Remember when this was the view we had?
Now, although the left swears up and down walls don’t work…
Yet the ‘Biden-Harris’ administration (yes that’s the new name), is keeping the capital better protected than our southern border… And they continue to refuse to say there is a crisis down there, but there is STILL a crisis (unnamed) surrounding the capital…
What happened to my America??? The one I spent 20+ years defending???
Biden’s original statement on the Boulder shooting-
“I want to be very clear. This is the one thing I do know enough to say on in terms of what’s happened there. While we are still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he used, the guns, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that apparently have taken place with those weapons involved here, I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps to save lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Seante to act,” Biden said. “We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a Senator. It passed, it was the law for the longest time…we should do it again.”
“I’ll have much more to say as we learn more but I wanted to be clear,” he continued.
And the update…
According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Biden is considering executive action on gun control.
“The way that he sees it is that there a number of levers that any president of the United States can use,” Psaki told reporters. “Including working through legislation, including executive action…there’s an ongoing process and I think we feel we have to work on multiple levels at the same time.”
Full article, HERE.
Of interest, the shooter is a Syrian Muslim who hated Trump and the US, and planned a Jihad, based on now scrubbed FB page… (amazing how quickly FB removed that)…
So the pre-planned narrative is falling apart already…
I really didn’t want live through Unintended Consequences… But it looks like we will.
I know I’ve discussed this before, but here are words from an expert from Toyota…
Toyota’s head of energy and environmental research Robert Wimmer testified before the Senate this week, and said: “If we are to make dramatic progress in electrification, it will require overcoming tremendous challenges, including refueling infrastructure, battery availability, consumer acceptance, and affordability.”
Full article, HERE.
The 2017 study I’ve reference before says-
Now the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a new study to try to better understand the needed charging infrastructure to support a larger fleet of electric cars.
They estimate that “approximately 8,500 strategically located fast-charge stations, with an average of three plugs each, are needed to provide a minimum level of national coverage for 7 million electric vehicles”.
But there is a ‘small’ problem here…
Combined number of vehicles in the USA including trucks, cars, semis, other is estimated to be around 250 MILLION vehicles. That would require over 300,000 charging stations!
Sigh…
Now it’s Fagradalsfjall in Iceland! This is about 8nm from Keflavik!!!
The Icelandic Met Office has just reported that an eruption has begun at Fagradalsfjall, long expected to be the location of a possible volcanic eruption. This eruption is being called Geldingadalsgos, after Geldingardalur, the valley where the eruption is taking place.
Full article, HERE. Now the real question is, will the Icelandic fire department get called in again???
Robert Bidinotto (author of the bestselling Dylan Hunter thriller series on Amazon) posted this on FB on the 15th… Bold is what caught my eye.
Humor was acceptable…
And both sides could sit down and enjoy dinner and entertainment…
Had to add a Taclight to my EDC…
And there is beauty and then there is ‘functional’ beauty…
I ‘believe’ this a J.P. Sauer and Sohn (can’t confirm that) Vierling from the mid-19th or early 20th century. The four rounds are .22 hornet, two 8×57, and one .20 gauge. Probably in the $15-20,000 range.
Allan McDonald has passed away. He tried to stop the Challenger launch… He was overruled…
An engineer for the maker of the shuttle’s booster rockets, he opposed letting it take off, worried that cold weather might affect them. He was right.
Full article, HERE.
RIP Mr. McDonald, your legacy of honesty and perseverance will live forever.
From a side conversation about music and musicians on a mil-email string last night…
It went from Bill Withers, who was in the Navy for nine years before he became a songwriter, to Glen Campbell and his song Universal Soldier.
And a discussion about his ability to play multiple instruments, including his famous instrumental duet with Roy Clark on Hee Haw back in the day.
But this one takes the cake. He also knew how to play the bagpipes! I’d never seen this one!!! Note the bagpipes are in the Clan Campbell tartan…
Simply amazing, IMHO.
Guests in town. Go read the folks on the sidebar… sorry…