May 15, 2024 – There's been a Mercedes Benz factory outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama for almost 30 years, and, for the company, it's been a pretty big deal. The plant employs around 6100 people.The Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa was founded in 1995 and was the first major Mercedes-Benz plant outside Germany. Around two-thirds of...

May 15, 2024 – Big discussion on X yesterday gave us a window into the WEF's absolute consternation with we of the knuckle-dragging crowd's obstinance when it comes to meekly following their dictates.Just as POTATUS has a blindspot and is uber defensive...okay, about most everything, but this in particular...the benefits of #Bidenomics, which we...

May 17, 2024 – Back in November, a seismic shock was running through the dark underbelly of the Netherlands and European Union ruling elite. "Far-right" politician Geert Wilders was on the cusp, according to exit polls, of winning enough seats to be the guy who would form the next Dutch government.It looks like populist...

May 17, 2024 – Who knew they were flying that gaudy, obnoxious alphabet-sex soup flag over the animal kingdom?More importantly...who cared?You won't be surprised to find that NBC cared and that they've done a special documentary celebrating gay and transgender animals just in time for Pride Month.Take a worldwide journey exploring the rich diversity of...

May 17, 2024 – Didn't I just say the other day that everything Green touches soon turns to something brown?This is another incredible example.Australia's been going gangbusters on the solar power, even to the point of losing what little arable land they have to dump millions of solar panels on top.Massive farms, which, in...

May 29, 2024 – Maybe because I've only eaten in a Cracker Barrel once since 1993 have I really paid attention to them in any fashion other than, "DAMN! That parking lot is always packed!"Our 1993 visit was a really good dinner for Ebola* and me on a cross-country leg, moving from SoCal to...

May 23, 2024 – This is another of those "Oh, Coulda Told Ya" stories that you find just grab your attention when you're reading up on other related things. I mean, you have to chase it down.After all the time we've spent documenting the foils, trials, lies, and travails as New Jersey's rodential governor...

May 10, 2024 – Would someone please point me in the direction of the last san...never mind. After what they've willingly done to their economies and their fellow citizens, there obviously isn't one unaltered, functioning brain cell between them.But I sure am dying to know WHY IN THE SAM HELL these eco-terrorist Malthusian cult members...

May 13, 2024 – There have been some spectacular flameouts in the land of solar cells lately.Actually, there was one today. Couldn't have made a bigger splash if it tried as it fried.Thousands of people have been evacuated from Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre after "all the solar panels on the roof" caught fire....

May 16, 2024 – Well, this IS dreary.How the heck am I supposed to get through the election if Mondavi goes under? You all know what that 1.5L means to me during a debate.CA wine industry up against increasing cost of doing business in CA - just like other businesses. Energy, Insurance, Water, Transportation,...

May 16, 2024 – We've long known Mexico is not our friend. From Vicente Fox telling W that the US was Mexico's "pressure relief valve" to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's flat-out blackmail for more money and visas in return for doing their part on their side of the border on immigration enforcement, administration after...

May 16, 2024 – Have you seen all those news reports lately about how expensive fast food has gotten? Reporters don't have to look far to find someone whining about what it costs to eat at McDonald's and, hard left sycophants that they are, the amazing thing is they ARE looking.You could have knocked...

May 16, 2024 – When I was stationed at El Toro many decades ago, "Irvine" was just beginning to blossom into Donald Bren's - chairman of the Irvine Ranch Company - vision of the Mediterranean on the West Coast. The east side of I-5 was nothing but glorious groves of oranges that ran all...

May 17, 2024 – Juuuussssttttt spitballin' here, but it certainly seems like we have an answer for Egypt's extraordinary pissiniss about Israel's plans to clear out Rafah.I have to admit, this was the favored line of thinking over the past few weeks as the Biden administration sabotaged every Israeli move, and the Egyptians blustered and...

May 8, 2024 – Yeesh. Sometimes I think Republicans are just so desperate for a pretty face that doesn't mean tweet, they'll fall all over themselves elevating - and defending - the exact opposite of what they supposedly want. They get cleaned bowled over by a bad case of goo-goo eyes.This business with the...

May 22, 2024 – Kind of an interesting discussion blew up out of a chart I put up on Facebook that I'd gotten from an X tweet. It was a five-year illustration of the increase in fast-food prices from a couple of the major chains. The numbers seemed to be pretty legit, and so...

Jul 3, 2024 – None of this post-debate mess is a surprise to anyone with half a brain, functioning eyeballs, or any media member with a marginally functioning sense of integrity...I KID, I KID about that last one.Because there doesn't seem to be any such creature. I have even seen people whose brains have...

Jul 3, 2024 – Summer is here, and we've established that we're boiling away in the hottest summer ever, ever, EH-VAH.Let's just get that part over with.WIDESPREAD 5/5 on @ClimateCentral Climate Shift Index through Sunday. This heatwave is almost impossible without climate change.‼️ This isn’t a normal summer heatwave.➡️ We’re living through historic & exceptional...

Jul 3, 2024 – Some people just can't take 'non' for an answer, can they?When they tallied up the votes Sunday evening in the snap elections called by France's unpopular diminutive president Emmanuel Macron, it seemed the establishment's worst nightmare had come to pass. In the first round of voting, "right-wing" firebrand Marine LePen's...

Jul 4, 2024 – Man, I love the Fourth of July—even when there are on-and-off showers and then the sun finally comes out and makes it steamy.It's OUR day, our US of A day - the day WE took and no one can take from us.And I'll be damned if I'm the one who...

Jun 27, 2024 – Okay, my darlings - DAMN. That's all I can say. I've been in that overwhelmed comment section trying to catch up with you all while listening to major dad on the couch (who was supposed to be asleep) HOWLING at CNN positively MELTING DOWN over Biden's horrible, terrible, really suck-ass debate...

Jun 28, 2024 – One thing I noticed, post-debate last night, while I was in the middle of glorying over that spectacular CNN meltdown and also trying to get snaps of the hysterical chyrons.OH NOES CONCERNSThis was the best one, though.I LOVE THE SMELL OF AGGRESSIVE PANIC IN THE MORNINGIt's so unsurprising that the...

Jun 28, 2024 – Since the murderous and barbaric October 7 invasion by Hamas, Israel has been on a war footing. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) went into action immediately, even as reserves were being called up in unprecedented numbers. They had to fill out the ranks of what had been, for many years,...

Jun 28, 2024 – Such a cheery place, the Windy City.Where the haves and the have-nots live in a constant state of friction between those whose lives are spent ducking bullets from criminals and those who want to keep criminals on the street in the name of social justice.Take Cook County District Attorney Kim...

Jul 5, 2024 – It's been almost three weeks since word upscale and independent electric vehicle automaker Fisker announced it was going into bankruptcy. Talks with Nissan about an investment collapsed, which put a further financial crimp on the company, as its other, "secret" investor - whose money was contingent on the Nissan deal...