If All You See…

By William Teach August 8, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on eradicating a leftist lie.

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Utah Prosecutors Go Hard After BLM “Protesters”

By William Teach August 8, 2020 – 10:30 am

Utah is not playing

Utah protesters face charges with potential life sentence

Some Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City could face up to life in prison if they’re convicted of splashing red paint and smashing windows during a protest, a potential punishment that stands out among demonstrators arrested around the country and one that critics say doesn’t fit the alleged crime.

The felony criminal mischief charges are more serious because they carry a gang enhancement. Prosecutors said Wednesday that’s justified because the protesters worked together to cause thousands of dollars in damage, but watchdogs called the use of the 1990s-era law troubling, especially in the context of criminal justice reform and minority communities.

“This is so far beyond just the enforcement of the law, it feels retaliatory,” said Madalena McNeil, who is facing a potential life sentence over felony criminal mischief and riot charges. Charging documents say she bought red paint at a Home Depot before the July 9 demonstration sparked by a fatal police shooting ruling. She later yelled at and shifted her weight as if to slam into police during the demonstration, charges state. “It’s really frustrating and scary … I just feel so much concern for what this means for the right to protest in general.”

Just like the federal bill of rights, the Utah Constitution also mentions protesting peaceably (Article 1, Section 1). These people were not protesting peaceably. They weren’t protesting, they were violent. Perhaps the charges were too much, but, let’s face it, these folks, so many who style themselves as Antifa, are involved in organized violence.

The Utah demonstrators are unlikely to serve prison time, said Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. Though they’d get at least five years if convicted as charged, criminal cases often end with a plea to lesser counts. (snip)

Still, he argued “there’s some people who want to engage in protest, but they want to be absolved of absolved of any behavior,” he said. “This is not about protest, this is about people who are engaging in criminal conduct.”

And that’s what it is. And it does distract from the core message. Really, do people care that much anymore?

“We have to have some agreement of what constitutes protected First Amendment speech,” Gill said. “When you cross that threshold, should you be held accountable or not?”

Once it becomes violent, 1st protections end. And throwing paint, damaging buildings, assault, and so forth are not protected. As the old saying goes “if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.”

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Bummer: Despite Pushing ‘Climate Change’ Hard During Lockdown, Most People Really Don’t Care

By William Teach August 8, 2020 – 7:21 am

The Cult of Climastrology has been pushing for their watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) solutions for the Coronavirus recovery, saying we should pass things like a Green New Deal, carbon taxes, and all their other things. Too bad, no one really cares in practice. Oh, people might care in theory, but not in practice

Poll: Plurality of Americans Call Coronavirus Most Important U.S. Problem, Climate Change Among Least

A plurality of Americans considers the Chinese coronavirus the most important problem facing the country, while climate change — an issue central to the Democrat Party’s agenda — remains among the lowest in importance, garnering just one percent, a Gallup survey released this week found.

The Gallup poll, taken July 1-23, among U.S. 1,007 adults, asked respondents, “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?”

A plurality, or 30 percent, chose “coronavirus/diseases” as the most important problem, followed by “the government/poor leadership” (23 percent), race relations/racism (16 percent), “unifying the country” (six percent), and “crime/violence” (five percent).

Nine percent of respondents chose economic problems, which included the economy “in general,” unemployment, and the wealth gap.

Notably, “climate change/environment/pollution” — green issues central to the progressive agenda and embraced by Joe Biden — came at the very bottom of the list, garnering just one percent support.

On a list of things people care about in practice, ‘climate change’ gets just one percent. For what we are told is the Most Important Issue Facing The World. Other issues can fluctuate up and down, but Hotcoldwetdry is always right there at the bottom. Other than showing the results, the Gallup article doesn’t even mention Hotcoldwetdry, despite the Cult constantly, again, saying that the solution to the COVID killed economies around the world are ‘climate change’ policies.

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Portland Mom Surprised She Was “Shot” During Riots

By William Teach August 8, 2020 – 7:05 am

If you’re attending a mostly peaceful violent protest, why would anyone be surprised that law enforcement fights back? Especially since she seems to know what has been happening. Of course, she wants to play the Victim

I’m a Mom Who Came Out to Protest for Black Lives in Portland. I Was Shot by Federal Agents

Our president wants you to believe I am a terrorist, a professional agitator stalking the Pacific Northwest.

Four days before federal agents shoot me in Portland, Ore., I riffle through the garage, shooing spiders from my son’s snowboarding helmet. Will it buckle beneath a steel baton? I press my daughter’s swim goggles to my face, testing the fit. Can they repel tear gas? I run my hands over my husband’s life jacket. Can it stop a bullet?

I don’t yet realize how many other moms are slipping oven mitts into backpacks (to minimize burns when tossing aside flaming grenades and tear-gas canisters), how many dads are hoisting leaf blowers from sheds (to clear tear gas), how many teens are gathering plastic toboggans to shield themselves from officers in combat fatigues aiming stun-grenade launchers through temporary fencing around the federal courthouse. This is what happens when you rattle the barricade that policymakers hide behind, screaming “Black lives matter,” protesting for 60-plus nights the brutal tactics officers use to kill Black men on camera and Black women in beds.

People do not need helmets during peaceful protests. They don’t need goggles. They don’t need body armor. They don’t need oven mitts. They don’t need leaf blowers. This isn’t the 60’s where police officers in Democratic Party run areas were sent in to run off blacks protesting. The police are responding strictly to the violence from civilians, many of whom weren’t even from Portland, or even Oregon.

The night I am shot, the sky shimmers with a leftover Fourth of July firework lit by a privileged son whose college closed in the spring. He is here because Black lives matter to him but also because he senses the video game he now plays nightly has sprung to life and he won’t be left out. That boy is pretext, he and his friends tossing plastic water bottles at stone walls, justification for an elite force to quell a gathering of Black people and their allies at the door of the same courthouse where four years earlier the white militiamen who led an armed takeover of another federal building in Oregon were acquitted of any wrongdoing in a 41-day siege.

She does understand that those fireworks were being shot at the federal building….no, she sees things through her Marxist colored glasses, failing to see the violence that originated through her Comrades.

And that is when they shoot us, point blank, with impact munitions. The woman on my right falls forward; the woman on my left is struck in the head; I feel my bone break. My right ankle is encased in a bulky cast after a fall the previous week, and those American sons shoot my other foot out from under me.

Perhaps you shouldn’t be part of a riot.

Today, now that federal agents have withdrawn, our protests go on peacefully. But America, be wary. Forget Portland at your peril. Everyone thinks they’d have joined the Resistance if they lived in 1940s Europe, when we know that most stayed inside, served supper, tucked the children into bed with a kiss and a lie: “All is well, close your eyes.”

Peaceful?

We were told that if the federal law enforcement agents left violence would stop.

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AOC Nominated For Emmy For Green New Deal Film Or Something

By William Teach August 7, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Y’all remember the Green New Deal, right? It was the piece of something or other submitted by AOC and Senator Ed Markey back in February of 2019, which the House of Representatives, run by Democrats, has never voted on. It was voted on in the Senate, and every Democrat voted “present”, including main sponsor Ed Markey. AOC had a fit over the Senate voting on “her” legislation. And, to this day, AOC hasn’t bothered demanding a vote on it. Yet

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez nominated for Emmy for Green New Deal film

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was nominated for an Emmy for her film project “Art of the Green New Deal.”

The seven-minute film, which was a collaboration with The Intercept, is narrated by Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

“Set a couple of decades from now, it’s a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a forgone conclusion,” The Intercept article introducing the video states. “Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves?”

Yet, she’s not pushing for a vote on it. Weird, eh? But, then, this isn’t about the climate, but control.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 7, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a carbon pollution created sinkhole, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on outrage over MAGA bear.

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Surprise: Business Owners Considering Leaving Minneapolis Over Potential Police Defunding

By William Teach August 7, 2020 – 10:30 am

Obviously, no one saw this coming

Dozens Of Minneapolis Businesses Consider Leaving, Cite Possibility Of Police Being Dismantled

Dozens of Minneapolis businesses are considering leaving downtown, citing concerns about the possibility of the police department being dismantled, CBS Minnesota reported.

A survey by the Downtown Council shows 45 business owners say they are considering leaving downtown Minneapolis because of the lack of people working and socializing in the area and also the idea that the police department could be dismantled, CBS reported.

One of the surveyed businesses that is considering leaving employs 600 people, deepening fears that the city could take another major blow to employment, which was hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The Council did not divulge which businesses are considering leaving.

“This is by far the biggest challenge that I’ve ever had in my 20 years of owning businesses downtown,” Erik Forsberg, who owns multiple restaurants in downtown Minneapolis told CBS. Forsberg’s restaurants have been reportedly closed since the pandemic began and crime multiplied.

Right now, the notion of defunding has been stalled

However, a Minneapolis commission decided Wednesday that it would take more time to review the City Council amendment to dismantle the police department after concerns that the process was being rushed. “The council says ‘Trust us. We’ll figure it out after this is approved. Trust us.’ We’ll I don’t, and we shouldn’t,” Berry Clegg, chairman of the Charter Commission said according to CBS News.

But there are enough city council members and members of the community who are pushing this, so, businesses are not going to take the chance, and will not sign new leases. They’re also seeing a lot fewer officers. More and more are seeking permanent disability, and

(Star Tribune) Minneapolis police are down at least 100 officers since the killing of George Floyd — more than 10% of the force — straining department resources amid a wave of violence and adding extra urgency to the political debate over its future.

Over the past two months, 40 cops have resigned, been fired or are in the process of leaving the force, and another 75 have taken a medical leave for post-traumatic stress disorder they say was caused by the riots that followed Floyd’s death. Dozens more are expected to file for leave in the coming months.

MPD officials not authorized to speak publicly estimate the department, which is budgeted for 888 officers this year, could lose as much as a third of its workforce by the end of the year.

This should end well.

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Some Kids Don’t Like To Go Outside As That Triggers Anxiety Over ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach August 7, 2020 – 7:07 am

Don’t blame the kids: blame the adults. Any of the parents, teachers, news figures, Warmists, etc, who push the gloom and doom frim the climate change scam

Some children find spending time in nature ‘distressing’ because it can trigger feelings of anxiety and despair linked to climate change

While most children benefit from having time outdoors, for some youngsters it is triggering feelings of anxiety and despair due to fears over climate change.

These ‘troubling emotions’ and their link to climate change have been studied by University of Colombia researchers for the British Ecological Society.

In the first of its kind study to focus on children and teenagers connecting with nature, the team conducted a full review of other studies, articles and books.

Children and teenagers were triggered by the natural world and their inability to control what was happening to the ‘unravelling biosphere’, the team said.

The authors found that measures currently used to connect children to the natural world can help others cope with feelings of fear linked to climate change.

Newsflash: children and teenagers have never had the ability to control what was happening in the world. Because they’re children and teenagers. Most adults don’t have power, either.

Within the past generation children’s lives have largely moved indoors with the loss of free-ranging exploration of the natural world, the team said.

Probably has less to do with ‘climate change’ and more with video games, smartphones, and being online. They grew up with these things, and adults do not seem to be forcing them outside, and, instead, catering to their inside lives.

Many children know they are inheriting a changing world that is likely to get worse and this leads them to feelings of anxiety and despair, said Chawla.

Thanks, adults, for creating mental messes.

This new study, which involved multiple pieces of literature, found time spent in the great outdoors was a ‘predictor’ for active care for nature in adulthood.

Yeah, but so many adults aren’t making their kids go outside, particularly in the very leftist areas.

But, how many will wake up? And how many will just be mental messes for the rest of their lives?

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Portland Suddenly Upset Over Rioters Attempting To Light East Precinct On Fire

By William Teach August 7, 2020 – 6:50 am

Where was Ted Wheeler’s concern when the same people were continuously attacking the federal building and federal employees, including with explosives and fire?

Portland mayor condemns rioters for ‘attempting to commit murder’

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Thursday evening condemned the actions of rioters who attempted to set fire to a police precinct and blocked the exits while officers were inside.

“When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder,” Wheeler said in a news conference with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.

These are the same people who’s behavior he mostly excused for months

“Don’t think for a moment that you are if you are participating in this activity, you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump — because you absolutely are,” he said. “You are creating the B-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during this campaign. If you don’t want to be part of that, then don’t show up.”

A riot was declared Wednesday evening when agitators descended upon the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct building, spray-painted over security cameras, broke a glass door with a 2×4, lit a fire using an accelerant and threw fireworks and other objects at officers, according to FOX 12 in Portland.

Police said that a truck also attempted to run over officers.

Ah, so that’s what his actual concern is. Not the police officers, but, showing up on in a Trump ad.

Wheeler also urged peaceful protesters to avoid gatherings that could turn destructive or violent, according to Oregon Live.

“If you are a nonviolent demonstrator and you don’t want to be part of intentional violence, please stay away from these areas,” Wheeler said. “Our community must say that this violence is not Portland, that these actions do not reflect our values and these crimes are distracting from reform, not advancing.”

Except, they seem to represent the Portland community. How many are yelling for the city to put an end to this? They went after the East precinct Wednesday, then Thursday

Tensions between Portland police and a small group of protesters flared Thursday outside a Southeast Portland police precinct for the second straight night.

Police advanced on the demonstrators several times to keep them away from East Precinct, the site of a Wednesday night protest condemned by the city’s police chief and mayor after protesters damaged the building in various ways.

Police deemed Thursday night’s gathering unlawful soon after about 200 people converged outside the precinct. A few frontline protesters had splashed paint on the building, lit a fire in a trash can and argued with two bystanders who appeared to try to intervene.

Perhaps it’s time to just round them all up, throw them in jail. Well, that time was months ago. On the bright side, it’s reported that the Oregon State Police are part of the police line, and they all did

It would also be helpful if Mayor Ted wasn’t releasing those the police arrest

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Doomism And Optimism Are Traps In Solving The Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach August 6, 2020 – 3:30 pm

Remember the little bit about whether being optimistic on the climate makes you pro-Trump? Well, let’s go to the UK Guardian

In tackling the global climate crisis, doom and optimism are both dangerous traps

Protesters march in the streets in an “extinction rebellion” against the climate crisis, with some (but not all) of their leaders claiming that climate tipping points could kill billions in the coming decades. Others dismiss the importance or reality of the crisis, while new books loudly proclaim “apocalypse never” and “false alarm”.

The popular discourse around the climate emergency all too often highlights fringe voices that predict the end of the world or suggest that there is little to worry about. But as the climatologist Steven Schneider presciently remarked a decade ago, when it comes to the climate “the end of the world” and “good for us” are probably the two least likely outcomes.

So, we need to take a middle road?

The environmental crisis is one of the most serious and pressing issues facing the world today. We are already living with impacts of human-caused global heating, and the world is not doing nearly enough yet to put us on a pathway to avoiding potentially dire impacts later in the century to both humans and the natural world. But a discourse sharply divided between doom and dismissal risks obstructing climate action, rather than motivating it.

There’s your middle of the road. Is it any wonder climate cultists keep saying we’re doomed? As far as taking ‘climate change’ action, well, when it is mostly mule fritters, why would we? When few climate cultists are willing to make major changes in their own lives, why should we?

Uncertainty is not our friend. Because expected damages increase faster the hotter it gets, we stand a real risk of catastrophic impacts if we end up with an unlucky combination of a highly sensitive climate and faster accumulation of CO2. We will also have fewer options to stop or reverse this by the time it happens. These uncertainties are why it’s all the more important to control the one thing we can: our future emissions.

Middle of the road?

Perhaps some major league Warmists could show us the way?

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