Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Tuesday Tune - She


Alice Phoebe Lou (born 19 July 1993) is a Berlin-based South African singer-songwriter. She has released three EPs and four studio albums. In December 2017 her song "She" from the film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story was included on the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song. Since 2019 she had also been active in her side project Strongboi.

She has released four studio albums to date — Orbit (2016), Paper Castles (2019), Glow (2021) and Child's Play (2021) — alongside two live albums and various singles.

Lou spent her childhood in Kommetjie on west coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa and attended a Waldorf school. Her parents are documentary filmmakers. She took piano and guitar lessons as a child. When she was 14 years old she was fond of trance music and started to take photographs from concerts, sometimes even getting paid for them. In 2010 she spent her summer holiday in Paris living first with her aunt but soon moved to live with a friend and started earning money by fire-dancing. 

Having a gap year after graduating from high school in South Africa in 2012 she returned to Europe, first to Amsterdam and then to Berlin. In Berlin she started to sing and play guitar as she found out that this was more lucrative than fire-dancing. After her gap year she contemplated attending university in South Africa, but eventually decided to purchase a battery powered amplifier and return to Berlin instead. In Berlin she performed on S- and U-Bahn stations and parks. After one month in Berlin, she played on a television programme. In April 2014 she self-released "Momentum" EP. The song "Fiery Heart, Fiery Mind" from the EP featured in the soundtrack of the 2015 released film "Ayanda". She also started to play in venues.

After a performance at TEDx in Berlin on 6 September 2014 she started to get offers from record labels, but she wanted to stay independent. In December 2014 she released a live album "Live at Grรผner Salon" as means to fund the recording of her debut studio album.

In 2015 she started to tour and played first time at SXSW festival in USA in 2015. She has returned to SXSW every year after that. She also performed in TEDGlobal London in 2015 and opened for Rodriguez on his 2016 South Africa tour. 

Monday, June 27, 2022

Snakeheads Invade Western Maryland

The Herald Mail, Invasive snakehead fish appear in upper Potomac River

The peculiar-looking creature with the snake-like reference that Casey Shank reeled into his friend's boat on the Potomac River earlier this month was not something state wildlife officials wanted to see.

The 27-inch, 5-pound catch was representative of one of several invasive water species in Maryland which authorities say could spell trouble for the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

This one is called the northern snakehead and the fact that Shank snagged it while fishing at Dam No. 4 south of Downsville was of particular concern to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

 

That's because the location is the farthest north on the Potomac River that the snakehead has been found since it was first discovered in the state — in Crofton in Anne Arundel County in 2002 — said Michael T. Kasiwagi, Western II Regional Fisheries Manager for the DNR.

The northern snakehead will eat fish, reptiles and amphibians and can "strike like torpedoes," according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Kasiwagi said there are established snakehead populations in watered sections of the C&O Canal along the Potomac River in Montgomery County. State wildlife experts believe that during high water flows on the river, snakeheads have been able to get from the canal into the river and go north. Other invasive fish species in the state include the flathead catfish, which was first found in the Potomac River in the Williamsport area and has steadily increased in population over the last six to eight years, he said.

Snakeheads can make long upstream movements, Kasiwagi said.

"It's not completely unexpected, but it's not great news," Kasiwagi said of their arrival here.

If there's a way they can swim there, they'll make it. If they can't get over or around the dam, it will take awhile until birds drop enough of them on the wrong side of the dam for a pair of them to together and start a new wave. Or fisherman may move them, deliberately or  not.

Politics on the DIY Plan

 Sorry for the DIY, but we spent the morning at the dentist getting a broken tooth get looked at, and at the ATT store trying to figure out why we couldn't get our I Pads to take a re-up of our data plan. (It turns out they no longer offer those plans; the ATT people on the phone never managed to figure it out, the girl at the store was more persistent, and we eventually got around to the right answer).

Jan 6 and Supreme Court Violence:

Authorities Warn Tonight's Protests May Escalate From 'Mostly Peaceful' To 'Somewhat Peaceful' | Babylon Bee
The leak, the threats, the violence — reaction to Roe is dark day for nation
Rioting over Roe threatened Arizona Senate, caused 'criminal damage': Authorities | Washington Examiner
'Mostly Peaceful' Abortion Rioters in LA Attack Police, Including With Makeshift 'Flamethrower' – RedState
Colorado Christian center burned in mostly peaceful fashion – HotAir
Happy Now, AOC and Pelosi? Pregnancy Clinic Torched in Colorado – PJ Media
"Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground": A Night of Rage over Roe v. Wade - 19FortyFive
‘Night of Age’: Grannies Storm Kavanaugh’s Home
MTG: 'AOC Just Launched An Insurrection' - Off The Press 2.0
Marjorie Taylor Greene Tears A Strip Off Ocasio-Cortez In Abortion Battle
LOL! Lefties want to burn down the homes of the “defenseless” country boys now ๐Ÿ’€ | Not the Bee
Corrupt Networks Refuse to Say the Name of Radical Pro-Abortion Terrorists ‘Jane’s Revenge’ | Newsbusters
Go Ahead and Gloat
Big Week At SCOTUS - by Jeffrey Carter - Points And Figures
Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer Does Not Condemn Leftist Violence When Asked About Threats In Michigan | The Daily Wire
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in landmark opinion | Live Updates from Fox News Digital
Schiff concedes DOJ faces 'difficult decision' on Trump despite 'powerful evidence' | Washington Examiner
Actor Sean Penn Mocked for Attending January 6 Hearing: 'It's All a Show' Complete with Hollywood Actors

Election and the Horse Race:

Poll: Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden in Potential 2024 Matchup
The Roe Decision Won’t Save the Democrats - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Bill Maher Knows Where Progressives Are Going to Blow It on Abortion
'Give us a plan or give us someone to blame': Inside a White House consumed by problems Biden can't fix - CNNPolitics
Battleground Republicans squeezed hardest on abortion after Roe falls - POLITICO
Bill Maher Says Donald Trump Will Easily Win In 2024 If He ‘Can Just Let Go’ Of 2020 | The Daily Caller
Gosh, we don’t wanna say Nancy Pelosi shoved Republican Mayra Flores’ little girl but it KINDA SORTA looks like it (watch and decide) – twitchy.com
South Carolina Senate Candidate Caught on Tape Advocating to Deploy Georgia Election Strategy - The Last Refuge
The Modern Democrat Voter - The Last Refuge
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ “Face” Of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ on Twitter: "Nancy tried to bully Mayra Flores’ Daughter, but our little queen stood her ground!! ๐Ÿ˜‚ https://t.co/3xhQCDMGOP" / Twitter

The Stupid Biden Economy:

Biden Pledges to Mitigate Third-World Food Shortages and Consequences of G7 Climate Policy, by Spending $200 Billion to Control Brown People Infrastructure and Communication - The Last Refuge
Sunday Talks, World Bank President Discusses Global Solution to Inflation, Food Shortages - Western Government's Need to Reverse Direction - The Last Refuge

Culture Wars:

I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality
Disney's Stakeholder Capitalism vs. Netflix's Shareholder Capitalism - Bloomberg

The Monday Morning Stimulus


Sunday, June 26, 2022

No Sport for the Faint of Heart

The Sun, Swimmer Anita Alvarez BANNED from world championships after fainting in pool for second time and being saved by coach

American synchronised swimmer Anita Alvarez, 25, was hoping to take part in team finals following her dramatic pool rescue on Wednesday.

The heroic Spanish coach who saved her from drowning stated on Thursday she was confident Anita would continue to represent her country following tests.

But the International Swimming Federation decided she should not compete.

 


Andrea Fuentes was filmed diving into the pool to drag Anita out as lifeguards watched on after she passed out in the water during a solo performance.

She said: “She doesn’t want to leave here with the photo of her unconscious at the bottom of the pool.

“In any case in the team events Anita does a lot of pirouettes and very few apneas so she will almost certainly compete.”

Reports on Friday in Spain said FINA officials had told the American synchronised swimming team Anita could take no further part in the World Championships.

The decision was made just hours ahead of the team event this afternoon.

They should let her compete, it's not like she's not surrounded by competent swimmers who could pull her out. 

Day 2 Dawns in Post-Roe America

The liberals, Democrats and media are taking Friday's (fully expected) announcement of the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court about as a well as we might have expected. Stacy McCain reports on  A Mostly Peaceful Insurrection: Deranged Pro-Abortion Mob Storms AZ Capitol and hold legislators hostage. I expect the FBI will rounding them all up shortly. /sarc

Were they incited by Joe Biden’s extremist speech? Obviously, Republicans in Arizona will have to convene a J24 investigation to get to the root of this CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW DEMOCRACY!

Sister Toldja at Red State looks at how Joe Biden Just Told Us Who He Really Is

But though Biden urged protesters to be “peaceful, peaceful, peaceful” and proclaimed that “threats and intimidation are not speech,” what he still did not do is expressly condemn the actions of 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske, who was arrested in the early morning hours of June 8th after an admitted attempt at assassinating Justice Brett Kavanaugh ahead of today’s ruling. Nor did he expressly condemn the acts of intimidation and violence by pro-abortion radicals that have taken place in churches and at pro-life centers across the country over the last couple of months.

PM reports Rioter attacks police with homemade flamethrower at pro-abortion Antifa riot in LA and Antifa starts fire outside Portland courthouse still under protective barrier from BLM riots. Pretty sure I won't find these in this mornings WaPoo. At NYPo, Abortion protesters swarm conservative SCOTUS justices’ homes. It's only a federal crime, but it won't be enforced. Not until some one dares to protest outside of Kagan, Sotomayor or Breyer's house. At Fox, Far-left radicals find targets using UGA professors' map of pro-life clinic addresses, "Crisis pregnancy centers targeted in wave of violence over Supreme Court abortion decision." From Da Mail, Christian pregnancy clinic in Colorado is torched and graffitied with the words 'if abortions aren't safe, neither are you' after pro-abortion extremists warned of 'night of rage' following Roe v. Wade decision. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.

The Wa Free Bee want you to Read Democrats’ Most Unhinged Reactions to Roe’s Reversal:  ‘Illegitimate’. But why not stop by Twitchy where you and see them on video at CRAZY thread of CRAZIER Lefties proves the REAL danger in America is frothy-mouthed nut-jobs losing their MINDS over Roe, with special attention to Here’s a woman either upset over Supreme Court’s decision or resisting an exorcism

At Da Wire, ‘The Five’ Host Says If Sen. Cruz’s Daughters Were Raped, She Finds It ‘Hard To Believe’ He ‘Wouldn’t Do Everything In His Power’ To Get Baby Aborted. The "reasonable" liberal. God how I miss Bob Beckel. Stacy Lennox at PJ Media notes Could AOC Be Getting a Little 'Insurrectiony' With Her New Revolutionary Friend? No enemies on the left.
Note the accommodating woman on her left who is providing the perfectly coiffed elitist playing revolutionary, AOC, with a megaphone. As the Congresswoman grins like this is all good performative fun, she may not realize she is standing next to a radical Communist organizer named Sunsara Taylor.

Taylor is a self-proclaimed member of the Revolutionist Communist Party (REVCOM), which calls for “extremely violent means” to protect abortion rights. She claims she is a follower of Bob Avakian, a REVCOM founder who has called for violent revolution and overthrow of the existing U.S. government for decades.

Stacy McCain, Meanwhile . . . "Why is the Biden administration persecuting an innocent black man?"

Alexander did not respond to questions at the courthouse. He has not been charged with any crime. He acknowledged his testimony in a social media post on Friday. “Today a DC grand jury brought me in under subpoena and the threat of imprisonment. I told them I committed no crimes and observed no one committing any crimes during the 2020 Election and January 6th,” he wrote on the Trump-founded site Truth Social.
“The calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces.”

At NewsBusters,  MSNBC laughably claims January 6 Committee Is ‘Most Non-Partisan’ Investigation in ‘Modern History’. John Solomon at JTN reports Jan. 6 panel’s Ron Johnson narrative exposes ills of one-sided hearing, "Full text messages show VP Pence team already knew about alternate electors, expected them by mail" At ET, FBI Raids Home of Retired Texas Couple Who Attended Jan. 6 Capitol Rally, "Couple denies any wrongdoing"

A retired Texas couple said FBI agents busted through the gate of their rural home, threw flashbangs, handcuffed them, and trained lasers on them before searching their home for evidence connected to the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol.

Lora DeWolfe and Darrel Kennemer, who live on seven acres near San Marcos, Texas, told The Epoch Times they attended the Jan. 6 rally at the Capitol but did nothing wrong. They believe the FBI mistakenly identified Kennemer as someone else.

The FBI didn’t arrest them, they said. Agents eventually produced a search warrant saying Kennemer was suspected of “assaulting, resisting or impeding” officers and “entering restricted building or grounds.”

Both said they went no further than the Capitol steps on Jan. 6 and did not harm anyone or damage anything. They said the allegation of assault was false, and the FBI kept showing Kennemer a blurry photo of a man who looked similar but wasn’t Kennemer.

Meanwhile, the Gateway Pundit wants to direct your attention to the question  WHO IS RACHEL POWELL? She Used an Ice Axe and Battering Ram To Break Into Capitol Windows on Jan 6… She Gave ‘Specific’ Directions To People Inside Capitol About How To Navigate… Why Is She Only on House Arrest?  Was she part of Epps coterie? 

More sign of political unrest, this time aimed at Joe Biden, at the Cook Political Report, Can Democrats “Break Away” From an Unpopular President? You broke it, you bought it. Paul Bedard at WaEx's White House Report Card: Biden could get bounce from Dobbs. I'm not so sure, if you really like abortion, you certainly voted Democrat, and you're likely to be fairly reliable. I'm sure they'll fund raise off it, though. At the Intelligencer (cited at Haut Hair) Ben Jacobs fears GOP insiders doubt Dobbs will hurt them in the midterms, “Democrats are going to overplay their hand,” one well-connected Republican predicted, “they overplay every hand they get.” The Republican thought, for instance, that “there’s going to be violence and [Democrats are] not going to denounce the violence.” So far, that's correct. Joh Solomon at JTN, Sarah Palin fires on Washington: 'Biden is so clueless,' GOP can't wait for 'red wave' to act. At NR, DeSantis Leads Trump in 2024 New Hampshire Primary, General Election Polls. I'm not shocked, but it takes more the New Hampshire. 

At NYPo, Salena Zito explains why she thinks  Mexican-born Rep. Mayra Flores is the future of the Republican party

Flores’ remarkable victory is reminiscent of the 2010 red wave, when Republican House candidates in the Rust Belt states of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania swept seats that Democrats had held for generations. The media and the Democratic Party never expected Hispanics to vote Republican in the same way they never expected legacy blue-collar Democrats to flip parties in the 2010 and 2014 midterms. But they did.

Breitbart catches Bill Maher saying another uncomfortable thing to Democrats, Hispanic Voters in TX Telling Dems to Advocate for Them Not ‘Migrants Showing up in My Backyard’

Lauren Boebert
Paul Bedard sees that Zeldin leads topsy-turvy NY GOP race over Giuliani. Zeldin seems to be doing a full-court press on Fox this week. At ET, Challengers Hope to Douse Popularity of Colorado’s Fiery Congresswoman Boebert, including Democrats new favorite trick, cross over voters.

Another from Paul Bedard, Most agree: No more ‘Zuckerbucks’. " In the survey from the Foundation for Government Accountability’s Center for Excellence in Polling, 80% of Republicans, 85% of Democrats, and 83% of independents opposed outside funding like that in the so-called Zuckerbucks scandal." Democrat's want to quit while they're still ahead for fear Elon Musk will out spend the Zuck.

On the economy, Capt. Ed at Haut Hair calls Biden Out of gas: Biden loses Dems on gas-tax holiday. Damn, I really needed that 18 cents.  And calls out KJP: Putin's war added $2 per gallon to the price of gas, you know. "That’s not just false, but it’s laughably false, and not just on price. . ."  That's racist!  NYPo reports on how Amid record gas prices, Biden snubs oil CEOs for wind execs. Wind bag. Sundance at CTH  reports how Ahead of G7 Germany asks for Urgent Discussion on Inflation, Climate Policy and Worsening Energy Crisis and  foresees Retailers Preparing for Recessionary Drop in Spending, Many Outlets Will Not Survive… At Pirate's Cove, Teach teaches Consumer Sentiment Falls To Lowest Level Ever.

Truly an astonishing case, at NYPO, Transgender ex-neo-Nazi bank robber, 63, will get 'gender surgeries' fast-tracked by Texas Bureau of Prisons after she filed lawsuit against the agency over delays. Sentenced to life + 35, I like Tyrus' response on "The Five," Only after he serves his sentence. Shockingly, Newsweek allows Pedro Gonzalez to opine Whether We Say It or Not, Our Culture Provides Cover for Groomers. At the Wa Free Bee, Rhode Island Democrats Split Over Bill That Criminalizes Sex Between Teachers and Children. The pedo lobby in action. At Common Sense They Questioned Gender-Affirming Care. Then Their Kids Were Kicked Out of School.

A few weeks later, one of Charlotte’s teachers asked the kids to introduce their stuffed animals with their pronouns. “The six-year-olds were like, ‘What’s a pronoun?’” Beka said.

A former MCDS teacher whose daughter attended the school said his little girl was similarly confused when MCDS “started introducing gender, and you can be whoever you want, and it’s fluid. She started taking that on.”

The former teacher, who declined to speak openly, said his daughter was hardly alone. A group of girls in her class started to think of themselves as gay, and then transgender. By the fourth grade, his daughter was “dating” other girls in her class. By sixth grade—last year—she had adopted male pronouns and a boy’s name, and had started wearing a breast binder.

“You could see the old going away,” the former teacher said. “It was intense. And it was just sobering to go to these meetings week after week after week, and just talk about the same thing over and over.”

To be sure, they should have take their kids out of this private school long before it got to this point.

At Am Mil News, US Navy says it’ll punish sailors who misuse gender pronouns intentionally. I'm glad they've fixed all their bigger problems, like their ships running into slow freighters or catching fire.

In a heavily stuffed post KT at Ace's wonders Where did Woke Business come from? What will happen to it?

Linked at as Blog of the Day at Pirate's Cove in today's If All You See…. Thanks, Teach!

Sunday Sunrise


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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Beach Report 6/25/22


A pretty nice day, if verging on warm and humid.

A Whistle Pig, aka Ground Hog keeping an eye on us while munching Kudzu as we stopped to talk to some fossil folk. Either Skye didn't notice, or she pretended not to. 
Nothing exceptional today from the Miocene, 9 shark's teeth, a drum tooth, a Tilly bone and a sting ray chevron, but Georgia found this broken piece of crockery she hopes might be relatively old.


Politics Goes On in a Post-Roe America

As you may have heard, the Supreme Court overthrew Roe v. Wade, the classic decision to federalize the laws of abortion in the United States. The regulation of abortion now lies in the hands of state legislatures. Needless to say, Democrats and other species of liberals are irate. As the Babylon Bee sardonically notes, Dems Pause January 6 Hearings To Call For Insurrection. Ace, Insurrectionist Alexandria Donkey Chompers Calls the Supreme Court "Illegitimate," Demands People Go "Into the Streets" "Videos below, and article at the Post-Millennial. AOC's antifa allies have heard her calls to go "into the streets:" Via the Wombat's  In The Mailbox: 06.24.22 (Evening Edition) Legal Insurrection: Liz Cheney Wants Wyoming Democrats to Vote for Her in August Primary Election, AOC Calls on People to Get “Into the Streets” to Protest SCOTUS Abortion Decision, and CNN’s Ana Navarro Uses Her Disabled Family Members to Justify Abortion. At CTH, Sundance hears Democrat Rep Maxine Waters Promotes Insurrection, Says Rulings from the Supreme Court Should be Defied by Opposition. Also from LI's Herr Professor Jacobsen, DOJ Goes Insurrectiony – Vows To Minimize Effects Of Supreme Court 2nd Amendment and Abortion Rulings, "US Department of Justice to rise above politics and to use its vast resources to effectuate the Supreme Court’s rulings — JUST KIDDING." At Da Fed John Davidson calls Merrick Garland’s Department Of Justice  A Threat To The Republic. 

Of course, demonstrations and violence promised have begun. AllahPundit at Haut Hair admires the foresight of D.C. businesses boarding up windows in case post-Roe protests turn "mostly peaceful". NYPo, Cops brace for unrest as irate protesters gather across country after Roe v. Wade overturned.  From ET, Protests Planned Outside Justice Thomas’s Home After Abortion Ruling. At Da Mail, Thousands of protesters hit the streets and gather outside Justice Clarence Thomas' home after he said SCOTUS should 'reconsider' gay marriage now Roe v. Wade has been overturned: Pro-choice extremists are planning 'Night of Rage'. Deseret News ha a Perspective: On abortion, justices demonstrate courage under fire. So far, I haven't seen too many reports of the actual violence, but some has clearly occurred. Fox reports on an Arizona abortion protest: Police release tear gas, lawmakers ‘held hostage’ in Senate building, "Arizona state lawmakers were forced to finish voting in a secure room in the Capitol." KT at Haut Hair reports a Michigan congressman's campaign office targeted by Jane's Revenge. At the Victory Girls, Threats, Protests, And Stepping On Rakes After Dobbs Decision  and  Violence Promised by the Left over Dobbs: Delivered. 

It's a different ruling, but the same effect, Twitchy, Parkland shooting survivor Cameron Kasky urges followers to ‘go to the home of every Supreme Court Justice who just voted to kill women’

Rick Moran at PJ Media hears that the J6 Hearings Extended After Trump Documentary Offers 'New Evidence'. They've pretty much lost their audience. From the redoubtable Julie Kelly at Am Great The Accelerating Purge, Buckle up, America. This only gets worse from here. ET has more on the mysterious Mr. Epps, EXCLUSIVE: Ray Epps Was Worried Fast-Moving January 6 Crowd Might Interfere With ‘The Plan,’ Kentucky Man Claims, "Man also says he witnessed Epps directing group that removed 2-by-4 lumber and a long cardboard tube from utility hatch at U.S. Capitol" Hmm. John Hinderacker at Power Line, Who Are the Election Deniers?, with the video I posted yesterday. 

Recently the Democrats have coined the phrase “election deniers” to smear those who worry about our lack of ballot security, as reflected in the 2020 election, by associating them with Holocaust deniers and other cranks. But who are the real election deniers? The Democrats haven’t conceded that a Republican was legitimately elected president since George H. W. Bush carried 40 states in 1988.

And from the Wombat's  In The Mailbox: 06.24.22 (Evening Edition) some good news from the Weasel Zippers, BLM Rioter Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Rioting In Portland.

At Am Great, Dan Gelernter warns Don’t Laugh at the Man Who Falls Off a Bicycle,  "When you laugh at Biden, you grant him undeserved importance—as though he were president of the United States." Newt Gingrich on Biden’s Reality Rejection Syndrome "As the price of gasoline and diesel fuel have reached levels that are causing real pain to American families and real damage to the economy, Biden and his team have been floundering around in their fantasy world." At the Am Mind, Carl Schramm says Biden has a Rendezvous with Oblivion. AllahPundit, Dave Portnoy on Dobbs: I hate that Republicans are forcing me to vote for a moron like Biden. "I’d give Portnoy no worse than 40/60 odds that he finds a reason to vote Republican this fall despite his anger today."

At WSJ, cited at Haut Hair Peggy Noonan thinks Trump and Biden both face rejection. At Politico, Gavin Newsom jumps onto the national stage and Bidenworld takes notice "The California governor leaped into the 2024 conversation at a high-water mark for himself and a particularly vulnerable time for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris." Are you ready to be Californicated? Matt Margolis at PJ Media warns The Second Amendment Ruling Won't Help Dems in November Either. "Recent polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly agree with the self-defense principles espoused in the Bruen ruling."

On the economics front from the Wombat's  In The Mailbox: 06.24.22 (Evening Edition) Weasel Zippers: VIDEO: Virginia Voter “Trump Told Us Gas Prices Would Go Up – They Did”, Fed Chair Jerome Powell: “Our Judgment…Proved To Be Incorrect,” Inflation Was Not “Transitory”, also, Biden Econ Advisor: “I Just Disagree” That Gas Was On The Rise Before Putin’s Invasion…, failing the simple graph reading section of the SAT. At CJ, Biden is Running on Empty, "Biden’s excuses and demagoguery on the fuel crisis are making a bad situation worse." The Lid: Why Can’t Biden Solve The Supply Crisis?. At CNS News cites Rep. Guy Reschenthaler ‘This Is the Let-Them-Eat-Prius Democratic Party.’ At the Wa Free Bee, This Washington Dem Blasted Federal Gas Tax Holidays—Until She Was Up for Reelection, "Senator Patty Murray called a gas tax suspension a 'bad idea.' Now, she's on board." She has her principles. If you don't like them, she has more. 

VodkaPundit, at PJ Media hears The New Narrative: Inflation and Recession Aren’t So Bad, Ackshully, from the media and party that brought you funemployment. At Fox, Larry Kudlow on abortion: Biden is using Roe as a distraction from inflation. At Da Wire, Federal Government Agrees To Cancel Student Debt For 200,000 People. Political bribe. The Wa Free Bee details how a House-Passed ‘Woke Mandate’ Would Force Federal Reserve To Prioritize Racial Equity while "The economy is on the brink of a recession."

And some DIY Culture War:

Drag Queens and the Incoherence of Moral Relativism - American Thinker
Ace of Spades HQ Ezra Miller Is Hiding Out With His Child Followers on His Pot Farm with His Cache of Assault Weapons?
Report: Soccer May Eliminate All Testosterone Requirements for Transgender Athletes – RedState
American Power: They Questioned Gender-Affirming Care. Then Their Kids Were Kicked Out of School
How Dare You Misgender Me! | Gates of Vienna
Fresh term for women thoroughly rejected by the ‘womb carriers’ – twitchy.com
Not Safe For School: NY District Defends X-Rated Sex Ed
No Girls Allowed: Biden Education Department Proposes Radical Title IX Changes
Schools' Misgendering Rules Will Create Compliant, Fearful Children
Pushback: University of Houston forced to allow free speech to settle lawsuit by conservatives – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman
USA Today demoted me for a tweet because its woke newsrooms are out of touch
Dems Kill Bill To Stop Military From Teaching Critical Race Theory
Proposed Title IX regulations would roll back essential free speech, due process protections for college students
Bryn Mawr College Faculty Approve New “Power, Inequality, and Justice” Distribution Requirement

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Rule 5 Saturday - Eva Longoria - Race Data Base Operator

This Rule 5 post prompted by an article at Breitbart: Eva Longoria Helps Create Race-Based Crew Database for Discriminatory Film and TV Hiring
Producers Eva Longoria and Charles D. King revealed this June at the Produced By conference that they are creating a database of talent based on race so that studios can explicitly engage in racial discrimination while hiring for film crews.

“We have to do the work — every time I produce something, I bring my crew list,” Longoria said at the conference, according to a report by Deadline.
Longoria and King added that they share the list of what Deadline calls “diverse talent” between themselves and other filmmakers — such as Ava DuVernay, who helmed the woke, factually-challenged Netflix miniseries When They See Us and Colin in Black and White, a social justice vanity project for former NFL player Colin Kaepernick.

King agreed with Longoria that their role as producers involves racial discrimination in the hiring process.

 



The producers see no issue with active ethnic discrimination, echoing the ideology of “antiracism,” as popularized by Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi famously writes in his book How to Be an Antiracist, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Eugenie Bouchard and FMJRA 2.0: Synphaera up on time and under budget at The Other McCain. Linked at Proof Positive in the weekly Best of the Web* and at the Right Way in the weekly Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama.

Friday, June 24, 2022

Finally They Notice

 Bay Journal, As 2025 approaches, Chesapeake cleanup goal grows more elusive

The Chesapeake Bay region reduced the estimated annual amount of nitrogen pollution reaching the Bay by about 1 million pounds in 2021, according to computer model estimates released Wednesday.

That leaves the region with 41 million pounds of nitrogen reductions left to achieve its 2025 cleanup goal. But if progress continues at the 2021 rate, it will take Bay states another 40 years to reach that goal.

The figures, part of the annual update from the state-federal Bay Program partnership, is the latest indication that the region is unlikely to meet its nutrient reduction goal on time — or anytime in the near future.

Overall, the figures show that since the new Bay cleanup plan was established in 2010, the region has achieved about 42% of its nitrogen reduction goal, leaving just four years to do the bulk of the work.

An overload of the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus are the main cause of poor water quality in the Bay.

The progress report is better for phosphorus, with the region achieving 64% of its goal to date.

But nitrogen is the most problematic nutrient to control and plays a larger role in fouling the Bay. And the region also faces even greater headwinds in meeting its nitrogen goals than the new figures indicate.

The 2021 figures show that since 2009, the District of Columbia and West Virginia have achieved their nutrient reduction goals. Among other states:
  • Maryland has achieved 58% of its nitrogen goal.
  • Virginia has achieved 75% of its nitrogen goal.
  • Pennsylvania has achieved 22% of its nitrogen goal.
  • Delaware has achieved 20% of its nitrogen goal.
  • New York has achieved 69% of its nitrogen goal.
According to the model, most nutrient reductions in the watershed last year came from agriculture, with pollution from wastewater treatment plants and runoff from developed lands edging up a bit.

Baywide, the figures show that since 2009, the amount of nitrogen reaching the Bay annually has been reduced from 270.8 million pounds to 240.5 million pounds. The 2025 goal is to have implemented all of the actions needed to reduce nitrogen to 199.3 million pounds. It could take several years for various runoff control actions to become fully effective, though.

But even if the region were to succeed in meeting those 2025 goals, it won’t be enough to reduce nitrogen in the Bay to acceptable levels. That’s because additional loads of the nutrient are now reaching the Bay due to climate change and problems behind the Conowingo Dam.

I've been pointing out for several years now that when 2025 rolled around, it was very unlikely that they would have achieved their goals. Now that we're on the verge, is the problem that they didn't try hard enough, or spend enough money, or did they set unrealistic goals? I would argue the latter.

I would also like to point out that it is not really in their best interests to declare the problem solved. What then? Declare victory, disband the EPA Bay Program, the assorted state equivalents and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and go home? Never! A large industry in government, academe and NGOs has grown up dependent on the Federal spigot to feed the Bay Restoration.

Look for a new set conferences, meetings, and behind the scene dealing to set a new set of goals to continue the work. Furthermore, if I'm right, the new goals will be set at another implausible target to justify continuing, or perhaps even expanding the current programs.

I Hope Your Riot Insurance Is Paid

We got back from our beach walk to find that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, thereby sending the issue of regulating abortion back to the States. Stacy McCain has a PREDICTION: MAXIMUM CRAZINESS! I expect many fiery yet peaceful demonstrations.

Biden on the Rock, Cheney Courts Democrat Votes, FBI Raid Nevada GOP Leader

Paul Bedard at WaEx finds Biden on the rocks: 32% approval, 27% on economy. Ace, Quinnipiac, Reuters Polls Show Biden Tying His All-Time Lows. Come on Joe, you can get lower! Try harder!

An amusing, if telling story, Vinn News, Biden Advisors Control Every Move…Even Remind Him to Say ‘Hello’. Twitchy, ‘YOU take YOUR seat’: Here’s a close-up of President Biden’s step-by-step instructions. At Da Wire, ‘YOU Take YOUR Seat’: Biden’s Notecard Has Step-By-Step Instructions For Everything, Like Walking Into Room And Sitting Down

At the Wa Free Bee, Biden Confidant: Start Firing People or Pack Your Bags "If I had any advice to Joe Biden, it would be to fire someone," Harpootlian told the Washington Free Beacon in a wide-ranging interview. "The people who are supposed to be serving you are not serving you." At Am Great the great Victor Davis Hanson explains why he thinks the Left Will Cut Biden Loose. Politico introduces The Dem governors who could run in 2024 if Biden doesn't. VodkaPundit at Insty, AS A COLORADO RESIDENT, I CAN’T WARN YOU STRONGLY ENOUGH AGAINST OUR GOVERNOR: Polis plots presidential run as Dems wheel Biden towards Shady Pines Rest Home. “Make no mistake about it, Polis is positioning himself to run for president the minute the Democrat Party checks poor old Joe Biden into the Shady Pines Rest Home.” Jon Gabriel at AZ Central asks Who needs a right-wing plot when progressives are busy eating themselves alive?. Yesh Ginsburg@yesh222,  "Is Kamala Harris the least-liked Vice President since Spiro Agnew? These numbers are kinda unreal." Robin M. Itzler at Am Think thinks Kamala Harris Needs To Spend Some Time At Toastmasters. Don't bother, just go away. At Parade Hillary Clinton Addresses Whether She'll Consider Running for President Again in 2024. She says no, but she lies.

The New Yorker worries Can Ron DeSantis Displace Donald Trump as the G.O.P.’s Combatant-in-Chief?. NR, DeSantis Leads Trump in 2024 New Hampshire Primary, General Election Polls. But Paul Bedard thinks Trump in control of 2024, and Pence surging vs. DeSantis. At WaT, Jerome Corse explains Why I support Mike Pence for president in 2024. Ugh. From Newsweek,  Steve Bannon Says Fox News Has 'Turned on Trump,' Favors DeSantis. Politico sees 2024 intrigue: DeSantis declines to ask Trump for reelection endorsement. Jon Chait at the Intelligencer explains Why Ron DeSantis Can Beat Trump in 2024 The party is deciding, and the voters are getting the message.

Geraldo Cadava at the Slantic (cited at Haut Hair) worries about The battle for Latino voters in the Rust Belt. Bruce Thornton at Front Page hopes Democrats Face Disaster From Their Racialist Identity Politics. Me too. VodkaPundit at PJ Media sees a Catch 2022: Democrats Can't Win With Radicals, GOP Can't Win Without Them. Sundance at CTH post a video; Tucker Carlson Calls Out the Right Wing of the UniParty Vulture. At the Wa Free Bee, Florida Dem Promotes ‘Children’s Game With a Sex Problem’ To Court Voters, "Val Demings hopes 'Gamers for Demings' posts on Chinese app TikTok will take down Marco Rubio. " Also, Not in Kansas Anymore: Dem Rep Skips Votes To Attend Ritzy Fundraisers and Dem Superlawyer Marc Elias Adds Corrupt Florida Pol To Loser Client List. Andrew Gillum. 

After saying she wouldn't WaPoo reports  Liz Cheney aims to recruit crossover Democrats in her primary "The move underscores an urgent effort to try to overcome serious vulnerabilities in the GOP race" At Haut Hair, AllahPundit is pleased, It's happening: Liz Cheney mailing fliers to Wyoming Dems asking them to vote for her. He's afraid it's not enough, though. Haut Hair also cites the NYT In Boebert's district, as elsewhere, Dems surge into GOP primaries. 

From PM, Supreme Court rules that GOP lawmakers can defend voter ID law in North Carolina after state AG refuses to uphold it, "North Carolina's GOP argued that Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein wasn't fully defending the law." At Da Caller, Dem Nominated For Georgia Secretary Of State Repeatedly Claimed Election Integrity Law Is ‘Voter Suppression’. In other words, if they can't cheat, they can't win. Hans Von Spakovsky at PJ Media details how Democrat Commissioners Weaponize FEC Against Heritage Action, Other Organizations. At Da Fed the unsinkable Mollie Hemingway claims Yes, Biden Is Hiding His Plan To Rig The 2022 Midterm Elections

Insty cites Roger Simon at ET, : No More ‘Reportorial Bias’—The Epoch Times to Host New Kind of Political Debate. "We are hosting a Republican primary debate in the Tennessee 5th Congressional  District without reporters. Replacing the reporters will be domain (subject matter) experts in key areas of interest to voters—health, immigration, the economy, and so forth. These experts—not journalists— will ask the questions of the candidates." A good idea; cut reporters out of the process. 

The biggest piece of J6 related news today is the FBI/DOJ "Roger Stone" style raid on the house of the Republican chairman in Nevada, Jeffrey Clark, accused by the J6 Star Court of organizing an "illegal" plan for substitute electors in the 2020 election. 'Bonchie' at Red State writes of Joe Biden's Weaponized FBI Seizes Phone of Nevada GOP Leader in Ridiculous Move

Of course, everything is always simpler when it’s not sensationalized. So what did this “fake electors” scheme entail? All it entailed was some Republican electors pledging to vote for Donald Trump. As the report notes, that move was purely ceremonial and held no legal weight. No one ever actually tried to pass off any alternate electors to change the outcome of the election, and in the end, Nevada’s electors went to Biden.

Also, Jeff Clark Describes Disgusting Scene to Tucker Carlson After FBI Raids His Home for 2020 Election Wrong-Think.  

As Carlson points out in his prologue, armed federal agents wearing body armor and carrying heavy weapons came to Clark’s house at dawn. They didn’t do so because he committed a violent crime or was trafficking human beings. In fact, he committed no crime at all. Yet, he was forced out of his home, denied the ability to even put pants on, and then submitted to a forcible search and seizure of his property. “Soviet” is the description offered, and it’s an apt one. This isn’t about “protecting democracy.” It’s about criminalizing the opposition.

Ace, Gestapo: Weaponized DOJ Raids Home of Former DOJ Official For Crime of Investigating Possible Voter Fraud Under Trump "The Priest Class has determined that this was The Most Perfect Election In History, and sends out its Inquisitors who punish anyone who questions their infallible pronouncements. PM, Biden FBI raids Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, GOP officials, staffers in multiple states in 'alternate electors' investigation. NYT, cited at Haut Hair, Feds search home of former DOJ coup-plotter Jeffrey Clark. "It remained unclear exactly what the investigators may have been looking for, but Mr. Clark was central to President Donald J. Trump’s unsuccessful effort in late 2020 to strong-arm the nation’s top prosecutors into supporting his claims of election fraud." And  “The fact that there are Republican witnesses is very compelling.”  AllahPundit is OK with it, though, Revealed: The insane Jeffrey Clark coup plot. Also, Cheney to Republicans: I know it's hard to accept that Trump abused your trust. Althouse has  The hypocrisy montage you've been waiting for. Or fearing.


Why did the GOP take so long to put this together? Did the Gillum arrest finally light a fire under their sedentary ass? (The reference to Gillum comes at 9:48.) It's just amazing that they let Democrats go on so long about how horrible it is to deny the results of an election. They've been allowed to deny that they too are deniers. They've been denier deniers.

The redoubtable Julie Kelly at Am Great, Justice Department Colludes with Congress to Bolster the ‘Insurrection’ Narrative. Margot Cleveland at Da Fed, J6 Committee Focuses On Election Fraud Claims While Ignoring Tactics Used To Rig The 2020 Election "Stealing an election by fraud is not the only way to rig an outcome. Elections are rigged when systemic violations of election law occur." At Da Caller, CNN Dumps More Cold Water On Chances Jan. 6 Show Will Lead To Trump Indictment. Jordan Boyd at Da Fed, Investigators: Pelosi Responsible For Jan. 6 Security Breakdown At U.S. Capitol. From ET, Ideological Exile: Musician Cancelled for Going to Jan. 6 Rally Closes Book on Former Life to Begin New Chapter Daniel J Flynn at Am Spec, 6/16, Never Forget "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog goes the way of all comedy ca. 2022." "It turns out that the snarky, ironic humor of the type that made Stephen Colbert’s career irritates Stephen Colbert."

At Da Wire, Armed Man Found Near Kavanaugh Home Pleads Not Guilty To Attempted Murder. Lila Rose@LilaGraceRose, "BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security is communicating with Catholic Churches and pregnancy centers, telling them to be prepared for a "Night of Rage" by pro-abortion groups pledging "extreme violence" the night of the Dobbs decision."

Say, how about some DIY on the Stupid Biden Economy?

Ace of Spades HQ Biden Tidings: New York Federal Bank Models Project Recession Through 2022 and 2023; Very Low Growth in 2024
Ace of Spades HQ Quick Hits - Worse is yet to come
Manufacturing Index Drops Far Below Expectations - Biggest Single Month Drop Since 2020 Pandemic Impact - The Last Refuge
Powell vs Biden: No, inflation isn't "Putin's Price Hike" – HotAir
Not 'Putin's Price Hike': Fed chair breaks with Biden on inflation
‘You were WARNED’: BRUTAL thread takes Biden voters /#NeverTrump APART for claiming ‘they didn’t think he’d be THIS bad’ – twitchy.com
WaPo's Singletary: 'Stop Complaining,' 'Calm Down' About Inflation -- You Are 'Not Suffering'
WaPo personal finance columnist: Just stop complaining about inflation – HotAir
TaxProf Blog Faculty Salaries Fall 5%, The Biggest One-Year Drop In History
Rising wages for the poor? The left's solution: more immigration
Poll: 92 Percent Say Rising Gas Prices a 'Serious' Problem in Biden's America
Why Biden can't bring gas prices down
Biden Implies America’s Options Are Either High Gas Prices Or Putin Controlling Europe | The Daily Wire
Pelosi, Obama Have Blasted Gas Tax Holiday Proposals As ‘Show Biz’ And A ‘Gimmick’ | The Daily Wire
Reduce by Six Pennies? Rand Paul Promises a Plan to Save America’s Budget | MRCTV
New MPG Rule Will Exacerbate Existing Car Shortage
WaPo: Even Biden's officials take "fundamental turn" against gas-tax holiday – HotAir

And the Culture Wars:

‘Public Servants’ or Public Masters: Whom Does Your Local School Board Serve? : The Other McCain
Critical Race and Gender Ideology Infiltrating West Point, Judicial Watch Reports
The Left Lost the 'Sex Wars' Among Young Male Democrats | FrontpageMag
Instapundit » Blog Archive » DISNEY’S STOCK PRICE HAS LOST 50% OF ITS VALUE AFTER YEAR OF LEFTWING POLITICAL ELECTIONEERING AND B…
Ace of Spades HQ Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Jim Banks Introduce Legislation Allowing Adults to Sue Doctors Who "Transitioned" Them As Minors, For Up to 30 Years Post-"Transition"
Biden Officially Proposes Extending Title IX To Transgender Students | The Daily Wire
Census Bureau: ‘LGBT Adults…Reported Roughly Twice the Rate of Mental Health Challenges as Non-LGBT Adults’ | CNSNews
Billie Jean King blasts "white, suburban girls" Title IX protections, DeVos slams Biden administration changes – HotAir