…is champagne made from grapes which will soon grown in Siberia, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on “Wrong, Reuters, An Early Champagne Harvest Isn’t Proof of Climate Change”
Is it serendipity or irony that I picked the photo before knowing what article I was going to use today?
Read: If All You See… »
Here you have Canadian leftists who placate Islamic extremists running wild
Canadian Broadcasting Corp Tells Staff Not to Refer to 9/11 as ‘Terrorist Attack’
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) sent a memo to its reporters and editors this week instructing them not to refer to the September 11, 2001, attack on America as a “terrorist attack.”
The memo, first reported by an astonished Warren Kinsella at the Toronto Sun, used boldface type to emphasize the directive to CBC employees.
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” the memo said bluntly.
“The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed,” the memo continued, by way of explaining why the atrocity seen by most of the world as the textbook example of a “terrorist attack” should not be described as such.
According to Kinsella, the memo originated with Basem Boshra, the Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.
And who is Basem Boshra?
(Front Page) The memo comes from Basem Boshra: an Egyptian Muslim immigrant who formerly served as editor at the Montreal Gazette. At the Montreal Gazette, Boshra spent a lot of time complaining about how Islamophobic Canadians were.
Huh. Let’s not forget all the times people have been prosecuted for insulting Islam and Mohammad in Canada. Back to first article
Kinsella reached out to CBC to ask for further insights on why “hijackings” that “led to passenger jet crashes” should not be treated as terrorism.
The response, from CBC spokeswoman Kerry Kelly, was this:
CBC’s longstanding language guidance regarding the terms ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ is a preference for the use of these words with attribution, a practice shared by many of the world’s top journalistic organizations. Our general manager and editor in chief has written publicly in the past on the subject.
Yeah, she’s very much an AWFL, and tried multiple times to defend this insanity with all sorts of gobbledegook. Back to Front Page
There’s a simple truth here that too many fail to understand and articulate. This kind of thing isn’t coincidental or political correctness. It’s a cover-up of the Jihad being waged against us by the entire Muslim world. We welcomed in its operatives and loyalists from the Muslim world and the ones who aren’t bombing us are helping the ones who are. There are disagreements over tactics, not long term objectives.
At the heart of it all is a drive to bring down the western world and replace it with an Islamic one.
Islamists see 9/11 as holy jihad, as a wonderful thing. They loved the 7/7 attack in the UK. Hamas attacking Israel on 10/7. And all the rest. Most Islamist won’t get violent themselves, but, they approve, and do want to change Western nations into caliphates.
Sadly, too many under 30 do not understand this. They never really understood the horror of that day. Many adults have forgotten, and many Leftists have been captured by the system to sympathize with the Islamists.
Read: Wackjob CBC Tells Employees Not To Call 9/11 A Terrorist Attack »
I’d suggest that all those who Believe stand up, make themselves known, and get taxed out the ying yang
With federal aid dwindling, how can cities embed climate resilience in their budgets?
Over two decades, Geography Professor Mark Davidson of Clark’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society has emerged a leading expert on the municipal budgeting and fiscal health of cities grappling with shifting economic, demographic, and political realities.
Working in international finance in London and obtaining a Ph.D. from King’s College, Davidson observed the city’s exploding housing crisis and wealth inequities of the 2000s.
The urban geographer then turned his attention to the U.S. At Clark since 2010, he has examined U.S. “donut cities” like San Francisco and San José, with downtowns hollowed out by the global pandemic, growing homelessness, and fleeing businesses and customers; the gentrification of historically industrial cities like Detroit and Clark’s host city of Worcester, Massachusetts; municipalities’ Chapter 9 bankruptcies after the 2008 Great Recession; and local governments’ responses to ever-growing public pension liabilities.
So, basically Democrat run cities destroying themselves
Yet, Davidson says, cities now face an additional, unpredictable and daunting fiscal pressure layered onto all of these existing obligations: climate change.
“When I look at the obligations that cities have — the bonds they have outstanding, the pension promises they’ve made, the OPEBs [other post-employment benefits] that they carry, the deferred maintenance, there’s a big debt stack there,” said Davidson, whose current book project, “Red Ink Urbanism” (University of Minnesota Press), examines how accumulated fiscal obligations in Nashville, Buffalo, and San José shape urban governance and capacity.
Or, they could just say “weather happens, let’s not freak out.” Of course, all that money is ripe for being spread around to friends, family, associates.
In Massachusetts, Hoffer said, the Healey administration identified $90 billion to $130 billion worth of investments needed to address extreme-climate-related issues, including improving culverts, dams, and other infrastructures and maintaining natural carbon sinks — trees and wetlands — to prevent coastal and inland flooding. The administration created the Massachusetts Community Climate Bank to preserve and retrofit affordable housing for energy efficiency.
“It’s now achieving 70 to 100 percent-modeled energy reduction, which is incredible because that means lifetime energy cost savings for the inhabitants of that housing,” she said.
Residents also can obtain low-interest loans from the Community Climate Bank to fortify or replace their roofs and add solar panels, as well as install energy-efficient heat pumps.
I’d love for the whole program to be audited just like a private business, see where that money is actually going.
Hoffer acknowledged the lack of funding as well. “There will never be enough public dollars,” she said. “What we had previously in the IRA was a good accelerator. But now without that, we have to figure it out.”
Tax the Warmists!
Read: Say, How Can Cities Make Up For All That Missing Federal Money To Fight Climate Doom? »
It’s the People’s Republik Of California, so, bad ideas following bad ideas following Do Gooder ideas abound
San Diego unveils drastic plan to build affordable housing on library properties
San Diego’s public libraries could soon become the landing spot for affordable housing units if a dreamed-up plan becomes reality.
The City has developed an Affordable Home Development Master Plan based on the Home Opportunity Framework, which evaluated 400 City-owned sites for residential developments on public land.
The framework initially identified 20 locations best suited for affordable home development, which boiled down to 11 most promising sites including seven public libraries in University Heights, University City, Allied Gardens, Mira Mesa, Linda Vista, North Park and Clairemont.
Authorities said that the master plan “establishes a high?level framework for how the City could use its land to continue providing critical City services, such as libraries, while also identifying opportunities to add future housing.”
The City will now study these 11 sites and figure out how essential services can operate at each location along with the addition of new affordable homes.
So, tons of money being dumped into these studies and all sorts of NGOs and to friends and family to ascertain which location is best for this bad idea
“Any potential development at a candidate site with an existing library would include both a replacement library and housing, consistent with the Library Master Plan,” the City of San Diego said.
Gonna be a lot of graft money going around, eh? These “affordable housing” units tend to cost something like a million dollars each, so, what does the city do? Sell them at a major loss? The city can’t actually build them, they have to contract out (more slush money), what will make these affordable?
San Diego Apartments Shrink to 827 Square Feet as Rents Soar 70% in a Decade
The average new apartment in San Diego has shrunk to just 827 square feet, down from 911 square feet a decade ago, even as the typical monthly rent has climbed to $3,038. That combination of smaller floor plans and steeper price tags puts San Diego at odds with a national market where apartments have actually grown slightly larger since 2016.
I’m not sure how that is tenable. How do people afford that? Maybe San Diego should simply allow developers to build more apartments, townhomes/condos, and single family dwellings without all red tape. Oh, and get all the illegals out, who help drive up prices do to taking up domicile spots.
But, anyhow, it’s great that they’re considering libraries, since the homeless are already using them to sleep in, urinate, defecate, watch porn.
Read: San Diego Has A Wonderful Idea For “Affordable Housing”: Use Library Property! »
I understand the peasant level cultists yammering on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, etc, but, damn, the Credentialed Media jumped on the doom bandwagon pretty damned quick. Cult business is so important that the NY Times didn’t even paywall it, and didn’t wait till the bodies were even found
Climate Change Raises Risk of Disasters Like Nepal Floods
Glaciers and permafrost in the Himalayas are melting faster as temperatures rise, though scientists are still studying the exact causes of this week’s landslide.
Climate change is heating up the Himalayas and supercharging the risk of disasters like the deadly flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet, though scientists are still determining the exact cause of this week’s catastrophe.
A group of glaciologists and geologists said on Thursday that the flooding was probably unleashed after an enormous chunk of bedrock collapsed underneath a glacier, triggering a landslide high in the mountains. At the same time, a chunk of ice snapped off the glacier itself and cascaded thousands of feet to the valley below, the scientists said.
As humans warm the planet by burning fossil fuels, the Himalayas are losing their permafrost, a mixture of soil, rocks and organic matter that has remained frozen for thousands of years. The thawing permafrost is destabilizing the foundation underneath glaciers, raising the risks of precisely these kinds of landslides and glacial collapses.
Sigh. Cult. Neither of the “reporters” are even anywhere near Nepal. One is in D.C., the other is in London. Really, none of the geologists in that Thursday link are in Nepal
“Permafrost has been the cryospheric glue that’s held the rock and the ice and the glaciers together for millennia, and now we’re getting increasing evidence that it’s being weakened by warming trends,” said Alton C. Byers, a senior research associate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Boulder. Is anyone actually there doing research? Of course, a lot of the media are following this cult talking point
And so many more. Doomsday cultists just cannot help themselves when it comes to using a tragedy to prop up their cult. There have been numerous flooding issues in the Himalayas, glaciers letting go, earthquakes, being recorded for thousands of years as people lived there.
…is a coral reef that will SOON!!!!! die from warm waters that corals like, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on “BOOM BREAKING: Appeals Court REJECTS LaMonica McIver claim of immunity in ICE assault case”
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It’s not like a ton of Democrats weren’t already doing some hating on Israel and Jews since Hamas started the war, but, Democrats weren’t sufficiently hating on Israel and Jews
‘I hate Democrats, but I love Abdul’: voters who left over Gaza return for progressive push
Two years ago, Zainab Bibi Ahmed thought she had turned her back on the Democrats for good. Now, she is volunteering for the party’s US Senate nominee in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.
Ahmed was one of 100,000 people to vote uncommitted in the February 2024 Democratic Michigan primary, in a bid to send a message to then US president Joe Biden about his support for Israel, as people watched what Amnesty International later called a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza on their screens.
That November, Ahmed – a resident of Troy, Michigan, and an academic staffer at Wayne State University – opted to vote for the Green party’s Jill Stein amid calls to punish Democrats over the administration’s support for Israel.
“I did not think I would come back to the Democratic party after 2024. I really didn’t. But then when I saw [New York City mayor] Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, of course, and Shereef Akeel and Amir Makled,” Ahmed said, referencing two university regent candidates in the state, “I was like, OK, I cannot not support these gentlemen just because they’re Democrats.”
So, now that you have El-Sayed, and a bunch of other Islamic extremists/Israel haters/Jew haters, running for office as Democrats the imported Islamists are super happy and will vote for them.
Like Ahmed, Waqas Sarwar, a Dearborn resident, voted for Stein in 2024, but he was excited to cast his primary ballot for Democrats El-Sayed and Representative Rashida Tlaib this month.
“I hate Democrats, but I love Abdul,” Sarwar said.
Sarwar believes that the party needs to bring “fresh blood” like El-Sayed and that it should pivot on Israel and Aipac to align with young voters.
Fresh blood for the extremists
Michigan AG says she fears candidate El-Sayed is rationalizing terrorism, Jewish voters are torn
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Jewish Democrat, says in an interview that she fears the state’s Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, is rationalizing terrorism and that the party is ostracizing Jews.
After a terrorist attempted an attack earlier this year against a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan — Nessel’s hometown — El-Sayed linked the attack to the conflict in Lebanon and said, “Hurt people hurt people.”
“A lot of us perceived that as sort of making excuses for someone that sought to murder over 100 pre-K schoolchildren and that’s the kind of mentality that bothers me a lot,” Nessel tells The Atlantic’s David Frum.
It’s not making excuses, it’s that the Islamists like El-Sayed hate Jews.
Nessel tells Frum that Jews in Michigan are torn in El-Sayed’s race against Republican Mike Rogers, which could determine control of the Senate.
“We absolutely don’t want Mike Rogers to win. We absolutely want a Democratic majority in the Senate,” she says. “But is Abdul going to spend six years railing against Israel irrespective of who the government is there?”
Well, yes, but, he’s also going to spend 6 years denigrating Jews and pushing an Islamic radical agenda.
Read: Islamists Who Left Democrat Party Over Gaza Loving Abdul El-Sayed »
West Point did not need a disciple of the cult of climastrology indoctrinating the cadets
A civilian geography professor was fired from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
Adam Kalkstein, a climate scientist who spent 17 years teaching future Army officers, said he consistently received “outstanding” appraisals of his work. When leadership last year imposed a ban on teaching that humans contribute to climate change, he tried to comply but ultimately pushed back, saying that it was a disservice to the cadets’ education.
“It’s not a college-level course. It’s not even a high school course. Not because it isn’t rigorous; it is. But because we’re leaving out essential information,” Kalkstein said during a November 2025 meeting of the geography department with Brig. Gen. Shane Reeves, then the dean of the academic board, according to the lawsuit.
So, it’s not even a high school course? What is it, then? Cult dogma? He also doesn’t get to set the terms of what he can teach as an employee.
“We’re only telling cadets part of the story. We’re lying to them, deceiving them. It would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the Constitution,” Kalkstein said.
That doesn’t sound cultish in the least. They’re there to become officers and gentleman/women in the United States Army, to learn to be leaders. Not be members of a cult. But, we all know that the cult will try and indoctrinate people wherever they can.
Then came the November meeting, where he voiced his concerns about lying to cadets by omitting information from their climatology course.
The dean responded to Kalkstein by reminding him that Trump, as commander in chief, sets the agenda for West Point. The meeting ended with the dean storming out, according to the lawsuit.
At the end of the spring semester, Kalkstein learned his contract would not be renewed. The justification was “poor character and temperament,” with the November meeting cited as evidence.
If he wants to run for president he can set the terms of what is taught at West Point.
Could this be in response to a wacko federal judge ruling that a visa ban for 75 nations was “illegal”, hence, the State Department will just do it for all countries?
US halts all immigrant visa applications amid tightening restrictions
All US immigrant visa applications have been paused by the Trump administration as the state department moves to tighten restrictions and limit access to applicants who they deem could end up relying on US assistance, a state department official confirmed on Tuesday.
The agency launched the initiative at all embassies and consulates in early August, according to the official and visa appointments had to be adjusted to accommodate “in-depth training”, according to the official. The state department has been working on updated guidance and training since early this year, “to ensure all consular officers are fully equipped to evaluate every visa applicant comprehensively and consistently”, they added.
The Financial Times reports that applicants with interviews already scheduled were sent emails that their appointments had been canceled and that they would be informed of a new date and time.
Agency officials claim this will ensure visa applicants will not end up relying on US public benefits. But it’s part of a slate of strategies the Trump administration has employed to crack down on both lawful and undocumented immigration and create a more selective process for who can gain entry into the system.
Do we really need people coming in on work and visitor visas who are immediately going to need government assistance? That’s not what the visa system is about, but, previous administrations just simply let people in. Oh, and then there were all the Islamic extremists, who they are going to try and weed out
This week the Trump administration also announced plans to revoke visas from asylum seekers who initially entered the country for tourism or business. Up to 200,000 people currently seeking asylum could be affected, marking what would end up being the largest mass pulling of visas in the history of the US. The action is being taken in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.
No one should be allowed to game the system in that way, so, if they claim asylum it’s complete BS. They need to need.
There are some seriously moonbat headlines out there. CNN might be one of the worst
Trump criticism leads to rare criminal charges for Air Force officer who called for impeachment
Just some criticism, guys! And rare! Mostly because most members of the US military aren’t stupid enough to do this
A US airman who was arrested twice, once on the steps of the US Capitol while calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, was officially criminally charged Monday for his comments, according to a charging document his attorney shared with CNN.
Maj. Jason Watson faces the following charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to the document: three violations of Article 88 for alleged “contemptuous” remarks about Trump, five violations of Article 92 for allegedly disobeying orders and two violations of Article 133 for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer. (snip)
The rare Article 88 charges are connected to the Air Force officer’s June interview with the Defenders of our Republic Substack newsletter, his July 1 protest in uniform at the US Capitol, and an August 17 CNN interview.
It can be considered a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice to participate in uniform in any overtly partisan activity, such as a political protest, or to use “contemptuous words” against the president and other high-ranking civilian officials. Many low-level offenses of these rules are resolved informally, but Watson’s violations were unusually high-profile.
Not can, is
The rest of Excitable Brian’s tweet reads “… service members arrested for speaking out against the president, isn’t a president. They are a dictator.” Like Biden? Agree with Scheller or not, he 100% got what he asked for. You join the military and there are certain things you cannot do. Scheller could have left the service, as could have Watson. All the Credentialed Media were saying Scheller got what he deserved.
Read: Liberals Upset Air Force Major Who Called For Trump Impeachment Being Prosecuted »
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