Excitable Joe Manchin Seems Pretty Upset Over Climate Law, IE, The IRA

By William Teach May 2, 2023 – 7:15 am

Perhaps Joe should have thought about voting for the abomination known as the Inflation Reduction Act after being promised something that has never materialized. He got rolled, at the expense of the American citizens

Manchin’s ‘playing with fire’ — and some Democrats are tired of the drama

Sen. Joe Manchin is losing patience with his fellow Democrats over their signature climate law — and the feeling is mutual.

Wasn’t it supposed to be about reducing inflation? It’s right there in the name, right? No?

The West Virginia Democrat has spent weeks escalating his attacks on President Joe Biden’s implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping bill that Manchin helped write in a deal that stunned Washington last summer. Last week, he threatened to join Republicans in voting to repeal the law, as the House GOP is demanding in its legislation for raising the nation’s debt limit.

Manchin’s comment caught his caucus colleagues off guard, even if such a repeal would be a long shot in Congress. It came just as Biden was launching a reelection campaign that rests heavily on that legislation’s climate and health care provisions.

“That surprises me that he wants to repeal it. I think it’s one of his greatest accomplishments,” said Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a close colleague of Manchin’s on the Energy Committee, in an interview.

The IRA is far less of a political bright spot for Manchin, whose potential reelection hopes are clouded by growing disapproval ratings in his home state, partly driven by his support for the law. Manchin has yet to announce whether he’s running, but a formidable challenger entered the West Virginia Senate race last week — GOP Gov. Jim Justice.

The IRA, and Joe Manchin, must be polling poorly in West Virginia. I doubt the citizens are really happy with either, especially since Joe was never given the fast-track permitting he was promised, and the IRA really hurts the fossil fuels companies and all the WV citizens who work in them.

Some Democrats fear that Manchin’s criticisms will do real damage by confusing the public about one of the law’s most debated-provisions: its $7,500 tax credits for electric vehicles. He has accused the Treasury Department of violating the law by flouting strict provisions he wrote designed to force electric vehicles to be made in the U.S. with American-made parts.

They do violate the law. And they’ve released the list of the EVs that qualify. Most are expensive, except the Chevy Bolts. Which are being discontinued.

Anyhow, it’s a long, long piece which is really about Manchin trying to complain about the stupid law which he’s really at fault for in an attempt to not lose his election next year.

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Brandon Regime To Finally Lift Most Vaccine Mandates Next Week

By William Teach May 2, 2023 – 7:00 am

Are people still getting the Wuhan Flu vaccines? My last one was September of 2021, and I have no intention of taking another. I probably have a photo of it, otherwise, have no clue where the card is. They really do very little

US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week

The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday.

Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11. The government is also beginning the process of lifting shot requirements for Head Start educators, healthcare workers, and noncitizens at U.S. land borders.

The requirements are among the last vestiges of some of the more coercive measures taken by the federal government to promote vaccination as the deadly virus raged, and their end marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to treat COVID-19 as a routine, endemic illness.

“While I believe that these vaccine mandates had a tremendous beneficial impact, we are now at a point where we think that it makes a lot of sense to pull these requirements down,” White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told The Associated Press on Monday.

Really? If that’s the case then why did the number of deaths increase from the pre-vaccine time, along with infections? And, consider that this was the also the time of forced masking. As for ending the mandates, I’m confused: Biden signed a bill ending the COVID emergency April 10th. It’s done. Which should end all mandates.

Federal courts and Congress have already rolled back Biden’s vaccine requirements for large employers and military servicemembers.

Mandates remain for many employees of the National Institutes of Health, Indian Health Service and Department of Veterans Affairs — which implemented their own requirements for healthcare staff and others independent of the White House — will remain while those agencies review their own requirements, the administration said.

Well, go get your 8th worthless shot. Most nations ended any mandates last year, because there was no point, especially when most other mitigation efforts ended long ago.

(Science) In April 2022, researchers in the United Kingdom reported in The New England Journal of Medicine that, based on the health records of more than 1.5 million people, protection against symptomatic COVID-19 with the Omicron variant faded to zero 25 weeks after a second shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine and to just 9% 25 weeks after a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. A booster dose increased protection back up above 60% for a month or two, but by 10 weeks that protection had also started to wane. (Protection against severe disease persists longer.) Now that ever-larger numbers of people have some immunity after natural infections, the real-world benefits of vaccines have become still harder to measure.

Wait, natural immunity? It’s real?

Rob Ernst, the university’s chief health officer, says requiring the bivalent booster means that at the start of the fall semester all residents will have had a booster that is less than 1 year old. And the rule is still needed, he argues. With as many as 1200 students living in some residence halls, “the potential for disruption is greatest in that area.” After 3 years, Ernst says, “We still have significant COVID in our community.”

The vaccines won’t do a damned thing when they’re all gathered together, getting close, touching, hugging, and so forth.

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Washington Post Is Super Excited To Have King Charles Implement ‘Climate Change’ Initiatives On The Peasants

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

Climate cultists love the notion of an authoritarian figure dictating what the peasants will do. Forgetting that most of those advocating for this are, themselves, peasants

King Charles should double down on climate change

Last November, soon after his mother’s death, the new King Charles III was scheduled to attend COP27, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to deliver a major address. The Egypt trip would have been his first overseas trip as king.

Suddenly, his trip was canceled. The also-new Tory prime minister, Liz Truss, who had just succeeded Boris Johnson, nixed it.

Truss, who would be prime minister for about 20 minutes until she blew up her government and got thrown out by her own party, was not a big climate change activist. She marched into a personal audience with Charles and made her objections clear to him. Though those objections were not spelled out publicly, one can only assume they were political. Since a monarch is required to be above politics, and must get the approval of the government for any international trip, the plan was called off.

That’s the way it works now in England, because the monarch and their family do not really have power

But what if the new king’s first instinct — the trip to Egypt — is a harbinger of a reign that could transcend alienated second sons, disgraced brothers and all the other Windsorland tabloid drama?

The way he can accomplish that is to declare, and convince the British public, that the climate crisis is not a political issue. And it is not. If anything, it is a spiritual one. Climate deniers would like to make it about politics, but their real agenda is about money. In the short run, climate action might hurt corporations and big business.

Spiritual? Like a cult?

This is the king’s moment to carve out his own role as a pragmatic spiritual leader. When he is crowned, he will accept his role of Defender of the Faith, though he has said he will be “the defender of faiths” (including “people of no faith”), following in the footsteps of the queen, who was keenly aware of the multicultural society she presided over. He is the supreme governor of the Church of England, which has voted to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions for its operations by 2030. A statement by the church says, “We believe that responding to the climate crisis is an essential part of our responsibility to safeguard God’s creation and achieve a just world.”

In his new role, Charles will be able to present the issue of the climate crisis as one of sacrality, that which inspires awe and reverence. British religious historian Karen Armstrong writes in her new book, “Sacred Nature,” that the great religions of the world embrace the notion of the sacrality of creation. “We have seen how nature was revered by the great sages, mystics and prophets of the past,” she writes. “It is now up to us to revive that knowledge and commitment and recover our bond with the natural world.” She quotes William Wordsworth — “There hath past away a glory from the earth” — as a call to action and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as seeing “the divine as inseparable from nature.”

Yes, a doomsday cult. The WP’s Sally King just barely avoids King Charles making proclamations to force people to comply.

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If All You See…

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

…are houses in the hills to avoid carbon pollution sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Biden challenger RFK, Jr. calling for companies that dispute ‘climate change’ to be dissolved.

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Kiss’ Paul Stanley Explains The Gender Confused For Kids Debate

By William Teach May 1, 2023 – 10:30 am

Say what you will about members of Kiss, most of them are pretty smart guys, and Paul Stanley explains this much better than most of the chattering class and elected Republicans

Read that part again: ““There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it.” Why are lunatics, mostly on the left, doing this to children? Let them be children. They shouldn’t be taught any sexuality issues at a young age, be it trans, gay, or straight. Let them be kids

Instead of accepting and normalizing mental illness, aiding your son in doing this, be a parent and seek out mental health. If they really think this when they become an adult, rather than moving on since this is a fad, they they can start pretending to be a woman.

Arizona law blocked my daughter from playing high school sports

Today there is a national attempt to ban trans students from sports.

My daughter attends a small school that has always encouraged students to try new things, so it makes every effort to have a wide variety of sports, arts, music and other extracurricular activities.

School officials strongly feel that a desire to try something is all that’s needed, and any skill can be learned along the way.

Last school year my daughter wanted to try track. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough interest at the time to be able to field a team. It was her junior year, and she could always try again her senior year.

Except she cannot. Arizona passed a transgender sports ban. Any opportunity she had to try something new was taken from her.

It’s an opportunity he shouldn’t have, because he would be taking away wins and potential scholarships from actual women. Scientifically, biologically real women. Instead of patronizing the mental illness of your son, aiding it, you should have looked for a proper mental health practitioner, who would explain this is a popular fad. This child is too young to know better, too impressionable. He fell for a fad, and all this normalizing and assisting doesn’t help.

Speaking of taking something from women

(Breitbart) Hunter Schafer, the transgender star of HBO’s Euphoria, will have a role in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, playing the younger self of a character that was portrayed by a woman in the original series.

Yup, another job taking from real women by someone with mental health issues.

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Good News: There’s A Special Fire Truck For EV Fires

By William Teach May 1, 2023 – 7:00 am

I remember about 12 years ago or so a firefighter said they had some trucks with foam instead of water to fight potential hybrid fires. And recently a dispatcher told me they will often ask what type of car you have in the event of an accident. And now we get a dedicated truck because EVs tend to become barbecues. Often in parking lots

Toyota Hilux 6×6 fire truck was built to fight EV fires

With more electric vehicles on the road, EV fires have received a lot of attention in the news. High profile blazes like damaged battery packs spontaneously catching fire in the wake of Hurricane Ian and an entire cargo ship of EVs going up in flames have prompted one U.K. company to create a fire truck specifically designed to fight EV fires.

York-based Prospeed Motorsport fashioned a fire truck out of the globally popular Toyota Hilux pickup because of its compact size. EV fires often break out in places that are hard to reach with conventional fire-fighting vehicles, like underground garages or multi-story parking structures. They’ve named it the Hiload, and made sure it has a 1,850mm (72.8 inches) height so it can clear height restrictions in urban carparks.

Additionally, EV fires usually begin with battery packs that are damaged internally. The catch is that they’re usually housed in difficult-to-reach areas of the car. The Hiload carries a ColdCut Cobra fire suppression system that uses an “ultra high pressure lance” to shoot abrasive material suspended in water at 4,350 psi. The liquid spear breaks through the battery casing so water can be sprayed directly into the modules.

In theory this will limit “thermal runaway,” the phenomenon where damaged lithium-ion batteries heat up very rapidly in a chemical chain reaction to high temperatures that can be very difficult to put out. Firefighters in some cases have had to keep EVs submerged in water for days. The ColdCut Cobra system is said to be able to squelch a fire with just 60 gallons of water.

Again, I’m not against EVs. I am against forced mandates. And this tells me that all these mandates in the 1st World are a Bad Idea when you need a special truck to deal with not only fires from accidents, but, because they spontaneously catch on fire, and regular trucks cannot put them out. Nor could fire suppression systems in parking decks (you can see a system in the above photo), which tend to use water, foam, or dry suppressant. But, cannot really handle the extreme temperatures nor be able to get to the battery systems.

Oh, and the irony of using an ICE (internal combustion engine. I’ve seen this acronym cropping up a lot more of the past week) to put out an EV fire is delicious.

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Outgoing Chicago Mayor Asks Texas Not To Send More Illegals

By William Teach May 1, 2023 – 6:45 am

Hey, why not? Isn’t Chicago a sanctuary city? The incoming mayor Brandon Johnson stated early in April that Chicago was definitely a sanctuary city

Chicago’s mayor urges Texas governor not to ship more migrants

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Sunday urged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop shipping busloads of migrants to Chicago, saying the city does not have the resources to absorb more.

“Your lack of confederation or coordination in an attempt to cause chaos and score political points has resulted in a critical tipping point in our ability to receive individuals and families in a safe, orderly, and dignified way,” said Lightfoot, a Democrat who is set to leave office in May, in the letter to Abbott, a Republican.

Saying she had been informed that Texas meant to resume sending migrants on May 1, Lightfoot added: “We simply have no more shelters, spaces, or resources to accommodate an increase of individuals at this level, with little coordination or care, that does not pose a risk to them or others.”

The transporting of migrants from the Southwest to cities led by Democrats — some have been dropped off at Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington — has become a hot button issue, particularly when migrants show up in communities that have not had prior warnings about when they would arrive. New York Mayor Eric Adams has been particularly outspoken about the hardships his city is facing, though he has also been sharply critical of President Joe Biden for not dealing with the situation at the border.

Oh, so Chicago, which is all about accepting illegal aliens into the country just wants them to go elsewhere? How about that? Johnson followed up his doubling down on Chicago being a sanctuary city with “As such, we must always resist attempts to pit communities against each other and extend this sanctuary promise to everyone who needs it in our city — both long-time residents and newcomers alike.” Sure sounds like he wants more illegals?

In her letter, Lightfoot complained that some migrants have arrived “in dire need of food, water, and clothing” and echoed criticism that these migrants are being used as political pawns.

Yeah, they do that at the border, too, and cities that do not want them have to deal with it.

BTW, in other great Democrat ideas

Homeless in Oregon given right to sue anyone for $1k who tell them to move

Homeless people in Oregon could be given the right to sue anybody who tries to move them for $1,000 (£796) under legislation being considered in the state.

Democrats, who hold the majority in the state’s House of Representatives, have drawn up a bill which would decriminalise the tent cities which have been pitched on public spaces.

The bill would allow unhoused people to stay “without discrimination and time limitations”.

What could possibly go wrong?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 30, 2023 – 1:49 pm

…is coffee which will soon be too expensive to purchase for most people, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post Norfolk’s “climate refugees”.

It’s tan lines week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 30, 2023 – 9:45 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. Getting some much needed rain, the squirrels are raiding the birdfeeder (I don’t care, I like squirrels), and ran across a new author (P.A. Piatt), who’s first book I read was pretty darned good. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in the Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Irons In The Fire shows what happens when idiots play with tannerite
  2. IOTW Report discusses Biden’s cheat sheets
  3. Geller Report notes how well Biden’s campaign call did
  4. Gates Of Vienna is enjoying the culture enriching machetes
  5. Don Surber features the media saying voting threatens democracy
  6. Common Cents Blog covers Tucker not actually being fired
  7. Cold Fury wonders who owns what
  8. Climate Depot shows the feds admitting that wind turbines can kill whales
  9. Chicks On The Right highlights what college students see as impediments to success
  10. American Elephants asks if you know who your representatives are
  11. 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny covers the murder manifesto
  12. 357 Magnum discusses the media noticing women own guns
  13. Real Climate Science covers 800 years of climate crisis
  14. No Tricks Zone highlights the German Bundestag heats pumps for it’s own buildings won’t work
  15. And last, but, not least, Jo Nova discusses the crime of talking to Tucker

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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Biden’s America: Foreclosures And Repossessions Spike, But, Hey, Finally Getting Americans Out Of Sudan

By William Teach April 30, 2023 – 7:00 am

Biden likes to brag about his economy (during those 30 hours a week he works), but, even the far, far left Nation said he should stop all the way back in October 2022. Of course he boasted during his barely watched state of the union. Yet, unfortunately, things are not getting better

With car repossessions and home foreclosures rising, some Americans are living on a financial cliff

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LeSage is among a growing number of Americans who have found themselves confronting financial hardship as the U.S. economy has slowed. On Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported gross domestic product fell to 1.1% in the first quarter, the lowest reading in nine months. The GDP is the value of the final goods and services produced in the country and a strong indicator of how healthy the U.S. economy.

The slowdown is starting to show up in Americans’ personal finances. According to a recent survey from Bankrate, 49% of U.S. adults have less savings compared to a year ago. Ten percent of those surveyed said they have no savings at all.

The upshot: The most disastrous outcomes for U.S. households, like auto repossessions and home foreclosures, have begun to climb.

“As a result of the expiration of government stimulus and current [economic] headwinds, we have seen delinquencies ticking up in this space over the last several months,” said Margaret Rowe, a senior director at Fitch ratings group. (snip)

Meanwhile, home foreclosure filings have begun to surge. According to data from ATTOM, a property analytics company, U.S. foreclosure filings totaled 95,712 in the first quarter of 2023. That’s 6% higher than in the previous quarter and 22% higher than a year ago.

You know what name is never mentioned in this NBC News piece? You got it, Biden. In all fairness, this is not all his fault. The root cause is named China, who were messing around with coronavirus, along with Fauci and the NIH who funded it. Then the idiots who locked everything down here and around the world, and those who dumped too much money, then did it again and again. And passed laws that do not help the economy. Democrats were not focused, and a lot of that is coming back to haunt the economy. Biden couldn’t care less.

Fortunately, Biden has his eyes on Sudan

As countries wind down mass evacuations of their nationals from war-torn Sudan and the White House warns time is running out, the United States is undertaking its first effort to move hundreds of private Americans citizens out of Khartoum.

A U.S. government-organized convoy carrying U.S citizens, locally employed staff and nationals from allied and partner countries arrived at Port Sudan on Saturday, according to the State Department.

Late as usual.

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