Bummer: SCOTUS Rules 9-0 Against Biden’s Waters Of The USA Rule

By William Teach May 26, 2023 – 3:53 pm

This had made liberals very mad…right up to the point where Los Federales decide to regulate the small pond on their own property. In fairness, this doesn’t directly smack around the rule, but, puts it on notice to just stop right now

Supreme Court rules against EPA in dispute over regulating wetlands

The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate certain wetlands that qualify as “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act, curbing what has long been seen as a key tool to protect waterways from pollution.

The high court ruled against the agency in a long-running dispute with Idaho landowners known as Sackett v. EPA. In an opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the court found that the agency’s interpretation of the wetlands covered by the Clean Water Act is “inconsistent” with the law’s text and structure, and the law extends only to “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies of water that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right.”

While the majority acknowledged that weather and climate events like low tides and dry spells can cause “temporary interruptions” between bodies of waters covered by the law, the court said that wetlands protected under the Clean Water Act should be otherwise “indistinguishable” from other regulated waters.

Protecting wetlands is great. I’m all for it, though, if they are solely in a state that should be up to the state, not the federal government. Extending it out to just about any running water? No. Do you really want the EPA to regulate that small pond behind your house and make you get all sorts of permits? How about for temporary streams? It really is just a power grab

In a concurring opinion authored by Kavanaugh and joined by the three liberal justices, Kavanaugh argued the “continuous surface connection” test adopted by the majority “departs from the statutory text, from 45 years of consistent agency practice, and from this court’s precedents.”

By narrowing the scope of Clean Water Act, Kavanaugh warned some long-regulated wetlands will no longer be covered by the law, which will have “significant repercussions for water quality and flood control” throughout the nation.

I understand their reasoning, but, the EPA is contending that a small stream is navigable and under their purview and control, a massive stretch, as the EPA, and most federal agencies like to do. There would be no need for this ruling or even a case if the EPA wasn’t continuously attempting to grab more and more power.

The decision from the conservative court is the latest to target the authority of the EPA to police pollution. On the final day of its term last year, the high court limited the agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, dealing a blow to efforts to combat climate change.

It’s not about targeting their authority, it’s about reigning in their authority as deemed by law which the EPA wants to expand.

President Biden criticized the Supreme Court’s decision as “disappointing” and pledged to work with the Justice Department and relevant federal agencies to use their legal authority to protect the nation’s waters. Mr. Biden said the ruling puts wetlands and connecting bodies of water at risk of “pollution and destruction.”

What if the EPA decided to crack down on Biden’s properties using the same rule? I wonder how he would respond?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 26, 2023 – 2:08 pm

…is an area flooded by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on Philly potentially seeing “only” 450 murders.

OK, we’ll see if this stays stable. The backend server was having a lot of issues, and, combined with the large amount of ram this little site uses (kinda shocking, but, there are so many posts since 2005, and idiots who think hitting me with their bots will gain anything), it was really tits-up. Newer server, new plan which costs less monthly and a lot more RAM. We’ll see if it is stable. Then I had issues getting into the admin page, had to do some web FTP and add a little code regarding http versus https. Crossing my fingers it stays stable. If not, going to have to start wacking plugins. Jetpack is tops on my list. I know it causes issues. I can bring up the panel, see the traffic trying to load, it fails, then everything is down. I won’t bore you with all this.

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Bummer: Insurers Bowing Out Of U.N. Climate Alliance

By William Teach May 26, 2023 – 7:15 am

With the backlash from Republicans in the House and in states the insurers feel free to bot be involved in the scam. Except, there’s a wee bit of a problem

Insurers flee climate alliance after ESG backlash in the U.S

A United Nations-convened climate alliance for insurers suffered at least three more departures on Thursday including the group’s chair, as insurance companies take fright in the face of opposition from U.S. Republican politicians.

At least seven members of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), which launched in 2021, have now left including five of the eight founding signatories.

Departures on Thursday included AXA, whose Group Chief Risk Officer Renaud Guidée had chaired the alliance. The French insurer said in a statement it was leaving to “continue its individual sustainability journey.” Germany’s Allianz and French reinsurer SCOR also quit.

NZIA, part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero set up by U.N. climate envoy Mark Carney, requires members to commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

The group has been buffeted by growing political opposition from some Republicans in the United States, who say the group could be violating antitrust laws by working together to reduce clients’ carbon emissions.

How many of these insurers actually operate in the U.S.? Hence, Republican policies would have little to no effect on these insurance companies. It looks more like these companies are realizing that all this ESG and climate scam stuff is not good for the bottom line, and are certainly getting pushback from consumers and, more importantly, investors. And now that the United States is pushing back on all that crap they’re taking the hint to get back to proper business practices.

One company is involved in the US

This month 23 U.S. state attorneys general told NZIA members that the group’s targets and requirements appeared to violate both federal and state antitrust laws.

They gave insurers a month to respond in a May 15 letter – the latest salvo from the Republicans against financial institutions factoring environmental, social and governance-related (ESG) factors into their decision making.

So, it’s basically almost a crime racket. Good to know.

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132 House Democrats Think Lots Of Black People Do Fentanyl

By William Teach May 26, 2023 – 7:00 am

It’s always interesting when Democrats start yammering on about inequities and expose what they really think about black people. Even the Elitist blacks think the black peons are a problem

132 Dems vote against bill cracking down on fentanyl, cite ‘inequities’ in criminal justice system

The House on Thursday passed legislation that would permanently classify fentanyl-related substances (FRS) as Schedule I drugs that are subject to the toughest federal prison terms and penalties, over the objection of most Democrats.

Lawmakers approved the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act in an 289-133 vote that saw 132 Democrats oppose the bill even though the White House signaled support for it. In the final vote, 74 Democrats supported the bill and only one Republican voted against it. (snip)

But during floor debate on the bill, several Democrats argued against the bill by saying the penalties it imposes for producing and selling fentanyl analogues would fall unfairly on minorities. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., said the bill is a repeat of the “war on drugs” from the 1980s that will result in jail time for “Black and Brown” people.

Apparently, these Democrats think black and brown people are selling and doing a lot of drugs. Isn’t that rather racist?

“Did we learn nothing from the war on drugs? I guess not,” she said.

“Back then we enacted ineffective and punitive laws that only worked to expand mass incarceration, mostly of Black and Brown folks,” she said. “This legislation will enact ineffective and punitive drug laws that only work to expand mass incarceration.”

Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., said Democrats support permanently classifying FRS on Schedule I, but only if the bill is “carefully designed to avoid exacerbating inequities in our criminal justice system.”

Yes, it is racist. Perhaps if Democrats weren’t trying to keep black and brown people in poverty while being reliant on Government there wouldn’t be some much crime and use of drugs in their neighborhoods.

Republicans dismissed these worries and said tough penalties against FRS need to be made permanent because tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year due to fentanyl or FRS overdoses. Report language on the bill said more than 71,000 Americans died this way in 2021.

“If you are selling fentanyl to our kids, you deserve to be incarcerated,” Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said in response to Democrats’ arguments. “We don’t apologize for that.”

And the government needs to be going hardcore at the flow of fentanyl coming across the border and slapping massive penalties on the biggest importers and dealers. But, you know, we apparently do not want to upset all the black and brown people Democrats say are dealing and using fentanyl.

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Your Fault: Risk For Hurricanes Moving Further Inland Or Something

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 3:16 pm

This couldn’t possibly have anything to do with nature, and what happens during a Holocene warm period, could it? Are the researchers comparing now to previous warm periods? Because that would be rather necessary to do Proper Science

Climate change is moving hurricane risks further inland

The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, but you don’t have to be on the coast to be in the path of dangerous winds and flooding.

Researchers say climate change and rapid development are moving danger zones farther inland, putting more people in harm’s way.

This is troubling news for the many North Carolinians still reeling from the impact from Hurricane Florence in 2018. That storm dropped over three feet of rain – the state’s wettest hurricane.

The behavior of tropical systems is changing due to climate change. Now they are producing more rain, moving slower, and lasting longer over land.

And? Nature happens

As temperatures rise, warmer air molecules carry around more water vapor, causing more potential rainfall and increasing the chance of inland flooding.

The North and South poles are also getting warmer, and the pressure differences between the poles and tropical systems is now smaller, slowing down the steering currents that push these tropical systems along.

A recent study shows that tropical systems have slowed down by 10% in the past 75 years.

Another study shows that tropical systems are lasting longer over land. Fifty years ago, a typical tropical system would have lost more than three-quarters of its intensity in the first 24 hours of landfall. Now, it would only lose half.

How does this compare to the Medieval and Roman warm periods? Can we also look at the behavior during the Little Ice Age and Dark Ages? No? We’re just supposed to take it on faith, and do as the climate cult tells us? Interestingly, the article provides zero links to this new study. Just take it on faith and give your money, liberty, and life choices to government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is coffee which will soon be really expensive due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on Texas continuing to bus illegals to sanctuary cities.

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Credentialed Media Is Losing Minds After Target Removes LGBT Material

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 10:30 am

And they are pretty much getting it wrong

Target is being held hostage by an anti-LGBTQ campaign

During every Pride Month in June for the past decade, Target has sold merchandise for LGBTQ customers, employees and allies. But this year, Target faced an anti-LGBTQ campaign that went viral on social media.

Fueled by far-right personalities and on social media platforms, the anti-trans campaign spread misleading information about the company’s Pride Month products and its business practices.

Hurting brands’ sales and reputations was the stated goal of the campaign: “The goal is to make ‘pride’ toxic for brands,” said right-wing commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter. “If they decide to shove this garbage in our face, they should know that they’ll pay a price. It won’t be worth whatever they think they’ll gain.”

The campaign became hostile, with threats levied against Target employees and instances of damaged products and displays in stores.

That effectively held Target hostage: The company was forced to make an impossible choice to either safeguard its employees and stores or continue to support customers who wanted to buy the products it was selling.

Weirdly, no one really can state specific instances of threats of violence or damage. Where are the videos? Anyhow, that’s how most of the articles go, when the whole issue came to light when someone noticed all the trans material, especially “tuck friendly” swimwear for children, which the media is now claiming was only for adults.

There are also lots of trans clothing, including ones with slogans, for children. The displays aren’t really about celebrating gays and lesbians for pride month (I noticed a similar display for black history month at the Knightdale Target the other month, didn’t think much of it), but, the gender confused. I must have missed the same type of displays for Latino and Asian months.

The media is also complaining this is most just the South. If so, then why

Target shares hit amid Pride merchandising controversy

Target shareholders are feeling the backlash underway at the retailer as controversy swirls over its Pride merchandising plans, as first reported by Fox News Digital.

Shares slipped 2.7% on Wednesday and have dropped more than 9% this month, with 6% of that decline this week alone, as tracked by Dow Jones Market Data Group. That amounts to $4.2 billon in market value.

Over the same time frame, the S&P 500 has dropped just over 1%.

Adding fuel to the fire, the retailer’s Gay Pride collection has been linked to a controversial designer: Abprallen’s Erik Carnell, who is an outspoken Satanist whose brand features occult imagery and messages like “Satan respects pronouns” on brand apparel, Fox News Digital reported separately.

These companies which go Woke never seem to pay attention to what happened to others. Patronizing a group, then turning the amp up to 11, never helps, especially when you’re annoying the rest of your target (sic) audience. Target would have been fine with the lesbian and gay stuff (do they really wear different stuff?), but, the gender confused, especially for kids, was just too far.

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Climate Cult Is Looking For $23.2 Trillion From Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 7:00 am

Of course, the Warmists who have been using fossil fuels and are mostly refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels are exempt

The fossil fuel industry owes at least $23.2 trillion in reparations for climate change

A new study by the environmental research group One Earth estimates the world’s top fossil fuel companies have emitted around 36% of all global emissions since 1988. That amounts to 403,092 metric tons of CO2 emissions, based on the group’s 2023 analysis that builds on the Carbon Majors 2018 data set.

Have they emitted it themselves or just provided the fuel that runs the world that has created it?

The aim of the study is to provide, for the first time, a methodology to quantify the economic impacts of individual companies’ damage to the climate. Estimates for the reparations are conservative, as they do not take into account factors including lives and livelihoods lost, species extinction, and biodiversity loss.

The impacts disproportionately affect poorer regions: Oxfam estimates that carbon emissions of the world’s richest 1% is more than double the emissions of the poorest half of the world.

Global economic damages resulting from the climate crisis are projected to be $99 trillion between 2025 and 2050, and fossil fuel emissions are responsible for $69.6 trillion of that. Around one-third of that number rests on fossil fuel companies, amounting to $23.2 trillion, or $893 billion annually.

So, it’s basically a money grab. A shakedown. One that uses those poor folks as human shields, and, you know they wouldn’t really get the money. It would be siphoned off by government, lawyers, warlords in those 3rd world shitholes, and ‘climate change’ groups.

The top 21 fossil fuel-emitting companies owe $5.4 trillion, or $209 billion annually in reparations (excluding some companies such as those in Venezuela, which the study considers to be in too poor an economic situation to pay). Liability was also halved for producers in Russia, China, Mexico, Brazil and Iraq according to One Earth’s methodology.

Companies in countries that can afford to pay reparations include Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil and gas producer Saudi Aramco, which would owe the most at $43 billion annually, or about a quarter of its $161.1 billion profits in 2022.

In the US, ExxonMobil and Chevron would annually owe $18.4 billion and $12.8 billion respectively. ExxonMobil’s profits in 2022 alone were $56 billion, while Chevron made $35.5 billion in profits.

Yeah, well, good luck getting it. I’d believe this is real if the Warmists gave up their own use of fossil fuels.

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Biden Renews Call For Banning Scary Rifles From Peasant Hands

By William Teach May 25, 2023 – 6:45 am

He made this pronouncement at 330pm Wednesday. What was he doing the rest of the day? He schedule doesn’t say. I guess it takes a while for the meds to kick in

Biden renews call for assault weapons ban a year after Uvalde massacre

President Joe Biden renewed his call for a ban on assault weapons as he and his wife Jill held a White House event on Wednesday to mourn the 21 victims shot dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, one year ago.

The May 24, 2022, massacre, in which an 18-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle inside Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers, marked the deadliest U.S. school shooting in almost a decade.

The assault ended when police officers who had waited more than an hour to storm in and directly confront the gunman – even as children hiding inside repeatedly called emergency-911 for help – finally charged into the classroom and shot the suspect dead.

Law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school attack has been widely viewed as disastrous.

Many people, including myself, are still wondering where he obtained the thousands and thousands of dollars needed for all that he purchased, and wonder why the ATF did nothing when alerted to all the quick purchases.

But, I’ll tell you what: let’s ban the Secret Service and all law enforcement and military who are tasked with protecting Biden, Harris, the White House, Congress, all the federal buildings, and all the appointed Executive Office leaders from carrying any of the weapons Biden wants banned, along with all the actual military grade ones which are automatic. They can only carry rifles with no pistol grips, no flash suppressors, no extendable stocks, no foregrips, and the magazines can only hold 5 rounds. That’s fair, right? If they can do this for 4 years, that we can try a 10 year ban for citizens, which would sunset.

It’s also weird that Biden has really had nothing to say about the wackjob who rammed the fence. You’d think, after all the yammering Biden has done about “white supremacy”, that he’d mention a guy with a Nazi flag

Driver of U-Haul that rammed White House gate is not a U.S. citizen, prosecutors say

The man accused of ramming a U-Haul truck into barriers near the White House earlier this week isn’t a U.S. citizen, authorities said Wednesday.

Sai Varshith Kandula, a 19-year-old from suburban St. Louis, wore an orange jail-issued jumpsuit in his brief courtroom appearance — his first since the Monday incident — when prosecutors requested pre-trial detention.

A government prosecutor told the court that Kandula is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident.

But later on Wednesday, a Department of Justice official clarified the open-court remarks and said Kandula does hold a green card for lawful, permanent U.S. residency.

And, suddenly, the government is clamming up about him. It’s thought that he is most likely from the nation of India, based on his links to that community. Some are wondering if part of any plea deal will be simply deportation. What’s the Vegas odds that he’ll be deported before he even goes to court? Heck, quietly deported by the end of Monday, being a holiday weekend? If so, we’ll know the fix is in.

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Teen Vogue Wonders What Americans Will Give Up To Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach May 24, 2023 – 3:00 pm

I have a few ideas for the kiddies that supposedly read this loony tunes outlet

Will Americans Change Their Daily Lives to Acknowledge Climate Change?
This op-ed asks when Americans will be willing to make personal sacrifices for the climate.

What are you willing to give up to offset the impacts of climate change? It’s a question that should keep us all up at night, and it’s one that could depend as much on our nationality as our individual personality.

I’m not willing to give up anything, nor are most people in practice. I don’t lose a minute of sleep

In many ways, the European Union, where I currently live, has taken a leading role on answering this question — in stark contrast to how the United States has reacted. Last month, the European Commission approved what could be a precedent-setting decision from France. The country opted to ban flights between cities that could be reached by train in less than two and a half hours. In the US, that might eliminate plane journeys between major cities like Philadelphia and Washington, DC. The move was actually first proposed by a citizen assembly looking for ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

You live in Europe, so, mind your own f’ing business. Also, remember that private jets for the Elite in France are OK, but, not commercial for the peasants. Perhaps Elizabeth Djinis should ask Biden when he will stop taking fossil fueled flights from D.C. to Delaware. He could drive there in an hour and a half.

Still, the idea of actually forcing consumers’ hand on transit might strike Americans as a regulation that would never work in our country. After all, this is a country that bailed out airlines almost immediately during the pandemic to the tune of more than $50 billion. When it comes to saving corporations, we move fast. When it comes to saving the planet, not so much. While Europe was cementing its Green New Deal plan last summer, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court was issuing a ruling that hampered the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Pray tell, who would be doing the forcing? I love when the Cult of Climastrology shows their hand.

So, it’s not that we don’t care. One major impediment is the way the United States views climate as a partisan issue. In fact, in a survey of 13 countries on 5 continents, the United States had the biggest ideological divide when it came to climate action, according to a 2022 Politico Morning Consult Global Sustainability poll. About 97% of left-leaning voters were concerned about climate change compared to only 51% of those on the right. About 64% of Democrats said the US government was doing too little on climate change, according to the same poll, whereas only 26% of Republicans agreed with that statement.

In other words, you aren’t allowed to have an opinion, you must conform to the climate cult’s dogma and demands. Even though almost no Warmist practices what they preach.

There’s also the fact that America has another value that runs contrary to acting on climate at all — that of personal liberty. Just think of the protests and disputes that broke out across the country when masks were mandated in schools and certain public areas throughout the pandemic. A study of various countries, including Australia, Canada, China, India, and France, showed that the United States was the country second most likely—after Japan—to be unwilling to sacrifice their own rights for public health.

Yes, personal liberty is anathema to the climate cult.

When it comes to climate, Americans seem a little more amenable to the idea of changing their daily lives. A 2021 CBS News poll showed that 58% of Americans said people should do things to shape and change the climate crisis rather than simply learn to adapt and make the best of it. Then again, when asked whether they would pay higher taxes to help stop climate change, 65% said no.

Yet, Warmists do not change their lives. Because saying they’re willing to do so is theoretical, not in practice. I say I should give up bread and ice cream to lose weight. In practice, that ain’t happening.

Our approach to the climate crisis has to be a combination of everything, and there’s no question that corporations must be held accountable. But we live on a planet that needs saving from the very beings who inhabit it. The time has passed to put our own comforts above the mortality of the place we call home.

Or, and I write this respectfully, you can go fuck yourself and mind your own business, Adolph.

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