Who do you want representing YOU?
pedopOTUS fondling a 6 year old (click for unbelievable mp4!!)
Posted on 02/16/2021 9:06:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Four million of my fellow Texans have struggled without electricity over the past few days, braving bitterly sub-zero temperatures which accompanied a monstrous, historic winter storm. Homes throughout The Lone Star State were plunged into darkness as the Texas’ overloaded power grid led to “rolling” blackouts…some lasting 19 hours or more. Schools and businesses closed. Grocery stores in San Antonio and Austin were shut due to dwindling supplies.
In short, you can understand why our governor Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency in all 254 counties in Texas.
As ever-hyperbolic TV weathercasters waved their arms wildly like windmills, actual windmills (which have blighted our gorgeous Texas landscapes since 1999) ground to a halt, caked with ice in the bitter cold. And since wind turbines now account for roughly 25 percent of all statewide energy in Texas—our second-largest source after natural gas—it is a tad problematic to have them go AWOL during a historic winter storm like the one still unfolding.
That “dark winter” Joe Biden kept yammering about in his basement all last year apparently has arrived. (In case you think I’m being inaccurate, just Google “Joe Biden + Dark Winter.” I did, and Google returned 304,000 results in just 0.83 seconds.) Biden was most often using the term to denigrate then-president Donald Trump’s efforts to fast-track a vaccine for the Wuhan virus, but since millions in Texas and Oklahoma are now literally in the dark this winter, we’ll borrow Biden’s favorite term.
Two of our friends have a special needs daughter who requires feeding equipment and other assistance that is challenged when their home is without electricity for 20-plus hours and temperatures inside the house dip into the low 40s. A co-worker of mine has a husband who has been battling cancer and is currently hospitalized; she cannot be with him as she cannot get her car out of the garage and the electric gate to her subdivision is locked closed. Pipes are freezing and many homes are covered in ice and snow like that Siberian dacha in David Lean’s 1965 film Dr. Zhivago.
Of course, malfunctioning windmills aren’t entirely to blame for our current energy shortages. But given how John “Reporting for Duty” Kerry—President Biden’s anointed “Climate Czar”—is always touting them as part of his litany of the renewable resources we need to develop, a little history lesson is in order.
The first electricity-generating wind turbine in our state was erected on an 80-meter tower in Spring, Texas, back in 1999. Today, there are nearly 11,000 of the giant eyesores honeycombing the state…growth which mushroomed in part because a lease for placing just one wind turbine can generate about $8,000 annually for a landowner. More turbines = higher rents. Basically the same principle as drug pushers in Harlem: your first bag of heroin is always free.
Problems, however, arise when the Free Market and pro-energy Texas once governed by Rick Perry falls into the clutches of Greta Thunberg worshippers like Biden and Kerry. Suddenly, the once limitless future of oil shale production, drilling for untapped reserves, and other parts of the Trump administration’s AMERICA FIRST energy policy starts to look—say it, Joe— “dark.” As coal is frowned upon by the new Washington administration, there goes another key source of America’s energy independence. Importing oil from Canada? Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline—and 11,000 solid, high-paying jobs—in an Executive Order on his very first day in office. He updated the old Harry Truman buck-stops-here motto: under Biden, it reads “The Fossil Fuel Stops Here.”
John Forbes Kerry—who famously flew to Iceland on his private jet to accept an environmental award—successfully engineered returning the United States to the Paris Climate Accords which accomplish zero other than handcuffing American businesses while polluters in China and India (effectively exempt from the Paris agreement after designating themselves “developing countries”) will continue to eat our lunch in world markets.
Not to mention Biden and Kerry being called upon by over 200 Hollywood celebrities to pay them back for their 2020 campaign support by killing yet another critical project, the Dakota Access Pipeline. Call me old fashioned, but I’m just a wee bit uncomfortable entrusting our nation’s energy supply to the whims of Ryan “Green Lantern” Reynolds, Jane Fonda, Chris “Captain America” Evans and Joaquin Phoenix. (Although I admit he deserved the Academy Award as Best Actor he won for his performance in “Joker” where he shoots Robert DeNiro in the forehead more than once, I still am not sure Joaquin Phoenix is a guy I want calling the shots for America’s future energy policy.)
And with even Great Britain’s struggling Jaguar luxury car brand this week promising to be all-electric by 2025, demand for electricity is only going to skyrocket in the years ahead. So whether Alyssa Milano or Cher or Leonardo DiCaprio like it or not, moves to kill fossil fuels are short-sighted and dangerous.
And as empty as Kerry’s 1970’s photo op throwing “his” military medals over the White House fence to protest the Vietnam War. Except it later turned out he actually kept his own medals and had only thrown away ribbons and medals of “two other veterans who could not attend the protest.” Some Climate Czar.
Back in Texas, as nightfall again threatens to plunge temperatures into the single digits…America has seen a preview of the “Dark Winter” Biden’s misguided energy policy may yet bungle the rest of the nation into if the president isn’t stopped from slamming the brakes on fossil fuels. All the while awaiting the “promise” of Green Energy jobs from solar panels, electric cars, and other technologies not yet invented, but which meet the adoring approval of woke Hollywood A-listers.
I have no doubt that the cold dark days are for US only, and not for the ruling elite, or the fake-environmentalist celebrities. We will freeze in the dark, but they will not.
The season of the “dark teleprompter”
Since this will be coming regularly to the house near you, everybody needs a big power generator!
Have everybody in Austin go out to the windmills.
They form circles around the windmills and hold hands.
They all start singing songs to warm the windmills up.
Then, big pieces of ice fall off the windmills and kanock them on their noggins.
A real win-win situation.
Press: This is a dark time. Why are you firing these people?
Joe: C’mon man, they’re too white.
Press: How white should they be?
Joe: Look, I’m painting the White House black for BLM and Barak is helping out by painting the Lincoln bedroom black too. It takes a group effort to get things back to normal.
Press: But this isn’t normal...
Joe: Look bub, I said this will be a black winter and that’s just what I’m doing. Making things black. Did you see all the pictures of the DNC? Did you see how dark things looked? We’re doing our part.
Press: This is ridiculous. Next thing you’ll be saying is the Eye of Sauron is looking at everybody and everything.
Joe: Well it is. It’s called Google. It’s like God’s all knowing, all seeing eye that answers all your questions. Ask it who won this election? It’ll tell you I did, man.
Press: But Joe, you’re white yourself. What are you going to do? Paint yourself black too? Isn’t that black face?
Joe: I take mud baths and that is good enough for me. Jill puts on some Tommy James and the Shondells and we roll around in the mud like we’re wrestling and making love to MONY MONY and HANKY PANKY. Barak and Michell has joined us some times...
Press: These are strange days.
Joe: We have to do our part.
“Let the bastards freeze in the dark”.
That is what Texans were saying about the Northeast US a few years ago when there was such resistance to developing gas pipelines for heating, cooking and power generation.
Wha’ happen in Texas? The enviroweenies got to the electric power companies, and convinced them to convert to “renewable sources”, which, it turns out, renew far too slowly to maintain baseline power generation. The natural gas-fired power backup systems were deferred because of the initial cost of making sure these backup systems were in place and ready to go on short notice, then the demand went up to astronomical levels.
Texans, being Texans, will soldier through and get the power restored, but with a lesson hard won but long to be remembered, never trust the promises of the “green” leftists that have no idea how to maintain a reliable power grid, or reliable backup systems.
Generac builds a home and light industrial natural-gas fired on-site generation system, designed for just such emergencies, and it relies on the distribution of natural gas, same as used for heating homes, hot water and cooking. Sales of those is going to be WAY up in the next few weeks.
Who do you want representing YOU?
pedopOTUS fondling a 6 year old (click for unbelievable mp4!!)
John 3:19-2119 ""This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 "Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed."
21 "But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God."
I heard a Texan say with a grudging pride that ‘’there aint nothin between Dallas and Canada but a bob wahr fence” ...
Blue northers, hurricanes, tornadoes, drought and searing heat; rattlesnakes, coyotes and rabid armadillos
That’s supposed to build the Texas character
Enjoy your influx of Californians!
Windmills FRoze, and snow covered the photovoltaic cells at the solar farms!
OOPS!
In an energy rich state, 23% of electricity is generated by these bogus means!
OOPS!
Bet that changes!
REAL SOON NOW!
We installed an automatic transfer switch and a new electrical panel last summer with the intention of adding the generator later. We are in North Idaho where more sanity prevails, but unfortunately Avista has pledged to grow their renewables. So we expect that these reliability problems will happen to us, too. We will probably install the generator this summer.
I have family in Abilene area. No power. No water. 14 degrees outside just now. Below 0 last night. They’re keeping warm with kerosene stoves, but kerosene now becoming hard to find. Another ice storm on the way.
They’ve never it this way.
Brrrr.
The Age of Glaciers is now upon us.
Shoulda said:
They’ve never seen it this way.
Pisses me off! Rough night in Montgomery, Texas. Rolling blackouts all night. Some pipes frozen. Thank God I’d chopped plenty of wood for the last couple of days.
Sent Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick a sternly worded email this morning. Seriously.
25% of our energy comes from windmills? I didn’t realize it was that much now. Anyhow...the power grid is a mess and those who administer it...suck.
https://www.generac.com/for-homeowners/home-backup-power
I’ve been putting it off. PA weather is predictable and there have been no problems yet...but the Dems are in the saddle now and anything could happen.
““Let the bastards freeze in the dark”.
That is what Texans were saying about the Northeast US a few years ago when there was such resistance to developing gas pipelines for heating, cooking and power generation.”
First it was 1978 when that song “Freeze a Yankee” was produced. That is quite a bit more than a few years ago. Second it was not about ‘heating, cooking and power...”, it was more a resistance song about how WDC was imposing the 55 mph speed limit on states like Texas where most of the counties are larger than most Eastern states. 55mph is fine when one only has to drive a few miles to work each day. 55mph is ridiculous in most states west of the Mississippi.
There were many other resistance jokes around then regarding the 55mph limit. The one I liked best was the ‘Tour de Tejas’. A politicians that voted for the 55mph limit were to be locked in a VW Beetle. They had to drive a circuit driving from Dallas to Houston to San Antonio to Ft Stockton to El Paso back to Dallas. Oh yeah, the car was pink had bumper stickers on that said things like “Proud to be queer” and ‘Better Red than dead’, and other leftists political positions. The race survivor won a one way bus ticket to California.
Some democrat must be blaming Donald Trump...
It is worse then this guy is stating. My offspring in the Fort Worth area have been without power since Monday at 4:30am. This is going to make Harvey look like a walk in the park. No propane or firewood to be had at any price. People are burning furniture and fencing.
More ice and cold coming to SE Texas.
Good news is that we will see warm weather this weekend.
Hang in there freepers.
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