The EV Flame Out
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 10/6/2024 12:06:22 AM
It is now, or should be, common knowledge that electric vehicles—cars, trucks, buses, bikes, scooters—under conditions of even low humidity or water damage, are prone to catching fire, owing to the unstable nature of the lithium-ion battery. As Chris Morrison writes at The Daily Skeptic, EVs are known to explode “with the force of a bomb blasting super-heated jets of flame, melting and decomposing nearby structural materials including metal and concrete, and sending vast amounts of toxic fumes into any enclosed atmosphere.” [Tweet] Jammed into underground parking garages or packed in ferries, EVs are harbingers of almost unimaginable disaster—ecological and safety menaces
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The Biden-Harris administration has had a particularly poor response to Hurricane Helene, all while Milton is on its way to hit Florida as a Category 5 storm. Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have used the storm as a way to go after former and potentially future President Donald Trump, with Harris' campaign even looking to use Trump's fellow Republicans against him. This includes Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, whose state was hit particularly hard, especially Asheville.
On Sunday night, the Kamala HQ thought it was the right time to quote Tillis and reference Trump's X account.
I’m old enough to remember the criticism of the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Bush administration bore the brunt of the criticism, especially when the mainstream press pilloried the president for not traveling to the area more quickly to see the damage for himself.
There was a racial component to the criticism, of course, because Bush was a Republican and many of the victims of Katrina were black. The Sunday after the hurricane, Nancy Giles said on CBS This Morning:
After meeting with Louisiana officials last week, Rev. Jesse Jackson said: "Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions,
A FEMA disaster preparedness meeting about 'focusing efforts on LGBTQIA+' victims has resurfaced following the agency's response to Hurricane Helene.
In a virtual meeting from March 2023, FEMA Emergency Management Specialist Tyler Atkins alarmingly said the agency was prioritizing LGBTQ people because they are 'already disadvantaged.'
'They already have their own things to deal with. So you add a disaster on top of that, it’s just compounding on itself,' Atkins, who uses he/they pronouns, told the panel.
It comes as FEMA has faced mounting backlash in the weeks since Hurricane Helene tore through the southeast and killed at least 227 people,
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire said Saturday night Vice President Kamala Harris “rushed” the selection of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate due to President Joe Biden withdrawing from the presidential race under pressure.
Harris tapped Walz to be her vice president over Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania Aug. 6, a little over two weeks after Biden announced he would not seek reelection July 21, following mounting calls from within his party to step aside after his disastrous performance during a June 27 debate. Sununu said that Democrats “stole the nomination” for Harris by forcing Biden to drop out.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Removal Operations officers (ERO) assigned to the Boston area apprehended a Salvadoran migrant unlawfully present in the United States who was wanted in his home country for crimes against humanity. Officers arrested the 50-year-old fugitive in Tisbury on September 17, according to ICE officials. The migrant, who is currently detained and awaiting removal, has a lengthy immigration history within the United States.
ERO Boston Acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde described the crimes the unnamed migrant is accused of committing as “extremely serious and disturbing” saying, “He attempted to hide out in Massachusetts and escape the law in his home country.
Campaign Estimates More than 105,000 People
Attended Trump’s Return Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania 12 replies
Attended Trump’s Return Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania 12 replies
BUTLER, Pennsylvania — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign estimates more than 105,000 people attended Trump’s return rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday — just a few months after the 45th president narrowly survived an assassination attempt.
More than 105,000 supporters attended Trump’s return rally in Butler, a campaign aide told Breitbart News.
Video footage of the October 5 event surfaced on social media, showcasing the massive crowd. [Tweet, video]
As Breitbart News reported, Trump supporters vying to get a spot close to the stage were seen camping out near the entrance to Saturday’s rally on Friday night.
When Breitbart News arrived back on scene at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning,
Real America’s Voice Ben Bergquam was in East Palestine, OH, last week to expose contamination in the water almost 2 years after the train derailment in the small town caused unspeakable chaos. The tragic event occurred on February 3, 2023.
“I’m here with Chris Albright, we’re in East Palestine. I am shocked. We just came down by the creek that runs out where all of this disaster happened. The community is being told they need to settle, that there is nothing left here there is nothing to see here, that it’s safe,” Bergquam said.
“It is a lie. What the government, what the EPA is saying is a lie.
In the wake of Hurricane Helene’s wrath, residents of the tiny town of Bat Cave, North Carolina, are facing a devastating reality — they’ve been left to fend for themselves.
FEMA, the federal agency tasked with disaster relief, has all but abandoned the community, citing a “road closed” sign as the reason for their absence.
As the town continues to pick up the pieces, it’s clear that this is yet another example of Biden’s government failure, and local residents are none too pleased.
Chelsea Atkins, 38, a health researcher originally from Buffalo, NY, shared her frustration with FEMA’s incompetence in an interview with the New York Post.
Joe Biden waited TEN DAYS to send troops with advanced technological assets to Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene made landfall.
Hundreds of people are still missing after Helene. Search and recovery efforts were delayed because Joe Biden was lounging at the beach last weekend and Kamala Harris was busy fundraising in California. [Tweet]
26 out of the 28 North Carolina counties destroyed by Hurricane Helene voted for President Trump in 2020.
527,000 Trump votes and 113,000 Biden votes.
Many people in the Trump counties won’t be able to vote now. [Tweet]
The Biden-Harris Regime is purposely slow-rolling assistance to the hardest-hit areas in North Carolina.
It’s about the election.
What does Hurricane Helene have to do with abortion?
Absolutely nothing unless you’re Young Turks Founder and CEO Cenk Uygur.
While Helene should unite Americans to rise above partisanship and all of its usual squabbles, Uygur took to X on Friday to make sure everyone stays in the muck by suggesting Helene is punishment from God against states where abortion is outlawed. [Tweet]
Uygur’s comments are pretty horrendous when we consider the death toll from Helene is over 200 and will probably be higher as emergency services continue their work in the areas affected, but his misquoting of scripture is an issue in itself as blasphemy.
Country music star Jason Aldean—the man who brought you the hit “Try That in a Small Town”—took to the stage Saturday night in Macon, Georgia, for a concert, and a surprise guest wowed the crowd with a virtual appearance on the huge screens.
It was none other than GOP nominee Donald Trump, and he had a message for the fans: get out and vote, because this could be the most important election in the history of our country.
Watch: [Tweet, video]
He heaped praise on the country star:
Appreciate it. And I'm going to be good to you. I hope everyone is having an incredible time with the great Jason Aldean,
Dem Apologist Dana Bash Tries to Cover
for Harris-Biden Hurricane Failures—Lara
Trump Not Having It 4 replies
for Harris-Biden Hurricane Failures—Lara
Trump Not Having It 4 replies
CNN commentator Dana Bash barely pretends to be objective anymore; she doesn't bother to hide that she is a shamelessly partisan hack pretending to be a journalist. Republican National Committee co-chair and Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump wasn’t having it Sunday, however, pushing back strongly as Bash tried to shill for the Harris-Biden regime by arguing that they’d done a great job on their Hurricane Helene response.
Except, of course, nobody is actually impressed with their lame efforts.
Just like at the debates, a leftist journalist couldn’t simply let a conservative speak their mind, and Bash felt the need to interrupt and put on her own spin.
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Pope Francis has announced his intention to make 21 new cardinals on December 8, among whom is the pro-LGBT Dominican friar Timothy Radcliffe. In 2023, the pontiff chose the woke friar to open the Vatican Synod on Synodality, who began his words by confessing, “I am old, white, a Westerner, and a man! I don’t know which is worse.” (snip) “I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met,” he stated. (snip) In 2013, Father Radcliffe argued that gay sex can be “Eucharistic,” expressive of Christ’s self-gift in Holy Communion.
The art of the traditional signature is becoming a thing of the past thanks to the rise of online contracts, e-signatures and PIN numbers.
Surveys show that just a fifth of young adults aged 18 to 24 now have a personal signature, and a similar share of adults use their signature so infrequently, they can't produce the same one consistently.
And that matches what teachers are seeing.
Dr Lori Koerner, the assistant superintendent for the Riverhead Central School District in New York, told DailyMail.com: 'I have encountered too many secondary students and employment candidates who cannot sign documents relative to their onboarding process.'
Walz to sit down for solo Fox News interview
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Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), the Democratic vice presidential nominee, will join Fox News Sunday for his first solo interview on Oct. 6 at 2:00 p.m. according to a Saturday announcement.
The outlet said Shannon Bream will ask him about the state of the race, the September vice presidential debate and other news of the day. Walz has come under attention recently from some in the media for not doing more appearances.
“I’m bewildered a little bit by the absence of both the presidential candidate and the vice presidential candidate on television since they became the nominees,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said o ahead of the vice presidential debate earlier this week.
The better Israel does in its ongoing retaliation against Iran and its terrorist proxies, the more it seems as if their supposed allies have lined up to thwart their efforts in every fashion imaginable. The latest to join the parade was French President Emmanuel Macron who is no longer willing to settle for Israel "showing restraint" against Lebanon and other targets. Yesterday, on a French radio program, Macron urged a return to "a political solution" to the ongoing dispute. He clarified what he meant, saying that the West should end arms deliveries to Israel for use in Gaza. The response from Prime Minister Netanyahu was rapid
NBC News chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that Vice President Kamala Harris has to “double down” on doing serious interviews because she is not polling well with male voters.
Mitchell said, “They have to double down on doing more interviews and serious interviews because what I’m hearing from Democratic and Republican business people and a lot of men. She has such a big problem with men. I think there’s an undercount of the Trump vote. I think there’s misogyny in all of this, black and white men, big problem.”
We should be used to the idea by now that the Biden administration does not exist in the same time frame of the universe as the rest of us. You might recall the $7.5 billion set aside in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to build 500,000 EV charging stations across the country. As of June, exactly eight charging stations had been built.
Amazingly, in that same Act, Congress authorized the Commerce Department to create an "Internet For All" scheme, which was supposed to bring broadband internet to everyone in America at an affordable price by 2030.
Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz fessed up to making numerous false statements, but implied that voters aren’t too concerned about his “misspeaking.”
When confronted about his various fibs ranging from being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre to his wife’s reproductive assistance and more, Walz argued that sometimes he gets tripped up by his passion.
“I think they heard me the other night speaking passionately about gun violence and misspeaking,” Walz told “Fox News Sunday,” alluding to how he flubbed an answer during the VP debate and sputtered out the unfortunate turn-of-phrase, “I’ve become friends with school shooters.”
On Friday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that votes cast for a pro-ranked-choice voting constitutional amendment in the 2024 election will count — even though nearly 38,000 signatures supporting the amendment proposal were duplicates.
In its decision, the Grand Canyon State’s high court rejected a challenge seeking to have votes cast for Proposition 140 voided after a lower court special master disclosed that 37,657 pairs of signatures gathered in support of the measure were duplicates. As previously argued by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club (AZFEC), the finding “place[s] Proposition 140 thousands of signatures under the constitutionally required signature threshold to qualify for the [November] ballot.”
A protester who works in the media lit himself on fire outside of the White House during an anti-Israel protest on Saturday evening, disturbing video shows.
The man, identified as photojournalist Samuel Mena Jr, can be seen screaming in pain after he set his left arm ablaze in the middle of the street as shocked police officers and bystanders rush over to help, according to one clip.
Mena holds his left arm — engulfed in flames — high in the air to show others as several people quickly douse him with water and beat out the flames with pieces of clothing.
A FEMA disaster preparedness meeting about 'focusing efforts on LGBTQIA+' victims has resurfaced following the agency's response to Hurricane Helene.
In a virtual meeting from March 2023, FEMA Emergency Management Specialist Tyler Atkins alarmingly said the agency was prioritizing LGBTQ people because they are 'already disadvantaged.'
'They already have their own things to deal with. So you add a disaster on top of that, it’s just compounding on itself,' Atkins, who uses he/they pronouns, told the panel.
It comes as FEMA has faced mounting backlash in the weeks since Hurricane Helene tore through the southeast and killed at least 227 people,
Columbia University saw donations at its annual fundraiser drop nearly 29% after the spate of anti-Israel protests on campus earlier this year.
The annual “Giving Day” event brought in $21.4 million in 2024, compared to $30 million in 2022, the last time the event was held, according to campus newspaper Columbia Spectator. Giving Day was postponed in 2023 due to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the ensuing protests.
The Ivy League university also saw a nearly 28% drop in the number of gifts, falling from 19,229 in 2022 to 13,870, the lowest since 2015, the paper said.
Mexican immigrant families plagued by
grief, questions after plant workers swept
away by Helene 14 replies
grief, questions after plant workers swept
away by Helene 14 replies
Erwin, Tenn.—With shaking hands, Daniel Delgado kissed a photo of his wife, Monica Hernandez, before lighting a candle in a supermarket parking lot. Family members hugged pictures printed on poster board, some collapsing into them in tears as search helicopters flew overhead in the direction of the hills.
Days after six workers at a plastics factory disappeared under surging floodwaters caused by Hurricane Helene, loved ones and supporters have been gathering for vigils in front of churches, a high school and a grocery store to honor them.
Most nights, prayers in Spanish are spoken over rosary beads: “Mary, mother of Jesus, intercede and help us find them.”