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National/Breaking News / Re: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now barred from entering nearly 20% of her state, report says
« Last post by deb on Today at 12:13:23 pm »Maybe they are just trying to protect their dogs…. 
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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 5/14/24
« Last post by Polly Ticks on Today at 12:10:43 pm »Thanks, Pookie.
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Elections 2024 / Re: CNN Analyst Visibly Shocked By Trump’s Massive Lead: ‘My God!’ - [video]
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 12:05:18 pm »CNN’s Fareed Zakaria doesn’t see a path for a Joe Biden victory in 2024 as of now and says Democrats need to be “honest about reality.”
“I have to admit, none of this is playing out as I thought it would.”
Zakaria shockingly admitted that the New York indictment was a sham and wouldn’t have been brought up against anyone else.
“In my opinion, I doubt the New York indictment would've been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.”
“Trump could always embroil himself in some kind of scandal, but trendlines are not working in Biden’s favor.”
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1789783250979963255
“I have to admit, none of this is playing out as I thought it would.”
Zakaria shockingly admitted that the New York indictment was a sham and wouldn’t have been brought up against anyone else.
“In my opinion, I doubt the New York indictment would've been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.”
“Trump could always embroil himself in some kind of scandal, but trendlines are not working in Biden’s favor.”
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1789783250979963255
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National/Breaking News / Re: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now barred from entering nearly 20% of her state, report says
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 12:03:55 pm »Perhaps Matt is trying to be a provocateur here, in response to Noem's "banning":
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Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
Why are we still allowing Indian reservations? Who benefits? Nobody. Not America. Not the Indians because reservations are a nightmare of crime, violence, and drugs.
Example after example has proven this fact: Half-conquest does not work. Either take a place or don’t.
6:27 PM · May 13, 2024
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Exactly correct. The whole thing is a farce. These were Stone Age societies that were conquered 150 years ago. Time to move on.
This is our land. We conquered it fair and square. The Indian Wars lasted for 300 years and you lost. Get over it. These were violent, warfaring people who lived by the sword and died by it. Such is the way of the world. We have nothing to apologize for.
7:58 AM · May 14, 2024
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Space / Is it time for space to come out from under the FAA’s wings?
« Last post by Elderberry on Today at 11:57:25 am »The Space Review by Jeff Foust 5/13/2024
Spaceflight is not routine in the same way as other modes of transportation, but it is becoming more commonplace. Through less than four and a half months of this year, there have been more than 90 orbital launches worldwide. Commercial launches, predominantly by SpaceX, have driven that growth, far offsetting declines by some other countries and companies.
That growth in commercial launch activity puts pressure and scrutiny on the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or AST, which licenses and oversees commercial launches and reentries. At an April 23 meeting of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), Kelvin Coleman, the FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation, noted the office licensed 117 launches and 7 reentries in 2023. As of the meeting, the office had already licensed 43 launches and 3 reentries to date in 2024.
“If we continue at the current rate, we could see 150 operations this year,” he said, referring to the combination of launches and reentries. AST oversaw 17 operations in March alone, he said, breaking a monthly record of 13 operations set two months earlier. “Breaking records is becoming routine to all of us.”
Breaking records, though, raises concerns in industry about AST breaking down. Last fall, for example, officials with launch companies said at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing they were concerned that AST lacked the resources and processes to keep up with growing demand as companies enter the market and ramp up launch activities. “AST’s workload over the next 12–24 months could result in the grounding of US space launch capability if action is not taken immediately,” warned SpaceX vice president Bill Gerstenmaier (see “The launch industry strains launch licensing”, The Space Review, October 23, 2023).
The FAA is taking steps to address those concerns. In February, Coleman announced at the annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference that the agency would establish a rulemaking committee to examine a new set of launch licensing regulations called Part 450. The regulations took effect in 2021 with the intent of streamlining the launch and reentry licensing process, but many companies have reported running into problems trying to work with them.
The Part 450 regulations, he said at the conference, were “developed pretty quickly, and we are all learning together as we go along. We’ve considered some opportunities, however, to smooth out a few wrinkles and enhance it to better meet its objectives.” He said the committee would start work by the fall to examine the regulations and offer recommendations for improving its implementation, which is critical as all launch companies must move over to Part 450 licenses by March 2026.
The office is working to hire more staff as well. Coleman said at the COMSTAC meeting that AST now has 146 employees with “more good people in the pipeline” to address licensing and related work. “Recruiting, hiring, and training are a top priority for us.”
In its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal, the FAA requested $57.1 million for AST, up 36% from the $42 million it received in 2024. Much of that increase would go towards hiring more workers to deal with the increasing number of license applications and launch activity.
“AST needs additional licensing and permitting evaluators, environmental protection and stakeholder engagement specialists, and safety analysts to double its average annual new authorization determination capacity from 5 to 10 while keeping pace with requests for modifications and renewals,” the FAA stated in its budget documents.
More: https://thespacereview.com/article/4792/1
Spaceflight is not routine in the same way as other modes of transportation, but it is becoming more commonplace. Through less than four and a half months of this year, there have been more than 90 orbital launches worldwide. Commercial launches, predominantly by SpaceX, have driven that growth, far offsetting declines by some other countries and companies.
That growth in commercial launch activity puts pressure and scrutiny on the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or AST, which licenses and oversees commercial launches and reentries. At an April 23 meeting of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), Kelvin Coleman, the FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation, noted the office licensed 117 launches and 7 reentries in 2023. As of the meeting, the office had already licensed 43 launches and 3 reentries to date in 2024.
“If we continue at the current rate, we could see 150 operations this year,” he said, referring to the combination of launches and reentries. AST oversaw 17 operations in March alone, he said, breaking a monthly record of 13 operations set two months earlier. “Breaking records is becoming routine to all of us.”
Breaking records, though, raises concerns in industry about AST breaking down. Last fall, for example, officials with launch companies said at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing they were concerned that AST lacked the resources and processes to keep up with growing demand as companies enter the market and ramp up launch activities. “AST’s workload over the next 12–24 months could result in the grounding of US space launch capability if action is not taken immediately,” warned SpaceX vice president Bill Gerstenmaier (see “The launch industry strains launch licensing”, The Space Review, October 23, 2023).
The FAA is taking steps to address those concerns. In February, Coleman announced at the annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference that the agency would establish a rulemaking committee to examine a new set of launch licensing regulations called Part 450. The regulations took effect in 2021 with the intent of streamlining the launch and reentry licensing process, but many companies have reported running into problems trying to work with them.
The Part 450 regulations, he said at the conference, were “developed pretty quickly, and we are all learning together as we go along. We’ve considered some opportunities, however, to smooth out a few wrinkles and enhance it to better meet its objectives.” He said the committee would start work by the fall to examine the regulations and offer recommendations for improving its implementation, which is critical as all launch companies must move over to Part 450 licenses by March 2026.
The office is working to hire more staff as well. Coleman said at the COMSTAC meeting that AST now has 146 employees with “more good people in the pipeline” to address licensing and related work. “Recruiting, hiring, and training are a top priority for us.”
In its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal, the FAA requested $57.1 million for AST, up 36% from the $42 million it received in 2024. Much of that increase would go towards hiring more workers to deal with the increasing number of license applications and launch activity.
“AST needs additional licensing and permitting evaluators, environmental protection and stakeholder engagement specialists, and safety analysts to double its average annual new authorization determination capacity from 5 to 10 while keeping pace with requests for modifications and renewals,” the FAA stated in its budget documents.
More: https://thespacereview.com/article/4792/1
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Climate Change / Re: Climate Professor Thinks We Should 'Cull' the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:56:58 am »Truly someone who believes in cutting of his nose to spite his face. 
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Climate Change / Climate Professor Thinks We Should 'Cull' the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:56:11 am »Climate Professor Thinks We Should 'Cull' the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets
RICK MORAN | 1:11 PM ON MAY 12, 2024
Professor Bill McGuire is a well-known vulcanologist and climate scientist who doesn't care much for humanity. He tweeted out a scathingly brilliant idea if you're in the mortuary business or work as a grave digger.
"If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate." https://t.co/hzga69EhV3
— Bill McGuire (@ProfBillMcGuire) May 11, 2024
Ooopsie. McGuire deleted the tweet a few hours later but had no regrets. The trouble is, we just don't understand how brilliant he is.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/05/12/climatge-professor-thinks-we-should-cull-the-human-population-to-reach-emissions-targets-n4928981#google_vignette
RICK MORAN | 1:11 PM ON MAY 12, 2024
Professor Bill McGuire is a well-known vulcanologist and climate scientist who doesn't care much for humanity. He tweeted out a scathingly brilliant idea if you're in the mortuary business or work as a grave digger.
"If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate." https://t.co/hzga69EhV3
— Bill McGuire (@ProfBillMcGuire) May 11, 2024
Ooopsie. McGuire deleted the tweet a few hours later but had no regrets. The trouble is, we just don't understand how brilliant he is.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/05/12/climatge-professor-thinks-we-should-cull-the-human-population-to-reach-emissions-targets-n4928981#google_vignette
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Climate Change / Young adults losing the climate faith in the US, and only one third of voters think the IPCC experts
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:53:31 am »Young adults losing the climate faith in the US, and only one third of voters think the IPCC experts are right
By
Joanne Nova
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May 14th, 2024
Good news: despite 2023 being the hottest year since Homo Erectus, there was a 17% fall in the number of 18 to 34-year-olds who call “Climate change” a very serious problem. Even though there were hottest-ever-headlines month after month, the punters lost the faith.
No one is cracking champagne because 50% of young adults still tell pollsters they think it is a “very serious problem”. But when all is said and done, at least half the generation that was drip-fed the dogma since kindergarten can not only see through the catastrophism but they are brave enough to tell a pollster that, too.
For the most part, after a few hot El Nino years, “climate fear” is back where it was in 2016 or so. Most people still want the government to solve the weather with someone else’s money. But where younger people were once much more enthusiastic about a Big Government fix than older people were, now that gap is almost closed. What was a 21% difference between those age groups is now only 2%. That’s a whopping fall in faith in the government to do something useful, or probably, a recognition that whatever the government does will cost too much.
Looks like young adults are learning to be cynical adults faster?
https://www.cfact.org/2024/05/14/young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right
By
Joanne Nova
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May 14th, 2024
Good news: despite 2023 being the hottest year since Homo Erectus, there was a 17% fall in the number of 18 to 34-year-olds who call “Climate change” a very serious problem. Even though there were hottest-ever-headlines month after month, the punters lost the faith.
No one is cracking champagne because 50% of young adults still tell pollsters they think it is a “very serious problem”. But when all is said and done, at least half the generation that was drip-fed the dogma since kindergarten can not only see through the catastrophism but they are brave enough to tell a pollster that, too.
For the most part, after a few hot El Nino years, “climate fear” is back where it was in 2016 or so. Most people still want the government to solve the weather with someone else’s money. But where younger people were once much more enthusiastic about a Big Government fix than older people were, now that gap is almost closed. What was a 21% difference between those age groups is now only 2%. That’s a whopping fall in faith in the government to do something useful, or probably, a recognition that whatever the government does will cost too much.
Looks like young adults are learning to be cynical adults faster?
https://www.cfact.org/2024/05/14/young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right
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Climate Change / Your meat will be tainted with Gates’ vaccine! Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘far
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:51:09 am »Your meat will be tainted with Gates’ vaccine! Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’
By Marc Morano
May 12, 2024
12:03 pm
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/arkeabio-cow-emissions-bill-gates
May 10, 2024 –
By Dan Primack & Ben Geman
ArkeaBio, a Boston developer of a vaccine to reduce livestock methane emissions, raised a $26.5 million in venture capital funding led by an investment fund founded by Bill Gates.
Why it matters: Caring about cow farts (or burps) has become a political punchline, but they’re estimated to create more than 5% of global greenhouse gasses.
Vaccines could be a relatively low-cost, scalable solution, particularly as food demand increases.
The science: Methane is much more potent than is carbon dioxide, in terms of its trapping atmospheric heat, although it also dissipates down faster.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/05/12/your-meat-will-be-tainted-with-gates-vaccine-bill-gates-funds-cow-vaccine-to-reduce-livestock-farts-full-of-methane-emissions-to-stop-climate-change/
By Marc Morano
May 12, 2024
12:03 pm
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/arkeabio-cow-emissions-bill-gates
May 10, 2024 –
By Dan Primack & Ben Geman
ArkeaBio, a Boston developer of a vaccine to reduce livestock methane emissions, raised a $26.5 million in venture capital funding led by an investment fund founded by Bill Gates.
Why it matters: Caring about cow farts (or burps) has become a political punchline, but they’re estimated to create more than 5% of global greenhouse gasses.
Vaccines could be a relatively low-cost, scalable solution, particularly as food demand increases.
The science: Methane is much more potent than is carbon dioxide, in terms of its trapping atmospheric heat, although it also dissipates down faster.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/05/12/your-meat-will-be-tainted-with-gates-vaccine-bill-gates-funds-cow-vaccine-to-reduce-livestock-farts-full-of-methane-emissions-to-stop-climate-change/
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Climate Change / EVs Will Add Strain To An Overloaded Power Grid And A Driver’s Commute
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:46:15 am »EVs Will Add Strain To An Overloaded Power Grid And A Driver’s Commute
by Rep. Doug Lamborn 1 hour ago in Electric Vehicles, News and Opinion Reading Time: 3 mins read
Earlier this year, the media were abuzz with reports of electric vehicles failing to maintain their battery charge during Chicago’s severe cold snap. This demonstrated the practical challenges of using electric vehicles in cold climates. [emphasis, links added]
Despite this, the Biden administration pushed its disastrous Final Rule: Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles.
This rule is focused on the vehicles everyday Americans rely on and aims to remove all gasoline-powered vehicles from new-car sales by the early 2030s.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set forth vehicle emissions standards that are, quite frankly, unrealistic. The rule requires automakers to sell an unattainable number of battery vehicles.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/evs-will-add-strain-to-an-overloaded-power-grid-and-a-drivers-commute/
by Rep. Doug Lamborn 1 hour ago in Electric Vehicles, News and Opinion Reading Time: 3 mins read
Earlier this year, the media were abuzz with reports of electric vehicles failing to maintain their battery charge during Chicago’s severe cold snap. This demonstrated the practical challenges of using electric vehicles in cold climates. [emphasis, links added]
Despite this, the Biden administration pushed its disastrous Final Rule: Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles.
This rule is focused on the vehicles everyday Americans rely on and aims to remove all gasoline-powered vehicles from new-car sales by the early 2030s.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set forth vehicle emissions standards that are, quite frankly, unrealistic. The rule requires automakers to sell an unattainable number of battery vehicles.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/evs-will-add-strain-to-an-overloaded-power-grid-and-a-drivers-commute/
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