Never buy a used hybrid or electric car. NEVER!-----Florida family: Car battery replacement pricier than electric car | 12news.com

Florida family: Car battery replacement pricier than electric car | 12news.co

• "The family said a dealership told the family it would cost them about $14,000 to replace the car's battery."

...But... what happens when the battery needs replacing? 

And what happens when the replacement battery costs more than the car itself?
...Avery Siwinski who is 17 years old was excited to get a car to drive herself to and from school. 

Her parents spent $11,000 on a used electric car for her. 

It's a Ford Focus Electric. 

The car is a 2014 model, with 60,000 miles.
"It was fine at first," Avery Siwinski said. "I loved it so much. It was small and quiet and cute. And all the sudden it stopped working."..."

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova says what we're all thinking about trans swimmer Lia Thomas' 'Woman of the Year' nomination - TheBlaze

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova says what we're all thinking about trans swimmer Lia Thomas' 'Woman of the Year' nomination - TheBlaze: 

Following the NCAA announcement that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was nominated for the 2022 "Woman of the Year" award by the University of Pennsylvania, tennis legend Martina Navratilova took to Twitter to express the sentiments we've all thinking when it comes to biological men competing in women's sports.

Law Creates 'No Recording' Zone Around Police

Fight back!-----Pushback: PA school board settles lawsuit and will pay $300K for censoring critics

Pushback: PA school board settles lawsuit and will pay $300K for censoring critics --Robert Zimmerman

Reaffirmed at Pennsbury, despite its school board’s hostility

"Bring a gun to a knife fight: 

The Pennsbury school board in Pennsylvania has now been forced to pay $300K and fire its attorney, Peter Amuso, because that attorney silenced three different individuals during the open comments period at a school board meeting, simply because they were criticizing the board’s policies.

More details here..."

Lunch video-----Lessons from the collapse of the Habsburg Empire | Thomas Sowell

"Identity politics has become a driving factor on the left, especially in the US. Politicians and Intellectuals are dividing the people based on various identities and pitting them against each other. 

To see where this road could lead, Thomas Sowell explores the events that unfolded between Germans and Czechs in the 20th century. 

From the town of Budweis, Bohemia in the Habsburg Empire to the end of World War 2, the story of those two groups should warn Americans of the harms that identity politics can inflict on the fabric of a country.

This is an excerpt from the book 'The Thomas Sowell Reader'"

Noon-toon

 

Joe Manchin exposes how Biden's 'Build Back Better' agenda is a 'complete social realignment' - TheBlaze

Joe Manchin exposes how Biden's 'Build Back Better' agenda is a 'complete socia realignment' - TheBlaze: 

Speaking with a West Virginia radio host, Manchin revealed what he really thinks of the president's "Build Back Better" plan and why he refuses to support it.

"First of all, the Build Back Better, way back when, was a complete social realignment — everything in the world you could throw at it," Manchin said.

America-cide.

 

Wow, what a list of fools!-----The top 10 Democratic candidates for president in 2024, ranked

The top 10 Democratic candidates for president in 2024, ranked

"...But that scenario seemed to be growing more likely, so we decided to also include Biden on the list. The reason: There might come a time when the incumbent president isn’t the most likely nominee the next time around, for whatever reason. 

And his own 2024 maneuverings were suddenly very much worth evaluating in real time.
He’s still the most likely nominee, and he’s still sending the signals that he truly intends to run again. 

But it’s all looking significantly more tenuous than it was even three months ago..."

No! This heat wave is not unprecedented!

 

It's not your use of electricity or your SUV!-----Lots here!-----The Global Warming Scare

The Global Warming Scare

"...Two million years ago forests extended nearly to the north pole.

And as recently as 125,000 years ago, temperatures were so high that hippopotami and other animals now found only in Africa made their homes in northern Europe.

Fig. 2.2

Temperature curve for the last 6 million years, based on an ocean core. (Carter, 2006)
 

The past million years have seen 8 to 10 ice ages, each about 100,000 years long, with short, warm interglacial periods of about 10,000 years.

 

The difference in globally averaged temperatures between glacials and interglacials is about 5°C.

The transition between glacial and interglacial conditions can take place in less than a thousand years - sometimes in as little as decades. Such dramatic climatic shifts occurred near the end of the last major ice age, about 15,000 years ago.

 

First, a brief warming occurred, and then the ice age returned for roughly a thousand years. Finally, by 11,500 years ago, the climate quickly warmed again. Ice core data indicate that temperatures in central Greenland rose by 7°C or more in a few decades.

(Marshall Institute, 2006, p. 27)..."

#1 This day 1950-----Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa

I keep being told to 'follow the science.' I must ask, which science | Facebook

 I keep being told to 'follow the science.' I must ask, which science | Facebook  Darwin Grigg
"... I must ask, which science?: 

• The science based on the virtual world of computer simulations and computer-revised data bases, 
• or the science based on real-world observations and laboratory experimentation, plus use of the original, unaltered data sets? 

I'm old school....I live in a real world, not a virtual one. 

I have lived in that real world long enough to have followed the proclamations of science during the 60s and 70s that an ice age was again upon us, so know science is susceptible to bandwagoning. 

I put my trust in the empiricists, and find (shock) that as a general rule, their credentials in terms of professional achievement and awards are far superior to the virtualists. 

And those scientists living in the real world are not finding any impending doom, other than from the rash political policies being imposed by our governments.

• Top comments--  Cal Bradley : "These pseudo-scientists have too much time and government subsidy money on their hands."

"This is why I don't care about January 6."

 

Anthony Fauci Announces Planned Retirement After Joe Biden's Term

Anthony Fauci Announces Planned Retirement After Joe Biden's Term: 

Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his plan to retire at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in a new interview published Monday, lamenting Americans were no longer listening to his recommendations on masking or vaccines.

How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices.

Instapundit--How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices.

WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS? How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices.

Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead.

“The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,”...

Local election clerks generally are empowered to interpret and enforce state election regulations. They often have discretion on matters such as whether to count absentee ballots that come in after Election Day, how strictly to enforce voter ID or signature-matching requirements, and how closely poll watchers may monitor the ballot counting on Election Day.

Where is the Right on this?--Posted by Stephen Green

AM Fruitcake

History for July 20

History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com

Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers)

• 1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
• 1861 - The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, VA.
• 1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
• 1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
• 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
• 1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.

WATCH: AOC Pretends to Be Arrested During Abortion Protest Outside of Supreme Court

WATCH: AOC Pretends to Be Arrested During Abortion Protest Outside of Supreme Court: 

According to an update, police made 34 arrests “for Crowding, Obstructing or Incommoding (DC Code § 22–1307).” Almost half of those arrests were members of Congress:

Taxpayer-funded NPR Launches 'Disinformation' Reporting Team Ahead of Elections

Taxpayer-funded NPR Launches 'Disinformation' Reporting Team Ahead of Elections: 

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) is launching a “disinformation” reporting team, prompting mockery online by those who pointed out the liberal network’s long, sordid history of suppressing information it did not want the public to hear.

The way we were-----Were The 1950s An Easier Time Than Today? You Decide!

1911, a record-breaking British summer

"The hot weather yesterday was nothing at all exceptional and certainly need not be regarded as an emergency. 

We had similar temperatures in this country before the First World War, but in those days nobody thought anything of it."

'End of Quote. Repeat the Line'

THE COLUMN: 'End of Quote. Repeat the Line' | The Pipeline

• "...But rote is all you have left when your brain has turned to mush." 

"After a lifetime of bullying, bragging, lying, threatening, embellishing, finger-pointing, chest-bumping, insulting, brazenly lying, and outright plagiarizing, Sundown Joe has been reduced to his essence, which is nothing. 

Like a ham actor in his dotage, bottoming out doing dinner theater in Paducah, he relies on the accumulated tics and strategems of a lifetime of performing a script others have written for him..."

Report: Hunter Biden Frequently Met Dad After Foreign Business Meetings

Report: Hunter Biden Frequently Met Dad After Foreign Business Meetings: 

Hunter Biden would frequently meet with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, following his personal business meetings with foreign government officials and clients, the New York Post reported.

The meetings were revealed after an examination of Hunter Biden’s personal calendar from the infamous “laptop from hell.”

The Babylon Bee Guide To Being Woke

"This is how they represent the United States before the world community."

Facebook  John F. Di Leo

"These two representatives of the Biden-Harris regime attended an event at the French ambassador’s residence last week like this.
This isn’t just how these guys dressed in weekends when they were in the private sector.
This is how they represent the United States before the world community."

Lunch video-----Gutfeld: Where are the feminist groups?

Noon-toon

 

Paul Pelosi Buys Millions in Semiconductor Stocks Before Subsidy Vote

Paul Pelosi Buys Millions in Semiconductor Stocks Before Subsidy Vote: 

Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), recently bought up to $5 million in stocks in a semiconductor company. This comes right before the Senate is set to vote on a competition bill next week that would give a $52 billion subsidy to the semiconductor industry, Reuters reported.

Yep. This happened. Happens all the time!