If All You See…

By William Teach January 7, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are disappearing glaciers from atmospheric cancer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on asking a stupid question.

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Republicans To Hold Vote On Laken Riley Act

By William Teach January 7, 2025 – 10:30 am

I’m expecting about 167 no votes from Democrats

Republicans tee up fast votes on Laken Riley Act to deport illegal immigrants who steal, shoplift

Congressional Republicans are speeding their first immigration crackdown bill through Congress with an initial vote scheduled later this week on the Laken Riley Act, which would pressure Homeland Security to detain and deport illegal immigrants who shoplift or steal.

Sen. Katie Britt, Alabama Republican, announced a Senate version of the bill on Tuesday and Rep. Mike Collins, Georgia Republican, announced the House version.

House GOP leaders have already slated it for a floor vote on Tuesday, and given the backing of new Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the bill will likely see fast action in the upper chamber, too. (big snip through what happened to Laken Riley)

The Laken Riley Act would push ICE to arrest and detain illegal immigrants who commit shoplifting, burglary, larceny or theft offenses.

It would also create an avenue for states to bring a civil case in court against federal officials who refuse to enforce immigration law.

It shouldn’t even be necessary to pass another law: they are here illegally, on some sort of state sponsored status, or fake asylum seekers, and any violation of the law should mean immediate deportation. If a person is going through the legal citizenship process and breaks the law that status ends and they are sent packing.

A version of the Laken Riley Act was approved in the GOP-led House last year in a 251-170 vote. More than three dozen Democrats backed it.

Will there be several dozen Democrats voting for it this time? Or, will they vote en mass against it, being no election upcoming? Because Democrats ran the Senate it never got a vote. This time it will pass the House and then get a vote in the senate. But, will 8 Democrats cross over and vote for it to overcome the filibuster threshold? Regardless, the GOP should wait till Trump takes the oath of office, as there is no telling what Biden will do. If he vetoes it they’ll just have to vote again.

Dem gov who vows to fight Trump border enforcement outraged by migrant using shelter for criminal activity

A blue state governor who pledged to fight Trump administration deportation efforts expressed outrage Monday after a migrant was allegedly caught with nearly $1 million worth of drugs and an AR-15 rifle at a hotel that is being temporarily used as a shelter.

“It’s outrageous that this individual took advantage of our shelter system to engage in criminal activity,” Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement.

Healey was responding to news of Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, a native of the Dominican Republic, facing firearm and drug trafficking charges while using the state’s shelter system. The suspect, 28, was found at a Quality Inn in Revere, Massachusetts, which currently serves as a shelter.

Who would have thought that all these fake asylum seekers, mostly young men, would be a problem? Someone should have warned Healey.

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Doom Today: Global Boiling Causing Problems With Apples

By William Teach January 7, 2025 – 7:15 am

It’s always some sort of doom with this crowd

Climate change is hampering US apple quality and output: Study

Many of the nation’s biggest apple-generating regions are confronting challenges in crop growth and development, due to the impacts of a changing climate, a new study has found.

While apple orchards nationwide have become increasingly vulnerable to warming trends, the three U.S. counties with the biggest output are among the most affected, according to the study, published on Monday in Environmental Research Letters.

At the top of that list was Yakima County, Wash., which is home to more than 48,800 acres of orchards — and which showed worrisome signs in five of six metrics analyzed by Washington State University scientists. Next in line were Kent County, Mich., and Wayne County, N.Y.

“We shouldn’t take the delicious apples we love to consume for granted,” said corresponding Deepti Singh, a Washington State climate scientist, in a statement. “Changing climate conditions over multiple parts of the growth cycle pose potentially compounding threats to the production and quality of apples.”

So, a 1.6F increase in global temperatures since 1850 are dooming apples? These people. They are just so tiresome.

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Manufactured Kerfuffle Of The Day: GOP Rep Deb Fischer’s Husband Refused To Shake Hands With Kamala

By William Teach January 7, 2025 – 7:00 am

The left is losing their minds over this

It’s all raaaaacism this and raaaaacism that

(The Grio) Bruce Fischer refused to make any eye or physical contact with America’s first female, first Black woman and first South Asian vice president.

A resurfaced clip of Nebraska Republican Senator Deb Fischer’s husband refusing to shake Vice President Kamala Harris‘s hand has gone viral on social media.

On Friday, Jan. 3, Harris performed her duty as vice president to swear in the new class of U.S. senators in the new 119th Congress — which includes both Democrats and Republicans. However, after Sen. Fischer was sworn in by Harris for her third term in office, her husband, Bruce Fischer, who held up the Bible during the swearing-in ceremony, deliberately declined to shake the vice president’s hand as she reached for his hand.

“Congratulations to you,” said the vice president as she extended her hand to Bruce Fischer after shaking his wife’s hand. Bruce Fischer instead looked down and simply nodded his head and said, “Thank you.” He refused to make any eye or physical contact with America’s first female, first Black woman and first South Asian vice president. Harris, who appeared taken aback by the snub, simply smiled and said, “You sure?”

How horrible! How mean! How rude! How raaaaacist! Oh, wait

As Sister Toldjah writes

I saw some folks suggest that Fischer could have shaken her hand after he gave the Bible back to the Senator. But the full video clip shows that Mr. Fischer looked a little unsteady on his feet and was watching the floor, perhaps to make sure he didn’t fall

Speaking from my role as a caregiver, I watched my dad constantly look down when he used his cane over the years and then later his walker, terrified he was going to fall. My mom has done the same. Dad did not like to be touched (hand on back, shoulder, handshake, etc), either, while using the cane and walker for the same reasons.

My dad looks down a lot, as well, with his cane and walker. I looked down a lot when I was much younger on the separate occasions I was on crutches from breaking my ankle then breaking my leg. And then when I moved to a walking cast.

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Hotcold Take: Trump, Project 2025 Could Make Climate Crisis (scam) Overtake Us

By William Teach January 6, 2025 – 3:00 pm

It’s always some sort of witchcraft, a boogyman, with this doomsday cult. I have a solution for the Courier-Journal’s Henry Jackson: give up your own use of fossil fuels and make your own life carbon neutral. Get the Courier-Journal to do the same. Tell all your climate cult comrades to do the same. But, really, it’s really telling where Jackson goes

Under Trump and Project 2025, extreme weather, climate chaos could overtake us | Opinion

With the climate crisis denial party now in control of all three branches of the federal government, some otherwise indifferent members of Congress need to carefully consider that the most immediate and overarching danger facing the nation is climate change. It is accelerating in both frequency and power. The need to respond to multiple and cascading weather disasters may become nearly impossible to manage under the best of circumstances. Our nearly daily weather chaos is likely only the tip of the spear.

Trump’s plans in Project 2025 to reduce federal government capacity would significantly impair its abilities to deal with mounting calamity. He would leave behind a severely diminished federal service and military that will deal with increasing levels of climate chaos here and around the world. (snip)

Mounting demand for national emergency response will require the full breath and capacity of the federal government to address widespread economic impacts, infrastructure damage, spread of disease due to a warmer climate, domestic mass migration to safer climes, related supply-chain disruptions and increasingly affecting every aspect of daily life.

I find it interesting that at the heart of this debate you see the doomsday cult wanting more and more power for the government, especially the federal government. How dare Trump and Republicans attempt to reduce the power of the government back to where the Constitution wanted it to be! The cult is, at its root, authoritarian. Way back in the mid-2000’s when I said this was not about science, but, about government power, people, even Skeptics, said I was nuts. I was right then and I’m right now.

In the final analysis, the younger you are, the more you have at stake. But rest assured that for our children and grandchildren the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Yet, they do not practice what they preach. And more and more are opting out of the cult. They aren’t too keen on a Fascist government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 6, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on what California is trying to take away now.

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Charlie Hebdo To Release Special Edition 10 Years After The Islamist Attack

By William Teach January 6, 2025 – 10:30 am

Weirdly, most non-French news outlets discussing this aren’t saying what is really in it. It’s almost like they do not want to offend some people

Charlie Hebdo marks 10 years since Paris attack with defiant special edition mocking God

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo unveiled a special edition on Monday to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by Islamist gunmen that decimated its staff.

The front-page features a cartoon celebrating the atheist paper’s existence with the caption “Indestructible!”, while four inside pages show the results of a caricature contest to mock God and religious leaders.

“Satire has a virtue that has enabled us to get through these tragic years: optimism,” said an editorial from director Riss, who survived the January 7, 2015, massacre that left 12 people, including eight editorial staff, dead.

The 2015 attack by two Paris-born brothers of Algerian descent was said to be revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s decision to publish caricatures lampooning the Prophet Mohammed, Islam’s most revered figure.

The massacre of some of France’s most famous cartoonists signalled the start of a gruesome series of al-Qaeda and Islamic State plots that claimed hundreds of lives in France and western Europe over the following years.

And, yet, the political Elite in France and Europe didn’t get the message that it’s a bad idea to allow these Islamic extremists into their nations

The weekly had called on cartoonists to submit their “funniest and meanest” depictions of God in a typically provocative and defiant contest for the special anniversary edition.

“Yes, we can laugh about God, especially if he exists,” said a headline over what the paper said were the best 40 out of more than 350 entries.

Along with some typically crude and sexually explicit images, one of them makes reference to the Prophet Mohammed with the caption “if I sketch someone who is drawing someone who is drawing someone who is drawing Mohammed, is that OK?”

It shows a cartoonist drawing a picture of another cartoonist who is working on a picture of a cartoonist drawing a bearded figure who looks like Mohammed.

Most outlets are just mentioning the making fun of God part, not the making fun of Mohammed and Islam part

Critics say the weekly sometimes crosses the line into Islamophobia, pointing to some of the Prophet Mohammed caricatures published in the past that appeared to associate Islam with terrorism.

Yet, when they make fun of Christianity and Judaism, which they’ve done many times, no Christian or Jew has gone on a murderous rampage. I’m looking forward to seeing the whole thing. I believe most of the ones I had uploaded to Photobucket from the 2015 edition have been killed off for being mean, like

In fact, you’ll have a tough time finding the cartoons from that specific edition on Google, without digging deep. Don’t want to offend the murderous jihadis, eh?

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Vermont Sued Over Their Law Forcing Companies To Pay For Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach January 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

I still maintain that all the fossil fuels companies should have refused to sell their products to the state government of Vermont

US Chamber, oil industry sue Vermont over law requiring companies to pay for climate change damage

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several decades by climate change.

The federal lawsuit filed Monday asks a state court to prevent Vermont from enforcing the law, which was passed last year. Vermont became the first state in the country to enact the law after it suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. The state is working to estimate the cost of climate change dating back to Jan. 1, 1995.

The lawsuit argues the U.S. Constitution precludes the act and that the state law is preempted by the federal Clean Air Act. It also argues that the law violates domestic and foreign commerce clauses by discriminating “against the important interest of other states by targeting large energy companies located outside of Vermont.”

The Chamber and the other plaintiff in the lawsuit, the American Petroleum Institute, argue that the federal government is already addressing climate change. And because greenhouse gases come from billions of individual sources, they argue it is impossible to measure “accurately and fairly” the impact of emissions from a particular entity in a particular location over decades.

Well, they’re doing this with all sorts of legalese, rather than saying “let the state prove that the whopping 1.6F increase in the global temperature is the fault of fossil fuels, especially when the state had been using them and is still using them. They should provide photos and video of the government and members of the general assembly traveling in fossil fueled vehicles, as a start. But, this is a start.

Next up, will they go after NY and their similar law?

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What’s The Cost Of Cities Dealing With Fake Asylum Seekers?

By William Teach January 6, 2025 – 6:45 am

It’s a lot, and, unsurprisingly, it includes a lot of taking advantage of taxpayer money because government is not responsible

NBC 5 Investigates finds hidden details on cost of migrant crisis in Chicago

They arrived by the bus load. And later by air. More than 52,000 newly arriving migrants – mostly from the South American countries like Venezuela or Colombia – have come to Chicago over the past two years. (snip)

There were questions and criticisms over the cost and lack of transparency from City Hall over how hundreds of million of dollars were spent.

To date, the City of Chicago has spent more than $612 million providing emergency shelter and other services.

NBC 5 Investigates found the bulk of that money – nearly $500 million – has gone to two companies:

Kansas-based Favorite Healthcare Staffing, which staffed the shelters and Kentucky-based Equitable Social Solutions, which together with another company, Reloshare, helped identify property owners and turned once-vacant warehouses in Chicago into migrant hotels.

So, not even to Illinois companies. Imagine what the city could have done with that money to help the homeless and those having trouble? To implement law and order in more than just the rich and toney neighborhoods?

NBC 5 Investigates was first to report how Favorite Healthcare Staffing routinely billed the city for 84 hours per week – per staffer, including overtime – rates that city alders called “exorbitant” even after the contract was re-negotiated to lower the hourly costs.

When it came to the buildings-turned-hotels with Equitable Social Solutions, some building owners were guaranteed $150,000 a month if hundreds of migrants remained in their building.

But that is information the city kept secret – hidden from public view until NBC 5 Investigates found it in an obscure lawsuit.

Funny how Democrats do not like to tell the peasants what’s going on.

Migrant crisis spurred nearly 3 million overtime hours for two NYC agencies— costing taxpayers $139M

New York City’s biggest overtime hogs for a second straight year are mostly rank-and-file workers responsible for tackling the Big Apple’s $6 billion-plus migrant crisis, The Post has learned.

Fifty-one of the 100 city employees who racked up the most OT during the fiscal year ending June 30 work at the Departments of Social Services and Homeless Services, and their duties include assisting migrants, an examination of city payroll records shows.

Leading the way was Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.

Does anyone believe that any of these people are really working that many hours? Is there anyone in the Sanctuary City New York government who audits this?

Meawnhile

Deep Dive: Undocumented Chinese migrants in the US fear Donald Trump’s deportation threats

How much does it cost to travel from China to the U.S.? These aren’t exactly low income folks walking from Central America. They all need to go.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 5, 2025 – 1:42 pm

…is horrible heatsnow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on an idiot rapper shooting himself during a podcast.

It’s a good week for some snow ladies.

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