Archive for 2022
March 5, 2022
YES, AND IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE TAPPED JUST TO MOVE THE POLLS: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve only covers a fraction of US energy demands.
We need to listen to the wisdom of Elon Musk:
OLD AND BUSTED: Manned NASA Missions to the Moon.
The New Hotness? Your name can fly around the moon on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission. “You can send your name on a trip around the moon with just a few clicks of your keyboard. NASA is inviting people to put their names on a flash drive that will launch on the agency’s Artemis 1 mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion capsule around the moon and back a few months from now.”
That’s what happens when NASA loses the thread: NASA’s new chief scientist to focus on earth, climate.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: A ‘molecular drinks printer’ claims to make anything from iced coffee to cocktails.
I GUESS ONE DAY WE’LL BE ATTEMPTING LANDINGS THERE: NASA starts building Europa Clipper to investigate icy, ocean moon of Jupiter.
JIM TREACHER: Sure, Let’s Punish Cats and Crippled Athletes for Being Russian. It makes sense if you don’t think about it:
Sure, the Paralympics are being held in a country that unleashed a deadly plague on the world and is currently committing genocide against the Uyghurs. But so what? It just feels good to show that rotten prick Putin what we can do to his disabled athletes. Standing up to those who cannot stand.
Oh wait, you know what else Russians like? Cats. Let’s punish Russian cats!
The 21st century is not turning out as I had hoped, to coin an Instaphrase.
IT WAS FIRST SUSPECTED WHEN HE COULDN’T SMELL THE PLATE OF ASPARAGUS IN FRONT OF HIM: COVID-19 Delta variant confirmed in house cat in Pennsylvania.
PARTYING LIKE IT’S 2020: Say, has anyone heard from Anthony Fauci lately?
Related: NYC lifts school mask mandate, proof-of-vaccine rules on restaurants, gyms, entertainment venues.
VODKAPUNDIT HARDEST HIT: Anti-Russia Protests Hit Wrong Target.
It gives some idea of the depth of international opposition to Russia’s war on Ukraine when an international brand of vodka is loudly declaring that it isn’t Russian after all.
Following last week’s shocking invasion of a sovereign nation, Russia is increasingly being seen internationally as a rogue state, and Western countries have finally levied economic sanctions against Russia in an effort to make Vladimir Putin see sense. Non-governmental sanctions are also being applied, with retailers removing Russian products from sale – however, not everything is as Russian as it first appears.
Well-meaning retailers across the US and in parts of Europe have been taking vodka brands like Smirnoff and Stolichnaya off the shelves in solidarity with Ukraine, even though those brands no longer have any connection to Russia. Indeed, Stolichnaya went to the trouble of publicly announcing over the weekend that it was definitively NOT a Russian product and was instead a Luxembourg-registered company that makes its spirit in Latvia.
In a statement, Stoli Group said it “unequivocally condemns the military action in Ukraine and stands ready to support the Ukrainian people, our teams and partners. For decades, Stoli Group has supported the marginalized and those at risk of unwarranted aggression. We stand now with all Ukrainians and Russians calling for peace.”
Stolichnaya has been famously disputed since the break-up of the Soviet Union, when it was privatized and various parts sold off. The Luxembourg-based Stoli Group was set up by Yuri Shefler, who left Russia to avoid Putin’s baleful influence, and probably has a sincere feeling of empathy for Ukraine at present.
The other big “Russian” vodka, Smirnoff, hasn’t been actually Russian since founder Pyotr Smirnov’s son Vladimir legged it from Russia during the 1917 October revolution, which brought the Bolsheviks to power. These days it is part of the Diageo stable and distilled in at least a dozen countries.
THANK GOD FOR “FACT-CHECKERS.”
In other news, your refrigerator is not, in fact, running, nor is Prince Albert to be found in a can, needing to be let out.
20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: In 2011, the Huffington Post asked: Could A Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming?’
That seemed like a major escalation from Obama’s “science” “czar” John Holdren’s desire to shoot rockets full of pollution into the upper atmosphere to reverse global warming in 2009:
MY NEW VIP PIECE: Advice for Biden on Energy Policy: Put the Candle Back
BUT NO MEAN TWEETS, PART DEUX: New Government Data Show Real Wages Declining, Not Rising, Under Biden.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: ‘Safe space’ for white theatre students set up at Fordham University.
SO, SECOND LOOK AT PUTIN?
● CNN, ABC News And CBS News Curb Russia Broadcasts Amid Censorship Law And Media Crackdown.
● Facebook And Twitter Have Been Blocked In Russia.
And from America’s Newspaper of Record: Putin Receives Nobel Prize In Medicine For Ending COVID Pandemic.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? God Help Us: White House May Send Kamala to Europe for Diplomatic Mission.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor calls parents ‘ignorant racist[s]’ for opposing Critical Race Theory.
WE’RE UP TO A LOT OF LETTERS THESE DAYS: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown blasts Texas, says she stands with “LGBTQ2SIA+” children. Really.
THE EGGSHELL STUDENT PROBLEM: The Jason Kilborn case explained.
LET’S GO BRANDON: Howie Carr: From the gas pump to chicken wings, many price hikes to thank Biden for.
Now Americans have yet another new daily ritual in the age of Brandon.
You drive by that gas station you pass every morning on your way to work and on the way home in the evening, and you can’t help but notice with ever-increasing dread the daily spiral in the price of a gallon of gasoline or diesel.
It’s like watching an accident on the highway — only instead of the wrecks being towed away and the debris cleared, every time you drive by the flames have risen higher.
When Joe Biden is president and the price of gas goes up 10 cents over the course of a few hours, what do you call that now?
A good day!
It’s not just the price of gas that’s gone out of control under the Democrats — how about home heating oil?
All you deplorables and bitter clingers are not supposed to think about any of this, of course. It would be bad for the narrative of The Party. On TV, on the same cable networks which not so long ago were screaming Russia-Russia-Russia are now hysterical over Ukraine-Ukraine-Ukraine.
The same very ethical press that has brought Americans, among other things, WMD, the Russian collusion hoax, the COVID-19 panic, the “insurrection” and “climate change,” now hysterically screams that Ukraine is the apocalypse du jour, and that these high gas prices, which began skyrocketing on the day Brandon was installed was president, are not his fault.
Plus:
Here are some reports from the domestic front line, from texters and callers to my radio show, about Biden’s war on the working classes:
From 781 area code: “I buy my gas in Newton. Gas went up 26 cents a gallon in 1 day. Owner said it’s biggest jump he’s ever seen. He thought 10 cents was a big jump, but 26 cents is scary.”
If Trump were still president, the Democrat media would call each insane price hike a “grim milestone.” But now … nothing to see here, folks move along, and let’s get an update on the Ghost of Kyiv which is actually from a video game, as well as on the 13 brave martyrs of Snake Island, who by the way weren’t killed, just captured.
A home heating oil report from 617: “Called my oil company and told them we can only afford half a tank for our next delivery. We have a 275-gallon tank and since it will be less than 150 gallons, delivered price will be $4.54 per gallon. What other choice do we have?”
Plymouth, New Hampshire: “Ordered heating oil at $3.93. Delivery this morning: $4.11. Gasoline went from $3.79 last night to $4.04 this morning.”
Elections have consequences. Just ask the 11,000 union tradesmen fired from the Keystone XL pipeline, or Ukrainians, for that matter. Nature abhors a vacuum, and that’s what we have in the White House now.
Putin invaded none of his neighbors when Trump was president. And Putin also had a lot less foreign currency to use for his horrible aggression — the price of a barrel of oil was $41 on Election Day. Now, as Brandon unleashes total war on the domestic energy industry, the price is up to $116 a barrel.
More than anyone else, Putin should say, “Thanks, Brandon!”
Another 617: “Got gas at lunch today in Watertown for $3.64 a gallon, which I thought seemed ‘low.’ Three hours later it was $3.93.”
From 508: “Got my car inspected & wanted to fill up afterwards. The price had gone up 10 cents in the meantime.”
From Maine: “$108 to fill diesel 2500 Ram truck last week, $141 today.”
From 781: “Working 8 hrs. OT today so I can buy me a tank of gas.”
Another 207: “Used to fill up my truck for $40. That’s not even half a tank now.”
Don’t worry though. Dementia Joe et al. are on the case. Jennifer Granholm, his energy secretary whom he sometimes calls “Governor” or “Senator,” says the administration is looking at “every tool available.”
God knows, the Brandon regime has more than enough tools on the payroll — Pete Buttigieg, Marty Walsh, John Kerry, Antony Blinken, Ron Klain, etc.
Let’s go back to the text line for a look at food prices:
From 508: “Sea scallops have tripled. And it’s Lenten season. Thanks Brandon!”
From 978: “Went to pick up Chinese food in Peabody. Sign next to register: chicken wings $15.95, baby back ribs $17.95.”
April 15 will soon be here: “I’m doing my taxes so I had to look up how my mutual funds are doing. Since Jan. 1 – OMG! What a disaster!”
It’s not only the prices of food and fuel that have gone out of control since Jan. 20, 2021.
“Just paid $50 for a 10-foot piece of PVC pipe for a new toilet. I know who I want to flush down it. Thanks Brandon!”
However, certain industries are in the chips now in this new error, er, era. Anyone who makes locks for gas caps — their market hasn’t been this robust since Jimmy Carter. And how about the companies that make the stickers with a photo of Biden pointing, along with the words, “I did that!”
Seems like you see those stickers on half the gas pumps in the US — as well as on prime cuts of meat in the supermarkets.
WELL, HE SHOULDN’T BE: Biden not trusted on secret Iran deal: Poll.
America does not trust President Joe Biden’s effort to negotiate a secret new Iran nuclear deal, fears it more than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and would support a military strike on the enemy nation’s facilities, according to an expansive new survey provided to Secrets.
On the issue of having confidence in Biden’s talks, including with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 52% said they don’t “trust” the administration to cut a deal that will prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Just 32% do.And in a timely question in the McLaughlin & Associates survey, 63% believe that providing Iran a path to building the weapons is a bigger threat to the United States than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (at 21%).
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