Good essay. Every time I read something like this I think of Shakespeare’s most famous line: ‘First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’. The other thing that I immediately thought as I read this, was that NYC is going to need Snake Plisskin again sooner than anybody thought. If the majors use the Randian counter described in one of the above comments, it’ll take about a week.
We have such an ignorant electorate and too many dumb liberal judges that issues like this will have to be settled by the supremes; Heaven help us if we lose the current balance on the court. One more reason to try to keep the White House as long as possible.
Yes, the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting sued Remington Arms, the maker of the rifle used in the massacre. The families settled the lawsuit for $73 million in 2022
The brief that proved worthy, conspiracy between gun manufacturer, gaming platform and advertizing to children. It turns out young minds and old are misled by misinformation manipulation and science driven advertizing.
Imagine cigarettes and tobacco and the industry knowing their ingredients were more addictive that
simple tobacco. Industry’s Studies proving success in addiction. And then, proving to themselves yes they create cancer.
Pick a product
Pick an industry
When greed takes the reins, the outcome is blemished by the consequences.
The bulletin is by and large a pro-nuclear solution promoter. I haven't had time to read this, but I will. In the meantime, if you haven't already, you might want to read it.
The law of unintended consequences extends to the legal system in much the same way it does to regulatory frameworks—hidden costs that are silently borne by the public. The legal landscape, bloated with complex, overlapping statutes and litigation, often fails to deliver swift justice or equitable outcomes. Instead, it imposes an enormous financial burden, with businesses and individuals spending billions annually on legal fees, compliance costs, and the tangled web of court battles. The result is a legal system that is more about procedure than principle, where the costs of navigating it—time, money, and opportunity—are paid by the very people it’s supposed to protect. Unintended consequences abound, as the system grows more labyrinthine, inefficient, and distant from its intended purpose of delivering fair and timely justice. Once again, it’s the public who bears the true cost of these failures.
Vermont passed a similar law last session that went into effect without the governor’s signature. Vermont can ill afford the in-house legal expenses of the AG’s office that will be required to defend against the expected lawsuits, or, probably more punishing to the taxpayers of the state, the legal fees of the oil companies when VT gets laughed out of court.
Incredible summary! I’ve listened to 3-4 other articles on this but I’m not smart enough to put it all together like you did. Thank you. Just got to Oklahoma tonight. Pump jacks working everywhere 🤠🗽🇺🇸 prosperity is in the air out here! Quail too…. 😀
Brought 2 first timers only! They’ll probably struggle before they realize that wild quail can vaporize after flight and don’t like any company in their vicinity!! We buried their grandma Friday night. I took them woodcock hunting yesterday afternoon at the Piedmont NWR near our place in Forsyth, GA. This was their 4th time on the Timber Doodles… it was a religious experience…. They finally got 2 pointed and they figured it out🙏 I was lucky and they retrieved them too…. I’m quite confident grandma was proud👊 Greatly appreciate our interaction. Meeting another guy I met on Substack at the OSU Wrestling Dual vs NC State tomorrow afternoon and 3 of us going hunting Tuesday and Wednesday! America is fighting back and we’re all learning together. 🗽🇺🇸
That WILL NOT be a problem, it would be our pleasure! I’m no longer training/handling horseback field trial dogs. It’s allowing me a little free time to do some hunting, and it has been amazing. I was originally going to meet a few other puppy buyers at a place in Western Kansas but the snow kept me from leaving Thursday as planned. They sent me an email tonight and said it was amazing. They had 2 dogs that had never hunted quail. Marty said I could not believe how fast they learned. 12-15 coveys a day. He also said “ we are shooting straight, hoping a bird flys in to our pattern “ they’re from Minnesota. I replied, the little stinkers are small, fast and become odorless after a covey rise. He said they moved a 40 bird covey, watched it land in Milo, hunted it 3 times top to bottom, zero, zilch, nada, they vaporized like you warned! You will love it! Hopefully the weather works again next year and the birds are just as amazing!
Meanwhile, back at the genius factory, Hochul cooked up another one: congestion charge for NYC, which will, of course, create some second derivative effects in communities not well served by public transportation and for those whose business does not easily fit on public transportation. It will require a small army of bureaucrats to oversee the ‘equity-based’ exemptions. I wonder if she is cooking up the obvious win - recommissioning Indian Point?
Great post sir, thank you. As I read through this essay, four words kept resonating in my thoughts: "Are you shitting me?"
It constantly amazes me how the left continues to whine about the greedy corporations, all while doing everything possible to move it all into their pockets.
First of all, Newsom's political capital and panache are suddenly both in the toilet. Second of all, this is nothing more than a shake down of the Big 6. Wonder if one of those Big 6 provide the petroleum that produce those massive black plastic garbage bags piled high all over the streets on garbage pick up day...hmmm. (How in the world did NYC score a B- for garbage? That grade alone makes me suspect)
Oh, you didn't hear? NYC is introducing an ordinance that those big contractor sized garbage bags you see on the streets in front of restaurants in Manhattan will have to be made from hemp starting in 2026.
Wow. Well done report. Thank you and I am relieved the chances of NY collecting are slim to none. I am incredulous that anyone in their right mind votes for regressive Democrats.
There is a special place in Haiti for "leaders" like Gavin and Kathy. They and their disciples should catch a one-way flight there and tackle a real problem. If only the electorate had not handed the keys to people with the intellect and insights of the average eight-year-old.
Amazing how they learn extortion at such an early age!
Hochul and Newsom are like the heads of two Mafia families and companies in their respective states are the little businesses paying protection money that keep the families wealthy and fat. Each has bagmen (state legislatures), capos (local politicians), payola recipients (NGOs), and soldiers (progressive followers and snitches).
If I were those companies, I’d hold a joint news conference: “We have an obligation to both our share and our fine customers in New York State.”
The NYS legislature has 90 days to overturn this onerous legislation. After that period, if this statute is not overturned, we will withdraw all sales of hydrocarbon products in the state.
We do not wish to harm any of our fine customers, but we cannot in good conscience continue to sell our products in a state where legislators hold us responsible for global conditions far beyond our responsibility.
We urge all state legislators to carefully consider the needs of their constituents before allowing the rash consequences of what they have wrought.
The conduct of modern society depends upon the use of hydrocarbons. We again urge NYS legislators to carefully consider all aspects of this unfortunate situation.”
"We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer."
Good essay. Every time I read something like this I think of Shakespeare’s most famous line: ‘First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’. The other thing that I immediately thought as I read this, was that NYC is going to need Snake Plisskin again sooner than anybody thought. If the majors use the Randian counter described in one of the above comments, it’ll take about a week.
We have such an ignorant electorate and too many dumb liberal judges that issues like this will have to be settled by the supremes; Heaven help us if we lose the current balance on the court. One more reason to try to keep the White House as long as possible.
Yes, the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting sued Remington Arms, the maker of the rifle used in the massacre. The families settled the lawsuit for $73 million in 2022
The brief that proved worthy, conspiracy between gun manufacturer, gaming platform and advertizing to children. It turns out young minds and old are misled by misinformation manipulation and science driven advertizing.
Imagine cigarettes and tobacco and the industry knowing their ingredients were more addictive that
simple tobacco. Industry’s Studies proving success in addiction. And then, proving to themselves yes they create cancer.
Pick a product
Pick an industry
When greed takes the reins, the outcome is blemished by the consequences.
Well if they go after the stockholders that would seem to be fair, of course the screams of pain from Blackrock would be nice to hear
The bulletin is by and large a pro-nuclear solution promoter. I haven't had time to read this, but I will. In the meantime, if you haven't already, you might want to read it.
https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-01/introduction-the-enduring-risks-and-new-challenges-of-nuclear-materials-a-special-issue-dedicated-to-rodney-c-ewings-scientific-and-policy-contributions/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Radioactive%20fallout%20in%20Tokyo%20after%20Fukushima&utm_campaign=20250113%20Monday%20Newsletter
The law of unintended consequences extends to the legal system in much the same way it does to regulatory frameworks—hidden costs that are silently borne by the public. The legal landscape, bloated with complex, overlapping statutes and litigation, often fails to deliver swift justice or equitable outcomes. Instead, it imposes an enormous financial burden, with businesses and individuals spending billions annually on legal fees, compliance costs, and the tangled web of court battles. The result is a legal system that is more about procedure than principle, where the costs of navigating it—time, money, and opportunity—are paid by the very people it’s supposed to protect. Unintended consequences abound, as the system grows more labyrinthine, inefficient, and distant from its intended purpose of delivering fair and timely justice. Once again, it’s the public who bears the true cost of these failures.
Vermont passed a similar law last session that went into effect without the governor’s signature. Vermont can ill afford the in-house legal expenses of the AG’s office that will be required to defend against the expected lawsuits, or, probably more punishing to the taxpayers of the state, the legal fees of the oil companies when VT gets laughed out of court.
Incredible summary! I’ve listened to 3-4 other articles on this but I’m not smart enough to put it all together like you did. Thank you. Just got to Oklahoma tonight. Pump jacks working everywhere 🤠🗽🇺🇸 prosperity is in the air out here! Quail too…. 😀
May you be blessed with dogs that need no correction, hunt close, and hold steady.
Brought 2 first timers only! They’ll probably struggle before they realize that wild quail can vaporize after flight and don’t like any company in their vicinity!! We buried their grandma Friday night. I took them woodcock hunting yesterday afternoon at the Piedmont NWR near our place in Forsyth, GA. This was their 4th time on the Timber Doodles… it was a religious experience…. They finally got 2 pointed and they figured it out🙏 I was lucky and they retrieved them too…. I’m quite confident grandma was proud👊 Greatly appreciate our interaction. Meeting another guy I met on Substack at the OSU Wrestling Dual vs NC State tomorrow afternoon and 3 of us going hunting Tuesday and Wednesday! America is fighting back and we’re all learning together. 🗽🇺🇸
I want in on some of that action with you next fall.
That WILL NOT be a problem, it would be our pleasure! I’m no longer training/handling horseback field trial dogs. It’s allowing me a little free time to do some hunting, and it has been amazing. I was originally going to meet a few other puppy buyers at a place in Western Kansas but the snow kept me from leaving Thursday as planned. They sent me an email tonight and said it was amazing. They had 2 dogs that had never hunted quail. Marty said I could not believe how fast they learned. 12-15 coveys a day. He also said “ we are shooting straight, hoping a bird flys in to our pattern “ they’re from Minnesota. I replied, the little stinkers are small, fast and become odorless after a covey rise. He said they moved a 40 bird covey, watched it land in Milo, hunted it 3 times top to bottom, zero, zilch, nada, they vaporized like you warned! You will love it! Hopefully the weather works again next year and the birds are just as amazing!
Meanwhile, back at the genius factory, Hochul cooked up another one: congestion charge for NYC, which will, of course, create some second derivative effects in communities not well served by public transportation and for those whose business does not easily fit on public transportation. It will require a small army of bureaucrats to oversee the ‘equity-based’ exemptions. I wonder if she is cooking up the obvious win - recommissioning Indian Point?
They had a plan in the UK for this. A form of resistance. They call themselves the Blade Runners > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011507/ULEZ-Blade-Runners-want-one-Sadiq-Khans-low-emission-cameras.html
A new classic:
"progressive Charlaticians™"
that one has been with us since the beginning!
Great post sir, thank you. As I read through this essay, four words kept resonating in my thoughts: "Are you shitting me?"
It constantly amazes me how the left continues to whine about the greedy corporations, all while doing everything possible to move it all into their pockets.
Thank you, sir.
We're not shitting you. They really did it.
We'll report on the certain litigation as it develops.
First of all, Newsom's political capital and panache are suddenly both in the toilet. Second of all, this is nothing more than a shake down of the Big 6. Wonder if one of those Big 6 provide the petroleum that produce those massive black plastic garbage bags piled high all over the streets on garbage pick up day...hmmm. (How in the world did NYC score a B- for garbage? That grade alone makes me suspect)
Oh, you didn't hear? NYC is introducing an ordinance that those big contractor sized garbage bags you see on the streets in front of restaurants in Manhattan will have to be made from hemp starting in 2026.
(kidding...)
LOL. How sustainable of them.
Wow. Well done report. Thank you and I am relieved the chances of NY collecting are slim to none. I am incredulous that anyone in their right mind votes for regressive Democrats.
Thanks.
But didn't you mean "progressive"?
;)
There is a special place in Haiti for "leaders" like Gavin and Kathy. They and their disciples should catch a one-way flight there and tackle a real problem. If only the electorate had not handed the keys to people with the intellect and insights of the average eight-year-old.
Amazing how they learn extortion at such an early age!
Their hair isn't suited to that humidity, Kevin.
;)
Hochul and Newsom are like the heads of two Mafia families and companies in their respective states are the little businesses paying protection money that keep the families wealthy and fat. Each has bagmen (state legislatures), capos (local politicians), payola recipients (NGOs), and soldiers (progressive followers and snitches).
My wife absolutely loved that analogy.
If I were those companies, I’d hold a joint news conference: “We have an obligation to both our share and our fine customers in New York State.”
The NYS legislature has 90 days to overturn this onerous legislation. After that period, if this statute is not overturned, we will withdraw all sales of hydrocarbon products in the state.
We do not wish to harm any of our fine customers, but we cannot in good conscience continue to sell our products in a state where legislators hold us responsible for global conditions far beyond our responsibility.
We urge all state legislators to carefully consider the needs of their constituents before allowing the rash consequences of what they have wrought.
The conduct of modern society depends upon the use of hydrocarbons. We again urge NYS legislators to carefully consider all aspects of this unfortunate situation.”
Ah, yes...the Atlas Shrugged approach. Conjures Galt's speech:
"We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer."
That would be something to see, right?!?