“Looks like Mr. Walrus is MIA again, good time for my washing up.”
Winner
This Week
This poll is no longer accepting votes
Archive of entries posted on 3rd August 2024
Let’s Go Brandin’
Harris the climate hawk tries to move toward the middle
Washington Examiner | 8/02/24 | Nancy VuVice President Kamala Harris once was the left’s dream “climate” candidate — calling for a ban on fracking, launching investigations into Big Oil companies, and cosponsoring the Green New Deal. But as she looks to win the White House, she has moved toward the center to win over votes in key energy states, while also seeking to retain support from environmentalist groups.
Since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has walked back her 2019 call to ban fracking. On Wednesday, she also reversed her stance on supporting a federal job guarantee, which was included in the Green New Deal resolution she once co-sponsored.
…
“I call it Pennsylvania-pandering,” American Energy Institute founder and CEO Jason Isaac said of Harris’s recent campaign statements on fracking. “I really think all this is because she recognizes the importance of the electoral votes in Pennsylvania and Ohio.”
Ohi-ho’ing?
Texas-kissing?
How-Dare-Utah?
“The political party that once brought us Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman is now strapped with such a dearth of talent that the best it can offer is a giggling nincompoop for the highest office in the land.
“Ever since she first achieved statewide office in California, it has been painfully obvious that Ms. Harris was a pathetic lightweight…”
— Mark C. Ross, American Thinker | 1 Aug, 2024
The Evaporating Kamala Harris
If I’ve Heard About Microplastics for Twenty-One Years Now, Why Haven’t Scientists?
Hawaiʻi residents may see this in local food, water supply
KHON2 | July 31, 2024 | Sandy Harjo-Livingston
The first one who says “Harjo-Livingston, I presume” will be sanctioned.
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that come from larger plastic items breaking down over time. These small particles can last for hundreds of years and can enter our bodies through the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has started a groundbreaking study to explore how these microplastics affect our lung health, thanks to a three-year grant of $352,126 from the National Science Foundation.
$117,375 per year is pretty much a slap in the face.
And 5 years ago:
Here comes another global disaster! Microplastics.
American Thinker | 06/07/2019 | Daniel G. JonesScientists thought it was bad, but it’s even worse than they imagined. Now it’s a potential catastrophe that will affect all our lives — unless we take action now. Otherwise, life on Earth will be irreparably harmed.
I’m not talking about global warming. I’m talking about global warming part II: microplastics!
Today, Fox News reported the release of a “groundbreaking study” of Monterey Bay by the Scripps Oceanographic Institute. A Scripps scientist summarized the findings: “Everywhere we looked and in every animal we looked, we found microplastics!”
The accompanying film was oddly irrelevant. It showed ocean waters filled with trash — pieces of metal, wood, glass, and plastic. Ugly, to be sure, but nothing that threatened the ocean’s inhabitants. And nothing, obviously, that was microscopic.
Jonathan Hunt of Fox News elaborated: “Scientists say this is a, quote, ‘wakeup call for the world[.]’ … What they found horrified them. Microplastics — tiny broken-up pieces of plastic everywhere, from the surface to the seabed. Those small pieces are being eaten by small creatures and, in turn, by bigger fish, then turning up on our dinner plate.”
If this is a problem off the coast of eco-friendly California, it must also be a problem elsewhere, right? “It’s highly likely,” continued Hunt, quoting scientists, “that pretty much every single area of every single one of the world’s oceans is already littered by plastics pollution.”
We are already…doomed.
Fortunately there’s hope. Scripps scientists promise to work on a solution in concert with corporations and government. “But,” they told Hunt, “it starts with each of us getting rid of those single-use plastic items, such as plastic water bottles.”
Aha — this has a familiar odor.
IMAO Material?
Top aide to ‘America’s worst mayor’ Tiffany Henyard fired
Washington Examiner | 8/01/24 | Annabella RosciglioneA top aide to embattled Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been fired from one of his jobs.
The aide, Keith Freeman, was fired in July for repeatedly not showing up to work. Henyard serves as Dolton’s mayor, but she is also the town supervisor of the neighboring township of Thornton, where Freeman was fired.
…
Freeman was working as both Henyard’s senior adviser in Thornton Township and as village administrator in Dolton. Payroll records indicate he is still employed in Dolton.
…
According to the Chicago Tribune, Freeman was given a written warning about his behavior in June. He was told he needed to have “better communications of [his] whereabouts and more time spent at the township.” Records from the township also show he worked just 46 hours in the entire month of June, including several weeks with nearly zero hours.
Straight Line of the Day: “How Are You Feeling, Pennsylvanians?”
We went to Pennsylvania to ask voters how they’re feeling. Here’s what we learned
NPR | July 30, 2024 | Obed Manuel, Steve InskeepWe knocked on doors, visited local parks and attractions and even attended a family dinner.
! That’s some in-depth research.
