Doom Today: Global Boiling Causing Problems With Apples

It’s always some sort of doom with this crowd

Climate change is hampering US apple quality and output: Study

Many of the nation’s biggest apple-generating regions are confronting challenges in crop growth and development, due to the impacts of a changing climate, a new study has found.

While apple orchards nationwide have become increasingly vulnerable to warming trends, the three U.S. counties with the biggest output are among the most affected, according to the study, published on Monday in Environmental Research Letters.

At the top of that list was Yakima County, Wash., which is home to more than 48,800 acres of orchards — and which showed worrisome signs in five of six metrics analyzed by Washington State University scientists. Next in line were Kent County, Mich., and Wayne County, N.Y.

“We shouldn’t take the delicious apples we love to consume for granted,” said corresponding Deepti Singh, a Washington State climate scientist, in a statement. “Changing climate conditions over multiple parts of the growth cycle pose potentially compounding threats to the production and quality of apples.”

So, a 1.6F increase in global temperatures since 1850 are dooming apples? These people. They are just so tiresome.

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Manufactured Kerfuffle Of The Day: GOP Rep Deb Fischer’s Husband Refused To Shake Hands With Kamala

The left is losing their minds over this

It’s all raaaaacism this and raaaaacism that

(The Grio) Bruce Fischer refused to make any eye or physical contact with America’s first female, first Black woman and first South Asian vice president.

A resurfaced clip of Nebraska Republican Senator Deb Fischer’s husband refusing to shake Vice President Kamala Harris‘s hand has gone viral on social media.

On Friday, Jan. 3, Harris performed her duty as vice president to swear in the new class of U.S. senators in the new 119th Congress — which includes both Democrats and Republicans. However, after Sen. Fischer was sworn in by Harris for her third term in office, her husband, Bruce Fischer, who held up the Bible during the swearing-in ceremony, deliberately declined to shake the vice president’s hand as she reached for his hand.

“Congratulations to you,” said the vice president as she extended her hand to Bruce Fischer after shaking his wife’s hand. Bruce Fischer instead looked down and simply nodded his head and said, “Thank you.” He refused to make any eye or physical contact with America’s first female, first Black woman and first South Asian vice president. Harris, who appeared taken aback by the snub, simply smiled and said, “You sure?”

How horrible! How mean! How rude! How raaaaacist! Oh, wait

As Sister Toldjah writes

I saw some folks suggest that Fischer could have shaken her hand after he gave the Bible back to the Senator. But the full video clip shows that Mr. Fischer looked a little unsteady on his feet and was watching the floor, perhaps to make sure he didn’t fall

Speaking from my role as a caregiver, I watched my dad constantly look down when he used his cane over the years and then later his walker, terrified he was going to fall. My mom has done the same. Dad did not like to be touched (hand on back, shoulder, handshake, etc), either, while using the cane and walker for the same reasons.

My dad looks down a lot, as well, with his cane and walker. I looked down a lot when I was much younger on the separate occasions I was on crutches from breaking my ankle then breaking my leg. And then when I moved to a walking cast.

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Hotcold Take: Trump, Project 2025 Could Make Climate Crisis (scam) Overtake Us

It’s always some sort of witchcraft, a boogyman, with this doomsday cult. I have a solution for the Courier-Journal’s Henry Jackson: give up your own use of fossil fuels and make your own life carbon neutral. Get the Courier-Journal to do the same. Tell all your climate cult comrades to do the same. But, really, it’s really telling where Jackson goes

Under Trump and Project 2025, extreme weather, climate chaos could overtake us | Opinion

With the climate crisis denial party now in control of all three branches of the federal government, some otherwise indifferent members of Congress need to carefully consider that the most immediate and overarching danger facing the nation is climate change. It is accelerating in both frequency and power. The need to respond to multiple and cascading weather disasters may become nearly impossible to manage under the best of circumstances. Our nearly daily weather chaos is likely only the tip of the spear.

Trump’s plans in Project 2025 to reduce federal government capacity would significantly impair its abilities to deal with mounting calamity. He would leave behind a severely diminished federal service and military that will deal with increasing levels of climate chaos here and around the world. (snip)

Mounting demand for national emergency response will require the full breath and capacity of the federal government to address widespread economic impacts, infrastructure damage, spread of disease due to a warmer climate, domestic mass migration to safer climes, related supply-chain disruptions and increasingly affecting every aspect of daily life.

I find it interesting that at the heart of this debate you see the doomsday cult wanting more and more power for the government, especially the federal government. How dare Trump and Republicans attempt to reduce the power of the government back to where the Constitution wanted it to be! The cult is, at its root, authoritarian. Way back in the mid-2000’s when I said this was not about science, but, about government power, people, even Skeptics, said I was nuts. I was right then and I’m right now.

In the final analysis, the younger you are, the more you have at stake. But rest assured that for our children and grandchildren the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Yet, they do not practice what they preach. And more and more are opting out of the cult. They aren’t too keen on a Fascist government.

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If All You See…

…is an Evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on what California is trying to take away now.

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Charlie Hebdo To Release Special Edition 10 Years After The Islamist Attack

Weirdly, most non-French news outlets discussing this aren’t saying what is really in it. It’s almost like they do not want to offend some people

Charlie Hebdo marks 10 years since Paris attack with defiant special edition mocking God

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo unveiled a special edition on Monday to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by Islamist gunmen that decimated its staff.

The front-page features a cartoon celebrating the atheist paper’s existence with the caption “Indestructible!”, while four inside pages show the results of a caricature contest to mock God and religious leaders.

“Satire has a virtue that has enabled us to get through these tragic years: optimism,” said an editorial from director Riss, who survived the January 7, 2015, massacre that left 12 people, including eight editorial staff, dead.

The 2015 attack by two Paris-born brothers of Algerian descent was said to be revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s decision to publish caricatures lampooning the Prophet Mohammed, Islam’s most revered figure.

The massacre of some of France’s most famous cartoonists signalled the start of a gruesome series of al-Qaeda and Islamic State plots that claimed hundreds of lives in France and western Europe over the following years.

And, yet, the political Elite in France and Europe didn’t get the message that it’s a bad idea to allow these Islamic extremists into their nations

The weekly had called on cartoonists to submit their “funniest and meanest” depictions of God in a typically provocative and defiant contest for the special anniversary edition.

“Yes, we can laugh about God, especially if he exists,” said a headline over what the paper said were the best 40 out of more than 350 entries.

Along with some typically crude and sexually explicit images, one of them makes reference to the Prophet Mohammed with the caption “if I sketch someone who is drawing someone who is drawing someone who is drawing Mohammed, is that OK?”

It shows a cartoonist drawing a picture of another cartoonist who is working on a picture of a cartoonist drawing a bearded figure who looks like Mohammed.

Most outlets are just mentioning the making fun of God part, not the making fun of Mohammed and Islam part

Critics say the weekly sometimes crosses the line into Islamophobia, pointing to some of the Prophet Mohammed caricatures published in the past that appeared to associate Islam with terrorism.

Yet, when they make fun of Christianity and Judaism, which they’ve done many times, no Christian or Jew has gone on a murderous rampage. I’m looking forward to seeing the whole thing. I believe most of the ones I had uploaded to Photobucket from the 2015 edition have been killed off for being mean, like

In fact, you’ll have a tough time finding the cartoons from that specific edition on Google, without digging deep. Don’t want to offend the murderous jihadis, eh?

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Vermont Sued Over Their Law Forcing Companies To Pay For Climate Crisis (scam)

I still maintain that all the fossil fuels companies should have refused to sell their products to the state government of Vermont

US Chamber, oil industry sue Vermont over law requiring companies to pay for climate change damage

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several decades by climate change.

The federal lawsuit filed Monday asks a state court to prevent Vermont from enforcing the law, which was passed last year. Vermont became the first state in the country to enact the law after it suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. The state is working to estimate the cost of climate change dating back to Jan. 1, 1995.

The lawsuit argues the U.S. Constitution precludes the act and that the state law is preempted by the federal Clean Air Act. It also argues that the law violates domestic and foreign commerce clauses by discriminating “against the important interest of other states by targeting large energy companies located outside of Vermont.”

The Chamber and the other plaintiff in the lawsuit, the American Petroleum Institute, argue that the federal government is already addressing climate change. And because greenhouse gases come from billions of individual sources, they argue it is impossible to measure “accurately and fairly” the impact of emissions from a particular entity in a particular location over decades.

Well, they’re doing this with all sorts of legalese, rather than saying “let the state prove that the whopping 1.6F increase in the global temperature is the fault of fossil fuels, especially when the state had been using them and is still using them. They should provide photos and video of the government and members of the general assembly traveling in fossil fueled vehicles, as a start. But, this is a start.

Next up, will they go after NY and their similar law?

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What’s The Cost Of Cities Dealing With Fake Asylum Seekers?

It’s a lot, and, unsurprisingly, it includes a lot of taking advantage of taxpayer money because government is not responsible

NBC 5 Investigates finds hidden details on cost of migrant crisis in Chicago

They arrived by the bus load. And later by air. More than 52,000 newly arriving migrants – mostly from the South American countries like Venezuela or Colombia – have come to Chicago over the past two years. (snip)

There were questions and criticisms over the cost and lack of transparency from City Hall over how hundreds of million of dollars were spent.

To date, the City of Chicago has spent more than $612 million providing emergency shelter and other services.

NBC 5 Investigates found the bulk of that money – nearly $500 million – has gone to two companies:

Kansas-based Favorite Healthcare Staffing, which staffed the shelters and Kentucky-based Equitable Social Solutions, which together with another company, Reloshare, helped identify property owners and turned once-vacant warehouses in Chicago into migrant hotels.

So, not even to Illinois companies. Imagine what the city could have done with that money to help the homeless and those having trouble? To implement law and order in more than just the rich and toney neighborhoods?

NBC 5 Investigates was first to report how Favorite Healthcare Staffing routinely billed the city for 84 hours per week – per staffer, including overtime – rates that city alders called “exorbitant” even after the contract was re-negotiated to lower the hourly costs.

When it came to the buildings-turned-hotels with Equitable Social Solutions, some building owners were guaranteed $150,000 a month if hundreds of migrants remained in their building.

But that is information the city kept secret – hidden from public view until NBC 5 Investigates found it in an obscure lawsuit.

Funny how Democrats do not like to tell the peasants what’s going on.

Migrant crisis spurred nearly 3 million overtime hours for two NYC agencies— costing taxpayers $139M

New York City’s biggest overtime hogs for a second straight year are mostly rank-and-file workers responsible for tackling the Big Apple’s $6 billion-plus migrant crisis, The Post has learned.

Fifty-one of the 100 city employees who racked up the most OT during the fiscal year ending June 30 work at the Departments of Social Services and Homeless Services, and their duties include assisting migrants, an examination of city payroll records shows.

Leading the way was Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.

Does anyone believe that any of these people are really working that many hours? Is there anyone in the Sanctuary City New York government who audits this?

Meawnhile

Deep Dive: Undocumented Chinese migrants in the US fear Donald Trump’s deportation threats

How much does it cost to travel from China to the U.S.? These aren’t exactly low income folks walking from Central America. They all need to go.

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If All You See…

…is horrible heatsnow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on an idiot rapper shooting himself during a podcast.

It’s a good week for some snow ladies.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once and Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, but, sadly, we won’t be getting snow here in Raleigh. Check out webcamtaxi.com if you want to see some snow around the nation (and other cams around the world. One of my favorite sites). Not sure who did this pinup, added the snowman, of course.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: The UK pays wind turbines for failure — so the market wants to install more failures
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: New Study Finds 30 Year Drop In Hurricanes
  3. No Tricks Zone: Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!
  4. A View From The Beach: Farming for Forever Chemicals?
  5. American Greatness: Selling Our Birthright: The Case Against ‘High Skill’ Immigration
  6. Bearing Arms: Judge Strikes Down Gun Ban For Pot Smokers
  7. Blogs For Victory: Evil People Like Being Evil
  8. Climate Depot: Bill Nye — the Jail the Climate Skeptics Guy — receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Biden – Despite Promoting Jail for those who dissent on ‘global warming’ (Video)
  9. Cold Fury: Woke is dead, you say?
  10. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: They Finally Found Something Biden Can Do.
  11. Gates Of Vienna: Gideon van Meijeren: The Influx of Immigrants Erodes Our Cultural Roots, Our Language, Our Values, and Our Traditions
  12. Gatestone Institute: German Government Covering Up Islamist Attack?
  13. Geller Report: Tony Blinken Admits Biden’s Pro-Hamas Policies Have Kept the Hostages in Gaza and Hamas in Power
  14. Legal Insurrection: Greenland’s Leader Now Calling for Independence from Denmark
  15. And last, but, not least, Moonbattery has Moonbat Claims to Be Oppressed by Pink Dresses

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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NBC New Shocked To Learn That Islamists Are Radicalized Online

Of course, they’re still missing the point

‘A perfect storm’: Extremism online and political polarization are increasing the risk of attacks, experts say

The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America, experts say, with law enforcement struggling to track an increasingly fractured threat.

Finding and accessing extremist communities online has never been easier, the threat has never been higher, and the ideology of those carrying out attacks has never been more splintered, according to the experts.

“What the FBI and law enforcement in general are dealing with right now is a threat landscape that is both diverse and complicated,” said Seamus Hughes, a senior researcher and policy associate with the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha. “That makes things a little harder for law enforcement.”

“We have a level of polarization in the U.S. that’s an important factor,” he said. “The online environment has algorithms that are set up to make you angry. And all that is playing into a perfect storm of factors that are leading to an increase in radicalization.”

What they really mean by polarization is you big old meanie Conservatives, even as they note, sort of, who’s doing this

According to the federal government, the main terror threat to the U.S. now is lone actors inspired by extremism ideology. Those ideologies range widely. The majority of attackers are on the far right, as in the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting. But sometimes, as in the New Orleans attack, the driving ideology is radical Islamism. Occasionally, it’s far-left or anti-Trump, as in the 2017 attack on Republican members of Congress and staffers at a baseball practice outside Washington and the apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida last year, or at other times a mix of ideologies, what FBI Director Christopher Wray has called “salad bar extremism.”

See?

And the two who tried to kill Trump weren’t exactly on the right, now, were they? The idea of the article is, shockingly, an attempt to protect the Religion of Peace, claiming that 364 attacks came from white supremacists and 137 came from “anti-government” (weird we almost never hear about them), but, only 125 came from Islamists. Except for all those who were protesting Israel and Jews and attacking them. Oh, and just 47 from left wing. This is all about protecting the Islamic radicals, who, surprise, who be happy to blow up NBC buildings and do not care what political persuasion one is if they are Americans and Jews.

“We’re seeing more and more people sort of pick and choose their own ideology to suit their own grievances,” Horgan said. “They look to find a reason to make sense of what they have already decided they want to do.”

You mean like people who do not understand basic biology and are gender deranged? Much further down, though, we learn

After several years of reduced activity in the U.S., 2024 saw a rise in Islamist terror attacks and foiled plots, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism, which tracks extremist attacks and confirmed plots around the country.

That shift had the center’s vice president, Oren Segal, worried even before the New Orleans attack, he said. “It was alarming to us that after subsiding for so many years, there were indications that more and more people who subscribe to this ideology were willing to try to engage in this activity.”

“Part of this may be in response to groups abroad regrouping, part of it may be to the Israel and Palestinian conflict,” he said. “There were many signs that this type of activity was increasing.”

This could have anything to do with the Biden-Harris admin letting in tons of people of whom we have no idea who they are. We do know that lots are from the Middle East and Muslim extremist nations. All added to the Islamic extremists already in the nation and preaching jihad. Perhaps news outlets like NBC News should see the reality, rather than attempting to protect jihadis.

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