Covid-hypocrisy: Dr. Birx Travelled For Thanksgiving, Visited Relatives

By William Teach December 21, 2020 – 7:00 am

Remember, you were supposed to stay home for Thanksgiving, but, the political masters get to do their own thing

Birx travels, family visits highlight pandemic safety perils

As COVID-19 cases skyrocketed before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, warned Americans to “be vigilant” and limit celebrations to “your immediate household.”

For many Americans that guidance has been difficult to abide, including for Birx herself.

The day after Thanksgiving, she traveled to one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware. She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households. Birx, her husband Paige Reffe, a daughter, son-in-law and two young grandchildren were present.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked Americans not to travel over the holidays and discourages indoor activity involving members of different households. “People who do not currently live in your housing unit, such as college students who are returning home from school for the holidays, should be considered part of different households.”

Even in Birx’s everyday life, there are challenges meeting that standard. She and her husband have a home in Washington. She also owns a home in nearby Potomac, Maryland, where her elderly parents, and her daughter and family live, and where Birx visits intermittently. In addition, the children’s other grandmother, who is 77, also regularly travels to the Potomac house and returns to her 92-year-old husband near Baltimore. (snip)

“To me this disqualifies her from any future government health position,” said Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security. “It’s a terrible message for someone in public health to be sending to the American people.”

Well, it’s the message that many, many politicians and Government Officials

Numerous elected officials, including prominent Democrats, have been forced to acknowledge that they have not heeded their own stern warnings to the public about the dangers of spreading the virus.

But Birx occupies a position of far greater authority when it comes to the pandemic. Many Americans rely on the advice that she and the government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, have given.

Interestingly, this AP article really trashes Birx for this Thanksgiving travel. I mean trashed her in a way that the AP and most news media never trashed those Democrats who were covid-hypocrites. Is anyone trashing California Gov Gavin Newsome over being exposed because a staffer got COVID somehow? Is anyone bothering to ask how the staffer got COVID?

Meanwhile, Congress has supposedly agree on a COVID relief package, now that Democrats have dropped a lot of their Crazy like they had in other packages. “The deal includes restarting a $300 boost to the federal unemployment insurance benefit, extending eviction moratoriums for renters for an unspecified amount of time and a $600 direct payment to most Americans.”

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Uh Oh: Climate Crisis (scam) Putting Cashmere Industry At Risk

By William Teach December 20, 2020 – 5:40 pm

You know who’s fault this is? The guy in that office on the 2nd floor who eats lots of burgers and drives that big SUV. You should go give him the old what for

Climate Change is Putting the Future of Cashmere at Risk

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The onset of colder weather means the onset of warmer clothing if you’re planning to head outdoors at all this season. For many people, warmer clothing might include cashmere scarves or sweaters, which add comfort and a distinctive feel to most occasions. Cashmere wool has a long history, but its future may be at risk due to a host of factors — including climate change.

The existential threats to cashmere are documented in a new article from Robb Report. As Mark Ellwood writes, the bulk of cashmere come from goats residing in Mongolia. Over the last few decades, the global demand for cashmere has increased tremendously. This has led to changes in the way the goats are farmed — but that’s only part of what’s prompted a crisis for the industry. Changing temperatures have also had an adverse effect on Mongolia itself.

“Ninety percent of the country is drylands and so especially vulnerable to desertification,” Ellwood writes. “Mongolia is a hot spot for climate change, where temperatures have risen by 4 degrees since 1940, compared with an average global rise of about 1.5 degrees. Of course, that warming threatens the very ecosystem on which the goats depend — the second major problem.”

In other words, more goats need to get by on land that might not be able to produce as much. Add in the fact that the price of raw cashmere is actually dropping and it’s not hard to see why many observers are concerned. It’s an industry in the midst of flux — never an easy process to weather.

In other words, it’s not really climate change, but, hey, cults have to cult by mentioning it and blaming it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 20, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are palm trees growing in the North Pole due to climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on the CDC wanting blacks/browns vaccinated over whites.

It’s Santa week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 20, 2020 – 9:26 am

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Happy Sunday. Another gorgeous day in America. The trees are getting some rain, the NHL should be back in January, and Christmas is almost here. This pinup is by Kevin Clark, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Change Dispatch notes that North Face “hates” big oil but profits from it
  2. Ice Age Now covers all the record snowfall because you took a long shower
  3. Blazing Cat Fur discusses Canada’s failed carbon tax scheme
  4. Bluebird Of Bitterness features your Caturday funnies – winter edition
  5. Chicks On The Right covers the Trump admin blacklisting dozens of companies with ties to China
  6. Cold Fury wonders if we have what they had in 1776
  7. Diogenes’ Middle Finger features 46*
  8. Geller Report News highlights crazy Stacy Abrams saying she has 1.2 million absentee ballots…isn’t that illegal?
  9. hogewash features another wonderful shot of outer space
  10. LMAO covers if we’re being played as leftists double down on lockdowns
  11. Jihad Watch notes Hamas linked CAIR cheering Rep Dingell for demanding Facebook take down “anti-Muslim” content
  12. Just One Minute wonders if Trump will veto the defense bill
  13. Legal Insurrection covers Dems getting some payback towards AOC
  14. Liberty’s Torch highlights consumers vs creators
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery notes WHO’s director general being accused of genocide

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). 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.

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?

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Hot Take: Unnamed Officials Worried About Trump’s Power Grab, Plan For Martial Law

By William Teach December 20, 2020 – 8:13 am

Axios doesn’t actually say much as to what power Trump is trying to grab, but, then, that’s not their point, because the liberals who read it and post it do not need actual details

Officials increasingly alarmed about Trump’s power grab

Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election.

Why it matters: These officials tell me that Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power.

The big picture: Their fears include Trump’s interest in former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s wild talk of martial law; an idea floated of an executive order to commandeer voting machines; and the specter of Sidney Powell, the conspiracy-spewing election lawyer, obtaining governmental power and a top-level security clearance.

A senior administration official said that when Trump is “retweeting threats of putting politicians in jail, and spends his time talking to conspiracy nuts who openly say declaring martial law is no big deal, it’s impossible not to start getting anxious about how this ends.”

Not one named source. This is pretty much all we’ve gotten from the news media for 4 years, and almost none of the TDS infused fear mongering has come to fruition. The New Yorker also covered this

Trump Floats Coup Plan That’s So Wild Even Rudy Giuliani Is Terrified

At the White House on Friday, President Trump held what may have been his most deranged meeting yet. In it, the president raged at his loyalists for betraying him, and discussed taking extralegal measures to overturn the election.

The meeting, first reported by the New York Times, included lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, convicted felon Michael Flynn, and Rudy Giuliani. One plan floated at the meeting was for Trump to appoint Powell as a “special counsel” overseeing allegations of voter fraud. Powell’s voter fraud claims are so fantastical she has been mocked even by other far-right legal conspiracy theorists. Andrew McCarthy, a former birther and author of one book titled How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda and another calling for his impeachment on multiple counts, has described Powell’s vote-fraud claims as “loopy.”

And it made CNN cwazy

Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash

President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter said, describing a session that began as an impromptu gathering but devolved and eventually broke out into screaming matches at certain points as some of Trump’s aides pushed back on Powell and Flynn’s more outrageous suggestions about overturning the election.

President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter said, describing a session that began as an impromptu gathering but devolved and eventually broke out into screaming matches at certain points as some of Trump’s aides pushed back on Powell and Flynn’s more outrageous suggestions about overturning the election.

Flynn had suggested earlier this week that Trump could invoke martial law as part of his efforts to overturn the election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden — an idea that arose again during the meeting in the Oval Office, one of the people said. It wasn’t clear whether Trump endorsed the idea, but others in the room forcefully pushed back and shot it down.

The meeting was first reported by the New York Times.

Ah, so this bit of nuttbaggery was coming from the “paper of record.” Who thinks “senior Trump officials” would actually speak to them? And lots and lots of other outlets are amplifying the Times’ article without research of their own: Business Insider, Forbes, The Daily Beast, Task & Purpose, Gothamist, Slate, and many others. Credentialed Media outlets are basically Moonbat bloggers just linking crazy stuff from each other.

And none of them had issues with the power grabs by Democratic Party governors and mayors for COVID lockdown, which still continue. I’m also looking forward to these media nuts see what actual power grabs look like under China Joe.

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Climate Crisis (scam) Coming After French Fries Or Something

By William Teach December 19, 2020 – 3:00 pm

It’s always something meant to scare people, eh? Their science is beyond shoddy, so, this is what they resort to. It’s all they have

Behind the Forecast: Climate change affecting French fries? Say it ain’t so

Potatoes are a staple in our diet. They can be fried, baked, mashed, smashed, made into chips or soup, and even more. Our changing climate may threaten our favorite vegetable. (snip)

The optimum temperature for a potato’s above-ground stems and leave to grow, according to a 2019 study, is 75°F. The optimum temperature for maximum tuber yields is 68°F; this is why most potatoes are grown in northern states.

Warm temperatures pose a significant risk to potatoes, and in turn, our French fries. (snip)

Average temperatures across the United States have been gradually warming. Daytime average highs in July across central Wisconsin have risen more than 1.5°F per decade, according to the USDA. In Idaho’s Snake River Plain, where farmers cultivate most of the state’s crops, July’s daytime highs have risen more than 2°F per decade.

First of all, mule fritters. They don’t say how far back in decades this goes, nor offer a link to anything. Let’s just say it goes back to 1980. They’re claiming the daytime high has increased between 6-8 degrees Fahrenheit? Horse hockey! Buffalo bagels! Sufferin’ sheep deep! Road apples! Cow cookies! (Colonel Potter sure had some good ones)

Second, no proof is offered that any rise is mostly/solely the fault of Mankind.

Most potatoes have low drought tolerance. Areas farmers grow potatoes in Idaho and Washington are quite dry; this means that proper irrigation is necessary here. Between 1986 and 2015, annual precipitation rates over the western U.S. decreased. One study found that the potato growing season in Washington and Idaho most likely will get longer based on irrigation demands and water stress. A longer growing season means more evapotranspiration would increase. Warmer temperatures and more evapotranspiration may lead to more crop stress and irrigation demands. All of this may lead to smaller tubers and, eventually, smaller fries.

But, proof is not necessary, because cults do not require proof, just faith and obedience.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 19, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from people living in big houses, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on Dominion and the Georgia election and shady stuff.

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Let’s Not Forget All The Peace Trump Brought

By William Teach December 19, 2020 – 10:30 am

Say what you want about Trump. Loud mouthed, boorish, too much friendly fire on Twitter and such. He’s done more for peace than most presidents, including that guy who got a Nobel Peace Price for doing nothing

Trump’s Legacy of Peace

For 72 years, U.S. presidents sought to achieve peace between Israel and the Arab world. For 72 years, they largely failed.

What for so long eluded presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack Obama seems to have come effortlessly to President Donald Trump. In the space of just four months, together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump has achieved four peace deals between Israel and Arab states—twice the number achieved by all his predecessors combined. Last Thursday, Trump announced Morocco has joined the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Sudan in the Abraham Accords normalization agreements with Israel. Three or four more Arab states are likely to join the circle of peace in Trump’s final weeks in office.

Not only has Trump brought more peace to the Middle East, more comprehensively and faster than all of his predecessors combined, but he made it look easy. Israel’s ties with its Abraham Accords partners are expanding massively by the day. Tourists from the UAE are streaming into the country. And with one in seven Israeli Jews descended from the Moroccan diaspora, the potential for business and cultural ties between Israel and Morocco is almost limitless.

Trump’s sundry Middle East peace deals are humiliating for his predecessors. Not only did they fail where Trump has succeeded, but they insisted that his achievements were impossible.

For instance, John Kerry, who as Barack Obama’s secretary of state oversaw the administration’s failed Middle East peace efforts, insisted back in 2016: “There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world.”

Of course, Kerry was part of the regime that preferred to forge ties with Iran, which calls for the destruction of Israel and the United States. They preferred to work with the nation that launched terrorist attacks on US military members, took a Navy crew hostage, and support terrorism overall. Trump preferred to isolate Iran and kill their top terrorist enablers

A second pillar of U.S. policy toward the Middle East was forged shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. From then on, all U.S. presidents sought to cut a deal with the Iranian regime, believing that the proper mix of carrots and sticks would convince the greatest state sponsor of terrorism to bury its hatchet against the U.S. Here too, the “expert” catechisms held sway.

The first pillar was to tell Israel to give up land it won in wars it mostly didn’t start to Palestinian terrorists who blow up women and children in pizza parlors and ice cream shops. Trump didn’t go for that, and, further, moved the embassy to Jerusalem. And he said to hell with the horrible Iran deal.

If Obama distinguished himself from his predecessors with his ideological zeal, Trump distinguished himself with his elevation of facts over ideology. Trump had a healthy disdain for expert dogmas that had repeatedly been proven false. Trump also believed the U.S. should side with its allies against its enemies, rather than court U.S. enemies at the expense of its allies.

Anyhow, there’s a lot more to this piece, well worth the read. Remember, Trump didn’t start any new wars and was working to pull the U.S. out of many wars. He put the U.S. and our allies first.

Now you have to wonder how China Joe will ruin all the peace.

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Biden Totally Believes In ‘Climate Change’ Unlike Trump Or Something

By William Teach December 19, 2020 – 7:07 am

Dingy Harry Reid crawls out of the woodwork to tell us how great China Joe is when it comes to the climate crisis scam

Unlike Trump, Biden believes in climate change — and his nominees prove it

President-elect Joe Biden will restore key features of the presidency that have been absent for the past four years, chief among them a belief that humans cause climate change. Biden made his commitment to science abundantly clear in announcing the nominations of his economic, health and environment teams.

These would be the same nominees who have outsized carbon footprints, just like Joe. Can any of them name one thing of consequence they’ve done in their own lives to greatly reduce their own carbon footprint? Changing a couple lightbulbs doesn’t count. Nor does purchasing carbon offsets, which is like paying speeding tickets because you don’t want to stop speeding

Experts have warned that inaction on climate change has put the world on a “suicidal” path leading to an “uninhabitable hell.” And President Donald Trump has done little to help matters.

What’s worse is that Trump has made these decisions despite record high temperatures, intense hurricanes and scorching wildfires, which are impacting millions of people, even as a deadly pandemic has led to both a public health and economic crisis.

Obviously, we get lots of whining about Trump, because he could have totally stopped hurricanes and such if he instituted a tax….say, why didn’t Harry do something about the climate crisis (scam) in 2009 instead of doing Obamacare? Wouldn’t Saving The Planet have been more important?

The incoming Biden administration presents a new era in the fight against climate change. His team isn’t just faced with the challenge of undoing the damage to our environment caused by the Trump administration over the past four years — but it must also meet the rapidly worsening climate crisis with bold, historic climate action.

The rest of this climascreed is about how super-awesome Biden’t team is, but, rather short on how they plan to practice what they preach. And what Joe will do to reduce his own carbon footprint. Obviously, not a damned thing, because all the climarestrictions and taxes are for the little people.

As Trump uses the final moments of his presidency to advocate an anti-environment agenda, Biden is setting the framework for his administration with a team of experts that will focus on the whole picture — including the role of climate change and environmental injustice — as they engage the most pressing public health issues of our time.

Watch your wallets. And Freedom.

 

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Have A Totalitarian “Holiday” Season: Gov. Whitmer Uses Santa Clause To Push Her Lockdown Rules

By William Teach December 19, 2020 – 6:54 am

Authoritarians stripped of lots of their power won’t give up trying to be authoritarian, you know

With Christmas approaching, Whitmer enlists one more ally in fight against COVID-19

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has repeatedly said she will use every tool at her disposal to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

She no longer has the Emergency Powers of Governor Act of 1945.

But she still has another vehicle that no Supreme Court in the land has yet declared unconstitutional — Jolly St. Nick.

Whitmer released a video Wednesday featuring her and a group of children talking with Santa Claus about the importance of social distancing and hand washing.

Whitmer told the children that Santa is “following the rules,” and “making sure that he stays safe and the elves stay safe.” (snip)

One of the children promises to leave a bottle of hand sanitizer for Santa, along with the usual milk and cookies.

It might not have been that bad if she wasn’t already so creepy, and shown over most of this year that she truly loves dictating the way people should act. Instead, she drags a Santa into this “holiday” message….why not Christmas, Gov? Santa is about Christmas…to preach her brand of “listen to Government and do what the hell I tell you, peasants.” She’s using kids and Santa to push her restrictions.

Stay safe, people. Just like all those COVID positive patients she put in nursing homes.

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