If All You See…

By William Teach May 2, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer causing desertification, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the press being shocked by a double standard in the press.

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Study: Kids Do Not Pass Bat Soup Virus To Adults

By William Teach May 2, 2020 – 10:30 am

So, let’s close all the schools and playgrounds

From the article

London: No child has been found to have passed coronavirus to an adult, a review of the evidence in partnership with the Royal College of Paediatrics has found.

Major studies into the impact of COVID-19 on young children suggest they “do not play a significant role” in spreading the virus and are less likely to become infected than adults.

While experts insist that more evidence is needed, they note there has not been a single case of a child under 10 transmitting the virus, even in contact tracing carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Public health officials in Switzerland have announced that under-10s can hug their grandparents again because they pose them no risk.

Now a review in partnership with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has found the evidence “consistently demonstrates reduced infection and infectivity of children in the transmission chain”. (snip)

While he said that it was possible children could infect others, there had not been a case to date and there was “no evidence that closing schools is an effective measure”. Further evidence from China showed when families had contracted the virus, children were “unlikely to be the index case”.

Early on, we knew that kids weren’t really having issues with Bat Soup. The only ones with issues already had underlying conditions. So, why lock them down? Sure, just in case. But, we keep learning more and more. There’s no reason to keep all this going full bore. It is just one study, but it adds to the growing body of evidence. Keep the schools closed, the parents have to stay home.

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California Group Calls For Other People To Donate Their Bat Soup Checks To Illegal Aliens

By William Teach May 2, 2020 – 9:59 am

Strangely, the people who put this together aren’t saying how much of their own money they are putting into this. But, apparently, they need illegals to do their gardens and scrub their toilets

In CA: A call to donate stimulus checks to support undocumented families

Would you donate your $1,200 stimulus check to undocumented immigrants who aren’t eligible to receive the federal assistance?

Undocumented people — who comprise an estimated one in 10 California workers — are ineligible for the stimulus funding or unemployment insurance. Now, with millions of Californians laid off or working fewer hours as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many undocumented people and their families are struggling and have no safety net.

The leaders of 805 Undocufund, a collective effort among community organizations in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties that provides disaster relief to undocumented people and families, are calling on people who haven’t been financially impacted by the crisis to donate their federal stimulus checks, reports Erin Rode for the Ventura County Star.

“We’re thinking of it in terms of equity and sharing the dollars that people receive from the federal government, because it’s about supporting undocumented families when they’re not receiving any other type of support,” said Eder Gaona-Macedo, executive director of Future Leaders of America.

These Open Borders advocates just never stop.

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Warmist Jane Fonda Wants Bat Soup Virus Money To Go To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 2, 2020 – 7:47 am

See, she doesn’t want the money to go to big business or fossil fuels companies. And she’s taken lots and lots of long fossil fueled trips to prove her point. BTW, how much of her own money is she donating? When is she going to make her life carbon neutral?

Jane Fonda demands coronavirus fund be used to stop climate change, not bail out oil billionaires

Environmental activist and actress Jane Fonda chose May Day to urge people to end the use of fossil fuels and protect worker rights.

She urged against corporate bailouts amid the current coronavirus pandemic. She believes that the government should instead set aside recovery money to develop green and sustainable energy and also a “level playing field” for workers.

During her climate change rally ‘Fire Drill Friday’ which was held online, Fonda said, “these historic sums of stimulus money aren’t going to happen again, maybe even during our lifetimes. And where they go and how they are spent will determine so much about what kind of future we have,” Breitbart reports.

“So while we insist on more funding to heal the effects of this pandemic, we must also insist that the money is used to lay the foundation for a clean, sustainable energy future as well as justice and dignity and a level playing field for all workers,” Fonda continued.

She should be telling the few people who are listening (as she continues to attempt to hijack St. Greta’s Fridays for the Future schtick) that they need to give up their own use of fossil fuels, and that she will start. That she’ll move out of her big mansion and into a tiny home, running off solar. Once again, this is the problem with Warmists: they want Other People to pay the price for their beliefs.

She had started her virtual rally by slamming POTUS Donald Trump and said that his administration is trying “to ram through bailouts for the already privileged and the powerful.” She also praised Democrats whom she believes “have fought to include financial aid for workers and small businesses, hospitals… but more, much more needs to be done.”

Ah, so this is really all about left-wing politics. Maybe she could go pose with the enemy again, just like during Vietnam.

In her virtual rally, Fonda also highlighted her stance on oil and drilling companies and their leaders. “We have to say ‘no’ to bailouts for corporate executives and oil billionaires and ‘yes’ to immediately protecting the most vulnerable among us.”

“Fossil fuel executives don’t give a fuzzy rat’s ass about workers or communities’ well being,” she shared. She also believes that there must be free coronavirus testing and free medical care for workers who have contracted the virus.

Interestingly, of all the sectors we are hearing complaints from, when it comes to the workers, the fossil fuels industry is not one of them.

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“Armed Protesters” Protest Across The Country, Strangely, No Violence

By William Teach May 2, 2020 – 7:24 am

Here’s from Raleigh (no, I didn’t go, had to help a friend at that time, and I wasn’t happy, as mentioned in posts, with bringing firearms, which mixes the message)

Armed groups in downtown Raleigh protest virus-related restrictions

A small group of demonstrators, some carrying guns, marched in downtown Raleigh Friday afternoon to protest coronavirus restrictions and the statewide stay-at-home order.

Dozens of law enforcement officers were also downtown, anticipating a large protest after recent ReOpenNC rallies. Legal gun owners were allowed to carry their weapons while they walked as long as they stayed off the State Capitol grounds.

Some of the protestors were from American Revolution 2.0, part of a national movement to reopen states amid the pandemic. The group had planned 52 protests across the country on Friday, according to its website.

“It’s a giant party. Let’s get together. Let’s have a good time. Let’s celebrate America,” Josh Ellis, who founded the grassroots group on April 8, said Thursday. “This is unconstitutional. It should never have happened and it should never happen again.”

“I really am only here for one reason and that is to be with like people that believe in civil rights,” said Lisa Molgren, a nurse from Pinehurst and a member of American Revolution 2.0.

“The rights that I want are not to be told when I can work, if I can work, what companies should be closed and why they’re being closed,” Molgren said. “Everything is changing in front of our eyes, and it seems that people have sort of decided that stay at home means do nothing, and I think it’s time we do something.”

It was a much smaller group than the Tuesday ReOpenNC ones, and the only thing that happened was some older gent coming out and talking out them about scaring people. That’s it.

There was no violence at the Michigan rallies, Ohio, Chicago, or anywhere else. Had there been, you would have heard about it in the big news services. NBC couldn’t report violence. Nor could the Washington Post or CNN (which rather buried the story, much like their Tara Reade stories).

Funny how right wing protests aren’t violent despite all the guns, eh? Oh, because left-wingers did not show up. AOC tweeted the other day

Think about how harshly & activists were debased, called rioters, & treated as a threat to society.

Now watch & examine how this MAGA-armed rushing of a state legislature is treated.

This is for those who still think racial privilege is a fantasy.

But, unlike those protests, there was no violence. Huh.

That said, leave the guns home. Stay on topic, which is re-opening the country.

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Saving The Planet From Hotcoldwetdry Demands Sacrifices

By William Teach May 1, 2020 – 2:57 pm

Interestingly, the members of the Cult of Climastrology who say this never tell us what sacrifices they’ve made

Saving the planet demands sacrifices just as Covid-19 does

Certain environmentalists have long argued that economic growth must end for the sake of the planet. “Degrowth” is concisely defined by one proponent, Riccardo Mastini, as “the abolition of economic growth as a social objective”.

Degrowth represents the view that sufficiently sharp reductions in carbon dioxide emissions cannot be achieved through new technology, pricing incentives or even major investment in energy and transport systems. The only thing that will work is economic growth itself coming to an end, permanently.

The pandemic is giving us a taste of what an end to growth might look like. So what lessons should we learn?

The lockdowns have indeed suppressed carbon dioxide emissions, but less than we might hope. The climate science website Carbon Brief estimates that emissions in 2020 are likely to fall by about 5 or 6 per cent relative to emissions last year. That would be the largest fall on record.

What might be a surprise is that it is not enough. If the cuts were compounded at that rate for the rest of the decade, we’d still fall short of what the UN Environment Programme estimates would be needed to restrict global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees. (A 2 degree target would be easier: five pandemics in the next decade would suffice.)

The writer, Tim Harford, isn’t particularly happy with all this talk about degrowth, especially since it would destroy everything. But, see, he’s only unhappy about talking about it

Fine. Yet if ending growth is not the objective, but the means to an end, might I suggest that it is not a very effective means? “Abolish economic growth” works as a radical political slogan, but when we’re looking for policy levers to pull we find ourselves coming back to specific taxes, subsidies, public investments and regulations. So why don’t we stop talking about degrowth and focus on the particular policies that might address environmental degradation?

We might find that those policies, applied with sufficient vigour to save the planet, would indeed have the side-effect of bringing economic growth to a halt. I doubt it. But the way to find out is to try; we might be pleasantly surprised at how flexible economic activity can be, and how much fun we can all have while respecting planetary limits.

See, don’t talk about doom, just implement it. Hey, maybe things won’t be bad. But, then again, it might, but, why not give it a shot? For The Planet, you know.

The virus has taught us that our way of life is more vulnerable than we might hope. It has taught us the importance of making sacrifices now to prepare for predictable risks in the future. It may even have reminded us that driving to work, or flying half way around the world for a meeting, are not always necessary, and of the joys of walking or cycling through quiet streets.

What has Tim sacrificed?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 1, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from other people taking a fossil fueled trip, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Barack golfing at a fancy resort while Michelle sends robocalls to stay home.

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Michigan House Won’t Continue Giving Il Duce Whitmer Power She Craves

By William Teach May 1, 2020 – 10:30 am

Whitmer is definitely going for most Fascist governor in the nation

Michigan House Won’t Extend State of Emergency, Votes to Sue Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Instead

The Michigan House of Representatives declined to extend Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s state of emergency another 28 days, and instead voted on Thursday to sue her.

Whitmer’s initial state of emergency order, which is separate from the stay-at-home order, expires on Thursday and requires legislative action to be lengthened.

Negotiations on that front fell apart on Wednesday when Whitmer refused to make any concessions on the matter, asserting she has the ultimate control of emergencies.

So the House voted to authorize Speaker Lee Chatfield to sue the governor, saying Whitmer’s “unchecked and undemocratic approach” is not the best way, ABC 12 reported.

“The current status quo relies on one-size-fits-all edicts that unfairly punish millions of people across the state without giving them any recourse or voice in the process,” Chatfield said.

“The people deserve a better solution, and we can provide it.”

“Ultimate control of emergencies.” Someone has let power go to her head. That’s not going to look good, her little jaunt into authoritarianism, if Handsy Joe picks her to be his running mate. Her next election should be interesting if not picked.

(Fox News) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday extended Michigan’s state of emergency and disaster declaration through May 28, hours before it was set to expire and after hundreds of protesters, some of whom were armed, gathered in the state Capitol building to voice their displeasure with the Democratic governor.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday extended Michigan’s state of emergency and disaster declaration through May 28, hours before it was set to expire and after hundreds of protesters, some of whom were armed, gathered in the state Capitol building to voice their displeasure with the Democratic governor.

Of course, she doesn’t have the legal or Constitutional authority to do this. Just power-mad.

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Harvard Business Journal: We Need A New Capitalism To Fight ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach May 1, 2020 – 8:37 am

Someone is looking to sell some books. Unfortunately, they forgot some key information

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.

“I kept my job and my passions in separate boxes,” writes Henderson, who joined Harvard Business School in 2009 and is now the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. “Work was lucrative and fun and often hugely interesting, but it was something I did before returning to real life.”

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.

What follows is an interview with Ms. Henderson. Question on all sorts of things, such as shareholder value

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.

Government has always been incredibly partisan. Heck, there used to be actual duels. We had a civil war. And government is not supposed to be fast, and it is supposed to be difficult to get things done. She yammers about income inequality, which isn’t partisan or something

So, just pragmatically, we need to address inequality if we’re going to make progress on climate change. Moreover, I believe—and I think many business people agree—that it’s fundamentally unfair that more and more people are finding it hard to participate in the modern economy, and that we’re leaving so much human potential and human growth on the table.

But, nothing in the interview as to what capitalism looks like re-imagined. Nor in the short book excerpt. Funny how climate cultists never want to actually say what they want the economy to look like. One expects, from the yammering about government, that she wants government in charge of the economy, which would not be capitalism.

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NY Times Seems Rather Cavalier About Curtailing Constitutional Rights

By William Teach May 1, 2020 – 8:22 am

The editorial board forgets to mention what it looks like when threat passes. What are the conditions?

We the People, in Order to Defeat the Coronavirus
There are times when government must curtail individual freedoms to protect the public. But those measures must end once the threat passes.

The tension between private liberty and public health in the United States is hardly new. Americans have demanded the latter in times of plague and prioritized the former in times of well-being since at least the colonial era. Politicians and business leaders have alternately manipulated and deferred to that tension for about as long. (snip)

Temporary limitations on some liberties don’t seem to concern most Americans at this moment. Polls show that 70 to 90 percent of the public support measures to slow the spread of the virus, even if they require temporarily yielding certain freedoms and allowing the economy to suffer in the short run.

Indeed, it is wealthy and powerful conservatives and their allies, including President Trump and Fox News, who are driving the relatively small protests demanding a “liberation” of the states from oppressive lockdowns — as opposed to any overwhelming public sentiment to that effect.

First, they aren’t civil rights: they are Constitutional Rights, embedded in the federal and state Constitutions. NY State also has these provisions.

Second, it was a small group of people that fomented the American revolution against Britain. If some people are good with giving up Rights, that’s on them. It’s when the goalposts are moved, when more and more restrictions are placed on people, when they are losing their businesses, that a problem occurs.

Third, I’m betting that the editorial board wouldn’t be quite so cavalier if the Freedom Of The Press was being “curtailed”, eh? I also bet they don’t have a problem with all the May Day protests that are supposed to occur today, as they usually do on Commie Day, but they are being positioned as a “strike by essential workers”. I’m considered essential: I won’t be there.

Civil liberties may feel to some like a second-order problem when thousands of Americans are dying of a disease with no known treatment or vaccine. Yet while unprecedented emergencies may demand unprecedented responses, those responses can easily tip into misuse and abuse, or can become part of our daily lives even after the immediate threat has passed. For examples, Americans need look no further than the excesses of the post-Sept. 11 Patriot Act.

In all fairness, the rest of the piece is not that bad. Typical stupid and partisan, but not as bad. But, still, rather cavalier. Let Freedom Of The Press be put on the line and they’ll be out there protests. Speaking of protests

Protests planned for Friday in Raleigh against stay-at-home order

Raleigh police and State Capitol Police say they are aware of two planned protests scheduled for downtown Raleigh on Friday.

American Revolution 2.0 is hosting one of the events in Raleigh as part of a national movement to reopen states across the country. There are 52 protests planned on Friday, according to the group’s website.

“It’s a giant party. Let’s get together. Let’s have a good time. Let’s celebrate America,” said Josh Ellis, who founded the grassroots group on April 8. “This is unconstitutional. It should never have happened and it should never happen again.” (snip)

“We are insisting things don’t get crazy like that,” said Ellis, when asked about Friday’s event at the North Carolina State Capitol Building.

It’s reported that many may bring their firearms, like happened in Lansing, Michigan. Leave them home, folks, this is not a 2nd Amendment protest. Let’s keep it as non-partisan as possible. The article forgot to mention the time. It’s at noon.

There is apparently a group that is going to protest to stand up for the 1st and 2nd. Perhaps they should also be mentioning NC’s 12th, which allows protests.

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