LA Times: Biden Should Totally Not Play Trump’s Game And Release Supreme Court Picks List

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

This should be good!

Opinion: Trump released another gimmicky Supreme Court ‘list’; Biden shouldn’t follow suit

Amid an uproar over interviews with Bob Woodward in which President Trump admitted to downplaying the coronavirus, on Wednesday the president sought (unsuccessfully) to shift public attention to something else: the future of the Supreme Court, which he said was threatened by a possible victory by Joe Biden.

Trump released yet another list of potential Supreme Court appointees — including prominent legal conservatives such as former Solicitor General Paul Clement along with three Republican U.S. senators: Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley. (Hawley promptly said that he wasn’t interested.)

Trump dared Biden to come up with his own list, so that Americans could “properly make a decision on how they will vote.”

Biden shouldn’t take the bait. He already has committed to naming a black woman to the high court and said in June that he wouldn’t release the names of candidates in that category “until we go further down the line in vetting them” — but it wasn’t clear whether he would disclose such names before the election.

Biden is under no obligation to dangle a list of names before the voters and subject the lawyers and judges on the list to partisan attacks.

And suppose Biden did commit himself to naming justices from a list. He’d be hamstringing himself if a vacancy occurred in his administration and a new candidate emerged — say, Barack Obama, who in the past has said that a seat on the court would be “a little bit too monastic for me.” (Biden has said that he would appoint Obama to the court “if he’d take it.”)

This continues on for a while, and, really, Biden is under no obligation. More importantly, releasing a list would show just how extreme Biden and the Democratic Party have become. If Joe’s list isn’t extreme enough, he’ll be excoriated by the Dem base. If it is extreme enough, Biden will show how extreme he is.

Next up will be media folks telling that Biden is under no obligation to release medical records.

That said, the “no obligation” thing is interesting: Trump is under no obligation to release any tax records. The Constitution doesn’t require that. Yet, Democrats still want them.

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Climate Cultists Push New Talking Points: Disaster Amplification

By William Teach September 11, 2020 – 7:55 am

Yes, the new growing point seems to be “yes, these types of things, such as wildfires and tropical storms and rain and snow and stuff have always happened, but, they’re worse now”, and now the NY Times has noticed (and runs this as their banner story, with some small ones on 9/11 further down the page)

A Climate Reckoning in Fire-Stricken California

Multiple mega fires burning more than three million acres. Millions of residents smothered in toxic air. Rolling blackouts and triple-digit heat waves. Climate change, in the words of one scientist, is smacking California in the face.

The crisis in the nation’s most populous state is more than just an accumulation of individual catastrophes. It is also an example of something climate experts have long worried about, but which few expected to see so soon: a cascade effect, in which a series of disasters overlap, triggering or amplifying each other. (snip)

California’s simultaneous crises illustrate how the ripple effect works. A scorching summer led to dry conditions never before experienced. That aridity helped make the season’s wildfires the biggest ever recorded. Six of the 20 largest wildfires in modern California history have occurred this year.

If climate change was a somewhat abstract notion a decade ago, today it is all too real for Californians. The intensely hot wildfires are not only chasing thousands of people from their homes but causing dangerous chemicals to leach into drinking water. Excessive heat warnings and suffocating smoky air have threatened the health of people already struggling during the pandemic. And the threat of more wildfires has led insurance companies to cancel homeowner policies and the state’s main utility to shut off power to tens of thousands of people pre-emptively.

Let’s see: California has always had very dry areas, because of the geography. They build more and more within areas that are dry and near areas where the state blocks anyone from clearing out the dead brush. Then a fire is started by a poorly maintained power line or idiots using pyrotechnics for a gender reveal party. Then there isn’t enough power because they rely on stuff that only works during certain times. But, see, this is their new talking point, a new and inventive way to Blame Every Event on mankind. Well, on Other People

Climate scientists say the mechanism driving the wildfire crisis is straightforward: Human behavior, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, has released greenhouse gases that increase temperatures, desiccating forests and priming them to burn.

Yet, these same climate scientists, and all the rest of the climate cultists, refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels. Weird, right?

Oh, and see, the thing is that California weather monitoring stations show that it was actually warmer in the earlier part of last century. Most during the 1930’s, one during the 1910’s, and one during the 1950’s (which is interesting, as that was the start of a slight cooling). Of course, none of these facts matter to climate cultists, as they have Narratives

This summer millions of Californians’ homes went dark for an hour or more as the smothering summer heat threatened to overload the grid.

Strangely, we didn’t have that problem in North Carolina, nor did we hear anything on down to Florida nor out to Texas, which always have heat. Heck, even the United Kingdom, which had a warmer than average summer (you know how averages are created), didn’t have the same power problems, even as they rely more and more on “renewables”. Must be amplification for California, eh? Over-reliance on solar and wind followed by Summer weather combined with mismanagement (to be charitable) by Government while building more and more in areas which are in danger zones.

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Democrats Stop GOP Senate COVID Aid Bill Using Procedure They Want To Abolish

By William Teach September 11, 2020 – 7:20 am

Oh, and they shot down a COVID19 aid bill

Senate Democrats block GOP relief bill

Senate Democrats blocked a GOP coronavirus bill on Thursday amid a deep stalemate over the next relief package.

Senators voted 52-47 on the roughly $500 billion Republican bill, which marked the first coronavirus-related legislation the chamber has voted on since it passed a $484 billion package in April.

The vote handed a symbolic victory to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who spent weeks haggling with Republicans and the White House over the contours of the pared-down GOP bill as he sought to overcome deep divisions over the path forward.

GOP leadership worked behind the scenes to lock down 51 votes, a U-turn from last month when McConnell predicted that up to 20 GOP senators wouldn’t vote for any additional legislation. GOP Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) was the only Republican to vote against the bill on Thursday.

But it failed to get the 60 votes needed to overcome Thursday’s procedural hurdle as congressional Democratic leadership and the White House remain at a standoff over a fifth coronavirus package.

Democrats keep saying they will get rid of the filibuster if they win back the Senate, which is a procedural move to protect the Senate from being simply mob rule, protect the rights of the minority party. Better yet, let’s get rid of the 17th Amendment

McConnell called Schumer’s strategy on the coronavirus bill “toxic,” after the Democratic leader told reporters that Republicans were the “enemy of the good.”

“Senators who share the Democratic leader’s toxic attitude, who think the real enemy are their political opponents, I assume will follow his lead and vote no. They can tell American families they care more about politics than helping them,” McConnell added.

Of course, Excitable Chuck Schumer has a different take

“It is laden with poison pills. Provisions our colleagues know Democrats would never support to guarantee the bill’s failure. The truth of the matter is the Republicans and the Republican leader don’t want to pass a bill too many on the hard right in the Senate and outside it would be angry” with, Schumer said.

Poison pills, eh? Like the Democrats giant $2-$3 trillion House bill, which funds all sorts of far left priorities? Strange that he didn’t list them, nor did any reporter do their job and ask. CNN explains what is in the skinny bill, and can’t find much fault, which pretty much leaves most of the unrelated stuff and porky stuff out of it. Could it do a bit more? Sure. You know what the Democrats could do? Ask for something like $1,200 checks to be put in. We don’t have to do the Big Frigging Bill every time. We could pass this one and then pass one with the $1,200 checks.

Just remember, elected Democrats don’t want to help you unless it benefits them politically and funds their crazy wishes.

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9/11 At Nineteen: Remembering The Lost

By William Teach September 11, 2020 – 7:02 am

As I have done every year since the 5th anniversary of September 11th, I remember two wonderful individuals, Brook Jackman and Andrew Golkin, who I’ll never have a possible chance to meet and converse with, due to 19 murderous Islamist terrorists and their superiors, who attacked our country on that fateful day.

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Climate Cultists Call For Taxing Flyers, Banning SUVs

By William Teach September 10, 2020 – 3:37 pm

Have you ever noticed that most of the solutions offered by climate cultists involved taxing Other People and limiting people’s freedom and choice?

Climate change: Tax frequent fliers and get rid of SUVs, government told

A frequent flyer tax, phasing out polluting SUVs and restricting cars in city centres are among climate change solutions suggested by members of the public.

A citizens’ assembly of 108 people from all walks of life published its report after weeks of debate.

They proposed curbing road building and using the pandemic to cut emissions.

MPs said the report offered a “unique insight”, but activists Extinction Rebellion said it didn’t go far enough.

The report says the government must show leadership on climate change and insists climate policies must be fair to all – especially the poorest in society. (snip)

The members said it was “imperative that there is strong and clear leadership from government” to tackle climate change.

Oh, and don’t forget giving government more and more power. And people have been brainwashed enough to keep voting for the people who enable this, right up to they say “wait, this applies to me? No, it was only supposed to be Other People who paid the price.” One of the other things they recommended?

People should repair goods and share more, instead of owning all their appliances

So, who owns them? The government?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 10, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is summer snow due to Other People’s carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on Quebec saying it will isolate uncooperative citizens in a secret corona facility.

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Illegal Alien Loving Gretchen “Il Duce” Whitmer Suddenly Decides That Walls Work

By William Teach September 10, 2020 – 10:30 am

Of all the governors during lockdown, Gretchen Whitmer was certainly the most authoritarian. She also is a big supporter of illegal immigration and a hater of the border wall. But

Anti-Border Fence Mich. Gov. Whitmer Building 8-Foot High, Electrified Fence Around Governor’s Residence

Despite her vocal opposition to building border walls to keep Americans safe from illegal immigration, Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is having an eight-foot high, electrified fence built around her official residence to keep out unwanted visitors.

The fence is just one part of a $1.1 million, taxpayer-funded security upgrade to the governor’s residence, The Detroit Free Press reports:

In recent weeks, crews have been working to build what appears to be an eight-foot-tall fence around the governor’s residence property. Last week, a sign on the site where crews were on the job warned, “Danger. High voltage. Unauthorized persons keep out.”

Exactly why does the governor’s mansion need to be electrified? And, if she can do it, why can’t we do it on the border? Further, is it electrified in order to stop the “protesters” who may jump the wall?

As The Washington Free Beacon notes, Gov. Whitmer has called the construction of barriers on the U.S. borders too costly and ineffective:

Whitmer, a Biden surrogate, has attacked the idea of using barriers to prevent illegal immigration. She called President Donald Trump’s border wall “costly and ineffective” in February 2017, nearly a week after suggesting that money for the wall would be better spent elsewhere.

Walls are cool when they protect her.

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Newsweek Wonders Why The Climate Cult Is So Darned White

By William Teach September 10, 2020 – 8:11 am

It’s pretty much because it’s fashionable to be a climate cultists among 1st World middle and upper class folks, particularly in Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Who are mostly the hardcore Modern Socialists, and ones with not much else to really be concerned with. This became a big issue after the end of the Cold War where some had to find an issue to use to control people and increase government power. Those who were supporters of the USSR moved into the extreme environmental movement, which morphed into the Climate Cult. Anyhow, reasons, mostly having to do with it being fashionable among mostly white leftists with no other real concerns

Why is the Climate Change Movement so White?

Climate change campaigners from ethnic minority backgrounds have warned that the movement is too white and middle class and erases the contributions of people of color in fighting climate injustice.

It comes as global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) restarted large scale protests in the U.K., vowing to target the Houses of Parliament as well as other “key institutions of power” in a bid to raise awareness of the climate emergency.

A University of Michigan study found that the “current state of racial diversity in environmental organizations is troubling” in the U.S. with minorities employed as staff or on the boards of the organizations not exceeding 16 percent.*

In the U.S., people of color live with 66 percent more air pollution while in the U.K. ethnic minority and disadvantaged communities have also been found to be hardest hit because of differences is socio-economic prosperity.

So, is it that Cult of Climastrology groups are not hiring minorities (BTW, the do know that these people are not minorities in many parts of the world, right? Seems like a rather patronizing term) on purpose, preferring to hire white people, or do the non-whites just not give a crap about working for these CoC groups? Kinda like how most non-whites do not care about being a part of the CoC.

Climate justice campaigners like Suzanne Dhaliwal, director and co-founder of the U.K. Tar Sands Network, campaigning against U.K. corporations and financial institutions invested in the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada, says the historical contributions of grassroots movements and people of color are being rewritten by groups such as XR.

“XR are a PR brand,” Dhaliwal told Newsweek. “The way they have told the history of climate change and the way the media reports it, it’s as though Greta Thunberg invented climate change, erasing all of those of us who did the work are pushing corporations, banks, climate literacy that’s been just washed out by them.”

She says that the history of the climate justice movement has a legacy with a rich history of fighting for land sovereignty, against the devastation of territory and the patriarchy and the contributions of marginalized groups are overlooked.

OK, so, XR and the cult of St. Greta are raaaaacist, and, what does climate have to do with land sovereignty and patriarchy and stuff?

“Media reporting only reports on white middle-class folks, it doesn’t report on those of us who have been leading on the front line of the crisis,” she said.

Oh, good, the media is raaaaacist, too. After a lot of whining about XR we get

A second factor is down to the socio-economic condition people from ethnic minority backgrounds find themselves in.

“Environmental concerns are not as high a priority for black and brown people who are struggling to have their life be as good as it can be. They are not thinking about the long term as much as more privileged white people can.

Exactly. People without that much to really be concerned over have time to manufacture their own crisis’.

“That has held back people from participating or at least worrying about these issues. Even once they do start worrying, they hit institutional barriers among the climate movement by being made to feel like their voice is not being heard.

So, the uber-white climate cultists are holding back People of Color? They’re actually racists? Huh.

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Serial Sexual Assaulter Jacob Blake Has A Powerful Message Or Something

By William Teach September 10, 2020 – 7:50 am

Who is Jacob Blake?

(The Post Millennial) According to this article in USA Today fact-checking Blake’s history, he was “charged July 6 with felony third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct. All three offenses carried a penalty enhancer because they were connected to domestic abuse.”

“The charges — which have not gone to trial — stem from a May 3 incident in Kenosha County. A woman Blake knew told police he came into her house about 6 a.m., sexually assaulted her and then took a debit card and car keys before fleeing in her vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.”

He had been sexually assaulting her for years. But, hey, he’s now a darling of the unhinged left, so we get this from Mother Jones

“Change Y’all Lives Out There”: Watch Jacob Blake’s Powerful Message From His Hospital Bed

It’s been two weeks since Jacob Blake was shot in the back by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer Rusten Sheskey, reinvigorating an uprising against police brutality and racism that has swept the country since the death of George Floyd in early summer. On Saturday, Blake spoke about the fragility of life from the hospital bed where he remains paralyzed from the waist down.

“I just want to say, man, to all the young cats out there and even the older ones, older than me, there’s a lot more life to live,” he said in a video posted on Twitter by his lawyer, Ben Crump. “Your life and not only just your life, your legs—something that you need to move around and move forward in life—can be taken from you like this,” he snapped his fingers.

Blake described the pain he now experiences every time he breathes, sleeps, eats, and moves around. “Twenty-four hours, every 24 hours, it’s pain,” he said. But he ended his message with a call for change and action. “Please, I’m telling you, change y’all lives out there. We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people because there’s so much time that’s been wasted.”

Yes, a powerful message, right? Are we supposed to take advice from people who sexually assault women now? Is that now the standard? Back to the first article from The Post Millennial, headlined

Kamala Harris’ pride in Jacob Blake betrays MeToo

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Blake is recovering from the gunshot wounds he sustained, but that hasn’t stopped the mainstream media and Democrat politicians from heralding Blake a hero. Senator Kamala Harris spoke to Blake via phone on Monday and, according to a statement released about the call, told him she was “proud” of him.

The article continues

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Trevor Noah And Comedy Central Think Flipping Tables On People Is Great, As Long As You Are Polite

By William Teach September 9, 2020 – 9:10 pm

Of course, super Progressive (nice Fascist) HuffPost has nary a word of condemnation

Trevor Noah Nails What’s Being Forgotten Amid Black Lives Matter Restaurant Clashes

Trevor Noah offered food for thought Tuesday to those condemning Black Lives Matter protesters for interrupting restaurant patrons. (Fast forward to 4:10 in the video at the link.)

“The Daily Show” host showed video of overturned furniture at an eatery in Rochester, New York, after demonstrators entered to protest the killing of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after he was covered in a hood and held down by police in March.

“It’s not acceptable to storm a restaurant and flip over tables,” Noah said. “First, you introduce yourself: ‘Hi, my name is Sean. I’ll be your protester this evening.’ Then you flip over the tables. Manners, people.”

Oh, right, right, it’s just a joke. Right. OK then. It’s OK to advocate violence and assault when it’s a joke. What happens when the uber-Progressive nutjobs who watch the Daily Show take this to heart? Will Noah and Comedy Central take responsibility? What if a Republican guest advocated doing this to liberals? Would that be OK? Or if they said to do it to Noah and CC employees? Bet they’d be a bit upset over that, kick the guest off, and denounce them, saying they are advocating violence. And Noah would be surely upset and call the cops if it actually happened to him while he was just trying to eat.

“People get more focused on the symptoms than the cause,” Noah said. “Because right now everyone is talking about what’s the right way to protest. I think the real question people should be asking is why does there need to be a protest in the first place? Because if I had a magic wand, I wouldn’t be trying to fix protests. I’d use it to get the police to stop brutalizing Black people. That’s why the protests are happening.”

Perhaps if he wasn’t advocating violence after being polite we wouldn’t need to talk about the riots and violent Democratic Party voters and could deal with policing reform. That boat sailed months ago, and it’s the fault of the violent Democrats and the Democrats who refuse to condemn and stop them.

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