Daily Mail- Jeremy Clarkson will be dropped
Harry and Meghan have rebuffed an apology from Jeremy Clarkson over his column – as it emerges his Clarkson’s Farm and Grand Tour series will be dropped from Amazon Prime.
The Duke of Sussex branded the article about his wife ‘horrific, hurtful and cruel’ during an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby to discuss his autobiography Spare earlier this month.
You can vote your way into socialism, but you’ll have to fight your way out: Member of Scottish Parliament announces “era of unrestrained private car use is well & truly over”
The problem here isn’t “small town mayor”, it’s big time elite entitlement: Buttigieg refused meetings with Democrats and Republicans during paternity leave
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is facing tough questions about how he handles crises facing his department. The latest crisis, the grounding of every plane in America for the first since 9/11/01, shines a light on what exactly it is that Buttigieg does on the job. […]
Now, as questions about his performance in office are asked, Pete rather defensively declares that everyone knows that in a job such as his, he must be available 24/7. You’d think everyone would know that. But does Pete? It turns out that it looks like Pete was turning down requests for calls and zoom meetings with both Democrat and Republican lawmakers while he was home with his new little family. He was, in fact, not available 24/7. On Thursday, government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) released information showing that inconvenient truth.
Not only was Pete not available when his assistance was needed, he failed to issue a formal delegation of authority, causing some chaos as important decisions still needed to be made during his leave. Hmm. So, who was in charge when Pete was out of the office? That seems like an important question.
I detect a pattern:
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra defended his choice not to personally contact airlines and airports while they grappled with holiday travel upheaval that left thousands of Canadians stranded and airports a maze of unclaimed luggage and frustrated travellers. […]
Committee member Conservative MP Mark Strahl pointed to testimony earlier in the day from airport officials, who said they never heard from Alghabra, and from executives of Sunwing Airlines, who said they didn’t talk to Alghabra until Jan. 5, “more than two weeks after the catastrophic failure of that airline, and people sleeping in hotel lobbies in a foreign country.”
Strahl accused the minister of waiting until the crisis had passed before he “even did the basic thing to pick up the phone.”
It’s not incompetence and it’s not indifference — it’s population retraining. The Trudeau government is delivering electric shocks to the rats so they’ll learn not to want the nice things.
A travel nightmare is unfolding right now on Amtrak. Passengers on the Auto Train have been stuck on board for 29+ hours, currently sitting in the woods in rural South Carolina. Passengers called the local police saying they’re being held hostage.
They did finally make it to Florida .
As I watch my family strike out on foot across the fields into driving rain and gathering darkness, my wife holding each child’s hand, our new year plans in ruins, while I do what I can to make our dead car safe before abandoning it a mile short of home, full of luggage on a country lane, it occurs to me not for the first time that if we are going to save the planet we will have to find another way. Because electric cars are not the answer.
Yes, it’s the Jaguar again. My doomed bloody £65,000 iPace that has done nothing but fail at everything it was supposed to do for more than two years now, completely dead this time, its lifeless corpse blocking the single-track road.\
I can’t even roll it to a safer spot because it can’t be put in neutral.
A Liberal voter gets chill-pilled.
Maureen Huxter and her husband travelled from Ottawa to near Bowmanville, Ont. on Dec. 20. Huxter says it was the first time she had taken her new car on a long distance trip.
“What would typically be a 3-and-a-half hour, 4-hour trip, say with one stop, turned into five or six,” she says.
Huxter says her first stop at the Napanee ONroute had a slow EV charger, which she was warned about, so after 30 minutes she decided to drive to the next station in Trenton, almost an hour away.
There, she says all charge attempts failed. When she called customer service, Huxter says an agent explained that it had been that way for days.
How do I know how she votes? We all know how she votes.
Canadian startup TransPod has announced plans to build a hyperloop system named the FluxJet that will travel between Calgary and Alberta at very high speeds. pic.twitter.com/cZfBnt2eOQ
— CNET (@CNET) December 28, 2022
They cost over a half million apiece: In a move that absolutely nobody could have seen coming, New York City is scrapping its brilliant idea for electric garbage trucks after finding out the truck simply “aren’t powerful enough to plow snow”.
Related: Alberta fights back against Trudeau’s “absurd” EV mandate
Over the past 2 years, many people took out exorbitant loans on cars.
Car values were inflated (and frankly, still are to some extent).
But many people simply had no choice and bought an overpriced a car.
h/t Daniel
In #Germany, an eco-activist glued himself to the asphalt, but he didn't think about the consequences. pic.twitter.com/hP1juHRmD8
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) December 11, 2022
A random violent attack on the Bus in Mississauga, Ontario! pic.twitter.com/Km0Rj4LaZY
— DatsRobin (@DatsRobin) November 24, 2022
Reducing our carbon footprint, one smoldering corpse at a time.
Four times a week on average, an e-bike or e-scooter battery catches fire in New York City.
These bikes when they fail, they fail like a blowtorch,” said Dan Flynn, the chief fire marshal at the New York Fire Department. “We’ve seen incidents where people have described them as explosive — incidents where they actually have so much power, they’re actually blowing walls down in between rooms and apartments.”
As of Friday, the FDNY investigated 174 battery fires, putting 2022 on track to double the number of fires that occurred last year (104) and quadruple the number from 2020 (44). So far this year, six people have died in e-bike-related fires and 93 people were injured, up from four deaths and 79 injuries last year.
h/t Raymond
I’m right in this turn lane in Longmont, Colorado and there’s no way to do a hard reboot on this system…
Ex-NYC Transit boss Sarah Feinberg assaulted in unprovoked attack near subway stop;
Feinberg, who appealed for more cops assigned to the subways last year amid a crime surge, was sucker-punched at the corner of West 21st Street and 6th Avenue, near the F train at 23rd Street at 1:15 p.m. Oct. 20.
The attacker was walking the wrong way in a bike lane and suddenly turned around and punched Feinberg in the face, a source familiar with the case said.
For those wondering,
Feinberg spent a number of years on Capitol Hill beginning in 1999, including working for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, as the communications director for the House Democratic Caucus, the press secretary at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the national press secretary to then-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle.[4][1][9][7]
From 2009-10, she served in the Obama administration as special assistant to the president, and senior advisor to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.[4][5]
Update: I should steal this. Nevermind, I did. I have the best readers.
