NY Times: Hawaii Fire Fueled By Non-Native Plants

By William Teach August 14, 2023 – 10:30 am

I guess now that the Doom-mongering over the catastrophic fires in Maui were all caused by anthropogenic climate change has been made (and they were made immediately and without any scientific proof), the reality can be written

How Invasive Plants Caused the Maui Fires to Rage

When Hawaii’s last sugar cane plantation shut down in Maui in 2016, it marked the end of an era when sugar reigned supreme in the archipelago’s economy. But the last harvest at the 36,000-acre plantation underscored another pivotal shift: the relentless spread of extremely flammable, nonnative grasses on idled lands where cash crops once flourished.

Varieties like guinea grass, molasses grass and buffel grass — which originated in Africa and were introduced to Hawaii as livestock forage — now occupy nearly a quarter of Hawaii’s landmass. Fast growing when it rains and drought resistant when lands are parched, such grasses are fueling wildfires across Hawaii, including the blaze that claimed at least 93 lives in Maui last week.

“These grasses are highly aggressive, grow very fast and are highly flammable,” said Melissa Chimera, whose grandmother lived on the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company’s plantation in Maui after emigrating from the Philippines. “That’s a recipe for fires that are a lot larger and a lot more destructive,” added Ms. Chimera, who now coordinates the Pacific Fire Exchange, a Hawaii-based project sharing fire science among Pacific island governments.

Obviously, the Times goes on to yammer about warming temperatures, which is entirely expected during a Holocene warm period, and that the “dry seasons” are lasting longer. The very fact is, there are dry seasons. And something set the fires off. There was no lightening at the time. I did make the mistake of diving down the rabbit hole in viewing the conspiracy theories of things like DEW (directed energy weapons), bombs, how this is all a land grab. The land grab one is really gaining traction, because the Elites have been trying to buy the area, the government does have plans, and now there are reports about the land being toxic for a long time, meaning the citizens won’t be coming back. Things like why there were no warning sirens and that the water ran out of the fire control systems.

Biden was on vacation for 14 days, came back Tuesday, immediately flew to New Mexico, then Arizona, then Utah, came back to D.C. late Thursday, then back to the beach late Friday. Imagine how the media would respond if this was Trump, or any Republican.

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Colorado Climate Cultists Coming After Industry

By William Teach August 14, 2023 – 7:15 am

I can’t wait till the citizens of Colorado who voted for the politicians who pass these laws complain about the rising costs and loss of jobs

Colorado’s Next Big Climate Solution Is Reducing Industry Emissions

Colorado is implementing a groundbreaking plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an often overlooked but critical economic sector— industry. The state is the first to propose such ambitious plans to cut carbon pollution from industry, which includes processes like cement, steel, and chemical production.

Colorado has been a clean energy policy trailblazer for the United States. It was the first state to limit methane pollution from oil and gas wells and set new clean hydrogen standards, and it aggressively expanded geothermal energy generation through new regulations, grants, and consumer education.

Now, the state aims to set a new policy precedent with its proposed GEMM 2 rules (Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Management for Manufacturing Phase 2). GEMM 2 would curb the emissions of major industrial facilities, from breweries to microchip manufacturers, that each emit in excess of 25,000 metric tons of GHGs annually. (snip)

GEMM 2 would tackle the emissions of 18 industrial facilities, including factories owned by Suncor Energy, Molson Coors, and Microchip Technology, with anticipated emissions savings of 14 MMT of CO2 through 2050 (Figure 1). These 18 facilities make up 46% of the emissions burden of Colorado’s large stationary manufacturing sources. (In 2021, GEMM 1 focused on even larger emitters, who made up an additional 36%.) The affected facilities have individual targets based on their own recent emissions history and reduction efforts. Collectively, the targets aim to bring the GEMM 2 facilities’ emissions to 20% under their 2015 emissions levels by 2030.

How many of these companies will decide to move most or all of their operations out of the state, taking their jobs and taxes elsewhere? I doubt the Warmists in the state government care, nor do they care about all the middle and working class folks who will lose their jobs unless they move, and, with the higher cost of housing, it could be difficult.

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Surprise: Federal HHS Wants Workers In San Francisco To Work From Home Due To Crime

By William Teach August 14, 2023 – 7:00 am

When the federal government are worried about their employees coming to work in San Francisco, it sure tells you something

Hundreds of government employees in San Francisco told to work from home due to the high levels of crime in the area, report says

Hundreds of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services in San Francisco have been told to work from home due to the high level of crime in the area around its office, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The department recommended that employees worked remotely “for the foreseeable future,” the report says, citing an August 4 memo sent to staff, a copy of which the Chronicle said it had obtained.

The advice was given to workers “in light of the conditions at the (Federal Building),” Cheryl R. Campbell, assistant secretary for administration at the department, said, per the report.

The Federal Building is located at 90 7th Street in San Francisco, which is known to be a drug hotspot, with dealers often peddling drugs near or across the street from the building, the Chronicle reported.

It’s also in the downtown area, where everything else is slowly closing down, from Walgreens to CVS to Old Navy to Nordstrom to Office Depot to Crate & Barrel to Whole Foods to so many more. Some of which are closing stores, sometimes all of them, across all of SF.

If the video doesn’t show up, you can see it all at this Daily Mail article.

That federal government building also has Nancy Pelosi’s office. Does anyone think she ever shows up there, even with all her security? The Dept of Labor also operates out of the building. You can bet they’ll be telling their employees to work from home. And they’ll all most likely look for a new building far away. The below graphic comes from the Daily Mail article, and you can see where the HHS building is.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 13, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are trees that will soon die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on Germany’s economic woes intensifying.

It’s dresses week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 13, 2023 – 9:19 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once and Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers are really picking up steam. This pinup is by Peter Driben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Irons In The Fire discusses the out of control cops in the UK
  2. Legal Insurrection covers military readiness issues hitting the $200 million overhaul of the USS Boxer
  3. Moonbattery highlights Jonah Goldberg’s GOPe hatred of small donors
  4. neo-neocon discusses why DeSantis is better than Trump
  5. Newsbusters covers CNN doing stupid things with the word “leaf”
  6. Pacific Pundit notes the Bud Light stand is empty at Sturgis
  7. Powerline discusses current politics really being affluent vs everyone else
  8. The First Street Journal highlights the feds believing that Catholics are an extremist threat
  9. The Gateway Pundit notes Biden wanting housing for illegal aliens at the border
  10. The Lid shows illegals bringing Polio, TB, and sex trafficking.
  11. The O.K. Corral covers Biden groping the woman interviewing him
  12. The Other McCain discusses when the investigation is the coverup
  13. The Right Scoop covers the NY National Guard being used as babysitters for illegals
  14. This ain’t Hell… notes articles of impeachment filed against Biden
  15. And last, but, not least, Green Jihad covers US energy sector warning Brandon his carbon rules are unworkable

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Lady Gaga’s Dad Is Not Happy About All The Illegals In SCNY

By William Teach August 13, 2023 – 7:00 am

Why does this matter? Lady Gaga’s dad isn’t exactly a nobody, and he perfectly encapsulates the thoughts of all the Northeast liberal illegal alien supporters, though, there is one caveat

Nolte: Lady Gaga’s Dad Angry Migrants Are Ruining His Fancy NYC Neighborhood

Joe Germanotta, who also happens to be Lady Gaga’s 66-year-old dad, is angry over a migrant surge that’s ruining his precious Upper West Side neighborhood.

And here we have more proof that Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) brilliant decision to ship these illegals in the thousands to blue cities like New York is pure genius. Believing its distance from the border would protect it forever from the consequences; New York City smugly declared itself a sanctuary city. Abbott, who is dealing with His Fraudulency Joe Biden opening the border, said, Okay, if you want’em, you got ‘em.

And because it’s a helluva lot cheaper to hand these illegals a bus pass or plane ticket than to house them, it’s off to these smug sanctuary cities they go. And now the smugs who smugly declared border states racist for demanding a secure border are getting a glorious taste of their own smug medicine:

Flipping to that NY Post article

Lady Gaga’s dad is leading the charge against unruly migrants living near his Upper West Side home and restaurant — griping they’re flooding the ritzy neighborhood with a constant stream of hookers and other bad behavior.

“If it was like this when my girls were growing up, I wouldn’t be living in New York,” said Joe Germanotta, 66, who is compiling a list of local residents’ concerns to take to lawmakers, the NYPD, and the homeless services in protest. (snip)

Since the arrival of the migrants, the restaurateur said the quality of life in the area has taken a hit, with impromptu block parties outside the hotel that last into the early morning, prostitution, kids getting catcalled, and reckless e-bikes and motor-scooter drivers wreaking havoc on one-way streets.

“There’s now 500 migrants living in that dormitory. That’s when all the mayhem began,” said Germanotta.

Isn’t this what the illegal alien supporters wanted? Or, just wanted for Other Places?

Germanotta claims the chaos has depreciated local property values and said it’s torn at the fabric of a neighborhood that was caught off guard.

Huh. You don’t say

“They’re guests in our neighborhood, and they have basically taken over.”

Sidewalks that used to be mostly clean are now filled with trash, he said.

He was particularly troubled when he started seeing hypodermic needles.

Perhaps he should have a conversation with his daughter, who was a big supporter of Let’s Go Brandon, who’s in charge of allowing unfettered immigration.

He said the group wants to see a written plan — with targets, dates, and objectives — outlining how the order is going to be restored to the affluent neighborhood.

This a very long article, with a lot of great quotes. Why should he get order restored in his neighborhood, when border communities are overrun with illegals. In fairness, that caveat is that he was a Trump supporter. You can bet, though, that the majority of the people in his community and group voted Biden.

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Washington Post Says Maui Fires Not Just Due To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach August 12, 2023 – 3:00 pm

In other words, they were not your fault

Maui fires not just due to climate change but a ‘compound disaster’

As scientists weigh the influence climate change may have had in fueling Hawaii’s wildfires, there isn’t one standout factor they point to. Rising temperatures likely contributed to the severity of the blaze in several ways. But global warming could not have driven the fires by itself.

Maui is facing a compound disaster, where many different agents acted together to make the fires so horrific. As human influences on the climate and environment grow, the risk of these disasters is escalating.

Cult

Hawaii is, on average, two degrees warmer than it was in 1950, according to state climate data. Scientists said that likely provides the strongest connection between humans’ fossil fuel consumption, which emits greenhouse gases that warm the planet, and the likelihood of fires in Hawaii and elsewhere.

It’s a Holocene warm period on islands that are volcanic.

But scientists have also prominently mentioned the role of non-climate influences in the intensity of the firestorm, such as the introduction of highly combustible nonnative plants, as well as weather patterns that happen naturally.

The hell you say!

But some immediate analyses of the winds observed in Hawaii have found (Hurricane) Dora’s presence may have only increased the gusts’ speed by about 5 mph, Masters said. The high pressure — aided by a flow of hot, dry air from the Southwestern U.S. into the Pacific — could have been enough to stir damaging winds on its own.

As for the drought conditions that covered more than a third of Maui County, where the most destructive fires burned, there is no direct sign that they are the product of climate change, said Abby Frazier, an affiliate faculty member at the University of Hawaii now based at Clark University in Massachusetts.

No one even knows what started the fire. That matters not to the cult, but, if you read between the lines, it has nothing to do with the massive amount of fossil fuels used to bring tourists and goods to the island that is thousands of miles away from the mainland.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 12, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is bright sunshine burning up the Earth, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on the special prosecutor for Hunter Biden.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out Geller Report, with a post on LA schools having sex clubs for children.

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Guy Trying To Enter U.S. Illegally Sues CBP After Falling From Wall

By William Teach August 12, 2023 – 10:30 am

Let’s say you’re trying to enter the grounds of the White House illegally by climbing over the fence, and you fall off of it and hurt yourself: is this your fault or would you sue? If you sued, would the lawsuit be dismissed because you were trying to enter illegally? Heck, you would have been arrested and in trouble. Fences and walls are up for a reason. They are meant to keep people out of places they shouldn’t be. Hence why Biden is having a fence put around his beach house, why Pelosi has a wall around her house, and so many other illegal aliens supporting Democrats have them around their own homes

CBP sued by family of migrant who died after falling from border wall

The family of a man who died after falling from a border wall near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government.

Joel Reyes Muñoz’s wife filed the lawsuit, saying her husband’s death remains a mystery.

On Jan. 12, 2022, in his third border crossing attempt, Muñoz fell from the 30-foot wall between Tijuana and San Diego, but according to the lawsuit, he would have survived if Border Patrol had provided him with medical attention instead of deporting him. The lawyer says an hour passed between his fall and his death.

“That was his purpose, to go to the United States and be able to help his children because he wanted them to continue studying,” Leticia Durán Martínez told Telemundo 20.

His third attempt at entering the United States illegally over a 30 foot wall. This is on him, but, I’m sure the suit was filed in a friendly court.

Only 20% of Mexicans were hospitalized in 2022 as a result of their attempted border crossing and suffered injuries unrelated to the wall. About 80% suffered more serious injuries when falling from the border fence.

Don’t climb it. It’s not hard to understand. Democrats, and some squishy Republicans, have enabled and driven this behavior with their support of illegal immigration.

Migrants take the U.S. to court over its glitchy asylum app

It has been more than half a century since U.S. immigration laws were written to enshrine the right to apply for asylum at any port of entry to the country. But a new lawsuit argues that today, the right to seek safe haven from persecution is only accessible to people who show up at America’s doorstep with a working smartphone in hand.

Since May, migrants on the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico border who are hoping to apply for asylum have been required to make their asylum appointments through a mobile phone app operated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, known as CBP One. The new system has effectively oriented the first — and for many, the most urgent — stage of the asylum process around a digital tool that is, by many accounts, glitchy and unreliable.

On July 27, immigrants’ rights groups filed a class action lawsuit against the Biden administration over its use of the app, setting the stage for a legal showdown over the government’s decision to shift the first stage of the asylum application process into the realm of automation.

Good grief. Biden tried to do illegals a solid by making it easier to apply, meaning they will get to come to the U.S. and hang for years while waiting for their day in court (and disappear when they are denied asylum, like 90% are), and they sue? How about they just stay home? Maybe the U.S. should start using all this money to take care of Americans.

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Jeff Bezos Purchase Expensive House In Super Flooding Miami Area

By William Teach August 12, 2023 – 7:00 am

Remember this

And now for something completely different

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buys home in Miami’s ‘billionaire bunker.’ Tom Brady will be his neighbor

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is buying an estate on an exclusive man-made barrier island in Miami known as “Billionaire Bunker,” where he will be neighbors with a growing list of celebrities including Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.

Bezos, 59, is paying $68 million for the three-bedroom, waterfront home, which sits on 2.8 acres (1.1 hectares), Fortune magazine and Bloomberg reported. The Amazon founder stepped down as CEO in 2021 to devote more time to philanthropy and other projects.

Guillermo Olmedillo, the village manager of Indian Creek Village, told The Associated Press he has no information about the purchase. The village has a country club and its own police force.

Let’s look at the elevation data

I guess he’s not particularly concerned with sea rise from ‘climate change’, eh?

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