[Rooters] The governors of a dozen U.S. states including California, New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina called on President Joe Biden on Wednesday to back ending sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, a dramatic shift away from fossil fuels. Say, wasn't that when all the glaciers were going to be melted?
The governors, which also include those of Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington State and Rhode Island, urged Biden to set standards "to ensure that all new passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold are zero-emission no later than 2035 with significant milestones along the way to monitor progress." Where are they going to get the power to run those vehicles? Nuclear power plants? Windmills? They argued that "by establishing a clear regulatory path to ensuring that all vehicles sold in the United States are zero-emission, we can finally clear the air and create high-road jobs." Remember Solyndra's 'high-road' jobs?
Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan calls for $174 billion in spending and tax credits to boost electric vehicles (EVs) and charging networks but does not call for phasing out gasoline-powered passenger vehicles. C'mon, Man! You gotta get with the New Green Program!
The governors also want Biden to set standards and adopt incentives aimed at ensuring 100% zero-emission sales of medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles by 2045. I'm not sure I want to live another 25 years to see that. Could you speed it up 10-15 years?
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Hawaii kinda sorta makes sense, importing fuel and all that. The rest are just daft.
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How about they mandate it in their states and the oil industry stops selling them any and all products of oil. ALL products. So no more fancy medical plastics, no more fertilizer, no more lubricants and certainly no roads. Watch your state come to a screeching halt without oil. How's that rat burger cooked over dung taste? That'll be high cuisine fast in your stone age paradise.
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Who will pay for them? Right now they are beyond the reach of low income people. Maybe that's the objective. Make the majority of the populace completely dependent on Government. As I recall there were tax breaks for buying electric vehicles but they only benefitted rich people because they were the only ones able to afford them.
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This is a massive grift happening before our eyes.
The Big Guy et al no doubt have been given millions of shares in these myriad pump-and-dump EV companies and SPACs that have no revenues or even a viable product. This is Solyndra x1000
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So those states which rely on trade and tourism would only allow wind powered sailing ships.
I haven't seen a solar powered aircraft or freighter who could haul cargo or passengers. Hawaii is going to have a lot of empty hotels.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... may have been a source for media reports last year that hyped intelligence about how the Russian government had offered bounties to Afghan bully boyz to kill U.S. troops, according to a Republican politician.Sen. Tom Cotton told Lisa Boothe on her podcast, The Truth with Lisa Boothe, that the leaks were "probably as likely" to have come from Democrats in Congress as the U.S. intelligence community and specifically name-dropped Schiff, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat.
The Arkansas Republican was reacting to the White House saying last week the U.S. intelligence community had only "low to moderate confidence" in intelligence that was used by former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... 's critics to say he was ignoring information out of deference to Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... "Just last week, the Biden administration presumably authorized that information to be released from the intelligence community. They had low — only low to moderate confidence. That's pretty low, I got to tell you, just from a tradecraft perspective," said Cotton, an Army veteran.
"I can't say that those leaks last summer came from the intelligence community itself, but I think it's probably as likely that they came from Democrats in Congress who had seen those documents and misrepresented them through the media," he added. "Adam Schiff, I'm looking right at you right now as a potential source for that."
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It is his modus operandi.
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[APNEWS] The superintendent of the Florida school district where 17 students and staff died in a 2018 high school massacre was arrested Wednesday after Sherlocks said he lied to a grand jury investigating events surrounding the shooting.
Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement at district headquarters and charged with perjury in an official proceeding, which is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
According to an indictment issued by the grand jury last week and released after Runcie’s arrest, the superintendent lied when he testified before the panel three weeks ago, but it gave no specifics about the alleged falsehood. The jury is investigating whether districts are following school safety laws, including those implemented after the Feb. 14, 2018, slayings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland.
The grand jury, which was empaneled two years ago, is also investigating whether:
— Public agencies are using state safety grants for other purposes.
— Broward school officials misappropriated millions of dollars from a bond measure aimed at improving campus safety.
— Officials intentionally underreported on-campus crimes committed by students. Since the shooting, Runcie and district administrators have been accused by critics of lying about school crime rates and discipline problems.
To prove perjury, prosecutors must show Runcie knew his statements to the grand jury were false and not just a mistake.
Attorneys for Runcie, 59, released a statement Wednesday afternoon saying he plans to plead not guilty.
"We are confident that he will be exonerated and he intends to continue to carry out his responsibilities with the highest level of integrity and moral standards, as he has done for nearly ten years in his role as Superintendent," the statement said.
Jail records show Runcie has been released on his own recognizance.
Rosalind Osgood, chair of the Broward County school board, issued a statement Wednesday saying the district "will provide transparency, accountability and integrity."
The statement did not say whether Runcie has been suspended and the district’s media relations office did not immediately know the answer to that question. Broward County is the nation’s sixth-largest school district with more than 270,000 students.
Tony Montalto, president of the group that represents Stoneman Douglas victims’ families, said Wednesday he is "thankful" that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the grand jury investigation into Runcie and the district.
"It is important that we get the facts about what happened and then hold those responsible accountable and implement positive change," said Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina died in the shooting.
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I saw something similar play out in the early 80s in Indianapolis. Parents backed the election of a new DA who formed a grand jury. The jury returned indictments on the principle and two vice principles in obstruction of justice for failure to report criminal acts. They settled out of court on lesser charge and turned in their state license to teach.
[NYPOST] A Michigan state politician being busted for driving drunk — in a car with "ELECTED" vanity plates — told cops that arresting him would not "be good," since he controls the department’s budget, a police report shows.
Rep. Jewell Jones (D-Inkster) told Michigan state troopers he was a state representative during a combative April 6 encounter after driving his black 2017 Chevy Tahoe into a ditch on Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, according to a police report obtained by the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Free Press.
"If you hit me, it’s going to be very bad for you," Jones, 26, told the troopers as they tried to handcuff him, according to the report. "I’ll call Gov. [Gretchen] Whitmer right now."
Jones reportedly said he would need the troopers’ IDs and badge numbers to call his fellow Democrat, but the officers would not let the state rep get his cellphone.
There’s no indication that Jones tried to call Whitmer, but he told the troopers at another point that their actions were "not going to be good for you" since he oversaw the agency’s budget, according to the report.
"I run y’all budget, bro," Jones said, the Detroit News reported.
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DUI, Endangering the public, Threats and attempted Intimidation of a Police officer, abuse of Office powers and etc........
[EpochTimes] Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, has signed into law two election integrity bills—one that tightens voter ID requirements and the other eliminating Election Day registration—prompting Democrats to sue, claiming "voter suppression."
The progressive Brennan Center for Justice counted 361 bills in 47 states as of March 24, designed to tighten voting standards. At the same time, the group counted 843 bills in 47 states to lower voting standards and make voting more expansive.
House Bill 176 moves the deadline for late voter registration to noon on the day before Election Day, while Senate Bill 169 restricts acceptable IDs to use for voting, requiring some voters to present two forms of identification before casting a ballot.
"Montana has a long history of secure, transparent elections, setting a standard for the nation," Gianforte said in an April 19 tweet. "These new laws establish new best practices to ensure the continued integrity of Montana’s elections for years to come."
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[WashingtonExaminer] The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would grant the District of Columbia statehood, though it’s a long shot to become law.
Advocates of statehood for the district, a position advanced mostly by Democrats, often point out that the population in Washington, approximately 700,000 people, is larger than that of both Wyoming and Vermont. It's also within striking distance of Alaska and North Dakota.
The district has limited representation in Congress. Eleanor Holmes Norton represents Washington as a nonvoting delegate in Congress, while statehood would grant residents two senators and a voting representative in the House. And following the adoption of the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution in 1961, residents of the nation's capital can vote in presidential elections. The district has three electoral votes out of 538.
Opponents of statehood, mainly Republicans, argue that Democrats want to grant the district statehood so they can benefit from changes that would occur as a result, like the additional members of Congress. Moreover, Republicans contend the move is unconstitutional because the nation's founders envisioned the capital as a federal district. The founders would oppose shrinking the federal district to a two-mile square enclave comprising the White House, Capitol, Supreme Court, and the Mall, Republicans say.
"This unconstitutional bill is a façade to give President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader Schumer the power to further intrude into Americans’ daily lives and push their radical policies through Congress," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement on Thursday.
The legislation passed in the House on Thursday, H.R. 51, would lead to the creation of the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, which is named after Frederick Douglass.
The House most recently passed a statehood bill last year in a 232-180 vote, but the legislation stalled when the Republican-controlled Senate opted not to vote on it.
Though Democrats now control the evenly split Senate, it’s unlikely the bill will pass, given it will need 60 votes. The only alternative is for the Democrats to eliminate the filibuster, though a handful have refused to do so thus far, holding up a number of Democratic proposals.
To summarize, kabuki for the rubes, or how a bill does not become a law.
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Give everything but the Federal Triangle back to Maryland. That way the residents can stop whining about "Taxation without representation", and the Democrats don't get to pack the Senate.
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Go them one better, make DC, NYC, SF, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Chicago, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Berkeley, Oakland, Denver, Albuquerque, Philadelphia and Hawaii a different country, name it Marxist Amerika. Require passports and visa's to visit the actual United States, with a 14 waiting period and background screening?
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
They argued that "by establishing a clear regulatory path to ensuring that all vehicles sold in the United States are zero-emission, we can finally clear the air and create high-road jobs."
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
[APNEWS] The superintendent of the Florida school district where 17 students and staff died in a 2018 high school massacre was arrested Wednesday after 
[NYPOST] A Michigan state 
[WashingtonExaminer] The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would grant the District of Columbia statehood, though it’s a long shot to become law.
