Green nonsense that passes for engineering won’t last, because it can’t last…

The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed

“…But the Beltway being what it is, the fantasists are impervious to reality, until the massive costs and dislocations and absurdities become impossible to ignore. (Witnessfor exampleCalifornia.) Even as they backtrack on their confident assertions that a modern economy can be powered with the energy equivalent of pixie dust, they argue that the emerging problems are little more than growing pains attendant upon short run rigidities, and all will be well given some more time, more subsidies, and more magical thinking.

Uh, no. The obstacles confronting the “energy transition” are fundamental — they are caused by the very nature of unconventional energy — driven by massive costs, technical and engineering realities, severe constraints in terms of needed physical inputs, and at a political level growing local opposition to the unconventional energy facilities central to the “transition.”…”

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The “Energy Transition” Delusion, A Reality Reset

It would be wonderful if this pans out…

‘Holy grail’ of cancer detection predicts tumors a year before they form: breakthrough

illustrated diagram of cancer stem cells

“…Cancer stem cells and very small embryonic-like stem cells are ideal candidates in blood for cancer detection, study authors wrote in a new report published in the journal Stem Cells…”

The federal bureaucracy is a Democrat bureaucracy that protects and promotes Democrats.

The IRS Makes a Strange House Call on Matt Taibbi

“…An agent shows up at the home of the Twitter files journalist who testified before Congress.

Democrats are denouncing the House GOP investigation into the weaponization of government, but maybe that’s because Republicans are getting somewhere. That includes new evidence that the Internal Revenue Service may be targeting a journalist who testified before the weaponization committee.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter Monday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seeking an explanation for why journalist Matt Taibbi received an unannounced home visit from an IRS agent. We’ve seen the letter, and both the circumstances and timing of the IRS focus on this journalist raise serious questions.

Mr. Taibbi has provoked the ire of Democrats and other journalists for his role in researching Twitter records and then releasing internal communications from the social-media giant that expose its censorship and its contacts with government officials. This effort has already inspired government bullying, with Chair Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission targeting new Twitter owner Elon Musk and demanding the company “identify all journalists” granted access to the Twitter files.

Now Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter. The taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft…”

ESPN honors biological male Will Thomas for Women’s achievement

We live in the age of stupid.

The age of stupid is rapidly transmogrifying into the age of the absurd.

NPR recently said there is no scientific evidence that men perform better than women in sports. The delusion on the left has reached absurd levels.

I think this is right. The media big mouths and conventional politicians do not have the capability to understand the Trump phenomenon, especially because it flies in the face of their numerous previous claims.

Donald Trump is still winning by being Donald Trump

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Squishy republican Senators don’t like Trump talking about January 6th

That may be a reasonable response. On the other hand, it is the response the media big mouths and Democrat politicians want you to have, and reinforce hour after hour, day after day, month after month on their propaganda “cable news” channels.

Startling rise in testicular injuries among women athletes! Heh!

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“Rude reps for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told a House Judiciary staffer to “stop calling us with this bulls–t” after he made multiple attempts to get in touch by phone.”

DA Alvin Bragg’s staffer hangs up on ‘bulls–t’ congressional phone call

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“Green campaigners are not ‘following the science’ – they are promoting a Biblical fantasy.”

The cult of the climate apocalypse

“…The End Times are back once more. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, published this week, prompted a typically apocalyptic response in the media and beyond. ‘It’s our last chance to limit global warming before climate-change damage becomes irreversible’, ran one headline. ‘Act now or it’s too late’, was the Guardian’s measured assessment. It might as well have said, ‘Repent sinners, the end is nigh’.

This swerve into almost religious rhetoric is no one-off. Mainstream climate-change coverage and activism are now dominated by the apocalyptic imagination. Indeed, the belief that humanity is facing possible extinction in the next century or sooner lies at the heart of the propaganda of Extinction Rebellion (XR) and its spin-off, Just Stop Oil. During interviews, and increasingly court appearances, activists present themselves as distressed and angered by the complacency of the public. Time is running out, they say frantically.

The apocalyptic nature of so much of contemporary environmentalism is no mere rhetorical flourish. It seems to structure the thought and outlook of activists. To grasp why apocalyptic thinking seems to resonate so strongly with hardline environmentalists, it is worth looking at the ancient, indeed Biblical, origins of this thinking – in which fantasies of vengeance and the promise of a world redeemed were first forged…”

Related:

Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

Related: The cult is real.

Biden Climate Envoy John Kerry Says U.S. Needs to Work with China, Russia on Climate Change

Related: Climate is only one of the weird Democrat cults alive today. Here is another, the cult of “assault” gun hatred. The AR-15 is a mechanical devil that must be destroyed.

WaPo Rampages Against AR-15, Calls World’s Most Popular Firearm ‘The Radical’s Rifle’

Biden describes this as a great success. U.S. Military equipment in Afghanistan. Decide for yourself.

I don’t trust the government. It is hopelessly politicized.

The FBI had more people in the Proud Boys than the Proud Boys

“…The trial of chapter leader Zach Rehl was preparing to call a witness this week, but ran into a problem. Their ‘witness’ turned out to be a confidential informant for the FBI who had been spying on the defense team…”

A perfect Democrat headline…

How To Give Children Hope About Bleak Climate Future

Is liberalism a mental disorder?

The world is coming to a bleak end. Let’s give children hope!

Headline of the day – Is liberalism a mental disorder edition…

Do NOT copy Gwyneth Paltrow and blow gas up your butt: Doctors warn against Goop founder’s latest wellness hack — rectal ozone therapy

“…Gwyneth’s wellness journey also has her consuming ketone drinks, which The Art of Being Well host said tasted like ‘cherry gasoline.’ ‘It helps with cognition and brain fog and energy…”

rectal ozone therapy

'It's pretty weird, yeah. But it's been very helpful': Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that the weirdest wellness thing she's ever done is rectal ozone therapy, a procedure where the powerful gas is delivered via catheter into the colon

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Hollywood Producer Heather Rae Accused of Faking Cherokee Heritage

“…In the latest “Pretendian” scandal among left-wing elites, a prominent Hollywood producer is being called a phony, with activists alleging she has been faking her Cherokee heritage for years, according to a New York Post report.

Heather Rae, who produced the Oscar-nominated movie Frozen River, has long promoted herself as a Native American within elite Hollywood circles. She currently sits on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Indigenous Alliance, and previously headed the Sundance Institute’s Native American program.

She has publicly claimed “my mother was Indian and my father was a cowboy.” Variety once described her as having “half-Cherokee roots.”

But a group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is calling Rae’s claims “false,” with one study insisting she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee…”

Trump’s version of Reagan’s “we win, they lose.”

The vaccines are not all they were cracked up to be…

UK Gov. confirms COVID Vaccinated Teens & Young Adults are 92% more likely to die than Unvaccinated Teens & Young Adults

“…Official figures published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics show that deaths per 100,000 among double vaccinated 18-39-year-olds were on average 91% higher than deaths per 100,000 among unvaccinated 18-39-year-olds between January 2021 and January 2022.

This means it can no longer be denied that the Covid-19 vaccines are deadly because even the official Government published figures now prove it…”

Doug Santo