Secret Service Calls Washington Post Story On Bathroom Use Bunch On Mule Fritters

By William Teach January 15, 2021 – 7:50 am

I’m simply shocked that the Washington Post would run an article full of unnamed sources that wasn’t real

Secret Service refutes WaPo story claiming that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner denied agents restroom access in their home

The Washington Post reported Thursday that U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to protect Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have been forced to go to great lengths to use the bathroom because the couple forbids their protectors from using the facilities in their home.

But a spokesperson for the Secret Service says The Post’s claims were not true.

The Post made waves with a story alleging that Kushner and Trump told agents they were not allowed to use any of the six restrooms in their Washington, D.C., home, causing the guardians major inconveniences whenever nature called.

“After resorting to a porta-potty, as well as bathrooms at the nearby home of former president Barack Obama and the not-so-nearby residence of Vice President Pence, the agents finally found a toilet to call their own,” the newspaper reported, adding, “But it came at a cost to U.S. taxpayers. Since September 2017, the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month — more than $100,000 to date — to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor of the Kushner family.”

The Washington Post piece is based on utterly anonymous “according to neighbors and law enforcement officials.” There’s not one person who would go on the record saying this is what was happening, nor why, because none of the people had a clue. The White House responded to say the story would be a bunch of mule fritters, as did a Secret Service spokesperson

But on Thursday evening, eight hours after this story appeared online, she sent a second email with a new statement, saying that the Secret Service tries to have minimal impact on households it protects. “In accordance with this practice, Secret Service personnel do not request access to the facilities at private residences,” she wrote. “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have not denied Secret Service personnel access to their home to include use of the restroom.”

So, within the story itself we learn that the story is hot garbage. But, most people will have given up reading it by that time, and miss it. All they’ll see is that Jared and Ivanka are horrible people. And later on a mention of the 2nd impeachment and the Capital assault. And then more on how horrible Jared and Ivanka are, because this is a Typical Hit Piece from a Trump Derangement Syndrome infused newspaper and “reporter.” We could barely get reporting on Obama’s Fast and Furious, which killed hundreds, including Mexican children and 2 US federal agents, nor any Obama scandal. Nor Joe and Hunter’s issues. Yet, we can get “deep reporting” on bathrooms. Which was fake.

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Climate Crisis (scam) NGO Look To Convict The Nation Of France

By William Teach January 14, 2021 – 3:00 pm

France has long been a bastion of Doing Something about Hotcoldwetdry. Apparently, all the actions they’ve taken are not enough

NGOs seek to convict French state of failing to tackle climate crisis

A Paris court has been asked to convict the French state for its alleged failure to act to halt the climate crisis.

The legal case, which is being brought by four environmental groups after a petition was signed by more than 2 million citizens, seeks to hold the country responsible for ecological damage and its detrimental health and social effects.

The NGOs hope the case will trigger greater action to limit the climate breakdown by regarding it as a human right, and say convicting the French would represent an important symbolic victory and could force other governments to do more.

The Paris agreement signed five years ago aimed to limit global warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels. Donald Trump pulled the US out of the deal in 2017. Environmental experts say governments, including the French administration, have failed to meet their commitments.

If the court, and the State, had any cajones they’d ask what action the NGOs and their members have taken to make their own lives carbon neutral. Maybe trot out some photos of the members driving fossil fueled vehicles.

The case in France began in December 2018 when four NGOs lodged a formal complaint accusing the government of failing to reduce environmentally damaging emissions. This followed an online petition signed by a record-breaking 2.3 million people.

Too bad France can’t restrict those 2.3 million (supposedly) citizens from using fossil fuels, limit their use of AC and heating at home and their businesses, restrict the use of water and electricity. Restrict what kinds of foods they can eat. Restrict where they can travel to. And impose an extra tax on them.

When the organisations Greenpeace France, Notre Affaire à Tous, the Nicolas Hulot Foundation and Oxfam France received what they considered an inadequate response, they filed a legal complaint in March 2019. The groups are seeking symbolic damages of €1 from the French government.

And, if they win and force France to Do Something More, they will still not be satisfied.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 14, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is the horrible powerstrip leading to vampire electricity, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is MOTUS A.D., with a post on the great thing about all this unity.

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Rep Marjorie Green Says Will File Impeachment Against China Joe

By William Teach January 14, 2021 – 10:30 am

Good idea? Bad idea? Obviously, this will go nowhere with a Democratic Party majority in the House, and won’t even be debated, much less voted on. Will any other Republicans have the cajones to back her, considering the way Trump was treated by the Democrats for four years? Will Republicans #Resist? I guess we’ll see

Rep. Marjorie Greene says she will file for impeachment against Joe Biden on the first day of his presidency in order to avoid violence

Newly elected Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced on Wednesday that she would be filing articles of impeachment against President-elect Joe Biden on the first full day of his presidency.

Greene made the announcement during an interview on NewsmaxTV.

“I would like to announce on behalf of the American people, we have to make sure that our leaders are held accountable. We cannot have a president of the United States that is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, foreign Chinese energy companies, Ukrainian energy companies,” said Greene.

“So on January 21st, I will be filing articles of impeachment on Joe Biden,” she added.

The question here is, can Joe be impeached for things that happened when not in current office, and voted out of office? Could he be impeached and booted for things he did while Vice President and/or as a private citizen? There really isn’t an answer to that, not Constitutionally or any law. Article II Section 4 doesn’t say when “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” had to have occurred.

“On January 21, 2021, I’ll be filing Articles of Impeachment against Joe Biden for abuse of power,” she tweeted.

When TheBlaze reached out to Greene’s office to clarify her motivation for filing impeachment articles, her spokesperson offered the following response:

Rep. Greene simply wants to be a voice for the voiceless. American conservatives have been banned, censored, deplatformed and physically attacked. Unfortunately that removes hope from the people. Congresswoman Greene wants to defend these Americans and represent the Silent Majority.

We all know Democrats will not play nice. Unity? Pffft. They say they’re trying to unify while stabbing Republicans/Conservatives in the back. They’ll complain that Republicans are not playing along with #Unity for refusing to back far left crazy legislation and Biden admin rules/regs. They are very much sore winners.

https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1349473978952396805

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Surprise: The Capital “Riot” And Climate Change (scam) Are Linked Together Or Something

By William Teach January 14, 2021 – 8:02 am

For anyone saying “oh, come on, no one would link what happened in D.C. with anthropogenic climate change, that’s just silly,” well, you haven’t been paying attention. This is what’s called Climarettes, a condition where the Cult of Climastrology has to link every incident with their cultish beliefs. BTW, the NY Times mostly avoided the term “riot” for what were real riots in Democratic Party run cities for a goodly chunk of this year. Nor when Liberals ran riot during the Kavanaugh hearings, for one

The Capitol Riot and Climate Disinformation
They’re more closely related than you might think

Not really, but, Cultists gotta cult, and the NY Times isn’t even pretending to run news articles anymore, as this is pure opinion

Last week, a mob incited by President Trump stormed the United States Capitol building. Rioters broke windows, beat law enforcement officers, vandalized offices and tried to track down members of Congress with mayhem in mind. At least five people died.

For those of us who cover climate change for a living, the blatant lies about election fraud that fed the mob felt very familiar. A big part of our job is dealing with the disinformation that people and institutions spread to muddy the waters about climate change.

There’s a long and sad history of efforts by industries and interest groups to reshape the discussion of climate science and undercut the overwhelming evidence that greenhouse gases produced by humans are leading us to global catastrophe.

The interesting part is how most climate crisis (scam) pieces never actually mention any actual scientific evidence. Nothing. Not one thing. Nor what the “lies” are. Anyhow, it’s utterly not surprising that a climate cultist would drag his cult into what happened at the capital, is it?

The tools of deception are decades old, said the historian Naomi Oreskes, in the book she wrote with Erik Conway, “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change.” In an interview, she told me that the tobacco industry’s strategy “was applied to environmental and health issues more broadly.”

Underlying many of the arguments, she said, are paeans to personal freedom that undercut the belief that government should, or even can, solve our problems.

Now that is the most amazing thing, what truly interested me about this piece, beyond the Climarettes: essentially saying that people need to give up their personal freedom to Government to solve the (imaginary) climate crisis. That people should not be enthusiastically praising person freedom.

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New Democrat Idea: China Joe Sending The DOJ After Trump

By William Teach January 14, 2021 – 7:41 am

Excitable Alan Hunt says this will be “politically polarizing.” How about “driving a stake into the calls for unity”? Or “you want civil war? This is how you get it”?

Biden’s new challenge: Holding Trump accountable

The moves to hold Donald Trump accountable for trying to subvert the presidential election are proceeding with stunning speed, though there is no consensus among his critics on which is the most effective.

Two events have changed the political dynamics with only a week left in the Trump presidency: The Trump-incited mob that stormed the Capitol, causing five deaths and forcing the House and Senate to go into hiding as they were counting Joe Biden’s electoral victory; and the recorded phone call of the president trying to strong-arm the Georgia Secretary of State to reverse that state’s election results. (snip past impeachment stupidity)

But with the carnage at the Capitol and the president’s attempts to change the Georgia election results, many Democrats — and privately more than a handful of Republicans — now believe tax and accounting fraud seem trivial next to charges of attempting to subvert a presidential election.

Democrats spent four years trying to change the outcome of the 2016 election.

It seems almost inevitable now that the new Attorney General, Merrick Garland, will have to launch a criminal investigation into the president’s actions. That will be politically polarizing, but the enormous prestige of Garland, a former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and former top Justice Department official in charge of prosecuting the Oklahoma City bomber case, is a godsend for Biden.

Garland will probably tap a special counsel with a carefully prescribed mandate over subverting the election, culminating with the mob violence at the Capitol. Trump may try to pardon himself for any crimes committed during his term. This never has been tested, as there never has been a self-pardon, and with most constitutional experts suggesting it’s not permissible, it would not discourage a federal probe.

Will China Joe be dumb enough to do this? He would be asking for trouble, asking for protests in the street, protests which could turn as violent as the BLM/Antifa ones we’ve see this past year. He’d be telling 70 million Trump voters to, essentially, go f*ck themselves, that their votes did not count, that they don’t count. How dangerous could this be politically?

There still is a need for a special commission to look beyond just the criminal charges into questions like the role played by other politicians, social media and white nationalist terrorist groups. A parallel has been drawn to the 9/11 commission, but the better model might be the 1967 Kerner Commission on race relations, a bipartisan panel appointed by a presidential executive order.

And how smart would this be, investigating all these people for, essentially, Wrongthink? There are many Democrats yammering about “accountability before unity”: if they start attacking Trump supporters, using the Power Of Government, this will not go well for this country, and, no, that is not an overblown thought. Democrats using the Government to attack whom they consider to be political enemies will lead to bad things happening.

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The Secret Weapon To Fighting Climate Crisis (scam)? Moms

By William Teach January 13, 2021 – 4:09 pm

If this was really science, would they really need to do this? To make it so personal, to make it so if you’re against high taxation, a skyrocketing cost of living, and being forced to give up your liberty, freedom, and choice that you’re essentially against moms and women? To have such unhinged emotional pleas, ones that mean you’re evil if you do not Comply

Women scientists focus on a secret weapon to fight climate change: Moms

“What world have I brought my child into?” the new mom pleaded. “What can I do to make sure my baby isn’t brought up in a world that’s being destroyed?”

It was 2019, and climate researcher Katharine Hayhoe was at a church breakfast in Fairbanks, Alaska, when a young woman tapped on her shoulder and confessed that she was terrified. Ever since the birth of her daughter, the young woman said, she couldn’t stop worrying about the threat of a rapidly warming planet.

I’m just thinking, some people really need to deprogram themselves from this doomsday cult that’s making them emotional wrecks over a bunch of nothingburger.

“That heartfelt question is one I thought I could only really answer as a fellow mom,” said Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University and an evangelical Christian who has spent years trying to educate the public about climate change. Hayhoe told the Alaska woman the same thing she sometimes had to tell herself when she worried about her own son’s future: Channel your fear into action. Talk to your friends and family. Advocate for change in your town, your church, your school, your state.

Sure: practice what you preach. Give up your use of fossil fuels, etc and so on. I’m not writing it again at the moment

Now, Hayhoe aims to replicate that exchange on a much bigger scale.

Along with five fellow climate scientists who are also mothers, she has teamed up with Potential Energy, a nonprofit marketing firm, to launch Science Moms, a $10 million campaign to educate and empower mothers to do something about climate change.

Have fun driving the kids around in an electric vehicle….what’s that you say, that would be inconvenient? Huh.

“I want to connect with moms who look like me,” she said. “Black moms and Brown moms, and moms who are in communities of color, because we are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change.”

And, see, if you don’t buy in, you’re not only sexist, but racist.

Marshall will measure success in heightened awareness of the threat posed by global warming and increased willingness to take action. He said his aim is to double the proportion of Americans who say they are “alarmed” about climate change — a number that hovers around 26 percent, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

30+ years of spreading awareness and that’s the best they get? 26%? Yet, so few actually modify their own lives, which should tell you all you need to know about this hypocritical cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 13, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post noting that hundreds of islands are growing despite Hotcoldwetdry.

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Excellent Bluetooth Headset For Working Out

By William Teach January 13, 2021 – 12:25 pm

I mentioned a few weeks ago about the trouble with trying to buy a new bluetooth headset for the gym, one where it doesn’t go down in the ear canal, because I hate that, and one that won’t fall off, especially in the era of masks (I usually wear one of those cooling gaiters at the gym). I think I finally found a good one.

First, I gave the Plantronics Backbeat 3100 a try. I read the reviews, and saw it had a lot of issues with cutting in and out, just like the Backbeat 3150 and the Skullcandy Push Ultra. You never know, maybe it would work with my new Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Nope. Same cutting in and out. Was a lot more comfortable than the 3150, sound quality is good, and can get decent volume, especially since it seems to direct sound into the ear. Going back.

Then I ran across the Vidonn T1, which seems perfect. The sound quality is better than you’d expect for $50, it’s loud enough (though, really, nothing is that loud anymore), can really hear the highs, mids, and lows. Bass is good. It’s not thump thump thump, but, actual tone. A few songs I use are Pink Floyd’s Any Colour You Like, Steely Dan’s Aja, and Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell (really good for hearing bass tone), sounded excellent. Sure, not as good as my Bose over-the-ear headset, but, then, they are a lot more expensive. Can’t compare to my really good Bose wired headset or Sony one, because there is no 3.5 mil jack in the phone.

They are sweatproof, and one nice little thing is that the charging tags on the headsets did not seem to get sweat on them. The case is big, not one you’re really going to carry around, but, the point is to bring them to the gym. Or put them on for jogging, biking, walking, etc.

Importantly, they are very light and comfy, I barely know they are there. And, more importantly, not one cutout during the 2 hours I’ve used them. Sure, only 2, but, that type of thing crops up quickly.

Now to see how easy they get beaten up and if they last, including battery. If they’re good in a couple months I’ll order another pair for backup.

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Raleigh Joins List Of Cities Preparing For Protests, Fencing Goes Up

By William Teach January 13, 2021 – 10:30 am

From the link

Local law enforcement agencies said Tuesday that they’re prepared for any protests in downtown Raleigh in the next week or so as President Donald Trump leaves office.

After last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol stoked by Trump’s repeated claims to supporters of a “stolen” election, the FBI warned law enforcement nationwide on Monday of the potential for armed protests at all 50 state capitols before and after President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

Permits for gatherings downtown on Saturday and on Jan. 23 have been requested from state officials, but it wasn’t clear Tuesday who filed the requests or whether they were related to any election-related protest.

“We are prepared, and we are ready,” Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said.

Baldwin said Raleigh leaders learned many lessons about responding to protests last summer, when rioters took over city streets, damaging and looting businesses and setting fires as they battled with police in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minnesota.

Two points. First, they’re putting up lots of fencing, despite telling us that fencing at the border doesn’t work (personally, I’ve said many times that there are better options than a border fence, but, I’m not going to get into that now). Second, I can guarantee that any conservative protests won’t become what the BLM/Antifa ones were, with the damage and looting and arson. If they do, I’ll not post about climate change for a month.

“Even though we are an open carry state, protesting with weapons is not legal, and we will be ready to deal with that situation,” Baldwin said.

Leave the guns at home, folks. This is not a 2nd Amendment protest. People carrying around their rifles during the Re-Open NC protests muddle the message badly.

They put up fencing around in D.C., and places like Arizona. Yet, the same Democrats told us that fences did not work. Huh.

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