Every man has his secret sorrows
which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold
when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Posted on 05/06/2024 7:55:17 PM PDT by ransomnote
> Australia, which had a massive push for solar (thanks to its lefty government), is now penalizing people who installed solar panels on their homes.
That’s why you need batteries. You create a self-sufficient solar power system with backup if needed.
My four car garage in NH will run solely off of solar. When I build my house there it will use a wide variety of energy sources, mainly solar with hydro possibilities as well but only in the Spring. I’m told Hydro is really the best because it’s constant if you got the flow.
-SB
I need to dig on this. It’s going to take a while.
-SB
> BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme Leader says that ‘if we find evidence that Israel is involved in the helicopter crash of the President of Iran, we will respond beyond the imagination of Israel and its allies.
It was likely an equipment failure. Whether Iran uses it as an excuse remains to be seen. I doubt it. Iran knows what Israel can do and did.
-SB
The USA is not the only country with stolen elections using “voting systems”. IIRC Australia uses Domininon or Smartmatic or something of that nature.
Decriminalizing crime.
If Raisi Is Dead: Implications for the Islamic Republic of Iran
https://www.meforum.org/65899/if-raisi-is-dead-implications-for-the-islamic
Excerpt:
.....Under the current constitution, there is no mandate for a new election. If the president is dead or unable to perform his duties for longer than two months, the first vice president, the speaker of the parliament, and the chief justice, with the consent of the Supreme Leader, form a council to choose the succession mechanism.
In effect, this means Khamenei will decide. The Supreme Leader directly appoints the chief justice without parliamentary consent. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, the current chief justice, is a loyal foot soldier of Khamenei. The same is true of Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general and former mayor of Tehran, who survived many rounds of Khamenei’s purges. The first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, has been a low-profile figure who will certainly consent to the Supreme Leader’s will.
There are two possible outcomes. Either a new election is called, or Khamenei will dictate that the council chooses a single person to avoid an election in time of crisis. Ghalibaf, who has long aspired to the presidency, could finally get his wish.
.....Many Iranians saw Raisi’s presidency as an audition to succeed the 85-year-old cancer-stricken Khamenei as Supreme Leader, but Khamenei’s son Mojtaba also coveted the top position. The factional rivalry has simmered just below the surface. Raisi has long been the IRGC’s darling, but many in the clergy favor Mojtaba. This is why the powerful Qom seminary hired Mojtaba, who lacks scholarly credentials, to be a lecturer. By embracing Khamenei’s son, the seminary sought to signal its support for Raisi’s rival.
.....The IRGC will scramble to find a new person to elevate. After Aytaollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death in 1989, Khamenei rose as a compromise candidate because other factions saw him as weak if not a buffoon. He survived the trial by fire and transformed himself into a long-reigning leader, carefully maneuvering to eliminate those who elevated him so they could not control him. Today, however, with the IRGC disproportionately powerful, it will be difficult to make similar compromises or cede ground to rival factions and individuals. Ghalibaf can be president, but he cannot rise to Supreme Leader because he is not a cleric.
While Mojtaba might rise up, a family succession would be problematic politically. After all, first Khomeini and then Khamenei argued that hereditary rule under the shah was illegitimate, and so they would be hard-pressed to sell hereditary leadership to the Iranian people now.
The wildcard, however, rests in a debate that raged in the first years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Islamic Republic does not require a unitary Supreme Leader. Theoretically, the constitution allows for a council of supreme leadership. This leads to a scenario that, once Khamenei dies, the state will argue that Khomeini and Khamenei were otherworldly men who reached the peak of wisdom and virtue. Their turbans can be filled now, the argument will go, only by the combined talents of a group of men.
Whatever happens next, however, Raisi’s “hard landing” will mark the first chapter in a game of musical chairs that will consume the Islamic Republic for months and will set the stage not only for the post-Raisi-era, but the post-Khamenei one as well.
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The Kenyan, ValJar and FJB buying Pepto-Bismol now that their man in Tehran is dead./s
Interesting times ahead in the Middle East, Iran may be in short term turmoil due to this and as such Hamas and Hezbollah may be weakened not only by Israel’s advances but by their benefactors in Iran turning inward to decide a replacement for the “Butcher”.
Interesting turn of events.
>> Australia, which had a massive push for solar (thanks to its lefty government), is now penalizing people who installed solar panels on their homes.
> That’s why you need batteries. You create a self-sufficient solar power system with backup if needed.
> My four car garage in NH will run solely off of solar. When I build my house there it will use a wide variety of energy sources, mainly solar with hydro possibilities as well but only in the Spring. I’m told Hydro is really the best because it’s constant if you got the flow.
I just wanted to add to this that it’s important to be able to shut off ‘the grid’. In this case keep the energy. The hell with the grid. The Aussies really are getting stupider every year.
If you can sell it back, woohoo! If this were to come to America I’ll be shutting off the grid. You can never have enough battery power and panels.
-SB
-SB
Every man has his secret sorrows
which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold
when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87998
Lessons in civility from RFK, Jr.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/12/lessons_in_civility_from_rfk_jr.html
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames 9-11 on Ronald Reagan and Fuel Efficiency Standards
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2007/06/24/robert-f-kennedy-jr-blames-9-11-ronald-reagan-and-fuel-efficiency
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames Fairness Doctrine Abolishment for Conservatism Popularity
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2010/03/25/robert-f-kennedy-jr-blames-fairness-doctrine-abolishment
RFK Jr: ‘We have so much to learn from Cuba’
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/rfk_jr_we_have_so_much_to_learn_from_cuba.html
RFK Endorses AOC’s Green New Deal, Calls for Climate Taxation
https://www.independentsentinel.com/rfk-endorses-aocs-green-new-deal-calls-for-climate-taxation/
Andrea Mitchell Applauds RFK Jr.’s ‘Impassioned Plea’ for Obama to Stop Keystone Pipeline by Fiat
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2014/02/07/andrea-mitchell-applauds-rfk-jrs-impassioned-plea-obama-stop
Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s ‘Green’ Company Scored $1.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062638/JFKs-nephew-received-1-4bn-taxpayer-bailout-struggling-green-energy-firm.html
RFK Jr. Compares Tea Party to Confederacy, “crackpots.”
https://freebeacon.com/elections/rfk-jr-called-the-tea-party-the-resurgence-of-the-confederacy/
RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2011/01/12/rfk-jr-you-know-my-uncle-was-also-shot-amid-a-climate-of-right-wing-hate-n175791
Moral: don’t ride in a blue helicopter.
No Australia still uses paper ballots they ruled out Dominion before their last election.
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-australia-wont-use-dominion-voting-machines-next-election/
But Australians do use a form of Rank Choice Voting or as they call it Preferential Voting Systems, which is just as bad IMO. Look what this type of voting did to Alaska last election for a US example. They also use Proportional Representation Electoral Systems.
https://www.ecanz.gov.au/electoral-systems/preferential
https://www.ecanz.gov.au/electoral-systems/proportional
Convoluted voting all the way allows the party machine to bamboozle or steamroll the voter without the voter even realizing it.
Goodnight LJ!
Israel is taking care of business relative to the Iranian leaders involved in Oct 7th—same as they did after the murder of their Olympic athletes in in 1972.
Of course, the Iranian people also have reason to celebrate the demise of this monster.
Funny how these Iranian leaders who were involved with Oct 7th keep running into fatal accidents. Another recent one was the Iranian military leaders blown up in the Iranian embassy Damascus, which was the proximate trigger of the Iranian drone attack on Israel.
Israel is giving them the same treatment as the murderers of Munich 1972. Capital punishment.
I still believe that if Hezbollah enters full warfare, and threatens to overrun Israeli Air defenses (possible, unfortunately, especially with Biden as POTUS), then Israel will attempt to go nuclear on Hezbollah and Iran.
Biden -
https://twitter.com/i/status/1791940548695142676
if that’s a double, at least they got the chin balls right, lol...
looking at it again. The Male torso female genitals. I see a second head slightly to our right of the pig(right of the blue line.) Could be attached to that torso. above the elbow of Charles were an arm band would go. Though I see a man with a beard. Prominent nose and brow with a thorn crown (kinda like Jesus but a larger nose and brow)
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