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Government

New York State's $100M bridge light project ends in costly storage

More than $100 million was spent on specialty lighting intended to illuminate New York State bridges, but the lights were never used and have been sitting in storage for two years. This story was first reported by Politico, so CBS6 tracked down New York Power Authority President and CEO Justin Driscoll to see what he had to say about the seemingly forgotten plan. The New York Power Authority purchased the lighting equipment and design plans under former Governor Andrew Cuomo's initiative to enhance the aesthetics of the state's bridges. However, the lights remained in cardboard boxes inside a warehouse, which was an additional $2.1 million in storage fees over seven years.

Good news is, they recently sold the lights to recoup some of the money spent. They got $383,000.

News From The Jews

As the West dies, Israel’s future lies with rising Asia

Since its founding, Israel believed it could develop alliances with western countries because we shared the ancient values of our Judeo-Christian heritage. We also believed such alliances were natural joinings, since we Jews had much in common with Western Civilization. But the 77-year history of Israel’s diplomatic alliances with the West appears to be ending, and increasingly we see that we have disturbingly little in common with the dying West. Indeed, today’s totalitarian leftist and progressive ideas prevalent in the West have resulted in an undiluted hatred of Israel and the Jews. For Israel is everything the western left hates. We are nationalistic, we are patriotic, we believe in the distinctiveness of our culture, we revel in our history, we are religious, we celebrate marriage and having children, and we believe in serving our country in uniform. The West, however, no longer believes in any of these foundational virtues. In conversations with today’s young adults in the West, they repeat their mantra about seeking “quality of life,” rather than assuming the responsibilities of both adulthood and nationhood. And because the long history of the Jews always repeats itself, the West hates the religion of Judaism for the same reason so many empires and dictators did. Which is because we will never bow down before the West’s leftist religion, this new paganism, but instead cling to our 3,500 year old faith.

The author makes some very good points and predictions – for example, Islam will conquer Europe, but descends into ranting anti-Christianism at the end.

Hail To The Redskins

The Redskins Didn’t Die. They Got Mugged.

Let’s cut the bullshyte.

The name "The Washington Football Team," as "A Newspaper in Seattle" used to call it, wasn't retired; it faded gently into that good night. A lousy woke ideology mugged it in broad daylight despite a fanatic following with decades of history. Corporations, along with a failing culture of morality, decided that Redskins was too vile and too racist to remain.

Those decision-makers never bought tickets or watched a single snap, yet rode a woke wave of condescension and used Daniel Snyder's sins as a tool for change.
Although it's only for a short period, the moniker may be making an overdue comeback.

I never liked the Foreskins, but I still call them by their old name.

Dumbass Democrats

The Mountain Dew That Sank the Dems

The newly released book “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” which is another one of those Monday morning quarterbacking books about the election, reveals Harris’ method for choosing Walz out of three candidates for the vice presidential nomination. The New York Post explains how Harris chose between Walz, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), and Sen. Mark Kelly (R-Ariz.): Harris’ “gut” told her that Walz would appeal to rural voters because he wanted to drink Diet Mountain Dew instead of water? What kind of “Hee Haw” nonsense is this? She probably thinks that the deeply offensive video for the ‘90s Eurotrash techno version of “Cotton Eye Joe” is an accurate depiction of how people live out in the sticks. Maybe she ate at a Po' Folks restaurant in the '80s and thought that the over the top hillbilly patter on the menu is how rural people talk.

Dumpster. Fire. Thank God.

Protip: Before You Buy Something, Test It Out In A Realistic Approximation Of How You Intend To Use It

Winning

Hear Me Out—Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

The current president’s unconventional approach to international relations makes D.C. ridicule the idea of Trump as peacemaker, but it’s hard to argue with the results. By choosing pragmatic deal-making over ideological posturing, he’s broken decades of stagnation on several fronts. In 2018, Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The summits yielded limited long-term results but undeniably reduced the immediate threat of nuclear brinksmanship. The nuclear-grade rhetoric of 2017 gave way to dialogue, significantly reducing North Korea’s missile tests during Trump’s first term.

While it’s easy for critics to boil down the current U.S.-North Korea relationship as one between a “dotard” and a “little rocket man,” it’s resulted in a good deal more than a few laugh lines. American willingness to engage directly with a pariah state, despite domestic and international skepticism, showed courage and resulted in de-escalation over confrontation. And the Trump administration’s general commitment to avoiding military entanglements proved a key factor in maintaining global peace.

He's done a lot for peace.

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