Doing alpha reads for folks…
What if…
OSHA went after cowboys? Sadly, I could see something like this coming out of that bureaucracy…
Courtesy of AoS via Ag.
Go read the folks on the sidebar, they write good!!!
So much for those offshore wind farms being safe and not a problem…
Nantucket beaches were shut down to swimming on Tuesday after a Vineyard Wind offshore wind turbine broke and beachgoers began finding debris from the blade damage incident.
The offshore wind development company on Tuesday said it was sending debris recovery teams to Nantucket’s southern-facing beaches, adding that the cause of the breakage remained unknown. Vineyard Wind’s operations have also been temporarily shut down following the incident.
“Vineyard Wind is fully committed to a swift and safe recovery of all debris, with an unwavering focus on community safety and environmental protection,” the company said in a statement.
Full article, HERE from the Boston Herald.
Edit- Added pic thanks to Stretch! That brown stuff on the column is leaking oil!!!
I find it interesting that no mention is made of any ‘other’ damage, like oil leaks or anything else. At 300+ feet long, those are some BIG blades, and I’m sure there is a lot of lubrication and other products in those units that aren’t good for the environment, but hey, it’s ‘wind’, so it’s all good, right? Right???
Sigh…
Meanwhile, the Dutch are falling away from wind power, HERE. And Germany is getting rid of wind farms to open coal mines.
And I don’t even want to get into the birdstrike issues…
But it’s GREEN…that’s all that counts.
Maybe???
The “Americans With No Abilities Act” (ANAA)
The Senate is considering a sweeping legislative Bill sponsored by the Democratic Party that will provide new benefits for many more Americans. The Americans with No Abilities Act is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills and ambition.
“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said New York Senator, Chuck Schumer. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability (POI) to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”
In a Capitol Hill press conference Nancy Pelosi pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons with No Ability (63%).
Under the Americans with No Abilities Act, more than 25 million mid-level positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability (POI) into middle-management positions and give a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the Americans with No Abilities Act contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory hiring interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”
“As a non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint , Mich., due to her inability to remember “righty tighty, lefty loosey”. “This new law should be real good for people like me. I’ll finally have job security.” With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Illinois Senator Dick Durbin: “As a senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.”
Ya know, I wouldn’t put it past the dems to try something like this to pander to their base…
h/t Guy
Anybody else notice how ‘quiet’ the dems have gotten all of a sudden? Talk about pulling in their horns… And all of a sudden, the dems infighting is nowhere to be found on the MSM.
Found this one, of all places at Hindustan Times-
We all know this has been an ongoing ‘issue’ with rhetoric ramping up even more in the last year or so…
We now know who the shooter was, and I won’t be naming him. Trump was lucky in many ways, some are even saying divine intervention took place (not discounting that either). The shooter tried a head shot and missed by less than an inch. I’m not going to go down that rathole, shooters will know what I’m talking about. Sadly, one dead and two injured in the crowd behind Trump were the actual victims.
Corey Comperatore was killed protecting his wife and daughter. David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, are in stable condition. Strangely, the ‘best’ coverage is from the BBC, HERE. Those folks and families need our prayers.
Right after the miss, the media started blowing up across the board… And of course the cellar dwellers got in on it…
I don’t do tic toc, but apparently the Libs of tictoc collated a bunch of the more egregious ones, so you could go check them out for ‘lowering the temperature’…
Kudos to X for promptly shutting a bunch of that crap down!
There was definitely a breakdown in the protective coverage, HERE is a good precis of that. They did take too long to get him off stage and into the vehicle, and shouldn’t have let him be visible, but the female agents weren’t capable of actually blocking him, even though they tried. Shoes should have been the LAST thing they were worried about!!!
These are just a few of the reactions above. Of course the MSM immediately jumped in about how Trump should have NOT said fight, but should have immediately tried to defuse the situation… Welp, Morning Joe got yanked preemptively…. HERE. And there are bunch more HERE.
So the same Department of Justice who is pulling out all the stops to prosecute and jail President Trump, is going to investigate itself to determine what failures occurred in the assassination attempt… What we will probably never have, based on whom is investigating, is a true report on the actual breakdown, who did what, when, and how. We will always have ‘suspicions’…
There are plenty of ‘experts’ all over everybit of media, etc. giving their two cents worth for airtime, and filling the cycle, but I really doubt how much they even know of the actual event/leadup…
I’m NOT commenting on the assassination attempt for 72 hours, so you get humor…
YOU MIGHT BE IN THE AVIATION/AEROSPACE INDUSTRY IF …
- You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for 8 different managers. Or have moved 10 times in two years and have never known who your boss was.
- Your resume is on a jumpdrive in your pocket.
- Someone asks you what you do for a living and you lie.
- You get really excited about a 2% pay increase.
- Your biggest loss from a system crash, is that you lose your best jokes.
- You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
- Its dark on your drive to and from work.
- Fun is when “projects” are assigned to someone else.
- Communication is something your “group” is having problems with.
- You see a good-looking person and know it’s a visitor.
- Free food left over from a meeting is your main staple.
- All art involves a white board.
- All real work is done prior to 8:00am and after 4:30pm.
- You’re already late on the assignment you just received.
- Dilbert is your favorite cartoon.
- Your boss’s favorite lines are …
“When you get a few minutes …”
“I have an opportunity for you …”
“Cross-charging is forbidden.”
“…the directional truth in a white water world …”
“We have a new culture that will enable us to …”
“We have a new engineering vice-president.”
“This reorganization will allow us to streamline our way of doing business, of becoming more competitive.”
- 99% of the people in your company do not know what you do.
- 99% of the people in your company do not care what you do.
- Vacation is something you rollover to next year or a check you get every January.
- Change is the norm.
- Nepotism is strongly encouraged.
- Your company announces no pay increase because it is investing money in a new aircraft development.
- Your company announces no pay increase because the airline industry is in a downturn. And your boss gets voted “man of the year in aerospace “
- Your fear to fly is becoming even worse.
- Everyone at the company says that without his work there would be no aircraft.
- An ordinary secretary has more power than an old engineer.
- You read this entire list and understand it.
- Not allowing firearms on company property is seen strictly as a suicide prevention measure.
- The only people you forward this to are in aerospace too because no one else would understand!
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A metaphor for our government
The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”
However, in government, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead
and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course…
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position!!
Well, they tried and missed… Ironically, we were talking about this earlier in the week, wondering if the gloves would truly come off and ‘somebody’ would make a try for him.
Kudos to the USSS detachment attached to President Trump, they got him out of there as soon as they could, and took out the shooter.
Things just got real in more ways than one. If Trump hadn’t turned his head, this post would have a different outcome.
There are a number (a large number) of questions about the level of security provided, who the shooter was, how he got where he was, ad infinitum…
Of course every news agency in the world is covering this, and ironically, the media is telling us that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions about the shooter’s motives. I’m going to wait my normal 72 hours before I say anything else.
Sadly, at least one person in the crowd behind him is apparently dead, and others injured. Prayers for them and their families!
Baldwin gets away with murder…
In a dramatic turn of events, Alec Baldwin‘s involuntary manslaughter trial for the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was dismissed Friday over “critical evidence” that a New Mexico judge ruled had been concealed.
“The state has repeatedly made representations to defense and to the court that they were compliant with all their discovery obligations,” New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said in her ruling from the bench just now. “Despite their repeated representations, they have continued to fail to disclose critical evidence to the defendant.”
Full article, HERE from Deadline. And another article, HERE from Fox.
Welp, this is one F-ed up deal, to put it mildly. I’m not a conspiracy theorist normally, but I can’t help but wonder ‘who’ got paid off to let this one go…
I don’t blame the judge for what she did, she really had no option, IMHO.
New Mexico makes a LOT of money off movies, $794 million in a year from mid 2022 to mid 2023. As poor as the state is, and the fact that Lujan is a hard core Dem, explains a lot (to my mind). She doesn’t want to lose money like Georgia did, much less the prestige of having all those movies/shows made there, and the face time with the actors.
So, letting one get away with this to benefit the whole state probably figured into ‘somebody’s’ equation. But I feel for the Hutchins family, and the others.
The interesting part will be what happens to Reed. Will she now be set free for the same reason???
Your thoughts?
‘Really’ rising???
Nuff said…
Here we go again with the WEF and this crap…
People take agriculture for granted because it is one of mankind’s oldest technologies. It remains perhaps one of the most complex. Hunter gatherers began investigating what could be eaten more than 100,000 years ago, an arduous process involving trial and error made more difficult by the fact some foods, like acorns and cassava, have to be soaked or otherwise processed to be edible. This vital knowledge was passed on to posterity in lore. Eventually the list of the more basic foodstuffs became common knowledge, though among the ancients, knowledge of pharmacological plants often stayed secret.
Eventually everyone knew what food was and that knowledge remained stable for centuries. Now the World Economic Forum has a plan to change that. It will revise the list of what humanity eats wholesale to defeat Climate Change. “Our global food system is in urgent need of transition. At present, one-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production.” The great work of agriculture will be revamped and the transition will involve all aspects of food production and consumption:
Full article HERE from the Pipeline.org
Do they not remember the European farmers protests? HERE is that link…
I know we joke about kids thinking all their food comes from the grocery store without any ‘production’ costs or anything else, but damn…
Farmers, ranchers, and grove owners work their asses off, spend a butt ton of $$$ to plant, harvest, and hopefully make enough profit to pay off this year’s debts before they buy what they need for next year, plus pay for maintenance on their equipment. And that assumes they have a successful harvest. What happens when they don’t? They go deeper in debt, praying next year will be better. If not… well, they’re done. They have to sell the land, hope to pay off their debts, and usually are living at a poverty level for the rest of their lives.
And where are these ‘companies’ that are going to revolutionize food production? How successful are their ‘test’ plans? Has anyone actually DONE large scale production?
We know how the ‘plant based’ meats are doing (e.g. not well)…
And how many current businesses, farms, ranches, etc. will be put out of business along with how many subsidiary jobs? How many towns will be decimated when those plants close? Where will those people find ‘new’ jobs?
Who is going to buy up all those farms, ranches, etc? Who will have the money to pay for them? Bueller, Bueller???
I am really getting tired of these ivory tower types who’ve never gotten their shoes, much less their pants dirty, or ever had blisters from actually doing WORK on a farm, ranch, or anywhere else, but ‘they’ know better than we do what is ‘best’ for us…
Well, I’ve got your ‘best’ right here… come and get it… I’ll be in the back yard doing a brisket for the weekend…
h/t SteveS
They just can’t help but set up all the graft they can…
The Biden administration’s green loan czar is looking to loan more than $1 billion to a green technology company that is connected to his old trade association and his current federal office.
Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) Director Jigar Shah announced Tuesday that his office has reached a conditional commitment to loan Entek, a company that makes electric vehicle components, up to $1.2 billion in taxpayer funds. Entek has supported the Cleantech Leaders Climate Forum, the “sister nonprofit” of a trade group that Shah started before joining the Biden administration and a co-host of a 2023 green energy conference organized in tandem with LPO.
Full article, HERE.
It’s like they know they are going to be leaving after November and are feathering the nest they plan to jump to when they leave…
Especially on the ‘green’ and ‘climate’ sides of the equation. As always, one needs to follow the money to see who is really in control!
I know both sides do it, but the dems seem to not even care if John Q. Public sees if, figuring the swamp will just cover for them and let them go on down the road.
Even more than term limits, IMHO, we need to do away with the underlying unelected bureaucracies that are embedded in DC and a lot of the states. Our system was never designed for ‘professional’ politicians, but based around ‘citizen’ politicians to served a term or two and went back to work at what they did before.
Even worse, Dr. Jill and Hunter apparently ‘stepped up’ and are openly controlling SloJoe’s actions, appointments, and meetings. OBTW, does either of them actually HAVE the clearances to be sitting in those meetings or seeing those summaries?
One wonders…
And now DOJ is apparently fighting voter ID (again). What is wrong with having people prove who they are??? I have to prove who I am with an ID for most things I do in life, and I think voting is pretty damned important!