Woman Kicked Off Airplane For Wearing Inappropriate Mask, Plays The Victim

By William Teach August 6, 2020 – 10:30 am

What is it with people who wear apparel that have highly inappropriate messages out in public? Then they get upset when someone calls them out, and they play the Victim

A Florida woman was kicked off American Airlines flight for wearing a ‘F— 12’ face mask

A South Florida activist was ejected from an American Airlines flight last week for wearing an anti-law enforcement face mask.

Arlinda Johns boarded the plane to Illinois when she was asked to cover her face mask that said “F— 12”, Miami’s WPLG reported. The number “12” refers to police departments.

Johns told the outlet she was an abolitionist and believes in defunding the police. After she was confronted, she told the outlet she abided by the airline’s rules and put on a new mask.

The plane was about to take off when a stewardess walked up to Johns in her seat and said, “‘I better not see that other mask,'” Johns told WPLG.

Right, right, I’m sure the flight attendant said that.

Minutes later, the plane returned to the boarding gate and airport officers escorted Johns off the aircraft, WPLG reported.

Johns reportedly recorded the incident and told the outlet, “I think I got taken off the plane because I’m Black.”

Victimhoodology!

However, the airline said in a statement to Insider that Johns “refused to follow crew member instructions to remove or cover a face mask with offensive language.”

“Although [Johns] initially complied, [she] later continued to display the inappropriate language,” the airline said in a statement. “After arriving at the gate, the passenger was asked to deplane.”

In other words, she briefly took it off when asked then immediately put it back on. And, she was apparently streaming on Facebook Live, almost like she was expecting a problem, and, she’s playing the Victim, rather than the person who’s walking around an airport and airplane with “Fuck 12”, which means “Fuck The Police”. Local 10 notes

According to its Conditions of Carriage, American Airlines says “offensive clothing” is not allowed.

If you or I work a mask that said Fuck Trump or Fuck Biden, we’d be asked to remove it. If we put it back on, we’d be asked to deplane, then escorted right out of the airport.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Will Soon Kill As Many People As All Infectious Diseases Combined

By William Teach August 6, 2020 – 8:02 am

You just had to have that cheeseburger, didn’t you? And you drove your fossil fueled vehicle to get it, and didn’t even car pool. And you had a big syrupy drink with it. And, so, yeah, the Cult of Climastrology is continuing to use COVID 19 as a platform to pimp their cult

Without Urgent Action, Study Warns, Climate Crisis Could Kill as Many People as All Infectious Diseases Combined by 2100

A new study warns that the annual global death rate from the climate crisis could equal or even exceed current mortality levels from all infectious diseases combined by the end of the century if bold action is not taken.

“We are studying the risk of death faced by our own children,” said University of California public policy professor Solomon Hsiang, one of the report’s co-authors. “Today’s 10-year-old fifth grader will turn 65 in 2075, facing mortality risks from climate change every year of their retirement. Failing to address climate change is not that different from driving your kids around without a seat belt: you are putting their lives at risk.” (tweet to the Berkeley article was embedded)

The study, “Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits,” was published in the National Bureau of Economic Research on Monday.

According to Climate Impact Lab, which produced the report, the study “finds that in a world with continued high fossil-fuel emissions, warmer temperatures will rank among the world’s most significant public health threats by the end of the century.”

What they’re claiming is

The study, prepared by the Climate Impact Lab, reported that as greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere continue to escalate, rising temperatures in the decades ahead could raise annual global mortality rates by 73 deaths per 100,000 people. By comparison, the current death rate for all infectious diseases — including malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, plus diseases transmitted by ticks, mosquitos and parasites — is about 74 deaths per 100,000 people globally.

Uh huh. Sure. Right. More scaremongering.

The working paper was published Monday, August 3 by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Climate Impact Lab is a multi-disciplinary consortium that includes scholars from the University of Chicago, Rutgers University, Berkeley and the Rhodium Group, based in Oakland, California; the lab includes a number of Berkeley faculty and graduates, with Hsiang serving as co-director.

A bunch of folks engaged in prognostication, who won’t be held accountable when this fails to come to pass in 80 years

Trevor Houser, a partner at analyst firm Rhodium Group and another report co-author, sounded a hopeful note, saying that if nations take decisive action now to combat the climate crisis, there’s hope that the dire predictions in the study won’t come to pass.

“The world can still change course by aggressively reducing emissions, and in doing so has the potential to deliver some of the most significant public health gains in human history,” said Houser.

So, why don’t members of the Cult of Climastrology actually reduce their own carbon footprints? Stop using fossil fuels, give up meat, take 2 minute showers, and so forth?

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Portland Police Chief Finally Says “Enough Is Enough”

By William Teach August 6, 2020 – 7:45 am

But, there might be a reason for this, after 70+ days of violence, and Chief Lovell, who was appointed police chief in early June, has been around for most of it

Portland police chief says riots not helping cause of racial justice: ‘Enough is enough’

Portland, Ore., police Chief Chuck Lovell on Wednesday morning decried violent instigators who he said are marring the message of mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters.

“Portlanders need to send a strong message that enough is enough,” Lovell told reporters at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, according to KGW-TV in Portland. “This is not forwarding the goals that are going to lead to better outcomes for people of color. This movement is really powerful, but the violence has taken away from it. … This is not what Portland is about. This is not what we need in our city.”

Lovell said there have been many large peaceful protests that required no police presence but the smaller offshoot actions — setting fires, breaking windows and throwing objects at police — are taking away from the larger message.

Late Wednesday, Portland police declared a riot and said they believe an explosive device had been left outside a precinct. People were ordered to disperse, and some streets were closed.

RIOTERS VANDALIZE, SET FIRE AT PORTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATION OFFICE: POLICE

Yeah, there was a link to another story in the story about the Portland Police Association being trashed by “protesters” Wednesday. Couldn’t have anything to do with Lovell saying enough is enough, right?

He added that shootings have also spiked since the defunding of the Gun Violence Reduction Team over accusations of racism.

There were 99 shootings in July, up from 35 in July 2019, police said, according to OregonLive.com.

Lovell told reporters he doesn’t believe the team’s actions were racist even though it arrested more Black suspects than anyone else. He said the majority of victims are Black – 66% last month.

The team was defunded, but those officers are still with the PPD in other roles, and still you see an almost 3 times the shootings. What will it be like with the police department fully defunded and replaced with “civilians” and social workers? This is why we have experimental groups

He added that taking police off patrol to cover protests has left fewer officers to respond to emergencies, according to KGW.

You can bet criminals are taking advantage

Downtown protests have become more peaceful since federal officers agreed to leave last week, so some instigators have moved to other police buildings across the city to cause problems.

So now they’re going after Portland PD property, and suddenly the Portland PD cares, unlike with the federal property

Early Wednesday, police had declared a riot and made three arrests after saying demonstrators set fires, erected barricades in a street and broke into the police union headquarters. Police said someone also fired a gun during the unrest and a pickup truck accelerated into the crowd while pushing an unoccupied motorcycle in front of it.

Now that the “protesters” are attacking police property Lovell has now had enough.

As far as the motorcycle goes, perhaps Chief Lovell should get his officers to stop the “protesters” from blocking roads

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Looks Like Joe Biden Will Also Not Attend The DNC

By William Teach August 5, 2020 – 3:02 pm

First, Democrats started floating the notion that there was no need for debates. Then they trotted out Jill Biden to say Joe will definitely be there for the debates, but Joe isn’t saying it. He snapped at a journalist, asking if he was a junkie.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and the rest of the planned convention speakers will not travel to Wisconsin for the quadrennial Democratic National Convention, according to a release from its committee Wednesday, citing health concerns with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“After ongoing consultation with public health officials and experts — who underscored the worsening coronavirus pandemic — the Democratic National Convention Committee announced today speakers for the 2020 Democratic National Convention will no longer travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in order to prevent risking the health of our host community as well as the convention’s production teams, security officials, community partners, media and others necessary to orchestrate the event,” the release said.

Biden, who was scheduled to accept the party’s nomination in the key battleground state on Aug. 20, will now accept the nomination from Delaware.

Will he ever leave Delaware? Will Joe’s speech be live, or pre-recorded? He rarely makes any live speeches or appearances, and we can all see why. Dude is crashing mentally.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 5, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible, climate killing moo cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on a Commie leftist Justice Democrat defeating not looney Rep Lacy Kay in a Democrat primary.

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LA County To Put Defunding Sheriff’s Office On November Ballot

By William Teach August 5, 2020 – 10:30 am

It’ll be very interesting to see how the people of LA County vote. Remember, what people think of as Los Angeles is actually a huge county, going from Long Beach in the south to way, way north, up into the mountains and forests. You have Pomona, Inglewood, Santa Monica, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Palmdale, Santa Clarita, and so many more municipalities, with the city of LA proper right in the middle. Take a look at a map on this. You have everything from extremely rich to extremely poor encompassed

L.A. County Supervisors Vote to Put Defunding Police on November Ballot

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal on Tuesday to amend the city’s charter — which will be presented to voters on November 3 via ballot — to remove $880 million from law enforcement and “reinvest” the money in “direct community investment” and “alternatives to incarceration.”

Titled, “Reimagining L.A. County: Shifting Budget Priorities to Revitalize Under-resourced and Low-income Communities,” the proposal includes language frequently used by Democrat politicians and the broader left. It alleges the existence of “systemic discrimination, exclusion, and inequity” targeting blacks and yielding “racial injustice” and “racial inequity.”

Bill Melugin, an L.A.-based reporter, reported on some of the details via Twitter:

How will the vote go? You know those who are served by the Sheriff’s office will vote against the measure. Those who want that money for themselves will vote for the measure. How involved is the Sheriff’s office with LA County? Not sure about there, but the Sheriff’s office tends to be all around here in NC, even in the bigger cities like Raleigh. Where I grew up in NJ, I didn’t even realize we had sheriff’s. Never saw them. They are there, though.

But, you can bet most people won’t see their own money if it passes. It’ll be used to patronize low income voters to bribe them to vote Democrat. And crime will spike, especially in those low income areas. What’s left of the Sheriff’s department will serve only those areas that are moneyed and/or voted against the measure.

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Say, Does Being Optimistic On Climate Change Make You Pro-Trump?

By William Teach August 5, 2020 – 8:54 am

A little bit of amusing clima-fluff, but, one that hits the mark

Does Optimism on Climate Change Make You Pro-Trump?
Apocalypse Never, a book by iconoclastic environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, triggers polarized responses

My views on climate change—and, more generally, on humanity’s future—have never been stable. Depending on what I’m reading, and perhaps shifts in my neural weather, I ricochet between optimism and dread.

Last spring I was feeling pretty glum about, well, everything when iconoclastic environmental activist Michael Shellenberger sent me a prepublication copy of his book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.

Before I weigh in on the book, some background. Shellenberger is a controversial figure. For years, he has urged his fellow greens to adopt a more optimistic outlook, which he insists is more conducive to activism than fear. His influential 2007 book Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, co-written with his fellow activist Ted Nordhaus, accused environmentalists of being hostile to science, technology and economic progress. (snip)

We need economic and technological development to overcome climate change and other environmental threats, Shellenberger and Nordhaus insisted. People are unlikely to care about polar bears, they pointed out, when they’re worried about feeding their children. Shellenberger and Nordhaus also faulted the environmental movement for being reluctant to acknowledge its successes, as if doing so will foster complacency.

The book annoyed some greens, but I liked its can-do spirit, and I thought my students would too. So, in 2008 I invited Shellenberger and Nordhaus to speak at my school, Stevens Institute of Technology, and I gave them a $5,000 prize that I created, the Green Book Award. (I also gave the award to biologist Edward Wilson, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and climatologist James Hansen before my funding ran out.)

Literally, this is something that many Warmists have argued, that there needs to be less gloom and doom and more positivity. Of course, this is a cult, so, few listen. Furthermore, Shellenberger, like some other Warmists, pushes the use of nuclear energy heavily, which most Warmists are against.

The polarized reactions to Shellenberger remind me of those to John Ioannidis, the Stanford epidemiologist who has warned that our reaction to COVID-19 might be overblown. People judge the claims of Shellenberger and Ioannidis based less on their actual merits than on their perceived political implications. Optimism, whether toward the pandemic or global warming, is viewed as a conservative, pro-Trump position. Now more than ever, political polarization makes it hard to have a rational argument about scientific issues.

It is generally very true, eh? Warmists, and Leftists overall, tend to be miserable people who are all about doom and gloom. They love telling us we’re DOOOOOOMED, right? Unless we tax the hell out of Other People and restrict their lives, freedom, choice, businesses, etc.

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BLM Protesters Go To Seattle Police Chief’s Neighborhood, She Seems A Bit About Them Targeting Personal Residences

By William Teach August 5, 2020 – 8:34 am

Local residents of the neighborhood were not amused (via Twitchy)

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While funny, especially that white “vigilantes”, as they were called, were protecting a black police chief from a black movement, here’s the interesting part

After protests near her home, Seattle police chief asks City Council to intervene; activists say neighbors pointed guns at them

A debate unfolded online Sunday night over whether protests against police brutality should include visits to public officials’ homes — and whether such a discussion distracts from the fight for Black lives — after Seattle police Chief Carmen Best implored the City Council to “forcefully call for the end of these tactics.”

Best wrote a letter to the council Sunday after protesters showed up outside her Snohomish County home Saturday night, the latest in a series of visits the demonstrations have paid to those who hold public power in Seattle, including City Council members and Mayor Jenny Durkan.

Best’s letter said her neighbors “were concerned by such a large group” and didn’t allow protesters to “trespass or engage in other illegal behavior in the area, despite repeated attempts to do so.” She didn’t elaborate on the behavior in question but wrote that the Snohomish County sheriff was “monitoring the situation.”

The letter states

I urge both of you, and the entire council, to stand up for what is right. These direct actions against elected officials, and especially civil servants like myself, are out of line with and go against every democratic principle that guides our nation. Before this devolves into the new way of doing business by mob rule here in Seattle, and across the nation, elected officials like you must forcefully call for the end of these tactics.

Basically, she’s calling on the city council to take a stand against “protestors” who target the personal residences of city officials. See, now that her own residence has been targeted, she’s upset. Chief Best didn’t seem all that concerned when the “protesters” were targeting the businesses and homes of Other People, you know, the peons. She was only mildly concerned over that silly Seattle autonomous zone, which blocked people from their homes and businesses, destroyed property, and even attacked people and businesses.

See, the high and grand poobahs are fine with all this stuff until the protesters personally involve the poobahs. The Lynwood Times notes

In his statement Sheriff Fortney wrote, “The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office has been supportive and accommodating to all peaceful protests that have occurred in our jurisdiction.  With that said, protestors targeting one individual’s house is a bullying tactic that will certainly require an extra patrol response to ensure every resident in Snohomish County can feel safe in their own home, with their loved ones, no matter what they choose to do to make a living.”

Yeah, but it’s not about every resident, it’s about Chief Best. If another resident had been targeted, would there be an extra patrol? Doubtful.

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SoCalGas Sues California Over Hotcoldwetdry Rules

By William Teach August 4, 2020 – 3:00 pm

I still say it would be better if the fossil fuels companies refused to sell their product to the governments that give them issues, but, hey, this is a start

California sued over climate change policy — by the nation’s biggest gas utility

Southern California Gas Co. is taking its battle with state officials over climate change policy to court, arguing in a new lawsuit that the California Energy Commission has failed to promote natural gas as required by state law.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Orange County Superior Court, is the latest attempt by SoCalGas to shield itself against efforts to phase out gas, a planet-warming fossil fuel used for heating, cooking and power generation. The company, which maintains its headquarters in Los Angeles and is owned by Sempra Energy of San Diego, took in $4.5 billion in operating revenue last year.

A separate lawsuit was filed last week against the state’s Air Resources Board by the California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition, whose two “charter members” are SoCalGas and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., which joined the gas company in its lawsuit against the Energy Commission. This lawsuit seeks to overturn the newly approved “advanced clean trucks” rule, which is aimed at putting 300,000 zero-emission trucks on the road by 2035.

The legal actions are part of a growing effort by leading players in the natural gas industry to defend themselves as public support increases for aggressive policies to wind down the burning of fossil fuels, not just in California but across the country. (snip)

The lawsuit claims state officials are flouting a law requiring them to consider the role gas might play in reducing emissions.

In 2013, lawmakers overwhelmingly approved Assembly Bill 1257, known as the Natural Gas Act. The bill, which was signed into law by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, required the Energy Commission to “identify strategies to maximize the benefits obtained from natural gas as an energy source” every four years.

This lawsuit has a lot better chance than the ones against the fossil fueled companies filed by states and municipalities. They also serve almost 22 million Californians in southern CA.

Also joining the lawsuit were three chapters of the Utility Workers Union of America, collectively representing over 4,000 SoCalGas employees.

“Is the position we take in this lawsuit a defense of the jobs, of the work our members, and allied union workers in the pipe trades, building and construction trades, manufacturing and services do every day? You bet,” the presidents of UWUA Locals 132, 483 and 522 said in a written statement.

This should be a fun one to watch.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible carbon pollution clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post wondering just how the elderly are supposed to defend themselves.

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