Over on the web site of the excellent publication, the Washington Free Beacon, I found what I think is the funniest (not funny ha-ha, but funny tragic) story so far this year. It seems that the Philadelphia-area transit agency, SEPTA, purchased a bunch of battery electric buses from a company called Proterra. The agency spent …
Continue reading Annals of stupid electric vehicles, Philadelphia Edition
We hear and read about the advent of so-called "clean energy" sources, which are scheduled to take over from dirty sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas all over the world. The European Union, The USA, China, and many other countries are embarking on the energy transition with dispatch; banning internal-combustion vehicles, institution "cap …
How can every single automaker plan to go all-electric? This picture just blew me away. It is from Twitter, but I could copy it without actually going to Twitter, which I despise. The description of the above situation is as follows: Green madness. Electric cars belonging to the City of Paris. No one will buy …
Continue reading If the government of Paris is giving up on electric cars…
What's wrong with this picture? Since 1949, China has been ruled over by the Communist Party. The most prominent feature of Communism is "State control over the means of production". That means that the Government (the State) owns, or controls, the Economy. In the 1960s, after the death of Mao Zedong, his successor Deng Xiaoping …
The "Nanny State" of Washington has enacted a new social program, paid for by all those who are employed in the state. Employees will now have half of 1% of their wages withheld, starting in January, for a "long-term care" tax, which will not be active until three years later. That benefit will be a …
Continue reading A new disincentive to work in the State of Washington
Dictator Inslee perfectly embodies my new favorite Covid-politics aphorism, which I coined. Absolute Power, once gained, is rarely yielded. And today, I am adding a new corollary to that aphorism. The Left never yields Absolute Power, and they are the ones who seek it most. Here is a quote from a KOMO article today, demonstrating, …
Yes, there is definitely a heatwave here in Western Washington. Every local news web site has multiple stories about the high temperatures being felt here, where 80 is normal summer. Here are a couple of screenshots of what I see on my phone right now. We have been in places where it was this hot, …
Continue reading Heatwave in Western Washington brings the expected responses
This post by Ricochet member "Unsk" is directly copied over. Since the comments are also very pertinent, I will copy them too. This is something I have been wondering about for a while now, and my Rico friends have generated a very good answer. ............ From Benjamin Braddock and “Why Was News of India’s Success …
A Ricochet friend did a post about "saving our children" from the malign "transgender movement". She mentioned the fact that today, many teenage girls don't like being girls, and maybe that sentiment could explain the popularity of the "transgender" movement. [scare-quotes used to indicate the falsity of transgenderism] I took it a step further, and …
Continue reading Why many teenage girls today do not want to be girls: “transgender” edition
Today, over 50% of US adults have been vaccinated against the Wuhan Coronavirus. Millions have already been infected, and recovered from Covid-19. Data show that prior infection with the virus can confer life-long immunity. Many states have totally dropped their mask mandates for everyone, and more states are going along with the (dubious) CDC guidelines, …
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