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Monday, March 28, 2022

Is There Diesel Shortage? These European Countries Could Run Out of Diesel Soon - Bloomberg

These Are the European Countries Most at Risk of Diesel Shortages

"There’s growing anxiety that Europe might run out of diesel following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The continent only has about 40 days supply of the crucial fuel in its stockpiles.
Europe has historically taken about 20% of its imports from Russia.

...For a sense of how acute the problem really is, and how quickly there could be stock outs, here’s a look at some underlying numbers.

Source: Bloomberg calculation using data from the International Energy Agency and Eurostat

Note: Stockpiles at the end of December 2021...Read all.

#1 This day 1965-----The Supremes - Stop! In The Name of Love [The Hollywood Palace - 1965]

Buying access to FAT government contracts!!!-----How the Beau Biden Foundation spends its cash

How the Beau Biden Foundation spends its cash

Beau Biden Foundation rakes in millions, spends fraction on kid programs

"The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children raked in $3.9 million in 2020, but spent only a fraction of that on its purported mission to help kids, The Post has learned.
...Despite the $2 million-plus windfall, the organization put only $544,961 in 2020 toward its stated purpose of protecting children from abuse, according to tax filings.
The charity spent a total of $932,865 that year, with a large chunk of it going to the six-figure salaries of Biden cronies who held executive jobs at the non-profit...Read all!!

"...removing a gate..."

Texas AG blasts possible LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at school district's Pride Week. 'Queer Eye' showings, 'nail painting' parties allegedly offered at HS. - TheBlaze

Texas AG blasts possible LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at school district's Pride Week. 'Queer Eye' showings, 'nail painting' parties allegedly offered at HS. - TheBlaze:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blasted "Pride Week" activities at the Austin Independent School District in a letter posted to Twitter, saying they constitute "human sexuality instruction" allowable only with parents' consent. He also accused the district of participating in LGBTQ "indoctrination." Allegedly among the "Pride Week" activities are "Queer Eye" showings and "nail painting" parties at a district high school.

We Can't Fund COVID Treatments for the Uninsured Because We Spent Trillions of COVID Aid on Wasteful Garbage

Congress used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to throw money around in ways that would be comedic if the results weren't so tragic.

"Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, Congress has authorized $884 billion in aid for state and local governments, $62 billion for colleges and universities, and $869 billion in direct payments to Americans, including to individuals who earned as much as $90,000 annually and never lost their income due to the pandemic.
And now, it turns out, there's no money left to actually help those suffering from COVID-19 who can't afford to pay for treatments...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

History for March 28

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

August Busch 1899

1797 - Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.
1854 - The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring war on Russia.
1885 - The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
1898 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1917 - During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.
1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
2010 - China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. signed a deal to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo car unit.

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Donald Trump hits Hillary Clinton, DNC, and more with lawsuit over Russian collusion allegations - TheBlaze

Donald Trump hits Hillary Clinton, DNC, and more with lawsuit over Russian collusion allegations - TheBlaze:

A portion of the petition states, "In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an affront to this nation’s democracy. Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty.”

Others named in the suit include former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Clinton campaign head John Podesta, and former FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page.

The way we were-----The BRUTAL Executions Of The Nurses Of Bangka Island

Millennium Tower - A Solution Without a Problem? (San Francisco's Leaning tower...

Big Government and Big Corruption | International Liberty

Big Government and Big Corruption | International Liberty"
"When the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video back in 2009, we wanted people to understand the link between big government and big corruption.

Simply stated, unethical people are naturally drawn to politics and unethical interest groups naturally seek to obtain unearned wealth (a process known as “rent seeking“).

This is true for tax policy.
And I mean very true for tax policy.
This is true for trade policy.
This is true for bailout policy.
This is true for regulatory policy.
This is true for spending policy.
This is true for health policy.
This is true for business policy.
And it’s true for environment policy.

The obvious takeaway is that making government bigger is going to mean that these unsavory groups will have even greater ability to engage in corruption...Read all.

Easter bunny battered by candy business inflation

Mitch Cohen, co-owner of Economy Candy in the Lower East Side, says costs have been rising across the board since 2019.

"...A Post survey of seasonal sweets shows the average cost of an Easter basket has skyrocketed to $61.83, up from $50.46 in the pre-pandemic spring of 2019.

That’s an increase of 22.5%, more than double the already historic 9% percent inflation rate in the same period.

Luxury chocolatier Jacques Torres of Brooklyn spent $23,000 on a recent shipment of packaging from Indonesia. It cost him only $9,000 for the same shipment just two years ago...Read all.

'We are not victims!' Guest blows up 'The View' panel's narrative about critical race theory - TheBlaze

'We are not victims!' Guest blows up 'The View' panel's narrative about critical race theory - TheBlaze:

"We are not victims. OK? Even though we have been victimized, we are not victims," Granger declared. "We are here to grow and there’s beauty in us and we are winning out here. Black people are beautiful, so I want to see that more often. And I don’t want to constantly tell my 6-month-old daughter that she’s a victim."

Biden needs to consider doing less public speaking: Freeman

MSNBC Op-ed: If You Exercise, You're a Neo-Nazi

MSNBC Op-ed: If You Exercise, You're a Neo-Nazi
"The Left has a Nazi fetish.

They have an unhealthy obsession with Adolf Hitler.
Maybe it’s because they all secretly want to be him?
After all, he built death camps, put people he hated into them, and systemically murdered them.
It’s what liberals want to do with anyone with whom they disagree, so roughly half the country.
Everything they hate is rooted in racism, sexism, misogyny, or Nazism.

It’s the same old game, but it’s not reaching levels of mockery that we really haven’t approached yet.

I have never seen an op-ed that argues that working out and exercising is akin to Nazism.

It’s all here.

Exercise is a far-right activity.

You cannot make this up (via MSNBC):
"It appears the far right has taken advantage of pandemic at-home fitness trends to expand its decade-plus radicalization of physical mixed martial arts (MMA) and combat sports spaces...Read all.

Linch video-----P-38 Lightning Aerobatics - Steve Hinton - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021

"Steve Hinton performs aerobatics in the P-38 Lightning "SCAT III" during the Friday airshow at EAA AirVenture 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Noon-toon

Exclusive: Rep. Darrell Issa Hits Twelve Individuals Involved in 'Laptop From Hell' Election Interference with Document Preservation Notices

Exclusive: Rep. Darrell Issa Hits Twelve Individuals Involved in 'Laptop From Hell' Election Interference with Document Preservation Notices:

The letters from Issa to the various characters begin similarly, demanding the recipient “immediately initiate document preservation for all materials relating to questions, inquiry, conversation, strategy, and response, from 2020 to current, to the media reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop and/or its contents that first appeared in the New York Post on October 14, 2020.”

We DO have a problem!

Lucianne.com News Forum - Minneapolis mosques to broadcast call to prayer all year round

Original Article
"The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard regularly in parts of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis mosques can now publicly broadcast the adhan, or call to prayer, over loudspeakers without acquiring a permit and so long as they abide by the city's amplified noise ordinance.
...Council Member Jamal Osman announced this week that mosques will be allowed to play the adhan several times between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily and all year round...
Comments: Why not. Blast it loud and proud...Read all w/comments.

That sums it up!

“The Floor Was Shaking” – Yale Law School Speaker Disruption Worse Than Originally Reported

David Lat: “Students in Federal Courts, across the hall from the event, reported that ‘the floor was shaking’ and Professor Resnik asked on-call students to ‘yell’ so they could be heard over the din.”

"The disruption of a debate at Yale Law School by students protesting the appearance of Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom continues to reverberate...

...I would not downplay the role of faculty and administrators.

...In almost every law school attack on speakers and law professors we have covered, faculty and administrators are as much a part of the problem as the students.

It’s a culture of intolerance and a sick symbiotic relationship in which students, faculty, and administrators feed off each other...Read all!

#1 This day 1974-----John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders (Audio)

Climate Change Is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment

Climate Change Is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment
"The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a
diversion tactic by the government, the radical Left, and their mainstream press.

The many laws, the trillions in federal appropriations and tax credits, and the unworkable proposals to address climate change will not slow the rise of the oceans or heal the planet.
Lobbying for more climate regulation is to enhance the power of the authoritarian state, not protect the environment.
The radical Left has the world obsessing over whether we have 10, 20, or 50 years before the eve of destruction.
The hysteria gives the government the excuse it needs for more controls over the energy we use, the products we purchase, the homes we live in, the food we eat, and since the pandemic when we can leave our homes.
However, the data supporting the climate studies are rarely made public so that scientists can test the reproducibility of the studies...Read all.

Defying truth.

Joe Rogan Blasts SNL for Turning Into Woke Crap - Louder With Crowder

Joe Rogan Blasts SNL for Turning Into Woke Crap - Louder With Crowder:

Joe Rogan took a trip down memory lane many of us oldhead comedy fans have had. When "SNL" used to be funny or, to use more precise language, when "Saturday Night Live" used to be funny. You wouldn't know it if you stay awake in 2022, but "Saturday Night Live" used to be must-watch TV long before it turned into the woke crap we see before us now.

Fun read of the good old days.-----When the Oscars got the Best Picture winner wrong

"The Oscars are coming up this weekend and while I probably won’t watch the show because it’s often insufferable, I do try to see some of the Best Picture nominees so I can form my own opinion about them.

...Back in 2016 the Washington Post published a piece about all of the Best Picture winners since 1976 along with their picks for the films that should have won.

This week they updated that.

I spent some time looking over their list and I agree with some of their choices.

For instance, 1979:

Nominees: All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Kramer vs. Kramer, Norma Rae

Best Picture winner: Kramer vs. Kramer

The actual best picture: Apocalypse Now

What a bonkers roster. “Kramer vs. Kramer” is a gorgeously spare, simple movie about divorce and parenting — can you believe that 105 minutes of talking without CGI or explosions was not only the Oscar winner but the box-office champ for 1979? But it’s hard not to love every shot of “Apocalypse Now,” which routinely makes Top-10 lists of the best films ever. If this lineup were voted on today, “Apocalypse” would win in a landslide...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

History for March 27

History for March 27 - On-This-Day.com

James Callaghan 1912 - British prime minister

1794 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy.
1836 - In Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped execution.
1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made from Boston to New York.
1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.
1912 - The first cherry blossom trees were planted in Washington, DC. The trees were a gift from Japan.
1941 - Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.