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No Nukes Was Then . . .

. . . Less Carbon Is Now.

Via Zero Hedge.

From “Robert Bryce, host of the Power Hungry Podcast, executive producer of the documentary, “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World,” and the author of six books, including most recently, “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations.”

“America’s electric grid is being mismanaged and consumers will pay a heavy price for that mismanagement . . . .

“More evidence of that came with the recent closure of the Palisades Power Plant in Michigan. The 811-megawatt nuclear plant was shut down on the same day that the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued a report saying the U.S. electric grid doesn’t have enough generation capacity and that blackouts are almost certain to occur across the country this summer.”

Green Zealots don’t think so much as RELIGIOUSLY EMOTE.

Virtue is the goal, NOT PRACTICALITY.

Enough St. Augustine.  Time for some OCCAM. 

European Inflation vs. ECB Rates

The squeeze is on in Europe as well.

From Bloomberg:

EU CONSUMER PRICE INFLATION RATE

EUROPEAN INFLATION WATCH

INFLATION DRIVERS

LOOK AT THAT ENERGY NUMBER, WILL YOU?  ENERGY IS EVERYTHING.  IF WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD IT, EVERYTHING STOPS.

So, what will the ECB do?

FOLLOW THE FED, of course.

It’s either THAT or WEIMAR GERMANY REDUX.

Canadian Freeze on Hand Guns

No great love for Justin Trudeau in this QUARTIER, but I’m with him on this one.

After all, what are North American citizens arming for?  ARMAGEDDON? 

OR TO FIGHT THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS?

AND IF THE LATTER, WHY?

BECAUSE CITIZENS WON’T BE ALLOWED TO KILL EACH OTHER AT WILL?

BECAUSE SOME POWER WILL KEEP THEM FROM DOING THAT?

I SHOULD HOPE THERE WOULD BE SUCH A POWER.

MANY WANT THE LIVES OF THE UNBORND SPARED.

HOW ABOUT THE LIVING, SUCH AS PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN?

Here’s the Canadian PM:

And I’ll wager the legislation PASSES.

Gender Sanity at Last

And from the HALLS OF POWER no less.

From the Epoch Times:

“The British attorney general says schools do not have to accommodate students who want to change gender identification, and are under no legal obligation to use certain pronouns or allow children to wear uniform of another sex.”

That’s right.  NO COMPELLED SPEECH.  And thanks to JORDAN PETERSON for championing the ENGLISH COMMON LAW BASIS of that principle.

More:

“Attorney General Suella Braverman – the top government adviser on law in England and Wales – has become the latest of a number of senior government figures to challenge the ethos of some public institutions which affirm children’s adoption of another gender identity.

“Her comments to the Times of London, published on Saturday, come as the government draws up formal guidance for schools on transgenderism.”

HEAR, HEAR, INDEED!

The money shot:

“Under-18s cannot get a gender recognition certificate, under-18s cannot legally change sex,” she told the newspaper on May 28. told the newspaper on May 28.

“So again in the context of schools I think it’s even clearer actually. A male child who says in a school that they are a trans girl, that they want to be female, is legally still a boy or a male.”

Referring to schools, Braverman added that schools have a right to treat them as such under the law:

“They don’t have to say ‘OK, we’re going to let you change your pronoun or let you wear a skirt or call yourself a girl’s name . . . .’”

And from Britain’s Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi in comments made last month:

“Some parts of the country there are very low rates of children presenting as transgender, in some parts of the country it’s quite worryingly high. That must be to do with the way teachers and local education authorities are approaching this subject.

“Medical professionals, teachers should be taking a much firmer line. They shouldn’t take an unquestioning approach, they shouldn’t just take what the child says.”

Finally, said NHS secretary, Sajid Javid, in recent remarks on the subject:

“It is already clear to me from . . . interim findings and the other evidence I have seen that NHS services in this area are too narrow; they are overly affirmative and in fact are bordering on ideological.”

Ideological in the sense of being too GENDER-FLUID AFFIRMATIVE, i.e. too WOKE.

“Biological sex matters—ask any doctor or nurse. Facts matter. Respectful debate matters. This growing culture of shutting people down is deeply disturbing and must be challenged,” he added.

Here’s the full article:

UK Attorney General: Schools Do Not Have to Accommodate Gender ID Change

Memorial Day Lookback

I’ve never doubted that this song, track 14 on Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde — released in 1966 — marks the APOTHEOSIS of his work. His absolute HIGH WATER MARK.

It breaks my heart whenever I listen to this song, even as it raises my sights.

SAD EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS

With your mercury mouth in the missionary times
And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes
And your silver cross and your voice like chimes
Oh, who do they think could bury you?
 
With your pockets well-protected at last
And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass
And your flesh like silk and your face like glass
Who could they get to carry you?
 
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
 
With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace
And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace
And your basement clothes and your hollow face
Who among them did think he could outguess you?
 
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims
And your matchbook songs and your gypsy hymns
Who among them would try to impress you?
 
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
 
The kings of Tyrus, with their convict list
Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss
And you wouldn’t know it would have happened like this
But who among them really wants just to kiss you?
 
With your childhood flames on your midnight rug
And your Spanish manners and your mother’s drugs
And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs
Who among them do you think could resist you?
 
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I leave them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
 
Oh, the farmers and the businessmen, they all did decide
To show you where the dead angels are that they used to hide
But why did they pick you to sympathize with their side?
How could they ever mistake you?
 
They wished you’d accepted the blame for the farm
But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm
And with the child of the hoodlum wrapped up in your arms
How could they ever have persuaded you?
 
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man’s come
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I leave them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
 
With your sheet metal memory of Cannery Row
And your magazine husband who one day just had to go
And your gentleness now, which you just can’t help but show
Who among them do you think would employ you?

Now you stand with your thief, you’re on his parole
With your holy medallion in your fingertips now enfold
And your saint-like face and your ghostlike soul
Who among them could ever think he could destroy you?

Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I leave them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
 
Bob Dylan

Chaucer, John Donne, Whitman and Hart Crane would have found MUCH to savor here.