Michigan Public Service Commission rejects U.P. company’s energy plan

A leading employer in the Upper Peninsula fears significant economic harm from the mandate, as do lawmakers from the area. - Jamie A. Hope

• Michigan Public Act 233 of 2023, enacted by a Democratic trifecta, requires utility companies to get 100% of their power from so-called green energy sources by 2040.

If the state does not change its renewable energy law, the Upper Michigan Energy Resources will have to scrap some RICE generators (Peaker power plants provide power when "green" energy like solar/wind can't. During night, snow, light/too much wind) that it uses to produce electricity but has not yet paid for...
The utility and its customers will be obligated to pay off the RICE generators until 2049, even if they are unusable.
Cleveland Cliffs, a large employer in the U.P., has said it may cease operations at its open-pit Tilden Mine (iron mine) south of Ishpeming if electricity prices soar, as CapCon previously reported.
The mine employs about 900 people and had a total economic impact of $452 million as of December 2017, according to a 2018 Cleveland Cliffs fact sheet...

Not to worry—Trump did not post a racist video about the Obamas

Having said that, the claim is going viral on the left, so you need to have your facts lined up to challenge your TDS-suffering friends and acquaintances. - Andrea Widburg

• The problem with the video Trump posted is that it’s a dead certainty that he reposted it without bothering to watch the whole thing. 
• Had he watched it to the end, he would have known that there was a problem.

You see, the video is a screen recording captured by an unknown third party. 

And what the unknown third party was also clearly unaware of (or, possibly, didn’t care about) was the automated beginning of another, entirely unrelated video.
So, what you get after 58 seconds of a serious video about a serious topic is two seconds of an automatically played video showing Michelle and Barack Obama’s heads attached to the cartoon bodies of simian creatures. (Apes? Chimps? I have no idea.) 

You can see for yourself what happened:

As I can attest from my slow learning curve in making video-podcasts, failing to clip the end of a screen recording is a classic amateur mistake...

Breaking: GOP Rep. Alleges Bad Bunny's Halftime Show Was 'Illegal,' Moves for 'Dramatic' FCC Action Against NFL and NBC

Breaking: GOP Rep. Alleges Bad Bunny's Halftime Show Was 'Illegal,' Moves for 'Dramatic' FCC Action Against NFL and NBC: 

Fine said Bad Bunny’s halftime performance crossed legal lines that would not be tolerated if the lyrics were performed in English.

“‘Bad Bunny’’s disgusting halftime show was illegal,” the congressman wrote.

Billions Stolen: Why Government Doesn’t Crack Down on Fraud - John Stossel

Billions Stolen: Why Government Doesn’t Crack Down on Fraud John Stossel

Climate Slump: Bezos boots global warming coverage! Wash Post Fires 14 of 19 ‘Climate’ reporters.

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano comments: “Does this mean we will have fewer stories from the Post about how human hair clothing can save the Earth?!   - CLIMATE DEPOT - Marc Morano

Democracy Underground: Shocked, Shocked! Bezos Destroys WP Climate Reporting Team – 14 Of 19 Reporters On That Beat Are Now Gone...

Everything changed on Wednesday morning.
The Post sent layoff notices to at least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told me, part of a massive round of cost-cutting that will see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs — about 30% of all employees at the Jeff Bezos-owned company...

Lunch video-----How We Ended Up Raising the Stupidest Generation - YouTube

(8) How We Ended Up Raising the Stupidest Generation - YouTube

Noon-toon

 

Clinton judge strikes down Newsom's edict banning masks for ICE agents | Blaze Media

Clinton judge strikes down Newsom's edict banning masks for ICE agents | Blaze Media: 

A federal judge ruled against the ban on masks for federal agents passed by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom after finding it to be unconstitutional.

A very good reason!

 

The Lie of Outsourced Virtue - by Michael Smith

Sympathy Observes, Empathy Feels—Only Compassion Acts - Michael Smith


In thinking about the concept of “suicidal empathy,” I’ve found myself reflecting more broadly on the human condition. 

That reflection keeps circling back to three words we often treat as interchangeable, even though they require distinctly different levels of involvement and produce radically different outcomes:

sympathy, empathy, and compassion.

• Sympathy is feeling for someone. You recognize hardship from a safe distance and feel pity. 
• Empathy goes further—it is feeling with someone. You step into their emotional experience and share their pain. 
• Compassion is the synthesis of both. It combines understanding suffering with a willingness to relieve it. 

Put simply: sympathy observes, empathy experiences, and compassion acts.

This is not merely semantic. It is a progression that any healthy civil society must complete if it hopes to solve real problems, moving from awareness, to emotion, to responsibility...

It's official!

 

#1 This day 1973----- Elton John-Crocodile Rock - YouTube

Elton John-Crocodile Rock - YouTube

6 Things I Learnt From Watching Chris Uhlmann’s ‘The Real Cost of Net Zero’

Australians are already feeling the cost of the ‘renewable’ transition, but there are far higher costs to come, according to Chris Uhlmann’s new documentary ‘The Real Cost of Net Zero’. - Kurt Mahlburg
Australia could have some of the cheapest energy in the world, yet our power bills rank among the most expensive...

• ...I normally commentate on issues more closely connected to family, marriage, life and freedom. But at a time when families can barely afford to pay their power bills — and the price of Australian energy is contributing to a historic cost-of-living crisis — all of these precious values come under threat...

Watch “The Real Cost of Net Zero” here.

Safe, secure elections will protect democrats!

 

Docs Reveal Vile Things Leftists Said to Children During Cities Church Riot

Docs Reveal Vile Things Leftists Said to Children During Cities Church Riot: 

A special agent with the Department of Homeland Security revealed in court documents that leftists who disrupted services at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, made frightening comments to children in the congregation.

The agent said in a Jan. 20 affidavit that the protesters — who interrupted Sunday morning worship because one of the pastors worked with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — told children their parents were “Nazis.”

The Case for Ending the Iranian Regime - Illinois Review

We have been told for decades that “we cannot be the world’s policeman.” - John F. Di Leo

And this is true. 

We can’t, and mustn’t.
But that’s not the same thing as saying that we should always keep our pistol holstered when 

• something needs to be done, 
• and we’re the only ones who can...

There are foreign entanglements in which we not only can make a difference, but we should, because it’s in our own best interest to do so.
The situation in Iran today is such an example...

AM Fruitcake!

 

History for February 11

History for February 11 - On-This-Day.com 

Sarah Palin 1964 - Governor of Alaska

• 1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America.
• 1808 - Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel.
• 1812 - The term "gerrymandering" had its beginning when the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, signed a redistricting law that favored his party.
• 1975 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to head a major party in Britain when she was elected leader of the Conservative Party.

'They are freaking out': NFL and advertisers 'panicking' over 'staggering' size of Turning Point USA's Super Bowl Halftime Show * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'They are freaking out': NFL and advertisers 'panicking' over 'staggering' size of Turning Point USA's Super Bowl Halftime Show * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

The National Football League as well as the entertainment industry and advertisers are said to be "panicking" over the staggering size of the All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show produced by Turning Point USA, which was an alternative to the Spanish-language Bad Bunny show broadcast by the NFL. Bestselling author Jack Posobiec, who welcomed viewers to the patriotic alternative and dedicated it to slain civil-rights leader Charlie Kirk, revealed on "The Benny Show" Monday that the preliminary estimates of 25 million views of the TPUSA show headlined by Kid Rock are likely to go much higher.

The way we were-----The STRANGE CASE OF Tom Thumb & Lavinia Warren - YouTube

The STRANGE CASE OF Tom Thumb & Lavinia Warren - YouTube

Bill O'Reilly & Jerry Dunleavy Investigate Neville Roy Singham - YouTube

(8) Bill O'Reilly & Jerry Dunleavy Investigate Neville Roy Singham - YouTube

Gad Saad on X: "Things more intellectual than Jasmine Crockett"

Gad Saad on X: - Gad Saad@GadSaad
Things more intellectual than@JasmineForUS: 

1) sand 

2) rocks 

3) my elliptical 

4) Ebola

'Melania' movie is a success. Turns out, people love her | USA TODAY

Think of the critic-audience divide on this documentary as a microcosm of the chasm between how the legacy media treats President Donald Trump and how much of the country views him. - Ingrid Jacques 

If you needed an example of the disconnect between legacy media and the country at large, look no further than “Melania.”
The new documentary on Melania Trump follows the first lady in the 20 days leading up to the 2025 presidential inauguration – and her second stint calling the White House home.

• The critics HATE it, giving it a lousy score of just 10%, according to Rotten Tomatoes (compare that with the 93% score critics gave the 2020 documentary “Becoming” about former first lady Michelle Obama).
• Yet, the Americans heading to the theater to watch “Melania” have a vastly different takeaway. They’ve given it a score of 99%.

This discrepancy has broken the film rating site's 27-year record...

Affirmative Action Quotas in Question as Female, Minority Pilots Caused Half of Pilot-Error Crashes

Affirmative Action Quotas in Question as Female, Minority Pilots Caused Half of Pilot-Error Crashes: 

“It’s not that women and minorities are inherently unable to fly planes, but in practice, pressure for affirmative action too often leads airlines to lower their standards to meet quotas,” Huff added.

The attorney referenced the 2019 Atlas Air Crash as an example.