Old King Coal

Sen. Joe Manchin puts the kibosh on Biden's clean energy plan:

Key to Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition

The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change.

The WaPo flagged this a few days back. Manchin's objection seems a bit vague:

Manchin had a frank conversation with White House aides late last week where he said he couldn't support the CEPP in its current form, according to two of the people close to the negotiations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.

The centrist coal-state senator "doesn't see a formulation that could get past his concerns with regard to rewarding utilities for behavior they're already taking," one person said, "and he pretty much conveyed that."

Its not clear where Biden and his crack leadership team are headed with this. But the Times piece concludes with some LOL wish-casting:

It is also possible that Democrats may try to push through the clean electricity program as a stand-alone bill — but the timeline for doing so is narrowing, with the 2022 midterm elections approaching.

Sure. There ought to be plenty of eager Republican votes for this in the Senate.

Comments

[Jim Eagle]

How far over the cliff of common sense have we gone, this far:

Sprinkles. Yep, sprinkles

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046348573/sprinklegate-sinks-a-u-k-bakerys-top-sellers-after-topping-is-found-to-be-illega

We are in a nuts diorama we can't escape.

[clarice]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/north-carolina-democrat-rep-david-price-to-retire-ahead-of-2022-midterms

[Narciso]

seriously daleks cybermen running the place,

[clarice]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/576994-democratic-retirements-could-make-a-tough-midterm-year-even-worse

[Narciso]

fitting analogy

https://twitter.com/EliLake/status/1450096364944334850

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I hope that article is correct, Clarice, for the sake of the nation.

Banning sprinkles but not riots; a Transportation Secretary who's on maternity leave but is "ultra-available" on anything but the transportation crisis; Psaki welcomes the "competition" from Chinese hypersonic rockets.

So we'll have 5 minutes warning of Armageddon instead of 30? I really don't see much change. Maybe that's why the X-37B is sitting up there. The first rule of Space Club is you don't discuss Space Club.

The Chinese and Russians have been making huge noise about this, but DARPA has been noodling this stuff since my dad briefly ran it in the 1960's.

And until they figure out the need for 10-20 additional Gw to run those 'lectric cars, I don't think we should be worrying about 'lectric cars.

And until they condemn a few hundred or thousand beachfront homes of the rich and infamous, I don't think we should worry about global warming. Wake me up when beachfront property prices come down.

[Narciso]

hachi machi, is this thing on?

[Melinda]

Broad + Liberty
@BroadAndLiberty
Emails obtained from Delco Council and Gov. Wolf’s office show that a network of left-wing nonprofits spent weeks exclusively inviting counties that had voted Democratic in the 2016 election to apply for grants.

broadandliberty.com/2021/10/13/net…

https://twitter.com/BroadAndLiberty/status/1450114636448247808

https://broadandliberty.com/2021/10/13/network-of-dark-money-groups-implemented-selective-election-grant-process-favoring-democratic-leaning-counties-emails-show/

[Davod]

US News: ‘We are SO screwed’: Jen Psaki says Biden admin ‘[welcomes] stiff competition’ from China when it comes to nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/10/18/we-are-so-screwed-jen-psaki-says-biden-admin-welcomes-stiff-competition-from-china-when-it-comes-to-nuclear-capable-hypersonic-missiles/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--a Transportation Secretary who's on maternity leave but is "ultra-available" on anything but the transportation crisis--

Even worse, there aint no mater anywhere in sight for this leave he's on.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

1944 - War Department spokesman;

"We welcome the competition and wish Der Fuehrer good luck and good splitting with his drive to develop the A Bomb to tip his V-2 rockets with.
May the best person without a uterus win."

[Narciso]

this isn't quidditch (which is not a real sport) or snooker, which I guess is?

[Davod]

.I am watching Charles Bronson movies (in background on my IPAD) on Tubi, and Borderline just started, with Ed Harris being introduced as if he is a new actor.

[jimmyk]

May the best person without a uterus win.

Reminds me, the other day I overheard on NPR one of their news readers use the term "pregnant people." That must be the new style guideline.

[Narciso]

seriously, when the zombies or vampires (as in omega man come) that's the last step,

[Jim Eagle]

If anyone is hungry, I decided to make a bakd Ziti and it is percolating in the oven righrt now. Wine included:)

No salad or garlic bread but a Key Lime pie slice for desert.

[Narciso]

thats about the point they drop the anvil,

[DCSCA]

'The Chinese and Russians have been making huge noise about this, but DARPA has been noodling this stuff since my dad briefly ran it in the 1960's.'

NASA as well.

Hypersonic research aircraft and such- always a budgetary issue, of course, but the research and technology to develop is there. It's simply a matter of priorities and good management pulling it all together along with, as Von Braun always said, 'the will to do it." But then the ever present counterpoint, "No bucks; no Buck Rogers."

'Course w/DoD selling off aircraft carriers for scrap at a penny a piece, the place is run like McHale's Navy.

[clarice]

It's clear what Zuckerberg did, now who's going to demand IRS remove the tax exempt tag on Zuckerberg's Foundation?

[Narciso]

in the film, they made anthony zerbe a newscaster the leader of the zombies, sorry persons of chronic pallor,

[clarice]

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/maximum-vaccination
FTA:f you want to lower hospitalisations and deaths, in other words, the difference between vaccinating 40% of your population and 80% of your population is not nearly as great as it seems. In fact, as you move to ever lower-risk cohorts, the volume of vaccinations required to reduce deaths grows in inverse proportion to the deaths you are reducing. This is the phenomenon of diminishing returns. It means that if you have vaccinated all the olds and sicks and an additional 50% or 70% of everyone, AND you are still suffering from a raging pandemic of the unvaccinated, there are probably not enough immunologically naive people left to give you a hope of vaccinating your way out.

The unspeakable truth is that the vaccines don’t suppress case rates at all. We have long known that their efficacy against infection fades to zero after week 20, but even at the high point — the first month after dose 2 — the protection is sure to be vastly overstated. This would be why even academic journals are starting to run pieces with titles like “Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States”:

[GUS]

The picture of Pete and Chasten in the same hospital bed, each holding a baby is PRICELESS.

NO MASKS.

[Davod]

RE. Afghans selling their children to pay off debt. I am sorry, but I don't understand why this is a new concept.

[Jim Eagle]

GUS,

But condoms:)

[Narciso]

its an old custom, probably as old as bushkazi,

https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1449752449573662726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1449752449573662726%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F

[clarice]

https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/18/new-capitol-video-contradicts-justice-department-media-narrative-on-january-6/
Video of cops inviting protestors in which DOJ fought to keep out of court

[Narciso]

funny how that works,

https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1450085253406670850

[Narciso]

case dismissed,

https://twitter.com/CRTPostingLs/status/1449911083305689090

[Jim Eagle]

Bill Kristol is a laughable fraud to me. I can't get enough of his idiotic opinions.

[Pinandpuller]

Hunter’s Moon tonight: BOLO.

[Pinandpuller]

Watch out for falling crack rocks.

[Davod]

Maybe I haven't been in the states long enough (since 86)to understand this. Can someone let me in on the joke?
Three guys identifying as one woman cafe.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/batcats.jfif

[DCSCA]

Bill Kristol is a laughable fraud to me. I can't get enough of his idiotic opinions.

East coaster/seashore types likely remember how you stun a blowfish after hooking it by thwacking it on the dock... that always comes to mind when picturing Bill Kristol.

[Melinda]

Latest Burn.

"Presenting The Gerry Mulligan Sextet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAF07GyYaIs&list=OLAK5uy_kbQ5OhS8NAHVGrsi4VC5cLyZLZ2KqHuYk

Emarcy LP, from 1955.

[Davod]

Cats watching kids play ball - like a tennis match (20 secs).

https://twitter.com/i/status/1450088022020554753

[Davod]

I'll save you the picture at Ace, and just print the words.

Josh Rogan - I've been drinking lots of water.

Stelter on CNN - Joe Rogan promotes ingesting liquid commonly used as engine coolant.

[DCSCA]

Hard-right ideologues 'pontificate' with worrisome tweets and postings using hand-wringing terms toward Fox TeeVee 'Tucker'...

But the canary in the coal mine is 'Gutfeld!'

"The numbers, Mr. Keith! The numbers!" - 'Marooned' 1969

[Pinandpuller]

Navy SEAL’s tip over Guam, mistaking Lloyd Austin for Hank Johnson…

same MENTAL energy. What were YOU guys thinking:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/us-navy-secretary-lloyd-austin-threatens-navy-sealss-get-vax-will-fired-may-force-pay-back-cost-training/

[Davod]

‘Containergeddon’: California Emissions Law Caused the Supply Chain Crisis

https://theothermccain.com/2021/10/17/containergeddon-california-emissions-law-caused-the-supply-chain-crisis/

[Pinandpuller]

Fox News and CNN are the right and left gutter bumpers in the Boomer Ideological Bowling Alley.

[Pinandpuller]

Fox News is the pressure relief valve on the boiler that keeps the Guggenheims and the Astors from riding the Maine to the bottom of New York Harbor.

You know the thing.

[MissMarple2]

https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/18/biden-nominates-worst-catholic-democrat-after-himself-as-papal-ambassador/

Not a surprise.

[MissMarple2]

Hope this doesn't get deleted. Trump with O'Reilly:

pic.twitter.com/41y1xmminY

— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) October 19, 2021

[MissMarple2]

New York Post
@nypost
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7m
Midnight runs: Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night https://trib.al/5bqHjlZ

[MissMarple2]

Good night, all!

[Dave (in MA)]

Thread-appropriate WJOM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_3yOUKSOc

[Dave (in MA)]

Posted by: Pinandpuller | October 18, 2021 at 08:44 PM

Because SEALs are in such plentiful supply these days.

[Catsmeat]

Boris, I agree with your 10:40 and 12;48--I truly at the moment thought the beauty of the election and its triumph would make the GOP be useful, which they were colossally NOT--so the more fool I.

To give you some stupidity (because, truth be told, there really isn't much of any here at this site, not lately---not, that said, I'm certainly not yearning for the recursus of this or that unpleasant addition), here is the latest about Sean Penn and his latest dish of a wife--bad news for at least somebody: https://news.yahoo.com/sean-penn-wife-leila-george-030215347.html

[Davod]

Quote found at Ace:

“While I have never painted before, Hunter has inspired me to immediately begin painting because I’ve always felt I have a talent at that, and could surely get at least $2 million dollars per canvas—and probably a lot more. I will begin immediately. Our Country is crooked as hell! President Donald Trump"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Is that a real quote?
If so, just more confirmation of the legend of Trump.
I pity the fools like Goldberg and Putterico who can't enjoy the pure entertainment of the Golden Scalp Weasel.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

All you need to know about Hollywood is a dimbulb, sociopathic, homely, puny communist like Spiccoli has no trouble finding a wife despite a trail of unhappy women in his wake.

[Catsmeat]

And Ig, she really is, going by visual evidence, a peach. She could be wormy inside of course.

[Davod]

Ignatz:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/17/donald-trump-mocks-biden-corruption-hunter-inspired-me-begin-painting/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Cats,
Dimbulb, sociopathic, homely, puny communists have a tendency to attract insecure women with self image issues, which not coincidentally covers about 95% of actors of however many sexes the demigods of paraphilia have decided there are this week.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Thanks Davod.
There will never be another Trump.

[Davod]

‘These people DESPISE America’: Jennifer Granholm says US doesn’t have ‘much moral authority’ to call out Communist China

[Yes. But it's your administration that has locked up political prisoners without trial.]

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/10/18/these-people-despise-america-jennifer-granholm-says-us-doesnt-have-much-moral-authority-to-call-out-communist-china/

[Davod]

Kamala makes pro-McAuliffe video to be illegally played in over 300 Black churches in Virginia.

Why would a video of a person of East Indian extraction be peddled to 300 Black churches?

[Melinda]

When the Democrats run the table in the MidTerms, and they will, we well may end up with strange bedfellows.

Going to get interesting.

[Pinandpuller]

“Inside every elevator are two Ruth Marcuses.”—Ho-Chunk Proverb

[Pinandpuller]

Dave

Why doesn’t Lloyd’s of Laudanum see if. Navy CORPSE-men can sneak up an jab them, as Steve Miller put it?

[jim nj]

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/details-of-beirut-clashes-remain-unclear-as-lebanon-marks-protests-anniversary-682256

Details of Beirut clashes remain unclear as Lebanon marks protests anniversary
Finger pointing over the shooting in Beirut last week continued as Lebanon marked two years since anti-government protests began.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-civil-war-fears-hezbollah-chief-reveals-terror-group-has-100000-fighters/

Amid civil war fears, Hezbollah chief reveals terror group has 100,000 fighters
In first speech since 7 were killed in gunbattles on Beirut streets, Nasrallah accuses head of a right-wing Christian party of seeking to reignite sectarian violence in Lebanon

Not much of an economy left to fight over. Maybe that makes it a good time for a civil war, what with all the unemployed looking for something to do.

[Pinandpuller]

Isn’t the simplest explanation that Hank Johnson just doesn’t understand how tipping works?

[jim nj]

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/purges-a-plot-and-the-real-reason-why-xi-jinping-might-be-afraid-to-leave-china-20211018-p590x4.html

Purges, a plot and the real reason why Xi Jinping might be afraid to leave China

?

[jim nj]

https://www.independent.ie/business/world/chinas-xi-dials-back-economic-overhaul-amid-fears-of-unrest-40961494.html

China’s Xi dials back economic overhaul amid fears of unrest

[Dave (in MA)]

.

[GUS]

I am so sure that XI (ELEVEN) is AFRAID of unrest, yet XIDEN (CORRUPT CLOWN BEHOLDING TO XI (ELEVEN) Is unafraid of the INFORMATION that XI (ELEVEN) has vis a vis METH HUNTER, and THE BIG GUY.

[DCSCA]

‘These people DESPISE America’: Jennifer Granholm says US doesn’t have ‘much moral authority’ to call out Communist China'

"These people" were born in Canada: Granholm & Cruz.

[DCSCA]

“While I have never painted before, Hunter has inspired me to immediately begin painting because I’ve always felt I have a talent at that, and could surely get at least $2 million dollars per canvas—and probably a lot more. I will begin immediately. Our Country is crooked as hell! President Donald Trump"

He's sure to be better than Dubya's monstrosities.

But then there's...

"Hitler!!! There was a painter! He count paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!" - Franz Liebkind [Kenneth Mars] 'The Producers' 1968

[Jack Lillywhite]

Good morning. Another short sleep night. In bed by10 and wide awake at 0230hrs. Got a lot of reading done and explored the web.

[Narciso]

morning all,

as noted in the other thread, twitter is blocking images of empty shelves because 'context'

[Narciso]

prisoners on rikers, seem to have gone kamikazi scotsmen,

[Narciso]

what now?

https://twitter.com/wakeywakey16/status/1450040368150495232

[MissMarple2]

Good morning, all!

That quote from Trump is priceless!

[Narciso]

continuing this tripe

https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1450174948950089729

[MissMarple2]

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2021/10/18/374-evacuees-rescued-from-afghanistan-by-group-of-veterans-assisted-by-qatar-n423143

[James D.]

When the Democrats run the table in the MidTerms, and they will, we well may end up with strange bedfellows.

Can you clarify this, Mel?

Are you saying they’re going to run the table b/c of massive fraud and outright theft of the elections? Or because the GOP is so catastrophically stupid (and/or complicit with the Dems) that they will botch what ought to be an un-loseable election?

[Davod]

"“The military doesn’t care that the military left. What the military cares about is leaving people behind. It’s not in the military’s nature. The Woke generals have violated an oath that’s been in place for nearly 200 years. That’s why many veterans are coming apart, because how do you square this with our military tradition? You can’t. In my opinion, Biden made a deal with the Taliban to get out. But why?

[Look for a Hunter section in the Afghanistan gallery of art. Actually, the only art in the gallery, because the Taliban don't like art]

“For those involved in the withdrawal, it had to have been heart-wrenching to know that you’re leaving your people behind because it goes against everything we’ve been taught.”

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/10/19/exclusive-biden-generals-went-against-200-years-of-military-mindset-and-honor-in-abandoning-afghan-interpreters-n437894

[Davod]

The Red State article includes some good photos of the Biden/Kerry helicopters.

[Narciso]

check for the qatari museum in downtown doha,

last time they sent harris to atlanta, but she was also in miami, if memory served, they stole one

[Melinda]

Uniparty, Inc. will sweep the midterms. It's what they do, and it will be blatant.

[Melinda]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/11/if_polls_are_right_dems_are_doomed_if_theyre_wrong_its_worse_146544.html

Related.

[Narciso]

didn't you say this about the tea party in 2010, although there was less blanc mange then?

[MissMarple2]

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/steeles-defense-dossier-collides-avalanche-evidence

Steele's defense of dossier collides with an avalanche of evidence to the contrary

[Davod]

Another part of the Red State article:

“To show you how little Kerry knew about how things work, when we’d laid out the chains to put on the tires to make the trip down the hill, he kicked them out of the way as he walked by. So we had to lay them back out again."

[Melinda]

I don't think I made forecasts for the Tea Party, but it was impressive what they started. Probably when the fraud really had to be modernized and ramped up.

[Davod]

MM2. Truth is not a defense. They lie!

[MissMarple2]

https://thepostmillennial.com/proof-video-of-critical-race-theory-being-taught-in-6th-grade-class-in-ohio-emerges/

Article contains both video and transcript.

[Melinda]

Nice!

Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors appointed as a Los Angeles County Commissioner
thepostmillennial.com/blm-cofounder-…

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1450281804662026241

https://thepostmillennial.com/blm-cofounder-la-county-commissioner

[Davod]

Seattle Cops Unfurl ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Flags on Patrol Cars to Protest Vaccine Mandate

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/10/18/photos-seattle-cops-unfurl-dont-tread-me-flags-patrol-cars-protest-vaccine-mandate/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--as noted in the other thread, twitter is blocking images of empty shelves because 'context'--

I think the Pulizter should be canned and replaced with the Duranty - and I don't mean the Ol Schnozzola.

[Narciso]

or zimbabwe post

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1450448835441053697

[Davod]

"...faculty-challenged president..."

Sorry. I don't think any faculty would be challenging Biden.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors appointed as a Los Angeles County Commissioner--

Democrats finally found a way to discredit Joe McCarthy; stop hiding the communists under people's beds and just appoint them to public office instead.
Looking forward to Empress Nahncy and the Dems creating Marxist Pride Month and the Communist Pride parades on May Day next year. The red stripe in all the homo pride flags will no doubt bleed through all the rest of the stripes leaving just a big field of blood red.

[Narciso]

see if typepad blocked it

https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1450290835870863360

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/mike-pences-moment-of-truth

1. He's a weasel.
2. No one seems interested in Pence's toadies.
3. The Washington Examiner is untrustworthy.

Wade through this article and see if you think Pence demonstrates leadership material. I don't, and he was my governor.

[Narciso]

you can't make that up, pence showed up like a groundhog on hannity, as if everything doesn't redound to the choice he made,

[Narciso]

drucker was on morning joke, this morning nuff said

[Davod]

Doesn't this look terrible:

SHOCKING: Nike Exec. Larry Miller Admits to Murdering Teen, Receives Praise From Nike, CEO.

However. You finally come to this "...But before the 72-year-old Miller became the successful businessman he is today, he shot and killed a fellow teenager in 1965 and spent years in prison..."

[This lessens the sensationalism of the headline. The guy killed someone and paid the penalty.]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/18/shocking-nike-exec-larry-miller-admits-to-murdering-teen-receives-praise-from-nike-ceo/

[Melinda]

Comfortably Smug
@ComfortablySmug
Wow

Omri Ceren @omriceren
Look how hard they're trying.

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1450417405960855554

Check out the screenshot at the link.

[MissMarple2]

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost

· 2h
Opinion: Don’t rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes. Try to lower expectations. https://wapo.st/3jd2t9P