Biden’s broadband boondoggle. Eric Adams gets his brows done. Inside the Rose Bowl’s firefighter village. A conversation with a ‘climate realist.’ Eli Lake’s new podcast. And more.
Four years ago, the Biden administration promised 25 million people in rural areas that they would get reliable access to the internet, signing BEAD, the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. TO DATE, THE PROGRAM HAS YET TO HOOK UP A SINGLE CUSTOMER."
Has there ever been a more powerful paragraph that highlights Government policy failure?
If they had just contacted Elon Musk, Starlink would have hooked them all up for 1/100th of the price.
Loved the video from the firefighters camp... thank you.
And the stuff about the internet in rural areas is government at its best. Throw a bunch of money at it and still see there is no change. I worked in the public school system for 32 years, and they threw money and got on the train for any new trend. We still kept our low scores, our chronic absenteeism, and our copiers that blinked out of order. Good times keep rolling.....
Probably already mentioned but shouldn't a quick call to Red Bull HQ get pallets of the stuff there for free for the promotional/community support opportunity?
CLIMATE CHANGE! is nothing more than a power grab by government just as COVID! was. Besides who would put their trust in 36-trillion-dollars-in-debt them to fix anything? Also, see the Broadband article. Why do we keep hiring them?
River mentions Davos so it’s appropriate to link to Biden’s “farewell address” on Wednesday where he warned about “oligarchs” having too much power. Total lack of self-awareness. Are the Davos crowd oligarchs? Is George Soros an oligarch? Was Zuckerberg an oligarch during 2020 election when he gave “Zuckbucks” to support Democrat-leaning districts ? Or just now when he has second thoughts about government-encouraged censorship?
Hey, I know you guys (FP) don't transcribe Honestly, and I can't get Apple, which apparently does transcription -- but does Spotify have a transcribe mechanism? Or maybe could you guys pleasepleasepleaseplease do transcriptions of this one (Breaking History)?? It sounds very interesting, and I have bigtime hearing issues, like none. Eli, throw your editorial weight around and make it happen!
For anyone who might need to know, I did discover that Spotify too has a transcription feature for podcasts. (I'd still love it in-house, but small victories!)
Help me out, because this just now came to me. The WEF, famous for their barely veiled disdain for free speech, hold their little narcissism convention in Switzerland. Isn't Switzerland the only nation in the world comparable to the United States regarding freedom of speech/expression? Did they initially choose Switzerland because the 20th Century censorship regimes in Germany and elsewhere would have come down on them for their Neo-Bolshefascist plot?
The reason I'm asking is because my first thought after reading this was actually, "Let's use their own censorship machine against them and make a nice long list of things they can't talk about until they agree to dismantle their censorship machine and support new freedom of expression amendments in their home countries. Oh, and they have to give us all incriminating evidence on Bill Gates, Klaus and all his best friends, George and Alex Soros, and everyone else I don't like. Yea."
Of the mostly forgettable farewell addresses, this one will be recalled as was Washington’s and Eisenhower’s. Those addresses that warn us about the dangers to our Republic are the ones we recall and NEED to recall. Trump’s nomination for Defense was a FOX tv host(?). As David Brooks writes in the NYT, Hegseth knows nothing about military matters of the high tech 21st century. FOX didn’t require any such expertise. He just had to look good. Noem, nominee for Homeland Security, shot a puppy and is proud enough to put it in a memoir (likely written in crayon). A potential Attorney General who will waste OUR precious tax dollars on ludicrous prosecutions of those who did their jobs when prosecuting a felon - Trump.
After excusing the violent assaults on Police on January 6, the GOP will finally have to stop pretending they’re the ‘law and order’ party. They really wouldn’t care if Trump ‘shot someone on Fifth Avenue.’ We’re in deep doo-doo with these guys.
Ah...no we aren't in deep doo-doo with these guys. To try the same old tired thing would get us into the same troubles. Do I have to list them for you?
Tired of debating people with your political bent. We are done here.
P.S. Born and raised on a farm in the Dakotas. We shot dogs, cats, and other animals. Some -- like kitties -- we drowned. That's why we have a republic.....we are all different.
While the article on why the fires in LA where not the result of climate change debunked what they were not, the more important argument is what was the cause and that is best explained as deliberate neglect by progressives in California that has not only, failed to increase the firefighting infrastructure as housing and population has increased, but decreased the infrastructure, directing funding away from firefighting in California as it bankrupts the state funding their pet projects. And now due to gross mismanagement and the depletion of California's huge state surplus, as industry flees the state and more and more vital services are being cut to continue to fund their progressive causes. The attached article describes how the hellish fires in LA were inevitable due to the one party political agenda in California.
Will this finally be enough to encourage responsible government in California? Is the electorate finally experiencing enough pain to demand change? I think not; because the pain is not wide spread enough. Currently all Gov Newsom can do is criticize Republicans for politicizing the fires (as usual for a progressive, fleeing from any accountability) and this coming from the party whose mantra is never let an emergency go to waste.
Same here. I can't scan through a podcast to get to the parts that are interesting. I have a buddy who constantly sends me links to political YouTube casts (or whatever those are called). If it's longer than 5 minutes, I close and delete without even starting it.
Four years ago, the Biden administration promised 25 million people in rural areas that they would get reliable access to the internet, signing BEAD, the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. TO DATE, THE PROGRAM HAS YET TO HOOK UP A SINGLE CUSTOMER."
Has there ever been a more powerful paragraph that highlights Government policy failure?
If they had just contacted Elon Musk, Starlink would have hooked them all up for 1/100th of the price.
Is it possible to get a printout of Eli's new podcast? I prefer to read as opposed to listen.
One more thing, every time I read the word Biden, I hear the guy on the Schwab commercials saying, "Schwab." I just substitute Biden. :-)
Loved the video from the firefighters camp... thank you.
And the stuff about the internet in rural areas is government at its best. Throw a bunch of money at it and still see there is no change. I worked in the public school system for 32 years, and they threw money and got on the train for any new trend. We still kept our low scores, our chronic absenteeism, and our copiers that blinked out of order. Good times keep rolling.....
Probably already mentioned but shouldn't a quick call to Red Bull HQ get pallets of the stuff there for free for the promotional/community support opportunity?
CLIMATE CHANGE! is nothing more than a power grab by government just as COVID! was. Besides who would put their trust in 36-trillion-dollars-in-debt them to fix anything? Also, see the Broadband article. Why do we keep hiring them?
River mentions Davos so it’s appropriate to link to Biden’s “farewell address” on Wednesday where he warned about “oligarchs” having too much power. Total lack of self-awareness. Are the Davos crowd oligarchs? Is George Soros an oligarch? Was Zuckerberg an oligarch during 2020 election when he gave “Zuckbucks” to support Democrat-leaning districts ? Or just now when he has second thoughts about government-encouraged censorship?
Red dye #3 according to TFP: “The dye was banned from cosmetics and topical drugs in 1990 due to evidence that it can cause cancer in rats.”
So, put on body, bad…put in body, OK?
Great job as usual FDA.
Hey, I know you guys (FP) don't transcribe Honestly, and I can't get Apple, which apparently does transcription -- but does Spotify have a transcribe mechanism? Or maybe could you guys pleasepleasepleaseplease do transcriptions of this one (Breaking History)?? It sounds very interesting, and I have bigtime hearing issues, like none. Eli, throw your editorial weight around and make it happen!
For anyone who might need to know, I did discover that Spotify too has a transcription feature for podcasts. (I'd still love it in-house, but small victories!)
I love Vivek ... but wouldn't he be far more valuable to America by partnering with Elon the next couple of years in dismantling the DC bureacracy?
Help me out, because this just now came to me. The WEF, famous for their barely veiled disdain for free speech, hold their little narcissism convention in Switzerland. Isn't Switzerland the only nation in the world comparable to the United States regarding freedom of speech/expression? Did they initially choose Switzerland because the 20th Century censorship regimes in Germany and elsewhere would have come down on them for their Neo-Bolshefascist plot?
The reason I'm asking is because my first thought after reading this was actually, "Let's use their own censorship machine against them and make a nice long list of things they can't talk about until they agree to dismantle their censorship machine and support new freedom of expression amendments in their home countries. Oh, and they have to give us all incriminating evidence on Bill Gates, Klaus and all his best friends, George and Alex Soros, and everyone else I don't like. Yea."
George Washington gave a farewell address; Joe Biden is no George Washington.
Of the mostly forgettable farewell addresses, this one will be recalled as was Washington’s and Eisenhower’s. Those addresses that warn us about the dangers to our Republic are the ones we recall and NEED to recall. Trump’s nomination for Defense was a FOX tv host(?). As David Brooks writes in the NYT, Hegseth knows nothing about military matters of the high tech 21st century. FOX didn’t require any such expertise. He just had to look good. Noem, nominee for Homeland Security, shot a puppy and is proud enough to put it in a memoir (likely written in crayon). A potential Attorney General who will waste OUR precious tax dollars on ludicrous prosecutions of those who did their jobs when prosecuting a felon - Trump.
After excusing the violent assaults on Police on January 6, the GOP will finally have to stop pretending they’re the ‘law and order’ party. They really wouldn’t care if Trump ‘shot someone on Fifth Avenue.’ We’re in deep doo-doo with these guys.
Ah...no we aren't in deep doo-doo with these guys. To try the same old tired thing would get us into the same troubles. Do I have to list them for you?
Tired of debating people with your political bent. We are done here.
P.S. Born and raised on a farm in the Dakotas. We shot dogs, cats, and other animals. Some -- like kitties -- we drowned. That's why we have a republic.....we are all different.
The guy apparently has never read "Ole Yeller"
and it shows
I have memories of being shown that movie repeatedly on "rain days" in our school auditorium back in the early 1970s.
myself...and then we had to read the book after I'd done seen the movie a handful of times
Had to shoot my best dog ever, cried like a child.
While the article on why the fires in LA where not the result of climate change debunked what they were not, the more important argument is what was the cause and that is best explained as deliberate neglect by progressives in California that has not only, failed to increase the firefighting infrastructure as housing and population has increased, but decreased the infrastructure, directing funding away from firefighting in California as it bankrupts the state funding their pet projects. And now due to gross mismanagement and the depletion of California's huge state surplus, as industry flees the state and more and more vital services are being cut to continue to fund their progressive causes. The attached article describes how the hellish fires in LA were inevitable due to the one party political agenda in California.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/16/you-could-probably-guess-where-ca-diverted-the-funds-they-cut-from-the-fire-department-n2650630
Will this finally be enough to encourage responsible government in California? Is the electorate finally experiencing enough pain to demand change? I think not; because the pain is not wide spread enough. Currently all Gov Newsom can do is criticize Republicans for politicizing the fires (as usual for a progressive, fleeing from any accountability) and this coming from the party whose mantra is never let an emergency go to waste.
Wow. Home-run story after home-run story this morning. Well done The Free Press!
I don’t do podcasts. I like to read. That’s why I am here.
Me too. Rather read -- then I decide what is important. :-)
Agreed. And I feel like this side of the business suffers the more TFP moves toward podcasts.
Same here. I can't scan through a podcast to get to the parts that are interesting. I have a buddy who constantly sends me links to political YouTube casts (or whatever those are called). If it's longer than 5 minutes, I close and delete without even starting it.
Inside the Rose Bowl’s Firefighter Village
Jay Leno on California fires: Hell and paradise are within a few feet of each other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcoacOx1ab4&t=267s
Jan 15, 2025
Comedian Jay Leno opens up about serving meals to first responders in California on 'Your World.'