What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today is Coconut Cream Pie Day! So, let’s make a super easy Impossible Coconut Cream Pie! 

Ingredients

4 eggs

3/4 cup white granulated sugar

1/2 stick butter or 4 tablespoons, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

2 cups milk

1 cup shredded (NOT flaked) coconut

Instructions

Cream eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla with mixer.

Add nutmeg, flour and milk and continue mixing until all ingredients are wet. Stir in coconut with a spoon.

Spray a 10-inch deep dish pie plate with cooking spray and pour in pie ingredients. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven 55 to 60 minutes until brown on top.

Notes

This pie will rise up during baking and then fall after it begins to cool. I always put a baking sheet under this pie to catch any drips when it rises up in the oven. The pie will slice better if you let it cool in the refrigerator before slicing.

ENJOY!

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117 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

    1. Morning, Pat! 68 here this morning – no heat needed here, tho, since my house holds heat. Clearly I didn’t win the 8/31 big PCH prize since I didn’t see myself on TV anywhere! I’m trying something new this morning – since GT seems so curious about the patio, I propped open the outside door and put his food just inside the door so he has to step inside to eat. Since it is not in my line-of-sight, I probably won’t see him but I’ll be able to tell if he’s eaten anything at least.

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        1. OK then….I took my coffee and cigs out to the patio and sat down to wait….w/in 5 minutes, I saw GT poking her head around the door, stepped around to the stoop, hesitated for about 2 seconds, then stepped right in and settled down to eat. Yep! I am revising my guess that GT is male – nope! I was sitting about 4′ away and she simply ignored me while she ate. Once she was done, she decided to wander around a bit on the patio, sniffing over to the west end and back towards the door, taking her time, glancing at me now and then. Jake was standing inside at the door but she totally ignored him. As she stepped outside, she dropped and hoisted her leg to go after a flea, which was when I saw the lack of male accoutrements!

          I followed her as she walked down the front of the patio to see where she goes. She rounded the SW corner then hoisted a leg to do some more licking. When she saw me looking, she flopped down, acting all casual, like she didn’t even see me; when I walked away, she came back down the end wall and back around the corner; when she saw me watching her again, she once again flopped down and sprawled, nonchalant as can be! She’s awfully skinny yet. I think another round of worming is in order.

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            1. The tiger-striping, with the darker colors, makes it really hard to tell! She’s pulling power plays, letting me know that SHE will control this relationship, NOT me! Hussy!

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              2. Males react differently to women with most animals – they can smell the different body chemistry. Remember Little Man, how affectionate he was with me? That’s a man for you! Cats are just a LOT more subtle than dogs – you have to watch them closer but it is often very telling.

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    1. Matt Gaetz
      @mattgaetz
      No vote on Term Limits
      No vote on a balanced budget
      No plan to have individual appropriations bills considered
      No full release of J6 tapes
      No spending cut to raise the Debt Limit.

      Trump has been charged with 91 counts.

      We haven’t even subpoenaed Hunter Biden – or any Biden for that matter.

      I know it is the tendency of political leaders to self-preen, but the truth is that while some GOP House work has made positive reforms – it isn’t good enough. Not even close, actually.

      We are going to have to seize the initiative and make some changes.

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  14. chynese buying land, sucking taxpayer monies for ev battery companies that have retreats pledging loyalty to the ccp. the company Gotion is a fara registered company. they should be forbidden from accessing taxpayer monies.
    entire article
    A Chinese company developing a taxpayer-funded electric vehicle battery facility in Michigan published reports and video footage of its employees wearing what appears to be Red Army uniforms and pledging fealty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

    Gotion High-Tech — the Hefei, China-based parent company of Gotion Inc. — hosted multiple company trips in 2021 to CCP revolutionary memorials in Anhui Province, China, according to records first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation. During the trips, Gotion High-Tech workers wore Red Army outfits and pledged to “fight for communism to the end of my life.”

    “I volunteer to join the CCP, uphold the Party’s platform, observe the provisions of the Party’s by-laws, carry out a member’s duties, carry out the Party’s decisions, strictly observe the Party’s discipline, be loyal to the Party, work hard, to fight for communism as long as I live, be ready at all times to sacrifice everything for the Party and people and never betray the Party,” the employees chanted during a trip to China’s Revolutionary Memorial Hall in July 2021, footage translated by the DCNF showed.

    One month later, the company held a trip to Dabie Mountain to commemorate the CCP’s Long March, an historic march that led to the emergence of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong in early 1935.

    In a statement, a Gotion representative said its parent company didn’t fund the trips.

    “Gotion High-Tech employees in China are involved with many clubs, including biking and hiking clubs, and one politically affiliated club,” the official told Fox News Digital. “None of these clubs are financed by Gotion High-Tech, and some employees individually paid for field trips to historical sites in China out of their own pockets.”

    “Gotion Inc. is headquartered in Fremont, California, and is not supervised, directed, controlled or financed by any foreign government or foreign political party,” they continued. “Gotion Inc. does observe all American holidays and wishes everyone a wonderful Labor Day holiday this weekend.”

    The revelation that Gotion’s parent company hosted CCP trips for its employees and conducted party pledges comes as its Michigan project continues to face heightened scrutiny from locals, national security experts and Republican lawmakers.

    Opponents of the project have noted the company’s allegiance to the Chinese government and often pointed to Gotion High-Tech’s corporate bylaws, which state that the company is required to “carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.”

    The company’s 2022 ESG report states Gotion High-Tech “carried out thematic education activities such as the study of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, red theme education, and love for students,” The Midwesterner reported.

    And earlier this year a Michigan law firm quietly registered Gotion Inc. as a Chinese foreign principal, according to FARA filings reviewed by Fox News Digital.

    Chinese President Xi Jinping and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are pictured. Whitmer has repeatedly advocated for the project despite opposition from national security experts. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

    “Subnational incursions are afoot,” former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella, the co-founder of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group, previously told Fox News Digital.

    “China is on the hunt,” he continued. “The Chinese Communist Party is on the hunt. They are looking for these open doors to kick in, in states. And they have carried great sway. You just need to look at Gotion or CATL — textbook examples of this influence operation.”

    In April, Cella and fellow former U.S. Ambassador Peter Hoekstra, who helped found the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group, asked the Department of Justice to open a federal investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act related to five-year hush agreements signed by state officials as part of the Gotion negotiations.

    Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that Gotion would invest $2.4 billion to construct two 550,000 square-foot production plants along with other supporting facilities spanning 260 acres in northern Michigan. She applauded the proposal in her late 2022 announcement, saying it would shore up Michigan’s status as the “global hub of mobility and electrification.”

    Then, earlier this year, the Michigan state Senate Appropriations Committee gave the final stamp of approval for granting Gotion $175 million in direct taxpayer funding to help build the facility. In a 10-9 vote, some Democrats joined every Republican on the panel in voting against the funding, while only Democrats, including the committee’s chairwoman, voted in favor.
    Michigan residents criticize state lawmakers for backing Chinese battery plant proposal Video

    “I’m angry. I’m angry that this vote was slipped into the agenda today with as little information as possible so that people like me wouldn’t know it was happening,” Marjorie Steele, a local resident, said during the hearing. “I’m angry that you, our elected officials, have ignored my community’s pleas to table this vote until some small semblance of due diligence can be performed.”

    “I can promise you that we will not stop at the local level,” she added. “We are tired of being abused, and we are not alone. This is not just a Mecosta County issue. Townships and counties across the state are uniting, sharing resources, manpower and grassroots activism. Your votes today, senators, are lines drawn in the sand.”

    Gotion announced in August that it had scooped up 270 acres of land in Green Charter Township, Michigan, for the project. Some of the purchased land is zoned for agriculture or residential use, while the majority is zoned for industrial use.

    Whitmer’s office did not respond to request for comment by time of publication.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-ev-plants-owner-promotes-chinese-communist-ideology-worker-retreats-report

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  16. “Kevin McCarthy Says Impeachment Inquiry Will Require a Floor Vote: Is He Slow-Playing or Avoiding it Altogether? We want impeachment. Our nation needs impeachment. But our representatives aren’t listening.”
    JD RUCKER
    SEP 2, 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The differences between Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and his predecessor Nancy Pelosi go far beyond Republican versus Democrat. Pelosi had nothing and rapidly moved to impeach President Trump twice. McCarthy has everything and is taking forever to impeach Joe Biden.

    It’s telling that McCarthy’s latest statement about impeachment came late on a Friday. That’s the magic moment in politics when announcements are made or press releases are dropped to get them the least amount of attention from the media.

    According to Breitbart, McCarthy is only going to launch an impeachment investigation into Biden once the House votes to do so. By comparison, Pelosi simply announced she was launching investigations and had an actual vote on it months later with the first impeachment of Trump.

    Breitbart, which appears to support McCarthy’s strategy, posted:

    ‘House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear to Breitbart News on Friday that if House Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry into Democrat President Joe Biden, the move would come not as an announcement from him or anyone else, but from a formal vote on the floor of the House.

    “To open an impeachment inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans would not take it lightly or use it for political purposes. The American people deserve to be heard on this matter through their elected representatives,” McCarthy told Breitbart News. “That’s why, if we move forward with an impeachment inquiry, it would occur through a vote on the floor of the People’s House and not through a declaration by one person.”

    Doing so would require a majority—at least 218 votes, assuming the House is at full attendance for such a vote—of members of the House to vote for such a move. While opening a formal impeachment inquiry is not a vote to impeach the president, it is a massive escalation by the lower chamber of Congress towards doing so—and it would also provide the House with extraordinary new investigative and law enforcement powers in terms of compelling testimony, enforcing subpoenas, and digging into Biden’s behavior and the culture of corruption surrounding the president.’

    Let’s be crystal clear so there’s no ambiguity. The House GOP has bank records, plus a massive number of damning emails, text messages, and whistleblowers to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that then-VP Biden and the entire Biden Crime Family participated in felonious crimes against America.

    Pelosi had a single partisan whistleblower and a perfectly fine phone conversation when she launched her investigation. As Bonchie at Red State noted, it seems like McCarthy is trying to run out the clock on the Biden presidency without launching an impeachment:

    ‘I hate to be the cynic here, but this is McCarthy taking an out on impeachment, likely ensuring it will never take place. By contrast, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the 2019 impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump from the floor.’

    All of this hemming and hawing by McCarthy and the House GOP is intentional. Whether to somehow enhance their own political careers or to defend the UniParty Swamp, they’re doing nothing but talking about impeachment. They’re pretending like they’re doing all of this talking as preludes to action when in reality they’re just talking in lieu of action.

    And they’re probably going to get away with it. Why? Because far too few Republicans are demanding action now. Sure, we may hop on social media and whine about the feckless GOP, but there’s no real accountability. They’re on track to avoid impeaching Biden or at least delaying it until after the 2024 election. This is unacceptable.

    IF there is an impeachment, it needs to be soon. The only way I see that happening is if the outcry from the people is loud enough. Even then, our representatives on Capitol Hill no longer listen to the will of the people. Perhaps they never really did, but at least they pretended in the past. Today, they constantly take actions that the people don’t want. They do this with no remorse. They do this with no fear of repercussions.

    I’m hopeful that we can make our voices heard, not because I believe it’s true but because to accept that it’s not true is to acknowledge that our government is fatally flawed. Many already believe it is, but I’m not quite ready to accept that. Call me an optimist but I’m going to continue to scream at them until someone tells me to shut up.”

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    1. i heard the theory–out of left field–that the dems are intentionally letting the info out about ultra maggot because they WANT the repubs to at least try to impeach maggot. that way they can dump him in the 2024 election and can say it’s because of the bad press not that the left is incapable of leading.

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      1. Nothing would surprise me any more, Pat! OK….yes, it would surprise me if Trump were to turn but I can’t see that happening!

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  17. article at American Thinker details the mess the post office is in, but the suggestions to fix it are dubious to me. the author states everyone pays bills on line–I don’t–nor would i want to. going digital is not the answer.
    increase the rates significantly for bulk mail? that one i can get behind–most people toss bulk mail anyway.
    you get your prescriptions thru the mail? go to a pharmacy instead. well my post office is 15 minutes from me–the pharmacy is 45 minutes from me and with the price of gas that’s unacceptable.
    they need to trim the fat–get rid of the unions, cut the pensions, the benefits and dump the EVS.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/end_the_postal_service_conjob.html

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    1. I pay as many of my bills on-line as I can with automatic payments – I am so scatter-brained, it’s much easier for me so I don’t forget something – but that must remain MY choice and MINE alone! When I get my SS every month, I immediately write all the auto payments in my checkbook then I don’t have to worry about it and I know what I have left to live on for the month. I also very much appreciate the ability to get any needed meds from the VA thru the mail as well. It saves me from a 45 minute drive to Norfolk, lessening my gas costs and wear/tear on my truck, having to drive in the heat w/no AC, etc., etc. Double the costs on bulk mail, IMO!! And yes, unions must go!

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  18. my hummers do not like cobwebs. so when i see them in the upper corners of the deck where they might fly, I always take my trusty broom and clear them away. this morning I was sweeping one cobweb from the deck railing and i hear a hummer scolding. i look up and there’s a female hovering to the side of an upper beam. I walked over and sure enough, there was a cobweb i didn’t see starting in the upper corner of the “door frame” over the front steps.
    hubby was laughing at me when i came in…

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    1. There were 2 hummers fighting over the feeder when I was fiddling with GT’s food and I noticed it was almost empty again. I also saw that there were moths in the other feeder over the garden bed so I emptied and refilled them both. They are hitting them hard now, getting ready for migration. I have enough finches and sparrows around that I rarely get any cobwebs out there so I’ve never seen that. For some reason, this year, there are a LOT more of the tiny fruit flies everywhere, getting into all of my hummer feeders; not to mention all the wasps and bees!

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      1. one year we had hornets getting in the feeders. so much so that i developed a way of opening them with the hot water running to drown any that were in the base–we had quite a few get in the house that way.
        this year, it’s only been lately that bees are interested in the feeders.

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        1. Oh, I try to shake any out before I bring it onto the patio – that happened to me with the jelly feeder – I thought I had gotten all the ants, flies, bees, etc. off but there was a yellow jacket hanging onto the bottom but I was able to shoo it out the door. I hate them most of all since I got stung by one when I was about 4! Dang, that hurt!

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  21. Very interesting German history here – long but worth the read, IMO. It exhibits, in all it’s glory, the downfall of German society these days via “immigration.”

    EXCERPT: “The biggest danger is not that of the German state, but one of fear and self-censorship. They intimidate you with fines and jail precisely so you won’t speak out about the horrors, because they fear the consequences of what would happen if you did.

    The judge might have gotten 2 years jail, but he gave many millions of children 2 years of freedom from German mandates. We’re all obliged to fight our versions of the Tyranny of Modern Germany, in whichever country we reside.”

    Summary: Germany financed and authorised a ‘sexologist’ to place children in the hands of paedophiles, something that ran for several decades; no-one has gone to jail for it. Media try to normalise the sexual abuse of children as ‘sexual liberation’, whilst German nurseries are trying to continue the horrifying practice.

    Germany oppressed a judge for disagreeing with their dictates, crushed political opponents with mass surveillance, censorship and banning, threatened to jail satirists and critics of the German government, and proposed massive fines for critics of ‘transgender’ ideology, whilst enforcing petty ‘crimes’.

    Historically, censorship and jailing have been proven not to have stopped Nazi Germany, but instead empowered it, discrediting the flimsy justifications for abuse of power.

    They’re asking the public to snitch on things like ‘unrecycleable coffee cups’, as the German government destroy the environment for coal, allows child stabbers and rapists go free, give child torturers lenient sentences, as drug users, rapists of disabled women and a pony rapist seem to elude justice. A man blinded in a glass attack was offered a paltry 10,000 euro, as a racist museum denies White people access.

    Meanwhile, food costs, unemployment and food bank use skyrocket, as education massively drops, with tent and ‘container towns’ cropping up, with the German government prioritises legalising drugs. Germany’s economy crumbles; Panther tank manufacturing gets exported to Hungary, as State Premier of Saxony discusses possibly restarting Nordstream.

    The Daily Beagle encourages people not to give into acts of self-censorship and to resist tyranny, where-ever it may be!”

    https://thedailybeagle.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-modern-germany

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  22. EXCERPT: “California Bill SB 145, just signed into law by Gavin Newsom, treats child rape as a minor offense punishable by four years (or less!) in jail and a fine. Registering as a sex offender also becomes optional for a child rapist, according to this law. California does not want to punish people who rape kids, likely because misgendering is a far more serious problem.

    Gavin Newsom often rants about “oppressive” red states where young girls are “forced into motherhood” because of abortion restrictions. Governor Newsom is not concerned how a young girl got pregnant in the first place — and most of the time, it’s because a grown man raped her, and then a liberal state like California let him go so he can rape another girl. Governor Newsom conceals his terrible policies that lead to horrific child abuse by faking outrage about lack of “abortion access.”

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/california_hates_your_children.html

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  23. Just did my front yard walk-about – I’ll have a melon ready to eat in the next couple of days – almost there! What is odd, tho, is that I see a bunch of tiny new melons starting but none that have gotten past the fuzzy stage and a number of those are yellowing and falling off. There are still only 6-7 decent sized melons…..and the vines keep growing with flowers all over them. Huh…weird…ok, I did some research….it looks like the heat wave we had produced more male flowers than female. Anything over 95 stunts the females, apparently….now to figure out via their directions which are male and which are female! Or not…..🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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    1. wow…that’s technical!
      hoping your melon is sweet!!!
      we just picked 4 peppers—they were supposed to be red, but I don’t think we ever got the good hot sun to turn them. they are bell peppers.

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        1. my daughter makes stuffed pepper soup…
          it uses hamburger and sliced peppers so they freeze their green peppers for the winter and used them in soup –it’s almost like a chili/stuffed pepper combo

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  25. watchdog group going after cori bush’s payments to her husband using campaign funds which she can do if he provides a legitimate function at fair market value. she describes the payments a “wage payment without detail, but she previously described it as security functions. only problem is he does not have a security license.
    FTA
    Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush altered the description of her campaign’s payments to her husband in July Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.

    Bush’s campaign sent her husband Cortney Merritts a “wage expense” payment worth $2,500 on six different occasions from April to June 2023, according to FEC filings. Bush’s campaign also sent Merritts $2,500 for “security services” on April 3, 2023, the filings disclose. The campaign paid him five times for “security services” from January to March of 2023, Bush’s April FEC filings show. (RELATED: Cori Bush Gets Ratioed After Claiming To Have Been Homeless, Turns Out She Might Have Done It To Herself)

    Cori Bush’s campaign continues to shell out thousands of dollars to her husband for private security https://t.co/GbeovyUbQy

    — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 24, 2023

    “Federal law and FEC regulations strictly limit the use of federal campaign funds. Under 52 U.S.C. 30114 and FEC regulation 11 CFR 113.1 (g)(H), salary payments can be made to a member of a candidate’s family but only if the family member is providing bona fide services to the campaign at fair market value,” Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky told the Daily Caller.

    “If these are not payments for actual services being provided, or if he is being paid more than the fair market value of his services, then Bush is violating federal campaign finance law. If she is doing it knowingly and intentionally, it goes from being a civil violation to a possible criminal violation,” he added. Spakovsky is also the manager of Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative.

    Bush and Merritts married in February 2023, local outlet KSDK first reported. The couple obtained a marriage license in St. Louis on Feb. 11 and married a few days later. Bush’s campaign filings from the 2022 midterm election cycle show the campaign paid Merritts more than $60,000 for “security services,” despite him lacking a security license in St. Louis, where Bush’s Congressional district is located, Fox News reported.

    The Foundation for Accountability and Civil Trust (FACT) filed a complaint with the FEC in March and requested the agency investigate Bush for allegedly misusing her campaign funds to pay her husband

    “Rep. Bush’s payments to her husband are the subject of FACT’s complaint before the OCE because numerous facts indicate her payments to him may not have been for bona fide services at a fair market value as required by law — she has a close personal relationship with him, the possibility that he was providing security services that were unnecessary and duplicative, and he didn’t have a license to provide those services,” FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold told the Daily Caller.

    “This re-characterization of the payments to her husband appears to be an attempt to hide information from the public, which is contrary to the law that requires a candidate to clearly describe the ‘purpose of disbursement.’ Especially in this case, the description of ‘wage expenses’ fails to provide adequate information to the public,” Arnold added.

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/30/cori-bush-campaign-payments-husband-fec-filings/

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  27. here’s a surprise…better sit down.
    another green energy company–a FOREIGN ONE– is likely to shut down its taxpayer funded wind turbines without completion…while they abscond with a billion dollars…
    entire article

    Democrats in New Jersey and Connecticut approved hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to incentivize a Danish green energy company to build offshore wind farms. Now, the company is facing billions in lost value and may need to scrap the projects.

    Denmark’s Orsted, the world’s largest offshore wind company, on Wednesday announced it’s facing supply chain problems and other issues that could cause it to take a $2.3 billion hit to its U.S. portfolio. The company’s issues are so significant, Orsted’s chief executive said, that the foreign green energy giant could “walk away from projects” in the United States.

    That announcement is likely concerning for Democrats in New Jersey and Connecticut, two blue states that are using taxpayer cash to attract Orsted to build wind farms off their coasts. New Jersey Democratic governor Phil Murphy in July signed a bill that approved nearly $1 billion in subsidies for Orsted to install wind turbines off the coast of Atlantic City. Connecticut Democratic governor Ned Lamont, meanwhile, funneled tens of millions of taxpayer dollars toward public pier renovations to help accommodate an Orsted wind farm. Those projects are now in question.

    Murphy, Lamont, and Orsted did not return requests for comment.

    This is far from the first time a highly touted green energy company has encountered serious financial struggles despite receiving support from liberal lawmakers. Earlier this month, Proterra—an electric vehicle company that the Biden administration repeatedly promoted—declared bankruptcy, citing “various market and macroeconomic headwinds.” Proterra shares subsequently tumbled more than 60 percent, but only after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sold her shares in the company for $1.6 million.

    Orsted’s shares also took a large hit following Wednesday’s announcement, with the foreign company losing a quarter of its market value. Consulting firm Wood Mackenzie expects other green energy companies to suffer similar fates. “This will not be the last that we will see this year,” Soeren Lassen, the firm’s head of offshore wind, told the New York Times.

    Orsted’s project created bipartisan controversy in New Jersey even before the company’s financial woes. The state’s top Democrats are questioning the higher energy costs associated with the project—state House speaker Craig Coughlin and state Senate president Nick Scutari in an August joint statement cited the “many unanswered questions about the economic impact these projects will have on ratepayers.”

    President Joe Biden’s support for failed green energy companies extends beyond his presidency. As vice president, Biden heaped praise on solar energy company Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan from the Obama-Biden administration. Solyndra went on to declare bankruptcy.

    https://freebeacon.com/energy/democrats-wind-farms-projects-scrapped/

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  28. just sharing the love…chicago doesn’t want illegals either. none of the sanctuary places seem to want them…wth?
    entire article
    Chicago residents are the latest to push back against the migrant crisis that is overtaking the US, as hundreds of illegal immigrants are set to be relocated in Hyde Park. During a community meeting held Wednesday, members of the neighborhood expressed their disdain for the illegal immigrants telling them to go “back to Venezuela”.

    “I don’t want them there,” one resident began, “take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela, I don’t care where they go,” she stated, adding that “this is wrong” and that 73 percent of the homeless population in the city consists of black individuals, questioning what city officials were doing for them.

    Per Fox32, this community meeting was held in response to city officials announcing that illegal immigrants would be re-housed at the Lake Shore Hotel Hyde Park, where 300 illegals are expected to be housed for up to six months.

    Local community members share that they feel they have been left in the dark and are voicing their concerns due to various parts of the city being overrun and destroyed by illegal immigrants.

    “Plymouth Court and Van Buren: that site looks like, basically a bomb went off, so I’m concerned about the sites where the migrants are,” a Chicago resident shared with Fox32.

    Despite community pushback, the illegal immigrants are expected to move into the hotel as soon as Friday.

    Since August of 2022, Chicago has seen an influx of over 13,500 illegal immigrants make their way to the city. Similar to New York, the city has struggled to house the illegal immigrants and members of black communities throughout Chicago have been pushing back for months on what they share are the negative impacts illegal immigrants would have on their communities.

    “Why would any leader put our black communities already riddled with crime, at further risk by placing unvetted non-taxpayers steps away from our seniors, our children and our homes that we worked so hard on our own to secure,” one community leader stated during a press conference back in May.

    “Many of these migrants have been dumped in our neighborhoods without a plan in place to monitor and house them long term,” another community member added.

    In May, the city ran out of hotels to shelter illegal immigrants in and resorted to using local police stations in an attempt to house the illegal immigrants who had made their way to Chicago.

    Photos and videos that have been shared from both the inside and outside of various local police precincts show illegal immigrants sleeping on the floors and camping outside of precincts as they continue to overrun neighborhoods and hotels.

    https://thepostmillennial.com/hyde-park-residents-in-chicago-demand-illegal-immigrants-be-sent-back-to-venezuela?utm_campaign=64487

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  30. Shipwreckedcrew
    @shipwreckedcrew
    Ok — regarding the two filings today by Georgia and Mark Meadows over the subject of removal — responding to the Court’s question of what is the effect of there being some overt acts within the scope of Meadows duties, and some acts outside the scope of Meadows duties — if this was a boxing match in a “10 Point Must System” over 15 rounds, the scorecards of the three judges at ringside would be 150-0 in favor of Meadows.

    What is noteworthy about Georgia’s filing is the complete absence of a single citation to a federal case saying that if only one of Meadows’ acts was outside the scope of his duty then removal is precluded.

    The reason for that is that there is no such case.

    As the Meadows brief makes clear, there are numerous cases that say if any part of the alleged illegal conduct IS within the scope of his duty then the case gets removed to federal court regardless of what else the state charges in the indictment.

    “This proposition is binding precedent under Nadler v. Mann, 951 F.2d 301, 305 n.9 (11th Cir. 1992). There, the Eleventh Circuit addressed jurisdiction under § 1442(a)(1)… in a defamation case against an Assistant U.S. Attorney who was also a candidate for judicial office…. the Court concluded … that arranging a meeting between a whistleblower and the FBI was an official act but that leaking the investigation to the press was not…. On removal, however, the Court made clear that the entire case was appropriately removed…”

    Many other federal courts agree. See, e.g., Baker v. Atl. Richfield Co., 962 F.3d 937, 945 (7th Cir. 2020) (“Assuming for the sake of argument that some of the [plaintiff’s] allegations . . . do not relate to the [defendants’] acts under color of federal office, ‘removal need not be justified as to all claims . . . ; rather, the defense need only apply to one claim to remove the case.”); Morgan v. Huntington Ingalls, Inc., 879 F.3d 602 (5th Cir. 2018); Sawyer v. Foster Wheeler LLC, 860 F.3d 249, 257 (4th Cir. 2017); see also Mesa v. California, 489 U.S. 1, 129 (1989) (“[I]f there be a single such ingredient in the mass, it is sufficient.”).

    The State also cannot avoid removal by charging a mix of removable and non- removable conduct. Any contrary rule would lead to absurd results; a State could charge even the most quintessential official act and defeat removal by tacking on unofficial conduct. That would reflect a “narrow, grudging” interpretation the Supreme Court has rejected, Willingham v. Morgan, 395 U.S. 402, 407 (1969), and would invert “the presumption under the federal officer removal statute [which] favors removal, for the benefit of the federal officer involved the case,” In re Asbestos Prod. Liab. Litig. (No. VI), 770 F. Supp. 2d 736, 741 (E.D. Pa. 2011).

    Back to me:

    The simple reason for this is the purpose of the removal statute — it is to protect federal officers from being railroaded in state courts, by state officials, in front of state judges.

    Fani will still have her shot — removal doesn’t make the case disappear. She’ll just have to prove it in a federal court, before a federal judge, and before a jury drawn from a much wider area that just Fulton County.

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  36. Whew! 109 on the digital thermometer that’s sitting in the sun – there’s a nice breeze but not in that spot! At least with the humidity down, the a/c isn’t coming on as often.

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    1. we ran into town so Mom could wish hubby a happy birthday.
      reception up here at the house stinks for her phone.
      both the kids called and chatted, but when Mom calls, it breaks up. so we ran into town and sat at the gas station…lol

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  43. ROFLMAO – such fools!!!

    EXCERPT: “Tens of thousands of “burners’” at the Burning Man festival have been told to stay in the camps, conserve food and water and are being blocked from leaving Nevada’s Black Rock desert after a slow-moving rainstorm turned the event into a mud bath.

    Organizers responding to the unusual weather indicated the closures could endure, as local reports described the conditions at the festival as “treacherous” with “thick, slimy mud clung to shoes and anything else it touched”. “No driving is permitted on playa except for emergency vehicles,” event organizers said in a 5am statement on Saturday. “If you are in [Black Rock City], please shelter in place and stay safe.”

    In a separate communication, they warned burners – as festival-goers are known – to “conserve food and water, shelter in a warm space” as temperatures in the desert dipped into the 50s. The weather-related disruptions have caused suspension of the cleaning and emptying of thousands of portable toilets. Event organizers have said more rain was expected through Sunday before the festivals ends on Monday…..”

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/02/burning-man-festival-mud-trapped-shelter-in-place

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  48. The very first ever bloom at the end of a 5 year saga!!!

    Right now, the lone flower but I expect that bush will be covered in about a week or so!

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  50. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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