Who’s Up For An “Office Of Environmental Justice” In The DOJ?

By William Teach May 6, 2022 – 10:00 am

This would be the time I usually write “so, when’s AG Garland going to give up his own fossil fueled travel and make his life carbon neutral? How about the operations of the DOJ?” But, this is actually rather dangerous, as they are weaponizing the climate cult via the Department Of Justice

Here’s from his statement

Today, I am announcing three actions that the Department is taking to advance environmental justice.

First, consistent with the President’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, we are issuing a comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy. Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta will discuss that strategy in just a moment.

Second, I am pleased to announce that we are launching the Justice Department’s first-ever Office of Environmental Justice to oversee and help guide the Justice Department’s wide-ranging environmental justice efforts. Like all parts of government, it will get its own acronym: OEJ.

And third, the Justice Department is issuing an Interim Final Rule that will restore the use of an important law enforcement tool – supplemental environmental projects – subject to new guidelines and limitations that I will also be issuing today.

Administrator Regan and I know that the communities most impacted by environmental harm are not isolated in any one part of our country. Environmental crime and injustice touch communities in all our cities, towns, rural areas, and on Tribal lands.

Although violations of our environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution, and climate change.

This is using the power of the federal justice department to go after any who engage in Wrongthink on ‘climate change’. This is the logical (sic) extension of what the Cult of Climastrology has been working towards, having the federal government threaten non-adherents with investigation and prosecution, and then prosecution. It’s meant to scare people, to cow them, make them be quiet, make them Comply. Using the federal government as an authoritarian entity. Creating Green Shirts with prosecutorial powers.

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Capybaras Invading Gated Communities Is A Lesson In The Climate Crisis (scam) Era

By William Teach May 6, 2022 – 7:00 am

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Mankind invading the ranges of other animals, and the animals becoming not particularly concerned with invading back, right? Nope, it’s all because you drive a fossil fueled vehicle

Giant Rodents ‘Invaded’ a Wealthy Gated Community. What Happened Next is a Lesson for Cities in the Climate Change Era

Gated communities are known for their manicured lawns, swimming pools, and wealthy residents. In Argentina, they’re also known as the home of the world’s largest rodents.

On a drizzly afternoon in March 2022, a family of nine capybaras—the larger ones weighing in at around 130 pounds—huddle together under the hedges that surround a famous soccer player’s mansion. Munching intently on the grass, they barely look up when approached by cars or humans. These are just a few of the hundreds of capybaras that have taken over Nordelta, a private neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, over the last two years.

The capybaras have always been present here. For the first two decades after the community’s construction in 1999, they kept themselves hidden, coming out only at night and darting from trees to lakes. But that began to change in 2020. With Nordelta’s well-heeled human residents confined to their homes by Argentina’s long and strict COVID-19 lockdown, its furrier inhabitants thrived. Spreading out across now empty parks, they reproduced rapidly, boosting their numbers by 16% in one year, according to estimates by local scientists. Then, after an unusually dry winter hit Argentina in June 2021, killing much of the grass in public areas, the capybaras got even bolder, crossing roads and venturing into private gardens.

There’s a golf club up in Monmouth County, NJ, where I used to play, and the groundhogs would not move for you. You walked around them. They were content to eat the grass and seeds. The capybaras got used to the humans. But, see, everything must be linked to climate doom, and always in the most doomy manner

But for all the anger leveled at Nordelta, the neighborhood does have a real problem on its hands: how do you deal with an influx of wildlife that wasn’t there before in densely populated urban space? Cities around the world are increasingly having to answer that question. The expansion of urban areas, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is destroying the forests, wetlands and other ecosystems where animals have historically thrived. And at the same time, cities have become “incredibly enriched environments,” often containing an abundance of food, water, and shelter compared to their surrounding areas, says Peter Alagona, an environmental historian and author of The Accidental Ecosystem. The result is that animals losing their natural habitats are increasingly making the city their home.

Now, take out the silly climate change part, and you’re left with a perfectly reasonable article. There are tons of deer in my area. Pretty sure there are coyotes and other predators that walk along the greenway. It has nothing to do with ‘climate change.’ Most of the article is all about land use and the spread of suburban and urban areas. Since it is a cult, we get things like

As the global conversation around the importance of preserving biodiversity gets louder, many cities are trying to change their designs to enable humans and animals to share urban space in a climate-changed world.

It was fine right up to the climate change idiocy.

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Baby Killing Democrats Schedule Vote On Making Abortion Legal

By William Teach May 6, 2022 – 6:45 am

They have no one to blame but themselves. They’ve gone from “safe, rare, and legal” to unhinged, wanting zero restrictions up to and right after birth, celebrating their abortions (including those who’ve had lots of them), holding them up as triumphs

(Breitbart) No sane person, no decent person, not even someone who is pro-abortion, sees abortion as anything other than an unfortunate event. And that’s how Democrats and their corporate media allies used to discuss abortion, as an unfortunate but sometimes necessary thing. Their tone around abortion was solemn and thoughtful; this was not something to be taken lightly.

The only way to describe the left’s tone around abortion today is demonic.

What was solemn has become strident and boastful. What was not taken lightly is now championed — including the harvesting of dead baby organs. The murder of the unborn is now outright celebrated and cheered. It is beyond grotesque, and how can any person of good conscience sit back and allow such evil against helpless innocence to carry the day?

It’s worth reading the whole piece by Jon Nolte. And now

Democrats to force vote next week on Roe v. Wade decision

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will force a vote next week on legislation codifying Roe v. Wade in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft decision that would strike down the landmark case.

The test procedural vote is guaranteed to fall short because the bill needs 60 votes to advance, but Democrats are eager to make Republicans go on the record and show their own voters that they are fighting.

“Next week the U.S. Senate is going to vote on legislation to codify a woman’s right to seek abortion into federal law,” Schumer said from the Senate floor.

Schumer will move to tee up the bill on Monday, setting up an initial vote for Wednesday.

It will be the second vote Schumer has forced on the issue. The Senate previously rejected a similar bill in a 46-48 vote earlier this year, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voting with Senate Republicans.

They won’t get 60, and, if they think going on the record as being for abortion on demand, in celebrating abortion, it won’t play well for middle America. Those who aren’t pro-abortion extremists, aren’t ghouls, will see the theatrics from the elected Democrats and the crazies outside the Congressional building, and it will be a bad look.

Will they attempt to pass it by killing off the filibuster? They have to know that doing that will boomerang back in the future. And, they might not get Manchin to vote for it. Of course, there’s always lunatics like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.

A Politico-Morning Consult poll released Wednesday found that 50 percent of voters believe the landmark case that guarantees abortion access should not be overturned, while 28 percent said that it should be overturned.

We don’t run the Constitution by public opinion. And states can choose to have abortion be legal. That’s where it should be: the states.

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Climate And Racial Justice Intersect Or Something

By William Teach May 5, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Because this is 100% about science and not politics

Where climate change and racial justice intersect

Black people need to be more aware of climate change and how it shapes our lives, contends Colette Pichon Battle, the founder and co-executive director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy.

In her position, Battle develops programming focused on equitable disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development, climate justice and energy democracy. She was in town last week for the Westminster Town Hall series on climate change science and solutions.

She spoke to the MSR a few hours before her April 27 appearance at Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis. “I feel like Black folks have got to wake up to this because we are going to be the first ones hit and sacrificed,” said Battle, “and always we’re the first ones to perish in this thing that we are not paying any attention to.”

Funny thing is, blacks have been at the low end of the spectrum of caring about the climate crisis scam. It is mostly an upper middle class white 1st world issue. Here it comes

She has worked with local communities, elected officials, and others in the post-Katrina and post-Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster recovery and actively advocates for climate change mitigation and adaptation with racial justice and equity at its core.

“I think we’re dealing with an industry that has the most power in the world, especially in our government, especially in the South,” continued Battle. “And they were really trying to avoid liability and accountability at all costs, and make record profits. The truth is, this has been a political move from the beginning.”

Yes, a political move. She might be trying to Blame the fossil fuels industry, but, she exposes that ‘climate change’ is about politics.

“It’s not going to be won by protests in the streets alone. It’s only going to be won when regular people like you and me stand up and start fighting, not just for the trees and the birds and the soil of this planet, but for the people who exist in that broader ecosystem.”

She continued, “The biggest thing we suffer from especially in this country is comfort and privilege. We live in such comfort and such privilege that we do not have to turn our eyes to see what is happening to the rest of the world. We do not have to think about all of the communities that are suffering so we can be comfortable.

“We have to tell the truth that it is American consumption that is driving a global imbalance. One American consumes as much energy as 13 people in China, as much energy as 127 people in Bangladesh, as much as 307 people in Tanzania.

OK, you first. Give up your 1st World lifestyle. Get your fellow Warmists to do the same.

As we wrapped up our MSR interview, Battle reiterated the importance of Black people realizing that the climate crisis, now in a pandemic world, is not a White people’s problem. “I want Black folks to know that climate is about Black lives,” she said.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 5, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle causing the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post wondering just how that bail reform is working out.

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Brandon Now Blames “MAGA Crowd” For Everything Going Wrong

By William Teach May 5, 2022 – 10:30 am

I guess Let’s Go Brandon has given up on the whole “Putin’s price hike” shtick

‘MAGA crowd’ is Biden’s new nemesis, as Democrats confront post-Roe political reality

After a day of political tumult, President Biden had a phrase for the forces he believes are responsible for a conservative Supreme Court poised to undo the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. The forces holding back the economy from a full recovery. The forces that on Tuesday turned J.D. Vance into the GOP U.S. Senate nominee from Ohio.

“The MAGA crowd.”

There was even the “ultra-MAGA” crowd, presumably a more extreme manifestation of former President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” As far as Democrats are concerned, that is the official slogan of the Republican Party.

Democrats have a problem with American being great? Huh.

Biden used the phrase several times during Wednesday’s remarks on the economy. He had used it once before, at a fundraiser in Denver last month, but only in passing. This time, the use seemed more intentional, coming on a day when the nation’s political divides seemed as stark as ever.

It was by installing three Supreme Court justices that Trump brought the nation to the doorstep of a post-Roe world, in which women in conservative states will likely be prevented from getting abortions. Always threatened, the 1973 decision had survived until now. If the arguments in the high court’s leaked draft opinion hold, states will decide on their own whether to grant any abortion rights.

Which makes Democrats upset, because they want the Central Government to dictate everything.

“MAGA Republicans,” Biden said Wednesday, repeating the phrase several times. “I don’t want to mispronounce it,” he joked.

Like he mispronounces so many other things.

Asked by Yahoo News earlier this year about working with Republicans, the president expressed exasperation. “I, honest to God, don’t know what they’re for,” he conceded. Four months later, the president’s conclusion is that the party remains Trump’s — and likely will for many years to come, if the Vance primary victory is any indication.

We’re for most of those things you’re against, Joe. Always have been.

The president sought to deflect blame, in a potential preview of the kinds of attacks he and other Democrats will make as the midterms approach. “Let me tell you about this ultra-MAGA agenda. It’s extreme, as most MAGA things are,” he said. A deputy White House press secretary shared a cable news clip of the president’s sharp indictment.

Rather than taking the blame, as Joe said he would before the election, he must find scapegoats for his abysmal performance and horrible policies.

(Fox News) BRIAN KILMEADE: Tonight, American cities are on edge after a night of violence last night, mostly peaceful protesters right? They were up in arms over the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, approaching it intellectually, by chucking rocks, bottles and smashing car windows and hurting police officers.

Keep in mind, the Supreme Court hasn’t even overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the abortion rights to the states. This is the left’s warning: “Do what we say, or we will burn your country down.” It’s not an exaggeration. Many of them have taken to social media to threaten exactly that.

He’s 100% correct. And, fortunately, Biden has now placed targets right on all the people he disagrees with and give the unhinged, violent left the ability to get violent with those Joe disagrees with.

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Proximity To Equator Determines GDP Doom From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 5, 2022 – 7:00 am

Well, now, this is a new one from the climate cult (you can also read it at Yahoo News but, they don’t have the interesting interactive graphic)

If You Want to Know a Country’s Economic Future, Check How Far It Is From the Equator

It’s no secret that global climate change hurts the economy. With more frequent and more severe storms, flooding, drought, and fires, countries around the world are already taking economic hits. And as long-term events like rising sea levels and temperature patterns continue to affect agriculture and human health, the economic damage will only grow.

The impact, however, will be unequally distributed. A recent report from S&P Global assessed how 135 countries might be affected by climate-related events in 2050. The economic risk levels ranged from 0% of GDP (indicating that the economy will likely not be exposed to climate hazards) to 100% of GDP (the entire economy could be exposed to climate hazards). The measurement predicts only economic vulnerability—not economic loss. For example, a country with 80% GDP exposure doesn’t mean that 80% of the economy will be wiped out in 30 years, but rather that 80% of the economy is at risk of experiencing a loss.

Using these percentages, TIME “mapped” countries on a blue-to-red scale to see which economies are in least and most danger. But instead of a standard map—one with, say, borders and oceans—we looked at each country as a latitudinal point. The result was a chart that looks a bit like a volcano turned sideways.

In other words, they really have no idea what’s going to happen, they just want to scare people.

What this shows is that economies that have huge physical climate risk—in some cases 100% exposed—are generally within 20 degrees of the equator. And none are in the far northern or southern parts of the globe. On the other hand, countries that have minimal risk are from a wide range of latitudes, but skew more to the poles.

To arrive at these numbers, S&P Global researchers considered how much of each country’s area is prone to experience wildfires, storms, floods, and rising sea levels, as well as how much of agricultural land is at risk of water stress, and workforce population impacted by extreme heat.

So, basically, the closer to the equator, the more chance for Economic Doom, per the climate cult. Per that pithy interactive graphic, the US could see a 44% exposure. Canada is at 27%. Weirdly, many are zero percent exposed, all those on the far left. Germany and the UK, among others, are at 1%. Bermuda, an island out in the middle of the Atlantic, is at zero. Despite getting hit with tropical systems every once in a while. It’s really about coming up with a new way to scare people, especially those in government, to force Solutions on citizens.

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Hot Take: The Supreme Court Is A Tool Of Tyrants

By William Teach May 5, 2022 – 6:45 am

Remember the days when liberals would tell us that things just aren’t black and white, that there are shades of grey? That there’s no need for absolutes? Well, then, along came George W. Bush, who drove them in Bush Derangement Syndrome. This infested the Credentialed Media. And the rise of blogs and digital media, so, rather than positioning themselves as Honest News, they went the Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, Media Matters, and Think Progress route. Lots and lots of the bloggers moved into the Credentialed Media. And they went crazier with Obama in office, this time with their adulation. Then more insane with Trump in office. And anything that goes against their beliefs is The Worst Thing Ever

The Supreme Court Is a Tool of Tyrants

Most Americans do not want to ban abortion. About 60 percent believe the procedure should be legal in all or most cases, the Pew Research Center reported last year. Should the Supreme Court indeed overturn Roe v. Wade, as a leaked draft of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization suggests, there is every reason to believe the decision will be unpopular. Yet public opinion matters little to the right wing and conservatives are organizing behind a national abortion ban, according to the Washington Post. “This is a whole new ballgame,” Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life Action, told the newspaper. “The 50 years of standing at the Supreme Court’s door waiting for something to happen is over.”

Public opinion means exactly zero when it comes to deciding whether something is Constitutional or not. That’s why it’s called a Constitutional Republic. BTW, some polls go the other way.

There will soon be no reason for them to linger outside the Court in hope. The right’s long war to ban abortion in the United States may be nearing its conclusion. The draft opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito, argues that “a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions.” Women should not fear, he asserts later, because they “are not without electoral or political power.” This is thin comfort. Pro-choice women can influence their fates through direct action: by breaking unjust laws, or by filling streets in the defense of their bodies. Electorally, however, their powers are limited by the influence of an anti-democratic conservative movement.

It won’t be illegal everywhere. It’s a state’s rights issue. Perhaps women will stop using abortion as contraception, and start realizing that having risky, irresponsible, unprotected sex is not a good idea. Men, too. But, men do not have to worry about a bun in their oven. And, if they do not like what the state passes, they can move to another state, or try and get people elected who will change the law.

What is happening inside the Supreme Court is not the triumph of the American people but rather the success of a well-funded minoritarian faction. The battle for abortion pits the electoral and political power of a pro-choice majority against that of conservative elites, and it is easy to see who is winning. (Conservatives have focused their attention and ire on the leaked opinion because they view it as a crime committed against them. The court is theirs; anyone who violates its sanctity is an enemy. The possibility that the leaker might be a conservative does not change this basic calculus.) Anti-abortion activists have discovered that with enough elite power at their disposal, they can comfortably ignore the wishes of the people. Their stance on abortion predisposes them to a tyrannical form of politics. If abortion kills a human being, then public opinion does not matter; in fact, to defer to the public is to become complicit in mass murder.

See? We don’t like the way the Supreme Court might rule based on the Constitution, so, it’s tyranny, and we’re going to come up with all sorts of Theories. These people are nuts, and prefer mob rule, with no guiding principles.

The piece goes on and on, but, I do have to throw this in

When the justices formally rule on Dobbs, and surely strike down Roe, they will continue a anti-democratic tradition that includes Bush v. Gore, which overruled the popular vote and put George W. Bush in office;…

They just cannot Move On. This still drives them nuts. Those who know this was the proper ruling based on the laws of Florida are fine with it. I voted for Gore in 2000, so, while I was disappointed, I understood The Law. For the moonbat BDS infused lefties, they do not care, they still lose their minds for not getting their way.

Anyhow, if a liberal within the office of the Supreme Court leaked it, they might have hurt Democrats more, because seeing them out in the streets, getting violent, protest, going full moonbat in favor of killing the unborn could swing many people over to vote Republican.

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Good News: Reproductive Health Is Climate Justice

By William Teach May 4, 2022 – 4:51 pm

Like I said yesterday, the Cult Of Climastrology will always glom onto any issue, because it’s a cult. And, most climate cultists are lefties, meaning they support abortion on demand

It’s all connected! It’s almost no even necessary to link the article

We need to stop debating which methods are going to work and realize we need to build a whole ecosystem of change-making.

I’ve worked in electoral politics for almost 17 years. I’ve been a communications director, I’ve worked for nonprofits where my main job is to get people to vote.

And let me tell you, it’s more important now than ever that we stop telling people that voting is the solution.

Voting is one small piece of what it means to be an active citizen. There are all kinds of things that go with it—door knocking, getting out the vote, holding our elected officials accountable—that have to be done together to have a solid strategy for change-making through the electoral process.

But electoral work alone is also not the answer to our current situation. We need to reach beyond our comfort zones, join movements, build mutual aid efforts, and get ready to break laws that we know are unjust.

How did we even get here? The backslide of reproductive rights, the refusal to take action on climate, the attacks on trans kids… none of this happened overnight. It’s all connected, part of a decades-long strategy by the wealthiest, most powerful corporate and political elite. And they aren’t going to stop. Court watchers are already predicting that the next attacks will be on equal marriage, LGBTQ rights, birth control, even interracial marriage.

Got that? Voting isn’t the solution. Breaking the law is. Forcing That Guy to comply is. And people wondered, all the way back to 2005 when I became a skeptic, and still wonder why I say that ‘climate change’ has little to do with actual science almost everything to do with Progressive (nice Fascism) politics. Even if the climate changes since 1850 were mostly caused by Mankind, the solutions are all about Control. Force. You are not allowed to engage in Wrongthink. And they will link everything together. Because they’re nuts.

And they’re still the same old racists they were from the Civil War era. They want black babies aborted. You know who else wants this? Nazis, white supremacists, and their ilk. Even though some of them say they’re highly religious, they support that blacks have a much higher percent of aborted babies than anyone else.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 4, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a cloudy sky from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on how much a heat pump will cost (20K pounds is $25k US).

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