We’re Saved: Berkeley Bans Use Of Word “Manhole”, Other Gender Specific

By William Teach July 19, 2019 – 10:31 am

Next up will them passing a law fining people for use words like manhole

‘Manholes’ are out as Berkeley removes gender-specific language from city code

A manhole will become a maintenance hole, artisans will replace craftsmen and firefighters and police officers no longer will be identified by their gender in Berkeley’s city code under an ordinance passed by city leaders Tuesday.

The City Council voted unanimously to replace more than two dozen terms often used in the city’s municipal code with gender-neutral words.

“In recent years, broadening societal awareness of transgender and gender nonconforming identities has brought to light the importance of non-binary gender inclusivity,” council member Rigel Robinson wrote in a letter to the council in March.

In recent years, broadening societal awareness of mentally unstable people who shouldn’t be coddled.

Berkeley’s current municipal code contains mostly masculine pronouns, according to a city staff report.

“It is both timely and necessary to make the environment of City Hall and the language of city legislation consistent with the principles of inclusion,” Robinson said.

Oh, and I’m not surprised in the least that the LA Times didn’t open up comments for this article. It would get pretty bad.

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HotCold Take: You Need To (Be Forced) To Give Up Soft Toilet Paper To Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 19, 2019 – 7:17 am

This should play well with the average person who either doesn’t care about Hotcoldwetdry or is just a soft adherent to the beliefs, right? All those people who aren’t even willing to pay $10 a month to stop ‘climate change’ won’t be thrilled (via Twitchy)

Soon enough they’ll merge the old “only use 2 sheets of TP” with “and it has to be harsh!” From the link we learn this is a campaign of the NRDC against super soft Charmin, and is all about the following petition

As a consumer concerned about our environment, I was upset to learn that Charmin toilet paper is still being sourced from 100 percent virgin trees, many of them from Canada’s boreal forest. It’s appalling that no recycled material is used to make Charmin.

Not only does the Canadian boreal forest store vast amounts of carbon, it’s also home to hundreds of Indigenous communities and to the iconic boreal caribou.

It’s unconscionable that majestic, old-growth trees are being cut down to make a product that’s used once, then flushed down the toilet.

Procter & Gamble has the power to change this destructive paradigm on a massive scale by reducing the virgin pulp content in its products and increasing the use of recycled materials. P&G should also involve Indigenous communities in sourcing decisions, act to protect caribou habitat, and take other important steps toward sustainability.

Please move quickly to ensure that your products don’t come at the cost of this globally important ecosystem.

Because if they don’t the “disposal and decomposition emits additional carbon”. Remember the days when Leftists wanted government “out of our bedrooms”? Now they want in every part of our homes, including our bathrooms. If they want to use recycled crappy scratchy rough TP, they are welcome to do so. Otherwise, mind your own beeswax.

Really, most of those trees are replanted. Loggers don’t want to run out of product, but, these Warmists are nuts.

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Democrats To Introduce Equal Justice For (Illegal) Immigrants Act Or Something

By William Teach July 19, 2019 – 7:05 am

They’re super thrilled to use your hard earned money to protect illegal aliens and people attempting to force their way into the United States

A New Bill Would Provide Free Legal Representation For Asylum-Seekers Who Need It

Maryland Rep. Anthony Brown and other Democrats are planning to introduce legislation that would ensure “vulnerable populations” seeking asylum receive legal representation in their immigration cases as President Donald Trump continues to crack down on immigration to the US.

The proposed bill, provided in advance to BuzzFeed News, would guarantee legal counsel for asylum-seekers under age 21 and seniors older than 60, those who identify as LGBTQ, pregnant and nursing individuals, and those with special religious considerations.

The Equal Justice for Immigrants Act of 2019 would also allow asylum applicants to stay in the country throughout their court proceedings. Under the new $720 million proposal, only US Citizenship and Immigration Services employees would screen applicants, reversing a recent Trump administration decision to train Customs and Border Protection agents to conduct credible-fear interviews.

The bill will be unveiled publicly later Tuesday, a day after the administration doubled down on its attempts to restrict immigration by announcing that the US will end asylum protections for people traveling from South and Central America through Mexico trying to enter the United States. The new regulation would require people to seek asylum in the first country they reach outside of their own, barring asylum for any who enter a third country en route to the US.

So, not only is it all about paying for illegals and such, it delves into social justice warrioring. And, yes, Brown definitely wants the citizens to pay for these illegals

A day after the Trump administration announced new plans to end asylum protections for people traveling from South and Central America through Mexico, Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04), a first generation American and former Army JAG Officer, introduced the Equal Justice for Immigrants Act to extend the guaranteed right to counsel to all people in the immigration court system. By striking the “no expense to the government” provision in The Immigration and Nationality Act, the bill would guarantee all indigent persons in the immigration court system the right to request government-appointed counsel to represent them in immigration court proceedings.

You get to pay for people who have violated our laws. Heck, this would apply even to those who have been ordered out by federal immigration judges

“The President’s attacks on America’s immigrant communities are more effective when people in our broken immigration system do not have a guaranteed right to counsel,” said Congressman Anthony Brown. “By providing legal representation, ending the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, and increasing transparency in the adjudication and appeals processes, Congress can equip America’s immigrant communities with a legal defense strong enough to withstand the Trump administration’s most craven, inhumane policies.

In other words, Open Borders and amnesty for all.

The full text of the Equal Justice for Immigrants Act can be found here, and you can read the Congressman’s section-by-section of the bill here.

The weird thing is that there is so little press on this. Look it up. Almost no stories. It’s almost like the Dem controlled media is saying “whoa, whoa, guys, it’s hard enough lying to people that the Democratic Party isn’t open borders when you’re trotting out stuff like this.” On section talks about protecting anyone who is a witness or victim of a crime. First, any illegal or asylum seeker could make that claim without proof. Second, what about American citizens who have been victims of illegal alien crime? Also, the section about representation for unaccompanied minors will just embolden people to send their children on long, arduous, dangerous treks to the U.S. Good job, Anthony!

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Super Warmist Tom Steyer’s Firm Funds Lots Of Coal Plants

By William Teach July 18, 2019 – 4:15 pm

Remember, Steyer has funded Democrat candidates who totally back the authoritarian push for ‘climate change’ laws, rules, and regulations. He’s pretty much running for president on Hotcoldwetdry. But

Revealed: Tom Steyer’s Firm Funded Coal Plants in Australia, China, and Indonesia

Despite marketing himself as an “environmental justice” advocate combating “climate change,” billionaire Democrat presidential candidate Tom Steyer oversaw the funding of coal plants in Australia, China, and Indonesia during his tenure as CEO of hedge fund Farallon Capital Management.

Steyer also bought and sold coal stocks during the Obama administration’s “war on coal,” explained Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior contributor at Breitbart News, in episode four of the Drill Down. (snip)

Schweizer outlined how Steyer stood to financially benefit from coal-related investments and business related to Obama’s energy policies, saying:

As Steyer availed himself of this access [to the Obama administration], his firm was cashing in on purchases of coal-related stocks while the Obama administration was declaring a war on coal.

In 2009, shortly after Obama took office, Farallon took a large stake in Freight Car America, which produced rail cars that transported coal.

Steyer’s hedge fund also purchased over 1 million shares of Massey energy in 2011. A year earlier, Massey had seen 29 miners killed in an accident at a plant in West Virginia.

Steyer supported Obama’s termination of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline development — via presidential veto in 2015 of legislation approving the project — while being invested in a competing Canadian pipeline company, Kinder Morgan.

It’s easy for Steyer to do all this while also pushing Hotcoldwetdry, because he has his money, and any laws, rules, and regs really won’t hurt his lifestyle. He’s yet another in a long line of climahypocrites. Surprised?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are horrendous fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on a real expert obliterating the global warming scam.

Dog: “356 selfies are enough, Karen, let’s go to the park.”

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Bummer: Even Mexicans Are Sick Of Illegal Aliens Invading Their Country

By William Teach July 18, 2019 – 10:30 am

How this got published in the Washington Post is beyond me. Someone must have slipped something by the controlling editors

Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds

Mexicans are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper.

More than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and benefits that should belong to Mexicans. A 55 percent majority supports deporting migrants who travel through Mexico to reach the United States.

Those findings defy the perception that Mexico — a country that has sent millions of its own migrants to the United States, sending billions of dollars in remittances — is sympathetic to the surge of Central Americans. Instead, the data suggests Mexicans have turned against the migrants transiting through their own country, expressing antipathy that would be familiar to many supporters of President Trump north of the border.

It’s an amazing poll

Only 7% want to give them residency. 88% want them gone/temporary residence.

But 51 percent of Mexicans support using the country’s newly formed national guard to combat migration of undocumented immigrants in Mexico, a key provision of the agreement. Just under half of Mexicans have heard about the June agreement, but among those who have, 59 percent favor it while 34 percent are opposed.

They’re finding out exactly what bringing tons of low skill people who need government assistance brings, especially when those same people aren’t coming because they love Mexico, they just want the free money, shelter, clothes, food, healthcare, education, housing, etc.

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Cult Of Climastrology Is Now Attempting To Hijack People With Disabilities

By William Teach July 18, 2019 – 8:14 am

There really is almost nothing that Warmists won’t attempt to hijack to fold in under the banner of ‘climate change’. Now it is people with disabilities, which I haven’t seen before

The U.N. Is Calling for the Inclusion of People With Disabilities in the Climate Change Debate

A line of elderly citizens unable to board a bus to evacuate a senior home. People with limited mobility sitting helpless by the side of the road. Wheelchairs buried in mud after a flood. Scenes and accounts like these became the norm in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history.

Ten years later, a documentary called The Right to Be Rescued showed, through the perspective of survivors, what official reports would also confirm: People with disabilities were disproportionately affected by the disaster.

You can thank the Democratic governments in the area for that. They didn’t seem to have problems in Mississippi and Alabama, which were hit just as hard as New Orleans and Louisiana. They were just run by Republicans and weren’t full of people whose whole lives depended on Government

Over the last few years, stories about people with disabilities being left behind have continued to surface after tropical storms and wildfires in Puerto Rico, Texas, and California. Recently, the United Nations warned that climate crisis disasters are happening at the rate of one per week, urging developing countries to prepare for impact and to develop strategies to protect the most vulnerable populations, such as the poor, the elderly, children, and disabled people.

Last Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council announced a resolutionaddressing for the first time the rights of people with disabilities in connection with climate change. The document urges governments to listen to those who are affectedthe most by environmental changes, by adopting a “comprehensive, integrated, gender-responsive and disability-inclusive approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation policies.”

Anyone with disabilities should think really hard about letting these nutters place their rights and such under the banner of Hotcoldwetdry, because they will always then be secondary to the goals of Hotcoldwetdry. The ‘climate change’ nuts are just using people of disabilities to achieve their own nefarious goals.

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Ilhan Omar Introduces Pro-BDS Resolution In House, Compares It To Boycott Of Nazis

By William Teach July 18, 2019 – 8:01 am

Now, the text of the resolution as submitted doesn’t mention Israel or the BDS movement, but, come on, the lady hates Israel and Jews, and the BDS movement is, at its heart, anti-Semitic, and the way she introduced it should tell you where she’s going with it

Ilhan Omar invokes boycott of Nazi Germany in resolution supporting Israel boycotts

Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution in support of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement saying it was in a long tradition of U.S. boycotts.

“Americans of conscience have a proud history of participating in boycotts to advocate for human rights abroad including … boycotting Nazi Germany from March 1933 to October 1941 in response to the dehumanization of the Jewish people in the lead-up to the Holocaust,” Omar said in the resolution introduced Tuesday.

The 1930s boycott by the U.S. Jews of German goods came during the lead up to Holocaust starting in part with Germans boycotting Jewish businesses.

Omar announced her resolution Tuesday in an interview with Al-Monitor.

“We are introducing a resolution … to really speak about the American values that support and believe in our ability to exercise our first amendment rights in regard to boycotting,” the Minnesota Democrat. “And it is an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement.”

Omar said she plans on introducing the BDS resolution this week around the same time House Democratic leaders plan on voting on a resolution condemning the movement.

A resolution condemning the movement is not the same as stopping the movement, especially when the BDS movement is inherently anti-Jew, just like its cofounder. It really never was about being against the actions of the state of Israel, it was about hating Jews and wanting them eliminated, just like they want Israel eliminated. And, in context, Omar introducing this is just more of her hatred towards Israel and Jews, especially with her like-minded buddy Rashida Tlaib co-sponsoring it. Per the text of the resolution, she’s comparing Israel and her citizens to those of Imperial Japan during WW2, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union (which so many Democrats supported, especially during the Reagan era), and apartheid era South Africa.

(Washington Examiner) Rep. Lee Zeldin criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar for supporting a movement he said was linked to Hamas after she introduced a resolution supporting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.

“My colleague who just spoke used the frequent use of the words ‘honestly’ and ‘honest.’ Let’s just get to a lot of what is left out,” the 39-year-old New York Republican said Wednesday, referring to Omar, who had just given a speech during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing supporting a resolution promoting the BDS movement. “The BDS movment has not distanced itself from Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. BDS supporters individually are not distancing themselves from Hamas either.”

The Jewish representative then went on to explain that a senior Hamas official has called for the death of all Jews last week.

Zeldin continued to criticize the resolution after the hearing in a statement: “[T]here are Members of this House who continue to prop up the BDS movement and blame Israel for all of its challenges. Israel is our best ally in the Middle East; a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats. Shame on Rep. Omar for bringing her hateful twist of this reality today to the committee and this chamber.”

With the introduction of the resolution, will Israel PM Netanyahu allow Omar and Tlaib into Israel?

(Times of Jerusalem) On Wednesday, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar announced that she will be visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories in the coming weeks.

Omar will be accompanied by Rep. Rashida Tlaib. The two freshman congresswomen have become a focal point of the Jewish community after expressing numerous controversial comments regarding Israel and several statements that were deemed anitsemitic.

Israel has a law the grants the government authority to ban pro-BDS activists from entering the country. The law has been used sporadically over the past two years.

A government official told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s National Security Council was reviewing the issue and would offer him recommendations on how to respond.

Most likely, the two will be allowed access to Israel, particularly since they are, for good or bad, they are elected federal Representatives. Also, Netanyahu and his people understand this would get them criticism in the press (which tends to be Israel/Jew hating Progressives). Instead, Israel will allow them to do their thing, and make sure all their actions are on video, especially the anti-Israel, anti-Jew, pro-Palestinian terrorist stuff. It’s the old meme about not interrupting your enemy when they are making a mistake. You can bet the video will show up for viewing.

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Wokeness: Washington Post Claims Moon Landing Was Sexist And Racist

By William Teach July 17, 2019 – 4:14 pm

This is actually in the straight news section, albeit the Lifestyle section. Leftists just can’t help in pooping on everything

Sigh

As NASA worked relentlessly to fulfill John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon by decade’s end, it turned to the nation’s engineers. Many of them were fresh out of school, running the gamut from mechanical to electrical engineers, because that’s mostly what was taught in universities, and almost exclusively to white men.

In archival Apollo 11 photos and footage, it’s a “Where’s Waldo?” exercise to spot a woman or person of color.

“I don’t want to be politically incorrect here, but the workforce, the culture, was white male. In the firing room, we had almost 500 people and we have one female, one black guy and one Hispanic,” says Ike Rigell, 96, chief engineer and deputy director of launch vehicle operations at the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida. “That was the culture.”

That’s how it opens. After that, a long chunk has nothing to do with the opening, but eventually moves on to sexism, handsy people, wage disparities, and all the rest.

It was a different time, different era, so attempting to place modern day standards is silly. But, then, this is Wokeness.

Of course, it’s all fake, because the moon landings never happened, right?

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RNC Releases Ad Using The Democrats Own Words

By William Teach July 17, 2019 – 1:24 pm

Brutal

Again, this is the type of thing Republicans have been begging for for decades, but especially since the Bush 43 years. Democrats have been free to be as nasty as they want, while Republicans were just “get along go along.” Even Bush 43 himself. Somewhere back in the archives is a post about me refusing to continue to defend him and his administration when they wouldn’t defend themselves. Politics is a verbal sparring sport (which includes some writing), and you cannot always take the high road. Mitt Romney (who’s attacking Trump right now) tried that in 2012: how’d that work out? So did John McCain. If you won’t forcefully stand for your beliefs, why should anyone believe you?

(Fox News) A relative handful of Republicans, meanwhile, spoke out against the president’s attacks on the four women:

Mitt Romney: “Destructive, demeaning and disunifying.” Lisa Murkowski: “There is no excuse for the president’s spiteful comments–they were absolutely unacceptable and this needs to stop.” Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, chided Trump for “unacceptable personal attacks and racially charged language.”

That’s from a Howie Kurtz article which has a lot more in it with Republicans defending, but, let it be noted, these same Republicans above rarely condemn the language of the Democrats. How does that help?

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