That Roz — mere hours into her leadership role and she's already got the Rapid Response Team churning in high gear! (UPDATED)

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The Democratic Party posted a list of the things it got done in one day and it reads like satire

They (unsuccessfully) tried to block one of their former party members, introduced a bill to impose socialized medicine, thwarted democracy by barring people from removing chemicals from their tap water, sent a strongly-worded letter, and won a county election?

UPDATE: Forgot this gem from a few days ago of the Schumer trying, and failing, to get his audience to join him in chant:

If you've been looking for The Tipi and The Zebra, we've found them for you

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They’re in New Canaan! At 485 Laurel Road, to be precise, new to the market and priced at $7.250 million. Jokes about stagers’ cliches aside, this property looks pretty cool. Renovated 1846 house, plus various outbuildings, all on 17.5 acres. God knows what the maintenance costs for this assemblage would amount to, but the entrance price seems reasonable enough.

Riverside NoPo sale

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86 Mary Lane, new construction, $3.1 million. That’s a record for modest Mary; next highest, renovations, were 23 Mary, $2.180 million in 2022; and No. 27, $1.950 million in April ‘24.

Everyone’s favorite failed builder, Jianhua Tsoi, who kept the foreclosure business alive and flourishing almost single-handedly in the mid-2000s owned this property back then, and tried unsuccessfully to find a buyer willing to pay him to build a $2.850 home on it in 2008; the only one interested in the place was the bank, who foreclosed and, eventually, sold the lot to this builder in 2023 for $566,000.

That may have changed since Politco published its poll in 2017 (UPDATED)

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While we’re on the topic of welcoming muslims into western civilization and expecting them to adopt our values …. Two Muslim Nurses In Australia Suspended for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Israeli Patients

Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were colleagues on night duty at Sydney’s Bankstown Hospital when the video was taken by Israeli influencer Max Veifer and later posted on social media.

In the clip of his face-to-face conversation with the nurses, Veifer remains calm as Lebdeh calls him a “piece of sh*t” and wishes him “the most horrible death.” The two healthcare workers then candidly express their hatred toward Israelis and their intent to kill them—suggesting that Israeli patients have already been murdered in the hospital.

From the video posted Tuesday night:

Veifer: “Let’s say an Israeli …”

Lebdeh: “I won’t treat them. I will kill them.”

Veifer continues: “If an Israeli is in Australia and God forbid something happens to him and he comes to your hospital …”

Lebdeh: “Not God forbid. A help to God.”

Nadir: “You have no idea how many Israeli dog came to this hospital and [hand-motioning to slit his throat] I send them to Jihannom [Hell]”:

UPDATE:

Lots of Hot Air, no results

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…. What's also a mess, after immigration, is the state of the German electrical grid, which is so dire, so unreliable, so dependent on outside backup electricity, and so expensive that it has caused the deindustrialization of the once-upon-a-time manufacturing juggernaut of Europe.

The things that made Germany and what Germany made are now shallow husks of better times.

An unexpectedly cold winter with extended periods of the dreaded dunkelflaute - or dreary days with little to no wind - has brought that home to the wind and solar-dependent country.

For a nation so proud of their self-sacrifice at the altar of decarbonization, it would appear they're killing themselves for nothing.

These are the people claiming authority to run — or ruin — our lives

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And here’s that same old lady, Jan Schakowsky, Il. and a colleague bringing their keen insight to global warming

Editor's note: On July 19, [2006] a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing on "Questions Surrounding the 'Hockey Stick' Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments." Those studies, under the lead authorship of paleoclimatologist Michael Mann, claimed that that the 1990s were likely the warmest decade and 1998 likely the warmest year in a millennium. They reached iconic status in the climate change debate when they were cited in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as proof of unprecedented human induced global warming.

The hearing on July 19th was to hear a report to the subcommittee by a panel headed by Edward Wegman, who chairs the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, that found Mann and his co-authors had misused certain statistical techniques in their studies, techniques that tended to produce hockey stick shapes in the temperature history. Further they found the studies were peer reviewed by a "social network" within the paleoclimate community who wrote papers together, reviewed each others work and shared the same data sets. Here are some excerpts from that hearing that -- for the most part -- speak for themselves

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On basing policy on science or science on policy

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.: "I'm very concerned that this is being used in a way to discredit the whole notion that our country and the rest of the industrialized and developing world ought to do anything about global warming. And that's why I ask you that question, Dr. Wegman, if this does not make you somewhat uncomfortable. Can you see in any way how this is being used and does it bother you?"

Edward Wegman: "I can understand that it's your job to sort out the political ramifications of what I have said. In some sense it's not fair for you to say well, gee, you reported on some fact and that's going to be used in a bad way."

On the same issue, from a witness in a second panel

Dr. Hans von Storch, director of the Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS-Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany and professor at the Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg: "I was a bit disappointed about the comment from the lady from Illinois who said, aren't you afraid if you say this, that this would have negative implications on the policy process. I was kind of shocked. Should we really adopt what we say if that's useful for the policy process? Is that what you expect from science? If we give advice, must we first think, is it useful for something? I think that is not the way we should operate."

On how to describe an 88 degree F July day in Washington, D.C.  

Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-WI: "It doesn't take much more than a quick walk outside today to know that the thermometer has reached dangerously high levels and government heat alerts are abounding these days."

Maybe they can just use Harvard Med’s cuddle room

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“The speaker also claimed to have a multitude of disabilities” — I believe him

A purple-haired woman spoke about having two trans children, while another woman at the council meeting asked city leaders to imagine being in a same-sex marriage as she is and fearing that their marital rights could be "stripped away at any moment."

The city council approved the resolution by a vote of 9-2.