[Just the News] Deja vu, nation wide
This week's Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Biden Administration and members of Congress who voted for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes $250 million for reducing truck emissions at port facilities, which have been crippled by record-breaking cargo backlogs for months.
Critics have attributed the bottlenecks to draconian California emissions standards that exclude up to half the nation's truckers from transporting shipping containers to and from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's two busiest, which together account for close to one third of total U.S. shipping cargo volume.
The 2,000-plus page Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which President Biden is scheduled to sign on Monday, includes $50 million in funding per year for the next five fiscal years aimed at reducing emissions at ports.
Section 11402 of the bill, "Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities," calls for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to "establish a program to reduce idling at port facilities."
The bill calls for the transportation secretary to study how "ports and intermodal port transfer facilities would benefit from increased opportunities to reduce emissions at ports, including through the electrification of port operations."
In particular, the secretary is to study emerging technologies and procedures that would help reduce emissions at ports from idling trucks.
The $250 million will fund ways to "test, evaluate, and deploy projects that reduce port-related emissions from idling trucks, including through the advancement of port electrification and improvements in efficiency, focusing on port operations, including heavy-duty commercial vehicles, and other related projects."
Port facilities may not only face new meddling from the Transportation Department, but the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department may also be consulted by Buttigieg as part of the reduced emissions program, according to the text of the bill.
Another chapter begins in the Democrat wet dream of turning Texas into a blue state...
[Guardian UK] - Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman, Senate candidate and contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, will run for governor in Texas next year.
O’Rourke, 49, is seeking to take on Greg Abbott, the Republican governor who is pursuing a third term.
Abbott is seen as more vulnerable than previously, given demographic changes and events including the failure of much of the Texas power grid in very cold weather in February this year, which led to numerous deaths.
"I’m running for governor," O’Rourke announced on Monday. "Together, we can push past the small and divisive politics that we see in Texas today — and get back to the big, bold vision that used to define Texas. A Texas big enough for all of us."
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I'm seeing Blotto using this as his chance to fund his long term plans. All that out of state money and such. Plus, no actual working politician is up for taking that third coat of 'loser shellac'.
Short of the feds 'stimulating' a massive wuflu outbreak or a major event on the power grid this winter, it ain't happening.
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"Beto O'Rourke To Run For TX Governor In 2022"
I'll stock up on popcorn. :-D
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Old guard Democrats are going to bow out before the primaries. I believe they will let AOC and the socialists take over the party in time for the 2024 red wave. Hopefully that will be seen as a total repudiation of socialism in America.
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This guy was first elected to the Senate in 1974; I was in fifth grade when that happened. I wonder who they got lined up to replace him in the primaries?
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the Democrat most likely to seek the Senate seat is the US Representative for Vermont Peter Welsh who has been in politics for almost as long as Leahy and is in his mid 70s
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So this is how democrats treat blacks. At election they parade the black out, telling them all the things they are going to give them. They get the black vote and the dems ignore them until the next election. Why would the treat Kamala any different????
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Biden rumored to be considering moving Harris to Supreme Court as backdoor method of selecting new VP
The President's staff are frustrated by her appalling polling figures - even worse than Biden's
Harris and her top aides are furious with Biden for handing her 'no-win' issues like the border crisis
They also claim that the president is not defending her, while looking after 'white man' Pete Buttigieg
Biden's team are disappointed with media performance, like 'awkward' laughter when asked about the border
#1 is a non-starter given her debacle as CA's AG
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Ambassador to Paris. Lady Kaka.
Then Big Mike steps in as VP.
Shortly thereafter, Joe exits and goes off to Delaware, a-sniffin' the maidens.
Then Big Mike becomes our first intersectional POTUS. From the Adamses to the Adam's Apple prez.
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Joe is difficult due to his frustration with dementia related cognitive dissfunction. On top of that his staff are Nazi tyrants. From Kamala's perspective its a whole mess of crazy crackers
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Terrorist lawyer Huwaida Arraf says in campaign launch she's 'not afraid of a fight'
An anti-Israel activist who helped organize the 2010 flotilla of ships to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and was the lawyer for a Paleostinian terrorist who killed two Jewish college students is running for Congress as a Democrat in Michigan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
