If All You See…

By William Teach September 21, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a jungle that’s disappearing due to global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on Deep Space Nine being prescient on the destruction of San Francisco.

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Zelensky Sees A Lot Of Pushback Over US Funding Of Ukraine War

By William Teach September 21, 2023 – 7:45 am

Remember this poll

(CNN) Overall, 55% say the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine vs. 45% who say Congress should authorize such funding. And 51% say that the US has already done enough to help Ukraine while 48% say it should do more. A poll conducted in the early days of the Russian invasion in late February 2022 found 62% who felt the US should have been doing more.

Within both parties, there are splits by ideology. On providing additional funding, liberal Democrats are far and away the most supportive, 74% back it compared with 51% of moderate or conservative Democrats. Among Republicans, about three-quarters of conservatives oppose new funding (76%) compared with 61% of moderate or liberal Republicans.

Independents mostly say the US has done enough to help Ukraine (56%) and that they oppose additional funding (55%).

But, remember, it’s only “far right Republicans”  who oppose more funding

Zelensky returning to a chillier, more chaotic Congress

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is returning to Washington less than a year after he last visited, seeking to solidify support for his country as chaos on Capitol Hill threatens both the U.S. economy and America’s support for Ukraine.

Standing side by side with President Biden will send a signal of America’s commitment to Kyiv’s fight against Russia’s invasion. But his meetings with lawmakers are likely to highlight the growing skepticism over the cost of ongoing U.S. support for Ukraine in Congress, which ultimately has control over additional military and financial assistance.

Criticism has been the loudest in the House, where a growing group of far-right Republicans want to cut off funding entirely. But even in the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said there’s “unanimity” in support for Ukraine, there’s significant fractures on what that support entails.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has earlier put up roadblocks in the Senate on passing funding for Ukraine, delaying for at least a week a $40 billion aid package in May 2022. When the Senate brought the bill to a vote on the floor, Paul led 10 other senators in opposing the measure.

Asked by The Hill on Monday night if he would attend the meeting with Zelensky, Paul quipped, “Is that a welfare hearing? What is that for?”

“I don’t think we should be sending any more money,” he said. “I’m just not for sending them any more money.”

We do not even have accounting for the money we’ve already sent, though, we are sure than a lot went to paying Ukrainian lawmakers and bureaucrats. Biden wants to give Ukraine another $24 billion

“I’ve always been in favor of munitions and military equipment, but I am not in favor of continuing just blank financial support,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of Senate GOP leadership and the Armed Services Committee.

The whole thing seems to be a scam meant to bleed the US and EU allies dry. Poland is no longer sending arms as they fight with Ukraine over grain.

‘What’s our objective?’: Biden under pressure over Ukraine aid sales job

Ukraine’s biggest backers in Congress want the Biden administration to more aggressively sell America’s interest in the war, fearful that bipartisan support for aid is faltering.

In recent weeks, senior House Republicans and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have separately told national security adviser Jake Sullivan and other administration officials to step up their efforts in selling lawmakers on additional Ukraine aid or risk losing critical support, according to three people familiar with the messages and granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.

On Wednesday, McConnell blasted Biden’s public messaging on Ukraine as “insufficient” and indicative of “timid leadership” on the matter.

Biden “has an obligation to speak to all Americans. But most of his messaging about lofty and abstract principles seems tailored for Washington think tanks,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, echoing sentiment he made privately to Sullivan and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, according to a senior Republican aide.

Good grief, a sales pitch? That’s the big idea? At this point, no one really knows what the objective really is. Unless it’s to bleed Russia dry as Ukrainians die for a decade or more. Or, is it to start WWIII?

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Your Fault: Humanity Has “Opened The Gates Of Hell” Or Something

By William Teach September 21, 2023 – 7:00 am

Was this before or after thousands took long fossil fueled trips to NYC for the latest United Nations bitch-session? Definitely before tens of thousands take long fossil fueled trips to the yearly climate conference in November in the fossil fuels nation of Dubai, right?

‘Humanity has opened the gates of hell’: U.N. chief calls for climate change action

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres opened the United Nations’ Climate Ambition Summit on Wednesday in New York City with a dramatic declaration that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.”

Following the hottest summer on record, which featured a number of devastating extreme weather events linked to rising global temperatures, Guterres cataloged some of the results.

“Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects,” he said. “Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease.”

The U.N. chief went on to call for more aggressive action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change and increased financial support for the most affected countries. He was followed by speakers from 34 nations discussing their own actions to address climate change.

The gates of hell! From a small increase in the global temperature since 1850. No worse than previous Holocene warm periods. Oh, and what’s more aggressive action? And how much will that affect your money and freedom?

In his U.N. speech Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid the blame for climate change directly on the fossil fuel industry.

“It’s not complicated, it’s the burning of oils, the burning of gas, the burning of coal, we need to call that out,” Newsom said.

“The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis, so we need to leave fossil fuels behind,” said Chilean President Gabriel Boric in his address.

Said by two guys who just too long, fossil fueled flights, surely in private jets, then fossil fueled limos to a city that runs on and is powered mostly by fossil fuels. How many of these people have investments in solar, wind, and EVs?

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Chicago To Spend $29 Million For Security At Illegal Alien Camps

By William Teach September 21, 2023 – 6:45 am

So, what could the Sanctuary City Of Chicago do with $29 million? How many legal residents could they feed? How many areas could they secure against crime (California looks to spend $267 million to stop smash and grabs)?

Mayor Brandon Johnson quietly signs $29 million deal with private security firm as part of Chicago’s planned migrant ‘base camps’

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration recently moved forward with plans to place new asylum-seekers in massive tent camps around the city, signing a nearly $30 million contract with a private security firm at the center of controversies related to its handling of asylum-seekers elsewhere in the U.S.

GardaWorld Federal Services, and its subsidiary Aegis Defense Services, quietly sealed the one-year deal with the city on Sept. 12. The city contract calls for GardaWorld to provide “emergency logistics management and operation services that will set up shelter … and other necessary services (also called ‘a base camp’ or ‘solution’)” for the new arrivals.”

The company signed a similar $125 million contract with the state of Illinois late last year, though so far very little has been paid out. Earlier this month, Johnson’s team noted the city’s migrant expenditures could reach $302 million by the end of this year when factoring in costs of the new tent encampment sites.

That’s awesome. Supposedly, the contract will see GardaWorld provide more than just security, but, really, they are needed to protect the citizens of Chicago from yet another source of crime. How are you feeling about all those sanctuary city policies now, Democrats? These illegals are going to love living in a tent during a Chicago winter, especially with the wind blowing off the lake with 8” of snow on the ground and temps below zero. Just a regular January day in the Sanctuary City. And, I wonder how many of the companies being paid to supply support for the illegals are Democrat Party donors?

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Climate Cultists (and climahypocrites) Hate Free Speech

By William Teach September 20, 2023 – 3:00 pm

So, you have a ton of Elites taking long, fossil fueled trips to NYC for the UN meeting, and yammering about the climate crisis scam. How many took private jets and then were ferried around in low MPG limos/SUVs, with big retinues. And there’s former New Zealand Comrade Prime Minister Jacinda Ardean. I’m not sure why she’s there and addressing anyone, since she’s no longer in government

Is anyone surprised in the least that the climate cult wants to silence free speech? This is one of the issues that turned me from believing that anthropogenic global warming, as it was called back in the early part of the century, was a big issue to a skeptic. I could see that virtually every policy from the Warmists revolved around big, controlling, Authoritarian government. These same people constantly yammer about “losing our Democracy” yet are the first ones who want to restrict the rights of citizens, who want to stop you from speaking. It’s fine for them to say whatever they want, but, you peasants? Nope.

Then we get to the wannabe dictator from Ukraine

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 20, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a big fossil fueled vehicle in a big carbon polluting nation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on two old women sent to jail for blocking an abortion clinic.

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Sanctuary City Denver Has Spent Over $23 Million On Migrants

By William Teach September 20, 2023 – 10:30 am

Even though the mayor of Denver has said that Denver isn’t a sanctuary city, the Sheriff’s dept of the county of Denver stopped enforcing ICE detainers in 2014 and the city council codified that in 2017. So, a sanctuary city. So, a sanctuary city

Liberal city’s costs for sheltering migrants nears $25 million

The city of Denver’s costs in dealing with the surge of migrants into its city is nearing $25 million, officials said this week — marking the latest financial hit that liberal cities are facing as they deal with migrant influxes.

The city told Fox News Digital in an email that to date, its expenses for migrant sheltering efforts is close to $24.8 million.

Axios reported in August that the city had spent over $23 million in dealing with the crisis, and was dealing with an uptick in migrants — although the city’s situation was said to be stable as leaders worked to solidify a plan on how to provide services.

Fox reported in April that the city expected to spend up to $20 million over the subsequent six months, with costs of up to $1,000 per migrant per week. The city had declared a state of emergency late last year after numbers shot up in December.

$1,000 a week for each migrant/illegal. That’s a lot of money to spend on each one, money that could be spent for the actual taxpaying citizens of Denver. They could possibly spend that money on having enough police officers to protect citizens, being down 7% from their 2020 numbers, especially since Denver is in the worst category, a 1, for their crime rate. Their violent and property crime rates are double that of the state of Colorado. You have a 1 in 17 chance of being a victim of a property crime.

N.Y. Lawmakers Sue to Block Migrants From Floyd Bennett Field

A dozen New York lawmakers — including four Democrats and a Republican congresswoman — raced to court on Tuesday to try to block Mayor Eric Adams from opening an emergency shelter for as many as 2,000 migrants at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.

In a suit filed in State Supreme Court on Staten Island, the lawmakers accused Mr. Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul of skirting state and federal law meant to protect the national parkland when they reached an agreement last week to lease it from the Biden administration. They asked the court for an immediate injunction, and said they were preparing another, federal suit. (snip)

Responding on Tuesday, Mr. Adams said that the lawmakers had the right to sue, but he argued there were few better sites than Floyd Bennett Field, situated on the Jamaica Bay in southeast Brooklyn, “away from homes,” communities and school. The city finalized a lease on the site on Friday, after months of negotiations with the Biden administration.

So, wait, Adams doesn’t want all those illegals near the other citizens? Wants them out of the way? Huh.

Oh, and Sanctuary City Los Angeles just received it’s 14th busload of illegals/migrants.

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Climate Scientist Rainn Wilson Says Hotcoldwetdry Endangers Ice Cream

By William Teach September 20, 2023 – 7:15 am

Now, if there was anything to anthropogenic climate change threatening ice cream, I might have to go all Fascist. I’ll cut down on most snacks and stuff, but, not ice cream

Sorry Ice Cream Lovers—Rainn Wilson Just Told Us Climate Change Might “Endanger” the Treat

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesYesterday, if you walked through Union Square Park, you would have caught a glimpse of Rainn Wilson handing out ice cream to passersby—-and the reason why may surprise you.

The actor best known for his role in The Office as Dwight Schrute, Wilson has made it clear over the years that he is a huge advocate for climate change awareness, an example being when he briefly changed his name to “Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson.”

“I had this realization about 4 or 5 years ago that climate change is something that I’m passionate about, and climate change education, but all I was doing was sending out occasional angry tweets,” Wilson said in an interview with EatingWell with Dr. Gail Whiteman prior to the New York event. “I knew I needed to actually do something and get off my butt and not be a keyboard activist.”

So let’s backtrack: why hand out ice cream in the city? Fittingly at the start of New York Climate Week, Wilson, Whiteman and Tatham were focused on highlighting ice cream as a food that may be directly impacted by climate change.

“One of the things that scientists are talking about now is that we’re in danger of having severe limitations to some of the flavors that we’ve come to know and love and rely on, like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and mango and pistachio [and coffee]. So it’s important to just bring some attention to that in a memorable, sticky way… sticky in two ways!”

And his multiple degrees in climatology should make us listen to him…oh, wait, he has a degree in drama and one in acting. So, he knows nothing. Those flavors will be just fine. They’ve survived many warm and cool periods, and will survive this one.

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Republicans Pounce On Biden’s Really, Really Terrible Iran Deal

By William Teach September 20, 2023 – 7:00 am

Or, is this seizing? Seriously, any CEO who made a deal this bad would be immediately fired with no golden parachute. If Trump made this deal the Democrats would already have articles of impeachment submitted, and, if they controlled the House, they’d be starting an impeachment trial by Monday. And there might be enough GOP votes in the Senate to boot him

Republicans slam Biden administration for prisoner swap deal with Iran

Republicans PounceRepublicans are voicing outrage at the Biden administration’s decision to carry out a prisoner exchange with Iran, accusing President Joe Biden of paying ransom to a world state sponsor of terrorism.

The administration notified Congress on Monday that it has proceeded with the agreement, which has involved issuing a waiver that will give Tehran access to $6 billion in oil revenue that the U.S. had frozen through sanctions.

Under the agreement, the administration will free five Iranians under detention in the U.S., and in exchange, Iran will release five Americans it has detained.

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Biden on Tuesday on Truth Social, saying the deal sets a “TERRIBLE precedent.”

“So, lets get this straight! We did a hostage TRADE with Iran. We gave them 5 very tough, smart people that they desperately wanted. We likewise got back 5 people BUT, we also gave them 6 BILLION DOLLARS! How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get? Does anyone realize how much money 6 Billion Dollars is?”

Of course, the Biden regime says “hey, it’s Iran’s money, so, sure.” And, it is, but, it was frozen for sanctions, for which Iran continues to perform badly and violate those sanctions.

To move forward with the deal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a waiver last week to international banks to allow the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds from South Korea to Qatar. The agreement allows Iran to use the money to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian items allowed by U.S. economic sanctions.

Is there any rational human being that believes the money won’t be used for terrorist operations and their nuclear weapons aspirations? There actually isn’t any guarantee or hard requirement.

“I am always glad when Americans are released from captivity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on X, formerly Twitter. “However, this agreement will entice rogue regimes, like Iran, to take even more Americans hostage. The ayatollah and his henchmen are terrorists and truly represent a terrorist state.”

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said on Facebook: “The U.S. should be unrelenting in its efforts to bring detained Americans home, but Iran will now count pallets of ransom money, putting its leaders in a better position to develop a nuclear weapon and fund terrorists. And the price to release U.S. hostages will only go up.”

Of course, media outlets like NBC News refuse to ask the Biden regime hard questions.

Oh, and few media outlets explain exactly who the Iranians are

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Climate Cult To Continue Demonstrating In NYC Today

By William Teach September 19, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Without fossil fuels NYC would be nothing. The amount of goods that flow through NYC. The vast amounts of fossil fueled vehicles, from buses to private cars to taxis to garbage trucks to police cars to the mayor’s limo. Airports. The vast majority of the energy for NYC is from fossil fuels.

Climate change protesters set to demonstrate outside Bank of America in Bryant Park

Climate change protests will continue on Tuesday, this time against Bank of America.

Critics say that the bank is the third largest financier of fossil fuels.

The protest will be held at the Bank of America Tower in Bryant Park starting at 10 a.m.

On Monday more than a hundred people were arrested on Wall Street during a climate change demonstration and protest.

A total of 114 protesters were arrested and taken into custody in Lower Manhattan. Most were expected to be processed and released.

Don’t these people have jobs? How many are wearing clothes and shoes made with petroleum? How about their smartphones? Most of their banners are made with petroleum.

Despite the arrests, the group promises more activism this week during the U.N. General Assembly.

“This is our last resort,” said Alicé Nascimento of New York Communities for Change. “We’re bringing the crisis to their doorstep and this is what it looks like.”

Have any noted the vast amounts of fossil fuels needed to bring all the people to the UN this week? How many of the protesters took a fossil fueled trip to NYC?

The aim of the protesters is to demand an end to fossil fuel financing from outside the largest financial institutions and the New York Stock Exchange.

Funny how they always demand Other People comply with their beliefs. Bunch of Fascists.

The March to End Fossil Fuels featured such politicians as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and actors Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton, Kyra Sedgewick and Kevin Bacon. But the real action on Broadway was where protesters crowded the street, pleading for a better but not-so-hot future. It was the opening salvo to New York’s Climate Week, where world leaders in business, politics and the arts gather to try to save the planet, highlighted by a new special United Nations summit Wednesday.

Organizers estimated 75,000 people marched Sunday.

And all of them use vast amounts of fossil fuels. How many constantly purchase products, from food to clothes to TVs, that are shipped using fossil fuels?

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