It’s 11:18am, folks
Enjoy your final minutes, because, according to Greta Thunberg & her "top climate scientist" humanity will be "wiped out" at 11.18am today, because we didn't stop using fossil fuels five years ago… ???????? pic.twitter.com/myVCLspQnr
— Martin Daubney ???????? (@MartinDaubney) June 21, 2023
Read: Happy St. Greta Doom Day »
Who would have thought that taking care of a bunch of illegals would be so costly? But, then, the Democratic Party run city is all in on illegals, so, they should welcome having to pay for their everything, including rent, out of their own money, right?
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Wants $25M to Pay Rent for Illegal Aliens
Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is hoping to spend $25 million in taxpayer money to pay rent for thousands of illegal aliens in the city.
Since August of last year, more than 10,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of Chicago — many on buses sent from Texas.
Now, Johnson is hoping to secure $25 million in taxpayer money to provide six months of rent to more than 6,500 illegal aliens. That move would come as rent for local Chicagoans has skyrocketed in recent years.
He wants some of that money to come from state funds. Why are the rich Progressives of Chicago not voluntarily giving up their money to pay for the rent, since they support unfettered illegal immigration? Or opening up their own homes?
Meanwhile, Johnson will also be placing more than 300 mostly single male border crossers and illegal aliens in a sports center in the Gage Park neighborhood of Chicago.
So strange how so many are young, single men, not the women and children we keep hearing about. Chicago wanted this, right? Even though all this illegal immigration is raising the cost of housing? Where are all the homeless going? As Chicago spends all this money on illegals that means less money for legal citizens having trouble, on policing to deal with the high crime rate, and other vital city services.
Federal Data: Majority of Border Crossers Denied Asylum to Stay in U.S.
The majority of border crossers continue to be denied asylum to stay in the United States, even when they are released directly into the nation’s interior by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
While President Joe Biden’s DHS releases tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior every month, the majority will be found to have invalid claims for asylum, federal data confirms.
The data, tracked by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, shows that in Fiscal Year 2023 thus far, most border crossers and illegal aliens are denied asylum in immigration court. (snip)
Likewise, in Fiscal Year 2023, the majority of border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior after claiming “credible fear” at the southern border ended up not having valid asylum claims.
Most should be forced to apply for asylum outside of the U.S.
Read: Mayor Of Sanctuary City Chicago Realizes Illegal Aliens Are Expensive »
The question now is “will the judge buy into the scam?”
Young plaintiffs’ attorney closes Montana climate change trial with call for action
An attorney for 16 young plaintiffs urged a judge Tuesday to strike down as unconstitutional a Montana law that prohibits state agencies from considering the environmental effects when it weighs permits allowing the release of greenhouse gases.
Attorney Nate Bellinger made the plea in his closing argument at the end of a seven-day trial. Plaintiffs say state officials violated their right to a clean and healthful environment, part of the Montana Constitution, by allowing companies to build power plants and expand coal mines, among other things.
“Like other monumental constitutional cases before, the state of Montana comes before this court because of a pervasive systemic infringement of rights,” Bellinger said.
During the first-of-its-kind trial, plaintiffs testified about how increased heat, smoke from wildfires and drought affect their activities and mental health. Native Americans said climate change affects their ceremonies and traditional food sources, and climate experts warned the window to address the environmental damage is rapidly closing.
Montana Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell said in the state’s closing Tuesday that the climate change issue is much larger than Montana can address on its own.
He said calls by the plaintiffs for the state to take the lead in addressing climate change was a social statement, not a legal argument. The case put on by the young plaintiffs was a “weeklong airing of political grievances that properly belong in the Legislature, not a court of law,” he said.
If you’ve paid any attention to this suit, you notice that the plaintiffs were long on politics, fearmongering, personal stories, and demagoguery, and short on facts, law, and Constitutional reasoning. It belonged more in opinion pieces in the local papers, not a court of law.
Emily Flower, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Austin Knudsen, described the trial as a “publicity stunt staged by an out-of-state organization that is exploiting well-intentioned children.”
The plaintiffs were represented by attorneys for Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon environmental group that has filed similar lawsuits in every state since 2011 and raised more than $20 million in contributions. None of the previous cases had reached trial.
Again, it’s yet another astroturfed suit, where a big money climate scam group enlists a bunch of young folks, has them trot out some sob stories, then does their cult stuff. BTW, since the kids are so against power plants, when will they stop using all that power for their smartphones, streaming videos, uploading videos, streaming shows on their TVs, and so forth?
Read: Lawyer Makes Social Statement In Closing Argument In Youts Climate Case In Montana »
This has made the unhinged Democrats very upset, but, even if Governor Cooper vetoes it (he will) the veto will be over-ridden
NC Senate votes to ban trans girls from playing on school sports teams aligning with gender identity
Transgender rights took center stage Tuesday in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly advanced legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and trans participation in sports.
Hours after the House Health Committee advanced a bill banning state facilities from treating trans minors with hormones and gender-affirming surgeries, the Senate voted 31-17 to ban trans girls from playing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. One Democrat — Sen. Val Applewhite of Cumberland County — and all Republicans voted yes.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has little power to block legislation now that Republicans hold veto-proof majorities in both chambers.
Sen. Kevin Corbin, a Macon County Republican and one of the primary sponsors, argued on the Senate floor that the bill “is not against anybody” and is a necessary precaution to protect female athletes. But Wake County Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein, the only out LGBTQ+ state senator, criticized him for advancing during Pride Month a bill she said targets a vulnerable minority group “because of a nationalized agenda to dehumanize them for political points.”
Funny how Democrats have thrown actual, real, biological women under the bus to pander to the most extreme of the Rainbow Coalition, eh?
“Frankly, members, this is a very common sense bill,” Corbin said. “It’s not against anybody. It simply does this: It simply prevents biological males playing sports in the store.
“That’s that’s what this bill does.”
Grafstein said it’s ironic that lawmakers are passing bills targeting LGBTQ+ kids during Pride month.
Should they have waited till July to protect women? Wait to keep males out of women’s sports?
The bill prohibiting trans girls from playing on girls’ middle school, high school and college sports teams could return to the House floor for a final concurrence vote as early as Wednesday. Both chambers passed different versions before legislative leaders opted to proceed with the House bill.
The House version also looks to ban state institutions from getting involved in messing with children
The proposal would prohibit public health care facilities, including public hospitals and University of North Carolina affiliates, from performing any surgical gender transition procedure on a minor or providing them with puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones. Beginning Oct. 1, it would also prohibit using state funds to pay for any gender transition procedure.
It would be best if the House just go with the sports ban, then have the House and Senate discuss a separate bill restricting the gender transition madness for kids.
D Sellars, a 40-year-old nonbinary parent from Fuquay-Varina, said the slew of bills targeting trans people in North Carolina and around the country “just marginalizes us more, just pushes us out of the mainstream more, and it gives bigots more ammunition.”
Sellars, who donned a “Gender Identity Scares My State’s Government” shirt Tuesday at the General Assembly, said they’re especially concerned about the sports restrictions, which they said could make nonbinary kids like their own child feel isolated.
Maybe the parents should stop buying into the trans and 937 genders fads and wake their kids up.
Read: NC Senate Passes Bill Restricting Gender Confused Males From Playing Women’s Sports »
Seriously, what claims do climate cultists make that aren’t shoddy/false/fearmongering?
Watchdog hits John Kerry with science ethics complaint over climate change deaths claim
A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on Tuesday morning, alleging he spread misinformation about climate change.
In its complaint, Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) alleged that Kerry violated federal scientific integrity policy — which requires officials to communicate scientific information accurately based on the best available evidence — when he said in May that greenhouse gas emissions kill 15 million people per year worldwide. PPT requested a federal investigation into Kerry’s comments.
“15 million people are dying every single year around this planet as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, in the air which travels around and drops in the form of pollution and is warming the ocean at record rates, changing the chemistry of the ocean itself,” Kerry remarked on May 10 at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM for Climate Summit.
Kerry later added that, in addition to the 15 million people who die due to the “lack of quality” air, another 10 million people die on an annual basis globally as a result of extreme heat.
However, PPT’s complaint Monday, sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the State Department’s Office of Inspector General, noted Kerry’s figures appear to greatly overstate the death toll attributed to greenhouse gas emissions.
A Warmist “exaggerating”? Huh. Same guy is taking lots and lots of fossil fueled private jet travel
Kerry meets Pope Francis privately, says he’s in great form and spirits
VATICAN CITY, June 19 (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Pope Francis on Monday, the first official to have a private audience with him since his discharge from hospital, and told Reuters that he found the pontiff “in great spirits and in great form”.
How many people is John Kerry, who was in Vietnam, killing with his massive carbon footprint?
“Despite the enormity of Mr. Kerry’s claim, he did not cite any scientific evidence for its basis,” the PPT complaint stated. “Nor is there any apparent scientific research that supports a claim that there are currently 15 million people dying yearly due to greenhouse gas emissions — or any other single cause of death that is tracked.”
“Such a blatant misstatement of scientific information to the public is, by its nature, a threat to public trust and good governance,” it continued. “It is made far worse when such misinformation is used to publicly support sweeping policy changes like trying to reach net-zero emissions in agriculture, which would have untold effects upon the economy and lives of the American people writ large.”
That’s how the cult works: scaremonger in an attempt to get the Government to force Other People to give up their money, freedom, and life choices.
Read: Bummer: John Kerry Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Shoddy Climate Deaths Claim »
…is a horrible leather chair made from carbon polluting cows, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on the military monitoring social media for Mean Posts about generals.
Read: If All You See… »
California is ranked an A by the Giffords Law Center for their huge number of gun laws, which, of course, primarily affect law abiding citizens who want to protect themselves from the crime that’s rampant in the People’s Republik Of California due to the soft on crime approach of the government
Gun violence rocks nation over holiday weekend, with multi-victim shootings in at least 7 states
First, it was shootings in Southern California that sent revelers scrambling, fearing for their lives over the holiday weekend. One person was killed Saturday in San Diego during a Juneteenth celebration, and at least eight were injured in gunfire at a house party in Carson.
Hours later, in Madera County, a father and son were killed in two linked shootings.
California’s weekend of violence also included a shootout Sunday from cars traveling for a mile along San Francisco’s wharf, with six injured.
But the spate of violence was not confined to the Golden State, as shootings — some deadly — grabbed headlines in at least seven states on what was supposed to be a celebratory weekend of fathers and freedom.
There’s a common thread in almost all those shootings, including the weekend shootings through Monday: they were almost all in heavily Democratic Party run cities which are low on crime control, and involved Juneteenth parties.
At San Diego’s Liberty Station, amid a Juneteenth event Saturday night that drew hundreds, gunfire killed one person and wounded another, according to officials. Police called it an “isolated incident” that appeared to stem from a dispute, but the gunshots sparked chaos at what was supposed to be a family-friendly event, witnesses said.
Also that night, two people were killed and three were injured when a shooter fired “randomly” into the crowd at a Washington state campground near a venue where a music festival was taking place, police said. The shooter was among the three who were hurt.
Early Sunday, near Willowbrook, Ill., outside Chicago, where hundreds had gathered at a parking lot for a Juneteenth celebration, at least 23 people were shot, one fatally. Officials said “multiple rounds from multiple weapons” were fired.
About the same time in St. Louis, 11 youths ranging in age from 15 to 19 were shot at what officials described as a party, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A 17-year-old died, officials said.
And because of mostly one demographic shooting people for “disputes”, you should have your gun taken away from you.
“It’s not just people living in urban areas. It’s not just one type of person. … It was really large shares of people in all kinds of different demographic groups,” said Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research with the Kaiser Family Foundation, which conducted the poll. She said the weekend’s shootings reinforce the need to treat gun violence in America as a public health issue.
“It is hard to ignore that it is a health issue when you look at things like guns being the leading cause of death for children in this country,” Hamel said.
It was almost all one demographic. Facts do not lie. Most of the shootings were at parties that did not involve whites, Asians, or Hispanics. Maybe it’s time to look at why one group is responsible for shootings and murders way outside its population proportion. Call this racist if you want, facts do not lie. And most occur in areas run by Democrats. And how do all these shootings happen in cities and states run by Democrats with massive gun control? Illinois is ranked an A- by Giffords.
Read: LA Times Is Dismayed By “Gun Violence” In California, Which Has Massive Gun Control »
Say, I wonder why this story isn’t getting more coverage in the Credentialed Media
Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change
What happened: Authorities busted a Democratic donor for allegedly starting a “ginormous inferno” in Yosemite National Park. Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed more than 100 homes and injured several firefighters in July 2022.
Edward Fredrick Wackerman (his actual name) of Mariposa, Calif., faces a number of charges including aggravated arson following his arrest on Friday.
By the numbers: The arson suspect has donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records show, including a $1,000 donation to Tim Ryan’s failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and $400 to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC.
What they’re saying: “Ed Wackerman is facing several felony charges, including aggravated arson. These charges carry serious legal consequences and the District Attorney is committed to ensuring a fair trial and upholding justice,” Mariposa County District Attorney Walter Wall said in a statement. Authorities did not say how Wackerman is believed to have started the fire.
In other words, this Democrat donor intentionally set the fire. I wonder why?
What they said: “Thank you to all the firefighters and first responders working tirelessly under difficult conditions to combat the #OakFire,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) wrote on Twitter on July 25, 2022. “Worsening drought and severe weather will only continue to put lives and property at risk from wildfire if we don’t take climate action NOW.”
I remember all sorts of Warmist wackjobs blaming ‘climate change’ for the Yosemite wildfire, failing to consider that their extreme enviro-weenie policies of refusing to clear the brush, provide firebreaks, and no culling created a dangerous condition. It’s not anthropogenic climate change when a Democrat sets it on fire.
Read: Surprise: Democrat Donor Arrested For Starting Fire Blamed On ‘Climate Change’ »
What’s your bet? I’m thinking sometime in December
Blinken says US ‘does not support Taiwan independence’ during China visit
Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated U.S. support of the “One China” policy on Monday, saying that the U.S. does not support Taiwanese independence following a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“We do not support Taiwan independence,” Blinken said in a press conference on Monday. “We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross strait differences. We remain committed to continuing our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act including making sure Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.”
“At the same time, we and many others have deep concerns about some of the provocative actions that China has taken in recent years going back to 2016,” Blinken added. “And the reason that this is a concern for so many countries, not just the United States, is that were there to be a crisis over Taiwan, the likelihood is that could produce an economic crisis that could affect quite literally the entire world.”
“Fifty percent of commercial container traffic goes through the Taiwan Strait every day. Seventy percent of semiconductors are manufactured in Taiwan. If as a result of a crisis that was taken offline, it would have dramatic consequences for virtually every country around the world,” he added.
It’s not really a change in position, but, it’s a Bad Thing for a Biden regime member to say it out-loud and forthright, especially since the Biden regime is pretty darned week internationally, with one thing leading to another, such as the horrible Afghanistan withdrawal leading to Ukraine. China will see this as pure weakness, like most things Biden. It is a tightrope
But the means that China will need to use to achieve its ascendancy over Asia are military. And Taiwan occupies a central position along Beijing’s path to this goal. (snip)
It’s in this hard-nosed context that Taiwan takes on such importance. We might admire its democracy and entrepreneurial spirit, but those are not enough to justify Americans going to war. Instead, Taiwan is important to Americans for two reasons: because it is militarily critical and because it is a bellwether.
First, Taiwan is vital to the defense of Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. If China occupied Taiwan, it would pose a much greater threat to these countries and be able to project power deep into the Pacific, a very real possibility as we can see from China’s activities in Solomon Islands and its construction of an enormous oceangoing navy, including aircraft carriers.
Second, Taiwan is the canary in the coal mine. Credibility arguments always deserve to be met with skepticism. But it is only rational for Taiwan’s neighbors to look at how we treat Taiwan as an indicator of how we would treat them. Whether we like it or not, Taiwan’s fate will play a major role in whether countries think America is reliable as the cornerstone of the coalition. Indeed, as a result, if Taiwan fell we would probably have to do far more aggressive things to prove we were reliable at all.
China is salivating at being able to finally retake Taiwan and knock the U.S. down.
Read: Good News: Biden Regime Just Gave China Greenlight To Invade Taiwan »
It’s a full day in Leftist run schools. They have to learn about LGBT stuff (especially trans), anal and oral sex, BLM, how white people are evil, and ‘climate change’. No wonder test scores are so bad for math, reading, and history, among others. No time to teach it!
In a First-Grade Classroom, Lessons on Optimism and Climate Change
Seems a little bit cultish, eh?
In June 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the country to mandate climate change education in schools.
Weren’t the kids still locked out of their schools at that time?
Under this mandate, which went into effect during the 2022-23 school year, K-12 public schools must integrate discussions of the environment into classes like science, social studies and even the visual and performing arts. The goal is to further young people’s understanding of climate change and create a generation of climate-conscious consumers.
Visual and performing arts? Sounds a bit cultish
For an article published last week, Cara Buckley, a reporter on the Climate desk at The New York Times, went back to school in May (for half of a day) to understand how climate change is taught in classrooms. She observed a first-grade class at Slackwood Elementary School in Lawrenceville, N.J., as students participated in discussions about the environment, animal extinctions and — one that really got their attention — the implications of shark poop.
None of those have anything to do with the climate scam
In an interview, she shared more about her experience at the school, including students’ reactions to the recent wildfire smoke in the Northeast and the unsavory topic of vegetables. This interview has been edited.
Huh. The news interviewing the news.
Why did you decide to visit a school in person?
I write about people who are working toward small-scale climate change solutions. We need huge shifts to combat climate change; some are underway. But I’ve always been curious about what people are doing in their everyday lives to fix things.
My editor, Lyndsey Layton, had flagged this news to me in New Jersey. A lot of parents really wrestle with talking to their kids about climate change; they worry about freaking them out. Understandably, some people are terrified and heartbroken. That fear was where this idea came from.
Nothing like mass-indoctrination while scaring the pants off the little tykes, right?
The kids were so excited about this stuff, too. I was so struck by the way the teacher really got them to think. One of the big discussions in class was, What would happen if sharks disappeared? It immediately sparked this conversation about the importance of shark food, their poop and how it helps some fish and the ecosystem. The kids were paying attention to every bit of it.
So excited and impressionable, happy to be indoctrinated, rather than icky math and science.
Read: NJ Schools Start Their Climate (scam) Indoctrination Early »
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