Boston Looks Towards It’s Own Green New Deal

By William Teach August 24, 2020 – 8:12 am

Personally, I think they should implement it, because every experiment needs an experimental group

What to know about Michelle Wu’s ‘Green New Deal & Just Recovery’ for Boston

Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu recently laid out a vision to bring the sweeping call for a Green New Deal heralded by Washington lawmakers to Boston through a tailored, detailed-oriented slate of potential policies.

The city councilor-at-large put forth “Planning for a Boston Green New Deal & Just Recovery,” a 49-page report geared towards combatting the ramifications of climate change and its intersecting issues, ranging from affordable housing and economic opportunity to transportation and racial justice.

Wu’s report also highlights a need to eliminate the disparities exacerbated by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which have hit low-income residents and communities of color disproportionately harder than others — the same areas that will bear the brunt of climate-induced problems. The city must have a recovery plan that prioritizes equity, the document says.

I’m getting the idea that this isn’t really about the climate, but, left wing Modern Socialist priorities.

“This is most fundamentally about the fact that no particular policy program or office or individual can do this,” Wu said Wednesday, while introducing the initiative in a virtual council meeting. “It’s really about a mass public conversation and community mobilization and prioritization of what projects should happen, where, when, what the details are.”

It’s most fundementally about slapping massive restrictions on citizens and private entities, whether they want it or not. Some people are dumb enough/brainwashed enough to give up their freedom

In the report, the Roslindale councilor makes a renewed plea for officials to meet the urgency of the matter at hand. Boston could see as many as 40 days with temperatures above 90 degrees per year by 2030, and as many of those days as an entire summer by 2070. Fifty years from now, sea level rise could hit over three feet, and over seven feet by 2100.

None of those things will happen, but, this is presented to scare people.

“As Boston faces the most dire public health emergency in a generation, we’ve seen the scale of collective action possible when mobilizing for a crisis … Unlike the sudden shock of coronavirus, climate change and systemic inequities are slow, relentless crises,” the report reads.

Da, Comrade, collective.

Wu’s report says Boston must accelerate its decarbonization efforts, adding that eliminating carbon emissions is “the baseline for protecting against the most destructive impacts of climate change.”

With that, the proposal offers the city should reach total carbon neutrality — meaning sources have no net emissions because emissions are balanced with other efforts to remove carbon, like planting trees — by 2040, a decade earlier than the goal set by the city’s current Climate Plan, updated by Mayor Marty Walsh in October.

Furthermore, Wu says the city should have 100 percent sustainable electricity by 2035 and net-zero municipal buildings by 2024.

OK, here are some policy recommendations for them if they really want go carbon neutral

  • Get rid of Logan International Airport. No flights in or out
  • No sports teams are allowed to take fossil fueled trips to play the Bruins, Red Sox, or Celtics, or any of the college teams
  • All city vehicles must be replaced with non-fossil fueled ones
  • All city buildings must be kept no lower than 78 when it’s warm an 63 when it’s cold.
  • All city buildings can only use renewables.
  • All elected city officials are restricted from using any form of fossil fueled travel.

Just a few ideas, seem reasonable, right?

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Trump Releases 2nd Term Agenda Ahead Of GOP Convention

By William Teach August 24, 2020 – 7:49 am

Weird. It doesn’t include things like bowing to China and Iran, defunding the police, reparations, calling everyone a racist, raising taxes, restricting people’s energy choices, and locking down the economy while making everyone wear a mask. Nor is it doom and gloom

Right now, they are all bullet points, with the headers

  • Jobs
  • ERADICATE COVID-19
  • End our reliance on China
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Drain the swamp
  • Defend our police
  • End illegal immigration and protect American workers
  • Innovate for the future
  • America First foreign policy.

Compare that to the hate America and gloomy DNC agenda. Compare that to the Democrats being all about running people’s lives and making them dependent on the government. It’s fun that Trump is attempting to hijack the Democrats reliance on education and healthcare. Trump wants to teach American exceptionalism and offer more school choice (granted, education should be more at the state and local level of control). On healthcare, he wants to lower drug prices, end surprise billing, and cover pre-existing conditions, among others. What he doesn’t want is to put the Government in charge of your health insurance and care, like the Democrats.

Draining the swamp, 2 of the 4 points are Passing Congressional Term Limits and Ending Bureaucratic Government Bullying of U.S. Citizens and Small Businesses. Think those won’t resonate with voters?

He even wants to Partner with Other Nations to Clean Up our Planet’s Oceans, which shouldn’t be a bipartisan thing, but, of course, Democrats want to simply control your behavior by force of law to do things like this. But, at the end of the day, the two biggest things will be COVID19 and Jobs

  • Create 10 Million New Jobs in 10 Months
  • Create 1 Million New Small Businesses
  • Cut Taxes to Boost Take-Home Pay and Keep Jobs in America
  • Enact Fair Trade Deals that Protect American Jobs
  • “Made in America” Tax Credits
  • Expand Opportunity Zones
  • Continue Deregulatory Agenda for Energy Independence

Compare that with Joe’s sorta Jobs plan of race baiting, clamping down on the economy until COVID19 is gone, giving money to states and municipalities so government workers won’t be laid off, bring back manufacturing for the unions, “green jobs” (say, what happened to all those under Obama’s Stimulus, which Biden was tasked with administering?), government sponsored child care, $15 minimum wage (which will destroy jobs, especially part time), and, of course, racial fear-mongering/patronizing. I love this part

And, Biden will immediately put people to work by enlisting them to help fight the pandemic, including through a Public Health Jobs Corps.

Would these be temporary jobs, or simply become permanent, unionized, impossible to get rid of jobs that don’t really do anything?

Anyhow, you remember that Lindsay Graham was not a big Trump fan prior to the election. He’s now making the case that people should be voting for Donald Trump, not against Handsy Joe Biden. And, it is a strong case

In picking conservative judges, President Trump has nominated, and the Senate has confirmed, over 200 district and circuit court judges, along with two incredibly talented Supreme Court justices.

If you don’t think that is a major thing, just imagine Handsy Joe picking extreme left wing judges and most like at least one Supreme Court Justice.

He has delivered on long-sought-after criminal justice reform, paving the way for mostly young African American and Latino men to be released from long jail sentences for nonviolent offenses so they can return to the workforce. This is a major bipartisan achievement, long sought by many presidents, that became a reality on President Trump’s watch.

Where was Joe during the last 40 years or so of him being in office in doing things like this?

President Trump has cut taxes and massively deregulated the economy so it can grow and breathe.

The number one issue is always people’s pocketbooks. During the RNC people will hear a message of positivity, love of America, and belief in the people, wanting to elevate them, not control them.

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You Can Fight The Climate Crisis (scam) With You Undies Or Something

By William Teach August 23, 2020 – 8:45 pm

Everyone must comply, Comrades

Fight Climate Change With Your Undies — A Hang Drying Manifesto

Hang drying clothes is a simple practice that holds nothing short of immense power and pollution-saving potential. This most humdrumiest of daily chores, in which we simply hang damp clothes over a line or rack and wait for the sun or air to dry them, has the potential to match the herculean efforts of the entire power sector — from its bulldozers, dump trucks, and train cars to its conveyor belts, thousand-degree boilers, massive cooling towers, and overhead power lines.

Yes, line drying is one ace in the hole for a species that needs every single effort to get itself out of a warming-world, 11th hour predicament. It’s a proverbial slingshot stone as we nervously stare down Carbon Goliath. Hanging laundry ranks at the top of the list of life choices we small folk can make for its ease and extraordinary, pollution-eliminating effects.

We could probably discuss how the article goes into a massive climawhine over the use of clothes dryers, but, why bother? These people really do want to kill off so much of the modern world, because their cult demands it. And you just know that the majority who push this do not practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 23, 2020 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on the Dems featuring a convicted murderer and kidnapper.

It’s beer week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 23, 2020 – 10:05 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and the Dodgers are kicking butt. This pinup is by Tanja Doronina, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers notes Antfia animals throwing feces filled balloons at police
  2. Watcher of Weasels says there’s a reason Netflix is sexualizing young girls
  3. Vox Popoli notes immigrants are trying to axe everything British
  4. Virtual Mirage discusses the Great Normal Shark
  5. Victory Girls Blog covers Handsy Joe saying he won’t defund the police
  6. The Right Scoop highlights the massive brawl in Portland’s streets (where were the police?)
  7. The Other McCain notes that crazy (leftist) people are dangerous
  8. The Last Tradition covers Biden promising to destroy the economy with a 2nd shutdown
  9. The First Street Journal notes the left seeing all landlords as Rich
  10. Raised On Hoecakes covers when virtual schooling turns into child neglect
  11. Powerline notes a “Unity” event cancelled due to threats of violence
  12. Pacific Pundit highlights the Democrat who stole a 7 year old’s Trump hat being arrested
  13. NoisyRoom.net discusses Woke Capitalism
  14. Moonbattery covers a Sumter mayoral candidate arrested for a race hate hoax
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection notes BLM/Antifa mob terrorizing residential neighborhoods

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Michigan Appeals Court Backs Gov. Whitmer Over Actual Law On Emergency Powers

By William Teach August 23, 2020 – 8:35 am

How do you get authoritarian government? This is how

Michigan appeals court backs Whitmer’s use of emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic

A Michigan appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, finding that her emergency declarations and orders in response to the coronavirus were legal.

Whitmer implemented strict lockdown measures during the crisis, and has since extended the state of emergency to keep gyms and movie theaters closed. Masks are required in many parts of the state.

Republicans in the state’s Legislature argued that she had overstepped her authority, and can unilaterally extend emergencies only if they are local, not statewide, under the 1945 Emergency Powers of the Governor Act (EPGA). They said a separate 1976 law means statewide emergencies need the Legislature’s approval after 28 days.

The appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, however, upheld a lower court’s ruling that the moves were within her power.

“A declared statewide emergency only ends upon the governor’s declaration that the emergency no longer exists. That has yet to occur in the instant case,” the ruling said.

The ruling stands squarely in opposition to the actual laws, and simply gives Whitmer the ability to just continue her repressive, semi-authoritarian decrees. When is the so-called emergency over? What terms and/or conditions end it? She hasn’t really said. Remember, initially the lockdowns were all about keeping the emergency rooms and hospitals from being overrun. Now it’s….what? Open ended till she unilaterally decides that the peasants can go back to their lives?

Republicans have promised to appeal, arguing the court got it wrong.

“The Court of Appeals ruled today that as long as it’s the opinion of a sitting governor that there’s an emergency, they can take over complete, unilateral control of the state for as long as he or she decides. No checks on power. No separation of power,” Speaker Lee Chatfield said. “This is unconstitutional.”

The legislature passes laws. The executive implements/enforces those laws. The judiciary rules whether those laws are constitutional. Now the judiciary is deciding to ignore the laws passed. Whitmer has signed 170 executive orders this year, after just 19 in 2019. Not all of them are about Coronavirus, but most are. Now, imagine this was Donald Trump ignoring the law and just issuing restrictive EOs. How would Democrats and their pet media respond? Heck, do you think freedom loving Republicans would be listening to him, or blasting him, similar to the way Republicans blasted George W. Bush when he attempted that “pathway to citizenship”, ie, amnesty, for illegal aliens? He’d lost my potential vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey also said this week that a group was trying to gather 340,000 signatures to repeal the 1945 law.

If they get the signatures, the Legislature can pass a bill to repeal it, and Whitmer is unable to veto. Shirkey said they currently have more than 200,000.

If Michigan can’t produce 300k signatures, they’re lost as a state.

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Excitable AOC Uses Double Tropical System To Push Her Green New Deal

By William Teach August 22, 2020 – 6:37 pm

You remember the Green New Deal, right? It was the one which AOC’s chief of staff said wasn’t even about climate change

This would be the same GND that has been around since February 2019, and has not been voted on in the House. I can’t even find any discussion on it in committee. Nor has AOC demanded a vote on it. And, remember, she pitched a fit when it was voted on in the GOP controlled Senate, where every Democrat voted present, including the Senate sponsor, Ed Markey. Heck, she even forgot that Markey sponsored it, wondering why they were voting on HER bill introduced in the House. She also can’t explain how her GND would stop tropical systems. Unless forcing Everyone Else to take the train (you don’t think she takes the train, right? Nothing so plebeian for her, she surely flies first class).

Meanwhile, the Earth will soon be above 130F all the time

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 22, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on why Democrats won’t discuss policy.

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Hot Take: Putin Will Be On The Ballot This Fall

By William Teach August 22, 2020 – 10:30 am

Not only can Democrats not let the bad meme go, they are attempting to set the terms to Blamestorm if Trump wins, so they can caterwaul about Trump cheating for 4 more years

When you mark your ballot this year, Vladimir Putin will be on it

Vladimir Putin is on the ballot this November.

You won’t see his name or watch his ads. But make no mistake, Putin has a lot riding on this election and he’s counting on your vote.

What will a vote for Putin mean?

First, Putin is looking to reshape the world order in a way that benefits Moscow, builds his personal power and establishes him as the world’s toughest leader capable of outrageous cunning, manipulation and disruption.

A successful outcome — meaning President Donald Trump is reelected — means his Russia will be able to wantonly throw its weight around globally. He will assertively create unseen but ever-present fear and dependence in neighboring nations including Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic states and Georgia. Russia’s renewed and enhanced influence also will be felt in countries farther away and immediately affected by America’s acquiescence to Putin’s newfound power. Countries such as Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

It was horrible how Trump allowed Putin to just walk into Crimea and take it over, eh? And how about when he ceded the Syrian conflict to be controlled by Russia by blowing off the red lines Trump set? Then there was that whole thing where the State Department sold U.S. ownership of uranium to Russia

Not so with Russia or Putin. The two parties diverge dramatically. Somehow, a party that was once the most vocal, moral and aggressively determined to counter Moscow has now embraced Putin and his posse. What happened?

Putin is on this year’s ballot, so think twice before marking mail-in ballots or donning masks to go pull a lever. The vote you cast counts in both Moscow and the world.

See, if you vote Trump, you vote Putin! Can someone explain what, exactly, Obama/Biden did to push back at Putin in their 8 years? Not much. Lots of words, little action. A guy like Putin respects strength, not cutesy speeches. Consider

Trump has placed more sanctions on Russia in 18 months than Obama did in eight years.

And 

Finally, Trump has taken decisive action to unleash an instrument of American power that Putin fears the most: U.S. energy. I’ll never forget a meeting I attended with Sen. John McCain and a prominent Russian dissident, who told us that the No. 1 thing the United States could do to undermine Putin was to “produce more American energy.”

There’s quite a bit more in that opinion piece by Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, worth the read. Let’s consider that while Obama was dithering, EU nations, especially eastern ones, were looking more and more towards Russia for fossil fuels, especially natural gas. Poland in particular, since Obama pissed them off early by refusing to help with missile defense. Dan ends his piece with “Facts are stubborn things, and when it comes to Russia and Vladimir Putin, actions speak louder than words.” But, don’t expect the Credentialed Media to let you know the facts.

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Handsy Joe Calls ‘Climate Change’ (scam) One Of America’s Four Major Crisis

By William Teach August 22, 2020 – 7:28 am

Joe is willing to force a shutdown of the economy if the “scientists” tell him to. Perhaps he could tell all his supporters to stop using fossil fuels and practice what they preach

Biden calls climate change one of America’s four major crises

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden listed climate change among the major crises facing America as he seeks to rally Democrats heading toward the November election.

“History has delivered us to one of the most difficult moments America has ever faced. Four historic crises. All at the same time. A perfect storm,” Biden said when accepting the Democratic nomination late Thursday.

“The worst pandemic in over 100 years. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The most compelling call for racial justice since the ’60s. And the undeniable realities and accelerating threats of climate change.”

Biden’s comments at the Democratic National Convention come after environmental groups complained frequently throughout the primary that climate change was getting short shrift from campaigns. Many called for a standalone climate debate as the topic was overshadowed by discussion of health care and the economy.

But, most only care about anthropogenic climate change in theory, not practice. Notice that the Democrats who flamed out quickly from the primaries where those whose campaigns focused mostly on ‘climate change’, most namely Jay Inslee (a governor of a state with executive experience and not losing his mental faculties) and Tom Steyer. Mike Bloomberg was also big on this subject, as was John Hickenlooper (also a governor). Jay, much like Kamala Harris, didn’t even make it too the primaries, withdrawing prior due to such low ratings.

If ‘climate change’ was so important, why did Democrats not care enough to go with the people most “qualified” on the subject? Fortunately, Joe may actually practice what he preaches, namely, not using fossil fuels!

No campaigning, no using fossil fuels!

BTW, this sure seems to be more than just an offhand comment, and could be a continuation of Basement Joe till election day.

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