JCM 9/4/2025 10:04:09 AM

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Sorry folks! One of the boys got in a car accident. No injuries but the typical PITA paperwork chaos ate up my attention.

California Betrays Its Classic Car Culture by Shutting Down Leno's Law

The law would have exempted cars 35 years and older from emissions testing. It's popular, but got shelved in the CA legislature.

vxbush 9/4/2025 10:08:35 AM

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In #1 JCM said: The law would have exempted cars 35 years and older from emissions testing. It's popular, but got shelved in the CA legislature.

Sigh. Stupidity reigns again. 

In #1 JCM said: Sorry folks! One of the boys got in a car accident. No injuries but the typical PITA paperwork chaos ate up my attention.

Yikes! Glad to hear everyone is okay, and total commiseration about the PITA paperwork. 

JCM 9/4/2025 10:11:09 AM

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WA State Legislature a couple of years ago banned natural gas for home or business use. Initiative 2066 passed reversing the ban. A Seattle / King Court voided the Initiative, because it violated the single subject rule. Understand the Initiative was single subject; it voided the ban by the legislature. However the court decided since it affect several sections of the law affected by the ban the initiative it wasn't single subject. The State Supreme Court will uphold the decision of the Seattle Court to void the will of the people.

WATCH: WA Supreme Court to have final say on voter-approved natural gas initiative

This is the "democracy" the left so loves.

vxbush 9/4/2025 10:18:18 AM

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Well, that's different: 

(NY Post) Paramount is preparing to shell out as much as $200 million for Bari Weiss’ buzzy media venture, The Free Press — and hand her the keys to help steer CBS News — in a move that’s rattling an already shaken news division still reeling from the $8 billion Skydance-Paramount mega-merger.

Weiss, the former New York Times opinion page editor who launched The Free Press in 2022, is reportedly in line for a senior editorial role at CBS News as part of a deal that would fold her outlet into the new Paramount, according to the Puck newsletter.

Paramount declined to comment, but Puck media reporter Dylan Byers pegged the potential purchase price between $100 million and $200 million, with sources saying the talks are in their final stages.

But will it make any difference? Will the management learn that they can't keep doing insane things? 

vxbush 9/4/2025 10:23:36 AM

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Yet again, a Democrat tries to make Christian beliefs parallel to Islamic beliefs. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, said: "The notion that rights don't come from laws, and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator... That's what the Iranian government believes... So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling."

That there could rightly be considered anti-American, based on the Declaration of Independence. 

vxbush 9/4/2025 10:31:38 AM

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This seems like great good sense: generate the gasses and liquids SpaceX needs for fuel on site. 

How long until environmental wackos try to kill the project? 

JCM 9/4/2025 10:35:42 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Wrong on so many levels, but coming from a fellow traveler of authoritarianism it is especially rich.

vxbush 9/4/2025 10:38:04 AM

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So hopefully you heard that Florida has banned the creation of state mandates which would require their residents to take any vaccine. Please note: this removes the mandate, not the vaccine or vaccine availability. 

And yet people have to grouse. 

JCM 9/4/2025 10:39:20 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 6:

Elon wants to remove people from the planet... I thought the enviros would support that.

On a side note I saw an analysis that all of Elon's projects, Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, Hyperloop are aimed at the same goal. Colonizing Mars. Tesla because you need electric vehicles. SpaceX is obvious, Boring because Mars infrastructure will larger be underground, combined with Hyperloop for rapid underground Transporation.

JCM 9/4/2025 10:41:32 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 8:

Eric Dingleberry's rice bowl is the COVID industrial complex.

Kosh's Shadow 9/4/2025 11:15:19 AM

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In #3 JCM said: WA State Legislature a couple of years ago banned natural gas for home or business use.

Which actually INCREASES emissions, unless more than half of electricity comes from non CO2 eimitting sources. Gas heat is 89-98% efficient. The BEST fossil fuel electric plants are maybe 45% If all the electricity came from those, the emissions would more than double - 45% is half 90% so you need twice the natural gas.

Now, if they also went nuclear, that would work.

JCM 9/4/2025 11:32:17 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 11:

WA in the early 2000s wrote into law that 80% of energy had to come from renewable source by 2035. Currently 80% of WA energy comes from the dams on the Columbia River. The legislature in the infinite wisdom of ideologically driven political class decree hydropower was not "renewable".

Kosh's Shadow 9/4/2025 12:37:01 PM

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In #12 JCM said: The legislature in the infinite wisdom of ideologically driven political class decree hydropower was not "renewable".

Dam legislature.

buzzsawmonkey 9/4/2025 1:15:28 PM

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In #12 JCM said: Currently 80% of WA energy comes from the dams on the Columbia River.

Roll On, Columbia, Roll On