Good News: Pelosi Gives Congressional Staff Pay Raise On Way Out The Door

By William Teach December 31, 2022 – 7:00 am

It’s a nice gig if you can get it, and you do not really even have to do anything for the citizens who are paying your salary

Nancy Pelosi boosts maximum pay for House staff to $212,000 as she ends speakership

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday issued a new directive raising the maximum rate that lawmakers can pay House staff to $212,100 annually — $38,000 more than what members of Congress make.

The move comes after Pelosi already issued a directive earlier this year raising the maximum pay staffers can make from $199,300 to $203,700. At the time, Pelosi also instituted a minimum salary level of $45,000 for House staff.

The move was seen as precedent-breaking since for decades there were no official House rules governing staffer pay. Instead, House offices were free to negotiate staff pay individually. (snip)

The new salary cap means that senior staffers can make more annually than the lawmakers who serve as their employees. Both House and Senate lawmakers are paid $174,000 annually.

And what, exactly, are We The People getting out of these exorbitant salaries?

Overall, Issue One found one out of eight congressional offices were not paying wages that are comparable to the cost of living in Washington, D.C. The report estimated that there were roughly 1,200 congressional staffers making less than $42,610 annually.

Well, hey, that’s their problem. They took the job knowing the salary and the cost of living in the Democratic Party run city of D.C. And, come on, you can’t tell me they aren’t getting all sorts of massive government perks, not too mention all the insider trading tips.

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Climate Cult Is Enthused For You To Electrify Your Life In 2023

By William Teach December 30, 2022 – 3:00 pm

If electrification is so great why are the rich folks who can easily afford this not doing it? If it will save you peasants so much money, why is it necessary for Government to help pay for it and to force you to do it?

Electrify your life in 2023 to fight climate change. Here’s help paying for it.

Moving to clean energy – electrifying our houses, cars, and appliances – is widely considered a necessary step to help stave off catastrophic global warming. Now, it may finally be financially feasible, through the federal Inflation Reduction Act – the mammoth clean energy bill Congress approved in August – and various state and local initiatives.

A few caveats to keep in mind: The energy grid is still far from clean. In Oregon, about half of all electricity is produced from renewables, including hydropower, solar and wind. That means the other half comes from fossil fuels, mainly from natural gas and coal from out-of-state plants. House Bill 2021 aims to tackle that problem by requiring the state’s two major power companies to achieve carbon-free electricity by 2040.

All those new electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps, and induction cooktops will also need a lot more electricity than Oregon currently generates. That means modernizing the grid by building more transmission lines and on-site battery storage. While the endeavor may seem daunting, experts say electricity-generating capacity will increase to meet the higher demand as electrification efforts ramp up.

Well, good luck getting all that energy, Oregon. By the way, who’s paying for all this?

Here’s what you can do in 2023 to electrify, with the help of rebates and tax credits:

Replace your wood stove or fireplace: The smoke from burning wood for heating indoors carries tiny particles known as PM2.5 which cause burning eyes, runny noses and bronchitis. They can also trigger asthma and heart attacks, strokes and other conditions. Multnomah County residents can swap their wood stove or fireplace for an electric heat pump. Applicants receive a subsidy ranging from $3,000 to full cost of the replacement, depending on eligibility and household income. Renters can also qualify.

That’s just one thing. They also mention “rebates” for new and used EVs, get rid of the gas furnance and get a heat pump, get a new stove, weatherize your home, and buy solar panels (starting at $20K). Everyone has the money for all this, right? Because you will be paying money out of pocket. And where do the rebates and subsidies and giveaways come from? That money doesn’t just come out of thin air, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 30, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are mountains which will soon no longer have any snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on China sending their next pandemic right now.

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Good News: Brandon Releasing Lots Of Illegal Alien Criminals Into U.S.

By William Teach December 30, 2022 – 10:30 am

Remember who Democrats, including Biden, always said that they didn’t want the bad illegals, just the good ones? About that

Biden’s DHS Releases into U.S. Nearly 1.4K Illegal Alien Convicted Criminals in Less than Three Months

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released nearly 1,400 illegal alien convicted criminals from detention into American communities in less than three months, data shows.

The latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data reveals that from October through December 18, Biden’s DHS has released 1,363 illegal alien convicts into American communities along with more than 1,800 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges against them.

Of the illegal alien convicts released from DHS custody, 463 bonded out, 421 were given an order of recognizance, 371 were given an order of supervision, and 108 were paroled.

And they will never show up for any court hearings. They’ll just disappear into the nation and commit more crimes

RJ Hauman, with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), suggested that the Biden administration may be violating the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) with the mass release of illegal alien convicts from DHS custody.

Specifically, Hauman cites this INA statute:

The Attorney General may release an alien described in paragraph (1) only if the Attorney General decides pursuant to section 3521 of title 18 that release of the alien from custody is necessary to provide protection to a witness, a potential witness, a person cooperating with an investigation into major criminal activity, or an immediate family member or close associate of a witness, potential witness, or person cooperating with such an investigation, and the alien satisfies the Attorney General that the alien will not pose a danger to the safety of other persons or of property and is likely to appear for any scheduled proceeding. A decision relating to such release shall take place in accordance with a procedure that considers the severity of the offense committed by the alien. [Emphasis added]

“The law explicitly requires that those who cross the border illegally be detained, but the Biden administration clearly doesn’t want to detain or deport anyone,” Hauman told Breitbart News.

Biden doesn’t care. It won’t affect him. He’s protected. The more he releases, though, the more the amnesty forces can demand that all these illegals be given citizenship.

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We’re In A Climate Crisis, And Massive Snowstorms Prove It

By William Teach December 30, 2022 – 7:15 am

I’d love to let this bit of cultism go, but, they’re keeping it alive, like the Walking Dead which went on too long, or the Halloween franchise. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Police Academy 4, Jaws The Revenge, Ghostbusters 2016, Fast And Furious 28….

We are in a climate crisis, not simply experiencing climate change

Buffalo and western New York clearly just suffered through one of the worst and deadliest snowstorms in memory. Severe and almost unheard of events are now apparent everywhere you look.

In just the last year we have seen droughts scattered throughout the U.S., major wildfires, record heat in Europe, unusually strong storms and tornados in December, disastrous flooding in our heartland, a hurricane that seemed to last forever, and severe loss of life and trillions in damage from floods in Pakistan.

We can’t keep saying that we are experiencing 100-year events, because you can be sure they will recur again in far less than 100 years. We need language and action that matches the urgency of our situation: We are in a climate crisis, not simply experiencing climate change.

And what can solve this?

Current legislation is attempting to address the crisis with financial incentives, often described as “carrots.” To really get serious, we also need “sticks” that raise the costs of all products and activities that are heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

A slowly rising price on carbon emissions with revenue returned to Americans can provide the “stick” in a manner that doesn’t harm the economy or hurt consumers, including those with lesser incomes. Virtually all economists agree on this approach, Canada is already using it, and new Climate Leadership Council and Americans for Carbon Dividends polling shows Republican voters want to see meaningful solutions as well.

Let your members of Congress know that you want to see bipartisan climate action in 2023.

Let Congress know you want them to raise your cost of living while reducing your modern life. Why do most Warmists not live the carbon neutral life?

Can you blame climate change for a ‘once in a lifetime’ winter storm?

It is tempting to blame climate change for any anomaly in the weather. Some of the blame is justified – like long droughts and extraordinary rainstorms – but winter storms do not fit neatly in the climate change narrative. The researchers at Climate Central say that winter temperatures in the United States have increased by more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 50 years and that northern areas of the U.S. have warmed the fastest.

Yeah, they’re blaming you for driving a fossil fueled vehicle for massive winter storms.

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Strange: Wuhan Flu Is Spike In Peoples Republik Of California

By William Teach December 30, 2022 – 7:00 am

I thought they were all good little Liberals who followed all the CDC and government recommendations, taking booster after booster. How does this happen?

COVID is spiking again in California. What experts say about new variants, mask requirements

After a brief dip in mid-December, California’s coronavirus transmission rates appear to be climbing once again as 2022 comes to an end, with a key metric reaching its highest point in more than four months, state health data show.

The California Department of Public Health in a weekly update Thursday reported the statewide case rate for COVID-19 at 16.9 per 100,000.

Though that is a 12% drop compared to one week earlier, testing volume also dropped significantly, likely due to the winter holidays.

As a result, California’s test positivity rate spiked to 11.9%, up from 10.5% one week earlier for the state’s highest percentage recorded since Aug. 10.

So, of course

Sacramento City Unified School District officials said students and staff will return to an indoor mask requirement upon return from winter break Jan. 9 — but only if Sacramento County is classified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the “high” community level for COVID-19 danger in the preceding weekly update, posted Jan. 5.

And that’s just a small taste of California. If all the vaccines and masking and everything are so great, why is California having such trouble? It’s almost like they inoculated them with fear, allowing government to control them.

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Climate Cult Decides They Need A New Narrative For 2023

By William Teach December 29, 2022 – 4:04 pm

I’d recommend one that was based on the Scientific Model, ditching the reliance on computer models, and dropping the doomsaying

For 2023 let’s agree. We need a new climate change narrative

If you are around teenagers and you’ve got more than a decade on them, they don’t seem to have much to say to you.

It might seem as if they are doing nothing but texting or playing games on their phones, but they hear and see more than you think, and they’re thinking about what’s happening around them. More than you know.

At News Decoder each year, we ask students in our partner schools to pitch us ideas for news stories. Most want to report on big things happening across the world: police brutality, sex trafficking, transphobia, abortion. They get news off of social media about what’s happening around the world. And they pay attention.

Then we suggest they look closer to home and ask them if they can identify problems in their schools, neighborhoods or cities. It doesn’t take them long: pollution in a nearby river, an overcrowded animal shelter, discrimination against disabled people they know. They pay attention to conversations around them and to what people say to each other on social media.

In the story pitches students submitted to us this past year, they identified again and again two particular problems that worried them — climate change and mental health.

These two problems are connected.

Yes, they are, because the adults are making them have poor mental health with all the “we’re all doomed!!!!” talk.

Let’s focus on solutions and problem solvers.

At News Decoder, we encourage young people to write stories about problems around them. Now we want them to focus on solutions.

This year, we teamed up with the Climate Academy at the European School Brussels II and the nonprofit Global Youth & News Media to launch a global storytelling contest, as part of a larger climate change project called The Writing’s on the Wall. For the competition, we ask teens to find people in their local communities who are working to solve our climate crisis in some way — with projects that take us off fossil fuels, perhaps, or by pressuring governments or corporations to take meaningful systemic actions.

So, stories of trying to force Other People to comply, and ones that perpetuate the coming climate apocalypse (scam)? How does that help?

Teens see the problems around them. That much is clear. But it is making them anxious and frustrated because all they see are adults doing nothing. So now we ask them this: Can you identify the problem solvers around you? Can we tell stories about climate change solutions?

For our New Year’s resolution we are going to try to change the narrative from one of despondency to one of inspiration and motivation. Help us spread the word about our storytelling competition. Encourage teens around you to find a climate change problem solver in your community.

The solution is easy

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 29, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is Extreme Weather created heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Earl Of Taint, with a post the Ten Percentident.

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Another Test Post

By William Teach December 29, 2022 – 12:38 pm

I should really be doing this on my test site, but, whatever

This will get deleted after 1pm, trying to see if Buffer will automatically post it at the proper time. Jetpack only gives users 30 free shares to Twitter, have to pay $10 a month now for unlimited now. F that.

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Good News: Exercise Is Rooted In White Supremacy History

By William Teach December 29, 2022 – 10:30 am

The smart thing for the editor at Time Magazine should have been to say “you really wrote a piece on this with that headline?” then hit delete and tell Olivia B. Waxman to write something that is not stupid. Because the headline is based literally on her first paragraph

The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness

How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons? That evolution is explored in a new book by a historian of exercise, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, out Jan. 2023.

Nowadays, at the beginning of every New Year, many Americans hit the gym to work off their holiday feasts. This momentum usually starts to fade in mid-January, according to a 2019 analysis of data on fitness tracking apps by Bloomberg. But such new year’s resolutions are pretty new—as is the concept of exercise as a way to improve bodily health.

The gyms are usually slammed from the 2nd to 8th, then back to normal.

“It’s really not until the 1980s that you start to have a consensus that everybody should be doing some form of exercise,” says Mehlman Petrzela, a professor at the New School in New York City. That’s partly the result of the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which fought for Title IX, allowing girls to play school sports. That pushed back on notions that girls and women aren’t capable of doing vigorous exercise because they’re fragile.

Title IX is raaaaacist? Who knew!

Perfect for reading on the treadmill or stationary bike, the below conversation with Mehlman Petrzela outlines the earliest ideas on exercise, delves into the history of various popular workouts, and the outsize influence of Richard Simmons.

So they want you to read a book about how exercise makes you a white supremacist while performing raaaaacist exercise? Huh. Anyhow, Waxman interviews Petrzela, and we learn

What’s the most surprising thing you learned in your research?

It was super interesting reading the reflections of fitness enthusiasts in the early 20th century. They said we should get rid of corsets, corsets are an assault on women’s form, and that women should be lifting weights and gaining strength. At first, you feel like this is so progressive.

Then you keep reading, and they’re saying white women should start building up their strength because we need more white babies. They’re writing during an incredible amount of immigration, soon after enslaved people have been emancipated. This is totally part of a white supremacy project. So that was a real “holy crap” moment as a historian, where deep archival research really reveals the contradictions of this moment.

That’s literally the only thing that’s mentioned as “white supremacy” in the article. The rest revolves around different crazes, about men with HIV/AIDS working to show they’re healthy, fads like “reducing machines”, how environmentalists in the 70’s really embraced running, where Pilates came from, and stuff that has nothing to do with raaaaacism. It probably does have something of interest. I still won’t read it, and it was a very, very silly headline. I’m pretty sure that exercise was around in the U.S. prior to the 20th Century.

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