Go Beto!
Wish we didn’t have to talk about election races every day of every year, but it looks like former U.S. Congressman Beto O’Rourke is considering a run for Governor of Texas against GOP incumbent Greg Abbott in 2022.
Wish we didn’t have to talk about election races every day of every year, but it looks like former U.S. Congressman Beto O’Rourke is considering a run for Governor of Texas against GOP incumbent Greg Abbott in 2022.
Not exactly. Professional cyclists put out 200 – 300 Watts, averaged over a four-hour ride. If this guy can deliver 150 for a full hour, he’s doing great.
That’s 0.15 kilowatt-hrs. The average house in the U.S. uses 20 times that, about 30 kilowatt-hrs per day. So either you get 19 other bicyclists, or he rides 20 hours/day.
He may be smiling now, but alas, that won’t last long.

At a bail hearing Tuesday for a Proud Boy member from Kansas accused of storming the Capitol, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell said she was dubious about the legal merit of the effort to shift blame toward the former president and his inflammatory rhetoric about the election.

As you read the words of the new Secretary of the Interior, try to imagine their coming out of the mouth of someone–anyone–working for Donald Trump–in any capacity.
When Trump’s first Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke shrank national parks and monuments and resigned in disgrace due to several conflicts of interest complaints, he was replaced by David Bernhardt, who was investigated for his own set of conflict of interest issues.

How about identifying the culprit and removing it? That, btw, is what deodorant does; it works by killing the bacteria whose metabolic processes give off foul smelling gases.
The pic here is what made me think of all this. Can you imagine being inside this guy’s car?

Yes, this is a terrible shame, and it may be precisely this that ultimately condemns the inhabitants of this planet to a terrible future. (more…)


As we know, however, American schooling is already horrifically deficient in math and science, and making that worse would make the next generation that much less capable of competing on the global stage.
A cynic might say that we actually want our kids as uneducated as possible, because the college experience enables young people to think critically, an ability that is essentially poison to a government that is completely reliant on public ignorance. Very few college educated people believe that the 2020 election was stolen, that climate change and the pandemic are hoaxes, or that Trump was an honest hardworking servant of the American people.
If you’re a Republican, that should scare the hell out of you.

Kidding aside, I would choose Rick Perry: Texans hate government regulation so much that many of them would rather suffer greatly than to succumb to what the other 49 states are doing to take care of their citizens. (more…)

Reopening the economy during the pandemic is a very hot topic with them; they believe that it’s the liberals (who hate America) who want to keep everything locked down.
My mom quotes Fox News in her assertion that Dr. Fauchi (a leftist?) has changed his mind several times about the validity of face masks, social distancing and school/business closures, as if this means that he’s incompetent, corrupt, or both.
Isn’t it more likely that dealing with a one-of-a-kind global tragedy might require some trial and error, and changing course according to what we’re learning?
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