John Kerry, Who Was In Vietnam, Says People Need To Be Forced To Behave To Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach November 27, 2024 – 3:00 pm

And people told me I was nuts back in 2004 when became a Skeptic because I saw this as all about politics and increasing government power rather than a science

Should we behave like the 40K who took fossil fueled flights to the latest UN climate conference, COP29? Or Kerry, who has multiple homes, cars, and private jets?

(Fox News) Former Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that there is a “climate emergency,” and suggested that Africans without electricity must select “the right kinds of electricity,” likely referring to green energy production, and that the U.S. must help them to afford it.

Kerry made the comments at a speaking event at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics on Nov. 21, 2024.

The Democrat suggested there will be a need to “declare a climate emergency, which is what we really have. And we need to get people to behave as if this really is a major transitional challenge to the whole planet.”

I prefer to act like Warmists, who refuse to make their own lives carbon neutral. I bet my life is more planet friendly from a real environmental point of view than theirs is, and I bet my carbon footprint is lower than theirs, unintentionally.

(Harvard) “Nobody lives as an island in this process, on this planet,” he said. “And no one country has enough money to deal with the climate crisis.”

And while political shifts are happening all over the world, Kerry said he firmly believes science should lead the way. “Everything I’ve ever done and advocated for in this is based on science. No politics. There’s no liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican electrons or molecules.”

If science leads the way than why does he use so much fossil fuel? And how does he propose to “get people to behave”? Sounds kind of Fascismy.

(I wonder if anyone still remembers the joke about Kerry always saying he was in Vietnam?)

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 27, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible planet killing meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on eating like Trump.

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USA Today Tells Parents To Not Let Kids Read Book “Wicked”

By William Teach November 27, 2024 – 10:30 am

Well, this is interesting

Take your kids to see ‘Wicked,’ but don’t let them read the book by Gregory Maguire

Long before Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were holding space for the lyrics of “Defying Gravity,” there was “Wicked” the Broadway musical. And before that, there was “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” by Gregory Maguire, based on L. Frank Baum’s characters in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” (snip)

Is the ‘Wicked’ book appropriate for kids?

In a word, no. The “Wicked” book by Gregory Maguire has key adult differences from the stage adaptation. One of the opening scenes is puppets having sex. When we first meet Elphaba in the book, she’s a feral infant who is muzzled after biting off people’s appendages. The book contains drinking, drugs, sexual assault, prostitution, crime and wild sex parties between humans and animals.

In an interview with MassLive, Maguire said while the main themes translate, his book is a “tragedy” and the stage production is a “bittersweet drama.”

“I purposely put some somewhat raunchy material in the first few pages of ‘Wicked’ the novel to show what people were getting into, that they were going to have to leave behind their ideas about an all-singing, all-dancing chorus line of flying monkeys,” Maguire said.

So, really, no, Wicked is not for young kids. At best, it is PG-13 heading towards an R. But, it’s kind of interesting that the USA Today doesn’t want kids reading a book

Just a smattering of headlines from the USA Today, and, what are those books

Why you should read these 51 banned books now

As journalists, it’s our job to seek out the truth even when it’s uncomfortable. We value diverse perspectives, are open to new ideas and respect intellectual freedom. So it should come as no surprise that the thought of banning a book would make us riled.

What happens when a book is challenged in school boards and public libraries? Titles can be removed from school curriculums or library shelves. Most public schools and libraries have boards made up of elected officials or members appointed by elected officials. It is by the power of these officials that a book can go from challenged to banned in a school district or public library. Even if it happens only once, it is one time too many.

And some of those titles

  • ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ by George M. Johnson
  • ‘Gender Queer’ by Maia Kobabe
  • ‘Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda’ by Becky Albertalli
  • ‘Two Boys Kissing’ by David Levithan
  • ‘Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out’ by Susan Kuklin

There are plenty more like that. They are exactly the type you think are being taken out of schools, because they contain heavy sex, drugs, etc, just like ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ by Stephen Chbosky, which includes

Some of the content throughout can be intense or inappropriate for younger readers – topics include alcohol, drugs, sex, abortion, mental health struggles, suicide and sexual abuse. But these are all things high schoolers can and often do experience, and blocking them from a story that explores them in a thoughtful, empathetic way doesn’t do anyone any good.

So, it’s fine for young kids to read utter smut, especially if it is LGBTQ, in school and at the library, but, not Wicked? Older teens, fine, but, the crazies in schools feed this stuff to young kids. And, yes, Wicked is not appropriate for them, either. Kids should be left to be kids and not fed adult sexuality and such. Just let them be kids.

In fairness, some of the books mentioned in that last link are ones banned by liberals, such as Animal Farm, Of Mice And Man, and Lord Of The Flies. Literary classics. And any assigned reading should be age appropriate.

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Maine Sues Fossil Fuels Companies While Continue To Use Fossil Fuels For State Operations

By William Teach November 27, 2024 – 7:00 am

Weirdly, there is nothing in the lawsuit about the state giving up their own use of fossil fuels, nor for the Attorney General of Maine. And Democrats wonder why Trump won

Maine attorney general files lawsuit against oil companies over climate change

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Tuesday that he has filed a lawsuit in state court against a handful of major oil companies because he claims they have been deceiving Maine residents for decades about the role their fossil fuel products played in causing climate change.

The defendants listed in the lawsuit include BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell and Sunoco, as well as the American Petroleum Institute, the national trade association that represents all aspects of America’s oil and natural gas industry.

Frey said the state of Maine is seeking to hold the companies accountable for failing to warn Mainers and concealing their knowledge about the devastating consequences of the increasing use of fossil fuels on the state’s people, economy and environment.

The lawsuit claims the defendants knew about the potentially catastrophic consequences an increasing use of fossil fuels would cause as early the 1960s, but decided to deploy strategic public relations campaigns designed to discredit the scientific consensus on climate change, create doubt in the minds of the public and delay the energy economy’s transition to a lower-carbon future. According to the state, this conduct has resulted in enormous financial burdens, public health impacts, property damage and other harms across Maine as a result of extreme weather, rising sea levels and warmer temperatures.

“For over half a century, these companies chose to fuel profits instead of following their own science to prevent what are now likely irreversible, catastrophic climate effects,” Frey said in a statement. “In so doing, they burdened the state and our citizens with the consequences of their greed and deception.”

The suit, weirdly, isn’t asking the companies to stop selling their products in Maine, particularly to the state of Maine, they just want money. It sure would be fun if the companies refused to sell their products to the state. It would not be fun for the residents of Maine if they could no longer get heating oil, natural gas, etc, since so many rely on it.

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Are US And NATO Considering Giving Ukraine Nuclear Weapons?

By William Teach November 27, 2024 – 6:45 am

Is this a case of “loose speech getting out”? Or “people are just making stuff up”? Or “we’re just throwing thoughts around but weren’t serious”? Or “yeah, we’re really considering this”?

Russia condemns “irresponsible” talk of nuclear weapons for Ukraine

Discussion in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons is “absolutely irresponsible”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, in response to a report in the New York Times citing unidentified officials who suggested such a possibility.

The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested U.S. President Joe Biden could give Ukraine nuclear weapons before he leaves office.

“Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications,” the newspaper wrote

Asked about the report, Peskov told reporters: “These are absolutely irresponsible arguments of people who have a poor understanding of reality and who do not feel a shred of responsibility when making such statements. We also note that all of these statements are anonymous.”

Earlier, senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said that if the West supplied nuclear weapons to Ukraine then Moscow could consider such a transfer to be tantamount to an attack on Russia, providing grounds for a nuclear response.

Well, I certainly hope this isn’t something they’re really considering, but, you never know with Joe, his advisors, and the warmongers in NATO.

(Newsweek) “We are not planning to equip Ukraine with nuclear weapons,” the White House told Newsweek, when contacted for a response to these reports and Medvedev’s comments.

Anyone else not feel any better?

{Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia] continued, “Yet I must comment on the nonsense: 1) The very threat of transferring nuclear weapons to the Kyiv regime can be considered preparation for nuclear conflict with Russia;

2) The actual transfer of such weapons can be equated to an act of attack on our country under article 19 of the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence.
The consequences are obvious.”

I don’t feel better.

Medvedev also criticized President Joe Biden‘s authorization of Ukraine to use long-range weapons to conduct deep strikes into Russian territory, which began last week and have continued escalating as both countries retaliate against one another.

He said that Ukraine’s use of US-made ATACMS in an attack in Bryansk last week has led to what “can now be qualified as an attack by the bloc’s countries on Russia,” and that “in this case, the right arises to launch a retaliatory strike with weapons of mass destruction against Kyiv and the main NATO facilities, wherever they are. And this is already WWIII.”

Would Joe really want to get into a nuclear war just because he was booted out of running for re-election?

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Your Fault: UK Homes Are Rubbish At Staying Warm

By William Teach November 26, 2024 – 3:00 pm

By your fault, I mean it’s the fault of the British elites, politicians, and climate cult groups for creating the issue

Why are UK homes so rubbish at staying warm? We asked the experts

A cold snap has swept across the UK this week, with temperatures plummeting to lows of -11c in some parts of the country.

These low temperatures are set to continue, with the Met Office issuing another weather warning as Storm Bert brings in 70mph winds, rain and snow this weekend.

While the lower-than-average temperatures continue, many of us are still hesitant to turn up the thermostat thanks to skyrocketing energy bills.

Even when we do crank up the heating, many find it difficult to keep the warmth inside leaving us reaching for an extra jumper or spare blanket.

So what is it about the UK’s heating system that leaves so many of us wanting? Here’s what we know about why the UK is so rubbish at heatings its homes properly, the challenges it faces, and how we make it fit for purpose.

They mention damp old houses and poor walls (meaning the insulation), but, then

Even though heating our homes can be a struggle, the UK now pays the highest electricity prices in the world — four times the price of the average bill in the US.

The energy price cap is predicted to rise by another 1.2% in January, making the average household energy bill £1738.

Gas prices are not much better. “We’re massively over reliant on natural gas,” Thomas said. “Other countries have a more diverse selection of heating sources being used in homes.

Why? UK government policies related to the climate scam. That 1738 pounds figure can’t be right for a month, can it? That’s $2,178 US.

“A third of people are in arrears with their energy supplier,” Simcock said.

“The average household in arrears owes about £1500 pounds for electricity and £1300 for gas.”

“We are hearing from people that they will only heat one room of the house. We’ve heard from parents who will give their bedroom to their children, and they themselves perhaps need to sleep in the living room, so that they only have to heat one room or two rooms,” Martiskainen told Yahoo News.

“We are a G7 country, one of the most wealthy countries in the world. So how is it that we are allowing six million households to live in fuel poverty?” she added.

Thank your government for joining a doomsday climate cult.

So, if the current system to heat our homes isn’t working, what are the alternatives?

Many of the experts Yahoo News spoke to voiced their support for installing heat pumps.

Which do not last that long and are expensive. How about just rolling back all the policies that make reliable, dependable energy so expensive?

Another option is district heating.

“District heating heats half of Paris and is in use quite a lot in parts of Scandinavia and parts of eastern Europe,” Thomas explained. “It is essentially where you have one massive boiler or – in the future – a massive heat pump producing very large quantities of heat that’s then pumped directly into people’s homes through underground pipes.

“You don’t have the heating source in your home, hot water is directly pumped into your home.”

And who would be in charge of this? The same government instituting terrbile energy policies? And, considering how far down the authoritarian road the UK government has gone, would you trust them to be in charge?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 26, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing desertification, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Chicks On The Right, with a post on the Trump dance making it to women’s golf.

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Gibson Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Trump Guitars

By William Teach November 26, 2024 – 10:30 am

A case of Trump Derangement Syndrome or simply trying to protect their property? Or just some TDS from Rolling Stone?

Gibson Hits Trump Guitars With Cease and Desist

A guitar company touting an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump has been hit by a cease and desist order from Gibson.

According to Guitar World, the 130-year-old guitar manufacturer confirmed that it had sent the warning to Trump Guitars owner 16 Creative “as the design infringes upon Gibson’s exclusive trademarks, particularly the iconic Les Paul body shape.”

The Trump Guitars website lists an “American Eagle Series” inlaid with Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” in “authentic pearl” up the neck of the guitar with the number “45” branded on the headstock.

Although it’s not clear if Trump owns the company, Trump Guitars claims they have the “only guitar officially endorsed by President Donald J. Trump” and the homepage shows the president-elect holding one of the guitars.

One of the acoustic guitars features Trump signing its body, and according to its product page, “Only 275 of these beautiful guitars will be signed.” While a non-signed guitar costs $1,250, a six string baring Trump’s signature runs for more than $10,000.

For anyone looking for additional ways to light cash on fire, Trump Guitars also sells the “Presidential Series” in black, gold and red finishes.

“Light cash on fire.” TDS or reality? There are plenty of Gibson, Fender, PRS, Jackson, and other guitars that are unbelievably expensive, and most people who play are not professional and have no need, but, they still buy. Personally, I wouldn’t.  From Guitar World

The Trump Guitars site indicates the guitar brand is owned by 16 Creative (pitched as a “veteran owned, multi-focused branding agency”) and says that the instruments are “custom designed and developed by a veteran-owned company with the help of a master luthier”. (snip)

In recent years, Gibson has staunchly defended its intellectual property. For instance, it remains embroiled in a long-standing lawsuit with Dean over its usage of V and Z-shaped guitar designs and the Futura headstock.

The thing is, lots of companies make guitars similar in shape to the Les Paul. Dean, ESP (the LP body in the photo looks more like an ESP from the cut), and others, including lots of off brands you can find on Amazon. 16 Creative makes LPs, acoustics

The electrics feature mahogany bodies and necks and 22-fret rosewood fingerboards. Like official Les Paul guitars, they feature two Volume and two Tone controls for their Maga ’45 ‘buckers, though unlike a traditional Les Paul-style construction it is a bolt-on neck.

It’s the two and two that could cause problems, as that is a Gibson style, while others tend to have a one and two. Using the word “buckers” is also a red flag, since Gibson/Epiphone have Burstbuckers and Probuckers. Quite frankly, they might be nice as a decoration, but, it would be a pain to play on that neck, with all the lettering, rather than the typical inlays on 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, etc. The body overlays are nice, though.

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New Yorker Wonders If NY Can Fight Fascism With ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 26, 2024 – 7:15 am

I guess they missed that the climate cult is pretty much authoritarian, that it is primarily made up of Progressives, otherwise known as nice Fascists. Let’s see where this goes, because the original title, as you can see from the link, was about “renewables congestion climate”

Could New York Fight Fascism With Climate Policy?

One lesson commentators and strategists are drawing from the 2024 election is that Democrats ignore the cost of living at their peril. That has huge implications for climate policy: Even with deadly drought, wildfires and flooding hammering the working class nationwide, policies that limit this damage from climate change are too often successfully framed by Republicans as a cost to “ordinary Americans.” The clean-energy focused Inflation Reduction Act, despite its name, didn’t do enough to derail that narrative, nor address the very cost of living crisis so many Americans face. New York state, however, now has an opportunity to try to do climate policy right, and put money back into working people’s pockets.

Wednesday at City University of New York’s John Jay College in midtown Manhattan, hundreds of New Yorkers rallied before a public hearing to demand that the New York Power Authority (NYPA) fulfill the mandate set out by the groundbreaking Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA). Passed last year, BPRA commits the state to funding and building renewable energy in the inevitable event that the private sector is not on track to build enough to meet ambitious decarbonization goals that were set by the state in 2019.

OK, nothing about Fascism yet. Skipping three paragraphs ahead

After months of drought and with Prospect Park literally on fire, the state’s legislatively mandated climate goals should loom large for everyone in government. So should the BPRA’s commitment to phase out the state’s polluting peaker plants, which contribute to childhood asthma in poor neighborhoods. But with Trumpism gaining ground even in this blue state—Harris lost the votes of more New York City residents than any Democratic presidential candidate in recent history—it also behooves the Democratic governor to push NYPA for another reason: we need climate policy that resists Trumpist narratives by improving ordinary people’s everyday material conditions.

Is that the Fascism? Wanting freedom from tyrannical government?

It’s fitting that NYPA was founded by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1931, as Americans—and people worldwide—were struggling for economic survival in the Great Depression and the Nazi Party in Germany was beginning to win elections. The following year, just before Hitler came to power, FDR won the U.S. presidential election. He was savvy about how to fight fascism. “Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations—not because the people of those nations disliked democracy,” he said in 1938, “but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness…”. In NYPA, FDR’s legacy lives on and New York has an opportunity to once again fight fascism by democratizing energy.

Wow. That’s a big stretch, but, you know Warmists are nuts.

FDR and his contemporaries invested heavily in antifascist messaging, but knew that a better antidote to far-right poison was government action to improve people’s lives. New Deal era liberalism tackled energy access and transit, among many other problems of everyday life. New York has a chance to build on that deeply beloved tradition and fight the climate crisis at the same time.

One big difference between Big Government FDR and today’s Big Government Democrats: he was dealing with the Great Recession (and most likely prolonged it with his policies), but, he wasn’t trying to control everyone’s lives. Hitler and Mussolini also had lots of big government projects, and did control everyone’s lives.

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Report: Trump Admin To Boot All Gender Confused From Military On Day One

By William Teach November 26, 2024 – 7:00 am

They may be wonderful people. Hard working. But, transgender folks have a much higher instance of mental health problems, and especially suicidal thoughts. Do you want them around military grade weapons? Should the US military be paying for all their medical stuff? Should men with mental illness be around women? In their dorms, their locker rooms, showers?

From the link

President elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to issue an executive order on his ‘first day in office’ to ban transgender members of the military.

The controversial order would cause as many as 15,000 active service members to be ‘medically discharged’ – deeming them unfit to serve, according to The Times.

Trump seeks to issue the executive action on January 20, 2025 or Day 1 of his term, the Times said, preventing any transgender people from enlisting in the military as all branches continue to struggle with recruitment.

{Pete Hegseth] suggested that you can’t integrate trans people in as easily as people of different races were integrated ‘because being transgendered in the military causes complications and differences.”

Hegseth also said that transgender people were ‘not deployable’ because they are ‘reliant on chemicals.’

What’s the point if they cannot actually do the job? If they cannot be deployed? How many are constantly missing duty because of their condition? Well, now we’ll wait and see. The United States military is not a social experiment or a ticket for reassignment surgery.

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