Joe cracks me up. “Solar is a bad word because liberals like it.” Hahahaha!

First, solar is not a bad word. It works great for guys in off-grid settings who don’t have huge household power needs.

I’m in a sunny part of our state, and even with rooftops covered with solar panels people can’t run their homes with the power produced, much less charge their cars. The solar panel homeowners sell the trickle of power to the utility company to put in the grid and then sell back to them.

We know a guy who spent $28,000 to put up the panels. Later he had to move, so never realized that investment in any sort of payback.  Plus, complaints are being lodged right and left against the solar panel installers. They’re grifters to a high degree. Reports of damage to roofs and failures to meet promised commitments for repairs and maintenance are common. Access to state and local government energy “rebates” and “incentives” is as tempting to grifters as all the other government largesse schemes. The companies set up in storefronts, make their killings, and vanish. And we the taxpayers and rate payers fund the government participation in this. So.

Have you ever seen the photos of massive solar farms demolished by hailstorms? Have you ever seen a solar panel boneyard? What are the panels made of, and how does their decomposition affect the earth and water?

Joe will say solar is a young industry and has great potential. True. He also doesn’t believe in mandates by stupid, invasive and controlling government entities. Great! Trouble is, our idiot governor has decreed that $89 million will be used to build EV chargers throughout the state. A state with grid problems. The same governor is banning use of natural gas for heating and cooking. He also is trying to eliminate ICE vehicles any way he can.  And we’re back where we started. Funneling everyone onto one source of energy, thus creating energy insecurity.

Multiple sources, strong sources, recoverable and sustainable sources. Without a variety of ways to produce and access energy, we are weakened.

Our neighbor works for a public utility district. He works directly to maintain our grid. He says it is not robust and they struggle to maintain it, much less expand it. Our area is one that is growing very quickly in population because we had a good thing going before the creeping liberal rot made its way from Seattle to us. But it is here. He says getting parts to maintain equipment and finding good employees have gotten more difficult. Vaccine mandates didn’t help. We saw during covid what even a small supply chain disruption could do.

Idiot governor Inslee is waging war on both natural gas AND internal combustion vehicles. New homes can’t be built that use natural gas. He is imposing ridiculous requirements with lofty, virtue-signalling and totalitarian policies that force everything (EVERYTHING) onto the electrical grid.

I ask you. Wouldn’t competent leadership move into using different sources of energy gradually, instead of forcing too-quick dependence on ONE source? In fact, ALWAYS having a variety of energy sources would be the best. But that’s exactly what “leadership” is not doing.

Someone is profiting from the manufacture of electric cars and batteries, and there is a corresponding and very tempting conduit of control that the electrical grid provides to those who want to control us. That’s not a conspiracy theory. The slavering quest for narrow energy dependence, because it IS unwise and crippling for human flourishing, is one of the big reveals of the rigged and corrupt system we’re living under.

Provide multiple energy sources, innovate, and let people decide which to use. Joe gets his EV and Jose and Maria get their 2002 Honda Accord. The web of transportation is stronger. But don’t skew hundreds of millions of dollars over onto making spots for a diminishing number of people (EVs are not practical and sales are declining) to plug cars into chargers. We have more important needs in this country.

Hahaha, you’d have recognized Sam Brinton!!! And told him to … (insert language). 

Update. I stupidly fell on February 29 over an asphalt parking curb. Broke my right wrist this time, plus had to get some stitches for a little head gash. Wrist break was clean and aligned, so I’ve been in a removable brace for five weeks. Today the orthopedic surgeon (the same one who operated on my left wrist, may she be praised) said the break had healed beautifully and stayed in alignment. I must say it’s impressive to see an image of a healed bone. The body is amazing. Will start PT to regain movement.

Anyway, I asked the surgeon about loss of taste and smell, and she said she had the same thing happen to her. She thinks it was covid even though the taste/smell loss was the only symptom. What helped her was smell therapy … three times a day she would smell essential oils of rosemary, lemon, eucalyptus and peppermint for a while. It retrained her brain but she said a couple of things still don’t taste right to her. I’ve heard this from others. Will try it. She also mentioned nicotine patches help some people, and referred me to the FLCCC website, so I’d say she’s solid with docs who question.

In concert with Rush’s miraculous eclipse sighting, when I fell (it was at a local food truck) and bystanders began to help me, who should pull into the parking lot after about 10 minutes but a couple of paramedics who happened to decide to have lunch there that day at that time. They bandaged my head and splinted my wrist and iced my knee which also I’d  injured. A man was there whom I’ll always think of as an angel … he kept looking me calmly in the eye and saying “It’ll be okay.”  When my husband took me to the urgent care the doctor on duty was our dear friend and next door neighbor. His name tag reads “I treat, Jesus heals.”

Some would say coincidence. I’m not in the mood for that today.

The 2017 one was total in Madras, Oregon, and their little airport had over 500 planes land there.

When to Use All of the SuddenThat is an incorrect statement.  I see it in print often. Or at least in electronic font.

VAERS is merely an information gathering tool.  It is not meant to be a definitive conclusion of anything.

We were told that VAERS was anecdotal and voluntary and thus unreliable. But A PLURALITY OF ANECDOTES IS DATA. It takes around 30 minutes for a health care professional to record an observed shot side effect in VAERS. Many said they could not spare that time. How many victims or family members didn’t either? If we can know for sure that things that didn’t happen (“You’d have had a worse case without your 2, 3, 4, 6 vaccines!”) can be quantified, why not quantify the missing injury reports?

This stuff wasn’t a shot. It was shit.

Response to the Resident’s proclamation.

https://twitter.com/iamtommacdonald/status/1774118512547840288?s=42