Ban Hammer

i'm thinking "green" is the new grift.

Lion Electric, which received $159 million in federal funds to manufacture electric buses, has fallen into bankruptcy and failed to deliver $95 million worth of buses. The Biden administration awarded Canadian electric bus maker Lion Electric $159 million to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024, making it the third-largest recipient of such funding. The company has since fallen into bankruptcy, failed to deliver hundreds of the buses it promised, and warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing those in circulation. As a result, many of those districts are turning back to diesel. "The buses do not run for more than a month before needing more repairs," Coleen Souza, assistant to the superintendent of Winthrop Public Schools in Maine, told Clean Trucking. more at https://freebeacon.com/energy/back-to-gas-school-districts-revert-to-diesel-because-bidens-electric-buses-cant-be-repaired/

anything trump does is bad, including successfully ending the ukrain-russia war.

Louisiana regulators approved Entergy Corp.’s plan to build three natural gas plants to power Meta Platform Inc.’s biggest data center. Meta’s latest and largest data center is a 4 million–square–foot complex in rural Louisiana intended to support the company’s most powerful artificial intelligence models. Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has said the facility, dubbed Hyperion, will near the size of Manhattan. At full capacity it is expected to consume as much as 5 gigawatts of electricity. more at https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/08/21/836573.htm 5 gigawatts (GW) is a measure of power, equivalent to 5 billion watts, and is enough to power approximately 3.75 million homes, or roughly the total power demand of a large metropolitan area like a city's peak summer demand.

seen on facebook.

just found this Highly powered lasers also set off electrical discharges into the atmosphere, emitting ozone. Hazardous exposure to ozone may result in eye and upper respiratory irritation.

so......wouldn't a laser beam heat up the atmosphere?

i can only guess what the space maintenance bill will be for that fiasco.

given the tents in LA, probably not. it is illegal to camp in san fran if the president of china is dropping in.

well, it's something that's illegal in some parts of canada.......

A person in California tested positive for the plague and local health officials suspect the patient contracted the disease from an infected flea while camping. Health officials urged residents of the Golden State to “take precautions” when outdoors following the infection of a resident from South Lake Tahoe. “Plague is naturally present in many parts of California, including higher elevation areas of El Dorado County,” Kyle Fliflet, El Dorado County’s acting director of public health, said in a statement. more at https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/us-news/california-resident-tests-positive-for-the-plague-after-camping-trip/ stock up on toilet paper now!

Frank Caprio, a compassionate television judge with a particular fondness for the military veterans who appeared in his Rhode Island courtroom, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer. He was 88. Videos of Caprio’s empathetic traffic court rulings — such as dismissing a $100 ticket for a Vietnam veteran who struggled to find parking near a Veterans Affairs hospital — spread across the internet in recent years like wildfire, garnering billions of views worldwide. X That popularity led to a nationally syndicated television show called “Caught in Providence” broadcast in 186 cities across the United States. Caprio — a first-generation American whose father immigrated from Italy at age 12 — was a veteran himself. He joined the Army Reserve in 1954 at the recommendation of his brother, who was also a soldier. more at https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/security/2025/august/frank-caprio-compassionate-tv-judge-with-soft-spot-for-veterans-dies-at-88?utm_campaign

the doj should run this football straight to the supreme court.

not surprising, given it's the guardian.

good. the intel community needs to get back to doing intel work instead of playing politics.

i can see that being a good idea. otherwise, it's like having to work with that guy that's always complaining about his job. um, if you hate your job, quit and go work somewhere else?

i just find it odd that "omg coal burning is bad, think of the planet" so we must go green (and that results in higher electric bills) - yet we continue to ship coal elsewhere to be burned. NIMBY at work.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (WNDU/Gray News) – A school district in Indiana had to close its schools Tuesday after someone stole the catalytic converters from many of its buses. According to a Facebook post from Michigan City Area Schools, transportation staff discovered early Tuesday morning that the buses had been vandalized. The district said it was forced to switch from in-person learning to online learning due to the thefts. According to WNDU, about 20 buses were vandalized. more at https://www.kctv5.com/2025/08/19/district-cancels-classes-5th-day-school-after-all-its-buses-had-catalytic-converters-stolen/

maybe it's just me, but radioactive shrimp wasn't a thing until fallout became a tv series........

and that phrase shows their disdain for the very industry that grows the food for the coasties.

what i find odd is - apparently shipping coal to other countries is a thing? it just seems strange that we can't have coal fired base load electrical generation in the usa, but we ship tons of it elsewhere to be burned.

yet the founding father's in their infinite wisdom saw the problem with just a majority vote electing the president - the focus for campaigns would be only in major population centers and the rural parts of america (which comprise the majority of the usa) would be ignored. i think the electoral college is a great idea myself.