Just One Thing: Grassley releases FBI form of source alleging that Joe Biden was bribed
This is not proof of anything but it's also not something to be ignored. I don't know how much smoke there has to be before I can assume there's really a fire, but this is feeling very close:
Grassley Obtains & Releases FBI Record Alleging VP Biden Foreign Bribery Scheme (senate.gov)
FD 1023_Senator Grassley_FINAL (senate.gov)
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One More Thing: How much for that jobby in the window?
Robert Bryce has a great piece over on his Substack about the cost of so-called "green jobs." By cost, what he means is the amount of money being spent per project subsidized by the Inflation Reduction Act, meaning by you and me, divided by the number of jobs created by those projects, such as at factories that make batteries for electric vehicles. At a new GM factory, the cost is about $7.7 million per job. At a new Ford battery plant, it’s $3.4 million per job. And a new Honda plant will cost $4.3 million per job. It’s a spectacular amount of waste. At the same time, the prices of electric cars are dropping fast, though it’s hard to tell how much of that is due to government subsidies, lower battery cost, or the carmakers overestimating consumer demand.
(11) “Green” Jobs At Ford And GM Will Cost Taxpayers As Much As $7.7 Million Each (substack.com)
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Today's Guests
Kim Strassel is a member of the Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board. Her weekly Journal column, Potomac Watch, runs on Fridays. Kim's new book is: The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years
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Remi Adeleke is a former Navy SEAL and currently an actor and author. His new thriller novel is Chameleon: A Black Box Thriller
I've got to say that Remi's own life story is as interesting as any novel or movie. In fact it should be made into a movie. And if you're interested in that (and you should be), his book about that is Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds
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Other Stuff
I haven't spent time this week talking about Russia/Ukraine except for with a guest on Thursday but the news that Russia is not renewing the deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea is a big deal. Russia then attacked a major port, Odesa (formerly Odessa). This is bad for the whole world, not just for Ukraine.
White House says Russia is preparing for attacks on civilian ships in Black Sea (msn.com)
Speaking of carbs not getting where they need to go: India’s Rice Export Ban Could Drive Global Food Prices Even Higher—Here’s What You Need To Know (forbes.com)
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Sticking with the medical...I mean, it's not as if this guy was looking up how to do brain surgery on himself? Doctor blasted for 'Googling' video tutorial before procedure: 'I would have fainted' (nypost.com)
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Sure, why not. Identity of notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper may have finally been revealed (ladbible.com)
One more sure, why not: Duck takes ride on Ohio's Cedar Point roller coaster (nypost.com)
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States are resuming executions after botched injections last year. (usatoday.com)
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Good riddance, Dan Snyder: Commanders fans react to official end of Daniel Snyder's reign as owner (fansided.com)
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Why does gov't seem to make this same mistake (starting projects with massively underestimated costs) all the time? Clear Creek School District construction spending draw scrutiny (coloradosun.com)
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Unfortunately, she'll certainly get an overpaid job tormenting different people: Stanford DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach Who Accosted Trump Judge Leaves Law School | National Review
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This is especially good today, but I'm focused particularly on the nonsense they alert us to in the tweet below (read the thread, not just the first tweet): TGIF: Swifties Save the Economy
Also within that article is a link to this utter insanity: Behar.indd (squarespace.com) "I want to suggest that we depathologize queer animals, even when that queerness is the product of humanproduced toxins in the environment, and even when it inhibits animals’ reproductive capacity." Nellie Bowles follows up with this gem: AT&T has abandoned thousands of old lead cables in our water, leaching toxic lead into soil and drinking water. AT&T stock plunged this week as investors realized how many lawsuits the telco will face. One idea for AT&T: simply say that the lead is “queering the water.”
Today's Videos
Now that is a VERY early deep understanding of your child
Kinda reminds me of my wife
This is DEFINITELY going to make the FBI just go away quietly. Nothing suspicious here at all.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Don't eat borax: Experts blast TikTok trend as ‘dangerous’ (nypost.com)