Still no drag shows or Furry conventions here. Check back when you see pigs flying.
As far as I can tell, we are still on course for a Brandon/MAGA showdown. Perhaps solar flares will take them both out?
How about a graph kids? You guys don’t seem to appreciate the stories graphs tell. Here is one that tells the story that there is no free lunch – except at schools. It shows the carbon based emissions from acquiring and constructing batteries for Tesla’s. You get carbon out of the exhaust pipe or up front making batteries. I would say your choice, but the government will decide for you. Now back to your video games.
Oh yeah, nickel is strip mined. But’s that of no concern as it’s done in Indonesia and most folks could not find it on map, so it’s of no concern. I told you about cobalt being mined by kids in the Congo last month.
The State of the Disunion
Things we don’t have in Fly Over country. Organized shop-lifting, the ability to go outside with being shot, ticks that don’t carry Lyme Disease, no tent cities of homeless, darn few rabid Karen’s.
Please note the South’s northern border is closed. MS13’s and damn Yanquis will be gut shot at the border.
Ukraine
The country is being destroyed. Putin is not giving up. He needs Ukraine for Russia to be an empire again. Looks like the only way it will end, is if the Russians throw out Putin.
The Ukraine are magnificent.
Assault Weapons Now!
How about a 28th amendment to repeal the National Firearms Act of 1934 to allow fully automatic weapons, including belt fed machine guns. Knock off, stamped AK47’s are cheap in the foreign markets. Be the first on your block to own one. If you are higher on the food chain you could impress your neighbors with an M4 or even mini-gun.
M134 available for $180,000
Imagine you and your close friends celebrating the 4th by burning through cases of red and green tracers.
Instead of free college, how about a free M16 for all? There’s no better response to criminals and aspiring tyrants than a bunch of Americas packing heavy-duty selective fire weapons. Just flip it to Rock-n-Roll.
The problem of gangs of thieves swarming stores or mobbing people has a 12-gauge solution.
The Inflation Reduction Act wins the prize for the most mislabeled legislative act ever.
What do we find the Inflation Reduction Act?
We find the unjust taking of property under the Fifth Amendment and violation of free speech rights.
Did Stalin write it?
If an assailant points a gun at your head and threatens to shoot if you don’t hand over your wallet, is that a negotiation? This describes the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare drug-price scheme, which Merck & Co. claims is “extortion” and unconstitutional in a compelling lawsuit filed Tuesday. Merck v. Becerra may be destined for the Supreme Court.
Congress last year gave the Health and Human Services Department carte blanche authority to fix Medicare drug prices under the guise of a negotiation. But as Merck argues in its lawsuit, the program “involves neither genuine ‘negotiations’ nor real ‘agreements,’” and is all “political Kabuki theater.”
HHS forces companies to provide drugs to the government at its dictated prices. The agency selects drugs to negotiate and then compels manufacturers to sign an “agreement” promising to sell their products at whatever “fair” price Medicare decides. The agency could demand Merck sell its drugs at a 90% loss, and the drug maker couldn’t refuse.
After “agreeing to” having the drugs confiscated they have to publicly declare it was fair.
Adding constitutional insult to injury, the IRA launders “its mandates through performative ‘negotiations’ and ‘agreements’” that require “manufacturers to endorse and express the view that they ‘agree’ to HHS-dictated forced prices, and that those prices are ‘fair,’” the lawsuit explains.
Our Constitution does not countenance compelled speech in service of state propaganda,” Merck argues.
Fuggedaboutit
Global CO2 emissions will rise for decades owing to growing coal production in India and China. Another inconvenient truth is that government policies to reduce CO2 emissions will be swamped by wildfires and the occasional volcano eruption.
Whatcha Gonna Do?
California wildfire emissions in 2020 were two times higher than the state’s greenhouse gas reductions from 2003 to 2019. 2020 is 2x then the sum of 18 prior years.
Solar wind consists of a continuous stream of charged particles emanating from the sun’s outermost atmosphere, known as the corona.
A solar storm could leave people without internet access for months or even years, rendering satellites and power lines useless.
No internet, that bad. No power. Hey kids, that means the sewers will back up quickly. Whatcha Gonna Do?
Real men don’t drink light beer or eat gluten free anything.
Our Bottoms Burn 