Excitable NY Gov Hochul Pushes To Ban New Gas Hookups

By William Teach January 13, 2023 – 7:15 am

Los Federales may have given up on banning gas stoves (at least for the moment. You know they’ll try again), but, climahypocrite Hochul is working it

N.Y. Gov. Hochul proposes ban on new gas hookups, to fight climate change

In the same week that the Biden administration reversed course on whether a ban on the sale of new gas stoves is under consideration, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed banning fossil fuel infrastructure, including lines that power gas stoves and furnaces, in smaller new residential buildings by 2025 and in larger ones by 2028.

Hochul, a Democrat, also proposed the same requirement for commercial buildings beginning in 2030. The governor also wants to end sales of new oil or gas heating equipment — boilers, stoves, dryers and hot water heaters — in existing residential buildings by 2030 and by 2035 in existing commercial buildings.

“We know that the key to long-term sustainability — for our wallets and our planet — is weaning ourselves from fossil fuels,” Hochul said Tuesday in her state of the state speech. “We are taking these actions because climate change remains the greatest threat to our planet, and to our children and grandchildren.”

Last year, Washington state mandated the use of electric heat pumps in new homes and apartments, but, in recognition of the limitations of electric heat pumps in colder climates, fossil fuel burners will still be allowed to provide backup heat. The California Air Resources Board approved a plan last year to end the sale of fossil fuel appliances statewide, but the rules are still being drafted.

So, what of new construction in the norther parts of NY? Heck, most of NY. It does get pretty cold, So, what provides heating? Considering NY is banning natural gas power plants, doing away with coal and nuclear, where does this energy come from? What of those who use propane? Is that banned, as well? Funny how so much of the ‘climate change’ policy revolves around telling the peasants what they may or may not have.

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AG Garland Forced To Appoint Special Investigator On Biden Classified Document

By William Teach January 13, 2023 – 7:00 am

A third batch of classified documents was found in Biden’s garage near his Corvette, and now

Attorney General Merrick Garland Assigns Special Counsel to Investigate Joe Biden for Possession of Classified Documents

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced his decision Thursday to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden after classified documents from his time as vice president in Barack Obama’s administration were found in his possession.

“I concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel,” Garland said, noting that he made his decision on January 5th.

He announced that former U.S. attorney from Maryland Robert Hur, appointed by former president Donald Trump, to investigate Biden.

“Mr. Hurr has a long and distinguished career as a prosecutor,” Garland said, adding that “I will ensure that Mr. Hur receives all the resources he needs to conduct his work.”

The Attorney General laid out the timeline for the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation, revealing that the investigation was well underway before it was first reported on Tuesday.

Garland recounted that he was first notified of Biden’s possession of classified documents on the evening of November 4, which were found by his lawyer in his office at the Penn-Biden center.

So, Garland knew about the current president having classified documents from his time as VP stored at the center, which he was not entitled to have and had no authority to have. And did….nothing. And, let’s be honest, this investigation will most likely turn into a white wash. It’s pro-forma meant to give cover to Biden. It will take months and months, with no leaks to the press, then the findings will be quietly released and everything will be fine.

That’s not to say that Trump should have had them, but, you can Obama had them, Bush 43, Clinton, etc. As VP, there was no reason for Joe to have them. Why is the FBI not searching his homes and the Penn center?

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Kamala Takes Fossil Fueled Trip To Ann Arbor To Whine With Climate Kids

By William Teach January 12, 2023 – 6:30 pm

She couldn’t have done this on a zoom call? Perhaps she could have met them at the border, a place she’s never been

Kamala Harris in Ann Arbor: Young activists must lead charge against climate change

Truly eradicating the detrimental impacts of climate change requires activism, investment and an understanding how pervasive these problems are through society, Vice President Kamala Harris argued during an event Thursday afternoon at the University of Michigan.

Nah, it just requires Warmists to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral, if they think it’s so bad. Instead, they want all the taxes, fees, restrictions, and loss of freedom to apply to Other People

More than 2,000 people came to Rackham Hall for the discussion, moderated by U.S Secretary of Energy and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and university Professor Kyle Whyte.

The pair posed no hardball queries during the roughly 35-minute conversation and the trio focused little on key drivers of environmental policy in Michigan, like the Great Lakes or eradicating PFAS chemicals. Instead, the vice president highlighted the state’s ballooning electric vehicle sector to amplify the work of the Biden-Harris administration to create what she deemed a “clean-energy economy,” while acknowledging the intersection between poor social or financial outcomes and climate change.

So they both took a long fossil fueled trip for a scant 35 minute “conversation”, which means they bloviated, and took zero tough questions? What did they do next? It’s harder to know, since her schedule is not published like Biden’s. What’s the over/under that there was a fundraiser with big money donors afterwards?

“You can look at, for example, the data that tells us that some of the regions in America with the poorest air quality are low-income communities and communities of color,” Harris said.

Which has nothing to do with ‘climate change’, and, interestingly, the crappy air quality occurs in Democratic Party run cities. How about we focus on real environmental issues?

Referencing her own familiar ties to community activism, she encouraged students in the audience to use social media and friend networks to make a climate impact in their own circles.

“Tell the story, talk with your peers because the reality of it is is you all have such a charge to lead this movement. You all have everything at stake,” Harris said.

It’s so weird that none of the leaders like Kamala ever tell them to get off their asses and practice what they preach. It’s always about providing force on That Guy. And none of the reporters actually do Journalism and ask questions like “why did you take a long fossil fueled trip if fossil fuels are bad?”

Just too be clear, these little stories are important, because they do highlight how the Elites really are complete climate hypocrites. Why should we listen?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 12, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful plants sucking carbon pollution from the air, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Biden’s eco-crazies walking back their banning of gas stoves.

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Say, What’s The Difference In The Books Liberals And Conservatives Are Banning?

By William Teach January 12, 2023 – 10:30 am

I’m not quite sure what bee got in the burr of ABC News and writer Kiara Alfonseca, but, they decided to take on the the book bans in a neutral manner

How conservative and liberal book bans differ amid rise in literary restrictions

The country saw a growing effort to ban books in schools and libraries nationwide in 2022, and researchers expect to see more efforts to challenge books in 2023 as some Republican-backed laws across the country aim to restrict LGBTQ and racial content in school books.

While activists across the political spectrum have sought to restrict or protest some forms of literature, the vast majority of book challenges are from conservative-leaning groups, researchers say. Only a handful of efforts have also come from liberal sources, mainly targeting books with racist or offensive language.

See, of course it’s your fault

“If you get five people and they walk through a library and they are allowed to remove anything they think might get someone in trouble for it being there — Well, they’re going to start pulling all kinds of stuff, a conservative person and progressive person,” Jonathan Friedman, the director of free expression and education programs at PEN America, told ABC News. “We all have different issues that we think shouldn’t be in books — historic representations of racism, for example, something like Mark Twain is just as likely to [be seen as potentially controversial] as is ‘Gender Queer,'” a coming-of-age memoir about the author’s LGBTQ identity.

There were at least 2,532 book challenges from July 2021 to June 2022, affecting 1,648 book titles, according to a report by the free expression protection group PEN America.

“We’re in danger of removing from libraries, all kinds of materials, some of which are seen as classic forms of literature and some of which are now in danger of not becoming classic works of literature for the future because they’re being censored in this way,” Friedman said.

Yeah, most of those are from liberals

Books targeted by conservative groups were overwhelmingly written by or about people of color and LGBTQ people, according to anti-censorship researchers. According to PEN American and the ALA, many of the challenges reference the sexual content or inherent messaging in the books.

Banned Books Lists from the ALA show that these groups have challenged young adult books such as “The Hate U Give” and “The Bluest Eye,” which discuss racism in the United States, as well as book titles like “Gender Queer” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” which discuss LGBTQ identities, sexuality and gender.

Meanwhile, liberal efforts criticized or restricted books in the name of anti-racism or progressive ideals.

Books like “Of Mice and Men;” “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and several Dr. Seuss titles have been challenged in some schools and libraries due to racist language or imagery throughout the years, including the use of the n-word or insensitive imagery of racial stereotypes, according to the ALA.

So, liberals want literature classics removed from schools and libraries because they might get Offended, and, really, many are uber-white liberals being Offended on behalf of blacks. Conservatives want books removed from schools and libraries for two reasons: first, because these unhinged leftist books teach young kids that everything they do, everything they think, everything they are, and all their history is raaaaacist.

The second is because kids do not need to be seeing what are in essence pornography, teaching young kids about anal and oral sex, sex between same sex in a pornographic manner (you can bet parents would not want the same taught about opposite sex, because parents did protest this around 10 years ago), how to be transgender, and all sorts of stuff that is entirely not age appropriate. Children do not need to see this. Children do not need to be exposed to this. They should not be exposed to this. Especially as it’s being done to indoctrinate children, the same as all the CRT stuff.

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Warmists Still Pretty Upset Over People Daring To Post Truth On Twitter

By William Teach January 12, 2023 – 7:15 am

In the early 2000’s, when the Internet was truly opening up, Skeptics were able to post the reality of what was called anthropogenic global warming at the time. Then the Fascist cultists worked hard, especially through tech companies, to minimize the outreach of Skeptics. They continued to work to do this with outlets such as Twitter and Facebook. They can’t do that with Twitter anymore, and it makes them mad

Twitter has always been a hotspot for climate change misinformation. On Musk’s watch, it’s heating up.

Twitter has always been a hotspot for climate change misinformation.

Under new owner Elon Musk, falsehoods about the warming planet are whipping around the social media platform at a sizzling pace, according to a study of climate-related conversations shared exclusively with USA TODAY.

The new report echoes recent research showing a surge in climate misinformation since Musk bought the company in October.

Tweets using terms associated with climate denial such as “climate fraud,” “climate hoax” and “climate scam” more than tripled in 2022, up 300% from 2021, according to Advance Democracy, a research organization that studies misinformation.

The cultists cannot prove they are “falsehoods”, nor do they even try.

“Musk has openly encouraged attacks on mainstream science with his own posts, has brought back previously banned anti-science-promoting accounts and has altered the site algorithm in a way that greatly limits the reach of leading climate communicators,” Michael Mann, director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, told USA TODAY.

Is it science if it cannot be questioned? If people cannot take it on?

Daniel Jones, president of Advance Democracy, says his research group also found increases on TikTok and YouTube.

“Last year, social media companies announced additional steps to combat the proliferation of climate change misinformation on their platforms. Despite these steps, Advance Democracy found that in almost all cases that the proliferation of climate change denialist content increased in the past year, and in many cases, dramatically so,” Jones told USA TODAY.

Warmists really do not like being questioned, nor will they abide anyone questioning their cult.

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Surprise: Second Batch Of Classified Biden Documents Found

By William Teach January 12, 2023 – 7:00 am

Interestingly, the powers that be aren’t wanting to say where they were found

Report: Joe Biden Aides Discover More Classified Documents at Separate Location

Biden Brain SuckerPresident Joe Biden’s aides have discovered more classified documents in his possession at a different location, according to a report from NBC News.

The report does not say where or when the new documents were discovered, but it is clear the White House is attempting to clean up Biden’s records ahead of a possible run for reelection in 2024.

The newly discovered documents are from a location separate from the private office connected to a University of Pennsylvania think tank that Biden had in Washington, DC, where the first batch of classified information was discovered.

Biden claimed Tuesday he was “surprised” that classified documents were found in his possession, repeating he was ignorant of their contents. (snip)

The White House has stonewalled any additional information about the documents that were first discovered just days before the 2022 midterm elections.

But, hey, it’s totally different from when Trump had them, right? You know, a guy allowed to declassify documents, vs a guy who was just vice president and did not have that power, right?

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Rest In Peace Jeff Beck

By William Teach January 11, 2023 – 7:39 pm

Very sad

Growing up and playing guitar, this was the guy who ever professional guitarist said to listen to. One of the magazines would ask a pro every month to name their 5 essential guitar albums, and almost every single one would mention Beck’s Blow By Blow. If you play rock guitar, you are mandate by law to own that album, and, preferably Wired to go with it. This is the way you play guitar. This is how you put songs together. Beck could easily have made them all about him, but, no, he wanted compete songs, so, the bass guitar, drums, and keyboards featured heavily. There are lots and lots of keyboard solos.

And you can tell from all those big rock musicians tweeting out that he was beyond respected. He really is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and one of the OGs, going back to the Yardbirds. Here’s a pretty good list of his top 10 songs, though it is missing People Get Ready. A lot of people who listen to rock would probably be surprised, not realizing it is Beck on stuff like

Blanket with Imogen Heap is pretty incredible, as well.

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We Can Totally Normalize Climate Cult Discussions Through Humor Or Something

By William Teach January 11, 2023 – 2:44 pm

Me, I’d think it would be about showing the science as performed via the Scientific Method, and Warmists doing their darned best to practice what they preach, but, meh, whatever

How to normalize talking about climate change? Through humor, says columnist

Comedy can be a useful way to understand and maybe cope with Earth’s bleak future. That’s according to Kasha Patel, a Washington Post writer and editor who covers climate change and the environment. She writes their “Hidden Planet” column.

“It’s very complicated when you talk about these big issues. … Sometimes the facts aren’t going to be the thing that appeals to other people because they’re basing it more out of emotion,” Patel tells KCRW.

They have to have facts to start with

She shares her best climate joke: “Climate change is one of the hardest things to write about, which is why I admire all the comedians who did it  here. But a quick joke for the audience is: My comedy career is a lot like climate change. It’s pretty unbelievable, even though there’s evidence of it occurring all around us.”

The best climate joke is that they’ve convinced a large swath of people that the Earth is doomed from a tiny increase in global temperatures, something that has happened many times, and been much warmer, but, this time it’s all the fault of Humanity. And we can fix this by taxing people and restricting their lives, putting government in charge of everything.

Beyond that, it’s a 12 minute podcast, which is rather nutty. So, flipping to that Washington Post piece

Comedy may not seem like a good vehicle to showcase grim news of our planet, but just because something is entertaining doesn’t mean it can’t be useful, too. Humor can provide many benefits in tackling serious subjects. Limited research shows that climate change memes can boost a person’s civic engagement. Good-natured comedy can also help process negative emotions about global warming and sustain hope. (A note: When I’m not writing about science, I’m also a stand-up comedian).

But the human-exacerbated deterioration of Earth is not easy to make funny, especially as some climate goals are seemingly impossible now. Additionally, poorly executed climate jokes can dissuade people from engaging in the topic.

Let’s look at a joke, like this from Michelle Wolf

“Climate change is a real big deal, and everyone says Mother Nature. And I do believe nature is a woman because she’s trying to kill us in the most passive-aggressive way possible. It’s not some sort of immediate fire or flood or cool explosion. She’s just like, ‘What? I raised the temperature a little. Oh, are you uncomfortable? Maybe I wouldn’t have if you’d taken out the recycling like I asked. I’m fine.’”

That’s a kneeslapper, right? Right? None of the others are remotely funny. These people need to listen to Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Howie Mandel, even subtle stuff like Steve Martin and Robert Klein, to see real humor.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 11, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful urban jungle which will help save the planet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Scepticism, with a post on eating bandicoots to save the planet.

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