March 2023 – Page 4 – Bear Bussjaeger

Kailasa

Newark, NJ admits it got scammed by a fake nation led by fugitive
The largest city in New Jersey is admitting that its officials fell for a hoax to become a “sister city” with an Indian nation that doesn’t actually exist.

At a signing ceremony on Jan. 12, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka celebrated the city’s new relationship with the United States of Kailasa. The cultural agreement officially made Newark and Kailasa global partners under Sister Cities International, a nonprofit organization founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

I’d love to know how this got started. Did some Newark moron stumble upon the Kailasa website and think, Hey; this would be a good outfit to partner with? Or did the scammer contact the city first? Admittedly, the Kailasa website is pretty elaborate, complete with a 527 page “constitution.”

But you’d think someone in city government would have done a web search on a nation no one had heard of, yet claiming a population of two BILLION.

“Scammer” might not be quite the correct term. Reading about this, it sounds more like the Hindu equivalent of the “sovereign citizen” movement in America.

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You Think Beef Is Expensive?

I just mentioned something about the plans for everyone to eat crickets. I ran across an article from a freak who decided to try it for five days. She included prices for the products she tried.

$12.38 per 4oz bag of cricket powder.

37 dollars per pound.

Nah. I’ll stick with meat, until everything is contaminated with mRNA vaccines.

And you thought dodging the mRNA ChinCOVID pseudo-vax was fun.

Math Is Hard

Especially when you’re a fed idiot. I ran across an article about the Xiden Admin trying to double the budget for offshore power generation. It referenced some numbers that looked odd. Fortunately, it also linked to the White House “FactFake Sheet” that was the source for those numbers.

Establishing a Target of Employing Tens of Thousands of Workers of Offshore Wind by 2030. The Departments of Interior (DOI), Energy (DOE), and Commerce (DOC) are announcing a shared goal to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind in the United States by 2030, while protecting biodiversity and promoting ocean co-use. Meeting this target will trigger more than $12 billion per year in capital investment in projects on both U.S. coasts, create tens of thousands of good-paying, union jobs, with more than 44,000 workers employed in offshore wind by 2030 and nearly 33,000 additional jobs in communities supported by offshore wind activity. It will also generate enough power to meet the demand of more than 10 million American homes for a year, and avoid 78 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.

Um… 30,000 megawatts is 30,000,000,000 watts. Divide that by 10,000,000 and you get 3,000 watts per home.

3 KW

Try running your whole house on a 3 KW generator. Except your fridge. Or HVAC (remember that’ll be electric because natural gas bad). You’ll probably need to turn out some lights, especially if you want to watch TV. Some in the White House slipped a few decimal points.

No refrigeration… I hope those crickets they expect us to eat are shelf stable.

Oh, and that 30 GW seems to be nameplate capacity, which no wind gennie ever maintained 24/7.

TZP Column: Conveniently Violating Rights

“CONVENIENTLY” PREEMPTIVELY PROVING ONE’S INNOCENCE
Former ATF agent, and once-wannabe Director, David Chipman thinks that delaying Second Amendment rights by requiring people to pay good money to beg the government to give them permission to purchase a firearm by first proving they are not a criminal, and then waiting even longer if the feds can’t do their — unconstitutional — job in a timely manner, is convenient.
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The Broad Side Of A Barn

The ATF tweeted a… remarkable demonstration of their marksmanship for a reporter.

I’m not even sure how that’s possible.

Spike Cohen recommended a different target.

Hat tip to David Codrea.

I’m Not Seeing The Problem Here

Seems like a lot of Tesla owners consider the steering wheel to be optional anyway.

US investigates Tesla for steering wheels that can fall off
U.S. auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla’s Model Y SUV after getting two complaints that the steering wheels can come off while being driven.

Babylon Bee As A Public Service

It just occurred to me that the Babylon Bee performs a public service, beyond the obvious stress-relieving humor. Take this headline for instance.

AOC Proposes Nationwide Ban On Straws After Learning Trump Won Straw Pol

It used to be that I’d see quotes attributed to Occasionally-firing-Cortex, and I’d have to look them up to see if they were real or parody.

It went about 50/50. Without research, AOC is indistinguishable from parody.

But now when I see this in the Bee, which I know to be satire, I’m fairly safe in assuming satire/parody, even if banning straws ‘cuz “straw polls” really does sound like something that idiot would come up with.

That saves a a little wasted web search time.

Food Security Isn’t Being Tracked?

Right.

Food Security Isn’t Being Tracked, According To Scientists. Here’s Why That’s A Huge Issue
Food prices are soaring globally, largely because there is no set system for tracking, planning and forecasting the food supply chain, according to food systems scientists.

That’s based on this article.

In recent years, global food security has had shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, extreme weather events and more. My colleagues and I scramble to find convincing answers quickly when development outfits, aid organizations and government think tanks come calling. What would be the impact of COVID-19 mobility restrictions on harvests in sub-Saharan Africa? How would Germany’s move away from Russian gas affect global fertilizer production and use? How would heatwaves change the ability of the poorest people to afford food?

As we talked back in 2020, it was clear to both me and my colleague what we needed: next-generation food-systems models, hooked up to real-world data, that consistently capture patterns of food production, transport, processing and consumption, allowing stress-testing and real-time informed responses to systemic shocks.

Here’s a hint: Ask futures traders how they decide how much to invest in what.

And talk to Walmart about how they plan months in advance what foods to obtain from where, and how and where to ship them.

You might even ask the governor of Michigan why she thought it was a good idea to ban the sale of crop seeds (suggesting that central government planning and control might not be a good idea).

I think they’re only whining because it isn’t socialist “central government planning and control.” And they can ask survivors of the Soviet Union how well that worked for them.

TZP Column: The Second Amendment Is Unconstitutional

JUST SO YOU KNOW…
Preserving the Second Amendment is unconstitutional. At least in the Eastern District of Missouri.
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Fuck Off, Yertle

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell calls it a ‘mistake’ for Tucker Carlson to air J6 footage
“It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official at the Capitol thinks,” McConnell said to reporters on Tuesday.

Let’s run that through the Universal Turtle Translator: t was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to air actual footage proving that us Dims and RINOs lied; that’s completely at variance with what we told our chief law enforcement official at the Capitol to lie about.