ABC News Upset Over Conservatives Pouncing On Sending People Door To Door For Vaccines

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

Now, just imagine it was Donald Trump still in office, and he and his press secretary said they were going to send people door to doo

See, they aren’t particularly concerned with the legality of sending people door to door, only Conservatives pouncing. From the link

President Joe Biden’s push to enlist volunteers, including local doctors and pastors, to go “literally knocking on doors” to encourage vaccinations in some states sparked an outcry this week among conservatives, who mischaracterized the effort as the deployment of government agents to strong-arm reluctant Americans.

The blowback — from right-wing media and Republican politicians on Twitter — prompted a sharp response Thursday from the White House, which says any door-knocking efforts will be locally led by community volunteers.

“I would say, for those individuals, organizations that are feeding misinformation and trying to mischaracterize this type of ‘trusted messenger’ work, I believe you are doing a disservice to the country and to the doctors, the faith leaders, community leaders and others who are working to get people vaccinated, save lives, and help end this pandemic,” Biden’s COVID coordinator, Jeff Zients, said. (snip)

“We need to go to community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood and, often times, door-to-door, literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus,” Biden said.

Dementia Joe and Jenn Psaki both literally both said that “we” were going to send people door to door. But, you know the Credentialed Media has to protect him, and help with all the spin due to Joe saying something dumb yet again. Where is the “distortion” or mischaracterization?

But, now, consider, what is the legality of giving private, personal, protected information on U.S. Citizens to “community volunteers”, much less other government employees? This cannot be legal, nor is it ethical. Where would this data be coming from? As far as I can determine, state information on who has been vaccinated is not shared with the federal government, other than the number of people who have been vaccinated. By what law would the state give your vaccine status to the federal government? By what law is it legal to scroll through the database of citizens for this information? You would have to compare the rolls of the vaccinated with those who aren’t. Where? What? Tax rolls?

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Made Heat Wave 150 Times More Likely Or Something

By William Teach July 9, 2021 – 7:10 am

Of course this is being Blamed on anthropogenic climate change

Climate change made North America’s deadly heatwave 150 times more likely

The devastating heatwave that struck parts of Canada and the United States late last month would have been extremely unlikely without global warming, researchers have concluded.

The chance of temperatures in the Pacific Northwest region coming close to 50 °C has increased at least 150-fold since the end of the nineteenth century, found a rapid analysis conducted in response to the heatwave.

“This heatwave would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change,” says Sjoukje Philip, a climate scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt and a co-author of the analysis. “It was probably still a rare event, but if global warming might exceed two degrees, it might occur every five to ten years in the future.” (snip)

A group of 27 scientists with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) project rushed to analyse whether global warming had influenced the likelihood of such an intense heatwave occurring in the region.

Their analysis reveals an unambiguous footprint of human-caused climate change. The team compared the observed heat with maximum daily temperatures predicted by climate models, including simulations of temperatures in an atmosphere unaltered by the effect of rising greenhouse-gas concentrations. They concluded that the global average temperature increase of 1.2 °C since pre-industrial times made the extreme heatwave at least 150 times more likely to happen.

You had to know this was coming, right? You knew they were going to blame the big heat wave solely on human activities.

Ancient ostrich eggshell reveals new evidence of extreme climate change thousands of years ago

Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by human early ancestors.

The research shows parts of the interior of South Africa that today are dry and sparsely populated, were once wetland and grassland 250,000 to 350,000 years ago, at a key time in human evolution.

And

Climate change altered the size of human bodies

The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is linked to a changing climate, according to research published Thursday.

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and the University of Tübingen in Germany gathered measurements of brain and body size for more than 300 fossils from the Homo genus or family, to which modern day humans — Homo sapiens — belong.

The team used this data, combined with a reconstruction of the Earth’s regional climates from the last million years, and calculated the climate that would have been experienced by each fossil when it was a living human.

So, what caused that climate change? And why is the Modern Warm Period different from those periods? And different from multiple Holocene warm periods, which were warmer than today? Oh, right, they have Reasons. Which pseudo-religious cults always do. Rather like they blamed the big cold snap in Texas over the winter on “human activities.” Because it’s a cult.

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Sleepy Joe To Sign EO Going After “Monopolies”

By William Teach July 9, 2021 – 6:53 am

Monopolies can, at times, be a force for good. They can also be a big problem. Look at ones like Facebook and Google….oh, wait

Biden’s assault on monopolies launches Friday

Biden Brain SlugThe White House is scheduled to issue an executive order Friday to promote competition throughout the U.S. economy in the most ambitious effort in generations to reduce the stranglehold of monopolies and concentrated markets in major industries.

The order — whose details POLITICO first reported last week — marks a major push by President Joe Biden’s administration to focus on competition as part of the economic recovery from the pandemic. It also offers a response to progressives’ criticisms that the federal government has focused too much on supporting banks and other corporations without concern about the effect on consumers, who have watched their choices dwindle over the years.

Biden plans to sign the order at 1:30 p.m., the White House said.

The order’s impacts could be felt in industries including agriculture, airlines, health, broadband and banking. Previously unreported elements include a provision urging the Federal Communications Commission to reinstate its Obama-era net neutrality rules, as well as a call for financial regulators to allow data sharing among financial companies.

Over the past week, the White House has trickled out information on various aspects of the order and how it will encourage greater consumer protections and competition.

In other words, this is just some virtue signaling by Sleepy Joe, throwing a bone to his unhinged Moonbat Progressive base, because it doesn’t actually do anything, and doesn’t touch on the actual monopolies in the tech industry. Dementia Joe is just trying to insert himself in a few choice businesses. While there are certainly some really big banks, airlines, broadband providers, and agriculture companies, none are really monopolies.

The order is expected to include initiatives such as forcing airlines to refund fees to passengers who receive shoddy Wi-Fi service or baggage handling; restricting businesses’ ability to foist noncompete agreements on employees; challenging occupational licensing requirements that limit competition in industries like health care; and guaranteeing farmers and motorists the right to repair their own vehicles without voiding warranty protections. The last provision would also have implications for consumer products like Apple’s iPhones.

Seriously? Shoddy wifi or baggage handling? That’s his “monopoly” stuff? Good luck on the warranty stuff. An EO has no force of law when people are signing legal contracts in the private sector. Also, the non-compete stuff is interesting, since Democrats are mostly against “right to work” states.

Top White House officials said the order seeks to ensure small businesses and consumers have access to fair markets.

“The overarching objective with the executive order is to make sure the president is encouraging competition in industries around the country,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday.

But, Joe can’t make it happen. It’s just an EO. What about the monopoly of government?

While the White House can command executive branch agencies like the departments of Transportation and Agriculture to take action, the order styles its directions as “suggestions” to avoid the appearance the administration is inappropriately seeking to direct independent agencies like the FCC or FTC. That could avoid the kind of blowback that Trump faced when he pressed both agencies to crack down on social media companies.

But, the EO can get agencies to harass private companies, just not the ones that are a big problem, like social media ones. The rest of the article details how the EO will see executive office agencies pass more and more arbitrary rules, inserting the federal government into more and more businesses.

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Becerra: The Government Now Owns You, Take Your Vaccine

By William Teach July 8, 2021 – 5:29 pm

Now, why would anyone be concerned about creeping Fascism?

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Ann Arbor’s Mayor Totally Up For Million Dollar Tax Increase

By William Teach July 8, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Christopher Taylor, the mayor of Ann Arbor is a Democrat. “Ann Arbor currently has a 90%-Democratic City Council and a Democratic Mayor. Some look skeptically on this fact, noting that two previous Democratic Party-identified Council-members, Marcia Higgins and Stephen Rapundalo, ran for office as Republicans, and Jane Lumm the current independent Council member also ran as a Republican.” I think we can easily assume that the city leans overwhelmingly Democrat, right? So, they would have no problem paying more in taxes themselves, right?

Ann Arbor’s mayor seeks 1-mill tax increase to fight climate change

Ann Arbor’s mayor is seeking to battle climate change by proposing an ambitious 20-year tax increase plan to help the city transition to carbon neutrality and renewable energy.

Mayor Christopher Taylor presented the Community Climate Action Millage plan to city council members on Tuesday evening, indicating the 1-mill property tax increase plan would raise between $130 to $150 million over the life of the millage. An estimated $6.5 million would be raised in the first year.

If approved by the city council, the millage would be placed on the Ann Arbor ballot in November. The proposal seeks to follow President Joe Biden’s lead on tackling climate change issues that have caused flooding, increased tornadoes, hurricanes and erratic weather patterns, Taylor said Wednesday.

“Achieving carbon neutrality is a moral imperative, and we need to do everything that we can and do our part,” he said. “We also need to provide new programs and services to everyday residents that respond to the climate change that is already here and the climate change that’s going to be accelerating if we don’t take meaningful action as a society.”

If it’s a moral imperative, surely the city council will pass it and the citizens will approve it, right? If so, what’s your guess on how many move outside the city limits to avoid paying it? And will the mayor and city council members move? Or, just exempt themselves?

“Climate change is the critical issue of our time. It is an existential issue that we are facing as a human race,” said Ann Arbor council member Jen Eyer, who supports the plan. “It’s going to take a big investment in order to implement it. In order to do that, we need to have the funding to do it.”

I’ve added an event to my calendar to follow up and see if this passes in November. Also, if it’s so critical, why are they not banning fossil fueled vehicles in the city? Funny how Warmists love to jump to taxes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 8, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible guns necessary because ‘climate change’ causes war, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on a study saying you cannot have capitalism and stop climate change.

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You Know How We Can Solve “Gun Violence”? With Lots Of Money Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2021 – 10:30 am

It’s totally proven to have worked in the past, you know. So they say

There’s a Proven Way to Reduce Gun Violence in America’s Cities. We Just Need to Fund It

More than 141 people were shot in our hometowns of Oakland, Chicago, and New York City over the July 4th weekend. The shooting victims included a 6-year old girl and her mother in the West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, a 16-year old boy shot in the head from nearby celebratory gunfire in Oakland, and a 38-year old man checking his car for a flat tire in Queens, New York.

This staggering weekend of violence isn’t an outlier; based on an already difficult year and the violence trends we’ve seen, this could be one of the deadliest summers on record for gun violence. These tragedies and the certainty of more to come prompted Governor Cuomo of New York to declare a state of emergency around gun violence on July 6. It’s no exaggeration to say our country is in crisis. But to meet this moment, America can’t simply police our way out of the bloodshed, as the current national conversation on violence seems to suggest. Instead, we should learn from past failures and—as President Biden said in his recent speech on gun violence earlier—invest in what works: community violence intervention (CVI) programs that actually address the cycle of intergenerational poverty, violence, and trauma that drives gun violence.

The weird part is how this is all happening in areas in Democratic Party run cities. In Oakland, every single council member is a Democrat. In Chicago, every one is a Democrat except for four independents. In New York City, all but three of fifty one are Democrats (2 districts are still vacant). The mayors are all Democrats. And this has been like this for over 50 years.

The pandemic has exacerbated this vicious cycle. With economic instability on the rise, mental health and substance use struggles skyrocketing, and Americans increasingly disengaged from school and work, homicide rates in our biggest cities increased by 30%. As with COVID-19, this gun violence has taken a disproportionate toll on Black and brown communities. Even before last year, gun violence was the leading cause of death for young Black men, claiming as many lives as the next nine causes combined; now, it’s likely more.

The leading cause for the deaths of young black men are other young black men, let’s be utterly clear about that, since the article from Time Magazine left that part out. Why was this not happening in white areas? Why is it not happening in the suburbs and areas run by Republicans, who certainly have a lot of legally owned guns and ammunition?

For years, the enforcement-first policing and punitive criminal justice policies currently being proposed have hurt the same Black and brown people most affected by gun violence, leading to high rates of incarceration and excessive uses of force. Rather than reducing violence by building trust between law enforcement and residents, these policies reinforce it by hollowing out communities of economic opportunity, family supports, and a sense of safety.

Uh huh

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Maybe don’t go soft on criminals. How about corporal punishment? How about making the criminals do hard time, whereby they don’t get to sit around in jail all day but are taken out and put to work on road gangs and such? How about looking at the conditions in Democratic Party run cities which lead to all the crime. These young men are not worried about family. And there’s little to no economic opportunity in the reservations Democrats have created in their cities. Unless we’re talking about looting Walgreen’s, Targets, Neiman Marcus, and other stores. With no worry about being arrested.

There’s a better way. If we want to stop gun violence, we can’t just turn the wheel back to the enforcement-first playbook of the past, we have to break the cycle of trauma that’s driving it. Based on our combined decades of experience working on this issue, here’s what we know: the most effective way to do that is by funding CVI programs that reduce violence and the harms of the criminal justice system at the same time.

They haven’t worked well in the past, and, don’t want to be harmed by the criminal justice system? Don’t commit a crime. Regardless, Democrats switched from their use of the KKK, property covenants, Jim Crow, and open segregation to sticking blacks in urban plantations, saying they are helping them with food stamps, government housing, etc. Just a different form of racism from Democrats.

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Your Fault: Almost 10% Of Global Deaths From Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2021 – 7:15 am

Thanks for taking all those fossil fueled trips post lockdown and eating meat during your vacation meals. This is on you

Climate Change Linked to 5 Million Deaths a Year, New Study Shows

The extraordinarily hot and cold temperatures that are becoming more common as climate change accelerates are responsible for 5 million deaths globally every year.

Extreme weather accounted for 9.4% of all deaths globally between 2000 and 2019, according to researchers who on Wednesday published the first study linking changes in temperatures to annual increases in mortality. While most deaths have been caused by exposure to the cold, the trend is likely to reverse as the planet warms, they said.

“In the long-term, climate change is expected to increase the mortality burden” as heat-related deaths rise, said Yuming Guo, one of the report’s authors and a professor at Monash University. Hundreds of people have already died from heatwaves sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere this summer. (snip)

Researchers at Monash in Australia and China’s Shandong University estimated that there were 74 excess deaths from abnormally cold or hot temperatures for every 100,000 people. The paper, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, analyzed mortality in 43 countries across all continents. It also concluded that cold-related deaths fell 0.5% from 2000 to 2019, while heat-related deaths rose 0.2%.

The Lancet, eh? This is the same organization that came up with that utterly bogus statistical study claiming 655000 Iraqis were killed from 2003-2006, which led to pure moonbattery from the Bush43 haters. Now, maybe the 9.4% is correct, but, they are Blaming this all on Mankind for ‘climate change’. Bunch of unhinged, cultish lunatics. And, see, even though most are from the cold, that is Soon going to change to deaths from heat.

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CNN: It’s Time To Make COVID Vaccinations Mandatory

By William Teach July 8, 2021 – 6:54 am

Of course CNN is fear mongering on the Delta variant

Delta variant is ‘Covid-19 on steroids,’ expert says, with cases increasing in nearly half of US states

Twenty four states have seen an uptick of at least 10% in Covid-19 cases over the past week as health experts and the federal government keep pressing for more people to get vaccinated.

The rapid spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus has only ratcheted up the pressure.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that the variant, first identified in India, has accounted for more than half of all new Covid-19 infections in the country.

“We should think about the Delta variant as the 2020 version of Covid-19 on steroids,” Andy Slavitt, a former senior adviser to Joe Biden’s Covid Response Team, told CNN on Wednesday. “It’s twice as infectious. Fortunately, unlike 2020, we actually have a tool that stops the Delta variant in its tracks: It’s called vaccine.”

See, now this may be true. It may be something to be concerned with. But, after all the lying, over-hype, scaremongering, and authoritarianism since February 2020, I’m going to look at this with a jaded eye. How about you?

Enough: It’s time to make vaccinations mandatory

It is time to impose vaccine mandates and passports. The Covid-19 vaccines continue to perform extraordinarily well, but the rate of infection is worsening in unvaccinated populations. The Delta variant is offering a sobering reminder that the pandemic has faded in much of the country but certainly not ended.

Both political parties have made the mistake of framing vaccines within the tradition of individualism. Even President Joe Biden, who has demonstrated his comfort with a muscular role for government, keeps appealing to individuals to make the right and patriotic choice when it comes to receiving their jabs.

Governors are imploring residents of their states to vaccinate soon. For many, the goal has been to keep making it as easy as possible for persons to have quick access without being too overtly pushy. Incentives, from multimillion-dollar lotteries to baseball tickets to a shot and a beer, have all been thrown in as part of the package. The message has been that the government will keep making vaccines as easy, accessible and attractive as possible.

It’s not enough. Easy, accessible and attractive are important; nobody should face barriers toward receiving vaccines. But citizens must also not see this as an optional inoculation.

Biden and other political leaders need to start thinking about the good of the collective and not just the rights of the individual. Doing so is not some sort of move toward socialism, as conservative critics inevitably argue. Thinking of the common good is as American as apple pie

Totally not a move towards Socialism. Not by Political Theory standards. More like dipping into the Authoritarian model. Because that’s where Progressivism lies. Nice Fascism. The nice not meaning “they are good people and this stuff is good”, nice meaning “this is for your own good, suck it up and deal with it.” Rather like your parents forcing you to eat stuff that you hate that’s supposed to be good for you. Banning you to your room. Forcing you to get a tattoo that shows you were vaccinated.

This won’t happen. Even Joe Biden isn’t that dumb to attempt to push this for real, nor the craziest governors like Gretchen Whitmer and Andrew Cuomo. You aren’t seeing this in countries with a heck of a lot less freedom, like England, Germany, and France. India, Japan, Russia. But, you can bet that CNN’s “political analyst” Julian Zelizer isn’t the only hardcore leftist thinking this or proposing this.

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Your Fault: Dragonflies Are Losing Their Wing Colors

By William Teach July 7, 2021 – 3:52 pm

You just had to take that fossil fueled trip to get an Evil burger, eh? Thanks

Dragonflies are losing their wing color because of climate change, study shows

As the planet warms, a study found that male dragonflies are losing a crucial feature they typically use to attract female mates: the ornate black patterns on their wings.

The new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that male dragonflies are adapting to a warming climate by shedding more of their darker wing patterns.

Researchers worry that female species may no longer recognize their male counterparts without their intricate wing patterns and, thus, won’t be able to reproduce as temperatures get hotter.

“Our research shows that males and females of these dragonfly species are going to shift in pretty different ways as the climate changes,” Michael Moore, lead author of the study and an evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, told CNN. “These changes are going to happen likely on a much faster timescale than the evolutionary changes in these species have ever occurred before.”

What did dragonflies do during the previous Holocene warm periods, several of which were warmed and no one was driving fossil fueled vehicles?

“This is evolution and adaptation in real time, but will they be able to adapt quickly enough?” Black, who is not involved with the study, told CNN. “The climate crisis is happening at a speed that is really unprecedented in human history. It’s all of these animals potentially adapting to be able to move to a climate or habitats that are able to support them.”

 

 

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