Propane privilege

I see Barrack Hussein Obama has installed not one but three propane tanks at his lavish Martha's Vineyard estate. Too bad he suffers from so much systematic racism that he can't install 10 tanks. Anyway, I thought fossil fuels were killing the planet.

Why would someone need propane tanks in their yard or compound? As I experienced this week in the Montana flooding, when the electricity goes out it is very handy to have an electrical generator, in my case powered by natural gas. With brownouts and blackouts all but promised this summer due to the increased demand and decreased supply of electricity, putting in a backup energy source is prudent. Never mind that Obama is a hypocrite for saying one thing and doing another. Why is the electrical system getting strained? Perhaps because during his time in office, Obama did everything he could to kill coal-fired power plants completely, and wind/solar can not make up the deficit. I read somewhere (I know, great attribution) that the entire state of Connecticut would have to be covered with windmills to power just New York City. And what happens when everyone is required to give up their gasoline vehicles for EVs? The math doesn't add up, but the same people who lecture us about medical science don't seen concerned about the limitations of current energy technology.

Every time we see John Kerry (the husband of ultra-rich ketchup/catsup heiress Teresa Heinz) boarding his private plane to go lecture someone, he takes a moment to remind us that we need to make sacrifices to save the planet. Harry/Henry Markle-Montbatten-Windsor tells us to strive for zero emissions to protect the environment as he rides two horses into the ground during a polo match, just after jetting back (privately of course) from his mum's celebration. Must be nice to be an elite and play by rules different than what is expected of the deplorables.

In the Soviet Union, the powerful had their dachas and everyone else was required to suffer. Just saying.

No Irish Need Apply

California is moving ahead with its slavery reparations program. Deroy Murdock sums up the problems with this absurdity at the Daily Signal.

"White Californians in the tens of millions belong to families who held no slaves, spent the antebellum years in Europe, bled to death at Antietam battling the Confederacy, or were themselves victims of feudalism, indentured servitude, and even slave labor. 'Why are fingers being pointed at us?' they surely ask."

Indeed. There is a story in my family of an ancestor who came over from Ireland as an indentured servant, ending up in the household of a Boston patrician. The penalty for rules violations was reduced food. That's right, the punishment for a servant whose family fled famine was to withhold her food.

A disturbing story indeed, but it didn't happen to me. The perpetrators are long dead. It would be ridiculous to seek reparations from the English who drove the Irish out of their homeland, or from the family of the overlord who took advantage of my ancester when she got here. No point to moving to California either. Only blacks can apply for reparations; no Irish need apply.

Criminality at Deutsche Bank

German law enforcement raided Deutsche Bank this week as, the Washington Examiner reported, "investigators are probing accusations that DWS (an asset management arm of the bank) used the popularity of ESG financial products to attract investment under false auspices and that those financial products were not as environmentally friendly as they purported to be."

I am not shocked that Deutsche Bank got caught doing something shady. During my time as a federal bank examiner, I had occasion to be at the New York branch of the bank a time or two. All of the examiners hated being there. We always thought the bank was trying to get away with something, even more so than at other paragons of non-virtue such as Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo. I don't know exactly what Deutsche Bank did in this case, but I have no doubt they are guilty. Because shady is what they do!