Warmist Jeff Merkley Wants To Transition To A Green Economy To Stop Russia

By William Teach March 8, 2022 – 8:02 am

It’s so cute when Democrats, who fail to give up their own use of fossil fuels, start yammering about getting off oil. Also, Merkley voted “present” when Mitch McConnell brought the Green New Deal up for a vote

Merkley: ‘We Should Have a Climate Emergency’ and Need to ‘Have the World Transition’ to Green Energy to Undercut Russia

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that in order to undermine Russia’s power, we have to “end our dependence on oil and have the world transition to renewable energy.” Because Russia will be able to sell oil as long as there’s demand for oil, and called for a “climate emergency.”

Merkley said, “As long as there is a world market for oil, Russia will be able to sell its oil. And so, unfortunately, not all my colleagues yet understand that the way to undercut the power of Russia is to end our dependence on oil and have the world transition to renewable energy.”

He continued that decades ago, we didn’t know about two things: “One was [the] tremendous climate impacts of burning fossil fuels. And the second is, renewable energy was very expensive at that time, as compared to fossil fuels. Now, it’s cheaper. So, we have every reason to pivot quickly. We should be having a national American solar program. We should have a climate emergency. We should be transitioning to offshore wind, and we should be doing it in partnership and leading the world in this effort to end this addiction to oil, this damage to the climate, and the enrichment of people like Putin.”

How many years would this take if we tried it? Perhaps we could undermine Putin’s power in about 10-20 years, right? Perhaps we should be drilling our own oil and natural gas to the point of being energy independent first, which could be done much, much quicker, while at the same time working towards more efficient wind and solar. We can do both to slowly reduce the amount of oil in use.

Declaring a “climate emergency”, though, is more about empowering Government to control and tax citizens, all while the big shots like Merkley refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels

No media outlet ever forces Warmists like Merkley to answer the questions “Have you given up your own use of fossil fuels? Replaced your fossil fueled vehicle with an EV? Stopped taking all those fossil fueled flights across the country and take the train instead?”

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Good News: Democrats COVID Restrictions Put Children Way Behind On Reading Skills

By William Teach March 8, 2022 – 7:37 am

The Democratic Party run school system was already doing a mediocre job in teaching reading skills, particularly since the leftist schools continued to replace real-world, tangible skills and knowledge with all sorts social justice garbage. And now

It’s ‘Alarming’: Children Are Severely Behind in Reading

The kindergarten crisis of last year, when millions of 5-year-olds spent months outside of classrooms, has become this year’s reading emergency.

As the pandemic enters its third year, a cluster of new studies now show that about a third of children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, up significantly from before the pandemic.

In Virginia, one study found that early reading skills were at a 20-year low this fall, which the researchers described as “alarming.”

In the Boston region, 60 percent of students at some high-poverty schools have been identified as at high risk for reading problems — twice the number of students as before the pandemic, according to Tiffany P. Hogan, director of the Speech and Language Literacy Lab at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston.

Children in every demographic group have been affected, but Black and Hispanic children, as well as those from low-income families, those with disabilities and those who are not fluent in English, have fallen the furthest behind.

What the NY Times fails to mention is that most of the areas where reading skills are lagging are in Democratic Party run states and cities, as Republican run areas minimized the school closures, getting the schools opened as soon as they could while attempting to normalize COVID for the children. GOP areas also minimized the use of masking, so children were not stifled and could see the face and lips of their teachers. That doesn’t mean that GOP run areas are not affected, since those schools spent much of 2020 and even 2021 closed and doing hybrid learning

The literacy crisis did not start with the pandemic. In 2019, results on national and international exams showed stagnant or declining American performance in reading, and widening gaps between high and low performers. The causes are multifaceted, but many experts point to a shortage of educators trained in phonics and phonemic awareness — the foundational skills of linking the sounds of spoken English to the letters that appear on the page.

The pandemic has compounded those issues.

Perhaps young children should be taught reading skills rather than stuff on sex and raaaaacism and that white people are horrible and we’re doomed from ‘climate change’ and stuff, eh?

Even students with well-trained teachers have had far fewer hands-on hours with them than before the pandemic, which has been defined by closures, uneven access to online instruction, quarantine periods and — even on the best days — virus-related interruptions to regular classroom routines. Now, schools are under pressure to boost literacy as quickly as possible so students gain the reading skills they need to learn the rest of the curriculum, from math word problems to civics lessons. Billions of federal stimulus dollars are flowing to districts for tutoring and other supports, but their effect may be limited if schools cannot find quality staff members to hire.

Here’s an idea: drop all the other garbage and teach the core curriculum: reading, writing (not necessarily with a pen, just the ability to write/type literate, cogent, coherent sentences and paragraphs), arithmetic.

From the start of the pandemic, when schools abruptly shuttered in March 2020, math skills were clearly affected, while some early research suggested that students’ reading skills were holding steady, perhaps because more parents read with their children at home than practiced math.

Yeah, no, because, let’s be honest, most adults do not really read, either. They might have the skills, but, they do not read. Remember, all the stuff the schools did was For The Children!

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UN Climate Doom Report Claims Humanity Near Adaption Limits Or Something

By William Teach March 7, 2022 – 3:59 pm

We can fix this with a tax and you giving up your freedom, liberty, and life choices, you know

UN report: Climate change already so severe humans nearing adaptation limits

A comprehensive new United Nations-sponsored assessment of climate change finds that global warming is reshaping the world more rapidly and severely than was known several years ago.

Why it matters: The report finds that climate change is affecting every person’s physical and mental health, and classifies nearly half of the global population as being “highly vulnerable” to climate impacts.

Importantly, the report — part of the biggest update to climate science findings since 2014 — concludes it is no longer possible to fully adapt to some global warming impacts.

So, no more fossil fueled flights in private jets to vacation spots for climate meetings?

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres described the report in a statement as an “Atlas of human suffering.”

“Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone — now. Many ecosystems are at the point of no return — now,” he said.

Y’all need to stop eating burgers and replace your fossil fueled vehicle with a bicycle so that the Elites can cruise in their megayachts

Zoom in: The report notes that we are past the point where “minor, marginal, reactive or incremental changes” will adequately prepare society for the climate impacts that are in store. Instead, it calls for larger-scale shifts “in most aspects of society” to reduce climate risks and enhance resilience, among other goals.

See? This is totally about Science and not about politics at all!

Ukraine makes case for ending fossil fuels

You probably didn’t see it — not with the understandable 24/7 coverage of Russia’s barbaric assault on Ukraine — but there was some bombshell news Monday about the world’s slower-motion apocalypse: climate change.

The world’s top experts convened by the United Nations to study the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions by humans — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC — said the dreaded effects, such as deadly droughts and floods and rapidly rising sea levels, are already here and likely to become worse than earlier predicted. The UN secretary general António Guterres put it bluntly when he said “people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.”

Blah blah blah. I’m wondering if Will Bunch and the Las Vegas Sun have given up their own use of fossil fuels? And, we can all figure out that Las Vegas collapses without fossil fuels.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 7, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an umbrella to guard against carbon pollution driven Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on an incredibly dumb tweet from the NFL on the war.

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Capitol Police Declare “State Of Emergency” Over Protest By Truckers

By William Teach March 7, 2022 – 10:30 am

Interestingly, this never occurred during all the George Floyd and other BLM/Antifa protests, which led to arson, violence, and looting. But, some truckers just driving around and wanting to meet with their Representatives, invoking their Rights of Free Speech, petition for redress of grievance, and protesting peaceably, drives Democrats crazy, because these truckers are protesting against Government restrictions

Capitol Police issues emergency declaration over trucker convoy

The Capitol Police Board on Sunday issued an emergency declaration as truck drivers protesting COVID-19 policies gather in the D.C. area, according to reports.

The protests, which began Sunday and slowed traffic outside the capital, have been dubbed the “People’s Convoy” and could last several days.

The emergency declaration allows police to ask for help from the National Guard in addition to permitting payment for officers’ hotel and food costs, according to Bloomberg.

CNN reported that the declaration was announced by House Sergeant at Arms William Walker.

“The Capitol Police Board has issued an emergency declaration to ensure that the US Capitol police are able to operate and respond as necessary,” Walker wrote in a letter, advising Congress members and their staffers to take an alternate path via public transit to work or to consider working remotely, CNN reported.

They’ve never really stated why they want all those members of the National Guard, just, “traffic control”. Looks more like an attempt to intimidate truckers, and have bodies available to arrest truckers if they want to. Who does the House Sergeant really work for? Nancy Pelosi, at this time. Might be a little more difficult to invoke an emergency decree which allows mass arrests, seizing trucks and money, as Commissar Justin Trudeau did

Capitol Police leaders have reportedly voiced concerns about the truckers and other vehicles potentially causing shutdowns of various roads and highways and creating a situation similar to the Freedom Convoy that shut down parts of Canadian capital Ottawa over similar concerns.

They didn’t seem too concerned when the BLM/Antifa protests created all those problems in D.C., including assaulting Capitol Police officers.

In February, temporary fencing was put up around the Capitol in response to reports of disruptive truck convoys potentially arriving in Washington to protest COVID-19 restrictions.

Don’t want those icky peons getting close to the Congressional buildings, protesting and demanding lawmakers hear them, eh?

(NBC News) The U.S. offshoot of the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” reached the nation’s capital Sunday.

The trucker-led convoy group, which was organized on pro-Trump and anti-vaccination channels on the Telegram messaging app, drove around the Capital Beltway, which surrounds metropolitan Washington, D.C. Their plan was to circle the interstate twice and then return to Hagerstown, Maryland, where they gathered Saturday night, to regroup.

And that’s what they apparently did, on I-495, which never enters D.C. And do so again Monday. What authority does the Capitol Police have, since it never enters D.C., staying solely in Maryland and Virginia? It’s great that they’re “anti-vaccine”, eh, when it’s really “anti-forced vaccination. But, that’s the media Narrative

Brian Brase, a convoy co-organizer, said he plans to take members of the protest group to meet with lawmakers Tuesday. NBC News has not verified any planned meetings with lawmakers.

Brase acknowledged the end to many mandates throughout the country. “What the People’s Convoy’s looking for is, we’re looking for immediate end to the state of emergency,” he said. “We don’t believe there is an emergency any longer.”

Democrats are removing most of their restrictions, because this is a mid-terms year, and removing them now allows people to forget about them by November, but, they could come roaring back in an instant.

BTW, have you ever noticed that left leaning protests rarely fly American flags or talk about freedom?

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British House Of Lords Tells Young Climate Cultists Should Pay For Their Beliefs

By William Teach March 7, 2022 – 7:00 am

It’s super easy for young Warmists, indoctrinated by adults, to recommend that Something Be Done about the climate crisis (scam). It’s something else when the young Warmists actually have to practice what they preach

Young People Should Pay the Costs of Green Agenda, Says House of Lords

The economic burden of Boris Johnson’s ‘Build Back Better’ green push towards a net-zero economy should be borne by younger generations as older Britons will not benefit from the schemes, a House of Lords committee has suggested.

A report from the Industry and Regulators Committee in the upper house of the British parliament claimed that it will cost the government some £321 billion to reach the goal of transitioning the British economy to net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. This figure is hotly contested, however, with a recent report from the House of Commons stating that the government itself has “no reliable” estimate of the costs for government and indeed consumers of the green agenda. (snip)

In order to pay for the massive overhaul of the economy the chairman of the committee, Lord Hollick, said: “The amount that can realistically be raised via surcharges on energy bills is not enough.

“Bills are regressive as the poor pay more of their income on energy costs. It is also unfair to the current generation, as we are asking current billpayers to cover the huge costs of something that is designed to mainly benefit future generations.”

The House of Lords peer suggested, therefore, that the government should look to incur more debt through public borrowing to pay for the “long-term infrastructure costs” and pass on the costs to future generations.

While the over 70 crowd has the money to be able to afford all the taxes and such, they are also the least likely to believe in ‘climate change’. The young want this so bad, why do they not move from believing it in theory and putting it into practice?

The ones who believe in the climate scam should be dared, triple dog dared into practicing what they preach. No fossil fueled vehicles, flights, or boats. Move into tiny homes. No ice makers. Hand wash clothes. All the rest. I’ve never understood why the big shots with big perches never go after the Warmists like that.

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Biden Plans On Approaching Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, To Pump More Oil

By William Teach March 7, 2022 – 6:45 am

Let’s see: because Brandon spiked lots of new domestic production, the U.S. is buying around 600K barrels of oil from Russia, and working on a plan to get more from Iran. And now

From the link

President Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: A hat-in-hand trip would illustrate the gravity of the global energy crisis driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia, and the CIA believes its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was involved in the dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. (snip)

Zoom in: Bin Salman isn’t making it easier on Biden to repair their relations.

He appeared to go out of his way to aggravate the White House during an interview with the Atlantic published last week.

Between the lines: Sanctions against Russia’s oil exports — including a possible ban on importing Russian oil into the U.S. — would both elevate worldwide gas prices and stoke domestic inflation.

If this happens, the Saudi’s are going to make Joe beg. And

(CBS News) Senior American officials are in Venezuela this weekend to meet with the government of Nicolás Maduro, whose authoritarian rule of the oil-producing country has meant no formal diplomatic relations between the two countries since 2019.

News of the trip was first reported by The New York Times. That report prompted Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees and a vocal critic of the Maduro regime, to criticize the trip.

“Joe Biden using #Russia as an excuse to do the deal they always wanted to do anyway with the #MaduroRegime,” Rubio tweeted Sunday morning. “Rather than produce more American oil he wants to replace the oil we buy from one murderous dictator with oil from another murderous dictator.”

Why don’t we just do like Rubio, and pretty much every sane thinking person, thinks, and produce our own? Oh, and remember this?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 6, 2022 – 1:18 pm

…is an area perfect for some wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on some quick hits of wisdom, knowledge, and snark.

It’s Asian week, because, why not?

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 6, 2022 – 10:17 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and everyone’s getting a good walk in (because gas is too expensive). This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

BTW, this is the 900th post in the Patriotic Pinup category, going all the way back to April 3rd, 2005

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Right Scoop cover Iowa’s governor signing a law banning males from playing female sports
  2. This ain’t Hell.. discusses Russia being in Ukraine for a long time
  3. Independent Sentinel notes Biden having Russia negotiating with Iran for a new nuclear deal
  4. The Lid notes a NY school district spying on parents
  5. The Last Refuge discusses Authoritarian Trudeau denouncing Authoritarian Putin
  6. Powerline wonders why COVID restrictions are coming off so fast
  7. Pacific Pundit has a good laugh at a guy having to constantly remove “I Did That” stickers from gas pumps
  8. Outside The Beltway has questions why there were no airstrikes on the big Russian convoy
  9. MOTUS A.D. notices how long it’s been since we had a Mean Tweet
  10. Moonbattery covers SJWs advocating for child abuse
  11. Legal Insurrection discusses France and Belgium removing most COVID restrictions
  12. Jihad Watch says Islam is the only winner in the Ukraine-Russia war
  13. Gen Z Conservative notes the Finish president dropping a truth bomb on Brandon
  14. Geller Report covers North Korea getting frisky with missile launches
  15. And last, but not least, Real Climate Science features the notion that green idiocy helped enable Putin

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. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

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?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Illegal Aliens Are Frustrated With Brandon Over Failed Promises

By William Teach March 6, 2022 – 8:55 am

Are we supposed to care about their feelings? In a sane world, one in which the government of the United States enforced its laws, the ones screeching for amnesty would be immediately deported

Undocumented immigrants are frustrated with Biden on reforms as Build Back Better stalls

illegal alien DemocratKatia Escobar was preparing to start college at the University of Houston last year, excited about the prospect that Congress might soon pass legislation that would wipe out the barriers she faced as an undocumented “Dreamer,” brought to the U.S. from Mexico illegally by her parents when she was a year old.

But today, the once bright hopes of Escobar — and millions of other Dreamers — have all but evaporated. Despite President Biden’s brief renewed pledge in his State of the Union address to push for a “pathway to citizenship” for Dreamers, farmworkers and essential workers, the prospect for immigration reform seems more remote than ever, and undocumented immigrants like Escobar are increasingly disillusioned.

Boo hoo. Most Americans do not care. We’ve been dealing with COVID for 2 years, dealing with the soft tyranny of the government response, now dealing with inflation, and now a war in Ukraine

“I’m fighting for my life, and many others are with me on that,” said Escobar, who has become an activist on the issue. “My life and the lives of millions of others who are like me should not be up for debate.”

She’s right, it shouldn’t be up for debate. She should be deported forthwith to her country of origin.

As for Biden’s remarks during his address, Escobar added that she’s not sure she trusts the White House to be truly committed. “We have seen in the past him making empty promises,” she said.

Brandon making empty promises? Well, that’s strange.

Escobar is an example of the real-life costs of congressional inaction on the issue of immigration — and the political risks for Biden and Democrats as they face challenging midterm elections without being able to deliver on an issue that has been a top priority of Hispanic groups for years.

Since the ones who find it being a priority are mostly in the U.S. illegally, their opinion doesn’t count. Let them go back to their countries and apply for citizenship.

A poll from Morning Consult/Politico released in January found that 56 percent of registered voters disapprove of Biden’s handling of immigration, an apparent reflection of persistent reports of surging border crossings since he took office. But while the spike in illegal entries has been amplified by conservative media and denounced by GOP lawmakers, some of the most stinging criticism of the White House is coming from Hispanic activists who once enthusiastically welcomed the Democratic president’s election and now see the administration as giving them little more than lip service.

Reports? It’s just reports of surging border crossings? Like, they’re not really real, we’re just getting “reports”? The border is almost completely open.

As for Escobar, she has been able to enroll as a freshman at the University of Houston. But being undocumented, she has been unable to receive financial aid from the federal government. She’s also had difficulty finding work to support herself and faces an uncertain future once she graduates, hostage to the seemingly endless debates in Washington over immigration.

“There’s a lot of things they have promised us,” she said. “Right now, before we even give them the chance to start giving up on us, we just want to remind them that they have a moral obligation to pass citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants.”

She shouldn’t even be allowed to enroll, much less Demand that the government legalize them all.

As for Escobar, while she continues to pursue higher education, her legal status remains in perpetual limbo.

Last March, she applied for DACA status in Texas under the Obama-era program. But her application was thrown out when U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Texas ruled that the program was illegal and ordered a halt to all first-time applications to the program.

“I really was depending on this program to give me a work permit to be able to generate income during my time in college to support myself. Of course, that all changed in an instant, and my life was once again in limbo,” Escobar said.

When did she arrive illegally where she would apply for the un-Constitutional DACA last March? The authorities know where she is: she should be deported under federal law.

Escobar said she was ultimately able to fund her way through college after applying for and being awarded money through the Texas Application for State Financial Aid, or TASFA.

Which takes money away from actual U.S. citizens.

And while she said she’s glad Biden mentioned immigration reform during his State of the Union address, she wishes he had emphasized how important it is for Dreamers like her that Congress act right away.

“The situation is urgent,” she said. “We need these protections now.”

Then apply for citizenship in your home country. These people have no right to demand anything. Criminals do not get to demand anything.

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