White House Says It’s Perfectly Fine For Brandon To Take Almost Every Weekend Off Despite Inflation

By William Teach September 10, 2022 – 7:00 am

Meanwhile, lots of Americans are back to staycations, weekends vs taking full week, or just not taking anything

Reporter Presses Jean-Pierre On Biden Taking Vacations As Americans Struggle With Inflation

A reporter pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Thursday on the president taking vacations while ordinary Americans struggle with inflation.

The reporter cited a Gallup poll finding that 24% of Americans have changed their spending habits and 17% travel less or have canceled their vacations due to inflation. The poll surveyed 1,570 adults between Aug. 1-22 with a 3% margin of error.

The poll prompted the reporter to ask if President Joe Biden is considering any spending cuts for the administration or himself. “17% of Americans have, according to this Gallup poll, have canceled vacations or traveled less,” the reporter said. “The president’s been to his beach house six times this year. He’s been to North and South Carolina on vacation. Has the president himself considered personally reducing his spending because of inflation or have the administration reduced spending?”

I haven’t differentiated his trips to Delaware between his regular house and beach house, but, he’s been to Delaware 21 times, including this weekend, and 7 to Camp David, this year alone. Eight times elsewhere.

Jean-Pierre argued that the president’s vacation in South Carolina is “not unusual” since he has a right to spend time with his family.

“The times that the president has gone to Delaware, not including and we were very clear when he went to South Carolina in August and Rehoboth he was going to go spend time with his family which every president does. That is not unusual, that is not uncommon to do and the president has a right to spend time with his family just like every other American across the country,” the press secretary said. “So that was that piece of what occurred in August.”

In other words, a bullshit answer. I love going to the mountains and Outer Banks, but, right now the hotel costs are double what they usually are (the Wilmington area is always freaking expensive). How many others are holding off right now because of Bidenflation? Does everyone else take a fossil fueled trip away from home almost every single weekend? Is his family there every weekend, or just him and Jill? It is actually uncommon for a president to be away from the White House almost every weekend. Especially when there are things going on like big inflation causing lots of problems for middle and working class Americans.

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Doom: Rising Seas To Cause $34 Billion In Damage Within 30 Years

By William Teach September 9, 2022 – 4:07 pm

I blame you for refusing to become a cult member

Rising seas fueled by climate change to swamp $34B in US real estate in just 30 years, analysis finds

Higher high tides, supercharged by rising sea levels, could flood all or parts of an estimated $34 billion worth of real estate along the nation’s coasts within just 30 years, a new report concludes.

Within the span of a 30-year mortgage, as many as 64,000 buildings and roughly 637,000 properties along the ocean and its connecting waterways could be at least partially below the tidal boundary level, the nonprofit Climate Central stated in a report released Thursday morning.

Seas are forecast to rise from 8 inches to 23 inches along the nation’s coasts by 2050, with the higher increases along the northern Gulf Coast and mid-Atlantic. As the oceans rise, every inch of additional water is expected to move farther inland making flood events worse and putting more properties at risk.

That’s a hell of a spread of inches, eh? Seas rose just 8 inches in the 20th Century, which is exactly average for a Holocene century. They are not accelerating. When you do not get 8-23 by 2050, who pays the price for this bit of doom-mongering? Who gets punished for publishing this with zero skepticism?

More than 48,000 properties could be entirely below the high tide lines by 2050, mostly in Louisiana, Florida and Texas.

Nearly 300,000 buildings could be at least partially under water by 2100. The value of  buildings and properties below the high water level could rise to $108 billion, not including some 90 counties where the nonprofit couldn’t get tax assessor data.  (big snip)

The report’s conclusions aren’t meant to frighten or discourage people, Bain said. He hopes they give people information to influence outcomes and push officials at every level of government to begin working together now to adopt needed laws and regulations.

Right, right, not frighten, just get Government to mandate policies.

Unsurprisingly, there are lots and lots of doomy stories, like at the Washington Post

Rising seas could swallow millions of U.S. acres within decades

The water is coming.

There’s no longer much doubt about that, as scientists have increasingly documented how the warming of the planet has accelerated sea level rise along coasts around the world.

But an analysis published Thursday by the research nonprofit Climate Central reveals a troubling dimension of the economic toll that could unfold in the United States, as hundreds of thousands of homes, offices and other privately owned properties slip below swelling tide lines over the next few decades.

It’s an analysis by a far left cult organization with a lot of skin in the game, based on computer models, not reality.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 9, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible suburban pool made with Evil concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on yet another failed climate cult prognostication.

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DOJ Upset Over Special Master Ruling, Files Intent To Appeal

By William Teach September 9, 2022 – 10:30 am

Well, nothing that wasn’t expected, because why would the Department of Justice want to be transparent and accountable?

DOJ appeals special master ruling in Trump documents probe

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a notice of intent to appeal a ruling by a judge granting former President Trump’s request for a special master, asking the judge to partially stay a ruling blocking them from accessing the classified materials seized during a search of his home.

“Without a stay, the government and public also will suffer irreparable harm from the undue delay to the criminal investigation,” the DOJ writes in its filing.

“Any delay poses significant concerns in the context of an investigation into the mishandling of classified records.”

The motion for a partial stay would allow the government to continue its review of the classified records recovered from Trump’s home, removing from review by a yet-to-be-appointed third-party special master some 100 documents of roughly 10,000 taken in the Aug. 8 search.

In case they’ve forgotten, citizens, even Donald Trump, have rights. If there’s a criminal probe, then the DOJ needs to say what it is. If it was so important, why did they wait months and months to ask for the search warrant, and why did it take them days to do the search after the extremely broad warrant was given? If it was about the documents, why did they search Melania’s wardrobe and Barron’s bedroom? Why did they take documents not related to those they knew were in that storage area, like tax documents, private communications with his lawyers, and his passports?

But the bulk of the argument for a partial stay of her ruling granting a special master relies on the impact her decision could have on national security.

Cannon allowed an intelligence community-led review of the documents to continue so that national security leaders could work to mitigate any fallout from the mishandling of records.

How so? They were simply documents. Nothing was happening, and there’s probably nothing that Trump doesn’t know about already. The same DOJ blew off Hillary Clinton’s handling of national security documents, which were being transmitted through email in violation of national security law, allowing friendly and un-friendly nations to read them.

What this is all about, most likely, is looking to protect the documents related to Crossfire Hurricane and other Russia Russia Russia investigations, if the rumors are true. The same FBI unit that was involved in that shady investigation is involved with the raid.

Kash Patel Explains That the Mar-a-Lago FBI Raid Was To Block Crossfire Hurricane Documents From Being Released Exposing the FBI [VIDEO]

Kash Patel, former Chief of Staff to the Acting US Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration did an appearance on Monday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” where they talked about the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, including the release of the mostly redacted affidavit. The amount of redactions in the affidavit made it an insult to release it.

During the segment, Patel told Tucker that the real reason the FBI did the raid was to block the disclosure of declassified Spygate documents, the Obama administration’s FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane documents that incriminate the FBI, DOJ, Department of Defense, and the intelligence community when Obama interfered in the 2016 presidential election to stop Donald Trump from beating his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton.

And they knew those were the documents sitting in the stored location at Mar-a-Lago. Trump wrote a presidential memorandum on declassifying all of the Crossfire Hurricane documents.

It has the ring of truth.

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Just A Tiny Temperature Rise Could Cause Doom Or Something

By William Teach September 9, 2022 – 7:00 am

The best part is the subhead of this Science article which is devoid of science

Just a small rise in Earth’s temperature could cause irreversible ecosystem and weather changes
Scientists call for forecasting teams to join forces, improve estimates of “tipping points”

Forecasting? Like how weather forecasts seem wrong more often than right? How the climate cult has been blowing prognostications for decades?

An expansive study of climate tipping points in this week’s issue Science is likely to fuel that discussion. It synthesizes the most current evidence on how much warming would risk passing 16 tipping points, triggering polar ice collapses, permafrost thawing, monsoon disruptions, and forest and coral reef diebacks. Many of these systems are already stressed by rising temperatures, and the study finds the world might already be within the warming range where the risk is elevated. It also concludes that even under the most ambitious scenario for limiting global warming—to 1.5°C compared with preindustrial levels—the planet could still see dramatic changes.

It’s a “timely and thorough piece of work,” says Chris Jones, a climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre. The findings are broadly consistent with previous work, he says, but updated and more detailed. He and other climate scientists warn against “cataclysmic” interpretations of the findings. The study also indicates that “a lot of really bad tipping points are still avoidable,” says Zeke Hausfather, leader of climate research at the technology firm Stripe.

So, now even 1.5C is super bad? Heck, even other doomsday cults have some positive news, right?

To estimate tipping points, University of Exeter earth systems scientist David Armstrong McKay and his colleagues gathered evidence from ancient climate records as well as modern observations, model predictions, and current best estimates. They looked at ecological, atmospheric, and other systems to identify those most at risk of abrupt, irreversible, or self-sustaining change as Earth warms. Then, they estimated the minimum amount of warming that might trigger a tipping point in each system, as well as the maximum warming a system might be able to withstand before a catastrophic shift becomes unavoidable. The authors also made a best estimate of where each tipping point sits—somewhere between the extremes—and noted how high their confidence was in each of the 16 forecasts.

This is all cute, because the Earth is such a dynamic system that it’s impossible to know all this stuff even in 2022. It is all a guess, or, as they like to call it, “current best estimates.” Almost all of which have failed for decades. And, unsurprising, if start digging deep, you see how much of this involves computer models, rather than hard research. They’ve been yammering about tipping points, the tipping points do not happen, so, let’s just move them to the future.

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Brandon Admin Gets Rid Of Trump Rule, Allows Illegals Legal Residency If They Used Government Benefits

By William Teach September 9, 2022 – 6:45 am

In reality, this is not really the Trump rule, as illegals, and, heck, those here on visas, haven’t been able to get legal residency because they use government benefits. Also, this is something that should be done by the duly elected legislative branch

Biden administration undoes Trump-era immigration rule

The Biden administration has officially undone a Trump-era rule that barred immigrants from gaining legal residency if they had utilized certain government benefits, allowing for a return to a previous policy with a narrower scope.

The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday said a new regulation for the “public charge” rule would go into effect in late December, although the Biden administration had already stopped applying the previous version last year.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement that the shift “ensures fair and humane treatment.”

“Consistent with America’s bedrock values, we will not penalize individuals for choosing to access the health benefits and other supplemental government services available to them,” he said.

No, they’re just going to penalize American citizens, and this incentivizes even more to come to the U.S. illegally, figure out a way to get those government benefits, and get legal status. And this penalizes those going through the proper naturalization process who aren’t eligible, and must follow all the rules

The public charge regulation bars people from getting green cards if they would be burdens to the United States. For years prior to the Trump administration, that was interpreted as being primarily dependent on cash assistance, income maintenance or government support for long-term institutionalization.

But the Trump administration expanded the benefits to include non-cash assistance including food stamps and Medicaid. There were numerous legal challenges, but it was allowed to be implemented in 2020. Legal challenges went on, and in 2021, the Biden administration said it would not continue defending the rule.

If you’re coming here legally, you shouldn’t be a public charge. If you’re coming illegally, well, you should be deported immediately, not given government benefits on the backs of hardworking American citizens.

However

Democrat Lori Lightfoot: ‘Immoral, Unpatriotic’ to Bus Migrants to Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) now says it is “immoral” and “unpatriotic” for Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to bus migrants from Texas to the sanctuary city.

Last week, Abbott started busing border crossers to the sanctuary city of Chicago after sending thousands over the last few months to the sanctuary cities of New York City, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Initially, Lightfoot balked at the migrant buses by calling them “racist and xenophobic.” While visiting a shelter last week, Lightfoot called Abbott’s buses “immoral, unpatriotic” and claimed the operation “defies the values of who we are as Americans.”

Democrats love illegals, as long as they aren’t jamming up Democrat cities

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Reports State Dutch Town May Ban Ads Featuring Meat

By William Teach September 8, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Of course this is related to the Cult of Climastrology

Dutch town may ban meat ads in public spaces over climate change: report

climate cowOfficials in one Dutch city are slated to ban most ads advertising meat in public areas because of its impact on the climate.

The motion was made by the GroenLinks, a green political party, and would go into effect in 2024 in Haarlem, the BBC reported. The meat sector in The Netherlands has opposed the move, saying it stifles free speech.

“Meat is very harmful to the environment. We cannot tell people that there is a climate crisis and encourage them to buy products that are part of it,” Ziggy Klazes, a member of GroenLinks who drafted the motion, told the Trouw newspaper.

The move would make Haarlem, just a few miles from Amsterdam, the first city in the world to ban most meat ads. It could include chicken sold in supermarkets and fast food.

If meat is so harmful, why wait till 2024? Do it now. And will any reporter ask the members of GroenLinks if they have stopped eating meat? This just continues to show that the climate cult is an authoritarian movement.

Elsewhere

Schumer in tough spot over Manchin promise

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday pledged to add permitting reform legislation to a stopgap funding bill that would prevent a government shutdown, but he’s in a tough spot as he seeks to deliver on a promise to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).

The permitting reform is a side-deal Schumer struck with Manchin in late July to pass a climate, tax and health care bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is projected to help reduce that nation’s carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030.

Manchin offered his support for the bill in July after winning significant concessions, and his vote allowed Democrats to pass a major achievement for President Biden.

Schumer made clear Wednesday that he doesn’t plan to backtrack on his promise.

The thing is, the more extreme members of the Democratic Party are working hard to scuttle the side deal. Manchin was a fool for agreeing to back the Inflation Reduction Act, ie, Build Back Better version 4, in exchange for something in the future.

I’m going to clear out some of the saved articles below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 8, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds because Other People won’t switch to taking the train, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The O.K. Corral, with a post on the most depressed cities in the U.S.

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Janet Yellen To Take Long Fossil Fueled Flight To Make Speech Denigrating Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach September 8, 2022 – 10:30 am

Unshockingly, The Hill reporter Tobias Burns failed to attempt to ask Janet Yellen how she’s traveling to the violent, Democratic Party run city of Detroit. Is she taking the train or an electric vehicle? Or, a fossil fueled flight followed by a fossil fueled limo? Without fossil fuels, how does Detroit survive? The Red Wings, Pistons, Lions, and Tigers (why is there no team named Bears?) wouldn’t be able to operate. Or all the ships that come through with goods. Also, Yellen is the Treasury Secretary, not the energy or transportation secretary

Yellen will vow to ‘rid’ US from ‘dependence on fossil fuels’ in Detroit speech

st greta carTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen will call out the fossil fuel industry in a Thursday speech on the Biden administration’s economic agenda to be delivered in Detroit, Mich., where oil and gas companies have long held influence in the U.S. auto manufacturing sector.

The visit to Detroit comes on the heels of the Democrats’ passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which includes $14.2 billion worth of subsidies for electric vehicles meant to wean the auto industry off of gasoline in an effort to reduce U.S. transportation emissions that are contributing to a rise in global temperatures.

“We will rid ourselves from our current dependence on fossil fuels,” Yellen’s prepared remarks say.

“Our plan — powered by the Inflation Reduction Act — represents the largest investment in fighting climate change in our country’s history. It will put us well on our way toward a future where we depend on the wind, sun, and other clean sources for our energy,” her remarks continue.

Yet, you can bet it’s a fossil fueled flight and a fossil fueled limo/SUV for Yellen, and not one reporter will ask her about it, since most of the reporters are part of the climate cult. Biden and his cohorts are running around calling people Fascists and semi-Fascists, yet, it’s Democrats attempting to use the power of government to destroy an economic sector and force people into EVs, whether they want one or not. It’s not Socialism: in true socialism government mostly stays out of people’s lives, and would have direct votes on things like this. It’s over in the Authoritarianism model, which provides force of government

Yellen’s speech will also emphasize the role that private capital can play in addressing climate change, putting her generally in line with the economic, social and corporate governance (ESG) movement. The ESG movement in the financial sector pursues environmental and social equality objectives through divestment practices and getting board members with particular political views elected to company boards.

“By mobilizing private capital, the clean energy tax credits implemented by Treasury will propel our economy and workers to a leadership position in the fastest growing markets and technologies of today and the future, with positive spillovers to the rest of the world. And in the process of boosting domestic clean energy production, the law will support our energy security and insulate us from the type of fossil fuel-driven energy volatility that we’ve seen in the past year,” her remarks say.

This is a carrot and stick approach. The carrot is free money from the government. The stick is a threat that they best join the cult, otherwise there will be consequences. They’re attempting to turn the U.S. into a command economy, like the Soviet Union, Venezuela, and Nazi Germany. You will comply, Comrade.

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Bummer: California’s Solar Batteries Have Been Kicking In At The Wrong Time

By William Teach September 8, 2022 – 7:15 am

This is what happens when you have way too many government regulations coming from bureaucrats rather than the professions who do this for a living

California’s Battery Problems Heighten Threat of Power Outages

The batteries that help fortify California’s electric grid are kicking in at times when they’re not really needed, draining the power source before more critical junctures and heightening the chances of blackouts as a blistering heat wave punishes the state.

Batteries help to store extra electricity, generated by solar or hydropower. That surplus is supposed to act as a cushion for times when those intermittent renewable sources are running low. But the grid uses a pricing mechanism to trigger the batteries, rather than basing it on pure demand levels. That can lead to mismatches.

That’s exactly what happened on Tuesday, when the state declared a grid emergency and only narrowly avoided major power outages.

Batteries began discharging in the middle of the afternoon, when there was still plenty of solar power and other supplies available to meet electricity demand. That depleted the cushion before it was more critically needed in the early evening, when the state was on the brink of rotating blackouts as demand hit an all-time record and solar supplies started dropping as the sun set. If it weren’t for a timely emergency mobile-phone alert calling on Californians to conserve power immediately, swaths of the state could have been plunged into darkness.

Did not one say at some point “hey, perhaps we should change the usage priority?” If they did, were they shut down?

While blackouts were averted on Tuesday, the battery situation points to a deeper issue with the grid that could continue to exacerbate the risk of outages until it’s resolved. On Wednesday afternoon, the state’s grid operator ratcheted its energy emergency to the second of three levels after 1 p.m. local time and once again warned California could face power shortfalls.

The reason for Tuesday’s earlier-than-expected deployment of batteries likely has to do with market signals. The way the California power market is set up now, energy storage systems are called upon to dispatch by the grid operator when the wholesale power price hits a cap of $1,000 a megawatt-hour, said Cody Hill, senior vice president of battery systems at Rev Renewables, a renewable energy and storage company.

And that is set by government, not the energy companies. Government’s have way, way, way too much control over the energy sector.

Just wondering, did any reporter go to the governor’s mansion and ask to see the thermostat? See if the lights were on? Using large appliances?

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