The foolish, misbegotten ordinance did not require conversion of existing properties, it only forbade new installations of gas appliances/furnaces and the like. 

It was still sompletely stupid since burning natural gas at the site is more efficient than any way of generating electricity off-site and using the electricity.  Only idiots under the delusion that all electricity would soon come from windmills and solar panels (they aren't proposing nuclear plants, the only realistic way of replacing fossil fuels for electricity generation) would think it somehow decreased "carbon emissions". (That and preventing any new restaurants preparing the many sorts of cuisine that really depend on the sort of heat on can get from a large gas burner, but can't get from an electric stove from opening in Berkeley.)

Thank God For Straight White Men
Derek Hunter


That headline is highly unfashionable and will not get me any job offers to be president of any university, but it’s true – straight, white men kick ass. It doesn’t hurt that I’m one of them, and it is incomplete to think ONLY people like me kick ass, we awesome people come in every flavor. But no group of people has been more demonized by the left than the people who, if we’re being honest, have done more for our species than any other.

It's probably a hate crime at any of those “martyrs camps” on campuses to point that out, just as it’s probably a hate crime to point out just how much of the good things in life people enjoy – technology, medicine, clothes, various delicious foods – were the fruits of evil whitey’s colonization and work. True story, look it up.

That’s the reason no one on the left, while screaming bloody murder about some Kardashian sister braiding their hair being “CULTURAL APPROPRIATOR,” never bothers to hate the “colonizers” who invented antibiotics or the awful privileged monsters who created the cell phones they’re using to inform the world of just how oppressed they are as they wait in line at Starbucks to pay $10 for a cup of flavored warm water.

If you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

more
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/05/05/thank-god-for-straight-white-men-n2638634

New thermal optics and more at Modern Day Marine 2024

| Defense News Weekly Full Episode 5.4.24
A sight that combines thermal and red-dot capability, lifelike training munitions and an instant private field toilet? See highlights from Modern Day Marine.

https://www.militarytimes.com/video/2024/05/03/new-thermal-optics-and-more-at-modern-day-marine-2024-defense-news-weekly-full-episode-5424/

Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in Abu Ghraib trial
By Matthew Barakat, The Associated Press
 Thursday, May 2
 
A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago.

The mistrial came in the jury’s eighth day of deliberations.


The eight-member civil jury in Alexandria deadlocked on accusations the civilian interrogators who were supplied to the U.S. Army at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004 had conspired with soldiers there to abuse detainees as a means of “softening them up” for questioning.

The trial was the first time a U.S. jury heard claims brought by Abu Ghraib survivors in the 20 years since photos of detainee mistreatment — accompanied by smiling U.S. soldiers inflicting the abuse — shocked the world during the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Reston, Virginia-based CACI had argued that it wasn’t complicit in the detainees’ abuse. It said that its employees had little to any interaction with the three plaintiffs in the case and that any liability for their mistreatment belonged to the government, not CACI.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/05/02/judge-declares-mistrial-after-jury-deadlocks-in-abu-ghraib-trial/

Chris Olivarez
@LtChrisOlivarez
𝐓𝐗 𝐃𝐏𝐒 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠

4/30: A human smuggler in a Ford F-150 led
@TxDPS
 on a high-speed pursuit in Hidalgo County #RGV. The driver, Julio Ivan Jimenez Vargas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico & a Paisa gang member, evaded Troopers traveling 100 mph, forcing oncoming traffic off the road. Vargas eventually stopped & bailed out toward the brush.

DPS’ Aircraft Division provided air support to Troopers on the ground by directing them to where Vargas was hiding. Vargas was arrested & charged with continuous smuggling of persons with likelihood of serious bodily injury or death, evading arrest with a vehicle & evading arrest with a previous conviction.

Vargas has a prior conviction & jail time for human smuggling in 2022.

7  illegal immigrants were referred to #USBP. #OperationLoneStar


https://twitter.com/LtChrisOlivarez/status/1786405434368143746