Feel it in your throat.

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Cash is King.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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Of concern to everyone.

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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Fauci is the fraud we thought he was.

Anthony Fauci Admitted Six-Foot Social Distancing Was Based on Nothing

Dr. Anthony Fauci completed the second day of his closed-door grilling with members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, in which he reportedly admitted that the six-foot social distancing rule that emerged at the start of the coronavirus pandemic was actually based on nothing.

The committee, led by chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), provided a brief recap of Tuesday’s session. Monday and Tuesday’s sessions totaled 14 hours, according to lawmakers. In Tuesday’s session, Fauci admitted that the six-foot social distancing recommendation “was likely not based on any data,” according to the committee.

“It just sort of appeared,” it wrote, quoting Fauci.

Lawmakers: Fauci Said He ‘Did Not Recall’ over 100 Times During Testimony

Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed to not recall details surrounding “pertinent COVID-19 information or conversations” more than 100 times during his Monday testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Fauci participated in the closed-door hearing Monday, which reportedly focused on what committee chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) described as “pandemic-era” failures. The first session uncovered what lawmakers described as “drastic and systemic failures in America’s public health systems.”

“Dr. Fauci claimed he ‘did not recall’ pertinent COVID-19 information or conversations more than 100 times” during the hearing, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said in a thread summarizing the day’s event on X.

Leading to a complete loss of trust in National Public Health systems.

Wenstrup said in a statement that Fauci’s testimony made it abundantly clear the former NIAID chief had “no idea what was happening under his own jurisdiction at NIAID.”

“Clearly, the American people and the United States government are operating with completely different expectations about the responsibilities of our public health leaders and the accountability of our public health agencies,” he said, emphasizing how concerning it is that the “face of our nation’s response” to the coronavirus pandemic “‘does not recall’ key details about COVID-19 origins and pandemic-era policies.”

Wenstrup said he will question Fauci further about mandates, lockdowns, and masks during Tuesday’s closed-door session:

The question is, have we learned anything?  In California that state is rolling out new ‘social distancing’ and mask mandates in several of it’s largest cities. Again.

The airwaves are filled with commercials for new Covid boosters for a vaccine that clearly doesn’t do want it was promised to do.  People are getting sick during a new wave of Covid infections, but it’s clearly not as serious a threat to public heath as the seasonal Flu.   And it probably never was.

The rash of “Died Suddenly” among the young and healthy didn’t commence with the outbreak of Covid, it started after the Covid Vaccine started being used.  A vaccine that Congress gave the companies making and selling it, immunity from prosecution; immunity that works 100% better at protecting the pharmaceutical industry than the vaccine works at protecting the public from Covid.

And Fauci is rich,  a millionaire many times over. And  he’s eligible to receive around $350,000 per year in retirement benefits. It’s the highest federal retirement package that will be paid in U.S. history.

Learning anything?

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Listen to the old broad.

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Repost from ten years ago: Almost mid-winter paddle.

(Me now: I miss this.  My neglected kayaks languish in the garage)

First time I’ve gone out in January, so I guess there isn’t so much a season for Kayaking, as Conditions trump Calendar.

I gather that Hingham Harbor leaves those white markers attached to the moorings at the end of the season. Makes sense, the narrow pole, if frozen in, would slip through the ice (if we get ice this year).

This is Langley Island, nothing on here but birds. Not many now, but in the summer, SRO.

Remember this rock?

Last August.

High Tide.

Lucky for them, I measured it past mid-tide. Four foot to bottom today, roughly five feet lower than the shots from August when the kids were diving off the rocks. This shot shows the bottom beneath the cliff.

Rock and hard packed gravel. Ah! to be young and invincible. Continue reading

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