If All You See…

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is metal corroding from too much carbon pollution driven humidity, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post Joy being redefined.

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Last Denny’s In Kamala’s San Francisco Closes Due To Crime

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 10:30 am

It’s surprising that they lasted this long

Last remaining Denny’s in major US city forced to close after 25 years – and customers are getting the blame

Another iconic Denny’s restaurant has closed its doors for the last time, stripping a California city of the chain’s last location.

Denny’s has closed more than 70 of its restaurants in the last two years, including 15 this summer alone.

Among the recent closures is the last bastion of the fast-casual chain in San Francisco.

The 24-hour restaurant in the city’s Union Square district ran for 25 years before closing on August 1 as a result of rising crime.

The franchise’s operator Chris Haque told the San Francisco Gate the restaurant ‘operated until the last day that we could.’

And what did that crime look like?

The location in San Francisco’s crime-riddled downtown was reportedly effected by frequent ‘dining and dashing’, where customers order, eat and then leave without paying.

‘The cost of doing business is tremendous. There’s vandalism, and people come and eat and walk away, and there’s no one to stop them,’ Haque told the publication.

‘It’s a beautiful city – we love it, we have been there so many years,’ Haque said.

‘But I think [city officials] should make it more business-friendly.’

And it didn’t help that there’s been a big dip in tourism and convention attendance, because it’s become too dangerous in San Francisco, especially the downtown area. And, sure, many other Denny’s have closed this year and in previous years since the Wuhan Flu pandemic started, but, they each have their own reasons. This one was over crime. Oh, and

Robert Verostek, Denny’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, blamed inflation as a significant factor for closures when he spoke to investors earlier this year.

He pointed out that the breakeven point for a restaurant to remain open had jumped from $1 million to $1.2 million due to higher costs for food and wages.

And you can bet that the cost to run this one in San Fran had skyrocketed due to the recently passed $20 minimum wage law. This is Kamala’s America. This is the policies of Democrats that the Biden-Harris admin tried to implement across the country, and that Kamala would work to implement.

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Bummer: SCOTUS Decisions Are Already Slowing Climate Action

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 7:00 am

I wonder if Warmists ever considered that they can change their own behavior on their own? That there is no need for authoritarian government to force everyone to comply with the cult?

Recent Supreme Court decisions are already slowing climate progress

During its last session, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dealt blow after blow to federal agencies’ authority to draft and enforce policies, including those aimed at mitigating climate change. Its decisions have already created upheaval for courts considering issues ranging from the approval of a solar project to vehicle emissions rules. This has upended the legal landscape for judges and for regulators, and could slow climate progress as a result.

The uncertainty has alarmed, but not surprised, legal experts who earlier this summer predicted that four rulings limiting federal authority could curtail the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies to limit pollution, govern toxic substances, and mitigate global warming.

“It’s going to throw climate policy into many years of litigating what these cases actually mean when applied to individual rulemakings,” said Deborah Sivas, an environmental law professor at Stanford University. “That’s not good for the energy transition that we actually need to go through.”

Yeah, it is a real shame that unelected bureaucrats can no longer bypass the express intentions of the US Constitution, where it is incumbent on the duly elected Legislative branch to pass laws which the Executive carries out

Sending cases back to lower courts for further review will almost certainly delay decisions, limiting the effectiveness of federal policies to address climate change and other issues. But an even greater impact may be felt by the agencies charged with taking those actions and already facing increasing scrutiny and lawsuits.

“Agencies will have to be even more careful than they already are to ground proposed regulations in the text of the statute and to explain why they believe that the regulation is consistent with Congressional intent,” Rylander said.

So they cannot just simply do whatever they want willy nilly, they actually have to follow the Constitution? Huh. Shame.

Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry and other polluters, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, have ramped up challenges to environmental regulations. In late July, Republican state attorneys general, rural electric cooperatives, and fossil fuel trade organizations asked the Supreme Court to pause an EPA rule to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of coal- and gas-fired power plants. As in Ohio v. EPA, the plaintiffs are once again asking the high court to block the rule even as it wends through the D.C. Circuit. (The Supreme Court previously paused another EPA power plant emissions rule in 2016, the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect.) Legal experts say the outcome of Ohio v. EPA proves the Supreme Court is willing to take such far-reaching actions — and that it has clearly encouraged this request for an emergency pause.

“Industry lawyers believe it is open season to go after regulations,” Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at Columbia University, said. Corporate clients, egged on by Ohio v. EPA and other Supreme Court wins, have concluded that “the expense of the lawsuit is small compared to the benefit if they win,” he said.

Get laws passed. That’s the way it works.

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Kamala Voters Tear Down Fencing, Fly Hamas Flag At DNC

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 6:45 am

Hey, moderate Democrats, Never Trumpers, and Jews who vote Democrat, is this what you support?

Hamas Flag Flown At Rally Near DNC

Protesters were seen holding a Hamas flag at an anti-Israel rally Monday near Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Fox News reported.

Just hours before the DNC started, hundreds of organizations staged a protest at which both Hamas and Palestinian flags were seen, according to Fox News. Chicago officials, along with the U.S. Secret Service and local police, expressed their commitment to maintaining peace and ensuring safety during these demonstrations.

“The U.S. Secret Service, along with its federal, state, and local partners, respects the right of the public to demonstrate. We make no distinction on the purpose, message or intent of any particular group,” Chicago police told Fox News Digital in a statement.

Now, imagine how the Credentialed Media would cover this if it was wacko Republican voters flying Russian flags or Nazi ones. Here you have people flying the flag of a US designated terrorist organization.

Anti-Israel protesters arrested after breaching barrier at DNC ahead of Biden speech

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters breached the first layer of fencing outside the Democratic National Convention, with some later apprehended by Chicago police and others pushed back by officers behind to restore the secure perimeter. (snip)

Several protesters had crept up to the fence and began shaking it before slipping through. An entourage of law enforcement officers then arrived to reinforce the lines.

Reportedly, only four were arrested. What’s the over/under that they’re out of jail before bedtime?

The Jew hating, Hamas supporting wackos are also trying to build an autonomous zone right outside that fence.

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Good Grief: Climate Cult Tries To Link Italian Shipwreck To Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 4:26 pm

Their science is sure full of lots of “mights”

Global warming may be factor in deadly Italian shipwreck, climatologist says

Global warming may have contributed to the freak storm that sank a luxury British-flagged yacht off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Italian climatologist Luca Mercalli told Reuters.

One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after the “Bayesian”, a 56-metre-long (184-ft) sailboat, was suddenly hit by ferocious weather.

Mercalli, president of the Italian meteorological society, said the episode could have been a water spout, essentially a tornado over water, or else a downburst, a more frequent phenomenon that doesn’t involve the rotation of the air.

“We don’t know which it was because it all happened in the dark in the early hours of the morning, so we have no photographs,” he said.

In Italy water spouts can involve winds of up to 200 kilometres (124 miles) per hour, while downbursts can produce gusts of around 150 km per hour.

So they do not know what actually happened, and water spouts are not abnormal in Italy

“The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), which is almost 3 degrees more than normal. This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms,” Mercalli said.

“So we can’t say that this is all due to climate change, but we can say that it has an amplifying effect.”

Right, right. What about all sorts of other shipwrecks going back 5 millennium in the Mediterranean? Were they from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles? Seriously, no matter what happens this cult wants a piece of it

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a valley flooded from Extreme Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on Hamas rejecting Biden’s ceasefire and hostage deal.

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Chicago Residents Feel Like They Are In A “Police State”

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 10:30 am

It really shouldn’t be a surprise to Chicagoans that the streets are shut down and law enforcement is everywhere, this is what happens during a political party convention. And certainly when tens of thousands of their wacko comrades will be showing up and creating problems

New DNC security measures in downtown Chicago have some feeling “like a police state”

With street closures and restrictions already in place at both the United Center and McCormick Place ahead of the Democratic National Convention, new security measures that went into effect this weekend have left parts of the downtown area in a state of lockdown.

Residents and businesses were still trying to navigate the new restrictions on Sunday, after large security fences went up along sidewalks in parts of the Loop, Gold Coast, and Magnificent Mile – with a handful of downtown streets also closed off.

Unlike those closures announced in advance around the United Center and McCormick Place, the new restrictions downtown were not formally announced until Saturday morning, after they were already in place, blindsiding many who live and work in the area.

Well, yeah, they either didn’t want to give the wackos advanced warning or didn’t realize how many would show up

The heightened security in and around the Magnificent Mile, Gold Coast, and other parts of downtown all went into effect this weekend due to what police call “DNC activity.”

The Bidens, Clintons, and Obamas as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are staying in downtown hotels during the convention, prompting the security hot zones.

Street closures downtown include (they’re in the story)

People who live and work in the area also should be prepared to show identification to gain access to certain buildings.

Wait, what? Free citizens will have to show identification to go to their home and/or work? That’s weird. We’ve been told that identification is unnecessary in order to vote, but, it is to go home?

“Wow, this is like crazy. A lot of important people are gonna be here, and we are happy that they’re gonna be safe. But, yeah, it does feel like a police state with all the big walls going up and everything. It’s a little crazy,” Michael Tenniswood said.

Walls, eh? We’ve also been told they do not work.

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Hotcold Take: ‘Climate Change’ Means Your Windshield Wipers Are Moving Fast Enough

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 7:00 am

From the mind of hyper-Warmist Marshall Shepherd comes this delightful tale of climate doom, which is a new one

Are Your Wiper Blades Moving Fast Enough For Today’s Rainstorms?

Much of the content that I write about comes from the convergence of routine life and being an atmospheric scientist. Yesterday, my family and I were driving home from a college recruiting trip. We encountered very intense rainfall as we entered Gwinnett County, a suburb just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. The wiper blades were at full speed and could not keep up with the intensity of the rainfall. I said to my wife, “The current generation of wiper blade settings are not ready for the climate change-juiced rainstorms of today.” She pulled out her phone and snapped the picture above because she probably knew a Forbes article was coming. Here’s the science behind my statement.

Got that? He was in one heavy rainstorm and because the wipers couldn’t keep up doom is coming

While my observations about wiper blade rates are somewhat anecdotal, here’s what I do know. I had a difficult time seeing the road in that rainstorm yesterday, and the wiper blades on that car were recently installed. My wife also happened to snap a picture of my phone showing the weather radar (picture above). Yes, it’s true. I am a “weather geek,” so it is not uncommon for my phone to be on the radar in these situations. The blue circle indicates the position of our car within that afternoon thunderstorm.

Here’s also what’s not anecdotal. Scientific studies consistently show that rainfall intensities are increasing in the U.S. Rainfall intensity or rate is essentially a measure of how hard it rains. The 2023 U.S. National Climate Assessment report notes, “Since the 1950s, there has been an upward trend in heavy precipitation across the contiguous US…. increase is driven largely by more frequent precipitation extremes, with relatively smaller changes in their intensity.” The Northeast and Midwest have seen the largest increases. Here in the Southeast, total precipitation in the heaviest 1% of days has increased by 37% from 1958 to 2021.

And? That fails to prove anthropogenic causation, just that the Earth is in a typical warm period. Heavy rains happen. They always have. They always will. Sometimes even on high they cannot keep up, so, you slow down or even pull over. You don’t go all cult over it.

BTW, was Marshall traveling in a fossil fueled vehicle?

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Biden-Harris Admin Re-Opening Border Crossing Points

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 6:45 am

Why? Biden-Harris finally did something somewhat right for the border, after saying they couldn’t do anything, but, hey, there’s an election coming up. It’s working, so, why open them up?

U.S. reopening 4 entry points at southern border after migrant crossings drop

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will resume commercial and legal travel at four official crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday that were partially or fully closed recently due to record levels of migrant crossings, senior U.S. officials told reporters Tuesday.

The impacted ports of entry are in Eagle Pass, Texas, Lukeville and Nogales, Arizona and San Ysidro, California.

The U.S. officials also said the Mexican government has stepped up efforts to slow U.S.-bound migration, adding that those operations have been partially responsible for a recent marked drop in illegal border crossings.

The U.S. Border Patrol processed roughly 2,500 migrants Monday, a sharp decrease from the record arrivals reported in December, one of the U.S. officials said.

Heck, if we can cut it down to 2,500 a day, we can cut it to zero a day, which would just leave all those who do not get caught. Of course, opening up the ports during the DNC so that all the illegal alien supporters will hopefully quiet down a bit makes sense

A story everyone should know: Harris, Biden, and Gianfranco Torres-Navarro

A STORY EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW: HARRIS, BIDEN, AND GIANFRANCO TORRES-NAVARRO. If the Trump campaign has any say in it, voters should learn the name of Gianfranco Torres-Navarro. According to U.S. authorities, Torres-Navarro is the leader of a Peruvian crime gang and is thought to be personally responsible for 23 murders. He is a notorious figure in Peru, where he is known as “Gianfranco 23,” clearly “a reference to the number of people he is alleged to have killed,” according to the Associated Press. He has a girlfriend who, also according to the Associated Press, “has a sizable following on the social media platform TikTok where she showed off their lavish lifestyle, including designer clothes, resort vacations and shooting targets at a gun range.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but Torres-Navarro’s gang is known as “Los Killers.”

Here’s why Americans should know who he is. On Wednesday, Torres-Navarro was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Endicott, New York, a village with a population of 13,667 about 190 miles north of New York City. Given that he is a wanted man, wanted for very serious crimes in Peru, one might ask how he made it to the United States.

The answer is: He just walked in. In May, Torres-Navarro crossed illegally into the U.S. near Roma, Texas, in the Rio Grande border sector. He was arrested by U.S. authorities who then…let him go. Like millions of other illegal crossers, he was given a “notice to appear” before an immigration judge at some point far in the future and then sent on his way.

This is the kind of thing the Trump campaign should be talking about, not little nicknames and such.

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DNC Erecting Walls For Convention, Though Democrats Have Said Walls Do Not Work

By William Teach August 18, 2024 – 4:04 pm

Huh

I remember the 2020 Biden-Harris platform:

Democrats will rescind President Trump’s fabricated “National Emergency,” which siphons funding away from our men and women in uniform to construct an unnecessary, wasteful, and ineffective wall on the southern border.

Huh. And, looky here

That’s about a tenth of the CPD workforce getting blue flu. I wonder how many of the police that are supposed to come from other cities and the county will say “nope, I want nothing to do with this?” And the funniest part is that most of the demonstrators are leftists.

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