Month: September 2021

                It’s hilarious watching the Boston Globe scratching its head and wondering why Boston isn’t going to have an elected black mayor.  How did Boston miss its moment to elect a Black leader? – The Boston Globe.  Of course they and the blacks blame it on whites not supporting a black candidate.  They ignore a few simple facts on that score.  First, only about 21% of the eligible voters voted.  We’re sure there are a ton of black voters in that 79% who didn’t vote, but they apparently didn’t consider it important enough to vote, never mind have a black mayor.  Hey, if the blacks as a group don’t care enough to have a black mayor and get their act together to make it happen, why the heck should anyone else? 

                Second, there were 2 black candidates who collectively received way more votes than either Wu or Essaibi George.  So, again, if it isn’t important enough to the blacks for them to have a black mayor and all get behind one so the vote doesn’t get split, why should anyone else care (other than the progressive woke morons in the Globe editorial room).  There was an incumbent black mayor, and they still didn’t support her??? 

                Third, there’s been a black acting mayor exercising the power of the incumbency for the last 9 months or so, and she got whipped.  Every chance she had to make a good campaign decision she made a bad one.  Rose garden strategies don’t work for acting mayors with no record as mayor; that only works when you have a decent record to rely on, which in this case was missing.  To be fair, she was handed a s— sandwich almost immediately after being installed from the Police Commissioner dust-up, and she doesn’t appear to have recovered from that being colossally mishandled by everyone, not just her.

Moreover, the black population in Boston has been decreasing and blacks flee the city for various reasons, the Globe of course blaming it on gentrification by whites that is driving black residents out of neighborhoods they used to dominate. Boston is losing Black population, new census data show, even as it could soon elect its first Black mayor – The Boston Globe. So this debacle, as the Globe posits it, should really be less of an issue than it ever was, not a bigger issue. An ebbing black population coupled with a flourishing Asian and Hispanic population, would seem to result in a reduction in black voting power and commensurate increases in the voting power of the others. Therefore the fact that two other menstruatingpersons of color, but non-black, are the two finalists shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

                Fifth and finally, maybe, just maybe, the Boston voting population decided to go with merit rather than race.  Pretty novel concept these days, isn’t it? 

Reference: Energy Prices in Europe Hit Records After Wind Stops Blowing – WSJ; Allies of fishermen file suit to reverse Vineyard Wind approval – The Boston Globe; Lithium Batteries’ Dirty Secret: Manufacturing Them Leaves Massive Carbon Footprint | IndustryWeek; Scientists just overcame a major hurdle in nuclear fusion research | Salon.com; IPCC 2021 report: How bad will climate change get? – Vox

File this under “you can’t make this stuff up.” England uses a lot of wind power from windmill units in the North Sea. But over the last couple of months, believe it or not, the North Sea hasn’t been too windy. So England’s buying carbon-based power from European sources, and the price of that has increased substantially as a result.

And of course it’s climate change and fossil fuels that have made the wind stop blowing. Closer to home, you can rely on fishermen and fishermenstruatingpersons to litigate the various proposed wind farms off the Massachusetts coast, so that will be tied up in the courts for years. So that isn’t going to help anytime soon. And just wait until new mini-nuke plants start to be seriously proposed, that will be yet another litigation bonanza for someone. And others are still hot on developing nuclear fusion – we’ll see how that goes. Not to mention that these fancy batteries for e-cars, by and large, aren’t carbon-efficient in the least since their manufacture leaves huge carbon footprints. (“Once in operation, electric cars certainly reduce your carbon footprint, but making the lithium-ion batteries could emit 74% more CO2 than for conventional cars.”) And just curiously, where do the old batteries go? Just asking.

Anyway, the Green New Deal is going to solve all our problems, right? Even if you buy the unfounded apocalyptic clamorings of the progressives, who evidently have not actually read any of the reports they rely on, such as those put out by the UN. The most recent one of which, in fact, backs off the dire predictions of prior reports. Won’t read that in the NT Time or the Boston Globe. Not that there isn’t work to be done, but it ain’t as bad as the left wingnuts say.