Ouch…

Posted on by November 23, 2024

Those chickens are coming home to roost…

THE WIND DIED ALONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT COALITION

And the cold weather came in just as it did. Part of the reason the government fractured? Ruinous green energy policies which exploded the price of electricity thanks to transitioning to unreliable renewables.

…The Greens are woke on steroids. Some years ago, their parliamentarians even floated the idea of legalizing pedophilia and incest. They have not met a progressive idea they do not like. Hence, they enjoy the support of garden variety radicals at universities and the youth vote.

The Greens support anything from deindustrialization and de-carbonization to transgenderism and abortion on demand. They embrace the inefficient pipe dream of “clean” energy — solar and wind in particular. On the other hand, they of course hate nuclear power that could save shivering Germans from Europe’s frigidity and high energy costs.

Full article plus links HERE from Hot Air.

Dayum… Spot price of electricity 800 Euro/MWh??? And twelve days of ZERO wind power production? Not good, to put it mildly, much less not even close to affordable!

I know we’ve had a number of conversations about Germany vs. California and the idiocy surrounding dumping Nuke plants, but Germany doesn’t have any backup for natural gas after the issues with Gazprom and the pipeline (which the greenies also want to get rid of). Although it is supposedly being cut, the average daily natural gas supplies to Europe in July reached their highest this year, up 5.7% compared with a year ago and 12% higher than in June. Basically, Germany is hoping the US will bail them out with LNG exports.

According to reports, it would take between 9 months and 2-3 years to restart any of the German nuclear plants, HERE from Radiant Energy Group.

Now what coach???

Even if they form a new government, what are their options to get power back in a timely fashion? And will it be affordable/clear the environmental hurdles of the EU?

 

 

Book promo…

Posted on by November 22, 2024

Raconteur Press has anthology 42 out! Space Cowboys- Fission Chips

As always, click on the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

The story lines in this anthology run the gamut, from planetside, to open space, to Mars and beyond:

An old cowboy and his dog teach the new kid how to handle rustlers. Cowboys defend their ranch and others against predators and thieves. Good guys and gals vs. the bad guys while they learn about horses. ‘Ranching’ creatures come among the asteroids, lousy neighbors, and rustlers. Frontier sheriffs step up and solve a crime before things go badly for everyone in town. ‘Rodeo’ takes on a whole new meaning with LBJ in an alternate history. Learning occurs on a cattle drive, with a surprise ending. With rustlers in space, technology is in play, with the equivalent of Rangers. A cowboy and his girl take on train robbers to save the passengers. An old cowboy comes out of retirement for one more cattle drive on Mars.

Pam Uphoff has book 13 in her Chronicles of the Fall out – Empire of Japan

The blurb-

The Three Part Alliance is falling apart, with internal strife, and out-and-out war . . .

In the Japanese sector, everything is spiraling into a major crisis, but for two teenage boys, their personal problems seem more immediate. For Shato house Kujo the usual fate of a servant’s child looms, while his legitimate best friend and almost brother is powerless to help, while preparing for college.

But the murder of the Crown Prince is about to scramble everyone’s plans as Japan withdraws from the Alliance, and plans retribution.

Quick reminder, if you need to do any Christmas shopping on Amazon, if you enter Amazon through any of the links on my blog, whatever you buy I’ll get a referral. It costs you nothing and its a nice little tip jar for me.

Thanks in advance!

Given the choice…

Posted on by November 21, 2024

Which one would you want to buy?

I know which one my choice is…

What say you???

Sigh…

Posted on by November 20, 2024

Hamas is still at it in Gaza…probably with UNRWA cooperation…

The United Nations is finally admitting that aid being driven into the Gaza Strip is being looted, a fact we’ve known for a year. And yet, officials still won’t admit which “armed people” are doing the stealing. 

We know who is looting the trucks. It’s Iranian backed Hamas and many of its members work for UNWRA. The terrorist group steals the aid, meant for Palestinian civilians, and then makes them pay for it. Hamas is also murdering civilians who try to access the aid.

Full article, HERE from Town Hall with numerous X links.

97 of 109 trucks of humanitarian aid were looted by armed ‘civilians’, yet the UN blames Israel, but won’t allow Israel to actually escort the trucks. In what bizzaro world does this make ANY sense?

Much less having been going on the ENTIRE time there has been humanitarian aid moving into Gaza? What is the UN really doing over there?

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was established as a subsidiary organ of the United Nations General Assembly on 8 December 1949 and became operational on 1 May 1950. It is one of the largest United Nations programs, and we all know it is throughly infiltrated by Hamas, and has been since Hamas was formed. So they get up and pander to the world about how ‘bad’ things are, while, IMHO, they actively support the theft and Hamas activity.

It will be interesting to see what happens with Trump takes over. I believe there will be a significant shift to the level of support for Israel, and I also believe there will be a hard look taken at both the UN and UNRWA. I would not be surprised to see the UN kicked out of the US (long overdue in my opinion). Put them in some third world country that needs support, like Botswana, and stop paying all their bills!!!

The people in Gaza deserve better! Grrr…

 

And the lawfare begins…

Posted on by November 19, 2024

The left, et al, are ramping up the lawsuits to ‘defend’ the country from Trump’s plans…

A massive liberal organization filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in order to understand how the agency could be utilized for President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement goals.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the agency on Monday in an effort to obtain information about ICE Air Operations, the network of chartered flights used to repatriate thousands of illegal migrants every year after they’ve been ordered deported. The ACLU says it aims for the findings to shed light on how ICE Air Operations could be expanded to carry out Trump’s pledge for mass deportations upon entering office.

Full article HERE from the Daily Caller.

Sooooo, Trump is not even in office, nor has anyone been approved for any positions, but the ACLU is preemptively sueing ICE…

Even though they didn’t sue ICE or the Xiden administration over the missing illegal children, the illegal flights into the US from selected countries, etc.

I don’t know what they expect to find, or whether this is just a fishing expedition, hoping for find ‘something’ that can be used for the next round of lawfare.

The ACLU turned hard left a number of years ago, and has definitely taken up ‘identity politics’ as one of their principles, of late.

In other news-

I found it funny that a shredding company’s truck was parked outside DOJ yesterday, making me wonder what was being shredded that the inhouse shredders couldn’t handle (DEI stuff maybe), or documents that they are supposed to be retaining???

Somehow, I don’t think they got a big enough truck… And I wonder if there is one at the FBI, Pentagon, and where else???

I think they’re pissed…

Posted on by November 18, 2024

They tried to steal it. They failed. It was a weird dynamic where this event in Pennsylvania’s Senate race was shocking but also not too surprising given liberal America’s penchant for engaging in election shenanigans when results don’t go their way. Republican Dave McCormick defeated incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), but he refused to concede. Even with no path given how much vote is left and how provisional ballots land, with most being rejected due to not meeting the benchmark requirements for authenticity, McCormick’s lead was viewed by both Republicans and Democrats as insurmountable. Most of the outstanding ballots were in red counties, like Cambria. It was over, but Casey and lawyer Marc Elias were finding ways to steal it.

Full article, HERE, from Town Hall.

After Bucks Co, PA and a couple of other counties said they were going to count the illegal votes regardess of what the PA Supreme Court said…

The PA Supreme Court has ruled: STOP counting the illegal mail-in ballots.

Now we’ll see if those counties will once again flaunt the Supreme Court…

This one is stunning, simply because of the blatancy of the steal, not only by the counties, but by Casey and his lawyer. Even if the illegal votes all go for him, there aren’t enought outstanding (from what I’ve heard), to overcome the numbers McCormick put up, but I can’t help but wonder if ‘other’ votes might have mysteriously ‘switched’…

Book promo…

Posted on by November 17, 2024

Presenting the fourth anthology in support of our little local library. Cattlemen

Click on the cover for the Amazon link!

 

The blurb-

An anthology of stories with the theme Texas Cattlemen. The grit of the cattle trail, adventure, romance, fantasy, spirit world there is something for everyone within this book. Find your new favorite author.

Stories were generously donated by the authors to benefit the Tom Burnett Memorial Library.

So far, we’ve raised a little over $3000 for the Tom Burnett Memorial Library for the children’s programs.

Everything is donated, the covers, the editing, and the stories. We don’t get anything but ‘exposure’, with all profits going directly to the library. If you can spare a buck or three, or have Amazon Prime, we’d really appreciate a read and an honest review.

Thank you!

Long overdue…

Posted on by November 16, 2024

Back in the fall of 2020, after the New York Post published a bombshell story about Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell,” the Biden campaign worked behind the scenes to dispute it. The campaign eventually recruited 51 former intelligence officials to sign on to the letter suggesting that the laptop was Russian disinformation. The letter was published three days before Biden debated Trump, which allowed him to dismiss the story during the debate. 

“Look, there are 50 former National Intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan,” Biden said in the debate. “They have said that this has all the characteristics — four —  five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him, his, and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”

But it was way worse than that. The letter was used by Big Tech as cover for social media platforms to censor speech about the laptop. The letter stands out as the most significant example of genuine election interference in our nation’s history.

Full article, HERE. From PJ Media

They should have lost their clearances a LONG time ago… Along with a lot of other people (like generals, admirals, senators, congressmen, etc.)

If you’re a peon, you get a maximum of 2 years to reactivate your clearance if you change jobs, but those above get to keep theirs forever!

The old some pigs are more equal than others holds true in this case for sure…

There is no realistic reason for those clearances to be extended, as most of those folks are no longer involved in anything where they ‘need’ clearances, and if they are, the company they are working for should be carrying the clearance.

That would be one more thing I’d add to the ‘housecleaning’ list, if I were in charge!!!

Rulze…

Posted on by November 15, 2024
THE RULES FOR CITY SLICKERS TO ENTER THE COUNTRYSIDE-
1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Let’s get this straight; it’s called a “gravel road.” I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
3. They are cattle & feed lots. That’s what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? I-10 or I-40 goes east and west, Pick one.
4. So you have a $60,000 car. We’re impressed. We have $400,000 combines that are driven only 3 weeks a year.
5. So every person in every pickup waves. It’s called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
6. If that cell phone rings in hunt camp while a deer is coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time
7. You bring “coke” into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice. You bring “Mary Jane” into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
OK, confession time. Before I posted this, because of my out of date, old fogie, life style, I called our child and asked what a “Mary Jane” was. I am SO afraid I will unknowingly post something dirty or offensive! For any of you other “so green ye could plant ’em” senior citizens….it is marijuana.
Sigh…

What is that saying???

Posted on by November 14, 2024

A lie has been around the world twice before the truth gets its pants on…

The Washington Post’s fact checks have by and large been tools of partisan politics. We saw this most notoriously in Oct. 2020, when the Post undercut reports that Hunter Biden arranged what looked to all the world like an influence-peddling meeting between one of his foreign business clients and The Big Guy, that is, his father, who was vice president at the time. 

The fact that the Post’s “fact checks” are largely designed to intimidate, confuse, and undermine foes of the left’s agenda makes it all the more striking that on Wednesday, the Post’s fact-checking spotlight was shining on none other than Nancy Pelosi, who must have been all the more indignant that it wasn’t PJ Media or Fox catching her lying, but one of the left’s principal propaganda organs.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

The WAPOs ‘header’ says Democracy Dies in Darkness.

After 8 years of fact checks against conservatives while the left’s lies go through with no comments at all, to actually SEE the WAPO fact check Pelosi and give her four pinocchios is amazing!

I can’t help but wonder if there is a swing back toward the middle or an attempt to stop the loss of subscribers (over 200000 at last count), and an attempt to remain relevant in today’s current climate.

The left’s policy of America Last, Open borders, and excessive spending may now actually get some coverage, but is this too little, too late???

Your thoughts?