[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Will their power bills be reduced for the inconvenience?
PG&E said on Tuesday evening they had warned 525,000 homes that they could be without power due to the impossible demands on the grid
A 'flex alert' was in place from 4pm-9pm on Tuesday in California, with residents asked to reduce their energy consumption
Californians should raise the thermostat to 78 degrees or higher; turn off unnecessary lights; and avoid using appliances and charging electric vehicles
The power grid in California is struggling to cope with soaring demand for air conditioning
On Tuesday afternoon PGE was bracing for 'a new historic all-time high for the grid', which would force them to cut power supplies
As of Tuesday afternoon, almost 7,000 people were without power, with the Bay Area hardest-hit, and temperatures in Sacramento reaching 111F
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That's what happens when you double a state's population but add nothing to the infrastructure.
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Ice, ice baby! Animal lover teams up with rescue organizations to deliver ice blocks and industrial fans to California shelters in bid to provide much needed relief to abandoned dogs amid brutal heatwave energy policy.
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Want to conserve a lot of power? Shut down all the streaming services. Yes, I know that's biting the hand that feeds the LSDs, but it would actually get results. Contrary all the propaganda that is spewed out, those datacenters are not running on wind power.
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09/07/2022 15:33 Comments ||
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Charging your EV is simple. Just buy a gas- or diesel-powered generator and plug it in. 25KW should do it.
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09/07/2022 15:53 Comments ||
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Fred, I call that an aftermarket hybrid.
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09/07/2022 16:21 Comments ||
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Whoa, I thought it was illegal in California to even mention generators, outdoor grilling, or Whataburger?
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If you put the generator in the trunk of the EV, you can have continuous portable charging.
Plus, you get the benefits of both electric power (insane torque) and gas power (high energy-density fuel).
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But, but, but...he said he didn't know!
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/07/2022 12:23 Comments ||
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The White House lies about a topic; nobody believed them. Peter Doocy probing questions sending the Press Secretary into disarray. Rinse and repeat.
At this point, I can only say:
Puppet Show
Spinal Tap
White House
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[ConservativeReview] A New Mexico judge permanently banished a county commissioner from U.S. public office Tuesday for insurrectionary conduct related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin was caught on video illegally breaching Capitol security barriers and entering restricted grounds that day, saying he would wait to enter an enclosed staircase until the mob got "this door broke down," according to District Court Judge Francis Mathew’s ruling. Mathew said Griffin and the organization were crucially involved in the "Stop the Steal" movement’s mobilization efforts beforehand, with Griffin arguing former President Donald Trump would stay in office.
The judge determined Griffin "engaged in" insurrection, with the Fourteenth Amendment consequently disqualifying him from any office "under the United States, or under any State." No other public official has been barred from serving for this reason in over 100 years, according to The New York Times.
Matthew ordered him immediately deposed as an Otero County Commissioner.
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Burning a church and breaching the White House security perimeter isn't, either.
Seizing territory and declaring it "autonomous"? Not insurrection.
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Judiciary around the world is going to get it up the ass sooner or later. It is high time. Too much power has been accumulating in lawyer hands for a century now. Judiciaries, constitutions... all are going to be overhauled anyway. It's just going to be a question of who does it.
[JustTheNews] "We had pictures of their gravestones in the complaint," said former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams. "We sent Jocelyn Benson, the secretary of state in Michigan, notice about these dead people before the 2020 election. She didn't do anything."
Following a recent win in his legal battle to compel Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to purge 25,000 deceased voters from her state's rolls, Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams explained his suit on the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show on Friday.
After the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan last week denied Benson's bid to dismiss the legal nonprofit's suit against her, Adams decried the George Soros-backed election official's unwillingness to update her rolls despite PILF's documentation of the dead voters.
"Yeah, 25,000 dead registrants on the active rolls in Michigan — like 4,000 of them had been dead for 20 years," said Adams, a former Department of Justice voting rights attorney. "We had pictures of their gravestones in the complaint. We sent Jocelyn Benson ... notice about these dead people before the 2020 election. She didn't do anything.
"We finally sued. She still hasn't done anything — tried to get the case dismissed saying we aren't allowed to sue" for lack of standing, "and she lost. So the case is gonna go forward. Every state that's faced these kind of lawsuits eventually settles with us. Let's see if she does."
Adams explained how blue states have sought to evade responsibility for maintaining voter rolls, opening the door to mistakes and mischief.
"[B]lue states in many cases — New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maine, I could go down the list — are run by sort of ideological state election officials who are opposed to list maintenance," he said. "It was part of [Democrats' voting overhaul bill] HR 1, if you remember a year ago, that they were going to ban all this maintenance as a matter of federal law. That failed, of course, and they are against list maintenance.
"They would rather have polluted voter rolls than mistakenly remove somebody who should not be removed — they'll tell you that's what they think ... the problem is, when you have a system that is now so heavily vote-by-mail, when you have all of these automatic things going to homes, polluted voter rolls is step one to problems — and that's what happened in Nevada, that's what happened in Michigan, Pennsylvania. Judith Presto, remember the name Judith Presto. She got registered to vote, voted by mail, and she was dead."
Adams was asked his opinion of the Biden Department of Justice under the controversial leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland.
"Well, I guess I lived in the coal mine, and I was the canary back in 2010, with the New Black Panther case," replied Adams, who after stepping down from the DOJ accused the department of racial bias for dropping a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. "And I saw unequal enforcement of law up close over a decade ago. And the Civil Rights Division is always the first place where crazy starts.
"And now what's happening throughout the entire department? Why aren't they involved in our Michigan case? I thought they believed in enforcement of federal [National Voting Rights Act] law. They're not, of course — they'll probably take the side of Michigan if they did. The point is that DOJ has always been problematic in the Civil Rights Division. Now, it's across all the divisions."
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"[B]lue states in many cases — New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maine, I could go down the list — are run by sort of ideological state election officials who are opposed to list maintenance," he said. "It was part of [Democrats' voting overhaul bill] HR 1, if you remember a year ago, that they were going to ban all this maintenance as a matter of federal law. That failed, of course, and they are against list maintenance."
It is a tactic. 100,000 Mules don't accomplish anything unless you can match the fake ballots with people who will not be casting their own ballots.
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[Townhall] There is nothing believable about this Joe Biden tweet. Some random 51-year-old woman says the economy is going so well, thanks to Biden’s leadership, that she and her husband can now save up for a house. The image screams ’photoshopped,’ but it’s a continuation of the liberal trend on social media that only serve to reconfirm their biases. You’ve all seen the equally inauthentic ’my son, daughter, or loved one said’ tweets in which interactions that never happened end up attacking a conservative or Trump policy. Liberals who say their four-year-old kids are intimate with inside-the-ballpark activities within the DC Beltway is the dead giveaway that nothing in the post is accurate. And now, Joe Biden has joined the game. He’s a little late but still comical in how these posts never pass the smell test.
[ConservativeReview] Senate Democrats are beginning the two month countdown to November’s midterms by prioritizing their efforts to pass a bill that protects gay marriage on the federal level, which gained an "eye opener" number of support among 47 House Republicans, but needs at least ten GOP votes to pass in the Senate, according to the Hill.
Senate Democrats are kicking off the two month countdown to November’s midterms by prioritizing their efforts to pass the Respect for Marriage Act, which prohibits state officials from refusing to recognize out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race or ethnicity, The Hill reported. The act already passed in the House with support from 47 Republicans, but only has three public GOP endorsements so far out of ten required votes to overcome a filibuster.
The new act would repeal the Defense of Marriage act, legislation signed by former President Bill Clinton in 1996 defining marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." It would also allow the attorney general to "undertake law enforcement actions and giving individuals harmed by a violation of the proposed law a private right of action." More at the link.
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Someone didn't read the SCOTUS decision on Roe vs Wade - quick version - the federal government has no constitutional authority on the issue. Enough people on the court are actually reading the 10th Amendment.
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I'm not a lawyer and I've never stayed at a Holiday Inn, but there's something about gay marriage I've wondered about.
The Feds give a tax benefit to married couples, so can it be argued that under the "equal protection under the law" umbrella, gays have been denied that benefit and should be made whole?
(let the flame wars begin)
For a guy and his girlfriend with two kids, all you have to do is follow these proven steps:
1. Don't marry her!
2. Always use your mom's address to get your mail.
3. The guy buys a house.
4. The guy rents out the house to his girlfriend with his two kids.
5. Section 8 will pay $900 a month for a 3 bedroom home.
6. Girlfriend signs up for Obamacare, so the guy doesn't have to pay for family insurance.
7. Girlfriend gets to go to college for free for being a single mother.
8. Girlfriend gets $600 a month for food stamps.
9. Girlfriend gets a free cell phone.
10. Girlfriend gets free utilities.
11. The guy moves into the home but continues to use mom's address for his mail.
12. Girlfriend claims one kid and guy claims the other kid on their tax forms. Now both get to claim head of household at $1800 credit.
13. Girlfriend gets $1800 a month disability for having a "bad back" and never has to work again.
This plan is perfectly legal and is being executed now by millions of people!
A married couple with a stay-at-home mom yields $0 dollars.
An unmarried couple with a stay-at-home mom nets $21,600 disability + $10,800 free housing + $6,000 free Obamacare + $6,000 free food+ $4,800 free utilities + $6,000 Pell grant money to spend + $12,000 a year in college tuition free from Pell grant + $8,800 tax benefit for being a single mother = $75,000 a year in benefits!
Any idea why our country is over $30 trillion in debt and half the population is sitting around letting the other half pay their way?
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The Feds give a tax benefit to married couples, so can it be argued that under the "equal protection under the law" umbrella, gays have been denied that benefit and should be made whole?
I think one has to be declared the wife, so when the divorce comes the judge knows who to give the house, money, car, and children to.
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Not sure why "the State" has to get involved in marriage in the first place
Alabama got out of it - its Civil Union, a contract. The only play the state has in it is to be an 'impartial arbiter' in any dissolution of contract or to represent those who are unable to represent themselves.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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