If All You See…

By William Teach June 26, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a forest area being turned to desert due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on leftists who hate Andrew Jackson being just like him.

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FYI: Open And Concealed Carry Allowed In North Carolina While Wearing COVID19 Mask

By William Teach June 26, 2020 – 10:30 am

Quite a few people are concerned about this, even going so far as to say that mask rules are being implemented to stifled 2nd Amendment Rights. Many states are making sure that there are no legal issues. I ran across a story at WRAL on this, but, it left out some relevant information, so, going to the Charlotte Observer

Carrying a gun while wearing a mask: NC sheriffs clarify what’s legal during pandemic

It’s illegal to wear a mask in an attempt to conceal your identity in North Carolina unless it’s Halloween, Mardi Gras or you’re attending a masquerade ball, according to general statutes.

At least it was, pre-pandemic.

Now, as local officials from Raleigh to Boone institute mask requirements to protect against the coronavirus and N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper weighs a statewide mandate, residents are seeking a clarification of the rules — particularly those with gun permits.

A statewide mask requirement goes into effect at 5pm today, Friday the 26th. The story goes on to note that in Illinois and, yes, even Virginia, people are allowed to carry both concealed and open while wearing a mask as long as they are not in the commission of a crime.

As North Carolina inches toward a potentially similar mandate, law enforcement officials have said the same logic would apply to concealed carry permit holders here. But unlike Illinois, North Carolina’s mask-wearing statute outlawing citizens from attempting to hide their identity does not mention weapons.

Still, Guilford County Sheriff D.H. Rogers in Greensboro said in a news release Wednesday that several citizens had asked about “the legality of carrying a concealed handgun while wearing a COVID-19 protective mask.”

“If you have a valid CCH permit, it is legal (i.e., it is not a crime) to carry a concealed handgun while wearing a mask, provided that you are wearing the mask to protect yourself or others from the COVID-19 virus,” he said in response.

Permit holders must, however, remove the mask if instructed to do so by a law enforcement officer, according to the release. (snip)

According to Senate Bill 704 or Session Law 2020-3, face coverings are allowed “for the purpose of ensuring the physical health or safety of the wearer or others.”

“Session Law 2020-3 was specifically enacted so people could carry concealed (or open carry) while wearing a mask. This is valid until August 1st, although it may be revisited and extended, especially if face masks become mandatory,” spokesperson Christina Howell told the Winston-Salem Journal.

So, if you want to carry and not commit a crime, you’re good to go.

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How’s The Mass Experiment For Solving Climate Crisis (scam) Going?

By William Teach June 26, 2020 – 7:10 am

One has to wonder how helpful these articles are in reminding people how miserable things were during full lockdown, and how they aren’t fulling working yet

A ‘mass experiment’ for the climate

Has the pandemic helped individuals and leaders get any closer to tackling the environmental crisis?

“I was so worried about the dangers of going too far,” says Sally Capp, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, when she now thinks about her pre-pandemic leadership on the environment. The leader of Australia’s second most populated city believes Covid-19 has helped her clarify what’s important to her as an individual and as mayor. “I have become much more resolute about my values, prioritising humanity and protecting the environment, so they can play a larger role in driving my agenda.”

The pandemic has created the most significant economic shock since the Great Depression, besides being a public health crisis like no other in living memory. The existential threat that it has posed has set many individuals, cities and national leaders on a new track. In Capp’s case, it has meant taking very different decisions on the environment, leading in a way that focuses on what’s truly important. Capp believes this trend needs to continue post Covid-19.

There is indeed a large movement to “build back better” from the pandemic in a way that confronts the climate crisis. Attitudes are changing. But however good our intentions as individuals, it will take determined moves by industry, national and local government to modify the environment so that we can all build on any attitude changes. Has the pandemic helped us make the changes needed to tackle the environmental crisis?

Nope. Because people are starting to realize that the policies the Cult of Climastrology push will make our lives look like during lockdown.

Many of these changes in the way we act have had a sustainable dimension, such as curtailing the vast majority of our long-distance travel. Our reduction in movement has led to the biggest carbon crash ever recorded.

Did you enjoy that time? Because it will become the norm under COC policies by government force. I can’t travel to see the parents in NJ due to Bat Soup Virus restrictions. I’d have to stay locked down for 14 days. But, I wouldn’t go anyhow because of the potential for being asymptomatic and giving it to them. In the future, I’d have restrictions by Government. They might let me take the train to Trenton. Not sure how to get to the east side of NJ from there.

As the world has changed around us, how has that changed our perception of the environment and our behaviour towards it? Elise Amel, a professor in psychology at the University of St Thomas in St Paul and Minneapolis, points out that when people can see the impact they cause – when the invisible becomes visible – they behave differently. “When you are spending time at home, working there or because you’ve lost your job or been furloughed, you could see for the first time how much energy you are using or how much food you are throwing away, which may make you stop, think and change your behaviour,” says Amel.

Yeah, now that lockdown is slowly ending, people are going back to their previous lives, because the do not want those restrictions. And, seriously, these lunatics writing this drivel actually think someone who has lost their job or been furloughed are more concerned with ‘climate change’?

However, Jo Hale, a research fellow at University College London who studies sustainability and health in urban environments, warns that if we take part in one pro-environmental activity we may feel we have a moral license to stop there, a tendency known as “single-action bias”. As we have ticked the sustainable box we may think we have played our part.

That’s pretty much most Warmists, who do not practice what they preach.

Perhaps the change will be driven by cities, not countries. Mark Watts leads C40, a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. Since Covid-19 he has been convening a bi-weekly meetings of the big city mayors to discuss tackling the epidemic and how to manage a green recovery. Watts told me the sense of possibility is palatable, even in a virtual meeting. “The mayors are treating this time as a massive game-changing moment. This epidemic experience will have been the greatest pressure that most of these individuals have been under, as hundreds of thousands of people have been dying in their cities. But with increased public trust in government, they are sensing this is the moment they have to be strong and bold to take radical steps to protect our environment.”

So, let’s use people dying in their cities to push climate cult stuff?

 

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With Homeless Camp Moving In, Moonbat White Liberals Have Hard Time Checking Their Privilege

By William Teach June 26, 2020 – 6:53 am

It’s easy to be a Principled uber-white liberal when you aren’t confronted with Bad Things. Not so easy when the crime starts rising. Their neighborhood is about middling safe, and surrounded by much higher crime neighborhoods. Aaaaaand….action

A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested.

When Shari Albers moved three decades ago into Powderhorn Park, a tree-lined Minneapolis neighborhood known as a haven to leftist activists and bohemian artists like herself, she went to work sprucing it up.

She became a block club leader, organizing her mostly white neighbors to bring in playgrounds and help tackle longstanding issues with crime.

On many nights, she banged on the car windows of men who had come to solicit prostitutes outside her door, she said. She kept meticulous notes when dozens of men would gather in a circle for gang meetings in the park across from her house. After each episode, she called the police.

But times have changed. After the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police, Ms. Albers, who is white, and many of her progressive neighbors have vowed to avoid calling law enforcement into their community. Doing so, they believed, would add to the pain that black residents of Minneapolis were feeling and could put them in danger.

See, they kept crime in check by utilizing the police and keeping dangerous elements out. Hence the reason their neighborhood isn’t dark blue (should be interesting when Neighborhood Scout updates), but, now they’ll virtue signal.

Already, that commitment is being challenged. Two weeks ago, dozens of multicolored tents appeared in the neighborhood park. They were brought by homeless people who were displaced during the unrest that gripped the city. The multiracial group of roughly 300 new residents seems to grow larger and more entrenched every day. They do laundry, listen to music and strategize about how to find permanent housing. Some are hampered by mental illness, addiction or both.

So, the commitment lasted all of two weeks before being tested.

Their presence has drawn heavy car traffic into the neighborhood, some from drug dealers. At least two residents have overdosed in the encampment and had to be taken away in ambulances.

The influx of outsiders has kept Ms. Albers awake at night. Though it is unlikely to happen, she has had visions of people from the tent camp forcing their way into her home. She imagines using a baseball bat to defend herself.

Not being able to call the police, as she has done for decades, has shaken her.

“I am afraid,” she said. “I know my neighbors are around, but I’m not feeling grounded in my city at all. Anything could happen.”

Welcome to the crazy urban world that Liberalism creates.

In the city where the movement began, residents are not surprised that it is being taken especially seriously in Powderhorn Park, just blocks from Mr. Floyd’s deadly encounter with the police. For decades, the community has been a refuge for scrappy working-class activists with far-left politics. The biggest day of the year, locals often boast, is the May Day parade celebrating laborers.

Who’s surprised that they go for May Day above things like Independence Day, Memorial Day, Christmas, and others?

“I’m not being judgmental,” said Carrie Nightshade, 44, who explained that she no longer felt comfortable letting her children, 12 and 9, play in the park by themselves. “It’s not personal. It’s just not safe.”

Sucks when reality interferes with your Virtue Signaling, eh? Anyhow, there’s plenty of crazy in this piece, you really, really need to read it full. Let’s skip ahead to Category 5 Moonbattery

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Disney To Redo Splash Mountain

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 7:47 pm

Remember when I mentioned on June 11th that the #CancelCulture nutters were coming after Disney’s Splash Mountain, because it “is based on the 1946 movie “Song of the South” that critics say is one of Disney’s most racist films.” Not that the kids who ride it know or care, they just want to be entertained and get splashed. And the CC SJWs wanted it named after The Princess and the Frog, right?

Disney claims they have been working on this for years, because they don’t want to say that they’ve surrendered to the nutters, because they surely know “get woke, go broke.” They own ESPN, after all.

Don’t give them ideas.

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St. Greta Boots Journalists From Climate (scam) Conference

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 4:40 pm

She was rather upset about the photos and videos of kids crying and stuff, losing their minds because cultist adults, and St. Greta, have taught them that they’re doomed

From the article

On the last day of the “Smile for Future” climate summit at the University of Lausanne, the mood among the teenagers remains tense. Since Wednesday, when there had been crying fits and violent quarrels at times at the meeting, the activists are under particular observation.

The idol of the movement, Greta Thunberg, knows that too. The friction among the youngsters does not leave the 16-year-old Swede indifferent. On the contrary: On Friday morning her patience snapped. She personally had the journalists present thrown out of the hall.

Then, from the back rows in the hall, a teenager speaks up. It is Greta Thunberg. The climate icon believes the media are to blame for the bad mood. Thunberg therefore advocates excluding the journalists “because they otherwise portray it as if we had a quarrel”.

Only on Wednesday BLICK had reported on the giant spat among the Greta disciples. The headline caused a stir and was also picked up by newspapers abroad. Thunberg was not pleased that the images of exasperated and crying teenagers attracted so much attention. She also rejected the claim in an article by “Buzzfeed” that she had participated in a summit strike.

These are the people leftist want voting? But, then, adult leftist do this as well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible pig which causes the temperature to spike, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on Michael Flynn and Obamagate developments.

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Cancel Culture Is Coming After The National Anthem (Again)

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 10:30 am

They’ve tried before. Will they succeed this time? Will they push hard for this? It’s great how a Lindsay Parker, editor in chief of Yahoo Music, wants to censor music

Why it might be time to finally replace ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ with a new national anthem

In an increasingly antiracist era when problematic iconography — ranging from Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to even the Dukes of Hazzard General Lee car and country band Lady Antebellum’s name — is being reassessed, revised or retired, America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” seems to be striking a wrong note.

Last week, protesters in San Francisco toppled a statue of the song’s composer, Francis Scott Key, a known slaveholder who once said that African-Americans were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.” This week, Liana Morales, an Afro-Latinx student at New York’s Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts, refused to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at her virtual graduation ceremony, explaining to the Wall Street Journal, “With everything that’s happening, if I stand there and sing it, I’m being complicit to a system that has oppressed people of color.” Instead, Morales performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn widely considered to be the “Black national anthem.”

So, is it time for this country to dispense with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and adopt a new anthem with a less troubling history and a more inclusive message? Historian and scholar Dr. Daniel E. Walker, the author of No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans and producer of the documentary How Sweet the Sound: Gospel in Los Angeles, says yes.

“The 53-year-old in me says, we can’t change things that have existed forever. But then there are these young people who say that America needs to live up to its real creed,” Walker tells Yahoo Entertainment. “And so, I do side with the people who say that we should rethink this as the national anthem, because this is about the deep-seated legacy of slavery and white supremacy in America, where we do things over and over and over again that are a slap in the face of people of color and women. We do it first because we knew what we were doing and we wanted to be sexist and racist. And now we do it under the guise of ‘legacy.’”

Most of this is about how Key grew up in a slave holding family and such, hence, the song is bad. Perhaps they want to replace it with hip hop, which extols misogyny, racism towards non-black, black supremacy, violence, and crime?

In fact “The Star-Spangled Banner,” based on a poem Key wrote about his eyewitness account of the War of 1812, originally featured a little-heard third stanza that was blatantly racist: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave/And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave/O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” While that version of the song is rarely performed today, Powell has been aware of it for years, and, like Morales, has therefore refused to sing the anthem since he was in high school in the 1980s, when he first learned of its history.

“I grew up in hip-hop,” says Powell, who used to write for Vibe magazine, “and I remember how people would criticize hip-hop for being violent. Yet ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is riddled with violence. How are you criticizing a rap song for being violent, but when we get to kindergarten, we are literally teaching children violence through song? I said, ‘I can’t participate anymore.’ So I stopped a long time ago.’”

Of course the song is riddled with violence: it was about the British bombing Ft McHenry during the War of 1812. Wars are rather violent. It was written as a poem, then set to music in 1931.

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NRDC Decides Now Is A Good Time To Take On The Sustainability Of Toilet Paper

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 8:47 am

How many people are going to care about this and how many will think they are just nutball cultists who need to mind their own business? Because people want their good, soft, strong toilet paper. Noticing you only have one roll of TP left will have you running to the store, right? It will give you anxiety when it is low, right? How’d you feel walking into the supermarket actually needing TP and seeing empty shelves? So, of course, the National Resource Defense Council decides this is the perfect time to whine about people using TP

Toilet Paper and Climate Change: NRDC’s Updated “Issue With Tissue” Ranks Brands on Sustainability

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) today released an updated analysis of the climate impacts caused by the “tree to toilet” pipeline destroying the climate-critical Canadian boreal forest. The “Issue with Tissue 2.0” report includes a new sustainability ranking for toilet paper brands and other tissue products made by major U.S. producers.

While toilet paper’s emergence as one of the most sought-after products in America was an unexpected side effect of COVID-19, the toilet paper shortage has brought to the forefront the urgency of creating a more sustainable, resilient means of production of tissue products. Currently, the industry clearcuts one million acres of boreal forest each year – leading Canada to rank third globally, behind Russia and Brazil, in terms of global intact forest loss – in part to produce pulp that U.S. tissue makers roll into the ultimate disposable product: toilet paper.

“By making toilet paper from ancient forests essential to the climate fight, tissue companies are flushing away our forests and our planet’s future,” said Shelley Vinyard, NRDC’s Boreal Campaign Manager and report co-author. “Instead of exacerbating the climate crisis, companies like Procter & Gamble must take urgent action to create more sustainable products. Our planet has no time for the largest companies in the world to take half-measures or deflect blame,” said Vinyard.

NRDC’s 2020 scorecard ranks 26 toilet paper brands, giving an A or A+ score to 11 brands, including the new winner “Who Gives A Crap,” which received the top grade for its rolls made of 100 percent recycled materials, including 95 percent postconsumer recycled product. Major brands — Charmin, Cottonelle, and Quilted Northern — bring up the rear with F grades, because they are made entirely of virgin forest fiber. NRDC evaluated facial tissue and paper towel brands, as well.

Now, I’m all for protecting forests and the environment, but, first, the NRDC is making this more about ‘climate change’ than the environment, and second, are you thinking more about your posterior comfort than if the world’s temperature might possibly maybe go up a bit some time in the future? But, hey, if you’re a Warmist, you’re going to run out and buy the most expensive stuff which is good for the climate, right? It doesn’t matter if it is scratchy and uncomfortable, you’re doing your cult part.

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NY BLM Leader Says They Will “Burn It Down” If They Don’t Get What They Want

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 8:22 am

Are NY liberals good with this? How about other liberals? Because if things are getting burned down, literally or figuratively, it will mostly happen in liberal cities and liberal neighborhoods

(Breitbart) Appearing Wednesday on the Fox News Channel’s The Story with host Martha MacCallum, Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome warned that if the United States “doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.”

MARTHA MACCALLUM: People watch what you say in that video, that you now want to show legislation down people’s throats now that you have everyone’s attention and you’ve also said violence is sometimes necessary in these situations. What exactly is it that you hope to achieve through violence?

HAWK NEWSOME: Wow, it’s interesting that you would pose that question like that because this country is built upon violence. What was the American Revolution, what’s our diplomacy across the globe? We go in and we blow up countries and we replace their leaders with leaders who we like. So for any American to accuse us of being violent is extremely hypocritical.

That sounds like he’s proposing actual violence. Which, let’s be honest, is something that has happened throughout history in all sorts of countries. This has been happening in South Africa, but, there are a hell of a lot more non-blacks in the US than blacks, unlike SA.

MACCALLUM: The only reason why I posed that first question to you the way that I did is I watched you talking on a bunch of different interviews today and you said, “burn it down.” You said, “burn it down, it’s time.” That makes me think you want to burn it down.

HAWK NEWSOME: I said If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down the system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively, I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation. Let’s be very real and let’s observe the history of the 1960s. When black people were rioting, we have their highest growth and wealth, in property ownership. Think about the last few weeks. Since you started protesting there have been eight cops fired across the country. Remember you were telling us that there was Due Process?

That’s why the cop that choked Eric Gardner kept his job and kept receiving raises for five years. Anytime a cop hurt a woman, a child, our elders, there was always a call for due process. But the moment people start destroying property, now cops can be fired automatically. What is this country rewarding? What behavior is it listening to? Obviously not marching. But, when people get aggressive and they escalate their protests, cops get fired, now, you have police officers and Republican politicians talking about police reform. I don’t condone nor do I condemn rioting but I’m just telling what I observed.

This is a good way for people to tune out when they’re hearing a message of blackmail and threats: “give us what we want or we just might get violent.” This is much the way the mafia operated. And one reason the FBI along with federal, state, and local justice departments went after them.

Mark Levin notes

“This is a civil society,” Levin continued. “It’s a great country. You don’t like it? Pick up your a– and leave. We have people trying to get into this country by the millions, from every continent on the face of the earth. Every color, every background. Why? Because we’re systemically racist? We’re not systemically racist and the police force isn’t systemically racist.

“Now, these are Bernie Sanders radicals,” Levin added. “These are Marxists. They go out and get hats, and they get shirts, and they burn things down and break things in Democrat cities because these pathetic left-wing Democrat mayors won’t stand up to them.”

Exactly. If they don’t like it, leave. If they want change, do it peaceably. And, perhaps they could tell their fellow Modern Socialists to leave the climate change, trans this and trans that, and all the other stuff out of it. Once you start mixing the messages, making them muddled, people tune out.

Meanwhile, Newsome also has other thoughts

The Black Lives Matter movement will develop an armed branch of “peace officers” to combat police brutality in black communities during the so-called war on police, according to one of its leaders.

Protests broke out across the country following the death of unarmed Minneapolis black man George Floyd while in police custody, bringing the BLM movement back into national focus. In an interview with the Daily Mail, BLM New York chapter Chairman Hawk Newsome described how the group plans to follow in the footsteps of the Black Panthers Party by matching fire with fire – when necessary.

He’s talking about creating armed officer units to patrol black areas and clash with real government forces. It’s not quite at the “no-go” with sharia law officers in European nations, but, seriously, what could possibly go wrong with armed “officers” wandering around interfering with the operations with duly enabled government law enforcement officers? How’s it going to look when they are protecting actual criminals?

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