There can be no greater labour, than to be always dissembling; there being so many ways by which a smothered truth is apt to blaze, and break out.
-- Robert South
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
On the ceaseless labor of the lying Democrats against Donald Trump
There can be no greater labour, than to be always dissembling; there being so many ways by which a smothered truth is apt to blaze, and break out.
Remembering Michael Moore on Donald Trump, the human Molotov cocktail who blew up in our hands
Moore: "On November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it's your right! Trump's election is going to be the biggest 'fuck you' ever recorded in human history. And it will feel good."
-- Michael Moore: A Trump Victory Would Be "The Biggest 'F**k You' Recorded In Human History", Real Clear Politics, October 26, 2016, here
YouTube deleted the account with the Moore audio linked to at Real Clear Politics, but you can still find Moore's same perceptive take on Election 2016 here:
Elon Musk expresses uncommon good sense about Donald Trump
Writing on Twitter, where Musk has more than 100 million followers, the celebrity CEO said: “I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset. Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.”
CNBC, here.
Monday, July 11, 2022
LOL Reuters, 11 years ago: "Texas has the most wind power in the country, but the wind does not blow during the summer"
Texas has the most wind power in the country, but the wind does not blow during the summer. Ercot said it got about 2,000 MW from wind during the peak hour on Wednesday. Those wind farms can produce about 9,000 MW when all turbines are spinning.
Reuters, here.
Wind generating capacity in Texas today is in the neighborhood of 35,000 megawatts, but only about 7,770 megawatts of that would be available under similar summer circumstances, with much less coal generating capacity available today than in 2011 to fill the breach:
Because of the increase in wind power and the retirement of almost 6,000 megawatts of coal-fired generating capacity, coal-fired power plants supplied 18% of state generation in 2021, down from a 36% share in 2011.
And as a result Texas now gets to listen to this:
Texans face rolling blackouts because "wind generation is currently generating significantly less than what it historically generated in this time period"
Actually, it's because Texas retired reliable sources of electricity from coal and natural gas for unreliable "green energy".
The New York Times as usual just leaves that part out, here:
The regulator forecast demand in Texas to peak at 79,671 megawatts, just short of the 80,168 megawatts that will be available.
That's a forecast margin of just 497 megawatts.
Texas has retired 6,453 megawatts of coal generation capacity since 2017 and added 3,945 megawatts of wind generation capacity.
In addition Texas has retired 2,316 megawatts of natural gas generation capacity since 2008 and added 3,425 megawatts of solar generation capacity since 2010.
Not only is Texas short a net 1,399 megawatts of generation capacity over the period, if the wind doesn't blow it's potentially short another 3,945 megawatts, and another 3,425 megawatts if the sun don't shine.
Way to go, Brownie.
Fire threatens California sequoias because Governors Moonbeam and Gavin Newsom didn't bother to clean up the fuel on the ground since 2013
The blaze in Yosemite National Park was
measured at 2,044 acres by evening. It had no containment, and it was
likely to continue to grow amid light winds and hot conditions, U.S.
Forest Service officials said Sunday. ...
The summer temperatures were abetted by abundant fuel, officials said. Garrett Dickman, a Yosemite National Park biologist, explained the problem in simple terms: “There’s a lot of wood on the ground, and that wood is going up in smoke.”
Wood on the ground includes dead trees and branches from a 2013-15 die-off.
More.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
LOL Ford Mustang Mach-E
There may still be a chance that the high voltage battery contactors could overheat, which could lead to a "Service vehicle soon" warning.
More.
Saturday, July 9, 2022
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just lies right out of the box about "longstanding" use of ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin
Isn't that what Election 2020 was all about? Lying? Lying absentee ballots and the lying voters who cast them? And lying media?
It used to be a good newspaper, but those days are long over:
The
4-3 ruling, coming four weeks before statewide primaries Aug. 9, is a
win for Republicans who now oppose the longstanding use of ballot drop
boxes after their use proliferated during the coronavirus pandemic and
was heavily criticized by former President Donald Trump, who alleged
with no evidence that absentee voting was rife with fraud and led to
his reelection loss in 2020.
Here.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court found that there was no evidence of longstanding use, presented by the Wisconsin Election Commission, or otherwise:
¶65 The record evidence WEC cited does not support its argument that ballot drop boxes have been in common and longstanding use in this state.
Read the whole thing here.
Friday, July 8, 2022
The Chicoms can hardly contain their joy over the assassination of Shinzo Abe
After Abe died, a post saying “Let the celebrations begin!” got more than 150,000 likes within 30 minutes. ... Abe angered the Chinese government and especially the more nationalist segment of the ruling party both while he was in office and after he stepped down, especially for pushing Japan to increase defense spending and revise the pacifist article in its constitution.
More.
Abenomics is literally dead
Former PM Shinzo Abe was shot and killed in Japan, where handguns are banned.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Famous last words: Recession "not expected"
- The economy is expected to have added 250,000 jobs in June, a strong number though lower than the 390,000 in May, according to economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
Boris Johnson done-in by testicles not his own
Johnson
was ultimately undone by his response to fallout from the resignation
last Thursday of deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, amid allegations
Pincher had groped two guests at a private dinner the night before.
While he did not admit the allegations directly, Pincher said in a
letter to Johnson last week that "last night I drank far too much" and
"embarrassed myself and other people." Other historical allegations of
misconduct by Pincher emerged in the ensuing days.
Johnson
initially denied being aware of some of those allegations, but
ultimately the Prime Minister was forced to admit he had been briefed
years before and apologize for his decision-making.
It
was the final straw for many political allies who had supported Johnson
through crisis after crisis over the years. In recent months the Prime
Minister had been facing a barrage of criticism from all sides over his
conduct and that of his government, including illegal, lockdown-breaking
parties thrown in his Downing Street offices, for which he and others
were fined.
More.
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