Matt Whitlock @mattdizwhitlock
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This city of Honolulu is suing oil and gas companies for bad weather, accusing them of causing climate change.
The Hawaii Supreme Court - who said the 2nd Amendment “violates the spirit of Aloha” green-lit the absurd case.
It’s up to the Supreme Court to fix this.
Alliance For Consumers @for_consumers
Replying to @for_consumers
Pay attention to this new cert petition coming out of the Hawaii Supreme Court...
It's a golden ticket that just got placed before the Supreme Court, at least for those of us who want to see the Left’s public nuisance campaign grind to a halt:
https://supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-947/301676/20240228105935605_Sunoco_pet.pdf
Background: Honolulu is suing energy companies for their alleged role in driving climate change. There are two dozen other cases making these types of claims in other states.
What makes this case interesting is that it’s the first big-ticket climate change case where a state supreme court conclusively weighed in on the merits of how these cases should work…
The Hawaii Supreme Court said that these claims can go to trial in state court irrespective of federal law.
The Hawaii Supreme Court decision is a dangerous precedent – it allows a single judge or jury in state court to weigh liability for global greenhouse gas emissions and assign billions in fines, effectively steering energy policy for the rest of the country. And it did so based on its own reading of federal law.
Make no mistake, lawsuits like this one are designed to reshape entire sectors of the economy.
Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee in San Francisco, said as much in a decision dismissing Oakland’s climate-nuisance suit….
8:34 AM · Mar 6, 2024
The UN has confirmed these accounts of necrophilia as part of a broader report, UN Report: “sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attacks in multiple locations … including rape and gang rape”. //
Eylon Levy @EylonALevy
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Hamas committed acts of necrophilia against murder victims, then its spokesman went on TV and said it was teaching Israelis a lesson and would do it again & again.
I don't understand what part of "this war will end when Hamas is defeated or surrenders" people don't understand.
7:36 AM · Mar 6, 2024
Between Sunday night and Monday night, SpaceX teams in Texas, Florida, and California supervised three Falcon 9 rocket launches and completed a full dress rehearsal ahead of the next flight of the company's giant Starship launch vehicle.
This was a remarkable sequence of events, even for SpaceX, which has launched a mission at an average rate of once every three days since the start of the year. We've reported on this before, but it's worth reinforcing that no launch provider, commercial or government, has ever operated at this cadence.
SpaceX has previously had rockets on all four of its active launch pads. But what SpaceX accomplished over a 24-hour period was noteworthy. Engineers inside at least four control centers were actively overseeing spacecraft and rocket operations simultaneously. //
"Could you imagine if I had walked up to you five years ago and said our constraint to launch is launch pad availability?" said Matthew Dominick, the NASA commander of the Crew-8 mission. "You would have thought I was crazy, but we’re at a cool spot in spaceflight right now. We’ve got rockets competing for launch pads, so you’re not waiting on payloads. You’re not waiting on rockets. You’re waiting on launch pads now."
It wasn't until midway through that context was given - which undercut what she was suggesting (that Robinson would prefer women couldn't vote):
During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.
Robinson said he would definitely return to the days in America when women were denied the right to vote “because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”
While that last quote contains part of the story, it doesn't give all of it. In the sentence immediately after he said "and they were called Republicans," Robinson said "And they are the reason why women can vote today." //
Andrew Egger @EggerDC
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Okay, look, Robinson did in fact say all these words in this order, but if you watch the clip it's plain he wasn't saying he thinks women should lose the vote. He was making a way too cute point about how he wants Republicans to see themselves as fighters for social change.
Jennifer Bendery @jbendery
NEW:
Newly unearthed video of N.C. GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson in 2020: "I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote." https://huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002?hlo
5:13 PM · Mar 6, 2024 //
bpbatch
4 hours ago
Dan Bongino responded to this several times on X today, asking liberals why they are so racist, and why they have such vitriol for black people, and especially those who are Republicans.
The answer is, they can't help it. The Democrats have a long history of racism, and it's never gone away. And it's just as pronounced today as it was pre- and post-Civil War, during the Jim Crow and lynching eras, and as well as during their fights to keep integration from happening and destroying the black society with the "Great" Society.
We should never, EVER let them forget that, and we should always remind black Americans that Democrats are still the slave-master party. The party leaders will do nothing to help them out of poverty, but just "promise" to help them while simultaneously keep black Americans from ever prospering. //
Dogcatcher-Elect JALJAL
4 hours ago edited
This is worth a read. Expect alot of Charlottesville "very fine people" misrepresentations/lies.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Robinson accused of antisemitism
As for the misrepresented "Nazi" comments, it seems to me he is addressing the insane Nazi attributions the left flings at the conservatives /"right wing." Enough!
California: Climate Groups Push to Stop Re-Licensing of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant – RedState
Random US Citizen
7 hours ago edited
I hope the loons win. Because CA deserves it.
On the other hand, maybe Diablo can claim it identifies as a solar plant and ask CA politicians to pay for energy reassignment surgery?
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
Republican Mark Robinson's rise in North Carolina politics has been nothing short of spectacular.
It all started in the spring of 2018 when Robinson, a Greensboro resident who at the time worked in furniture manufacturing, appeared before the city council to speak his mind on gun rights as the city considered canceling a gun show. //
AirdaleNavy_AX3
11 hours ago
In 1969, a tome was published by Canadian business professor Dr. Laurence Peter that primarily talked about people being promoted to their level of incompetence, but the real take-away found in the later chapters is Dr. Peter's exposure on how human hierarchies actually operate. We warns his readers that the No. 1 Rule of every hierarchy is the 'preservation of the hierarchy.' Had DJT been aware of this warning when he took office in Jan. 2017 and cleaned out every department in our government of entrenched deep-staters we wouldn't have the mess we do today. Mark Robinson is a hierarchy crusher... The Dems know it, the RINO's know it and those buried deep in U.S. and North Carolina gov't know it. The hierarchy "preservation" has already begun in N.C. and Robinson is just the man to stand up and crush it.
At Zelensky and Mitsotakis' joint meeting, Zelensky commented on the missile attack.
“They have either lost their minds, or they don’t have complete control over what their terrorist army is doing.”
Indeed, lobbing a ballistic missile into a city where a foreign head of government is visiting is the height of recklessness or indiscipline but totally on brand for the Russian Army.
Russia claims it was engaging in “a high-precision missile strike on a hangar in the industrial port area of Odesa where preparations were being made for the combat use of unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” Precision, I suppose, is entirely in the eye of the beholder. //
olinka2022
5 hours ago
The last of the Mohicans still covering Ukraine
streiff olinka2022
5 hours ago
I'll be covering it until the last Russian is dead and composted.
Q: Why do planets, just like our moon, have their sidereal paths almost the same (with only slight deviation) as that of the ecliptic? Is it mere coincidence? Or is there a better solution?
A: The ecliptic is the path through the sky along which the sun seems to travel during the year.
If you flip your perspective around, that means the ecliptic is basically the path of Earth's orbit around the sun, projected onto our view of the sky.
The question "Why do all the planets lie near the ecliptic?" is therefore the same as asking "Why are the orbits of all the planets more or less in the same plane?" Apart from very distant objects like comets, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud, everything in the solar system is orbiting in pretty much the same orientation and going the same direction around the sun. How did that happen?
Keeping a complex topic down to its most basic level, the answer to that is that all the planets formed from the same protoplanetary disc of gas and dust, so there wasn't a bunch of "stuff" out orbiting in random directions that could form planets with wildly different orbital characteristics. The disc was all moving in pretty much the same direction in pretty much the same plane, so when it all conglomerated into planets, they had to keep moving the same way. //
By the 1990s, astrophysicists thought they had planet system formation all figured out. Nice and simple: terrestrial planets form inside the ice line, gas giants form just outside the ice line, and smaller (but still massive compared to the Earth) form a bit further out, and beyond that, there are some oddballs. But then astronomers began discovering exoplanets that break all the rules: planets with highly eccentric and/or highly inclined orbits, massive planets well inside the ice line. Our solar system apparently got lucky and escaped the chaos that appears to be the rule. – David Hammen
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nexpensive, compact GPS unit for highly accurate serial PPS time.
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2012
I have the Garmin 18x LVC GPS attached to a serial card installed in a Debian Linux 'Squeeze' box (which was configured using the Setserial, GPSD, and NTP packages).
USB based GPS units are useless for accurately setting the time.
The 18x LVC GPS unit requires 5 volts of power (red wire), and for this I use a specific serial card, the StarTech.com 1 Port PCI RS232 Powered Serial Adapter Card (PCI1S650PW). The card can be configured to supply either 5 or 12 volts (or none) on pin 9 of the RS-232 DB-9 connector, and can draw power either from the PCI bus itself or from the PC power supply directly via the onboard Molex floppy power connector. (I used the latter option). Once the jumpers had been set and the card installed no drivers were required for Debian, Setserial recognizing the card as having a 16550A UART with a baud base of 921600.
The GPS unit itself is mounted externally on the chimney, as the GPS satellite signals are fairly weak, so installing outside is the best option as the GPS itself is weatherproof. For me, this location gives the GPS a clear view of the sky, but the 5 meter (16 feet) cable would not be long enough to reach the computer inside the house, so I replaced almost all of the original serial cable (which is molded onto the 18x LVC). The wires (especially the three signal wires, which includes the PPS) are also VERY thin. So, I cut the original cable close to the GPS unit itself and extended it with my own cable which runs all the way back to the computer and is terminated with a serial DB-9 connector. If you do this, remember to use a shielded cable. There are basically five wires needed for the serial connection: Measurement pulse output (PPS) from the GPS is yellow -> pin 1 (DCD) on the DB-9, transmit is white -> pin 2 (RXD), receive is green -> pin 3 (TXD), ground is black -> pin 5 (GND), and power is red -> pin 9. For the replacement I used a shielded CAT 6 cable and joined each of the pairs together at both ends and used these to give me four of the connections: PPS, transmit, receive, and power (90 mA). I then connected all of the black wires together at the GPS end of the cable and used the drain wire as the ground, connecting it to pin 5 on the DB-9 at the other end. For mounting there is a metric (M3) threaded brass recess on the underside of the 18x LVC.
I also have the StarTech.com PEX1S553LP 1 Port Low Profile Native RS232 PCI Express Serial Card with 16550 UART card installed in a Windows 7 PC which is only used to run firmware updates, etc. on the GPS when needed (as these cannot be performed under Linux). My 18x LVC is updated to version 3.80 (26th March, 2012). For what it's worth, my time1 setting in ntp.conf is 0.035. This gives me the lowest offset and jitter for PPS.
Works like a charm, with extremely low latency PPS time (accurate to a few microseconds).
Green energy policies hold back the developing world, creating a gulf in energy consumption between the West and nations such as Kenya. //
Since most Kenyans rely on physical exertion to accomplish work, rather than machines, it’s useful to understand that an average person at rest produces 100 watts of energy, with most of that going to operate the brain, heart, and other vital organs. Heavy labor for several minutes can be sustained while generating 300-400 watts, while a professional athlete might produce 2,000 watts for short periods of time.
Thus, a person working in a field to tend crops over an 8.5-hour day might generate 2.1 kWh of power — a little less than the energy in one cup of crude oil. So, when thinking of the energy used by the DeVore family in a day, 6.9 gallons of crude oil, that’s the equivalent energy output of about 120 people doing physical labor in a day. //
There’s not a lot of time in the Machogu family’s day to watch Netflix or play video games, assuming they even had the electricity to do so. And there are no private jets or Dubai resorts for either family. The elites flying in to discuss the fate of energy consumers are perfectly willing for the poor to make sacrifices to their political whims. But they have no idea how the rest of us live — or do, and don’t care. //
The UN wants to fight climate change by taxing Americans and Europeans to send the cash to corrupt Third World leaders, while building a few trophy wind and solar projects to provide unreliable electricity to the masses. This will neither change global temperature (whatever that means) nor lift the 6.2 billion people of the planet’s 8.1 billion who live in developing nations up from poverty.
Americans use a lot of energy. It supports our high productivity. We make a lot of stuff, and we provide a lot of services with energy underpinning that productivity. The average American produced about $69.70 worth of goods and services every working hour with the aid of machines and energy in 2023 (in 2017 PPP dollars). //
The average Kenyan consumes 1/44 the energy an American does. This results in a per capita output of about $4.90 for every hour worked, about 1/14 of that in America, after adjusting for Kenya’s lower cost of living.
A study published by FGA last year discovered thousands of “exhausted” ballots that were discarded in states and localities that have employed RCV in recent elections. In Alaska’s 2022 special congressional election, for example, more than 11,000 of the almost 15,000 “exhausted” ballots were thrown out because those electors “voted for only one Republican candidate and no one else.” Meanwhile, more than 8,000 ballots were deemed “exhausted” and effectively thrown out in a 2018 Maine congressional race, according to FGA.
“The result is that a much smaller, manufactured pool of voters ultimately decides the election to the exclusion of thousands of other voters,” the video narrator said. //
In 2022, Democrat Mary Peltola won Alaska’s at-large congressional seat even though “nearly 60 percent of voters [cast] their ballots for a Republican.” RCV also played a major role in helping Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski win reelection during the 2022 midterms. Efforts are currently underway in the state to have a measure repealing RCV appear on Alaska’s 2024 general election ballot. //
“Ultimately, ranked-choice voting undermines voters’ confidence in the integrity and accuracy of elections,” FGA Marketing Director Victoria Eardley told The Federalist. “Trust is something that is very hard to gain and very easy to lose, and the track record of ranked-choice voting shows it’s the fastest way to erode trust.”
The justices seemed convinced that Texas was infringing on tech companies’ First Amendment ‘right’ to exercise editorial judgment. //
That reflects another missed opportunity for Texas: Clement’s repeated argument that the Texas law would interfere with tech companies’ editorial function and therefore, by definition, chill speech. Tech companies often cite these editorial functions. But as I have written elsewhere in these pages, before 2014, tech companies did not engage in any such editorial decisions. They screened for obscene content but nothing else. And, until 2018, they did little substantive content moderation after the fact, focusing instead on removing violent content like videos of beheadings (which I think we all agree can and should be banned).
In fact, it is the tech companies, not states like Texas, that are chilling speech. We see that plainly in cases like the one I am litigating for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Google has removed video of Kennedy’s political speeches from YouTube — including his pre-announcement speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire — because they contain “misinformation.” But what is “misinformation”? According to Google, it is speech that either Google or the federal government does not like. In other words, it is dissent. But, of course, America has a proud history of promoting dissent. Silencing dissent is inconsistent with American values. //
Clement may have focused on terrorists and sexual predators in his discussion of the “bad stuff” that tech companies want to block from their platforms. But that is not what drove Texas and Florida to pass their laws. Those laws were driven by the censoring of people like Kennedy, government dissidents whom the corporate media regularly ignore and who must use social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook to reach people.
New documents obtained via public record request by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) reveal contracts and conversations between Planned Parenthood and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) where the abortion provider agreed to supply aborted fetal body parts to the school explicitly for “valuable consideration.” In exchange, the university would grant Planned Parenthood ownership of all “patents” and “intellectual property” developed through research and experiments using the supplied fetal tissue. //
CMP and Daleiden say they are still reviewing thousands of pages of documents connecting UCSD faculty and researchers to patents held by the University of California “as a result of its supply of aborted babies.” //
Transferring aborted human fetal tissue for “valuable consideration” is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000.
While the Biden administration cracks down on the Christians Democrats and the press smear as extremists, church attacks are up 800 percent in the last six years, according to a new report from the Family Research Council (FRC). //
Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla, who co-authored the magazine’s article on “Christian nationalism,” followed up with an appearance on MSNBC.
“The one thing that unites them as Christian nationalists — not Christians by the way, because Christian nationalists is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority; they don’t come from Congress; they don’t come from the Supreme Court — they come from God,” Przybyla said.
Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi, an atheist, wrote about her remarks in a column last week. “If This Is ‘Christian Nationalism,’ Sign Me Up!” Harsanyi headlined his article.
As numerous critics have already pointed out, ‘Christian nationalism’ sounds identical to the case for American liberty offered in the Declaration of Independence. Then again, the idea that man has inalienable, universal rights goes back to ancient Greece, at least. The entire American project is contingent on accepting the notion that the state can’t give or take our God-given freedoms. It is the best kind of ‘extremism.’
Women physically can’t or, more often, simply won’t do the manual labor jobs that build and sustain our civilization. //
Modern feminism has convinced generations of women that they are victims of a patriarchal society and that male leadership and attributes are inherently unjust and “toxic.” The result has been women who are bitter, self-pitying, and ungrateful. Men, meanwhile, have become dangerously discouraged. “[F]or every one woman who drops out of college, seven men drop out,” writes Federalist Contributor Owen Strachan. “Men have left the workforce in almost unprecedented numbers; the current employment rate of men in prime working years mirrors that of the Great Depression.”
Strachan adds that men are increasingly abandoning their families and fueling a cycle of fatherless homes. Lastly, “In the bleakest category there is,” writes Strachan, men are killing themselves at far greater rates than women, making up a disturbing 80 percent of suicides.
Demoralizing men is not good for men, nor is it good for women. Frustratingly for many women, nearly 50 percent of young men between 18 and 25 have never approached a woman in person to ask her on a date. No date means no marriage, no children, and a population hovering dangerously below replacement rates.
When men’s masculine qualities, such as competitiveness, stoicism, and aggression, are demonized instead of channeled for good, horrible things happen. Women forget how much men rely on us to build them up. They desire our approval and respect. When we vilify their very nature, society begins to fall apart. Anyone who looks around can see it happening now in real-time.
March is Women’s History Month, when man-hating becomes even more socially acceptable than the other 11 months of the year. This March, if women really cared about the betterment of their sex, they’d start appreciating men. If we have any chance of avoiding civilizational collapse, women need to reject the feminist cult and begin understanding that both sexes play necessary and complementary roles in society.
When it comes to building a happy life, the secret is to play the long game. Being as intentional about your personal life as you are about your professional life when you’re young offers the best chance at being successful in all areas of life, not just your career.
Despite what the culture teaches, our twenties aren’t years to squander. “Eighty percent of life’s most defining moments take place by age thirty,” writes Meg Jay in The Defining Decade. //
All of this suffering was, and is, avoidable. There’s a completely different way for women to do life, and it begins with this premise: Whom you marry, and how that marriage fares, will have more effect on your happiness and well-being than anything else you do. Nothing else even comes close. //
It is never too late to shift your priorities and change your life. It simply begins with a mindset shift that’s rooted in 4 truths:
Whom you marry is the single greatest decision you’ll ever make.
Career success alone will not make you happy.
The biological differences between men and women are real, and they’re hardwired.
You can “have it all,” just not all at once.
The good news is, no matter where you are in life’s journey, you can embrace these truths and do a U-turn. When you do, you will have begun your journey toward building a better life.
The states that are now on the permitless carry bandwagon are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. South Carolina is reportedly considering similar legislation, which would make the Palmetto State the 29th constitutional carry state.