There’s one thing I don’t understand about this story:

A federal district court judge granted the Biden administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by more than 20 Republican attorneys general challenging the Keystone XL Pipeline’s permit revocation.

Judge Jeffrey Brown, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, ruled that he couldn’t determine the constitutionality of President Joe Biden’s action because TC Energy, the pipeline’s developer, had abandoned the project.

What I don’t understand is why the AGs continued the lawsuit after TC publicly announced that they’re giving up on the project and abandoning it.

I guess for state Attorneys General money isn’t really an issue because it isn’t THEIR money, it’s the money of the state’s residents that they are squandering, but still I’d think they’d have better things to do with their time.

TC Energy would have been completely negligent if they hadn’t abandoned the project and honestly, it would be stupid for any energy company to begin a project that would require government approval but would last through the end of the term of the current administration.

This political football has demonstrated the folly. It gets approved, but then that administration goes out of power and the next disapproves the project, halting construction after millions or billions have already been spent, then the next administration approves it again, but lawsuits prevent resuming, until the next administration disapproves it again. At the end TC energy had absolutely nothing to show for it except billions of dollars spent on the folly and no return on investment in sight.

Any energy project of this type is just a fool’s errand in this environment. Which, of course, means that our energy sector is not going to be able to increase capacity or improve infrastructure so you can expect energy prices to continue to climb.

The pie in the sky “renewable energy” push is going to destroy our economy by destroying the reliability of our energy sources and when this becomes glaringly obvious, it will be too late to do anything about it because there won’t be necessary infrastructure to return to reliable fossil fuels before the economy completely collapses.

Every day that passes makes me more and more glad that I’m old and am probably not going to live long enough to see the depths to which are once great nation is going to fall.

It’s a damn good thing they created these faux “vaccines” and started forcing everyone to get them, otherwise, this might have gotten bad.

Europe crossed 75 million coronavirus cases on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as the region braces for the new Omicron variant at a time when hospitals in some countries are already strained by the current surge.

My wife is a huge Seinfeld fan so I couldn’t resist.

Apparently the idea that if they attack innocent people they may just get shot put a damper on the festivities last night. I suppose having 500 National Guard troops in Kenosha last night couldn’t have hurt anything either.

I’ve seen no reports of riots in Kenosha. There are reports of “demonstrations” in several cities not named “Kenosha”, but most seemed to have been pretty small. The only place with a serious report was one of the hotbeds of the patently fascist “antifa” movement, Portland.

Police declared a riot in downtown Portland, Oregon after a group protesting Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal damaged property and threw rocks at cops on Friday night.

I saw a report that some journalists were attacked there for trying to video and report on things. Apparently they learned a couple of lessons from the Rittenhouse verdict:

1. In places other than Portland, attacking people during a riot can be hazardous to your health.

2. Video of the incident can be instrumental in proving that your narrative of “racist, vigilante, active shooter spontaneously firing upon innocent demonstrators” doesn’t hold water, so it might be best to keep the cameras at a distance…even if you’ve got to attack the camera crew to get it done.

I’m actually a bit surprised that there aren’t similar reports out of Seattle this morning. Maybe antifa riots there have just become so commonplace they don’t even make the news anymore.

Also, I was surprised this morning to see video of the crowd outside the courthouse in Kenosha when the verdict was announced. The media reports had led me to believe that the majority of the people there were calling for Rittenhouse’s lynching, but the vast majority of the crowd in the video cheered enthusiastically when the verdict was announced.

It seems I have again fallen prey to the urge to give credence to a media that doesn’t deserve it. I really thought that there was little support for Rittenhouse there. Wishful thinking on the part of the media, apparently, as most of the crowd was supportive. It is heartening to see that enough people weren’t blinded by the misinformation and propaganda that Rittenhouse’s supporters outnumbered his detractors (by quite a lot).

The fact that I fell for it demonstrates how effective propaganda can be even for the skeptical. Their narrative that Rittenhouse had little support in Kenosha fed my confirmation bias. I expected that and so when they reported it, I accepted it as truth on nothing more than their word (and their repeating of it incessantly). Confirmation bias is real. I really do try to be careful not to fall prey to it, but it is such an easy trap to fall into. I’ll try to be even more wary in the future.

At any rate, I’m glad for the people of Kenosha that they were spared another round of devastation.

As for Portland…well…they’re just lying in the bed they themselves made. Hard to feel any compassion over that that.

For the second time in just a couple of months, I’m extremely happy to announce that I was WRONG!.

Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all counts.

The good people of Kenosha Wisconsin (and probably Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and a few other places) need to batten down the hatches tonight, because I have a feeling it’s going to get froggy.

I have to say I’m very impressed by the fortitude of the jury. The fact that it took so long indicates that there were some who wanted to find him Guilty, probably because of the fear of backlash, but they were convinced to do the right thing.

Now when they are inevitably doxxed and their lives are threatened, they need to be protected at all costs. We cannot allow good people to have their lives destroyed for doing the right thing.