The Drive’s Lewin Day late last week reported on a number of studies showing that "tire emissions pose a threat to global health."
There may even be "a whole host of toxic chemicals being shed from tires and brakes that have been largely ignored until now," according to Yale Environment 360. One of those, known as 6PPD-q, is supposed to be "highly toxic to multiple fish, including coho salmon," although the report doesn’t indicate whether that’s true in amounts actually found in the environment.
It all sounds rather ominous to learn that "tire rubber is made up of over 400 different chemical compounds, many of which are known to have negative effects on human health," and that the "toxic chemicals being shed from tires and brakes" actually exceeds those from "a typical car’s exhaust output."
Left out of all of these biased studies is how cars save lives, lengthen lives, and improve lives. Life expectancy and the quality of life have both risen hand-in-hand with the rise of the automobile. The Left can spin it all they want — and they will and do — but from a life-saving trip in an ambulance to a pleasant life in the suburbs to our abundance of food to that road trip to spend Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa — all those things are made possible by the internal combustion engine.
[Townhall] Walking in solitude certainly has its place. The beauty of getting lost in one’s thoughts, with only the birds and the hum of the city to serve as a light lullaby, luring us deeper into our own mindful processing, indeed channels Thoreau. But there is no contest of Mindfulness vs. Dodging Assaults. We are once again charged with the goal of maintaining an action or item we want – (walking in solitude) - while eliminating or mitigating the risks. Enter isolated walking companionship – where strangers walk together with the appearance of unity but with only minimal acknowledgment of each other. I’ve coined the phrase – “ Synchronized Anonymous Walkers” (SAW) to describe the unspoken agreement where strangers walk together, acting like they know each other with impromptu conversations about the weather or logistics, yet the unspoken subtext is – this street suddenly feels alarming, no police in sight. I just need to make it to the next block and turn in peace; thanks for understanding as you accept my polite compliment for your coat.
[Hot Air] Ingrid Lewis-Martin is the chief advisor to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. On Sunday, she called for Joe Biden to close the southern border. My, how times have changed.
New York has a Right to Shelter law and it is a proud sanctuary city. Well, NYC used to be a proud sanctuary city before all the illegal aliens showed up. The first to cry foul when the current flood of illegal aliens began was Mayor Adams. He began by name-calling Governor Abbott and calling for more federal money to handle them. If the city is a sanctuary city, shouldn’t it have the resources and supplies it needs to handle people coming to New York City? But, no, that wasn’t the case. What shelter that was available quickly filled up and illegal aliens were put up in nice hotels in Manhattan. Adams has been trying to set up tent camps for the illegals but now they are accustomed to the hotel life and won’t quietly go to the tents. Did a mayor of a sanctuary city not think of that?
Ms. Lewis-Martin articulated a new message for illegal aliens — go some place else. She noted that 116,000 illegal migrants came to the city in 18 months. More than 60,000 are still in the city’s care. The Adams administration is trying to change the city’s right to shelter law. The change would be that the shelter law would not include new migrants. This is a stunning reversal to what both Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul who, at first, welcomed the illegal aliens in order to jab a thumb in Governor Abbott’s eye. Lewis-Martin made the comments on Sunday as she discussed the Biden border crisis.
Ep. 27 Donald Trump appeared in court today, but it wasn’t a legal proceeding. It was a grotesque parody of the system our ancestors created. Victor Davis Hanson explains. pic.twitter.com/KhTHateWCZ
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VDH provides an excellent situational assessment.
To take it a step further, the ongoing "voter diaspora" from blue states that VDH sites may be the impetus for the border migration of replacement people. Congressional seats (thus power) is dependent upon resident populations. Whether the replacement people vote or not is sort of irrelevant. Their final 'city/state' destinations tend to give us a clue.
Yes, a possible blinding flash of the obvious but one not often mentioned.
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Hanson has been singing this song for a while, every time I 'listened'. Perhaps he'll get a bigger audience with Tucker. Anybody know how many humans watch him?
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[BEE] SACRAMENTO, CA — California Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week he had selected recently-deceased Senator Dianne Feinstein's replacement by throwing a dart at a board full of pre-selected photos of black lesbian women.
"We had binders full of black lesbian women we were just waiting to use," Governor Newsom told reporters. "I really didn't know much about them other than they were, of course, black, and also lesbian. This one, what's her name? Lalapalooza or something? Yeah, whatever. She's fine."
Newsom was seen staring at a large board in his office put together by staffers displaying dozens of photos of black lesbian women before turning around and launching a dart over his shoulder. Without looking back he told his staff he was happy with his pick.
"I think she lives in Maryland or something but whatever. What are my constituents gonna say?" Newsom said. "Does she have any political experience? Is she qualified? Is this going to turn into another Kamala Harris or Ketanji Brown Jackson situation? Maybe. But this one's super pro-abortion and I hear that's polling well with Californians these days...at least the ones who still live here."
Newsom's choice, fundraising mogul and abortion-enthusiast Laphonza Butler, told reporters she's thrilled to represent the great state of California and plans on Googling what a senator does first thing tomorrow morning.
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[CherriesWriter] Decades ago on March 12, 1968, a top-secret U.S. base on a mountaintop in Laos was overrun by an elite force of North Vietnamese commandos. Only six of the eighteen CIA and Air Force personnel manning the remote outpost escaped with their lives in an incident that would remain veiled in secrecy for three decades.
This was because the U.S. military was legally prohibited from operating in Laos. The southeast Asian nation had been wracked by a civil war pitting right-wing royalists against Pathet Lao communists—the latter backed by North Vietnam, which used Laotian territory to clandestinely funnel troops into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh trail. However, in 1962 Washington, Hanoi and Laotian factions all signed a peace treaty in which the foreign powers agreed to withdraw their forces from the country.
However, North Vietnam only withdrew a minority of its forces, and the United States continued transferring extensive military aid to the royalist and instead began a secret but large-scale aerial bombing campaign in the kingdom known as Operation Barrel Roll. Though warplanes based in Vietnam and Thailand flew missions into Laos, CIA-run mercenary contractors and ‘airlines’ such as Air America flew transport and observation aircraft from Laotian bases.
CIA personnel also recruited local Hmong, an ethnic minority present in several Southeast Asian states, to fight a guerilla war against the Pathet Lao. It was with this purpose in mind that CIA personnel first established a base atop the steep cliff of Phou Pha Thi mountain, a sacred place in the Hmong’s animist faith which happened to be strategically located near the border with North Vietnam.
This base was one of many ‘Lima Sites’ in Laos intended to facilitate the aerial supply of U.S.-allied forces. The main facility was at the peak of the 5,600-foot high mountain surrounded by steep cliffs; you can see the base’s layout in this photo. A path wound downslope to a short 700-meter-long airstrip at the base of the mountain was used for resupply and staff rotations, delivered in covert weekly flights by CH-3 helicopters of the 20th U.S. Air Force helicopter squadron.
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Absolutely great foto of a RU An-2 biplane being shot down by a door gunner in a Huey. Note the 'Air America' Huey markings and the attire of the door gunner.
* An Air America Bell UH-1B, XW-PHF that had been resupplying the site gave chase to the two attacking aircraft. Using an AK-47, the American crew (Ted Moore Captain, Glen Wood Kicker) succeeded in shooting down one of the An-2s while the second aircraft was forced down by combined ground and air fire, eventually crashing into a mountain. The surviving Antonov returned to its home base, Gia Lam, near Hanoi. Source = CIA Archive.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[BEE] SACRAMENTO, CA — California Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week he had selected recently-deceased Senator Dianne Feinstein's replacement by throwing a dart at a board full of pre-selected photos of black lesbian women.
