Portland Police Chief Calls Out Elected Officials (and will probably be replaced soon)

By William Teach September 3, 2020 – 10:30 am

Of course, Chief Lovell should have really been saying this almost 100 days ago when the riots started

Portland’s police chief called out elected officials for not stopping violence in the city, after rioters threw burning debris at the mayor’s apartment building

Portland’s police chief called out local politicians after another night of riots in the city.

On Tuesday, Police Chief Chuck Lovell released a statement, saying “our elected officials need to do their part to draw a line in the sand and to hold people accountable.”

Protests in the city have repeatedly turned violent, and on Monday the unrest was formally declared a riot, giving police expanded powers to control it.

“The violent behavior must end,” Lovell said in his statement.

Lovell didn’t specify which elected officials he meant. (snip)

Insider contacted the Portland Police Bureau for clarification on which elected officials Lovell meant, but did not immediately receive a response.

Well, that would pretty much be most, if not all, of the elected officials in Portland, and a goodly chunk of those elected at the Oregon state level, who have mostly said nothing, and many have egged on the “protesters.” The mayor of Portland doesn’t even have much to say in terms of the rioters being a problem. Many more have slammed the police and talked of defunding them.

However, The Oregonian newspaper reported that the Multnomah County district attorney has drawn criticism for saying his office would not prosecute certain low-level offenders arrested at the Portland protests, which have been taking place nightly since the end of May.

In response to Lovell’s statement, District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s office released a statement saying they are “focusing on the violent crimes occurring at protests and in our community,” which they said was a deicision taken to prioritize public safety.

And the “low level” criminals keep showing up day after day and being arrested then released by the DA. Then their violence gets worse and worse

(The Blaze) A Portland man accused of double murder was arrested just days before for interfering with police during a protest — but the charge related to the protest was dismissed the next day, and he was released from jail, KOIN-TV reported.

Cassy Leaton, 22, and Najaf “Nate” Hobbs, 39, were stabbed to death June 16, and police arrested Phillip Lawrence Nelson two days later, the station said, adding that the suspect faces two murder charges and is being held without bail.

But on June 12, Nelson was arrested at a protest in downtown Portland on a misdemeanor charge of interfering with a peace officer, KOIN said, citing court records. However, that charge was dismissed the next day, the station said. Booking information indicates Nelson was released from the Multnomah County Detention Center.

OK, slightly different, he didn’t murder them at a protest, but, you get the point.

Anyhow, how soon till the chief is fired?

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Democrats Want Climate Crisis (scam) To Be Centerpiece Of Presidential Debates Or Something

By William Teach September 3, 2020 – 8:08 am

By all means, let’s put an issue that tends to rank very low on polls of what people really care about on the forefront of the debates, an issue that is popular in theory but not practice

House Democrats Demand Climate Be ‘Centerpiece’ Of 2020 Presidential Debates

Dozens of House Democrats are calling for the climate crisis to be a central focus of the upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates.

In a letter Wednesday to the Commission on Presidential Debates, 70 lawmakers stressed that their constituents must hear from the candidates about how they plan to tackle “one of the most pressing and all-consuming issues currently facing our country.” (snip)

Even a single question on climate change at the upcoming debates would be an improvement over 2016, when presidential debate moderators did not once bring up the rapidly worsening global crisis.

“This cannot happen again,” reads the letter, spearheaded by Rep. Mike Levin of California. “Given the dire nature of the crisis, we ask that you break precedent and publicly call on the moderators to include climate in the topics that will be addressed during the debates.”

I actually agree with this: I think moderator Chris Wallace should ask multiple questions, such as “If you believe that climate change is mostly caused by Mankind,”

  • what measures have you taken in your own life to reduce your carbon footprint?”
  • what will your climate policies do to the cost of living for Americans?”
  • will you give up your own use of fossil fuels?”
  • will you turn the power off at the White House in empathy when areas like California are experiencing blackouts because solar and wind can’t provide enough power?”
  • do you think that the current iteration of carbon taxes, which includes refunding 4/5ths of American’s cost of living increase, makes people dependent on government?”
  • what do you think of the polling that people do not want to even pay $10 more a month for energy?”
  • why is your climate plan, as pushed further left by your extreme base, more about government controlling everything than about dealing with a minor issue?”

Obviously, Wallace won’t ask those questions, but, it would be fun letting Biden and Trump debate the issue, first, because Biden would be a stumbling mess (who thinks Excuses will be made to get Biden out of debating?), second, because this is Trump, and he will ask inconvenient questions like “why did you do virtually nothing during your 40 years in government?” Will you pledge to stop using fossil fuels in your own life?” “Why do Democratic Party plans smack of hardcore Modern Socialism?” “Do you support the Green New Deal, which has less to do with ‘climate change’ and most to do with Democratic Socialism and Big Centralized Government, since you have a hardcore Socialist by the name of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez serving on your climate change advisory board?”

And just imagine all the facial expressions from Trump. He would wipe the floor with Biden, and it would be great to have it highlighted in a massively watched forum that ‘climate change’ policy has little to do with actual science and mostly is about Progressive (nice fascism) control of citizens.

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Unhinged In Bidenland: Woman Attacks 12 Year Old Over Pro-Trump Sign

By William Teach September 3, 2020 – 7:34 am

Let me ask: how often do you see a report regarding a Trump supporting attacking a Biden supporter over a sign? Trump supporters know it can be unsafe to wear Trump apparel or have Trump signs because Democrats are unhinged

Colorado police seek woman who reportedly attacked a 12-year-old boy over his pro-Trump sign

Police in Boulder, Colorado, said they are seeking a woman who allegedly assaulted a 12-year-old over his sign supporting President Donald Trump.

The incident unfolded on Monday at about 3 p.m. according to a police report.

The boy, who was left unidentified, was riding his bike with a pro-Trump sign when he says that a woman riding on a moped passed him and then took a u-turn in order to confront him about the sign.

Boulder police spokeswoman Shannon Aulabaugh said the woman told the boy, “you want something to look at?” or something similar before she punched him.

Aulabaugh said the woman hit the boy with her closed fist on his head, and give him several more blows. She also scratched him after he fell to the ground.

I know that, at least here in Raleigh, you don’t see a ton of Trump stuff, being a Democratic stronghold, because supporters are worried about being attacked. Even in the Republican counties people have concerns, because Democrats are nuts, and people would prefer not to have to physically defend themselves from the nuts. You don’t see much in the way of Biden signs, because, let’s face it, Biden doesn’t excite anyone.

The boy told Denver7 News that it wasn’t the first time he had been attack for showing his support for the president, but that it was the first time he had been attacked by an adult.

“I like showing what I believe in,” he said. “I didn’t want any conflict – I just wanted to show what I believe in.”

He said that he was afraid to show his support for Trump because of the troubling incident. His father added that he wanted to press charges against the woman if she is identified by the police.

Of course, Democrats will rationalize this behavior by the women, and attacking people for having Trump stuff, because Democrats are beyond unhinged.

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Climate Pope Wants Earth To Rest From Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach September 2, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Last I checked, Pope Francis is the leader of a different religion. And spends more time yapping about ‘climate change’ than abortion on demand

Pope Francis calls for ‘letting the planet rest’ amid climate crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how the Earth can recover “if we allow it to rest” and must spur people to adopt simpler lifestyles to help a planet “groaning” under the constant demand for economic growth, Pope Francis said Tuesday.

In his latest urgent appeal to help a fragile environment, Francis also renewed his call for the cancellation of the debts of the most vulnerable countries. Such action would be just, he said, since rich countries have exploited poorer nations’ natural resources.

“In some ways, the current pandemic has led us to rediscover simpler and sustainable lifestyles,” Francis said in a written message.

“Already we can see how the Earth can recover if we allow it to rest: the air becomes cleaner, the waters clearer, and animals have returned to many places from where they had previously disappeared,” he wrote. “The pandemic has brought us to a crossroads.”

Those things have zero to do with the climate crisis

The pontiff urged people to seize the opportunity to reflect on their habits of energy usage, consumption, transportation and diet.

Disintegrating biodiversity, climate disasters and the “unjust impact of the current pandemic on the poor and the vulnerable” amount to a “wakeup call in the face of our rampant greed and consumption,” the pope wrote.

Your pope has spoken, climate cultists

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If All You See…

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

…is an ocean that’s rising hundreds of feet from fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Patterico’s Pontifications, with a post on another “let them eat cake” moment from Nancy Pelosi.

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Good News: Openly Antifa Member Could Be Portland’s Next Mayor

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

Hey, you know how Democrats and their pet media say that Antifa doesn’t exist, that it’s a figment of Conservative’s imaginations, despite all the flags and symbols and groups and such?

‘I Am Antifa’: Antifa Supporter Sarah Iannarone Could Be Portland’s Next Mayor

Portland’s next mayor could be an open supporter of Antifa, the violent, far-left movement whose members have unleashed violence in cities across America.

Left-wing activist Sarah Iannarone will face incumbent Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler in a runoff election on Nov. 3 after neither candidate received a majority of votes in the first round of voting.

Wheeler beat Iannarone in the first round of voting, but has faced criticism from both sides of the political spectrum over his handling of the city’s nightly unrest, which has included nearly 30 riots since late May. A supporter of President Donald Trump was shot and killed Saturday night during a pro-Trump demonstration in Portland.

Iannarone, whose platform includes a “Housing for All” plank and a pledge to slash the city’s police funding, identified herself as a member of the Antifa movement in a January 2019 tweet.

“To those who say Antifa are violent thugs: I am not a violent thug and I am Antifa,” she wrote.

“I am Antifa because the Red Hats are coming after brown & black people, after Jews, after queer & trans people, and more. They are coming after our democracy,” she added.

Interesting. Does she realize that it’s her side that hates Jews and Israel, who side with the terrorist Palestinians who attack civilians? Anyhow, on one hand you have the rioting permissive Ted Wheeler, on the other hand you have the person who says she is part of the rioters. Tough choice, Portland!

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California To Let Gas Power Plants Remain Open To Provide “Reliable Electricity”

By William Teach September 2, 2020 – 7:08 am

I noted last week that this might happen, and it has, because even though these low cost, low land footprint power plants “contribute to ‘climate change’ (scam)” they are reliable, unlike all the solar and wind

California to let gas plants stay open as time runs low for climate action

State officials threw a lifeline to four fossil fueled power plants along the Southern California coast, deciding the facilities are still needed to provide reliable electricity even as they contribute to the climate crisis.

Tuesday’s vote by the State Water Resources Control Board to let the gas plants keep operating past the end of this year followed brief rolling blackouts over two evenings last month, as a heat wave caused air conditioning demand to soar, and California found itself short on electricity supplies.

Energy regulators are still investigating the causes of the power shortage. But they said allowing the coastal gas plants to stay open a few more years would help prevent more outages as California continues its transition to cleaner energy sources — an ironic solution given that climate change almost certainly exacerbated the recent heat wave.

The four facilities were supposed to shut down by Dec. 31, 2020 under a regulation requiring coastal power plants to stop using ocean water for cooling, a process that kills fish and other marine life. But Tuesday’s decision granted a three-year extension to natural gas plants in Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Oxnard, and a one-year extension to a Redondo Beach plant.

Oh, come on, now. Unreliable energy, which is also a lot more expensive, is a small price in order to save the state for the climate crisis, isn’t it? The same people who voted for all this should be more than will to deal with some rolling brownouts and blackouts to Save The Planet, right?

The Public Utilities Commission and the California Independent System Operator began warning last year that the state might face power shortages on hot summer evenings, when electricity demand remains high even as solar farms and rooftop solar panels stop generating electricity. That prediction seemed to come true on Aug. 14, when the Independent System Operator ordered utilities to implement rolling outages for 75 minutes, and again on Aug. 15, when the energy shortfall lasted 20 minutes.

Hey, this is good practice for climate cultists for what’s to come as they get rid of reliable energy. Why is this making them unhappy? This is what they’ve agitated for. They should want to suffer for their beliefs…oh, right, they just want Other People to suffer.

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Cancel Culture Comes For D.C. Monuments And Statues

By William Teach September 2, 2020 – 6:52 am

Hey, remember when Modern Socialists were telling people who objected to bad things on television that if they didn’t like it they should just change the channel? If the SJW cancel culture nuts don’t like these statues and monuments they can just not look. Or leave the country, since they seem to hate it so much

DC Panel Calls for Removing, Relocating, or ‘Contextualizing’ Washington Monument, Other Landmarks

A committee formed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a report Tuesday recommending the removal, relocation, or contextualization of the Washington Monument and a number of federal monuments and buildings in Washington,DC.

Bowser formed the District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions, or “DC FACES” committee in July, to study assets in D.C. named after individuals to “ensure these individuals reflect contemporary DC values,” according to the report.

The committee was asked to make recommendations if a namesake is “inconsistent with DC values and in some way encouraged the oppression of African Americans and other communities of color or contributed to our long history of systemic racism.”

The report recommended:

Using the Mayor’s position on the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission, [to] recommend the Federal government remove, relocate, or contextualize the following assets:

1. Christopher Columbus – Columbus Fountain (federal)
2. Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin Statue (federal)
3. Andrew Jackson – Andrew Jackson Statue (federal)
4. Thomas Jefferson – Jefferson Memorial (federal)
5. George Mason – George Mason Memorial (federal)
6. Francis Griffith Newlands – Newlands Memorial Fountain (federal)
7. Albert Pike – Albert Pike Statue (federal)
8. George Washington – Washington Monument, George Washington Statue (federal)

The committee was made up of eight working group members and more than 20 staff members.

It focused on “key disqualifying histories, including participation in slavery, systemic racism, mistreatment of, or actions that suppressed equality for, persons of color, women and LGBTQ communities and violation of the DC Human Right Act.”

Bugger off. They also want to rename streets, buildings, schools, parks, roads, buildings, and so much more.

Exactly, Tom. And if the report is using the BLM street graffiti as its cover, it’s a hardcore exclusionary group with Marxist roots.

BTW, what are DC Values? Murder, theft, riots, arson? The District of Columbia has a crime rate of 3, meaning it is safer than 3% of US cities. The only metric that isn’t above U.S. averages is burglary. Heck, the U.S. average for crimes per square mile is 31.1. D.C.’s is 552.

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If We Don’t Indoctrinate The Kids About Climate Crisis (scam) Better, We’re Doomed

By William Teach September 1, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Education is free. Freedom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state. Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

Without better climate education in our schools, the climate crisis will continue to be a runaway train

Growing up less than an hour from the nation’s capital, I considered my education to be unparalleled. In fact, the county in which I attended grade school is the richest county in America. However, it wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I realized my education, and that of my fellow Americans, was severely lacking.

How? Well, while concepts such as parametric equations, rhetorical devices, civic disobedience, and more were thoroughly discussed by my teachers, there was absolutely no discussion about the climate crisis.

In fact, substantial climate education didn’t even come up till my senior year at my STEM-focused high school. See, I was fortunate enough to graduate from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which has been consistently ranked as the best and most rigorous high school in the United States. However, the only discussion of the climate crisis occurred near the very end of my senior year, realistically a time when the majority of graduating seniors could care less about high school. (snip)

It’s my firm belief that this is because we don’t understand nor impress upon students the urgency necessary to tackle this crisis. We are taught environmental science in a way that feels like something abstract, something that doesn’t directly affect us, but it does. It will literally injure our health and well-being for years to come if we don’t tackle the issue head-on.

And, because the beliefs of every Special Snowflake are important, you must listen to Rohan Arora, who is a patented climate and sustainability activist based in Washington, D.C. focused on the intersection of environmental issues and health disparities. He is the founder and executive director of the national environmental health organization The Community Check-Up that promotes environmental health education through outreach. Unsurprisingly, he and his partner co-founder are nags

After educating both loved ones and community members, they decided to found The Community Check-Up, a national organization focused on reducing environmental health disparities through educational empowerment and youth activism. There is so much more the climate movement needs to encompass regarding environmental health, such as environmental justice, urban planning, and more. They both hope that they can shift the climate narrative to emphasize environmental health in order to build greater momentum for the movement and truly fight for the reduction of environmental health dispariteis through actionable change.

And

Our work aims to reduce environmental health disparities through improving accessibility of environmental health resources and empowering youth to become environmental health warriors. With our outreach and literacy efforts, we aim to empower people in our nation to understand and educate the true importance of environmental health in the climate narrative. Our three-pronged approach focuses on raising a new generation of environmental health warriors, exposing environmental instability in our nation, and understanding the most pressing environmental health and social concerns of marginalized groups.

Weird, there’s nothing about what action people should take in their own lives. It’s almost like this is really about indoctrinating young minds into Modern Socialism.

They’ve been complaining since 1988 about coming doom, and it never seems to arrive. I wonder why?

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If All You See…

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

…are birds which will be wiped out by the climate crisis, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on reparations moving forward in the People’s Republik Of California.

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