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There are plenty of kids out there who don't kill someone. I have worked with them and a lot of them don't even think of killing someone.

And if, at 14, one of them had come to you saying they wanted to have a baby, take out a loan for a house, and get a job operating dangerous heavy machinery, you would say.....?

In fact, let's explore that some more. Same kid is told no, goes out and murders someone, gets charged as an adult, gets off on a technicality, could they now do all the things they wanted to do?

"...Ring girls’ outfits at Trump’s UFC Fight revealed—includes flag code breach..."

Had trouble getting on here this morning. Facebook wasn't working well either but both seem better now.

Still waiting for court ruling on UFC fight Sunday

As the world moves to cleaner energy
Of course has nothing to do with clean energy, dirty energy this is cash and our buddies
West Virginia

‘This is not normal’: Trump leans on MAGA organizer to revive coal
The Energy Department is giving millions to a company partially led by a far-right activist and telecom executive to build the nation’s first coal-fired power plant since 2013.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/trumps-coal-maga-organizer-grant-00959916

No energy industry experience
 A man the Trump administration picked to be a key player at the fore of a U.S. coal renaissance is likely more familiar to QAnon circles than energy ones.
 Promises up to 1,000 jobs and carbon capture which I've never seen to work

While Phillips has no energy industry experience, he has hovered around Washington politics during the Trump era. The owner of a rural Virginia internet business served on telecommunications advisory boards. He was past president of a wireless internet company trade association that also had a political action committee. And he operated his own PAC, the Great American Patriot Project, that backed candidates who “adhere to the United States Constitution and America First principles.”

He made more of a name for himself within the MAGA movement through his American Priority Conference, known as AMPfest. It drew QAnon promoters and personalities like Roger Stone — President Donald Trump is a longtime friend and former client — former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and other MAGA influencers with a history of touting conspiracy theories, particularly the lie that widespread voter fraud cost Trump the 2020 election.

 Uphill battle for new coal
Energy companies and utilities have been reluctant to build new coal-fired power plants in the U.S. for myriad reasons. Environmental regulations raised the cost of burning coal. A gusher of natural gas made that fuel more economically competitive. Plummeting solar and wind costs pushed more capital-intensive coal facilities out of the mix.

Yet tech companies have proven willing to explore costly energy projects like geothermal and nuclear to feed energy-hungry data centers. Trump, meanwhile, has pledged to revive “clean, beautiful coal.”
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But analysts in the energy sector have been skeptical of the TerraSpark project’s viability.

Seth Feaster, an energy data analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a think tank that supports a shift to cleaner resources, said that while many large energy infrastructure projects are built by experienced energy utilities, DOE in its June grant announcement turned to companies that don’t appear to have deep pockets or relevant experience.

“Who’s financing them, who’s going to invest in them?” he said. The government grants will “help a little bit, but you’ve got to convince the markets of the credibility of your project.”



“I find that pretty thin at the moment here,” he said.

Ryan Sweezey, director of North American power and renewables at the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie, said that if the developers plan to have a data center or other industrial customers that directly tie in to the plant, coal boilers likely won’t be able to ramp up and down quickly enough without batteries.

Sweezey said the executives’ lack of experience in energy or coal plant development was a “major red flag.”

Hooking up AI data centers directly to power sources — an increasingly popular model for the electricity-devouring sector — is “very complicated” and requires “serious expertise,” said Sweezey.

Adding a carbon capture and storage system to the mix further complicates that picture, and would catapult the overall cost, which could be over $10 billion, he predicted. Tolpegin said the entire cost of the energy campus and coal plant could be “in the billions.”

Breaking News

 At least 1 dead, 11 victims in active shooting incident in Texas; gunman barricaded in standoff
The scene in Midland, Texas, was quickly secured and the area cleared, but efforts to end the standoff remain ongoing, the city said in a Facebook post.

 Trump accuses Iran of mispresenting terms of deal

Trump accused Iran of misrepresenting the terms of a deal the president has touted after Iran's news agency claimedthe agreement “does not create any new commitments” about Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons.

"The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing," Trump said in a Friday post on Truth Social. "What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth. Very dishonorable people to deal with. With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith. AMAZING!"

The dispute suggests the two sides could still be at odds over the most significant and complicated component of an agreement ‒ the nuclear question ‒ despite Trump saying a deal is near.

Trump has said Iran has committed not to possess a nuclear weapon, though the terms would be worked out over the next 60 days under a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran that Trump said could be signed this weekend.

But the Islamic Republican News Agency saidthe memorandum of understanding would not create any "new commitments for Iran and are merely references to subsequent negotiations and Iran's firm commitment not to develop nuclear weapons based on the permanent policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Iran’s news agency also said that “contrary to some strange claims in the media, Iran does not make any commitment in this text to hand over management or return the Strait of Hormuz.” Instead, the agreement envisions the establishment of maritime security by coastal countries in the region.

Feel free to take a stab at the question.

The answer is yes.