Uber-Progressive, Mask Loving San Francisco To Require 10 Day Quarantine For Visitors

By William Teach December 18, 2020 – 10:30 am

I’m assuming these are visitors who are coming to walk on the poop, urine, and used drug needles all over the city? Or, are looking to get their car stolen? One has to wonder why this super Progressive city is having such a big problem with COVID, and, it looks like they are trying to blame visitors

San Francisco imposes mandatory COVID quarantine for travelers outside Bay Area

The city of San Francisco is requiring any incoming travelers to quarantine for 10 days starting Friday.

I’m guessing that means no one will bother visiting San Fran, eh?

The mayor and director of health said it applies to anyone traveling, moving, or returning to San Francisco from anywhere outside the Bay Area, exempting some people who are traveling for “certain critical activities.”

According to the health order, it also strongly discourages non-essential travel between the Bay Area counties: San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Sonoma, Napa, Marin and Santa Cruz.

Exemptions:

  • Medical professionals, first responders, official government business, essential infrastructure work
  • Travel to receive medical care or travel required by a court order, like transferring custody of a child
  • People transiting through San Francisco International Airport on connecting flights and not staying overnight in San Francisco

Nice how government officials have exempted themselves and government employees from the quarantine requirement, eh?

(NBC Bay Area) The travel quarantine order, which started at 12:01 a.m. Friday, remains in effect until at least 12:01 a.m. Jan. 4. It applies to returning residents and those moving to the city who spent any time outside the following nearby counties: San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Sonoma, Napa, Marin and Santa Cruz.

“COVID-19 cases are surging in San Francisco and across the country,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “Hospitals in the Bay Area are close to being overwhelmed. We must do whatever we can to contain the virus and stop its circulation in our community. Now is not the time to travel and risk being exposed or exposing others. We need to do the right thing to protect ourselves, our neighbors and our loved ones and make sure that we can celebrate together when this is over.”

It’s great how Mayor Breed yammers about doing the right thing when she’s exempted, eh? Why is COVID surging, and surging heavily, in San Fran, when they have all these restrictions and everyone wears a mask? It’s a Progressive utopia, isn’t everyone following the rules?

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Giving Gifts In The Era Of ‘Climate Change’ Has A Nasty Underbelly

By William Teach December 18, 2020 – 7:49 am

Of course, remember, in Climate Cultist World, it is only Bad when Other People receive gifts. If you are a Cultist, you are excused from feeling bad because you have climavirtue signaled correctly

Gifts are a love language. But in the era of climate change, what are we really saying?

Each holiday season, we trudge out (or this year, go online) to try to choose gifts that communicate our love for friends and family. Each year, businesses look with anxious eyes and oft-updated spreadsheets to predict whether a season will be “robust” or “healthy,” i.e., selling more than the previous year – no matter what. These pressures, to find perfect gifts and to “grow” sales, inevitably results in other kinds of growth as well: growth in feelings of being overwhelmed, growth in clutter, and growth of credit card debt – not to mention growth in greenhouse gas emissions, growth in unfair labor practices, and growth in landfill tonnage. In this topsy turvy world of 2020, before we click “buy,” we have an opportunity to rethink what we really want to say this holiday season.

Gifts are a critical form of communication, helping to express emotions, kinship ties, obligations, status, and more in cultures around the world. Anthropologist Yunxiang Yan writes that, “according to the Maori, to receive a gift is also to receive a part of the gift-giver’s own spiritual essence.” Or, as Gary Chapman, who created the concept of “love languages,” argues: “Gifts are visual symbols of love.”

Given this cultural and emotional weight, it’s not easy to point out the nasty underbelly of holiday gift giving without sounding like a total grinch. But I’ll go there: the holidays are the most extreme seasonal expression of a generally broken and bloated American pattern of consumption. That pattern of consumption is implicated in human rights abuses like Rana Plaza, the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, a plastic soup in the Pacific bigger than Texas, and up to 45% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

For one, there is the increasing trend towards giving “experiences” rather than gifts. This is one way to fill someone’s heart and their life (and their calendar) without filling a landfill. It’s possible to give the gift of quality time or service (Chapman again), like arranging a date or a walk with a loved one, or when my husband repairs his mother’s broken cabinets. There are donations to charity on someone’s behalf. These are all wonderful ways to express love. But, for many people they don’t quite scratch the “gift exchange” itch. We still like to give objects, things – stuff wrapped with a bow.

There are a few simple steps to giving stuff without giving a whole lot of unpleasant and unintentional impacts. First, if you buy something new, make sure you pay attention to where it is made, and who made it. Buying new items should be rare,…..

These people never want to mind their own business, eh? Always telling Everyone Else what to do.

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China Joe Whines That Bringing Up Hunter Is “Foul Play”

By William Teach December 18, 2020 – 7:38 am

Well, Joe, unlike Russia Russia Russia, there’s actually evidence of wrong-doing by Hunter, which was enabled by you, which is why most of the compliant Democrat voting news outlets didn’t bother covering it pre-election

Joe Biden claims ‘foul play’ while defending son Hunter but says he’s ‘not concerned’

President-elect Joe Biden defended his son Hunter Biden amid an ongoing investigation into the younger Biden’s taxes.

During an interview with Stephen Colbert that aired Thursday night, Biden sat alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, and expressed “confidence” in his son.

In raising the subject of Hunter Biden, the liberal comedian Colbert claimed to Joe Biden that “the people who want to make hay in Washington are going to try to use your son as as a cudgel against you.

“How do you feel about that?” Colbert asked. “And what do you have to say to those people?”

“I have, we have, great confidence in our son,” Biden responded. “I am not concerned about any accusations being made against him. It’s used to get to me. I think it’s kind of foul play but look, it is what it is and he’s a grown man, he is the smartest man I know. I mean, from a pure intellectual capacity – and as long as he’s good, we’re good.”

Well, you can’t exactly blame Joe and Jill for defending Hunter, can you?

The Biden transition team clarified that Biden was not referring to the investigation as “foul play,” but rather to Republicans who have used Hunter Biden’s business dealings to go after him personally for months.

Well, the point in going after Hunter was to go after Joe, who, again, enabled all this, and probably was the recipient of lots of the money Hunter received. In fairness, many of them didn’t do a very good job at that, making it seem as if Hunter was the main target

Schweizer: There’s ‘Issue of Enrichment Involving Joe Biden Himself’

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer stated that Hunter Biden’s emails make it clear “he’s also paying a lot of the family’s bills, including his father’s and his mother’s, with these foreign gains,” and “this is an issue of enrichment involving Joe Biden himself.”

Schweizer said, “[N]ow, with the laptop, with the emails, that includes emails from Hunter Biden’s business partners…but also Hunter Biden’s emails themselves, we realize how the Biden family actually operates in this commercial space. And what I mean, Sean, is that it’s pretty clear, in Hunter’s own words in some of these emails, that he is receiving this money from overseas, but he’s also paying a lot of the family’s bills, including his father’s and his mother’s, with these foreign gains, these foreign funds. So, the point is, this is not just about Hunter Biden getting wealthy, and it’s not just a question of the intelligence and the national security threat, this is an issue of enrichment involving Joe Biden himself.”

And that is the crux of the matter, Joe used his position as Vice President to get Hunter some cushy gigs for which he had no experience which earned him a lot of money, and that money flowed to Joe.

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Maybe Possibly Raise The Risk From Failing Sewage Systems

By William Teach December 17, 2020 – 2:52 pm

The Washington Post was nice enough to change the headline to Battling America’s Dirty secret

Climate Change Raises The Risk From Failing Sewage Systems

To Catherine Coleman Flowers, this is “holy ground”: the place where her ancestors were enslaved and her parents fought for civil rights and she came of age. Here, amid the rich, dark earth and emerald farm fields, she is home.

Yet this ground also harbors a threat, one that will worsen as the planet warms.

For decades, the people of this rural county 30 miles south of Montgomery have struggled with waste. Municipal sewage systems do not extend to this farming community, and many residents cannot afford septic systems; their waste flows directly into ditches or streams. Even those with septic tanks find that they often fail in the dense, waterlogged soil. On rainy days, toilets won’t flush and foul effluent burbles up into bathtubs and sinks.

The untreated waste and warm, wet weather breed illnesses rarely seen in developed nations. Visitors to the county — doctors, politicians, a United Nations human rights expert — have expressed shock that such conditions exist in the 21st century in the world’s richest country.

This is America’s “dirty secret,” Flowers said.

See, this would be what is called a real environmental issue, one which harms the environment and citizens.

Flowers, who was named a MacArthur “genius” in October, is working on a new kind of septic system. Instead of flushing waste, the system she envisions filters, cleans and recycles it. Instead of sending raw sewage into the soil, it turns it into water for use in washing machines, and into nutrients for fertilizer, and perhaps even energy for homes.

She should be encouraged to continue her work, and rewarded if she can make it come to fruition. It’s not there yet, but, it is definitely something that is worth doing, is it not? Yes, it is. I’ll dare say, if government wants to invest in private research, this is worthwhile.

But, she hasn’t made it happen yet, and there is a lot of SJW in the article, a lot of organizing and such, and very little on actually working to make this system happen. Perhaps Flowers is actually working on it. If so, there is nothing really on it. Anyhow, finally, deep, deep into this

Meanwhile, climate change is making existing deficiencies worse. Rising sea levels have elevated the water table in coastal areas, shrinking the depth of leach fields and increasing contamination. Days of extreme rainfall — which have doubled in the Southeast as a consequence of warming — stymie septic systems.

Studies suggest that if climate change continues unabated, septic systems will be less able to filter toxic nitrates and fecal bacteria from wastewater. According to Mejia, warming in the Southeast has doubled the length of the infectious season for parasites such as hookworm, whose larvae hatch in warm, moist soils and infiltrate humans through bare feet.

“Climate change is like a magnifying glass for everything,” Flowers said. It exacerbates neglect, widens inequality and exposes problems once hidden.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to not build barely above the water table, when the sea heights have been going up for 20,000 years.

Flowers has made it her mission to ensure that other Americans do not look away. She advised Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on legislation to improve surveillance and treatment of “diseases of poverty,” such as hookworm. She served on the task force that developed President-elect Joe Biden’s climate plan, advocating for environmental justice and improvements in sewage management. Her memoir, “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret,” was published last month. Meanwhile, she has brought every powerful person she can find to Lowndes County: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston, actress Jane Fonda, and pastor and activist William J. Barber II.

I’m getting the idea that this is all about Big Government politics, and that she’s not really doing a damned thing to bring her idea to fruition. That is a straight shame, because this climate cult garbage ends up overshadowing real environmental concerns.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 17, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow because Someone Else turned the heat to 72, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on the left wanting to strip parental rights.

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NJ News Media Calls Gym Owner Not Wanting To Lose His Business “Arrogance”

By William Teach December 17, 2020 – 10:30 am

It’s always great when someone in the Credentialed News does this, because most of them were in no fear of losing their jobs or even missing paychecks. They weren’t designated “non-essential” by Government. Seriously, are editorial page editors, like Nj.com’s Tom Moran, really essential?

The arrogance behind the defiance at Atilis gym

Ian Smith, the musclebound co-owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, vows that he will die before he obeys Gov. Phil Murphy’s rules on safe conduct at his gym.

“This is our hill and I’ll die on it before I let you take it,” he said recently. “Come and get us…You’ll simply have to kill us first.”

For now, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal is sticking to fines — big ones that are likely to grow if this defiance continues. Last week, the state moved to impose a fine of $124,000, with a warning that it could grow by more than $15,000 a day until he yields.

Even that has failed to penetrate.

“I don’t care about the fines,” Smith says. “Throw me in jail. I don’t care. I’m not going to pay them…We don’t have any respect for Gov. Murphy.

Smith sees himself as a hero, and as long as he’s a regular guest with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, as long as people keep sending him money to help in his legal defense, it’s hard to imagine him changing his mind. This might not end until a judge grants him his wish to go to jail, or the state moves in with a heavier hand to shut down the gym altogether.

Smith’s fantasy about sacrificing his life in a heroic blaze is something he’ll have to work out with his therapist. The law in New Jersey allows no such thing.

Nor does it allow the owner of a gym to make policy for New Jersey during a pandemic that has killed 16,000 within our borders so far. It takes a staggering level of arrogance for Smith and his co-owner, Frank Trumbetti, to decide that they know best.

See, we have this thing called “freedom” in this nation, a belief that has been strangled by the pro-Big Government Democrats, who want citizens to sit down, shut up, and listen to their Betters. And, again, it’s easy for someone like Moran to yammer and insult and demean Smith, because Moran has no worries.

We live in a democracy. We resolve disputes by relying on the law. And the big decisions are made by the men and women who get the most votes.

See? Just listen to your political masters. Even if it means losing your business, your money, your home, everything.

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NY Times: Say, You Know That Big Snowstorm Is Totally Climate Change (scam), Right?

By William Teach December 17, 2020 – 8:19 am

Here’s an interesting thing: most people didn’t bother attempting to link the big winter storm of the past couple days, which is still going on, to the climate crisis scam. Even on Twitter, just about the only ones mentioning the two together were making fun of Warmists. But, not the NY Times, with climate cultist John Schwartz chiming in

How climate change is affecting winter storms.

With a major winter storm bearing down on the Eastern United States, you can expect some people (and, perhaps inevitably, President Trump), to ask, “What happened to global warming?”

It should be noted that this screed was published around 3am today, 12/17, but sure looks like it was written days in advance, in order to be prepared to scaremonger

It’s becoming increasingly clear that climate change does have an effect on storms, though the relationship can be complex and, yes, counterintuitive. “There were these expectations that winter was basically going to disappear on us,” said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER, a company that provides information to clients about weather and climate-related risk.

Although winters are becoming warmer and somewhat milder overall, extreme weather events have also been on the increase, and especially in the Northeastern United States, as Dr. Cohen pointed out in a recent paper in the journal Nature Communications. From the winter of 2008-9 until 2017-18, there were 27 major Northeast winter storms, three to four times the totals for each of the previous five decades.

See, because you ate burgers this year, winter is becoming warmer but also brings bigger storms with snow and cold and ice, because carbon pollution is magical and can do everything! Seriously, what they hell do they expect to happen during a typical, low end Holocene warm period during an interglacial? There is nothing unusual, but, these are modern versions of witch hunters, blaming them for everything.

Does that mean this particular storm has been fueled by climate change? Jonathan E. Martin, a professor in the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cautioned against drawing quick conclusions.

Because of the “enormous natural variability” in storms and the weather they deliver, “I think it is a dangerous business attributing individual winter storms, or characteristics of them, to climate change,” he said. And this storm in particular, he added, is getting a lot of its moisture from water vapor evaporated off the Atlantic Ocean, which complicates the picture.

Dr. Francis agreed that any connections are complex, but added, “all storms now form in a greatly altered climate, so there’s little doubt that the same storm decades ago would not be the same.”

They always trot out that “be cautious against drawing quick conclusions” right as they, and the articles, blame you for daring to take a long shower and have some sausage with your breakfast before heading off to work in your fossil fueled vehicle.

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Hot Take: CNN Reports Trump Will Refuse To Leave White House

By William Teach December 17, 2020 – 8:03 am

Can you guess what is missing from this CNN report from not 1, not 2, but 3 so-called reporters?

Trump has reportedly been convinced he actually won, tells advisers he may not vacate the White House

President Trump was privately coming to terms with his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, but he “has now reversed and dug in deeper — not only spreading misinformation about the election, but ingesting it himself,” CNN reports, “egged on by advisers like Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis who are misleading Trump about the extent of voting irregularities and the prospects of a reversal.” One adviser told CNN, “He’s been fed so much misinformation that I think he actually thinks this thing was stolen from him.”

Even the Electoral College formalizing Biden’s win “did not appear enough to shake Trump from his delusions of victory,” CNN says, “but it is adding urgency to a push by several of his advisers to gently steer Trump toward reality.” Discussions of Trump’s post-presidency future tend to go nowhere because Trump “all but shuts down,” CNN reports. “In his moments of deepest denial, Trump has told some advisers that he will refuse to leave the White House on Inauguration Day, only to be walked down from that ledge. The possibility has alarmed some aides, but few believe Trump will actually follow through.”

The actual CNN report says

In his moments of deepest denial, Trump has told some advisers that he will refuse to leave the White House on Inauguration Day, only to be walked down from that ledge. The possibility has alarmed some aides, but few believe Trump will actually follow through.

“He’s throwing a f***ing temper tantrum,” an adviser said. “He’s going to leave. He’s just lashing out.”…

While Trump had begun to privately accept the reality that he lost the election late last month, advisers say Trump has now reversed and dug in deeper — not only spreading misinformation about the election, but ingesting it himself.

“He’s been fed so much misinformation that I think he actually thinks this thing was stolen from him,” a Trump adviser said of the President.

Not one single named source. As usual. This is what is called journalism these days. Of course, unhinged, TDS infused nutters like Hot Air’s Allahpundit, believe this piece of mule fritters, and even have fantasies

Imagine the news coverage. “It’s now 8 p.m. eastern time, eight hours since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, and as you can see from our live feed former President Trump is still seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in the dark with his arms crossed. Wait, hold on — we’re now getting word that the former president is threatening to hold his breath if the election results aren’t overturned. To repeat, he will hold his breath unless he isn’t sworn in for a second term immediately. Back to you, Jim.”

I’m looking forward to #NeverTrumpers like AP whining once China Joe starts pushing all sorts of rules and regs, and, if the Dems take the Georgia senate seats, legislation that the Never Trumpers will hates. The operative phrase for these NTs will be “sit down, shut up, and take it, because this is what you wanted.” Or, just a simple, hearty “f*ck off, moron” works, as well.

Meanwhile, after 4 years of pimping Russia Russia Russia, the Washington Post seems rather upset that Ron Johnson would hold hearings on all the election irregularities, both in the supposed straight news (it’s opinion) and the opinion section. Let’s be honest, the fix was in, it’s still in, and it will continue to be in. And, when more and more evidence comes out showing all the election fraud, the same Russia Russia Russia media will tell us to just move on.

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Uh Oh: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Be Coming For Your Favorite Christmas Rom-Coms Or Something

By William Teach December 16, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Why am I doubting that most Warmists watch these types of shows, since they are positive and upbeat and tend to discuss God and Christianity and Christmas and Jesus, all those things the climate cultists do not like. But, the cultists want to attempt to scare the heretics

Is climate change coming for the Christmas rom-com?

It’s December, which means ‘tis the season for drinking giant mugs of hot cocoa, making piles of gingerbread cookies, and lots and lots of ice-skating – at least, it does if you’re a character in one of this season’s many holiday rom-coms. Even in 2020, the end of the year still brings a deluge of festive romances, complete with totally believable plot lines (in The Princess Switch 2: Switched Again, Vanessa Hudgens plays not two but three (!) identical women romping through a fictional European country) and final-act kisses under the mistletoe.

Oh, and snow. Piles and piles of snow.

Despite our overheating planet, the weather forecast in most holiday-themed movies remains largely unchanged. Couples meet cute while wrapped in layers of flannel and cashmere. Nevermind the fact that the world has already warmed 1.2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times and 2020 is on track to be the third-hottest year on record: In the world of Christmas Town, Holidate, and Christmas Ever After, romance – and snowy winters – are alive and well.

Personally, I’d prefer a good zombie or horror or scifi movie or TV show, some Survivor and The Amazing Race, but, that’s me. Lots of people, let’s be honest, mostly the ladies, like the movies on Hallmark and such, right?

Granted, Christmas rom-coms provide escapism in more ways than one. Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix are already selling a fantasy in which small-town America is thriving, most women work as novelists or bloggers, and the worst personality trait possible is to be a Christmas “grinch.” Climate change adds yet another dimension: While these movies’ fanciful, snowy backdrops might have once faded into the, well, backdrop, they’re increasingly hard to ignore in a time when so much of our lives are defined by extreme weather events.

According to an analysis by the nonprofit research group Climate Central earlier this year, rising temperatures are shrinking snowfall in many areas of the country, particularly during fall and spring; Chicago, a snowy bastion of the Christmas genre, now sees around 4 fewer inches of winter snow than in the 1970s. Sledding, skiing, and outdoor ice-skating — the best activities to do with a romantic partner who looks like a J. Crew model! — may all be in jeopardy as temperatures rise.

You mean back when the media hysterics were scaremongering about a coming ice age?

As the climate warms, these fake snow-making techniques will be on the rise — and so will the chasm between our treasured festive romances and reality. Granted, it can feel kind of good to travel into a winter wonderland that’s as devoid of climate change as it is of the restrictions (and masks!) of COVID-19. (Amid today’s lockdowns, just a quick scene of an indoor, poinsettia-filled holiday party filled me with aching wistfulness.) But will we still be watching these blizzard-filled flicks in 2030? Or 2050? Or will they start to feel too much like fantasy — a nostalgic imprint of the world that came before?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 16, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are glaciers which will soon disappear due to the climate crisis, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on the Christmas Star being visible for the first time in 800 years.

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