The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1398

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

Hot Pick Of The Late Night

The Tragedy of Utopian Thinking

Girls With Guns

If You Love Women, Give Them The Tools To Protect Themselves:

Double Messaging For The Biden Administration: One For Public Consumption, One For Illegal Border Crossers...

Fill my eyes with that double vision

No disguise for that double vision

Ooh, when it gets through to me, it's always new to me

My double vision always seems to get the best of me, the best of me, yeah-eah eah-eah-hey

 

BLM Founder Arrested For Enslaving A Child For Sex Trafficking...

 https://www.bet.com/news/national/2016/05/20/black-lives-matter-activist-arrested-for-pimping.html

President Donald Trump Rally in Wellington, OH - 6/26/21

When All Government Is So Corrupt....

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

The battle outside ragin'

Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times, they are a-changin'

Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’

Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability—and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.

Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.”

The California Independent System Operator’s warning of impending electricity shortages heralds another blackout-riddled summer at the same time California’s electricity prices are skyrocketing.

In 2020, California’s electricity prices jumped by 7.5%, making it the biggest price increase of any state in the country last year and nearly seven times the increase that was seen in the United States as a whole.

Want to keep up with the 24/7 news cycle? Want to know the most important stories of the day for conservatives? Need news you can trust? Subscribe to The Daily Signal’s email newsletter. Learn more >>

According to data from the Energy Information Administration, the all-sector price of electricity in California last year jumped to 18.15 cents per kilowatt-hour, which means that Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average all-sector rate of 10.66 cents per kWh. Even more worrisome: California’s electricity rates are expected to soar over the next decade. (More on that in a moment.)

The surging cost of electricity will increase the energy burden being borne by low- and middle-income Californians. High energy costs have a particularly regressive effect in California, which has the highest poverty rate—and some of the highest electricity prices—in the country. In 2020, California’s all-sector electricity prices were the third-highest in the continental U.S., behind only Rhode Island (18.55 cents per kWh) and Connecticut (19.19 cents per kWh.)

Before going further, let me state the obvious: California policymakers are providing a case study in how not to manage an electric grid. Furthermore, that case study shows what could happen if policymakers at the state and federal levels decide to follow California’s radical decarbonization mandates, which include a requirement for 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2045 and an economy-wide goal of carbon neutrality by 2045.

Even though the state’s tattered electric grid can barely meet existing demand—and more rolling blackouts are almost certain this summer—California continues to pile bad policy on top of bad policy.

The state has banned the future sale of cars powered by internal combustion engines, which will result in dramatic increases in electricity demand and will require, according to a recent report by the California Energy Commission, the installation of 1.2 million new electric vehicle charging stations by 2030.

Bans on natural gas will further increase electricity demand. Cheered on by the Sierra Club, which is getting tens of millions of dollars from billionaire Michael Bloomberg, about 46 California communities have banned the use of natural gas in homes and businesses.

Making the whole thing even more absurd is that California is pledging to achieve these goals while closing the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant, the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, which by itself produces nearly...

Is Insulting The Disabled Wrong?

 

Terror in Italy: Egyptian Migrant Stabs Two on Bus

A bus driver asked a migrant to put on a state-mandated COVID mask: he reacted by brutally stabbing passengers.

On June 24, 2021, in Florence, Italy, a 31-year-old Egyptian migrant stabbed two passengers on a bus with a knife after being asked to put on a COVID mask. The migrant seriously injured a 63-year-old woman and a 52-year-old man. The knife-wielding terrorist was intercepted by police while trying to escape through the streets.

The Egyptian boarded the bus without wearing a state-mandated COVID mask. The bus driver, required by law to check passengers for masks, requested the man put one on. The Egyptian ignored the driver and remained maskless. A 52-year-old man intervened and repeated the driver’s request. The terrorist reacted by pulling a knife from his pocket and stabbing the man in the head and hand.

The driver immediately stopped the bus while passengers surrounded the attacker inside the vehicle. After severely injuring the passenger with a knife, the migrant repeatedly kicked and punched the injured man. Passengers tried to protect the 52-year-old and push the attacker away, but the migrant...