January 10, 2024
Anyone who talks about white privilege has obviously never been to Appalachia.
I’ve always thought it was somewhat ironic that kids in the state with the lowest reading proficiency have to spell Mississippi while kids in the state with the highest reading proficiency only have to spell Utah.
I would hate to be a white kid in a school that teaches Critical Race Theory.
A teacher in a large city in a mixed race school said that CRT provides an excuse for poor black performance but what is he supposed to tell his white students that are struggling?
Did you read where the climate terrorists in England have taken to deflating tires (tyres if you are a Brit) to protest the use of internal combustion engines? In particular they hate SUVs. Well now they have started deflating the tires of EVs. Reports state that the group called the Tyre Extinguishers said: “Hybrids and electric cars are fair game. “We cannot electrify our way out of the climate crisis – there are not enough rare earth metals to replace everyone’s car and the mining of these metals causes suffering.” Well they do have a point (no pun intended). I guess you can spot them because they must be either on bicycles or skateboards.
I don’t understand how the deflating of tires, the blocking of streets, the gluing of oneself to the pavement, the mutilating of art works and the defacing of property are intended to win converts to the greenie weenie crusade.
When Hamas attacked Israel and slaughtered 1,400 Jews, I stated that the Israelis in their efforts to eradicate Hamas should ignore the reaction from the left wing media and the progressives worldwide who would criticize their response. Predictably, there has been sharp criticism of Israel with the media reporting the civilian casualty figures given by Hamas. I have yet to figure out – much like the climate terrorists – how protests on college campuses and in our cities will have any impact on Israeli resolve. I guess the pro-Hamas crowd thinks that they can pressure their governments to lean on Israel to give up and have a cease fire. However, that will still leave the threat of Hamas on Israel’s doorstep with the intent to kill Jews and eradicate Israel itself. I doubt that there is enough outside pressure for Israel to capitulate to the demands of those who can sleep soundly and safely at night.
It should be obvious by now that I am not a fan of EVs. They are expensive to buy, expensive to maintain and expensive to repair. The production of EVs pollutes worse than ICEs and the rare earth minerals are mined in near slave conditions and are environmentally destructive. That world governments are trying to force them down our throats is a testament to governments’ desires to take away freedoms and impose upon their citizens. But mind you, I am not opposed to EVs if they were just another product produced to satisfy market demand. EVs make ok commuting vehicles and second (or third) family cars. In America, most EVs are owned by people who could charge them at their residences, meaning that thousands of chargers outside the residence are not needed. However, since governments want to ban gas powered vehicles, chargers outside the residence are needed in the towns and on the highways. This is to combat range anxiety allowing people to travel in their EVs. But more chargers are a great idea if the chargers work and if there are not long lines to use them. Regardless, a trip in an EV that requires charging along the way is going to take much more time because even “fast” charging is slow compared to filling up at the pump. I can’t imagine most Americans having the patience to stop every few hundred miles and waiting an hour to get back on the road. On one trip the reported said “Google maps said it would take 13 hours and 20 minutes for our trip. The Tesla map, factoring in charging, said it would be 16 hours. It ended up at almost 17. Tesla’s software does a great job of routing you to superchargers, which are the fastest way to charge but may not be the fastest way to get where you’re going.” If you want to put up with this more power to you. But I bet the vast majority of use wouldn’t unless forced to do so.
Look for EV chargers to be mandated for all new residential construction.
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