NC Cleans 747,000 From Voter Rolls

By William Teach September 27, 2024 – 10:30 am

North Carolina continues the trend of states removing ineligible people, and, this number is not insignificant

REPORT: North Carolina Purges 747,000 Names From Voter Rolls

The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) reportedly removed 747,000 names from the battleground state’s voter rolls within the past 20 months, officials announced Thursday.

Most people removed from North Carolina’s voter rolls were deemed ineligible to vote after moving from one county in the state to another while failing to register their new address, according to The Hill. Others taken off voter rolls did not participate in the 2016 and 2020 federal elections.

The full reasons

As far as non-citizens goes

State officials identified nine potential non-citizens — which some believe is an undercount — as registered to vote in North Carolina, WRAL reported. However, an NCSBE spokesperson said Thursday that investigations are underway as it is currently unknown whether the nine are illegal immigrants.

Does anyone really believe there are only 9? NC does a darned good job in restricting non-citizens, for which we have a ton of illegals/migrants and a lot here on school and work visas, from registering to vote, even though the NC General Assembly gave illegals driver’s licenses a while ago when Democrats controlled it. But, it is 130K dead Democrats who won’t be voting, along with 289K Democrats who won’t be voting in two different places.

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Climate Grief Is Going For City Life

By William Teach September 27, 2024 – 7:00 am

Perhaps if they all gave up their own use of petroleum and gave their money to government they’d feel better?

The Climate Grief of City Life
We mourn glaciers and forests lost to climate change. Why not streets and sewers?

Living in the days of climate change means we are living in the era of ecological grief. The emotional phenomenon has inspired funerals for glaciers in Iceland, Oregon, and Switzerland. Scientists have reported feeling shock and loss with each consecutive return to the Great Barrier Reef, as new expanses of coral bleach and desiccate. All across the mining country of Central Appalachia, where mountains have been halved and forests are felled to extract coal, the grief appears in the form of diagnosable mental-health conditions.

You would be less likely to see the term ecological grief applied to a flooded New York City subway station or a heat wave forcing Philadelphia public schools to close early or dangerously scorching playground asphalt in Los Angeles. And yet for most city dwellers, the way we experience climate change comes not from the collapse of natural formations but through damage to the man-made infrastructure that makes up our urban spaces and our daily lives. When that infrastructure is harmed or destroyed, be it by wind or fire or flood, it alters our habitats—and that, too, elicits an intense sense of emotional loss and instability.

The philosopher Glenn Albrecht has developed a vocabulary to describe the emotional experience of living through climate change: Solastalgia, for example, describes a homesickness born out of the observation of chronic environmental degradation of one’s home; tierratrauma refers to the acute pain of witnessing ruined environs such as a logged forest or trash-filled creek. The basis of Albrecht’s work is that humans are fundamentally connected to our natural environments, and we experience pain when they are damaged. To that end, his research tends to focus on rural areas, where the barrier between humans and nature usually feels more porous.

The crazy doesn’t get any better. This is a doomsday cult, and these people need some serious mental health help and deprogramming.

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Cackles Harris To Visit Border Friday Or Something

By William Teach September 27, 2024 – 6:45 am

So, apparently she is actually not so busy that she can’t make it there for a photo-op after she and Joe threw the gates wide open

Harris to travel to US-Mexico border Friday

Vice President Harris will travel Friday to Douglas, Ariz., to visit the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Harris campaign announced the trip to the border, across from Agua Prieta, Mexico, on Wednesday.

Former President Trump criticized Harris for the planned trip earlier this week, saying she was only visiting the border for “political reasons.” The former president has sought to keep the border a hot-button issue for voters ahead of November, consistently bashing Harris and the Biden administration for their border policies.

After her trip Friday to the border in Arizona, Harris will travel to San Francisco to participate in a political event there Saturday. She will then campaign in Los Angeles and Nevada on Sunday as part of her West Coast swing.

How long do you think she will stay in Douglas? An hour, tops? Maybe 5 minutes viewing the wall? The rest in some restaurant that is decidedly Democrat leaning? Then off to fundraisers with rich folks who aren’t affected by the border crisis. Will she meet some MS13 and Tren de Aragua, wishing them well as they are given no scrutiny and sent on their way into the U.S.?

(NY Post) Former President Donald Trump mocked Kamala Harris’ planned visit to the border — just her second as vice president — arguing she’s had three years to solve the illegal migrant crisis.

“Why didn’t she fix it almost four years ago? She’s got no plans, got no talent, got no ability to do it,” the former president said Thursday during a press conference at Trump Tower.

She did fix it exactly as she and Biden wanted. Porous. Anyhow, will Americans actually believe this, or see it as more of a photo-op for a politician than acceptable, especially when she is a cause of the issue?

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Surprise: Tech Companies Ditch Their Climate (scam) Goals For AI Power

By William Teach September 26, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Seriously, most of these tech companies, like most companies, were really just setting goals and saying they were doing “green” stuff but weren’t actually doing much of anything

Powering AI Leapfrogs Climate Concerns

It’s Climate Week in New York, and dominating the conversation has been the apparently insatiable appetite of artificial intelligence for power.

The subject has been much in the news. Just last week, we learned that the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will be restarted to supply electricity to Microsoft Corp.’s data centers.

Then Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported that ChatGPT creator OpenAI had pitched the Biden administration on its vision for massive data centers that may each consume enough power to run an entire city.

Alarmingly for climate hawks, it’s become clear there’s not enough low-emission energy — nuclear or otherwise — to satisfy AI, and natural gas will be key.

The boss of EQT Corp., America’s largest producer of the fossil fuel, said data centers will be the biggest new source of US gas demand in the years ahead.

Indeed, the country’s energy companies already plan a slew of new gas-fired power projects. That could complicate the energy transition and threaten President Joe Biden’s lofty goal of ridding emissions from the grid by 2035.

These companies generally have investors/stock holders who want return on their investment. They want profit. They aren’t doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they, and the companies, are there to make money. Focusing on the climate scam has been shown to mostly be a loser. As for Brandon’s lofty goals, well, how many gallons of fossil fuels does he use every week going to and from his houses in Delaware on helicopters, jumbo jets, and big limos?

Yet recent days have given another reminder of how energy security (and national security, given US competition with China over AI) can leap to the top of the political and business agenda, leaving climate concerns trailing.

The climate scam is all sorts of important right up till real world concerns intrude.

Meanwhile, remember, the climate cult totally doesn’t want to implement socialism

Nationalization worked out well in Venezuela, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 26, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled boat used to find sharks that are too close to shore due to global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Irons In The Fire, with a post noting that incompetence can only cover so much.

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Biden-Harris Regime Wants 21 Day Ceasefire In Lebanon, Fails To Specifically Mention Hezbollah

By William Teach September 26, 2024 – 10:30 am

You know Hezbollah, they’re an officially designated terrorist group by the US State Department, the federal agency in charge of making the designations

Macron, Biden Demand 21-Day Ceasefire in Lebanon; Fail to Mention Hezbollah

Biden Brain SuckerPresident Joe Biden joined French President Emmanuel Macron and several other nations Wednesday evening in proposing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah — just as Israel had begun to destroy the terrorist organization.

The text of the ceasefire demand fails to mention Hezbollah, calling only on the government of Lebanon and Israel to comply. It also does not mention Iran, which is the country that arms, funds, and trains Hezbollah’s terrorists.

Hezbollah broke an existing ceasefire in October, when it began shooting at Israel last October. The ceasefire, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 of 2006, required Hezbollah to disarm and leave the border.

The United Nations failed to enforce the ceasefire, allowing Hezbollah to build up forces in southern Lebanon. Israel evacuated over 60,000 citizens from their homes in October, but focused its military efforts on Hamas in Gaza.

Why is it so tough for Biden-Harris and Macron to mention Hezbollah? Are they worried about losing the votes of terrorist supporters?

Here’s the text of the statement

The situation between Lebanon and Israel since October 8th, 2023 is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation. This is in nobody’s interest, neither of the people of Israel nor of the people of Lebanon.

It is time to conclude a diplomatic settlement that enables civilians on both sides of the border to return to their homes in safety.

It’s almost like it’s Israel and Lebanon who are fighting, when Lebanon wants nothing to do with Hezbollah

Diplomacy however cannot succeed amid an escalation of this conflict.

Thus we call for an immediate 21 day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement consistent with UNSCR 1701, and the implementation of UNSCR 2735 regarding a ceasefire in Gaza

I guess the mention of 1701 can sorta be a reference to Hezbollah, and a serious roundabout way

We call on all parties, including the Governments of Israel and Lebanon, to endorse the temporary ceasefire immediately consistent with UNSCR 1701 during this period, and to give a real chance to a diplomatic settlement.

We are then prepared to fully support all diplomatic efforts to conclude an agreement between Lebanon and Israel within this period, building on efforts over the last months, that ends this crisis altogether.

Lebanon is not fighting. Who are the other parties? Why not mention Hezbollah directly? Are Biden-Harris and Macron worried by rioting from the terrorism supporters imported into their countries? As far as Israel goes, Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire, as he and Israel have not even responded to it yet. However

(Jerusalem Post) Israeli politicians and residents of northern Israel condemned the US-French ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hezbollah, scheduled to begin on Thursday around midday, Israeli media reported Thursday morning.

In an interview, Metula Regional Council chairman David Azulai emphasized that such a ceasefire would ensure “the next October 7,” for which the government would be responsible, he further stressed. In addition to Azulai, the Upper Galilee Regional Council’s chairman, Amir Sofer, said that while “there is a time for negotiations, this is not the time.”

Azulai explained that recent days have highlighted Hezbollah’s capabilities and that “this government of [Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu” must “remove the threat” to avoid another “October 7 next year.” Azulai emphasized that such a situation “must not happen” and that the government “has all the support it needs” to fight Hezbollah and provide a more safe environment for northern Israel’s residents.

All a ceasefire does is give Iran the time to rearm Hezbollah.

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Gen Z Totally Unified In Holding Politicians Responsible For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach September 26, 2024 – 7:00 am

We keep reading stuff like this, but, then, the youts fail to show up at the ballot box because they aren’t allowed to take selfies there and it also requires them to put the phone down to go there

Gen Z, worried about climate change, unified in holding politicians responsible: Poll

Over one-third of Gen Z are worried they’ll need to move away from their hometowns due to climate change — and a majority of those in the generation across the political spectrum said politicians need to be held accountable, according to a new poll out Wednesday from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation. (snip)

“[Gen Z] have been seeing water, and water and climate their whole lives,” Moira Mcdonald, program director for the Environment Program at the Walton Family Foundation, told ABC News. “Their lives have essentially been punctuated by these big moments — the Gulf oil spill back in 2010, the Flint, Michigan, drinking water crisis with lead in the water. They had everyday exposure to the rising seas and warming ocean issue the last few years.”

The poll found that among those in Gen Z who worry they’ll need to move due to climate change, 73% believe it will be because of a water issue such as water pollution, flooding risk, lack of access to clean drinking water and the risk of drought.

The poll also found that 31% of Gen Z are concerned their generation won’t have enough clean water in the future, 72% are concerned about pollution in their waterways and 66% are worried about the health of the fish and oceans.

Among voting age Gen Zers, the poll found that 88% believed politicians are responsible for addressing water issues related to climate change.

Here’s problem 1: they’ve fallen into the climate cult trap of linking environmental issues regarding water with the climate scam.

Problem two is thinking it is all on politicians, rather than on themselves to be good environmental stewards, especially as they travel all around to take their selfies and videos. Are they avoiding going to the beach and exotic places to do their narcissistic social media stuff? Nope.

Problem number 3

The photo is from the article. Look at all the signs, clothes, backpacks, smartwatches, glasses, makeup, hairspray, and other objects that were made with and/or shipped by fossil fuels. They want fossil fuels ended: how do they get all those products? How do they travel for their selfies and protests? Of course the sign says Young Democratic Socialists of America, and they hate profit. How do they think they will make money? Stupid people.

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Postal Union Tells Members Trump Is An “Existential Threat”

By William Teach September 26, 2024 – 6:45 am

First off, isn’t this the kind of yammering that leads to people trying to assassinated The Donald?

EXCLUSIVE: Postal Union Sends Letter Calling Trump ‘Existential Threat’

If former President Donald Trump wins November’s election, he would pose an “existential threat” — at least according to a letter apparently from the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), obtained by The Federalist.

“If Donald Trump wins the upcoming election, it could prove an existential threat to our union and our contract,” the letter reads. “Your vote matters: consider how the consequences could affect you, your job, and our union when deciding how to vote.”

The letter appears to be signed “in solidarity” by Georgia NALC President Don Griggs. It takes issue specifically with Trump and Project 2025, leftists’ favorite catch-all bogeyman.

“Donald Trump and his allies have put together an extensive plan for the next year, if he takes office and appoints anti-union allies throughout the executive branch,” the letter reads. “Our union cannot afford to risk the proposals in Project 2025 becoming a reality.”

The letter claims Project 2025 would “ban all public employee unions and replace private-sector unions with company-controlled unions,” “let states opt out of federal overtime and minimum wage” requirements, and repeal the Davis-Bacon Act, which places wage requirements on government projects.

Second off, does it make you feel good that the people who will be delivering mail-in ballots to citizens and then back to those who count them are taking a stand against someone running for president? Do you trust them?

Third, public sector unions do need to be abolished. The main purposes of unions originally were to bargain for wages and benefits and better working conditions, and to protect workers from poor working conditions and problem bosses. Why is any of this necessary for government jobs? They aren’t working in factories, and few work with dangerous materials.

Griggs told The Federalist the letter came not from him, but from the AFL-CIO — without his permission. “They told me they were going to send me some information as we got closer to the election, and I had no idea they were sending out a letter with my name,” Griggs said. “I never would have sent anything out like that.”

BS. He’s trying to cover his ass. The letter, which you can see at the link, has his signature.

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Say, Why Are Warmists In Colorado Voting For “Deniers”?

By William Teach September 25, 2024 – 3:01 pm

This is an Important Issue for CBS News

Most Coloradans believe in climate change. So, why do some vote for climate change deniers?

With less than two months before the November election, a CBS News poll shows Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied in the battleground states.

While climate change is not the top issue for most voters, research out of the University of Colorado Boulder finds it could be a significant factor in the race. CU’s Center for Environmental Futures found a quarter of Republicans, who think climate change is very important, voted for President Biden in 2020, likely swinging the election.

But, in some parts of Colorado, voters’ views on the issue aren’t black and white. (snip)

Much of the Eastern Plains is in Congressional District 4 where — according to statistical modeling by Yale University — 63% of residents are worried about global warming and nearly 59% want Congress and the president to do more to address it. Yet, former President Donald Trump — who has called climate change a “hoax” — won CD4 by 23 points in 2016 and 15 points in 2020, and the district hasn’t voted a Democrat into Congress for 16 years. It’s one of the reasons Rep. Lauren Boebert switched to the district.

Yale’s research shows that — for a majority of people in CD4 — a candidate’s views on global warming are important to their vote. Three-fourths would support regulating carbon dioxide and two-thirds believe clean energy should be a priority for Congress, efforts Boebert opposes.

But while she is a climate denier, Arnusch, a climate believer, says he will likely vote for her.

“Climate is certainly important but it’s not my top priority. When I have that ballot sitting on my table and I’m trying to decide which way to vote — whether it’s a candidate or a ballot measure, which we vote on often in this state — I think about how this is going to affect my farm, how this is going to affect my family.

And there it is: even for most Warmists Doing Something about the climate crisis scam is important in theory, not in practice. Real world issues, like the economy, making sure energy, including fossil fuels, are abundant, inexpensive, and available, and seeing their communities overrun with migrants, including Venezuelan gang members, is way more important in Reality Land. Warmists, again, rarely make changes in their own lives, and aren’t too enthused to vote for candidates who will impose more taxes/fees, jack up their cost of living, and restrict their freedom.

And this drives the Elites, and those who think they are Elites, nuts. 30+ years of spreading awareness, of indoctrination, and they just cannot force those stupid peasants to cooperate.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 25, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution infused beer causing sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on Cackles Harris stealing something else.

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