Obama commits billions to solar firms Under pressure to spur job growth, president says two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20009656-54.html Let’s do the math. 2 billion (if I get all the zeros right) is $2,000,000,000 divided by 5,000 is…
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The Beekeeper meets AI
I had a talk with my father-in-law yesterday and this topic came up. The following happened to him. You get a call from your bank informing you that you are the victim of a fraudulent charge. The person on the phone has a caller ID stating that it’s your bank calling. They have your account…
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There is a lot of talk lately about Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania switching parties to the GOP. This is because he has shown strong support for Israel. Make no mistake about it, Fetterman votes with democrats 90% of the time. Yet there is serious talk of a primary challenge in 2 years. My advice? …
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As stated before in this space, Megan Eisenberger and Brad Ng laid a turd in the punch bowl in regard to prosecuting the K Street shooting here in Sacramento. This blog is taking a look at a different part of the trial, the witnesses. Ng and Eisenberger handed out immunity from prosecution like it was…
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Series of quick blogs coming, likely will not be able to be posted in time, due to Blog Father’s well-deserved vacation. So yesterday the State of Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Donald Trump will not appear on the 2024 ballot for President in Colorado. This is a wild case of judicial misuse. Keep in…
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Of all the things to blog about in the days leading to Christmas, I am choosing to vent about electric charging stations. No, I’m not crazy enough to buy an electric car but we did end-up with a hybrid Jeep. It gets great mileage but works differently than my wife’s old Ford. This vehicle has…
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No surprise with this news. We knew that Israel planned to force Hamas to take some sort of action at least five years prior to this attack. The expansion of Jewish settlements and other efforts to expand the Jewish State at the expense of the Palestinian communities in Gaza and the West Bank was intended…
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Chief and I were at the same Thanksgiving table and broke bread with a group of other readers of this blog. Two leaned left, two leaned right, all of them had issues with the foreign policy takes on this blog. Specifically, Israel and Ukraine. Simply put they feel the blog staff here are nationalist, isolationist…
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We have blogged about how both Joe Biden and Donald Trump can win next year in the election, but we haven’t spoken about the elephant in the room. The elephant is the Democrat machine. The machine knows Joe Biden is too old and is definitely in cognitive decline. Congressman Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Senator…
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One thing I will never understand about the LGBTQ community no matter how many times its explained: why do they accept the Trans community? Think about it. If you are gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or queer those are human sexuality/lifestyle choices. I dated a girl, and after we had broken up, she decided she liked both…
