Biden Now in Fantasyland

Several years ago, Biden was on the fast train to incompetence due to Alzheimer's.

He hit "can't be fixed" about the time that Trump won the '20 election, and has now hit "Cart him outta there" territory:  Fantasyland.

"President" Joe Biden annnounced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment has been ratified - which explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.

'It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people,' Biden said in a statement. 'In keeping with my oath and duty to Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.'...

Well, no, Joe.

As it turns out the deadline for ratification was just about the last time you had all  your thieving, grasping, kid-sniffing, with-your-daughter-showering head together:  1979. 

Just take the mike away from this disgrace.

Narrative Engineering on Cali Fires

You've heard that 'there is A story and then there is THE story.'  The press loves to serve as the stenographer for Government, and serve that stuff up as "the" story.  But actually, they've engineered the narrative so it's actually only "a" story.

Take Scripps..........please.

Their headline:

Truth Be Told: No evidence of California water policies making wildfires worse

We'll assume--generously--that their editors are familiar with the English language and elementary logic.  They know, therefore, that their headline is deceptive.  Those policies did NOT 'make wildfires worse'; they could not have been much worse.  But those policies prevented first responders from containing, mitigating, and extinguishing the fires. Big difference.  One is A story, the other is THE story.

In sum:  that's a "partial truth," and they know it.

Next, they attack Donald Trump.  Since the "press" has been doing that for years, it's easy!

...President-elect Donald Trump blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom for keeping policies that limit the amount of freshwater able to flow from northern California to the parched southern part of the state.

"He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Now the ultimate price is being paid."

Trump's claim about California depriving water where it's needed most, all to save a small fish known as Delta smelt, is not new....

More partial truth.  No matter how much water could have been available if the smelt were sacrificed, the water problem was not the biggest policy problem in California.  The State's notoriously horrible forest management policies were.  The State deliberately left deadwood where it fell, producing millions of tons of tinder.  Fires love tinder.

Further, the LAFD, with nearly unlimited budget funds, never purchased any "super scooper" planes with which they could drown fires with ocean water.  Those have to come from Canada (!!!)  (By the way, those salt-water dousings sorta contradict the flim-flam of the officials about 'not contaminating' water with salt water, no?)

It is reassuring to know that the "press" will rarely--if ever--tell you THE story.  That way you can continue ignoring them.   You didn't learn anything there, anyway. 

Less Students = LessTaxes, Right?

 As the student population in Wisconsin has diminished, you've noticed that the school taxes have not diminished.  And you've heard 1,001 excuses, too; first off 'the State doesn't give us enough money,' but in fact the State's school expenditures have increased substantially over 10 years.  Next there's the 'you can't reduce classroom personnel because there's 2 less students in the classroom' excuse.  Actually, you can--if you jiggle which school those kids go to, and then juggle those little bodies to subtract one whole classroom. 

But that sort of stuff can't be done, right?

Wrong, Taxpaying Sucker-Breath!!  In Waukesha......

...Darren Clark, the district's chief financial officer, said a roughly 2% decline – the equivalent of 220 to 250 students per yard – will hold on average for the next four to five years....

It's down about 6% Statewide in the last decade.  Just like your school tax, right?/sarc

The really important thing--what allows taxes to go down, not up-up-up--is debt.

...While Clark said enrollment is the "driver of school finance," he also said there is reason to be optimistic.

"We will be debt free in a year. We’re the seventh-largest school district in the state, and to have no tax or approved debt on the books is a really a unique thing," he said....

 

"Now we’ll be debt free, and the tax levy will go down significantly if the next state budget allows it," he said.

No debt!

Whadda concept, Pewaukee!

MKE D.A.: 'Let's Hold Hands Together!'

 Milwaukee county's new D.A., Kent Lovern, was not challenged in this interview; as a result, he came up with a lot of gooey loving spoonful malarkey.

Re "# 1 thing to accomplish right away":  

We have to continue to tackle very quickly the violent crime problem we’re facing in the community. I would say the other issue that is of deep concern to me personally has been domestic violence. We’ve seen a high rate of domestic violence homicides over the last several years. 

Well, OK.

Re 'how will you act differently from Chisholm':

... we have to continue to be very very responsive. We’ve had prosecutors in the neighborhoods for a long time now that have done really great work intersecting with neighborhoods and the police departments in those neighborhoods.

I think we need to take that to another level and build on that and connect people in neighborhoods who are concerned with safety, but maybe aren’t connected to economic opportunity....

The Shiny Object emerges!!  "Economic opportunity,", you see!  This will become the mantra for evading responsibility.

Re 'what is driving violent crime'?

...We have to continue though to look at some of the gaps we see in our community. Gaps related to poverty, gaps related to home ownership, because what we do know is the neighborhoods that have a homeownership, and high rates of family sustaining jobs do not have high rates crime....

Same Shiny Object.

Lovern wants the reckless driving to be treated as a violent crime.  Sounds good, no?  Except there's this problem of the State criminal statutes--which have to be stretched a long, long, way to get "violent crime" out of a reckless driving complaint.

That's the second Shiny Object.

 Will he throw Chisholm, a notorious Lefty, under the bus?

Hell, no!

....we don’t sentence people, but in terms of the recommendations we make in court that reflects that there needs to be a strong response to that type of behavior....

Milwaukee and suburban residents have waited for 20 years for a "strong response" to that behavior.  Chisholm didn't really give a flying damn; he never went to the Legislature to scream bloody murder about inadequate laws.  He was happy on S. Superior St., far from the slaughterhouse of Milwaukee's north side.

And the final Kum-By-Yah: 

 ...What we need to do in this community, in my view, is we need to better connect with one another and to the good work that is on going on in a lot of places in this community right now. We are small enough to do that.  We are a small, major league, NBA city here and that’s our advantage at my standpoint, that we need to make the most of here....

How sweet!

Looks like another 20 years of holding hands and swaying to Kum-By-Yah with the Coke song.

Another 1,000 Cuts of BidenOmics!

He did everything he could to destroy the United States.  And he's not done.

The overall Consumer Price Index rose by 0.39% (+4.8% annualized) in December from November, the sharpest increase since February 2024. It has been accelerating since the low point in June (blue).

The three-month CPI, which irons out some of the month-to-month squiggles. jumped by 3.9% annualized, the sharpest increase since April, and the fifth month-to-month acceleration in a row....

And you DID notice:

... Food price inflation, after a lull at very high levels, has been accelerating for months and now started to push the year-over-year needle higher. Energy prices surged for the month, which whittled down the year-over-year drop to just a hair. Used vehicle prices, which had plunged off the historic spike, jumped in December for the fourth month in a row, a sign that the plunge has ended, and further whittled down the erstwhile double-digit year-over-year plunge. New-vehicle prices also jumped for the second month in a row...

Eating, heating your home, using lightbulbs, and purchasing ANY car.......

Like we said yesterday, Biden lived for four years too many.

Secret Service, BOLO for Skullcaps

Well, here's a new threat to Trump.

...a brief update on the Gaza ceasefire or, actually, the reaction to Trump’s key role. First, Ben Gvir’s reaction—threatening resignation if a hostage deal is agreed to and bragging that he has scuttled “many, many” previous attempts at a deal—is a clear confirmation that the war on Palestinians was always about the genocide and ethnic cleansing, never about the hostages:...

Gvir serves in Binyi's cabinet. 

Now quoting Megatron:

 ...The hard-kord Zionists in Israel started attacking and insulting Donald Trump blaming him for the ceasefire, which gave the Palestinians full control over Gaza....

That follows Trump's re-tweet of a tweet calling Netanyahu a "deep, dark, son-of-a-bitch."

The announcement of a cease-fire agreement came shortly after that; and the Gvir-aligned hard-core Zionists are very unhappy, indeed.

Israel is very good at assassinations.  And America is very good at revenge.

How Democrats Really Think

You--foolishly--have taken the Left seriously when they piously mewl about 'saving just one life.'  That bit of lying has led to massive, and still-growing, problems with civil order as a whole, and with huge dislocation or eradication of property.

As Gov. Newsom and the California Legislature have proven, it's not "just one life."

It's "Just one fish."  Accurately, the snail darter.

Like the spotted owl, it does not exist.  But trillions of gallons of fresh water were dumped into the Pacific Ocean instead of into reservoirs for drinking (and fire control) and farmers' fields.

At least 25 people did not survive the California Democrat Holocaust of '25.

50 MILLION did not survive the Democrat Holocaust of abortion in the US.

Just one fish.

Corrupt, Top to Bottom

 ............and everyplace in between, too.

....The committee found the Biden administration appears to exaggerate flat-out lies about the number of federal employees working in-office. The administration’s own data shows that as of last May, among “the 2.28 million federal civilian employees, approximately 228,000 are never required to show up to the office, and nearly all of the other 1.1 million employees technically-eligible for telework are engaged in telework.” The employees eligible for telework “were in the office an average of three days a week.”

Additionally, several agencies have telework-eligible employees who “collectively spend less than half their work hours in the office.” Employees who telework “must report to the office on occasion,” whereas, “remote employees never need to show up to work.”

Teleworking employees have roughly doubled since before the COVID-19 pandemic, and remote workers have jumped from 2% to 10% since fiscal year 2019.

"[B]etween September 2019 and May 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) went from 2 percent remote to 29 percent; OPM went from 7 percent remote to 40 percent remote; the General Services Administration (GSA) went from 6 percent remote to 50 percent remote; and the Department of Education (ED) workforce went from 2 percent remote to 55 percent remote," the report reads.

"S'OK" you say.  "Trump, Ramaswamy, and Musk are going to replace all those people with H-1B's force them back into the offices, right" 

Wrong, sucker!  You're going to pay for this load of crappy-crap-crap no matter what.

...Some Biden administration officials “collaborated with union allies to further entrench telework guarantees for portions of the federal workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements,” according to the report.

Last April, the Office of Personnel Management issued a rule “aimed to more deeply entrench the federal workforce by restricting executive discretion over the classification of federal employee positions,” the report reads. The rule does not include meaningful telework reforms and “seeks to prevent the incoming Trump Administration from holding ineffective bureaucrats accountable.”

Also, “the outgoing Biden-Harris Administration entered into long-term [collective bargaining agreements] with federal employee unions that limit management authority through unprecedented concessions, including guaranteeing telework for federal bureaucrats.”

For example, in late November, then-Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Martin O’Malley approved an agreement with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) that "seeks to lock in minimum telework levels for 42,000 SSA employees until 2029.”

The agreement was reached after O’Malley announced that he would be running for Democratic National Committee chair and days before he resigned from SSA....

My thoughts on this?  Can't put them into pixels, but I'm sure yours match mine.

Responding to Biden

 News item:

Retiring President Joe Biden said it was the “privilege of my life” to serve in politics as he released his farewell letter...

Our response:

You lived 4 years too long.

ICE Wants Lockup in MKE

This is amusing; the narrative control attempt by "communities" (and Channel 58) is obnoxious, and obvious.

A Milwaukee alderwoman says the US Department of Homeland Security is looking into opening an ICE detention center on the city's northwest side....

...Local groups that work with immigrant communities warn it could be a large facility, and they say they're concerned.

According to Milwaukee Alderwoman Larresa Taylor, ICE is looking to modify a building on the city's northwest side so that it can be "used to transport prisoners to and from the facility."

... ICE's stated mission is to protect the US from "cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety." Often that means detaining illegal immigrants....

Should be pretty obvious:  stopping "cross-border crime and illegals" means detaining illegals.  

 ...In announcing the proposed detention facility, Alderwoman Taylor said, "we do not support the Department of Homeland Security in their decision to move into our district."

A person who works closely with immigrants in Milwaukee told us they are extremely concerned....

We made the Aldercritter's statement honest.  She prefers drugs, sex trafficking, and crime, thankyouverymuch.

Note that the "source" remains anonymous.

... this person said they are already hearing from families who are concerned parents will be separated from their children if this facility goes through.

As a result, some people are planning to stop sending their children to school. Others said they'll stop seeking medical care....

 Oooooh.  THREATS!!  They'll keep their kiddies out of taxpayer-funded free school and stop getting taxpayer-funded free healthcare!

Here's what we have to say:  Your terms are accpetable.

 

 

Birds, Feathers....and Chaos

 The common denominator between these two men is "Chaos."

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the nation's highest civilian honor, [the Medal of Freedom.]

The first rule of the Universe is Order.  The opposite of Order is Chaos.

Draw your own conclusions.

401(k) ESG "Investing" Is Illegal

No way to write a short headline to describe this story, so....

A federal judge in Texas on Friday said American Airlines violated federal law by basing investment decisions for its employee retirement plan on environmental, social, and other non-financial factors.--AOSHQ quoting NYPost

Pilots sued, showing that AA's inane pursuit of ESG cost the 401(k) plan about $15 million or so.

Judge wrote thus:

... “The facts here compellingly established fiduciary misconduct in the form of conflicts of interest and the failure to loyally act solely in the Plan’s best financial interests. BlackRock’s ESG influence is evident throughout administration of the Plan. The belief that ESG considerations confer a license to ignore pecuniary benefits is mistaken. ERISA does not permit a fiduciary to pursue a non-pecuniary interest no matter how noble it might view the aim. Plaintiff therefore proved by a preponderance of the evidence that American [Airlines] disloyally acted with an intent to benefit a party other than Plan participants and in a manner that was not wholly focused on the best financial benefit to the Plan."...

So if your Corporate Masters are directing your 401(k) dollars into ESG crap-stock, sue the bastards.

Schlitz Brewing, Redux in California

Why, yes!  Schlitz has been gone from Milwaukee for a few decades.  So why do I bring it up?

There were rumors that Schlitz (then owned by Stroh's) would be closing its Milwaukee brewing operations.  That would put a lot of Milwaukee residents on the unemployment line and have serious negative effects on its supply chain--many of which were also in Milwaukee.   

A mouthy Milwaukee alderman who believed that being in office gave him a lot of power, ordered Schlitz to remain open.

Stroh's shut it down a few months later.

So what?

In California, prior to the beginning of the fires:

 ...State Farm non-renewed approximately 1,600 policies in the region in 2024, of approximately 30,000 homeowners and 42,000 apartment policies it dropped statewide, citing rising costs and risks.

“This decision was not made lightly and only after careful analysis of State Farm General’s financial health, which continues to be impacted by inflation, catastrophe exposure, reinsurance costs, and the limitations of working within decades-old insurance regulations,” the company said in a statement.

“State Farm General takes seriously our responsibility to maintain adequate claims-paying capacity for our customers and to comply with applicable financial solvency laws. It is necessary to take these actions now.”...

So what?  That was then.

...Ricardo Lara, commissioner of the state’s Department of Insurance, issued a one-year moratorium on Jan. 10, preventing non-renewals and cancellations for households in and adjacent to the fire sites.

“I am using my moratorium powers ... so people don’t face the added stress of finding new insurance during this horrific event,” he said in a statement. “I am working on all fronts to make sure wildfire victims get the benefits they are entitled to, and they get it as soon as possible.”...

State Farm will comply, of course.  But Every.  Other.  Area.  in California may see State Farm (and lots of others) pull out.  Little Ricardo will be waving his widdle fists, screaming at the sky.........and there will be no insurer there to hear him. 

HT:  Wauck--who also raises the Big Question:  which States will pay for those fires?

Paranoia? Nope.

 There's an old saying:  Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

They ARE after you.

The Government's Secret Police Intel people absolutely must have Section 702 FISA courts in operation.  That's why the Senate Intel Committee jackals (Cotton, e.g.) demanded that either Tulsi Gabbard back S.702 or go home.  Suddenly, Gabbard accepted 702, so she will become DNI.  (Integrity?  WHAT "integrity"?)

...The FISA system is a designated secret court system that is said to only pertain to “foreign nationals.”

Ok, so if we accept the premise. Foreign nationals do not have U.S. constitutional protection. So why does the surveillance and intercept of them require secret U.S. courts?...

...There is no need for a secret court for either foreign nationals or U.S citizens. The former do not have constitutional protection, and the latter should not lose it under arbitrary determinations of U.S govt officials....

Are we clear there?

Good.

So what's really going on?

...Real ID, Digital ID, AI used in facial recognition systems, and the larger issue of track and trace capability of U.S. citizen data (connecting your physical identity to a digital fingerprint), requires some legal justification to create a surveillance network DESPITE the 4th amendment.

FISA-702 is the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent of privacy....

 ...Finding a way to surveil Americans, while working around the constitutional protection in place to stop it, is why the FISA-702 issue has become more important for those who are building the surveillance system under the guise of national security.

Challenge the legal justification for FISA-702, and you throw a massive wrench in the machinery of a growing surveillance state.

If you are secure in your papers and effects, you cannot be forced to “show your papers.”

Right now, the monitoring system [is being] designed so they can get the answers to your identity, without having to ask you to show your papers, which is unconstitutional....

They ARE after you.  Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but.....

 ...However, what happens at the checkpoint (bank, atm machine, employment verification, port of entry or even voting booth) when government identifies you (for whatever arbitrary reason they construct) as a “politically exposed person.”...

But some animals are more equal than others!

 ...Don’t think congress is stupid about this, they know exactly what is going on. They understand just how dangerous this is; that’s why in the last FISA-702 reauthorization, congress literally wrote into the renewal that federal representatives cannot be subject to the FISA-702 rules.

All members of congress must be notified in advance, if their private metadata is going to be reviewed by the FBI, DOJ or any entity with access to the NSA full spectrum database library. They exempted themselves and secured their 4th amendment protections exclusively for themselves....

Watching Zuckerberg pretend that F**kBook is 'going straight'--a flat-out lie that will be copied by Musk, Google, (etc.)--should have provoked intense bitter laughter, as it did among a lot of people I know.   Watching Rogan swallow that at face value was truly disgusting. 

Think this is 'tempest in a teapot' territory?

Ask any of the J6 prisoners about that.

Birds, Feathers.....

 Fox brings you the news!

Michael Cohen wants Joe Biden to be his daddy.

The former Trump lawyer and prison resident went on MSNBC to grovel to the departing president on Saturday, begging for a pardon similar to his son Hunter’s. 

His reason? “I put in the application for a presidential pardon because I believe that Joe Biden has the same responsibility to me that he had to his own son…" Cohen said. "I’m somebody’s son also, by the way."...

Nobody has stepped forth to admit that, Michael.  Are you sure you have a mother?

Grim the Ripper

"Jack" the Ripper has nothing on Grim the Ripper.

At this link, Grim demolishes some pointy-headed AEI Cloud-Person.  Here's a very brief excerpt which gives you a flavor for the real discussion:

... Americans don't exist to give the American government the power to govern the world. Rather, the American government exists to protect the natural rights of Americans. We often talk of the loyalty that Americans owe America, but loyalty is always a two-way street. Rural America is hurting because it has been shown disloyalty by its governing class and institutions for decades. China didn't hurt rural America, not directly. Mexico didn't. Congress and several Presidents did. The State Department did. NAFTA and similar treaties did. ...

Not that the Cloud-Person will pay attention, although he is well-advised to do so.  Maybe he studied American history long enough to know the text on which the red-highlighted passage rests.  He can find it in the Declaration.  

One more thing:  that Declaration wasn't restricted to telling off a King.  It works for other petty tyrants, too.

The "Experts"

Yesterday we were looking for the results of the NCAA football playoffs.

The first item that arose was a graphic with the TOP FOUR RANKED football teams:

1)  Oregon

2)  Georgia   

3)  Texas

4)  Penn State 

Experts picked those teams, and experts ranked them.

Yah, well.........none of them won their last game.  Not one. 

Does Fauci also pick NCAA teams?

Hiroshima Revisited

We all know that a million Americans would have died if the US had to invade Japan to stop WWII.

No doubt about it.

But that's only The Narrative.  Here's another Narrative that you never heard.......didja?

...Eisenhower also was the only president who's openly critical of the US dropping the atomic bombs in 1945. You know, and he said at the top what he said, he said when Stimson briefed him at Potsdam that the United States was about to use the atomic bomb. Eisenhower wrote on a couple occasions that I got more and more depressed just listening to them. But I didn't volunteer anything because my war in Europe was over. Then he asked me what I thought and I told him I was against it for two reasons. Number one, the Japanese were already defeated and tried to surrender and we didn't need to use it. And number two, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon. The U.S. at age five, star admirals and generals in 1945. Seven of the eight are officially on the record saying the atomic bombs were the militarily unnecessary, morally reprehensible or both. And the other the eighth was Marshall, who said that the Soviet invasion alone would likely leverage the Japanese into surrender by itself. So they all knew that the atomic bombs were necessary. Truman knew it as well as anybody. When he went to have lunch with Stalin. Potsdam on July 17th, he goes back and writes in his journal said Russia Stalin will be in the Jap war by August 15th. Sydney Japs when that occurs, he writes home to his wife Bess the next day, say the Russians are coming in. We'll end the war a year sooner now. Think of all the kids who won't be killed. He knew it. He refers to the intercepted telegram on July 18th as the telegram from the Jap emperor asking for peace. They knew that the Japanese were defeated...

(Transcript, Tucker Carlson interviewing Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick)

Stone and Kuznick are not my cup of tea, and Carlson is obviously discomfited with some of their chatter.  But Kuznick read the f*n memos and letters. 

Was Ike lying?  Truman?  Were all those flags and 4-stars stupid?

Good questions.

 

The "Catholic Relief" Fraud

Bet you thought that giving money to "Catholic Relief" was actually going to provide "relief" to people hit by hurricanes, floods, and fires.

Wrong, pew-sitting source of funds!!!

Only 52% of the funds expended by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Catholic Relief Services Collection in 2023 were allotted to Catholic Relief Services, according to the collection’s 2023 annual report, which was released in early January 2025....

Only half?  Did the other half pay salaries?  Benefits?  Bar bills?

Nope.  Even better!!

Much of the collection was allotted to offices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), though some funds were directed elsewhere:

15.4% ($2,031,216) of the total expenses were allotted to the USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services

13.5% ($1,775,187) was allotted to the USCCB’s Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church
 

6.1% ($801,732) was allotted to the USCCB’s Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development (now the Secretariat of Justice and Peace)
 

6% ($787,866) was allotted to CLINIC, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
 

3.8% ($500,000) was allotted to the Holy Father’s Relief Fund

The immigration-related offices are problematic, as they provide a "landing spot" for immigrants who will be sex-trafficked or labor-trafficked by the cartels who control ALL illegal immigration.  You really want your money to finance that?

And of course, the "Justice and Peace" and "Cultural Diversity" offices are useless appendages, much like the FedGov's Department of Education.  It's a comfortable salary for '60's hippies who sit in D.C. yammering about "justice and peace."  Someone needs to cut off those cancers.

If you're wondering why other "Relief" money was funneled directly into USCC.....well, that's a very good question for you to ask your local Bish.

See if he answers.

Optimistic?

 

Great Jobs Report (For H-1Bs and Illegals)

We're in the world Donald Trump wants!

Native-born American employment remains 716,000 below pre-pandemic levels as President Joe Biden leaves office, while foreign-born job numbers have soared since December 2019, Federal Reserve data shows.

What a Country!!

"Dropping Garbage in a Field"? Trump Is Correct, Again

 You've seen the wind farms in Washington and Dodge Counties in Wisconsin, and maybe the humungous one in Indiana bridging I-65.

Trump calls them 'garbage in a field,' and he's right.

...Trump compared wind farms to “dropping garbage in a field” and said wind developers are “getting rich” off of government subsidies that the projects receive. 

Trump also argued that wind energy is the most expensive form of energy, far more expensive than “clean natural gas.” Experts doing full analyses of all the costs associated with putting wind and solar farms on the grid tell Just the News that Trump is correct. ...

Naturally, the New York Times went into Full-Misinformation/SQUIRREL!! Mode, yapping about the percentage of power wind generates in Iowa.  

But that wasn't the point, was it?

...While they provided figures of the growth of wind energy in the U.S., the Times reporters never discuss electricity rates, which would be expected to be falling if increased wind was producing cheaper electricity. ...

... The Times article also didn’t discuss why the wind industry needs so much ongoing federal taxpayer support — a point Trump stressed during the press conference — if it is producing much more cost-competitive electricity. ...

The Department of Energy Lies produced a "report" claiming that wind power is cheapest.

But people who live and work in the real world blasted that DOE propaganda to smithereens.  You'd best be sitting down when you read this next graf:

...Most recently, the pair calculated the cost per megawatt hour of new wind and solar farms compared to existing natural gas in New England. Their modeling shows that onshore wind costs $240 per megawatt hour, solar costs $357 per megawatt hour and offshore wind costs $436 per megawatt hour. That’s compared to $98 per megawatt hour for a natural gas turbine, or $37 per megawatt hour for a gas peaker plant, which are natural gas-powered plants turned on as needed when demand exceeds supply....

 ...The highest hidden costs, according to Rolling and Orr, is the cost overbuilding and curtailing generation. The grid has to have lots of wind and solar farms to utilize the right weather conditions when they happen, and then when the weather is such that too much electricity is produced, it has nowhere to go and must be curtailed. ...

Oh yah....Wisconsin Electric, now run by Chicago interests, is putting up a huge solar farm.  You noticed how much your rates have gone down recently?

Which Chicago interests are getting the bazillion-dollar FedGov kickbacks for this crap?

Lazard Freres, a major international brokerage/financing firm (like Goldie) wrote a study "proving" that wind farms were a cheap source.

But they they said.....

As with the EIA, Lazard also explains on page 8 of their report the limitations of its study. 

...“Other factors would also have a potentially significant effect on the results contained herein, but have not been examined in the scope of this current analysis. These additional factors, among others, may include: implementation and interpretation of the full scope of the IRA; economic policy, transmission queue reform, network upgrades and other transmission matters, congestion, curtailment or other integration-related costs; permitting or other development costs, unless otherwise noted; and costs of complying with various environmental regulations (e.g., carbon emissions offsets or emissions control systems),” the report states. ...

That's like the used-car salesman telling you the car only costs $1,000.00 unless you include the body, engine, steering, and transmission.

Think your Public Service/Rates Commission pays attention to these little details?

Really?

How much do you want to bet?

Gabbard Caves on S. 702 We-Spy-On-You! Law

As of last Thursday, Gabbard's nomination to Director, National Intel, was in trouble.  The Senate Intel committee wanted nothing to do with her, as she actually insisted on Constitutional governance and less Perma-War.

So what did she do?

Caved on the "We-Spy-On-YOU" act, which allows the Feds uncontrolled access to all your phones, texts, emails, contacts, travels.........whatever.  There's a Kangaroo Court involved, so it looks real pretty, too!

But you are not Congress, you see.

...It should be remembered, in the last reauthorization of FISA-702 congress exempted themselves from the warrantless search and surveillance system used by the U.S. Intelligence Apparatus.  Congress forbids the FBI or any entity with access to the NSA database, from being allowed to use the process to search themselves or their staff.  However, every other American does not enjoy this same protection....

Tulsi doesn't think you deserve the 4th Amendment, peon!  Only Congress gets that protection.

Face It: Ms Geyser Is Still Nuts

...Morgan Geyser, now 22, has been held in the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in 2018 for stabbing her classmate, Payton Leutner, with friend Anissa Weier in 2014, CNN reported.

Investigators found that Geyser and Weier had lured the unsuspecting Leutner to a park in Waukesha after a sleepover, where Geyser brutally stabbed her 19 times while Weier encouraged it, leaving the girl in critical condition.

The motive behind the seemingly random attack was to impress “Slender Man,” a fictional horror character that originated from an online meme in 2009....

The Wisconsin system figured her out and put her in the Loony Bin (Winnebago.)

Now ...

...[Judge] Bohren finally agreed to let her out on Thursday, after hearing testimony from a panel of experts, including one psychologist who said that Geyser now “identifies as a transgender male,” the Daily Mail reported....

So she's still nuts, but now adopted the Acceptable Nuttery.

Trans people do kill a lot.  One hopes Bohren's mercy is deserved.

"Sex" Means "Sex"--Fed District Court

The Mashed Potato and his coven attempted to put men into women's room.

Nope.

Joe Biden’s radical Title IX rules change suffered another serious setback Thursday after a federal court blocked the policy from going into effect nationwide....

Appeal is unlikely, given that Mashed Potato and his cabal-coven are gone in a week.

 ...The latest decision echos that from a case in June, where U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty ruled in Louisiana that Biden’s Title IX rules were an “abuse of power” when he blocked the rules from going into effect across six states....

Good.

"Religion of Peace"? The Lies of Esposito

 Grim noticed that a Big Shot Professor at Georgetown has been lying about Islam for a long, long, time.

Georgetown is a sewer, by the way.  It should be destroyed, root and branch, along with the US State Department which gobbles up its slop.

For Property-Owners in Asheville

Most of you have heard that Buncum County and Asheville have issued demand letters for property taxes, no matter if your home is still there or it went away in the floods.

Here's the proper response to the public "servants":

Bird Flu? Nope

Every once in a while it's fun to read statistics.

...Now Wokepedia tells us that in twenty one years between 2023 and 2003 the “World Health Organization has recorded 948 cases of confirmed H5N1 influenza, leading to 464 deaths.” Confirmed, you will have noted. This is 22 deaths per year, for an annual global death rate of about 0.0000000028. Which means many more people die yearly of scooter accidents than of bird flu....

There is the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth from "experts," who are offended that nobody takes them seriously any more. 

They earned that.

Crybaby Crenshaw Gets Rich on Stocks

Only a few weeks ago, Crybaby Crenshaw (R?-TX) was wailing and snorting about his terrible, dreadful, awful, salary.  He hasn't gotten a raise, ya'know, and he deserves one.

So he says.

 

...Establishment Republican Dan Crenshaw (TX) again ranked among the best at trading stocks in Congress, a study by Unusual Whales found Tuesday.

Crenshaw sat in 2024 on the House Intelligence and Energy and Commerce Committee, prime slots to gain key bits of information for both personal and legislative development.

“You have no way to better yourself” as a congressperson, he previously said about his stock trades.

Crenshaw ranked in the top 15 of congressional members who traded stocks last year (2024), up from the top 25 best stock traders in Congress in 2023 with a portfolio increase of over 34 percent.

The Texas congressman’s stock portfolio in 2024 spiked over 60 percent, according to a weighted percent change calculated by Unusual Whales...

He's so damn talented at stock-picking that he should really retire from his poverty-level job and just day-trade!

The Lies About J6

 Of course the extreme Left & press (BIRM) repeat the lies.