House Oversight Committee Would Like To Know About High Flying John Kerry’s Travel

By William Teach May 4, 2023 – 7:15 am

But, see, Kerry is Spreading Awareness, so, he apparently gets a full pass for his climahypocrisy

Climate Envoy John Kerry’s Jet-Set Spending Is Getting Plenty of Cloud Cover

John Kerry climateJohn Kerry leads an international jet-set life that might exhaust a runway model. If President Biden’s special envoy for climate was not in Washington or relaxing at his mansion near Nantucket Harbor, he could be found in Brazil, Panama, the Bahamas, or Germany. And that’s just in February and March.

While Kerry trumpets his meetings and appearances around the world, the State Department wraps the rest of his efforts in a cloak of secrecy usually reserved for CIA black box operations. It has refused to specify lists of people he is meeting with and who is advising him as he circles the globe. His office has stonewalled requests for budget and staffing information from legislators and government watchdog groups. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed last year by RealClearInvestigations for a breakdown on how the climate envoy’s roughly $16.5 million 2022 budget was spent, the State Department said it could not comply with the request until April 2025, months after both the 2024 election and the expiration of President Biden’s current term.

Didn’t Biden say his administration would be uber-transparent? Here’s the White House on Feb 4, 2021 on their core principles

(b) Transparency. In a democracy, the public deserves as much transparency as possible regarding the work of our national security institutions, consistent with legitimate needs to protect sources and methods and sensitive foreign relationships. The revitalization of our national security and foreign policy workforce requires a recommitment to the highest standards of transparency.

Hmm.

The secrecy surrounding Kerry’s work is reaching a boiling point with the threat of a congressional subpoena.

Frustrated that Kerry’s office ignored two previous requests for detailed information about its budget when his party was in the minority, Republican Rep. James Comer, who now heads the House Oversight Committee, sent what he labeled a final courtesy letter on April 25 and added that a subpoena would accompany the next request if Kerry’s “powerful, unchecked position” continued to hide the information.

“The State Department has not provided any meaningful updates to Committee staff inquiries on the status of producing these documents,” Comer wrote. “Envoy Kerry is engaging in activities that skirt congressional authority, threaten foreign policy under the guise of climate advocacy, and could undermine economic health. Yet, Envoy Kerry and his office are refusing to be transparent about their activities, spending, and staffing with the Committee – and the American people.”

Like with the document on Biden’s bribery, it’ll be a tough slog to get cooperation, and Republicans will have to play hardball. But, will they?

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Whistleblower Says Biden Took Bribe While Vice President

By William Teach May 4, 2023 – 7:00 am

Is this something? Is this something that will go somewhere, or, will the Congressional Republicans go wimpy like usual? Obviously, most of the big U.S. media, like the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC News, et al, are either not covering this or putting it way down the page

Whistleblower accuses Joe Biden of taking bribe from foreign national

Two senior Republicans are demanding the FBI release a document in which a whistleblower alleges Joe Biden took a bribe from a foreign national when he was vice president.

Iowa senator, Chuck Grassley and James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, claim the document “includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose”.

Congressman Comer, whose committee is investigating the Biden family’s business dealings, has issued a subpoena for the document.

“The information provided by a whistleblower raises concerns that then-Vice President Biden allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national,” he said.

Mr Comer added: “The American people need to know if President Biden sold out the United States of America to make money for himself.

“Senator Grassley and I will seek the truth to ensure accountability for the American people.”

And how long will the FBI stonewall Congress? Grassley doesn’t have the power, as he’s in the minority in the Senate, but, the GOP can hold FBI officials in contempt if they refuse to pony up the subpoenad document toot sweet.

Speaking on Fox News, Mr Grassley added: “We really need to know what steps did the Justice Department and FBI take to investigate and to vet the document to determine if it’s accurate or not?

“And did the Justice Department and the FBI follow normal investigative procedures, or did they let political calculations interfere?”

Please. They probably demoted any agents involved and threatened them. We’ll see if this has legs.

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Climate Cult Trying To Use A “Misreading Of The Bible”

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

I can’t find in the Bible where it says to force Other People to practice what you preach while you don’t

Opinion: How a misreading of the Bible fuels many Americans’ apathy about climate change

Christian theology and global politics can make strange bedfellows. Consider the intimate relationship between fundamentalist expectations of Jesus’ return and market-driven disregard for the environment.

The affair became public back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan’s newly minted Interior secretary, James Watt — once known for suing the department he went on to lead — was testifying before a House committee. Watt was asked whether he was committed to “save some of our resources … for our children?”

You know if there’s a long setup, then the whole thing will be wackadoodle cult mule fritters. Several more paragraphs and

The Watt hearing brought public scrutiny to the relationship between religion and environmental policy, but it was not the end of the affair. American evangelicals are still disproportionately uninterested in climate change and other environmental issues. Their apathy is driven not only by their well-documented distrust of science but also by a specific eschatological belief that Jesus is coming soon to bring history to a rather climactic end. Most evangelicals believe this is simply what the Bible teaches, especially in the Book of Revelation.

Sigh. These people

And it’s not just evangelicals. Popular evangelical culture — including Hal Lindsey’s bestselling 1970 book “The Late Great Planet Earth” and, more recently, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ blockbuster “Left Behind” novels (with movie spinoffs) — has led many more Americans to believe the Bible predicts our imminent end. Although evangelicals emphatically believe these predictions, and non-evangelicals decidedly do not, it’s broadly assumed that this is indeed what the Bible predicts.

In fact, Scripture says no such thing, either in Revelation or in any other book. This is widely known among historical scholars of the Bible but scarcely at all outside our ranks.

Most people are not looking to the Bible on ‘climate change’. They’re looking at what the leftists are reading and following, The Communist Manifesto, and realizing this is an authoritarian, doomsday cult scam.

If a significant portion of the voting public believes the end of our civilization is just 40 years off, why worry about the environment? Why support the Paris climate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050? It’s no surprise that believers in the Second Coming are significantly more likely to oppose governmental attempts to fight climate change.

That this view is based on a misinterpretation of the Bible suggests that religious expertise has never been more crucial to humankind. Who would have thought that serious biblical scholarship could help preserve the ice caps and stem the rising seas? Could it thereby contribute to our collective salvation after all?

It can only help. Let’s spread the word before it’s too late.

Why would any of us believe your cultists when you do not practice what you preach?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 3, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a pineapple which will soon grow in Canada due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on parents needing to vet their child’s doctor.

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Constitutional Carry Moves Forward In NC House

By William Teach May 3, 2023 – 10:30 am

I’ll be honest, I’m not sure if I agree with this, at least in terms of not requiring a training class

Concealed carry permit bill advances in NC House committee

House lawmakers in the Judiciary 2 committee debated House Bill 189, otherwise known as the NC Constitutional Carry Act on Tuesday morning.

The proposed bill looks to allow anyone 18 or older, barring certain disqualifying offenses or events, to be allowed to carry concealed without a permit in North Carolina.

“This bill is the opposite of what people are demanding,” said Rep. Marcia Morey, a Democrat who represents Durham.

Rep. Laura Budd, a Charlotte-area Democrat, said she had received “hundreds (of calls, emails) in opposition and almost none in favor of the bill.”

Well, of course she did. Republicans won’t bother writing to a Democrat, because you know she’s against anything involving the peasants being armed. But, she does have a small point: are people asking for this? They weren’t clamoring against it, though. No one was really mentioning it.

“It creates an issue,” said Johnston County resident Greg Johnson. “Somebody gets upset, there’s a gun involved. Somebody gets hurt badly. It’s just something that I think creates more problems than it solves.”

“We consider this bill a threat to public safety,” said Jennifer Copeland with the North Carolina Council of Churches, which represents more than a dozen denominations. “We believe if you weaken gun laws on who, how, and where we’re allowed to carry guns — we will ensure that more people will carry guns and more guns will get stolen.”

First off, if you are carrying the gun itself it won’t get stolen. Interestingly, though, you have all these leftist organizations and people who are upset about relaxing the rules for the law abiding, but, never complain about enforcing the laws, and cracking down, on the actual criminals. Because that’s who Democrats support. Criminals.

“An honest, law-abiding citizen does not by nature become a criminal. And people that want to carry concealed lawfully are not going to suddenly become criminals,” said Andy Stevens, the director of the North Carolina chapter of Gun Owners of America. “The criminals don’t care about this law at all because, of course, they don’t follow it to begin with.”

Exactly. And this would make NC the 28th state with Constitutional Carry

Under current law, those who want to carry concealed must complete classroom training and qualify, undergo a background check, and submit fingerprints. Lawmakers in favor of HB189 said the concealed carry permit system would still be in place for anyone who wants one — such as in the case of North Carolinians who want to legally carry outside of the state in other states that currently recognize North Carolina’s concealed carry permit.

That last one’s a big one: if you want to carry in states with reciprocity you must have the permit. I’m trying to determine which gun I like best for concealed, and, once I get it, I’ll take the class and get the permit.

The question now is, are there are enough votes to override a possible veto by Gov. Roy Cooper?

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Europeans Are Super Excited To Do Something About Hotcoldwetdry, With One Caveat

By William Teach May 3, 2023 – 7:15 am

Can you guess what that stipulation is? It’s the same one that always crops up when asked

Many Europeans want climate action – but less so if it changes their lifestyle, shows poll

Many Europeans are alarmed by the climate crisis and would willingly take personal steps and back government policies to help combat it, a survey suggests – but the more a measure would change their lifestyle, the less they support it.

The seven-country YouGov survey tested backing for state-level climate action, such as banning single-use plastics and scrapping fossil-fuel cars, and individual initiatives including buying only secondhand clothes and giving up meat and dairy products.

The responses, from the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Italy, suggested many people were happy with measures that would not greatly affect the way they lead their lives, but bigger steps that may be necessary were unpopular.

They’re super happy for little changes

Measures entailing no great lifestyle sacrifice were popular, with between 45% (Germany) and 72% (Spain) backing government tree-planting programmes and 60% (Spain) and 77% (UK) saying they would grow more plants themselves or were doing so already.

Similarly, there was fairly solid support – from 28% in Germany to 43% in Italy – for the idea of limiting meat and dairy intake to two or three meals a week; between 24% (in the UK) and 48% (in Italy) would back government legislation to that effect.

Unsurprisingly, government subsidies to make homes more energy efficient were wildly popular, with support ranging from 86% in Spain to 67% in Germany, while covering the costs personally was rather less so (19% in Germany to 40% in Spain).

They’re good with the government giving them money, failing to realize they’re the ones who will paying for it. The funny thing is, are those same people yammering about, say, meat, doing this themselves now? Only walk, cycle, or take public transit? It’s easy to commit to Someone Else planting more trees and a frequent flyer levy when you do not fly that much, not so much when it personally impacts your own life and money.

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Biden Regime To Send A Mere 1,500 Troops To The Border

By William Teach May 3, 2023 – 7:00 am

I wonder if he and his advisors think this minuscule action will placate the border states, as well as all the leftist cities who are having illegals shipped in? This bit of too little too late won’t stop the illegals from showing up, and, knowing the Biden regime, the soldiers will probably be tasked with helping process the illegals. When the troops aren’t doing TikTok videos and being indoctrinated on gender confusion and CRT

U.S. sending 1,500 troops to southern border amid migration spike

The Biden administration is deploying 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border to provide operational support to U.S. immigration authorities as they grapple with a sharp increase in migrant crossings ahead of the termination of pandemic-era migration restrictions, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday.

The service members will be deployed for 90 days, and will not be tasked with any law enforcement duties like detaining or processing migrants, said Brigadier General Pat Ryder, a Pentagon spokesperson. Instead, the military units will play a supporting role, assisting with transportation, administrative duties, narcotics detection, data entry and warehouse support.

So, this is all for show. They won’t be doing a damned thing. There’s literally no point in reading anymore of the article. What you need to know is in paragraph 2.

Now, they might be able to free up actual law enforcement, from state to Federales like the Border Patrol, but, the Biden admin is still going to just release those illegals into the country.

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Biden’s Latest Idea Is A Climate (scam) Tax On Cryptocurrency

By William Teach May 2, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Well, surely not his idea, but, the people who tell him everything

Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining

The White House is trying to persuade Congress to pass a 30% tax on the electricity used in cryptocurrency mining in the next federal budget in order to minimize the nascent industry’s impact on climate change.

“Cryptominers’ high-energy consumption has negative spillovers on the environment, quality of life, and electricity grids where these firms locate across the country,” the president’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) argues in a blog post that will appear on the White House website on Tuesday, to which Yahoo News gained advance access. The post will lay out the case for the Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME) excise tax, which the CEA writes is an “example of the Administration’s efforts to fight climate change and reduce energy prices.”

“Currently, cryptomining firms do not have to pay for the full cost they impose on others, in the form of local environmental pollution, higher energy prices, and the impacts of increased greenhouse gas emissions on the climate,” the CEA writes in its post. “The DAME tax encourages firms to start taking better account of the harms they impose on society.”

First off, this has no chance of passing as long as Republicans control at least one branch of Congress. Second, this is really just a money grab, as usual. Third, what about a tax on all the environmentally destructive mining for EV batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines? How about a tax directly assessed to Joe Biden for all his fossil fueled travel every weekend to Delaware and Camp David? Has anyone asked him when he’s going to transition his houses to 100% renewables? Neither his Greenville, Delaware nor Rehoboth Beach home have any.

Meanwhile, the NY Times is Very Upset that Google is allowing Wrongthink

Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming

In October 2021, Google promised to stop placing ads alongside content that denied the existence and causes of climate change, so that purveyors of the false claims could no longer make money on its platforms, including YouTube.

And yet if you recently clicked on a YouTube video titled “who is Leonardo DiCaprio,” you might have found a ramble of claims that climate change is a hoax and the world is cooling after a Paramount+ ad for the film “80 for Brady,” starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Rita Moreno.

It’s rather funny that the Times, which is protected by the 1st, wants other people’s 1st Amendment protections taken away. And, seriously, who really pays attention to those ads?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 2, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is the logo of a team that requires lots of fossil fuels for people to attend games, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on golf being a contact sport in Florida.

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Oklahoma Makes Gender Transition Surgeries And Drugs For Children A Felony

By William Teach May 2, 2023 – 10:30 am

Obviously, this has made the moonbats unhinged

Oklahoma governor makes performing ‘irreversible gender transition surgeries’ on children a felony

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has banned all sex reassignment procedures for minors in the state, including irreversible gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies, joining at least 15 other states with similar laws.

The Republican governor signed SB 613 into law Monday, making it a felony for healthcare workers to provide children under the age of 18 gender surgery, puberty-blocking drugs or hormone doses that suppress or delay normal puberty. It also bans the use of any medications or surgical procedures for the purpose of gender transition.

Violators can have their medical licenses revoked or face civil actions from a parent or guardian.

“Last year, I called for a statewide ban on all irreversible gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies on minors so I am thrilled to sign this into law today and protect our kids,” Stitt said. “We cannot turn a blind eye to what’s happening across our nation, and as governor, I am proud to stand up for what’s right and ban life-altering transition surgeries on children in the state of Oklahoma.”

We want to protect children, right?

The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma and other civil liberty organizations have promised to “take any necessary legal action” to prevent the Oklahoma law from being enacted.

It’s a civil right to do this stuff to kids? Where in the Constitution is this?

(CNN) Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Oklahoma previously vowed to “defend the rights of transgender youth in court” should the ban be signed into law.

“In a perilous game of chicken with their governor, Oklahoma lawmakers pushed through SB613, a dangerous bill that will jeopardize the health and lives of transgender youth, notwithstanding the overwhelming body of scientific and medical evidence supporting this care as safe, effective, appropriate and necessary,” the organizations said in a joint statement last week.

“Transgender youth in Oklahoma deserve the support and care necessary to give them the same chance to thrive as their peers. Gender-affirming care is a critical part of helping transgender adolescents succeed, establish healthy relationships with their friends and family, live authentically as themselves, and dream about their futures,” they continued.

Instead of patronizing the children, parents and adults should be seeking mental health support for them. The Associated Press, as seen at “news” sites like Politico and NBC News, calls surgeries and drugs “care”

Oklahoma governor signs gender-affirming care ban for kids

Oklahoma on Monday became the latest state to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors as Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill that makes it a felony for health care workers to provide children with treatments that can include puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.

It’s care to cut off breasts and penis’, give them life altering drugs. Rolling through news articles, I’m seeing quite a few outlets rolling with the AP headline and article, as it was written to somehow say that it is just mean to not allow kids going through a fad/mental health issues to do this.

Yes, tons of leftist insanity going on on Twitter.

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