A new drop by Tom MacDonald and Adam Calhoun – Your America. Its nearing a half million views in 7 hours, so that’s a good thing.
Tips thread open.
Tastes Great, Fewer Testicles
I Don’t Ever Want To See That Thing Pass Me On The Interstate
We have something BIG planned with these 3D visualizations of the Dominator 3! Coming soon to https://t.co/mJnpFcvfgQ pic.twitter.com/RJ1gKWvXDb
— Reed Timmer, PhD (@ReedTimmerAccu) August 12, 2023
O, Great Spirit Of Cascadia
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Antarctic Ice Cap
It is obviously the wind that is packing the sea ice because -100°F temperatures over Antarctica aren't melting it. https://t.co/9QNXrTd1JM
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) August 12, 2023
If you have a Twitter account, follow him.
Off The Rails
A rolling metaphor: Ottawa Euro-designed LRT vehicles not built for city’s U.S. style tracks
The Alstom Citadis trains on Ottawa’s LRT were designed for European tracks where restraining rails like the ones to prevent derailments on the tight curves of the Confederation Line are not used, OC Transpo’s general manager Renée Amilcar told councillors Wednesday.
Wear and tear on the trains’ hub assemblies caused when the wheels rub against the restraining rails has been cited as one reason for two past derailments and the current four-week shutdown of the line. Work crews are currently adjusting the heavy restraining rails by millimetres to ensure there is zero contact with the train, as ordered by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board.
I was promised our Dictator would make the trains run on time.
This Is CNN
CNN Gets a Shock When They Venture out of Their Bubble and Talk to the American People.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
A Saskatchewan horse thieving vacation.
RIP Robbie Robertson
I was out running errands in Saskatoon when I heard the news, and meant to post yesterday but it didn’t happen. One of my “top ten” favourites of all times – thank you, and RIP Mr. Robertson.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Everything keeps getting older.
Archaeologists have new evidence suggesting that humans occupied Oregon more than 18,000 years ago. This makes it one of the oldest known sites of human occupation in North America.
A 2023 radiocarbon dating analysis was made based on findings at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter near Burns, Oregon. The University of Oregon Archaeological Field School has been excavating at the site, which features a shallow overhang in an otherwise open environment. The field school has been working in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management since 2011.
Archaeologists have been studying how and when people migrated to the Americas for over a century. While researchers used to assume that no humans were on the continent until about 13,000 years ago — when they walked over the Bering Land Bridge during the last ice age — both genetic and archaeological evidence have been pushing that date back further and further. However, these dates have spurred controversy.
The time has come to have a conversation on a name change. (link fixed)
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
“We’re not here to win you over, we’re here to answer your questions.”
So, watch Elemental Energy answer questions of Elk Point, Alberta landowners.
h/t Yeti
Y2Kyoto: End Of Oil
Bloomberg (paywalled): Global Oil Demand Hits Record and Prices May Climb, IEA Says
Global oil demand has surged to a record amid robust consumption in China and elsewhere, threatening to push prices higher, the International Energy Agency said.
World fuel use averaged 103 million barrels a day for the first time in June and may soar even higher in August, the agency said in a report. As Saudi Arabia and its partners constrict supplies, oil markets are tightening significantly.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Buses
Kamala and Biden’s golden boy just filed for bankruptcy. Taxpayers were funding Proterra, America’s biggest electric bus company, and now the money’s missing. The whole thing was a political pump and dump scheme and top Democrats were all involved. pic.twitter.com/ZPzTgDMn2S
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) August 9, 2023
August 11, 2023: Reader Tips
Over to you.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The First Photographs Ever Taken in Rome, Italy (1841-1871)
Embrace Hollywood!
“Pure brain cancer in movie form” – a movie review for the ages. (h/t Maikeru)
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
All in all*, they’re just another brick on the road.
The owner of a 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Lariat with an extended-range battery regrets buying the electric truck after attempting a road trip, only to abandon it and finish the drive with a gas-powered rental vehicle.
Dalbir Bala of La Salle, Man., left the truck in Minnesota last month after he said he tried unsuccessfully to charge the battery at two different charging stations.
“It was really a nightmare frustration for us,” Bala said.
He bought the truck — which is advertised as having a range of 515 kilometres — for $115,000 in January. He spent an additional $16,000 installing chargers at his home and his trucking business, and upgrading his residential electrical panel.
Bala, his wife and three kids left on a trip to visit Wisconsin Dells, Wis., and Chicago for business, on July 27. The truck was fully charged when they left their home just south of Winnipeg, and Bala had plans to stop at level 3 charging stations, which provide faster charges, located along the planned route.
If Women Ran The World
We’d all still live in caves and play really boring sports.
The Most Interesting Man In The World
This week, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer released a third report on the ongoing investigations into the Biden corruption scandal.
The latest bank records indicate the Biden family has received more than $20 million, including from corrupt Kazakh figures.
Some of this money provided Hunter Biden with extravagant toys. On April 22, 2014, Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev wired $142,300 to the Rosemont Seneca Bohai bank account. That account then shows the exact same amount being wired to a New Jersey car dealership for a Fisker sports car for Hunter. Finding the Fisker unsuitable, Hunter traded it in for a Porsche.
Notably, these payments often coincided with dinners and meetings with Joe Biden.
Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the widow of Moscow ex-Mayor Yury Luzhkov, wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton Feb. 14, 2014. She later attended a dinner with Joe and Hunter Biden at Washington, DC, hotspot Café Milano.
For weeks, Joe Biden’s prior claims have been collapsing as his allies in the media and Congress struggle for an alternative spin on these new disclosures.
The president’s denials of any knowledge of his son’s foreign dealings finally have been exposed as a lie. Even the Washington Post has acknowledged Biden lied when he insisted that Hunter never made any money in China. It was always a boldfaced falsehood (and a confusing claim from a man who insisted that he had no knowledge of his son’s foreign dealings).
But the testimony of associate Devon Archer and new bank records forced the paper and others to recognize the falsehood.
There is also the confirmation that Biden’s long denials that he attended key dinners with Hunter’s business associates were false. Most notably, the media are grudgingly admitting that Hunter was openly selling influence peddling and access to his father as part of what Archer called “selling the brand.”
The final line of defense is now that Hunter Biden was selling access to Joe Biden but it was an “illusion.” The reason, they claim, is there is no evidence of direct payments to Joe and Jill Biden.