NY Governor Implements Vax Or Mandate Order

By William Teach December 11, 2021 – 10:30 am

This won’t hurt businesses who are still trying to recover at all, eh, and cause people to forgo visiting New York

Gov. Hochul orders new statewide mask or vax mandate as COVID surges

Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered indoor public places statewide — like restaurants and shops — to require that staff and customers either show proof of vaccination or wear masks as officials try to staunch a slew of coronavirus outbreaks hitting upstate hard.

The new mandate will take effect Monday and applies statewide. It will remain in force until Jan. 15, when it could be extended, officials said.

“I have to protect people but also the economy. I want to make sure that the little businesses that were hurt so hard during the pandemic in a shutdown — resulting in their loss of income, [and] the loss of income of all the people who work for them,” said Hochul at an unrelated event in Manhattan, after announcing the mandate. “We have to prevent that from happening.”

This will turn all business owners and workers into Mandate Police, forcing them to ask every worker and patron for proof of vaccination, and, without, making them mask up. Or get fined

Businesses that fail to enforce the rules could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, including a maximum fine of $1,000 for each violation.

So, businesses, already on the edge, will have to pretty much task one person with being at the door at all times.

A top public relations executive in New York called it a big blow to employers’ efforts to get their businesses — and the city — back to normal functioning.

From a business perspective it’s very damaging for back-to-office,” said Ronn Torossian, who heads the firm 5WPR. “It’s already cold outside and then to sit in an office and wear a mask.

“Businesses have to tread lightly getting people back to the office anyway. Everyone is dealing with labor shortages. This might be a good move for public health but it’s certainly not positive for the back to work effort.”

Yes, they do, and the workers will be the ones on the front lines of dealing with pissed off customers. NBC NY notes the places you still have to mask even if vaccinated

People who aren’t vaccinated are still responsible for wearing masks, in accordance with federal CDC guidance. The state’s masking requirements continue to be in effect for pre-K to grade 12 schools, public transit, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, nursing homes and healthcare settings per CDC guidelines.

So, yeah, school kids are still required to mask up, even if vaccinated.

Most reported U.S. Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated -CDC

Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday.

How soon till NY considers full vaccination to be those who had the booster, which seems less than effective against the mostly mild Omicron?

You might be saying “but, she’s fully vaccinated!” But, she’s in a government office building, where there is a requirement to wear a mask.

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Over Half Of Young Folks Think Planet Is Doomed From Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach December 11, 2021 – 7:28 am

Most of the young folks are doing virtually nothing to reduce their own carbon footprint, but, they’re totally worried

More than half of young people surveyed think ‘humanity is doomed’ due to climate change

Global citizens under the age of 25 roundly believe that governments are letting them down when it comes to an aggressive handling of global warming and dangerous weather — and they’re fed up with being told to meditate to cope.

Nearly 60% of young people surveyed said they were “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change, and 45% said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning, according to a study published Thursday in the science journal The Lancet Planetary Health.

See? They have the chance to practice what they preach, but, no, they want government to force everyone to live the climate cult life, failing to realize that all these restrictions and taxes and fees and such will negatively effect their own lives.

“I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom,” said Mitzi Tan, a 23-year-old from the Philippines, who was featured in the study’s report. The query included 10,000 participants aged 16 to 25 across 10 countries: the U.S., the U.K., France, Finland, Australia, Portugal, India, Nigeria, the Philippines and Brazil.

“Society tells me that this anxiety is an irrational fear that needs to be overcome — one that meditation and healthy coping mechanisms will ‘fix,’” Tan said. “But that erases the accountability from those who are directly causing this fear. At its root, our climate anxiety comes from this deep-set feeling of betrayal because of government inaction. To truly address our growing climate anxiety, we need justice.”

It is irrational. And those who are accountable are the climate cult elites who are stoking doom and gloom on a constant basis.

Three-quarters of respondents said they believe “the future is frightening,” and 56% felt “humanity is doomed.”

One question in the study asks about their feelings. Most are angry, sad, anxious, afraid, but only 50% feel guilty. Not guilty enough to make changes in their own lives, of course.

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Biden Yammers About Bipartisanship Of A Bygone Era At Bob Dole’s Funeral

By William Teach December 11, 2021 – 7:18 am

Democrats love turning funerals into personal political platforms

At Bob Dole’s funeral, Biden recalls bipartisanship of a bygone era

As they sat inside Washington National Cathedral awaiting the arrival of President Biden at the funeral of the late Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., on Friday, former President Bill Clinton chatted with former Vice President Dan Quayle. To Quayle’s left was former Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Mike Pence. Across the aisle, Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, sat patiently. A few rows away, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas — one of the few attendees not wearing a mask — smiled as he talked with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer scoured the funeral program while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell checked his phone.

They all stood as Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff took their seats, and stood again as Dole’s casket was carried into the cathedral.

It would be unremarkable if it wasn’t such a rare occurrence in Washington: lawmakers, leaders and luminaries from both parties coming together with a shared purpose — in this case, honoring the life of Dole, the former Republican Senate leader, 1996 Republican presidential nominee and World War II hero, who died Sunday at age 98. (snip)

“We disagreed, but we were never disagreeable with one another,” Biden said in his eulogy. “I found Bob to be a man of principle, pragmatism and enormous integrity. He came into the arena with certain guiding principles to begin with: devotion to country, to fair play, to decency, to dignity, to honor, to literally attempting to find the common good.” (snip)

Biden also pointed to numerous examples of Dole working with Democrats to pass bipartisan legislation, including the bill that made Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a federal holiday.

That’s an interesting take, that highlights the vast difference between Brandon and Dole: Biden is not doing a damned thing that’s bipartisan in his agenda. And, really, hasn’t this decade. Certainly not while Vice President under Obama. His Build Back Better is certainly 100% partisan. His vaccine mandates, the way he abandoned Afghanistan, his illegal alien policies, you name it. None of it is bipartisan.

“Bob Dole was a man of his word. He loved his country, which he served his whole life. And Bob Dole, for all his hardship, believed he’d been given the greatest gift of all: He was an American. He was an American. And he felt it.”

Biden, like most Democrats only loves the notion of an America that is completely changed. One that’s a Socialist nation with vast restrictions on every citizen.

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California To Crack Down On Food Waste In The Name Of Climate Doom

By William Teach December 10, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Hey, this is what you voted for in the People’s Republik Of California, so, no complaining

Food waste becomes California’s newest climate change target

Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trashcans under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that’s set to take effect in January.

The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste that damages the atmosphere as it decays. When food scraps and other organic materials break down they emit methane, a greenhouse gas more potent and damaging in the short-term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

To avoid those emissions, California plans to start converting residents’ food waste into compost or energy, becoming the second state in the U.S. to do so after Vermont launched a similar program last year.

Most people in California will be required to toss excess food into green waste bins rather than the trash. Municipalities will then turn the food waste into compost or use it to create biogas, an energy source that is similar to natural gas. (snip)

Davis is among California cities that already have a mandatory food recycling program. Joy Klineberg, a mother of three, puts coffee grounds, fruit rinds and cooking scraps into a metal bin labeled “compost” on her countertop. When preparing dinners, she empties excess food from the cutting board into the bin.

Sounds like fun, eh? Keeping all your dead food in storage containers in the house, as well as lots of containers outside stinking the whole place up, eh?

California eyes tough standards for trucks, lawn equipment

Forget speeding tickets — California truck drivers will soon have to watch out for pollution tickets.

State regulators on Thursday voted to crack down on heavy duty trucks weighing more than 14,000 pounds (6,350 kilograms) — those big semi-trailers that make up just 3% of all vehicles in California but spend so much time on the road they account for more than half of all pollution from cars and trucks each year.

New rules will require these big trucks, including ones from other states passing through Califonria — to be tested at least four times per year to make sure they meet the state’s standards for particulate matter and ozone pollution.

And now truckers will start avoiding California even more, and there will be few truckers willing to work in California. Have fun with that supply chain!

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 10, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that will soon disappear from mountains, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Da Techguy’s Blog, with a post on COVID becoming a racket.

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Brandon Rebrands Build Back Better, But, Same Old Bad Agenda

By William Teach December 10, 2021 – 10:30 am

If the Build Back Better “human infrastructure” bill was so great, would there be a need to rebrand (reBrandonize?) it?

WH has new slogan on infrastructure, but message the same

President Joe Biden unveiled a new slogan for his $1 trillion infrastructure package on Wednesday, but his overall message is staying largely the same.

Biden, trying to rebound from sagging poll numbers, rebranded his Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework as “Building a Better America.” He spoke at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, surrounded by buses and signs featuring the new slogan as he continued a weeks long tour to put greater focus on the planned spending for roads, bridges, water systems, broadband and greater resilience against climate change.

How is this in any way bipartisan? Not one Republican voted for it in the House.

The economy has revived since Biden took office, but high inflation, political polarization and the inability to fully break free of the coronavirus pandemic have all hurt his popularity. The new slogan for his big, just-passed infrastructure package says the president’s bipartisan deal will improve the country in ways well beyond repairing its aging roads and bridges.

Revived? Well, perhaps a bit from when government was closing everything down.

“We’re talking about rebuilding America, investing in America, building a better America,” Biden said.

The new slogan hews closely to Biden’s separate “Build Back Better” agenda of tax hikes on the wealthy and an expansion of education, family and environmental programs still pending in the Senate. That slogan, too, has its critics, who say it makes it challenging for people to easily grasp all that’s in the package.

The Associated Press is now doing press releases for Team Brandon, forgetting that it eliminated SALT, which benefits rich people in high tax Democratic Party run states. As far as building a better America, they never really go into details about how that works, because that would freak people out over the expansion of the Central Government.

The White House launched a website Wednesday that asks Americans to record videos about how the infrastructure spending will help their own communities, part of a search for grassroots support as the administration seeks greater recognition for its achievements ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Oh, this should be good, lots of moonbat Progressives super excited for more authoritarian government running their lives.

“It’s time to stop just kind of repairing our grandparents’ infrastructure — it’s time to start innovating,” said Rep. Sharice Davids, a Democrat from the nearby state of Kansas who spoke at the event.

BBB has little to nothing to do with actual infrastructure. Further, the previously passed infrastructure bill didn’t have that much money for actual infrastructure. Anyhow, you can rebrand a turd as, say, Brandon, but, it’s still a turd.

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Surprise: Ocean Currents Are Speeding Up From Climate Doom

By William Teach December 10, 2021 – 7:00 am

This is all your fault for all those online purchases

One of the strongest ocean currents is speeding up, concerning scientists

Decades of data have revealed the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the only ocean current that encircles the entire globe, has started flowing faster.

The ACC wraps around Antarctica and is a barrier between the tepid subtropical waters north of it and the cool waters to the south, helping keep temperatures low near the frozen continent.

The subtropical waters above the ACC have absorbed significant amounts of heat over the past few decades. In fact, over 90 per cent of the excess heat in the atmosphere created by greenhouse gases has been absorbed and stored in oceans since the 1970s. (snip)

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, used data satellites and Argo, which is a network of floating robotic instruments that record ocean conditions like temperature and salinity. There are currently 4,000 floats scattered across the world’s oceans that are collecting data.

Warming global temperatures have also been affecting prevailing westerly winds and causing them to energize ocean eddies, which are smaller, circular currents of water, near the ACC. However, these winds are playing less of a role in the ACC’s flow rate than the scientists initially suspected.

Well, this is total doom. Which is strange, because it wasn’t that long ago they were telling us the opposite

The slowing down of ocean currents could have a devastating effect on our climate

Remember the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which a catastrophic series of global disasters strike after climate change causes the world’s ocean currents to stop?

You know it’s a doozy when they cite a movie

Well, new research reveals Earth’s major ocean currents are slowing down, and though the consequences will not be as immediate or dramatic as in the Hollywood fiction, there are real-world impacts for global weather patterns and sea levels.

The slowdown of ocean circulation is directly caused by warming global temperatures and has been predicted by climate scientists.

“This has been predicted, basically, for decades that this circulation would weaken in response to global warming. And now we have the strongest evidence that this is already happening,” said Stefan Rahmstorf? of Potsdam University who contributed to this research.

So, which is it, slowing down or speeding up? Meh, it’s all your fault.

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Biden Reportedly Told Ukraine To Cede Eastern Part Of Nation

By William Teach December 10, 2021 – 6:45 am

It’s a little more nuanced than many made it out to be, but, come on, after Joe just abandoned Afghanistan in the manner he did, and left Americans behind, it’s not that hard to believe

(AP) President Joe Biden reached out to Ukraine’s leader Thursday as the United States moved to take a more direct role in diplomacy between that country and Russia, part of a broader effort to dissuade Russia from a destabilizing invasion of its western neighbor. (snip)

Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone for more than an hour Thursday. Biden assured Zelenskyy of support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. He also renewed a pledge that the U.S. and its allies would hit Russia with economic sanctions and intensify defensive aid to Ukraine and NATO allies nearest to Russia if Russia did invade, the White House said. (snip)

Administration officials have suggested that the U.S. will press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy within its eastern Donbas region, which is now under de facto control by Russia-backed separatists who rose up against Kyiv in 2014.

Decentralization of Ukraine and a “special status” for Donbas were laid out in an ambiguous, European-brokered peace deal in 2015, but it has never taken hold.

More autonomy could formally give residents of that region more authority over some local issues. The administration officials made no mention of ceding any territory.

Which is diplomatic speak for “give up eastern Ukraine to Russia without a shot being fired.” Also known as appeasement, for “peace in our time.” How real is this, though?

(Newsweek) White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki categorically denied on Thursday that President Joe Biden is pressuring Ukraine to cede land to Russia in an effort to reduce tension in the area.

That diplomacy doesn’t include pressuring Ukraine to cede territory to Russian-backed groups, according to Psaki. When asked about reports the United States is pressuring Ukraine to give up land to Russia as a means of deterring an invasion, Psaki said that is not true, calling it “absolutely false.”

In other words, it’s 100% true. Ukraine should urge Biden to just give up a small state, like Delaware. He’d be fine with that, right? Many national security experts expect that if Russia invades it will be in January or February, because then European countries will just ignore it, otherwise Russia cuts off their natural gas, which the EU depends on. And you can bet China will be watching intently, with their eyes on Taiwan.

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Surprise: Push For Electric Vehicles Causing Massive Deforestation And Environmental Damage

By William Teach December 9, 2021 – 3:00 pm

In what world does it make sense to destroy the environment to save the environment from ‘climate change’? But, this is the way climate cultists think

Electric Vehicle Push Is Sparking Massive Deforestation, Environmental Damage

electric vehicleA major nickel mine in a Philippines rainforest has continued to expand, mowing down acres of trees as global demand for minerals essential for electric vehicle manufacturing surges.

The Rio Tuba mine in the region of Palawan supplies an important mineral for electric vehicle batteries in Tesla and Toyota cars, but the mine is nearing an expansion that would cause it to grow from four square miles to 14 square miles, according to an NBC News investigation. The growth of the mine would cause massive deforestation of the land which environmentalists warn could destroy the area’s ecosystem.

Critics of the mine have suggested it could lead to an increased runoff of toxic waste into the environment, further harming the local wildlife, according to NBC News. (snip)

The expansion of the Rio Tuba mine and the subsequent destruction of nearly 9,000 acres of ancient rainforest documented by the NBC News report underscores the growing global demand for rare earth minerals which are essential for not only electric vehicles, but solar panels and wind turbines. Worldwide electric vehicle sales, which currently account for just 4% of new car purchases, are expected to surge to as much as 34% of total global sales by 2030, according to an International Energy Agency estimate.

All for cars that most people cannot afford and don’t take people very far. And seem to be mostly toys for rich people. Also, many of those pushing hard for this do not actually drive one. Biden is not cruising around in one. Nor is John Kerry. Nor the leaders in the UNIPCC. Nor most world leaders. Nor most members of Congress.

And, because of this push, we end up with

You can purchase a top end Honda Insight (well, not right now, good luck, supply chain) or Toyota Prius for less than that. A RAV4 hybrid and Honda CRV hybrid, bigger vehicles, can be bought for less. If EVs were in big demand, the two smartest automakers in the world would be rushing to make them. They aren’t.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 9, 2021 – 10:30 am

…is early Bad Weather snow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on Trump showing Republicans how to win Hispanics.

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