Friday, February 19, 2021
Victor Davis Hanson--Our Descent Into Collective Madness? - American Greatness
Our Descent Into Collective Madness? - American Greatness
A pandemic led to national quarantine, to self-induced recession, to riot, arson, and looting, to a contested election, and to a riot at the Capitol.
- "An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it threatens to drag us to the depths of unreason."--By Victor Davis Hanson
"These are crazy times.
...Meanwhile, the United States will have to start paying down $30 trillion in debt.
But we seem more fixated on raising rather than reducing that astronomical obligation.
We are told man-made, worldwide climate change—as in the now discarded term “global warming”—can best be addressed by massive dislocations in the U.S. economy.
The Biden Administration plans to shut down coal plants.
It will halt even nearly completed new gas and oil pipelines.
It cuts back on fracking to embrace the multitrillion-dollar “Green New Deal.”
Americans should pause and examine the utter disaster that unfolded recently in Texas and its environs...Read all.
Another "Freeze-proof" power plant destroyed in MI.---- - Posts | Facebook
Grand Haven Department of Public Safety - Posts | Facebook
Another vantage point of the demolition today.
Another vantage point of the demolition today.
SHOW NOTES: Green Energy Fails America! #TexasPowerOutage - Louder With Crowder
SHOW NOTES: Green Energy Fails America! #TexasPowerOutage - Louder With Crowder:
So much for the power of green energy. The Texas power outages have utterly exposed the failures of green energy and the power of fossil fuels. And who exactly are the so-called "experts" Governor Andrew Cuomo is following?
"...You expect this kind of crap from North Korea and in some spots in South Asia because they are dirt poor..."
"The most amazing, yet intellectually inconsistent, aspect about the past few months is the evident inability we have as an allegedly prosperous nation to keep the lights on - even in two of the largest states in the nation, California and Texas.
California is a quasi-communist state under one-party rule, but Texas seems a Rime of the Ancient Mariner "water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink" situation, even though the weather system is a rather infrequent occurrence.
You expect this kind of crap from North Korea and in some spots in South Asia because they are dirt poor but for America, it is more of a choice rather than an inevitability.
Our issues are driven by policy, not a lack of prosperity, resources or a lack of funding based on political agendas.
Republican or Democrat doesn't matter, this is just bad management.
Just remember - the policies of Joe Biden and his Democrat Green Nude Eel cabal are going to REDUCE access to energy resources, that's more bad management at a national level."
6 Key Aspects of Biden’s Amnesty Bill
6 Key Aspects of Biden’s Amnesty Bill
"President Joe Biden is promoting an immigration bill that could grant amnesty to up to 20 million illegal immigrants.
...The proposal comes after Biden ordered federal agencies to stop construction of a southern border wall and signed an executive order to strengthen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy that gives legal status to illegal immigrants that arrived as children...Read all.
Energy expert: The real lesson in Texas power failure is 'inadequacy of unreliable energy' - TheBlaze
Energy expert: The real lesson in Texas power failure is 'inadequacy of unreliable energy' - TheBlaze:
With as much gas and oil as Texas has — and not to mention its own power grid — why in the world is Texas experiencing such bad power outages?
Center for Industrial Progress president and founder Alex Epstein joined "The Glenn Beck Radio Program" to lay out what he's found.
Alex said he believes the "fundamental" problem is "the insistence on using unreliable wind and solar energy instead of reliable energy from coal, nuclear, and natural gas." And soon, it may not be just Texas, as President Joe Biden pushes for 100% dependency on green energy nationwide. This is the "real lesson of Texas," he warned.
Six Capitol cops suspended and 29 others are being investigated for their actions on Jan. 6 | Daily Mail Online
Six Capitol cops suspended and 29 others are being investigated for their actions on Jan. 6 | Daily Mail Online:
Six US Capitol Police officers have been suspended and 29 others are currently being investigated for their actions during the deadly DC riot - as one took a selfie and another wore MAGA hat
- US Capitol Police say 35 cops are being investigated for their actions on Jan. 6
- Of those officers, six have been suspended with pay, officials said Thursday
- One of the suspended officers was filmed posing for selfies inside the Capitol
- Lt. Tarik Khalid Johnson, 45, who was seen wearing a MAGA hat is suspended
- The number of officers under investigation could rise as the probe continues...Read all.
Hate-crazed Democrats Aim to Block Trump Name from Appearing on Federal Projects
Democrats Aim to Block Trump Name from Appearing on Federal Projects
Democrats in the House of Representatives have
introduced legislation that would prevent former President Donald Trump from having his name displayed on federal projects, buildings, statues, lands, or other type of commemoration.
introduced legislation that would prevent former President Donald Trump from having his name displayed on federal projects, buildings, statues, lands, or other type of commemoration.
...The bill, dubbed the “No Glory for Hate Act,” was introduced by California Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez and has 13 cosponsors, all of whom are Democrats...Read all.
GRAFT is what government-run passenger trains are all about.
Instapundit--THE DESIRE NAMED STREETCAR:
A Global Leader in Obsolete Technology.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wants to make the United States the “global leader” in high-speed rail. That’s like wanting to be the world leader in electric typewriters, rotary telephones, or steam locomotives, all technologies that were once revolutionary but are functionally obsolete today. High-speed trains, in particular, were rendered obsolete in 1958, when Boeing introduced the 707 jetliner, which was twice as fast as the fastest trains today.
Aside from speed, what makes high-speed rail obsolete is its high cost. Unlike airlines, which don’t require much infrastructure other than landing fields, high-speed trains require huge amounts of infrastructure that must be built and maintained to extremely precise standards. That’s why airfares averaged just 14 cents per passenger-mile in 2019, whereas fares on Amtrak’s high-speed Acela averaged more than 90 cents per passenger-mile.
Highways require infrastructure but not this level of precision. While a four-lane freeway costs about $10 million to $20 million a mile, California ended up spending $100 million a mile building its abortive high-speed rail line on flat ground, and it predicted building in hilly territory would cost at least $170 million per mile.
Graft is what government-run passenger trains are all about.
Flashback: Mass Transit, The Pandemic Petri Dish The Left Loves.--Posted by
The dark side of ‘green energy’ and its threat to the nation’s environment
The dark side of ‘green energy’ and its threat to the nation’s environment
...A briefing paper released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency predicts these startling global numbers for countries by 2050 just for solar waste:
- What happens to old solar panels, windmills and high tech batteries?
"...But how green is green?
- United States, 10 million tons.
- Germany, 3 million tons.
- China, 20 million tons.
- Japan, 7.5 million tons.
- India, 7.5 million tons.
...The paper points out that the growth of solar waste is already straining recycling and disposal capabilities, with some panels improperly ending up in municipal landfills or stacking up in warehouses while the wait continues for more inexpensive routes to recycling...Read all.
Exposed: The Media Has Been Lying About The Capitol Protests
Exposed: The Media Has Been Lying About The Capitol Protests--I & I Editorial Board
"Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced plans for a 9/11-style commission to “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex.”
Will that investigation include the media’s role in peddling flagrant falsehoods about what actually happened that day?
- Look up any story about the storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, and you will find it described as a “deadly riot” that killed five people.
- Worse still, one of the deaths was that a police officer who – the story goes – was killed by rioters after getting hit in the head by a fire extinguisher.
- Then there is the story of the protestor who “carried Zip Ties into the Capitol,” which led to accusations that the protestors intended to take hostages.
- There have also been endless media descriptions of the event as an “armed insurrection.”
- And there were stories claiming that, as Reuters put it, “Capitol rioters meant to ‘capture and assassinate’ officials.”
What is common about all of these media-fed narratives?
Not one of them is true.
Not.
One...Read all!
Woman Gets Police Home Visit Over Anti-Mask Facebook Post
Woman Gets Police Home Visit Over Anti-Mask Facebook Post
- Knock knock, it’s the thought police.
"A mother of three got a late night home visit from Palm Beach County police after she joked on Facebook about dumping face masks on a County Administrator’s lawn.
She made the remark after local bureacrats proposed a plan to stop people who are medically exempt from wearing face masks attending meetings and instead locating them in a room below a parking garage."
Report: Facebook Let China Buy Ads to Spread Disinfo on Uyghur Concentration Camps
Report: Facebook Let China Buy Ads to Spread Disinfo on Uyghur Concentration Camps:
Facebook allegedly allowed the communist government of China to purchase paid ads casting doubt on reports of abuses committed against the country’s Uyghur minority, according to a report from the British media trade publication Press Gazette.
History for February 19
History for February 19 - On-This-Day.com
Lee Marvin 1924 - Actor ("The Caine Mutiny", "The Dirty Dozen", "Delta Force")
- 1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (the phonograph).
- 1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.
- 1942 - Approximately 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin.
- 1945 - During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
- 1963 - The Soviet Union informed U.S. President Kennedy it would withdraw "several thousand" of its troops in Cuba.
- 1987 - A controversial, anti-smoking publice service announcement aired for the first time on television. Yul Brynner filmed the ad shortly before dying of lung cancer. Brynner made it clear in the ad that he would have died from cigarette smoking before ad aired.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
White House: Biden considering using executive action to push gun control agenda - TheBlaze
White House: Biden considering using executive action to push gun control agenda - TheBlaze:
The news followed a meeting between gun control group leaders and top White House officials last week which left the leaders feeling confident that the Biden administration would enact gun reform via executive order, if necessary.
When asked by a reporter during Tuesday's press briefing whether or not the administration was still considering bypassing Congress to force action on guns, Psaki said that Biden "has a range of actions at his disposal" and added that he "hasn't ruled out" using executive power to address the issue.
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