House Democrats Pass Scary Looking Rifle Ban Bill

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

It’s simply an exercise in how to waste time and please your unhinged base

House passes assault weapons ban that’s doomed in the Senate

The House passed legislation Friday that would ban assault weapons for the first time since 2004, in a sign that Democrats intend to pursue more aggressive gun violence prevention measures after a spate of mass shootings.

The bill passed in a largely party-line vote of 217-213, with two Republicans voting for the measure and five Democrats opposing it.

The level of GOP opposition indicates the bill is unlikely to advance in the evenly split Senate, where it would require the support of at least 10 Republicans to defeat a guaranteed filibuster. It’s also not clear if the measure has the support of all 50 Senate Democrats.

The legislation, authored by Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., would criminalize the knowing sale, manufacture, transfer, possession or importation of many types of semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices.

Two of the Democrats were from Texas, Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, and obviously understand that this won’t go over well in their districts. And that there’s almost a zero chance of it passing in the Senate. Unless a couple of the squishes in the GOP, such as Romney, Murkowsky, Susan Collins, join Democrats.

If the GOP has any brains they would submit amendments, or, better, legislation, that would take all the same weapons from the law enforcement that protects Congress, Biden, Kamala Harris, and appointed Executive Branch officials. Especially the icky automatic ones. I’m sure Biden and all the Democrats would be OK with that, right?

(NRA) NRA-ILA Executive Director Jason Ouimet released the following statement on Friday regarding the passage of H.R. 1808:

“Barely a month after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen, gun control advocates in Congress are spearheading an assault upon the freedoms and civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. The promises made in HR 1808 are nothing short of a lie based on willful ignorance of the disastrous 1994 Clinton Gun Ban which failed to produce any significant drop in crime. With more than 24 million potentially-banned firearms in common use, these draconian restrictions fall in blatant opposition to the Supreme Court’s rulings in Bruen, Caetano v. Massachusetts, and DC v. Heller. Their refusal to recognize this reality places everyone at risk. Any legitimate attempt to address our nation’s surge in violent crime cannot commence until anti-gun legislators step away from the radicals who defund our police departments, support prosecutors who refuse to prosecute dangerous criminals, and promote no cash bail policies that have turned once proud communities into a playground of lawlessness and fear.”

You know what’s actually going to happen? The sale of these firearms will skyrocket over the next few weeks.

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NC Woman’s Soccer Player Forced To Sit Out Game On Pride Night, Because Respect An Inclusion Is A One Way Street

By William Teach July 29, 2022 – 6:03 pm

If you don’t toe the line you will removed

NC Courage defender won’t play for team in Pride Night jersey

NC Courage player Jaelene Daniels, who declined to play for the U.S. national team because it was wearing a gay pride jersey, will not play in Friday night’s Pride Night game.

The Courage host the Washington Spirit on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. The Courage play in the National Women’s Soccer League. The team’s website currently features a rainbow theme. Pride month is June. The Courage’s originally scheduled pride night game was postponed due to COVID protocols.

“Jaelene will not be rostered tonight as she has made the decision to not wear our Pride jersey. While we’re disappointed with her choice, we respect her right to make that decision for herself. We’re excited to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community with our fans, players and staff tonight and look forward to hosting our first ever Pride Festival before kickoff,” a team spokesperson said in a statement provided to WRAL in response to an inquiry into Daniels’ status for the game.

Nice to see her sticking to her guns, because you can bet she was seriously nagged. Of course, they want to make her look like the Bad Guy/Gal

Daniels, who plays defense, signed with the Courage in the off-season, sparking an outcry from some supporters of the team at the time.

“I remain committed to my faith and my desire for people to know that my love for them isn’t based on their belief system or sexuality,” Daniels wrote in a statement that came out after her signing. “I pray and firmly believe that my teammates know how much I cherish them, respect them and love them.”

See, just because she isn’t an ardent, ververent, hysterical LGBwhatever supporter, and is against that lifestyle based on her own beliefs doesn’t mean she hates people. But, theLGBwhatever adherents require compliance

In a December statement to fans, the team apologized for signing Daniels.

“In response to the recent news of re-signing Jaelene Daniels, we as a club acknowledge the impact this announcement has on our community. We’ve spent the past few days reading your messages and reflecting on our actions. We are very sorry to all those we have hurt, especially those within the LGBTQIA+ community.

“The decision to re-sign Jaelene was not made lightly and included significant conversations between organization leadership and Jaelene. The priority expressed in those conversations is the safety of our players and maintaining an inclusive, respectful space for the entire team.”

If you’re hurt because someone shares a slightly different opinion than you, perhaps you should be looking at your own ability for tolerance and maintaining an inclusive, respectful space for that person.

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Surprise: 96% Of NOAA Weather Stations Improperly Cited

By William Teach July 29, 2022 – 3:00 pm

I won’t argue that the Earth isn’t in a warm period now. The problem, though, is that so much of the data the climate cult uses to make their case is improper

Study: NOAA Advances Bogus Heat Data Based on Collection Practices — 96% Corrupted

A study that investigated the placement of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations found that 96 percent of the facilities used to measure heat failed to meet the agency’s own “uncorrupted placement” standards.

Research for the study shows the 96 percent corruption is because the stations’ measurements are tainted by the effects of urbanization – or heat produced because of their close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects.

The Heartland Institute compiled the report using satellite and in-person surveys of NOAA weather stations that contribute to the “official” land temperatures in the United States.

“With a 96 percent warm-bias in U.S. temperature measurements, it is impossible to use any statistical methods to derive an accurate climate trend for the U.S.” Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts, who directed the study, said is the study announcement distributed to the press. “Data from the stations that have not been corrupted by faulty placement show a rate of warming in the United States reduced by almost half compared to all stations.”

“NOAA’s ‘Requirements and Standards for [National Weather Service] Climate Observations‘ instructs that temperature data instruments must be “over level terrain (earth or sod) typical of the area around the station and at least 100 feet from any extensive concrete or paved surface,’” the press release said. “And that ‘all attempts will be made to avoid areas where rough terrain or air drainage are proven to result in non-representative temperature data.’ 

Obviously, the climate cultists will go after Watts and the others involved, so they can ignore the actual findings, which are nothing new.

(Watts Up With That?) This new report is a follow up to a March 2009 study, titled “Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?” which highlighted a subset of over 1,000 surveyed stations and found 89 percent of stations had heat-bias issues. In April and May 2022, The Heartland Institute’s team of researchers visited many of the same temperature stations as in 2009, plus many not visited before. The new survey sampled 128 NOAA stations, and found the problem of heat-bias has only gotten worse.

I wonder why NOAA wouldn’t want to fix this?

 

 

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If All You See…

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

…is land turned to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on a German city turning off hot water due to the Russian gas crisis.

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Senate Inflation Reduction Act Doesn’t Seem Much About Inflation Reduction

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

I’m having a tough time finding any article that shows that the Manchin/Schumer Inflation Reduction Act will reduce inflation, at least in the next 2-4 years. Meaning, it will pretty much not reduce inflation ever

unintended consequences(NTU) A closer look at the timing of the new spending and tax cuts in the bill (versus the timing of reduced spending and revenue increases) suggests that the bill won’t reduce inflation in the next few years because, on net, the Inflation Reduction Act may spend more than it saves in some of the early years. Any front-loaded deficits will increase interest payments on the national debt. As a rule of thumb based on CBO data, each $100 million increase in spending in 2023 will add $27 million to debt interest costs over the decade.

Only in FY 2027 do deficits start to decrease substantially, likely well beyond the immediate period of elevated inflation based on CBO estimates and consumer expectations. (FY 2022 is almost over, so it is likely that the IRA has no practical effects on government spending or revenues in FY 2022.)

We still do not have actual legislation for anyone to go for, just lots of talking points, press release, which lead to lost of fanboying over….oh right, this is really all about the climate crisis scam, almost everything else is a distraction

‘Absolutely historic’: Senate budget deal would be biggest climate change action ever

The Inflation Reduction Act, as the newly renamed budget reconciliation bill is known, could help reduce consumer prices on goods. If it passes, however, it will undoubtedly have an even bigger impact on climate change.

“Could.” How? This article spends no time explaining how. And, if it is all about inflation reduction, shouldn’t it, and the legislation, tell us how it will bring down prices, not that it “could”?

The major climate components of the bill, which has yet to win final approval in the House or Senate, include tax incentives for wind, solar, hydrogen and nuclear power. There will be $20 billion in loans for electric vehicle manufacturing and $30 billion in tax credits to boost the manufacturing of solar panels and wind turbines and the mining of minerals used in electric vehicle batteries.

Electric car manufacturers and consumers looking to save money at the pump would be big winners. The bill would add a new $4,000 tax credit for buying electric vehicles to the existing $7,500, though it would be limited to trucks, vans and SUVs that retail for less $80,000, cars below $55,000 and only families with adjusted gross incomes below $300,000 per year.

So, basically, it’s hooking up the rich upper middle class folks to get them to buy EVs, even though they can easily afford one without any tax credits. As for nuclear, you know there will be zero movement on this, and Democrats at the federal and state level will work to block any attempts to build nuclear plants

There are also major investments in climate justice, which means ensuring that low-income communities are not disproportionately harmed by the effects of climate change and that clean-energy economy opportunities are fairly distributed. The bill would spend $3 billion for climate justice block grants and $3 billion to reduce air pollution at the nation’s ports. It would also establish the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion bank that would distribute funds to nonprofits and state and local governments to help reduce their carbon footprints by advancing rooftop solar, for example, or switching to a clean-vehicle fleet.

So, mostly a slush fund for Democrat voting groups, though, you can bet that screwing around with ports will increase the price of consumer goods that come in through the port. So, what else is in it other than the climate crazy in what they’ve been told will be a 725 page piece of legislation?

What’s in, and out, of Democrats’ inflation-fighting package

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Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.

Remember when Democrats refused to work with Trump to do this?

The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.

Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for people who are purchasing their own health care policies.

Which will keep health insurance and care prices up. And, that’s it, besides the climate scam garbage and tax increases that won’t work. How does any of this reduce inflation? Anyone?

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LOL: DC Mayor Wants National Guard Deployed Over Influx Of Illegal Aliens

By William Teach July 29, 2022 – 7:00 am

The continuation of the education of hardcore Democrats on the fallout of their own policies

Washington mayor requests troops to aid with migrant arrivals from Texas and Arizona

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested the deployment of military troops to assist with migrants arriving on buses sent by the Texas and Arizona state governments, according to letters sent by her office to U.S. military and White House officials.

Bowser, a Democrat, has clamored in recent weeks for federal funds to provide shelter and services to migrants arriving on buses from the two Republican-led states, which sought to make a political statement by sending border crossers to Washington.

“Our ability to assist people in need at this scale is very limited,” Bowser said in a letter to White House officials, adding that non-profit organizations welcoming migrants in Washington are “overwhelmed and underfunded.”

Democrats are super excited to advocate for all sorts of policies that cause problems, to say the least, for Other People, but, are upset when those same policies boomerang back on themselves. It’s super easy to advocate and agitate for open borders when those foreigners are in border states, not so easy when they’re shipped to D.C., right?

Migrant advocates and Washington city council members have called on Bowser to devote city funds to the reception effort, but the mayor has said the federal government must step in.

So, this is Biden’s fault? She wasn’t particularly concerned with all the border towns having do deal with this.

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Your Fault: Midwest Could See More Sharks

By William Teach July 28, 2022 – 2:00 pm

If only you would give up you modern lifestyle, agree to higher taxes and fees, and give your liberty, freedom, and life choices up to government

Could shark sightings in the Midwest become more common?

Sharks are, for the most part, ocean animals. Tens of millions of people living in the landlocked Midwest may have never even seen one in person. However, there are some sharks, like the bull shark, that are able to thrive in freshwater, and they could be coming farther inland than ever before.

“[Bull sharks] are, depending on what study you read, usually in the top three in terms of [being] dangerous to humans, but they’re beautiful animals,” Kevin Feldheim, manager of the Pritzker Laboratory at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, told AccuWeather National Weather Reporter Emmy Victor. He said there were two known sightings in the Mississippi River over the past century: one in Alton, Illinois, in 1937 and another in Missouri in 1995. (snip)

Feldheim said other sharks can tolerate low levels of salt in their environment, but they can’t swim through rivers or lakes like the bull shark. This — combined with summers that could warm by as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century due to climate change — gives them the chance to swim out of the ocean and far into the north-central U.S.

Good grief. Really? I have to wonder, what makes a reporter like Accuweather’s Wyatt Loy even ask about this. Where did it come from? Seriously, this is truly out of the blue. Was it “hey, there are a bunch of shark attacks on the coasts, could sharks go up the Mississippi?” And very, very silly.

“We’re seeing them shift their ranges. Some of these cold-blooded species are being found further north, compared to where they used to be found,” said Mike Heithaus, a marine biologist at Florida International University. “Bull sharks and their use of freshwater could change as the climate does.”

Heithaus said that even though the sharks’ behaviors may change, the risk of someone seeing one so far from the ocean is very small.

So, basically a complete bullsharkshit piece, meant to scare people who will most likely never make it past the first couple of paragraphs. Or even the headline.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 28, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an inland sea from carbon pollution Bad Weather extreme rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on Biden’s weird declaration of recession-free America.

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Manchin Agrees To Slimmed Down Build Back Broke Deal

By William Teach July 28, 2022 – 10:30 am

Did someone have something on Joe Manchin, causing him to agree to legislation that will make inflation worse?

Lawmakers react after Manchin, Schumer agree to reconciliation deal: ‘Build Back Broke’

Republicans are not pleased with the prospect of a revived version of Build Back Better after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced they came to an agreement on a reconciliation package.

While some details of the reconciliation package are unclear, Manchin said in a statement that the bill will contain a minimum 15% tax on companies worth more than $1 billion and will also have investments in energy, which include nuclear, renewables and fossil fuels.

Manchin said the bill will be titled the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.”

“I now propose and will vote for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Rather than risking more inflation with trillions in new spending, this bill will cut the inflation taxes Americans are paying, lower the cost of health insurance and prescription drugs, and ensure our country invests in the energy security and climate change solutions,” Manchin said. “President Biden, Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi have committed to advancing a suite of commonsense permitting reforms this fall.”

In other words, it will increase the price of all

The two senators said the bill will raise $739 billion in revenue by IRS tax enforcement, closing the carried interest loophole and establishing a corporate minimum tax. Roughly $433 billion will be spent on energy and climate provisions, as well as an expansion of the Affordable Care Act.

Companies will either pass on their higher taxation to consumers or move their headquarters out of the U.S. to reduce their tax liability. It almost never works out well when taxes are increased. In fairness, even Donald Trump wanted the carried interest tax provision (there’s almost no such thing as a “loophole”: Congress wrote the tax law, and should have done their research. It’s simply a provision). You can make cases for it and against it

They want to do this via reconciliation, avoiding the need for the 60 vote threshold to move it forward. Will the Congressional parliamentarian deem it legal for reconciliation? Many other Dem bills failed that.

What’s specifically in the bill? So far, it’s just a talking point. There is no submitted legislation, and only some yammering on Joe Manchin’s webpage. Will it be very specific and targeted, or simply leave most of the details up to unelected bureaucrats?

“I support a plan that will advance a realistic energy and climate policy that lowers prices today and strategically invests in the long game. As the super power of the world, it is vital we not undermine our super power status by removing dependable and affordable fossil fuel energy before new technologies are ready to reliably carry the load. This legislation ensures that the market will take the lead, rather than aspirational political agendas or unrealistic goals, in the energy transition that has been ongoing in our country. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 invests in the technologies needed for all fuel types – from hydrogen, nuclear, renewables, fossil fuels and energy storage – to be produced and used in the cleanest way possible. It is truly all of the above, which means this bill does not arbitrarily shut off our abundant fossil fuels. It invests heavily in technologies to help us reduce our domestic methane and carbon emissions and also helps decarbonize around the world as we displace dirtier products.

You know that there will be no actual investments in fossil fuels and nuclear. Those will either get cut in the final product, or, the Executive Branch will spend zip on them. If Joe thinks this will play well in West Virginia, that’s highly doubtful. And none of it will help with inflation. For one thing, most actions will be years in the making. Second, change the carried interest provision, and companies will simply change the pay structure to something else. Do Manchin and Schumer not think highly paid and very smart tax accounts cannot figure something else out?

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“SUV Tires Fall Prey To Gen Z Eco-Activists” Or Something

By William Teach July 28, 2022 – 7:15 am

Yeah, it’s like no big deal to the UK Guardian. Hey, it’s like public shaming!

‘Like a public shaming’: a night with the eco-activists deflating SUV tires

On a searingly hot night in New York City, a group of mask-wearing activists grasping bags of lentils set out to stage the biggest blitzkrieg yet upon a new target for climate campaigners in the US – the tires of SUVs.

The group – a mixture of ages and genders – split up as midnight approached, heading down the streets of the Upper East Side, lined by some of the most expensive apartments in the world and a gleaming parade of high-end, parked SUVs. This type of vehicle is the second largest cause of the global rise in carbon dioxide emissions over the past decade.

The Tyre Extinguishers, as they call themselves, furtively hand around bags of lentils ahead of their raid (the legumes are jammed into a tire valve to release its air slowly overnight) and size up their quarry.

A hulking Land Rover, sporting a parking permit for a Hamptons beach, is an obvious initial target, but a loitering doorman from a nearby apartment complex unnerves the group. They scurry down the street, then double back and settle upon an Audi.

One of the group kneels down, unscrews the tire valve cap, stuffs a lentil inside and puts the cap back on. The tire immediately lets out a startled “pfft” noise, a leaflet is slapped on to the windshield and the group melts back into the night.

Huh. So, the UK Guardian reporter Oliver Milman was hanging with young folks engaged in vandalism? Yes, this is actually a violation of the law, even if the tires are not damaged, and could be on the hook for the costs to tow or fix the tires, especially since many won’t know what the problem is and have a shop check the tires, which costs money and takes time.

America has embraced large SUVs like no other country, even in liberal, walkable areas like the Upper East Side, so the activists face a steep task in attaching stigma to the supersized cars that now dominate US streets. But Tyre Extinguishers’ nascent US operation has been flooded with insults and even death threats. One message vowed to “deflate your lungs” while another critic, in a nod to the British roots of the campaign, wrote: “Damn you, Redcoats!”

It’s utterly not surprising that a left wing news outlet will support leftists acting in a criminal manner.

“The amount of damage from a flat tire is nothing compared to climate change,” said one member of the group as we moved away from the first deflation, Central Park looming into sight through the dark. “Why do you need an SUV, especially in New York? It’s a vanity thing. You have freedom of choice, sure, but you don’t have freedom from consequences.”

It’s going to get very ugly when these people get caught in the act by the vehicle owners.

“It is like a public shaming,” said Dana Fisher, a sociologist at the University of Maryland who has researched environmental protests since the 1990s. “The target of public shaming is very unlikely to change their opinion from the shaming, so the question is, what’s the point? It’s an innovative, simple tactic to take the air out of someone’s tires, it’s not harmful, it’s just annoying. It’s like the training wheels to something confrontational.”

See? It’s just shaming. And it’ll be fun and games until they are caught and charges are pressed that cannot be dismissed. Or, a homeowner beats the ever loving shit out of one of them. Or plugs them with a 9mm.

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