Thursday, March 2, 2023
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Monday, February 27, 2023
Michigan power outage update: Day 5
Over 100k still out in DTE service area in the east, 28k in the Consumers Energy service area in the south.
Pretty shocking multi-day outage, with overnight lows averaging 26F for the last five nights.
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Michigan power outage update
Consumers Energy outages: ~36k still affected (~90k restored overnight).
DTE outages: ~279k still affected (~65k restored overnight).
This evening it will be four days since the power went out for these people.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
California has power outages because it is insane and has weather, Michigan has power outages because it has weather and is insane
127k of the current Michigan outages belong to Consumers Energy, 344k to DTE in the Detroit area.
Peak outages for Consumers Energy were ~237k at one point in this event.
Progress overnight: Just 12k restored for Consumers Energy.
In the last 20 years Michigan ranks 4th overall for total outages, but California remains the big daddy for outages, followed by Texas and New York.
LOL, guy named Purple says somehow we still ended up back together even after slavery drove us into a brutal civil war
Back together at the point of a gun isn't back together, Matt.
Abraham Lincoln made America purple.
More.
Breitbart's John Nolte joins Move On, recommends forgiving Hanoi Jane's treason
They used to hang traitors in the real America.
After 35 years of apologies, isn’t it time to forgive and move on?
More.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Power outage due to ice storm just gets worse for Consumers Energy customers in Michigan, so they run PR ads on YouTube while it's happening
Earlier in the day there were 137k without power.
Tonight there are 139k.
I wouldn't have thought about it again today but for the YouTube ad which interrupted my evening video.
Consumers Energy should spend more money actually helping people instead of running a propaganda operation.
People are freezing their butts down there. It's 25F in the outage area.
DTE in the Detroit area is actually making some progress restoring power. Looks like ~200k have been restored since earlier in the day, but hundreds of thousands remain without power.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Detroit Free Press admits 13 gun reform bills offered by Michigan Democrats would not have stopped MSU killings, and that it doesn't matter
It's pure emotional posturing which ignores the emotional posturing which caused the tragedy in the first place.
The progressive prosecutor could have charged the future killer with weapons violations which would have prevented him from legally buying the new weapons used in this crime.
Existing laws might indeed have prevented the crime, if only liberals had followed them. But misplaced feelings of white guilt overrode doing what the law demanded.
Republicans better man up because Democrats sure won't.
Here:
If these laws would not have stopped this shooting, well. They might stop the next one.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Biden's daring visit to Kiev had more to do with repairing his own image at home as a bungler than with helping Ukraine
The visit, combined with VP Harris' labeling of Russia guilty of crimes against humanity, has resulted today in Russian suspension of the last nuclear arms treaty remaining.
The Democrats are playing a very dangerous, impetuous, self-serving, unnecessary, game.
Putin pulls back from last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US
Monday, February 20, 2023
The US COVID-19 booster vaccine initiative has flopped so spectacularly we continue almost six months without any new data
In 2023 through 2/14, just 780,000 Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. If that rate keeps up just 7 million will get the jab this year.
In 2022, just 24.31 million received at least one dose.
This drop-off represents a stunning repudiation.
In 2021 238.68 million received at least one dose after 5.56 million did in 2020 (remember the rollout began late in the year).
As of 2/14 229.91 million have completed the initial 2-step protocol, leaving 39.42 million having received just one dose, equaling 269.33 million receiving at least one dose through 2/14/2023.
Meanwhile daily new deaths per million of population have remained buried below 2 for almost 11 consecutive months even as Americans walked away from the vaccines.
Clearly that outcome is not correlated with vaccination, since we know that the rationale for boosters is predicated on the admission by the authorities that the vaccines stop protecting recipients after a few months.
Why aren't more people dying, dammit?!, said someone at Big Pharma.
All data per Our World in Data.
Sweden is still the Nordic COVID-19 death leader and has been since the early days of the pandemic
Recent upticks in deaths in both Sweden but especially Finland must have something to do with an influx of refugees from the Russia-Ukraine War.
Tests used by hysterical sociologists show conservative Presbyterian who says the church should stay out of politics to be a Christian nationalist
Like economics, sociology also is not much of a science.
If a conservative Presbyterian who has long argued that the church
should stay out of politics tests positive for Christian nationalism,
someone could wonder if sociologists need an equivalent to what
epidemiologists have in asymptomatic carriers of COVID. Can a class of
Christian nationalists exist who have no strong symptoms of this
political virus? If so, do they need to be in political isolation?
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Liberal death wish: The Valentine's Eve Massacre at Michigan State University is the fault of a progressive prosecutor who reduced previous charges which allowed the killer to buy weapons again
The woman on the left, Democrat ex-prosecutor for Ingham County MI Carol Siemon, reduced 2019 felony firearms charges v McRae to misdemeanor for equity reasons, which allowed the Monday MSU killer, who was black, to legally purchase weapons again.