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Here are some of my thoughts on the billing of electricity with respect to homeowners with solar panel installations. The topic is complex. My suggestions are intended to be possible improvements and not perfections. There are a number of components that could go into the computation of a solar panel homeowner's bill: the capital cost of the related non-solar backup capacity, the cost of the utility lines dedicated to the customer, the cost to collect payment, the fuel cost of the electricity and credit for the electricity supplied to the grid by the customer. A CUSTOMER'S USAGE-BASED SHARE of the...

The misery index is traditionally inflation rate plus U-3 unemployment rate. The RENTER misery index is the Zillow Rent Index YoY + U-3 unemployment rate to demonstrate the hardship of renters because of soaring home prices. Notice that because of rising home prices, the Renter misery index has overwhelmed the improvement in unemployment. As I typically do, I will now include The Fed’s balance sheet (as a proxy for Fed stimulus and supporting Federal government expenditures). Yes, you can see that The Fed and Federal government are responsible for our modern day “Grapes of Wrath.” If we look at the...

Actress and singer Bette Midler minced no words in telling West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) what she thought of his governing in the state, saying in a fiery tweet on Friday, “I’d say his dog’s a– would make a better Governor than him!” The Grammy Award-winning singer tweeted a photo of West Virginia's rankings in areas such as health care, the economy and infrastructure, showing the state's overall rank in the country at 47th place. The screenshot of the rankings was apparently sourced from U.S. News & World Report.

The University of Pennsylvania is considering a lawsuit if Lia Thomas is barred from competing in the upcoming NCAA women’s swimming championship, according to a report. A swimmer on the Penn women’s team, speaking on the condition of anonymity, claimed to Fox News that administrators were considering legal action if Thomas is prohibited from participating in the championship. “I have a feeling that if USA Swimming changes their rules, they will be filing a lawsuit for Lia to swim, but they wouldn’t do that for us,” she said. “That’s just really upsetting.” The swimmer said she had “heard that from...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that former President Donald Trump owed his testimony to the House Select Committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Raskin said, “Well, first of all, the public record as you’ve just shown it with the tweets, with his statements makes very clear what Donald Trump was up to. The whole name of the game was to put coercive pressure on Pence to ‘do the right thing’ by which Trump meant step outside of his constitutional role and declare unilateral unconstitutional powers to reject the electoral...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said late Saturday she is self-isolating after coming into close contact with a person infected with the coronavirus. The exposure came on a flight from the town of Kerikeri to the largest city of Auckland. New Zealand’s Governor-General Cindy Kiro was also on the Jan. 22 flight and has also gone into isolation.

Lyrics: Where have all the rebels gone? Hiding behind computer screens Where’s the spirit, where’s the soul? Where have all the rebels gone? Why don’t they come out of the woodwork now? One for the money, two for the show It’s not very rock and roll Where have all the rebels gone? Where have all the rebels gone? Waiting for someone else to make a move Why are they sitting on the fence? Well, it’s some kind of pretence They’re not saying much at all Where have all the rebels gone? Where they really all that tough? Or was it...

Washington Post did its usual bang-up job of caterwauling and keening loudly and sanctimoniously into its echo chamber by calling the truckers fascists and invoking the racial element, mainly because the legacy media could not report on a disc golf tournament without racializing it. Race is hot sauce to the MSM — everything tastes better with a little racism sprinkled on it. ... The convoy, which is reported to be some 70 km long (that’s around 43 miles for you and me) is one result of Canadians’ exasperation with the interminable government restrictions imposed on them to prevent the spread...

Charlotte Bellis, a broadcast journalist, said she has repeatedly tried to return to New Zealand since she learned she was pregnant in September. She has submitted 59 documents to New Zealand officials in Afghanistan in an attempt to secure an emergency return home, but her bid was turned down and led her to turn to the Taliban, one of the world's most oppressive regimes, for sympathy. It's a particularly cruel twist of fate for the woman who was revered worldwide for her fearless questioning of the jihadist group's previous record on women's rights. To add insult to injury, Ms Bellis...

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In Organic Disaster I wrote: Sri Lanka’s President abruptly banned chemical fertilizers earlier this year in a bid to become 100% organic. The ban has resulted in reduced production and soaring prices that, together with declining tourism and the pandemic, have created an economic crisis. Here is the latest update: Sri Lanka has announced compensation for more than a million rice farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation. …The government will pay 40,000 million rupees ($200m) to farmers whose harvests were affected by the chemical fertiliser ban, agriculture minister Mahindananda...

From Our Special Correspondent. HATTERAS INLET, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1862. The Burnside Expedition, which has occupied so large a share of public attention, which has cost so much in time ad in means, and which has deservedly encouraged the hopes of the patriotic of the country for what it was to accomplish for the cause of the Union, has reached this historically stormy part of the coast, and here, and in this vicinity, is to be the theatre of its operations, and may we hope -- of its triumphs. The large majority of the vessels composing the expedition, consisting...

She worked in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) of a major children’s hospital in San Diego, California for more than 12 years. Here's her story about what happened after the vax rollout.Steve Kirsch22 hr ago Tawny Buettner, RN, worked in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) of a major children’s hospital in San Diego, California for more than 12 years.Before the vaccine rollout, they’d see 4 or 5 myocarditis cases a year in the CTICU at the hospital where Tawny Buettner works that she was aware of (see 2:15 in the video).In the last half of 2021, she is...

VIDEOFirst the CBC tried to just ignore the Freedom Convoy which is now converging on Ottawa. However, when the trucker movement in Canada became too big to ignore, the CBC began smearing them as "extremists" and "bad apples" as you can see in this video in which the Canadian media is desperately trying to marginalize the members of the Freedom Convoy.

A remarkable failure of meaningful reporting about the massive military buildup in and around Ukraine in recent weeks results in most Americans having no idea how close we have been brought to armed conflict with the Russian Federation.Even those Americans who have sought out news about Ukraine can do little more than watch from the sidelines as those currently leading our nation inch us toward a potential catastrophe.​Although going to war is the most consequential decision that a nation can make, the people are rarely consulted by the elites, who are largely immunized from the consequences of their actions. If...

A speech therapist says that mask wearing during the pandemic has caused a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers. Jaclyn Theek told WPBF News that before the pandemic, only 5 per cent of patients were babies and toddlers, but this has soared to 20 per cent. Parents are describing their children’s speech problems as “COVID delayed,” with face coverings the primary cause of their speaking skills being seriously impaired. As young as 8 months old, babies start learning how to speak by reading lips, a thankless task if parents and carers smother themselves with masks to comply...

Florida authorities this week said LGBTQ+ dating apps have helped them make upwards of 60 drug-related arrests. In a six-month sting operation which officers called “Swipe Left for Meth,” undercover detectives used dating apps like Grindr and Scruff – targeted toward men who have sex with men – to locate a number of people suspected of buying and selling drugs online. The operation produced more than 60 arrests, according to a news release, and detectives have obtained warrants for at least eight other suspects. Detectives during the investigation filed 159 total felony charges and 72 misdemeanor charges against the suspects,...

Is there a white entertainment category on Netflix, HULU and Prime? Is there a white-owned restaurant category on UBER eats? Amala Ekpunobi debunks the whole white privilege thing in one minute. Watch this one minute video: https://youtu.be/s8rIUWORu1k

Remington subsonic 2022 U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)-– Interest in silencers/suppressors is growing at logarithmic rates in the United States. This correspondent was pleased to see Remington (now part of Vista Outdoors) has brought out a Long Rifle cartridge designed for use with suppressors.They identify the round with a logo of a person holding what appears to be a pistol with a silencer attached, in the lower right corner.The Remington representative at the SHOT Show booth was extremely knowledgeable about the .22 rimfire line and what had been done to make this particular round effective.Nick Sachse, who has been with Remington for 30...

The eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia has made it illegal to stand beside the road, or gather on highway overpasses to support the Freedom Convoy. https://tnc.news/2022/01/28/nova-scotia-bans-gatherings-along-highway-in-support-of-trucker-freedom-convoy/