Unelected California Bureaucrats Just Restricted What Types Of Replacement Tires Citizens Can Buy

By William Teach August 18, 2026 – 10:30 am

Democrats are constantly yammering about “Democracy!”, yet, they constantly have groups of unelected bureaucrats making rules that affect all citizens and jacking up their lives

Let’s go to their article

California regulators on Monday approved new rules that will restrict what tires you can buy when it’s time to replace them on your car.

In a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission voted to adopt new rules that will phase out the sale of replacement tires that don’t meet certain energy efficiency standards.

“This ultimately is about protecting consumers,” said David Hochschild, the chairman of the California Energy Commission. “I see this as sheltering the public from higher costs in the long run.”

Tire manufacturers and the commission’s staff are at odds over whether this will add to the cost of living in the state. Both sides acknowledged this will no longer allow the sale of a significant portion of the tires currently sold in California.

You’ll pay a lot more for tires while saving a couple dollars in “efficiency”. Always run when a Democrat talks about “protecting consumers”. The only bright side is this doesn’t kick in for years

The first phase would begin in 2029, which would allow the sale of tires with a maximum rolling resistance level of 9.1 newtons per kilonewton (N/kN). In phase 2, the standard lowers to 7.2 (N/kN) starting in 2033. The commission came up with the standards after testing 537 types of tires.

If it’s so imperative to save citizens money and stop climate doom why is it always in the future?

According to the commission’s staff, the rules are meant to ensure replacement tires sold in California are at least as energy efficient on average as the tires that come with the car or truck when it’s originally sold. The CEC claims Californians could save $79 in four months in gas or electricity costs under phase 1, and about $153 in phase 2 within seven months.

Not a chance in hell those numbers are real from fuel savings, and then we figure that the tires will cost a lot more.

Bret Gladfelty, on behalf of Goodyear, told the commission that this will increase costs for consumers and said the commission had yet to resolve technical and legal issues with the rules.

In a letter to the CEC, Gladfelty had questioned the data the CEC released to the public about the cost of new tires, noting that while the commission says the price increases average about $6.50 per tire in phase 2, Gladfelty warned increase costs could actually end up being in the several hundreds of dollars.

Gladfelty told KCRA 3 this new rule will eliminate an estimated 70% of the tires currently sold in California by 2033.

I wonder how many Californians will head to Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon to get tires? Which means a lot of stores in California will lose money and maybe go out of business.

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Insane: Hawaii Has Children Advising DOT Due To Climate Doom

By William Teach August 18, 2026 – 7:15 am

This is truly insane

What happened after 13 young people in Hawaii sued over climate change

Young people in Hawaii now meet regularly with the state’s Department of Transportation to offer input on public transit, bike lanes, and other strategies to help the department transition away from fossil fuels.

Establishing the Hawai‘i Youth Transportation Council was just one of the outcomes of the landmark 2024 settlement of the Navahine v. Hawai‘i DOT lawsuit, which was brought by 13 young plaintiffs. Their lawsuit alleged that the DOT wasn’t making progress toward the climate goals set by the state, violating the plaintiffs’ constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.

They settled the lawsuit in 2024 before it went to trial, and the DOT is now required to decarbonize transportation by 2045 and, through the youth council, to listen and incorporate the priorities of young Hawaiians.

Well, Hawaii is chock full of climate cultists, so, when does the government give up all it’s fossil fueled vehicles, planes, boats, and helicopters? Same for the private citizens? When do they end the use of all the airports and seaports?

Yale Climate Connections: Charlotte, what got you concerned about climate change in the first place?

Charlotte Madin: I was born in Sydney, Australia, and I lived there until I was eight years old. And while I lived there, my family and I would often experience really large heat waves that would make us essentially have to evacuate our home and go to the nearest air-conditioned place because my mother was concerned that my sister and I would be sick or have health concerns due to this heat.

The entire time I’ve lived in Hawaii, about eight years now, I’ve noticed the beautiful ocean and the biodiversity of the coral reefs just slowly becoming less and less healthy, which is really challenging to see, especially since both my parents are marine biologists….

So, wait, she and her family took a long fossil fueled flight from Sydney? I can bet her parents both use fossil fueled boats. And, more importantly, the Hawaiian DOT is taking advice from a 16 year old (is she even a US citizen?)? That’s nuts.

YCC: What are some of the major points that the settlement requires the government to do?

Zeigler: The settlement requires HDOT to decarbonize the transportation sector by 2045, which means zero emissions from ground, marine, and interisland air transportation. And the settlement provides benchmarks and requirements for what HDOT needs to do to reach zero emissions.

Well, good luck with that. And good luck thinking people are going to take expensive vacations to Hawaii and have to travel by bike and such.

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Boston Is Thrilled To Get 4 Star Designation For Helping Illegals

By William Teach August 18, 2026 – 7:00 am

Did anyone know there was a rating system for this?

Boston certified 4-star destination for welcoming immigrants

Sanctuary Boston was rewarded for rolling out the red carpet for immigrants with a “4-star certified welcoming designation” from Welcoming America, making it the first Massachusetts city to earn a certification.

Mayor Michelle Wu announced the designation on Monday, saying that it recognizes Boston as a national leader in creating policies, programs, and practices that support immigrant inclusion and belonging.

“Boston has been shaped by generations of immigrants seeking a better future and working hard to build the city we enjoy today,” Wu said in a statement. “I’m proud of the work of our Office for Immigrant Advancement, community partners, and neighborhood and cultural leaders to expand civic engagement, support our communities, and make Boston a city where everyone belongs.”

Most of those immigrants, particularly the Irish, came legally. And worked hard and assimilated. They loved the U.S. Unlike the illegals, who do not assimilate and demand the US provide everything

Wu’s office said Boston met the criteria across all seven areas of the Welcoming Standard, Welcoming America’s roadmap for building inclusive communities: government and community leadership, equitable access, civic engagement, connected communities, education, economic development, and safe communities.

Boston’s 4-star designation falls short of the highest 5-star welcoming rating for immigrant inclusion. Chicago and San Jose, California also earned 4-star ratings this year. San Francisco received the highest 5-star designation.

Daniel Valdez, deputy director of Welcoming America, said Boston has been recognized as the first certified welcoming community in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts spends over $1 billion a year on illegals, with most going to Boston. Boston itself is spending millions of resident money yearly on illegals, such as for legal defense, something they do not give to the Americans who live in Boston.

Wu on Sunday said she plans to use freedom of information laws to try to figure out who wants to lease parking spaces to ICE Boston in order to prevent the agency’s immigration enforcement officers from parking in Boston.

I though FOI laws were meant for government, not private citizens/companies? This is some serious doxxing going on here, where the government is coming after citizens for wholly legally activities that Government doesn’t agree with.

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Landlords In NYC Can Buy Their Way Out Of Climate Compliance

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 3:04 pm

One way or the other, all it means is that tenants will be paying

Landlords can buy their way out of NYC’s climate law starting this week

As a candidate, Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged to close loopholes that allowed landlords to limit compliance with the city’s landmark law capping building emissions.

But later this week, landlords will have the opportunity to buy their way out of the climate law through an energy credits program initiated by his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams.

Advocates say the ability to purchase renewable energy credits disincentivize property owners from reducing emissions. They say the credits cost less than the necessary climate-friendly upgrades or the penalties for noncompliance with the climate law, known as Local Law 97.

“Advocates”. Do any of them actually own rental property in NYC?

Local Law 97 is intended to force landlords to reduce emissions from buildings, which account for about two-thirds of the city’s carbon pollution. But many landlords and co-op owners have long said they cannot afford to retrofit their buildings to reduce pollution, and that the penalties for noncompliance are onerous.

“Pollution”. CO2 is not a pollutant.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will put the first round of credits up for sale on Wednesday. The credits are projected to generate nearly $1.8 million that will go toward the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line bringing hydropower from Quebec to New York City.

Oh, good, from Quebec. I wonder how much of the money will disappear into graft and fraud?

“The City is committed to helping property owners reinvest in their own buildings and avoid penalties by getting on a manageable compliance pathway to reduce carbon emissions through energy efficiency retrofits,” he said. “Local Law 97 allows covered building owners to purchase renewable energy credits as one of those compliance pathways, which supports a cleaner grid for our city and helps to cut down on overall pollution.”

“Helping.” Force is not help.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sister Toldjah, with a post on “FBI Releases Data on Historic Drop in Violent Crime Rate, Media Can’t Figure Out Who to Credit”

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Surprise: Democrats Now Favor Socialism Over Capitalism

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 10:30 am

Do they actually know what Socialism is per Political Science 101? Or what it actually means for Modern Socialism? Are they willing to give up their own money, or, do they want to make their own money and have money taken from Other People to pay for all the free stuff?

Dems now favor socialism over capitalism by this overwhelming amount: new poll

Democrats now overwhelmingly have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism, according to a shocking new poll.

Nearly 60% of party members support socialism compared to 18% who view it negatively, while just 32% have a favorable view of capitalism compared to 50% who see it as negative, according to the CBS News/YouGov survey.

The poor marks for capitalism among Democrats get even worse when narrowed down to those who have a college degree, with 71% of that group favoring socialism compared to 16% viewing it unfavorably, the poll showed.

The disturbing findings come as Democrats are engaged in a so-called “battle for the soul” of their party.

Democratic Socialists of America-backed and allied candidates have had a series of breakthrough victories in Democratic primaries across the country throughout the 2026 election cycle.

Will the be good with the Government taking over their own small businesses? Running their big businesses?

When asked to describe the free market, an overwhelming 66% of respondents said it was good for the US economy, compared to 34% who called it bad.

Yet on a policy level, there are signs that even Republicans are supportive of certain policies historically associated with socialism, such as price controls.

Economists generally oppose price controls, arguing they can disrupt supply and demand, which can lead to consequences such as shortages of certain goods or services.

How is massive government intervention in healthcare and higher education working out? But, of course, things like price controls, rent control, and more are not the point. It’s all the other things that comes with Modern Socialism, starting with Government controlling your life and restricting your freedom. And then just the ultra-Crazy, like no borders, no police, no prisons. A lot of the support is from Millennials and Gen Z, who were indoctrinated into this belief.

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Climate Cult Looking To Indoctrinate Kids On School Playgrounds

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 7:15 am

Didn’t the original Russian commies talk about getting the kiddies early?

The movement to remake school playgrounds as urban climate oases

Stepping into the schoolyard at the Adolph S. Ochs public school in Manhattan’s bustling Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, you’re greeted by a canopy of trees. Painted sea turtles and birds adorn the pavement. Summer school kids run along the track encircling the green turf field, tossing balls back and forth. Other kids shoot hoops or decompress in the shade. After walking down nearby Ninth Avenue in the blistering heat, one finds it noticeably cooler here.

This schoolyard wasn’t always like this. Eleven years ago, it resembled many other city playgrounds: an open, unshaded expanse of black asphalt.

Now, it’s among 420 schoolyards across 26 states that the nonprofit Trust for Public Land says it is helping to transform from barren blacktop into welcoming oases for schoolchildren and local residents.

In late July, TPL hosted a two-day summit in New York City, bringing together school district leaders, landscape architects and environmental advocates from across the country to learn more about reinvigorating schoolyards. Keynote speakers extolled the benefits of nature-based play and keeping schoolyards open to the public when school isn’t in session.

Now, I’m happy to say that this is a good idea, replacing asphalt with grass. Having trees.

But these designs aren’t driven just by aesthetics and opportunities for play. Climate change is exacerbating dangerous heat waves and increasing the frequency of downpours in some cities. Green-roofed gazebos and rain gardens to catch storm runoff can let schools help their neighborhoods mitigate difficult weather conditions.

These people.

At schoolyards such as the one at Adolph S. Ochs, asphalt playgrounds can worsen flooding and overwhelm the city’s drainage systems. Switching out blacktop for porous pavement allows rain to seep through rather than pool on the surface. A green gazebo roof, acting as a sponge, absorbs rainwater and reduces the flooding risk. On 90-degree days, unshaded asphalt surfaces can surpass 140 degrees, but shaded surfaces have been found to be at least 30 degrees cooler than those without protection from the sun.

Oh, hey, they just discovered the Urban Heat Island effect, which, while man-caused, is not global nor doom.

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Is NICE About To Crack Down On NYC?

By William Teach August 17, 2026 – 7:00 am

This would make Mamdani and the rest of the unhinged moonbats very unhappy

(VNY) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the tip of the spear in President Trump’s mass deportation dragnet, has targeted specific communities within the five boroughs and flooded them with agents in recent days.

According to the immigrant advocacy group New York Immigration Coalition, the federal agency’s enforcement operations have increased across southwest Brooklyn and Cypress Hills, Upper Manhattan, and Staten Island. Make the Road New York warns that ICE has increased enforcement across northern Queens, from Elmhurst to College Point.

The warnings echo a threat from White House border coordinator Tom Homan in early May, when he said that if New York enacted legislation limiting cooperation with ICE, the administration would “flood the zone” with more ICE agents than New Yorkers had ever seen. The remarks came as Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers were advancing the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, then pending legislation and now state law. The law bars local governments and law-enforcement agencies from entering into or maintaining 287(g) agreements, which authorize participating local officers to carry out specified federal immigration-enforcement functions for ICE.

Signs of the increased activity have been plentiful in recent weeks. Videos taken across the five boroughs made the rounds on social media in July, showing masked and armored federal officers on the streets, in larger groups than had previously been observed. One particular clip from Upper Manhattan went viral, showing one such agent spraying an elderly woman who was protesting, with no apparent justification. The protester, 72-year-old Linda Wolff, is now suing the officer.

They are definitely doing it different than previous operations. Can’t wait to see how many illegals with criminal records who were being protected get busted.

Meanwhile

She pleaded guilty to a drug charge. Then she visited Mexico not knowing she couldn’t return

At her trial, there’s no question that Angela Hernandez signed a form acknowledging that she could be deported after a criminal conviction. An interpreter certified that they had translated the whole form and her attorney was confident Hernandez understood it.

But the California Supreme Court said in a ruling handed down Thursday that it’s not enough to check a form’s boxes — a defendant has to “meaningfully understand” the legal consequences of a plea deal. “Were it not for these errors,” the court found, “there is a reasonable probability that she would have rejected the plea offer and either attempted to negotiate a plea with less dire immigration consequences or taken her case to trial.”

Hernandez was charged with two drug offenses in Kern County in 2013. She was a citizen of Mexico but had been a legal permanent resident of the U.S. for 19 years. She was 55-years-old at the time of her arrest, with a father, husband, kids and grandkids in the U.S.

She was here for 19 years, yet, didn’t bother learning English, something we see quite often with people legally and illegally present in the U.S.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 16, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on “Chinese Funding Anti-Semitism?”

It’s blue week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 16, 2026 – 9:00 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the geese are geesing, and the NY Giants were somewhat respectable during the preseason game Saturday. This pinup is by Vaughan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Thousands Of Dutch Farmers Protest EU Nitrogen Rules In
  2. Climate Change Dispatch: Climate Groups Stall Endangerment Finding Fight, Hoping To Run Out The Trump Clock
  3. Jo Nova: Trump’s race to launch Nuclear Microreactors changes everything – (An Australian led team built one in just 150 days)
  4. Not A Lot Of People Of Know That: Whitehall is turning England into tinderbox
  5. Watts Up With That?: California’s ‘Sustainability’ Bureaucracy Takes a Big Sip from Napa Valley’s Iconic Vineyards
  6. 357 Magnum: Do People Not Know of Flesh-Eating Bacteria in Florida Waters?
  7. American Greatness: How Hamas’ Attack on Israel Is Transforming American Politics
  8. Bearing Arms: Giffords Freaks Over Lack of DOJ Appeal in NFA Case
  9. Blazing Cat Fur: Quitting Canada: Why I am moving to the United States
  10. Chicks On The Right: Mass Fraud in Massachusetts: Mayor Uses COVID Funds for Personal Gain
  11. Cold Fury: You GO, girls!
  12. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: We Don’t Hate These People Enough.
  13. Gates Of Vienna: An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Toulouse
  14. Geller Report: Governor Abbott Drops the Hammer: Texas Airports’ Special Muslim Footbaths “Illegal,” State Funding Now on the Chopping Block
  15. And last, but, not least, LMAO has “Kamala Buys a Mansion in Malibu and . . . Coincidence?”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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