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Slow news day in TAH-land from what I am seeing. Better than a crisis a minute!<\/p>\n

Pelosi did indeed fly into Taiwan.<\/strong> It was a brief visit, and the only fireworks generated were the Chinese holding a scheduled drill. No WWIII, no attacks. Heck of a note when the President is shown up by one of his own Congresscritters . Maybe there is something to this transgender nonsense, she certainly showed more cojones this week than Joe did.\u00a0 Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember how the Republicans were ticked<\/strong> at that Manchin-Schumer budget bill agreement they said cut them out of the negotiations? According to Bloomberg, they plan to use the Byrd rule (deliciously named for Democrat Robert Byrd!) to challenge parts of the bill as extraneous or unrelated to the budget. Under the guise of a budget reconciliation bill a simple majority is sufficient to pass, but challenges can be mounted to any parts which are unrelated to the budget.<\/p>\n

Other non-climate aspects of Democrats $433 billion spending bill, which could receive a Senate vote this week using the budget reconciliation process, could face Republican objections as well. Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, said measures related to lowering prescription drug prices was \u201cgoing to be Byrd-able.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot in there that is not pertaining to increasing or decreasing the revenue of the federal government,\u201d Cassidy said in an interview. \u201cA lot of this is totally, totally unrelated to reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

One advantage Democrats might have this time around however, is that the centerpiece of the legislation, hundreds of billions in new and expanded tax credits for renewable energy, nuclear power, hydrogen, electric vehicles, along with other climate-related priorities were retained from previous versions of the bill and have been reviewed by Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, said Senator Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who serves on the Senate\u2019s tax writing committee.Bloomberg via Yahoo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Earth is spinning faster.<\/strong>\u00a0 June 29th was officially the shortest day on record, 1.59 milliseconds under 24 hours. I don’t think the increased centrifugal force will offset gravity enough for you border-liners to get past weigh-ins or PT tests if you weren’t before.Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n

Alex Jones’ lawyer sends damning phone info.<\/strong> One of Alex Jones’ (the guy who claims the Sandy Hook shooting never happened and is getting sued by the kids’ parents) lawyers accidentally mailed an image of Jones’ phone to one of the plaintiff<\/em> lawyers. Apparently texts that Jones claimed did not exist (under oath), memos acknowledging that the shooting took place, and InfoWars financials he claimed to be unable to locate, all showed up. Mr. Jones essentially responded “I’m not a tech guy” . Got a feeling that one’s gonna leave a mark. Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

Bo Greitens loses in Missouri.<\/strong> Bo was the scandal-plagued Missouri governor who was pressured to resign a few years back – something about accusations of affairs while in office, abusing his wife and kids, etc. Had a lot of hopes for him – SEAL, Navy CDR, Rhodes Scholar, founded The Mission Continues charity -he seemed to be a rising star. This was to be his comeback election but the current state AG got more votes than Greitens and the third candidate combined. Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun company sued. <\/strong> Despite the PLCAA which protects gun manufacturers from just such suits, lawyers for families of the Garlic Festival shooting two years back are suing Century Arms. Try to follow: Century has plants in Georgia and Vermont, so the lawyers are suing them because the shooter bought the gun in Nevada (under an old driver’s license, so illegally) and brought it back to CA (illegal) and used it to shoot folks (also illegal, I am told) using a high-cap magazine which may violate Vermont law. Somehow all this is the company’s fault despite the trail of broken laws the shooter (who passed the background check) left strewn in his wake. Got that?\u00a0 AP via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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