DOJ drops Maxwell files; RFK Jr. fires 600 CDC staff; CBO shows tariffs slash deficit; media admits no inflation spike; Trump targets windmills; US buys 10% of Intel—is it socialism? And more.
So we continue to have a Chinese national with current significant interests in China as CEO of what is "one of the only fully U.S.-headquartered and sourced firms with the capacity to design and manufacture advanced chips [in America]. That makes it a strategic choke-point. The NSA and DoD simply cannot operate without trusted silicon."
Are we supposed to pretend this guy isn't perfectly positioned to sabotage our interests?
My understanding is that Chinese business people are only superficially private citizens, that they can’t really say no to demands by the CCP. Which does not bode well for us. I wonder what Trump is thinking. Or whose advice, if anyone’s, he’s listening to.
Well, I guess I have reverted to my youth (when I occasionally did what I wasn't supposed to) because I think "CCP" every time I drive past what used to be RITEAID... and is now a huge, multi-businesses (all Asian) with a large, blue, Chinese characters SIGN! (lovely! the main drag of the sh*tkicker town we moved to 51 years ago)
Exactly my thoughts, Leah! I've no doubt President Trump has his eye on this dude. But, frankly, I'm fed up with the whole dang Chinese thing! China has purchased a suspiciously large number of farm acres...and a very large number of businesses, if traced to their source, are Chinese owned.
Decades back, Chinese families came here, and although they kept their traditions and often their language in their homes, they did their best to Americanize.
But them days is gone!
Today, when they come here, they expect to bring all their China crap (from which they "escaped") They make little to no effort to learn our language, our culture or AMERICAN WAYS. Even if their kids go to public school, they frequently send them to Chinese school in addition to public education.
My town is overrun with Asian businesses/eateries. And now rather large signs (not permitted by local mom & pop stores and restaurants) in CHINESE CHARACTERS are a long our main drag and strip malls!
Too bad we didn't have someone 'creative' in the WH when the banks failed. Would have loved for the American people to have had a say (and some financial skin in the game) when the bailouts came their way. Another 'too big to fail' scam that destroyed the lives of 9mm homeowners, but paid out massive bonuses to the bankers who scammed us all.
Follow the money and you always find the end of the rainbow.
re: "Tan raced to the White House and reconciled with President Trump" - i hope that means Trump - and America - have eyes and ears in Intel to protect our interests!
Engineering, although not an engineer. A writer and editor. Worked in the same Santa Clara building as Moore, Noyce, and Grove, each one pleasant and friendly. Despite my lowly position, I was invited to attend a big exec party one summer at Andy's place in the hills. It turned out well, because his wife Eva wanted to talk about the Catskill mountain resorts where she and he met and where I worked as a camp counselor. Different world.
Jeff Childers' intellectual and political cowardice is duly noted! It's a bailout. Whoops it's an investment. It's run by a CCP guy. Whoops no Trump fired him. Whoops no CCP guy is still running the US only chip mfgr. But we can wait and see. 'Cause TRUMP.
Take a position. For God's sake. Hedge betting isn't attractive if you want credibility. Trump can get things wrong and constantly stroking and praising him is sycophantic.
Should have also corrected the part that omitted how deeply embedded Intel is with Israel, in terms of R&D, manufacturing, and a significant part of Israel's economy. This is not simply a "wholly US company."
RE: Wind turbines. It cost more in energy to manufacture them then they will ever return. They use 60 gallons of oil which has to be changed yearly. Of course they kill wildlife, mainly birds, but also whales if they are located in the ocean. They only work when the wind is blowing. They freeze up in extremely cold temps. Bad idea turned into environmentalism.
and they can't be recycled! When removed from use, the old blades are buried. What does that do to the soil? Won't it pollute it, make it unfit for farming? unfit for ranching? Will they leach into the groundwater? If you want to power your own home with a turbine, have at it. If you want solar, put it on your roof. Solar is the same eyesore as wind turbines & ties up land that could be used for farming & ranching. Put those solar panels on your roof, on the roof of buildings, put a wind turbine in your back yard.... Stop destroying farm land & ranch land with these monstrosities.
Wind and solar installations are environmental disaster areas for future years to deal with. There will be no funding mechanism to clean up the mess in 20 years when the charm has worn off and they have completely ceased to work.
Yeah, but someone in government will find a way to make gazillions on fees for proper disposal. And when that doesn't happen, they will just tax the working schmucks for environmental cleanup. Future problems are also known as cash cows.
They’ll make the landowners pay for disposal. Most of the windfarms I see in the rural areas near me are in individual farmers’ or ranchers’ land. Yes, they were probably paid more $ to allow those eyesores than they would have made from cotton or cattle for some number of years, but now that land is useless for anything else. Once the turbines fail and collapse, will the companies that received all those juicy taxpayer-funded incentives be around to clean up the mess? Nope!
A friend's husband convinced her to install solar. It took over a year to complete the installation with months of zero happening. She noticed two sensors were out. When she tried to contact the manufacturer, she discovered they had gone bankrupt. A quick search found that in 2024 about 65% of solar manufacturers had gone bankrupt. She then got a letter from a law office about it. She's still waiting to find out who is going to honor the "life time warranty" these shyster's always promise.
In 2023, one solar dude told me that my electric company would pay for the monthly equipment fee. The electric company disagreed! He also said the solar business is booming and the manufacturer would not go out of business....PANTS ON FIRE!
To me, it seems like a parasitic arrangement: the homeowner pays the manufacturer for all the equipment and the electric company gets all the electricity. The homeowner's house is nothing more than the host for the parasites.
Let’s not ignore the miles of steel in the ground, the hours of heavy lift helicopters needed to set the darn things, and then to regularly inspect and wash the monstrosities. They are not eco-friendly!
Just like my washing machine… it's eco friendly because it uses very little water, but NOT eco friendly because it has to be “cleaned” regularly on a high water level, with hot water, for over an hour. Also, I often have to rewash clothes, which is NOT eco friendly, because they aren't fully immersed in water & not clean as there is no way to increase the water level. As eco friendly, it fails & as an efficient washer, it fails. But there is no alternative available. Eco friendly has ruined washers, fridges, lightbulbs everything.
Solar is good when designed well and put in the right places. Of course it’s not for above/below certain latitudes.
Solar panels on top of a skyscraper can’t collect enough to power up stairwell lights. There is not enough rooftop space.
If the south, east and west windows were solar collectors however they could passively collect.
Homes cannot power their whole household with rooftop solar either. They still need the grid unless they have additional land for panels.
Power companies tether residential solar to their grid so homeowners are still subject to power outages.
All residential solar power should come with “wall” batteries to protect from power outages. Wall batteries should be subsidized so the homes with solar don’t have to draw from the ever-more challenged grid. Not what power companies want ($$), but it is better for the grid.
Idk about wind farms return on investment but farmers are buying 1-2 recycled wind turbines for their farms. It looks odd but it’s easier for birds to avoid.
From your link: “Fibreglass is not totally recyclable. It’s non-biodegradable and made up of a composite of very fine strands of plastic and glass, which is extremely difficult to process at the point of recycling. Instead, it’s usually discarded as waste at landfills or incinerated.” Not gonna be feasible IMO, at least on the scale required.
They’re being used on a large scale already. What’s the alternative? We’re running out of oil.
Nuclear power? If you think turbine blades are a severe waste problem, try radioactive waste from a nuke plant. Extremely hazardous to health. Takes thousands of years to become safe.
Like every gvt.-supported industry since 1791; primarily a grift and boondoggle sold to and foisted upon Americans while enriching the industrial-political elites. Green Energy was by no means a failure, quite the opposite, and now the AI-server-energy hustle gets ramped up to repeat the cycle. Not hating on our country but it is what it is and only a Higher Power could ever save us from the system that our Founders created with the best of intentions but with flawed humanity and avarice as well.
… another AND… people with hands in the cookie jar or hands in the right places made a ton of money off of wind turbines !!!! I saw it first hand with a company that had a crap ton of money to spend on interiors moved into a building that I worked on as a designer. Looked like they were swimming in cash grants.
I don’t think you live near any of these solar farms. I live in the midst of them. Farm commodity prices are at staggering low numbers now where they were at all time highs 15 years ago. Many older farmers want to retire and no one to take over. Kids inherit land and have no want to farm, so this seems to be a continuing answer. The point was never to use renewable energy else wind turbines would never have been built or solar farms would have been put on rooftops in abandoned manufacturing sites where land is no longer usable. No, it was always meant to destroy farm land for the future.
Exactly! I saw that in India, they've built frames and put solar over rivers; it doesn't take up farmland, helps keep freshwater from evaporating and bags the solar all in one go. The snakes selling solar for your rooftop is a scam in most cases, you can't sell your house until it is paid off; the energy does not count for you (no storage sold with it), it goes straight to the energy company. If you have an energy co-op, it might benefit you in the end, but really only about half of US power companies are co-ops.
The farmland being sold to big business or billionaires is horrible for us all. The farmer's kids who DO want to continue being farmers are being strangled with inheritance and death taxes. Makes it impossible to carry on.
Here in the PNW, the wind turbines are all over the east end of the Columbia River gorge / Snake River basin, which already has many hydroelectric dams. What I’ve heard is that to use these wind turbines enmass, the dams producing energy have to be shut down. Shut down because the ‘pipes’ to carry the resulting energy (all over the West coast USA) cannot handle hydro + wind energy at the same time. Someone who knows the industry better can perhaps clarify. But seems we put cart (wind turbines) before the horse (expanded electricity pipes to accommodate all the energy produced).
Plus, wind doesn’t blow all the time, the sun doesn’t shine at night, and we don’t have the storage capacity to keep so-called clean energy running 24/7. However, the last time I checked, our hydroelectric power does work 24/7.
If the greenies were truly committed to dependable cleaner energy they would be all in for modern nuclear power.
I think we’ll need to rely on Gen Z and perhaps some Millennials to bring back nuclear power. The Boomer class (in charge) are scarred by 3 Mile Island.
There is a movement afoot, by younger entrepreneurs, to manufacture and install smaller modular and highly efficient nuclear generators. Another young man is going through the federal hoops to begin processing nuclear fuel again. Thats right, we have to purchase fuel from foreigners. I think the [government] demand for AI will make in state nuclear happen. And, TMI plant one is scheduled to restart in 2027. The 'meltdown' was never as bad as it was advertised by MSM enviro nuts.
Some of the first were installed near Goldendale in the seventies. As I recall, it was a Dept. of Energy project. It’s probably worth remembering ANY energy source will pollute or degrade, because of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. It’s a question of how much.
The argument FOR wind turbines in east end WA / OR States is ‘we need a balanced portfolio’ of energy to power the grid. And the wind part fits in ‘in case there is a drought’ and there isn’t enough water to power the dams.
To me, this argument is a false $ one.
The wind turbines that really pissed me off were those installed in Kittitas county. They are an eyesore (to me) when taking in breathtaking view of Cascades looking west from Ellensburg.
Heading the back 40 up to Chelan area in eastern WA, there are some massively big data centers, right on the edge of the Columbia. No wind turbines in sight. Cold water of river cooling those servers.
I think the next energy a-coming is going to be nuclear. No way to power thirst of growing AI without it. Especially those areas of country not blessed w/ hydro.
'Balance' always made sense to me - but when perfectly good clean gas generators where torn out and disposed of to make room for wind turbines, I lost confidence in their honesty & thought processes!
as Trump says - it is all a giant hoax which it is - so why did the BBB include massive subsidies for carbon capture- really - we need to pay companies to remove plant food - let’s have some consistency
Correct. Earlier in a post here, James commented on two truths. There are actually three: 1) the wind doesn’t blow all the time, 2) the sun doesn’t shine at night, and 3) Donald J Trump is the best president ever. In spite of being 45 and 47, he is truly number 1.
Disposal of the windmills should have been part of the overall costing, just like for gas, coal, or nuclear plants. If jurisdictions approved permits without those, a DOGE-style squint needs to be directed at the officials who let that part slide.
The blades are carbon fiber, fiberglass, epoxy resin, and polyester resin; basically environmentally neutral as far as disposal. They could be shredded and used for filler for concrete or asphalt, bundled together and anchored in the ocean to form artificial reefs, etc.
A decent architectural engineer could recycle and repurpose intact blades as roofing trusses.
For that matter, there are a bunch of old open-pit mines the greenies wring their hands over. Haul the blades to one and toss them in. Even the smallest pit would take generations to fill up, if anyone is still needing to get rid of old blades by then.
The whole "blade disposal" thing is scam to get one last bit of 'free' funding before they watch the gravy train recede in the distance.
Ars Technica, the pseudo-science site, had an article (more like an op-ed) this morning on "Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory". As usual, it contains no real sources of scientific information; but it does, again as usual, have ad hominems against hetero white men and Trump.
Same with solar! So much toxic waste created by manufacturing no amount of its lifetime of sun energy could even break it even. Also damages land under around it for who knows how long.
So, the environmental-friendly wind turbines were only working thanks to fossil fuels and generators?! Most interesting. Many of the Scot lefties would never want to hear these truths, would they?
And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened; for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
Janice I really think you will have a lighter heart after reading this one, I sure did. I am very grateful to MOMinator (to whom a great deal is owed by me) for sending this last evening - it is incredible.
From Pastor Rich Bitterman:
For you tonight if you feel weary and tired….
“God Do You See Me?”
A nurse walked past the open door. The machines hummed quietly in the background.
She sat there, hands folded in her lap, shoes off, waiting for news she didn’t want to hear.
Her voice was barely audible.
“God, do You see me?”
Isaiah 40 was written for moments like that and for people like you.
This chapter is for the tired. The discouraged. The quiet-hearted believers who still trust, but feel stretched thin.
God Speaks with Tenderness
The very first word from heaven is not a command to do more or try harder.
It is the word comfort.
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
These words are spoken by the same God who once thundered from Sinai. But here, He speaks like a father kneeling beside a wounded child. A promise is about to unfold.
“Prepare the way.”
The Lord is coming.
Isaiah says God Himself is drawing near. The road must be made ready. The path must be cleared. Because He is not sending help from afar. He is the help.
He is the one who will come close.
What Stands When Everything Else Falls
“All flesh is grass.”
What a gentle reminder.
Everything we build wears out. Even the strongest people grow weak. Even the most passionate hearts grow weary.
Our plans, our beauty, our bodies, our pride…all of it fades like a flower under the summer sun.
But one thing never fades.
“The word of our God will stand forever.”
And in that word, God makes a promise. He will come. He will not leave you. He will keep every single word He has spoken.
Say It Clearly. Say It Without Fear.
“Go up on a high mountain,” he says. “Lift up your voice with strength.”
What should you say?
“Behold your God.”
My dear friends, this is a person to meet.
He comes with power and justice and strength. He holds all things in His hands. And at the very same time, He comes with tenderness.
He gathers the lambs. He carries them close. He leads them gently.
His power does not cancel His care. His greatness does not make Him cold. He is the kind of God who can shake the nations and still hold a child without trembling.
There Is No Comparison
Isaiah asks us to look up. To really look.
This God is the one who measured the oceans in the hollow of His hand. He stretched the heavens like a curtain. He lifts the mountains and weighs the hills. He is not impressed by human strength. He does not take counsel from anyone. No one has ever taught Him anything.
Then Isaiah makes it personal.
How foolish it is to compare this God to an idol.
How strange that we would try to shape Him into something manageable. A bit of metal. A carved piece of wood.
Idols never listen. They never speak. They never move.
But this God sees everything. Knows everything. Moves in power and love at the same time. And He is not an idea to imagine. He is the Lord.
The very One Isaiah says is coming into the world.
So why would He forget you?
He sees every moment and hears every sigh. He knows every name. He never grows weary. He never looks away. He never misunderstands your pain.
Not one detail of your life is hidden from Him.
Strength for Those Who Wait
Isaiah turns his attention now to those who feel weak.
Are you worn out? So was Israel. So is every believer at some point.
Even young people, full of energy and life, eventually stumble. The strongest fall. The most faithful grow tired.
But those who wait for the Lord…they will find strength.
Strength given by God to those who lean into Him. It is not always loud or flashy. But it is real.
You may feel like your steps are slow. But He will help you walk and not faint.
You may feel stuck today. But He will lift you. Like wings catching the wind, He will carry you. He will help you go forward.
Not because you are strong. But because He is.
This Is Your God
He is not a distant ruler.
He is not a passive observer.
He is the Shepherd who carries lambs.
He is the Creator who holds stars.
He is the Savior who speaks comfort.
So if you are tired, you are not failing. If you feel small, you are not forgotten.
If your strength feels empty, you are right where His strength begins.
Thank you. I needed this today. I’m caring for a brain injured husband who is like a toddler. I’m weary. I feel unseen. Our greatest friends and supporters have fallen by the wayside, and we are only in year 3. This gives me hope. God sees me. I know this, but there are days I don’t feel it. Thank you. 🙏🏻
I am so sorry you are going through this trial. I will add you and your husband to my prayers. May you feel His presence like never before and may He lift you ever closer to Him who is able to keep you from falling.
I’m so sorry, Brenda. My husband is recovering from brain bleeds. He is doing well and will recover fully, but there were some tough times-just a couple of hours. I can’t imagine being in year 3 of severe TBI. God bless you! The support, even in Christian circles, does drop off as everyone else gets over your trauma. It’s especially hard for men to see another man in a pathetic condition. I hope you have a couple of ladies who will take you to “therapy” lunches. Do check your local churches for respite care days. You need opportunities to breathe. I am putting your name in my prayer journal right now.
The same thing happens with any long term medical condition. With cancer, everyone disappears after the first month or so. When you most need some support, it's just not there.
Prayers and hopes for more resilience in the days to come. Being a caretaker is very exhausting emotionally, physically and Spiritually. I have witnessed many times that "friends" and "supporters" disappear when illness comes and it is like clockwork.
Brenda, I just want you to know that the Bible strongly suggests we have angels assigned to each of us (Hebrews 1:14, Acts 12:15, Daniel 9:21, Daniel 10:13). I have often wondered why we can’t see them, aside from the fact that they are probably instructed not to directly interact in our lives. But, consider this possibility: The human eye can only see a minuscule portion of the electromagnetic spectrum towards the middle. Anything outside of that is invisible to us, like gamma rays on one end, or radio waves on the other. Also invisible to the naked eye are things that reside in ultraviolet light and infrared light, which are near each side of the limits that we can see. This, I think, may be where angels reside. They have a higher vibrational frequency than humans. I know that sounds like new age twaddle, but it’s not, it’s real. So, I’m often aware that there are angels all around me at any given moment. They can see me, and they can hear me, and sometimes I talk to them. I believe they will comfort you and even help you in superhuman ways, if you ask God to give them permission to do that. God bless you and give you comfort and strength…🙏🏻✝️
Brenda, I will be praying for you. I think you would love a book called “Gentle and Lowly” subtitled “the Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers” by Pastor Dane Ortlund. It is truly balm for the weary and the weak. God bless you.
AMEN! Several years ago during a very difficult season (the loss of my husband) God gave me this scripture out of Isaiah 43:1-3. It gave me great comfort then and is still a reminder of His goodness, care, and love. 🩷
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against their neighbor: city shall fight against city, and kingdom against kingdom." Isaiah XlX:2
The program of the World Order remains the same; Divide and Conquer.
Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations”
I hope that is NOT the case with Trump in the White House and Kennedy at HHS! Get your Congressional reps to help make it the LAW of the LAND! #MyBodyMyChoice!
Satan's working on many fronts. Like NVidia, the chipmaker that's displaced Intel.
NVidia was intentionally named after Invidia. Invidia is Envy. One of the Seven Deadly Sins. For the reasons you've described. And many, many more. In 2020 when masks were encouraged, then demanded, required, I likened them to amulets. Charms, objects imbued with faith that they possess protective powers that defy any scientific evidence. I researched other amulets worn in history imbued with protective powers for health from disease. And discovered the Winged Phallus. It was used in Roman times to ward off disease. And to protect from Invidia. The all-seeing eye. Envy. I'd share pictures of the Winged Phallus on my social media at the time, to show how ridiculous masks were. Few listened or cared. And likely shadow-banned. I explored the subject for a Stack I wrote in 2023. And research on Invidia at the time pulled me into the story of the largest market-capitalized corporation in the world today, largest ever:
NVidia is the guts, brains of video gaming, virtual reality. And AI. It's inside most every electronic device today. You'll see it running on your Task Manager on your computer right now. NVidia technology is one if the most essential technologies for any global social credit, surveillance system. Which is why its market cap is larger than auto companies, drug companies, even larger than Microsoft.
The stock's value is based on a future surveillance state, social credit system that needs NVidia's technology:
The dystopian future envisioned by today's leaders across industry, academia, entertainment and governing needs Envy to run on. Go figure.
And readers won't be surprised to learn in the Stack that the founders of NVidia are also heavily invested in developing brain-computer interface technology. Perfect for transhumanism! The destruction of beauty is the destruction of man's integration with the natural world. Replaced with the assertion of man's domination over the natural world.
Man does a terrible job trying to replace nature's beauty. Another Stack I shared in the ago that portrays man's pathetic attempts to do so:
All Satan can do is destroy. Can't build. And he's emboldened to drop many of his deceptions, so many today willfully embrace the deadly sins God warns us to not indulge. God will not be mocked.
Isn't there already the first amendment where congress shall make no law regarding the practice of one's religion? Did you think it meant going to church only?
So Maxwell was very forthcoming and talkative, but still very cagy and obtuse. At least she said nothing to implicate Trump.
As for those horrible disgusting unsightly bird-killing wind turbines, I am for bulldozing them all down and shipping them back to China, or where ever. All of them.
There is much more and she is just doing a CYA. She saw more than she is letting on. And since she described him as "sick" and disgusting, why was she still hanging out with him. She sounds like the same kind of sick and disgusting she describes him as.
So she claims that she didn't really see anything. But she still described Epstein as "sick and disgusting". Anyone interviewing her should have been able to ask some probing questions instead of just accepting her answers and moving on.
"If you met Epstein, there is no way that this cast of characters—extraordinary men, some of whom are in your cabinet, whom you value as your coworkers—would have been with him if he was just a creep or if it was only because they wanted sexual favors."
She's talking to Blanche, about the Trump administration. Hmmm.
And is it not a bit odd that Trump's DOJ transferred this cockroach to a softie lockup, vs a hardcore prison... WHY? She even now gets "work release" probably for shopping, etc...
No one thinks just MAYBE she cut a deal to not mention Trump (or Mossad) in any way?
And she saw MANY Epstein pals go into bedrooms with underage girls, but since she "didn't see it"... nothing happened in there? LOL!!
She was the person who procured these girls for Epstein from what I understand. She was his Madam.
Alan Dershowitz says he was Epsteins attorney for a time and he said he's seen tbe Epstein file. Because he's sworn for confidentiality reasons he can't disclose what is in those documents. What he did say is that there is no current sitting office holder in those files or on a list. So.
Do you not think that just MAYBE... Gilley's transfer to a low security country club prison, including "work release" has something to do with a deal to claim Trump and Dersh and several others were NOT on the Epstein list or boinked young girls?
OR... explain why she got such preferential treatment... So.
And why do you think that Trump is supporting and funding Israel's mass-slaughter of many tens of thousands of innocents in Gaza? And the vile, evil maniac scumbags Netanyahu and Givr?
I often think of the era in history when electrical poles started popping up all over America’s beautiful landscape. I’m sure there were those who relished the new technology, but I’ll bet country bumpkins like me absolutely hated them.
I've heard the motivation for lead free paint wasn't because kids were eating paint chips, that's a doozy of a scenario we were told, but because lead blocks radiation. That's an interesting theory.
We moved into this 1828 farmhouse in 1987, with a 3-month old and children of 4 and 8. Each time I shut the door to one of the bedrooms, paint chips fell on the floor. Consequently I had my doctor test the blood of the baby for lead (although, any time she was "on the floor", she was on a clean cloth on that same floor). Worked hard in the following years to remove the lead paint from that room, and ten years later, from the clapboards outside. Our favorite plumber once remarked to me, as I was stripping a door of its paint, "But that paint sure did stick!" And he was right (so sad that he moved 2000 miles away). I no longer (as I had done all that paint stripping in my late 40's; am now 75) want to engage in that effort. So perhaps--thanks to your insight, which I will check into---better leave well enough alone. Many thanks for offering yet another rabbit hole to investigate!
Good point, I always thought there had to be a better way to deliver electricity than using miles of above ground wires on tall poles made from trees, also unsightly.
They are unsightly, but the transmission system actually works as advertised. The trade-off is real; the benefit is light, heat and machine power. A fair trade. Wind and solar is none of those things.
True. In my small town on a street not far from me there is a house that has solar panels on their roof. I have no problem with that, it may provide some intermittent help with their electric bill, depending on the weather.
When recently driving through the English countryside, I realized the reason that countryside is so beautiful is that there are no power poles in sight. How do the British transmit electricity from one place to another?
Power poles... I left rural northern Minnesota in 2003. We were two miles to a tar road & we had power/phone/Fiberoptic cable buried at the mail box on our dirt road.
I moved to western Washington state... the second thing I noticed was all the power poles everywhere.. (the first thing I noticed was the cars were rust free :-).
The biggest surprise was that in the shadow of Microsoft all I could get was DIAL UP internet...
Yes--the cars being rust-free. I grew up in western Ma, and cars with Bondo were common. Moved to SE Pa--never. ON the other hand, in Ma, at that time, roads were prepared before snow-fall with sand--here, with salt. Salt and steel--no bueno as they say (non bonum as I would say)
I still hate them! They are flimsy, a tree branch can knock power out for thousands of people. I wonder if the primary reason they don't bury more lines is because the line-worker's unions resist it?
I love that our lines are buried around my neighborhood for the most part, it’s much more aesthetic and we rarely get power outages, plus the ones we do get are generally just a few seconds to a few minutes.
A friend of mine worked for his family business which installs underground power lines. I asked him why they aren’t all underground, and he said because it’s easier to repair things above ground. The underground wires don’t have problems nearly as often, but when they fail it’s hard to figure out where and messy to dig it all up.
We should deliver one decommissioned turbine to all the most prominent environmentalists’ properties. Starting with Al Gore, AOC etc. Make them live with the consequences of their policy choices.
Well of course she said nothing to implicate Trump. If she hopes to get a deal, and he seems to be willing to set her free, then she’s gonna keep him happy.
Lip-Bu Tan. I’m sorry, but I can’t help remembering how the MSM got totally owned on live TV by a prankster during news coverage of that Asiana flight that crashed at SFO. Captain Sum Ting Wong. Wi Tu Lo. Ho Lee Fuk. Bang Ding Ow. More of that, please! 😂
That accident wasn't funny, but the coverage was hilarious. I heard that report on the radio that day while driving on Highway 85 in Cupertino. Unforgettable!
Probably his experience in building hotels and golf courses gives him a unique perspective compared to all the politicians that never had a life outside of government.
Not probably, definitely. Breadth of experience is very useful in any life, and being in the DC swamp is not good for breadth.
I used to be a deep tissue massage therapist specializing in injuries. I had to teach a doctor what roofers do, as he couldn't understand why a client kept getting re-injured. He has never watched roofers work, didn't know that they do very habitual, repetitive, one sided movements, and that you CAN'T fix one piece of their body and expect it to stay fixed, as they will do it all again.
Things like that aren't taught in med school, and looking at things from other perspectives is not an asset in a political career. It IS an asset in a wide-ranging life. I think term limits would be extremely useful in politics AND lifetime limits. No coming back in a different position, it's over, you are done, go home. The Founders of this country never planned for these long standing weasels to run the country, they wanted your neighbors to represent you, and speak for you, then go back home and someone else does. THAT is what I want to see. (Trump: Are you reading the C&C comments? Add that to your list!)
Congressmen used to represent about 11,000 people. Now they represent over 700,000, if I'm correct. I don't feel represented. Congress would be huge, but I think we need a system that actually provides representation at a smaller level - maybe small districts that have an electoral college system to elect the actual Congressman, and weigh in how he or she votes in the US Congress.
Imagine that, someone who has actually built something and run a successful business knows how to guide the country. Maybe people will wake up and realize that career politicians are not a good thing finally.
I don't think it's "probably" at all, it is absolutely his vast business experience that allows him to think differently than the usual run-of-the-mill politician. Love it.
If we are going to tag Trump as TAW, then I'm inclined to give him some acknowledgement when he says it's a hoax, but why he's saying that I'm not sure yet. Agree with you on they had 4 years to do something, and they didn't. I see online headlines talking about the DOJ documents sent to Congress for their interviews, are a lot that have already been declassified so will be interesting. I hope my former Sen. Jeff Sessions can blow it wide open. He's due the end of the month or early Sept I think. Maybe it will get tied up with the Clinton Foundation stuff. Hope Trump rests up this weekend cause he was pretty subdued Friday. Seemed tired and who wouldn't be. They are all targets. MAGA
Jeff Childers hits the nail on the head often, but sometimes misses wildly. I'm quite surprised considering his legal background, that he entertains the idea that someone who has already been accused of perjury (Maxwell) and who wants a pardon from Trump, assumes she is being honest in her comments about him during her interview. There is literally a mountain of evidence against Epstein, and now we are happy because we hear one interview from her that "exonerates" him? She even had the balls to basically say Eptsein isn't important - yes, that is why big banks settled out of court for nearly a billion dollars to keep things under the rug.
‘He’s not that interesting, he’s a disgusting guy.’
~But Also~
‘ If you met Epstein, there is no way that this cast of characters—extraordinary men, some of whom are in your cabinet, whom you value as your coworkers—would have been with him if he was just a creep or if it was only because they wanted sexual favors.’
So which is it? He’s not that interesting and all he had to offer were ’sexual favors’ with minors? Or he was brilliant and fascinating so people weren’t just with him for the ‘favors.’
If you read the Woody Allen letter, it sounded like Epstein was also a horrible party host. He wasn’t smart. He wasn’t funny. Often his dinner guests were served takeout Chinese food. Allen’s own wife (yeah, that one) even said the food served was so paltry they were going to have to go out to eat afterwards. So what was the big draw to hang out with this guy? Am I to believe that the biggest movers and shakers in industry and politics couldn’t source their own 15-year-old masseurs? Something much, much darker was going on here.
They could but it’s a lot more risky versus going to ‘socialize’ with Epstein. Plausible deniability is all they need and most politicians are attorneys
Also notice the subtle hint of "the men in your cabinet were visiting him." She might be the most powerful woman in America, or even the world. Or she might be suicided tomorrow.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. If he wasn’t interesting, why in the world would the likes of Bill Clinton be hanging out with him? Idk about you, but I don’t hang out with uninteresting people.
Trump seems like he wants to let her go free. Any Trump voter willing to let him off the hook after months of promising us he was going to release all the Epstein files should be disgusted with being handed these crumbs.
I had a friend say about the rich and powerful: ‘There are doors open to them that we know nothing about.’ And I believe it. Epstein and his target audience are case in point.
So, we're all just to believe Ghislaine Maxwell then. Case closed!
Because she would never lie, especially when her head is on the chopping block as a madam for a child molester and all his pals. I think a lot of us understand who Epstein's pals were, and who Maxwell may be running cover for now under threat.
I don't know who will decide to believe Maxwell. Before it happened, I can't imagine why anyone would think "oh boy, now we'll get the good stuff." Even Jesse Watters last night cast doubt on her deposition. We know she wants her sentence commuted. One thing I do believe, but it's not based on what she said about Trump. If the Dems had anything on Trump regarding Epstein's girls, they'd have used it a long time ago. We'd have seen every video, every email, every text, and every girl willing to come forward. And they might have tried putting out fake information on Trump just as they did with the Russia hoax. Trump engages in locker room talk as he did with Billy Bush, but there's something about him that leads me to think that he's not Clintonian when it comes to sex.
Maxwell knows way more than what she was willing to say. Was her reticence regarding Clinton and other powerful men because she's reasonably in fear of her life if she told everything she knew?
I think she has more to fear by deflecting and lying. Once she spills all the beans there's nothing to be gained by ending her . All risk, no gain. As it is she still holds a hammer over something/someone while she angles to regain her freedom.
Trying to imagine myself in her place, I'm certain she's holding back a lot of what she knows. Since she was an integral part of Epstein's "business model" she knows way more than she's saying.
Well, Trump's supporters have decided not to talk about him pawing girls at the beauty pageants he ran. That's a level of denial I can't really even wrap my mind around. But that's what happens when you adhere solidly to someone and you can't deviate. This is why I remain independent, so I can.
Just yesterday James O’Keefe revealed a phone call from a former beauty pageant contestant who told him she was contacted by Yhe Washington Post asking for dirt on Trump. When she had only praise for Trump and commended his gentlemanly behavior, the Post reporter made it clear he wanted dirt—nothing else. Look of the OMG post of this.
Yeah to me also. As with your earlier comment, if this had happened it would have received even more press than the Jean Carroll accusations which stretch credibility.
If that recording of his conversation with the NBC guy got released, why nothing about the pawing of beauty pageant contestants? In those days he was all over the news, larger than life.
I ran across what I wrote about President Trump when he was first elected. I was full of trepidation. I watched. The series of efforts to undo the will of the voters and destroy him (Murdoch to FNC staff: “make him a nonperson”) combined with the riots of 2020 and the immiserating Biden years turned me into an unapologetic supporter.
There ain’t no human being alive - especially in positions of power and influence- who is without, as it is said, sin.
I would say that she doesn't limit herself to just reading what I consider to be objective things, like C&C, but also virtually anything out there. There's no telling where she got that "information", but she probably believes what the fruitcakes on MSNBC say too.
FAct of the matter is Trump ran in similar circles as Epstein. It is rumored that Epstein may have something to do with Trump meeting Melania, because they were both interlopers in the modeling world - whether directly or through connections. Trump is friends (some of whom are appointed in office) who are completely scum bags. I don't know why this shocks people so much other than that they have let themselves be blinded by partisanship. Trump is on video sticking up for Diddy. Sure, maybe he didn't know he is a POS, but how many times do you give someone the benefit of the doubt?
I saw this YT the other day where it explains about Trump’s involvement in beauty pageants/modeling, and the like. More info in their other videos, I suspect. These folks are Christians. I was unaware of this, if it’s true. My pill might be turning color.
If true, it's certainly to be condemned. That said, I support sealing the borders, tax reduction/elimination, RFK's clean up over at HHS, cleaning up D.C., attempts to end the Ukraine War, ending Woke and transgenderism, addressing the hot mess in our colleges and universities, removing illegal aliens, tariffs, and so much more. Still on my list of stuff requiring action: pulling the mRNA shots off the market and eliminating all vaccines for everything. But we still have 3 and a half years to get that done.
I suppose I might cheerlead too if I were retired with money in the bank rather than having to take part in the most dismal and horrifying job market I've ever witnessed in my entire life. The fact is, we're in the process of economic collapse, with a lot of distractions.
Perhaps we would all like to come clean about our past so that same ppl will stop judging with large eye plugs. I mean yes there's good and right judgement and there's speculation and past that we wish we didn't and hope we wouldn't again. What I care about is is he faithfully monogamous NOW that he's married to Melania?
Wanna talk about our pasts? Wanna talk about the pasts of former Presidents IN OFFICE??!! You're picking a straw man debate. And you may be spreading gossip.
**Well, Trump's supporters have decided not to talk about him pawing girls at the beauty pageants he ran**
How many years has the cabal been trying to get ANYTHING on Trump? ANYTHING at all? In the end they had to make stuff up.
So these days when something new is found against the cabal the owned corporate media tries to start new rumors about the terrible things he's done. No facts, just MORE negative publicity!
Aside from him, saying he gets the opportunity to look at the beautiful women I have found no proof of him “pawing at” any of the pageant girls. If him making typical male jokes, condemns him despite his extraordinary MAGA actions. Your balance or independence as you say is highly suspect.
How absolutely unpredictable we'd hit the "whatabout" stage. Yes, other politicians are pedos, sexual deviants, druggies, etc. so that means shut up about Trump?
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Your question is wild! You're admitting you're basically emotionally blackmailed into protecting Trump. My God.
More like Christian missionary territory. He seems agnostic, and appreciates parts of Christianity but hasn’t committed. Having survived assassination attempts has put the fear of God in him though.
And I don’t think Trump nor the administration is saying that. And you will have to eat your words if they do a full scale in investigation and I’m sure you will because you are “independent”.
I don’t think anyone has said or implied that. I read this as saying this was an opening gambit. Only the first run at her. Patience is necessary. Our side is just getting started
"Our side" - I don't have a side. I'm an independent. It allows objectivity that tribal members can't afford. I don't let someone slide because they have an R or a D after their name.
Super funny you’re obviously a liberal who is finally enjoying the fruits of your laborers. The economy? Mainly the fruit of democrat rule mixed in with a few globalist rhinos. Trump is the only one who has dared to shake up the establishment and you’re over here worrying about 30 year-old comments. It’s very irritating if he does succeed it will be despite people like you.
And there is a side there is the side of right and wrong. We are all on a journey for the truth we know every single human being is compromised every single one, men women everyone. Trump could fall tomorrow, so could I so could you if the right temptations are pushed. But we know right now he is doing what we asked perhaps imperfectly. He obviously is not doing what you asked because I highly doubt you have ever even sought to give him a chance because evidently your righteousness is more than everybody else.
This is psychological Gold! Give this woman a Cluster B Complex award!
Now that you've lost the argument on facts and have given up your fantasy about Harvard girls with periods running down their legs creating havoc for poor Trump, you're simply on a journey for truth, as we ALL are. Isn't that sweet?
I'm guessing this is because you saw the factual data I posted that backs up everything I said.
CDC - Certain Death Coming. A more useless - if not a bit haphazard - "health" organization you shall not find....though, it's neck-and-neck with the WHO. Depends on the proposed malady du jour and prescribed Hail-Mary, safe and effective, miracle treatment(s). In order to restore our ecosystems and preserve the wildlife (that's us) a controlled burn for both is the best prescription. We're going to need a bigger match. I'm thinking we should mandate it....what's good for the goose and all.
As a refugee from Washington, and new member to central Florida. I just wanted to say that our ongoing lawsuit still continues. There’s a cost to us all, and moving to Florida came at a price being a huge pay cut, but the benefit is more sunshine and a much better political climate that greatly helps my mentals.
That being said this lawsuit is very expensive. we greatly appreciate all the help via prayers and financial support.
I’ll be honest it’s taking a toll on all of us and the cost is very expensive. Each of us are paying at a minimum right now $500 a month. We appreciate any and all support that you can find whether it’s in your couch, skipping a couple coffees or margaritas, Telling your friends and family or neighbors. We’re making slow progress and we hope that with a win will be able to help many other groups that are in the same position be able to fight their cases as well.
Thank you in advance to all those who have prayed for us and given to our cause.
Intel: with a son and son in law both employed at Intel outside Portland, 😳 and hearing all the DEI stories, I’m hopeful that DEI will now be dismantled at Intel, and they will have a BIG turnaround.
Early for me. Thunder woke me up and I rose quickly to get the patio cushions under cover. About 30 minutes of thunder and a mattering of rain. In the desert, it smells so good.
By the time I saw them on my batch last year they drilled holes through every single tomato on my vines and ruined the entire harvest I worked for. I literally gave up ever wanting to try again.
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— Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan did not resign; he had a meeting with Trump and reconciled. The source I relied on was incorrect. Fixed.
So we continue to have a Chinese national with current significant interests in China as CEO of what is "one of the only fully U.S.-headquartered and sourced firms with the capacity to design and manufacture advanced chips [in America]. That makes it a strategic choke-point. The NSA and DoD simply cannot operate without trusted silicon."
Are we supposed to pretend this guy isn't perfectly positioned to sabotage our interests?
"Are we supposed to pretend this guy isn't perfectly positioned to sabotage our interests?"
Well half of the country ignored it when Biden was POTUS and doing just that for four years, so can't say I'm surprised.
You do have a point.
On website after website - corporate, academic… - you see Chinese exec after Chinese exec.
I know - we’re not supposed to think they may be CCP.
But - they may be CCP.
Does anyone know? Does anyone bother to check?
My understanding is that Chinese business people are only superficially private citizens, that they can’t really say no to demands by the CCP. Which does not bode well for us. I wonder what Trump is thinking. Or whose advice, if anyone’s, he’s listening to.
Well, I guess I have reverted to my youth (when I occasionally did what I wasn't supposed to) because I think "CCP" every time I drive past what used to be RITEAID... and is now a huge, multi-businesses (all Asian) with a large, blue, Chinese characters SIGN! (lovely! the main drag of the sh*tkicker town we moved to 51 years ago)
Exactly my thoughts, Leah! I've no doubt President Trump has his eye on this dude. But, frankly, I'm fed up with the whole dang Chinese thing! China has purchased a suspiciously large number of farm acres...and a very large number of businesses, if traced to their source, are Chinese owned.
Decades back, Chinese families came here, and although they kept their traditions and often their language in their homes, they did their best to Americanize.
But them days is gone!
Today, when they come here, they expect to bring all their China crap (from which they "escaped") They make little to no effort to learn our language, our culture or AMERICAN WAYS. Even if their kids go to public school, they frequently send them to Chinese school in addition to public education.
My town is overrun with Asian businesses/eateries. And now rather large signs (not permitted by local mom & pop stores and restaurants) in CHINESE CHARACTERS are a long our main drag and strip malls!
Excellent point!
Too bad we didn't have someone 'creative' in the WH when the banks failed. Would have loved for the American people to have had a say (and some financial skin in the game) when the bailouts came their way. Another 'too big to fail' scam that destroyed the lives of 9mm homeowners, but paid out massive bonuses to the bankers who scammed us all.
Follow the money and you always find the end of the rainbow.
We remember how obummer dealt that blow.
I kinda liked the first version Mr. Childers.
Perhaps Trump turned Tan into an agent?
Who can you trust...
That doesn’t thrill me… he still sits on the boards of other Chinese companies, right? He’s still conflicted...
Trump changed his mind ,so now he’s magically NOT conflicted.
Ummm. I don't like this idea at all.
re: "Tan raced to the White House and reconciled with President Trump" - i hope that means Trump - and America - have eyes and ears in Intel to protect our interests!
I think it's pretty well demonstrated that our Intel is in no shape, as yet, to be trusted. We need a lot more housecleaning.
I used to work at that company. We called it, Inhell."
I’d love to hear more about that. Were you in engineering or another area?
Engineering, although not an engineer. A writer and editor. Worked in the same Santa Clara building as Moore, Noyce, and Grove, each one pleasant and friendly. Despite my lowly position, I was invited to attend a big exec party one summer at Andy's place in the hills. It turned out well, because his wife Eva wanted to talk about the Catskill mountain resorts where she and he met and where I worked as a camp counselor. Different world.
What a great story. Early Silicon Valley.
Jeff Childers' intellectual and political cowardice is duly noted! It's a bailout. Whoops it's an investment. It's run by a CCP guy. Whoops no Trump fired him. Whoops no CCP guy is still running the US only chip mfgr. But we can wait and see. 'Cause TRUMP.
Take a position. For God's sake. Hedge betting isn't attractive if you want credibility. Trump can get things wrong and constantly stroking and praising him is sycophantic.
Is his nickname “Chap-stick”?
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Should have also corrected the part that omitted how deeply embedded Intel is with Israel, in terms of R&D, manufacturing, and a significant part of Israel's economy. This is not simply a "wholly US company."
o7
Ahmed, what does your o7 mean please?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/o7
Thank you and interesting. I just learned something new.
Tom Cotton is as reliable a Deep State hack as there ever was. So if he was pushing for Tan's ouster, maybe Tan should stay...🤔
I'm not convinced. This Tan guy has a lot of problems. I, for one, do not trust him and believe this is a very bad idea.
That’s what they all say.
RE: Wind turbines. It cost more in energy to manufacture them then they will ever return. They use 60 gallons of oil which has to be changed yearly. Of course they kill wildlife, mainly birds, but also whales if they are located in the ocean. They only work when the wind is blowing. They freeze up in extremely cold temps. Bad idea turned into environmentalism.
and they can't be recycled! When removed from use, the old blades are buried. What does that do to the soil? Won't it pollute it, make it unfit for farming? unfit for ranching? Will they leach into the groundwater? If you want to power your own home with a turbine, have at it. If you want solar, put it on your roof. Solar is the same eyesore as wind turbines & ties up land that could be used for farming & ranching. Put those solar panels on your roof, on the roof of buildings, put a wind turbine in your back yard.... Stop destroying farm land & ranch land with these monstrosities.
Wind and solar installations are environmental disaster areas for future years to deal with. There will be no funding mechanism to clean up the mess in 20 years when the charm has worn off and they have completely ceased to work.
Yeah, but someone in government will find a way to make gazillions on fees for proper disposal. And when that doesn't happen, they will just tax the working schmucks for environmental cleanup. Future problems are also known as cash cows.
Old Superfund boondoggle, meet new Superfund boondoggle.
They’ll make the landowners pay for disposal. Most of the windfarms I see in the rural areas near me are in individual farmers’ or ranchers’ land. Yes, they were probably paid more $ to allow those eyesores than they would have made from cotton or cattle for some number of years, but now that land is useless for anything else. Once the turbines fail and collapse, will the companies that received all those juicy taxpayer-funded incentives be around to clean up the mess? Nope!
They can be recycled. You’re misinformed,
https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/can-wind-turbine-blades-be-recycled
A friend's husband convinced her to install solar. It took over a year to complete the installation with months of zero happening. She noticed two sensors were out. When she tried to contact the manufacturer, she discovered they had gone bankrupt. A quick search found that in 2024 about 65% of solar manufacturers had gone bankrupt. She then got a letter from a law office about it. She's still waiting to find out who is going to honor the "life time warranty" these shyster's always promise.
In 2023, one solar dude told me that my electric company would pay for the monthly equipment fee. The electric company disagreed! He also said the solar business is booming and the manufacturer would not go out of business....PANTS ON FIRE!
To me, it seems like a parasitic arrangement: the homeowner pays the manufacturer for all the equipment and the electric company gets all the electricity. The homeowner's house is nothing more than the host for the parasites.
Several solar company hucksters have been pounding my neighborhood to sell solar panels. Sad to see how many people have gotten them!
What charm. Definition of ugly. Tear them all down now. I’m sure great minds, put to the task, can figure out a way to deal with them.
I say send all the detritus to Nantucket. The rich LOVE their windmills. Oh, and also put a few dead whales on their beaches too.
Many have already failed and are disgusting eyesores.
Total garbage. Wind turbines can be recycled.
https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/can-wind-turbine-blades-be-recycled
Sales BS. A lie.
READ YOUR REFERENCED ARTICLE - IT DISAGREES WITH YOU!!
The biggest eff-ing boondoggle yet.
Let’s not ignore the miles of steel in the ground, the hours of heavy lift helicopters needed to set the darn things, and then to regularly inspect and wash the monstrosities. They are not eco-friendly!
Just like my washing machine… it's eco friendly because it uses very little water, but NOT eco friendly because it has to be “cleaned” regularly on a high water level, with hot water, for over an hour. Also, I often have to rewash clothes, which is NOT eco friendly, because they aren't fully immersed in water & not clean as there is no way to increase the water level. As eco friendly, it fails & as an efficient washer, it fails. But there is no alternative available. Eco friendly has ruined washers, fridges, lightbulbs everything.
Solar is good when designed well and put in the right places. Of course it’s not for above/below certain latitudes.
Solar panels on top of a skyscraper can’t collect enough to power up stairwell lights. There is not enough rooftop space.
If the south, east and west windows were solar collectors however they could passively collect.
Homes cannot power their whole household with rooftop solar either. They still need the grid unless they have additional land for panels.
Power companies tether residential solar to their grid so homeowners are still subject to power outages.
All residential solar power should come with “wall” batteries to protect from power outages. Wall batteries should be subsidized so the homes with solar don’t have to draw from the ever-more challenged grid. Not what power companies want ($$), but it is better for the grid.
Idk about wind farms return on investment but farmers are buying 1-2 recycled wind turbines for their farms. It looks odd but it’s easier for birds to avoid.
That’s not true. They can be recycled.
https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/can-wind-turbine-blades-be-recycled
not the blades. the blades have to be buried, they can’t be recycled.
What’s your alternative? The US is already importing oil?
From your link: “Fibreglass is not totally recyclable. It’s non-biodegradable and made up of a composite of very fine strands of plastic and glass, which is extremely difficult to process at the point of recycling. Instead, it’s usually discarded as waste at landfills or incinerated.” Not gonna be feasible IMO, at least on the scale required.
They’re being used on a large scale already. What’s the alternative? We’re running out of oil.
Nuclear power? If you think turbine blades are a severe waste problem, try radioactive waste from a nuke plant. Extremely hazardous to health. Takes thousands of years to become safe.
100%
And the taxpayers paid for those horrible things with subsidies and grants. No sane landowner would allow them otherwise. Worthless.
Like every gvt.-supported industry since 1791; primarily a grift and boondoggle sold to and foisted upon Americans while enriching the industrial-political elites. Green Energy was by no means a failure, quite the opposite, and now the AI-server-energy hustle gets ramped up to repeat the cycle. Not hating on our country but it is what it is and only a Higher Power could ever save us from the system that our Founders created with the best of intentions but with flawed humanity and avarice as well.
… another AND… people with hands in the cookie jar or hands in the right places made a ton of money off of wind turbines !!!! I saw it first hand with a company that had a crap ton of money to spend on interiors moved into a building that I worked on as a designer. Looked like they were swimming in cash grants.
Yep, cash grants, government subsidies, NGO money, all from American taxpayers.
I don’t think you live near any of these solar farms. I live in the midst of them. Farm commodity prices are at staggering low numbers now where they were at all time highs 15 years ago. Many older farmers want to retire and no one to take over. Kids inherit land and have no want to farm, so this seems to be a continuing answer. The point was never to use renewable energy else wind turbines would never have been built or solar farms would have been put on rooftops in abandoned manufacturing sites where land is no longer usable. No, it was always meant to destroy farm land for the future.
Exactly! I saw that in India, they've built frames and put solar over rivers; it doesn't take up farmland, helps keep freshwater from evaporating and bags the solar all in one go. The snakes selling solar for your rooftop is a scam in most cases, you can't sell your house until it is paid off; the energy does not count for you (no storage sold with it), it goes straight to the energy company. If you have an energy co-op, it might benefit you in the end, but really only about half of US power companies are co-ops.
The farmland being sold to big business or billionaires is horrible for us all. The farmer's kids who DO want to continue being farmers are being strangled with inheritance and death taxes. Makes it impossible to carry on.
Who can resist taking a HUGE pile of ca$h in exchange for long days of labor that sometimes pays a little?
You said it Will!
Part of USAID…?
When the turbine windmills stop working the farmer is responsible to get rid of them.
Here in the PNW, the wind turbines are all over the east end of the Columbia River gorge / Snake River basin, which already has many hydroelectric dams. What I’ve heard is that to use these wind turbines enmass, the dams producing energy have to be shut down. Shut down because the ‘pipes’ to carry the resulting energy (all over the West coast USA) cannot handle hydro + wind energy at the same time. Someone who knows the industry better can perhaps clarify. But seems we put cart (wind turbines) before the horse (expanded electricity pipes to accommodate all the energy produced).
Plus, wind doesn’t blow all the time, the sun doesn’t shine at night, and we don’t have the storage capacity to keep so-called clean energy running 24/7. However, the last time I checked, our hydroelectric power does work 24/7.
If the greenies were truly committed to dependable cleaner energy they would be all in for modern nuclear power.
I think we’ll need to rely on Gen Z and perhaps some Millennials to bring back nuclear power. The Boomer class (in charge) are scarred by 3 Mile Island.
Scarred, scared or simply fooled Matt.
There is a movement afoot, by younger entrepreneurs, to manufacture and install smaller modular and highly efficient nuclear generators. Another young man is going through the federal hoops to begin processing nuclear fuel again. Thats right, we have to purchase fuel from foreigners. I think the [government] demand for AI will make in state nuclear happen. And, TMI plant one is scheduled to restart in 2027. The 'meltdown' was never as bad as it was advertised by MSM enviro nuts.
3MI and Chernobyl
Some of the first were installed near Goldendale in the seventies. As I recall, it was a Dept. of Energy project. It’s probably worth remembering ANY energy source will pollute or degrade, because of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. It’s a question of how much.
The argument FOR wind turbines in east end WA / OR States is ‘we need a balanced portfolio’ of energy to power the grid. And the wind part fits in ‘in case there is a drought’ and there isn’t enough water to power the dams.
To me, this argument is a false $ one.
The wind turbines that really pissed me off were those installed in Kittitas county. They are an eyesore (to me) when taking in breathtaking view of Cascades looking west from Ellensburg.
Heading the back 40 up to Chelan area in eastern WA, there are some massively big data centers, right on the edge of the Columbia. No wind turbines in sight. Cold water of river cooling those servers.
I think the next energy a-coming is going to be nuclear. No way to power thirst of growing AI without it. Especially those areas of country not blessed w/ hydro.
'Balance' always made sense to me - but when perfectly good clean gas generators where torn out and disposed of to make room for wind turbines, I lost confidence in their honesty & thought processes!
Absolutely, many small modular stations are in the works around Lake Ontario, Canada side. There will be more everywhere soon.
Just a slight oversight.
And they don’t last long until they’re scrap
And there is no place or means to get rid of them once they are worn out!
condor cuisinarts
bird blenders
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The only wind turbine around here is my dog. After eating wet food, he generates gusts that register on the Beaufort scale, bless him.
Let me guess Jeff, you have a Boston Terrier? 😊
Er, I have a dog only for that comment. Actually, I have a cat.
And the results of tornadoes is devastating and destructive to these turbines. They blow apart!
as Trump says - it is all a giant hoax which it is - so why did the BBB include massive subsidies for carbon capture- really - we need to pay companies to remove plant food - let’s have some consistency
Correct. Earlier in a post here, James commented on two truths. There are actually three: 1) the wind doesn’t blow all the time, 2) the sun doesn’t shine at night, and 3) Donald J Trump is the best president ever. In spite of being 45 and 47, he is truly number 1.
Plus once they don’t work anymore they can’t be recycled and have to be dumped somewhere 😕
Disposal of the windmills should have been part of the overall costing, just like for gas, coal, or nuclear plants. If jurisdictions approved permits without those, a DOGE-style squint needs to be directed at the officials who let that part slide.
The blades are carbon fiber, fiberglass, epoxy resin, and polyester resin; basically environmentally neutral as far as disposal. They could be shredded and used for filler for concrete or asphalt, bundled together and anchored in the ocean to form artificial reefs, etc.
A decent architectural engineer could recycle and repurpose intact blades as roofing trusses.
For that matter, there are a bunch of old open-pit mines the greenies wring their hands over. Haul the blades to one and toss them in. Even the smallest pit would take generations to fill up, if anyone is still needing to get rid of old blades by then.
The whole "blade disposal" thing is scam to get one last bit of 'free' funding before they watch the gravy train recede in the distance.
Please read my response to “taxpayer” below. You could possibly make a great deal in Sweetwater, Texas.
Last report I saw, there are tax incentives to dispose of them before they're actually worn out. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/sweetwater-wind-turbine-blades-dump/
Interesting! TRX, in a previous post here, should contact Global Fiberglass Solutions in West Texas as he has several great ideas.
Where did you learn they hold sixty gallons of oil? It’s closer to 6,000.
Really?
The last time I was at my favorite beach in Maui, I could see these hideous turbines all along the mountains across the water.
Wind turbines - another terrible & destructive idea from the environmental terrorists.
Ars Technica, the pseudo-science site, had an article (more like an op-ed) this morning on "Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory". As usual, it contains no real sources of scientific information; but it does, again as usual, have ad hominems against hetero white men and Trump.
This says much, too much, about the scammers who sell those things.
Same with solar! So much toxic waste created by manufacturing no amount of its lifetime of sun energy could even break it even. Also damages land under around it for who knows how long.
Oh the irony of using diesel engines to keep them turning!
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1954528112512819535
So, the environmental-friendly wind turbines were only working thanks to fossil fuels and generators?! Most interesting. Many of the Scot lefties would never want to hear these truths, would they?
They should levy a special tax or assessment on the disposal of their obsolete parts since they cannot be recycled
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And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened; for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
— Acts 4:18-22 NAS95
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Janice I really think you will have a lighter heart after reading this one, I sure did. I am very grateful to MOMinator (to whom a great deal is owed by me) for sending this last evening - it is incredible.
From Pastor Rich Bitterman:
For you tonight if you feel weary and tired….
“God Do You See Me?”
A nurse walked past the open door. The machines hummed quietly in the background.
She sat there, hands folded in her lap, shoes off, waiting for news she didn’t want to hear.
Her voice was barely audible.
“God, do You see me?”
Isaiah 40 was written for moments like that and for people like you.
This chapter is for the tired. The discouraged. The quiet-hearted believers who still trust, but feel stretched thin.
God Speaks with Tenderness
The very first word from heaven is not a command to do more or try harder.
It is the word comfort.
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
These words are spoken by the same God who once thundered from Sinai. But here, He speaks like a father kneeling beside a wounded child. A promise is about to unfold.
“Prepare the way.”
The Lord is coming.
Isaiah says God Himself is drawing near. The road must be made ready. The path must be cleared. Because He is not sending help from afar. He is the help.
He is the one who will come close.
What Stands When Everything Else Falls
“All flesh is grass.”
What a gentle reminder.
Everything we build wears out. Even the strongest people grow weak. Even the most passionate hearts grow weary.
Our plans, our beauty, our bodies, our pride…all of it fades like a flower under the summer sun.
But one thing never fades.
“The word of our God will stand forever.”
And in that word, God makes a promise. He will come. He will not leave you. He will keep every single word He has spoken.
Say It Clearly. Say It Without Fear.
“Go up on a high mountain,” he says. “Lift up your voice with strength.”
What should you say?
“Behold your God.”
My dear friends, this is a person to meet.
He comes with power and justice and strength. He holds all things in His hands. And at the very same time, He comes with tenderness.
He gathers the lambs. He carries them close. He leads them gently.
His power does not cancel His care. His greatness does not make Him cold. He is the kind of God who can shake the nations and still hold a child without trembling.
There Is No Comparison
Isaiah asks us to look up. To really look.
This God is the one who measured the oceans in the hollow of His hand. He stretched the heavens like a curtain. He lifts the mountains and weighs the hills. He is not impressed by human strength. He does not take counsel from anyone. No one has ever taught Him anything.
Then Isaiah makes it personal.
How foolish it is to compare this God to an idol.
How strange that we would try to shape Him into something manageable. A bit of metal. A carved piece of wood.
Idols never listen. They never speak. They never move.
But this God sees everything. Knows everything. Moves in power and love at the same time. And He is not an idea to imagine. He is the Lord.
The very One Isaiah says is coming into the world.
So why would He forget you?
He sees every moment and hears every sigh. He knows every name. He never grows weary. He never looks away. He never misunderstands your pain.
Not one detail of your life is hidden from Him.
Strength for Those Who Wait
Isaiah turns his attention now to those who feel weak.
Are you worn out? So was Israel. So is every believer at some point.
Even young people, full of energy and life, eventually stumble. The strongest fall. The most faithful grow tired.
But those who wait for the Lord…they will find strength.
Strength given by God to those who lean into Him. It is not always loud or flashy. But it is real.
You may feel like your steps are slow. But He will help you walk and not faint.
You may feel stuck today. But He will lift you. Like wings catching the wind, He will carry you. He will help you go forward.
Not because you are strong. But because He is.
This Is Your God
He is not a distant ruler.
He is not a passive observer.
He is the Shepherd who carries lambs.
He is the Creator who holds stars.
He is the Savior who speaks comfort.
So if you are tired, you are not failing. If you feel small, you are not forgotten.
If your strength feels empty, you are right where His strength begins.
Lift your eyes.
Behold your God.
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Thank you. I needed this today. I’m caring for a brain injured husband who is like a toddler. I’m weary. I feel unseen. Our greatest friends and supporters have fallen by the wayside, and we are only in year 3. This gives me hope. God sees me. I know this, but there are days I don’t feel it. Thank you. 🙏🏻
I am so sorry you are going through this trial. I will add you and your husband to my prayers. May you feel His presence like never before and may He lift you ever closer to Him who is able to keep you from falling.
Amen
Hagar, when she and Ishmael were sent away because of the way Ismael was tormenting Isaac……..in the middle of the wilderness she called Him
‘El Roi’-‘the GOD Who Sees’
May you know, this day, that He sees you.
“May the Lord bless you and keep you,
May the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.”
Numbers 6:24-26
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He sees you.
He knows your name.
Call out to the Lord Brenda, let every breath speak His name.
May He provide moments that restore your spirit and propel you forward as you endure this painful time.
I’m so sorry, Brenda. My husband is recovering from brain bleeds. He is doing well and will recover fully, but there were some tough times-just a couple of hours. I can’t imagine being in year 3 of severe TBI. God bless you! The support, even in Christian circles, does drop off as everyone else gets over your trauma. It’s especially hard for men to see another man in a pathetic condition. I hope you have a couple of ladies who will take you to “therapy” lunches. Do check your local churches for respite care days. You need opportunities to breathe. I am putting your name in my prayer journal right now.
(For when you don’t have the strength to cry out, just sit and listen: https://share.google/bYGTrq0Cy7jU9DQj0)
The same thing happens with any long term medical condition. With cancer, everyone disappears after the first month or so. When you most need some support, it's just not there.
This is so lovely, Donna. Thank you…and yes, we an all relate at times.
So sorry for this difficult time i will be praying for you
Prayers and hopes for more resilience in the days to come. Being a caretaker is very exhausting emotionally, physically and Spiritually. I have witnessed many times that "friends" and "supporters" disappear when illness comes and it is like clockwork.
Sending prayers for strength and comfort 🙏🙏🙏
Brenda, I just want you to know that the Bible strongly suggests we have angels assigned to each of us (Hebrews 1:14, Acts 12:15, Daniel 9:21, Daniel 10:13). I have often wondered why we can’t see them, aside from the fact that they are probably instructed not to directly interact in our lives. But, consider this possibility: The human eye can only see a minuscule portion of the electromagnetic spectrum towards the middle. Anything outside of that is invisible to us, like gamma rays on one end, or radio waves on the other. Also invisible to the naked eye are things that reside in ultraviolet light and infrared light, which are near each side of the limits that we can see. This, I think, may be where angels reside. They have a higher vibrational frequency than humans. I know that sounds like new age twaddle, but it’s not, it’s real. So, I’m often aware that there are angels all around me at any given moment. They can see me, and they can hear me, and sometimes I talk to them. I believe they will comfort you and even help you in superhuman ways, if you ask God to give them permission to do that. God bless you and give you comfort and strength…🙏🏻✝️
My son saw an Angel when he was about 4. Asked Mom do you see that Angel? Sadly I didn’t but I knew he had!
Beautiful!
Brenda, I will be praying for you. I think you would love a book called “Gentle and Lowly” subtitled “the Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers” by Pastor Dane Ortlund. It is truly balm for the weary and the weak. God bless you.
Oh, my. Good luck. God bless.
Praying for you both.🙏
Added you to my prayer list. I’ll be sure that you stay there.
Indeed, God sees you, and your dear husband. Blessings are yours in every act of sacrifice. God loves you.
AMEN! Several years ago during a very difficult season (the loss of my husband) God gave me this scripture out of Isaiah 43:1-3. It gave me great comfort then and is still a reminder of His goodness, care, and love. 🩷
Watch the very first episode of The Chosen.
We have watched all of the Chosen!
Isaiah can be a rough dude.
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against their neighbor: city shall fight against city, and kingdom against kingdom." Isaiah XlX:2
The program of the World Order remains the same; Divide and Conquer.
Eustace Mullins
The World Order
Jeremiah 1:4-5
Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations”
Beautiful
Oh, goodness! That is so beautiful, and the reminder of who our Almighty God actually is really is such an encouragement. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you & Amen!
Awesome post, TriTorch....❤️🔥
This is beyond beautiful.
Thank you, TriTorch, and Pastor Rich Bitterman, for this wonderful condensation of the New Testament about Who God is.
And MOMInator who sent it =)
Yes, my gratitude as well to MOMinator, and apologies to the OT, Isaiah.
"Satan stand behind me"
"Contact Alert" to your local Congress person to make vaccine religious exemptions the law of the land through the GRACE Act.
Vaccine status will reflect on your Digital and Banking ID.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community/support-the-grace-act-bring-religious-exemptions-to-vaccination-back-to-all-50-states/
We should just be able to say NO and that is it. No mandating, no exemptions required, nothing. Just a NO.
No. Nada. Eff you.
How did that workout with all of the job losses and kids in schools?
Now they will control your whole life and financial status and more poisonous injections.
I hope that is NOT the case with Trump in the White House and Kennedy at HHS! Get your Congressional reps to help make it the LAW of the LAND! #MyBodyMyChoice!
This is not an easy war. You stand your ground period.
Satan's working on many fronts. Like NVidia, the chipmaker that's displaced Intel.
NVidia was intentionally named after Invidia. Invidia is Envy. One of the Seven Deadly Sins. For the reasons you've described. And many, many more. In 2020 when masks were encouraged, then demanded, required, I likened them to amulets. Charms, objects imbued with faith that they possess protective powers that defy any scientific evidence. I researched other amulets worn in history imbued with protective powers for health from disease. And discovered the Winged Phallus. It was used in Roman times to ward off disease. And to protect from Invidia. The all-seeing eye. Envy. I'd share pictures of the Winged Phallus on my social media at the time, to show how ridiculous masks were. Few listened or cared. And likely shadow-banned. I explored the subject for a Stack I wrote in 2023. And research on Invidia at the time pulled me into the story of the largest market-capitalized corporation in the world today, largest ever:
NVidia.
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/curiouser-and-curiouser
NVidia is the guts, brains of video gaming, virtual reality. And AI. It's inside most every electronic device today. You'll see it running on your Task Manager on your computer right now. NVidia technology is one if the most essential technologies for any global social credit, surveillance system. Which is why its market cap is larger than auto companies, drug companies, even larger than Microsoft.
The stock's value is based on a future surveillance state, social credit system that needs NVidia's technology:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/worldwide-social-credit-industry-infrastructure-131500901.html
The dystopian future envisioned by today's leaders across industry, academia, entertainment and governing needs Envy to run on. Go figure.
And readers won't be surprised to learn in the Stack that the founders of NVidia are also heavily invested in developing brain-computer interface technology. Perfect for transhumanism! The destruction of beauty is the destruction of man's integration with the natural world. Replaced with the assertion of man's domination over the natural world.
Man does a terrible job trying to replace nature's beauty. Another Stack I shared in the ago that portrays man's pathetic attempts to do so:
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/natural-vs-man-made
All Satan can do is destroy. Can't build. And he's emboldened to drop many of his deceptions, so many today willfully embrace the deadly sins God warns us to not indulge. God will not be mocked.
It's a big plan. Check out The Committee of 300 by John Coleman. You won't put it down.
Been there, done that. There's so many layers.
Isn't there already the first amendment where congress shall make no law regarding the practice of one's religion? Did you think it meant going to church only?
That was ended by the Court in case of community safety.
So Maxwell was very forthcoming and talkative, but still very cagy and obtuse. At least she said nothing to implicate Trump.
As for those horrible disgusting unsightly bird-killing wind turbines, I am for bulldozing them all down and shipping them back to China, or where ever. All of them.
There is much more and she is just doing a CYA. She saw more than she is letting on. And since she described him as "sick" and disgusting, why was she still hanging out with him. She sounds like the same kind of sick and disgusting she describes him as.
So she claims that she didn't really see anything. But she still described Epstein as "sick and disgusting". Anyone interviewing her should have been able to ask some probing questions instead of just accepting her answers and moving on.
I wonder if as Jeff surmises, this is just the beginning of a whole new investigation.
Am I the only one who caught this?:
"If you met Epstein, there is no way that this cast of characters—extraordinary men, some of whom are in your cabinet, whom you value as your coworkers—would have been with him if he was just a creep or if it was only because they wanted sexual favors."
She's talking to Blanche, about the Trump administration. Hmmm.
There must be some reason they went to prison! 🤔
And is it not a bit odd that Trump's DOJ transferred this cockroach to a softie lockup, vs a hardcore prison... WHY? She even now gets "work release" probably for shopping, etc...
No one thinks just MAYBE she cut a deal to not mention Trump (or Mossad) in any way?
And she saw MANY Epstein pals go into bedrooms with underage girls, but since she "didn't see it"... nothing happened in there? LOL!!
She was the person who procured these girls for Epstein from what I understand. She was his Madam.
Alan Dershowitz says he was Epsteins attorney for a time and he said he's seen tbe Epstein file. Because he's sworn for confidentiality reasons he can't disclose what is in those documents. What he did say is that there is no current sitting office holder in those files or on a list. So.
Do you not think that just MAYBE... Gilley's transfer to a low security country club prison, including "work release" has something to do with a deal to claim Trump and Dersh and several others were NOT on the Epstein list or boinked young girls?
OR... explain why she got such preferential treatment... So.
And why do you think that Trump is supporting and funding Israel's mass-slaughter of many tens of thousands of innocents in Gaza? And the vile, evil maniac scumbags Netanyahu and Givr?
Almost every picture with Maxwell and Epstein she has a stargazed look in her eyes and he looks like he is just "meh!"
I often think of the era in history when electrical poles started popping up all over America’s beautiful landscape. I’m sure there were those who relished the new technology, but I’ll bet country bumpkins like me absolutely hated them.
Roman Shapoval connects the construction of the telephone system with the outbreak of nervous diseases.
I've heard the motivation for lead free paint wasn't because kids were eating paint chips, that's a doozy of a scenario we were told, but because lead blocks radiation. That's an interesting theory.
We moved into this 1828 farmhouse in 1987, with a 3-month old and children of 4 and 8. Each time I shut the door to one of the bedrooms, paint chips fell on the floor. Consequently I had my doctor test the blood of the baby for lead (although, any time she was "on the floor", she was on a clean cloth on that same floor). Worked hard in the following years to remove the lead paint from that room, and ten years later, from the clapboards outside. Our favorite plumber once remarked to me, as I was stripping a door of its paint, "But that paint sure did stick!" And he was right (so sad that he moved 2000 miles away). I no longer (as I had done all that paint stripping in my late 40's; am now 75) want to engage in that effort. So perhaps--thanks to your insight, which I will check into---better leave well enough alone. Many thanks for offering yet another rabbit hole to investigate!
I’ve heard that too!
Oh, I’ll check that out! Thanks!
No doubt.
Yes, and here is Sunny California, they are the source of fire to all the kindling in our unkempt forests and fields .
It doesn't take much thinking to realize reliable energy does not come from UNreliable sources!
Good point, I always thought there had to be a better way to deliver electricity than using miles of above ground wires on tall poles made from trees, also unsightly.
They are unsightly, but the transmission system actually works as advertised. The trade-off is real; the benefit is light, heat and machine power. A fair trade. Wind and solar is none of those things.
True. In my small town on a street not far from me there is a house that has solar panels on their roof. I have no problem with that, it may provide some intermittent help with their electric bill, depending on the weather.
When recently driving through the English countryside, I realized the reason that countryside is so beautiful is that there are no power poles in sight. How do the British transmit electricity from one place to another?
Bury them wrapped in soy plastic to feed the mice and rats and force ppl to go full blackout and save the world.
Power poles... I left rural northern Minnesota in 2003. We were two miles to a tar road & we had power/phone/Fiberoptic cable buried at the mail box on our dirt road.
I moved to western Washington state... the second thing I noticed was all the power poles everywhere.. (the first thing I noticed was the cars were rust free :-).
The biggest surprise was that in the shadow of Microsoft all I could get was DIAL UP internet...
Yes--the cars being rust-free. I grew up in western Ma, and cars with Bondo were common. Moved to SE Pa--never. ON the other hand, in Ma, at that time, roads were prepared before snow-fall with sand--here, with salt. Salt and steel--no bueno as they say (non bonum as I would say)
I still hate them! They are flimsy, a tree branch can knock power out for thousands of people. I wonder if the primary reason they don't bury more lines is because the line-worker's unions resist it?
I love that our lines are buried around my neighborhood for the most part, it’s much more aesthetic and we rarely get power outages, plus the ones we do get are generally just a few seconds to a few minutes.
A friend of mine worked for his family business which installs underground power lines. I asked him why they aren’t all underground, and he said because it’s easier to repair things above ground. The underground wires don’t have problems nearly as often, but when they fail it’s hard to figure out where and messy to dig it all up.
FlatEarthFlyer - Eric Dubay put out a good short vid on YouTube awhile ago.
I’ll check it out, thanks Dave,!
Still hate them!
Maxwell was coached and drilled for that performance, I bet.
Two obvious guardrails... do NOT mention Trump or Mossad.
Scumbag Bibi update:
https://rumble.com/v6xwpqm-holy-sht-netanyahu-is-in-full-panic-mode....html?e9s=src_v1_eh_cs
That cannot be discounted.
We should deliver one decommissioned turbine to all the most prominent environmentalists’ properties. Starting with Al Gore, AOC etc. Make them live with the consequences of their policy choices.
Well of course she said nothing to implicate Trump. If she hopes to get a deal, and he seems to be willing to set her free, then she’s gonna keep him happy.
Lip-Bu Tan. I’m sorry, but I can’t help remembering how the MSM got totally owned on live TV by a prankster during news coverage of that Asiana flight that crashed at SFO. Captain Sum Ting Wong. Wi Tu Lo. Ho Lee Fuk. Bang Ding Ow. More of that, please! 😂
It really shows how mindlessly they read their teleprompters and don’t even think about what they’re saying! 😕
Not reporters. Simply, readers.
Exactly.
hahaha . Co=captain Wee Gong Down !
Thank you for that reminder.
Sooooo funny!
That accident wasn't funny, but the coverage was hilarious. I heard that report on the radio that day while driving on Highway 85 in Cupertino. Unforgettable!
I wonder if the tipsters were found!
I'm REALLY liking how Trump keeps thinking outside the normal boxes and doing "other" when the competing options all suck.
He is both an interesting thinker, and he listens to other interesting thinkers, and God knows we have NEEDED this!
Awesome. Just awesome.
Probably his experience in building hotels and golf courses gives him a unique perspective compared to all the politicians that never had a life outside of government.
Not probably, definitely. Breadth of experience is very useful in any life, and being in the DC swamp is not good for breadth.
I used to be a deep tissue massage therapist specializing in injuries. I had to teach a doctor what roofers do, as he couldn't understand why a client kept getting re-injured. He has never watched roofers work, didn't know that they do very habitual, repetitive, one sided movements, and that you CAN'T fix one piece of their body and expect it to stay fixed, as they will do it all again.
Things like that aren't taught in med school, and looking at things from other perspectives is not an asset in a political career. It IS an asset in a wide-ranging life. I think term limits would be extremely useful in politics AND lifetime limits. No coming back in a different position, it's over, you are done, go home. The Founders of this country never planned for these long standing weasels to run the country, they wanted your neighbors to represent you, and speak for you, then go back home and someone else does. THAT is what I want to see. (Trump: Are you reading the C&C comments? Add that to your list!)
Congressmen used to represent about 11,000 people. Now they represent over 700,000, if I'm correct. I don't feel represented. Congress would be huge, but I think we need a system that actually provides representation at a smaller level - maybe small districts that have an electoral college system to elect the actual Congressman, and weigh in how he or she votes in the US Congress.
I’m a medical massage therapist too, and I agree. Breadth of experience in life really brings something to the table.
Also, how much do you hate this profession being used for sexual trafficking and prostitution? I detest it, as does every other therapist I know.
Imagine that, someone who has actually built something and run a successful business knows how to guide the country. Maybe people will wake up and realize that career politicians are not a good thing finally.
I don't think it's "probably" at all, it is absolutely his vast business experience that allows him to think differently than the usual run-of-the-mill politician. Love it.
Those run-of-the-mill pols hate that DJT thumbs his nose at the “This is the way we do things here” bs. 😂
Absolutely, which is why we love Trump! And why he always wins!
The private sector is nothing like the public cesspool.
I bet those slaughtered in Gaza by Trump's Zio-pig pals, with his full approval and funding... feel a bit different about it.
Good grief. So Maxwell was just some innocent bystander who had no idea what Epstein was up to? What a total crock.
Yeah I find that veeeery hard to believe also.
She was the coordinator. She knows everything!
Do you have evidence? Do the Democrats? They have been strangely silent for 4 years.
Let the man work.
Lol. You sound vaccinated.
Seriously?
Yes, as it's so strange when our side keeps demanding more time instead of answers. Half a year, and no one in cuffs.
Child vaxine schedule still being required.
But our people: 'waiting is a virtue'. Sad!
Seriously. I don't even know where to start....
Like the "work" Trump is supporting and funding in Gaza?
Some call it mass-slaughter of innocents... and genocide.
BTW: Where's the promised 911 and JFK files... or is it still "let the man do his work"?
Some call it border security. Why should Israel continue to absorb attacks without responding?
"Attacks"... like the Oct 7 IDF False Flag?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BsDzbG8gwtLN
Wouldn't YOU fight back against apartheid and brutality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUGICfaULXA
You DO sound vaccinated... or were you born an imbecile?
If we are going to tag Trump as TAW, then I'm inclined to give him some acknowledgement when he says it's a hoax, but why he's saying that I'm not sure yet. Agree with you on they had 4 years to do something, and they didn't. I see online headlines talking about the DOJ documents sent to Congress for their interviews, are a lot that have already been declassified so will be interesting. I hope my former Sen. Jeff Sessions can blow it wide open. He's due the end of the month or early Sept I think. Maybe it will get tied up with the Clinton Foundation stuff. Hope Trump rests up this weekend cause he was pretty subdued Friday. Seemed tired and who wouldn't be. They are all targets. MAGA
Jeff Childers hits the nail on the head often, but sometimes misses wildly. I'm quite surprised considering his legal background, that he entertains the idea that someone who has already been accused of perjury (Maxwell) and who wants a pardon from Trump, assumes she is being honest in her comments about him during her interview. There is literally a mountain of evidence against Epstein, and now we are happy because we hear one interview from her that "exonerates" him? She even had the balls to basically say Eptsein isn't important - yes, that is why big banks settled out of court for nearly a billion dollars to keep things under the rug.
Some folks here are suffering from the opposite of TDS. It might be called TAW. 🥹
‘He’s not that interesting, he’s a disgusting guy.’
~But Also~
‘ If you met Epstein, there is no way that this cast of characters—extraordinary men, some of whom are in your cabinet, whom you value as your coworkers—would have been with him if he was just a creep or if it was only because they wanted sexual favors.’
So which is it? He’s not that interesting and all he had to offer were ’sexual favors’ with minors? Or he was brilliant and fascinating so people weren’t just with him for the ‘favors.’
If you read the Woody Allen letter, it sounded like Epstein was also a horrible party host. He wasn’t smart. He wasn’t funny. Often his dinner guests were served takeout Chinese food. Allen’s own wife (yeah, that one) even said the food served was so paltry they were going to have to go out to eat afterwards. So what was the big draw to hang out with this guy? Am I to believe that the biggest movers and shakers in industry and politics couldn’t source their own 15-year-old masseurs? Something much, much darker was going on here.
They could but it’s a lot more risky versus going to ‘socialize’ with Epstein. Plausible deniability is all they need and most politicians are attorneys
Also notice the subtle hint of "the men in your cabinet were visiting him." She might be the most powerful woman in America, or even the world. Or she might be suicided tomorrow.
And... Why did JP Morgan spend millions settling the Epstein lawsuits, if nothing happened?
Deliberately muddying the waters 😕
Not waters. Toxic dump.
That sounded to me like Epstein gave these “extraordinary men” opportunities to meet with each other—and probably enjoy some fringe benefits, too.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. If he wasn’t interesting, why in the world would the likes of Bill Clinton be hanging out with him? Idk about you, but I don’t hang out with uninteresting people.
maxwell was well trained in lying and deflection.
Moved to a place to whack her. Guards have no guns and patrols and there is already a reported breakin.
She's not talking enough anyway. All she has offered is a pile of gobbledegook.
And a big pile it is.
We need knee-high boots!
Trump seems like he wants to let her go free. Any Trump voter willing to let him off the hook after months of promising us he was going to release all the Epstein files should be disgusted with being handed these crumbs.
or wake up to the fact that its all a distraction charade
I had a friend say about the rich and powerful: ‘There are doors open to them that we know nothing about.’ And I believe it. Epstein and his target audience are case in point.
I am very happy those doors are closed to me as they lead to nothing good or moral.
That's not a closed door. That's...ajar.
So, we're all just to believe Ghislaine Maxwell then. Case closed!
Because she would never lie, especially when her head is on the chopping block as a madam for a child molester and all his pals. I think a lot of us understand who Epstein's pals were, and who Maxwell may be running cover for now under threat.
I don't know who will decide to believe Maxwell. Before it happened, I can't imagine why anyone would think "oh boy, now we'll get the good stuff." Even Jesse Watters last night cast doubt on her deposition. We know she wants her sentence commuted. One thing I do believe, but it's not based on what she said about Trump. If the Dems had anything on Trump regarding Epstein's girls, they'd have used it a long time ago. We'd have seen every video, every email, every text, and every girl willing to come forward. And they might have tried putting out fake information on Trump just as they did with the Russia hoax. Trump engages in locker room talk as he did with Billy Bush, but there's something about him that leads me to think that he's not Clintonian when it comes to sex.
Maxwell knows way more than what she was willing to say. Was her reticence regarding Clinton and other powerful men because she's reasonably in fear of her life if she told everything she knew?
I think she has more to fear by deflecting and lying. Once she spills all the beans there's nothing to be gained by ending her . All risk, no gain. As it is she still holds a hammer over something/someone while she angles to regain her freedom.
Trying to imagine myself in her place, I'm certain she's holding back a lot of what she knows. Since she was an integral part of Epstein's "business model" she knows way more than she's saying.
She may very well have an ‘insurance policy’ keeping her alive. Too bad her bf didn’t have one.
Well, Trump's supporters have decided not to talk about him pawing girls at the beauty pageants he ran. That's a level of denial I can't really even wrap my mind around. But that's what happens when you adhere solidly to someone and you can't deviate. This is why I remain independent, so I can.
Just yesterday James O’Keefe revealed a phone call from a former beauty pageant contestant who told him she was contacted by Yhe Washington Post asking for dirt on Trump. When she had only praise for Trump and commended his gentlemanly behavior, the Post reporter made it clear he wanted dirt—nothing else. Look of the OMG post of this.
That has always been my sense about him, but even if it were proven that he inappropriately touched women, I would still support his policies.
Oh well, it's not like O'Keefe is biased or anything. Let's just believe him despite the women who claimed the opposite.
I honestly do not know anything about the beauty pageant behavior you described! Never heard chatter, never have read anything. This is news to me.
Yeah to me also. As with your earlier comment, if this had happened it would have received even more press than the Jean Carroll accusations which stretch credibility.
If that recording of his conversation with the NBC guy got released, why nothing about the pawing of beauty pageant contestants? In those days he was all over the news, larger than life.
I ran across what I wrote about President Trump when he was first elected. I was full of trepidation. I watched. The series of efforts to undo the will of the voters and destroy him (Murdoch to FNC staff: “make him a nonperson”) combined with the riots of 2020 and the immiserating Biden years turned me into an unapologetic supporter.
There ain’t no human being alive - especially in positions of power and influence- who is without, as it is said, sin.
I would say that she doesn't limit herself to just reading what I consider to be objective things, like C&C, but also virtually anything out there. There's no telling where she got that "information", but she probably believes what the fruitcakes on MSNBC say too.
When you don't look for it, you don't find it. I've already posted what I found a few times, it doesn't seem to matter, so I'm not doing it again.
Bottom line: When you don't investigate (easily enough done), then you don't find.
FAct of the matter is Trump ran in similar circles as Epstein. It is rumored that Epstein may have something to do with Trump meeting Melania, because they were both interlopers in the modeling world - whether directly or through connections. Trump is friends (some of whom are appointed in office) who are completely scum bags. I don't know why this shocks people so much other than that they have let themselves be blinded by partisanship. Trump is on video sticking up for Diddy. Sure, maybe he didn't know he is a POS, but how many times do you give someone the benefit of the doubt?
I saw this YT the other day where it explains about Trump’s involvement in beauty pageants/modeling, and the like. More info in their other videos, I suspect. These folks are Christians. I was unaware of this, if it’s true. My pill might be turning color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5On56rzasQ
If true, it's certainly to be condemned. That said, I support sealing the borders, tax reduction/elimination, RFK's clean up over at HHS, cleaning up D.C., attempts to end the Ukraine War, ending Woke and transgenderism, addressing the hot mess in our colleges and universities, removing illegal aliens, tariffs, and so much more. Still on my list of stuff requiring action: pulling the mRNA shots off the market and eliminating all vaccines for everything. But we still have 3 and a half years to get that done.
I keep posting on X on how the VA has known for over 4 years that the Pfizer shots cause myocarditis.
I post the link to the details to SecVA, SecDef, and any other veteran I see on X that makes a post.
Specifically calling out the SecVA to stop giving the shots.
I suppose I might cheerlead too if I were retired with money in the bank rather than having to take part in the most dismal and horrifying job market I've ever witnessed in my entire life. The fact is, we're in the process of economic collapse, with a lot of distractions.
Perhaps we would all like to come clean about our past so that same ppl will stop judging with large eye plugs. I mean yes there's good and right judgement and there's speculation and past that we wish we didn't and hope we wouldn't again. What I care about is is he faithfully monogamous NOW that he's married to Melania?
Wanna talk about our pasts? Wanna talk about the pasts of former Presidents IN OFFICE??!! You're picking a straw man debate. And you may be spreading gossip.
Your comment is so all over the place it's probably useless to try to respond. So I won't.
**Well, Trump's supporters have decided not to talk about him pawing girls at the beauty pageants he ran**
How many years has the cabal been trying to get ANYTHING on Trump? ANYTHING at all? In the end they had to make stuff up.
So these days when something new is found against the cabal the owned corporate media tries to start new rumors about the terrible things he's done. No facts, just MORE negative publicity!
You're OK with him pawing at contestants then, that hasn't been disputed.
Got it!
Aside from him, saying he gets the opportunity to look at the beautiful women I have found no proof of him “pawing at” any of the pageant girls. If him making typical male jokes, condemns him despite his extraordinary MAGA actions. Your balance or independence as you say is highly suspect.
What you're missing is that I don't really care if you want to delude yourself. You're hardly original in that.
That’s 30+ years ago. People change. People repent. Please don’t look way back in my past. Do you want to be judged on yours?
I do! I have never been a sexist asshole who used my clout and power to smash other people. Please look it up and judge me.
How absolutely unpredictable we'd hit the "whatabout" stage. Yes, other politicians are pedos, sexual deviants, druggies, etc. so that means shut up about Trump?
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Your question is wild! You're admitting you're basically emotionally blackmailed into protecting Trump. My God.
Trump is a Christian "missionary."
More like Christian missionary territory. He seems agnostic, and appreciates parts of Christianity but hasn’t committed. Having survived assassination attempts has put the fear of God in him though.
Plus, he's 78.
And I don’t think Trump nor the administration is saying that. And you will have to eat your words if they do a full scale in investigation and I’m sure you will because you are “independent”.
I don’t think anyone has said or implied that. I read this as saying this was an opening gambit. Only the first run at her. Patience is necessary. Our side is just getting started
"Our side" - I don't have a side. I'm an independent. It allows objectivity that tribal members can't afford. I don't let someone slide because they have an R or a D after their name.
Super funny you’re obviously a liberal who is finally enjoying the fruits of your laborers. The economy? Mainly the fruit of democrat rule mixed in with a few globalist rhinos. Trump is the only one who has dared to shake up the establishment and you’re over here worrying about 30 year-old comments. It’s very irritating if he does succeed it will be despite people like you.
I'm a liberal criticizing liberals and comparing you to them?
Why, that doesn't make much sense, does it, Kiara?
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Good for you……how noble
And there is a side there is the side of right and wrong. We are all on a journey for the truth we know every single human being is compromised every single one, men women everyone. Trump could fall tomorrow, so could I so could you if the right temptations are pushed. But we know right now he is doing what we asked perhaps imperfectly. He obviously is not doing what you asked because I highly doubt you have ever even sought to give him a chance because evidently your righteousness is more than everybody else.
This is psychological Gold! Give this woman a Cluster B Complex award!
Now that you've lost the argument on facts and have given up your fantasy about Harvard girls with periods running down their legs creating havoc for poor Trump, you're simply on a journey for truth, as we ALL are. Isn't that sweet?
I'm guessing this is because you saw the factual data I posted that backs up everything I said.
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"It's all one big club ...... and we ain't in it "
the "interview" was scripted ( i guess i should say IMO) ......... to cover various participants/ narratives .
all......"part of the deal " . the ongoing give and take called politics .
Yep.
Well, all I did was C&P information found through research on the internet and AI-provided facts, none of which you've been able to refute.
BTW, Democrats like Operation Warp Speed and the Ukraine war, so how could my arguing against those be Democrat talking points?
You're not very bright, are you? 😂
CDC - Certain Death Coming. A more useless - if not a bit haphazard - "health" organization you shall not find....though, it's neck-and-neck with the WHO. Depends on the proposed malady du jour and prescribed Hail-Mary, safe and effective, miracle treatment(s). In order to restore our ecosystems and preserve the wildlife (that's us) a controlled burn for both is the best prescription. We're going to need a bigger match. I'm thinking we should mandate it....what's good for the goose and all.
I imagine half the employees at CDC could be let go without any loss in 'safety'.
Match? Nah, break out the blow torch!
Flame on!
Good morning everyone hope you’re doing well!
https://www.seattlefired.com/
As a refugee from Washington, and new member to central Florida. I just wanted to say that our ongoing lawsuit still continues. There’s a cost to us all, and moving to Florida came at a price being a huge pay cut, but the benefit is more sunshine and a much better political climate that greatly helps my mentals.
That being said this lawsuit is very expensive. we greatly appreciate all the help via prayers and financial support.
I’ll be honest it’s taking a toll on all of us and the cost is very expensive. Each of us are paying at a minimum right now $500 a month. We appreciate any and all support that you can find whether it’s in your couch, skipping a couple coffees or margaritas, Telling your friends and family or neighbors. We’re making slow progress and we hope that with a win will be able to help many other groups that are in the same position be able to fight their cases as well.
Thank you in advance to all those who have prayed for us and given to our cause.
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Welcome to central Florida!
Thank you!
Intel: with a son and son in law both employed at Intel outside Portland, 😳 and hearing all the DEI stories, I’m hopeful that DEI will now be dismantled at Intel, and they will have a BIG turnaround.
I worked at Intel in Santa Clara. Four times. Contractor. Full time exempt. Contractor. Full time exempt. Nerdville.
🙏🏼
The garden is watered, the tomato horn worms removed; time for C&C
Early for me. Thunder woke me up and I rose quickly to get the patio cushions under cover. About 30 minutes of thunder and a mattering of rain. In the desert, it smells so good.
Blessings to you all.
By the time I saw them on my batch last year they drilled holes through every single tomato on my vines and ruined the entire harvest I worked for. I literally gave up ever wanting to try again.
I'll drink to that (mimosa).
That sounds great
Jeff finally touched on a subject I know and understand: jock itch. But, he only scratched the surface...
You needn't get crabby about it...
Hahaha. Pubic pediculosis!
Just like he missed that Epstein and Maxwell are Mossad. Jeff is funny that way.
He's careful that way.
As George Thorogood might say to him; “Everybody funny. Now you funny too.”
Saw him once, Candlestick Park, San Francisco. He opened, followed by the J. Geils Band, followed by the Rolling Stones. Decent concert.