Brandon Admin Argues For Forced Masking On Airplanes

By William Teach January 19, 2023 – 6:45 am

I’m confused: mask mandates on airplanes in the U.S. are long gone, and even longer in other countries. So, what the heck is Biden trying to do?

DOJ defending mask mandate on planes months after Biden said pandemic is ‘over’

The Biden administration is fighting to maintain a federal mask mandate for air travel and other methods of transportation even after President Biden said months ago the pandemic is “over,” and despite calls from travel associations to end mask mandates.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on Tuesday from the Biden Justice Department on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to reinstate a mask mandate for air travel, after a federal judge in Florida struck down the mandate last April.

“The Department continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health. That is an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve,” DOJ said in a statement at the time of the ruling.

The legal fight comes almost six months after the president declared that the pandemic was “over” in a television interview. (snip)

“The Biden administration is trying to paper over an illegal, sweeping mandate on Americans that is full of massive legal and scientific holes,” HFDF founder and President Leslie Manookian said in a press statement. “That a federal agency should be able to just usurp the power of Congress, and violate fundamental individual rights is not only at odds with the law – it defies basic common sense.”

Is the Brandon admin trying to have the power to reinstate mask mandates on airplanes (and trains and buses) right now, or simply trying to keep the power for the future?

Meanwhile, the Credentialed Media is Very Upset over Ron DeSantis trying to kill mandates

DeSantis calls for permanent ban on COVID mask and vaccine mandates. Here’s what that means

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he wants to permanently ban all mandates related to COVID-19.

In a press release, DeSantis, a Republican, said he is proposing legislation that will prevent employment decisions based on COVID-19 vaccination status and prevent schools or businesses from requiring face coverings.

The legislation would specifically prohibit COVID-19 vaccine passports in Florida; prohibit vaccine and mask requirements in Florida schools; prohibit masking requirements by businesses; and prohibit employees from being hired or fired based on whether or not they have received a COVID-19 vaccine.

This makes the Covid Cult really upset.

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Wackadoodle Extinction Rebellion Nuts Dance And Wacko, After Saying They’d Take A Break

By William Teach January 18, 2023 – 3:00 pm

This was just at the beginning of January

UK climate group calls temporary halt to disruptive protests

The U.K. division of climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion says its activists would temporarily stop blocking busy roads, gluing themselves to buildings and engaging in other acts of civil disobedience because such methods have not achieved their desired effects.

And now

(UK Daily Mail) Extinction Rebellion activists let off smoke flares and poured black paint outside the Home Office today in the eco-mob’s latest stunt.

The group of around 10 eco-zealots was surrounded by police as they held placards and lay on the ground next to the building in London. Two men were arrested.

Protesters poured the black paint out of plastic buckets which had ‘end coal’ written on the side, while two of the activists appeared to have attached themselves together with a large tube.

Met Police were called to the Home Office at around 11am to disperse the group, arresting two men on suspicion of causing criminal damage.

The two demonstrators on the ground set off flares and shouted as they sat next to the Home Office entrance.

Other protestors at the demonstration were dressed as yellow birds, while one man was dressed as a skeleton.

Who’s surprised that the pledge to not be nuts didn’t last?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 18, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a bird whose descendants will be either bigger or smaller due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on the Scottish government looking to cut down the vehicle travel by the peasants.

BTW, are things a bit more stable? I deactivated a plugin that tracks how much ram is used by plugins, because I see its name come up sometimes as an error instead of the Cloudfare notice.

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Hot Takes: Biden Could Declassify, His House Wasn’t An Official Residence

By William Teach January 18, 2023 – 10:30 am

The Credentialed News is working overtime to protect Brandon…well, when they actually have an article about what’s going on with the document issue. There are zero web front page pieces, even in opinion, on the documents issue. Nor at the Washington Post, for which the current POTUS’ name is mentioned zero times. Nor at the LA Times

Fact check: Biden did have the authority to declassify documents as vice president

The claim: Biden did not have the authority to declassify documents as vice president

A Jan. 12 Instagram reel (direct link, archived link) shows a clip of President Joe Biden answering a question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy about a batch of classified documents that were found at Biden’s home.

“This Clown show is going to need a bigger tent,” reads the post’s caption. “Biden did NOT have the authority to declassify documents that were classified in his position of Vice President during the Obama administration. Only the President can declassify, classified documents, not the Vice President. So why were these documents in his possession?”

The USA Today rates this as false, because

Legal experts told USA TODAY that Biden had the authority to declassify documents as vice president as the result of a 2009 executive order signed by President Barack Obama. (snip)

McClanahan, who also teaches at the George Washington University Law School, said that under a 2009 executive order signed by Obama, the vice president is included in a list of “original classification authorities,” meaning Biden had the power declassify anything he classified.

The Washington Post also reported vice presidents have the authority to declassify anything they classified. The New York Times similarly reported that the vice president has the power to declassify, while noting the scope of that authority “has never been definitively tested.”

Both the Times and Washington Post (which is a “fact check” by so often wrong and utterly biased Glenn Kessler) are using the same rational. But, consider, it was an executive order, not by law. So there’s challenge there. Further, the VP can only declassify what he classified in the first place. We know nothing of these documents found in all sorts of places. Were they ones Biden classified first? Were the appropriate federal agencies, including the National Archives, informed? Where is the paper trail of this being done? None of these pieces ask that relevant question.

There’s a simple reason Biden didn’t keep visitor logs at the Delaware home where he held classified documents — it’s not an official residence

The White House has said there are no visitor logs at Joe Biden’s Delaware home, after Republicans demanded to see them.

It came after Republicans pressed for more information after learning that classified files dating from Biden’s time as vice president were being wrongly kept there.

However — per the White House, no president in recent history has logged who comes and goes from their private home. Those records are only kept for official locations like the White House.

This, though, is true. There are most likely Secret Service logs, but, they are private. Except, the uber-leftist group CREW sued to get the visitor logs from Mar-A-Lago, and a judge required that they be released for a time period.

The Secret Service also says that it doesn’t keep visitor logs at Biden’s personal residences, and that it does not keep permanent records of visitors to his properties it screens, NBC News said. 

So, it probably notes who’s coming and going, then purges that data when they deem it no longer necessary at private residences. That said, since Biden is probably doing absolutely nothing but resting and taking his medications when he travels to one of his Delaware houses, there are probably no visitors.

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Climate Peasants Suddenly Notice That Elites Are Rather Climahypocritical

By William Teach January 18, 2023 – 7:15 am

Only well over a decade too late. Heck, this was truly noticed by Skeptics all the way back in 2007, when so many flew to the exotic vacation spot of Bali for the UN IPCC on private jets that they had to be deadheaded (flown with no passengers) to other islands

The rich and powerful flocked to Davos via private jet to discuss climate change, study finds

At the World Economic Forum, which started Monday in Davos, Switzerland, the global business and political elite will discuss how to combat climate change, but their own private jet travel to attend the conference will cause a spike in planet-warming carbon emissions, according to a new study from Greenpeace International.

The research, released last Thursday, which was compiled by the Dutch environmental consultancy CE Delft, found twice as many private jets flew to and from airports serving Davos during the 2022 WEF meeting compared with an average week. The carbon dioxide emissions from these extra flights were equal to putting roughly 350,000 gasoline-powered cars on the road for the same weeklong period. (snip)

The study found that of the 1,040 private jet flights in or out of airports near Davos, 53% were shorter than 466 miles and 38% were under 310 miles. The shortest flight recorded was only 13 miles. Short-haul flights are especially polluting because airplanes are less efficient during landing and takeoff.

Don’t expect the Elites to stop their Bad Behavior, though.

Former Vice President Al Gore spoke in Davos on Monday about climate change, arguing that multilateral lending institutions like the World Bank need to make more funding for a clean energy transition available to developing countries. Gore has said that sometimes he has flown by chartering a private jet but that he usually flies commercial. Kerry struck similar notes in his Tuesday speech in Davos.

Sure Gore flies commercial.

Even if he did fly commercial (good luck with that), he still took a long, fossil fueled flight.

“I’m convinced we will get to a low-carbon, no-carbon economy — we’re going to get there because we have to,” Kerry said. “I am not convinced we’re going to get there in time to do what the scientists said, which is avoid the worst consequences of the crisis. So how do we get there? … Money, money, money, money, money, money, money.”

Well, why don’t all those rich folks pony up? Oh, right, it will be your money.

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Excitable Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Bill Making Criticizing People Of Color Illegal

By William Teach January 18, 2023 – 7:00 am

Even with all the extreme wackos in the Democratic Party, this isn’t going anywhere. It wouldn’t go anywhere if Democrats still were in charge of the House, but, it does show that these extreme race baiters are not looking for racial healing, but, racial strife

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Bill Criminalizing ‘Conspiracy to Commit White Supremacy,’ Criticism of Non-White People

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced a House Bill criminalizing “conspiracy to commit white supremacy,” which includes criticism of non-white people which influences an individual to commit a hate crime.

The legislation, H.R.61 “Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023,” introduced last Monday by Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, seeks to “prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime.”

The congressional bill, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, states that someone engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime “when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.”

Accordingly, “conspiracy” to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime entails the publishing of material “advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory’, or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group.”

It also calls for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to gain “authority to conduct operations and activities pursuant” to what it deems “necessary and appropriate to interdict, mitigate, or prevent such action from culminating in violent activity.”

Has she heard of the 1st Amendment? Does she care about it?

“Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced a bill that would make it a federal crime for White people, and White people only, to criticize mass immigration or to say anything that she claims would vilify ‘a non-White person or group,’” wrote one Twitter user.

Democrats are nuts.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 17, 2023 – 8:40 pm

…is a sea that is rising up and requires homes built on stilts, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on Brandon pledging to go after guns during MLK, Jr day event.

Totally forgot to his schedule this morning

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NPR Has A Kids’ Guide To Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach January 17, 2023 – 3:00 pm

No, no, this is definitely all about the science, not indoctrination via comics

A kid’s guide to climate change (plus a printable comic)

Are you a kid — or do you know a kid — who is learning about climate change?

It can be hard to know where to start. So we made a guide about how it’s changing the planet and how to deal with the big feelings you might have when you hear about it. Click here to print a paper version of this comic at home or in your classroom, and here’s more information about how we made this.

Insanity like

Weirdly, there is nothing in this about giving up your own use of fossil fuels, despite a previous page Blaming the minor increase in global temperatures in 170 years on fossil fuels

Why we made this
Over the years we’ve created resources for how parents can talk to their kids about climate change. This time we wanted to make something specifically for kids as they’re processing their feelings. We also wanted to create a free resource for parents or teachers to use who are looking for ways to help their kids understand how the planet is changing.

Who this is for
This comic is intended for kids ages 6-12, who are starting to hear about climate change or are starting to

Nice to know that government funded “news” is working hard to indoctrinate children.

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Surprise: A Bunch Of Celebs Came Down With COVID After Golden Globes

By William Teach January 17, 2023 – 10:30 am

These are the people who constantly say to get vaxxed and boosted, and, as Good Little Liberals, do it themselves, right?

It Might Be Time to Mask Up at Award Shows

Here’s hoping your favorite celebs attending the Critics Choice Awards tonight wear masks. Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic and it seems Hollywood is still figuring out how to give each other golden statues without also creating a potential superspreader event. The proof: Colin Farrell, Jamie Lee Curtis, and others have backed out of the event after testing positive for COVID just days after attending the Golden Globes.

On Friday, three days after the Golden Globes, Curtis, who has been making the rounds this awards season with Everything Everywhere All at Once, announced that she tested positive for COVID-19. She even posted an Instagram photo of three different at-home tests to prove it, writing that she would be skipping the American Film Institute Lunch, BAFTA tea, and the Critics Choice Awards. Then on Sunday, The Banshees of Inisherin stars Farrell and Brendan Gleeson both confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that they would not attend the Critics Choice Awards after testing positive for COVID-19. And Hacks co-creator Jen Statsky also appears to have come down with COVID. This weekend, she shared in an Instagram Story that she was “riddled with the novel coronavirus.” And that’s just the ones we know about.

Of course, there’s no telling when, where, or how these celebs caught COVID. It is an extremely contagious virus, and I assume that they all had things going on outside of attending the Golden Globes, so it’s not fair to assume that they got it at the ceremony. However, the Globes were a crowded indoor event, just as the Critics Choice Awards and other award-season events are expected to be, and there’s a lot of overlap on the guest lists. Not to mention, Hollywood saw a similar phenomenon last year with a small outbreak after the BAFTAs. Assuming we all want to make it to the Oscars, I would humbly suggest that celebs mask up to attend any future award shows. If Zendaya can wear a mask to the Oscars, you can too!

Yeah yeah yeah. How many of the celebs like Zendaya and Jessica Chastain who crowed about wearing masks outside on the red carpet took them off inside or at the after-parties? Isn’t that what the vaccines and boosters are supposed to do, keep you from getting COVID? That’s what we’ve been told about the vaccines and boosters. So, why are so many people getting COVID who were vaxxed? Considering that vast swaths of people who were forced to wear masks were getting COVID and dying in 2020 and 2021, what are masks supposed to do?

Anyhow, on to the creepy

Colorado health department to begin texting parents whose children need COVID vaccine

Effective now, parents of elementary school-aged children can expect a text message from the Colorado health department if their kids are due for COVID vaccine.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) announced Friday it would be texting and emailing parents of kids 5-11 years old.

“While children are at a lower risk of severe COVID-19, they can still get sick and have serious and long-lasting symptoms,” CDPHE said in news release. “The COVID-19 vaccine is the protection against severe infection and can help children stay healthy while protecting their loved ones and communities. COVID-19 vaccines are free. Parents and guardians are entitled to paid time off from work while they take their children to get vaccinated.

Texts and emails will go out to those families whose records indicate their children are behind on the vaccine. Additionally, the health department has compiled a list of more than 2,000 vaccine providers across the state, as well as a “Class-to-Clinic” locator showing the closest vaccine providers to the state’s roughly 2,300 K-12 schools. Those resources can be found by clicking here and here.

That’s not creepy or invasive at all, right? Don’t these same leftists tell us that healthcare is between a person and their doctor?

New York State eyes nixed COVID-19 vaccine rule for health workers

The New York State Department of Health is “exploring its options” after a state Supreme Court judge struck down a statewide mandate requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the agency said Saturday.

Judge Gerard Neri wrote in a ruling released Friday that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the health department overstepped their authority by mandating a vaccine that’s not included in state public health law, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported.

The mandate is “null, void, and of no effect,” the judge said. He sided with Medical Professionals for Informed Consent, a group of medical workers impacted by the vaccination mandate.

Of course, the Progressives (nice Fascists) are looking for ways around the judge’s order.

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Maybe Not Your Fault: Collapse Of Antarctic Ice Sheet Not Inevitable

By William Teach January 17, 2023 – 7:00 am

This is good news from the Cult of Climastrology, I guess

Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not ‘inevitable’: study

The runaway collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — which would trigger catastrophic sea level rise — is not “inevitable”, scientists said Monday following research that tracked the region’s recent response to climate change.

As global temperatures rise, there is mounting concern that warming could trigger so-called tipping points that set off irreversible melting of the world’s massive ice sheets and ultimately lift oceans enough to drastically redraw the world map.

New research published Monday suggests a complex interaction of factors affecting the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is home to the enormous and unstable Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers — nicknamed the “Doomsday glacier” — that together could raise global sea levels by more than three metres (10 feet).

Using satellite imagery as well as ocean and climate records between 2003 and 2015, an international team of researchers found that while the West Antarctic Ice Sheet continued to retreat, the pace of ice loss slowed across a vulnerable region of the coastline.

Their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, concluded that this slowdown was caused by changes in ocean temperatures that were caused by offshore winds, with pronounced differences in the impact depending on the region.

OK, let’s put this in real talk: the apocalypse of the collapse of the ice sheet is simply not cooperating with the cult’s prognostications of doom, so, they’re trying to spin it

Researchers said that this raises questions about how rising temperatures will affect the Antarctic, with ocean and atmospheric conditions playing a key role.

“That means that ice-sheet collapse is not inevitable,” said co-author Professor Eric Steig from the University of Washington in Seattle.

“It depends on how climate changes over the next few decades, which we could influence in a positive way by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

Yup, cult spin. They’re trying to get ahead of yet another failed prognostication.

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