Multiple small generator comparisons for a possible off-grid application

Can you do better than the Honda small generator? This review sets out to answer that question.

Honda generators aren't cheap. But the competitors are. You get what you pay for, if you are lucky and you are careful. It looks like the Honda won the competition.

E-bike review

Once upon a time, I owned an electric scooter. A really cheap one, by the way. It didn't have much range, and it wasn't much good for anything but short trips around the block back there in Houston.

But this one, hoo-boy! It has a top speed of nearly 40 mph. Range isn't exactly clear on this review, but it beats the living crap out of that one I had. The website says dozens of miles. When it comes to battery powered devices, though, I'd be skeptical of range claims.

It shows him going through sand. That's good, because there's a lot of sand out there on my property in West Texas. Nice thick tires and plenty of power will get you through that sand. Goes up those steep grades with plenty of pull, too.

Comparing this to my old scooter, it is vastly superior. But it will cost you. Price is nearly 3k, and it is only available on some type of pre-order basis.

If you can afford to spend 3k on something like this, it would be very interesting and fun thing to have.

The bike is heavy though. He says that the pedal power option is not recommended because of the extra weight. Then it might as well be an electric scooter masquerading as an electric bike.

Too expensive for my blood. But it looks pretty cool.

SpaceX in trouble?

Answer: Yes, most likely. But it is not for their alleged technical failures. The thing that makes me suspicious is this continual harping on the "explosion" on the first test flight. The "failure" is being hyped, and I suspect being used as an excuse to punish SpaceX.

If SpaceX fails, it fails. But anyone watching this should keep in mind: SpaceX is the US space program right now. It is outperforming all others. If it fails, it most likely will be because of what the government is doing in order to sabotage it. By the way, who is the main competitor to the USA in space right now? China. Who interests are being served here?

In my opinion, NASA needs SpaceX, not the other way around. NASA can cancel the Artemis contract with SpaceX, and it won't matter to SpaceX. What WILL matter is if the private company is prevented from finishing its development of the Starship launch system.

I suspect that the government does not want SpaceX to succeed. If they sabotage this, they are sabotaging America. The government hasn't been able to replace the Shuttle until recently. This was done at an enormous cost and numerous delays. In contrast, the Starship has been developed for a much cheaper price, and is far more capable system once it get going.

The big question is whether the government, led by this corrupt administration, will allow the Starship development to continue. It looks to me like that they doing their best to sabotage it. It is retaliation for Musk taking over Twitter, which was censoring all political opposition to this corrupt admininstration. Musk uncovered that, and that has invoked their fury. SpaceX just might be in trouble after all.

Starship Update, 8/21/23

No further comment, it is pretty much self-explanatory.

Starbase Weekly Update

There are some who believe that SpaceX will fail. Well, if they have enough time to succeed, then they will, but will they have the time?

The problem may be with the Twitter acquistion. They powers-that-be really didn't like Musk trying to interfere with their interference.

Musk's Faustian deal (with the powers-that-be over the Twitter acquisition)

Twitter ( now "X" ) is doing a massive cash burn. If that causes enough economic pain, it could affect all of Musk's endeavors. Or will it?

There is a real culture war going on here, and the corporations are at the center of it. I've mentioned this before, but it didn't seem to make any splash out there "in the world".

Maybe too many people are focusing on the little stuff. The big game is the money.

I've got a bad feeling about this. There are some dark clouds on the horizon. The FAA could leverage the pressure even further with an unreasonable time frame for licensing the next test flight. The government and the corporations have a lot of leverage, and SpaceX could feel a big squeeze coming.

If SpaceX fails, it could be because the powers-that-be will not allow it succeed, nor any other enterprise or cultural movement. They will use their economic and political power to crush all opposition.

Target and Bud Light Culture Wars

Target and Bud Light

If this is victory, then we're done. Spanking the big corporations for pushing leftist social goals doesn't sound much like victory. What are the alternatives? If it has gotten to the point that they can dictate to us what we are to think, then we need a whole lot more leverage than just a kick in the pants. The corporations won't change their tune after this because they've got market power. Who can compete with them?

Let's put it a different way. Aside from Target, where are you going to go to shop? Walmart? Walmart is getting a bit strange as well. If that is the alternative, then we're screwed.

Walmart isn't my idea of traditional American values. They pushed Miley Cyrus pretty hard with that Hannah Montana craze several years back. The music in there is just weird these days. It won't be long and they'll be just like Target. Just watch and see.

Same across the board with the beer wars and any other mass marketing box joint.

It's not like smelling napalm in the morning, don't you know. It isn't victory.

Taking that further, it is little wonder that with such a low bar for "success", that Congress can sit on its hands and allow the commies to do whatever they want with the "opposition". The GOP is all but a hollowed out institution as far as an opposition party is concerned. People will figure that out and probably stay home in 2024. Just putting another poltician with an "R" next to their name isn't victory when victory doesn't address any issues.

We are so powerless that tiny signs of resistance is thought of as victories, when they are just minor inconveniences for the powers-that-be. The wolf is still devouring the sheep. Bleating louder doesn't stop the wolf.

Candace Owens on PragerU (link to video)

 

Candace Owens interviews Melissa Tate

Candace Owens interviews a native African from Zimbabwe, who describes who Robert Mugabe managed to convert a prosperous nation into a socialist hellhole. It has a strong resemblance of what is being attempted on the USA. By the way, if it succeeds as it did in Zimbabwe, the USA will have a very bleak future.

The link is to a video which can be watched. It can be watched on the PragerU site, but it cannot be watched on YouTube. Consider that for a moment. If YouTube can ban this, then why? Here is somebody who was there, and who knows what happened there. It would be quite instructive, yet that voice is being censored.

Considering my own recollections, I can see how the left is trying to transform this country into a socialist hellhole, and how it is succeeding. This would have been impossible 40 years ago. The country must be deceived first, and the deception works. The people get sucked in, and before they can realize it, they are trapped with no escape. The deception here began with our so-called conservatives, who fail again and again to rally the country against this Marxism. You can see that this very day in the way the so-called conservatives are failing to rally against the very real threat.

How is it possible? The deception cannot work in a nation of virtue. There must be an opening on the basis of corruption. The left infiltrates and begins to work on the weaknesses until the weakness spreads and spreads until it becomes pervasive. Hasn't that been the case today in this country?

The deception is that the left seeks justice, but that is NOT what they seek. Nothing these people say can be trusted. This woman was there, and she describes why the left must not be trusted with their phony words. Not only that, but why we have to guard against the weak element within our own ranks, who are likely to fall for their phony promises, and drag the rest of us down with them.

The left is at war with us. We must join that battle or perish. Too many people do not realize the trouble we are in.