…is a sea that will soon rise dozens of feet unless Everyone Else drives an EV, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on Austria hiring people to hunt down the unvaccinated, since vaccination is now mandatory.
Read: If All You See… »
You vill comply, Comrade (looks like someone at the Democrat and Chronicle forgot to check the headline. I know how they feel, forgetting many a time)
NY
won’twill conduct spot checks on masks, provides $65M for counties enforcing mandate
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office clarified that New York counties are still on the hook for enforcing the statewide mask mandate, after the governor indicated Monday that the state would be conducting “spot checks” for mandate compliance.
Hochul on Monday announced state support for localities implementing the statewide mask mandate, saying she will provide $65 million in financial support to bolster county efforts.
She also noted that New York state inspectors would conduct spot checks to monitor what’s going on with the mandate around the state.
Over a dozen New York counties were quick to say they didn’t have the health department resources to enforce the mandate, while Hochul urged businesses and residents to wear masks anyway.
Hence the $65 million
Up to $1 million to be available to smaller counties and up to $2 million for larger counties, she said. Counties that enforce the mask mandate will be eligible for the funding, according to the governor’s office.
They certainly won’t use the money for other stuff, right?
That funding could be used by counties to, for example, buy masks for stores to allow employees and customers to have masks to wear if needed, or setting up a call center where residents can report complaints, Hochul said.
Awesome! A snitch line. Will the counties be hiring COVID Fascists to travel around and go after businesses? And, I though the uber-Blue state of New York was a model for stopping the Chinese coronavirus? No?
New coronavirus cases spiked 66% in New York in the week ending Sunday, with 113,883 cases reported. The previous week had 68,591 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.
New York ranked third among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows.
Oops.
Read: New York Will Conduct Spot Checks On Mask Compliance »
What they really mean is at the table at some type of Christmas party
How to bring up climate change at the holiday dinner table without causing an argument
It would be an understatement to say that 2021 has been an eventful year. We’re heading into Christmas right off the back of a historic COP26 with climate change at the front of many people’s minds.
And in between other popular dinner table subjects, like politics, protests or the pandemic, you might find yourself wondering how to bring up your climate concerns.
We get it – environmental matters can often be divisive. Discussions can leave us disheartened, especially if the other party doesn’t share our convictions. We’ve all witnessed a dinner table political debate that has ended in disaster.
As a result, many of us are reluctant to initiate them.
While spending so much time around our families, it’s inevitable that the issues which matter to us will come up. So how do we broach these often contentious topics?
There is no right answer – avoiding them altogether is fine too – but getting a sense of how others approach the problem can provide some ideas on how to start the conversation.
The right answer is “leave your cult beliefs unsaid”
For young people, when their views don’t align with those in their family, discussions about climate change can be a particular source of tension.
Because young people have become more rigid than an 85 year old.
Nell, an 18 year old medical student, started to question where her food was coming from and the impact it was having in her early teens. After initially changing to a pescatarian diet, then vegetarian, reading more about the environmental impact of dairy eventually led to her becoming vegan.
“There was definitely an initial backlash and a lack of acceptance when I changed my diet in response to the climate crisis,” Nell says.
“My decision to eat plant-based, to my parents, possibly felt like I was rejecting their heritage and the way they were brought up, and shunning it. I wonder whether it ever felt to them that I was rejecting how they’d tried to raise me; bringing up feelings of doubt in their parenting skills, their own moral compasses, and their own social responsibility in regards to the crisis.”
Her parents probably didn’t give a crap. They probably just didn’t want to listen to all the Lectures and garbage. Nell can buy her own food, right? Nell is, like most of these youths, so far up her ass in her narcissism that she thinks any minor comment is a mountain.
It isn’t all just about presenting the facts. An open and frank discussion can go a long way to understanding why people have the responses that they do.
We know who’s going to be sitting at the kids table, because the adults just want to have an enjoyable dinner.
We’re hardwired to deal with stories, narratives that help us understand our place in the world. Telling these stories is an important part of getting the people we interact with on a daily basis to understand the importance of coming together to solve these big, global problems.
And wen you bring me stories, I’m going to ask you what changes you’ve made in your own life. When you deflect, I’m simply going to ignore you, because your a hypocrite and a cult member.
Read: It Starts: Advice To Climate Cultists On Bringing Up ‘Climate Change’ At The Dinner Table »
Who’s ready for the winter of death?
Nothing says "unity" like the head of Biden’s covid team telling everyone that is unvaccinated that they're “looking at a winter of severe illness and death.” pic.twitter.com/J0atcArmM5
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 20, 2021
And here’s Joe
(Breitbart) President Joe Biden said Tuesday unvaccinated Americans were not able to celebrate the holidays safely.
“I know some Americans are wondering if you can safely celebrate the holidays with family and friends,” Biden said during a speech at the White House. “The answer is, yes you can, if you and those who celebrate with you are vaccinated.”
He again urged Americans to get vaccinated and to get a booster shot and get their children five and over vaccinated.
“People with booster shots are highly protected,” he said. “Join them. Join us.”
Then he went on to blamestorm and fearmonger on the unvaccinated, because that’s totally going to make them change their minds. Especially when
President Joe Biden coughed throughout his speech on coronavirus, even after White House staff claimed he was asymptomatic after coming into contact with a person who later tested positive for the coronavirus.
The president spoke in a hoarse voice and coughed repeatedly as he spoke about the omicron variant of the coronavirus, urging Americans to get vaccinated.
Biden did not wear a mask while speaking, and walked away from the podium without putting his mask back on, even after asking all Americans to wear masks indoors.
This is a bad tweet. Asymptomatic implies he has COVID but has no symptoms. If he's tested negative for COVID, say that CLEARLY.
— Erin (@erinmtoo) December 21, 2021
And no mask, despite Joe’s own masking requirement.
(NBC News) The federal government next month will start mailing at-home Covid test kits for free to any U.S. household that requests one, a senior administration official said, as the omicron variant of the coronavirus contributes to a spike in new cases.
The White House is preparing to ship as many as 500 million kits, and it is setting up a website for people to submit their requests, the official said, without specifying how many tests each household can receive or how quickly.
This will do what, exactly? By the time people get the test in the mail they’ll be over the symptoms. This won’t stop anything, because they’ll already have it. This is after Psaki got snippy the earlier in the month about being asked about home testing. People are tuning this COVIDFascists out.
The cost of vehicles is already going up due to
Some manufacturers are even considering taking things out to keep costs down, such as moonroofs and power seats. The Infrastructure bill requires engine inhibitors to stop drunk driving, which could increase the price $500-$1,000. So, heck, why not make them even more expensive?
Biden admin announces tougher fuel mileage standards for passenger vehicles
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will tighten pollution standards for cars and light trucks in an attempt to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.
Why it matters: Transportation overall is the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, so tougher standards for passenger vehicles are a major part of efforts to curb CO2 output.
By the numbers: The new rules will require passenger vehicles to travel an average of 55 miles per gallon of gasoline by 2026.
What they’re saying: “The final rule for light duty vehicles reflect core principles of this Administration: We followed the science, we listened to stakeholders, and we are setting robust and rigorous standards that will aggressively reduce the pollution that is harming people and our planet — and save families money at the same time,” EPA chief Michael Regan said in a statement.
Did they listen to the actual citizens? Will the limos and all the chase vehicles Biden uses be required to conform, or, does he get a pass? All you people who voted for Biden, I don’t want to hear any complaints, this is on you for your stupid vote.
Meanwhile is climate cult world
The case for going to war against climate change
When I became a climate activist in early 2019, I focused on issues at the forefront of popular discourse: coal, cars, air travel, agriculture, and construction. I also addressed shipping, because my hometown, Hamburg in the north of Germany, is home to one of Europe’s biggest ports. But as climate protests grew bigger, peaking at 1.4 million people in Germany alone in September that year, the discourse did not evolve at the same pace. The same basic facts are debated today; solution implementation is still just starting; and even the overdue COP26 climate conference in Glasgow did not bring about paradigmatic change.
As a security analyst accustomed to working with soldiers of various backgrounds, I find the security perspective to be widely absent from the discourse. The climate crisis is here, and security professionals like me now must fully grasp the extent to which we are affected by it, and what our role in solving it can be, because it directly intersects with our fundamental purpose.
Security, remember, is what this is all about. We are not protecting the climate. We are protecting ourselves.
Nice to see the Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists going full doomsday cult. I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis act like it in their own lives.
I do not ask my colleagues—in or out of uniform—to join climate activists in the streets, though they are very welcome to do so. But security professionals must reframe today’s hand-waving about climate and treat it as a military-style threat that requires immediate and decisive action.
Read: Brandon Admin Raises CAFE Standards To Fight Hotcoldwetdry »
…is horrible capitalism which creates a giant, wasteful bear instead of carbon credits, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on the Grinch of the year.
Read: If All You See… »
Wrongthink by Conservatives, of course
Pentagon has new definition for extremism in the ranks
The Pentagon on Monday issued a new definition of prohibited extremist activities providing military commanders with specific information that will help them determine whether service members are actively participating in extremist activities.
Commanders will also receive specific guidance for what to look for in past social media activity to help them identify whether a service member is participating actively in such activities.
The Pentagon’s new specific definition of prohibited extremist activities was prompted by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that led Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to order an unprecedented one-day stand down for service members to discuss extremism in their ranks and what to do about it.
The Pentagon’s new definition goes beyond the previous definition of prohibited extremist activities that was considered too vague. But it maintains the focus on active participation in a prohibited activity as opposed to membership in a group, support for an ideology, or opposition to a political leader which are protected under the First Amendment’s right of expression.
Right, right, protected by the 1st Amendment. It looks like the military will be scouring members social media, and going after them specifically for their political beliefs.
Military commanders will be provided with a “two-part test” that first focuses on allegations of alleged extremist activity and then looks at whether there is active participation.
Fourteen categories will help commanders determine if a service member is an active participant in extremist activities. (snip)
The new policy will include guidance for how military commanders can take a service members past social media activity when reviewing whether that service member is actively participating in extremist activity.
So, a witch hunt.
The ABC article fails to provide any depth, because that would give the game away. The link in the first excerpt goes to the policy, and, starting on page 10, we see what they’re looking for. By their definition, if you are against abortion on demand you are an extremist. Donate to the wrong politician? An extremist. Democrats have tried to turn most on the political right into terrorists, so, military members who vote Republican will be extremists. The terms are actually not well defined, so, they can mean whatever the going Woke military says they are. And you can bet if you have one supporting the Oath Keepers and one supporting BLM/Antifa, the former is in big trouble while the latter isn’t. You can have one being a white nationalist and another being a black supremacist, and the white is in big trouble.
Don’t want to attend a critical race theory symposium or something similar? Extremist. This is going to cause a lot of people who would otherwise join the military from doing so, simply because they do not want to deal with the hassle, to go with all the other Woke stuff the military is doing, so, we’ll be left with Nancy and Soy boys, transgenders, and Wokesters who won’t fight.
Read: Pentagon Trots Out New Definition Of Extremism, Targets Wrongthing »
Remember the fun old one the climate cultists trotted out, Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past? You can’t read the link, because they disappeared it, but, Watts Up With That? has it here. And it include the wonderful line “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” LOL. There have been plenty of other prognostications, like just last year when they said the UK would no longer get snow. The children thing, though, was meant to tug on the emotion strings, because showing the science was problematic. Hence
Will Climate Change Make White Christmases a Thing of the Past?
For those who dream year after year for a white Christmas, that could one day be a thing of the past. According to a recent analysis of December weather over the past four decades, snow measurements across the U.S. on December 25 have dropped since the 1980s.
While scientists note that the decreases are still small, it hasn’t gone unnoticed by people across the country.
From 1981 to 1990, December temperatures remained below freezing, and about 47% of the country had snow for Christmas. The average depth of snow measured at 3.5 inches, as recorded by the University of Arizona on behalf of the Associated Press. But in 2011 to 2020, the average December temperature hovered around 35°F, and snow covered just 38% of the country on Christmas day at a depth of 2.7 inches. (snip)
There is some concern that we’ll experience even fewer white Christmases in the future, making this scenario a nostalgic memory rather than a reality.
“With climate warming, the prospects of a white Christmas in many parts of the U.S.A. will be slim indeed,” Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, tells AP.
Well, it’s shocking that a Holocene warm period would see less snow, just like the other warm periods. Shocking! It’s interesting, though, that they only include this short time period. Interestingly, if you look from the 20’s into the 30’s, there was a much more pronounced warming than the time included in the study. By several degrees, vs. just .79F. What caused that? There weren’t that many fossil fueled vehicles, and we were supposedly “safe” below 350ppm of CO2.
A separate study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also shows declining probabilities of snow on Christmas for much of the U.S., with major decreases in the chance of snow in Washington and Iowa. In Dubuque, Iowa, chances of a white Christmas dropped from 63% in 1981 to 2010 to 42% today, a whopping 21% decrease. In Walla Walla, Washington, there is now less than a 10% chance for snow on December 25, down from 19% in 1981 to 2010.
There are, however, slight increases in snow probability on Christmas for New York, Philadelphia and Concord, New Hampshire.
So, things change? Huh.
Read: Uh Oh: White Christmas’ Could Become A Thing Of The Past Or Something »
He’s correct. I just wish he had done this last February. If Brandon and his handlers were smart, they would have enlisted his help and given a united front, saying “we’re putting aside politics for this.” You can bet if Trump had won reelection then Democrats would have been very much against the vaccines
Trump tells supporters ‘you’re playing right into their hands’ by doubting the COVID-19 vaccine
Former President Donald Trump urged his supporters on Sunday to get a booster shot of one of the COVID-19 vaccines to protect themselves against the Omicron variant, telling them they were “playing right into their hands” by doubting the vaccines.
Sitting alongside the former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly at a stadium in Dallas, Trump touted his administration’s contribution toward developing the vaccines as part of Operation Warp Speed.
“Look, we did something that was historic,” he said. “We saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. We, together, all of us, not me.”
He added that without the vaccine, millions more people would have died from the virus.
He then told his supporters to “take credit” for the vaccine, saying they shouldn’t “let them take it away.”
“You’re playing right into their hands when you’re sort of, like, ‘Oh, the vaccine,'” he said, referring to those of his supporters who have expressed hesitancy about or opposition to the vaccine.
“If you don’t want to take it, you shouldn’t be forced to take it — no mandates,” he added. “But take credit because we saved tens of millions of lives.”
Remember, Biden, Kamala, and so many Democrats were saying they would not take a vaccine developed under Trump (even though this was being developed in other countries by the same drug companies). But, since Joe won and decided to take credit, Democrats were all in favor of it. And so many Republicans were now against it (along with lots of Black and Latino Democrat voters). Be proud that your president pushed hard to get the vaccines developed and approved and available.
The vaccines would never have been developed under a Democrat, and perhaps even under most Republicans. Trump made it happen here in the U.S.
Trump took the booster, probably because he realized it was smart. Don’t worry about protecting anyone else, do it to protect yourself. If you haven’t gotten the vaccine at all, do it for yourself. Of course, Let’s Go Brandon planning to give another finger wagging Doom Is Coming speech tonight won’t help.
Read: The Donald Tells Supporters To Stop Doubting The Chinese Coronavirus Vaccines »
Advocating to Do Something about ‘climate change’ is all fun and games until you are actually forced to play
Oxfordshire council sparks anger over decision to serve only vegan food at events
A debate surrounding veganism has erupted in the Oxfordshire county council after a rule was passed banning meat and dairy products from being served at official events.
On Tuesday 14 December, counsellor Ian Middleton proposed the motion prompting a 90-minute debate among the ruling Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green Party alliance.
The motion, which was agreed, read as follows: “This council recognises that global meat and dairy production is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation and that reducing consumption of these foods is a key part of tackling climate change.
“The government’s independent Climate Change Committee, advises that meat consumption should be reduced by a fifth, and that public bodies should promote plant-based foods. That and the avoidance of food waste are powerful ways to cut carbon emissions.
I wonder if all those councilors have gone vegan themselves, cut out all meat in their own lives?
However, not all councillors are in agreement with the motion.
David Bartholomew, an opposition Conservative councillor, told The Times: “The Conservative opposition believes that veganism is a choice that should be respected.
“But it is not something that should be rammed down the throats of vegetarians and meat eaters. A carrot not a stick approach should be employed.”
I wonder if the climate cultists bothered to ask their constituents, or simply said “the peons will do as we say”? Because the Warmists do so like the stick approach. It’s just about all they know. Middleton goes on
“Meals are provided to council six times a year. I felt that we should be embracing the opportunity to set an example and send the message out. I’d have thought that anyone with a genuine concern about the future of the ecosphere would see that as a pretty modest sacrifice for the sake of future generations.
“I’m not suggesting that all councillors should become vegan but that on those occasions food provided by the council should be plant-based. Councillors who don’t want to eat it don’t have to eat in the council chamber.”
The Warmist way or no way.
Read: People In Oxfordshire Are A Bit Mad At All Vegan At Official Events »
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