BLM “Protesters” Attack Black Police Officer, Vandalize Girlfriend’s Home

By William Teach August 12, 2020 – 3:42 pm

Of course, how many of the “protesters” were lilly white liberals?

Black Lives Matter mob shoots at black cop, physically assaults him at girlfriend’s home they vandalized

A black police officer said protesters chanted “black lives matter” while shooting at him and punching him at his girlfriend’s Wisconsin home Saturday night.

Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah posted on Facebook that protesters “tried to kill me. I was unarmed and tried to defend my property and the property of my girlfriend. We were both assaulted, punched, and ultimately shot at several times. A shotgun round missed me by inches. Not once did I ever swing back or reciprocate any the hate that was being directed at me. I am all for peaceful protests, even against me, but this was anything but peaceful. They threw toilet paper in her trees, broke her windows, and again, shot at both of us as they were trying to kill me. There are children that live there any the knew that. The irony in all of this is that they chanted Black Lives Matter the entire time, but had zero regard for any of the black children that live there or me, a black man.”

Now, in all fairness, Mensah has some issues

Over the last five years, Mensah fatally shot three people in the line of duty, most recently a 17-year-old earlier this year, WITI-TV reported. Mensah’s fatal shootings in 2015 and 2016 were ruled justified, but he was suspended in July over the Feb. 2 fatal shooting of Alvin Cole, the station said. The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office is still reviewing the Cole case, but Wauwatosa’s mayor called for Mensah to “transition from the Wauwatosa Police Department’s employment,” WITI said.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Mensah was suspended with pay, and the families of the people he fatally shot — two were black; one was Latino/Native American — said they plan to pursue legal action.

But, we let the legal justice system work. Not assault them and trash their girlfriend’s home.

Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride said he would meet with the police chief and other city officials Monday morning to ensure Mensah is “fully protected and that criminal behavior of this kind will not happen again,” the Journal Sentinel said.

“The City of Wauwatosa has always supported and protected the right to peaceful protest,” McBride added in his statement, the paper said. “Last night’s event was not a peaceful protest; it was criminal behavior. If the perpetrators of this criminal behavior are identified, they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed by law.”

That’s mostly all we’re seeing, criminal behavior.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 12, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are tropical plants which will soon grow in Canada, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Biden being able to sniff Kamala’s hair all the time now.

I’m sure you’ve read tons about Handsy Joe picking Kamala, fun graphic below the fold from Proof

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Guy Kamala Slept With To Get District Attorney Job Advises To Decline VP Slot

By William Teach August 12, 2020 – 10:41 am

You remember Willie Brown, right? He was the married man Kamala Harris had an affair with, right before she got the San Fran AG position. Now he’s advising

Willie Brown urges Kamala Harris to decline offer to be Joe Biden’s VP

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has advised senator Kamala Harris to “politely decline” if Joe Biden makes her an offer to be his presidential running mate.

The former mayor wrote in an opinion article for The San Fransisco Chronicle that the vice presidency is a “dead end” and “not the job she should go for”.

“Historically, the vice presidency has often ended up being a dead end. For every George HW Bush, who ascended from the job to the presidency, there’s an Al Gore, who never got there,” he wrote on Saturday.

Mr Brown recommended that Sen Harris should ask for the position of attorney general instead, saying that the position has “legitimate power”.

“From atop the Justice Department, the boss can make a real mark on everything from police reform to racial justice to prosecuting corporate misdeeds,” he wrote.

“And the attorney general gets to name every US attorney in the country. That’s power.”

Mr Brown, who served as mayor in San Francisco from 1996 to 2004, has previously appointed Sen Harris to positions on the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission.

No mention that he had an affair with her.

Mr Brown continued in his editorial to warn Sen Harris against accepting the position on the basis that the administration would face a tough term in the midst of a pandemic and an economic downturn.

Well, sure, and since Biden is losing his marbles, she’ll be the one making the decisions. Unfortunately, Willie published this prior to Kamala accepting.

Some headlines from Breitbart

That’s just a smattering of her brand of Modern Socialist crazy.

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Bummer: Yet Another Poll Shows That People Really Do Not Care About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 12, 2020 – 8:17 am

We just had a poll from Gallup which showed that, despite the heavy push from the Cult of Climastrology during lockdown, people just don’t care about the climate change scam that much in practice. Now (via Climate Change Dispatch)

Exclusive poll: Amid COVID-19, Americans don’t care about climate change anymore

Battered by pandemic and economic collapse, do Americans have the capacity to care about the environment? Not so much, judging by a national poll we just conducted.

We asked a panel of U.S. adults a series of questions about today’s most crucial issues, environmental policy options, and their own behavior. In all three categories, I was personally surprised and discouraged to discover that our devotion to the world around us is flagging.

In a survey we at the Harris Poll conducted last December, American adults said climate change was the number one issue facing society. Today, it comes in second to last on a list of a dozen options, ahead of only overpopulation. Among Gen X men, in fact, more than third dismiss climate change as unimportant. COVID-19 and the recession have, of course, reordered priorities around the world. Still, the coronavirus didn’t elbow aside other issues as muscularly as it did climate change. (Incidentally, global warming is a bigger concern to retirement-age women than any other age group except millennial men.)

Additionally, we asked about policies the government could adopt to fight global warming or help the environment generally. There was majority support for only one of nine initiatives, with 51% endorsing tax credits or rebates for greater energy efficiency in buildings. Moreover, 13% of all respondents say the government should do nothing to improve the environment, a stance that rises to nearly one in five of all survey takers in the South.

Bummer. It just goes to show, people may care about the climate change scam in theory, but, not in practice. Anyhow, the one thing I’m not finding is the actual poll itself. The article writer is Will Johnson, the Harris CEO, but, no one, including Harris, has the poll metrics.

Anyhow, it gets even worse for the Cult of Climastrology, and the Democrats, since their 2020 strategy seems to revolve around Hotcoldwetdry

But we are also reverting back to a society that throws too much away. Younger men in particular are ordering more takeout food, packed in single-use plastic bags and disposable boxes, often with those plastic straws scorned for littering the landscape and polluting waterways. We are toting reusable bags less often on errands. Probably because more of us are home, we also are consuming more energy to keep our homes cooler in the summer and warmer in chilly months than we used to.

And when the pandemic ends—or at least is suitably controlled—American adults say they’ll behave in ways that would increase their carbon footprint. According to our survey, we’ll drive as much as we did before, take public transportation less, bicycle or walk less, buy more clothes, and have more stuff packaged up and shipped to our homes. And most of us plan to jack up the home AC and heat even more than we already have.

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Portland Riots Move Into Residential Areas, Making Residents Unhappy

By William Teach August 12, 2020 – 7:51 am

How many of these residents have cheered on Antifa and the destruction?

Neighbors unhappy as demonstrations move east into residential Portland

As Portland’s protests against police violence and systemic racism approach 80 consecutive nights, the location of the main action has shifted from downtown to residential neighborhoods on the east side of the Willamette River, bringing crowds of demonstrators and a heavy police force onto usually quiet nighttime streets.

That’s some pretty insane “reporting” from Oregon Live by Lizzie Acker. The people “protesting” are pretty much white leftists, quite a few who aren’t from the Portland area. Or even from Oregon. Are they protesting their own racism in their lilly white city? How is rioting demonstrating?

On Reddit and Facebook, people who live in the area expressed anger about property destruction.

“Lots of people worked hard to make our little neighborhood pleasant and to help the local businesses stay open,” wrote Redditor WheeblesWobble in a post called “Leave Kenton Alone!”

“Now it’s trashed,” the user wrote. “This was not a BLM protest, this was a tantrum by a bunch of entitled kids.”

The writer of the post and many commenters noted that some of the damaged property was at Po’Shine’s, a Black-owned business.

The damage was to a dumpster, Po’Shine’s head chef James Bradley, said Tuesday.

“What a dumpster has to do with Black Lives Matter, I don’t know,” Bradley said.

See, they’re just demonstrators, protesting for black lives, right? Many residents have support the BLM/Antifa rioters by sheltering them in their homes when the police come after them. Now the riots are in their neighborhoods. And they’re crying. See, they were fine with the violence in Other Areas, but not their own.

Outlets like Oregon Live and BLM/Antifa rioter enablers blame the police for pushing the violence into neighborhoods, but, the meeting point was near the residence area to start with.

And the violence will only get worse

Hundreds of Portland protesters will see their criminal cases dropped as DA announces plan to ‘recognize the right to speak’

Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, leaning on a group of community representatives he called his transition team, announced Tuesday that his office will drop most of the charges filed against protesters in Portland.

His prosecutors won’t pursue demonstrators accused of interfering with police, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, escape or harassment if the allegations don’t involve “deliberate’’ property damage, theft or force against another person or threats of force, Schmidt said.

Oh, sure, that won’t entice the rioters to become more violent.

Don’t complain, Portland residents, and those in the suburbs outside Portland, when the violence comes for you. This is what you support and enable.

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Bad News: Climate Crisis Is Causing Penguins To Thrive

By William Teach August 11, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Another Cult of Climastrology meme down the drain

From the link

A new study of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes fosteri) populations in 2019 found that it had grown by up to 10% since 2009. The largest of all penguin species in the Antarctic, emperors now number as many as 282,150 breeding pairs (up from about 256,500) out of a total population of over 600,000 birds. This growth occurred despite a loss of thousands of chicks in 2016 when one of the Antarctic ice shelves they were huddled upon collapsed. The latest IUCN Red List assessment, completed in 2018, classified emperors as ‘Near Threatened’, a small step up from ‘Least Concern’. In their justification for this classification, the authors concluded:

This species is listed as Near Threatened because it is projected to undergo a moderately rapid population decline over the next three generations owing to the projected effects of climate change. However, it should be noted that there is considerable uncertainty over future climatic changes and how these will impact the species.

Oddly, however, other biologists studying this species are currently petitioning the IUCN to upgrade emperor penguins to ‘Vulnerable’ (a classification equivalent to ‘Threatened’ in the US system) based on survival models that predict the species could be close to extinction by 2100 using the RCP8.5 ‘worse case’ climate change scenario that polar bear biologists have so far found irresistible. As polar bear biologists have also done, they insist that if we reduce CO2 emissions via global political policy, the penguins will be saved.

Funny how they always predict doom despite actual facts showing something different, eh? Hence the reason they always trot out 2100 for the doom date. The vast majority of people won’t be around to fact check them.

(Good News Network) A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than was previously thought.

Researchers reported this week how they used images from the European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission to locate the birds.

They found 11 new breeding colonies, three of which were previously identified but never confirmed. That takes the global census to 61 colonies around the continent.

Sorry, don’t have the time to do a new graphic for the penguins.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 11, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful high density buildings which help reduce urban sprawl which is bad for climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the 2 tiered justice system, which is why Ilhan Omar won’t be prosecuted.

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LA Times: Camping Is Totally Racist, You Know

By William Teach August 11, 2020 – 10:30 am

I love one of the photos that accompanies this story

It’s great 3 white Leftists think that black people are all too poor and dumb to be able to afford camping gear

Want more diversity in camping? Start with the gear

In May, Mo Jackson was camping with a friend in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. They woke at 5 to start a fire, make breakfast and — in the midst of a pandemic — experience the peace that comes with an early morning in a secluded spot.

The beauty of that morning moved Jackson to tears. “I had the most clarifying moment. You know, I just thought, I wish everyone could feel this.”

Jackson realized that, although they could not help everyone feel more connected to nature, they could get a few more people outside by offering free camping gear. “That day I was like, OK, what can I do to get more Black people outdoors? And I thought, well, I have enough savings to get three camping kits together.”

On May 19, Jackson posted on Instagram asking if any people of color wanted a free camping kit. “No need to demonstrate need or anything,” Jackson wrote. “Just ask and we can get something out to you.”

The kit would include two sleeping bags, a tent and a cooler. Jackson included a Venmo account on Instagram so people could donate to the cause.

Mo is the woman (assumed gender!) at the lower right, who identifies as black. Isn’t she appropriating culture by dyeing her hair blonde?

Camping is often called America’s favorite outdoor activity. This summer, when many travel options have been eliminated, the go-to vacation has been camping or renting an RV and visiting public lands.

But camping and national parks have a complicated past when it comes to racial equality and equal access for all. National parks have a history of segregation that dates to the 1930s, something that didn’t change until the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Yeah, so, something that has been illegal since 1964

A 2018 study by the Society of American Foresters found that between 2010 and 2014, 94.6% of visitors to national forests identified as white. People who identified as Latino made up 5.7%, and those who identified as Black made up 1.2%.

Are we supposed to force blacks and Latinos to go camping?

This time the response was much bigger. “People just cared more all of a sudden,” Jackson said. More than 600 people reached out and asked for camping kits. Jackson needed more funding and took the campaign to GoFundme, where, as of Aug. 5, more than $55,000 had been raised.

“I think there is a lot of white guilt right now,” Jackson said, explaining why donations suddenly took off. “We’re all learning and growing; sometimes guilt is part of it too — not that we want guilt and shame, but we do want growth.”

Yeah, and a lot of people who are cool with free stuff. Will they use it and actually go camping?

The disparity in access to the outdoors is particularly frustrating to Harris, who pointed out that those who could most benefit from being in a rural environment have often felt excluded. “Being in nature is healing,” she said. “People who need that healing most are Black and Indigenous people, and the idea that it’s inaccessible … it’s just not right.”

Everyone has the same access. If you want to go, go. These Leftists really do think that someone is physically stopping non-whites from going, and that non-whites can’t get the gear. We all pay the same price.

Jackson intends to expand the BIPOC Camping Kits venture. “Black and Indigenous people have historically had connections to nature and the land that have been stripped from us,” they said. “My bigger picture is full solidarity; it’s going to take all of us coming together to topple these racist systems so we can find our sacred places again, and find peace again, together.”

Huh what? Her people are not from America. Is she planning on camping in Africa? What, exactly, is racist about having full access to national parks if one wants to go?

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Harris, Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Climate Equity Plan

By William Teach August 11, 2020 – 7:10 am

It’s really all about patronizing “people of color” while using the climate change scam as the plaform

U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Landmark Legislation to Empower Frontline Communities

U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) last Thursday introduced the Climate Equity Act, legislation to ensure that the United States government centers communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis in policy related to climate and the environment. For the last year, Harris and Ocasio-Cortez have worked with frontline community leaders to receive feedback on this legislation to ensure the strongest policy possible.

“COVID-19 has laid bare the realities of systemic racial, health, economic, and environmental injustices that persist in our country,”said Sen. Harris. “The environment we live in cannot be disentangled from the rest of our lives, and it is more important than ever that we work toward a more just and equitable future. That is why, as we combat the climate crisis and build a clean economy; we must put justice and equity first. I’m proud to partner with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez on this comprehensive proposal to empower communities that have been neglected by policymakers for far too long.”

“The Democratic Party is now finally starting to embrace what many activists have long advocated: climate policy must be driven by and centered around frontline communities,”said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. “Major environmental policies must be written by the black, brown, and low-income people who have been and will be disproportionately impacted by it, just like the Green New Deal envisioned. For too long, policies that affect communities of color have been determined by a few white men in a room in Washington. The budding grassroots movement and electoral results we’re seeing around the country make clear that Americans want to upend old, exclusionary order. I’m proud to partner with Senator Harris on a bill that will pave the way for a new, inclusionary way of doing things in D.C.”

The Climate Equity Act creates an administrative structure within the federal government to ensure that as we boldly address the climate crisis, our policies are founded in equity and justice for frontline communities. By ensuring that frontline community leaders and allies are playing a fundamental role in shaping and guiding federal policy, the Climate Equity Ac thelps hold the government accountable for creating a more just and equitable future as we tackle the climate crisis and build a clean economy.

So, whatever happened to AOC’s Green New Deal, submitted in February, 2019? She hasn’t demanded a vote on that. But, up, this whole Climate Equity act seems familiar

AOC, Kamala Harris Release A Climate Equity Plan Or Something

It’s almost like this whole ‘climate change’ meme has nothing to do with science and everything to do with their authoritarian policies

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1155921310096265216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1155921310096265216%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepiratescove.us%2F2019%2F07%2F30%2Faoc-kamala-harris-release-a-climate-equity-plan-or-something%2F

Yeah, that was a year ago. And they’ve done what, since? No votes on this legislation, which they said supports the GND, which hasn’t been voted on in the House, and saw every Democrat, including Harris, vote “present” in the Senate. Now they’re resubmitting this loser legislation using COVID-19 as the backdrop? Really, this is about patronizing people of color, mostly blacks, as the election approaches, proclaiming that black people, er, frontline communities, will have seats at the table when creating government rules and regs and stuff.

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Seattle Council Approves Plan To Start Defunding Police, Chief Resigns

By William Teach August 11, 2020 – 6:49 am

Is this the start, or the total plan? Time will tell

Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department, slashes jobs and salaries

The Seattle City Council voted Monday to move forward with a controversial proposal that would begin the process of defunding the police department.

The 7-1 vote comes despite objections from the city’s police chief, mayor and the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild.

The plan would ultimately slash funding to the department but not the 50% some had sought. Seattle currently has around 1,400 police officers, and the current plan would see about 100 cut. It was also cut the police department’s $400 million budget by about $3 million, according to KOMO.

Councilmember Kshama Sawant was the sole “no” vote because she felt the proposals didn’t go far enough, while Debora Juarez abstained, according to MyNorthWest.com.

The council reviewed a final set of amendments Monday before the vote, which included reducing the police department by up to 100 officers through layoffs and attrition as well as cutting the $285,000 annual salary of the Police Chief Carmen Best and other top officers. Best is the city’s first Black police chief and the pay cut would put her salary well below her White predecessor.

What happens now? That’s a 7% reduction of the police force in a city that has been seeing ever-increasing crime, both violent and property, over the years. It’s also see a huge homeless population increase, and the city voted to disband the unit that gets rid of homeless encampments. How many citizens and businesses take the opportunity to leave? And what will this do to the property values? What will this do to the crime rate?

Some council members have said the initial cuts are a first step to more sweeping reductions and a rethinking of law enforcement in Seattle.

You just have to know that a goodly chunk of Seattle residents, who vote mostly Democratic Party and consider themselves Progressives (nice Fascists), approve of all this in theory, but, in practice, they want their own neighborhoods and businesses protected. And will be uninterested in losing that protection. The police will surely protect the more upscale areas first, and the lower middle class and lower class areas will be the first to suffer.

As for Chief Best, who really hasn’t done a whole lot over the months to stop the Crazy in Seattle these past months, well, she resigned

Carmen Best, the Seattle police chief, emailed her resignation notice to police officers in the department late Monday hours after the City Council made good on its promise to approve sweeping proposals that would cut about 100 officers and slash the department’s budget.

Best’s email, which was obtained by Jason Rantz, a radio host in the city, said that her retirement will be effective Sept. 2.

It seems she’s mostly upset over the reduction of her pay.

Anyhow, you have to wonder if the department will suddenly find itself with a large amount of resignations, with the overall departures exceeding that 100 number. The cops know they don’t have the backing of the city, and will be called on to do more work from the layoffs which causes an exploding crime rate.

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