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And let's not forget who's responsible for this either: The so-called "Inflation Reduction Act" which every single person in Congress should be personally held responsible for, including their entire genetic line. The EPA is about to issue a monster rule that essentially requires the capture of all CO2 emitted by power plants. This is impossible to do at any economically-reasonable cost. It will force up power prices dramatically and likely force offline many natural gas power plants, along with all the remaining coal-fired ones. This in turn will make your "much loved" electric car much more expensive to fuel since...

... from The Fed, or from Biden, you're certifiable. The Fed meeting is coming. PPI and CPI have relaxed somewhat, but the key is -- somewhat. Problem: The Omnibus spending isn't in the system yet, and thus its impact isn't in there either. But it will be because there's no effective means to stop it other than a refusal to raise the debt ceiling. Biden has said he will veto any attempt to roll back the spending bill, and there's no chance of an override given Congressional makeup. Therefore, what's done is done. But -- and this is important --...

.....Now the destruction of higher education is basically complete. Colleges no longer admit people simply on whether you can do the work; they now do so by changing standards if you can't, which in many cases means your "degree" denotes nothing more than paying the money. The "unlimited" money spigot has turned college dorms into luxury accommodations I refuse to buy for a weekend when on vacation as I just don't see the value. The prior concept of cinder-block walls, a built into-the-wall desk accommodating two people and a pair of twin beds that can at the occupant's option be...

Tucker takes a look at the illegal arrest of Peter Navarro by the corrupt FBI and compares it to when Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress for supplying guns to Mexican drug cartels in an operation called “Fast and Furious”. The Mexican drug cartels then used the same weapons to murder a US Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry. Eric Holder lied about that to the congress and refused to hand over requested documents. Congress with a bipartisan vote held Holder in criminal contempt. Up till today, the FBI is yet to arrest Holder. But then they arrest Peter...

[H/T CheshireTheCat]I don't like this at all.Here, we report, besides generation of neutralizing antibodies, consistent alterations in hemoglobin A1c, serum sodium and potassium levels, coagulation profiles, and renal functions in healthy volunteers after vaccination with an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Similar changes had also been reported in COVID-19 patients, suggesting that vaccination mimicked an infection.That is very bad.In fact its catastrophically bad.Vaccination is supposed to trick your immune system into thinking your body is being attacked without producing the bad outcomes that the actual disease can produce. You get the protection, but not the potential bad outcomes from infection itself.That is...

It's over folks. Seriously, there are now two -- and only two -- possible paths. Sue, on the basis below. You will win if the judiciary is competent and so is your counsel. Competence is not in my wheelhouse; that is up to you. If you file bull**** you will lose, and should. But if your counsel is competent and your argument clear and concise you win because the CDC has documented that your position is correct -- the vaccines are in fact worthless from a public health perspective beyond a period of about four months and you win on...

[H/T grey_whiskers]... in a not-so-tiny nation called Spain, a nursing home had a nasty virus get into it.It was March of 2020. The nasty virus was called Covid-19. And this nursing home, like so many others all over the world, was full of elderly, morbid people. The mean age of residents was 85 and 48% were over 80 years old. It was a killing field, like so many others.....Within three months 100% of the residents had caught the virus. Not presumed to have -- proved to have.How do we know this? Because almost every one of them seroconverted. All but...

Let's start with the probability of mailing a dozen+ envelopes containing devices and not being questioned in any way, and them getting to their destinations "as we've been sold." 1. You mail them. 2. You don't take them to the counter, because if you did you'd be busted instantly. So you drop them in a box. 3. None have sufficient postage and it's grossly insufficient. This is ignored. 4. The stamps aren't canceled, despite being protocol to do so. 5. The packages do not have a barcode routing label added to them (which is also protocol for a stamped package)...

It is my contention that we are just one bad event away from a shooting civil war in America -- and in fact if you ask Steve Scalise it may have already started.The political process is often fraught with severe language, money and hard-fought contests.  But in the end there are winners and losers; a person who loses by one vote still lost, while the person who wins by one vote still gets the office.  The margin is immaterial and, in the context of a Presidential Election, the popular vote doesn't matter; it is the electoral vote that counts and thus all candidates tailor...

We Have A Congressman Calling For Civil War Let's not mince words: Eric Swalwell is advocating for Civil War. "Instead, we should ban possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons. The ban would not apply to law enforcement agencies or shooting clubs.".... " The Parkland teens have taught us there is no right more important than every student’s right to come home after class. The right to live is supreme over...

The Smoking Gun In Mass Shootings By The Young Still won't raise the actual issue will you? “The concept that mental illness is a precursor to violent behavior is nonsense,” said Dr. Louis Kraus, forensic psychiatry chief at Chicago’s Rush University Medical College. “The vast majority of gun violence is not attributable to mental illness.” Oh really? The article goes on to claim that ~38,000 people died from firearm violence in 2016. What is being omitted is that the majority were suicides! In fact, of those 38,000 people (37,863 for 2015 according to the CDC) 22,928 were firearm suicides in...

Is This The Crash? Almost-certainly not. First, it is extremely unlikely for a market to crash from a spike high. China is the only place where it has happened with any sort of regularity; what usually comes first is a distribution pattern. But..... with that said it isn't impossible. However, as of 2/5 the S&P is now back to the 50DMA, which it has not touched for quite some time -- it bounced, and then collapsed. Of note the 200DMA is down around 2530, which would be back to about November 2017 levels and extraordinary in terms of the current...

Posthumous awareness is yours for the taking as you enter My gates of Thanksgiving and fill My courts with praise for Truly as you enter in My likeness I arise in you ! My words become yours and your words become My knowledge for you HAVE obtained The Mind of CHRIST that "IS" The Manifold Wisdom of God Himself in an eternal manner for His Glory "as" The Kingdom of ZION above all kingdoms for this is the inheritance of The Sons and Daughters of The Living GOD "YAHWEH" 8888888 EPHESIANS 3:8-11 8Though I am less than the least of...

Time to call out a few, given that Reuters is making excuses (big shock). I'll start with the heroes. Among them was the unarmed hotel security guy who attempted to interdict the shooter but could not get through the door because the shooter had driven screws into the frame. He took a round to the leg when the shooter blindly emptied a mag through the door of the suite but he'll be ok. Next up is the ex-service member who stole a truck and used it to transport injured people out of the kill zone. If they prosecute that guy,...

Heroes And Zeros: Vegas Time to call out a few, given that Reuters is making excuses (big shock). I'll start with the heroes. Among them was the unarmed hotel security guy who attempted to interdict the shooter but could not get through the door because the shooter had driven screws into the frame. He took a round to the leg when the shooter blindly emptied a mag through the door of the suite but he'll be ok. Next up is the ex-service member who stole a truck and used it to transport injured people out of the kill zone. If...

The Graham-Cassidy Scam It appears that Graham-Cassidy, the latest "repeal and replace" load of nonsense out of the Republican Party, is doomed. The option to pass such "one party only" supported bills expires on September 30th in the Senate. That's when the reconciliation option runs out, at which point standard rules in the Senate apply -- if there is a filibuster you need 60 votes to proceed, and obviously you won't get them without at least some people crossing the aisle. Graham-Cassidy, in summary, would take Medicaid and turn it into a block grant -- in other words, a pile...

Where Are The Damned Handcuffs? It's time to start locking people up and destroying businesses with federal criminal indictments. The Internet has made many things very easy -- and fast. But it has also made many things quite-insecure, especially when corners are cut. I can design and implement extremely secure internet-connected data facilities and services. I not only have done so they're in active use right now. Some are more-important than others, but all are important to me. Among other things my home is connected via same, never mind the work product I've developed for the last, oh, 30ish years...

My daughter and I drove up to Andersen, SC for the eclipse, leaving Sunday early in the morning and hanging out there Sunday afternoon and evening.Let me first put an accolade out to the Hilton Garden Inn -- great people, and very accommodating.  We wound up having to run-n-gun at the last minute as one nasty cloud threatened to obliterate our shots of the totality, but that gamble paid big; we were able to get into the clear with time remaining, and were set up and "on-point" about 3-4 minutes before totality was achieved.The totality itself was surreal.  Photographs, no matter how...

This is a pretty-good read, all-in. ********************* “A speed of 22.7 megabytes is simply unobtainable, especially if we are talking about a transoceanic data transfer,” Folden said. “Based on the data we now have, what we’ve been calling a hack is impossible.” Last week Forensicator reported on a speed test he conducted more recently. It tightens the case considerably. “Transfer rates of 23 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) are not just highly unlikely, but effectively impossible to accomplish when communicating over the Internet at any significant distance,” he wrote. “Further, local copy speeds are measured, demonstrating that 23 MB/s is...

To The Press, The Pols, And The Rest Let me say this just one more time: That someone is a Neo-Nazi, a White Supremacist, KKK member or racist does not render them bereft of the First Amendment. Just as being a member of BLM or the Antifa does not render them bereft of the First Amendment. It is not acceptable, legal or excusable to meet speech by any such person with violence. Period. To suggest, state, or advocate that such is the case, or to promote the premise that violence is an appropriate remedy for speech you find vile and...