In trying to construct a sentence, the realization dawned that some subjects are just not fit for discussion.  Many of us will spend the remainder of our lives having to look at and hear about the heroic, historic, brilliant Judge on the Supreme Court.  Many are drawing a connection between some of the worst imaginable behavior, and the record showing that the newly confirmed Justice thinks, and has ruled, that it’s not that big a deal.  Just opening the subject is wretched. But she’s considered it several times and in her wisdom came down easy time and again.

We’ve been treated to a flood of horrific photos and stories out of Ukraine this week.  Two Fox News contributors were killed and another seriously injured.  There are information services and people working behind the scenes for the purpose of developing a narrative.  After what we’ve been through, with the news anchors pretending to believe the nonsense they’re so concerned about, who knows?  So now we’re supposed to suspend disbelief and be seriously informed?

Some things are undeniable.  The destruction of whole towns and villages is obvious, as are the testimonies of those fleeing.  The atrocities?  Apparently there are animalistic Russian soldiers if the stories are true.   When you think that this all might have been avoided, it’s all the more depressing.

It’s been played over and over, that’s how sad the video is.  The reputed world leader was wandering here and there looking for someone to talk to him in a crowded room, and coming up empty.  Just pitiful.  The descent into denials and jocular redirection has begun.  It’s all fun and games to hear the defense team.  Everything’s fine.  But it’s not.

The weeks and months ahead will be painful, for those involved and for all of us who have to suffer through it.  It’s starting to look like mental slippage is the least of the first family’s concerns.  The cat is out of the bag.  There will be revelations we’d rather not have to hear.  But we’ll have no choice.  Eventually it will be everywhere.  But there is an insurance policy.  Inappropriate cackling is something we’ve not seen behind the podium with the Presidential seal.  Nobody but nobody wants that.

We can’t even look at what’s going on with the Southern border.  How can this ever be undone?  There’s been headline news here in Texas, claiming our governor is fixing to bus all the desperate and illegal aliens to Washington D. C.  In the same breath we hear that lawsuits will be filed, and that the governor has no authority to interfere with the operations of the Feds.  Meanwhile…

Eagles are getting thrashed and killed by these “clean energy” windmills.  Whether or not they make economic sense, they’re apparently killing lots of birds.  A wind farm company has just been convicted and fined $8 million for killing eagles. University researchers are trying to solve the problem of knocking federally protected species out of the sky by the do-gooders saving the planet.  Never mind about the construction methods, or where the materials come from.  Forget about the costs involved in the transport and setup of the monstrosities.   It turns out that wind farms get permits that allow for a dozen or more dead birds.  An acceptable death toll for those saving the planet.  But nobody said anything about eagles.  Until now.  But don’t worry, most of them were Golden eagles.  They’re working on it.  Besides, there are all kinds of culprits when it comes to killing birds.  Pesticides and cats are purportedly killing them by the millions.  I doubt cats are killing eagles, in fact it’s probably the other way around, but that’s part of the zealot’s argument.  Saving the planet may not be as simple as they thought.  After all, wind energy accounts for a whopping 3% of national consumption!  Consider the source.  Even that figure has probably been tweaked.

Finally, what’s with this Klaus Schwab dude?  We’re finding out that several current and former heads of state are graduates of his WEF global leadership program.  If you look at the people in high office, from heads of state to university positions, you have to wonder where their loyalties lie.  There are some big names involved in the global leadership of tomorrow, or whatever.  We will be looking at this.  Global leadership, especially with all the diversity and environmental considerations, is something we’d hoped we wouldn’t see.  It’ll be lots of fun when governments are more interested in all the woke sentiments and “saving the planet,” than they are the interests of their own populations.  It’s already firmly established, and it doesn’t sound good.  It looks like this outfit has plans for us that we’re not about to go along with.

Mark

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                                                                                                                 The “R” Stands for “Reliability”

Surely this ERCOT outfit will have to change its name, at a bare minimum.  It seems that the government has been “subsidizing” these giant wind farms over the past decade or so, and that relieved Texas of the need for coal and natural gas power plants.  It was enough to get off the radar of the “green” idiots while at the same time adding to Texas’ ability to claim that a “sizable percentage” of the grid was made up of “renewable energy.”  Just makes you feel warm all over, doesn’t it?

Everybody knows what happened, but that’s not quite the same as having lived through the experience.  It would be good to have heat in your house when the temperature goes to zero Fahrenheit, and stays there for a couple of days.  Now they’re holding hearings where the engineers try to bamboozle the public by talking over everybody’s head.  We can hardly wait for their conclusions, but their excuses are mostly meaningless now.  We’ll be surprised if the families of the dead don’t sue the “reliable” energy corporation out of existence.

There are a lot of problems with these idolatrous monstrosities.  They are an icon of lunacy, romanticized in countless advertisements over the years.  Mostly children or dogs staring wondrously out the car window as they drive by the green miracle.  But they’re 240 feet tall.  You know what happens when they get hit by lightning?  That’s not a rare occurrence.  They’ve got a “brain” full of electronics, which don’t do so well when fried.

Another thing, small though it may be, is that they don’t pay for themselves during their expected lifetime. You’ll probably be banned for life if you repeat that anywhere, as with anything that disputes the “conventional wisdom.”

London learned that the windmills freeze up and cease to work.  There were unforgettable photographs of them at sea, encased in ice, with giant icebergs descending from their blades.  But that never happens in Texas, until it does.  It did, and it lasted nearly a week.  We’d almost forgotten the cold and heavy snow of 1983, and that’s probably because no one froze to death, or was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning trying to survive.  If you’re making something hot to drink and the TV is on, it’s not so bad.

Just like “green energy” for big cities, nothing else makes much sense either.  We’re being lectured, scolded and warned around the clock.  They’re coming up with punishments for whoever refuses to fall into line.  The so-called “Equality Act” has already passed the House, and thankfully won’t (we hope) become law.  It’s the freak show for girls’ sports and public facilities everywhere, and as usual, they named it something it’s not.  It seems the depths of left-wing depravity know few bounds.

Everything we moaned over for the past decade is brand new again, and the self-destruction of the United States is back on track.  Do you think for one minute that the Middle East peace arrangement will be spared?  Probably not.  After all, that rude, brash, America-loving President they blindly hated brought it about.  No, they’re working overtime to get us back in the Iran Nuclear Deal, the Paris Climate Accords, and every international body out to hurt the United States.

The news anchors are breathing easier now that unaccompanied minors are streaming across the border, and the new (supposed) administration says they can’t be sent back, even to wait for adjudication.  Six thousand last week, according to the happy reports.  What’s that about?

We bet you’re starving for some hint of good news, and we are too.  Maybe they won’t get everything they want.  Maybe there’s some strain of sanity that remains in high places, not much, mind you.  Maybe they’ll start to turn on each other, as they have with Cuomo and Brylcreem of California.  Or, though it seems impossible, maybe the fraudulent election will get looked at, but let’s not get carried away.

Mark

PS:  It should have been in last week’s update, but things were a little hairy around here. We’re just completing another run of 21^st Century WATCH ads on One America News.  It is producing results, but it seems we’ll never reach the cost-effectiveness of my Dad’s television shows from years past.  A lot has changed since then.  Too much.  But we’re not quitting, and we’re certainly not about to lie down for this onslaught of nonsense, no matter what they (the government, the corporations, academia and big tech) threaten.

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