“Good morning Miss Cardinale, great St. Patrick’s Day party last night. What a scene at IMAO HQ!”
“If you say so sir, I don’t remember much. Like what happened to my clothes?”
“Ahem, no idea really. Can’t recollect anything.”
“Well perhaps my memory will improve.”
“I hope not.”
“What?”
“Nothing. Who won last week and what do we have for this week?”
“It is a banking special, very topical,”
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Per Walrus:
Tick-Borne Disease Babesiosis on the Rise in Northeast States
UPI | March 17, 2021 | Steven Reinberg
“The disease is going north,” Edouard Vannier, a babesiosis expert at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, told The New York Times. “And it’s probably due to climate change.”
Gee, and I hoped it was going south.
And it’s probably due to climactic change.
Heh.
Heh-heh.
U.K. Says It’s Glow Time, Declares Nuclear Energy “Environmentally Sustainable”, Giving It Access to the Same Investment Incentives [Taxpayer Dollars] as Renewable Energy
Hotair | 03/16/2023 | Beege WelbornIn a bald statement of fact that has to be galling to the rabid renewable faction so invested in making their fellow Brits’ lives miserable, Hunt laid out the plain truth – the U.K. must have something reliable to back up all the condition-dependent renewable energy sources. “Condition” meaning something must blow or shine before any power is generated.
Hunt told MPs: “We have increased the proportion of electricity generated from renewables from under 10% to nearly 40%.
“But because the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine,
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we will need another critical source of cheap and reliable energy. And that is nuclear.”
They just found this out? They never listened to even one single, solitary skeptic?
They’ve found out repeatedly this winter that is a truism.
That’d make a pretty good bummer sticker (sic):
“Winter Is a Truism.”
And it’s not only the weather that takes renewables out (as I’ve posted on before) – their reliability and maintenance issues, especially for wind, are hardly up to par for the bazillions being spent and the lives dependent upon the technology. You can’t keep lugging diesel generators to the highlands to try to keep them warm, or ferrying turbines back and forth from ocean wind farms that haven’t even become operational yet, and are already breaking down.
The country needs something humming along in the background. Unfortunately, they came to that realization a little late in the renewables game after self-righteously planning on shuttering everything.
In recent years the UK has generated about 15% of its power from its fleet of commercial nuclear power plants, but most are being retired this decade, with the last one – Sizewell B – due to close in 2035.
Since 2000, the UK has seen permanent reactor shutdowns at Hinkley Point A, Bradwell, Calder Hall, Hunterston, Oldbury, Sizewell, Chapelcross, Dungeness and Wylfa.
The only remaining operating plants are nine reactors across four sites at Hartlepool, Heysham, Sizewell B and Torness. There are two plants under construction at Hinkley Point C and another two in the pipeline at Sizewell C.
Everyone loves to be sold a bill of unicorn dreams, and it’s just the rudest shock when it doesn’t work out.
Now, it’s all about MAYDAY, MAYDAY and the “fast track.” Better late than never.
Virginia Judge Uses 19th-Century Slavery Law to Rule Frozen Embryos Are Property
The Guardian (UK) | 3/10/23In divorce case, judge rules human embryos may be valued and sold, and therefore may be considered ‘goods or chattels’
Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel”, a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th-century law governing the treatment of enslaved people.
The preliminary opinion by a Fairfax county circuit court judge, Richard Gardiner, which he delivered in a long-running dispute between a divorced husband and wife, is being criticized by some for wrongly and unnecessarily delving into a time in Virginia history when it was legal to own human beings.
We all know some very funny classic examples of misheard lyrics.
This isn’t a thread for ALL of them — just one particular example.
Walrus recently alluded to the All in the Family intro song with: “we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.”
By coincidence, I then read a FreeRepublic discussion thread on that opening song, where people shared their misinterpretations of the (muddy) audio of Carrol O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, and their tinny piano belting out: “Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.” I even had an argument with my brother over what the words were.
Those were the days — the days when there was no internet on which to look stuff up. There were libraries, and encyclopedias, but nothing that would settle a modern or real-time dispute like this.
Some misinterpretations, from that thread:
“G.I. roll a salary great!”
“We were all a cell rat’s mate”
I always thought they were talking about the football team.
I went decades trying to figure out that line.
Mine? “Gee, are all the salads great?”
1934 version LaSalle (from a commenter on that thread):
China’s Xi To Meet Putin in Moscow Next Week
BBC | 3/17/2023 | Steve RosenbergChina’s President Xi Jinping will travel to Moscow next week to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials say.
Straight Line of the Day: Overheard at Xi’s Meeting with Putin next week: …
Trump Says He Will Be Arrested On Tuesday, Calls For Protests
The Free Press-Tampa | 03/18/2023 | Mike Jenkins
