Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue –
1. Miscarriage
2. Burrito
3. AK Primary
4. Shortage
5. Hong
6. Inverters
7. Ballroom
1. Miscarriage. For a supposedly really smart guy, Dr Fauci wasn’t, as he wrote his personal diary on government computers, leaving the fingerprints on 11 of them. He also used his government provided smart phone for SMS messages and voicemails, leaving over 34,000 of the former and 522 of the latter. The senate investigators have forensic copies of the phone including all SMS and voicemails. Most of the numbers on the phone do not have formal contact names, with only 3 of them existing on the phone, though once you have a number, it is easy enough to find who it belongs to. And if Fauci’s Glee Club used.burner phones that tells you a lot about what they knew they were participating in. Still, the phone is a treasure trove of evil perpetrated by Fauci and his merry little band of medical malpractitioners. One string Jan 25 – 26, 2021 concerns women taking the Coronavirus vax. The conversation between CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and former US Surgeon General Murthy discusses concern that health care professionals were concerned about injecting a genetic vax very early in pregnancy, with the second dose triggering a miscarriage in the first trimester. While Thems What Am in Charge at the time privately discussed the concern, none of it ever made it out of their closed discussion loop notifying the general public. Their excuse? Data from vax trials did not include pregnant women because it was never tested on them. In this world, no testing equals no problem. The discussion was entirely centered on how to assess risks and benefits from incomplete (and nonexistent) information. A week after the exchange, Fauci said federal regulators found no red flags regarding pregnant women. Later that year, he denied any indication of increased adverse outcomes among vaccinated pregnant women. As such, the entire public health apparat, whom Walensky and Murthy headed publicly encouraged,, indeed demanded pregnant women be vaccinated. This continued until May 2025 when the Trump administration removed COVID 19 vax from the CDC recommended immunization schedule for healthy pregnant women and children. What are the actual numbers? As CDC and NIAID categorically refused to gather any data, completely unknown. Sadly, they may be as high as 81% for women getting their second shot while in their first trimester, something categorically denied by all the usual apologists in the Fauci Cheerleading media. While the normal miscarriage rate is in the vicinity of 15% for all pregnancies, intentionally closing your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears while singing la la la la la la hoping it will all go away is hardly an appropriate response to an actual public health concern especially if you are the ones creating the problem. Should any of this be true, tar and feathers will be too gentle of a response by any single family who lost a child due to the jab.
2. Burrito. Well, they don’t call us the Stupid Party for nothing. A couple weeks ago, a viral social media post from TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet sharing a college student’s complaint that a burrito shouldn’t cost $20 triggered a brief online storm. The left was positively gleeful with the opportunity to stick a crummy economy to Trump and his allies. The political right did their best Dad routine, telling the kid to Suck it up, Buttercup, which was probably the wrong response in an election season. Neither actually solved anything other than to make one another look as ugly as humanly possible, which I suppose was the entire point of the exercise during election season. Sadly, it was a missed opportunity for the free marketeers to bypass the finger pointing by both sides and figure out an alternate path. The first question is are burritos actually that expensive? Hardly, as they are MexTex food, notoriously cheap to make. Second would be a discussion of actual costs and why those costs came to be, closely followed by why those costs are high. The missed opportunity was the Suck it Up Buttercup response by the political right. While appropriate to your own kids, it is not the best way to reach other kids who have been propagandized to the point where an appreciable number of them are considering voting for avowed socialists. While we don’t (and shouldn’t) suck up to them, we most certainly ought not to forcibly drive them into the willing arms of people who hate everything this nation is about. The best response would be that a $20 burrito sucks. How do we make them available cheaper and turn the entire discussion into an entrepreneurial opportunity.
3. AK Primary. Alaska holds its primary tomorrow for the general election in November. We will have a US Senator, our Congress Critter, Governor, half the state senate (10), 40 state house members, and a single union friendly ballot initiative. There has been a God-awful amount of money spent so far, and more lying than normal. Democrats are feeling their oats, confident of a positive outcome. Meanwhile, we here in Southcentral Alaska are facing a natural gas shortage this winter thanks to regulatory and political malfeasance. More on that later.
- US Senator Dan Sullivan is up for reelection. He is facing a former congress critter, Mary Peltola, a moderately pretty native woman who served a term in the US House 2022 – 2024 before being tossed Peltola was a reliable democrat who never voted for anything Nancy Pelosi didn’t want. Democrats believe Sullivan, who has been a reliable conservative, perhaps the most conservative US Senator from this state since I moved here in 1992, is ripe for defeat, and have been throwing the kitchen sink at him all summer. Along with the kitchen sink, there has been millions upon millions of dollars of Outside money spent on the campaign.
- Congress Critter Nick Begich defeated Peltola for US House in 2024. He has been a pleasant surprise, smart, hardworking, and effective. His challenger is an unknown out of Western Alaska with a cookie-cutter, outside funded and operated campaign.
- The biggest campaign is that for governor, to replace two term Republican Mike Dunleavy. Dunleavy has been saddled with a hostile democrat led majority in one house or the other of the legislature his entire time in office. As such, he ended up playing a decent defensive game fending off their foolishness, though sadly not solving an impending natural gas shortage in Southcentral. There are 17 gubernatorial candidates. The top 4 vote getters make it to the Ranked Choice runoff in the November General Election. As of this writing, there are a couple democrat campaigns that look like they will combine and a bunch of Republicans who won’t.
- The ballot initiative is an unconstitutional union attempt to plus up their PAC donations while capping individual donations. It conveniently does not address external PAC donations, nor does it cap self-funding donations. As they are sneaking this through during the primary, I expect it to pass, its constitutionality to be upheld in state court, and be summarily rejected by federal court as a First Amendment violation.
4. Shortage. Speaking of shortages, we here in Cook Inlet are currently 18 days short of natural gas this coming winter. It only took us 20 years of regulatory malfeasance and political shenanigans to get to this point. Energy use up here is divided into equal thirds – electricity, heating and vehicular fuel. Natural gas provides two thirds of that. It comes from wells in Cook Inlet. We were concerned about shortages 16 years ago to the point that we were considering importing from Outside. New wells solved that problem at least for a decade or two. But the legislature, regulators and feds couldn’t keep their grubby little fingers out of that pie, chasing all exploratory drilling out of Cook Inlet with a combination of crummy regulations, tax policy, and environmental grandstanding. Over time, the companies who ought to be drilling no longer do so. With a couple exceptions, most of them shut down operations and left the state. The largest one left, Hillcorp, is now being targeted by the democrat / RINO led majority in the legislature with new taxes. When a resource rich state no longer creates an environment where those resources will be developed, for some silly reason, they won’t be developed. Who knew? Should be an interesting election season as democrats slow roll the natural gas pipeline in hopes they get a democrat elected governor in November.
5. Hong. Democrats in WI dodged a large caliber November bullet with defeat of DSA candidate Francesca Hong by DNC approved candidate David Crowley last Tuesday. The race was very close, with 3,000 votes separating the pair. Each of the leaders got over 310,000 votes. Polling in this race was way off, with Hong holding an 18% lead going into Tuesday. Speculation is that election fraud in Milwaukee was sufficient to flip the race from Hong to Crowley. This makes at least three elections in a row that suspected election fraud in Milwaukee, all instances strongly denied, was instrumental in getting the “right candidate” elected. The vehicle for fraud this time took place when absentee tallies from tabulators were downloaded onto thumb drives, several of which ended up with audit logs rather than tabulation results. Election officials did the requisite oopsie routine and re-ran the download. This touched the results of about 15,000 absentee ballots, five times the margin of victory for the “surprise” winner. It appears that democrats in WI are warming up for the general election.
6. Inverters. HL Mencken long ago noted that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it god and hard.” Cali property owners are about to get a reminder. At issue is a device called a smart inverter. It is used to manage energy to and from the exterior grid for homes with stand-alone generation (usually solar). The idea is that in times of excess, the homeowner can sell excess electricity to the grid. In times of shortage, the grid supplies whatever the homeowner needs to keep the lights on. Problem comes with what to do when the rolling grid blackouts happen. If there is no juice, there are no lights. Note that home solar was sold as a renewable solution to baseload electricity with the promise to always be able to tap into the grid if there was a local shortage. As such, most of those who installed solar did not also install storage for excess electricity, normally a big mistake, but one encouraged by the renewable cheerleaders. In short, they f@#$ed up, and trusted the state. Be very careful installing any “smart” equipment for your home electricity or heating. Smart always means that someone else has control of what will come in and what is going out of your home. They will manage that energy to protect the grid rather than protect you and your family. If you don’t want to give the keys to someone else, refuse the installation regardless of the siren song of sweetness, light, and a bright renewable future.
7. Ballroom. Looks like the lawfare over construction of the WH ballroom and bunker underneath is on its way to SCOTUS. The DC Court of Appeals ruled Aug 7 that congress has control over funding for the WH and has not approved the ballroom construction. Problem with the ruling is that the project is privately funded and congress has no say. The ruling stops all construction pending congressional action. The 2-1 opinion had a Biden and O’Bama judge rule against the president. Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee in her first term issued a blistering dissent, noting that at a minimum, the complainant, the National Trust for Historic Preservation does not have standing to even bring the lawsuit. SCOTUS loves using standing as an excuse to refuse to act. We will see if they use it this time. Rao went on to note that the project falls within the president’s constitutional authority and security needs. She blasted the majority noting that they and the lower court seized supervision of construction at the WH, something not done ever before starting with O’Bama’s basketball court, JFK’s swimming pool, and extending all the way back to Harry Truman’s gutting of the interior to rebuild it from inside out. Trump is also making a national security argument in support of construction, as the WH bunker will be relocated under the new ballroom. Will SCOTUS want to dabble in that pool also?
More later –
- AG