A shortage of skilled tradespeople My required electrical engineering course was taught by a Ph.D. so spacey it was like taking a class from The Nutty Professor. I got an ‘A’ and laughed out loud over it for spitting back on the tests information I never really understood. It’s said one can graduate with a degree in electrical engineering and not know how to wire an electrical outlet. Believe it. The problem with moving to electric vehicles and away from fossil fuels for heating and power is that the country will need a lot more electricians able to wire up all that gear. David Owen at The New Yorker reports there is a shortage of them, but also “heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) techs.” Owen explains: One reason for the skilled-labor gap is that the work is real work. The electricians who restored power to the houses on our road spent Christmas Eve in bucket trucks, buffeted by winds so strong they made the screens on our porch hum like kazoos. LeMieux told me that he’s had apprentices who quit after a few months because they had decided the job was too wet, too messy, too cold, too dirty, too hot.
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Now that precisely the same individuals who organised the conspiracy to frame Alex Salmond are under heavy police investigation for financial fraud, many people are now prepared to listen who refused to do so before. I am going forward with a case to the UN Human Rights Committee over my substantial imprisonment for journalism. This […]
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Trump and the Insurrectionist’s have a hit Here’s the latest on that ridiculous recording by the January 6th criminals: The song is simple and tinny, but that hasn’t stopped it from being embraced by former President Donald Trump and his allies in their campaign to rewrite the history of the deadly Capitol riot. The tune, “Justice for All,” is the Star-Spangled Banner, and it was sung by a group of defendants jailed over their alleged roles in the January 2021 insurrection. Recorded over a prison phone line, the national anthem sounds more like a dirge than celebration and is overlaid with Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Despite its low fidelity, “Justice for All” has garnered a lot of fans. Trump, a Republican, played it at a recent rally in Waco, Texas, as images of Capitol rioters flashed behind him on a big screen, and the $1.29 song last month briefly vaulted to No. 1 on iTunes, supplanting such recording artists as Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift.
Armed and spoiling for a fight David French, recalls the unsettling incident when his son received a direct message displaying three Klan hoods. The former Republican, former National Review staff writer says his multiracial family (his adopted daughter is Black) began receiving doxxing and death threats after he rejected Donald Trump and Trumpism: Within moments, my son received another message, a picture of a road several miles from our house. Then another picture arrived. A road sign. This one was closer. Someone seemed to be coming to our home. No one arrived, but such harrassment had happened before. French grew up in Alabama, owned guns, etc., etc. But the gun rights movement has morphed into “widespread gun idolatry. ‘Guns’ have joined ‘God’ and ‘Trump’ in the hierarchy of right-wing values.” Worse, more people are walking around armed and spoiling for a fight. Things seem to have gotten out of hand, maybe: In recent days we’ve seen a rash of terrible shootings by nervous, fearful or angry citizens. A young kid rings the bell on the wrong door and is shot.