…is a bright sunny day without hurricanes because Other People won’t give up meat, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on “NYC Cop Slashers ID’d as Dominican Illegal Alien Repeat Offenders Released into U.S. By Biden Admin., Protected by Sanctuary Democrats”
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Tom Cotton seems to be one of the few who gets that permanent DST is a bad idea
Battle over daylight saving time erupts as push to stop changing clocks hits Senate wall
The battle over Americans’ clocks reemerged in an unlikely way over the weekend, with President Donald Trump picking a fight with one of his top allies over the issue.
There have been many fights in Congress over the nearly two years that Trump has been in office for his second term that either ended in partisan victory or gloriously fizzled out, but one has quietly gone onto the shelf despite his pressure on Republicans to do something about it.
And that fight is over allowing states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round to effectively do away with the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks. It’s a popular issue with voters and the president, and there’s a bill that passed the House this summer to enact the change. But it’s a policy issue that has divided both sides of the aisle and ground to a halt in the upper chamber.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has been one of the more vocal opponents of the bill, vowing to block any attempts to fast-track it on the floor. That resistance earned him a Truth Social post from Trump, who over the weekend shared his personal phone number in a bid to pressure the lawmaker to change his stance on daylight saving time.
“Almost everybody wants “The Sunshine Protection Act” to pass, except for Tom Cotton,” Trump said. “To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself.”
Most polls give a slight edge towards DST over Standard Time, like this one
Only 12% favor the current system of changing the clocks twice a year. Fifty-six percent prefer daylight saving time all year and 42% prefer standard time.
The US has been doing the time switch for 60 years: I’d say that most people were born into it, it’s no big deal, and just like hating on Mondays it’s just something to whine about. They’ll complain for a week, at most, after the twice yearly switches, and move on.
Cotton responded, noting that Congress has tackled daylight saving time before, only to roll back the change shortly after.
“No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Saving Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter,” Cotton said on X. “Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.”
Apparently the western states do not care for Standard Time, so, let them stay on DST if they want. Hawaii and most of Arizona do not switch to DST.
“Every year, more Americans grow more frustrated setting their clocks back and forth, and every winter folks in Washington state despair at the prospect of losing an hour of precious sunlight when we are forced off Daylight Saving Time,” Murray said in a statement at the time.
Um, despair? She does know that the Earth revolves the same in Washington state the same as everywhere else, right? It is above all East coast states except the top tip of Maine, so, it does get less light in the winter. Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and a goodly chunk of Idaho are in the same boat. Alaska is so far north they don’t care either way. If they want to do DST let them.
The more south you go the less need there is to switch from Standard time. So, again, if we are going to make either permanent, make it Standard Time, while allowing states to choose if they want to switch to DST during some months. A typical 56% DST to 42% Standard Time polling isn’t “almost everyone”, and, once people start getting educated they tend to flip towards Standard Time.
Read: Trump And Cotton Battle Over Daylight Savings Time Legislation »
They’re super excited to control everyone’s lives
Arizona ‘cannot afford to wait any longer’ on climate change, Democrats say at town hall
In a town hall sponsored by The Sierra Club, U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari and state Rep. Brian Garcia listened to concerns from around 100 members of the Phoenix community about climate change and offered plans to support Arizonans as they deal with extreme weather, lower water levels and higher utility costs.
“This year alone, we have experienced record-breaking temperatures, while utility costs are skyrocketing and the Colorado River is running historically low,” said Garcia, a Democrat who represents parts of Tempe and East Phoenix, during the event on Sept. 29. “Our communities are feeling consequences of inaction and cannot afford to wait any longer.”
One attendee expressed concern about extreme weather conditions in Arizona and an increase in deaths because of the heat, and asked what Ansari and Yassamin were doing to encourage their colleagues to be more vocal about the dangers of climate change.
So, what are they going to do about it?
“We need to make sure that these CEOs and these companies are forced to come before the American people, testifying in public, and that we can hold them accountable accordingly for any crimes, pay-to-play corruption that’s been committed,” said Ansari, a Democrat. “I think that young people can make a huge impact, especially at the local level, when it comes to advocating for climate change action.”
So, same old hating on CEOs and companies while also taking lots of campaign money from them. I assume they mean fossil fuels companies, the same fossil fuels Democrats refuse to give up in their own lives.
Ansari emphasized the importance of advocacy in legislation. She mentioned positive changes that have already happened, including Phoenix’s first electric buses, as well as the establishment of an Office of Heat Response and Mitigation in Phoenix, the first of its kind in the U.S.
Buses that do not run well in the Arizona heat, and an office mean to funnel slush money.
Ansari said that in order to get legislation moving, she “encourages everyone to get creative,” specifically when it comes to holding legislators accountable.
“We should do an economic study of the amount of money, jobs that were lost in this country by rolling back the clean energy tax credit,” Ansari said. “I think that analysis and that data is something that would be very important for labor unions (and) American people to know.”
Yes, let’s do a study that shows how much money and jobs were lost by implementing all the climate scam garbage.
“In this case our goal should be developing and enacting policies that both help people and in the meantime help with the clean energy transition,” Ansari said. “And we need to get back to passing policies and enacting policies that help accelerate solar again and accelerate our clean energy projects.”
Those same policies, such as Biden’s green scam deal disguised as an inflation reduction bill hurt people in their energy bills.
In an effort to get legislators to vote in favor of sustainable projects, Garcia suggested lawmakers bridge the political divide and work with people who have different political opinions to find a solution.
Why would we work with Democrats to solve an imaginary problem?
Read: Democrats Say Arizona Can’t Wait Any Longer On Climate (scam) Legislation »
This is the same media who painted Trump and anyone associated with him as a Nazi, hence, it was OK to assault them, try and kill them, and actually kill them
President Donald Trump’s new assistant press secretary — a former reporter for Real America’s Voice — once posed for a photo with a rifle while wearing a “f*** Joe Biden” T-shirt and was a fan of slain conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
Beni Rae Harmony, 24, announced on Friday that she will join Trump’s White House press team as the new assistant press secretary. Anti-MAGA accounts on Instagram quickly found the photo of Harmony in her anti-Biden shirt, according to The Daily Beast.
The photo was posted by former Republican Virginia congressional candidate Jarome Bell in 2021. The post includes the caption “My campaign Public Affairs Director @beniraeharmony is a beast. This is how we roll.”
Harmony’s Instagram account liked the post. Bell ran for Congress in 2022 in Virginia Beach.
And, yet, there is no picture or link to her wearing the shirt, so, I hunted one down. Most Conservatives were all about Fuck Joe Biden, but, most new it was like saying fuck that guy, and weren’t going to do anything about it. And any who did actually threaten Biden were denounced by Republicans, not lauded as Democrats did in reverse.
Harmony formerly worked for the far-right broadcaster Real America’s Voice, which always airs Steve Bannon’s weekday show, The Charlie Kirk Show, and Ted Nugent’s Spirit Campfire.
She said she joined the broadcaster after she was suspended from her previous place of employment, WICS-ABC20 in Springfield, Illinois, allegedly for sharing an unprompted on-air tribute to Kirk following his 2025 assassination.
Harmony defended her decision to air the memorial, calling it “non-partisan.”
Well, let’s now see if she can do the job. Regardless, expect the Credentialed Media to continue having Hissy Fits. Not that Trump cares.
Read: Credentialed Media Has Hissy Fit Over Trump’s New Assistant Press Secretary »
How much has that fuel economy standard cost drivers since Obama implemented it?
Trump Mileage Rollback Could Cost Drivers Up to $7,000 More in Gas
Like the $5,000 checks Pres. Donald Trump is promising voters if they keep Republicans in power during the upcoming midterm elections, you might be a bit skeptical about the promised savings from the rollback of federal mileage standards the White House announced this week.
Starting with TDS
According to U.S. Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy, automakers could save more than $60 billion by cutting the cost of the technology needed to reach an industry average 50.4 miles per gallon by 2031. In turn, some of those savings will be passed onto consumers, the administration claims – to the tune of an average $1,289 per vehicle come the 2031 model year.
Even if that proves accurate, the equation actually doesn’t favor buyers. By its count, the Department of Transportation acknowledged the typical driver will wind up paying about $1,600 more for fuel under the new mandate – which reduces the 2031 model year target to just 34.9 mpg. And that appears to be a significant under-estimate. Depending upon what the average price of fuel works out to come the beginning of the next decade, Autoblog’s math puts the potential out-of-pocket increase as high as $7,000.
Pres. Donald Trump has moved to roll back or eliminate a variety of Biden-era automotive regulations since returning to office 20 months ago. Many are related to EVs, including the phase-out of $7,500 federal tax credits in September 2025. This week’s move formalizes a proposal he announced from the Oval Office last December, surrounded by auto industry leaders like Ford CEO Jim Farley. Taking effect at the end of this year it abandons Corporate Average Fuel Economy guidelines calling for 8% annual increases, targeting 50.4 mpg during the 2031 model year.
Trump is ending that increase, and, really, what it means to you is that manufacturers do not need to keep doing this that and the other to get the 50.4 average across its fleet of sales. They do not have to push EVs, which lose them vast sums of money. They can cut the auto engine idle/start stop from vehicles. I doubt that there will be much of a decrease across the lines, since they are already making them, and hybrids are getting more and more popular. I love the 39.5 mpg I get in my hybrid CRV. I wouldn’t go back.
But, what if manufacturers want to come out with more 6 cylinders and 2.0 turbos? This will allow for that. It should be the consumer driving what they want manufacturers to make, not Los Federales.
Automakers and oil industry representatives had called for a rollback in the mileage standards and the industry will now have to hit a target of 34.9 mpg. For automakers like General Motors that should ease the burdensome task of meeting the higher mandate: developing more efficient powertrains, including EVs and hybrids; new, lightweight materials; and other advanced technologies.
There is a massive difference between 34.9 and 50.4. The question now is “will manufacturers put that savings into price reductions of vehicles?” Post COVID the price of new went up $4000-$6000 on average.
Read: Doom: Trump CAFE Standard Rollback Could Maybe Possibly Cost Drivers Up To $7000! »
…is a beach devoid of any hurricanes because Other People drove fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on “Britain’s military bases are imperilled – RAF Fairford was just the start”
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Pretty much, no, except in terms of consumers saying “no to buying and listening and viewing it.”
Our Opinion: Protecting artistic integrity and creativity in age of AI
Late last month, a scheduled metal and alternative rock show at a popular Lackawanna County music venue was canceled over online bickering among fans and the artists themselves.
That one-sentence summary of what happened might barely rank as newsworthy, for some.
For those in the artistic community, the entire debate centers on an existential struggle that came for them first but, someday, will have to be reckoned with by all.
To go into a little bit more detail: A handful of acts — Slapjaw, Purple Lung, DOUR and Shodemon — were scheduled to perform a Sept. 25 show at Union Vapors 570 in Dickson City. One of the bands, the Scranton-based Slapjaw, posted an image evidently generated by artificial intelligence on its social media platform to promote the show.
That’s literally it. Just an image. Not the music (at least that we know, and I have zero idea who these bands are). Just an image. Is it that big a deal? It might be if one was doing an art performance, but, I’ve used a bunch of AI images for the Sunday patriotic pinup. I do not see a problem.
The bands decided to cancel the show after a lively online discussion between critics of AI use and a Slapjaw representative devolved into “bullying,” said Ken Stucker, a co-owner of the venue. Union Vapes 570’s social media accounts became the center of a continued debate over how AI should be used in the arts when news of the cancelation hit, and Stucker vowed to create a written policy that would prohibit any act that wants to perform at his venue from using AI to promote the gig on any platform.
Only issue is, he doesn’t know how far this policy could, or should, go.
Well, it really would be simple, “no using AI to create promotion ads” if that is the way they want to go. This doesn’t have to be complicated.
It is worth wondering whether any of those can truly be achieved with the help of AI. It is also worth considering whether AI simply helps all of us enhance all three. That is why venue owners like Stucker get caught in the middle when having to develop anti-AI policies. On one hand, AI tools offer the less artistic among us to execute artistic ideas they otherwise wouldn’t have the ability to create. On another, isn’t true art based in our ability to create it without the help of computers inspired by work developed by tens of thousands of other artists?
Just because someone is artistically talented for music doesn’t mean they can do art. I don’t see what the problem is. Could it be that many are having fits over AI, going negative on it? Because a lot of those against it seem to have no problem with Today’s Hit Music! makers using tons of Autotune, not writing their own songs, and using computer generated “music” (long ago recorded bass, drums, keys, and sax) to make their songs, and then mostly lip-syncing.
Pope Leo XIV published a message on his X account stressing the Catholic Church’s desire to “renew alliances” with artistic and cultural institutions in order to “safeguard our humanity” in the face of AI’s advancement.
“In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce,” the pontiff wrote. “There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others.
Yes, but, if the “music” is coming from a computer, is that art? I can certainly understand not wanting it for an art exhibit, that would be BS. A human didn’t draw or paint or create it. But, we’re just talking about a graphic to promote a music show. Or, say, a comic or book reading. No big deal. Let’s not overdo it, guys.
In that way, artistic integrity is distinctly human, the most key cog in a world that thrives on creation. It is up to us to determine how much of it has to stay human, and the lengths we’ll go to make sure it stays that way.
Maintaining artistic integrity shouldn’t be about a rejection of all technology. But it should insist, above all else, that human intention and human effort remain at the center of that work.
Well, yeah, but, again, the way they make Today’s Hit Music! may not be AI, but, involves massive use of computers. Is integrity gone?
Meanwhile, here’s an interesting article entitled AI Is Weakening Pastors’ Authority, which brings up interesting questions about using AI to have a chatbot pray for people, to counsel you, to know you, about telling you the truth.
*That’s an AI generated graphic of me made before Twitter’s AI became only for those with the paid version, using me Jack Sparrow X persona and having posted Les Pauls. Though, mine are red and Olive Tiger. I actually do not care for a black guitar. Hard on my eyes.
On the bright side, attendance is limited, reducing the carbon footprint from all those fossil fueled jets
Pacific nations take centre stage at ‘pre-COP’ climate summit
The South Pacific is among the most vulnerable regions in the world to global warming — from rising sea waters jeopardizing homes to increasing temperatures causing coral bleaching.
This week’s talks in Nadi and on the atoll nation of Tuvalu are a precursor to the larger UN-sponsored global climate summit — known as COP31 — to be held next month in Turkey.
Pacific leaders are pushing for the world to stick to a target of limiting global warming to 1.5C, enhance access to climate finance and give more attention to the impact on oceans.
“Our prime minister will carry three clear messages to the leaders this week: keep 1.5 degrees within reach, make finance reach the communities that need it and give the ocean its rightful place in the climate regime,” Fiji’s climate minister Lynda Tabuya told the opening ceremony.
Sea levels are rising at a record pace, driven by warming oceans and glacier melt, according to a UN report.
Yeah, the actual data shows that sea levels are not doing that, as I’ve shown time and time again
It also highlighted a financing gap, with developing countries needing $310-$365 billion to adapt, yet having only $26 billion in adaptation finance available in 2023.
And that is what all this is about: free money with zero strings attached, because developed countries “owe them”.
But officials have been forced to concede that the guest list will be smaller than they had hoped.
Fewer than a dozen world leaders have publicly confirmed that they will attend.
On the streets of Nadi, most locals seemed unaware that a global summit was even taking place.
Well, yeah, because so much of that climate scam money never gets used the way it’s supposed to be used. Instead it disappears into the pockets of politicians, friends, family, and NGOs.
Read: Pacific Islands Have Pre-COP Meeting, They Want Money »
I mean it’s cute and all, but, Vermont is also the 2nd least diverse state in the US at 91% White
Week of protests targeting federal immigration enforcement underway in Vermont
A week of demonstrations and events opposing federal immigration enforcement is underway in Vermont, with organizers planning their largest announced rally for Wednesday in Williston.
The campaign, organized by Shut Down ICE VT, includes community events, teach-ins and demonstrations.
Much of the activity is focused on two federal immigration enforcement facilities in Williston that organizers say play a central role in the federal operations they oppose.
Organizers say some participants are also preparing for acts of civil disobedience.
“This is a moment in history that calls for civil disobedience on a really large scale,” organizer Julie Macuga said.
Vermont isn’t really the epicenter of ICE enforcement, as there aren’t that many illegals or even just Hispanics.
Macuga said organizers have established guidelines for people participating in the demonstrations, including a commitment to nonviolence.
“Basically saying if you’re coming in and wanting to be part of this action, we expect you to sort of follow these guidelines,” Macuga said. “And that includes being nonviolent.”
Yeah, good luck with that. But, really, not much is going on with ICE in White Bread Haven.
Meanwhile, the Credentialed Media is upset that Japan doesn’t want many foreigners
New census data over the past week showed Japan’s population shrank more quickly than in the prior tally. Also last week, the government rolled out tougher rules for foreign nationals who want to live in Japan.
While foreigners make up just 3.4% of Japan’s population, the share has increased to a record high and a political backlash has been building—even as the country also grapples with rapidly aging demographics and the need to find new workers to sustain economic growth.
Let’s be clear: Japan likes their culture, and doesn’t want people coming in who will not fit in, who won’t assimilate, who disrespect the culture. Heck, they don’t even want people coming to vacation like that.
…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle that messed with the Atlantic causing no hurricanes, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on “Latest European Green Energy Debacle; Portugal’s Largest Flagship Solar Park Insolvent!”
It’s sunny day at the beach because there were no September hurricanes week!
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