Addressing the most important energy issue!-----MIT Weighs In On Energy Storage

MIT Weighs In On Energy Storage --Francis

"As I’ve been pointing out now for a couple of years, the obvious gap in the plans of our betters for a carbon-free “net zero” energy future is the problem of massive-scale energy storage. 

• How exactly is New York City (for example) going to provide its citizens with power for a long and dark full-week period in the winter, with calm winds, long nights, and overcast days, after everyone has been required to change over to electric heat and electric cars — and all the electricity is supposed to come from the wind and sun, which are neither blowing nor shining for these extended periods? 
• Can someone please calculate how much energy storage will be needed to cover a worst-case solar/wind drought, what it will consist of, how long it has to last, how much it will cost, and whether it is economically feasible? 

Nearly all descriptions by advocates of the supposed path to “net zero” — including the ambitious plans of the states of New York and California — completely gloss over this issue and/or deal with it in a way demonstrating total incompetence and failure to comprehend the problem.
And then suddenly appeared in my inbox a couple of weeks ago a large Report with the title “The Future of Energy Storage: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.” 

MIT — that’s America’s premier university for matters of science and technology..."

Everything libs control, they kill!

 

CBS' John Dickerson gives Gayle King a reality check on banning 'assault weapons' - TheBlaze

CBS' John Dickerson gives Gayle King a reality check on banning 'assault weapons' - TheBlaze: 

What's "actually being discussed," Dickerson said, is federal legislation that would incentivize states to pass so-called red-flag laws, which permit police or family members to get a court order taking guns away from a person they show may be a danger to themselves or others.

Math is hard-----More Teachers, Fewer Students, But Teacher Shortage Story Goes On

More Teachers, Fewer Students, But Teacher Shortage Story Goes On By Tom Gantert 

• Oakridge Public Schools in Muskegon County has 34% more teachers this year than it did in the 2012-13 academic year, and it has fewer students than it did then.

"Yet two (LIBERAL) nonprofit news sites in Michigan are pointing to the district as evidence of a teacher shortage in this state.
The Center for Michigan’s news site known as Bridge Michigan ran a May 13 article written by Chalkbeat Detroit that used a teacher from Oakridge Public Schools to advance the idea of a teacher shortage. 

Bridge Michigan joins other statewide media outlets in saying that low pay is one explanation.
“Michigan’s teacher shortage: What’s causing it, how serious is it, and what can be done?” the headline of the May 13 article reads.
...Overwhelmingly, those school districts reported having more classroom teachers in 2021-22 than they did in years past..."

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 29

History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com

Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

• 1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
• 1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
• 1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.
• 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
• 1986 - Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras.

Exclusive: Bill Barr rips Russiagate as 'seditious', explains origins of Durham probe - TheBlaze

Exclusive: Bill Barr rips Russiagate as 'seditious', explains origins of Durham probe - TheBlaze: 

"I thought we were heading into a constitutional crisis. I think whatever you think of Trump, the fact is that the whole Russiagate thing was a grave injustice. It appears to be a dirty political trick that was used first to hobble him and then potentially to drive him from office," Barr told Beck. "I believe it is seditious," he added, clarifying that whether that could be proved in court as a crime is another issue.

The way we were-----TOP 10 WESTERN MOVIE SHOOTOUTS

Portland neighbors beg for help as homeless camp takes root

"Why are we so afraid to criticize bad habits?"

Facebook  Sean Malone
"I wonder why it's so hard to find the balance of not treating drug addicts like criminals and just immediately sending them to jail, and enabling them with crap like this that makes it seem like it's fine?
Is it really that hard to both 

1) recognize people need help breaking addiction more than jail; and then, you know... 

2) try to actually help them do that?
Why are we so afraid to criticize bad habits?"

Robert Pondiscio 
New York City subway ad tells heroin addicts not to be ashamed, but "start with a small dose and go slowly." 

This sums up my relationship with the city these days: I'm not ashamed I'm from New York, but I'm limiting myself to small doses."

What the hell!!!-----Air Force cancels 'Drag Queen Story Time' for kids after pressure from Sen. Rubio | American Military News

Air Force cancels 'Drag Queen Story Time' for kids after pressure from Sen. Rubio | American Military News
"The U.S. Air Force canceled a “Drag Queen Story Time” event this week for young children at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) learned about the event and raised questions and demands from Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.

In a Thursday open letter to Kendall, Rubio said Ramstein Air Force Base announced its “Drag Queen Story Time” event, which was scheduled for June 2 at a library on base. 

The event was announced on the Ramstein & Vogelweh Air Force Libraries Facebook page..."

The Uvalde shooting & the REAL 'replacement' theory that threatens America - TheBlaze

The Uvalde shooting & the REAL 'replacement' theory that threatens America - TheBlaze: 

What we saw yesterday in Uvalde, Texas, is more dark horrific evidence of the only replacement theory that ultimately matters because it affects everything. We’ve replaced God in society. Glenn argues it’s why gun control is ultimately useless — even though he completely understands our human impulse to DO something. While our culture has replaced God for rot, the Biden White House and Democrats are also working overtime to replace key elements of American political, legal, economic, and cultural life.

US: Long-Covid 20% of cases

Teen Who Knew Shooter Drops Bomb: 'I Don't See This Covered and I'm Going to Put This Out There"

Teen Who Knew Shooter Drops Bomb: 'I Don't See This Covered and I'm Going to Put This Out There"

• ...A student at Uvalde High School in Texas who says he knew Salvador Ramos rejected the prevailing media narrative that the gunman was the victim of bullying, and this was the catalyst for his May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
• Ivan Arellano, a senior at Uvalde High School, told WFAA-TV in Dallas that Ramos “was not a good person” and had been a bully himself.
• “Salvador Ramos was a boy who was not bullied,” Arellano said on Wednesday. “He would try to pick on people but fail, and it would aggravate him.”

• So do the observations of 17-year-old Crystal Foutz, who attended school with Ramos and worked with him at the fast-food restaurant Whataburger. “He always seemed to take his anger out on the most innocent person in the room,” Foutz told KTBC-TV in Austin.

However, one thing is already clear: The school system and his own family failed Ramos, who should have been red-flagged over his threatening, anti-social behavior, which included self-mutilation, animal abuse and shooting people with BB guns..."

Lunch video-a very worthy listen-----Harvard Student Condemns Anti-Americanism in Senior Speech

Noon-toon

 

Frightening details emerge about Texas school shooter's rough home life, strange behavior leading up to elementary massacre - TheBlaze

Frightening details emerge about Texas school shooter's rough home life, strange behavior leading up to elementary massacre - TheBlaze: 

Those who knew Ramos described him as a loner who endured a rough home life with a drug-abusing mother. He was reportedly the frequent target of bullying as a teenager due to his lisp and stutter and social awkwardness. But, they said, Ramos responded to his circumstances by violently lashing out at "peers and strangers" and engaging in lawless behavior, often leading to run-ins with local law enforcement.

Overregulation!

 

Our Economic Misery Isn’t an Accident, It’s the Plan

Our Economic Misery Isn’t an Accident, It’s the Plan
The Left doesn’t want you to be able to drive, buy a home, or enjoy a burger.

• Americans can’t afford to buy a used car or even gas because the Left doesn’t want them to drive. 
• They can’t buy homes because the Left wants to destroy the suburbs and force everyone to live in megacities. 
• They have trouble buying meat because the Left wants them to eat soy.
• The same is true for the whole exercise in planned economic misery that we’re experiencing.

...There are predictions that gas will hit $6 a gallon nationwide by the summer because the Biden administration has worked hard to raise energy prices and create artificial shortages. 

Biden’s people just got through once again sabotaging oil and gas leases because they want higher energy prices. $6 a gallon is not the result of political inattentiveness, that is the plan.
Inflation isn’t an unintentional accident either..."

As the media focuses on guns in the hands of honest people.

 

BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS: Democrats Introduced Bill to Get Police Out of Schools - Despite Slaughtered Children (VIDEO)

BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS: Democrats Introduced Bill to Get Police Out of Schools - Despite Slaughtered Children (VIDEO)
"...In July 2020 top Democrats introduced legislation to get police out of schools despite the slaughtered children.

Senator Chris Murphy (D) told his fellow lawmakers, “Police shouldn’t be in schools.”
On Tuesday 19 children and two teachers were murdered by a deranged teen gunman at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

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Forbes reported:

The deaths of Black people at the hands of police this year ignited an important conversation about police reform in this country. A number of proposals have been introduced to address various facets of policing at the federal, state, and local levels. This week, Democratic lawmakers in Congress added to that list with a bill to get police out of schools.

Senators Chris Murphy (CT) and Elizabeth Warren (MA), along with Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA) and Ilhan Omar (MN), introduced the Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act that would prohibit federal money to be used to fund police in schools..."

#1 This day 1963-----Lesley Gore "It's My Party & She's A Fool" on The Ed Sullivan Show

All reported as accurate by Biden's counters!-----Chinese manufacturer sent 100,000 defective COVID tests with false positives to US company | American Military News

Chinese manufacturer sent 100,000 defective COVID tests with false positives to US company | American Military News
"Not far from where the COVID-19 pandemic originated in Wuhan, China, the Chinese medical technology company Anhui DeepBlue manufactured and distributed to the United States tens of thousands of defective antibody tests that showed false-positive results. 

Now, an American medical company is suing DeepBlue in an effort to recover nearly half a million dollars it lost buying defective tests..."

A reasonable deduction.

 

Fox News reporter calls out deceptive video edit of his report on Texas shooting: 'You absolute hack' - TheBlaze

Fox News reporter calls out deceptive video edit of his report on Texas shooting: 'You absolute hack' - TheBlaze: 

A Fox News reporter lashed out at a misleading edit of his report that was posted to Twitter to make it appear as if he were spreading an unverified rumor about the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas. Bill Melugin, working from the Los Angeles bureau, was incensed at the deceptive editing posted to social media by a former Deadspin and Daily Beast reporter, Timothy Burke.

There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year

There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year

• Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.

"...An NPR article highlighting this statistic has been shared frequently on social media. 

The headline, "27 school shootings have taken place so far this year," probably gave many readers the impression that gun-related killings in schools have been especially high this year, even before Uvalde.
...The problem here is that three very differently defined terms are being used somewhat incautiously and interchangeably: 

• school shooting, 
• mass shooting, and 
• mass school shooting. 

Uvalde was a mass school shooting; the 26 previous tragedies at schools this year were not.
The difference is significant. 

Education Week, which tracks all school shootings, defines them as incidents in which a person other than the suspect suffers a bullet wound on school property. 

Many of the 26 previous shootings involved disputes between students in parking lots, or after athletic events, and all of them resulted in one or zero deaths..."

AM Fruitcake

 

New Scorecard Rates Businesses on Speech, Religious Freedom Support

New Scorecard Rates Businesses on Speech, Religious Freedom Support

"Writing at World magazine, radio host Erick Erickson discusses a new corporate scorecard he calls a “mechanism for exposing corporate America’s progressivism,” which rates businesses on their support of free speech and religious freedom.
The scorecard is a response to big businesses increasingly using their economic clout to force governments to pass laws favoring social policies the managers and activist groups want, and which stockholders and customers may dislike intensely.
Erickson writes,
"...This action uses the tactics of progressive organizations like the Human Rights Campaign to counterbalance their influence on corporate America. 

Together, ADF and Inspire have rated 50 of the Fortune 1000 companies on their commitment to free speech and religious freedom. 

...So too are financial groups like Bank of America that often process or might refuse to process transactions of groups based on their political views….
“CEOs and business leaders have positions of considerable power,” notes Jeremy Tedesco, ADF senior counsel and senior vice president for corporate engagement. 

• “They shouldn’t weaponize their influence or the companies they run to divide Americans or engage in speech censorship or anti-religious bigotry.”..

Read the article in full."

History for May 28

History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com

Thomas Moore 1779 - Lawyer, social philosopher, author

1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.

1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.

1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco.

1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.

2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.

A new report shows the FBI spied on 3.3 million Americans without a warrant - TheBlaze

A new report shows the FBI spied on 3.3 million Americans without a warrant - TheBlaze: 

High-ranking Republicans in the House of Representatives are demanding answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after court-ordered information surfaced showing that the federal law enforcement agency collected the personal information of more than three million American citizens without a warrant.