I started scheduling submitted posts and was a bit surprised to see we had enough for the week. No need to send out Chief Author Flogger Tonio and the Contributor Brute Squad to pound material out of our contributors…this week. Next week, maybe.
You don’t want to miss any deadlines, or I turn you over to him…
So you get some preview of Things to Come!
Monday – Chief Series Authoring Correspondent Animal will continue Things Have Changed next Monday, you betcha! Our Chief RV Lyfe Correspondent, KK, reports in tonight on the subject of towing.
Tuesday – PieInTheSky, Our Chief Romania Correspondent weighs in on housing prices. Chief Author Who Knows Author Things Correspondent Mojeaux poses a dilemma for us – Hoarders vs Code Enforcement. If this is anything like the Standard Land Tax discussions, I am finding my old Kevlar helmet.
Wednesday – Wrap your brains in lead foil, because…Chief Mind Destruction Correspondent SugarFree will have…uh, things. You have been warned. Chief Video Production Correspondent CPRM gives us more past video productions, totally not with him involved at all.
Thursday – Chief Gun Cabinet Making Correspondent Richard concludes his epic series (and the project). Chief Movie Review Correspondent RJ gives us Glibflick, Year Two Begins Electric Boogaloo! (h/t Slumbrew)
Friday – Chief Stoicism Correspondent ron73440 provides us another badly needed week of advice. Chief Disc Golf Correspondent Yusef drops a little poetry/fiction on us for the night.
Weekend – Chief Beer Review Correspondent mexican sharpshooter lays down the truth on another brew (and just might address something along with that). Chief Astrology Correspondent Not Adahn reads the stars for us. Chief Glibfit Correspondent Chafed gives us, well, Glibfit!
Links daily for your commenting pleasure.
Speaking of links…
- I don’t ever want anyone not to look to the ol’ CH as an example, but I don’t think this is going to work out well.
- OK, riddle me this. “The indigenous man was the only survivor of his community, of unknown ethnicity.” If you don’t know jack squat about him, how can you be sure the whole tribe is gone? Do better, headline writers.
- Sure, Mookie, sure. ملكة الدراما
- The horror. The horror.
The comment section is yours. Now.
‘Confirmed. @AirCanada is the worst airline in North America. And that’s saying something,’
JetBlue has entered the chat.
Spirit Airlines just laughs…
Jet Blue + Spirit
Leaving Allegiant Air as the sole ultrakrep discount airline?
All I know is that Alliegent was as bad a flying in the back of a Huey from Ft Riley to Ft Stewart. Only faster.
The worst thing about Spirit is their customers.
I know it is snobbish, but the people who fly Spirit are not experienced travelers and it shows. They are also super grumpy because they only figured out at the gate how badly Spirit screwed them on their “low, low, low fare” ticket when they were assessed the 493 additional fees for everything.
Or they were experienced 25 years ago when airlines made an attempt or two at customer service.
The last few times I flew was American or one of their subsidiaries in 2018 – hops from NY to OH and back. The service was fine.
What sucked was the seats. I know I’m overweight but not grotesquely so and even I had trouble squeezing into those things.
Ooh, double Ukrainian flags. I’m impressed.
We’ve always had a good experience with Jet Blue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same here. Better than United and they’re not even discount.
Once you figure out how the system works and have realistic expectations, the experience becomes much better. I knew 4 or 5 ways to upgrade on American and I used them all.
Having lived in Minneapolis for 19 years, I had the most points on Delta so I still tend to gravitate toward them. Their “Comfort Plus” is a nice compromise between economy and business.
Now that my home airport is Vegas, I am stuck with Southwest. Not a fan of the lack of assigned seats in advance.
Frontier and Alaska have been pleasant surprises in the small airline category.
Has this already been posted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2S7uKm_OJ8
In fairness, sitting with the filthy scum in economy class is quite trying to me as well.
After numerous long flights in C-130s, I have permanently adjusted my flying expectations. Anything short of being in the overhead bin is a joy to me.
Oh, says United…. A CHALLENGE!
You can’t spell untied without united!
I spent a lot of military travel in C-5s. I don’t think I ever went anywhere that something didn’t break and force an “unexpected arrival” at some dumpy AFB, only to get patched-up with duct tape and baling wire.
I think Ford’s Edsel was more reliable than those things.
C-17s were might nice.
I never got to ride in one of those. A C-141 with pallet seating was fine. Only a box lunch but there was an inflight show when the crew opened a door to let some airborne troops get a jump in. The best military flight was on a chartered L-1011 from Alaska to Oklahoma. Regular crew and service. They were confused on where we should stow our weapons during takeoff.
Indeed. We flew out of Uzbekistan on a C-17. Since we were bringing our radars out with us, we didn’t have to share either – 11 Marines and we had the plane to ourselves. Knowing this going in, we brought pillows and blankets with us and had plenty of room to stretch out and sleep for most of the flight.
We had a refueling stop in U Tapao that turned into a weeklong stay in Thailand when, supposedly, there was some problem with the plane that required technicians from Boeing to fly in and fix. Seemed for all the world more like the pilots wanted a government-funded vacation. They put us up in the Marriott in Pattaya. I will say no more about that week.
When we flew from Okinawa to Pohang, South Korea for Team Spirit ’88, we flew in C-130’s in the cargo strap seating. At low level which made it extra bumpy. Which was great because we had been drinking heavily the night before. There was quite an amount of vomit on that plane.
God C-130s were loud
No kidding. When I was a kid, my family used space available flights for a trip from Germany to England on the C-130. It was cold, loud, and like sitting on a rock shaker for two hours. I could still feel the vibrations for about 20 minutes after setting down. Very cool experience for a kid, especially since it was one of the planes my Dad flew (as a navigator).
In 1943 (I think) Dad rode in a C-47 from Yuma, Arizona to Lowry Field, Colorado. He described it thusly: “It was like being inside a metal bucket full of loose bolts with someone shaking it really hard, while sitting between two huge unmuffled engines.” (That second part was actually true.)
Sounds about right. There were no real seats installed, just these canvas pull down “seats” strapped to the sides of the plane, so you really felt every shake and shudder.
https://media.defense.gov/2015/Dec/08/2001323353/-1/-1/0/151202-A-JM436-432.JPG
It was cold, loud
Unpressurized with nothing between you and the outside but sheet metal. I still recall seeing small holes in the fuselage.
Cargo duty gives you the most legroom.
I learned fairly quickly to linger, when getting on…last 8 seats were double the distance apart. No interleaving legs there!
Do you have to..?
It’s a fatal mistake, and you know it — that you’re dying to make (you’ll pay for it).
For me, it was flying in the Lockheed Electra (the late 50s airframe, not the 30s one).
Although I still despise Scare Canada. And to think that a significant fraction of my taxes have gone to propping up that theatre of incompetence laughingly referred to as an “airline.”
For wife and I, flying in a TU154 from Antalya, Turkey to Leipzig, Germany was the most interesting. I sat in an exit row, by the door. 1/3 of the way into the flight the entire outline of the exit door was iced over. Nearly frostbit my leg. When we got back to LPZ, we turned on CNN International and learned that the State Department recommended no flying in any Russian-made airliner because of likely poor maintenance due to lack of spare parts. This was 1995 or 1996.
I would be very pissed if I bought a first class ticket and they bumped me to economy.
“Wrap your brains in lead foil, because…”
And no mention of the potential damage to our gastric systems ?
You are on your own there.
The headline writers just know that he would have rather died than give you control.
Just an off topic rant for a moment — I know journalistic standards have slipped and all, but could all these websites pitching “VIP access” and all invest in at least *one* editor? I make more than my share of typos, I know… but I’m not supposed to be a professional.
Exhibit A:
from https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/08/29/did-the-biden-doj-set-a-trap-for-trump-n2612380 — and that’s just the latest one I remember. They’re terrible about these half baked sentences and fragments that merge into a bastardized Frankenstein’s monster performing STEVE SMITH cosplay to English grammar….
Rant off.
Still not as bad as The Daily Mail.
The Sun waves “Hi!”
Actually, I think their reporters do it on purpose.
+ cheeky monkey
Daily Mail seems to be about 20% decent journalists and 80% college interns.
Explains all the celebrity stories.
So, about the same as The Economist.
And the NY Post, lately.
Rant again after realizing every one of those writers has at least 50k in college debt.
It will be fun to see that same article, with headline, reprinted across a dozen sites. Reporters are even lazier than you think.
Chief Movie Review Correspondent RJ gives us Glibflick, Year Two
Begins, Electric Boogaloo!FIFY – I believe you are legally required to make that reference.
Dammitall. I think you are right… EDIT FAIRY, AWAY!
Sorry, Chile.
“…and easing coexistence between the various indigenous peoples and Chilean majority society.”
I think I may see one of your problems, lady
“We want to be just like Argentina!”
I was incredulous when Ruth Ginsburg went to some forum in South Africa and talked about national constitutions, all the while bashing what she thought were shortcomings of the US Constitution. How on earth could one of a very small group of people with ultimate authority to interpret the US constitution and its implementation publicly admit she thinks the doc is shit, with no repercussions at all?
Hell, there was not even much coverage of her statements at the time.
Chile is trying to strengthen democracy, by implementing one of the least democratic functions, a Senate of sorts:
‘The country’s 16 regions are to be granted significantly more autonomy vis-à-vis the central state, and a “Chamber of Regions” is to be formed along the lines of the Swiss Senate. Regardless of their population size, the regions will be represented here with an equal number of deputies. The exact number is to be determined in an upcoming legal reform.’
Of course, that’s probably among the best ideas they have in there.
The increased autonomy part actually sounds good but there’s got to be poison pills in there somewhere.
I only skimmed the article but it appears to be loaded with woke ethnic and climate crap.
I’ve got an article sitting in draft. I guess I need to polish it up and submit it.
A hobbit’s tale?
A rant.
Can any of you Word Press gurus tell me how to embed a snippet of an Excel spreadsheet? The document lost all of its formatting when I pasted it into WP.
If only there were some guidance about how to deal with tables in WordPress somewhere.
Poor Richard toiled over that article, toiled I tells you, and you people just ignore him. That is why there are “you must stop crying before you return to work” signs posted in the Glibs washrooms.
Even with Richard’s article I don’t seem to be able to do anything. His article seems to show a whole bunch of tools that I don’t seem to have. For example, I’m trying to center the image. Everything centers, not just the image. He shows a toolbar to resize the image. The only option I’ve got is width.
I’ll walk away from it for a while. It’s not that big of a deal.
Ah. I think I see the issue. Classic editor hides the whole toolbar until you press a magic, unlabeled button. I imagine the block editor doers the same. I was so busy I haven’t played with block editor too much yet.
Just screenshot it, crop in the image editor of your choice, and include as a JPG or whatnot.
Or highlight the area of interest in Excel and chose “copy as picture” from the Excel copy/paste toolbar.
Then you don’t even have to screw with a screenshot and cropping, and the resolution is better.
Heh. Shows you how often I’ve needed to do a screenshot of a portion of an Excel table.
(Like, never.)
Oof. I do it all the time at work.
Greenshot is my friend.
There is a paid version ($2) for Mac, too.
It’s getting old but it’s the best screenshot tool I’ve found.
There and Back Again?
With all these chief this ‘n that’s it’s starting to feel like we are running some sort of government operation here.
We give titles rather than raises.
Give these out in lieu of pay
Dis is de wey.
We give titles rather than raises.
That’s a good plan. Worked for a number of my employers.
Vice President of burger flipping?
Sir, this is a junta.
I spent a lot of time flying on NWA. People who travelled only occasionally would bitch about the airline. I would tell them it was a bus with wings. They were generally good about leaving on time and arriving on time. They only misdirected my bags about 5% of the time which was better than the other airlines. So, I found them satisfactory.
They must have always flown straight out of Compton.
Not exactly friendly to law enforcement.
I fly nearly exclusively Southwest. It is funny watching SWA newbies figuring out the system.
I love Southwest. When I was flying a lot for business, I took them whenever I could. They rewarded me with all sorts of drink coupons. They knew how to keep my business.
I fly them most of the time, now. I’m not traveling nearly as much as I used to, so status with Delta doesn’t mean much.
It is hard for me to surrender my bags for just such a reason. Especially for flights with layovers.
I had to do some emergency Target shopping while we waited for the next day’s flight to St. Martin.
That’ll teach me to at least put my dopp kit in my carry-on.
I always have a carry-on with at least one change of clothes.
My checked bag arrived about 1 hour before we left the hotel to return home.
Wear one set of clothes, give the other to the hotel for cleaning. Every day for several days of customer meetings.
On one trip, my check bag . . . . . .
I had a carry-on with a change of clothes (my military uniform) from Louisville to Dulles with a stop-over in ATL. In ATL, they told me my carry-on was too big and I had to check it for for the underside for that leg.
They left it sitting on the runway. So, no change of clothes, no toiletries, no briefing documents.
They eventually unfucked themselves and got me my stuff after about 36 hours.
Delta.
NWA/Delta never misplaced a gate-checked bag — drop it at the gate; pick it up at the gate.
In Europe, they took away my industry-approved carry-on bag and misplaced my CPAP for about 4 days.
Plenty of ice cubes in your drinks, but that might not be a good thing.
From the Chile article:
According to the latest polls, however, at least 40% of the population will vote against the new constitution. Many opponents fear that the provisions promoting expansion of the welfare state go too far. The liberal current affairs magazine The Economist wrote of a “wish list” by left-wing politicians that could not be funded by the national budget.
Something something voting themselves largess from the treasury…
A Swiss-style national and canton government works well — as long as the country is populated by Swiss.
I concur. See my comment above.
The liberal current affairs magazine The Economist
Now, that is funny!
I remember when The Economist wasn’t far left, but it’s been over 20 years
Tim Pool’s News Site Plagiarized the Mainstream Media He Claims to Hate
Sounds bad!
So, problem solved?
What a gotcha.
Big effing deal right there.
The NYT would never be caught doing that…
again.
So, straight up lying? Totes OK.
Plagiarism that led to the author getting fired? Salt the earth!
Wow. I have a title. Does it come with a raise? Seems like I should get at least another 20%.
See above.
<— Starts counting extra bundles of cash
They’ll be in the box Hiro-san is bringing down the aisle RIGHT NOW!!
No raise, but at the annual Glibbie Awards, you’ll get the Kenai for Detail trophy.
That might get a frosty reception.
I’ll settle for the Palmer d’Or.
You need to be Whittier.
Juneau, I get that a lot.
I find the whole “uncontacted tribe” thing to be interesting both anthropologically and philosophically.
What defines contact? Does second-hand contact, ie with neighboring tribes who trade with modern people and have acquired steel axes and shovels, count? Is it possible that they were contacted at some point and wanted nothing to do with civilization or technology beyond the neolithic (stone tools, primitive agriculture).
And then there is the whole land ownership, “am I free to gambol,” thing.
GAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
I think we might need some back-handed contact for that.
Too soon!
I actually had the opposite happen once. They tore up my economy tickets and bumped me into first class. And not just me, my whole travelling party.
It wasn’t Air Canada, It was maybe United? They were holding plane for us as connection was late, we were last to enter gate. I handed tickets to guy and he immediately tore them up. I had no idea what was going on, but he handed me new tickets with really small row numbers.
You were either in a large traveling party or this was a while ago – they don’t hold flights much anymore (I waved goodbye to my flight to St. Martin last month, being 10 minutes late coming in from Boston).
NWA once pushed back and departed 10 minutes early leaving 3 platinum frequent flyer members with business class tickets to find an empty gate.
Look, when you’re straight outta’ Compton you get that type of consideration.
It was 2003, so, yeah, a while ago.
Air Canada would have torn up your ticket and confiscated your bank account for looking at the counter attendants funny…
Mammary Monday fixes your broken life.
https://archive.ph/wx97B
That said, he is right, overbooking is bullshit.
Just sell 100% plus standby tickets. If you have a standby, you know the chance you are taking.
A friend in the travel world told me it’s people booking through the third party services who get bumped first. If you book direct (and are a rewards member), you probably aren’t getting bumped.
Hotels do it to, and believe me, being the person behind the desk telling someone we gave their room to someone else is not a lot of fun.
And still bullshit ’cause everyone gets billed on their CC at least one night whether they show up or not.
“But the reservation keeps the car here?”
“I know why we have reservations.”
“I don’t think you do!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTvtSKXwu0o
Overbooking first-class is a real dick move.
Whoa… we rate “Chief correspondents”? Nice!
Meanwhile, for ideas on how to strengthen environmental protection, Chile looked to Ecuador as a model.
Ouch.
Im off to bed. Yes, Im going in to work on my day/night off.
Someone alert Rufus.
You are registered for the training Preventing Workplace Harassment: For Employees and Managers in the U.S., which is nearing the due-date. Please complete this training by 8/31/2022
I have worked from home for over a decade…
Ah, but have you been Toobin’ on the Zoom?
Doing it on video is so impersonal. Save it for in person meetings.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Stop harassing yourself.
There, your training is complete.
Stop harassing yourself.
Just threw together some content for you.
Nap time.
Thanks, KK!
I used to read Drudge back in the day, but wow, there’s some serious TDS going on there now.
Supposedly the actual Matt Drudge sold the site a while ago and the editorial slant changed dramatically. He was always pretty reclusive so who knows.
Today’s entry in the What-The-Hell-O-Lympics: https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/08/29/antifa-thugs-stand-guard-outside-kid-friendly-drag-show-n619652
Sturmabteilung out of control, sexing it up in front of kids…. were they expecting this to piss off Texans enough to get the “right wing rebellion” they just seem to be salivating for or what?
Closer to DFW than Austin… so can’t imagine this is exactly what the community is calling for there….
Beat me to it.
Cops take gun store lawsuit to NH Supreme Court
Two Manchester police officers injured in a 2016 shooting are headed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court after a Superior Court Judge ruled against them in their lawsuit against a gun store and the state.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal from Manchester officers Ryan Hardy and Matthew O’Connor. They were shot by Ian Macpherson in May 2016. The officers are suing Chester Arms, where Macpherson bought the .40 caliber Smith and Wesson used in the shooting, and the New Hampshire Department of Safety, which provided the store the background check for the purchase.
Rockingham Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled in February that O’Conner and Hardy could not have prevailed if the case had gone to trial, because both the store and the Department of Safety followed current law. He dismissed the case on summary judgment.
Looks around at the news…
Looks like Iraq and Pakistan are collapsing. The Ukraine launched a counter-offensive that immediately failed. European energy prices are so out of control, they are ready to try anything – other than giving up on the pointless war in the Ukraine and making nice with the Russians.
Here at home, armed members of antifa showed up to protect a grooming event. Cops apparently were just fine with this development.
Pay no attention to the hard-core anti-fossil fuels policies behind the curtain.
Don’t worry. Just leave things to the experts.
Haven’t thought about it for a while — but CANDU was a pretty viable solution back in the day. Has Little Fidel scrapped all those yet, or are they just keeping them as quiet as possible to keep the maple syrup from freezing?
“The Ukraine launched a counter-offensive that immediately failed.”
We know this, how?
KEEP CLAPPING! THE Z FAIRY WILL FLY IF YOU JUST KEEP RUSSIA HOPE ALIVE!
You were mentioning the Brandon Administration was handwaving some crap to distract from the “collapsing Ukrainian Army” about 4-6 weeks ago…whatever happened to that Russian Victory Parade Down the streets of Kiev?
Maybe your podcasting supersource with the Chechen SOF – “we haven’t killed a single civilian, raped anyone or stolen anything!” told you?
What happened to wait and see?
Trust no one, wait and see geospatial evidence in the future. When I see satellite shit, I will believe?
Get your waders ready
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.
We’re all gonna die.
Let me know when Plymouth Rock is underwater.
Tow it to California.
Hunting those saber tooth tigers means that Iowa will soon be completely without ice!
It’s a good thing I live more than “as much as 30 inches” above sea level.
So, within human history, Greenland was green! So it’s a problem when it goes back to being green?
The price of coastal real estate has been plummeting to reflect the inevitable sea level rise that will soon inundate oceanfront areas.
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Iconic-Butterfly-House-in-Carmel-Lands-on-the-17385528.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
Wood.
Yeah, me too.
If only the damn thing wasn’t in Carmel-by-the-sea.
If only Carmel-by-the-Sea wasn’t in California!
I thought that particular criticism was the assumed baseline for my criticism.
Latest COVID booster shots will be released before human testing is complete
I will remain in the control group, thanks.
Brilliant. I will use that the next time someone asks me if I have been vaxxed.
Have you signed up for the Vaccine Control Group yet?:
https://www.vaxcontrolgroup.com/
Love the laminated card you get with membership. MUST NOT BE VACCINATED in bright red letters.
Hm. They seem to ask a lot of questions and want more answers every month.
Is this thing on the level?
My first job out of college involved writing lots of code for airlines. The metric that always stood out to me was that 5% of the travelers accounted for 70% of the revenue. They were the power business travelers who were flying every day or so and were willing to spend $$ to be somewhere on time. If you didn’t have a flight leaving from X at 4pm and getting to Y at 7pm, you were out of luck.
That is why you used to see half empty planes flying every hour from Minneapolis to Chicago. All about getting as many of those business travelers as possible. After 9/11 all that changed. You never see those empty planes flying anymore. Since I wasn’t in that business anymore, I never figured out why that didn’t come back.
Coach dwellers were there to be abused for their paltry margins. Who cares if you lost them.
that was what was weird about NWA pushing back and leaving three platinum, business class travelers in the lurch. We were their profit.
First class is barely any better. The food sucks.
Pre 9/11 air travel was superior in every way.
Oh, hell yeah. I remember walking my girlfriend to the gate, smoking on flights, airport bars with hookers, meeting pilots when I was a kid. It was great.
So do you like gladiator movies?
In 1998 I took a flight from San Jose, Costa Rica to Santiago, Chile that was all smoking. I thought it was a mistake when I got handed my ticket, but alas it was not. They rolled a cart full of hard booze back and forth the entire flight. You couldn’t see five rows in front of you through the haze.
Heh, I got stuck on the tarmac flying from NYC to LAX in ’89. I think the smoking section was ready to revolt by the time it took off.
I just saw the trailer for Al Yankovic movie. It’s a live action Yankovic song. No idea if it will be good, but it will be weird.
It must be crowd funded to be made — Al’s pretty popular, but to get film making money enough to pull in Radcliffe, you’d have to expecto patronum….
It’s original content on Roku, of all things.
I noticed that.
It’s original content on Roku, of all things.
Shake’em On Down
That little white girl knows how to do the Blues.
Still one of my favorite performances
Fish is okay but tNMAS is the best ‘modern’ version.
I love Samantha Fish. In a very wholesome way.
JFC. Opening round of the US Open on ESPN. Apparently they have set a goal of talking about nothing but Serena! for 11 straight hours. “Here she is practicing.” “Here she is on the toilet.” “Here is every other player giving her a tongue-bath.”
“Here she is on the toilet.”
Do Not Want
They are literally spending more time yakking about her than showing tennis.
“EXCLUSIVE: Pennsylvania man accused of murdering his mother and taking selfies covered in her blood had strangled and waterboarded his girlfriend weeks earlier – so how DID he get a plea deal?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11157481/Pennsylvania-man-murdered-mom-attacked-girlfriend-Lyft-driver-weeks-earlier.html
waterboarded?
“How will we charge them all? US needs to spend $35 BILLION to meet demand for 1.2 million public ports by 2030 (And that’s not counting the 28M needed in homes!)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11157341/US-needs-build-478-EV-charging-ports-DAY-eight-years-cost-35BN-meet-demand.html
How many beans will we need to feed the unicorns?
Not “America’s” problem.
It’s like the rise of popularity of the automobile was aided and promoted by the FEDGOV building and operating tens of thousands of gasoline stations throughout the US.
It’s bullshit.
How about some chain, like Buc’ees installing charging ports and then offering a lounge for the waiting customers. They could offer snacks and soft drinks, perhaps streaming a movie or something.
Public-sector unionized attendants or GTFO
I’m sure titled moron Newsome is right on top of that, planning wind & solar farms that will produce around 5% of that increase – on a good day.
Don’t forget a power grid that will torch every tree in the state.
“California model’s fury after complete stranger gropes her in store – only for trolls to say she was ‘ASKING FOR IT’ because she was wearing crop top and shorts
Influencer Daisy Delacroix, from Redwood City, California, went viral last week when she shared CCTV footage of the alleged assault on her TikTok page, along with the message: ‘I can’t stress this enough to please be aware of your surroundings.’
The video has since gone viral with 2.5 million views and over 7,500 comments – most of which have been positive.”
OnlyFans model? Seems staged.
But she’s an “influencer” and has “gone viral”! The highest level of authoritative truth in the US today.
Nobody with enough brains to pound sand should be “influenced” by these nitwits.
Green?
Wind farms have to be the stupidest things ever.
Say it with me now: we need more nuke plants!!
“Heheheh… hey, Butthead, whats a wind farm?”
“Huhhuh… Come pull my finger and find out, Beavis!”
Another day, another argument against diversity hires.
“Help us Strawberry! You’re our only hope!”
Defending the indefensible is impossible, but at least she’s good looking. If she lasts until the midterms, I’m sure she could get a gig on CNN, MSNBC, etc.
According to fact checkers, Karine is correct, because they are wading across the river, not walking.
Non citizens are still not allowed to visit the US unless you get the most effective vaccine in history. Looks like that rule is never going away. My wife’s sister is banned from visiting us unless she wants to get a flight into Tijuana and try to cross illegally, then it’s okay.
When we were jumping through hoops to get my wife a green card I suggested flying to Tijuana, crossing illegally, and waiting for amnesty. That was about 20 years ago. It’s even more ridiculous now.
OT: Weren’t you up at Leavitt Lake a few weeks ago? How’s the road? Can it be done in a regular SUV?
Yeah it is definitely more ridiculous now. When I married my wife I just had her overstay and we dealt with it. A buddy of mine also married an English girl and he didn’t want to do that. So they ended up separated for a year while they dealt with the paperwork.
Yes, had a great time up at Leavitt with the wife, kids and a couple buddies that went up. We all had 4WD vehicles. No problem for my stock Tacoma 4WD. There were about three spots where we had to get out and judge the line. If you have a real low clearance 4WD I would maybe think twice. If you have a bit of clearance you are set. Great spot up there and you can hike to another lake (Ski Lake) that has Golden trout. The turnout to Leavitt is not really signed.
We’re going up the Clark Fork this weekend, and I was thinking of going to Leavitt for the day. Both we and our friends have Highlanders. I’m not too worried about the road, but our friend was freaked out about the road we took to a trailhead near the Dardenelles a couple years ago. I guess in worst case if the going gets tough we can park at the side of the road and walk up to the lake.
Your friend may freak out on one or two of the parts but it really isn’t that bad. If you haven’t taken the road before , just look out to your right after you pass Sonora Pass about 2.5 miles East of it. It’s on a big turn in the road. Enjoy it if you do. I love that part of the Sierras.
And yes, there are a couple places to just park alongside the trail and enjoy Leavitt Creek and just hike up. The couple of tricky parts are kinda in the middle of the 3 miles from 108 till the lake.
Well, guess I’m never going into the U.S. again . . .
. . . oh well.
I cannot go to Canada. I had my NEXUS card renewed in 2019 in MTL, never visited the country since then.
“Top agent exits FBI amid charge of political bias undermining Hunter Biden probe: Sources
A senior FBI official in the bureau’s Washington field office has abruptly resigned after coming under congressional scrutiny for suspected political bias in handling the investigation of Hunter Biden’s computer laptop.
The Washington Times learned that Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge, was forced to leave his post according to two former FBI officials familiar with the situation.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/29/top-agent-exits-fbi-amid-charge-political-bias-und
“Prior to the FBI’s raid Monday on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, a string of whistleblower reports alleged that senior officials at the FBI exhibited a pattern of bias in their handling of politically sensitive investigations and also reclassified cases without justification to substantiate the White House’s public narratives on crime and extremism.
Beginning in late May, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley called attention to then-Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault over political bias concerns. Thibault expressed support for several “highly partisan” opinion articles on LinkedIn and made a series of politically charged social media posts, according to Grassley, who referred Thibault to the Office of Special Counsel to address the federal agent’s potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government officials from partisan political activity.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/thurwhistleblowers-revealed-widespread-fbi-misconduct-ahead-trump
“Here’s the agent reportedly escorted out of DOJ today.”
https://twitter.com/ChanelRion/status/1564368687745748992
Robots are getting so lifelike. It’s scary.
Why are we wasting time on this stupid issue when the important subject is “What will Serena Williams wear in her final tennis match?”
Paywalled, do they name the ‘former agents familiar with the situation’?
As far as I know, they haven’t been named anywhere.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh7O52lScNY
LOL
“I’ve felt felt and I’ve felt silk”
we’re taking Air Canada on Weds. As if I wasn’t already anxious about these flights.
Soul-Brother-in-Chief
President Joe Biden plans to deliver a prime-time speech this week about how America’s “rights and freedoms are still under attack,” returning to the core message of his 2020 campaign as Americans are getting ready to vote in the November midterm elections.
A White House official said Thursday’s address at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia would focus on “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” and show how the president sees the central argument of his 2020 candidacy remains as salient as ever with the midterm elections coming into clearer focus.
The president will lay out how America’s standing in the world and its democracy are at stake, the official said. Biden will highlight what he sees as progress over the past two years to protect our democracy, but note that rights and freedoms remain at risk.
My rights and freedoms are in jeopardy as long as Foochy, Birx, Osterholm and the rest of that mob walk free. What will Joe say about that?
Im off to work.
Leave a light on.