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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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 5, 2025 – 9:30 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once and Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, but, sadly, we won’t be getting snow here in Raleigh. Check out webcamtaxi.com if you want to see some snow around the nation (and other cams around the world. One of my favorite sites). Not sure who did this pinup, added the snowman, of course.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: The UK pays wind turbines for failure — so the market wants to install more failures
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: New Study Finds 30 Year Drop In Hurricanes
  3. No Tricks Zone: Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!
  4. A View From The Beach: Farming for Forever Chemicals?
  5. American Greatness: Selling Our Birthright: The Case Against ‘High Skill’ Immigration
  6. Bearing Arms: Judge Strikes Down Gun Ban For Pot Smokers
  7. Blogs For Victory: Evil People Like Being Evil
  8. Climate Depot: Bill Nye — the Jail the Climate Skeptics Guy — receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Biden – Despite Promoting Jail for those who dissent on ‘global warming’ (Video)
  9. Cold Fury: Woke is dead, you say?
  10. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: They Finally Found Something Biden Can Do.
  11. Gates Of Vienna: Gideon van Meijeren: The Influx of Immigrants Erodes Our Cultural Roots, Our Language, Our Values, and Our Traditions
  12. Gatestone Institute: German Government Covering Up Islamist Attack?
  13. Geller Report: Tony Blinken Admits Biden’s Pro-Hamas Policies Have Kept the Hostages in Gaza and Hamas in Power
  14. Legal Insurrection: Greenland’s Leader Now Calling for Independence from Denmark
  15. And last, but, not least, Moonbattery has Moonbat Claims to Be Oppressed by Pink Dresses

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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NBC New Shocked To Learn That Islamists Are Radicalized Online

By William Teach January 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

Of course, they’re still missing the point

‘A perfect storm’: Extremism online and political polarization are increasing the risk of attacks, experts say

The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America, experts say, with law enforcement struggling to track an increasingly fractured threat.

Finding and accessing extremist communities online has never been easier, the threat has never been higher, and the ideology of those carrying out attacks has never been more splintered, according to the experts.

“What the FBI and law enforcement in general are dealing with right now is a threat landscape that is both diverse and complicated,” said Seamus Hughes, a senior researcher and policy associate with the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha. “That makes things a little harder for law enforcement.”

“We have a level of polarization in the U.S. that’s an important factor,” he said. “The online environment has algorithms that are set up to make you angry. And all that is playing into a perfect storm of factors that are leading to an increase in radicalization.”

What they really mean by polarization is you big old meanie Conservatives, even as they note, sort of, who’s doing this

According to the federal government, the main terror threat to the U.S. now is lone actors inspired by extremism ideology. Those ideologies range widely. The majority of attackers are on the far right, as in the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting. But sometimes, as in the New Orleans attack, the driving ideology is radical Islamism. Occasionally, it’s far-left or anti-Trump, as in the 2017 attack on Republican members of Congress and staffers at a baseball practice outside Washington and the apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida last year, or at other times a mix of ideologies, what FBI Director Christopher Wray has called “salad bar extremism.”

See?

And the two who tried to kill Trump weren’t exactly on the right, now, were they? The idea of the article is, shockingly, an attempt to protect the Religion of Peace, claiming that 364 attacks came from white supremacists and 137 came from “anti-government” (weird we almost never hear about them), but, only 125 came from Islamists. Except for all those who were protesting Israel and Jews and attacking them. Oh, and just 47 from left wing. This is all about protecting the Islamic radicals, who, surprise, who be happy to blow up NBC buildings and do not care what political persuasion one is if they are Americans and Jews.

“We’re seeing more and more people sort of pick and choose their own ideology to suit their own grievances,” Horgan said. “They look to find a reason to make sense of what they have already decided they want to do.”

You mean like people who do not understand basic biology and are gender deranged? Much further down, though, we learn

After several years of reduced activity in the U.S., 2024 saw a rise in Islamist terror attacks and foiled plots, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism, which tracks extremist attacks and confirmed plots around the country.

That shift had the center’s vice president, Oren Segal, worried even before the New Orleans attack, he said. “It was alarming to us that after subsiding for so many years, there were indications that more and more people who subscribe to this ideology were willing to try to engage in this activity.”

“Part of this may be in response to groups abroad regrouping, part of it may be to the Israel and Palestinian conflict,” he said. “There were many signs that this type of activity was increasing.”

This could have anything to do with the Biden-Harris admin letting in tons of people of whom we have no idea who they are. We do know that lots are from the Middle East and Muslim extremist nations. All added to the Islamic extremists already in the nation and preaching jihad. Perhaps news outlets like NBC News should see the reality, rather than attempting to protect jihadis.

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Group Which Doesn’t Believe In God Due To Science! Drives Out Most Famous Member Over Gender Ideology

By William Teach January 4, 2025 – 3:20 pm

Science! makes them not believe in God but they also believe there are not two genders

Richard Dawkins leaves atheist foundation after it unpublishes article saying gender based on biology

Famed biologist Richard Dawkins resigned from the board of a prominent U.S. atheist organization last week, after it censored an article arguing that gender is tied to biology.

British outlet The Telegraph reported Monday that the Freedom From Religion Foundation pulled the article “Biology is not Bigotry” from its site following backlash from pro-trans individuals. In turn, Dawkins resigned.

In his resignation letter to the foundation, Dawkins called the removal of the piece “an act of unseemly panic” and accused the foundation of having “caved in to hysterical squeals from predictable quarters and retrospectively censored that excellent rebuttal.”

Biologist and fellow FFRF member Jerry Coyne composed the “censored” article as a rebuttal to non-binary author and FFRF fellow Kat Grant’s November article titled, “What is a Woman?”

The biologist’s piece argued that “any attempt to define womanhood on biological terms is inadequate.”

Coyne’s article pretty much stated that biology states that there is male and there is female. That’s it. That’s the science. Sure, there are some aberrations, but, there are not 935 different genders. Male. Female. Female. Male. XY. XX. Because Coyne deals with science, they unpublished his article. God forbid an opposing point of view is heard.

“Publishing this post was an error of judgment, and we have decided to remove it as it does not reflect our values and principles. We regret any distress caused by this post and are committed to ensuring it doesn’t happen again,” they wrote.

It’s now an error in judgement to publish Biology 101.

[Coyne] added, “The gender ideology which caused you to take down my article is itself quasi-religious, having many aspects of religions and cults, including dogma, blasphemy, belief in what is palpably untrue (‘a woman is whoever she says she is’), apostasy, and a tendency to ignore science when it contradicts a preferred ideology.”

That’s a slap in the face of Atheists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 4, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are world killing dogs causing rivers to dry up, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post wondering if anything Biden does now can be considered valid.

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Democrat Rep From Virgin Islands Earns Dumbest Person Of The Year Nomination

By William Teach January 4, 2025 – 10:30 am

Will Stacey Plaskett win? It is super early in the year, plenty of time for other nominees

CSPAN gets a nomination for worst media outlet for failing to explain exactly why she was wrong, namely that the US Virgin Islands are a territory, not a state, and that’s the way they want it, much like Puerto Rico and Guam. One would think CSPAN would know better. Plaskett does have a voice, it’s loud, and inappropriate, considering she’s been in Congress since 2015, a lawyer, and should know better.

But, no worries, MSNBC, a dying Credentialed Media outlet (just barely), joins in with their own version of stupidity. No worries, this is the Yahoo News version, so, they get no hits

Time for derp owls

We’re just three days into 2025, and Stacey Plaskett has already filed a strong entry for this year’s “top truth-teller in Congress” award.

You may have missed her powerful moment from Friday’s House speakership vote if you’re not a C-SPAN junkie like me, but you ought to see it. The Democrat from the U.S. Virgin Islands made a parliamentary inquiry to ask the House parliamentarian to explain why the six nonvoting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia aren’t allowed to vote for speaker.

Yeah, 2015. Lawyer. Has she heard of Google? Did she consider reading the rules? No, she was just trying to grandstand. Here’s where it gets even more stupid

The parliamentarian’s response was, in essence, “Them’s the rules.”

There was certainly no moral justification offered, so what Plaskett essentially did was give viewers and her colleagues a textbook lesson in American imperialism. And it was quite a sight to see her being booed by Republicans for doing so.

Here we are in the United States, a country that salutes its founders for their refusal to live under British imperialism. And nearly 250 years after bloodshed over this, a Black woman who dared to question why the U.S. is foisting similar imperialism on her and her people was literally silenced.

This was a remarkable snapshot that perfectly summarizes our current political moment.

Those territories could have voted to be states, but, they didn’t. They’re happy being American protectorates. Oh, and not paying all those federal taxes that the US Congress has voted for. Huh. What she wants is representation without taxation.

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Brandon-Harris Admin Issues Regulation Ending Huge Chunk Of Gas Water Heaters

By William Teach January 4, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s just one hit after another with this guy. Just trying to burn it down for the peasants as he walks out the door

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1875260964234465782

From the link

The Biden administration finalized climate regulations to ban most natural gas-powered instantaneous water heaters—a move that critics say will drive up costs for consumers.

The Department of Energy—which formally published the rules the day after Christmas—didn’t issue a press release announcing the action, a departure from past appliance regulations. The published rules say the regulations are expected to help the climate by curbing carbon dioxide emissions.

Overall, under the regulations, roughly 40 percent of the new tankless water heaters available in the United States today will be taken off the market by 2029. Experts and industry officials say that will force consumers to purchase either more expensive or less efficient water heater models.

One industry analysis estimates that consumers will pay $450 more on average when purchasing new water heaters thanks to the regulations. And that will impact low-income and senior households, which are most reliant on the models targeted by the Department of Energy.

In fairness, the use of gas for water heaters has dropped tremendously over the past 40 years, as most new construction uses electricity not gas. But, many still want it, especially in more rural areas. And those tankless water heaters save people a lot of money. Also in fairness, electric are more cost effective than gas, except in larger houses, for which gas is much better. Biden doesn’t care. There are many older homes which do use gas, and it will be much more expensive to replace their systems.

And, really, it shouldn’t be up to the federal government, especially bureaucrats with an Agenda, to ban consumer goods which are only dangerous per doomsday cult yammerings. I can see this rule being brought to court, and, barring a win, the Trump admin rescinding the rule.

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Good News: Federal Judges Squash Biden’s Net Neutrality

By William Teach January 4, 2025 – 6:45 am

This is excellent. Net Neutrality is a bad idea, that will damage innovation, increase prices, and give the federal government way too much power over the Internet, classifying it as a public, just like the energy sector. The minute the government took their hand off home phone service, along with long distance, that sector exploded, leading to the explosion of wireless phones. The internet has just been fine without the helping hand of government

Net neutrality dealt a final defeat in a blow to Democrats

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday the Federal Communications Commission did not have legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.

The decision is a blow to the outgoing Biden administration that had made restoring the open internet rules a priority. President Joe Biden signed a 2021 executive order encouraging the FCC to reinstate the rules.

A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the FCC lacked authority to reinstate the rules initially implemented in 2015 by the agency under Democratic former President Barack Obama, but then repealed by the commission in 2017 under Republican former President Donald Trump.

Net-neutrality rules require internet service providers to treat internet data and users equally rather than restricting access, slowing speeds or blocking content for certain users. The rules also forbid special arrangements in which ISPs give improved network speeds or access to favored users.

The court cited the Supreme Court’s June decision in a case known as Loper Bright to overturn a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting laws they administer, in the latest decision to curb the authority of federal agencies. “Applying Loper Bright means we can end the FCC’s vacillations,” the court ruled.

Good thing that Trump was able to put all those Constitutional judges on the Supreme Court, eh? Further, there is zero chance that the FCC will try to reinstate it over the next 4 years, and no way would it be possible for Congress to pass it, if the Democrats happen to take back the House and Senate after the 2026 elections.

FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel called on Congress to act after the decision. “Consumers across the country have told us again and again that they want an internet that is fast, open, and fair. With this decision it is clear that Congress now needs to heed their call, take up the charge for net neutrality, and put open internet principles in federal law,” Rosenworcel said in a statement.

Yeah, not happening, Democrat Jessica. If you explain the realities of what NN means most will say “nope. Keep your dirty stinking hands off the Internet, you damned Fascists!”

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