California’s Governor, Ruling Elites Come Up With Crazy Restrictions For Thanksgiving And Christmas

By William Teach October 22, 2020 – 10:30 am

Hey, this is what you crazy Modern Socialist moonbats voted for, so, don’t complain. And don’t leave the state, bringing your crazy with you, trying to spread it after escaping it. Live under the crazy you created

California Just Declared War On Thanksgiving With Kafka-Level Regulations

Gov. Gavin Newsom just gave Californians more regulations for an early Christmas present — and anyone hoping to celebrate the holidays with family better hope there’s a gift receipt.

Just in time for the Thanksgiving and Christmas festivities, when most families gather with loved ones, California’s Democrat governor has issued a new set of regulations that bans gatherings of more than three households. Additionally, no indoor gatherings are permitted, so don’t plan on eating around the dining room table unless you lug it out into your backyard.

Newsom’s ban on gatherings of more than three households means that a family with more than two grown children can only have two visit at the same time. According to the Pew Research Center, almost two-thirds of mothers in their young forties in 1976 had three or more children. If those mothers are grandmothers now and their children are grown, that means up to two-thirds of families would be banned from bringing all their children under one roof for the holidays.

Sounds fun, eh?

Not only is California limiting the number of households that can come for Thanksgiving, the state also requires hosts to write down the names of all attendees for contact tracing. For families who want to celebrate the holidays with both sets of in-laws, “participating in multiple gatherings with different households or groups is strongly discouraged.”

Remember when Liberals used to be about government staying out of their bedroom, meaning their personal affairs? What happens if The Government comes and you don’t have a List? Will they arrest you? What if there was no COVID, but, government still wants you list?

That has to be the end of the crazy, right?

In addition to limiting how much of your family can gather, California is mandating that all gatherings happen outside. That means families can’t congregate in the kitchen to cook together, serve food in the kitchen, or sit around the dining room table. Family members can leave your backyard and enter your house to use the restroom, but only if the restroom is “frequently sanitized.”

Have fun with that in warm Southern California and in the cold north and mountains. And, people must maintain 6 feet separation at all times.

Speaking of Thanksgiving turkey, Newsom’s regulations require that “as much as possible, any food or beverages at outdoor gatherings must be in single-serve disposable containers.” And no serving your own plate — if food can’t be served in single portions, then someone wearing a face covering must be there to dole out servings.

Attendees should also put their face masks back on as soon as they finish eating. And make sure to keep your gathering short, even if it’s been months since you’ve seen your extended family. “Gatherings should be two hours or less,” Newsom’s rules stipulate.

Is this about safety or just Progressives (nice Fascists) just controlling your life they way they want to? If you get used to it, you’ll comply more, right? And no singing Christmas carols, as it is “highly discouraged”. Who enforces all this? These are not suggestions. These are mandates.

Stay in your own state, California Democrats. This is yours, and you should have to live with it.

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Excitable Cultist Bill McKibben: 9 Justices Isn’t Sacred, But A Livable Climate Is

By William Teach October 22, 2020 – 8:49 am

This doesn’t sound too much like a cult, does it?

There’s Nothing Sacred about Nine Justices; a Livable Planet, on the Other Hand . . .

The Republican-controlled Senate, by any measure, is acting dishonorably as it moves to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the high court: having previously declared that Presidents in their last year in office should not be able to nominate a new Justice, it reversed this “McConnell rule” when it served them to do so. The Trump years have been so ugly that this hypocrisy doesn’t stand out as sharply as it should, but it is an ignoble thing to have done and, in Barrett’s case, to have gone along with.

Still, it’s not the most remarkable thing about the moment. For me, anyway, that came when Senator John Kennedy, of Louisiana, asked Barrett if she had an opinion on climate change. “I’ve read things about climate change,” she said. “I would not say I have firm views on it.” It’s hard to imagine that an intelligent and highly educated person, such as Barrett, would not have reached a conclusion on the key questions facing the future of life on earth: Is global warming dangerous, and is it caused by humans? Neither of these positions is controversial among the scientific community, nor, for that matter, in the Catholic community where Barrett makes her spiritual home. Pope Francis’s lengthiest and most important encyclical, “Laudato Si,” takes on the climate crisis with a philosophical and sociological depth that few others have even attempted. The Pope’s newest encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” released this month, covers much the same ground, and he has helpfully produced a ted talk that makes the point in much sharper terms. “We must act now,” he said, which is what every scientist studying the crisis has said, too.

Still whining about that, eh? Bill makes an interesting admission

It is clear, first, that regulation is going to be essential to bring greenhouse gases under control, and, second, that it’s going to have to happen fast. The world’s climate scientists have stated plainly that the next decade represents the critical time frame: without fundamental transformation by 2030, the chances of meeting the Paris accord’s climate targets are nil. Given Barrett’s performance at her hearings, it seems doubtful that she’ll let America play its role—if you’re not even clear that climate change is real, how much latitude will you give government agencies to attack it? As with so many things about climate change, the problem is ultimately mathematical. Joe Biden, should he be elected, acting not out of anger but out of sorrow at Republican gamesmanship, could make sure that the will of the people, not just the will of Charles Koch, is represented on the bench. The composition of the Supreme Court has varied over time from five Justices to ten; eleven seems like the right number for 2021. Or maybe thirteen.

It is clear, first, that the Cult of Climastrology is really all about empowering more Big Government control over everything, and, second, that the CoC really wants to control your life and take your money, and they cannot do that unless they can pack the court to make sure their un-Constitutional power grabs can be ruled A-OK by the Supreme Court. Of course, to make this happen, they would have to pass a new law to do this, not an easy thing, as having 9 Justices has been the law since 1869. The last time Dems tried this, during the FDR period, and he was a heck of a lot more popular than Joe, people damn near revolted. Seriously, if you need to pack the court to get your agenda through, it might be rather shady, is it not?

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Trump Should Avoid Hunter Biden, Talk About Economy And Keeping Citizens Safe

By William Teach October 22, 2020 – 8:36 am

In case you missed it, these are the subjects for the next and final debate, rather than the original foreign policy focus

  • Coronavirus
  • National Security
  • Race
  • Leadership
  • American Families
  • Climate Change

Karl Rove says

With less than two weeks left before the 2020 presidential election, former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove said it would be more “effective” for the Trump campaign to focus on the economy as opposed to the Hunter Biden “scandal.”

Rove made the statement on “America’s Newsroom” on Wednesday shortly after Trump 2020 Campaign National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley appeared on the program and explained the campaign strategy to focus on Hunter Biden and his international business dealings to attack Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

“The president isn’t talking about Hunter Biden. What he is talking about is Joe Biden and what these emails now reveal is that Joe Biden is flatout corrupt,” Gidley said referencing the Hunter Biden emails reportedly revealing his foreign business dealings, including contacts in Ukraine and China.

“This was one of the big problems with Hillary Clinton back in 2016,” Gidley continued. “The American people knew about Clinton cash.”

Admittedly, that worked, did it not?

In response, Rove pointed to a Washington Post op-ed written by former White House chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen in which Thiessen argued that President Trump “needs to stop talking about Hunter Biden” and “start winning over reluctant voters.”

“He argues the focus ought to be on the economy and the big contrast between the policy prescriptions of President Trump and those of Joe Biden and frankly I’m in agreement with him,” Rove, a Fox News contributor, said.

On one hand, yeah. People need to know about the good news in the economy, and that Joe’s plans would be bad for the economy, jobs, and their wallets. How do they effect American families? Think about this: for all the Democrat caterwauling about Trump’s tax plan not helping the middle and lower classes, those making less than $400,000, Biden’s plan keeps the taxes exactly the same for those making under $400k, so, they must have been good, right? Trump could ask Joe why he wasted so much money on projects that were not shovel ready, on companies that went out of business, on unnecessary weatherization projects, and more, while Obama had Joe in charge of the 2009 Stimulus. He could ask Joe what exactly he knows about business, considering he’s been an elected official most of his life.

But, of course, this campaign has mostly been about personality rather than policies.

Lee Carter: Biden vs. Trump – at presidential debate both men must say these 4 words to voters

Thursday night is the last chance President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have to make their case on the debate stage. And while the microphones can now be muted, there’s one message they must still get across: with me, you will be safe.

Here’s why those four words are so important and mean so much.

No matter where you sit on the political spectrum, you likely feel the same emotion right now: fear. And more than anything, we need to be reassured.

We need to know that it’s all going to be OK. That we can wake up after the election is decided, breathing a long-needed sigh of relief.

And so, for both Trump and Biden, the message must be the same. But what it means coming for each of them will be totally different. Let’s start with the president and then move on to the Democratic presidential nominee.

Carter goes through a list for both candidates. For Trump, it’s about telling people you’ll have freedom, jobs, money, Right to be armed, protecting freedom of speech, protection from overbearing government. For Joe, it’s all about Government being mommy and daddy.

And they’re both right. Trump should actually use tonight’s debate to discuss topics. He should focus on who’s policies keep people safe and prosperous better, that Joe wants government control of your life, that his climate change plans and everything else will increase people’s taxes and cost of living. That Trump has been working to spread peace in the Middle East in a way no one else did, that Biden emboldened the Iranian terrorist government. That Joe and the Dems stood back while their Antifa folks burned down black owned businesses and created mayhem which distracted from police reform, and how so many Dems want to simply defund the police. Compare and contrast. Will he? We’ll see.

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Climate Crisis (scam): Cold Lizards Falling Out Of Trees In Florida Is Your Fault

By William Teach October 21, 2020 – 3:00 pm

My little spies tell me you had an evil cowburger the other day, with fatty french fries and a sugary drink with an evil plastic straw. Hence, lizards are falling from trees

What cold lizards in Miami can tell us about climate change resilience

It was raining iguanas on a sunny morning.

Biologist James Stroud’s phone started buzzing early on Jan. 22. A friend who was bicycling to work past the white sands and palm tree edges of Key Biscayne, an island town south of Miami, sent Stroud a picture of a 2-foot long lizard splayed out on its back. With its feet in the air, the iguana took up most of the sidewalk.

The previous night was south Florida’s coldest in 10 years, at just under 40 degrees Fahrenheit. While most people reached for an extra blanket or a pair of socks, Stroud—a postdoctoral research associate in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis—frantically texted a collaborator:

“Today’s the day to drop everything, go catch some lizards.”

When temperatures go below a critical limit, sleeping lizards lose their grip and fall out of trees. From previous research, Stroud and his colleagues had learned that different types of lizards in Miami can tolerate different low temperatures, ranging from about 46 to 52 degrees Fahrenheit, before they are stunned by cold. This  provided a unique opportunity to understand how they are affected by .

They couldn’t possibly be blaming cold on greenhouse gases which make the world warmer, could they? The researchers found that many of the lizards, some with Central and South American roots, have adapted to the cold, but

Regardless of the underlying mechanism, the new study provides a critically important piece of information for understanding the impacts of climate change.

Scientists expect that air temperatures will gradually become warmer under climate change, but also that temperatures will become more chaotic.

Events that spike temperature to extremes—both exceptionally hot and exceptionally cold episodes—will increase in frequency and magnitude. As such, it is important to understand both the effects of gradual, long-term increases in air temperatures as well as the consequences of abrupt, short-term extreme events.

Well, hopefully they do not turn into alligator lizards in the air.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 21, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is grass that is dying due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on Pelosi not being able to stop pandering.

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Want Your Taxes Raised? Vote Biden

By William Teach October 21, 2020 – 10:30 am

The pledge from Harris/Biden is that no one making under $400,000 will see their taxes raised is a cute one, but, like all Democrat plans, once you dig in you see something different

Yes, Joe Biden will raise taxes on those earning less than $400,000

Joe Biden’s tax proposals have gone through a variety of iterations over the course of his campaign, but lately, he’s settled on a pledge not to raise taxes on those earning under $400,000.

This pledge is not consistent with his current proposals, but he’s even less likely to be constrained if he’s elected president.

Even if Biden claims he would not directly raise income tax rates on those earning under $400,000, there are a number of policy changes he’d make that would directly or indirectly hit taxpayers under that threshold.

As one example, Biden has pledged to bring back Obamacare’s individual mandate. Yet in 2018, the last year for which the penalties were still in place, nearly 3.7 million people earning less than $200,000 paid mandate taxes, according to IRS data, which represented nearly 99% of those who had to pay some sort of penalty. And 2.6 million, or about 69% of those who paid the mandate, earned less than $50,000.

Of course, if the Dems keep the House and get the Senate, they will move to replace our entire health system with Medicare For All, ie, Single Payer, so, yeah, your taxes will go up.

Biden has also planned to overhaul the way tax breaks work for retirement savings. The Tax Foundation concluded that, on net, his “plan would reduce the tax benefit of traditional retirement accounts for those earning above $80,250 but under $400,000, violating Biden’s tax pledge to not raise taxes on earners below the $400,000 threshold.”

There are also indirect ways in which the Biden plan would hit those earning less than $400,000. For instance, increasing corporate income taxes, as Biden has pledged, would reduce the income of workers or shareholders of those companies.

While there’s no doubt that, as proposed, Biden’s taxes would hit the top 1% much harder, independent analyses from an ideological cross section of organizations (the Tax Policy Center, Penn Wharton Budget Model, Tax Foundation, and American Enterprise Institute) concluded that take home pay would be reduced at all income groups, even if just by a few hundred dollars for lower earners.

Not mentioned are all of Joe’s plans on ‘climate change’. This will cause direct and indirect increases in taxes for those making less than $400k. The indirect would be termed “cost of living”, as the cost of food, clothes, housing, energy, and so much more will go up up up. If Joe enforces a higher CAFE standard (MPG requirement for vehicles), that increases the actual cost of vehicles. You are then paying more in taxes on the purchase (though it is often termed a “road user fee” by states), as well as the property tax for said vehicle. This is what the Biden voters don’t get: they’re voting for raising the cost of everything.

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Democrats Introduce Legislation To Tackle Climate Crisis (scam) On The Seashore

By William Teach October 21, 2020 – 8:26 am

We need urgent action, you guys!

House Introduces Sweeping Legislation to Tackle Climate Change on Our Coasts

Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva and Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Chairwoman Kathy Castor introduced the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act. This sweeping, 300-page bill calls for immediate climate action to protect the communities, economies, and birds and other wildlife that rely on a healthy ocean and coast.

“Seabirds and shorebirds are in peril—climate change is driving away the fish they eat, swallowing up their habitats under sea-level rise, and putting everyone on the coast at risk,” said Sarah Greenberger, interim chief conservation officer for the National Audubon Society. “This bill is the most comprehensive answer to the litany of threats that people and birds face on our coasts.”

This is the first piece of legislation that advances comprehensive solutions for addressing climate threats to our oceans and coasts and for tapping these important resources in our efforts to fight the climate crisis. The bill will protect critical bird habitats by expanding the Coastal Barrier Resources System, and setting national goals for wind energy development and protecting 30 percent of the ocean by 2030. It will also help coastal communities and fishing industries prepare for and adapt to climate disasters, authorizes $3 billion to restore degraded wetlands, oyster reefs, and other coastal areas, and will explore the ability of those coastal habitats to store carbon pollution.

The bill will give the Federal Government more ownership of state, county, local, and private property. And control of oceans. It will give use taxpayer money to look to make these fisherman beholden to the money Dems have generously given them. Restoring wetlands and such has nothing to do with climate change, natural or manmade, it is more about actual pollution. I’ve seen that were I grew up on the Jersey Shore. Local were called clamdiggers, yet, the rivers were too polluted to dig clams. That’s changed quite a bit through late 80’s to now.

The sneaky thing is setting national goals for putting up wind turbines across the entire country.

(Roll Call) The bill would ban oil and gas leasing throughout the Outer Continental Shelf, set a national goal of protecting 30 percent of the ocean by 2030, increase funding for NOAA to study offshore wind–energy development and establish a program at the agency on blue carbon ecosystems, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The devil is in the details, and reading legislation can be tricky, so, does it end all leases by 2030, or just no new ones?

(The Hill) “This bill recognizes that oceans also must be part of a rapid transition to clean energy that starts with prohibiting any new offshore oil and gas leases because you can’t solve the crisis by continuing to dig the climate hole deeper,” said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), a co-sponsor of the legislation.

So he says. Anyhow, I’ll have to dig into the bill to see what other hidden gems there are.

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Why Ice Cube Talking To Trump Is So Dangerous Or Something

By William Teach October 21, 2020 – 8:09 am

At least it’s not an uber-white liberal elitist saying this, it is Peniel E. Joseph, the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, who has also written books on race, and he’s black. Oh, and my headline is actually the original headline at CNN, except for the “or something”. Either way, it shows that black people are committing Wrongthink if they dare think outside the Approve Dogma

Why Ice Cube’s political logic is so dangerous

Ice Cube, the legendary Generation X rapper and hip hop icon, last week said he’s open to working with the Trump administration on implementing his “Contract with Black America.” That is a huge mistake which hurts the entire African American community.

I love how elitists can declare what’s best for almost 13% of the US population. Perhaps individually blacks might have different ideas, considering that Democrats have worked hard to keep them down and in servitude to the Democratic Party since the civil rights era, when Dems switched from their KKK and Jim Crow, segregationist style to the “patronize them, give them stuff, keep them down and beholden” style

Cube sparked controversy after tweeting that the Trump campaign made adjustments to “their plan” for Black America after talking to him. Cube was referring to parts of his “Contract With Black America,” which features a preface written by Darrick Hamilton — one of the most respected and well known Black economists in the nation and calls for “a blueprint to achieve racial and economic justice” through polices that promote wealth creation, home ownership, small businesses criminal justice reform, and voting rights. Small parts of the “Contract” are reflected in what the Trump administration has dubbed its “Platinum Plan” with election time appeals to Black voters.

News of Cube’s seeming alliance with Trump’s anti-Black political empire set Black Twitter ablaze with anger and confusion; Cube responded by casting himself as a political maverick unafraid to go against the grain. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Cube said he is willing to work with people on both sides of the aisle. “I’m not playing no more of these political games, we’re not part of a team … so I’m going to whoever’s in power and I’m going to speak to them about our problems, specifically,” Cube said, explaining that “our” is referring to Black Americans. “I’m not going in there talking about minorities, I’m not going in there talking about people of color or diversity or none of that stuff. I’m going there for Black Americans, the ones who are descendants of slaves.”

Black unemployment is at its lowest level under Trump. Black small business ownership was high. Wages within the black community are rising faster than ever before. Say what you want, Trump sees blacks as people, not a voting block.

Though he denounced Trump in 2016, Cube’s more recent foray into politics has been shaped by statements that regardless of political party, he wants change. The trouble with this approach is that it implies somehow that for Black Americans, both major parties are or could be interchangeable. The moral equivalency behind such rhetoric is untrue. For as flawed as the modern-day Democratic Party is on race matters it is, for better and worse, the party of anti-racism and intersectional justice in contrast to the modern day GOP. The contemporary Republican Party has become, purposefully in certain quarters, a refuge for the architects of racial division, scapegoating, and hatred that has evolved past the dog whistles of the Nixon era into the bullhorn utilized by President Trump and his acolytes.

Perhaps Cube put aside his TDS and gave careful consideration to the reality of Trump’s policies, that Trump cares, that he is willing to make changes which actually help the black community, while Mr. Joseph’s Democratic Party buddies showed up and started riots, looting, arson, and assault in so many minority areas in Democratic cities. It was not a white people area getting destroyed in Minneapolis.

Joseph goes on for a bit, hating on Trump and essentially calling I Cube an Uncle Tom for daring to have his own mind.

Black men’s pain, which Ice Cube’s scowling image from his classic first two albums — “Amerikkka’s Most Wanted and Death Certificate” — so brilliantly reflect, is real as reflected in their extraordinary rates of imprisonment, punishment and death. Black women’s pain is just as potent, as illustrated in their accelerating rates of incarceration, high rates of poverty and depressing levels of income and lower rates of wealth.

Which presidential candidate authored a law which vastly increased the incarceration rate of black men and which pushed hard for Congress to pass The First Step Act, which helps the black community?

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The Sports Industry Will Be Made To Comply With Cult Of Climastrology

By William Teach October 20, 2020 – 6:33 pm

See, here’s the problem: major and minor league sports leagues and teams have climavirtue signaled on ‘climate change’ already, so, the climate cultists will demand more

Opinion: The sports industry must tackle its role in the climate crisis

For many people, sports are the love of their life. With screaming fans and dedication that knows no bounds for leagues, players, and teams, it’s no wonder the industry is a massive hit. There’s only one problem: we’re often so focused on the high energy and excitement that it blinds us from seeing how the sports industry hurts the environment.

Believe it or not, sports play a role in the climate crisis.

To all those diehard fans out there who might be feeling aghast from this, don’t be. The climate crisis is a serious issue, and to minimize and resolve it, we need all hands on deck.

Every year, major sporting events — the Super Bowl, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games, and the FIFA World Cup, just to name a few — attract people worldwide. But what are the lasting consequences of these events? Substantial carbon footprints are left behind from the increased transportation, large amounts of trash produced, energy required to operate these events, and growth in food production.

The “carbon footprints” of each player, team, and league are humongous, going by CoC dogma, yet, they all want to Lecture Everyone Else while making token changes

Unlike motorsports, other sports such as skiing and golf quietly affect the environment. Their effects are not as obvious as motor racing’s, where the sport clearly is a factor in the climate crisis.

However, skiing and golf are harmful to the environment even though people don’t often realize it. More specifically, it’s the golf courses and skiing slopes that are detrimental, taking up large areas of former ecosystems and natural terrains.

Cancel them?

It’s not only professional sports and organizations that should be doing something about mitigating the climate crisis. Even with the sports industry beginning to become more environmentally aware, there needs to be faster eco-friendly action taken right now as the climate crisis impacts and will impact everyone.

We, the fans, also need to help create a greener sports industry — even the simplest actions like reducing, reusing, and recycling will make a difference. Sports are dependent on a healthy planet, but with this ongoing climate crisis, how on Earth are sports going to exist?

Of course, we all know that the CoC wants Government to Do Something, usually via regulations and laws, which they all think will apply to Someone Else. Because the Warmists themselves won’t do it on their own.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 20, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are candle holders which are so much better than evil light bulbs, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Knuckledraggin My Life Away, with a post on a recovering white dude going through a 12 step program.

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