Protection for Former Agency Chief | RealClearPolitics

Biden Ordered Secret Service Protection for Former Agency Chief | RealClearPolitics - Susan Crabtree 

• The Secret Service is providing Kimberly Cheatle, its former director who resigned last month, a security detail in an unprecedented effort to protect a former agency chief...
• Using DPD, instead of the Washington Field Office, could be a way to keep the knowledge of Cheatle’s protection to a more limited number of agents or it could simply be a manpower issue...
• The Secret Service declined to comment on the matter...

#1 This day 1961-----Tossin' and Turnin'-Bobby Lewis-1961