If All You See…

…is a river turned muddy from Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Hot Air, with a post on CNN being stunned over illegal alien crime in NY vs Florida.

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Biden Finally Orders Strikes On Iran Backed Terrorist Groups

Well, give him credit for allowing the strikes. There are probably a lot of people who lost money in the betting pools that there would be no retaliatory strikes

US hits hard at militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack

The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.

The massive barrage of strikes hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including command and control headquarters, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites and other facilities that were connected to the militias or the IRGC’s Quds Force, the Guard’s expeditionary unit that handles Tehran’s relationship with and arming of regional militias. And President Joe Biden made it clear in a statement that there will be more to come.

The U.S. strikes appeared to stop short of directly targeting Iran or senior leaders of the Revolutionary Guard Quds Force within its borders, as the U.S. tries to prevent the conflict from escalating even further. Iran has denied it was behind the Jordan attack.

It was unclear what the impact will be of the strikes. Days of U.S. warnings may have sent militia members scattering into hiding. With multiple groups operating at various locations in several countries, a knockout blow is unlikely.

And therein lies the issue: did the strikes hit anything of consequence and did they kill the Iranian backed terrorists, or, did they amscray with their weapons? And, really, if Iran wants to get frisky the U.S. needs to strike them back directly. The only thing they know is Islamic extremism and nations pushing their power. And the U.S. can do way more damage to Iran then then go do back.

“Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing,” Biden warned, adding, “let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.” He and other top U.S. leaders had been saying for days that any American response wouldn’t be just one hit but a “tiered response” over time.

Of course, he did this while taking an early weekend, spending time in Delaware again since Thursday, then heading off to Los Angeles today.

Double of course, the naysayers who are upset that Biden used the military to strike back are Concerned

Biden’s retaliatory strikes in Middle East come with significant political risk: Experts

With U.S. retaliatory strikes underway Friday after three American troops were killed in a drone attack by an Iran-backed militant group, President Joe Biden faces a turning point in the Middle East conflict that carries significant risks of escalation and heavy election-year political consequences.

Yeah, well, if Iran doesn’t want some they shouldn’t start some. Now it’s time to wait for Biden’s wacko base, including the crazies like those in The Squad, to decry the airstrikes as they protect Iran, Islamic terrorists, and all those who hate Israel and Jews.

But, I will give Biden credit for ordering the large scale airstrikes.

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Washington Post: Kids Won’t Know Snow The Way Their Parents Did

It’s not full on

but, it’s close! Because cults never give up on ideas to scare people. The subhead tries to soften the wackadoodleness of the headline

What is winter without snow? Our children are finding out.
This generation won’t remember winter the way their parents do

When Celerah Hewes remembers the winters of her childhood, growing up in Albuquerque in the ’80s and ’90s, she recalls at least one or two significant snowfalls every season. She can still picture pulling back a curtain to see the world blanketed in white, then racing outside to spend a day building snow forts with neighborhood kids, or heading to the foothills of the Sandia Mountains to go sledding. She remembers those days as free, untethered from the rhythm and routine of daily life.

Hewes’s 11-year-old daughter, Evelyn, is also growing up in Albuquerque, but her experience of winter is very different from her mother’s. The last big snow came when Evelyn was just 2 years old — “too small to take advantage of it,” Hewes says. Since then, there have been only occasional dustings, an inch or two perhaps; when Evelyn flops to the ground to make a snow angel, her wing-prints reach the wet earth below. “She’ll bundle up and go outside in almost no snow, and she’ll try so hard to play, and come back muddy and disappointed,” Hewes says, “and that’s heartbreaking.” A few years ago, Evelyn asked for a sled for Christmas. It has never been used.

Well, that’s rather inconvenient

Anyhow

This past December saw snow at a record low across the country. Last month, a new study confirmed that climate change has altered snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, bringing certain parts of the United States closer to a “snow loss cliff,” at which point snow loss will only accelerate. In the D.C. region, where I grew up and am now raising my children, a recent January snowfall marked the end of a nearly two-year-long snow drought; a few weeks before the December holidays, I had folded last year’s snow pants — never worn, already outgrown — and put them in a pile to give away

The thing is, this is what should be expected during a Holocene warm period. Of course, the same people will also blame all the snow in January on ‘climate change’.

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SCNY To Give Illegals $53 Million In Pre-Paid Cards

Well, gee willikers, I wonder why the Sanctuary City Of New York could do with $53 million to help the legal residents of the city? Perhaps hire a lot more police to reduce crime? Do better with sanitation? Work on the rat problem? Feed and house the homeless?

NYC launches $53M program to hand out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will soon start handing out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families being put up in Big Apple hotels, The Post has learned.

The $53 million pilot program, run by the New Jersey company Mobility Capital Finance, will provide asylum seekers arriving at the Roosevelt Hotel with the city cash to help them buy food, according to city records.

It’ll start with a group of 500 migrant families in short-term hotel stays and will replace the current food service offered there, according to City Hall.

The cards can only be used at bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores — and migrants must sign an affidavit swearing they will only spend the funds on food and baby supplies or they will be kicked out of the program.

How many of them have babies, and how many are young, single, military age men?

The amount on each card will vary depending on the size of the family and whether any income is coming in, according to the details of the contract.  A family of four, for instance, could be provided nearly $1,000 each month, which comes out to $35 per day for food. Cards will get refilled every 28 days.

I hope the low income residents of SCNY do not complain, because they surely voted for Democrats who enable all the illegal aliens. Otherwise they might have received the money themselves.

“Not only will this provide families with the ability to purchase fresh food for their culturally relevant diets and the baby supplies of their choosing, but the pilot program is expected to save New York City more than $600,000 per month, or more than $7.2 million annually,” Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak said.

First, it should not save them anything, because they shouldn’t have to deal with feeding illegal aliens. But, hey, irony is a bitch. Second, why culturally relevant food? Do they not want to learn what it is to be an American? Or, do they just want to take advantage of America and never assimilate?

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World Needs “Torrents” Of Cash To Solve Hotcoldwetdry

How is illegally downloading books, movies, and music going to help?

“Torrents, not trickles”: UN climate chief’s vision for COP29

The UN’s next climate summit will be an “enabling COP,” focused on drastically scaling up climate finance and making bold emissions reduction commitments.

Why it matters: Top UN climate official Simon Stiell delivered a speech this morning in Baku, Azerbaijan, envisioning what will happen if the world meets the climate challenge and avoids devastating impacts of climate change.

Zoom in: The speech, delivered at ADA University, counters perceptions in some parts of the climate community that Baku will involve lower stakes and more technical work than COP28 did in Dubai.

Stiell instead makes clear how much work needs to be done to finance the transition away from fossil fuels to reliable forms of renewables in both industrialized and developing nations.

“Without far more finance, 2023’s climate wins will quickly fizzle away into more empty promises,” Stiell said. “We need torrents, not trickles, of climate finance.”

The money message was delivered loudly in Dubai, but countries like the U.S. committed little in the way of public financing, given the political realities in Congress.

Well, why not tell every Warmist to donate 30% of their yearly income and 50% of their net worth? We can start with all the rich folks telling us this who have massive carbon footprints. It’s just so wild that this always comes down to taking money away from Other People. Along with their life choices and freedom.

And, really, what assurances do we have that this “torrent” of money would solve anything? Please let me know of any government that truly spends the money they forcibly take from citizens wisely.

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If All You See…

…is a hazy, humid day from carbon pollution bad weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on how bad it is for Fani Willis.

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Biden Decides Next Thing To Do Is Blame Grocery Stores For High Prices

The question though, is, “will this work to get his young and stupid Democrat voters to come out and vote for him?” Because it’s not going to work with Republicans and Independents. Joe’s young and stupid voters are mad that he supports Israel

Biden takes aim at grocery stores for ‘ripping people off’ amid continued high prices: ‘Played for suckers’

President Joe Biden took aim at grocery stores, blaming them for “ripping people off” with high pricing amid the continued inflation blame game.

President Biden’s remarks came during a speech at the South Carolina’s First in the Nation Dinner in Columbia, South Carolina.

“Inflation is coming down. It’s now lower in America than any other major economy in the world,” Biden said. “The cost of eggs, milk, chicken, gas, and so many other essential items have come down.”

“But for all we’ve done to bring prices down, there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation,” the president continued.

Sadly, the rich leftists he’s speaking to are more than happy to cheer for idiotic lines like this, which are divorced from reality. Once prices go up they rarely come down. Y’all know why this has happened from the beginning of COVID. And has always happened. 2,000 square foot homes are no longer $30K like they were in the 60’s, right?

The president said that Americans are “tired” of being “played for suckers” by grocery stores across the country.

“Well, it’s going to stop. Americans, we’re tired of being played for suckers,” Biden said to resounding applause. “And that’s why we’re going to keep these guys — keep on them and get the prices down.”

Democrat voters will mostly fall for this claptrap, but, will some of them realize they are being patronized and treated as morons simply to get them to vote Biden? Because they are morons if they believe this. And the Democrat Elites do think the average voter is an idiot.

A recent Axios Vibes survey found that 59% of respondents felt “angry, anxious or resigned” while shopping for groceries, with anger being the most common emotion. Seventy-two percent of respondents also said that groceries are where they feel the most effects of inflation.

Though inflation has largely fallen from record highs in 2022, prices are still significantly higher than they were before 2020.

Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans must spend approximately $125.51 on groceries that would have previously cost $100 in December 2019.

The only way prices will come down is if there is serious disinflation, which would also require unskilled labor positions see their wages drop. Hey, maybe all those Democrat voters could be replaced by below minimum wage illegal aliens/migrants? That would help, right?

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Your Fault: Groundhog Predictions Less Accurate

I’m going to do something I rarely do, give you a video as the post, as this is a new one for me. I’ve yet to see the Cult of Climastrology link Groundhog Day to their cult beliefs. Hopefully it will work, since I set this up Thursday night. Link here in case it doesn’t

The blurb at the link for the video reads

Punxsutawney Phil’s predictions are increasingly wrong as climate change shortens winter. A new analysis of the groundhog’s forecast shows he would be twice as accurate if he always predicted an early spring. National climate reporter Chase Cain digs-in to how winter warming is affecting the tradition of Groundhog Day.

Blah cult blah. Now let’s see the cult scientists predict how accurate Phil’s predictions will be 10-20 years from now. It’s super easy to Monday Morning computer model it. Also, there’s no real comparison to how Phil would predict during the Little Ice Age and previous Holocene warm periods. You know, doing science.

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150 Democrats Vote Against Deporting Illegals Busted For Driving Impaired

Almost three-fourths of Democrats decided that keeping criminal illegals around is OK

From the UK Daily Mail

Americans before illegalsThe House passed a bill Thursday that will enable law enforcement to deport illegal migrants caught driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The measure passed with the support of 274 lawmakers, but a staggering 150 Democrats voted against it.

The Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that illegal migrants caught driving under the influence can be deported and not allowed back into the U.S.

‘In the United States, someone dies in a crash with an impaired driver every 45 minutes,’ Rep. Barry Moore, who introduced the bill, told Fox News.

‘I lost two of my young newlywed constituents to an illegal immigrant driving under the influence of alcohol.’ (snip)

In December, an illegal migrant from El Salvador, who had previously been deported from the U.S. four times, was accused of killing a Colorado mother and her son in a crash that involved alcohol, according to local news outlet KDVR.

What is the matter with these people? They really want to keep illegal aliens, who were already deported many times in some cases, kept in the U.S. so they can endanger American citizens? It’s insane.

From a political POV, House Republicans should keep bringing up these types of bills, putting Democrats on the record when it comes to illegal immigration and crime.

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Hotcoldwetdry Will Secretly Kill 14.5 Million By 2050

All because you took that fossil fueled trip last year instead of staying home and keeping the AC at 78

Climate change will kill 14.5 million people globally by 2050 — but mostly not directly

Climate change is triggering a global health crisis that may approach the death toll of some of history’s deadliest plagues. Unlike the 1918 flu epidemic or the COVID-19 pandemic, which were caused by the widespread outbreak of one type of bacteria or virus, climate change-fueled illness is a Hydra-headed challenge that erodes human health on multiple distinct fronts. Efforts are underway to tally this risk, and a growing body of research indicates that climate-related health threats, such as cardiovascular, diarrheal, and vector-borne diseases, have already killed millions of people — a count that will grow steeper as warming accelerates.

A recent report from the World Economic Forum, a non-governmental organization that promotes public-private partnership on global issues, and Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm, projects that rising temperatures will “place immense strain on global healthcare systems” in the coming years. Climate change will cause 14.5 million additional deaths by 2050, the report says, and spur $12.5 trillion in economic losses. Healthcare systems — hospitals, emergency rooms, doctors, and nurses — will also have to provide an extra $1.1 trillion worth of treatment by mid-century because of climate change.  (snip)

In total, the report identified six weather events most likely to trigger negative health outcomes: floods, droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, tropical storms, and heat waves. The authors examined the direct and indirect effects of each of these events.

But, see, they won’t be able to directly blame these on Atmospheric Cancer, so, they’ll just decide to blame most deaths on “carbon pollution”, much like they were blaming a lot of deaths on COVID even though it was something like a guy who died in a motorcycle accident being listed as a COVID death because he had it. You died because a hurricane happened, which always have happened? You refused to evacuate and get out of the way? That was because of ‘climate change’. You were skiing in an avalanche prone area and died in one? Global boiling. It’s a long article that says they will blame anything they can on anthropogenic climate change.

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