Power from the people!

"In a perfect world, by 2030 will be leading the world in quantum computing. We will also be leading in AI data centers, as most, if not all, of the new data centers will come with a mini nuke onsite. The future AI and quantum will offer us is only there if we pave the road for their development."

Wait, Bird! You got it all wrong (again). It is supposed to be power TO the people. Yes, that is true, in another context. But for this article, I am talking about power, and lots of it. So much power, that until we fix the shortage, power will need to be taken FROM the people. What kind of power? Electric power. More than we have right now, to run our proliferation of data centers.

We have two very exciting and world changing new technologies right now. Both are in development. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the one getting the most press. The other one is quantum computing. AI will be the one which will start to sputter and lose traction the first. Why? AI will need more power than we could ever imagine. Without the necessary power to run the AI data centers, AI will be eclipsed by the developments in quantum computing.

I read an article recently penned by one of the big AI futurists. The author of this article was ringing the panic bell on this issue. Why? AI needs lots and lots of care and feeding to ensure we can keep our slim lead over China. Having a lead in quantum computing and a second-place finish in AI will not cut it. We know what the fix is - and that is power. Failure to address this issue, and to keep going developing AI at warp speed - could very well result in brown outs and black outs. AI will be taking power FROM the people.

Sorry Greta, but windmills and solar will not cut it. China is building coal plants like crazy right now. That is also not a perfect solution. Then what is? Mini nukes. How Trump always talks about this issue is when it really hits home. When the management of a huge AI data center is up and running, they will also be managing a utility. That would be having a mini nuke onsite, powering the facility. Just because we don't have that now does not mean we will not need it in the near future.

In a perfect world, by 2030 will be leading the world in quantum computing. We will also be leading in AI data centers, as most, if not all, of the new data centers will come with a mini nuke onsite. The future AI and quantum will offer us is only there if we "pave the road" for their development. And we now know that energy, especially lots of energy, is the best way to pave that road.  

 

The CDL nightmare

"How long will it be before We all feel safe on our nation's highways again? That question has an unknown answer. With an estimated 50% of all CDL licenses being issued in New York to be improper, this could take a while. Thanks a lot Biden, for another fine mess you have gotten us into!"

Sometimes I wonder if Democrat governors are trying to kill innocent Americans. Why? Because they are making some kind of statement which does not make any sense to me. To show purpose, to show that illegal immigrants who have no driving skill and little to no English skills can qualify to drive an 85,000-pound semi across country, is a showstopper. But that is what is happening.

It sure woke me up from my false sense of security. For many years now, while I am driving in proximity to a semi, I feel at ease. Why? I know the folks who have CDL licenses are the best of the best. So, no worries, mate. Boy, was I ever wrong on that one! With the number of faux CDL drivers on the road these days, our highways have turned into a kill zone.

It did not take long, nor too many fatal accidents for Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to be all over this mess. The two biggest offenders are Hochel from New York and Newstrom from California. To make sure that these two bozos are going to follow the law in how to properly license CDL drivers, Duffy could pull to pull some of their federal funding. Meanwhile, LEOs from all over the country are looking for CDL drivers who "No speak no English".

Wait - how long has this been going on? Ever since the Biden nightmare. When the "Boy Mayor", who had zero skills for this job, was appointed to be the Transportation Secretary. Pete Buttigieg was more interested in DEI, and how a man can breast feed a baby than public safety. Pete was all show and no go. And now it is up to Duffy to clean up this mess.

How long will it be before we all feel safe on our nation's highways again? That question has an unknown answer. With an estimated 50% of all CDL licenses being issued in New York to be improper, this could take a while. Meanwhile, driving anywhere using a highway is like "let the buyer beware." Thanks a lot Biden, for another fine mess you have gotten us into!

 

Fraud? Maybe not just in Minnesota!

"Fellow Americans, fellow Minnesotans - face facts. If we don't fix this fraud, it will fix us. We need to find the guilty, prosecute them, deport them, fine them. This is so unfair to the straight shooters in our communities. Get rid of the fraudsters, and let's get back to MAGA. To this request I say please and thank you."  

Oh boy. It is not just that EVERY SINGLE NIGHT we hear about the fraudsters in Minnesota. It seems this fraud thing is all over the country. True, much of it is the Somalian communities. But we also found out from the short life span of DOGE that fraud is everywhere. Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, you name the government program, and fraud is there.

The other evening there was a congressman from another state being interviewed about the fraud in Minnesota. His response to the first question was jaw dropping. When asked how it is possible that we could have this much undetected fraud in Minnesota, he responded by saying that with our dozens and dozens of major federal welfare programs, many overlapping others, it is easy for a fraudster to get lost in the noise. In other words, fraud is not rare - it is endemic.

This morning in the news, some local government person from Ohio said they have suspected fraud in that state's Somali population also. Her words - "What is happening in Minnesota might only be the tip of the iceberg." Seems as if we are hearing that expression quite a bit as of late, when we are discussing Somali fraud.

Now for my rant. We need to bring DOGE back. Why? It was excellent in uncovering fraud. With the size of our welfare state, if 20% of the benefits go to fraudsters, that is a huge number! We can't just turn the other way or do like that BS artist Walz does and deny it. Here is the plain truth. We are awash in frauds, and people from Somali whom we trusted, quickly figured out how to crack the safe. And now that they have been outed, we are the "racists" for calling them on this crime.

Fellow Americans, fellow Minnesotans - face facts. If we don't fix this fraud, it will fix us. We need to find the guilty, prosecute them, deport them, fine them. This is so unfair to the straight shooters in our communities. Get rid of the fraudsters, and let's get back to MAGA. To this request I say please and thank you.  

Need a job?

"I have done quite a bit of reading on this the past few months. No matter how many folks blow sunshine at you about the job market, here are the facts that I have discovered. The job market will never be the same again."

Interesting article in the news this morning. About how hard it is to find a job. It is hard for people who have college degrees. It is even harder for those who do not. This might be the start of when the job market starts to curve inward. Wait - don't we keep hearing about all the jobs that President Trump is going to bring back into the country? And he will. But - some of those factory jobs which are coming back might already be filled by machines instead of a human.

One might ask this question - the economy is good, wages are up, why is it so ding dang hard to find a good job these days? One word - uncertainty. If you are employed and bringing home a livable paycheck, count your blessings. If you are on the outside looking in - good luck. It is time to get creative. And not to sound like a Debby Downer, but next year it will be even harder. 

I have done quite a bit of reading on this the past few months. No matter how many folks blow sunshine at you about the job market, here are the facts that I have discovered. The job market will never be the same again. If you have an unskilled job, those jobs will leave first. The some of the white-collar jobs. Why will so many companies want to replace humans with AI driven machines? Cost and dependency. No sick days, no late days, no lunch breaks, no performance issues, and so forth. The do more with less crowd will be dancing in the streets.

Some futurists think we will be coming into an age of guaranteed income. Translation - getting money from the government with no work involved. Just enough money to live on. During the last election season, Andrew Yang proposed everybody getting a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Yang was suggesting $1,000/month - not enough to live on, but enough to help. Net result? Yang got laughed off the stage for this idea. But wait - maybe Yang was just a bit early. Maybe this is the path with many will walk on in the very near future. 

As the job market continues to curve inward, life with those on the outside will continue to be a struggle. It will not just happen in the USA - it will be happening all over the world. By 2040, we will be living in a world without work for the majority of people. Many jobs that the few people who will be working will have, don't even exist right now. Is it going to be strange to enter these unchartered waters? Oh yes, very strange and very scary.  

 

Staying in the fight

"Even if I chose to protest when I was younger, I couldn't. Why? I worked. Had a house to maintain. Had a family to raise. I had better angels telling me what the right path was, and that path WAS NOT fighting against our own LEOs. I understood that we are a nation of LEGAL immigration."

Yesterday, we had another large American city choose a blue mayor. Miami, in red Florida - chose a Democrat over a Trump backed Republican. During her victory speech, one of the things she announced she would do during her term was - wait for it - protect immigrants. If she meant illegal immigrants, chalk up another blue city to ignoring the laws of the US Congress. But who cares anymore? We will now have the latter-day hippies who live in Miami, fighting with ICE.

Time to take a trip in the way forward machine. It is 2028, and the next presidential election is coming up in November. Tom Homan is still the Border Czar, and deportations continue. All over America, latter-day hippies are STILL protesting ICE enforcing the law. And the mayors of large blue cities are also advising their peeps to resist. In other words, the mayors of many big blue cities, are not following the laws of the land. Is there a word for this? How about insurrection.

When you hear the description of some of the baddies that the mayors are protecting from ICE, it is jaw dropping. Why in the world would these insurrectionists protect felons? Why would they want to keep them in their communities? Is this all of a sudden one of those parallel universe things that the scientists are now telling us about? It has to be, because in our universe, THIS KIND OF CRAP DOES NOT HAPPEN!

Why do these mayors and the latter-day hippies stay in the fight? For what gain? Why protect criminals as well as criminal aliens? Do they want total anarchy? Wild, wild west type of crime? What gives? And why, oh why, does the media side with them? ALL-THE-FLIPPING-TIME? 

Even if I chose to protest when I was younger, I couldn't. Why? I worked. Had a house to maintain. Had a family to raise. I had better angels telling me what the right path was, and that path WAS NOT fighting against our own LEOs. I understood that we are a nation of LEGAL immigration. When Biden let in 20 million illegals, the latter-day hippies were nowhere to be found. But now that we have a law-and-order administration, latter-day hippies are as common as fruit flies in a pantry.

During Biden, we had the Floyd riots. Under Trump, we have the ICE riots. Bottom line? Fights, fights, all over the place. Downtown is a great place to be from - that is, far, far from. I rest my case. 

 

 

Affordability and unaffordability

"Just think for a minute with your take home pay. Where gross would only be slightly higher than net. What would happen? For many, the term unaffordability would never again be used. Our economy would take off like a rocket. But the statists in Congress who love to spend our money? Too bad, so sad. Now go suck an egg."    

Did you hear the good news? Gas is now under $3/gal nationwide. Of course, that is an average. I am still seeing some stations in our area that are as high as $3.15/gal. But then again, we are Minnesota. The outlier. Another piece of news is the Fed is having their last meeting today for 2025. Even though Trump has called them every name in the book for not acting quicker, it is only a 50/50 chance that we will get another 1/4 point of relief. Big hairy deal.

What is President correct on? First and most important, is what caused this runup on prices to start with. Joe Biden - or should I say Biden and the autopen. Whatever. The immutable fact on why prices went up an average of 20% when Biden was POTUS was nobody had a clue on how to run the economy. They did, however, know how to ruin the economy. Even with the globalist utopia of almost total offshoring, prices continued to rise. Why? The old economic truism - too much government money chasing too few goods. Throw in the fact the Fed was late to the party. Result - sky high prices coupled with sky high interest rates.

Now that Trump has been in office less than a year, some things have improved. And many have not. Is Trump not aware of the many which have not improved? Keenly aware - and he and his team are working on them. But Biden and his team have broken this finely tuned watch. Trump and his team, even though skilled at putting broken watches back together, know that some parts of the watch, more so than others, take longer to fix. Bottom line? As was said in the TV show Kung Fu, "Patience grasshopper".

Many think that tariffs are the pathogens which are causing our current "unaffordability" crisis. Wrong. Trump is an old-time economist. Pre-income tax thinking. In Trumps way of thinking, tariffs done right could replace the income tax that many of us struggle with. He has mentioned that more than once. Not just lowering the income tax - getting rid of it. I mean, it is not like income tax is tattooed on our foreheads - it has only been with us since 1913. Time for this POS to go bye-bye.

Just think for a minute with your take home pay. Where gross would only be slightly higher than net. What would happen? For many, the term unaffordability would never again be used. Our economy would take off like a rocket. But the statists in Congress who love to spend our money? Too bad, so sad. Now go suck an egg.    

  

Entitled fraud

 

"When I was a kid, my folks would always warn me about stealing from friends. Why? Besides the moral reasons, all it would take is one time that you would steal and then get caught. From then on, you would be considered to be a thief. Good lesson for the 'newcomers'. Now that they are outed, guess what? No more trust for them."

Is there such a thing as "entitled fraud"? Seems so. In Minnesota, we are seeing it play out, live and in color. This weekend, I read an article about a "newcomer" in Maine who was "allegedly" defrauding the state's Medicaid Program. His peeps wanted to put out contracts on the people who blew the whistle on this fraud. Why? Entitlement. Maybe that is in the culture of some of our "newcomers". 

We were recently at a political event. The term "fraudster" seemed to come up quite a bit. As the old saying goes, "the jig is up". How so? EVERYBODY knows about the Minnesota tax theft right now, and the good guys in white hats are about ready to pounce. AND - the feds are all over this fraud thing like white on rice. This is not going to end well for Taxing Timmy, nor many of the "newcomers".

In the DFL friendly Strib, there is an article about how much Trump is exaggerating the amount of fraud there is in Minnesota. Huh? There is an interesting slant. Why? The Federal Attorney for Minnesota knows about the current fraud, and thinks (his words), what we have only seen the "tip of the iceberg". Many others seem to agree with him.

When I was a kid, my folks would always warn me about stealing from friends. Why? Besides the moral reasons, all it would take is one time that you would steal and then get caught. From then on, you would be considered to be a thief. Good lesson for the "newcomers". Now that they are outed, guess what? No more trust for them. As the natives from old would say, "We will trust them no more - forever." 

Finally, here is a news flash. There may be some latter-day hippies who live in the center of Minneapolis who also believe that "newcomers" are entitled to fraud our tax dollars. However, the vast majority of citizens and patriots do not. We want justice, and we want true justice. Not this BS called "no cash bail". We want perp walks, jail time, and deportations. Entitled fraud? Not in our vocabulary.