California County Says They Will Not Enforce PRC Anti-Gun Law

By William Teach January 5, 2024 – 10:30 am

Sutter County is a small county of about 100K people which typically votes Republican. Trump won 57.16% to 40.73%. It’s also just barely to the north of the People’s Republik Of California capitol of Sacramento

New gun laws won’t be enforced by Sutter County Sheriff’s Office: “We have no interest in criminalizing constitutionally protected behavior”

Days after a federal appeals court ruled to temporarily uphold a new California law that bans carrying guns in public spaces, the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office announced they will look at each circumstance on a case-by-case basis.

“We have no interest in criminalizing constitutionally protected behavior,” said Sutter County Sheriff Brandon Barnes and Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer R. Dupré in a joint social media post on Wednesday. “We took an oath to uphold our Constitution and will work to protect the rights of our citizens.”

The controversy stems from Senate Bill 2, which became law on Jan. 1. The new law bans licensed concealed gun holders (CCW) from carrying their firearms at bars, places of worship, parks, public events, stadiums, casinos, financial institutions, medical facilities, on public transportation, and other public places.

On Dec. 26, 2023, a federal judge blocked the new California gun control law from taking effect on Jan. 1, however, days later, a federal appeals court reversed that decision while the issue went through litigation.

They law basically stops law abiding citizens who’ve passed federal background checks and other measures from being able to carry concealed out of their homes. Do people need to carry in some of those places mentioned? It should mostly be up to the individual venue. Bars? Certainly not if you are drinking. Casinos? Probably not. It’s “other public places” that is the issue

(PBS) The California Pistol and Rifle Association’s president, Chuck Michel, said in a statement that under the law, gun permit holders “wouldn’t be able to drive across town without passing through a prohibited area and breaking the law.” Michel said criminals are deterred when law-abiding citizens can defend themselves.

Just about anywhere a legal gun owner goes would be illegal. Private businesses are allowed to put up signs stating that concealed carry is OK, otherwise, the permit holders may not go into any store. Will other sheriff’s in the Republican leaning counties follow Sutter?

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Hotcoldwetdry Is Hurting Youts Mental Health Or Something

By William Teach January 5, 2024 – 7:15 am

It couldn’t possibly be due to the kiddies being treated to a constant litany of Doom and gloom, could it? That the climate cult’s fearmongering is messing up the youts, right?

Climate change is hurting kids’ mental health, report finds

Surviving a hurricane or wildfire can be traumatic. And people who are displaced from their homes may suffer anxiety, PTSD, or depression.

Yes, the weather, which humans have always dealt with

Children are especially vulnerable because they may not have coping skills yet. And they depend on adults, who may be struggling themselves.

They depend on hysterical, doomsday cult member adults. Not a good combination

Christie Manning of Macalester College is co-author of a recent report on climate change and children’s mental health that was released by the American Psychological Association and nonprofit ecoAmerica.

She says even young people who have not directly experienced a disaster may feel anxiety about the climate crisis. They worry about the future and that adults are not taking more action.

So to support kids, the report suggests screening them for distress and improving access to mental health services for young people and families.

Probably the best thing would be to send them to mental health professionals who will deprogram the kiddies and explain that yes, bad weather events do stink, but, they are just weather, and you will be OK. And that the majority of wildfires are caused due to accidents and arson, not a slight increase in the global temperature since 1850. Get the kids away from the adult cult members.

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SCNY Sues Bus Companies For Doing Their Job Of Transporting People

By William Teach January 5, 2024 – 7:00 am

What does Sanctuary City New York mayor Adams think bus companies do? In this case, they were hired to transport people for money. That’s the business, right? What this lawsuit is about is to put the fear into all bus companies so they do not transport illegal aliens to a self determined sanctuary city

NYC sues Texas charter bus companies for $700 million cost of caring for migrant

New York City is seeking more than $700 million from Texas charter bus companies to cover the cost of housing and caring for migrants who have been transported to the city, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The lawsuit is intended to cover past shelter, food, and health care costs for migrants transported from Texas, as well as future costs of migrants already here and migrants who may be transported in the future, according to the mayor’s office. The city said more than 33,600 migrants have already been transported to NYC from Texas.

The Adams administration has been trying to navigate ways to stem the tide of buses bringing migrants to the city and the mayor said he hopes the lawsuit serves as a warning for future transports.

“New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the costs of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone,” Adams said in a statement. “Today, we are taking legal action against 17 companies that have taken part in Texas Governor Abbott’s scheme to transport tens of thousands of migrants to New York City in an attempt to overwhelm our social services system.”

Yeah, well, I’m not a lawyer, but, I sincerely doubt that this will go anywhere, since they were hired by the state of Texas to transport illegals, again, the entire point of the business is to transport people for hire. If it doesn’t get thrown out of court immediately, because, really, if Adams wants to sue anyone it should be Texas, then Adams would lose on appeal. And, since this is about interstate commerce, this cannot be adjudicated in local or state court, it must be a federal court.

What Adams wants to really do here is get the bus companies to hold off in taking charters from Texas as the case waits for court, as well as force the companies to pony up a lot for lawyers.

Hopefully, Texas will provide lawyers so the bus companies do not have to use their own money as the case proceeds, and who will also countersue for interfering with said Constitutional authority to travel.

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Surprise: Giant Offshore Wind Project Killed Off

By William Teach January 4, 2024 – 3:00 pm

At least they didn’t get a massive “loan” from Los Federales which will never be paid back

Giant offshore wind project axed in blow to Biden’s green goals

Global energy developers Equinor and BP on Wednesday announced they are canceling the contract for a massive wind project slated for construction off the coast of New York.

The two companies said they had reached an agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to terminate the offshore wind renewable energy certificate for their Empire Wind 2 project. Equinor and BP explained that commercial conditions, namely inflation, interest rates and supply chain disruptions, prevented its contract for the project from remaining viable.

“Commercial viability is fundamental for ambitious projects of this size and scale. The Empire Wind 2 decision provides the opportunity to reset and develop a stronger and more robust project going forward,” Molly Morris, president of Equinor Renewables Americas, said in a statement. “We will continue to closely engage our many community partners across the state.”

That’s nice corp-speak for “this thing was a turd and we didn’t want to lose our shirts.”

“BP is supportive of NYSERDA’s leadership and commitment to offshore wind, which we believe is a critical part of New York State’s and America’s clean energy future,” added Joshua Weinstein, BP’s president of offshore wind Americas. “Offshore wind can deliver reliable renewable power as well as economic benefits to the state and its communities.”

Critical, but, not at the thought of losing lots of money

The cancelation of Empire Wind 2 comes weeks after the Biden administration formally approved it and its counterpart, Empire Wind 1, in November. The Department of the Interior (DOI) and Department of Energy (DOE) have both endorsed the project, while the White House has referred to it as a success story of “Bidenomics.”

Yup, that’s Bidenomics. Projects that are expensive and not “commercially viable.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 4, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a lovely house at the top of a hill, necessary for when the seas rise dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on what happens when you’re in a digital car.

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Heresy: Italian Chef Puts Pineapple On Pizza

By William Teach January 4, 2024 – 10:30 am

Burn the witch!

Italy divided over new pineapple pizza

Anyone who’s set foot in Italy knows there are unwritten rules that one must abide by – and the most important of all revolve around food. Cappuccino after 11 a.m.? Only for tourists. Spaghetti bolognese? A horrifying thought. Pineapple on your pizza? Heresy – at least, it was until now.

But 2024 might just be the year that pineapple pizza cracks Italy, thanks to Gino Sorbillo, the renowned Naples pizzaiolo (pizza maestro) who has added the dreaded “ananas” to his menu in Via dei Tribunali, the best known pizza street in the world capital of pizza.

Sorbillo’s creation, called “Margherita con Ananas” costs 7 euros ($7.70). But this isn’t your regular Hawaiian: it is a pizza bianca, denuded of its tomato layer, sprinkled with no fewer than three types of cheese, with the pineapple cooked twice for a caramelized feel.

Sorbillo, a third-generation pizzaiolo, told CNN that he created it to “combat food prejudice.”

“Sadly people follow the crowd and condition themselves according to other people’s views, or what they hear,” he said.

So, not only is he committing heresy, he’s doing it for some sort of weird food Social Justice. Stop. Just. Stop.

Tasty or not, pineapple on pizza is anathema to most Italians, and his pizza – which he launched on social media this week – hasn’t gone down well with many. It has, Sorbillo said, started “uproar” with insults on social media, and his pizza even being discussed on national TV.

Not tasty. No pineapple. Just like no anchovies. Or broccoli. Or carrots.

“But Italy is split in half about it. And not just Italy. There’s a load of arguments that have opened up about it. I think people in general are not curious. They are mistrustful of anything different.”

No, they just know that some things do not belong on pizza.

“In the last few years people have been using ingredients that five, six years ago were never used. Now we use speck from Alto Adige, mortadella which wasn’t used 10 years ago, chopped pistachios, powdered olives, mozzarella foam, even jams. Why shouldn’t we rediscover pineapple? Pizza has been taking on a new life for the past five or six years.”

There’s a reason things are classics, and others aren’t. There’s a reason people go for pepperoni first. I prefer a nice meatball. Not sprinkled ground beef, but, actual meatballs sliced and put on top. With enough sauce, and you have to use whole milk cheese. Not that part-skim stuff.

However, one thing he draws the line at is starting with a tomato base.

“That’s another fruit – with two fruits, which both have acidity it wouldn’t be a good product,” he said. “Instead, I put three smoked cheeses on, and it changes the pizza, becomes a different taste.”

No sauce no dice. Yup, I’m a pizza snob. But, then, I did grow up on the Jersey shore, where you can get a great pizza everywhere.

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Hotcold Take: Britain Needs EV Road Tax To Avoid Gridlock

By William Teach January 4, 2024 – 7:00 am

Is anyone getting the notion that the Powers That Be do not actually want the peasants to actually be able to drive any vehicle? (via Not A Lot Of People Know That)

Tony Blair Institute calls for electric car road tax to avoid ‘gridlock Britain’

Tony Blair’s think tank has said Jeremy Hunt must “urgently” introduce a road tax which would make driving electric cars more expensive.

James Browne, senior policy adviser at the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), called on the Chancellor to introduce a new system of road pricing to stop the country becoming “gridlock Britain”.

Analysts have warned that the Treasury must step in to plug a £25bn black hole in the nation’s finances and stop traffic jams from surging as more motorists shift to electric vehicles (EVs).

This will happen because EV drivers do not pay fuel duty. As the Government phases out petrol cars as part of its push to get to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, this means Britain’s fleet of cars will become far cheaper to run.

As it becomes cheaper, people will drive more, while the Treasury’s tax take from fuel duty disappears.

Now, should there be some sort of road tax on EVs? Well, yes. Nothing wrong with that, the roads do need to be maintained, along with infrastructure. What Blair’s think tank wants to do, though, is have a very high tax which will make it almost too expensive for the middle and working class folks to drive.

Of course, this is a problem created by Government mandates. We’ve already seen issues where the gas tax revenue nose-dived in the Obama years when he increased the CAFE standards. Cars got better MPGs, so, less gas, plus, more hybrids being sold. So, they needed to raise the taxes. Now they just want you out of your car.

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Mike Johnson Goes To Border, Blames Let’s Go Brandon

By William Teach January 4, 2024 – 6:45 am

This has made CNN, and other Credentialed Media outlets, very upset

House Speaker Mike Johnson knocks Biden for ‘catastrophe’ at border during Texas visit

House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized President Joe Biden on Wednesday for the “mayhem” he witnessed at the US-Mexico border, saying in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that the Biden administration isn’t doing its job.

“This catastrophe can come to an end if the Biden administration will do its job, and they refuse to do it,” he said.

Johnson traveled with more than 60 House Republicans on Wednesday to Eagle Pass, Texas, at the same time that Republican and Democratic Senate negotiators are trying to hammer out a bipartisan border agreement as part of a broader funding package for Ukraine, Israel aid and border security – and questions are swirling about how House Republicans would react should a deal be reached.

You can almost feel how upset CNN is over this, while failing to mention that neither Biden nor Kamala have been to the actual border. And you know CNN and the others would be raking Trump over the coals if the border was this bad while he was president.

In the interview Wednesday, Johnson threw cold water on the Senate negotiations, arguing the House Republican border bill passed last year was what was needed. But he also didn’t rule out putting a Senate bill to a vote, saying that it was too soon for him to say because there is no draft bill yet.

Johnson argued that the problem wasn’t going to be solved simply with more money – the Biden administration requested in its supplemental $14 billion for the border along with additional funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan – and said that the House-passed provisions were needed to reduce the number of people crossing the border.

“This is not about sending more money down here, it’s about changing the policy, and the White House seems not to understand that,” Johnson said.

It’s about the will to secure the border, and implementing policies that restrict the flow of people coming illegally as well as showing up and demanding asylum. About telling people to not come. About not giving them incentives to come. About deporting them quickly. Sticking with CNN

Biden administration sues Texas over state’s controversial immigration law

The Biden administration on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Texas over its controversial immigration law that gives local law enforcement in Texas the authority to arrest migrants, arguing the state “cannot run its own immigration system.”

The move comes after the Justice Department threatened last week to sue Texas if it didn’t back down from the measure. It marks the second legal action against the state this week, as President Joe Biden and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spar over the handling of the US-Mexico border.

Could this backfire awesomely? With courts ruling that the Biden regime is in gross dereliction of duty, with Texas having to do the job the federal government refuses to do?

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Bummer: Human Evolution Could Stop “Us” From Solving Global Boiling

By William Teach January 3, 2024 – 3:01 pm

Apparently, we’re now going to change to something new really fast, unlike the rest of human evolution. But, then, this is a doomsday cult which thinks a slight increase in global temperatures over 170+ years is a terrible thing

Human evolution may prevent us from solving climate change, UMaine study finds

A new study led by an evolutionary biologist at the University of Maine has come to a grim conclusion: The very traits that have allowed humans to dominate the globe might prevent us from solving global environmental threats like climate change.

Since the origin of our species, humans have developed a keen ability to adapt to our environment, creating better and better technology – from primitive fishing weirs to the modern oil well – to exploit our natural environment, the study says.

When a resource starts to run low, or a method threatens our health or home, humans have a track record of moving to the next resource-rich area or fighting on the battlefield or boardroom over the scraps that remain rather than coming together to solve the problem.

“We’re entering a new era of the human relationship to the environment,” UMaine Associate Professor Tim Waring said. “Climate change is a global crisis. We can’t just move on or fight amongst ourselves. If we do that, it won’t go well for us. The nature of human evolution has to change.”

I’m thinking what they mean by “evolution” is really adaptation, which humanity has done for thousands of years, particularly through the Holocene

Humans have overcome environmental threats before, Waring noted. Throughout his career, he has found examples of communities, regions, nations and even groups of nations coming together to successfully address overfishing, whaling and acid rain.

Such successes usually had three things in common: the scope of the problem was smaller than the group of collaborators coming together to fix it, some external pressure existed to implement the solutions and something had happened to highlight the danger of doing nothing.

Sigh. These people really are a doomsday cult.

The global climate crisis is different, Waring said. The size of the problem exceeds the size of the group trying to fix it. The United Nations lacks the authority to enact or enforce solutions. And until recently, the bill to be paid for rising emissions seemed like it would never come due.

Humans must solve the climate problem before Earth reaches a tipping point, Waring warned.

OK, so, every Warmists needs to stop using fossil fuels, give up eating meat, only buy used clothes, live in tiny homes, and give all their money and freedom to government. That would solve what they’re pushing, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 3, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is wood rotting from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on an Iranian destroyer heading to the Red Sea.

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