If All You See…

By William Teach October 6, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a rising sea causing homes to be put on stilts, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on a Biden gaffe that should end his campaign. If he wasn’t a Democrat.

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FCC Chairman Stands By Killing Off The No Good, Really Bad Obama Era Net Neutrality Rule

By William Teach October 6, 2020 – 10:30 am

Hey, remember when they told us the Internet would die without Obama’s Net Neutrality (which was really more about a government soft-takeover of the Internet by making it a public utility)?

FCC chairman stands by net neutrality repeal after appeals court ruling

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said on Monday he stands by the agency’s repeal of landmark net neutrality rules and circulated a proposal to address three issues raised by a U.S. appeals court.

A federal appeals court in October 2019 largely upheld the FCC’s December 2017 net neutrality repeal, but directed the agency to reconsider the order’s impact on public safety, regulations on attachments to utility poles and the agency’s ability to provide subsidies for broadband service.

An FCC spokesman confirmed that Pai’s order is not proposing any policy changes to address the issues raised by the appeals court.

The FCC under President Donald Trump voted 3-2 to toss out Obama-era rules prohibiting internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic, or offering paid fast lanes.

Pai said Monday that the “internet has remained free and open. And it’s stronger than ever.” (snip)

The net neutrality repeal was applauded by internet service providers (ISPs), as it gave them sweeping powers to recast how Americans use the internet, as long as they disclose changes. The new rules took effect in June 2018, but ISPs have not changed how users access the internet.

Everything seems to be fine, eh?

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Climate Crisis (scam) Threatens California’s Marijuana Industry Or Something

By William Teach October 6, 2020 – 7:16 am

See, it used to be law enforcement that threatened people growing marijuana (BTW, it still does, if they aren’t growing it at a licensed facility/farm, or if Los Federales get wind, because it is still illegal under federal law). Remember the fun days of Cheech and Chong movies? Now, it’s under threat because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle to work instead of biking

The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change

climate change joke

Valerie Leveroni Corral spent days after lightning set the Santa Cruz Mountains on fire not knowing if a cannabis crop her organization grows for the sick and dying had survived.

The one-acre crop sits on the site of a former Boy Scout campgrounds, off a rutted road so deep in the woods of unincorporated south Santa Cruz County that only fire could find it without a guide. In fact, the CZU Lightning Complex fire came close but skipped the woods, a lucky fluke. (snip)

In 1993, Corral was a co-founder, with her then husband, Mike Corral, of the nation’s first medicinal cannabis collective, the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM). They grew marijuana organically in their backyard as medicine for WAMM members, people of all ages and walks of life who had incurable conditions and terminal illnesses.

Members received cannabis for free or in trade for working the garden. (Most donated their time, care and money). When federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials raided the farm and arrested the Corrals in 2002, an army of sick people rallied to defend them. So did Santa Cruz officials. They sued the DEA and the Department of Justice for raiding a respected community organization sanctioned by California’s 1996 landmark law legalizing medical marijuana, Proposition 215, which Valerie Corral helped draft. A Federal judge ordered the DEA to let WAMM be. (snip)

California’s law legalizing recreational marijuana, Proposition 64, which went into effect in January 2018, did what the DEA could not: It dismantled the collective. When its landlord’s mortgage holder, Wells Fargo, refused to allow it to obtain a state license, WAMM lost its headquarters, where it had held weekly meetings and dispensed cannabis to members for 17 years. Corral said the bank didn’t want a cannabis business there because the drug remains illegal under Federal law.

The collective’s cannabis is now cultivated in collaboration with professional growers in two plots, 40 minutes away from each other, because the law restricts where cannabis can be grown and made available, and affordable land that meets the regulations is scarce. The collective rented an office in midtown Santa Cruz months ago, but it is still months away from opening, because it has not yet obtained all the necessary legal paperwork under the new law to be able to dispense cannabis products to its members.

We now understand the law, right? Well, actually, there is a lot more information on it, including

Legalizing marijuana has not only stalled medicinal cannabis growers like Corral, whose collective includes cancer patients, it has also driven new and veteran growers underground, a trend with serious environmental repercussions.

Some have turned to indoor pot grows, operations that require enormous amounts of electricity for light fixtures, dehumifiders, heating and ventilation. Researchers estimate that indoor grow operations use about eight times the amount of energy per square-foot as do average commercial buildings. Other growers have gone deeper into forested areas than ever, cutting down trees to create plots that pose risks to humans and ecosystems.

And, that is mostly it for ‘climate change”. They blame the fires, most of which were set by humans, unintentionally and intentionally, and now California’s laws are causing it by driving growers to use more energy. It just goes to show, Climate Cultists have to drag their cult into everything, including a story on how California’s marijuana legalization laws actually cause problems for old school growers and real environmental issues.

By some estimates, at least 80 percent of the marijuana grown and sold in California is sold on the black market. In 2019, California sold $3.1 billion in legal cannabis, making it the largest market for legal cannabis in the world. It also sold an estimated $8.7 billion in unlicensed pot. Taxes from legal mariuana sales were supposed to stuff the state coffers with $1 billion a year. They have averaged less than half that amount.

Wait, you mean even the uber-liberals in California don’t want to deal with the burdensome regulations and pay their fair share of taxes? Huh.

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Masks: Trump Takes Off Mask At Home, Biden And Media Freak Out

By William Teach October 6, 2020 – 6:59 am

So, yeah, Trump came “home” to the White House yesterday, and took his mask off, resulting in apoplexy from those who have zero idea about the mask mandates

Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask

President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19. He immediately ignited a new controversy by declaring that despite his illness the nation should not fear the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans — and then he entered the White House without a protective mask.

Trump’s message alarmed infectious disease experts and suggested the president’s own illness had not caused him to rethink his often-cavalier attitude toward the disease, which has also infected the first lady and several White House aides, including new cases revealed Monday.

Landing Monday night at the White House on Marine One, Trump gingerly climbed the South Portico steps, removed his mask and declared, “I feel good.” He gave a double thumbs-up to the departing helicopter from the portico terrace, where aides had arranged American flags for the sunset occasion. He entered the White House, where aides were visible milling about the Blue Room, without wearing a face covering.

This is another occasion where the media proves why they are untrusted and considered utterly biased. This is an AP article that reads more like opinion. Regardless, here’s Sleepy Joe Biden

Joe Biden slams ‘macho’ refusal to wear masks as Donald Trump rips his off

Former Vice President Joe Biden called out President Donald Trump’s family for opting to take off their masks at last week’s presidential debate in Cleveland – while blasting a ‘macho’ attitude that avoids mask wearing.

Biden spoke Monday night just minutes after Trump left Walter Reed medical facility to reenter the White House – taking off his own mask to be photographed and then reentering the White House.(snip)

Biden said he himself ‘would communicate the right lesson to the American people’ and said emphatically that ‘masks matter.’ (snip)

Asked about Trump’s dramatic arrival, Biden said: ‘I would hope that the president having gone through what he went through, and I’m glad he seems to be coming along pretty well, would communicate the right lesson to the American people,’ the former vice president said.

‘Masks matter. These masks, they matter. It matters. It saves lives. It prevents the spread of the disease.’

It’s a good thing Joe was wearing a mask while on stage with Lester Holt at the NBC informercial, right?

No masks. Huh. Joe further said “Biden said he would encourage governors and mayors to establish mask mandates. Health officials largely agree that wearing any kind of face mask, coupled with social distancing and frequent hand-washing, is more protective than going unmasked.” Again, 33 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico have them. And they’ve been in place for months. Late May at a minimum. Let’s look at D.C.’s, which is relevant (but, doesn’t necessarily apply to federal buildings)

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NY Times Admits WHO’s Travel Ban Opposition Not Based On Science

By William Teach October 5, 2020 – 4:03 pm

Someone at the NY Times committed a Random Act Of Journalism

NYT: W.H.O.’s Pandemic Open Border Suggestions Based on Politics, Not Science

The World Health Organization’s (W.H.O) assertion that closing borders would not stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus was based on politics and economics, not science, according to the findings of a New York Times investigation unveiled this week.

After publishing several editorials suggesting that President Donald Trump’s coronavirus-linked travel bans were racist, unjust, and ineffective, the Times conceded on Wednesday:

For decades, as trade and travel drew the world closer, public health policy, enshrined by treaty, encouraged global mass tourism by calling for open borders, even during outbreaks.

When the coronavirus emerged in China in January, the World Health Organization didn’t flinch in its advice: Do not restrict travel.

But what is now clear is that the policy was about politics and economics more than public health. Public health records, scores of scientific studies and interviews with more than two dozen experts show the policy of unobstructed travel was never based on hard science.

Despite recommendations by the W.H.O., a United Nations entity, against imposing travel curbs on nations plagued by the Chinese coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump restricted travel into the United States from China, the virus’s origin place, on January 31.

And, Trump further put restrictions on travel from Europe, as well as blocking cruise ships. He hasn’t been perfect on Coronavirus, but, then, who has been? Remember, Democrats were saying to get to your local Chinese restaurant, to get out and about, and that Covid was no worse than the average flu. WHO and the UN were simply doing what they do best, call for unfettered border crossing for people from 3rd world nations/hellholes

Democrats like the party’s presidential nominee Joe Biden and mainstream media allies, including the New York Times, have changed their tune on Trump’s travel restrictions, particularly against China, after calling them xenophobic.

Sadly, the virus was already here, because WHO covered it up early on, and people from China and Europe, especially via Italy with a large population from the Wuhan region, had already brought it. Seriously, how do you think all those people on cruise ships with European and U.S. ports of call on the East Coast got swamped? From Watts Up With That?

President Trump likely saved countless lives, by closing the US border to China in early February, against WHO advice – advice we now know was deeply flawed. Even slowing a dangerous disease down saves lives, by reducing the risk of overwhelming hospital and medical services.

Remember, when it really ramped up at the end of February into early March the experts were talking about millions of US deaths from COVID. Same NY Times on March 13

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to a projection that encompasses the range of the four scenarios. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

That 200K was the best case projection.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 5, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turned to desert from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is America’s Watchtower, with a post on NYC looking to reimpose Bat Soup Virus lockdown.

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The Hill: Supreme Court Could Threaten A President Biden’s Unconstitutional Agenda

By William Teach October 5, 2020 – 10:30 am

How else are we to read this?

From the article

The Supreme Court is looming as a roadblock for Democrats as they plot an ambitious wish list if they gain control of the White House and Congress for the first time in a decade.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s ascension to the Supreme Court, which Republicans hope to finalize this month, would lock in a conservative majority likely for decades, setting the courts up as a potential foil for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s agenda and Democratic leadership in the House and Senate.

The result of a 6-3 court, Democrats warn, could lead to the justices striking down a host of top priorities for the party, including health care, voting rights legislation or enacting stricter background checks for gun purchases.

“It would be a constant headache,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). “It’s just a court that is lopsided. It’s not balanced and a lot of things that Joe Biden values, and I value, will be at risk.”

In other words, the things they would do would be un-Constitutional

Democrats are feeling bullish about their chances of Biden winning the White House and netting a total of three seats needed to take back the Senate. If they do, they’ve promised a long list of legislative items including election and ethics reform, infrastructure, voting rights, LGBT equality, immigration reforms, climate change and expanding gun background checks.

But their headaches with the judicial branch could start almost right out of the gate. The Supreme Court is hearing several high-profile cases this term, which would be handed down next spring or early summer including a voting rights case out of Arizona, the adoption rights of LGBT couples, the scope of federal housing authority and a fight over Democratic House members’ access to grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

At the top of that list is a case, set to be heard a week after Election Day, that could decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act. If the court strikes down the entire law, something some experts remain skeptical of even with Barrett on the bench, it would drop an explosive healthcare fight into the lap of a Biden administration and Democratic majority just as they are trying to get off the ground.

If you’re worried that Conservative judges going by the word of the Constitution will strike down your agenda, your agenda is anti-Constitution.

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St. Greta And Comrades Accuse EU Of “Stealing Their Future”

By William Teach October 5, 2020 – 8:06 am

Why? Well, they’re young climate cultists who have no actual knowledge of the real world, and have been brought up to be hysterics who are Entitled to whatever they want. Oh, and that the EU is cheating on “carbon pollution” numbers

Stealing our future: Greta Thunberg and 3 other activists accuse EU of ‘cheating with numbers’ on carbon emissions

Disturbed by the issues “not being accurately reported”, Swedish climate change activist Great Thunberg got together with three other teen activists to highlight certain key points of why the proposed carbon emission reduction targets for European Union are very far from being in line with the target of the Paris Agreement. The 17-year-old from Stockholm accused EU of “stealing with numbers” and world leaders of “stealing our future right in front of our eyes.”

Greta shared an extensive research on the matter while promising to spill the beans next on what these leaders say when the cameras and microphones are off. Asserting that the time for little steps in the right direction is long gone, she wrote, “The proposed 55%, 60% or even 65% CO2 emission reduction targets for the EU by 2030 are nowhere near enough to be in line with the below 1.5°C or even the “well below 2°C” target of the Paris Agreement.”

Answering why should the EU be punished for starting to reduce our emissions 30 years ago, Greta lashed, “In reality we didn’t start reducing our emissions back then. We simply moved them abroad and excluded large parts of them from the official numbers. And the idea that some nations and regions should be allowed special treatment will no doubt seriously jeopardize the entire Paris Agreement.”

Why does the U.S. need to be in the Paris Climate Agreement when most other signatories aren’t even coming close to upholding their pledges? It’s becoming just like the Kyoto Protocol, which fee signatories succeeded at. Most didn’t really bother. And, for all the huffing and puffing by EU nations, they aren’t really going full bore at this. That’s not too say they aren’t doing Warmist things, just not so many that they will destroy their economies.

Offering a solution, Greta added in the report penned by her, Luisa Neubauer, Adélaïde Charlier and Anuna de Wever van der Heyden, “What we need — to begin with — is to implement annual binding carbon budgets based on the current best available science and stop pretending that we can solve the climate- and environmental crisis without treating it as one.”

I agree with St. Greta: the EU nations should implement policies in full that fulfill their Paris pledges, that way we can see how bad things get. Economies imploding, people unable to travel, trucks unable to bring goods, including food, to market, energy blackouts and brownouts, no energy for heating (and this would also block using wood and wood pellets for heating, as they have to be transported), skyrocketing unemployment, cost of living jumping way up. We need experimental groups in every experiment, right?

Meanwhile, when do these young climate cultists practice what they preach in their own lives?

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NY Times, Other Media Go Bat Soup Virus Truthers

By William Teach October 5, 2020 – 7:51 am

See, apparently, we all have a Right to know the truth from Trump’s doctors, so, they’re apparently calling the doctors lairs, not trusting the science. This is the NY Times editorial board

The American People Need the Truth

The American people deserve better than to be misled about the health of the president.

Several days into President Trump’s battle with Covid-19, even basic facts about his illness — when he was diagnosed, how high his fever climbed, what triggered his hospitalization — remain hard to come by. The White House is being evasive and secretive. That’s nothing new, nor is it unreasonable to withhold some sensitive information from the public.

But too often in the past few days, the administration has appeared to be actively misleading the American people. Administration insiders are expressing frustration (WT -not one named source for that “frustration”) that no one even among Mr. Trump’s own staff seems to know what is going on. Among the broader public, anxious speculation and wild conspiracy theories are multiplying. The unnerving impression is of a White House in chaos. (snip)

On Saturday, Mr. Trump’s doctors assembled outside of Walter Reed for a news briefing, overseen by the White House physician, Dr. Sean Conley. Far from providing clarity, the spectacle was surreal. Dr. Conley delivered a sunny assessment that made it sound as though the president had popped out for a weekend spa getaway. He dodged questions about testing, Mr. Trump’s symptoms and whether the president had ever received supplemental oxygen.

The only ones unsatisfied where the lefties, including the media, who were hoping Trump was on his deathbed. And, perhaps they’ve never heard of HIPA?

There is a long history of misleading the public about a president’s health. Grover Cleveland’s White House lied about his cancer. Woodrow Wilson’s lied about his stroke. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s team covered up his deteriorating medical condition, and John F. Kennedy hid his chronic health problems for his entire presidency.

Because the media are jackals.

However sick the president may be, the truth cannot be more harmful than the thick fog of confusion the White House has created. The American people are entitled to the truth.

What the NYTEB means is they should be given the news free of charge, without having to do any work, because They Are The Media, you peasants. Even though they do all they can to hurt Republicans and the Trump admin.

And Jake Tapper, another previously somewhat trustworthy and respectable member of the Credentialed Media broken by Trump

Where was this “right to the truth” during the Obama era? Why did they have to be dragged kicking and screaming into covering stories that should have had them in a blood induced shark feeding frenzy? And, typically, they tried to bury the story after and/or defended Team Obama. None of them had any real interest in covering those stories, or other things like the details of the Waters Of The USA rule and the Clean Power Plan rule. So, right now, they can spare me their Covatrutherism.

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You Had A Ham ‘N Cheese Sandwich So It Might Be The End Of Us All

By William Teach October 4, 2020 – 9:20 pm

This kind of stuff might have gone over well when it came to nuclear weapons, as they were tangible. You could see the effects. ‘Climate change’? No one really sees a slight 1.5 F increase in temperatures as Doom. Maybe in theory, but, when the greatest example of a movie, The Day After Tomorrow, shows it creating an ice age, people tune out in reality. But, cult’s never stop. And it’s all your fault

Welcome to the Anthropocene Age. Will it be the end of us?

Many people may not know that we’ve slipped into a new era: the Anthropocene Age. This new geologic age marks when humans began to permanently change the planet. This age offers the promise and wonders of our creative genius yet also the seeds of civilization’s complete destruction. And we are about to find out which path will prevail.

Our intellect, technology, ambition and desire for a better life have propelled us forward with rapid changes. And for the last 70 years, our unsustainable lifestyle fed on increasingly greater amounts of fossil fuels.

In 1988, we found that our road to progress had hit a huge pothole. Dr. James Hansen, then director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies and our top climate scientist, testified before the U.S. Senate that due to our burning of fossil fuels, the Earth was warming. At full tilt. If we continued to burn fossil fuels, emitting greenhouse gasses, it would lead to both significant and damaging changes to the Earth’s climate. We’d witness rising sea levels, temperature spikes and devastating droughts.

The warning signs have cautioned us for almost 100 years, and Hansen’s testimony — 30 years old now — was clear, accurate and undeniable. Yet his warning, which ached for prompt action, was virtually ignored.

Alerting people to the problems associated with climate change and global warming has been ineffective. The fossil fuel industry deliberately sowed confusion about the truth of climate science. Consequently, ignorance, widespread apathy and outright hostility have prevailed. The fossil fuel industry — and those invested in it — kept the public from recognizing the dangers of climate change. Climate science, if properly understood, demands swift action to stop or at least slow the use of fossil fuels, that is coal, oil and natural gas.

I’m looking forward to the Hartford Courtant explaining how they plan to stop using fossil fuels to gather and disseminate the news, and make all their operations carbon neutral. Maybe spending a couple million for solar panels?

Thankfully, we still have time to avoid the worst consequence. Yes, we have started down the wrong road. But yes, we still have an opportunity to write a different ending to our story where the cliff is avoided.

The question is: Do we have the courage to act? Will we work to save ourselves from the calamity of climate change and global warming? It is up to us to act now.

Just say yes to leaders who will fight against climate change, yes to green energy and less consumption, yes to investing in solar and wind energy, yes to a shared planet that we can live in during the Anthropocene Age and beyond it.

Guess not. Some days I really want to give these climate cultists what they want, just so I can hear them complain “wait, I thought this would be a utopia! Why are my taxes so high? Why did my cost of living go up so high? Why did I lose all this freedom, liberty, and choice? Why can my news outlet no longer afford to operate?”

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