Super Racist San Francisco To Give Blacks Up To $5 Million Each In “Reparations”

Have fun with those tax increases, residents of Democratic Party run San Francisco. But, you don’t mind paying, because you’re all super racist, right?

San Fran’s reparations committee proposes $5 million to each Black longtime resident, total debt forgiveness

San Francisco’s reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of “systematic repression” faced by the local Black community.

The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations – not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”

“While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement,” the draft states.

The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for Black San Francisco residents, including a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.

To be eligible for the program, the applicant must be 18 years old and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years. They must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria, choosing from a list that includes, “Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and has proof of residency in San Francisco for at least 13 years,” and/or, “Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.”

The plan also calls on the city to supplement lower-income recipients’ income to reflect the Area Median Income (AMI), about $97,000, annually for at least 250 years.

So, someone who was jailed for, say, dealing dangerous drugs like meth, or a relative was, they can possibly get $5 million? Really? Per the 2020 census, there are almost 45,000 blacks living in San Fran. Let’s cut that in half for payment purposes. That is $112,500,000,000. SF’s last yearly budget was $13.1 billion. Where’s the rest coming from? Even if we cut that in half, that’s still $56 billion. And what of the supplement payments? Where is all this money coming from?

The plan also seeks to establish “a comprehensive debt forgiveness program” that clears each eligible person’s student and housing loans, credit card debt, etc.

Where’s it coming from? That seems to be missing from the plan. But, hey, I’m all for this reparations give away. Yep, make the tax payers in San Fran pay all the repressed, just because they voted for those politicians who want to give away taxpayer dollars.

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Warmism Is Really About Bored Bourgeoisie

This is really where it all starts: the Elites, who then convince the peasants that this stuff is uber-important, so they should think that Something Must Be Done. I’m actually rather shocked that Newsweek allowed this piece to be published

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion

The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.

Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media and culture like to depict it, but rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.

The writer, Ralph Schoellhammer, spends a few paragraphs on the utter and complete failure of Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, who has since doubled down and not been called out by the media for his failed prognostications, to

The best answer to this question comes courtesy of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who in 2019 famously said that, “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right.” In other words, no matter what nonsense one spews, as long as it is “morally right,” it does not matter what the facts show.

Like the prophet of any religion, Ehrlich is not there to explain the world but to reinforce the upper class’s favorite worldview of the imminent end of the world, something that can only be prevented if we fundamentally change the way we live. Of course, by “we,” they actually mean “you.” It’s not the Tesla driving AOC or the jet-setting Stanford professor Ehrlich who will adapt their lifestyles, but the rubes of the working- and middle-class who supposedly eat too much meat, drive too many miles on gas-guzzling cars, or even book the occasional flight to go on vacation.

How long have I been saying this? 15+ years?

Even supposed grass-roots movements like “Just Stop Oil” or “Last Generation” (of “tomato soup on paintings” fame) are in fact funded by millionaires, like Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of legendary oil-tycoon Jean Paul Getty, and the Climate Emergency Fund.

Just like Kerry, Ehrlich, and these other groups are not really interested in solving the problem of climate change—for example, promoting research in technologies like nuclear energy, carbon capture technologies, and means of adaptation. Instead, they wish to elevate their struggle to an ersatz-religion that allows them to simultaneously enjoy their wealth and lecture the rest of the world from a position of moral superiority.

And do virtually nothing in their own lives, right? Just force you to change yours via government law. At the end of the day, an argument I have made many, many times is “let’s hypothesize that the current warm period is being driven mostly by the activities of Mankind, such as fossil fuels: why is almost every single policy to fix this revolve around more taxes and fees, and way, way more government control of our lives?”

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If All You See…

…is horrible Bad Weather heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on UK EV sales falling, as people can’t afford to charge them.

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NYC Mayor Visits Border, Says Federal Government Needs To Do More

See, Eric Adams, mayor of sanctuary city New York, is upset that illegal aliens are being sent to his city, whining at Texas gov Greg Abbott (R) and Colorado gov Jared Polis (D) for that

Democrat NYC Mayor Adams calls on federal government to play more proactive role to secure border

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday called on the federal government to play a bigger role in addressing the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that is overwhelming city officials.

The Democratic mayor was in El Paso this weekend to survey the border and meet with his counterparts to discuss how the crisis is impacting the community.

The trip comes after the mayor said on Friday that the Big Apple is at its “breaking point” as record numbers of migrants continue to arrive. Adams submitted an emergency mutual aid request to New York state for immediate help this weekend to shelter the asylum seekers.

Speaking at a Sunday afternoon press conference alongside El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, Adams said New York City wasn’t pointing at any border city in particular for exacerbating the problem.

“We’re pointing the finger … at our national government,” Adams said. “This is a national problem. We must have real immigration reform, and we must immediately have a short-term fix of making sure that the cost of this does not fall on our local cities.”

He is sort of correct. We do need reform, changing the laws so that any illegal caught is immediately deported, rather than being allowed to hang out in the U.S. while going through the process of seeing if they qualify for asylum, which most do not. And requiring that all applying for asylum do so outside of the U.S. Implementing changes that end all the incentives for people to come to the U.S. illegally.

As far as cost falling on local cities, well, NYC is a sanctuary city. I thought they welcomed illegals and loved them? No?

Migrants exploiting border wall gaps contaminate crops, threaten nation’s food security, Arizona farmers say

The border crisis is jeopardizing the nation’s food security as migrants trespass through farmland, contaminating crops, two Arizona farmers with fields near the southern border told Fox News.

“There’s obviously a food safety concern because our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens,” Pasquinelli Produce Company President Alex Muller told Fox News. “If there’s somebody that walks into our field and then we don’t know about why we put up flags and kind of mark it out and we don’t harvest that.”

“That hits the bottom line,” Muller said. “It’s not sustainable. It’s not good for the country.”

Yuma — the country’s agricultural leader in leafy green production during the winter months — provides about 90% of the nation’s supply of romaine and iceberg lettuce, according to the Department of Agriculture. It supplies around 9 billion servings of leafy greens per year, but farmers fear they will lose crops as more migrants pass through the border wall’s gaps and into their fields.

The Constitution tasks the Congress with protecting the border, and the Executive Branch is tasked with enforcing the laws passed. They are failing.

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Climate Cult Wants Carbon Limits Placed On Every Person

Of course, the Elites would be exempt

Great Reset: Individual CO2 Limits Needed to Fight Climate Change, Says German Scientist

An individual carbon dioxide limit should be applied to every person in order to establish a “planetary guardrail” in the effort to combat allegedly man-made climate change, a leading German scientist has argued.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) said this week that every person should have a limit of three tonnes of C02 emissions per year and those who exceed their limit should be forced to pay for the pleasure.

In comments reported by Taagesschau, Schellnhuber said that there were are two competing property rights issues at hand, namely the right to spend one’s money on high emissions activities and the rights of the rest of the population to “have an environment worth living [in]”.

In a carbon credit style scheme, those who emit over the three-tonne limit by the middle of the century would need to privately purchase credits from those who are under the limit, he suggested: “Every person gets three tons of CO2 per year, but if you need more, you just have to buy it.”

The average American is around 18-19 metric tons. The Elites would be able to afford to pay for their Bad Behavior. The average American would be forced to reduce their quality of life. And Government will be right there to make sure you comply.

Why combatting climate change means embracing degrowth

We are all aware of the ambitious changes we need to make if we are to avert catastrophic and irreversible climate change. However, exactly what we need to do remains a confusing minefield which few of us have the time or energy to navigate.

Every day we hear of a new technology that promises to suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or a space-based solar technology that will power millions of homes, or, conversely, we find out that what was touted as a solution yesterday is no longer one today.

But all this “complexity” is just a distraction from the simple reality that to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown we need to make fundamental changes to the way we live.

This reality could in fact not be any simpler. We need to radically reduce our consumption of resources.

The weird thing is that most Warmists do not actually do this. And the climate cult understands that it would take government to force degrowth. And the biggest thing they want is reducing the energy use of you peasants

Other than leave our car in the garage and switch lights off when we are not using them, what can you and I do? Urge our government to implement policies that put human and ecological wellbeing at their centre, not growth. Putting strong incentives in place to drive energy conservation would be a good start.

Yup, government force.

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NY Times Wonders How Biden Got All Those Classified Documents

Of course, the NY Times is showing their extreme neutral journalism by…not having any article about Biden’s documents issue on their web front page as of Sunday evening, and only one article way, way down the page for Sunday morning. Not unsurprising, a lot of other Credentialed Media outlets are minimizing their coverage. Now, just imagine this was Trump. Oh, wait, we saw how they all covered that. I found this article via Yahoo News

Documents Inquiry Puts Spotlight on Biden’s Frenetic Last Days as Vice President

Those last days were a blur of phone calls, meetings, farewell events, and visits to Ukraine and Switzerland. As he wrapped up his tenure as vice president in January 2017, Joe Biden was packing in as much as he could.

The question now is: What else was being packed? And by whom? And why? And where was it going?

The appointment of a special counsel has focused new attention on Biden’s frenetic final stretch in the White House after eight years as the No. 2 to President Barack Obama. Somehow, a small number of classified documents would go not to the archives, where they belonged, but to Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and, later, a private office in Washington, where they did not.

Ah, so, this is about Blaming other people for packing up all those classified documents, and, I guess, putting them in Joe’s garage with his Corvette. At his house. And his center. Obviously, Joe has zero responsibility for the contents of those places. In Times World, Joe has zero responsibility.

But, yeah, it does beg the question, how did they get there? And, why did the Vice President have them in the first place? Have you ever heard of a VP having this issue? What was he doing with all those documents for 6 years?

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If All You See…

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

The blog of the day is Liberty Daily, with a post on the creepy tranny owner of Miss Universe.

It’s cleaning out the folders week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Patriotic Pinup Peter Driben

Happy Sunday! Another beautiful day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Devils are back to their winning ways. This pinup is by Peter Driben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Other McCain discusses Goldilocks and the 4 interceptions
  2. The O.K. Corral is not impressed by denizens of NYC
  3. The Last Refuge covers the COVID19 debate we were denied
  4. The Gateway Pundit notes NYC’s mayor saying the city was at a breaking point from illegals
  5. The First Street Journal points out grooming
  6. Never Yet Melted discusses things worse than Santos
  7. Legal Insurrection covers what Mayor Pete was doing during crises’
  8. Jihad Watch notes what Biden is telling Israel to do with their money
  9. Geller Report covers what all the illegals are doing in taxpayer funded hotels
  10. Flag And Cross discusses Kari Lake running for Senate
  11. Common Cents Blog notes all the military reports on UFOs
  12. Cold Fury discusses the gas stove banning issue
  13. Chicks On The Right notes Canada’s Girl Scouts changing the name of the Brownies
  14. Blazing Cat Fur covers an armed robber picking the wrong group to rob
  15. And last, but, not least, Real Climate Science discusses saving the planet with green energy

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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More Surprise: Search Finds More Documents Joe Should Not Have Had In His House

How many more will they find?

More classified documents found at Biden’s home by lawyers

Biden Brain SlugLawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known, the White House acknowledged Saturday.

White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden’s private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there.

The latest disclosure is in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Biden’s garage and in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, from his time as vice president. The apparent mishandling of classified documents and official records from the Obama administration is under investigation by a former U.S. attorney, Robert Hur, who was appointed as a special counsel on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Sauber said in a statement Saturday that Biden’s personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening. Sauber found the remaining material Thursday, as he was facilitating their retrieval by the Department of Justice. (snip)

Sauber’s statement did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting of the number of classified records. The White House is already facing scrutiny for waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the initial group of documents at the Biden office.

Um, why are Biden’s lawyers searching for documents when they do not have security clearances? Why are there not people with the proper clearances searching? The DOJ had zero problem with a highly visible dawn raid of Donald Trump’s property, tearing stuff up, searching through his wife’s clothes, right? That Biden didn’t know he had them should be concerning, as, how secure could they be?

Also, why is Biden at home in Wilmington this weekend, when his home is pretty much a national security crime scene?

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Good News: We Can Teach About Climate Doom All The Time In Every Subject

What was that part about this being about science and definitely not a cult?

You Can Teach About Climate Change in Every Subject and Grade Level. Here’s How

As a topic, climate change is often confined to science class, but it should be considered an interdisciplinary issue that spans subjects and grade levels, educators and experts say.

That line of thinking hasn’t caught on with all teachers, though: When a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey asked why they haven’t addressed climate change or issues related to it with students, 26 percent of teachers said they can’t think of any way it is related to the subject they teach. Nine percent said they think their students are too young to learn about it.

New Jersey made headlines last year for becoming the first state to require that climate change be taught in all grade levels and subjects. But for the most part, it’s up to individual teachers to decide whether they want to broach the subject in class—a tall order, considering the complexity of the science, the strong emotions it raises, and the lack of training in how to teach it.

This might be a great idea, because kids can learn about things such as the Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Dark Ages, Roman Warm Period, etc, and can ask questions like “how did that happen when there were no fossil fueled vehicles?” They can learn about it in math, and ask questions like “why is the government trying to take even more of my money while the people pushing it refuse to modify their own lives to accord with their beliefs?” In Home Economics (do they still do that?) they can learn that Government is trying to restrict the foods they can eat and the consumer goods they can buy. In Sociology they can learn that Government is looking to restrict where they can travel to take their selfies and videos. In tech classes they’ll find out that the Climate Cult wants to restrict their ability to stream videos, movies, and TV shows.

Enter SubjectToClimate, a nonprofit with the goal of encouraging more teachers to teach about climate change. The organization, which launched in August 2021, has compiled hundreds of resources on climate change for every grade and nearly every school subject. It also pays teachers to create lesson plans on how climate change can be taught in every classroom. So far, there are more than 100, in subjects ranging from art and physical education to math and social studies.

In a conversation with Education Week, co-founder and chief operating officer Margaret Wang shared some examples of lessons and spoke about why it’s so important for climate change to be an interdisciplinary issue. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. (snip)

I’ll give you an example: This is a geometry lesson plan that we worked with a math teacher to create. At its root, it’s about what you would teach in a geometry class, but it’s answering the question, “How much would sea level rise if Antarctica melted?” which is really related to sustainability.

I think there’s a lot of talk that yes, it can be taught as early as kindergarten, but it needs to be taught a little bit more carefully. So we’ve worked with teachers in the K-2 [grades] to create lesson plans.

Essentially, indoctrination from a cult group starting at an early age.

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