AOC, Kamala Harris Release A Climate Equity Plan Or Something

By William Teach July 30, 2019 – 7:16 am

It’s almost like this whole ‘climate change’ meme has nothing to do with science and everything to do with their authoritarian policies

I wonder if AOC will trot out some apoplexy if it actually gets a vote in the Senate, thinking it is HER legislation, forgetting about Harris, much like she did with the Green New Deal. Oh, and she still hasn’t gotten around to demanding a vote on the GND in the House.

(NY Times) Senator Kamala Harris of California and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on Monday unveiled legislation aimed at ensuring that climate change plans benefit low-income communities. They described the measure as a key element of the Democrats’ Green New Deal.

The effort comes as Ms. Harris, who is running for president, and other Democratic candidates prepare for a set of debates in Detroit this week. Racial and economic disparities on issues ranging from housing to education are expected to take center stage.

The new proposal, titled the Climate Equity Act, provides a view of Ms. Harris’s environmental priorities. Under the plan, any environmental regulation or legislation would be rated based on its impact on low-income communities, which are disproportionately affected by climate change because they are often in flood zones, near highways or power plants, or adjacent to polluted lands known as brownfields.

The rating system would be modeled after the Congressional Budget Office score, which measures the costs of every major piece of legislation.

Who here thinks that might not work out as well as thought, because hardcore enviroweenie and climate change legislation and rules tend to hurt the poor more than rich people like Kamala? Of course, the devil’s in the details, and you know something shady is going on

The bill would also establish an independent Office of Climate and Environmental Justice Accountability to represent vulnerable communities, and create a position of senior adviser on climate justice at “all relevant agencies.”

Oh, good, more Big Government here to help. Just like in Baltimore!

“One of the tenets of the Green New Deal is prioritizing vulnerable communities,” (AOC) said. “We have to talk about Flint. We have to talk about West Virginia. We have to talk about the Bronx and we have to talk about the ways climate change manifests in our lives.”

None of those have anything to do with ‘climate change’, particularly Flint’s water issues from bad pipes. Of course, they haven’t actually introduced it in a meaningful way, which would be introducing it in the House and Senate

(Refinery29) Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled a draft of their new climate justice legislation on Monday, the goal of which is to ensure that any measure to fight climate change and its effects benefits low-income communities and other vulnerable populations.

The Climate Equity Act, which the two Democrats said will support the Green New Deal, will be formally introduced in the fall and constituents can offer feedback on the draft until then. “Climate change represents not only the greatest threat to our species, but one of our greatest economic opportunities,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement provided to Refinery29. “The Climate Equity Act ensures that as we go forward to solve our climate crisis, we are focusing on communities most impacted by the crisis and the transition to renewable energy.”

It’s so important that they’ll hold off till the fall. And, in case you missed it

Kamala Harris and AOC Just Injected Environmental Justice Into the 2020 Race

So, politics, not science. Meanwhile

Swing-state households would lose at least $70G within first year of Green New Deal, study finds

All hail the Green New Deal.

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On Day Three, Media Still Throwing Out “Racist”, But Not Investigating Baltimore

By William Teach July 30, 2019 – 6:59 am

This is the NY Times from the NY Times front page (Internet), both opinion and “straight” news

Well, sure they know how to respond. They scream “racist!!!!” while ignoring the actual problems in their cities. Like the smell of rot and garbage and rats.

Trump Widens War on His Black Critics
In a third straight day of broadsides against black figures, President Trump denounced the Rev. Al Sharpton as “a con man” who “Hates Whites & Cops.”
To defend himself, Mr. Trump enlisted a couple of his reliable African-American supporters.

Interesting. All the NY Times sees is the color of people’s skin, yet, essentially calls the black Trump supporters Uncle Tom’s. I wonder what the NY Times says about the NY Times saying back in March that “Baltimore’s hell is one “few American cities have seen in years.””

Obviously, other papers and news outlets are doing their best. Here’s the Washington Post, which is slightly more subtle

Are any media folks going to Baltimore to investigate?

Pretty much only alternative media (see the whole thread here).

Sadly, parts of Baltimore are rat and garbage infested blights. Does anyone hear the media truly complaining about the rats, feces, garbage, used drug needles, increase in TB and other diseases, homelessness, etc, in Democrat run cities like Los Angeles, Baltimore, San Francisco, Portland, etc? Seriously, Democrats are defending/deflcting those things. I guess because they care?

STUDY: BALTIMORE’S MURDER RATE OUTPACES CENTRAL AMERICA’S MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRIES

How many reporters will be going to Cummings’ district in Baltimore to investigate in person? So far, zero.

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Who Wants To Know What The Next Vital Step For Solving ‘Climate Change’ Is?

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 4:03 pm

If your first thought was “members of the Cult of Climastrology giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their lives carbon neutral”, silly you

The Vital Next Step In Fighting Climate Change

Climate change is the crisis of our time. As the human race sleepwalks its way towards a planetary calamity, there is a growing recognition of the need for a “moonshot” aimed at addressing the greatest existential challenge we have ever faced. The immediate problem is that a solid technical basis for such a moonshot does not yet exist. There is no audacious U.S. national plan in place to deal with climate change, quite apart from what other countries must do.

What we must now do is to create a fully empowered national climate change agency, devoted exclusively to climate change, with a mandate to prepare the carefully thought-through technical basis for an audacious action plan and with the political clout to make an impact.

Warmist love their new talking point of the need for a moonshot, eh? It’s showing up all over. Just today, The Nation is stating that the Green New Deal, which co-author Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refuses to demand a vote on, is this generation’s moonshot.

Funny thing about that, I don’t remember the creation of NASA and everything associated with putting a man on the moon creating a massive federal bureaucracy in charge of finding ways to increase our taxes, skyrocketing out cost of living, limiting our freedom and choice, restricting our ability to travel, and giving Los Federales control over our energy sector and economy.

It is really interesting, and, by interesting, I mean completely unexpected from these Big Government folks, that Warmists immediately go to giving the federal government even more power. It’s like this is all really about Modern Socialist politics.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible fossil fueled vehicle making the air hazy, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Adrienne’s Corner, with a post on a Trump ad being shadow-banned.

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Uh Oh: The Peace Corps Is Now Considered To Be “White Saviorism”

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 10:36 am

“Hey, we’ve run out of things to call racist and white privilege.”

“Huh, that’s too bad. So, I was reading a story on the Peace Corps..”

“Stop, that’s it! The Peace Corps!”

Peace Corps’s complicated relationship with the ‘white savior’ complex

A serious “white saviorism” reckoning is afoot. Internet searches for “white savior” have grown steadily over the past decade, following Teju Cole’s searing critique, “The White-Savior Industrial Complex,” in 2012. Commentators such as Cole often target archetypal white saviors — missionaries, voluntourists, celebrities — who make short-term trips to “help.” Also included in the fray are “poverty porn” journalists. Until now, government organizations such as the Peace Corps mostly have been spared. That’s starting to change.

As a former Peace Corps teacher in Malawi, I believe that saviorism is real, pervasive and toxic. The longstanding power imbalance between the Global North and South, including bastions of white privilege in the former and atrocities of colonialism in the latter, makes the white variety of saviorism especially pernicious. I applaud nonprofits such as No White Saviors and the Instagram account Barbie Savior for sparking a long overdue discussion about “decolonizing missions and development work.” While their screeds are difficult to hear, they resonate deep within us and our institutions.

Peace Corps, an institution I hold dear, exhibits hallmarks of saviorism. A prime example is the motto: “Make the most of your world.” The message is clear: The world is yours, go forth and fix it. In fairness, the consultants who likely concocted this messaging faux pas are hired to craft sound bites that resonate. And marketers are acutely aware of how a $173 billion voluntourism industry, which competes with Peace Corps for recruits, has turned white savior mythology into a thriving business.

So, if I’m getting this right, the uber-compassionate folks who join the Peace Corps, and, I think I’m safe in making the generalization that most vote Democrat, are really just white knighting racists. Seriously, this is Wokeness on steroids. Of course, if we got rid of the Peace Corps, that would then be called raaaaacist. There’s just no winning with these nutballs

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Excitable Jay Inslee Says ‘Climate Change’ Is A Winning Issue Or Something

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 8:13 am

Jay Inslee, currently polling at 0.0% (Real Clear Politics doesn’t even mention him, and CNN said his campaign is pretty much over), has made his campaign all about anthropogenic climate change. And, despite that 0.0%, he says it’s a winning issue in a NY Times op-ed

I’ve heard it my whole career, from pundits, special interests and even political consultants: Just shut up about climate change if you want to be elected. They set up a false dichotomy between the economy and the environment, saying you can’t fight for good jobs and for clean air.

That was bad advice then, and it’s even worse advice now. There is a change happening: Americans really feel climate change in their daily lives — and they are demanding leadership from their politicians like never before.

In my campaign, I’ve seen how climate change — and the coal, oil and gas industries fueling it — have become personal problems for many families.

As he takes lots of fossil fueled travel around the country to push an issue that he really couldn’t get passed multiple times in referendums in the state of Washington, for which he is governor.

The science is clear: We must take major action to reduce carbon pollution in the next decade, or our communities and our children’s lives will suffer dramatic and irreparable harm. The next president will choose whether America leads the world in building a clean energy economy, or we leave our communities facing turmoil and destruction. Climate change cost the United States economy at least $240 billion per year during the past decade, and that figure is projected to rise to $360 billion per year in the coming 10 years. We cannot afford the costs of inaction.

They sure felt like inaction was perfectly fine in his state, eh?

So it is time for Democrats to ignore the standard inside-the-Beltway thinking that talking about the environment risks electoral defeat. The politics of climate change have changed. And the clearest proof point comes from an unlikely source: President Donald Trump himself.

If you’re guessing this is also an anti-Trump rant, you’d be correct.

The days of Democratic fear should end now: We’re not going to win on climate by running the same duck-and-cover campaigns of the past, nor by offering “middle-ground” approaches that fail to confront this challenge. More than ever, Americans want bold solutions to the climate crisis. Democrats can beat Donald Trump if we elect a nominee who will challenge him on this issue.

My candidacy is unique: No other presidential candidate has said that defeating climate change must be our nation’s top priority. My plan will launch a national mobilization to move America to 100 percent clean energy, create eight million jobs, end our addiction to fossil fuels, ensure a just economic transition for fossil fuel workers, assist the communities who are being hit worst by this crisis, and commit to a more ambitious Paris climate agreement.

Zero point zero percent. A lot of people may say they care, may say they are concerned, but, that’s strictly theory. In practice, most do not care, and, again, most aren’t willing to spend more than $10 a month on Hotcoldwetdry.

We will defeat Donald Trump by attacking his failures on climate change, not by running from the issue.

Zero point zero.

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Baltimore Sun: Trump’s Comments On Rats And Filth Are Mean. Also Baltimore Sun: City Is Full Of Rats And Filth

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 7:55 am

By now you’ve surely heard about Trump taking a shot at Rep Elijah Cummings, noting that his portion of district in Baltimore is pretty bad. Rather than addressing the actual substance of the tweet (which, let’s be honest, is meant to drive Liberals insane), the Usual Characters went with claiming raaaaacism. Which is interesting, since the first thing they think of is skin color. Doesn’t that make them…..racists? Anyhow, how’d the Baltimore Sun cover it? (via Twitchy)

They’ve also noted that Trump was right about Baltimore’s problems back in 2016, and mapped Baltimore’s rat hot spots last August. But, see, now

Better to have a few rats than to be one

In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Maryland’s 7th congressional district on Saturday morning. Here are the key phrases: “no human being would want to live there,” it is a “very dangerous & filthy place,” “Worst in the USA” and, our personal favorite: It is a “rat and rodent infested mess.” He wasn’t really speaking of the 7th as a whole. He failed to mention Ellicott City, for example, or Baldwin or Monkton or Prettyboy, all of which are contained in the sprawling yet oddly-shaped district that runs from western Howard County to southern Harford County. No, Donald Trump’s wrath was directed at Baltimore and specifically at Rep. Elijah Cummings, the 68-year-old son of a former South Carolina sharecropper who has represented the district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996.

In pointing to the 7th, the president wasn’t hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nation’s leading medical center. He wasn’t conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasn’t about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasn’t about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average. No, he was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments. It was only surprising that there wasn’t room for a few classic phrases like “you people” or “welfare queens” or “crime-ridden ghettos” or a suggestion that the congressman “go back” to where he came from.

So, see, some equivocation and obfuscation. Fort McHenry isn’t in the 7th. John Hopkins is just barely outside of it. SSA? Depends on which one they’re talking about. But there is that assault on a Muslim city police department employee, which looks to have occurred within the 7th, and made the same editorial board upset.

Oh, and hey, boosters are going to launch a We Are Baltimore website after Trump’s attack! They might want to forget some information

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Calgary Warmists Work Through Their Eco-Grief Or Something

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 3:36 pm

They could solve their crazy by giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their lives carbon neutral, as well as giving up a goodly chunk of their money to The Government

‘We Need This’: Calgarians Work Through Eco-Grief Together

Last summer, like so many others around the world, Calgarian Laura Keeth-Rowledge became preoccupied by coverage of a mother whale pushing her dead baby through the ocean for 17 days.

“I was sobbing, in tears,” she said. “I couldn’t function.” For her, it was a devastating reminder of the existential threat facing the planet, its creatures and human society.

Between last October’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report calling for urgent action to avoid the unthinkable, and the subsequent Environment and Climate Change Canada study finding the country is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, many Calgarians are questioning what climate action can and should look like—and how to work through it all.

Grief can be a starting point.

In 2017, Keeth-Rowledge started hosting a bi-monthly Eco-Grief Support Circle in her home—a small, intimate gathering. “As climate realities become more dire, people need to know how to ground, and how to grieve,” Keeth-Rowledge said.

Of course, one the problems here is that these nuts are conflating the environment with a tiny increase in global temperatures, something that has happened many times during just the Holocene alone. This is what’s called negative self talk, in which you make yourself nuts with negativity that really doesn’t exist. And the nuts spread it out amongst themselves, making each other worse.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon mode of transportation

The blog of the day is Neo-Neocon, with a post on skee-ball cheats.

It’s rollerblading week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 9:21 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the lizards are hanging on my deck, and someone is smoking some pig nearby. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. PJ Media covers CNN thinking the word infested is raaaaacist when Trump says it
  2. Althouse discusses the purity racquet in the Democratic party
  3. Flopping Aces has proof that Rep. Cummings’ district is, in fact, a sh*thole
  4. Climate Change Dispatch notes AOC’s ploy to mainstream eco-fascism
  5. Jo Nova discusses “hyperwarming weirdness” and the Pause
  6. No Tricks Zone notes CO2 going up in Europe due to the things they are doing to bring it down
  7. Weasel Zippers covers Dem politicians discussing Baltimore’s crime problem (which was OK)
  8. The Right Scoop features Rand Paul telling Ilhan Omar to go back to Somalia so she can be grateful to the U.S.
  9. The People’s Cube notes the Jihad Squad hating America
  10. The Lid discusses kids being taught hate and violence in Chicago
  11. The First Street Journal has a newspaper story from 2025
  12. The Daley Gator notes that Socialism sucks the life from everything
  13. The Crawdad Hole notes that “not exonerated” means “innocent”
  14. The American Conservative discusses insane Jessica Yaniv being the Dem party poster “gal”
  15. And last, but not least, Powerline has this week in pictures, Mueller Time edition

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). 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

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?

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