If All You See…

By William Teach February 24, 2022 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on the duke and duchess of trash.

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The GOP IS Authoritarian For Wanting Parents Involved With The Education Of Their Children Or Something

By William Teach February 24, 2022 – 10:30 am

The hard left just refuses to get the message from voters that Americans are not happy with what’s going on in schools. Yes, the majority of teachers and administrators are not the uber-crazy types, like we see all the time from Libs of Tiktok

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1496622496023334913

but, there are plenty of softly barking moonbats, and enough, including school boards, who want to hide what is being done and taught to the kids. Back in my day, late 70’s into 80’s, parents were involved. They knew what was being taught. They didn’t worry about their kids being taught crazy stuff in secret. Apparently, our parents being involved is authoritarian, per Sara Jones at NY Mag

Household Tyrants

To empower parents, Florida Republicans would put children in danger. If passed, their Parental Rights in Education legislation, known more commonly as the “don’t say gay” bills, would prevent public-school districts from “encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity,” CBS News reports. A proposed amendment would have required educators to report a child’s disclosure about their gender identity or sexual orientation to parents within six weeks.

Republicans haven’t been shy about their rationale. The text of the bills says they allegedly “reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children.” Last year, Senator Josh Hawley introduced a federal Parents’ Bill of Rights, which would include the right to review curricula and to visit children during school hours. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott announced his own Parental Bill of Rights last month. “Parents will be restored to their rightful place as the preeminent decision-maker for their children,” he said at a campaign event held, fittingly, at a charter school. On Wednesday, Abbott told Texas state agencies to investigate reports of gender-affirming care for transgender children.

Teaching that stuff is not the job of schools. Not K-12. Moonbats are not happy that parents will be legally able to be involved, and that schools have to actually teach subjects, not Woke crap

Parents don’t lack rights in the U.S. They already enjoy the wide freedom to educate their children as they wish, including at home or in private schools. They can raise their children to be Christians or witches or both; the state does not interfere. Liberals are generally satisfied with this state of affairs: There is no appetite to prohibit parents from raising their children in even the most hate-filled churches. Yet the right behaves as if parental rights were under sustained and serious attack, as if the parent has been dislodged from a high place and, as Abbott said, should be restored. The GOP’s position on parental rights isn’t entirely coherent. Any attempt to ban gender-confirming therapy for transgender children theoretically infringes on the rights of the parent, but this hasn’t dissuaded the party from its attacks on trans rights. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton had previously issued an opinion defining gender-affirming care as ‘child abuse.’ Trans children and their families must now fear the long arm of the state, which will reach into their most private and personal affairs

Got that? You parents can be involved unless you let your kids go to public schools. Many cannot afford to home-school or send to a private school, and the government requires that children go to school. In Liberal World, government is in charge of The People. We’re here to serve government, and, the government will do as it wants, and you peons will have no input. The old notion of “government for the people, by the people”, has been replaced with a Soviet style one.

This goes on for a few paragraphs more, and, in Liberal World, it is authoritarian for parents to have rights, and for kids to not be indoctrinated, groomed, and be taught crazy things. But, hey, Democrats should continue pushing this stuff: it’ll just help them lose more and more elections.

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Good News: Alabama Solar Panel To Close Due To Biden Removing Sanctions On China

By William Teach February 24, 2022 – 8:40 am

Here’s the thing: most ‘climate change’ Skeptics are not against energy like solar. On the contrary, we support them. We just don’t like the idea of replacing existing reliable, affordable, dependable energy sources with unreliable, expensive ones at this time, especially when it requires a massive footprint to have these solar farms (among others). One day this will work. It’s not today. Not yet. Also, those of us here in the U.S. are not particularly happy with the low cost garbage solar panels being brought in from China. Why not make them in America? That would be a good question for Brandon

Alabama Solar Factory to Close After Joe Biden Guts U.S. Tariffs on China

A Huntsville, Alabama, solar panel factory will close after President Joe Biden exempted foreign-made bifacial solar panels from United States tariffs earlier this month.

LG Electronics, a South Korea-based company, announced that it will be closing its Huntsville solar panel manufacturing operation, resulting in the layoffs of about 160 American employees and another 60 Americans who are employed as contract workers.

Executives said they hope to retain as many employees as they can by transitioning them into the company’s other business and manufacturing sectors at its Huntsville campus. Laid-off employees will receive severance packages.

The announcement comes just weeks after Biden decided to exempt foreign-made bifacial solar panels — the overwhelming majority of which come from China — from Section 201 tariffs on solar imports to the United States that were first imposed by former President Trump in January 2018 at a 30 percent rate.

Sure, a lot of the profits for the panels goes back to South Korea, but, at least they are not a hostile foreign government, and Americans make money working at the plant, and Huntsville made money off of taxes and such. Now? Nothing.

Why would Biden waive sanctions?

Shortly after Trump imposed the U.S. tariffs on solar imports, LG Electronics announced that they would expand their Huntsville campus to include manufacturing solar panels — a boon for the city’s local economy as every one factory job supports an additional 7.4 jobs.

Because Trump imposed them. Also, you have to wonder how much his family is making off of doing business with China, which helps out Biden. Joe talks a lot about “buying American”, then does what he can to replace American manufacturing with imports from China.

Further, regardless of the whole climate crisis (scam) issue, when the panels are built here in America we can do what we can to reduce the negative environmental impact from manufacturing. China’s operations will create lots and lots of environmental damage.

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Kristi Noem: Biden Empowered Putin To Invade Ukraine

By William Teach February 24, 2022 – 8:25 am

The current, and typical unhinged barking moonbat, leftist talking point is that Putin waited till Trump was out of office to invade Ukraine because it would have hurt Trump if he did it while Trump was in office, and Trump was controlled by Putin, right? These people are nuts, and, while their voices are loud and end up in the news a lot, most Americans are sane enough not too believe it. In reality, Trump held Putin in check

Russia-Ukraine crisis: Biden’s twin failures on energy and foreign policy gave Putin tools to invade

Biden Brain SlugWhen it comes to both foreign policy and his liberal energy agenda, President Joe Biden has embarrassed our nation. I can sum up President Biden’s incompetence in these areas with one simple story: a tale of two pipelines.

On one hand, Biden blocked the crucial Keystone XL Pipeline, signaling to the world that American energy independence is no longer a priority. On the other hand, he green-lit the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, strengthening Russia’s energy hold on Europe. And in the process, he gave Russia the leverage to create the crisis that we are witnessing unfold in Ukraine. Let me begin with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and Biden’s policy failure on that score.

Until last year, getting tough on Russia was one of the few issues that seemed to unite conservatives and progressives. When I served on the House Armed Services Committee, my colleagues all recognized the real threat that Russia poses to our nation. In 2019, Congress passed a bipartisan measure to impose sanctions on the Russian company that is building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany. The sanctions had strong support from both Democrat leadership and the Trump administration.

America was a net exporter of natural gas, so, European nations didn’t have to rely on Russian gas. American could sell it to them. And what happened next? Why, Biden waived those legally passed sanctions

Some theorize that President Biden simply reversed an important accomplishment of the Trump administration for spite. A more sinister theory suggests that because his son, Hunter Biden, served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, President Biden had, at a minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest. To make matters worse, Hunter “received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow,” according to a Congressional report.

Doing it out of spite pretty much is par for the course with the Brandon administration.

It is impossible to say for certain whether such a conflict exists. But leaders of both parties were sure that blocking this Russian pipeline was the right thing to do. And by allowing it to move forward, the United States lost vital leverage over Moscow. Biden is now scrambling to regain this leverage he lost, but it is too little, too late. His new sanctions come after Russian troops have already moved into Ukraine. Unfortunately, it appears the damage is done.

Not to be too cynical, but, what will happen is the European Union will start relaxing their sanctions within a year, because they need Russian natural gas. And it is mostly the EU imposing sanctions, not individual European nations. Sure, a lot of those nations are condemning Russia and Putin, but, they aren’t really Doing Something. Regardless of who wins the 2024 presidential election, the sanctions will be relaxed. You might see them relaxed next winter. Parts of Ukraine will be controlled by Russia, and everyone will just move on. Remember Crimea? Are there any real sanctions with teeth for that Putin adventure in 2014, when Obama was president and Joe was VP?

What makes Biden’s approach to Nord Stream 2 so much worse is the fact that he took a completely opposite approach to the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have benefitted my home state of South Dakota and our entire nation. On his first day as President, Biden blocked Keystone XL from moving forward. This pipeline would have been able to deliver more than 800,000 daily barrels of Canadian crude to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

Unfortunately, President Biden took a shortsighted approach to appease his liberal base. Americans are seeing the results at the pump. Gas prices continue to rise. And we have lost our ability to counter Russian energy policy because we are significantly weakened from an energy production standpoint.

Biden is doing everything he can, from day 1, to reduce the ability of America to have inexpensive fossil fuels. While using a lot himself.

Victor David Hansen has a long piece explaining just how weak Obama (with Joe) was and how weak Joe is now, contrasting with what Trump did to contain Putin’s aggression. It can sometimes be so, so simply.

CNN trots out a piece which is essentially the old trope of Putin being on “the wrong side of history.” History says he’ll get away with it, just like Georgia and Crimea. Sadly. And, with Biden being so weak and ineffective, Putin might even get more frisky.

Finally, there’s a thought in the back of my mind that Biden wanted this to happen. Why? Because the U.S. economy is not doing well under Biden.

Natural gas was coming down till Biden, then it skyrocketed. Everything is going up. The root causes are not Biden, but, China’s Wuhan flu, yet, most moves Biden has made make the situation much worse. Goading Putin into going into Ukraine, triple dog daring…remember, it wasn’t that long ago that the Ukrainian president was telling Biden to chill, to stop pushing Putin…Russia to invade. And now everything bad happening in the U.S. economy can be Blamed on Putin. The media will be happy to comply. They already are. A great way to deflect and allow Biden and Dems to blame Russia going into the mid-terms.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Lead To 50% Increase In Wildfires

By William Teach February 23, 2022 – 3:00 pm

If by anthropogenic climate change, they mean a bunch of idiots and pyros causing wildfires, sure. Otherwise, this is simply more scaremongering from the UN IPCC in their upcoming report

Climate Scientists Warn of a ‘Global Wildfire Crisis’
Worsening heat and dryness could lead to a 50 percent rise in off-the-charts fires, according to a United Nations report.

A landmark United Nations report has concluded that the risk of devastating wildfires around the world will surge in coming decades as climate change further intensifies what the report described as a “global wildfire crisis.”

The scientific assessment is the first by the organization’s environmental authority to evaluate wildfire risks worldwide. It was inspired by a string of deadly blazes around the globe in recent years, burning the American West, vast stretches of Australia and even the Arctic.

The images from those fires — cities glowing under orange skies, smoke billowing around tourist havens and heritage sites, woodland animals badly injured and killed — have become grim icons of this era of unsettled relations between humankind and nature.

“The heating of the planet is turning landscapes into tinderboxes,” said the report, which was published on Wednesday by the United Nations Environment Program.

“Landmark.” Apparently, that’s what they call a report based on looking into a crystal ball, ie, computer models.

The report, produced by more than 50 researchers from six continents, estimated that the risk worldwide of highly devastating fires could increase by up to 57 percent by the end of the century, primarily because of climate change. The risks will not be distributed equally: Some regions are likely to see more fire activity, while others may experience less.

“Could.” As usual, hedging their bets, because they really do not know. And put the date out 78 years because no one will be able to call them on their BS at that point.

Researchers have determined that the extreme heat wave in the Pacific Northwest last year almost certainly would not have occurred without planetary warming caused by greenhouse-gas emissions. Scientists have also found the fingerprints of climate change on brush fires in Australia and extreme heat and burning in Siberia.

It’s a doomsday cult. Not based on science. Which conveniently forgets that just about every fire was intentionally or unintentionally set.

The U.N. report urges governments to become more proactive about fire hazards. Of every dollar spent in the United States on managing wildfires, almost 60 cents goes toward immediate firefighting responses, according to research cited in the report. Much less is spent on reducing fire risks in advance and helping communities recover in ways that could make them more resilient.

So, clearing the brush, using controlled burns, all that stuff? Oh, no, they mean forcing citizens to comply with the cult beliefs. Did they have problems during the previous Holocene warm periods?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 23, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are mountains which will be safe from climate crisis induced sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on more murder in the Democratic Party run city of Philadelphia.

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Pentagon Deploying National Guard To Help With “Traffic Control” For Trucker Convoy

By William Teach February 23, 2022 – 10:30 am

They’re totally being deployed to help out, not intimidate Citizens engaged in Constitutionally protected protest, speech, and petitioning for redress of grievance, right? Hey, you never know, maybe they will be a buffer between the violent leftists who will come to protest the protesters

National Guard to help DC control traffic for truck convoys

The Pentagon has approved the deployment of 700 unarmed National Guard troops to the nation’s capital as it prepares for trucker convoys that are planning protests against pandemic restrictions beginning next week.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved the request Tuesday from the District of Columbia government and the U.S. Capitol Police, the Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday night.

The troops would be used to assist with traffic control during demonstrations expected in the city in the coming days, the Pentagon said. Four hundred Guard members from the District of Columbia Guard will be joined by 300 Guard members from other states, according to the statement.

Guard members will not carry firearms or take part in law enforcement or domestic-surveillance activities, the Pentagon said.

It’s not a particularly good look to deploy the military for legitimate protests, is it? It doesn’t matter than rationale. There are really only two reasons: one, to intimidate the truckers, and two, to keep the unhinged leftists, primarily Antifa, away from the truckers. Once we see where they are deployed we will get more of an idea. Will they be surrounding Capital Hill and the White House, refusing to let legitimate protesters who are protesting the government away?

It remains to be seen if any of the U.S. convoys would seek to actively shut down Washington’s streets, the way their Canadian counterparts did in Ottawa. Some convoy organizers have spoken of plans to briefly roll through the city, then focus on shutting down the Beltway, which encircles the capital.

A statement from the People’s Convoy specifically says the trucks “will NOT be going into DC proper.” That convoy is planning to embark Wednesday from southern California and arrive in D.C. around March 5.

The U.S. convoys seek an immediate lifting of what they say are heavy-handed government pandemic restrictions like mask mandates and vaccine requirements. The American Truckers Freedom Fund website says the group is protesting “the unscientific, unconstitutional overreach of the federal government.” (snip)

People’s Convoy organizer Mike Landis, in a video testimonial on the group’s website, said the current COVID vaccine “is not proven yet” but supported individual choice on whether to take it or not. Landis said the convoy was open to all vehicles and said the primary goal was to pressure Biden to lift the national state of emergency.

Now we’ll get to see if the Brandon admin is tempted to go full Fascist like Canada. Deploying 700 members of the military for a protest is an ugly look.

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UN IPCC To Come Out With New Doomsaying Report

By William Teach February 23, 2022 – 7:15 am

The report they came out with right before the nice working vacation even in Glasgow, with all those private jets and celebs and stuff, apparently wasn’t doomy enough, so, it’s time for another one

IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts

A new report on the impacts of climate change will likely be the most worrying assessment yet of how rising temperatures affect every living thing.

This will be the second of three major reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its first since November’s COP26 summit.

Scientists and officials will publish their conclusions on 28 February.

The study will focus heavily on regional impacts as well as on cities and coastal communities.

For many major cities and developing countries, the report will highlight that tackling climate change is not about cutting emissions and hitting net zero sometime in the future, but about dealing with far more short-term threats.

So, this one will be all about government micromanaging your life at the local level. What can government do to force you to change your behavior, take your money, take your freedom.

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There’s A Dark Side To Freedom Or Something

By William Teach February 23, 2022 – 7:00 am

Before Jonah Goldberg was infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome, he wrote a book called Liberal Fascism. It’s very long, it’s very dry, but, still worth the read. In it he calls Progressivism “nice Fascism.” It doesn’t mean they’re nice, it means they’re doing this for your own good. Oh, and the Fascism part. Here’s the Canadian Globe and Mail

The Ottawa truck convoy has revealed the ugly side of freedom

During the truck convoy protests, we have watched banners demanding “freedom” waving over big rigs parked in front of Parliament. But what does this vaunted “freedom” mean?

The answer is, everything and nothing.

Everything: the right not to wear masks in public places; the right not to be vaccinated; the right to hold Ottawa’s downtown residents and businesses hostage; the right to malign public officials and call for the Prime Minister’s death; the right to shout epithets at people of colour.

And nothing. Because freedom is an empty word unless you ask further questions: “Freedom from what?” “Freedom to do what?” And beyond that, “Where do my freedoms end and the freedoms of others begin?

Freedom is not absolute. We live in a social matrix, where one person’s exercise of freedom may conflict with another person’s exercise of freedom. Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states this plainly. The Charter gives Canadians a bundle of rights and freedoms. But it prefaces them with this caution – these rights and freedoms, precious as they are, are not absolute. Governments, it proclaims, can limit freedoms, provided the limits are “reasonable” and can be “justified in a free and democratic society.”

Once again I’ll note that those freedoms, specifically speech, protest, and redress of grievance, are specifically meant to be about being able to do that against government without fear of reprisal, just like here in the U.S. And every single one of these people running around hating on the Freedom Truckers and cheering on cops acting like the Stasi, and things like

keeping her in jail because she might fundraise for protesters again, and

That’s some stuff that would get organized crime prosecuted. This is what the lefties in Canada and the U.S. are cheering.

(Breitbart) Most Americans disagree with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the Canadian freedom truckers in his country, but a majority of Democrats support his protest crackdown, a Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found.

“Do you approve or disapprove of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the trucker protest in his country?” the survey asked.

Overall, it found 55.3 percent disapproving, compared to 35.1 percent who approve and 9.6 percent who are unaware of it. 

Notably, there is a significant partisan divide, as 87.3 percent of Republicans disapprove of Trudeau’s handling of the protest, but 65.7 percent of Democrats approve of it. Most independents, 74.4 percent, disapprove. 

Those who support the government crackdown, acting like a repressive government, should remember that they the next ones on the chopping block could be them. Democrats spent 4 years calling Trump literally Hitler. A Fascist. A dictator. And now they’re throwing their support behind government repression. Look at the top of the blog. Look at that tag line: if we don’t believe in freedom of speech for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

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Washington Post Offers 10 Steps YOU Can Take To Reduce Your Carbon Doom Footprint Or Something

By William Teach February 22, 2022 – 3:00 pm

This is great, you guys! It’s important enough that the WP didn’t bury it behind a paywall

10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint

Here’s the thing: Small changes alone won’t save our planet. To keep the Earth from warming above the critical 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) limit, climate action needs to happen at an institutional level. The Washington Post has built a tracker to keep you up to date on all of President’s Biden’s environmental actions.

But that doesn’t mean you should feel helpless, or that your actions aren’t worthwhile. Taking steps to lower your own carbon footprint may help ease your climate anxiety by giving you back some power — and even the smallest of actions will contribute to keeping our planet habitable.

With that in mind, here are 10 places to start.

Let’s see them

  1. Create less food waste (tell us how this works at big climate conferences)
  2. Ditch your grass (not a problem in liberal infested big cities)
  3. Save coral reefs by packing smartly for your beach vacation (this is environmental, in terms of using environmentally friendly sunscreens)
  4. Shop sustainably by buying less (piss off)
  5. Protect our forests (no houses for you Warmists)
  6. Trade in for an electric car (because the middle and lower classes can totally afford this. Say, has the WP replaced all their vehicles with EVs?)
  7. Weatherize your home (these people)
  8. Learn about the link between climate change and racial equity (good grief. It’s a cult)
  9. Consider carbon offsets (like paying a speeding ticket for your bad behavior)
  10. Pass it on (annoy the shit out of your friends, family, coworkers, people you don’t know)

Let’s go back to the EV on

One of the most powerful individual actions people can take against climate change is to change the way they get around.

New electric vehicles can be expensive — even the most affordable have a suggested sale price between $30,000 and $40,000. But as more car manufacturers start producing EVs (General Motors has even said it will only make EVs by 2035), the cost of these cars is expected to come down. EVs also tend to have lower fuel and maintenance costs than gas-powered cars, making them cheaper over the course of their lifetimes than combustion engine vehicles, according to recent research from MIT.

Again, the vast majority of people cannot afford that price range, and do not want a 6, 7, or 8 year loan for it. Especially not when it will drop in value 52% (on average) after 3 years.

Electric vehicle purchases also qualify for federal tax credits of up to $7,500. Depending on where you live, your city or state might also provide additional financial incentives to go electric. The Energy Department maintains a full list of rebates, tax credits and other programs offered in each state, and more are expected to become available as President Biden moves to expand the nation’s electric vehicle fleet.

It’s a one time credit that, in most cases, doesn’t actually save you $7,500. Furthermore, again, it won’t help reduce the purchase cost of the vehicle. It’s just scamming people. GM’s going to find themselves in a bit of financial trouble when they’ve reduced the pool of buying customers to those making $200k and up.

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