The way we were-----Everyday objects that have become OBSOLETE

Nike's Plan to Beef Up Security at MLK Store Squashed by Portland Mayor!

"Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has asked Nike to reopen its shuttered community store in Northeast Portland “on a limited basis,” even though he says the city can’t meet the company’s request to detail off-duty police officers to provide security

QUESTIONS I NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE ASKING:

Instapundit--QUESTIONS I NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE ASKING:

"Why is an NHL team’s Twitter account lecturing fans about gender theory?

TikTok under federal investigation following allegations employees spied on US journalists - TheBlaze

TikTok under federal investigation following allegations employees spied on US journalists - TheBlaze: 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice launched an investigation into TikTok parent company ByteDance late last year over claims that its employees spied on and surveilled American journalists and other associates, Forbes reported Friday. In December, Beijing-based ByteDance admitted that its employees had collected data on American TikTok users, including Emily Baker-White, a technology reporter with Forbes.

Banker Going to Prison

It's the STORAGE stupid!-----A Simple Reason Why Net Zero Is Impossible | Watts Up With That?

A Simple Reason Why Net Zero Is Impossible | Watts Up With That? - From CFACT - By David

"I have a new study out, titled “Constraining Renewables is a National Need”, that provides a simple reason why net zero is impossible. 

• It is simply impossible to provide enough energy storage to make renewables reliable.

...Grid scale storage at the scale needed to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar is impossibly expensive. 

...The likely cost would be many times GDP. 

Clearly this is economically impossible. 

Despite this impossibility, present government policies and utility practices are driving toward massive grid penetration by renewables. 

This reckless drive must be properly constrained and managed, in order to protect reliability. 

• American grid reliability must be maintained. 
• ..our working estimate of the required storage is an amazing 250 million MWh. 
• America today has less than 20 thousand MWh of grid scale battery storage, which is next to nothing. 

Grid scale batteries today cost around $700,000 a MWh. 

For 250 million MWh we get an astronomical total cost of $175 trillion dollars just to replace today’s fossil fuel generated electricity needs with wind and solar...

• None of this impossibility is being considered in today’s reliability assessments. 

Not by the States, the utilities, NERC or FERC...

Lunch video-----How many STEPS should I walk per day to stay HEALTHY?

Noon-toon

 

VA's new mission statement devoid of gendered language - TheBlaze

VA's new mission statement devoid of gendered language - TheBlaze: 

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has updated its mission statement with a new statement that does not include gendered language.

According to a VA press release, the prior mission statement read, "To fulfill President Lincoln’s promise 'to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan' by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s veterans."

And folks were "triggered" by Trump's tweets.

 

First day of spring 2023: What to know about the vernal equinox - mlive.com

First day of spring 2023: What to know about the vernal equinox - mlive.com

"...It’s actually the astronomical beginning of a new season, occurring at the moment when the Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a nearly equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes...

All four seasons on our calendars begin with astronomical events: 

• The two equinoxes mark the start of spring and fall, and 
• the solstices, which occur in June and December, are the official beginning of summer and winter.

(Unless, of course, you’re marking the seasons by the meteorological method, in which case spring began on March 1. More on that here.)
Interestingly, the Vernal Equinox fell on March 21 during most of the 20th century, but due to the 400-year Gregorian calendar cycle, the event occurs a tiny bit earlier every year...

'Geofence' Warrants Threaten Every Phone User’s Privacy

'Geofence' Warrants Threaten Every Phone User’s Privacy - By Reilly Stephens

"...What you probably didn’t realize is Google has already searched your data on behalf of the federal government to see if you were involved with January 6th.

But last month, the federal district court in DC issued an opinion in the case of one of the many defendants who stands accused of sacking the Capitol in the wake of the 2020 election.
And with it, Judge Rudolph Contreras became the first federal district judge to approve a “Geofence” warrant, endorsing a recent police innovation: searching the cell phone history of every American to check who happened to be in the area of some potential crime...

#1 This day 1967-----The Turtles - Happy Together - 1967

Countdown To New York’s Rendezvous With Energy Impossibility

Countdown To New York’s Rendezvous With Energy Impossibility - Francis Menton 

• The race is on to see who hits the green energy wall of impossibility first. California, Germany and the UK (the “Poseurs”) might seem to have leapt early into the lead positions. 
• But New York is now making a strong sprint to catch and surpass them, so it can be the first to splatter its citizens’ flesh and blood all over the impenetrable barricade.

The Poseurs accumulate vast green progressive virtue credits for ridiculous promises, but their promises all have dates so far in the future that today’s politicians will be long gone when the crash detonates...

• New York City’s bid to create the first real test of an impossible green energy deadline is found in its Climate Mobilization Act of 2019...imposes energy efficiency standards on large residential buildings starting in 2024 — next year. Buildings that fail to meet the standards are subject to large and accelerating fines starting right away.

...The New York Times had a big front page article on Monday about the maneuvers of one large building to try to comply with the law. 

...The Grand Tier...a large (280 apartments), newish (built 2005), and very high-priced building...the only apartment listed at the moment on the Streeteasy website is a one bedroom for $5895 per month...

Like Adolph in the 1920s, they tell us in advance what they will do! And we refuse to act?!!

'New normal': New York state to lower cutoff scores for standardized tests due to 'learning loss' from COVID lockdowns - TheBlaze

'New normal': New York state to lower cutoff scores for standardized tests due to 'learning loss' from COVID lockdowns - TheBlaze: 

New York state will lower its threshold for what is considered to be "proficient" on its standardized tests to account for a loss of learning in students from 2019 to 2022, according to reporting by the Daily Caller. The state's scoring committee will being using data from 2022 as the benchmark for student scoring, despite standardized scores in subjects such as math proficiency dropping by 7.6 points compared to 2019, according to Spectrum News.

Maria Bartiromo: This bank's priorities 'scare' me

"'Sunday Morning Futures' host Maria Bartiromo provides analysis of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the continuing inflation problem

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 19

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

Earl Warren 1891 - 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953-1969) and the 30th Governor of California.

• 1687 - French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico.
• 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
• 1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.
• 1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his "Nero Decree" which ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.
• 1963 - In Costa Rica, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight Communism.
• 1998 - The World Health Organization warned of tuberculosis epidemic that could kill 70 million people in next two decades.

Letter from gay man issuing ultimatum to his father goes viral: 'You are not allowed to vote for ... parties that seek to murder me' - TheBlaze

Letter from gay man issuing ultimatum to his father goes viral: 'You are not allowed to vote for ... parties that seek to murder me' - TheBlaze: 

"Here me clearly — you cannot vote for the GOP and continue to have a relationship with me. No exceptions. I am inviting no dialogue, and I have no interest in nuance," he wrote in part.

The way we were-----Crisis On Wall Street: The Week That Shook The World (Part 1)

Must view!-----Small Town Police Dept is Out of Control

MUST SEE!!!!! Policing for PROFIT-----Small Town Police Dept is Out of Control

"Big Mac - 1 year ago (edited)

I am a former employee for the Town of Brookside and its police department. 

I worked as one of their dispatchers and I can only describe the experience as psychological terror. 

The employees are treated as bad if not worse than those stopped by the police. 

I quit after a year for many reasons, namely the corruption and horrid behavior. 

For over a year I told people the stories and no one believed me or thought I was just a disgruntled ex employee. 

It’s so nice to see justice on the way after having to sit back and see it go on for so long. 

Also, if anyone is curious, look up Mike Jones and his past. 

He is a known embezzler but was hired by Brookside despite this fact. 

If anyone is wondering where all this money is going then I can tell you — it’s going in his pocket and the mayor’s pocket. 

Thanks again for shedding light on this."

This is not a water problem but a water management problem.

Facebook Patricia Anthone 
"California doesn't suffer a water shortage. 

They are right now releasing 20,000 cubic feet per second into the ocean because there's no place to store it.
This is not a water problem but a water management problem. 

And it will persist as long as it's possible to subsidize themselves by stealing the water stored by more competent states; to parasitize their neighbors.
Irrational ideology consistently results in parasitic behavior because it animates failing, self-destructive decisions. 

Those so engaged consider themselves morally vindicated, so their behavior won't change until those being parasitized rid themselves of the parasite

• Leftists cultivate an ideological aversion to doing anything that benefits human society because they consider humanity a scourge on the Earth."

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Kevin Kiley on Twitter

“We are releasing 20,000 cubic feet per second into the ocean from Folsom because there’s no place to store it.”