LA Mayor Karen “Failure” Bass Has New Climate (scam) Plan Or Something

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Does it involve failing to have the firefighting infrastructure in place, letting it burn, and screwing with homeowners, making it hard to rebuild, and then trying to get them to sell so they can build “affordable” housing, making sure NGOs, friends, and donors get a cut?

Mayor Bass has a new plan for addressing climate change in Los Angeles

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass released a new plan Thursday setting goals for the city to combat climate change and adapt to a warmer future.

Bass’ Climate Action Plan calls for doubling local solar power in Los Angeles by 2030 and reducing the use of fossil fuels in buildings and city buses.

Will it include Bass not using fossil fuels to be limo’d around, or flying to Ghana?

It outlines how the city intends to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at the Port of Los Angeles and L.A. International Airport. And it sets targets for reducing water use, addressing risks from extreme heat, and expanding parks and green spaces to cool neighborhoods and restore natural habitat.

So, costs for goods coming through the port will skyrocket (when they aren’t stolen). Why even allow the airport, which uses tons of fossil fuels? Shut it down! As for the rest, it’s just more control of the citizens, and will cause more to leave California.

“Cities are the front lines for the climate crisis. Angelenos are living with the impacts every day — from devastating wildfires and floods to rising heat and longer heat waves,” Bass wrote in a letter announcing the document. “This plan outlines how Angelenos will benefit from a resilient, carbon-free L.A.”

Yeah, watch your wallets, LA residents! But, then, most voted for this crap, so, don’t complain.

Bass’ strategy includes 14 objectives and more than 50 targets and actions, which it says are “designed to deliver concrete, measurable climate outcomes.” The goals include:

  • Increasing renewable energy to 80% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. (where? Where will it be located? How will this work? The devil is in the details)
  • Converting all of the L.A. Department of Transportation buses to electric by 2028. (this should be fun)
  • Working with airlines and fuel suppliers at LAX and Van Nuys Airport to increase the use of sustainable fuel by 28% by 2030. (sustainable fuel is in its infancy, and costs a hell of a lot more)
  • Passing a new ordinance this year to prohibit new oil and gas drilling, and creating a process to end current oil and gas extraction in the city. (who’s currently drilling in the city of LA now? It’s not worth it)

There’s more to it, but, it’s all just a big power and money grab. Again, you voted for this, so, pipe down.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible fossil fueled boat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post wondering how we turn the Sun off.

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AP: Guy Who Just Immigrated To US Killed Two, Including DHS Employee

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is one hell of a headline to go with the story

What to know about Atlanta-area attacks that killed 2, including a federal worker

A man who had immigrated to the U.S. has been charged in a string of deadly attacks in the Atlanta suburbs that quickly drew the attention of President Donald Trump’s administration.

U.K.-native Olaolukitan Adon Abel, whose name appears in different variations in court and government records, is accused of killing two women, including a Department of Homeland Security employee, and critically injuring a man.

Homeland Secretary Markwayne Mullin called the shootings “acts of pure evil” and raised concern that Adon Abel, 26, was granted U.S. citizenship in 2022, when Democrat Joe Biden was president.

The first victim, who has not been identified publicly, was found with gunshot wounds near a Decatur-area restaurant around 1 a.m. She was taken to a hospital but died, DeKalb County Police Chief Gregory Padrick said.

Then, a 49-year-old homeless man was shot multiple times while sleeping outside a Brookhaven grocery store, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of the first attack, Brookhaven Police Chief Brandon Gurley said. The man, whose name hasn’t been released, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

DHS worker Lauren Bullis, who was out walking her dog more than 10 miles (16 kilometers) away in Panthersville, was found around 7 a.m. with gunshot and stab wounds. She died at the scene, Padrick said.

Rather antiseptic version, eh?

Military records show the defendant enlisted in the Navy in 2020, last serving in the Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron in Coronado, California, and as a petty officer received a Navy “E” Ribbon for superior performance for battle readiness.

Adon Abel pleaded guilty in October 2024 to assaulting two police officers with a deadly weapon and attacking another person when he was stationed in Coronado, according to California court records.

He faces malice murder, aggravated assault and firearms charges in Monday’s attacks, court records show. He waived an initial court appearance Tuesday, and a public defender listed as his attorney did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Mullin said Adon Abel has a criminal record that includes a sexual battery conviction. Online court records show that someone listed with a similar name and the same birth date pleaded guilty last June in Chatham County, Georgia, to four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery.

No one is sure if there were criminal acts preceding the Biden regime just up and giving him easy and free citizenship. But, with a record like this, there must have been. They say he is a “UK resident”, did Biden’s DHS bother checking in Britain?

Read that Matt Van Swol tweet, and then wonder why the fuck he was out on the streets at all.

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Bummer: Methane Is Leaking From Dams And Reservoirs

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 7:00 am

Now, I will 100% agree that methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere than CO2, but, it is considerably more potent. So, um, what’s the solution here?

A gas that causes climate change is bubbling out of reservoirs

climate cowMethane, the second-biggest contributor to climate change, is spewing into the atmosphere from the oil and gas industry, landfills and dairy farms. It’s also coming from another lesser-known source: reservoirs.

As plants break down underwater, they form methane, which then bubbles to the surface. California doesn’t monitor how much is coming from these waters, but now several environmental groups are urging air regulators to find out, and some experts agree it’s important.

“Reservoirs constitute an important source of methane,” said John Harrison, a professor at Washington State University’s School of the Environment who studies the greenhouse gases that reservoirs emit.

Tracking it, he said, would help California make better decisions about hydropower as part of its energy mix and “enhance the state’s status as a climate policy leader.”

OK, other than studying it (and getting all that government money), what do you want to do about it? End the dams and reservoirs?

The coalition of environmental groups — including Friends of the River, Tell The Dam Truth and five other organizations, as well as the clothing company Patagonia — submitted a petition last month saying the California Air Resources Board should require reports on greenhouse gases from dams and reservoirs. They oppose dams because they harm rivers.

Yes, yes they do. After getting lots of scam money.

They found that some hydropower plants give off small amounts of planet-heating gases, while in some extreme cases, emissions can be “greater than those from coal-fired power plants” per kilowatt of electricity generated.

For decades, damming rivers has generated bitter fights in places around the world, and international lenders have come under pressure not to support new projects. But there are currently 3,700 new hydroelectric facilities planned or under construction around the world, so scientists say it’s important to thoroughly analyze the long-term climate footprint of each project.

“We should recognize that hydropower is not a carbon-free — in the sense that it has no greenhouse gas emissions — source of electricity,” said Steven Hamburg, EDF’s chief scientist and the study’s co-author. “In building any new facilities, we want to carefully look at those impacts and minimize them.”

I understand why the extreme-enviroweenies hate dams, but, the cultists told us water power was super green and carbon neutral. No?

It’s also important when planning any new dam, Harrison said, to analyze how much greenhouse gases it will release into the atmosphere over its lifespan.

The California Air Resources Board plans to respond to the petition by the end of July.

These are unelected bureaucrats who will make decisions that will, get this, make power even more expensive in California. Have fun! You voted for this.

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Six Idiot Republicans Vote With Democrats To Keep Haitians In The U.S.

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 6:45 am

We can almost always expect some Republicans to go pure Squish

House opposes Trump on immigration with move to help Haitians

Several House Republicans joined Democrats to oppose President Donald Trump on his immigration policy Wednesday, forcing a vote on a measure to reinstate temporary protections for some 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.

Six Republicans voted with 212 House Democrats and one independent reaching the threshold to advance the bill, which would keep Haitians eligible for temporary protected status [TPS] for three years. The program is intended for foreign nationals from countries facing dangerous conditions, such as armed conflict and environmental disasters.

The vote was forced using an increasingly popular legislative tool called a discharge petition that allows 218 or more representatives to circumvent the House speaker to bring a vote to the floor. Final passage of the bill in the House is expected Thursday or Friday.

“I have one of the largest Haitian populations in the country in my district,” said Rep. Michael Lawler (R-New York), who voted Wednesday push the bill to the House floor. “… If you end [temporary protections] without addressing work authorization, it will cause a huge crisis in our health care system, especially in an area like mine, where a lot of our Haitian TPS holders are nurses.”

Why can’t we have Americans working as nurses? Why can’t they go home and apply for visas? One problem is that too many Americans are getting worthless degrees from college, to many ones that bring no value, rather than working for degrees that have value.

“These 350,000 Haitian nationals are our neighbors. They’re valued members of our community,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), who whipped support for the bill, in a video posted to her Instagram account this week. Pressley co-chairs the House Haiti Caucus.

TPS: temporary. Not permanent. But, Democrats want them with a legal status that allows them to vote in local, county and state elections, and, whoops, the ballot happened to have federal offices on it. Our bad! Anyhow, because they want a few nurses, we have to keep all the ones who are pure 4th world (completely failed state). There’s a reason the Dominican Republic has a wall on it’s border with Haiti. But, didn’t Democrats say Haiti is great?

Weird that she hasn’t visited Haiti

Republican Reps. María Elvira Salazar (Florida), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania), Lawler (New York), Don Bacon (Nebraska), Carlos Giménez (Florida) and Nicole Malliotakis (New York) voted to advance the bill.

Of course little miss amnesty Maria Salazar voted for this. Fitzpatrick, Lawler, and Bacon are also cosigners of her “Dignity” Act.

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One Of The Problems With Binging Shows Is That You Notice They Aren’t Actually That Good

By William Teach April 15, 2026 – 3:17 pm

See, back in the day when you watched a show you saw it once a week, for typically 18+ episodes per season. So, you might not have noticed the DRAMA!!!!! being absolutely no fun. Or, that, nothing is getting solved, it’s just all too convoluted. Or that there is little development of characters. But, now, when you can blow through multiple episodes a day back to back? Those deficiencies show up.

Take a show like Lost. It was great back in the day when we saw 1 episode a week. Now, I tried to stream it and realized that it was just too weird, more and more weird was piled on top, the characters were actually pretty stupid, and we are not getting any real reasons for what’s going on. I gave up on it in season 3. The Sawyer character become incredibly annoying, as did Kate.

How about Manifest? The premise is fantastic. But, here’s what a few on Reddit wrote

  • I have no doubt that the central mystery is explored in later season and episodes. They probably want a multi-season arc about it, like Lost, but where Lost effectively “teased” the central mystery throughout and gave ‘peeks’ into clues about in most plotlines (depending who you ask), Manifest instead tries to buy time by distracting the viewer with less-interesting side-plots and characters.
  • It actually gets so much worse when they start to unravel the “mystery”. It got so convoluted so fast. Last thing I remember they were pulling shards of Noah’s ark out of the plane wreckage. Didn’t make it much longer after that.
  • It the Wish version of Lost. The premise is good enough, so it keeps you in for that, but instead of trying to tell a tight version of what it is that is happening, they just start stacking more junk on top of it that makes no sense until the whole thing is a narrative mess. It doesn’t help that the side plots are dull and the acting is pretty bad. People love this show and I definitely don’t get it.
  • Yeah. On paper it sounded like something I would like. I’ve tried to watch it 3 times now, and then get about 4 episodes in, and reminded how dreadfully boring it is, and how the main mystery is just… absent.

I made it to season 1 episode 14, and found it tedious, being DRAMA!!!! There was really no one having fun, no one smiling. If characters did stuff like have a nice dinner or end up in bed they’d have to then have a Serious Deep Conversation rather than just enjoying the moment. Everyone is always frowning or having a Serious Face. And who the hell is this The Major person. They keep mentioning her, and always capitalized. The Major. You might not have noticed if you watched it once a week.

I know everyone seemed to love The Sopranos, but, I found it got tedious watching so many episodes so close, where it seemed more about psychological venting than a mob show. Didn’t make it that far (I also cancelled HBOMax at the end of the special price time).

Falling Skies? Starts out depressing, wasn’t getting better.

I’m trying The Blacklist now, and, it seems to be going down the road of too much DRAMA!!!! Without James Spader it would be utterly tedious. Animal Control is interesting, a little lighter fare. Justified seemed too intense with no fun. It can’t be all frowning. Look at The Rookie, Landman, Tulsa King. Some serious crap goes down, but, they throw fun in. You have to humanize it. Even Grey’s Anatomy (which I gave up on in like season 21, just too much crazy), which could get stupid and had some really unlikeable characters when you think about them, had lots and lots of fun. It wasn’t all frowning. And you learned about the characters.

Alien: Earth? Still haven’t seen the final episode of season 1 (if there is going to be a season 2, no idea, no care). Just too convoluted, too DRAMA!!!! Couldn’t care less about the characters, who we barely learned about. The latest season of The Witcher? Forgot everything about the characters from the previous seasons because it was too long between seasons. Black Summer seemed interesting. Zombies! But, overly serious, no fun even while whacking zombies, no characterization. Only made it a few episodes in for Castle Rock, too serious, no fun. Give me some Psych, Eureka, Warehouse 13. Suits knew how to have fun, as absurd as the premise was. Blue Bloods was excellent, it was more than just procedural cop stuff. Characters were people. Vikings knew how to generally keep it simple. These were people to viewers. They were upset when a character was killed off.

With so many shows today, particularly on streaming, they throw so much into the show that it’s hard to know what is going on, and characterization suffers. I had also tried Dune: Prophecy, and it suffered from “what the hell am I watching? I have no idea what’s going on.” Not sure how much further I’m going to get for The Blacklist. Also slowly working through Star Trek: Voyager. Had given up on Strange New Worlds, when they did the cartoon crossover with Lower Decks, and knowing there was a musical episode coming up? Nah. Too bad, they did make the show about the characters first.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 15, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an island that will soon be swamped by carbon pollution sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on Trump orange-pilling the world.

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Islamists In Dearbornistan Upset Trump Hasn’t Stopped Wars In Middle East

By William Teach April 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

Did they actually expect Trump to take the side of the Islamists, try and shut Israel down?

Trump promised peace in the Middle East. In Dearborn, Michigan, it feels farther away

Eighteen months after the nation’s largest Arab American community helped propel Donald Trump to a second term as president, the prayers have not stopped.

In Dearborn, just outside of Detroit, families wait restlessly for word from relatives abroad, hoping they are safe, and mourning those already lost.

What began as anguish over the war in Gaza has widened. In a city with a large Lebanese American population, the expanding conflict in Lebanon has made the crisis even more personal. That anxiety is colliding with pressures at home, including heightened immigration enforcement, a strained economy and rising tensions after a recent attack on a synagogue.

“The community now sees that it could have got worse — and it did get worse,” said Nabih Ayad, founder of the Arab American Civil Rights League. “But the community was just so desperate.”

It is all so simple: leave Israel alone. These same people tended to support Hamas and Hezbollah, what did they think was going to happen? The October 7th attack was the final straw. These same people tend to support the unhinged Islamist 12th Imam regime in Iran

The national spotlight that once fixed on Dearborn during the 2024 election has faded. The mass protests have quieted. But inside mosques, at vigils and around family tables, conversations reveal a city still reeling, and one beginning to reckon with what comes next.

Those “protests” were pro-terrorist groups and anti-Israel/Jews. If they don’t like it here they can go back to their nation of origin. Or the UK, since the government at all levels tends to support Islamists.

Last week, Ayad joined other Arab American leaders for a meeting with The Associated Press. Many of them had been deeply involved in conversations with both Democrat Kamala Harris’ and Trump’s campaigns as each courted their vote during the last presidential race.

“We get this all the time by media, okay? It’s basically, ‘How’d that decision go? How’d that work out for you?’” Ayad said.

Among the nearly dozen leaders — ranging from county commissioner to state lawmakers to business owners — there was wide agreement that life had not improved since Trump was sworn into office.

But there was little regret. Many said Democrats did not offer a viable alternative because Harris, the vice president at the time, did not distance herself enough from President Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

Did they think Trump was going to not support Israel? The guy who finally followed a law passed by Congress and moved the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem?

On a Friday in Dearborn Heights, over a hundred worshippers packed into a mosque from the afternoon’s prayer. An imam opened by talking about the conflict in the Middle East and deriding Trump’s comments that a “whole civilization will die” if Iran did not agree to his terms.

“Political leaders are supposed to build the bridges, not promote scorched earth policies,” the imam said.

Interesting, since all those terrorist groups and Iran specifically talk about wiping Israel from the map and killing all the Jews.

“What we have witnessed is not just another headline. It is not distant. It is not abstract,” Suehaila Amen, a Lebanese American, said at the vigil.

“We are a community in mourning,” she said, “and we have been mourning for a long, long time.”

Why did they think Trump would take their side? Do they think Trump cares about their Islamist views? Trump would deport them in a heartbeat if he could. Do they think Republicans would support their Islamist side? Do they think Republicans want their votes? Why the hell was the US government bringing these people in post-9/11?

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San Fran Chronicle Totally Wants To Make Big Oil Pay (for the poor choices of Dem Govt)

By William Teach April 15, 2026 – 7:15 am

I wonder how many gallons of fossil fuels the San Francisco Chronicle uses for their operations

Climate change is hitting Californians hard. The state should make Big Oil pick up the tab

Climate change is sticking California with a multibillion-dollar bill, and right now everyday families are the ones being asked to pick up the tab through higher taxes, electricity costs and insurance premiums.

Meanwhile, the oil companies whose products are driving the climate crisis, continue to profit while making it worse.

Last week, our state had a golden opportunity to build a fairer system when the California Earthquake Authority released its long awaited report on how to deal with the mounting cost of wildfires in the state — including $76 billion for property and capital costs caused by last year’s fires in Los Angeles. But the agency’s recommendations mostly adjust the share of the damages and costs passed around between utilities, insurers, homeowners and taxpayers, while ignoring the underlying reason wildfire risks continue to grow.

The fire that was pretty much determined to be a combination of arson and incompetence, combined with more incompetence from government as it started and went on, and now the government is trying to force people to sell their land?

Completely absent from the 107-page report is any mention of large oil and gas corporations, which are substantially responsible for the warming climate that is driving California’s wildfires but currently not paying a cent of the financial costs.

California has always been a land where it can get dry and windy, and now you have all the homes, buildings, and poorly maintained infrastructure, along with lots and lots of crazy homeless people and illegal aliens. But, no, it’s totally the fault of a whopping 1.7F increase in global temperatures since 1850.

Like the rest of the world, California is now living with the consequences of their deception. Climate change — driven by fossil fuels — has turned our state into a tinderbox.

Southern California Edison’s equipment may have ignited the Eaton Fire in Altadena, but acres of dry kindling due to abnormally hot and dry weather provided the abundant fuel that helped turn it and the Palisades Fire into the most expensive wildfire disaster in global history. Climate scientists looked at the climatic conditions behind the fires and concluded that fossil fuel-driven climate change made the disaster 35% more likely.

Nice try, cultists! It’s historically hot and dry, and then it flips to too wet. That’s what happens there. But, hey, y’all are more than welcome to give up your own use of fossil fuels. I wonder why you haven’t?

For example, Senate Bill 982, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener, gives the state attorney general the authority to bring lawsuits against Big Oil to recover insurance-related losses associated with their emissions, including premium increases and disaster-related FAIR Plans losses that are being shifted to all California policyholders. Revenue recovered through successful legal action could also be used to fund the “California Safe Homes” program for homeowners to upgrade roofs and landscaping, making property more resilient to wildfire. Right now many everyday Californians are paying these costs out of pocket just to maintain potential access to insurance.

And what happens when Big Oil decides to stop operating in California? Explain how the state will operate.

BTW, the California Earthquake Authority was meant to deal with insurance for earthquakes

In 1995, the California Legislature came up with a workable solution it thought would help revitalize the insurance and housing markets.

It created a basic policy that any insurer could sell to comply with the mandatory offer law. The policy provided homeowners basic coverage for the roof over their heads, eliminating costly extras like swimming pools and patios.

In 1996, the California Legislature went one step further and created the California Earthquake Authority (CEA)—a not-for-profit, publicly managed, privately funded entity. Residential property insurers could offer their own earthquake insurance or become a CEA participating insurance company. Over the years, the CEA policy has added more options, including a retrofit discount for eligible homeowners.

First, why are they doing a report on the fire? Second, you can easily see how this government policy drove up home costs.

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Surprise: Judge Boasberg Smacked Down Over Contempt For Sending Illegals On Deportation Flights

By William Teach April 15, 2026 – 7:00 am

How many times is this guy going to get overturned and smacked down before he is impeached? Of course, Dems in the Senate will never allow that

From the link

A federal judge must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year, a divided appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.

Chief Judge James Boasberg abused his discretion in forging ahead with criminal contempt proceedings stemming from the March 2025 deportation flights, according to the majority opinion by a three-judge panel from U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The ruling is the latest twist in a yearlong legal saga that has became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The White House has portrayed Boasberg as a biased judge who overstepped his authority.

Trump’s administration has a “clear and indisputable” right to the termination of the contempt proceedings, Circuit Judge Neomi Rao wrote in the court’s majority opinion.

That is judicial talk for “you’re an idiot, stop this crap.”

“The legal error at the heart of these criminal contempt proceedings demonstrates why further investigation by the district court is an abuse of discretion,” Rao wrote. “Criminal contempt is available only for the violation of an order that is clear and specific. (Boasberg’s March 2025 order) did not clearly and specifically bar the government from transferring plaintiffs into Salvadoran custody.”

All those illegals had to do was take a flight to Venezuela. Or anywhere outside the U.S. We would have paid for it. Anyhow, you can expect Boasberg and other wacko Democrat judges to not take the hint, and keep going with their TDS and protection for criminal illegal aliens.

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