We Need To Crack Down On Armed Vigilantism Or Something

By William Teach August 28, 2020 – 10:30 am

See, Democrats had no problem with Democratic voting BLM/Antifa folks committing acts of violence, including against women and senior citizens. They’ve called for defunding police. The amount of violence means police are spread thin, especially as the BLM/Antifa folks create issues away from the major area of the “protests”, and cannot protect homes and businesses. Someone has to

The Violence Could Get Much Worse
Unless police and political leaders begin to crack down on the armed vigilantes monitoring protests, more bloodshed could soon follow the killings in Kenosha.

The killings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, represent an alarming escalation of the fight over police violence that has consumed the country this summer: It wasn’t an agent of the state who shot two Americans dead this week. Instead, an American man turned his weapon on other civilians during a protest—and law enforcement let him walk right by them and out of town. Police and political leaders have failed for years to take the actions necessary to prevent this kind of violence. Without serious, sustained intervention, more bloodshed could soon follow.

Not defending or slamming the shooter, but, his presence would not have been necessary if the Dem voting BLM/Antifa folks weren’t violent, and if Democrats and their Credentialed media hadn’t not only propped them up, but egged them on.

Seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who has described himself as a militia member and appeared in videos that night next to other armed men linked to a local militia group known as the Kenosha Guard, has since been arrested and charged with killing two people. (He hasn’t yet entered a plea.) Rittenhouse and the other men, who claimed to be protecting local businesses, are not the first armed right-wing counterprotesters to evade police scrutiny this summer. In May and June, such extremists appeared on 187 occasions at protests around the country, according to the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a left-leaning organization that tracks extremist groups. Vigilantes appeared to receive the support or approval of police in about two dozen of those instances, says Alexander Reid Ross, a researcher at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right and the author of Against the Fascist Creep.

Strange that The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey forgot to mention

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Recent Comments On Sidebar

By William Teach August 28, 2020 – 9:40 am

Rod pointed out that the recent comments widget on the sidebar was no longer working. Looks like the plugin is incompatible with the most recent version of WordPress. And the plugin no longer appears at WordPress.org. I’ve turned on the internal one that comes with WordPress, but, it just shows who and on what post, not a short excerpt of what they wrote. For those who look at it, would that excerpt be helpful?

More: found a plugin called Better Recent Comments, enable that plugin. Have to see if it eats resources for a few days.

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Senate Democrats Map Out Their Climate Crisis (scam) Strategy Or Something

By William Teach August 28, 2020 – 7:11 am

It’s actually probably a good thing for Democrats that they’re having so much violence in their own Democratic Party run cities, as that overshadows their agenda of climate cult policies

Senate Democrats map out climate change strategy

Senate Democrats on Tuesday released a more than 200 page climate plan that they’re billing as a roadmap for what they’ll do if they can take back the majority after this year’s election.

The sprawling report has the broad goals of increasing federal spending on climate action to 2 percent of gross domestic product each year and creating 10 million new jobs. It also calls for the whole world to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

The plan also calls for 40 percent of federal climate investments to boost low-income communities and communities of color. And it includes proposals for reducing emissions from the electricity, transportation, agricultural and industrial sectors.

Do black people ever get tired of Democrats pandering to them for votes? Treating blacks like children who can only live with the Helpful Hand of Government?

“We have the opportunity to build more and better jobs for the American people, jobs that’ll help re-stimulate the economy and aid in our transition to clean energy,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters.

“When Democrats retake the majority in the Senate, we will unify to move swiftly on legislation to tackle the climate crisis. Passing climate legislation will be a top priority for Senate Democrats and for me,” he added.

Are you good with your taxes going up, your cost of living going up, losing freedom, liberty, and choice? ‘Climate change’ polls well in theory, not in practice.

House Democrats on that committee released their own plan earlier this year.

The Senate report also calls for the implementation of a federal clean energy standard, emission standard, carbon price or other “market mechanisms” in order to reach clean electricity.

To take on emissions from transportation and industry, the report calls for vehicle and industrial emissions standards, among other provisions. Its agricultural goals are more focused on financial incentives and participating in carbon markets.

Market forces are taxes. Which ones do they favor? They don’t say. Probably all of them. Cap and trade, taxes on fossil fuels companies, and direct carbon taxes, even the newish one where people are refunded 4/5ths of the cost of living increase. They’re admitting that the cost of living will skyrocket.

The Democrats also want to achieve their goals through a variety of mechanisms, including using financial and regulatory tools. They call on the Securities and Exchange Commission to update how public companies should disclose climate risks and incorporate that into its rating methods.

They also highlight the influence of big industry and dark money as obstacles for passing climate legislation.

In other words, they’re going to use the power of the federal government to force companies to knuckle under to the Cult of Climastrology. Seems kinda…..Fascist, don’t you think? Authoritarian. Anti-freedom.

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Virginia Senate Democrats Vote To Reduce Assault On Police Officers To Misdemeanor

By William Teach August 28, 2020 – 6:52 am

The bill is very slightly more nuanced than is being reported, but, this is not going to be good optics for the Democratic Party in campaign commercials

Virginia Senate advances bill to downgrade charge for assaulting police, end mandatory jail term

The Virginia Senate this week approved a bill that would let the charge of assaulting a police officer be a misdemeanor instead of a felony, and eliminate the mandatory jail term for being convicted of such a crime.

The Senate’s vote was 21-15 on Wednesday night, WSLS-TV of Roanoke reported. The bill now shifts to the state House for its consideration. Democrats control both chambers of the state Legislature as well as the governor’s office.

Senate Bill 5032 was proposed as the nation’s police departments face broad scrutiny over use of force against African-Americans and other minorities.

A judge could downgrade a charge of assaulting an officer to a misdemeanor if the victim is not physically harmed as a result of the attack, WSLS reported.

That’s the slightly nuanced part. The bill doesn’t really lay out what “not physically harmed” looks like, so, you can bet leftist judges would be reducing the charges constantly. The bill was strictly partisan. 21 Democrats voted for, 15 Republicans voted against

“What in the world are we doing here?” state Sen. John Cosgrove Jr., a Republican, asked, according to The Washington Post. “Have you watched television for the last couple of weeks? Have you seen what our police officers are going through? And here we are with a bill that’s going to actually make it easier for someone to actually assault a police officer.”

Democrats countered that the bill would help address inequities in the state’s criminal justice system, The Washington Post reported.

So, wait, are Democrats saying that black people are more likely to attack police officers? Seems rather a racist attitude, don’t you think? Anyhow, it’s not just police officers

A summary of the bill states it would eliminate “the mandatory minimum term of confinement for an assault and battery committed against a judge; magistrate; law-enforcement officer; correctional officer; person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of inmates; firefighter; or volunteer firefighter or any emergency medical services personnel and provides that such crime can no longer be committed as a simple assault and must result in a bodily injury.”

So, think ambulance personnel will want to go into dangerous areas? Will Virginia Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam sign this if fully passed by the Virginia General Assembly? This is exactly the type of thing that should make super early voting and mail in voting banned: parties doing bad things after people have voted.

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We’ve Run Out Of Presidential Terms To Waste On ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach August 27, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Hmm, is Excitable Bill McKibben saying that Barack Obama’s 2 terms were a waste?

On Climate Change, We’ve Run Out of Presidential Terms to Waste

(a couple paragraphs blaming The Weather on people living modern lives)

Here’s what this means: if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take over the White House, in January, they’re going to be dealing with an immediate and overwhelming climate crisis, not just the prospective dilemma that other Administrations have faced. It’s not coming; it’s here. The luxury of moving slowly, the margin for zigging and zagging to accommodate various interests, has disappeared. So, if the Democrats win, they will have to address the pandemic and the resulting economic dislocation, and tackle the climate mess all at the same time. Any climate plan must be, in some way or another, the solution to the current widespread loss of jobs. (snip)

The point is clear: as Biden and Harris campaign for the future of our democracy this fall, they also have to lay the groundwork to fight for the future of our planet. That message can be communicated to voters: Biden showed how to do it with a commercial that linked his love of his vintage Corvette to the future of electric vehicles. No, electric sports cars and industrial pea cutlets will not save the climate; but it’s crucial, right now, on the campaign trail, for politicians to help Americans understand the rapid and unsettling transition that physics implacably demands. We’re out of Presidential terms to waste. If there’s going to be effective American action on climate, it’s going to have to come from Joe Biden.

Can anyone point to what Joe Biden or Kamala Harris have actually done regarding their belief in anthropogenic climate change? Talking is meaningless. What Bill fails to acknowledge is that actually doing something is not popular in reality. But, hey, good luck, Joe, as you patronize these climakooks.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 27, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is sunshine that is too bright due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post on mindless, purposeless riots just for fun.

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VP Mike Pence: Law And Order Is On The Ballot

By William Teach August 27, 2020 – 10:30 am

When it comes to politics, Mike Pence is one of the good guys. One of the most trustworthy of politicians, which are not easy to trust, right? He’s a straight shooter, a guy who doesn’t play all the games. If he trusts Donald Trump, that’s what allowed me to vote for them in 2016. And here he is now

Pence swings hard at Biden on economy and unrest but sidesteps racial justice

Nice bit of bias in the headline, eh? Why should Pence discuss it? Racial justice is simply a way for the Democrats to patronize black people, and some black people who’ve been living under the Dem thumb to demand they be given free stuff.

Vice President Mike Pence made an aggressive and cutting case for why Americans should vote for President Trump in November, saying that Democratic nominee Joe Biden would not be able to rebuild the economy as effectively and that Americans would be less safe if Trump loses.

“Our economic recovery is on the ballot,” Pence said in the final speech of the third night of the 2020 Republican convention. “Law and order is on the ballot.”

The vice president spoke from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, the place that inspired the creation of the national anthem — “The Star Spangled Banner” — during the War of 1812.

Obviously, the article attempts to “fact check” and “compare and contrast” the speech in a way that Modern Socialist Democratic Party voting media folks didn’t for the DNC speeches, including Kamala Harris’. Regardless, Pence is right: law and order is on the ballot. And Democrats are starting to realize that this is not good for their polls

It’ll be really serious when Handsy Joe decries the violence

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You Ate A Burger, Making Hurricanes Bigger And Stronger

By William Teach August 27, 2020 – 9:30 am

Scientists can’t definitively say whether you driving a fossil fueled vehicle to a restaurant then eating a burger is linked, but, no problem people will still link them. Here’s one of the bullet points

As the planet continues to warm, such rapid intensification events are expected to get more frequent, and storms will become stronger and wetter.

They said this back in 2005 and 2006, at which point tropical storm landfalls collapsed. Because they run in cycles. We’re in one of those cycles now. And our satellites and technology allow us to see all the tropical waves and systems that do not come anywhere close to the land, which was not possible just 40 years ago

Hurricane Laura jumped from Category 1 to Category 4 in a day. Here’s why hurricanes are now stronger, wetter, and more frequent.

Hurricane Laura is rapidly gaining strength as it barrels toward Louisiana and Texas.

Between Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, the storm’s sustained winds jumped from 75 to 140 miles per hour — a process known as rapid intensification.

The major hurricane is poised to strengthen even more and make landfall Wednesday night as a Category 4 storm, just days before the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Scientists can’t definitively say whether Hurricane Laura or other individual storms are directly caused by climate change, but warming overall makes hurricanes more frequent and devastating than they would otherwise be.

Remember, trust the scientists. Except when they aren’t giving you what you want, so, just go with the fear-mongering meme.

“Our confidence continues to grow that storms have become stronger, and it is linked to climate change, and they will continue to get stronger as the world continues to warm,” James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA who studies how climate change affects tropical cyclones, told the Washington Post.

So, they still don’t know. What about the massive storms during latter half of the 18th Century, the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, and all the other massive ones, such as Camille, prior to CO2 being above 350ppm?

OK, that is on frequency. But, you cannot say that they are stronger now when you do not have actual data comparing them. They seem worse when you have more people in the way of them.

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Surprise: First Time Gun Buyers Surge Over Lockdown Fears, Riots In Democratic Party Run Cities

By William Teach August 27, 2020 – 8:54 am

The one thing I cannot seem to find is data that shows exactly where these 1st time buyers live, as in which city. I would suspect, though, that a goodly chunk are in Democratic Party run cities seeing lots of violence

First-time gun buyers are fueled by fears over the pandemic, the economy, and nationwide protests

Michael Braunlin bought his first gun in March, as fears of the coronavirus pandemic were taking hold in the US.

“A lot of it was around not knowing what was happening and not having a lot of assurance from my government that we were going to be kept safe and protected,” Braunlin told Business Insider Today.

During a record-breaking year of firearm background checks across the country, he wasn’t the only one to make that decision.

“As I was watching more and more people panic-buy, I said, OK, I think I need to be purchasing a firearm just in case something happens,” Braunlin said.

So far in 2020, gun background checks have already reached monthly all-time highs twice.

In March, the FBI conducted 3.7 million checks — the most since the bureau started keeping track in 1998.

Remember, people were scared as to what was going to happen, and concerned with Government slapping this restriction and that restriction on citizens without any Constitutional, state or federal, considerations.  Nobody really knew how bad it could get, but we had seen the obliteration of Italy, right?

Then in June, that record was broken with 3.9 million. All four weeks of the month made the list of top 10 weeks with the most firearm background checks ever.

And people were seeing the violence in the streets from the BLM/Antifa folks, along with lots and lots of young, white Democratic Party voters who self-style themselves as revolutionaries but have nothing better to do with the schools closed, missing their classes to obtain a worthless degree with $75k in student loans debt. Plus, seeing that Democratic Party mayors and governors were not only doing nothing, but, often enticing the rioters, as the Credentialed Media did the same.

Combine that with all the Dem calls to defund the police.

The biggest surge of recent sales here has been with handguns and shotguns — not for hunting, but for self-protection.

“I don’t feel safe right now, so I need to make sure I’m safe,” customer Victoria Legato said.

“People are scouring,” Randy Quick, another customer, added. “They’re emptying the shelves, you know? So it’s a different time.”

Again, how many are Dem voters who were always anti-private gun ownership and scoffed at the notion of someone, especially a woman, having a gun for protection?

But these shops aren’t free of their critics — especially from groups that advocate against gun violence.

“They care about sales, not about the people who own those guns,” Kris Brown, president of the nonprofit Brady: United Against Gun Violence, told Business Insider Today. “And I’m concerned that the rush to buy guns is going to increase fatalities and injuries of the very people that the gun owners are seeking to protect.”

Yeah, let these people go live in Seattle, Portland, NYC, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Oakland, Detroit, and even Kenosha. See what they feel about the chance of violence.

“I do feel I have to be, like, extra responsible because I am a person of color,” Braunlin said. “I’ve actually started researching what to do if the police stop you. And I have to think about the prejudice of other people. You know, I can’t control it.”

As someone whose own perspective on guns has shifted since buying one, he says that there’s nuance behind it all.

“I come from a very liberal family and I would consider myself pretty liberal,” Braunlin said. “Now being a gun owner, I’m like, OK, I get it. If they did away with the Second Amendment tomorrow, I’d be like, no, you can’t take my gun. I’m sorry, no.”

Welcome to the club, pal! Your fellow 2nd Amendment supporters do not care about your skin color in the least. See you at the range!

One stat I’d love to see is how many concealed carry permits have been applied for, especially in Dem run areas.

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Bummer: California May Allow Gas Power Plants To Continue

By William Teach August 26, 2020 – 4:20 pm

I’m shocked. I thought that solar and wind could provide all they needed

The lights went out. Now California might let these gas plants stay open

State officials are poised to decide whether four gas-fired power plants along the Southern California coast should keep running past 2020, in the first major energy decision for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration after this month’s blackouts.

The aging, inefficient facilities are being required to close under a policy meant to end the environmentally damaging use of ocean water for power plant cooling. But energy regulators have been pushing since last year to delay the retirement deadlines, warning that insufficient power supplies could cause Californians to lose electricity on hot summer evenings — the exact situation millions of people found themselves in during two evenings of brief rotating outages.

Even before the blackouts Aug. 14 and 15, the debate over how and when to close the coastal gas plants offered a preview of challenges California will increasingly face as it accelerates its transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.

This could have been avoided had California allowed nuclear power plants. Too late for that now. Let California suffer. Maybe the hardcore leftist Cult of Climastrology members reap what they sow.

Meanwhile in the People’s Republic Of California, wildfires are apparently the new normal

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