Hard Left Group Says “Inflation Bill” Will Save Average Family $1,800 A Year Or Something

By William Teach August 3, 2022 – 7:00 am

That’s totally believable, right?

Inflation Reduction Act would lead to $1,800 in savings for average household, analysis finds

Sweeping climate and health care legislation unveiled by Democrats last week would lead to significant cuts in energy costs for American households, according to a new analysis.

A report by non-profit group Rewiring America found that the tax incentives included as part of the $369 billion dedicated to climate initiatives in the Inflation Reduction Act would save the average household $1,800 per year on energy bills.

“It is a market-tilting level of investment,” Ari Matusiak, the group’s co-founder and CEO who was involved with the crafting of the bill, told Yahoo Finance. “The beneficiaries of [this measure] in the long term are going to be all of us on the planet. In the short term, it’s going to be Americans at their kitchen tables realizing savings on a month-to-month basis.”

The new measure sets out to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and dramatically reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions through a slew of tax incentives aimed at reducing the cost of electrification.

I’m sure the very far left group totally can explain how you’ll save $1,800 a year, right? Seriously, where is that possible? A lot of families I know spend around $200-$300 a month. Kinda tough to save $1,800.

While those cost savings are dolled out among more than 100 different programs, Matusiak said the biggest reductions are likely to come from rebate and credit programs that cushion the cost difference between electric appliances and cars, and those that rely on fossil fuels.

So, somehow you’ll save money by being forced to replace your gas appliances and car with an EV? And by rebate, they mean tax credit, which doesn’t always amount to saving that amount of actual money.

“41% of the inflation that consumers are experiencing are because their energy bills directly are going up at the pump and at their kitchen table,” he said. “And electrifying the machines that we use in our day-to-day lives structures that inflation out of our lives forever. So it is not just about whether you’re going to get to that $1,800 number this year, but it’s whether you are going to reduce the amount of money that you spend on energy year over year for the next 20 years.”

Ah, so, you might not save $1,800 this year, you might save something over the next 20 years? Cool. What if we already have an electric stove? How does that help? What if we can’t afford to spend $50K plus for an EV? And then the charger for the house?

Matusiak also pointed to additional credits that allow homeowners to deduct up to 30% of the cost of energy efficient upgrades to their homes, as all part of the $1,800 cost savings estimated.

Oh, so spend a lot to save some? Does this sound like a complete scam or what.

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What We Need Are More Studies On Human Extinction From ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach August 2, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Do you know what the point of more studies is? It allows the Cult of Climastrology to provide even more fear mongering articles of doom on a constant basis, along with politicians thundering on about doom…right before they take a long fossil fueled trip

Climate change: More studies needed on possibility of human extinction

Catastrophic climate change outcomes, including human extinction, are not being taken seriously enough by scientists, a new study says.

The authors say that the consequences of more extreme warming – still on the cards if no action is taken – are “dangerously underexplored”.

They argue that the world needs to start preparing for the possibility of what they term the “climate endgame”.

They want UN scientists to investigate the risk of catastrophic change.

Oh, and it means more money to the U.N. and to keep the taxpayer funded gravy train going for the scientists

According to this new analysis, the closest attempts to directly understand or address how climate change could lead to global catastrophe have come from popular science books such as The Uninhabitable Earth and not from mainstream science research.

Maybe because it’s

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It’s not coming from mainstream science because it’s ridiculous. Mankind survived warm periods, and ice age, and more warm periods. Several Holocene warm periods were warm than today

But this new paper says that not enough attention has been given to more extreme outcomes of climate change.

“I think it’s sane risk management to think about the plausible worst-case scenarios and we do it when it comes to every other situation, we should definitely do when it comes to the fate of the planet and species,” said lead author Dr Luke Kemp from the University of Cambridge.

OK, spend your money on it. Solicit funding from private sources. Prove your hypothesis.

The plea for serious study of more extreme scenarios will chime with many younger climate activists, who say they are often not addressed for fear of frightening people into inaction.

“It is vital that we have research into all areas of climate change, including the scary reality of catastrophic events,” said Laura Young, a 25-year-old climate activist. “This is because without the full truth, and all of the potential impacts, we won’t make the informed choices we need, and we won’t be driving climate action with enough pressure.

OK. Then use your degree in environmental science to do the research yourself, instead of demanding Other People do the work.

But, the Credentialed Media got the memo

That was the front page of searching “climate change’ on Google. There were plenty more.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Greenie Watch, with a post on Trudeau’s fertilizer ban threatening to cause a food crisis.

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Biden Drone Strikes Al Qaeda Leader Zawahri To His 72 Virgins

By William Teach August 2, 2022 – 10:30 am

No one ever said the virgins would all be good looking and women, though, right? Fox News’ Fred Fleitz asks an interesting question

Another issue is whether killing Zawahri, who was 71 and in ill health, will make any difference in protecting the U.S. from terrorist attacks since there were plans to name a successor to Zawahri before he was killed.

Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter. Some people just need killing. Zawahri was one of them

US takes out al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri in ‘successful’ Afghanistan counterterrorism operation

President Biden announced Monday that the U.S. government killed the leader of al Qaeda, Ayman Al Zawahiri in a “successful” counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan that removes the terrorist from the battlefield “once and for all,” and degrades the terror network’s ability to operate.

The United States government, on July 30 at 9:48 p.m. ET, and 6:18 a.m. Kabul time, undertook a “precision counterterrorism operation,” killing Zawahiri, who served as Usama bin Laden’s deputy during the 9/11 attacks, and as his successor in 2011, following bin Laden’s death.

Biden, in an address to the American people, Monday night said “justice has been delivered,” and warned those that seek to do harm to the United States.

Biden explained that Zawahiri “coordinated al Qaeda’s branches all around the world” since bin Laden’s death in 2011, including “setting priorities for providing operational guidance that call for and inspire attacks against U.S. targets.”

I don’t mind giving Biden props and kudos when he deserves it, and, he deserves, regardless of his involvement in it. This is a good thing that he’s dead. It’s been a long time coming. Way too long

But

Zawahri’s Kabul death raises questions about al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan after US left it to the Taliban

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahri’s death in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is raising questions about whether the country is being used as a base of operations for the terrorist group.

“What unnerves me is that Al Zawahri felt comfortable enough being out in the open in the Kabul area after the Taliban takeover,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “So much for the Taliban rejecting al-Qaeda. This is proof positive that Afghanistan has once again become a safe haven for international terrorists.”

Yup, Biden’s wonderful exit from Afghanistan plan

Biden Slammed Trump When He Took Out ISIS’ Al-Baghdadi, Iran’s Soleimani

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When Trump confirmed in October 2019 that U.S. special forces had found and killed ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Biden did not offer simple congratulations, but said the operation had succeeded despite Trump’s “erratic” behavior

Former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading 2020 White House hopeful, said on Monday that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. military operation despite President Trump’s “ineptitude” as commander in chief.

“I’m glad President Trump ordered the mission,” Biden said in a statement. “But as more details of the raid emerge, it’s clear that this victory was not due to Donald Trump’s leadership. It happened despite his ineptitude as commander-in-chief.” (snip)

When Trump ordered the successful operation to take out Iranian terrorist general Qasem Soleimani in December 2020, Biden and the other Democrats running for president slammed the operation, saying that it make a Middle East war more likely:

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s assertion he ordered a drone strike on Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani to avert an “imminent attack” can’t be taken at face value because the commander in chief has “lied so much.”

In an interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt, Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, said of Trump, “I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt of anything.”

Should we be questioning the timing of whacking Zawahri, being so close to the mid-terms and the one year anniversary of Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan pullout? With raging inflation, it won’t make a difference.

And, same for the news media: they slammed Trump over Soleimani, who was intimately involved in the killing of American service members in Iraq, as well as terrorist operations throughout the Middle East. Nothing but kudos for taking out Zawahri. Now, imagine it was President Trump who took out Zawahri: would those articles be complementary to Trump, or say something like “Trump orders drone strike on irrelevant terrorist leader, inciting more terrorism”? Remember how they ran pieces under Bush about killing terrorists creating more terrorists?

Regardless, good job, Joe.

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Climate Scam Groups Unhappy With Climate Bill, AKA Inflation Reduction Act

By William Teach August 2, 2022 – 7:15 am

More proof the act isn’t about reducing inflation

The Democrats’ climate deal also has plenty for oil producers to like

st greta carThe recently announced Inflation Reduction Act has been celebrated as Congress’s biggest investment in fighting climate change, but the 725-page bill also has benefits for the fossil fuel industry.

While the bill’s centerpiece is about $385 billion towards funding climate change efforts, the sprawling legislation also includes “bits” for the fossil fuel industry, as economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin put it to Yahoo Finance. Those bits include provisions that may spur greater oil production, open new areas to drilling, and incentivize “carbon capture” technology.

The bill does come with new taxes on the industry, but this latest effort is indisputably friendlier to fossil fuel producers than last year’s stalled “Build Back Better” effort. Exxon (XOM) Darren Woods has told investors the bill was a “step in the right direction,” and others in the industry have also praised the bill.

It has definitely made unhinged climate scam groups unhappy

Manchin says his deal includes a future Senate vote on a more widespread permitting reform bill, which the oil industry has long been calling for. That bill, details of which are scarce, could open more areas for drilling and also spur the building of more natural gas pipelines.

To be sure, most climate activists have celebrated the measure and the billions put aside for green energy. Still, some have focused on the Manchin-led provisions, calling them a giveaway.

“This bill is more of a climate scam bill than a climate change bill,” a group called 350.org said.

Does Bill realize that the Biden admin will pretty much allow none of the oil and nuclear provisions to come to fruition? How about the oil companies? Do they think they will get any benefit?

Still, Josiah Neeley, a senior energy fellow at the “limited government” think tank R Street Institute, notes that drilling rights can often change dramatically from administration to administration. These rules changes could have the benefit of leading to more “stability and predictability” in the coming years, he said.

There is that. A Republican wins the White House in 2024 and all those pro-oil and nuclear provisions could be enacted.

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Kansas To Vote On Stripping “Abortion Protections” From Constitution Today

By William Teach August 2, 2022 – 7:00 am

It’ll be interesting to watch the outcome in a state that went 56% Trump and 41% Biden, which has two Republican senators, three GOP representatives, and 1 Democrat representative. Take out 5 counties, and mostly just 2 (Douglas and Wyandotte, with the cities of Lawrence and Kansas City), and it’s a deep GOP state

Kansas voters to decide abortion rights in 1st test since Roe v. Wade repeal

Kansas on Tuesday will become the first state to vote on the legality of abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

Voters will not have the option of banning the procedure outright, however. Instead, they’ll vote on a GOP-sponsored initiative known as Amendment 2, which would strip abortion protections from the state constitution. But should a majority of voters support the measure, the Republican-controlled state Legislature is expected to move quickly to restrict or prohibit the procedure.

The initiative is an attempt to overturn a 2019 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court, which ruled 6-1 that the state constitution “enables a woman to make decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life, including the decision whether to continue a pregnancy.”

Due in large part to that decision, Kansas continues to ensure abortion rights despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in late June that access to the procedure is not protected by the federal Constitution. Republican-controlled states bordering Kansas, such as Oklahoma and Missouri, now have near-total bans in place.

“Despite”? No, because the SCOTUS ruling put all the decisions in the hands of the states, as the ruling essentially said it wasn’t  in the federal Constitution

Political observers from across the country will be paying close attention to how Kansas votes on the issue. Polls show that most Americans want abortion to be legal, and Democrats hope the issue will motivate voters to support their candidates this November.

Legal, perhaps, but, limited. Start mentioning things like late term abortion, taking children across state lines, restricting parental notification, and others, and that support drops quickly. If the GOP was smart, not something we can always count on, they would have been talking about a ban after 15 weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest, and to save the mother’s life (requiring the consent of two doctors). Not a total ban.

Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, an organization opposing the initiative, is running ads noting that the state already has a number of abortion restrictions and warning that the Republican supermajority in the state Legislature may try to ban the procedure outright, including in cases of rape or incest, if the measure succeeds.

Oh, that group doesn’t want constitutional freedom, they’re happy to push for restrictions on many, many other things, they just want unfettered abortion. They call themselves bipartisan, but, most of their money came from Planned Parenthood (why do they get federal funds again?), the ACLU, the very far left Sixteen Thirty Fund, and other far left groups from outside the state.

Now, we’ll wait for the results tonight.

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Activists Upset Mexico And Brazil Governments “Didn’t Do Anything” On Monkeypox

By William Teach August 1, 2022 – 5:27 pm

This is what happens when people are taught that government is the be all, that everything requires government action, that personal responsibility doesn’t exist

‘The government didn’t do anything’: Mexican, Brazilian monkeypox responses draw concern

Francisco’s lesions started after returning home to Mexico City from California in late June: First, two spots on his buttocks. Then, a week later, lesions all over his body, his mouth so full of sores that he could barely talk or drink water.

“The pain was indescribable, catastrophic,” said Francisco, 44, who asked Reuters to conceal his real name.

Francisco had one of at least 59 monkeypox infections confirmed in Mexico since May, which experts believe could undercount the true number.

In Latin America, Mexico ranks behind Brazil and Peru for confirmed cases of the viral disease, which has primarily spread among gay and bisexual men like Francisco.

The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency on July 23, prompting greater attention from regional officials. However, some doctors and activists in Latin America’s two largest countries told Reuters the response has been too tepid.

“We are not seeing the necessary measures taken, nor the necessary importance given to monkeypox,” said Dr. Sergio Montalvo, a sexual health specialist in Mexico City.

It’s pretty easy: don’t go to California to attend what’s being termed “men on men sex”, especially in large groups. The medical folks and even the news has been saying from the beginning, back in May, that the primary spread of monkeypox was occurring amongst gay men, especially at their superspreader parties. People like Francisco were told. If he and the others do not want to listen, well, the “activists” should be telling them “don’t go to those parties if you don’t want to catch it.”

“In these two months, we could have already made significant progress,” said Ricardo Baruch, an LGBT health researcher who helped organize a protest in Mexico City last week to ask for greater efforts to target prevention to men who have sex with men (MSM).

And what efforts does Ricardo want? He should be saying “don’t have men on men sex at big parties.” Why is it the job of Government? Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Dr. Andrea Vicari, PAHO’s director of infectious threat management said it was not too late to curb monkeypox’s spread in the Americas.

“Even if we don’t have vaccines, we have other control measures. If we implement these well, we will be able to accomplish our objectives to reduce transmission.”

We don’t need vaccines. Don’t have men on men sex.

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Good News: The Climate Bill Won’t Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 1, 2022 – 3:00 pm

It won’t fix inflation, either

The climate bill won’t stop global warming. But it will clean the air.

The higher temperatures observed today across the world, implicated in everything from extreme heat to drought and worsening wildfires, are the result of many decades of rising greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat and warm the globe. And there are many more emissions to come, as people around the globe keep on living, driving cars, conducting business.

All of which explains why the economic and climate deal announced last week by Senate Democrats, which would represent America’s biggest actions ever to curb climate change, can scarcely be expected to have an immediate, measurable impact on the warming planet.

Yet, in ways Americans may not yet appreciate, the legislation could have much more direct, soon-felt effects — on what people pay to drive and power their homes, as well as the quality of the air they breathe.

In other words, this is about government controlling your life

By doing so, the Inflation Reduction Act would further lower the costs of renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar, as well as many other less glitzy but important energy-saving appliances and devices around the home. If it spurs other countries to act in concert with the United States, it would be at the cutting edge of a global coordinated effort to cut down on emissions and limit warming.

Without massive subsidies and “loans” that industry cannot compete.

The legislation “is important symbolically and internationally,” said Rob Jackson, an expert on global greenhouse gas emissions at Stanford University. “Its biggest benefits are to provide longer-term certainty for renewables development and to promote sales of lower-cost electric vehicles. It’s critical the U.S. do something.”

Yet, the bill won’t lead to a much cooler planet, at least not immediately or on its own. The climate problem is massive, which means that even when the United States takes decisive action it can appear relatively small.

So, if it won’t really do anything now, it’s worthless, because things change in the future.

Perhaps the most immediate impact would be to lower the price of using clean energy — especially for those who make use of the incentives contained in the bill to purchase electric vehicles or highly efficient energy technologies for their homes, such as heat pump-based heating and cooling systems.

Until the subsidies dry up, or the companies charge more for power because the government is giving them taxpayer money. You just know that Democrats will fight to stop the mining of the minerals required to do all this on U.S. soil, right? This is all a scam. Look how CNN names it

Nothing about inflation, really, in the inflation named bill. I’m wondering why neither the Washington Post nor CNN asked Biden officials, along with Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer, when they will switch to EVs themselves and put solar panels on their own homes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 1, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, which everyone else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on fake heatwave news.

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Californians Bolting The State Ask “Why Are We Here?”

By William Teach August 1, 2022 – 10:30 am

Why? Because you voted for this. You advocated for all the policies that are now skyrocketing your cost of living (more), increasing crime, making homes un-affordable, and so much more

California exodus continues, with L.A., San Francisco leading the way: ‘Why are we here?’

surprise surprise surpriseAfter living in the Bay Area for nearly seven years, Hari Raghavan and his wife decided to leave for the East Coast late last year.

They were both working remotely and wanted to leave California because of the high cost of living and urban crime. So they made a list of potential relocation cities before choosing Miami for its sunny weather and what they perceived was a better sense of safety.

Raghavan said that their Oakland house had been broken into four times and that prior to the pandemic, his wife called him every day during her seven-minute walk home from the BART station because she felt safer with someone on the phone. After moving to Miami, Raghavan said they accidentally left their garage door open one day and were floored when they returned home and found nothing had been stolen.

“We moved to the Bay Area because we had to be there if you want to work in tech and start-ups, and now that that’s no longer a tether, we took a long hard look and said, ‘Wait, why are we here again?’ ” Raghavan said.

The LA Times should have asked Hari “did you vote for Democrats?” Because so many of those escaping the Soviet bloc, er, California, wanted all the policies, and didn’t sit back and think “how will this effect my life?” And then they bring that Progressive garbage to their new areas.

California ranks second in the country for outbound moves — a phenomenon that has snowballed during the pandemic, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which tracked data from moving company United Van Lines. Between 2018 and 2019, California had an outbound move rate of 56%. That rate rose to nearly 60% in 2020-21.

Citing changes in work-life balance, opportunities for remote work and more people deciding to quit their jobs, the report found that droves of Californians are leaving for states like Texas, Virginia, Washington and Florida. California lost more than 352,000 residents between April 2020 and January 2022, according to California Department of Finance statistics.

San Francisco and Los Angeles rank first and second in the country, respectively, for outbound moves as the cost of living and housing prices continue to balloon and homeowners flee to less expensive cities, according to a report from Redfin released this month.

If you want to move to Blue areas, feel free. Stay away from Red states. And Red areas in states like Washington and Virginia. And a goodly chunk of the people leaving are in the middle class, leaving the poor who are utterly reliant on the Nanny State and the Rich.

The state is also seeing a dwindling middle class, said Ohanian, who cited a report from the National Assn. of Realtors, outlining that the national median home sales price has reached $416,000, a record high. Meanwhile, California’s median home price has topped $800,000.

“[California is] at a risk for becoming a state for very, very wealthy people and very, very low earners who receive state and local and federal aid that allows them to be able to live here,” Ohanian said. “We should worry about those in the middle who are earning that $78,000 household median income and is, at the end of the day, really struggling, especially if they have interest in buying a home.”

How to turn a really nice state into a Progressive hell hole.

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