If All You See…

By William Teach August 14, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible wall meant to stop climate refuges, you might just be a Warmist

If All You See…

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post wondering how much crazy AOC can fit into 60 seconds.

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Oregon State Police Leaving Portland Due To Lack Of Prosecutions

By William Teach August 14, 2020 – 10:30 am

Why bother arresting law breakers when you know that prosecutors will ignore the law and not prosecute?

Oregon State Police leaving Portland over lack of prosecutions

Oregon State Police on Thursday said they were withdrawing protection from Portland’s federal courthouse over frustration at a prosecutor’s decision not to indict many people arrested in protests there.

The state police were deployed to Portland two weeks ago under an agreement between Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Vice President Mike Pence to withdraw federal agents after weeks of clashes with protesters. President Donald Trump threatened to send National Guard troops to Portland, if requested by Oregon authorities, if local law enforcement was unable to protect the federal courthouse.

Oregon State Police are “continually reassessing our resources and the needs of our partner agencies, and at this time we are inclined to move those resources back to counties where prosecution of criminal conduct is still a priority,” spokesman Timothy Fox said in a statement.

The police force is angry at Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s decision not to prosecute many people arrested during weeks of protests at the courthouse, Fox said.

Schmidt on Tuesday said he would only press charges against protesters arrested for assault, theft or property damage in Portland protests that began in late May after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Schmidt signaled he would be dropping lesser charges such as rioting and disorderly conduct.

Reuters is gaslighting a bit on this

Hundreds of Portland protesters will see their criminal cases dropped as DA announces plan to ‘recognize the right to speak’

Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, leaning on a group of community representatives he called his transition team, announced Tuesday that his office will drop most of the charges filed against protesters in Portland.

His prosecutors won’t pursue demonstrators accused of interfering with police, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, escape or harassment if the allegations don’t involve “deliberate’’ property damage, theft or force against another person or threats of force, Schmidt said.

Further, what surely was the proverbial straw is that “Charges of assault of officer will be subject to “high scrutiny.”” Meaning that charges will surely be dropped in almost every case.

Anyhow, what happens when the state police leave and the BLM/Antifa “protesters” start attacking the federal building again? Do federal troops come back? I say, let it burn. Let the whole city burn, showing what happens in Democratic Party run areas. Then stick the city of Portland with a bill for the building, which can be enforced by garnishing federal appropriations.

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Young Warmists Say Lawmakers Will Totally Listen To Them

By William Teach August 14, 2020 – 8:29 am

Here’s a tough, hard, real world lesson for them: the only way politicians actually listen is if you are high profile and/or donate a lot of money. Otherwise, they’ll pretend to listen and simply patronize you

Earth Uprising Climate Change Activist Says ‘Lawmakers Will Listen’ to Youth Movement

As young people around the world become increasingly aware of how climate change is impacted by decisions made by lawmakers, they’ve been starting their own coalitions that push for real policy change.

Alexandria Villaseñor, the 15-year-old founder of Earth Uprising, a global movement focusing on policy spearheaded by youth climate activists, said young people’s willingness to share information, educate each other regarding the climate crisis and demand change is working.

“I think that one thing that the youth movement has made clear is that lawmakers will listen to us because we continue to take action and make our voices heard,” she told Cheddar.

Villaseñor said she launched Earth Uprising after the devastating 2018 Paradise Fire in Northern California.

“Seeing climate impact my community, that was something that I wanted to find out more about,” she explained.

The Paradise fire was caused by mankind, but not via carbon pollution: it was negligence from maintaining power lines and allowing a buildup of vegetation. I’d also be interested in knowing exactly what action they are taking themselves to reduce their carbon footprints. Mostly, this seems the same as the Sunrise Movement (the other young climate cultist organization): agitation, spreading awareness, a lot of yelling and screeching, a lot of Demanding.

Have they considered that, per their own beliefs, ‘climate change’ is impacted not by lawmaker decisions but by their own actions?

Earth Uprising has not only garnered the attention of global policymakers, but it also found itself a corporate partner in GAP Kids, working to shine a light on youth leaders through a virtual rally, set for Friday.

“I think it’s amazing that they’re giving all these youth activists the support and space to tell our stories and send our messages to a larger audience,” Villaseñor said.

The social campaign, according to Villaseñor, will use the hashtag #BeTheFutureThatWill to encourage young people to make their voices heard about issues that they want to have addressed, whether it is climate change or otherwise.

Remember when we were supposed to only listen to climate scientists? Now we’re supposed to listen to kids. Let’s start taxing the hell out of their allowances to reduce the kids’ carbon footprints, see how they like it. How many would continue to spout their cultish talking points and go to protests and such if they had the policies from their beliefs forced on their own lives?

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Guy Hiding In His Basement Calls For National Mask Mandate

By William Teach August 14, 2020 – 8:06 am

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a media which would ask tough questions, such as “under what Constitutional authority would you be able to do this, Joe?”

Biden calls for mask mandates in all 50 states: ‘It’s about saving Americans’ lives’

Joe Biden on Thursday called for a mask mandate that would cover all 50 states, as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. approach 170,000 and cases continue to rise.

At a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., the presumptive Democratic nominee for president urged governors to be in one accord and require universal use of masks, citing “overwhelming evidence” that wearing a mask helps prevent the spread of the deadly disease. Public health experts are almost unanimous in agreeing that masks help curb the transmission of the coronavirus.

“This is not about Democrat, Republican or independent,” he said. “It’s about saving Americans’ lives. So let’s institute a mask mandate nationwide, starting immediately, and we will save lives.”

At a press briefing a few hours later, President Trump inaccurately described Biden’s proposal as a nationwide mandate imposed by federal decree, in contrast to his own approach of leaving it to the states.

And how would Handsy Joe enforce a national mask mandate? Send in federal police? The Constitution gives the Executive Office no authorization to implement a national mask mandate. Yes, some argue that one would violate the 1st Amendment, but, they’re missing the point that the Constitution, including the Bill Of Rights, gives no power to federal government, including the Legislative Branch (John Yoo and James Phillips make the case that Congress could possibly get away with passing one), no power to have one. That power would be left to the states.

But as the virus shows no signs of slowing down, some officials, such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have called for a national mask mandate.

The U.S. has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world, with 5 million positive cases, according to data provided by Johns Hopkins University, and about 166,000 deaths.

“Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at a minimum,” said Biden.

So, if most people are wearing masks, why does the number of cases keep increasing?

Now, what if Trump had instituted a national mask mandate? How do you think Democrats and their pet media would have reacted? Would they say “thank you, good job” or “hell no, Mr. President, you don’t have the authority to do this!!!!!!” And perhaps some “my body my choice” signs, which some anti-mask, and some freedom, people have already brought out.

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British Climate Cultists Call For Law Right Now To Reach Net Zero

By William Teach August 13, 2020 – 4:34 pm

These would be the same people who mostly won’t live the life they want Everyone Else to be forced to live

‘We can’t wait until 2050 to reach net zero’: Campaigners call for climate crisis to be enshrined in law

A new Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE Bill) demanding the UK government act with emergency measures on the twin crises has been written and will be put before parliament if it receives enough support.

A campaign was launched on Wednesday and supporters have high hopes that the Bill will be introduced in the House of Commons when it reconvenes on 1 September.

The CEE Bill comes a year after the British parliament declared a climate emergency. If passed, it would substantially amend the Climate Change Act 2008, tightening the framework and accelerating the speed in which the UK has to act.

For the most part, the article attempts to avoid mentioning that this is being pushed strongly by the insane climate cultists in Extinction Rebellion. But, what does it do?

  • – Create a plan to completely reduce its carbon emissions in real terms with immediate effect;
  • – Calculate the entire carbon footprint of the UK, including emissions caused internationally through import and export;
  • – Actively conserve and restore nature here in the UK with focus both on biodiversity and soils’ protection and produce ways to evaluate how effectively this action is implemented;
  • – Actively mitigate the damage to nature along the UK’s supply chains – both in the UK and internationally. The bill calls for accountability on the impact on the natural world as a consequence of our consumption;
  • – Reduce reliance on speculative future carbon capture technologies, and to actively restore natural carbon sinks, such as the conservation of woodlands, and restoring peat bogs and the overall vital function of soils that act as a natural reservoir for carbon and keeping it out of the atmosphere;
  • – And create a “Citizens Assembly” so the people can have a real say in the way forward, bringing social equity into decision making.

So, not so much a plan, but a plan to create a plan to come up with a plan to Do Something. While giving Government all sorts of power, along with yet another un-elected, unaccountable group which can tell Other People how to live their lives.

The new campaign comes after a report by the government’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) which revealed that the UK’s net zero by 2050 target gives only a “greater than 50%” chance of averting climate catastrophe. Their most recent report released in June recommends preparing for a 2-4 degree increase in global temperatures.

You know what? I think they should pass this. Like I’ve said before, there needs to be experimental groups to show people the outcomes. Let’s see how fast the people of the U.K., including the hardcore Warmists once they realize that all the Bad Stuff applies in their own lives, rebel and vote the government nutters out and get rid of the climate change scam laws and rules and regulations.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 13, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an inland sea created by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post noting that not all black lives matter.

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Winning Hearts And Minds: Chicago “Protesters” Attack Ronald McDonald House

By William Teach August 13, 2020 – 10:30 am

Nothing says “we care” like attacking a facility that helps kids of all races

Ronald McDonald House Was One of the Chicago Looters’ Targets

The Ronald McDonald House in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago was targeted by looters early Monday morning.

The facility provides housing and resources to families who have a child receiving treatment at a local hospital. The suspected vandals allegedly broke into the facility near Lurie Children’s Hospital while families were sleeping inside, CBS Chicago reported.

Several windows were left smashed, and the front door to the facility had to be boarded up.

Residents had to be placed on lockdown while the mayhem took place outside.

“We’re here for families at all times — whether there’s a pandemic or civil unrest, we need to make sure that we are here allowing families to get the rest they need while they have a child in the hospital seeking care, and so it’s so important that anything that might be going on outside, we maintain our care for families,” said Lisa Mitchell of Ronald McDonald House.

Such nice people

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The World Will Soon Have Baghdad Type Heat From ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach August 13, 2020 – 9:06 am

See, it never got hot in Baghdad before the invention of the fossil fueled combustion engine

Baghdad’s record heat offers glimpse of world’s climate change future

This city roars in the summertime. You hear the generators on every street, shaking and shuddering to keep electric fans whirring as the air seems to shimmer in the heat.

Iraq isn’t just hot. It’s punishingly hot. Record-breakingly hot. When one of us returned here last week, the air outside felt like an oven. The suitcase crackled as it was unzipped. It turned out that the synthetic fibers of a headscarf had melted crispy and were now stuck to the top of the case. A cold bottle of water was suddenly warm to the lips. At our office, the door handle was so hot it left blisters at the touch.

Baghdad hit 125.2 degrees on July 28, blowing past the previous record of 123.8 degrees — which was set here five years ago — and topping 120 degrees for four days in a row. Sitting in one of the fastest warming parts of the globe, the city offers a troubling snapshot of the future that climate change might one day bring other parts of the world.

Experts say temperature records like the one seen in Baghdad will continue to fall as climate change advances.

Now, if you would just agree to pay taxes and give up your modern lifestyle, along with your freedom, liberty, and choice, we could fix this. If not, the world is doomed

If the world acts to dramatically limit climate change, such extremes of heat, with temperatures above 120 degrees, would probably be limited to parts of the Middle East, Northern Africa, and India, Lelieveld said.

But if not, temperatures in parts of the Persian Gulf region and South Asia could eventually exceed 130 degrees. Nor would the rest of the world be spared extreme spikes. Indeed, one recent study found that by the year 2050, the climate of Phoenix could closely resemble that of Baghdad.

Sorry, Phoenix, even the majority of high ranking members of the Cult of Climastrology refuse to modify their own lives, so, guess you’re just going to have to deal with it.

(Weather Atlas) The last month of the summer, August, is another extremely hot month in Baghdad, Iraq, with average temperature fluctuating between 25°C (77°F) and 43°C (109.4°F). In August, the average high-temperature is almost the same as in July – an extremely hot 43°C (109.4°F).

You know how averages occur, right? And that there are extreme records set all the time, right? That weather patterns change, and that long term warm periods have been occurring throughout the Holocene, right? Did you know that Tirat Tsvi, Israel, also recorded a high of 129.2 degrees on June 22, 1942? That was at the tail end of the massive warm spike which preceded the cooling that lasted till the late 1970’s.

Still, you need to be forced to pay taxes, give up burgers, and turn your AC up to 80, to solve this. We can also restrict all media outlets from using fossil fuels to travel to gather the news and deliver newspapers. Bet the Credentialed Media, like the above Washington Post, would give up their climate hysteria if they were forced to comply.

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Irony: Handsy Joe Accuses Trump Of Coddling Thugs And Terrorists

By William Teach August 13, 2020 – 8:44 am

Obviously, the Credentialed Media refused to fact check this

Biden Accuses Trump of ‘Coddling Terrorists and Thugs’ Overseas

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee, accused President Donald Trump on Wednesday of “coddling terrorists and thugs” around the globe.

“We’re going to get to work fixing the mess that President Trump and Vice President [Mike] Pence have created, both at home and abroad, through four years of mismanagement and coddling of terrorists and thugs around the world,” Biden said during an event in Delaware alongside his newly announced running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).

Biden’s comments took some Republicans, including Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), by surprise given the former vice president’s history of opposing military efforts against terrorist leaders.

Zeldin wrote on social media:

With a straight face, Biden just said President Trump has been coddling terrorists around the world. After Biden advised against taking out [Osama] Bin Laden, now he’s ignoring that it was Pres. Trump who had Soleimani & al-Baghdadi killed, the ISIS caliphate eliminated, and far more.

Earlier this year, Biden opposed the Trump administration’s assassination of Qasem Soleimani, a onetime high ranking figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard. At the time, Biden argued that although Soleimani was guilty of perpetrating “crimes against American troops and thousands of innocents” throughout the Middle East, Trump’s move risked starting a war with Iran. Although those fears never materialized, Biden has remained a staunch critic of the assassination

Let’s not forget, Biden was the Vice President as ISIS rose, which his boss called the “JV team”, and did little. He was part of the administration which called Syria’s hardcore dictator “a reformer”, which blew off the Green Uprising of the Iranian people, blew off the Arab Spring, which blew off Syria gassing citizens and didn’t follow through on Obama’s “red line”. How they did nothing over Russia invading Crimea. Obama saying he’d have “more flexibility” towards Russia. Obama wouldn’t even say “radical Islamic terrorist”. He called Islamist terrorist attacks “workplace violence.”

Let’s also not forget the Obama admin’s failure to defend U.S. citizens in Benghanzi, after ignoring the security risks in Benghazi and the eastern part of Libya, after destabilizing the nation with his air war to protect oil flowing to France and England. Everyone, including the news outlets, knew how dangerous the area had become, and pulled their reporters and ambassadors out.

How about coddling the terrorist/thug regime in Iran with their Iran Deal, which gave Iran almost everything and the world almost nothing. All it did was postpone when Iran could continue making a nuclear weapon. By retreating from Iraq, Iran filled the vacuum, which helped the rise of Iran.

Sure, Obama did some good things. As David French wrote

Osama bin Laden is dead, but ISIS is alive. There has been no 9/11-style terror attack, but there have been attacks in Paris, Brussels, Fort Hood, Boston, Chattanooga, San Bernardino, Orlando, St. Cloud, Manhattan, and Columbus. Jihadist violence has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions. Iran’s nuclear program has arguably been slowed, but at the price of magnifying its power, influence, and ability to kill Americans. So Obama’s legacy is mixed. He had his successes, but he fails the simplest test of all: Are we really safer today than we were eight years ago?

Joe initially was against attacking bin Laden. And he’s coddling all the Left wing crazies in Antifa and BLM involved with violence right now.

(The Atlantic) Joe Biden has been wrong a lot on foreign and defense policy. A lot. This year’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee voted against the 1991 Gulf War, in which the United States and a broad multinational coalition quickly achieved their goals, and in favor of the 2003 Iraq War, and regretted both votes. Years into hostilities, he opposed the troop surges that brought some stability to both Iraq and Afghanistan and even insisted that “the Taliban per se is not our enemy.” He argued for carving Iraq into sectarian statelets even as Iraqis voted for cross-sectarian political lists. And he opposed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. These stances suggest not only that he lacks a philosophy of how to use military force effectively, but also that his instincts on when to use it are often faulty.

Perhaps for that reason, Biden was seldom a major force in American foreign and defense policy during more than three decades in the Senate—even though he served as the chairman of its Foreign Relations Committee. But he has shown an embarrassing tendency to embellish his contributions, such as claiming he was responsible for ending genocide in Bosnia.

Robert Gates, who served as the secretary of defense under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, wrote in his 2014 memoir that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Last year, Gates reiterated his concerns. “I think that the vice president had some issues with the military,” he declared on CBS’s Face the Nation.

So, Joe is constantly wrong and soft on terrorists and thugs.

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BLM “Protesters” Attack Black Police Officer, Vandalize Girlfriend’s Home

By William Teach August 12, 2020 – 3:42 pm

Of course, how many of the “protesters” were lilly white liberals?

Black Lives Matter mob shoots at black cop, physically assaults him at girlfriend’s home they vandalized

A black police officer said protesters chanted “black lives matter” while shooting at him and punching him at his girlfriend’s Wisconsin home Saturday night.

Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah posted on Facebook that protesters “tried to kill me. I was unarmed and tried to defend my property and the property of my girlfriend. We were both assaulted, punched, and ultimately shot at several times. A shotgun round missed me by inches. Not once did I ever swing back or reciprocate any the hate that was being directed at me. I am all for peaceful protests, even against me, but this was anything but peaceful. They threw toilet paper in her trees, broke her windows, and again, shot at both of us as they were trying to kill me. There are children that live there any the knew that. The irony in all of this is that they chanted Black Lives Matter the entire time, but had zero regard for any of the black children that live there or me, a black man.”

Now, in all fairness, Mensah has some issues

Over the last five years, Mensah fatally shot three people in the line of duty, most recently a 17-year-old earlier this year, WITI-TV reported. Mensah’s fatal shootings in 2015 and 2016 were ruled justified, but he was suspended in July over the Feb. 2 fatal shooting of Alvin Cole, the station said. The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office is still reviewing the Cole case, but Wauwatosa’s mayor called for Mensah to “transition from the Wauwatosa Police Department’s employment,” WITI said.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Mensah was suspended with pay, and the families of the people he fatally shot — two were black; one was Latino/Native American — said they plan to pursue legal action.

But, we let the legal justice system work. Not assault them and trash their girlfriend’s home.

Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride said he would meet with the police chief and other city officials Monday morning to ensure Mensah is “fully protected and that criminal behavior of this kind will not happen again,” the Journal Sentinel said.

“The City of Wauwatosa has always supported and protected the right to peaceful protest,” McBride added in his statement, the paper said. “Last night’s event was not a peaceful protest; it was criminal behavior. If the perpetrators of this criminal behavior are identified, they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed by law.”

That’s mostly all we’re seeing, criminal behavior.

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