…is a fish that is surely smaller because of the climate emergency, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Clueless Kamala debuting her schtick on illegal immigration.
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…is a fish that is surely smaller because of the climate emergency, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Clueless Kamala debuting her schtick on illegal immigration.
Read: If All You See… »
Hey, remember the days when Democrats said that America First policies were racist, xenophobic, evil, and so forth?
China denounces US bill aimed at boosting competitiveness
Beijing has denounced a U.S. bill aimed at boosting U.S. technology to improve American competitiveness, calling it a thinly veiled attack on China’s political system and an attempt to hinder its development.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of China’s ceremonial legislature, the National People’s Congress, issued a scathing statement on Wednesday expressing its “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition†to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act.†The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate on Tuesday.
“This bill seeks to exaggerate and spread the so-called ‘China threat’ to maintain global American hegemony, using human rights and religion as excuses to interfere in China’s domestic politics, and deprive China of its legitimate development rights,” the statement said.
Oh, hey, remember when Democrats were saying that anything negative about China was racist?
The statement also attacked provisions of the bill expressing support for Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that China claims as its own territory; references to Hong Kong, where Beijing is accused of rolling back democracy; and criticism of Chinese policy in the northwestern territory of Xinjiang, the site of mass detentions of minority Muslim groups.
It’s almost like China wrote this story for the Associated Press? Anyhow, nice to see Congress showing support for Taiwan. Republicans have, now Democrats are.
The 68-32 Senate vote demonstrated how confronting China is a rate issue that can unite both parties in Congress at a time of intense partisan division.
But Senators have sought to call attention to China’s growing influence without stoking anti-Asian rhetoric at a time of rising hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Almost all those hate crimes have occurred in Democrat run cities by Democrat Party voters.
The centerpiece of the bill is a $50 billion emergency allotment to the Commerce Department to support semiconductor development and manufacturing through research and incentive programs previously authorized by Congress. The bill’s overall cost would increase spending by about $250 billion, with most of the outlays in the first five years.
Not really helpful if Democrats won’t let us mine the necessary metals on American soil. It’s also the federal government getting too involved in private business.
Other parts of the bill spell out national security concerns and target money-laundering schemes or cyberattacks by entities on behalf of the Chinese government. There are also “buy America†provisions for infrastructure projects in the U.S.
Wait, that’s racist!
It’s unclear whether the measure will find support in the Democratic-led House, where the Science Committee is expected to soon consider that chamber’s version.
So, Democrats do not want to support America over China? Huh.
The original headline of this opinion piece was “To Fight Climate Change, Replace Fossil Fuels At Home And Work”, which was probably considered a little too scary even for NY Times readers. And would lead to inconvenient questions like “has Senator Heinrich given up his own use of fossil fuels at home and work? How about the rest of his elected climate cult Comrades?”
Your Next Car and Clothes Dryer Could Help Save Our Planet
Our future depends on our acting now to confront the climate crisis by enacting policies to convert our economy from fossil fuels to clean energy. By making this switch, we will also create millions of new jobs, save American households money on their energy bills and protect lives by improving the air we breathe in our homes and workplaces.
To get there, we need to begin by electrifying large parts of our economy and changing the supply of all that electricity from polluting fuels to clean energy. We must start with our homes and vehicles because, according to research from Rewiring America, a nonprofit organization focused on the widespread electrification of the U.S. economy, 42 percent of all of our energy-related carbon emissions come from the machines we have in our households and our cars. To keep global warming at livable temperatures, we need to replace existing machines that use fossil fuels with clean electric substitutes when they reach the end of life.
Deep decarbonization analyses, such as a recent report by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, conclude that working to electrify our vehicles, homes and businesses is a critical part of achieving economywide net-zero emissions by 2050.
The jobs thing again, which barely seem to materialize. And, perhaps you will save one energy bills. But that won’t be for a while, as the cost to replace the vehicles and appliances will be expensive to start with. Has Martin done this in his own life?
Rewiring America offers one blueprint for this transition that underscores its enormous scope — and the benefits that will result. The group has calculated that we must replace or install one billion machines. More than half of those would replace the ones we now have in our homes that burn fossil fuels — including our space-heating machines like furnaces, water heaters, cars, and clothes dryers. What if we build those electric appliances in America? That’s a lot of manufacturing.
That’s a lot of manufacturing, yes. Who’s going to do it? China? America doesn’t make most of this stuff anymore, sadly. It would cost thousands to replace my natural gas heating and gas fireplace: how long would it take to recoup that money in electric bill savings? Oh, wait, gas is actually cheaper than electricity.
The other close to half a billion machines are the infrastructure we must install to generate and distribute that electricity — breaker boxes, batteries, rooftop solar systems and vehicle chargers. To power those billion machines, we will need to greatly increase the amount of electricity we produce, and do so cleanly.
Where’s it coming from? Perhaps if we build lots of nuclear power plants, won’t happen with wind and solar.
We need to get started today. And that requires three things. First, we need to invest in upgrading the breaker boxes in American homes so that they can take higher-capacity electrified appliances. These new breaker boxes will help to manage the load on a decarbonized grid. Second, we need to bring down the upfront costs of electrified appliances through rebates, incentives and low-cost financing to encourage consumers to buy them. Fossil-driven machines may be cheaper initially, but operating electrical machines will be cheaper far into the future, and their price will come down with economies of scale.
More government handouts with what is actually the People’s money. And borrowing. Lots of borrowing. From China?
Last, we need to help organize very fragmented local markets, train workers, reduce regulations that make electrification and distributed generation more expensive, and encourage business models that make it easy and intuitive for homeowners to replace and install their share of these one billion machines.
So, government control over the “local markets”? And the economy? What has Martin done in his own life?
Read: Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Wants To Force You Out Of Your Fossil Fueled Vehicle, Change Your Life »
This is so horrible. No more apple pies. No more apples fritters. No more apple donuts. No more Apple Cinnamon Cheerios. No more apple sauce. No more apples in pig’s mouths
Michigan apple growers see threat of climate change crisis through spread of fire blight
Patrick and Sara McGuire have been growing apples since they were married 25 years ago. Their 150 acres in Ellsworth in northern Michigan— dubbed Royal Farms — are a mix of sweet apples and the bitter varieties suited for making hard cider.
Last spring they put in a new crop of Honeycrisps, one of America’s favorite apples, only to discover an unwelcome visitor just a few weeks later: a bacterial menace known as fire blight.
“We actually removed about $10,000 worth of trees by hand,” Patrick McGuire said. “It might’ve been 25 percent of that lot.”
Fire blight is a bacterial pathogen that spreads easily during blooming season. It has the potential to kill not just individual trees but entire orchards. Though not a new problem for apple growers, it’s been looming larger as the climate crisis brings longer, warmer and rainier springs that expand the window for it to infect trees. (snip)
But it’s not just cider apples that are at risk. Increasingly, all apples as well as other fruit crops such as pears are in danger from such climate-induced afflictions.
ZOMG! This is so bad it was reprinted in the Seattle Times. What are we going to do? How did apples survive during previous Holocene warm periods, many of which were warmer? And it really is your fault. It might even be a crime!
David Attenborough calls climate change ‘a crime’ committed against the planet
Naturalist and “Planet Earth†narrator Sir David Attenborough says that his new Netflix film isn’t just a documentary — it’s a witness statement.
“A crime has been committed,†said Attenborough, 95, in a “60 Minutes†interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday. “And it so happens that, I’m of such an age, that I was able to see it beginning.â€
A crime against apples!
Attenborough said that he doesn’t relish being the harbinger of doom and gloom, however. “It isn’t that I enjoy saying, ‘Doom, doom, doom.’ On the contrary, I’d much rather enjoy, take thrill, excitement, pleasure, joy, joy, joy, joy. But if you’ve got any sense of responsibility, you can’t do that,†he said.
Yes, this harbinger of doom and gloom who uses lots and lots of fossil fuels to travel the world making his (mostly) great documentaries.
Read: Doom Today: Climate Crisis Could Threaten Apples Or Something »
…is a large room that uses too much energy to heat and cool it, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on a Supreme Court decision that illegal aliens do not have a right to a green card.
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Prior to the 17th Amendment, which made senators directly elected instead of appointed by a state general assembly, senators did the business of the state as directed by the state general assembly. They weren’t there to represent their party, they weren’t there to represent, necessarily, the nation. They did the business of their state. That was their point. The House represented their districts (that doesn’t happen much anymore, either), the senators were essentially ambassadors to Washington for their state
Joe Manchin’s focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
To placate his voters, Manchin doesn’t support H.R. 1 — but his Plan B for saving democracy can’t work.
I believe Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., when he says he believes in the institutions and traditions of the Senate. I believe him when he says he wants to find common ground with the Republicans he works with in the Senate chamber each day.
But I also believe Manchin operates with an eye firmly on West Virginia and its people, not the country as a whole. It’s an increasingly antiquated view that he brandishes in defense of an increasingly antiquated chamber. His myopia toward the needs of the United States versus his home state fuels his unwillingness to act in defense of democracy as we know it. As a result, Manchin’s love of a state born over 200 years ago during a struggle to preserve the Union could, in the end, be the Union’s ruin.
That’s not how Manchin sees it, though, as he explained Sunday in an op-ed announcing that he opposes the For the People Act. Manchin is the only member of the 50-senator Democratic caucus that is against the election overhaul bill, because, as he wrote, “partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.”
An “antiquated view.” Then who represents West Virginia? A little history/Political Theory 101 lesson: nations used to be called states. A visiting president, premier, etc, is called the “Chief Of State.” Most of the original 13 colonies were as big, at least in size, as the old world European nations. And were then called states. Bringing about a new term for countries: nation-states. U.S. states were meant to be mostly sovereign, with a limited federal government binding them all together. Los Federales were assigned specific duties, and everything else was reserved for the states and the People.
Should each state not be represented by their senators? That is their job, not to represent their party nor even the nation first. The wants of California are not the wants of West Virginia.
“If I can’t go home and explain it, I can’t vote for it,'” Manchin wrote. “And I cannot explain strictly partisan election reform or blowing up the Senate rules to expedite one party’s agenda.” Nor does he even really try. His essay doesn’t delve into the details of the For the People Act — there’s no “why” that even explains the parts that he’s against. He’s content to list its faults as being a “more than 800-page bill” that “has garnered zero Republican support.”
This has made MSDNC’s Hayes Brown very upset. Triggered, you might say. You’ve surely seen how Democrats and their pet media have been attacking Manchin as of late, because he refuses to Comply with the hardcore Leftist agenda. In this case, a takeover of all voting by the federal government, which I’m pretty sure violates the Constitution, and wanting to get rid of the filibuster. Joe surely realizes that Democrats will not always control the Senate.
Interestingly, we get this from the NY Post
Get this: a Democrat who puts nation’s needs before his party’s obsessions
At least one Democrat is putting the nation’s interests over his party’s obsessions: Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) went on record this weekend opposing the Dems’ top-priority legislation, the so-called “For the People Act.â€
It passed the House as H.R.1 without a single Republican vote, and as S.1 faces the same united GOP opposition. It’s a naked bid to federalize nearly all election rules, in blatant violation of the Constitution.
It would strike down most voter-ID requirements and block states from purging ineligible voters, force automatic voter-registration, impose new campaign-finance rules and even deny states their rights to run their own redistricting. (snip)
Preserving the filibuster dooms not only S.1, but much of the rest of Biden’s much-hyped agenda. Maybe Manchin’s wake-up call will inspire the rest of his party to stop focusing on wild fantasies and get to work on measures that can command bipartisan support in a Congress that Democrats barely control.
Quit concentrating on offering red meat for partisans and put effort into bills that serve the nation’s actual needs.
Joe knows that the people of West Virginia are against these things, and that he would be voted out if he supported this stuff. If what’s best for West Virginia is best for the nation, that’s what Joe will do.
Read: MSNBC Seems Pretty Upset That Joe Manchin Is Putting His State First »
It’s been demonstrated time and time again, with poll after poll, that Doing Something about the “climate emergency” is popular in theory, but not in practice. Most Americans are not interested in actually paying much money out of their own pockets. They aren’t really that interested in practice to be forced onto buses, trains, nor electric vehicles and out of their fossil fueled vehicles. They aren’t interested in reality over keeping their AC higher and their heating lower. So, when it comes to actually passing big, intrusive, national policies on ‘climate change’, interest is waning. It’s kinda like being excited for a party, then, when the day arrives, you realize you really do not want to go and don’t actually like these people
“I’m now officially very anxious”: Key Senate Dem sounds alarm over fading climate hopes
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), one of Capitol Hill’s most vocal members on climate change, went public on Monday about his fear that chances to enact major legislation on the topic are slipping away.
Why it matters: His tweets reflect wider angst on the left that large clean energy and climate investments will be jettisoned in infrastructure negotiations between the White House and Congress.
Driving the news: “I’m now officially very anxious about climate legislation,” Whitehouse tweeted.
- “Climate has fallen out of the infrastructure discussion, as it took its bipartisanship detour. It may not return. So then what?,” he tweeted.
- “I don’t see the preparatory work for a close Senate climate vote taking place in the administration. Why not marshal business support?,” Whitehouse added.
- He also expressed concern about “quarreling” among groups and activists, while claiming that corporate American is “AWOL” and “all the major corporate trade associations suck.”
Sheldon has been tweeting for a long time about Hotcoldwetdry, yet, I’ve yet to see any about him taking the train from Rhode Island rather than a fossil fueled flight. He never mentions anything he’s done in his own life to make his carbon footprint zero. Nor does he push his elected Comrades to modify their own lives. It’s all about forcing the peons to change their lives and give up their money, because none of their extreme climate cult garbage in the so-called infrastructure bill will harm the rich folks like Sheldon. They won’t be bothered by skyrocketing power prices, leading to a skyrocketing cost of living, via the increase in unreliable “renewable” energy while doing away with coal (again, I’m not a fan of coal) and natural gas. Plus, all those ugly solar and wind farms will not be located near the rich folks, spoiling their views.
Plus, the climate cult parts of the infrastructure bill are more about “climate justice”, meaning payoffs to minority voting blocks. Blaming white people. Forcing people who can’t afford an EV out of their fossil fueled vehicles. And so much more cult stuff. No one really wants all this in theory. Except those getting the payoffs.
What they’re saying: “The President is engaged in good faith with both parties in Congress to deliver historic infrastructure investments that will drive economic growth, produce the clean technologies of the future and create good paying jobs,” a White House official tells Axios.
Just like all those jobs at Solyndra that vanished, and the environmental mess left behind?
Read: Senator Whitehouse Upset Chance To Force Climate Crisis (scam) Legislation Through Is Fading Fast »
There are consequences to one’s vote. They could be good, bad, or neutral. If you voted for China Joe/Kamala, this is what you get
Upscale Residents Protest as Biden Converts Scottsdale Hotel into ICE Detention Center
The precinct for Scottsdale’s Homewood Suites voted for Joe Biden, 51% to 47%. Today, this upscale Arizona neighborhood regrets its decision.
Two hundred residents protested Saturday after ICE took over the recently closed hotel to house more than 1,200 illegal immigrants. No public input was requested, not even from the Scottsdale Police Department, which was notified of the decision a day before migrants were transferred.
Government usually detains the undocumented in poorer neighborhoods where they’re more easily ignored by the media. But this zip code has nearly three times the state’s median income, making it harder to hide the ongoing border crisis.
“Over the Memorial Day Weekend, we were notified about the hotel and the illegals that were moved in under the cover of darkness without any kind of consultation from the local community,†protestor Lisa Seger said.
Angry neighbors soon learned their city government has no legal authority to override ICE’s decision. The facility is closed to the public and local journalists were denied entry.
This is what you get when you vote for a Democrat, especially one who was radicalized even more when served as vice president into supporting all things illegal immigration. If you fell for his and the media’s “Joe’s a moderate” talk, you’re a fool, especially when he picks an extremist like Kamala Harris as a running mate. You had to know that his administration would be extremely soft on illegal aliens, though, in fairness, you might not have expected the administration to go this soft this fast.
When the border is protected and the problem unseen, it’s easy to support lax enforcement and vague promises of “compassion.†Last fall, the Biden sticker on your Tesla earned approving nods from neighbors and you rest assured that you were on the side of the angels. Nine months later, you’re on a 108-degree sidewalk screaming “NIMBY!†and wondering why Democrats smirk as they drive by.
In all fairness, a lot of those protesting, perhaps a majority, are probably Trump voters. You have to think, though, that the China Joe voters in this very rich neighborhood are upset that the fruits of their activism/voting are mad about Those People being in their neighborhood.
(Fox10 Phoenix) Families who are seeking asylum moved into the hotel-turned-detention center on Saturday, May 29, a day after the city of Scottsdale was notified by ICE.
The city of Scottsdale said they have no authority to prevent the hotel from being rented for these families.
All illegals say they are asylum seekers: they’ve been trained to do so. How many of these foreign nationals were detained at the border then brought into the nation, rather than making them go through the process outside the U.S.? Second, it should be concerning that the federal government can just come in and pull this stunt in a city with little notification, no input, nothing.
Read: Bummer: Upscale Biden Voting Neighborhood In Scottsdale Upset Over ICE Leaving Lots Of Illegals »
More: I meant to kill this off earlier, as SCOTUS declined to take the case up, saying it should be taken up by the legislature, but, got busy explaining you can have the payment or the product.
3rd Wave Feminists should applaud this, as should all the Leftists who say there’s no difference between the (what they feel are 3,956) sexes
High court asked to review men-only draft registration law
The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether it’s sex discrimination for the government to require only men to register for the draft when they turn 18.
The question of whether it’s unconstitutional to require men but not women to register could be viewed as one with little practical impact. The last time there was a draft was during the Vietnam War, and the military has been all-volunteer since. But the registration requirement is one of the few remaining places where federal law treats men and women differently, and women’s groups are among those arguing that allowing it to stand is harmful.
The justices could say as soon as Monday whether they will hear a case involving the Military Selective Service Act, which requires men to register for the draft.
Ria Tabacco Mar, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, who is urging the court to take up the issue, says requiring men to register imposes a “serious burden on men that’s not being imposed on women.â€
Men who do not register can lose eligibility for student loans and civil service jobs, and failing to register is also a felony punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and five years in prison. But Tabacco Mar says the male-only requirement does more than that.
“It’s also sending a tremendously harmful message that women are less fit than men to serve their country in this particular way and conversely that men are less fit than women to stay home as caregivers in the event of an armed conflict. We think those stereotypes demean both men and women,†she said.
Hmm, interesting that the ACLU is the one spearheading this. Why shouldn’t women be required to register for the draft (that will most likely never happen)? Of course, the Supreme Court would only be deciding the constitutionality. Congress would have to change the law.
The Biden administration is urging the justices not to take the case and to let Congress instead tackle the issue. Administration lawyers wrote in a brief that any “reconsideration of the constitutionality of the male-only registration requirement … would be premature at this time†because Congress is “actively considering†the issue.
Congress is? Since when? Congress seems to be jammed up with Democrats trying to pass their extreme Leftist agenda and Republicans looking to stop them.
Read: Interesting: People Want Supreme Court To Look At Men Only Draft »