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Using an A.I. Valet to Obtain Information Regarding HAMAS
Key Point. What we see of Palestinians, Gaza Strip, and Hamas is people generally in desert garb, stark buildings without... Read more
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Who is Cortez?
Key Point. Well, Cortez is a noble last name of Spanish origin notably an explorer who in the 16th century... Read more
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Let’s Stop Semantics and Deal with Actuality: Border Responsibility
Key Point. Don’t get sucked into the “Border Czar” controversy. Of course, US has never anointed a Czar in its... Read more
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People Waiting In Line
Key Point. A long friggin’ list. Kamala does not prioritize these folks because it’s not likely they’ll vote at all,... Read more
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Federalism and Abortion
Key Idea. Now, I have a right to free speech. You’re aware of that right, right? You too have that... Read more
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Behind Closed Doors
Key Point. We keep hearing how “Mr. Joe is so focused and sharp in private meetings and one-on-ones” … Excuse... Read more
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A Hundred Years Building Up to Harris
Key Point. Seems fitting this election year to remember back to 100 years ago. Actually a bit more. We had... Read more
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Kamalaty Files
Key Point. Does anyone out there remember these? It’s no wonder that you do not. Most of these positions lasted... Read more
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Clean Wind Power
Windmills have significant embedded costs. Surprisingly, they are significantly environmentally destructive. Each weighs 1,688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1,300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass. Carrying on a recurrent theme here, we have the rare and expensive to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used windmill blades. Sadly, both solar arrays and windmills kill birds, bats, sea life, and migratory insects. Ironically, There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. Windmills will be likely be mostly abandoned once the embedded environmental costs of making and replacing them become apparent. On a recent trip to Europe I saw a couple smaller windmills in an industrial park being dismantled; they were too noisy to have close to the workers and buildings. Many countries in Western Europe are holding off on significant windmill investments because nobody wants to see them, NIMBY, yes, but even “I don’t want to see them way over there,” with a wave of one’s...Read more
Clean Solar Power
Purifying silicon requires processing with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone and incorporating gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium-diselenide, and cadmium-telluride; much of this is highly toxic. Silicone dust is a hazard to the workers. It’s not like you can have a conveyor belt that takes sand into a containment vessel and spray it with these chemicals. A HUGE amount of sand is required to yield pure silicon. Far more than you can use a conveyor belt and way more than you can haul into a large hangar-sized building, treat, clean up, and haul away. And once more there is a minor chemical disposal issue. Have you ever been to the Tower of London? Outside it I mean? There’s a spot where the King’s and Queen’s poop comes out. They would poop inside on their gilded poop thrones and the stuff would fall through a hidden hole in the floor and run down the outside wall. As far as the royals were concerned they were done with it since they never went outside that way. This is sort of like electrical cars. If you don’t go by the spot where they use the acid, or bury the batteries,...Read more
A Battery Is Not a Panacea
You might think your electric vehicle (EV) runs because it makes electricity. You’d be wrong. Your EV stores electricity produced elsewhere. “Where does the electricity for charging come from?” “That’s simple! It comes down a wire!” Which is connected to a big plant somewhere, primarily coal, uranium, natural gas-powered, or diesel-fueled generators, some hydro, to be sure. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not usually true. Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see? This can be up to 90% coal powered in some areas of the United States. When your EV is charging, the electricity involved is being created right that second, somewhere maybe thousands of miles away. Something gets hot, turns a generator, and the electricity that pops out goes right into your battery by being pushed by other electricity behind in in all the connecting wires. The way things get hot is we burn something to make them hot; all the electricity we use except wind generation is something getting hot. And in solar panels the thing burning is almost...Read more
Concrete Analysis of International Policy and Macroeconomics
Listen, some people like economics or even love it. Some people understand economics, and most do not. Some people hate econ. One could make a Venn diagram… Economics, believe it or not is considered by many intelligentsia-type people to be a science. But we consider it to be a discipline with quite a bit of structure to it, with principles but few actual “laws” as in the law of gravity or the Pythagorean Theorem. Take for example what is called “the law of supply and demand.” While it’s true that the more available st...MOST RECENT POST
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Using an A.I. Valet to Obtain Information Regarding HAMAS
Key Point. What we see of Palestinians, Gaza Strip, and Hamas is people generally in desert garb, stark buildings without appointments or adornment, not even color, sandals, heads wrapped in fabric. Not so the leaders of Hamas, who live in...
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“The Minutes Seem Like Hours and the Hours Seem Like Days”
Key Point. Thie above is “an old love lament.” So with this article’s time references are we dealing with efficiency or insufficiency? Joe leaves for Rehoboth on Friday and comes back to the House US pay for him to occupy...
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Don’t Means Do
Key Point. Down with America = Death to America. They both mean an end to your life as you know it; they both mean the end of US; they both target you and your children. So here we are. In...
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Global Economics
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Who is Cortez?
Key Point. Well, Cortez is a noble last name of Spanish origin notably an explorer who in the 16th century canvassed much of what is now Mexico and the Southwest US. It should be noted that Cortez and his army...
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Too Bad President Trump Couldn’t Use Cash
Key Point. I don’t say this because of someone else’s potential legal trouble. It’s the hassle. Fani Willis and Nathan Wade were smart and knew how to cover up an at-least impropriety. Cash. And no receipts or journal or ledger....
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Getting IT DONE
Key. When you’ve been a US Senator since Nixon was around through the Great Recession ((2008) that is until we know enough to number them), Joe thinks running the government is about spending people’s tax money and money made from...
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Let’s Stop Semantics and Deal with Actuality: Border Responsibility
Key Point. Don’t get sucked into the “Border Czar” controversy. Of course, US has never anointed a Czar in its 250 year history, and never will (well, maybe if the Socialists get into office). The question is about who’s holding...
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The Way to Assure Fair Representation for Your Vote
Key Point. Having a reasonable voting period such as one week or two weeks maximum, subsequent to all applicable debates, plus a handful of direct voting procedures plus a handful of voter role procedures will assure the best voting representation...
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Shooting Rats
Key Idea. There’s an easy and straightforward way to implement a good idea. One can always muck it up by adding more hairbrained and convoluted options, and when that’s not effective, the whole idea is tossed out. Witness our Southern...
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People Waiting In Line
Key Point. A long friggin’ list. Kamala does not prioritize these folks because it’s not likely they’ll vote at all, let alone for the K-Gal. The American Dream does not appear in this article. This is about the downside of...
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Why Are They Democraps & Who Are They?
Key Point. Let’s start with this. You, almost whoever you are, are not a Democrap. Many of you are Democrats and many of you are. Few Democraps care about the analysis on this website and will likely refute it. Believe...
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Position Available
Key Point. We have a pretty good education system. Maybe it’s “had”; jury’s out on that one – literally. I am a product, and everyone in my family is a product. This includes higher education (college/university) and the elementary levels...
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Fiscal Corner
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Federalism and Abortion
Key Idea. Now, I have a right to free speech. You’re aware of that right, right? You too have that right… Right. But wait; there’s more. Now it’s time to talk about the rights of states. Abortion is a moot...
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Jacqui Heinrich and Peter Doocy, and then Some
Key Point. Stick to actual actions, facts, and statements, esp numbers, not conclusions. Hey, I think it’s pretty obvious that the current President has not done anything to improve US border; he has not really done anything of substance. Obviously,...
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Transactional Politicians
BUZZ: Interesting Transactions That Have Been Recently Reported in the Press The following unverified transactions have been mentioned in various press reports lately. Nancy Pelosi makes $3,000,000 sale transaction of Google/Alphabet equities only a few weeks before a 20-state monopoly...
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Politics
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Behind Closed Doors
Key Point. We keep hearing how “Mr. Joe is so focused and sharp in private meetings and one-on-ones” … Excuse me, but who the F cares? Hey, I’m sorry (NOT), but I really don’t care how Joe is in private...
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Move Over, Manchen; Sen. Lankford Will Share That Dunce Seat
Key: A new Border Bill came and went. Schumer and his good bud Minority Leader Mitchell McConnell were unable to sneak a second misnamed bill past Congress this time… proving Buddy is thicker than Honor. (Mitch’s full name is a...
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Dear Pete
Key Point. A man who asks little of himself, gives little of himself, gets little done, but surely is eloquent. Dear Pete, I would call you Secretary Pete, but I am thinking you’re already working your way to eliminate that...
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A Hundred Years Building Up to Harris
Key Point. Seems fitting this election year to remember back to 100 years ago. Actually a bit more. We had a President with a decent reputation, who was found out to be corrupt after dying in office. Not identical, since...
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Biden’s Uncle Bosey Files Part 1
[Joe’s Uncle Bosey (Ambrose Finnigan) died when Joe was just a toddler; he was a hero killed in WWII. Joe implies he was eaten by cannibals; DoD files show he drowned at sea.] Key point. A continuing saga of information...
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AI AI AI
So we asked Bing/ChatGPT to provide two limericks. Does this seem like AI is being unbiased to you
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California Corner
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Kamalaty Files
Key Point. Does anyone out there remember these? It’s no wonder that you do not. Most of these positions lasted long enough for a video (such as the Space initiatives position, which had one video with child actors and then…...
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HR 2: Laken’s Bill
Key Point. Put the name of everyone murdered or killed by illegal aliens at the headline of this Bill. Have a section right in the Bill with every name & city of every Fentanyl death
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Alternative Tour
Key Point. Jimmy Failla continues to use an absolutely untrue analogy about one of our fave topics, the TdF. Jimmy! I don’t think he’s a liar, just ignorant – right Jim? Jimmy, I get what you’re saying about the backup...
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