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So much news …

(1) Pay now or pay later, but somebody pays. And I’m surprised that the WaPo is reporting on this:

(2) Harris calls a question about whether Trump will put all non-white people in camps “an important point.” She doesn’t go so far as to say Trump will do it, but she says:

You’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think so. Well, which is? He is achieving his intended effect to make you scared. He is running full time on a campaign that is about instilling fear. Not about hope, not about optimism, not about the future. But about fear.

Another case of Harris saying Trump is doing what she is doing here. The entire Democrat platform is based on two things: fear of Trump and the giving of supposedly free stuff by the Democrats.

(3) Hat tip: commenter “sdferr.”

Good for Tom Cotton.

(4) The Harris campaign lies about a musical interlude at a Trump rally. The rally was stopped to attend to the needs of two people in the crowd who had medical emergencies, and the Harris campaign says it happened because Trump got lost and confused. That’s rich, coming from the group that covered up Biden’s cognitive difficulties for years. And although even ABC said it wasn’t true, Harris has continued the lie:

(5) Federal employees are worried that Trump might win.

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Roundup — 54 Comments

  1. Sen. Cotton’s not the only one who’s pissed off today; Barry haz a hissy:

    Who is riling up Obama?

    Remember the scene in Die Hard when John McClane’s wife sees a terrorist fly into a tantrum? “He’s still alive,” she concludes. “Only John could make someone that angry.”

    In Obama’s case, it’s one of three people: 1) Trump; 2) Kamala; 3) Netanyahu. Who is riling up Obama?

    https://x.com/Doranimated/status/1846656904451575899

    Brief video of Obama giving the what for to PuddingBrain at link.

  2. (1) from that WP article:

    Solar panels can provide a ton of power between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.; in states like California during the spring, solar can almost provide all of the state’s energy during those hours.

    That seems wrong – some of the posts at Power Line show solar as falling way short of anything close to that.

    (3) Gotta love politicians like Senator Cotton – makes toiling thru election crap worth the effort…Ditto on the ‘Good for Tom Cotton‘!

  3. I would feel far more confident if Tom Cotton were the nominee instead of Donald Trump.

  4. And I’m surprised that the WaPo is reporting on this:

    –neo

    I’m seeing this sort of Oh-by-the-way-things-aren’t-as-simple-as-you’ve-been-told all over the place

    The MSM seems to be hedging its bets in case Trump wins.

    They are worried.

  5. The MSM will be in trouble if, we pray, Trump is elected. But Federal employees, the do-nothing Democratic sinecures, should and will be in trouble if he wins, The Federales will do eveything they can to undermine him. It is what (loyal??NO) Democrats do!
    But when he underfunds their Departments, e.g. Education, what can they do? The GOP must hold the House.
    Trump has been persecuted since 2016, and he is hanging tough. That is a great test for a POTUS.

  7. I couldn’t figure out how Allred, who is running against Ted Cruz for Senate, is claiming he opposes boys in girls sports when his record says otherwise. Then I looked at the GLAAD ( Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) website and it was clear. He is using their definition of women . ”
    From GLAAD in link below:

    ” Transgender girls are girls, and transgender women are women. Some transgender women play sports, and when they do , they are ‘ not men playing in women’s sports.” https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-responds-to-lgbtq-questions-and-answers-at-the-us-senate-debate-between-rep-colin-allred-and-sen-ted-cruz/

  9. I should probably say I thought that Allred was just lying and sending a code by saying something like ” we are all God’s children” or something to that effect in the ad I saw. Then I saw the GLAAD article on the debate and it made “sense “. He was speaking Orwellian.

  10. sdferr, of course leftists thought she did well. By any sensible standard, she didn’t. As usual, she did not answer questions and pivoted to “Trump, Trump, Trump.” She shouted over Baier while refusing to answer his questions.

  11. Solar farms….

    I shot a marble into the air. It fell to earth I know not where.

    Big target though.

  14. It’s ironic, the only party that has actually put nonwhite people in camps is the Democrats during WWIi.

  15. For those who can’t read X, go to the Instapundit, where many clips and comments are presented so you can see them.

  16. Baier was tougher than I expected.

    Good.

    I doubt it loses the election for Harris, but it didn’t help.

  17. Skip:

    Yes, when she said she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently from Biden, that may have been the truth.

    Then again, may it was another lie, because she probably would have been even further to the left than Biden.

    I think she has accomplished the astounding, unprecedented feat of making Biden seem relatively good.

  18. On the rooftop solar, yes, it’s been raising the cost of electricity for everyone, and destabilizing the grid. Here in NC the subsidy to homeowners for the solar is being scaled back, meaning many will never recover the cost of putting the panels on their roofs.

    Plus, you have to hope you never have a house fire. Firefighters won’t go up there, for their own protection. Those things keep generating electricity and will burn both the roof and the firefighters.

  19. Here’s the whole Baier-Harris interview on YouTube courtesy Trump’s YouTube channel.

    –“MUST WATCH: Kamala Harris’ Disastrous Interview with Fox News”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLC2XjW_Z08

    Those one the right, such as Ben Shapiro, call the interview a disaster for Harris. If one were objectively scoring it as a debate, it was, since she never responded directly to any question Baier brought up. “But Trump…” was her standard dodge.

    Judging by web comments I see, her supporters don’t agree, which isn’t surprising. However, I doubt any undecided voters were persuaded to vote Harris by this interview and perhaps some decided to give up on her because she was not forthcoming.

    The interview was only 26:44 long. Harris’s handlers told Baier to wrap it up. Supposedly Harris is considering an appearance on Joe Rogan’s show, But there is no way she could handle two plus hours with Rogan for stamina reasons alone.

    Trump, we are told, is going to appear on Joe Rogan, which sounds great to me:

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/live-blog-posts/trump-confirms-hes-going-on-joe-rogans-podcast/

  20. Just saw clips of it. She was on defensive a lot of the time. And, spewing lies constantly. Did not answer the questions, which I am surprise were very good. Baier did a good job. Did not let her off the hook.
    Say Trump is unstable without any proof is standard Dem CaCa

  21. Kate,
    That’s interesting info about the solar rooftop panels and house fires. Lots of solar around here. Some of my friends are complaining about the change in return on their ‘investment’. I do not have solar but I do have a Tesla and I am a bit paranoid about a garage fire. I have heard the heat from a fire involving a Tesla is so intense it’s hard to put out one of these fires. I have moved the various fuel cans for the rider mower and power tools as far away as possible but I seem to be the only one taking this seriously. Maybe because my best friend’s father’s jet was destroyed in a hanger fire caused by old rags. Spontaneous combustion – it’s a thing!
    Don’t know how to post pics here but husband and I can see the ATLAS comet with the naked eye from our deck here on the North Shore of Oahu. Took pics with a standard iphone 11 that adjusted for the darkness and they came out great.
    What a world.
    To think I flew all the way to the Big Island to see Haley’s back in the day.
    ‘Clicks heels together 3 times and repeats; “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like…”‘

  22. Didn’t watch the live Baier-Harris interview, but did watch the Fox video of it later. 5-6 minutes of it from the beginning and then a couple of quick scans.

    Did look at several sites talking about it – depended on whether it was a DEM or REP site. DEMs – “she did great!” REP sites were like reviews here.

    Was immediately turned-off by Baier’s first ‘Question’ that seemed to go on and on, interrupting Harris when she started answering the Immigration question – as if the Trump team had written it for him. Baier:

    Let me just finish and I’ll…

    Interrupting Harris again, trying to interject MORE of HIS rambling POINT/s for over 30 seconds!?!?! He was terrible, and seemed not to want Harris to give an answer to the Immigration problem.

    By 4:21 she had showed poise, control during interruptions, and hammered her points on Immigration home—including Trump ordering that the Immigration Bill be killed.

    That was all I could take. Quick scans showed nothing new, but I couldn’t get over Baier’s first 4-5 minutes, i.e. he was terrible, IMHO. The rest mattered not at that point…

  23. Molly Brown, park the Tesla outside. My neighbor, an electronics engineer with two electric vehicles, parks them both in his driveway, not in the garage.

  24. Baier’s first question was how many illegals have been released into the country on Harris/Biden’s watch. She didn’t answer, and immediately pivoted to the lie that “Trump” shut down the immigration bill (which came up at year three and which would not have stopped the flood of illegals). It went downhill from there. Baier asked her the questions her friends in the Democrat media wouldn’t ask, and she was outraged. She switched to anger because she has no rational answers to give. Her entire schtick is “Trump is bad! I’m not Trump!”

  25. Amazing contrast between Kate’s analysis of Baier’s first question and that given by Konserned Kermit™

    Our trolls aren’t what they used to be.

  28. Our trolls aren’t what they used to be.
    ==
    Each successive one has been more prolix and more deceitful.

  29. BrooklynBoy on October 16, 2024 at 5:26 pm said:
    I would feel far more confident if Tom Cotton were the nominee instead of Donald Trump.
    —-
    If Cotton was the nominee, all we would be hearing about this month would be his underage boyfriends

  30. Day ending in y i guess kermit she lets 13 million including the taliban security guard but orange man

    Now bret could have pressed on the details of the bill but newscorps management wouldnt let him go further

  31. @ Kate

    Baier & Harris were talking about the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.

    NY Post saw it differently than Newsweek. DEMs saw it differently than REPs. Doubtful the interview changed the votes of any DEM or REP.

    My main point – is that Baier made Harris look good during those first 4-5 minutes, IMHO. Optics – how did the undecided and/or Independents see it?

    Baier was out of his league. He started looking pale, anxious, and not paying attention to what she was saying—whilst looking like he had another point he wanted to interject. It quickly turned into what appeared to be a debate instead of an interview, IMHO.

    Basically, sensing he had lost control, he resorted to trying to rush it. He did a terrible interview…

  32. Senior U.S. Officials, including President Joe Biden, have been notified by Israeli Officials that Yahya Sinwar, the Leader of Hamas, was likely Eliminated by a Strike this morning on the Gaza Strip; with DNA and Fingerprint Testing ongoing to determine the Identity of a Body at the Site of the Strike.

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1846905925216399761

    Greetings on the holiday.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pm-directs-his-aide-to-tell-families-that-no-hostages-harmed-in-incident-where-terrorist-strongly-resembling-sinwar-was-killed/

  33. Karmi, if you thought Harris looked good and Baier looked bad, our perceptions are so different that we will never agree.

  34. Good news, sdferr. I don’t think Sinwar is getting the reception in the hereafter which he expected.

  35. If Cotton was the nominee, all we would be hearing about this month would be his underage boyfriends
    ==
    He’s been hit with a number of smears over the years. That one would be novel.

  38. Obamacares for energy production through progressive affordability and availability in a new green (i.e. naive) deal. That said, reduce your [carbon] footprint. Abort.

  39. In case no one has noticed; the more that “green” energy (wind, solar) is used to supply electricity in a given locale or nation (UK, Germany, Calif., etc) , the more expensive electricity becomes for the citizenry.
    Of course, this is intentional; the “elites,” come hell or high water, are aiming to force average folks to cut back on energy use and one way to do this – citing the total bullshit mantra , “save the planet,” is to make electricity really expensive.

    Rest assured, when it comes to saving the planet , don’t hold your breath expecting the climate change cheer leaders ( Bill Gates, Kerry, democrats in general, etc.) to lead by example and rid themselves of private planes, their 8 range, top of the line gas cooking stoves, their gigantic home refrigerators, the SUVs they drive and , oh yes, their multiple homes.
    Obama – a typical climate change supporter – has 4 homes; one OCEANFRONT in Hawaii, one OCEANFRONT on Martha’s Vineyard, and one each in Chicago and Washington, DC. Apparently, when the sea levels do rise the ocean waters will magically go around his two ocean front homes.
    Why part a Red Sea when you can part the Pacific AND Atlantic Oceans ??
    That is why he is the black messiah of the democrat party and has already served as the defacto president for 3 terms (going on 4 if Cackling Harris prevails.).

    One would think that observing what politicians and people of influence actually do and observing how they live, would be the determining factor in whether or not to pay heed to what they are saying.
    Apparently this is not the case.

    As far as Tom Cotton demanding anything from Joke Bidet, he is wasting his time.
    Bidet will provide Cotton two middle fingers, subsequent to which, Cotton and the dumbpublicans will have much to talk about (which will be ignored by the media) and maybe they will subpoena some folks from the executive branch to testify before a hastily called congressional committee.
    Those testifying will generally respond to questions by stating “I’ll have to get back to you on that one,” “I don’t remember,” “I can’t talk about that at this time,” “that was not my decision,” “it’s still under consideration,” ” I’m not sure about that,” ” I don’t have to answer that because of executive privilege, ” etc etc.
    The “witness” then may be censured (fat chance of that ) and the end result will be a big, fat zero for the dumbpublicans; nobody will be held accountable.
    Nothing will change.

    If a president (or any federal agency) defies Congress and violates / ignores existing law and nobody does anything about it or nobody can do anything about it, then we no longer live in a Constitutional Republic.

    By the way; how ironic is it that the enviro wacko crowd that moved heaven and earth to delay/ discourage/ help shutter nuclear power plants because they were akin to atomic bombs, is eerily silent now that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc., is planning to power their AI data centers with nuclear plants (some being modular nuclear plants).
    All of a sudden, an atomic disaster or the “problem” of nuclear waste is of no import.

    Let me guess; it’s because the Silicon Valley billionaire bunch are all hard core leftist democrats or because these nuke plants will help “save the earth.”
    IMHO, it’s the former.

  40. There is no such thing as green energy is that clear its a delusion like the food pyramid.

  42. @David+Foster:People have a hard time understanding that electricity is not a commodity that can be stored like a pile of coal or iron ore.

    This. Cheap storage of electrical energy would go a long way to making renewables viable.

    The cheapest way to store “electrical energy” is use it to pump water uphill. This would work really well along the Columbia river. But wind farms don’t get tax credit unless their power is actually put on the grid, so the dams throttle back when the wind is going–they are required to, thanks to the FERC ruling that BPA may not “discriminate” against wind energy. Wind energy displaces hydro energy in the Pacific Northwest, for no net carbon reduction. And because wind is intermittent, natural gas has to be built as backup, so the net result of adding wind generation to the Pacific Northwest has been an in increase in greenhouse emissions.

    This isn’t because of the wind energy, it’s because of the tax structure that makes the wind energy economically viable and the Federal regulators putting their fat thumbs on the scale. If wind energy were used to pump water back upstream of the dams there’d be little issue except for the overspending on something people don’t really need or want.

  43. @sdferr:In order to obtain a sense of where the whole “energy” notion got going

    I think Aristotle is too far back, it would just be distracting, like thinking Democritus’ atoms tell you anything about today’s atoms. It’s really the 19th century where they picked up all the “energy” pieces lying around and shaped them into modern ideas about energy.

    The public talks about energy as something like a substance that can be moved from here to there and “used up” even though if asked probably everyone can recite the law of conservation of energy. It’s really more like a unit of account, and it’s pretty abstract.

  45. It’s an origin story, and in my view, there’s nothing to be found “too far back”, unless we’re to abandon all such pursuits as archeology, geology, paleontology, plate techtonics, etc. It’s human “History” after all, the modern godhead itself.

  46. @sdferr:It’s an origin story, and in my view, there’s nothing to be found “too far back”…

    Depends on your purpose. If you want to know what “energy” means today, it’s too far back; whatever you learn from the Greeks about “energy” you would have to abandon in order to understand the moderns. If you’re interested in just the history of the word itself, and its radical changes over time, then it’s certainly appropriate to go that far back.

    Similarly, if you’re interested in modern education, then going back to the Greek “skhole” and learning that it originally meant “holding back” or “keeping clear” doesn’t inform you of much about or grant you much insight into today’s schools.

  47. 1st appearance of “phusis” in the written record:
    Homer, Odyssey, book 10, line 303

    [275] But when, as I went through the sacred glades, I was about to come to the great house of the sorceress, Circe, then Hermes, of the golden wand, met me as I went toward the house, in the likeness of a young man with the first down upon his lip, in whom the charm of youth is fairest. [280] He clasped my hand, and spoke, and addressed me: “‘Whither now again, hapless man, dost thou go alone through the hills, knowing naught of the country? Lo, thy comrades yonder in the house of Circe are penned like swine in close-barred sties. And art thou come to release them? Nay, I tell thee, thou shalt not [285] thyself return, but shalt remain there with the others. But come, I will free thee from harm, and save thee. Here, take this potent herb, and go to the house of Circe, and it shall ward off from thy head the evil day. And I will tell thee all the baneful wiles of Circe. [290] She will mix thee a potion, and cast drugs into the food; but even so she shall not be able to bewitch thee, for the potent herb that I shall give thee will not suffer it. And I will tell thee all. When Circe shall smite thee with her long wand, then do thou draw thy sharp sword from beside thy thigh, [295] and rush upon Circe, as though thou wouldst slay her. And she will be seized with fear, and will bid thee lie with her. Then do not thou thereafter refuse the couch of the goddess, that she may set free thy comrades, and give entertainment to thee. But bid her swear a great oath by the blessed gods, [300] that she will not plot against thee any fresh mischief to thy hurt, lest when she has thee stripped she may render thee a weakling and unmanned.’ “So saying, Argeiphontes gave me the herb, drawing it from the ground, and showed me its nature. At the root it was black, but its flower was like milk. [305] Moly the gods call it, and it is hard for mortal men to dig; but with the gods all things are possible. Hermes then departed to high Olympus through the wooded isle, and I went my way to the house of Circe, and many things did my heart darkly ponder as I went.

    Someone — we don’t know who — thought this “thing”, nature, and we’re stuck with it! Go figure.

  48. Why yes, I agree it does depend on one’s purpose. Residing in ignorance of a thing, or not, as the case may be.

  50. @sdferr:That notion of abandoning is, on consideration, suggestive of a problem with the moderns.

    Not necessarily. Sometimes change is the right thing to do, and sometimes it isn’t; you have to know whether what you’re giving up is baby or bathwater.

  51. Heh. (I jest)

    Baby — bathwater. Good — evil. Just — unjust. High — low. Beautiful — ugly.

    Lots of wonderful stuff to sort out.

    Yet let’s take Biden’s solution: “Don’t”. (Still jesting)

    Kinda like he over-imbibed Kant’s Antinomies

  52. About those duck curves in the electricity usage pattern: I wonder if it was something that could have been predicted beforehand, or whether society really just had to build a whole renewable-based network in fact – make the costly mistake in the flesh – in order to find out fully. Be it noted that we haven’t quite “found out fully” yet, in the sense that there hasn’t yet been a true collapse of the power grid, in Cali or elsewhere, due to the duck curve well and truly bottoming out for hours at a time.

    I like thinking about things like that duck curve overlay because it seems to me to be the kind of ‘political’ problem that lends itself well to root-cause analysis. Boy, if I were President, how I would love to talk to those EIA folks every week!

  53. Solar:
    Kate, I have no idea what the rules are in NC, but don’t bad mouth all solar because of your state regs or California’s. California is the place mandating EVs while having brown outs and spending billions on high-speed rail between two minor population centers. They’re nuts.
    Solar does make sense in some places, not in others.
    It certainly does for me in Arizona.
    As to the claim that solar shifts cost to non-solar households- again, that’s local regs. Here’s the list of charges on my bill from March, which has close to even daytime and nighttime.

    customer account charge
    delivery charge inter
    delivery charge intra
    environmental benefits surcharge
    system benefits charge
    power supply adjustment
    metering
    meter reading
    billing
    federal transmission and ancillary services
    federal transmission cost adjustment
    court resolution surcharge
    grid access charge
    LFCR adjustor
    Those charges, none of which are related to the actual energy I consumed, amount to over $65.
    The actual generation charges were a little over $61.
    IOW, I was charged more for infrastructure than for the actual power.
    I sold $88 worth of power (at the same $/kwhr rate as I paid) and that saved APS from having to build additional generating capacity. It didn’t need to be saved, the big power demand here is air conditioning load during daylight hours.
    My solar capacity is such that, over the year, I break even, paying in during winter, and getting back in summer.
    I save money, APS saves money, and the infrastructure is supported.

  54. Agree with buddhaha – the problem is not solar energy but the gubmint’s attempts to lay their hands on a technology that liberates the citizen from the *regulatory* grid.

    Current battery-based storage is perfectly adequate at the level of the individual homestead. Add a small generator and you are free of their clutches.

    That must not be allowed to happen.

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