LOL: Maryland District To Purchase Over 100 Diesel Buses

By William Teach March 4, 2026 – 7:15 am

I guess those electric buses aren’t cutting

Maryland school district that bought electric buses is now ordering more than 100 diesel buses

A Maryland school district that bought hundreds of electric buses is now ordering more than 100 diesel buses due to the electric ones not meeting requirements for use.

Montgomery County Public Schools is seeking proposals for companies to purchase 140 diesel buses, 45 of which must have wheelchair capabilities, the Washington Post reported Monday. A school board vote on a contract is expected in April.

The change comes as some electric buses are experiencing extended periods of service interruptions because of “charging challenges” and parts issues, district spokesperson Liliana López said. She added that the maintenance problems are exacerbated by cold weather. Also, other buses aren’t meeting the district’s needs to transport students with special needs.

“Our primary focus is ensuring safe, timely and reliable transportation for the more than 103,000 students we serve daily,” López said. “Current electric bus technology is not fully capable of meeting all of our transportation demands, particularly for longer routes, field trips and midday services that exceed charging capacities.”

Montgomery County had a $160 million contract to purchase those electric buses, but, there’s been a huge backlog in delivery of said buses, despite payment, as well as all the issues with the delivered EBs. Going back to July 31, 2024

(WJLA) Electric school buses were intended to be a cost-saving measure for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), but a recent report from the county’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reveals that the initiative has led to “millions of dollars in wasteful spending” due to delayed deliveries and frequent maintenance issues.

According to the OIG report, Maryland’s largest school district’s initiative to replace its diesel bus fleet with electric buses has been plagued by delays and mechanical issues.

“The contractor did not deliver any of the buses expected in FY2022 through FY2024 by August 1st as required by the agreement’s delivery schedule,” the report stated.

Even back then the MCPS had to spend $14 million for 90 diesel buses because they didn’t receive the EBs, instead of cancelling the contract due to non-compliance by the bus company. Of course, it’s taxpayer money, so, the people in charge do not care. Back to the original

The board partially suspended its contract with Highland Electric Fleets last year. In the fall, the Maryland board of education voted to overturn the district’s contract with the company, saying it was “tainted” by the involvement of an employee later convicted of fraud.

The school district has appealed the state board’s vote to Montgomery County Circuit Court, and proceedings are ongoing. López said the district continues its business relationship with Highland Electric Fleets to maintain 285 electric school buses.

Yeah, the state tried to cancel it by the MCPS wanted to keep pissing away money.

The county has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% in 2027 and 100% in 2035, according to a climate plan implemented in 2021. To meet this goal, the school district must stop purchasing non-electric buses by 2027.

Maybe their goal should be to 100% get the kiddies to school? Oh, and let’s be clear, this is all Democrats doing this.

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Surprise: Liberal Asheville Station Super Worried About Islamophobia

By William Teach March 4, 2026 – 7:00 am

The US and Israel launch a war 47 years in the making against the horrendous regime running Iran. Iranian people cheer. Iranian women dance without hijabs. So, of course

Attacks on Iran lead to concerns of anti-Muslim sentiments in America

For 35 years, the Islamic Center of Asheville has been a place of worship and community, drawing hundreds to the regional center, but as the attack unfolds in Iran, there’s fear that hate for the Muslim community will grow in the U.S.

One member of the Islamic Center of Asheville, who wished to remain anonymous, spoke with News 13, saying there is fear that the hate for Muslims will grow in the U.S. again, even for Muslims who have no connection to Iran, a Muslim country.

Are they worried that the uber-liberals in uber-liberal Asheville are going to attack them? Can WLOS or the anonymous person name one instance since Iran started getting beaten like a rented mule?

Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the Deputy Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, shared this concern.

“What we notice is when our country gets embroiled in a war in the Middle East in a Muslim-majority country that tends to result in a rise of Muslim hate or anti-Muslim sentiment here at home,” Mitchell said.

Oh, great, CAIR, the group with ties to lots of Islamic terrorist groups. A group that would be banned in Egypt as they are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, pretty much the group that created modern Islamic terrorism. Still no examples, though

Asheville, like other cities in the U.S., saw anti-war protestors gather opposing the Iranian attack.

However, in Iran, a video shows Muslim citizens celebrating the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, known as a tyrant.

White liberals, especially affluent ones, protesting while Iranians celebrate.

Still, Mitchell said Muslims in the U.S. largely oppose the war.

So, he’s saying that most Muslims in America need to be deported because they support a hardline Islamist regime, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, a nation that has killed scores of Americans, and wants to annihilate Israel and kill all the Jews? But, if you criticize this it’s “Islamophobia.”

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Unhinged Jeff Merkley Links Iran War With Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 3, 2026 – 3:00 pm

How many times a year does Jeff take a fossil fueled flight? Climate cultists are nuts

Dem Sen. Merkley: ‘Child’ Trump Worrying About Iran Trying to Kill Him Over Climate Change

On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) responded to President Donald Trump pointing to Iran attempting to assassinate him by saying that we’re not working “to tackle a planet that’s getting too hot from climate change,” and have the “leadership of a child throwing a tantrum.”

Co-host Michael Steele asked, “I’m going to read to you the words of our child President, our little boy President, who is about as petty as anyone I’ve seen. He said, on the night of the Iranian operations, telling ABC News, ‘I got him before he got me,’ Trump said Sunday night, not long after he announced Ayatollah Khamenei had been killed. ‘They tried twice. Well, I got him first.’ That’s our foreign policy. That’s why we’re in Iran. In addition to being a puppet or a puppy to Netanyahu, Donald Trump is all about the retribution, all about getting someone before they get him. Is that how this country should conduct its foreign policy? Because, next in his crosshairs, after Venezuela, now we’ve got Iran, is Cuba. What will the Senate do when troops start running all over Cuba? What will the Senate do when another country that Donald Trump wants to go after, because, in his own little childish mind, he’s got to get payback?”

OK, lots of TDS, lots of Israel hatred, pure bonkers. Then

Merkley responded, “Well, I’m glad you mentioned Cuba, because that is Rubio’s key goal is to cut off — he’s cut off the oil to Cuba. And, then, I don’t expect troops on the ground, but the idea that we might start negotiating with Cuba, and, then, in the middle of it, start taking out their leaders if we have the intelligence to do so. It’s been demonstrated now twice. So, absolutely — this is gunboat strategy that hearkens back to a previous era. And there is, in this, no American leadership about the world we need to build together on this planet earth. There is simply, well, I will be a king, and I don’t like people, I’ll take them out, I will assassinate them. … [T]his is not a pattern for building a better world. There’s not an objective here that says, we have big issues, that we need to advance democracy. There’s — no, that’s not that, we need to tackle a planet that’s getting too hot from climate change, so, we’ll work — no we’re not, you described it as the leadership of a child throwing a tantrum. That’s pretty much it.”

Sigh. They just cannot help themselves.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 3, 2026 – 1:53 pm

…is an area turning to desert from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Spain siding against America.

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LOL: Minnesota County To Probe Federal Immigration Enforcement

By William Teach March 3, 2026 – 10:30 am

Maybe they should be probing the illegal aliens? How about the fake asylum seekers and refugees involved in mass fraud?

Minnesota county launches online portal to probe immigration enforcement abuse allegations

Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino’s use of a chemical irritant on Minnesotans protesting large-scale immigration operations is one of several incidents being investigated by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office.

The investigation is part of a new initiative to collect and assess evidence submitted by the public to identify “potentially unlawful behavior by federal agents” during Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced on Monday.

Through the Transparency and Accountability Project’s online portal, the public can “share photos, videos, and descriptions of any incidents that may involve unlawful conduct by federal agents,” Moriarty said in a statement. The project is staffed by county prosecutors and a civilian investigator.

That team “is actively investigating 17 incidents that have been brought to our attention by the community, including Gregory Kent Bovino’s actions near Mueller Park on January 21,” Moriarty said. “We will investigate and pursue charging where appropriate, and we’ll seek collaboration with local law enforcement wherever and whenever needed.”

First off, it would be hilarious if Los Federales used those submitted photos, videos, and descriptions to locate and detain the pro-illegal idiots who attacked federal law enforcement. Second, what, exactly, does the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office think they are going to do against federal officers who were performing their jobs on government time? They’re a county for one thing, and the federal LEOs are shielded with qualified immunity for another. Only if they’ve done something horrendously wrong per federal code can the federal govt come after the LEOs. The same way the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office is.

NBC News has reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection about the Hennepin County investigations into the incidents, including Bovino’s, but did not immediately receive a response.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement that the inquiry into Bovino’s immigration enforcement tactics “does nothing to make Minnesota safer. Enforcing federal immigration laws is a clear federal responsibility under Article I, Article II and the Supremacy Clause.”

I understand DHS also said that Hennepin County should go play in their sandbox.

“What these states are trying to do is unlawful, and they know it,” the spokesperson continued. “Federal officials acting in the course of their duties are immune from liability under state law.”

Oops. It would be funny after all the arrests and Dem Crazy in support of illegals if Trump said “we are not going to arrest illegals in Hennepin County (which includes Minneapolis), we’re designating it a sanctuary county, so, all illegals should stream to the county.” Let them enjoy the fruits of their pro-illegal criminal beliefs.

Meanwhile

I guess the rich folks in Cary are upset that ICE would detain all the illegals that do their laws, be nannies, and do maintenance at below normal rates.

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Your Fault: Michaelangelo’s The Last Supper Getting Face Lift

By William Teach March 3, 2026 – 7:15 am

All you had to do was give up your fossil fueled vehicle and take the bus. But, no

Climate change forces facelift for Michelangelo masterpiece

Michelangelo’s famous The Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel is getting its biggest facelift in more than three decades to remove a light whitish residue left by sweaty visitors.

The restoration of the 16th century masterpiece in the Vatican is aimed at bringing back to light the vibrant colours of the work, which measures nearly 14 metres (46 feet) high.

Visitors will still be able to access the Sistine Chapel during the restoration but the fresco is obscured by a large scaffolding covered with a reproduction of the work.

Vatican Museums director Barbara Jatta described the white layer being removed as “a bit like a cataract”, during a press tour on Saturday of the project, due to be completed before Easter.

Huh. So, it’s happened before. In fact, they usually do a touch up every 30 years or so, sometimes minor, sometimes major.

“Perspiration has increased in recent years because of climate change. Due to perspiration we produce lactic acid… which becomes calcium lactate,” Fabio Morresi, head of scientific research at the Vatican Museums, told reporters.

Seriously, a 1.7F increase in 176 years makes that much of a difference? These people are nuts.

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Hakeem Jeffries Really Wants US To Lose In Iran

By William Teach March 3, 2026 – 7:00 am

Fox News is being nice about it

Hakeem Jeffries predicts failure for US following strikes against Iran

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries predicted failure for the U.S. in an interview on Monday after the U.S. and Israel carried out strikes against Iran over the weekend.

“The American people want us to focus on making their life better and making their life more affordable; not getting involved in another endless war in the Middle East that is going to end in failure. This administration somehow found the resources, has found billions of dollars for bombs but can’t find any money to actually bring down the high cost of living here in the United States of America,” Jeffries said. (big snip)

CNN’s Bolduan asked the House minority leader if he thought Trump could pull off regime change without boots on the ground.

“No, that’s impossible for him to do. Now, he’s claiming that he’s not going to put U.S. boots on the ground, but he’s claimed a lot of things only to do the exact opposite. This is the same person who said he is coming back to the presidency to get America out of endless wars, and now he has just gotten us into a potential endless war in the Middle East of all places, where we know, based on what happened in Afghanistan, based on what happened in Iraq, based on what happened in Libya, it’s not going to end well for American interests,” he responded.

I don’t remember Hakeem complaining about the hundreds of billions being funneled to Ukraine. Or when Obama get involved in Libya. A nation that was no longer a danger to the US, but, France and England wanted to make sure the oil flowed. Hakeem didn’t complain about involvement in Syria. Or the billions that Obama and Biden gave to Iran. How much money did we piss away on the Green New Deal? Hakeem voted for that, right?

Anyhow, the undercurrent here is that Hakeem, like so many Democrats, does want the US to fail in Iran, simply because Trump is president. This is shades of when Bush 43 was in office. When they started blaming him for 9/11. When they were rooting, quietly, mind you, to lose in Afghanistan. Rooting much more loudly to lose in Iraq. They were incensed by hardcore jihadis being captured and held in black sites and Gitmo. They blasted our military members as collateral to going after Bush. That’s where the Surrender Monkey came from. They called Iraq Vietraq. The wanted to lose.

And it was 100% political, Bush Derangement Syndrome. There was barely a peep when Obama surged troops to Iraq, unlike when Bush did it. All those unhinged “anti-war” groups like Code Pink and ANSWER mostly disappeared when Obama was elected. Now you have Democrats hoping Trump loses in Venezuela and Iran, the latter of which has been an enemy since Jimmy Carter was president. The Iranian govt was horrendous. But, Trump’s president, so, Dems have to root against the USA, much like they do with anything Israel related. They rooted for Hamas. And we get stuff like

Gavin is not alone in still repeating the false blamepoint even long after it has been proven that Iran did it. Because TDS.

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Duluth Citizens Climate (cult) Commission Really Wants To Force Others To Comply

By William Teach March 2, 2026 – 3:42 pm

I checked it out, and, this commission is not a government one, just a bunch of private climate cultists who came together to nag

Local View: In climate emergency, Duluth citizens must step up

On Tuesday evening, Jan. 27, a group of us came together for the first meeting of the Duluth Citizens Climate Commission. The idea for this new initiative evolved during our collaborative efforts in the fall and winter last year to persuade Mayor Roger Reinert and the Duluth City Council to keep a full-time position for a sustainability officer in the 2026 city budget.

While lobbying the mayor and council, there was a growing realization that our city wasn’t responding to the emerging impacts of various climate events with any sense of urgency, and citizens needed to step up and take a more active role in addressing climate change. Our group wanted to explore what we could accomplish in one year to engage, educate, and empower more citizens to become increasingly aware of what’s taking place and then encourage them to become activists and leaders for our city’s future.

OK, well, go ahead. But, stop trying to make the government spend money on your commission or Beliefs

It has become more apparent with each passing day that the president, federal government, and many of our current political leaders and institutions in the U.S. are not taking climate change seriously. In fact, many have turned their backs on this global crisis.

Why wouldn’t they, considering few Warmists practice what they preach?

In her book, “Facing the Climate Emergency,” Margaret Klein Salamon argued that we need to wake up and grow up right now if we hope to address climate change. “When you face climate truth and let it transform you, you will become heroic, leveraging your talents, energy, and resources in service of protecting humanity and all of life,” Salamon wrote. “No one is coming to save us, but together, we might be able to save ourselves.”

Heroic! LOL

Many of us hope the Duluth Citizens Climate Commission can bring our community together in a collaborative effort in which we can leverage all of our talents, energy, and resources to help protect our city. We need to seriously explore and embrace new approaches to adapting to climate change while effectively responding to the ongoing challenges of our climate reality.

Over the next 10 months, the Duluth Citizens Climate Commission will host a town hall meeting, coordinate a climate-education initiative, reach out to our young people experiencing climate anxiety, encourage the public to read the 2018 climate-vulnerability assessment and the 2021 climate-emergency resolution, and sponsor a series of climate conversations.

Go for it. Will you ban citizens from attending if they show up in fossil fueled vehicles? These people are nuts.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 2, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on how long Iran has been at war with the U.S.

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NY Times Very Concerned Over Illegals Missing “Spiritual Care” In Detention

By William Teach March 2, 2026 – 10:30 am

Has the Times ever worried about “spiritual care” for any American locked up in jail? Or for anything else?

For Immigrants in Detention, Spiritual Care Can Be Hard to Find

As the Trump administration has dramatically increased the number of people held in federal immigration detention facilities, detainees’ access to medical care, sufficient food, basic hygiene and legal counsel have all come under scrutiny.

But the past couple of weeks have also shed light on another basic necessity that advocates say detainees are being deprived of — the ability to worship. Their concerns have intensified as two major seasons, Lent and Ramadan, began for Christians and Muslims.

To gain access, some religious groups have sued the Department of Homeland Security. Others, like the American Roman Catholic Bishops, have called out the lack of access in statements condemning the immigration enforcement tactics of the Trump administration.

In some cases, that pressure has been successful. In others, however, it has left detainees — there are currently close to 70,000, the majority being Christians — with little or no access to religious services at a time of year central to their faiths.

You know where they can find religious services easily? In their home country. And all they have to do is say “I want to go home” and Los Federales will give them some money and stick them on a plane. Easy peasy.

“It feels like there’s a hypocrisy in an administration or a party that has regularly advocated for things like posting the Ten Commandments in public spaces, but denied people the actual practice of their faith,” said Fr. Brendan Busse, a priest at Dolores Mission Church in Los Angeles, who was denied access to a detention facility on Ash Wednesday.

In Minnesota, several Protestant groups and a Catholic priest sued the Department of Homeland Security last week, saying they had been blocked from providing spiritual care to detainees at the Whipple Federal Building, which the suit notes was named for a 19th-century Episcopal bishop who was an “advocate for the dignity and rights of noncitizens.” The suit frames the obstruction as an unconstitutional violation of the plaintiffs’ rights to practice their religion by being denied the right to offer pastoral care.

I guess this is the new line of attack from the pro-illegal alien crowd, folks who generally have either no need for religion or change religion away from the Bible to fit their nutjob beliefs. People who want to remove religion from just about everything.

Meanwhile, Connecticut thinks they have power

Proposal would ban sharing CT license plate data for immigration enforcement

Weeks after a CT Insider investigation found out-of-state police were using Connecticut license plate camera data for immigration enforcement, state lawmakers are proposing a bill aimed at curbing certain uses of license plate data.

Automatic license plate cameras, which the bill seeks to regulate, capture images of vehicles and their license plates as they drive by. At least two dozen police departments in the state use stationary license plate cameras installed on the sides of roads, allowing those departments to run searches for license plate numbers and locate a vehicle. There is no known public listing of just how many departments use the cameras and many departments that do use them do not disclose their precise locations.

The bill would prevent law enforcement agencies from entering into new contracts with license plate reader companies unless a series of conditions are met, including that the agencies cannot share license plate data information if it might be used for immigration enforcement or investigating reproductive health services.

Um, what’s with the last? Reproductive services? Really? Kinda shows just how wacko Dems are over abortion. Anyhow, it also shows just how wacko Dems are on trying to protect illegals. They aren’t banning the use for Americans. Just illegals.

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