Surprise: Forthcoming Redskins Name Change Is Just A Start

By William Teach July 15, 2020 – 10:30 am

When you give in to SJWs they won’t stop. They’ll keep demanding more

Native Americans say Washington’s name change ‘signals the beginning’ of further reckoning

It was more than a sports logo, it was a symbol.

On Monday, Washington’s NFL team announced that it would change its nickname and logo, which has been long been decried as racist and dehumanizing by Native American advocates. Owner Dan Snyder had previously vowed that he would “never” change the name — but that was before demonstrators across the United States and beyond took to the streets after the death of George Floyd to protest systemic racism. (snip)

Change has been the operative word in tribal communities of late: The Supreme Court ruled on July 9 that a large swath of eastern Oklahoma remains a Native American reservation based on a treaty signed with the Creek Nation in the 19th Century. This month, there have also been legal victories for Native environmental activists in their attempts to block two major oil pipelines. Statues of Christopher Columbus, whose arrival in the New World heralded the conquest and mass murder in the eyes of many Indigenous Americans, have been toppled in several states. (big snip to near the end)

Dunbar-Ortiz said she hoped that the unprecedented momentum would continue — including serious reflection over the cultural appropriation in other Native American-derived nicknames in pro and college sports, such as MLB’s Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians, the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.

“None of those names are Native terms. They’re made up colonial terms,” she said. “They’re not honoring Native people.”

For the first time in memory, the drumbeat for change is not falling on deaf ears.

Being in the South, there are plenty of Braves fans around here, and they think they are safe. They shouldn’t. I know a small number of Blackhawks and Chiefs fans, they think the same. They shouldn’t. It never ends. Heck, they’ll probably come after the use of Washington.

And, hey, while we’re at it, let’s look at place names, too! (via Hot Air)

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Burger King Goes Climate Cult On Cow Emissions

By William Teach July 15, 2020 – 8:11 am

Just, just, just shut up and serve burgers. That’s your job. Serve fast food.

Burger King addresses climate change by changing cows’ diets, reducing cow farts

Burger King is staging an intervention with its cows.

The chain has rebalanced the diet of some of the cows by adding lemon grass in a bid to limit bovine contributions to climate change. By tweaking their diet, Burger King said Tuesday that it believes it can reduce a cow’s daily methane emissions by about 33%.

Cows emit methane as a by-product of their digestion, and that has become a potential public relations hurdle for major burger chains.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector made up 9.9% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Of that amount, methane emissions from livestock (called enteric fermentation) comprised more than a quarter of the emissions from the agriculture sector.

With an over-the-top social media campaign that teeters between vulgarity and science (sprinkled with more vulgarity), Burger King is banking on the heightened awareness of climate change and its responsibility to limit its own role.

No, really

What about all the chickens used? The gas grills (supposedly) used to make the burgers? All the energy consumption from the microwaves and fryers? All the foods that are fried? How about all the road miles to ship the foods?

In fairness, methane is problematic. I’ve said and written this many, many times. CO2 is a joke, but, there is concern with other GHGs such as methane, hence why I never say that the current warm period is solely caused by nature. The climate virtue signaling on this is amazing, though. As that’s all it is. Changing the diet of cows is a drop in the bucket as to BK’s operations.

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NYC Black Leaders Suddenly Realize That Getting Rid Of Cops And Anti-Crime Unit Is A Bad Idea

By William Teach July 15, 2020 – 7:59 am

New York City hasn’t gotten rid of their police yet, though they did vote to cut the NYPD’s budget by a billion dollars, which will mean lots and lots of officers gone. Officers are leaving and retiring at a much higher rate than usual. And citizens are seeing a much higher rate of crime already, as you know

Black Leaders Call on NYPD to Bring Back Anti-Crime Unit as Shootings Spike

Leaders in the black community are calling on the New York Police Department to bring back the plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit that was eliminated last month as shootings and murders spike across the city.

About 600 undercover officers from the unit were set to be transferred to other assignments including detective work and policing neighborhoods, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said a month ago. The anti-crime unit, which was responsible for getting guns off the streets, had been criticized as stoking distrust in law enforcement in minority communities.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, one of the African-American voices calling for action on gun violence, criticized the police force’s decision to completely disband the unit. He deplored the recent deadly shooting of a one-year-old, one of the victims of New York City’s recent spike in gun violence.

“I think that a total elimination is something we need to reevaluate,” Adams said, CBS New York reported. “Right now, bad guys are saying if you don’t see a blue and white you can do whatever you want.”

Surprise? Especially in a Democratic Party run city? With people who vote mostly Democrat? And are now voting for serious hardcore Progressives like AOC who want to completely defund the police?

Tony Herbert, an activist in New York’s black community, agreed and lamented the rise in violence, criticizing New York officials for their failure to address the situation.

“The guns keep going off and now we have a 1-year-old and the blood is on the hands of the mayor and the state Legislature,” Herbert said.

Perhaps Tony and Eric should have a conversation with Black Lives Matter, which is calling to defund the police. Oh, and maybe they should discuss that the NYC chapter wants to be autonomous and separate in a Communist manner

The best way for us to move our Black liberation work forward is to be autonomous from the global network. We will take time to build a collective that can realize our power, be accountable to our community, and transformative in our politics. We see this as a continuation of the radical Black liberation and Black power struggle that has spanned centuries around the world.  We believe in the right to self-govern and our need to become ungovernable to institutions that do not serve our interest of freedom, autonomy and liberation. We view the struggle for Black liberation as a human rights struggle. Black liberation is necessary and imperative for global liberation and the liberation of all people.

That sounds rather Black Separatist/Nationalist, eh? Regardless

The city’s murder rate for the month ending June 7 has more than doubled from the same period last year, and shooting victims have increased by 45 percent. Meanwhile, arrests for illegal gun possession have dropped dramatically, with only 29 people arrested during the week that ended July 5, down from 70 during the same week last year, according to NYPD data.

I thought citizen conflict resolution counselors were going to take over the job of policing? All those social workers? No? But, since the city council pulled $1 billion for the police budget, where do they get the money? Further, if who cares if the community doesn’t trust the cops: they aren’t there to make friends, they are there to reduce crime.

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Handsy Joe Has A ‘Climate Change’ Fever Which Can Be Fixed With $2 Trillion

By William Teach July 14, 2020 – 3:30 pm

One has to wonder how much of this is driven by the kooky left and their climate cult beliefs. His previous plans were bad, but, not completely climanutso. He looks like he’s pandering to the kooks

Biden Announces $2 Trillion Climate Plan
Mr. Biden’s plan links tackling climate change with economic recovery from the coronavirus and addressing racism, drawing praise from onetime critics.

The subhead rather reinforces the pandering

Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced on Tuesday a new plan to spend $2 trillion over four years to significantly escalate the use of clean energy in the transportation, electricity and building sectors, part of a suite of sweeping proposals designed to create economic opportunities and build infrastructure while also tackling climate change.

It’s cute how they use his full name, eh?

In a speech in Wilmington, Del., Mr. Biden built on his plans, released last week, for reviving the economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, with a new focus on enhancing the nation’s infrastructure and emphasizing the importance of putting the United States on a path to significantly cut fossil fuel emissions.

“These are the most critical investments we can make for the long-term health and vitality of both the American economy and the physical health and safety of the American people,” he said, repeatedly criticizing President Trump’s leadership on issues including climate and the pandemic. “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is ‘hoax.’ When I think about climate change, the word I think of is ‘jobs.’”

Just wondering if any reporters asked him tough questions, such as “you tried this once already while Obama was your boss, and it failed. Vast sums of money were wasted, such as with Solyndra and all the fake weatherizing. You were supposed to be in charge of watching the program. How will it be different this time? As VP you were part of the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression.” And “how many letters are in the word “jobs””?

“This is not a status quo plan,” said Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, a prominent environmentalist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination on a platform of combating climate change and later endorsed Mr. Biden.

Remember that Jay flamed out early, and not even the Progressives in Washington wanted his climate plans.

Mr. Biden’s plan outlines specific and aggressive targets, including achieving an emissions-free power sector by 2035 and upgrading four million buildings over four years to meet the highest standards for energy efficiency. The plan also calls for establishing an office of environmental and climate justice at the Justice Department and developing a broad set of tools to address how “environmental policy decisions of the past have failed communities of color.”

First, there’s no way to have emissions free power in 15 years, unless people are just not going to have power. Upgrading buildings? Failed during the Stimulus. Will he Require those buildings meet those standards? As for the last, this isn’t really about the climate, is it.

Environmental justice, a movement that tries to address pollution and other toxic harms that disproportionately affect communities of color, plays a key role in the plan. In it, Mr. Biden set a goal for disadvantaged communities to receive 40 percent of all clean energy and infrastructure benefits. He also made explicit references to tribal communities and called for expanding broadband access to tribal lands.

What was Joe doing during the last 40+ years as an elected official? As for broadband, that has what to do with ‘climate change’?

Paying for it, campaign officials said, will come from a mix of increasing the corporate income tax rate from 21 to 28 percent, “asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share” and some still-undetermined amount of stimulus dollars. Campaign officials added that more details would be released “in the weeks ahead.”

Well, good luck with that. The rich people’s money never seems to appear, because they move it. Perhaps Joe could hit up his rich Hollywood and tech buddies. Surely they will have no problem paying a high tax rate.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible moo cow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bustednuckles, with a post on 4 Oregon state troopers defying the mask requirements.

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Hey, We Can Turn Bat Soup Virus Around In 2-3 Weeks If Everyone Does Their Part. Or 6 Weeks. Maybe

By William Teach July 14, 2020 – 12:38 pm

Goal posts keep moving. We did what we were asked (and told): social distance, wash hands, get locked down. Now

US Surgeon General Jerome Adams says the US can turn coronavirus around in ‘2 or 3 weeks if everyone does their part’

US Surgeon General Jerome Adams says the US could turn around its novel coronavirus infections in two to three weeks if “everyone does their part” by following official recommendations like social distancing and use of face coverings.

Adams appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, two days after the US recorded more than 65,000 COVID-19 infections, its most in a single day. Adams said that despite sharp rises in states across the country, if Americans follow guidelines en masse, the US could see near-immediate decreases in infections.

“So just as we’ve seen cases skyrocket, we can turn this thing around in two to three weeks if we can get a critical mass of people wearing face coverings, practicing at least 6 feet of social distancing, doing the things that we know are effective,” Adams said.

Just 2-3 weeks, right?

CDC Director Robert Redfield: If Everyone Wore a Mask for Next 6 Weeks We Could Drive Pandemic ‘Into the Ground’

During a press conference on Monday afternoon the Director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, continued with the theme of pleading with Americans to put on a mask to stymie the spread of COVID-19. He said that, if everyone complied with said pleading, then “over the next six weeks we could drive [the virus] into the ground.”

The reward for such a proposition certainly seems tantalizing (and relatively easy) for the average citizen (even if it ultimately doesn’t work), though it’s likely to fall on millions of deaf ears rendering that timeline into an unattainable pipe dream. Maybe it’s best ,you know, for your sanity, if you just prep yourself for indefinite lockdown.

The first article is from Sunday. The second was published on Monday. So, which is it? What comes next? I think we all understand that COVID19 seems to constantly be changing, regardless of whether came from eating bats or something or released from the center in Wuhan. Everytime we have a guidance it seems to change. California was one of the most locked down states, and now they are re-locking everything down.

What will they think of next? Will this suddenly disappear the day after election day?

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Bummer: Feeding The Poor Better Food Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 14, 2020 – 7:09 am

Obviously, this is all your fault and you need to be forced to cut back

Better food for world’s poor could hike climate-changing emissions

To feed their people a healthy diet, countries from Ethiopia to India may need to hike their climate-changing emissions – a shift only possible if richer nations simultaneously curb theirs, a United Nations flagship report on hunger said Monday.

Increasing emissions to provide poor children, in particular, with more protein or dairy products – “outweighs the negative effects deriving from higher national emissions” in those countries, the report said.

But Brent Loken, lead author of an upcoming report on the G20’s role in transforming the food system, said overall global emissions cannot increase as diets improve in poorer countries.

That means rich nations – from the United States and Britain to South Korea and Argentina – would need to cut back on carbon-intensive diets, both he and the annual U.N. report said.

“If we truly feel that every single person on the planet has a right to healthy food, has a right to be able to eat enough food, this is the only way that we’re going to be able to do this without destroying the planet,” Loken said.

The only way to do this is for Government to make you change your diet. Are you good with that? How about all you Warmists? You good with that? Government controlling what you eat? Most of you Warmists won’t modify your behavior voluntarily, so, you fine with Government making you? Limiting the amount of meat you can eat? Why does it always seem that the complaints from the Cult Of Climastrology always require massive new government control?

And you can bet those people working for the UN and representing their nations to the UN aren’t giving up their own food impacts.

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Who Had “Texas Rangers” On Their Cancel Culture Hit Card?

By William Teach July 14, 2020 – 6:51 am

Everyone seems surprised that there has been no real reform on policing, but, the SJWs seem to be going after everything, causing people to tune out from reform and BLM

Remember, we weren’t allowed to go back far into Obama’s history to see who he was, but we’re supposed to go hundreds of years ago for the Rangers. From the screed

As the Washington football team finally gives up its racist slur of a name, there is one major sports team that has avoided the spotlight and resisted meaningful engagement with the violent and racist implications of its name. To know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen.

I grew up in Dallas, raised on myths about Texas Rangers as brave and wholesome guardians of the Texas frontier, helping protect innocent settlers from violent Indians. At church, boys could sign up to be Royal Rangers, the Christian equivalent of the Boy Scouts. I still remember the excitement when Chuck Norris himself, star of the television show “Walker, Texas Ranger,” came to visit my elementary school class. (snip)

What we didn’t realize at the time was that the Rangers were a cruel, racist force when it came to the nonwhites who inhabited the beautiful and untamed Texas territory. The first job of the Rangers, formed in 1835 after Texas declared independence from Mexico, was to clear the land of Indian for white settlers.

That was just the start. The Rangers oppressed black people, helping capture runaway slaves trying to escape to Mexico; in the aftermath of the Civil War, they killed free blacks with impunity. “The negroes here need killing,” a Ranger wrote in a local newspaper in 1877, after Rangers fired on a party of black former Buffalo soldiers, killing four of them and a 4-year old girl. A jury would later find that the black soldiers “came to their death while resisting officers in the discharge of their duty,” an unsettling echo of the justification for modern-day police killings.

But, what of more recently?

But Ranger racism is not an artifact of the distant past. Rangers would be called on to protect white supremacy into the 1960s, deployed to prevent school integration. In 1956, when black students were attempting to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, Rangers stood by as the mob attacked them — and threatened to arrest the black students. For their efforts, Swanson writes, they were rewarded with a chicken dinner from the White Citizens’ Council in Texarkana.

And she says

But there is no storage unit for the baseball team, whose owners have expressed no inclination to change the name. “While we may have originally taken our name from the law enforcement agency, since 1971 the Texas Rangers Baseball Club has forged its own, independent identity,” the team said in a statement. “The Texas Rangers Baseball Club stands for equality. We condemn racism, bigotry and discrimination in all forms.”

This is revisionist history — and the team knows it. When the franchise, formerly the Washington Senators, moved to Texas in 1971, the Ranger name was met with protests, which were duly ignored.

See, in Cancel Culture World, there is no forgiving. Ever. So, just wondering: Stilson Hutchins, who founded the Washington Post in 1877, started the paper to push the ideals and beliefs of the Democratic Party. You know, the Party of slavery? The Party of Jim Crow and segregation? Who created the same KKK mentioned above? Who’s 1880 platform was highly anti-Chinese? And if the Washington Post finds George Washington’s name problematic, shouldn’t they be forced to change the name of the paper? And, since the Democratic Party has all those skeletons in the closet, shouldn’t they be forced to change their name? When will Cancel Culture require this?

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Fighting Climate Change (scam) Requires A New Capitalism Or Something

By William Teach July 13, 2020 – 4:44 pm

What’s interesting in this Forbes interview is that they never actually ask Rebecca Henderson what that new capitalism looks like, nor does she really volunteer. I wonder why?

Fighting Climate Change Requires A New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives.

At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant. But at home, she found comfort in the seeming permanence of nature and trees, whose leafy branches provided solace to her as a child. (snip)

Business was ever-changing, but nature was constant. It wasn’t until in the mid-2000s, at her brother’s urging, that she started to read about the science of climate change—and the part that business has played in accelerating it. The revelation shook her world view.

After debating whether to quit her job at MIT, Henderson started seeking out like-minded leaders who shared her concerns. Her experiences and the research that came out of them culminate in her new book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, a deeply personal exploration of capitalism’s role in addressing climate change.

The puff piece interview follow, and the closest it comes is

Henderson: In the ’70s, when the conversation about shareholder value first began, and in the ’80s, when it really took off, it was fine for business to just focus on making money. We had a very cohesive society and a strong government.

But right now, we have a political system that’s incredibly partisan. It’s very difficult to get anything done. And we have a government that is, as a result of years of attack on the very idea of government, fundamentally very weak. You can really see that in the current COVID-19 emergency, both in the slowness of the federal government’s response, and in its decision not to step up as a central buyer of things like personal protective equipment (PPE). States are bidding against each other for medical equipment, which seems extraordinary.

There are moments when you really need government. Controlling climate pollution is one example. Without the right kinds of rules, firms run the risk of causing more damage from the the carbon dioxide they emit than the value they create.

Hmm, sounds like a call for the Government to control the economy. Why don’t Warmists just come out and say what they really want? Are the afraid to scare people off with their Modern Socialist views?

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If All You See…

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

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

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…., with a post on your Monday feel good stories.

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