Train Wreck

toxic mushroom cloud over Ohio

Because Warren and I live on the Ohio River, we have been following with keen interest the ongoing story in the village of East Palestine, Ohio (What a wonderful public library they have!):

Probably the best video about what happened in Pennsylvania/Ohio and it’s pretty mind blowing. pic.twitter.com/VbG0kzplRs

— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) February 13, 2023

Also for your consideration:

Visited a local creek in East Palestine today. These waterways are still very polluted. It’s time for Norfolk Southern to finish the cleanup. Check this video out: pic.twitter.com/4lsHBmrMJj

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 16, 2023

On February 17, 2023, we read:

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday that a chemical plume in the Ohio River from a train derailment in East Palestine has “completely dissipated,” according to the latest testing.

“We do believe that there’s no reason to be concerned about water from the Ohio River and there’s never really been a reason to be concerned,” he said during a news conference. 

Still, out of an abundance of caution, Greater Cincinnati Water Works said Friday they will close Cincinnati water intake and temporarily switch to water reserves before the plume arrives late Saturday or early Sunday.... 

Read the rest, and watch the embedded videos HERE. 

Related reading: New York residents report ‘unusual odor’ and ‘residue’ on cars, officials say (dated February 18, 2023).

Do you believe all these official spokespersons who assure the people of East Palestine, Ohio, that the water and the air are safe for human consumption?

Dateline: [Islamic?] Terrorist Attack On Las Vegas Solar Plant

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This attack happened on January 4, 2023, and was quite significant. It disabled the MGM Mega Solar Array facility, the solar plant activated in June 2021. 

Significant details about the January 4th attack and its effects HERE.

The FBI has officially joined the investigation.

Related video (about our power grid):

Additional information HERE as to the vulnerabilities of our power grid.

Recommended Reading

See President Biden: The Chastisement of the American People by Tammy Swofford (June 3, 2022). 

Just one of the points made in the above essay: 

...Forcing Americans into a fossil fuel crisis with the hope that we will all purchase electric vehicles is akin to a barren forty-five year old couple spending lavishly on a nursery for the newborn that will never arrive. But the fools keep shelling out money to the fertility specialist who promises them a future and gives birth to the wind....

[...]

...“Clean energy” is just the Ponzi scheme that enriches the wealthy and impoverishes the average American. We are indeed, impoverished now – with the fuel crisis. But “clean energy” is just one of the many dark money schemes hoisted upon the American People....

Read the entire essay HERE. Please read thoughtfully. 

The Actual Biden Agenda

The Biden Agenda for Green Energy as explained by Tucker Carlson. Even if you don't like Tucker Carlson, please watch and seriously consider what he says in the video below (about 13 minutes):

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Our government is corrupt beyond words!

Jen Psaki: “There are 9,000 approved oil leases that the oil companies are not tapping into currently”

While that statement may or may not be technically correct, nonetheless, it's a huge lie by omission. It's intentionally misleading and marketed toward a gullible and ignorant segment of the population and also ruinous to our economic and strategic security.

 Watts Up With That?

So Jen, exactly which leases are the “oil companies are not tapping into”?

• Are you so ignorant that you think an “oil lease” has oil & gas just because it’s an “oil lease”?
• Are you so dumb that you think we can just “tap into it” because it’s an “oil lease”?

Yes, those were rhetorical questions…

 

Oil leases are, in fact, the mineral rights to geographical tracts of land/seafloor. They don’t have oil because the government designates them as “oil leases.”

Facts and figures at the above link. Please read the whole thing before you post.

Off topic posts will be deleted.

 

 

Warren

Neo-Flagellants

Silverfiddle Rant!

There is something profoundly ugly in this. Monbiot and other greens seem to view Covid-19 as a disaster that will have an upside: it might roll back the Enlightenment-era belief that humankind can exercise dominion over nature and remind us that actually we are at nature’s mercy. They hope this disaster will restore nature’s power over the humanised world.  - Brendan O'Neill, Spiked On-line

"This is positively Biblical. Gaia is God in this scenario, coming to punish us for our sins."

Brendan O'Neill nails the Greens who are screaming like a pack of 19th Century Millenarians that the end is nigh. It disturbs me to see the tastemakers and thought leaders express a nostalgia for the bad old days and craving a need for sacrifice.

"This is a new moment,” said Jon Meacham, a historian and author of The Soul of America. “Prolonged sacrifice isn’t something we’ve been asked to do, really, since World War II,” Meacham said.”

Here's another example:

“We used to tax in times of crisis. Now we don’t,” Zelizer said. “We asked people to ration in times of crisis. Now we don’t. We asked people to serve in times of crisis. Now we don’t. So this is a sea change. The thing is, Americans might not have a choice.”

The Infotainment Media Complex collective has been displaying signs of repressed guilt for a long time. Purges, cleanses, public shaming, struggle sessions, and virtue signalling...

Their consciences must be filthy, and all the ambien in the world cannot silence the rusty chains rattling in the dark night of their blinkered souls.

Marginally Related:  Virus causes surge in WW II references, but is it merited?

Unstable Child Throws Temper Tantrum At the United Nations

...read no headline ever.

But here's the reality:

Related reading: End the Children’s Climate Crusade.  It's child abuse!

"The End of Recycling"

Silverfiddle Rant!

When I was stationed in Germany, recycling there was mandatory and the rules were strict.  Paper went in the large bin that was almost the size of a normal American trash bin, metals and plastics in a smaller bin about the size of a kitchen trash can, and Restmüll (non-recyclable scraps) went to a bin about the size of a bathroom wastebasket.  You had to wash and sort everything.  If you mixed in trash or if a recycle bin contained dirty or stinky recycling, you would be fined, or if you were lucky, the garbage men would simply teach you a lesson by dumping the offending material on your doorstep.

My German friends in the small farming village where I lived would remind me, conspiratorially, that the government wasn't really recycling all that stuff.

When we returned to the states, we voluntarily paid our garbage service more money for a recycling bin, but we were shocked at how loose the rules were.  On a few occasions, to our horror, our kids had thrown garbage into the bins, but nobody at the garbage company even batted an eye.

My wife and I have long suspected US recycling was a scam, but then the free market solution came to me: We were paying other countries to take our dirty, garbage-laden and improperly sorted recycling (those bill envelopes with the plastic window? You are supposed to remove that window before putting the envelope in the paper recycling), and those nations taking our recycling paid slave laborers nickels a day to clean it, and then they sold it on the global market.

China's Not Taking our Crap Anymore

The Guardian calls it a Moment of Reckoning.  China will no longer take our dirty recycling, and most of our recycling other than metals and heavy plastics, are unmarketable, making them no better than garbage.  One municipality was selling recycling for $6 a ton, but now must pay $68 to $125 to get rid of it, and its the same all over.

It will be interesting to see how we deal with this challenge. What do you think?

Links:
Is this the End of Recycling?
'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports

Recommended Reading

See Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet by Michael Shellenberger, Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and president of Environmental Progress, an independent research and policy organization, and published in Quilette (February 27, 2019). two paragraph of the essay:

...[W]hen it comes to generating power for billions of people, it turns out that producing solar and wind collectors, and spreading them over large areas, has vastly worse impacts on humans and wildlife alike.

[...]

...I think it’s natural that those of us who became active on climate change gravitated toward renewables. They seemed like a way to harmonize human society with the natural world. Collectively, we have been suffering from an appeal-to-nature fallacy no different from the one that leads us to buy products at the supermarket labeled “all natural.” But it’s high time that those of us who appointed ourselves Earth’s guardians should take a second look at the science, and start questioning the impacts of our actions....

Read the entire essay HERE.

About The Green New Deal

At the University of Miami:

Related reading: GND Undergoes Mysterious Overhaul (February 10, 2018).

PeTA: Mind-Boggling Absurdity

As if the animals give a damn...

Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are and start ‘bringing home the bagels’ instead of the bacon.

— PETA (@peta) December 4, 2018

Forewarned is forearmed: don't trigger a PeTA-perxxx.

Rich comment from Weasel Zippers:

Ruth Brown

The folks at PETA are literally "sheep in wolves clothes" if you ask me. They make me "mad as a hornet" when they say these stupid things. They need to get their "ducks in a row" and "hold their horses" cuz "I'll be a monkey's uncle" if I let them make me into a "guinea pig" for this stupid experiment. My advice to them is "hold your horses"; just let "sleeping dogs lie" cuz you "can't teach an old dog new tricks". I guess they will have an "eagle's eye" out looking for those of us who aren't PC correct in our speech. In this "dog eat dog world", they might give a person "butterflies in their stomach", but truthfully, their "bark is worse than their bite". So everyone, please, just calm down, don't act like a "bull in a china shop". "A little bird told me" I can say anything I want.

And I think I will. Ha! That was like "shooting fish in a barrel" and fun to boot. I have bigger things to worry about like, WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG? who cares? Both taste delish, although I am a meat & potatoes gal myself. (Had hamburgers for dinner, YUM!)

More HERE at Weasel Zippers.

More Mind-Boggling Absurdity

One of my recent Facebook finds:

California isn't the only state with restrictions on the use of plastic straws. Insanity spreads rapidly.

Related reading: Why People With Disabilities Want Bans On Plastic Straws To Be More Flexible.

Jesse Watters: "Liberalism is about guilt"

The scolding finger

And the liberal also says:

"I will control everyone else's life. I'll tell you what to drive, how to eat, how to live and I'll be your savior."

More in the short video HERE.

The Left = control freaks who are also pickpockets.

I, for one, am weary of being scolded and being robbed in the name of the greater good.

The Final Days Of The Obama Administration

Obama certainly has been busy wielding executive power as January 20, 2017 gets closer! See AS THE WORM TURNS: Obama's Last Destruction In Office at Stogie's site Saber Point.

And here's something else to add to the list in the above link....

Note: the title of the video below is deceptive. The video actually discusses yet another federal land grab in Western states by using (abusing) the Antiquities Act of 1906 :


More environmental lunacy...EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm.

Then, there's this: White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election: US issued JAR billed itself as an indictment that would prove Russian involvement.

And this (hat tip to Bunkerville): EPA targets key ingredient in pizza, bread in latest eleventh-hour rule. Note that:

...The EPA is issuing the proposed rule because of a lawsuit it lost in federal court brought by the Sierra Club, claiming that the rule from the 1990s needed to be updated under the Clean Air Act.

Summary of this administration's final days:

The Climate Change Scam

Click directly on the graphic to enlarge it:

I submit that the various climate change scams provide certain organizations and businesses huge rake-offs.

The Agenda

Any dissent from "the narrative" must be squelched.

For example (dated March 10, 2016): Attorney General Lynch Looks Into Prosecuting ‘Climate Change Deniers’.

Muslim Reaction To Obama's Designating Climate Change As The World's Greatest Threat

This is priceless:

Is he insane?...He's on drugs? It doesn't make sense. What did you expect from an affirmative action President? This guy has never served in the military[,] never worked a day in his life.

Much more in the May 2015 video below (SPEW ALERT! Set down your beverage before watching!):


The clip of Obama speaking was filmed at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's commencement in May 2015.

The Zoning Nazis

Governmental regulation at the local level is out of control. To the point that one's own children home from college for the summer are not allowed to park in one's own driveway in Cobb County, Georgia, without obtaining a special permit!

'Parking War' Armistice Signed Between County, Kennesaw Family: The family will have to apply for a permit to allow four cars to be parked in their driveway before next summer, lest hostilities recommence (dated July 21, 2015) in its entirety:

The Animas River Spill (Updated)

3,000,000 gallons of polluted mine waste water were released:

The Animas River after the spill caused by the EPA

For your consideration (Click directly on the image below the fold to enlarge it):

Nincompoopery Poll

(Nincompoopery — and worse — abounds! This edition of "Nincompoopery" offers five links, and readers have the option of taking a poll as to which story they find the most outrageous. Discussion available in the comments section. Restrict any discussion to the topics listed below)

Links to read:

ONE: EPA claims it has the power to garnish wages without court approval

TWO: Wash. school district complies with Michelle O’s lunch rules and bans birthday cupcakes

THREE: Forecasters Slash Second-Quarter Growth Forecasts

FOUR: Virginia County Official Wants to Know Whereabouts of Undocumented Immigrant Criminals

FIVE: Smallpox vials, decades old, found in storage room at NIH campus in Bethesda


Please cast your ballot in the poll, which closes on Tuesday:

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