Meme dump… opening bomb bay doors.

Posted on January 22, 2024 by On the North River

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I’d say it’s the Hindenburg moment.

Posted on January 22, 2024 by On the North River

THE MORNING RANT: Was the EV Charging Nightmare in Chicago the “Exploding Pinto” Moment for the Electric Vehicle Transition; plus Other Bad News for EVs

—Buck Throckmorton

Long but devastating post on the shortcomings and rollbacks of the EV “Revolution”.

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Robert E. Lee Day

Posted on January 19, 2024 by On the North River

Robert E. Lee Day

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Robert E. Lee Day is a state holiday in parts of the Southern US, commemorating the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
January 19th (His birthday) was marked by the governor of Tennessee as Robert E. Lee Day in 2013. Texas made “Lee Day” a holiday in 1931. In 1973, “Lee Day” was renamed Confederate Heroes Day.
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Feel it in your throat.

Posted on January 18, 2024 by On the North River

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Cash is King.

Posted on January 18, 2024 by On the North River

Federal Government Flagged Transactions Using Terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP” for Financial Institutions 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – New documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveal that the federal government flagged terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP” for financial institutions if Americans used those phrases when completing transactions. Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela’s or Dick’s Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a bible, may also have had their transactions flagged. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI’s respect for fundamental civil liberties.

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Thumb on the scales, your Fed Government.

Posted on January 18, 2024 by On the North River

Electric Vehicles Cheating.

When carmakers test gasoline-powered vehicles for compliance with the Transportation Department’s fuel-efficiency rules, they must use real values measured in a laboratory. By contrast, under an Energy Department rule, carmakers can arbitrarily multiply the efficiency of electric cars by 6.67. This means that although a 2022

 Model Y tests at the equivalent of about 65 miles per gallon in a laboratory (roughly the same as a hybrid), it is counted as having an absurdly high compliance value of 430 mpg. That number has no basis in reality or law.

For exaggerating electric-car efficiency, the government rewards carmakers with compliance credits they can trade for cash. Economists estimate these credits could be worth billions: a vast cross-subsidy invented by bureaucrats and paid for by every person who buys a new gasoline-powered car.

Until recently, this subsidy was a Washington secret. Carmakers and regulators liked it that way. Regulators could announce what sounded like stringent targets, and carmakers would nod along, knowing they could comply by making electric cars with arbitrarily boosted compliance values. Consumers would unknowingly foot the bill.

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An uphill climb from here.

Posted on January 17, 2024 by On the North River

by Doug “Uncola” Lynn:

We perceive our civic challenge as some vast, insoluble Rubik’s Cube. Behind each problem lies another problem that must be solved first, and behind that lies yet another, and another, ad infinitum.

To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we have to fix welfare, and that means fixing our budget, and that means fixing our civic spirit, but we can’t do that without fixing moral standards, and that means fixing schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that’s impossible unless we fix crime.

There’s no fulcrum on which to rest a policy lever. People of all ages sense that something huge will have to sweep across America before the gloom can be lifted – but that’s an awareness we suppress. As a nation, we’re in deep denial.

– Straus and Howe (1997):  “The Fourth Turning”, FIRST EDITION page 2

Read the rest…

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Independent Contractor Rule

Posted on January 16, 2024 by On the North River

California’s AB5 Goes National With the Independent Contractor Rule

The Acting Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, quietly dropped a revised Independent Contractor Rule on January 9, and it’s as bad as expected.

It’s official. Gavin Newsom’s war on workers has just been taken national by Biden and Julie Su. They’ve announced an “Independent Contractor” rule based on California’s notorious AB 5 law. It will put millions of Americans out of work.

The Independent Contractor Rule was recorded in the federal register on January 10, 2024, and is scheduled to take effect on March 10, 2024. It is 339 pages of essentially the Department of Labor justifying why independent contractors should not be allowed to exist. The rule acts from the premise that independent contractors have no right to determine whether they are independent or an employee. It is the DOL’s job to do that for you.

Who benefits from these Department of Labor and NRLB Rule changes? The Labor Unions, which poured millions into the 2020 Biden campaign for the presidency and expect a return on their investment.

Rules are not laws.  Laws are supposed to be passed by Congress, then signed by the President.  The Dept. of Labor should not be issuing ‘rules’ that ruin the livelihood of millions of Americans.

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Impossible amounts of electric energy.

Posted on January 14, 2024 by On the North River

Equivalent of 350kWH  per minute.   Or what a home needs in a month.

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Of concern to everyone.

Posted on January 13, 2024 by On the North River

Airline safety is off to a bad start in 2024 thanks to Biden admin policies

In Texas, a hearing has finally, albeit quietly, been initiated concerning a July 29, 2023 incident at Houston’s Intercontinental Airport (IAH) where a new First Officer mishandled the landing of a United 767-300ER, slamming it to the ground and bouncing the nose gear multiple times so hard that the airframe of the plane was severely damaged.

The United First Officer was a former flight attendant who had been fired, then rehired and enrolled in the airline’s DEI Pilot Training program despite being on a company “Do Not Rehire” list.

While in training, the pilot candidate failed multiple simulator training sessions and scored poorly on training exams.

After barely meeting the required tasks, he or she was put in a cockpit as a First Officer.

United has gone out of its way to keep this story quiet. No word if the damaged 767 was reparable or if it has been placed back in service.

 

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