Criminal negligence!-----Ten Years and $7.5 Billion Later, No New Water Storage in California

No new water storage infrastructure has been built in California, more than a decade after voters approved a $7.5 billion water bond in Proposition 1 of 2014. - Joel B. Pollak

The San Jose Mercury-News reported Wednesday that officials are deciding what to do with nearly half a billion dollars of available cash after the “collapse” of a project to expand the Los Vaqueros Reservoir, which is east of San Francisco.
Other projects have received funding for planning and permitting, but nothing has been built...

• The only project under construction, the Harvest Water Program in Sacramento, will recycle wastewater to provide 50,000 acre-feet (16 billion gallons) of water for agricultural purposes...

Not... the...dance!

 

Libs in the White House press corps screamed at Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller that Elon Musk is “unelected!”

I promise you - this is the single best video on the internet today: - Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson

Libs in the White House press corps screamed at Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller that Elon Musk is “unelected!” 

What happens next is a fatality. I promise you - this is the single best video on the internet today:

#1 This day 1965-----This diamond ring - Gary Lewis & the playboys

Western Civilization is still in the grip of a virulent mind-virus: The ideology of civilizational suicide

This ideology is a set of doctrines teaching that humanity itself is a grossly overgrown invasive species; the most destructive of which is Western Civilization.  - Patricia Anthone 

• It teaches that our way of life is both evil and toxic and that our only hope lies in revolutionary deconstruction; a return to some imagined Utopia in which humans were innocent, primitive and rare. (Eden?)
• Augmenting this godless religious teaching, is a socio-economic worldview (informed by Marxism) which divides the world into oppressors and the oppressed. 
• Primitive, zero-sum thinking drives the view that those who succeed in any way do so at the direct expense of others.

This pathological combination is drummed into kids' heads beginning in preschool....

Remember when democrats warned us about violent rhetoric?

 

Trump designates violent Latin American gangs as global terror organizations | Blaze Media

Trump designates violent Latin American gangs as global terror organizations | Blaze Media: 

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to designate a number of violent cartel gangs as global terror organizations. The official statement was made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and named nine gangs and cartel organizations to be designated as terror groups.

...an article that would never have been written before VP Vance gave his speech to the NATO's Munich conference.

What shocks many in the world is that Europeans didn’t anticipate the quagmire they’re in. - Donald Sensing

From "Foreign Policy," the mainline journal of the foreign affairs establishment, an article that would never have been written before VP Vance gave his speech to the NATO's Munich conference.

What shocks many in the world is that Europeans didn’t anticipate the quagmire they’re in. One of the first rules of geopolitics is that we must always plan against worst-case scenarios. After the Ukraine war broke out, all European strategic thinking was based on the best-case scenario of the United States being a totally reliable ally, despite having experienced Trump’s first term and his threats to pull out of the world’s biggest military alliance. For a continent that has produced strategic minds like Metternich, Talleyrand, and Kissinger, there has been almost infantile strategic thinking on Ukraine and its long-term consequences. ...

And an incredible closing:

Trump is behaving like a rational geopolitical actor in putting what he perceives to be his country’s interests first. Europe shouldn’t just criticize Trump—instead, it should emulate him. It should carry out the currently unthinkable option: Declare that henceforth it will be a strategically autonomous actor on the world stage that will put its own interests first. Trump may finally show some respect for Europe if it does that....

foreignpolicy.com - It’s Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable
Brussels has slavishly followed Washington for too long—and forgotten how to advance its own geopolitical interests.

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Europe disdained US Republicans for years, now euro-elites are in a frenzy

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History for February 21

History for February 21 - On-This-Day.com 

Barbara Jordan 1936 - Lawyer, U.S. Congresswoman

• 1804 - The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was demonstrated in Wales.
• 1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
• 1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
• 1904 - The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI.
• 1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
• 1988 - In Baton Rouge, LA, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. He announced that he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Swaggart had been linked to an admitted prostitute.

WATCH Kristi Noem: 'If you try to enter illegally, you will be caught, removed, never return' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

WATCH Kristi Noem: 'If you try to enter illegally, you will be caught, removed, never return' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security gets blunt, charging that, "If you come to our country and you break our laws we will hunt you down. … If you try to enter illegally you will be caught. You will be removed, and you will never return."

Disturbing Dark Truth HORRIFIES Europe

“Here’s a dirty secret about the federal government many Americans are just learning:

Instapundit - It’s run by Democrats, even when voters elect Republicans. 

THE CIVIL SERVICE’S PARTISANSHIP PROBLEM: 

“Here’s a dirty secret about the federal government many Americans are just learning: It’s run by Democrats, even when voters elect Republicans. 

Presidents come and go, but the permanent federal bureaucracy remains the same, and it has a distinct partisan tilt. 

• When Americans send a Republican to the Oval Office, they get a government still administered mostly by the other party. 
• Yes, that makes a sham of democracy. 

But no president before Donald Trump was prepared to confront the problem.”

• Solution: Abolish the civil service. - Glenn Reynolds

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Facebook

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Facebook - Marilyn Glazier 

Hillel Fuld - Israel had a bomb squad check the coffins of the four dead hostages to make sure that Hamas did not lace them with explosives.
This is the level of sickness that we’re dealing with.

• Oh, you think that’s a bit much? You think Israel is just being paranoid?

How about this? 

• Hamas handed over the coffins along with keys that don’t open the coffins. 

You know, just to get a little more psychological torture in while they still can.
You still don’t get it, huh?
Here is what they wrote on Shiri Bibas’ coffin. It reads “Date of arrest: October 7th.”
Sick sick individuals.

'Diversity trumped skill': Delta Air Lines under fire for championing DEI amid spectacular crash * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Diversity trumped skill': Delta Air Lines under fire for championing DEI amid spectacular crash * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

Delta Air Lines is coming under severe criticism for doubling down on its push for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, just days before Monday's spectacular crash involving a Minneapolis-to-Toronto flight that flipped one of its planes upside down during landing.

California’s FAIR Plan Goes Broke—Now Homeowners Are Forced to Pay the P...

Republican Senate and House all voted "NO"!-----Zeldin EPA discovers $2 billion Biden admin stashed away for Stacey Abrams-linked climate group

“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told the outlet, referring to Power Forward Communities latest tax filings. - Victor Nava 

The funds were set aside at an outside financial institution – Citibank – before Biden left office and part of a larger, $20 billion pot of money the former president’s EPA received through the Inflation Reduction Act to dole out to climate groups.
“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told the outlet, referring to Power Forward Communities latest tax filings. 

“That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”Zeldin claims the Biden administration “parked” the money at an outside bank to keep the Trump administration from clawing it back.
Last week, Zeldin revealed that he located the $20 billion his EPA predecessors squirreled away in an apparent attempt to prevent the Trump administration from clawing back the money and to obscure the various groups that Power Forward Communities, and seven other entities, decide to distribute the funds to...

Lunch video-----Vance‘s Warning to Globalists in Munich: This Won’t End Well for You

Noon-toon

 

Biden's $500 million student loan giveaway collapses under court's ruling | Blaze Media

Biden's $500 million student loan giveaway collapses under court's ruling | Blaze Media: 

The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday to put an end to the Biden administration's student loan giveaway plan that was estimated to cost taxpayers up to $500 million.

Who is she!??!!

 

DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell | ZeroHedge

DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell | ZeroHedge - by Tyler Durden
The announcement - which came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to work with DOGE, follows a bombshell report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth explode to $30 million despite an annual salary under $250,000.

"We don't know why. Where did it come from? I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at the taxpayer expense," Musk said on Tuesday.

• Power, a former ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, and was sworn in as head of USAID in May of 2021, reported a net worth between $6.7 million-$16.5 million in January of 2021 on a disclosure form. Her net worth is now estimated as high as $30 million, according to the website Biden's Basement.

"Direct correlation"!

 

How Biden Traded Transformers for Heat Pumps

In America’s race to electrify everything from cars to manufacturing, it has started to run out of transformers.  - Charles Yang 

These critical components, which regulate voltage throughout our power grid, now have multi-year wait times and prices that have nearly doubled since 2020.
We shouldn't be in this situation. 

• Back in 2022, the Biden administration had an opportunity to use Defense Production Act (DPA) funding to boost domestic transformer manufacturing capacity. 
• Instead, it chose to direct its $250 million in DPA authority towards heat pump production. 

This was a disastrous misstep — and now the U.S. is stuck playing catch-up...
A Primer on Transformers

• Transformers are the backbone of the U.S. power grid...
• So — how did we get here?...
• Biden’s Misstep...
• What To Do...