NC Democrats Pimping Gun Laws That Would Not Have Stopped Mass Shooter

By William Teach March 8, 2023 – 12:00 pm

Obviously, the local news outlet, WRAL and their reporter Chelsea Donovan, failed to ask any of the Democrats how these laws would have stopped the little wackjob

‘My life forever changed’: Fiancé of Raleigh mass shooting victim advocates for gun safety bills

The fiancé of a Raleigh mass shooting victim spoke Tuesday with state Democratic leaders about proposed changes to North Carolina’s gun laws.

Rob Steele lost his fiancée Mary Marshall in the October 2022 mass shooting in Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood. Marshall was among five people killed.

“My life forever changed Oct. 13 of [2022],” Steele said of his late wife. “She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Steele joined Democratic leaders Tuesday at the General Assembly as they introduced multiple gun safety bills. It included House Bill 281– the red flag law – sponsored by state Rep. Marcia Morey, D-Durham, that would temporarily restrict a person’s access to a gun, if they are a danger to themselves or others.

The kid was underage and did not own guns. He took them from his parents. Were there any indications that would have caused a red flag to be played? Would a red flag allow the guns of the adults to be taken? Explain how this law would have stopped the unhinged nutter.

Steele said he believes red flag laws help save lives.

“It’s time for North Carolina to have a judge that can make decisions that a gun owner is not responsible and safe to have their gun,” Steele said. “Allow a judge to take the gun for a temporary amount of time so that [the gun owner] can get help.”

The kid wasn’t a gun owner.

Morey also introduced House Bill 284, which would allow law enforcement to destroy unclaimed guns, or those confiscated after crimes.

Wouldn’t have stopped the crime.

Senate Bill 210 – known as the Gun Violence Prevention Act – would require authorization to purchase an assault weapon or long gun, and require a waiting period of 72 hours before it’s delivered.

Wouldn’t have stopped it.

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Surprise: Government Inefficiency Slowing Up IRA Spending On Electric Lines

By William Teach March 8, 2023 – 10:30 am

Not only is the Inflation Reduction Act not reducing inflation, it’s being jammed up because government is slow. And, guess which party is represented the most in the federal and state governments?

Biden’s climate chief: ‘Delays and bottlenecks’ slowing IRA spending

U.S. President Joe Biden’s top climate advisor says the United States needs to build electricity lines at double the current pace, blaming a sluggish permitting process for delaying vital arteries for the nation’s clean energy transition.

“On average, interstate gas pipelines that require environmental impact statements are approved nearly twice as fast as transmission lines requiring the same,” John Podesta told energy executives at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference on Monday. “We don’t have that time.” (snip)

However, when it comes to building new electricity lines and other projects, he describes a permitting process “plagued by delays and bottlenecks.”

“Plenty of delays happen at the state and local levels, and those need to be addressed. But there is plenty that we can do and must do federally,” Podesta said, adding that he and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm are tracking the pace of more than 20 key electricity transmission projects.

Ignoring the climate scam stuff, he does have a point on it taking too long to build new lines. Supposedly. Because we sure do not seem to have a problem here in North Carolina, where building new apartments, townhomes, and houses continues unabated. Perhaps in other states, like those run by Democrats?

Anyhow, perhaps the Biden admin should have considered upgrading the infrastructure before pushing ahead willy nilly with all their “green” projects, eh?

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Climahypocrite Senator Whitehouse Looks To Put Climate Crisis (scam) In Budget

By William Teach March 8, 2023 – 7:00 am

Whitehouse has been banging his green drum for quite some time, and, in all that, he’s never mentioned what he’s done in his own life. He still lives in his big house, still drives fossil fueled vehicles, and still flies, including from Rhode Island to D.C. instead of taking the train. And now

Same Message, Bigger Audience: Sen. Whitehouse Flags Climate Costs

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, has given 287 speeches on the Senate floor raising alarms about climate change, often delivered mainly to the C-SPAN cameras in a nearly empty chamber.

But now Mr. Whitehouse has a much bigger megaphone for his zeal for saving the planet, and one with real power: earlier this year, Mr. Whitehouse became chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, which shapes federal spending and revenue. He is using his new authority to argue that a warming planet poses fiscal dangers, injecting climate change into the partisan fight over federal spending, just as economists warned that the nation is nearing a catastrophic default on its debt.

At his first committee hearing as chairman on Feb. 15, he focused on the risks of climate change to the federal budget and the global economy. He gave each of his colleagues a 615-page binder detailing the fiscal threats posed by droughts, storms, wildfires and rising seas.

The new chairman is also pushing a solution that he believes could draw support from at least a handful of Republicans, even if they aren’t eager to support climate action. It’s essentially a tariff added to imported goods like steel and cement based on the carbon emissions created by their production. Analysts project that a carbon tariff placed on imported steel and aluminum, just two of many products that would be covered, could raise tens of billions of dollars over a decade.

It will be interesting to see the final product. How much will be pure climate cult, and how much will be things that might sorta make sense, like the above? And, how much will Republicans object against the cult stuff? Because we know how they like to wilt. We’ve watched this for a long time.

Many Republicans disagree. At the Budget committee’s February hearing, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said the nation’s ballooning deficit and debt are “driven by runaway profligate spending by the federal government, not because of any effects of climate change.” Mr. Lee slammed those “on the left who seek to use climate alarmism to justify a widespread federal government takeover of our economy.”

Unfortunately, there are enough Republicans who’ll go all sorts of squishy.

Mr. Whitehouse’s counterpart in the House of Representatives, Republican Jodey Arrington of Texas, said a carbon tariff is a nonstarter. “Republicans on the Budget Committee are focused on ways to rein in spending and unleash American prosperity and energy independence,” said Mr. Arrington, who chairs the House Budget committee. “A carbon tariff would result in just the opposite — higher energy costs for consumers and more regulatory burden on an economy teetering on recession.”

Why would Sheldon and his Democrat Comrades care? They’re rich. It won’t hurt them.

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Crime Is So Bad In NYC That Mayor Adams Wants Retailers To Tell Patrons To Take Their Masks Off

By William Teach March 8, 2023 – 6:45 am

NYC mayor Adams was a big supporter of forced masking, and, after that ended, telling people they should wear a mask. You know, those masks which really do nothing, but, if they did make a difference, wearing them inside around others would be where you’d wear one

New York mayor says retailers must force shoppers to remove masks when entering stores to prevent crime. ‘It’s not about being fearful of a pandemic.’

New York Mayor Eric Adams has a clear message for retailers: If you want to prevent theft, don’t allow shoppers to enter with face masks on.

“Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face masks,” Adams told a local radio station Monday. “When you see these mask-wearing people, it’s not about being fearful of a pandemic. (They’re) fearful of the police catching (them) for their misdeeds.”

Adams said that stores need to be able to use technologies to “identify those shoplifters and those who have committed serious crimes,” but that face masks — an item that has become commonplace, albeit decreasingly so, due to the coronavirus pandemic — make it hard to do so. He added that once in the store, shoppers can feel free to wear face masks.

Adams’ comments come as retailers have sounded the alarms about above-average theft rates for months. Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon said in December 2022 that stores would close and prices would rise if theft levels did not drop.

Very interesting. Adams is putting this on the stores, rather than the government policies which enable shoplifting, how the city restricts police officer actions, demonizes cops so they leave and aren’t replaced, prosecutors releasing criminals that were caught, and, you know the rest. Masks helped inflame the crime.

Adams probably witnessed what happened to Lori Lightfoot in Chicago and doesn’t want to lose his cushy gig, but, he shouldn’t put this on the stores who are under assault. Will stores post someone at the door to tell people to lower their masks? Will they require old folks with canes to take their masks off? Even if some of the “youths” drop their masks for a bit, they’ll still steal. If they have their faces recorded, will cops do anything, and, more importantly, will the prosecutors?

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The Way You Eat Is Bad For The Climate Or Something

By William Teach March 7, 2023 – 3:00 pm

It’s always something doomy, and always about you being forced to change your life

How could the way we eat contribute to global warming?

Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans produce and consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study.

Continuing the dietary patterns of today will push the planet past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of warming sought under the Paris climate agreement to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to the study published Monday in Nature Climate Change, and will approach the agreement’s limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

The modeling study found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major sources: meat from animals like cows, sheep and goats; dairy; and rice. Those three sources account for at least 19 percent each of food’s contribution to a warming planet, according to the study, with meat contributing the most, at 33 percent.

Well, good luck with this. Do you think that most people will give these up? Try forcing Asians to give up rice. Muslims and Africans to give up sheep and goat. People around the world to give up cow, deer, etc. Kids to give up milk.

“I think the biggest takeaway that I would want (policymakers) to have is the fact that methane emissions are really dominating the future warming associated with the food sector,” said Catherine C. Ivanovich, a climate scientist at Columbia University and the study’s lead author.

If you’re aiming this at lawmakers, it is a political document, attempting to get politicians to pass laws which restrict you, the Citizen.

Ivanovich and colleagues from the University of Florida and Environmental Defense Fund calculated the three major gases produced by each type of food over its lifetime based on current consumption patterns. Then they scaled the annual emissions over time by gas based on five different population projections.

Interesting. They worked with a hardcore leftist Authoritarian group, the EDF, to come up with this.

A major question that remains is whether food producers and consumers can change their behavior in order to achieve the reductions in greenhouse gases laid out in the study. There’s a roadmap, but will it be followed?

Well, we’re not seeing the climate cultists and casual Warmists really change their own lives, are we?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 7, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on DaleyBabes Asians.

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Tucker Carlson Releases Some J6 Video, Colluding Media Can’t Handle It

By William Teach March 7, 2023 – 10:30 am

Most of the Credentialed Media has been in the pocket of the government in this whole thing, refusing to cover Americans who have been held in lockup for months and years, treated more harshly than murders

Newly Unearthed Jan. 6 Footage ‘Demolishes’ Dems’ ‘Insurrection’ Claims, Tucker Carlson Says

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that footage of the Capitol riot “demolishes” claims by Democrats that an “insurrection” occurred on Jan. 6, 2021.

“We are about to show you surveillance footage from inside the United States Capitol. The images you will see were recorded 26 months ago today on January 6th, 2021,” Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and honorary board member of the Daily Caller News Foundation, said. “Until now, politicians have kept this tape hidden from the public. There is no legitimate justification for that and there never has been.”

Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the speaker of the House provided Carlson access to over 41,000 hours of video footage of the Capitol riot, Axios reported. Previous reports indicated that the amount of footage was 14,000 hours.

“Once you see the video, you will understand why. Taken as a whole, the video record does not support the claim that January 6th was an insurrection,” Carlson said in a voice-over showing some of the released footage. “In fact, it demolishes that claim.”

“That is exactly why the Democratic Party and its allies in the media prevented you from seeing it,” Carlson continued. “By controlling the images you are allowed to view from January 6th, they control how the public understood that day.”

In the video, Tucker talks about how people are wandering around respectfully, how the Qanon Shaman was escorted by a bunch of police, with them showing him around. Yet, he was called dangerous. If so, why didn’t the cops arrest him? There’s no doubt a bunch were violent and unruly, and they should be punished.

Of course the Credentialed Media is upset

Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Footage Dump Delivers the Sloppy Propaganda Kevin McCarthy Wanted
Using cherry picked clips, Carlson called Capitol rioters “orderly and meek” sightseers

Cherry picked? I do not remember Rolling Stone complaining about that from the J6 committee. (you can read the full article at Yahoo News)

From that jumping point, Carlson used cherry picked, time-stamp free clips to paint a picture of peaceful protesters who were being targeted by the Department of Justice and the Democratic party. Carlson’s use of the footage essentially amounted to a declaration that because Fox had identified some images of trespassers milling about, nothing uncouth actually happened in the Capitol on Jan. 6.

The Fox host and his guests crafted an image of peaceful protesters, who were ushered into the Capitol by police officers and spent their time exploring the complex with an air of “reverence.” Charlie Hurt, appearing as a guest on the show, falsely asserted that there was “no evidence” rioters inside the capitol were armed.

The article was published almost immediately after the show, so, it was mostly prewritten. RS did not care to give it a fair shake. I can remember when Rolling Stone was about power to the people, don’t trust the government, protesting. Now, they’re all about supporting Big Authoritarian Government.

And, then you had NBC News and Deadline, among others, diving in to protect the Government Narrative. Because that’s what they do, instead of attempting to see if the federal government is telling the whole truth. Can any of them explain why it’s called an insurrection yet not one person has been charged with insurrection?

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Surprise: Biden’s “Clean Energy” Jobs Going To Right To Work States

By William Teach March 7, 2023 – 7:15 am

Would you rather start and run a business in a state that will not make it a pain in the rear end to get up and running, won’t put massive amounts of regulations and roadblocks in the way, won’t micromanage you with tons of government, and won’t take a good chunk of your money, or, one that will? How about one that works to protect your business and employees from crime? Tries to keep the cost of living low?

Biden’s clean energy factory jobs may elude U.S. union workers

President Joe Biden has pledged that fighting climate change will deliver millions of middle-class jobs with good wages to Americans with union membership cards.

But in the six months since passage of Biden’s signature climate change law, a large majority of the $50 billion of announced investments in domestic manufacturing to support the clean energy transition has been in states with laws that make it harder for workers to unionize, according to a Reuters analysis of corporate and state announcements.

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes tax credits for businesses that produce clean energy components in the United States, and provides higher credits for developers of renewable energy projects if they use products made domestically.

Of the more than 50 EV battery, solar panel and other factories announced since passage of the Act in August, 83% are located in so-called right to work states, which bar companies from requiring workers to pay union dues as a condition of employment, according to a Reuters review of company announcements.

This doesn’t mean there aren’t unions, just fewer, and fewer folks who are forced to join them, having their money forcibly taken to support unions they don’t agree with. And the cost of doing business, the cost of energy, cost of land, etc, tends to be lower in right to work states. So, that’s where companies will go. All for green energy protects to solve an imaginary problem.

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Workers In Far Left City Of Asheville Shocked And Upset Over Crime

By William Teach March 7, 2023 – 7:00 am

It’s rather amusing. The people who voted for far left politicians to enact far left crime policies are surprised that far left crime policies were enacted. And do not like the outcome

Workers in Democrat-run North Carolina tourist city bemoan downtown decline: ‘Really disturbing’

surprise surprise surpriseBusiness owners and workers in a Democrat-run North Carolina tourist town said their downtown district is deteriorating amid rising crime, rampant homelessness and diminishing police.

Multiple people who work in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, bemoaned the condition of the city and pinpointed a lack of police presence to its decline, according to an investigation by local outlet Asheville Watchdog.

“We really need beat cops, police on bicycles,” Rose Garfinkle, who lives and works downtown, told the outlet. “The lack of a police presence is noticeable. Things have taken a turn in the last five years.”

Violent crime has spiked in the historic mountain town during recent years amid an influx of people moving in from out of state. Violent crime in Asheville per 100,000 people increased 31% between 2016 and 2020 – nearly double the national average and 18 percentage points higher than North Carolina’s 13% increase statewide during the same period.

What did they think they were going to get? Every single person on the city council, including the mayor and vice mayor, are far, far left radical Progressives. The city attorney is also a far left zealot. This is what the vast majority of Asheville residents voted for. Buncombe County voted 59% for Biden, which was much higher in Asheville, with the rest of the county leaning GOP. It’s an 82% white city, that voted with progressive values. And, when they see their progressive values in action in their own city they are unhappy. Seriously, Neighborhood Scout rates the city as a 1 (100 is safest). That’s not good.

Asheville Police Department Chief David Zack told Fox News Digital last fall that his department is straining to operate at 42% down every day after losing more than 100 sworn officers since summer 2020, when tear gas-choked protests against police snarled downtown for days. Break-ins saw a 200% monthly surge in January, according to local ABC affiliate WLOS.

Well, when the Democrat loons demonize police officers, yammer about defunding them, they leave, and it’s hard to replace them, because there aren’t that many Democrats willing to step up and be law enforcement officers.

Another person reportedly tried to steal a bottle of nail polish and proceeded to paint all over the fitting room before vomiting in the store, and another individual urinated in front of the cash registers.

Management also encountered a homeless person who defecated in front of the store multiple times. Homeless were also camping in front of the store regularly, and one became aggressive, kicking things and brandishing a weapon that resembled a table leg.

Trash, needles and blankets caked with human excrement have also been repeatedly strewn in front of the business.

And you know that is being repeated all over the city. Nor is it something that just happened overnight, it’s something that grew and grew, and now they’re votes have come back to bite them in the posterior. It’s a wonderful city, ruined, like so many others, by left wing idiocy.

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Climate Doom Today: Miami Beach, Smartphones, “Real Solutions”

By William Teach March 6, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Warmists are so cute when they trot out feel green projects

Miami Beach Takes Action to Combat Climate Change with Innovative Seawall Project

In the face of rising sea levels and increasing frequency of extreme weather events, Miami Beach has taken a bold step to protect its residents and infrastructure from the impacts of climate change. The city is investing in an innovative seawall project that will not only offer protection against flooding but also incorporate sustainable and eco-friendly features.

The project, which is being spearheaded by the Miami Beach Public Works Department, is set to cover a 2.2-mile stretch of coastline and is expected to cost $500 million. It will replace the existing seawall, which has been in place since the 1920s and is no longer capable of withstanding the increasingly severe storms and high tides brought about by climate change.

First off, the closest stations, Vaca Key and Virginia Key, show 1.30 and .98 feet per 100 years. That Virginia Key goes back to 1931, and shows zero acceleration. Second, Miami Beach is a vacation town, which requires people take lots of fossil fueled travel to get there and get around, not too mention all the cruise ships. Will they ban fossil fuels?

‘Clouds of disinformation and climate change’

Cloud is the term used for remote storage of images, files and other stuff in this digital age.

Every smartphone is connected to its cloud, just as midges follow scotsmen in summer. Maybe it is an acronym, CLOUD – Calamitous Load Of Unexpected Doom? Enormous amounts of energy are required to keep all this information instantly available, with lots of cooling because energy generates heat. We are all fooled into believing smartphones and computers have no carbon footprint, but in reality they seriously add to global warming. (snip to the end, especially since the word “influence” is mentioned)

We should avoid being confused or caught up in these trends. Global warming remains an issue; cattle exhale methane; data hub clouds are worse!

The piece does mention, briefly, that social media is bad for people’s mental health, but, it is worse for anthropogenic global warming, so, all you youts need to stop using it if you believe in climate doom.

6 scholars explain what a real climate solution is

Scientists say there’s a lot we can still do to slow the speed of climate change. But when it comes to “climate solutions”, some are real, and some aren’t, says Naomi Oreskes, historian of science at Harvard University. “This space has become really muddied,” she says. (WT-she’s a far left, Progressive (nice fascim) loon who wants to do away with capitalism, for one thing)

So how does someone figure out what’s legit? We asked six climate scholars for the questions they ask themselves whenever they come across something claiming to be a climate solution.

It may sound basic, but one big way to address climate change is to reduce the main human activity that caused it in the first place: burning fossil fuels.

Scientists say that means ultimately transitioning away from oil, coal and gas and becoming more energy efficient. We already have a lot of the technology we need to make this transition, like solar, wind, and batteries, Oreskes says.

I’ll write it yet again: if fossil fuels are so bad, why is it that the majority of people who believe in climate doom are not giving up their own use of fossil fuels?

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