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- The price of forgetting. Colleges are purposefully miseducating our youth and this is the price we pay. Stupidity across the board.

- Words from Tim Wakefield

- Cool tips

- I would actually like to learn more about this urban wind turbine

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- Jonathan Turley on Hunter Biden's laptop. Let's no forget that there was child porn on that laptop.

- Politico (yes Politico) on the Biden family's corruption in 2017. It has never been a secret that Biden is crooked.

- Matt Ridley on why won't Greenpeace admit that wind farms are killing whales? When I was growing up Greenpeace was all about saving the whales. Now they're all about raising cash.

- Matt Taibbi on Biden v Missouri and the "New Abnormal." Long read but worth your time.

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- Laughed way too much at this. (Old joke too)

- HSBC downgrades Anheuser-Busch stock. But only to "hold" when it should be sell! sell! sell! They aren't recovering from this mistake.

- Cool - VAST announces the Haven-1 and VAST-1 missions. The first commercial space station is scheduled for August 2025 using SpaceX Falcoln-9 rockets.

- The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed. Excellent primer on why wind and solar power could never work. "Wind and solar are, in fact, completely pointless." Nuclear power is the way - it is known.

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- New Georgia nuclear power plant begins generating electricity and is linked to power grid. More please.

- The Archimedes wind turbine looks pretty cool. Leave it to the Dutch to re-invent the windmill. Here's the brochure.

- McDonalds reportedly shuts US offices in preparation of layoffs. If they announce they are laying off all positions related to DEI then I'd look for a stock jump. BTW McDonalds is headquartered in Chicago? 

- I for one welcome our Furby overlords

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- Historical obesity rate by State. Holy crap - we've become a fat nation. 

- 55 movies with a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

- Good baseball April's fools (Via)

- "Wind Power Fails on Every Count"

Worth repeating - solar and wind power provide just 3% of the world's energy. You want renewable energy but are against nuclear? That's makes you a fraud or a fool. 

HT The View from Lady Lake 

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- Analysis - true! 

- Interesting look at the state of climate scientists (now that everyone is questioning the validity of "experts")

- And speaking of untrustworthy experts - lies, damn lies, and COVID statistics 

- In England it has been determined that wind power is "unviable" (unless of course it is propped up by massive subsidiaries) 

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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Spotify pays $250 million for Bill Simmons' The Ringer

- Betelgeuse may go supernova (selfishly I want to see a supernova)

- Jeez - Scotland cut down almost 14 million trees to make way for windmills during a 10-year period.

- Outside magazine's best hikes in all 50 states

- If Pete Buttigieg is the Democratic nominee for President then there could be an historic exodus of black voters from the Democratic Party.

99 good news stories you probably didn't hear about in 2018.

Although some of these stories could be bad news depending on your point of view. Half the world's counties are now below "replacement level" birth-wise? Is that actually good news for the economies of those countries? California going carbon neutral by 2045? That's going to wreck their economy (unless they change their mind on nuclear power).

Trying my best not to be a "cup half empty" type but it is a struggle.

There is no denying that we live in an age of abundance though.

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- I love science geeky stuff which is why I want this clock - and this carpet. 

- Interesting story of how the man who was the first to have three no-hitters in baseball has been purposefully forgotten

- Heh heh - Seinfeld predictive script scripts

- Ex-Giants ace Tim Lincecum has simply vanished. Good for him!

- Amazing - more humans live inside the circle than outside it

- 8 things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you. Or why cryptocurrency is still the wild west (long read)

- Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy. Natural gas and nuclear are the real answers.

Billy Jack Redux?

This is ironic. The Kennedy's have tried to stop a wind farm on Nantucket but Joe Kennedy II is trying to seize control of a wind farm project in Arizona headed by a group of Navajo Indians.

I have to disagree with Moe Lane that the situation seems like a plot out of Magnum PI or the A-Team. This is clearly a great set-up for a 2009 version of Billy Jack.

Instead of a freedom school for runaways - you have today's social cause du jure - wind farms. The main antagonist in the original movie is the rich son of the local political patriarch - not much needs to be changed there. The original Billy Jack also took place in Arizona. This is perfect! The thing I would suggest though is not to play it as a drama - play it up as a comedy. The real life situation is farce enough but the satire could be pure gold. The big questions would be which actors would you get to play Billy Jack and who would play Joe Kennedy II?

HT Instapundit