Surprise: Biden Admin Knew About The Drones, Were For “Research Purposes”

By William Teach January 29, 2025 – 6:45 am

Well, this is wild

‘This was not the enemy’: Trump White House says New Jersey drones authorized by FAA

Mysterious drones that hovered over parts of New Jersey late last year were authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration to be flown for research and other purposes and did not pose a national security threat, the White House said Tuesday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said many of the drones spotted over New Jersey were also flown by hobbyists for recreational purposes.

“In time, it got worse because of curiosity. This was not the enemy,” Leavitt said at the top of her first formal press briefing during which she delivered an update she said came directly from President Donald Trump.

In December, before he was sworn in as president, Trump called for the public to “shoot down” the drones unless the federal government could inform the public on who was controlling them. Without evidence, Trump accused former President Joe Biden of withholding information about the drones from the public.

Well, guess what? Trump was 100 correct! Surprise! Pretty much everyone knew that the American people were not being told the truth. But, seriously, this was a big nothingburger that would have been so, so, so easy to tell the People the truth about. How hard would it have been to just say “all those big drones are ours and completely authorized, don’t worry about it. Enjoy watching them!” But, instead, what we got was obfuscation, misdirection, lying, gaslighting, telling the American people they were worry warts and conspiracy theorists.

And Trump was right. We were all right. You know, I wonder, did Biden do this on purpose? Because it made the Biden administration look really bad, and, guess who was a part of the Biden admin? That’s right, Kamala Harris. Which made Trump look good as he was standing up for the American people. Biden really did want Kamala to lose.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 28, 2025 – 5:06 pm

…is horrible, world killing beer full of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on playing hooky on the taxpayer dime (adjusted for Bidenflation).

Sorry, totally spaced setting it up.

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Doomsday Clock Moved Due To Global Boiling, Other Things

By William Teach January 28, 2025 – 3:48 pm

Of course, this is really more about what happened in 2024, primarily Biden’s bad policies

‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, AI

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is from ending — citing threats that include climate change, proliferation of nuclear weapons, instability in the Middle East, the threat of pandemics and incorporation of artificial intelligence in military operations.

The clock had stood at 90 seconds to midnight for the past two years and “when you are at this precipice, the one thing you don’t want to do is take a step forward,” said Daniel Holz, chair of the group’s science and security board.

An advocacy group. In other words, activists.

The group said it’s concerned about cooperation between countries such as North Korea, Russia and China in developing nuclear programs. Russia President Vladimir Putin has also talked about using nuclear weapons in his war against Ukraine.

“A lot of the rhetoric is very disturbing,” Holz said. “There is this growing sense that … some nation might end up using nuclear weapons, and that’s terrifying.”

Well, at least they haven’t run with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yet.

Oh, and nutbags

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Google To Use Gulf Of America, Mt. McKinley On Updated Maps

By William Teach January 28, 2025 – 10:30 am

Pretty wild how so many are simply complying with the Trump administration, trying to get along, rather than acting as The Unhinged Resistance

Google to change map names for Gulf of Mexico and Denali when US updates them based on Trump order

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps.

The company said Monday that it will only make changes when the government updates its official listings for the body of water and the mountain.

After taking office, President Donald Trump ordered that the water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba be renamed to the Gulf of America. He also ordered America’s highest mountain peak be changed back to Mt. McKinley.

“We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google said in a post on X.

The company said that Maps will reflect any updates to the Geographic Names Information System, a database of more than 1 million geographic features in the United States.

“When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America,” Google said.

What a difference 4 years makes. In 2017 this kind of change would have seen Google proclaiming that they would never make the changes, and there would be tons of Google employees taking to social media with freakout/crying videos. Woke and DEI and Social Justice were all the rage. Expressing Trump Derangement Syndrome was expected from companies. Being Resistant was expected. Now? Just companies being companies, doing the job of companies, particularly after the last four years of the idiocy of the Biden-Harris admin.

BTW, just to be clear, I’m not a big fan of the name change back to McKinley. Trump should have left it Denali, let the Native Alaskans have their mountain name. Oh, and, consider

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PRC Attempting Make It Easier For People And Insurance Companies To Sue Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach January 28, 2025 – 7:15 am

This is more of the Blame Shifting by the state for the disastrous policies of the state, county, and city which led to the horrible wildfires, and, yet, the people who are looking to pass it aren’t giving up their own use of fossil fuels, nor are most of the Comrades and insurance companies

California lawmaker seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change-related damage

A California state senator said Monday that he wants to give homeowners and insurers the ability to sue oil and gas companies when a disaster caused by climate change damages their property.

The bill, called the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act, seeks to give people injured by climate disasters a private right of action to recover their losses from oil and gas companies. State Senator Scott Wiener said those companies have misled people about the harm caused by their products.

Senate Bill 222 also would provide insurers with a direct cause of action against oil and gas companies. They could recover losses resulting from climate impacts and rising costs looming over the insurance market and the state’s FAIR Plan.

“These disasters happen and then who pays for them?” said Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, standing Monday outside the state Capitol. “It’s us, the taxpayers, because of course we step in to help people rebuild, as we should.”

Of course it would be super-freak Scott Weiner, but, then, it could be any one of the moonbats in the People’s Republik Of California general assembly. What’s the chance this passes? I’d give it 88%, and that it passes within a couple months. At what point do fossil fuels companies just say “no mas!” and end their services in the PRC? Would be really tough to get goods in and out of the state. All those cargo ships and trucks. How do they run the trains? What happens with the huge number of airports? How do the celebs fly their private jets?

If insurance companies and the FAIR Plan can recoup their losses caused by climate disasters from oil and gas companies deemed responsible for those damages, the insurance market will stabilize and help with California’s high insurance costs, Wiener said in a statement.

Let’s say it works: the cost of fuel will skyrocket, at best, leading to the cost of most things going up. At worst, the companies decided they cannot afford to operate, from small convenience stores and gas stations up to the big companies. It would get really ugly, but, hey, the Comrades keep voting for Democrats, so, they will only have themselves to blame.

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ICE Arrests Almost 1,000 Illegals In One Day

By William Teach January 28, 2025 – 7:00 am

Amazing what can happen when ICE is allowed to do their job, eh?

ICE arrests nearly 1,000 illegal aliens during sixth day of Trump administration

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made nearly 1,000 arrests on Sunday, with lots of activity taking place in the southeastern United States, according to various ICE field offices.

The agency said law enforcement officers arrested 956 people and lodged 554 detainers, which means “there’s probable cause to believe that the person is removable from the United States under federal immigration law.”

The ICE field office in Miami, Florida, shared the details behind five of the illegal aliens arrested – three in Florida and two in Puerto Rico.

The two arrested in Puerto Rico were residents of the Dominican Republic, and one was charged with domestic violence while the other was charged with driving under the influence of liquor.

A Nicaraguan national was arrested at the Broward County Jail for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon, discharging a firearm in public and driving with a suspended license.

And plenty more bad people. The professionals at ICE were told not to do their job, for the most part, under the Biden-Harris admin, not being allowed to go get the bad guys, but, still surely did the tracking, because they are find them fast.

That was the 26th. The 27th has not made the news yet, and

Meanwhile

Migrant advocates in New York City describe fear amid immigration crackdown: ‘We are scared’

Social service organizations in New York City are working to educate local migrants about their rights, as ICE raids target major cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Sarahi Marquez, 33, stood before a room full of news cameras Monday afternoon to share the new level of fear that surrounds the customers and employees at her restaurant and bakery on Staten Island, a thriving 11-year-old business run by a college graduate and DACA recipient who left Mexico with her family and arrived in the U.S. at the tender age of six.

“We are scared. We are facing a moment where we feel as though we’re not safe,” Marquez said.

They should be. They are here illegally. Of course, if they haven’t broken any other laws besides entering the U.S. illegally, they shouldn’t worry for the time being. But, hey, there’s always that chance they get picked up as a by product of hanging with other illegals are murderers, rapists, child abusers, etc.

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Doom Today: Cult Study Prognosticates 2.3 Million More Hotcoldwetdry Deaths By 2099

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 3:25 pm

I’d ask who gets fired when this doesn’t happened, but, first, no one will remember this crystal ball reading in 2099, and, second, the cult will simply link all deaths to the weather, just like they did with Wuhan Flu. The talking point went out

Climate study warns of 2.3m more temperature-related deaths in Europe by 2099

Rising deaths from extreme heat will “far exceed” reductions in numbers dying from cold temperatures in Europe with climate change, researchers suggest.

A study modelling the change in deaths related to high and low temperatures found that there could be more than 2.3 million excess deaths across hundreds of European cities by the end of the century if urgent action is not taken to cut emissions.

While efforts to adapt cities to rising temperatures would not be enough to curb increased health risks due to exposure to heat, up to 70% of the excess deaths could be avoided if climate change was limited, the researchers said.

And

Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds

Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more people in Europe by the end of the century, a study has found, with the lives lost to stronger heat projected to outnumber those saved from milder cold.

The researchers estimated an extra 8,000 people would die each year as a result of “suboptimal temperatures” even under the most optimistic scenario for cutting planet-heating pollution. The hottest plausible scenario they considered showed a net increase of 80,000 temperature-related deaths a year.

The findings challenge an argument popular among those who say global heating is good for society because fewer people will die from cold weather.

Challenge! How did people do during the previous warm periods, which were warmer? This is what a cult study looks like.

Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms

Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says.

Currently, cold temperatures kill more people in Europe than heat by large margins. But a team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine used climate simulations of different scenarios and looked at death rates in 854 cities. They found as it warms cold deaths lessen slowly, but heat deaths soar rapidly.

Yeah, those cult in/cult out computer models. These are just 3 of the dozens of articles all pushing the same fearmongering cult study. There’s zero journalistic integrity in questioning the veracity of the study, the conclusions, and that it reads as if written by activist group, not a group of scientists following the Scientific Method.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon rise up and swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on the Trump admin locating 80K of the 320K missing migrant kinds from under Biden.

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Trump Floats Gazans Going To Egypt And Jordan, Immediately Rejected

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 10:30 am

Sometimes you just have to throw some ideas against the wall

Trump wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Here’s why the idea is rejected

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip was met with a hard “no” Sunday from the two U.S. allies along with the Palestinians themselves, who fear Israel would never allow them to return.

Trump floated the idea on Saturday, saying he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to take in Gaza’s now largely homeless population, so that “we just clean out that whole thing.” He added that resettling most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million could be temporary or long term.

“It’s literally a demolition site right now,” Trump said, referring to the vast destruction caused by Israel’s 15-month war with Hamas, now paused by a fragile ceasefire.

“I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” Trump said.

Hamas and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority condemned the idea. Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, told journalists that his country’s rejection of the proposed transfer of Palestinians was “firm and unwavering.”

Egypt, Jordan, and Israel have not responded, though, both Egypt and Jordan have said not to taking Gazans in early in the war. And, pretty much for 50+ years. Because they do not want them. They are a big problem. They create instability and violence. There’s a reason Egypt built a big-ass wall on the border between Gaza and Egypt with all sorts of security.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has also warned of the security implications of transferring large numbers of Palestinians to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, bordering Gaza.

Hamas and other militant groups are deeply rooted in Palestinian society and are likely to move with the refugees, which would mean that future wars would be fought on Egyptian soil. That could unravel the historic Camp David peace treaty, a cornerstone of regional stability.

Exactly. But, you know, it was an idea. Sometimes ideas have to be thrown out there. How about the Gazans moving to an island in the Adriatic Sea? There are tons of them, certainly there is one big enough that is not settled. Oh, right, they want to be close to Israel so they can continue trying to kill Jews.

Or, how about the Gazans just stop being violent? Stop backing terrorist groups. Stop allowing Iran to fund it. Stop turning water pipes into rockets. Just. Stop.

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Your Fault: 242 Children Missed School From Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

Well, this is a new one, but, the doomsday cult is always looking for new angles to try and get government to control people’s lives. But, hey, just wait till you get deep into the article.

Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year

Climate change is having a major impact on students around the world. Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year—roughly one in seven students, the UN children’s agency reported Thursday, deploring what it said was an “overlooked” aspect of the climate crisis.

Heat waves had the biggest impact, the report showed, as UNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell warned children are “more vulnerable” to extreme weather.

“They heat up faster, they sweat less efficiently, and cool down more slowly than adults,” she said in a statement.

“Children cannot concentrate in classrooms that offer no respite from sweltering heat, and they cannot get to school if the path is flooded, or if schools are washed away.”

Human activity, including the unrestricted burning of fossil fuels over decades, has warmed the planet and changed weather patterns.

So, a bunch of kids here in North Carolina missed school because the roads were icy and it was very cold (for here) last week: is that from fossil fueled ‘climate change’?

If the emission of greenhouse gases continues on its current trajectory, eight times as many children will be exposed to heat waves in 2050 as in 2000, according to UNICEF projections.

More than three times as many would be exposed to extreme floods and 1.7 times more to wildfires, the projections showed.

And what if this doesn’t happen? Who gets fired for the scaremongering? Say, how much school did kids miss during the Little Ice Age?

Beyond the immediate impacts, UNICEF voiced fears that the damage could increase the risk of some children—girls in particular—dropping out of school altogether.

How about the girls that are forbidden to go to school in Islamist countries?

Already, some two-thirds of children around the world cannot read with comprehension by age 10, it said, adding: “Climate hazards are exacerbating this reality.”

Oh, FFS, now they’re blaming crappy teaching on Hotcoldwetdry.

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