Follow The Science: California To Continue Requiring Masks For Schoolkids

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

These would be the masks that Fauci said pretty much didn’t work, right?

California to require masks at schools, though CDC says they’re not needed if vaccinated

California will continue to require masks in school settings, state health officials announced Friday, even though federal health authorities released new guidelines saying vaccinated students and teachers no longer need to wear masks inside campus buildings.

“Masking is a simple and effective intervention that does not interfere with offering full in-person instruction,” said California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Mark Ghaly. “At the outset of the new year, students should be able to walk into school without worrying about whether they will feel different or singled out for being vaccinated or unvaccinated — treating all kids the same will support a calm and supportive school environment.”

The recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which also said schools should try and keep desks three feet apart, are not a mandate. The CDC guidance said prevention strategies, including indoor masking, should be utilized when it’s not possible to maintain a distance of at least three feet in the classroom.

Ghaly said that not all school facilities in the state can accommodate physical distancing and “we will align with the CDC by implementing multiple layers of mitigation strategies, including continued masking and robust testing capacity.” The state’s directive would also “ensure that all kids are treated the same,” the California Department of Public Health said.

So, even for kids who have been vaccinated, they have to wear masks? Despite CDC guidance? Despite masks not working? Sounds more like ignore the science and follow the politics of Listen To Government. Gotta start that early with kids, right? I wonder if this will backfire, with the kids rebelling against Democratic Party non-science authoritarianism.

Meanwhile

What do you think? I know a lot are against this, I kinda like it. Need something between red and orange, like, I’m good with talking, but, don’t touch me and keep your distance.

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Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy Looking For Ways To Change Infrastructure Bill, Skyrocket Your Energy Bills

By William Teach July 10, 2021 – 8:25 am

And if you skyrocket your energy bills, you skyrocket your cost of living for food, housing, everything

Biden climate advisor pushes clean energy standard for Democrats’ priority bill

Gina McCarthy, a top advisor to President Biden on domestic climate policy, said administration officials and Democrats in Congress are still discussing how to include a clean-energy standard for utilities in broad infrastructure legislation this year.

“We continue to float ideas, and we’re sure we’re going to land in the best place,” she said in an interview with The Times on Friday.

Most of Biden’s initiatives to address climate change won’t make the cut in bipartisan infrastructure legislation being negotiated with a group of Republicans, a package focused on roads, bridges, water projects and broadband access. Administration officials want to include the clean energy standard in a second measure, one that’s more focused on programs for families and workers, that Democrats want to move as a so-called reconciliation bill, which under Senate rules would be protected from a Republican filibuster.

The clean-energy proposal is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the generation of electricity. Biden wants to ultimately produce all of the country’s electricity from carbon-free sources by 2035.

Here’s an idea: try and pass this on its own, a freestanding bill, rather than jamming it into the infrastructure bill. Let the House and Senate debate this on its own merits, rather than having a convoluted discussion on this and a whole lot of things in the infrastructure bill. Let’s hear the pros and cons, like, oh, hey, rolling brownouts and blackouts like in California. How the cost of energy in California is much higher than the other continental states, and much less reliable. How it’s really not the Constitutional duty of the federal government to institute a national standard, nor is it a job as laid out in the Constitution.

McCarthy described the clean energy standard as “an important anchor” for the administration’s climate goals.

“It will provide certainty about telling the utilities what the future needs to look like so they can continue to make their money and move forward and have a healthy system in place,” she said.

That would be up to the States. If California wants to crater their energy sector, let them. This is not an assigned power for Los Federales, it would be an un-Constitutional power grab, and all the GOP run states would immediately sue, just like with Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

The GOP should introduce a bill that restricts Biden, Harris, Kerry, and McCarthy, among others, from taking fossil fueled travel.

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Good News: Jan 6th Investigations Will Resurrect Democracy!

By William Teach July 10, 2021 – 8:08 am

My goodness, these people just don’t give up, eh? They’re utterly fine with BLM/Antifa firebombing buildings, including federal justice centers, assaulting people, including federal employees and law enforcement, looting, property destruction, creating their own little “autonomous zones”, and so forth. But, a few people became a bit crazy and mostly wandered around the Capital Building (owned by the People of the U.S.) and took selfies after someone opened the door, then left. Which caused Democrats to build all sorts of walls (walls work?) and pour tons of National Guard units (which Dems treated like crap) into D.C. like a third world hell hole. But

Investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will resurrect democracy

On July 4, we celebrated the dawn of American democracy. This past Tuesday, July 6, marked the half-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, which many mourned as the democracy’s sunset.

Would this be the same Independence Day that so many Democrats offered lots of hate for? Hate for the nation, hate for the Flag?

It was democracy itself, not simply the Capitol, that was under siege. People who faithfully remember Independence Day should never forget the day that our Capitol — the people’s House — was taken over by an angry mob.

People who remember Independence Day remember what the people of that time did to break away from England. The mob actions taken. Taking up arms and fighting for Freedom.

If it had been solely up to Republicans, we likely would have already forgotten the onslaught against the democratic process or dismissed it as the behavior of unruly tourists. But Democrats and democracy prevailed.

These are the same people who equate what happened with 9/11, when the only person killed, Ashli Babbitt, was shot by a police officer, and Democrats will not allow anyone to know the details. It will be interesting to see how Democrats try and block that information during the nutbag hearings?

The House committee should get clear answers to the complicated questions that surround the assault. Inquiring minds want to know what led to the insurrection and, more importantly, prevent anything like it from happening in the future.

Prevent? The Founders were all for insurrection for when the Government became tyranical and stopped listening to the Citizens. We are not here for Government. It’s the reverse.

As pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, McCarthy called the president, who, according to one account, said, “I guess those people are more upset about the election than you are.”

Well, yes. All these months later there are still tons of things that do not make sense.

The democratic experiment that started on July 4, 1776, is still a work in progress after 245 years. Americans have reformed the system over that time to make the political process truly democratic and inclusive, but we still have a long way to go.

Hopefully, the House inquiry and public reaction against the insurrection will stimulate a resurrection of American democracy.

What process is this supposed to fix? Blowing past the stupid “democracy” thing, no need for that discussion yet again, is it that Democrats want to restrict free speech? How about protesting? Petitioning for redress of grievance?

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Toyota Wimps Out, Will No Longer Donate To Certain GOP Officials

By William Teach July 9, 2021 – 6:00 pm

Toyota was put in a lose-lose situation

Toyota changes stand, halts donations to election objectors

Toyota has reversed itself and now says its political action committee will no longer contribute to the Republican legislators who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.

The move by the Japanese automaker comes after a social media backlash over the contributions, including threats to stop buying the company’s vehicles.

“We understand that the PAC decision to support select members of Congress who contested the results troubled some stakeholders,” Toyota said in a statement Thursday. “We are actively listening to our stakeholders, and at this time, have decided to stop contributing to those members of Congress who contested the certification of certain states in the 2020 election.”

Last week the website Axios reported that Toyota led companies in donations to the 147 members of Congress who voted in January against certifying election results on the false grounds that the election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump. (snip)

The company took input from employees and government officials, Vazin said. But the most important factor was customer feedback, he said. “That really drives our decision making,” he said.

Well, Republicans purchase quite a few vehicles from Toyota, too, so, now they will be facing lost sales from those consumers going elsewhere. Now that Toyota has given in to the Online Outrage Mobs, they will be susceptible to more blackmail from the unhinged online.

Oh, hey, just wondering if Toyota will donate to the Democrats who spread the Russia Russia Russia hoax for four years?

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Aussie Court Declares Government Must Protect Young Snowflakes From Bad Weather

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

The Australian government should stop by turning off the power to the court, taking away all their fossil fueled

Australian government must protect young people from climate crisis harm, court declares

Australia’s federal court has formally declared the nation’s environment minister has a “duty to take reasonable care” that young people won’t be harmed or killed by carbon dioxide emissions if she approves a coalmine expansion, in a judgment that could have wider implications for fossil fuel projects.

In the federal court case, brought by eight schoolchildren and an octogenarian nun, Justice Mordecai Bromberg on Thursday also ordered the minister pay all costs.

The judge had indicated he would make a declaration during the case in May, when he rejected a request by the children to issue an injunction blocking Whitehaven Coal’s plans to expand its Vickery coalmine project near Boggabri, New South Wales.

Climate campaigners said there should be “no moral, legal or rational way” environment minister Sussan Ley could now approve the project.

Bromberg declared that when the minister makes her decision over the coalmine, she has a duty “to take reasonable care” to “avoid causing personal injury or death” to Australian residents under 18 “arising from emissions of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere”.

“We are delighted that the law of the land now states that the government has a duty to avoid causing harm to young people,” said Anj Sharma, a 16-year-old Melbourne student and one of the eight children supported in court by Sister Brigid Arthur.

So, when is the government going to stop using fossil fueled vehicles? When will they make sure the kids live like it’s the 1500’s?

Sharma said the “historic ruling” would make it harder for politicians “to continue to approve large-scale fossil fuel projects that will only fast-track the climate crisis.”

Enjoy your fast rising energy prices, Aussie’s, thanks to a silly judge.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 9, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a field far away from the big cities that would be perfect for an ugly solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on the LGBT movement being rather homophobic.

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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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