Archive of entries posted on 28th April 2023
Woman Accuses Germaphobe of Rape After Keeping Quiet About It for Thirty Years
In a Public Dressing Room — With People in the Store — Within Earshot
The Guardian | Wed., 26 Apr, 2023 | Chris McGreal
“Donald Trump was being very light. It was very joshing and very funny,” she said. “I was flirting the whole time, probably.”
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Carroll described the former president’s attempts to kiss her as “a shocking thing.”
Millionaire Playboy With Access to Playboy Mansion Violently Attacks Plain-Jane Writer
Due To Supply Chain Issues, Animatronic Joe Is Fitted With Motorcycle Battery
Least American Idea Ever
The problem is, it applies to electricity, not tea. Tea is easier to dump in the harbor.
California Power Companies Roll Out Fixed-Rate Bill Proposal
KTLA | April 14, 2023 | Marc SternfieldIf you earn more, you pay more.
That’s the basic idea behind sweeping changes proposed by California’s three largest power companies that will impact your electricity bill.
Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, and San Diego Gas & Electric submitted a joint proposal to the state’s Public Utilities Commission last week that outlines the new rate structure. It follows last year’s passage of Assembly Bill 205 which requires a fixed rate and generally simpler power bills.
Under the proposal, households will see a fixed rate covering basic electricity services and the utility company’s operating costs on a scale based on their household income.
I get what they’re saying, but it sounds more like a variable rate than fixed (for everyone). What I think of as a fixed rate is not what they mean by a fixed rate. Or several fixed rates. Like income brackets.
And the energy employees are going to have access to your income stats?
Households with annual income from $28,000 – $69,000 would pay $20 a month in Edison territory, $34 a month in SDG&E territory and $30 a month in PG&E territory.
Households earning from $69,000 – $180,000 would pay $51 a month in Edison and PG&E territories and $73 a month in SDG&E territory.
Those with incomes above $180,000 would pay $85 a month in Edison territory, $128 a month in SDG&E territory and $92 a month in PG&E territory.
The utilities say customers should expect to also see lower costs for their kilowatt-hour usage.
If this is allowed to stand, it will spread to every other type of goods and services, and result in full-blown communism.
And so, appropriately enough, some Stalinesque feel-good weasel words:
“That law was intended to lower the amount that residential customers pay … while increasing transparency with bills,” Southern California Edison spokesperson Kathleen Dunleavy told KTLA on Friday. “This will provide relief to millions of customers.”
SCE says approximately 1.2 million of its lower-income customers will see their bills drop by 16%-21%. Overall, rates will decrease by about 33% per kilowatt hour for all residential customers, the utility says.
“We have listened to and heard from our customers that fundamental change is needed to provide bill relief,” SDG&E CEO Caroline Winn said in a statement. “When we were putting together the reform proposal, front and center in our mind were customers who live paycheck to paycheck, who struggle to pay for essentials such as energy, housing and food.”
State law requires the CPUC to adopt a new rate structure by July 1, 2024. Southern California Edison says the earliest customers would see the updated bills is 2025.
. . . after the 2024 elections. After.
Even Little Kids Ask Him Questions Too Difficult For Him To Answer
(I mean, apart from having to prompt him to remember his trip to Ireland last week.)
Joe Biden May Not Be Easy To Defeat Despite His Cognitive and Mental Decline
American Thinker | 04/28/2023 | Rajan LaadIf there is one word to summarize the functioning of the Biden administration, it is “consistency.” Alas for America, this is the undesirable kind of consistency of misgovernance, lies, incompetency, coverups, the attack on democratic values, corruption, and gaffes.
We saw more proof of this yesterday during a White House event on “bring your kid to work day.” Biden asked his audience of young children if they had any questions for him. Perhaps this wasn’t what his handlers had ordered him to do, but as often happens, it slipped his mind.
A little girl asked Biden where his grandchildren live. Biden replied as follows:
“So let me see, I got one in New York, two in Philadelphia, three, no three because I got one granddaughter who is, I don’t know, you’re confusing me, but they’re all around Wilmington, California, New York and Philadelphia, the cities they live in.”
Strayline Uh the Day: So What Question Would YOU, as an Impartial Journalist, Prompt Biden To Answer?
Biden Cheat Sheet Shows He Had Advance Knowledge of Journalist’s Question
The New York Post | 04/26/2023 | Josh ChristensonA cheat sheet held by President Biden during a Wednesday press conference revealed that the 80-year-old commander in chief had advance knowledge of a question from a journalist.
“How are YOU squaring YOUR domestic priorities — like reshoring semiconductors manufacturing — with alliance-based foreign policy?” read a question from Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian.
Note photo:
Oddly enough. . .
This exchange is not recorded in the White House transcript of the press conference.
This punctuation mark is how shocked I am.
But his proficiency in repeating the word “senileconductor” is impressive:
It wasn’t designed to hurt China. It was designed to — so we didn’t have to worry about whether or not we had access to semiconductors. For example, during the pandemic, what happened was all of a sudden everybody started to learn the phrase “supply chain.” A year ago, no one knew what the hell anybody was talking about when you said “supply chain.”
Speak for yourself, little Joe Biden. Speak for yourself.
But now they all know. And we lost access to these — these semiconductors and which new automobiles in the United States need 30,000 of them just to build a new automobile. And we didn’t have them.
So we started to invest here. And what happened was, when we encouraged the investment through the CHIPS and Science Act — and now we have enormous investment in the United States — well over $200 tril- — billion in long-term investment in semiconductors.
You’ll see billions. We’ll see trillions.
And we’re rebuilding the economy of the United States with those semiconductors. It’s not designed to hurt China.
Of course not. Because of course not.
The only thing I did say, with regard to China: There are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and/or other weapons systems. Those we are not selling. We’re not exporting them to China or anyone else.
We’re leaving them in our garage; it’s not like they’re on the street.
And so that’s the context in which this has all occurred. In the meantime, we’re creating thousands of jobs
— after eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs —
and bringing back a sense of pride and dignity to so many towns in the country where, all of a sudden, over the last three decades, we found out that factory that hired — had 600 people shut down.
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Abortion? Or put into rest homes with Covid patients?
The soul of that community was lost.
And so I made sure, when the
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semiconductors were coming back, that they were not just going to go to the coast, they’d be all over the country.
And so we have a significant “field of dreams” in — outside of — in Ohio, outside of Columbus.
Democrat true believers, please listen closely to the guy you installed as leader of the free world:
We’re in Texas.
Bzzzt. . He is in the Rose Garden, in Washington, D.C.
We’re in Arizona.
Anyway — they’re all over the country.
So, it’s not viewed to hurt anyone else. We are providing access to those
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semiconductors. We’re not — we’re a
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supply chain you can count on.
But we are not — we are not going to sit back and be in a position where we don’t have access to those semiconductors.
