NY State Democrats approve the most virtue-signalling green program yet:
New York to Approve One of the World’s Most Ambitious Climate Plans
The state would pledge to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, with all its electricity coming from carbon-free sources.
New York lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan that calls for the state to all but eliminate its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, envisioning an era when gas-guzzling cars, oil-burning heaters and furnaces would be phased out, and all of the state’s electricity would come from carbon-free sources.
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If the state manages to hit those targets, it would effectively create a so-called net-zero economy, the ultimate goal of environmentalists and others seeking to slow the pace of global warming.
Let me emphasize the magical thinking hidden in "a net-zero-economy, the ultimate goal...". This bill, if achieved, will make NY State a net-zero region. There are no border tariffs for carbon intensive products produced elsewhere.
Can New Yorkers still eat beef? Those cows have to fart somewhere. Can the state import steel for infrastructure and buildings? Who (if anyone) offsets the carbon emissions associated with mining and processing that steel in New Yorkers do not?
And while on the topic of burden-shifting, absent huge breakthroughs in energy storage (possible!), NY State will have a major baseload power production problem. Their intended solution seems to be to free-ride off their neighbors on the regional grid, which may raise eyebrows in other states. You can ride but you can't hide from those angry ducks!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/soybeans-could-be-next-market-to-surge-as-u-s-showers-drag-on?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic
I could have predicted this a month ago. I guess Bloomberg has to pay fancy experts for the information.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 06:35 PM
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/toys-r-us-back-from-the-dead-will-open-u-s-stores-in-2019
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 06:37 PM
I used to wear pink dress shirts. (Back in the day when I had to dress for work.)
Posted by: Another Bob | June 21, 2019 at 06:45 PM
So anyway, all this gender and queer stuff is really about sexual proclivities: men wishing they were women having sex with other men, for example. Vaguely celebrating gender "fluidity" is just a euphemism for the actual desires we should actually be celebrating.
Posted by: Extraneus | June 21, 2019 at 06:58 PM
I still have a pink dress shirt, Bob, but as I'm retired now I haven't worn it in over 6 months. I think I'll throw it out. :-)
Posted by: Extraneus | June 21, 2019 at 06:59 PM
For some reason, I pulled chicks with that pink shirt. Pained me to dispose of it.
;)
Posted by: Another Bob | June 21, 2019 at 07:14 PM
Pink shirt? Magic in DC in the 80s. ;)
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 07:20 PM
Ah spanberger the ex?? Company operative (shades of rory stewart) who was an English teacher at the jihad academy in virginia.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 07:22 PM
Trump Responds To Rape Accuser: ‘People Should Pay Dearly For Such False Accusations’
(Click to open.)
Posted by: Extraneus | June 21, 2019 at 07:23 PM
Of course the fusion rizzotto crew are spinning this:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/21/paul-manafort-texts-sean-hannity-mueller/
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 07:28 PM
Funny thing, i once stopped by my brother’s place in Baltimore on a run between my Philly condo and my DC apartment. My then 6 month old niece puked on my shoulder (I had the pink shirt on, grey three piece suit). A quick wash, dry and hand ironing later I was ready to go. After cleanup, put the suit jacket on and went to a meeting at Interior in DC. 80s were a crazy time. That niece is getting married in September.
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 07:34 PM
I thought she had mixed things up with America psychos Patrick Bateman and back dated a decade.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 07:37 PM
Henry, you might not want to dance with the bride:)
Posted by: Buckeye | June 21, 2019 at 07:39 PM
Theme for an Imaginary Ledge
When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
https://youtu.be/AXYW7kZP6jc
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 21, 2019 at 07:41 PM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pg-e-us-settlement-idUSKCN1TM2BF?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5d0d68ace84fc20001cf2ff6&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
(Reuters) - Power producer PG&E Corp will propose a $31 billion bankruptcy restructuring plan that will include two funds worth a total of $34 billion to cover past and future wildfire claims, Bloomberg reported here on Friday.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 07:41 PM
Buckeye, good call. ;)
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 07:43 PM
Photo at link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 07:45 PM
Yes its special period electric boogaloo;
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/cuba-ration-lines-grow-tense-as-economy-flails-11561109406?fbclid=IwAR3Xx99HsxYY-sMiviR9zLR3907ZC4f15g5OV9QtYWTWqCndX4Kz5tv7xx0
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 07:48 PM
Speaking of electric boogaloo:
https://www.wishtv.com/sports/colts-owner-irsay-buys-rock-guitar-for-nearly-4-million/2091705211
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 07:52 PM
Why the Greenwald story exploded last eeek:
https://babalublog.com/2019/06/21/brazils-bolsonaro-investigating-questionable-loans-given-to-cuba-and-venezuela-by-national-bank/
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 07:53 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/06/21/and-the-democratic-swiping-has-begun-n2548591
And the dem debates begin next week. HA!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 07:55 PM
Two excellent posts on climate science by Judith Curry;
Climate scientists’ motivated reasoning.
Climate science’s ‘masking bias’ problem
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 21, 2019 at 07:56 PM
David Horowitz
@horowitz39
5h5 hours ago
Thank you Joe Biden for triggering the Democratic racists, led by the hair-brained Cory Booker, so that we can watch the witch-hunters do their stuff with their own, instead of Trump.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 07:57 PM
I’m very pro gay, but very against pushing it. It’s not an easy life and the assholes, of which there are many, who try to push it on their kids, should be shot.
Posted by: Jane | June 21, 2019 at 07:59 PM
Henry:
Wonderful news about the Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision.
Politics in your state are fascinating.
Never a dull moment.
Congrats to clarice’s Grand-daughter on her team’s wonderful achievement in volleyball!
Way to go girls!
I bet it is a joy to have your grand-daughter visiting.
OL:
Hope the wedding plans are proceeding nicely.
With your new trim look , you will look great in your tuxedo.
The next challenge is walking your little girl down the aisle.
Please update us if you can with more details.
I am so happy for you and your family.
Well wrt the political scene,
OL, JIB, Henry, Jimmyk and Thomas Collins and of course Clarice have been right on the mark in assessing the overall progress on holding people accountable for their wrongdoing.
Another Friday and still no one charged or indicted.
Posted by: D | June 21, 2019 at 07:59 PM
The fruit salad acronyms have nothing in common except a Capital D for DEVIANCY.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 21, 2019 at 08:01 PM
Tucker is going of the rails already.
Posted by: Buckeye | June 21, 2019 at 08:03 PM
Didnt he succeed, you can never please him,
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 08:06 PM
https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/farmers-turn-to-crop-insurance-amid-rain-flooding/2091476323
This has video showing you how sparse the planted crops are.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 08:18 PM
Miss M, at least they got planted. Around here I see last falls wheat, and mud. Plus we get rain every night. My field did not get planted wheat last fall — too wet. Now corn? No field around here will be dry by the fourth, let alone knee high. Too late for corn. Too late for beans. Too wet to put a tractor on. I assume I get the normal lease payment under crop insurance, but the farmer takes one in the shorts.
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 08:26 PM
And an interesting story in of all places slate;
We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.
Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn’t actually true.
I wonder if the Slate denizens might make the connection to climate and environmental science.
OK, no I don't.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 21, 2019 at 08:26 PM
so Jean said she invited DJT into the dressing room so they could try on lacy lingerie together and she was astonished when he misunderstood --B.S. squared.
Posted by: clarice | June 21, 2019 at 08:27 PM
https://torreygazette.com/blog/2019/6/21/precarious-love-the-costs-of-agency-in-regency-literature
Discussions of the power plays in "Pride and Prejudice" and "Jane Eyre."
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 08:33 PM
clarice,
Agree.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 08:42 PM
It's rather striking how 11 years they couldn't find any connection to eastland or helms, but they must run up the stationery bills in wasilla.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 08:50 PM
Food prices will be very high this fall.
Posted by: Jane | June 21, 2019 at 08:51 PM
Jane,
Yes they will. Corn oil, corn flour is i everything from pancake mix to cereals. Corn and soy beans are needed for feeding beef, pork, and chicken, so meat will be higher, too.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 08:55 PM
A Thomas Wictor thread on Iran and Trump:
https://social.quodverum.com/@ThomasWic/102311276817678343
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 08:56 PM
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1142167393696768000.html
a drawandstrike thread (where I got the Wictor link) about what he thinks is going on in the Middle East. Pretty good, if you ask me.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 09:00 PM
I knew about the incident in Syria, but not so much the cross border one from iran.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 09:05 PM
Isikoff I guess:
https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-secretly-struck-back-against-iranian-cyber-spies-targeting-us-ships-234520824.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 09:09 PM
This looks like a good night to pick up some chain bar oil.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 21, 2019 at 09:11 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-secretly-struck-back-against-iranian-cyber-spies-targeting-us-ships-234520824.html
Posted by: clarice | June 21, 2019 at 09:11 PM
Its seaN Naylor a reasonably solid fellow.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 09:12 PM
Pin, bar chain oil? Yes. And E10 gas before it’s all E15 that eats your saw.
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 09:23 PM
I’m going to dip my chainsaw in the Man With No Nane’s Lago Ochre and rename it Poulan Rouge in honor of Sarah H Sanders.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 21, 2019 at 09:24 PM
What’s it going to do to the old paradigm if grass fed and corn fed beef are comparable?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 21, 2019 at 09:29 PM
My chainsaw is French so it doesn’t have a preference where I place the adjectives.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 21, 2019 at 09:30 PM
Photo at the link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 09:35 PM
I was just kidding around but now I have to go home because my wife tells me a 60’ pecan tree got uprooted so you know it’s bad. Missed the well house which is good. May have missed a camper I would love to collect a check on.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 21, 2019 at 09:40 PM
Was it a tornado that did it?
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 09:44 PM
Bedtime,
I am sure stuff will happen after I go to bed!
Nytol!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 21, 2019 at 09:48 PM
"Its seaN Naylor a reasonably solid fellow."Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 09:12 PM
Mind you. The Pentagon spokesman said they don't normally talk about cyber and intelligence operations.
Posted by: Davod | June 21, 2019 at 09:55 PM
When this fellow talks I listen:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Doranimated
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 09:58 PM
Wow tucker sent full bill Maher, I hoof theres a salve for that,
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 10:00 PM
Pin, that’s a lot of firewood. My first saw was a poulan. My saw that run today are Stihls. (Stijl was my main reference customer in the 80s). Saw, trimmer, pole saw, etc. the Poulan gets its cuts too. Maintenance is your friend.
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 10:02 PM
Corn oil, corn flour is i everything from pancake mix to cereals.
Won't all the people going keto tank corn prices?
Posted by: jimmyk | June 21, 2019 at 10:09 PM
It's not pink, it's salmon!
Posted by: Rocco | June 21, 2019 at 10:11 PM
Why the Greenwald story exploded
narc, my impression is that Greenwald is trying to resuscitate Lula by going after Bolsonaro's justice minister, is that right? Greenwald doesn't seem like a guy who would protect the swamp, but is that what your babalu link is suggesting? Or that he's duped? Or maybe that maybe both sides are corrupt (no big surprise there), though Bolsonaro himself doesn't seem to be implicated.
Posted by: jimmyk | June 21, 2019 at 10:14 PM
Well hes a leftist after all, maybe in the dos passos vein before 1936, his significant other is in the Brazilian Congress, he hates Israel with a passion, he certainly had no qualms about what was done to heshmat.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 10:36 PM
Now what was interesting was that bolsanaro partisan figured out how this info was exfiltrated
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 10:38 PM
Jimmyk, re keto and corn shortage. Most meat is corn / soy fed. That is true of beer, pork, chicken. So unless you have farmyard chicken (ie Not grain fed), or grass pasture beef, unless you have guns & ammo, not meat for you. Similar issues with wild caught (radioactive pacific salmon) vs farmed (no omega 3) fish. Keto May depend on corn and soy to a degree that is not good:
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 10:39 PM
And a musical interlude
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 10:48 PM
yes, henry, though the true believers want grass-fed beef. And I have no idea how much corn goes into corn syrup, corn oil, etc. that is anathema to keto/paleo enthusiasts. I won't even get into ethanol.
Posted by: jimmyk | June 21, 2019 at 10:57 PM
--That is true of beer, pork, chicken.--
Hey, you told me beer was made out of barley.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 21, 2019 at 10:57 PM
Oh, beer is safe. Everything else is risky.
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 10:58 PM
Ah, jeez, a sixty foot pecan tree and nothing but a Poo-lan to cut it with?
Hope your ax is sharp.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 21, 2019 at 10:59 PM
That does seem kind of week, oh George Conway is in full singed fur pose, meaning just an8rher day ending In y.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 11:10 PM
Yep. Hey a Stihl for that job. Plus background tunes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=32ynHIiYuKQ
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 11:12 PM
I always thought John Barleycorn would be a great name for a beer, and I'm sure there are a few out there. It just seems so appropriate. The name refers to a god not a person. A god representing a field of barleycorn, to be harvested, from which beer is brewed.
Good nite all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsIdhSzyx8M
Posted by: Rocco | June 21, 2019 at 11:14 PM
I set my personal record in the chainsaw throw with a recalcitrant Poo-lan.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 21, 2019 at 11:15 PM
Rocco, Barleycorns was a fine bar in Bryan Mawr in the 80s. Live music, occasional live comedy, and fine talent. Plus I could walk home. :)
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 11:20 PM
Just a tune to see if narciso is awake:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54ItEmCnP80
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 11:22 PM
Hiyoo, our high school tried to get them to play for a school dance, it was way out of our price range.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 21, 2019 at 11:26 PM
Narciso, I bet. They were top notch talent .
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 11:28 PM
Another for you:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ARqAf1U68oo
Great performance.
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 11:30 PM
And more tunes, until someone wakes up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dqo2DxUBb-o
Posted by: henry | June 21, 2019 at 11:43 PM
JiB, I gotta get out more often!
Gloria reminded me of Vicky Sue and the only disco song I ever liked. And now I'm really going to bed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSzZsQV5fc
Posted by: Rocco | June 21, 2019 at 11:53 PM
Yeah, disco is cool. And Gloria is from me for the Blues. But I like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_QDS2629j8
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 12:00 AM
Cold Duck Time by Eddie Harris, but performed live, by Poncho Sanchez
https://youtu.be/rpQCZK3PhIY
This is Eddie Harris and Les McCann intro’ing it, live in Montreaux:
https://youtu.be/y8YOLY4Tats
Posted by: Melinda | June 22, 2019 at 12:02 AM
Yes gloria did a cover for the soundtrack of the generally awful soecialist film, which was supposed to be a Stallone vehicle but James woods largely stole the show.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 22, 2019 at 12:02 AM
OK, narciso , one more leap:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a--3I1LvtdU
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 12:15 AM
Here you go, Rocco
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/266/20500/
I've already written and deleted multiple sentences of what I think of Les McCann and Eddie Harris. Not positive.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 22, 2019 at 12:18 AM
Specialist, with the worst accent of my people until probably Michael nader as demonstrates by rod steiger,
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 22, 2019 at 12:30 AM
Yeah, my current status in music:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZXxxlm8xo
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 12:33 AM
My mindset in high school:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DGs
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 12:37 AM
We liked this one too:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HR8CnXn8LY0
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 12:43 AM
I admit I wasnt familiar with that one, i really didn't get into reo till the early 80s, tuned fron Chicago I remembered even though I sidnt associate it with the bamd.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 22, 2019 at 12:53 AM
Lol narciso, from St Louis they were sorta local.
But we had these guys too:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbNeOEG0GY
I swear I dated this gal in high school. Yeah she ignored me something fierce at the time. ;)
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 01:00 AM
We listened to these guys quit a bit tii:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dlc6xCPx60U
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 01:06 AM
You ever handle a froe Mr Iggy? I didn’t go home because the power was out anyway. I need to go to Northern Tiools for one of those generator control boxes you hook to your main breaker panel. And a 220 adapter specific to my generator. And a feeler gauge to see how close that tree came to taking off my truck’s bumper.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 22, 2019 at 01:12 AM
Pin, damn! That is a close call!
Posted by: henry | June 22, 2019 at 01:16 AM
No tornado mr narciso. However, my little sedan got hit by wind sheer right after Old Hickory Blvd and I nearly changed lanes. Lots of trees down around Nashville. I saw one car surrounded on three sides by half a tree but no damage unless the side mirror took a hit.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 22, 2019 at 01:16 AM
That's still pretty serious, though.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 22, 2019 at 01:22 AM
--You ever handle a froe Mr Iggy?--
Tried conk a couple of times but it stayed kinky.
Oh wait, you mean one of them shingle axes. My pop had one but I never used it, though the native sugar pines make superb shingles.
I've used an adze, a peavey and a McCloud, but my favorite is a draw knife. Very satisfying peeling nice shavings off with a sharp one.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 22, 2019 at 01:27 AM
Thanks that you're safe though, and really you should get a larger saw.
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 22, 2019 at 01:28 AM
Songs for narciso?
Do you follow Catalan at all ...
https://youtu.be/AWdeeE3LJUk
Posted by: JimNorCal | June 22, 2019 at 01:41 AM
Is an adze what that railsplitter Lincoln used? I do have some draw knives. Time for some mortise and tenon practice.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | June 22, 2019 at 01:48 AM
An adze is usually used for shaping wood. Used on log homes and dugout canoes a lot.
Generally wedges and hammers are used for making rails.
Or slaves.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 22, 2019 at 01:56 AM
I can wing it, it was a sound track for an Alain delon film?
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 22, 2019 at 01:59 AM