NYC To Go Really Soft On Crime

By William Teach January 5, 2022 – 10:30 am

Oh, you though Democratic Party run cities like New York were already soft of crime? You ain’t seen nothing yet

Manhattan DA gives many misdemeanors a pass even as new mayor vows to combat growing crime

unintended consequencesManhattan’s newly sworn-in district attorney reportedly told his staff he does not intend to prosecute several crimes, including resisting arrest. At the same time New York City’s newly sworn-in mayor is pledging to crack down on surging crime.

Alvin Bragg, a former federal prosecutor sworn in as Manhattan District Attorney on Jan. 1, sent guidance to his office calling for the “decriminalization/non prosecution” for crimes including marijuana possession, turnstile jumping, trespassing, resisting arrest, interfering with an arrest and prostitution.

Additionally, the guidance says the DA’s office will “not seek carceral sentence other than for homicide” or “class B violent felony in which a deadly weapon causes serious injury, domestic violence felonies” with some exceptions in “extraordinary circumstances.”

The memo argues that “reserving incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer.”

Pretrial detention, according to Bragg’s office, will only be recommended in “very serious cases.”

Bragg’s position on bail is in line with progressive district attorneys across the country, including in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Austin, where bail and sentencing guidelines have been lowered in the name of “reform.”

It might be in line, but, goes much, much further. How many times have we seen a person released on low or no bail commit a serious crime? Will this cover rape? What about groups going around looting and stealing lots and lots of products from businesses owned by average citizens? When the people are terrorized by these groups. I’m sure you can come up with a wide range of crimes that affect average citizens.

Twitchy has the whole thread.

Two thoughts on this. First, it might make sense if the criminals were actually going to be punished in some way. Make them do a lot of community service. How about a short stint in a less than full prison camp, cleaning up and repairing roadways or something?

Second, when crime spikes like it is in, say, Killadelphia (the First Street Journal has done lots and lots of pieces on this), New Yorkers should be banned from moving out of the city. They voted for it, let them deal with the fallout. People should have to deal with the results of their votes, not escape from them. The new mayor has said he will be tough on crime, how will this help? Why would cops arrest anyone when they know nothing will happen? Why would cops continue to work for the NYPD when all the work they put in is for nothing? NYC will start looking like the Mayor Dinkins days, a dangerous craphole. So, have fun, NYC. Don’t be surprised when people do start leaving to avoid the fallout from their votes, when people refuse to visit NYC, when businesses leave.

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NY Times Is Upset That Biden Over-promised And Under-produced On Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach January 5, 2022 – 8:28 am

The NY Times could stop using fossil fueled transportation to gather the news, turn their heat down to 60 and their AC up to 80, and a whole host of things to reduce their “carbon footprint” voluntarily, as could the rest of the climate cultists. Rather hard to believe there’s a crisis when Biden is still jetting around and taking huge convoys of fossil fueled vehicles (you can read it at Yahoo if the Times paywall’s you)

Biden ‘Overpromised and Underdelivered’ on Climate. Now, Trouble Looms in 2022.

As the new year opens, President Joe Biden faces an increasingly narrow path to fulfill his ambitious goal of slashing the greenhouse gases generated by the United States that are helping to warm the planet to dangerous levels.

His Build Back Better Act, which contains $555 billion in proposed climate action, is in limbo on Capitol Hill. The Supreme Court is set to hear a pivotal case in February that could significantly restrict his authority to regulate the carbon dioxide that spews from power plants and is driving climate change. And the midterm elections loom in November, threatening his party’s control of Congress. Since Republicans have shown little appetite for climate action, a Republican takeover of one or both chambers could freeze movement for years.

The mounting challenges make the next few months critical to secure the safety of the planet as well as Biden’s climate legacy, analysts said.

He could have demanded that the climate portions of the authoritarian, Big Government BBB bill were stripped out and voted on separately.

At international climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, last year, Biden pledged that the United States, the world’s biggest polluter in historical terms, would cut its emissions at least 50% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade. He urged other countries to take similar steps. But that will be a hard sell if the United States fails to act by the time countries gather for the next climate talks in Egypt in November.

“If you can’t meet the goal, you’ve lost credibility internationally,” Podesta said, adding that he would grade Biden’s first year on climate policy as “an incomplete.”

It won’t. Because this is Someone Else’s goals, and Biden was elected because he Wasn’t Trump, not for his agenda. Once again, people are enthused about Doing Something about anthropogenic global warming in theory, but, not in practice. The thing is, he and Congress could look towards measures which satisfy both sides. Increase research and development of alternatives, making wind, solar, and others more effective. Authorize the next generation of nuclear power plants. Incentivize hybrids and EVs. And more. All without slapping restrictions on citizens, without raising the cost of living and the cost of energy.

“Objectively, he overpromised and underdelivered,” said Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners, a Washington-based research firm.

Biden barely does any work, he’s barely around, he doesn’t seem to know what’s going on, and he doesn’t answer questions.

‘Occupy Biden’ forms weeklong camp near Delaware residence, demands president declare ‘climate emergency’

Protesters with a group called “Occupy Biden” have spent the past week in President Biden’s Delaware neighborhood calling on him to declare a “national climate emergency.”

According to a description for the protest, which took place near President Biden’s residence in Delaware, the group said that “nonviolent action” is needed in order to push President Biden towards making changes to his climate policy.

On Saturday, the final day of the group’s protest, individuals protested on a road near the president’s house while members of the Secret Service were nearby monitoring the group.

I’ve actually been sitting on this piece for a few days, it dovetailed well with the first piece, and I’m still seeing almost no news outlet cover it. You know if they were protesting Trump every national outlet would be all over it. They were there from the 25th thru the January 1st. Have you heard of this?

“I actually read our letter of demands to the Secret Service because they refused to take our letter,” Igou said. “Again we have two demands: that he declare a national climate emergency and pledge no new fossil fuel projects. He himself has stated that we are in a code red existential crisis but returned from cop 26 to open up more land for drilling. This is unacceptable And [sic] incongruent with life on earth.”

I wonder how they all got to the protest: fossil fueled travel or riding bikes?

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Brandon Is Super-Tired Of All These Unvaccinated Getting Omicron

By William Teach January 5, 2022 – 8:02 am

He’s learned that shutting down a virus isn’t easy, which is why he heads to his Delaware home or Camp David almost every weekend

Biden tries to rally COVID-weary nation: ‘We’re all tired and frustrated’

“Folks, I know we’re all tired and frustrated about the pandemic,” President Biden said on Tuesday ahead of his meeting with his pandemic response team. It was not the message with which he’d hoped to open the new year, but with the nation recording more than a million coronavirus cases on Monday, there was little to do but acknowledge reality, which is that the virus Biden had promised to vanquish remains very much unvanquished.

“These coming weeks are going to be challenging,” the president said, himself sounding weary from months of battling crosscurrents of political resistance and medical misinformation, not to mention a virus that has proved intractable at every turn.

As he has in the past, Biden trained his frustrations on the millions of Americans who remain unvaccinated, despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that the vaccines are safe and effective. He bluntly charged the unvaccinated with “taking up hospital beds and crowding emergency rooms and intensive care units,” thus not only endangering themselves but also prolonging a pandemic that many had hoped would be over by now.

He’s just tired of all those people refusing to be sheep. He keeps trying to fear-monger and be demanding, rather that showing them that the vaccines are safe and they’ll be fine. He’s still trying to push his mandates.

(Fox News) “Omicron is a very transmissible, transmissible variant, but much different than anything we’ve seen before,” Biden said. “You can protect yourself, and you should protect yourself, quite frankly. Get vaccinated, get boosted. There are plenty of booster shots. Wear a mask while you’re in public.”

That photo above is from his briefing. Where’s his mask? He’s indoors in an Executive agency building, and his own EO requires people to be masked. He’s not alone in there, he has all sorts of staff around. Fauci was also there, and, as another photo at the article shows, was wearing a mask, which he’s upgraded to an N95.

But the CDC noted on Dec. 20 that it “expects that anyone with Omicron infection can spread the virus to others, even if they are vaccinated or don’t have symptoms.”

We already know that lots and lots of people are getting Omicron who are vaccinated. I know three where I work who were vaxxed, two were boosted.

“Many of you will, you know, you’ll experience severe illness in many cases if you get COVID-19 if you are not vaccinated,” Biden said. “Some will die, needlessly die. Unvaccinated are taking up hospital beds and crowding emergency rooms and intensive care units.”

Almost a year of lecturing is not working. If you’re lecturing your kids to clean their room and they won’t, what do you do? Well, punishing them might work, but, that won’t work for U.S. citizens, not when The People are supposed to be in charge with the government responsive, not the other way around. At some point, you’d think Team Brandon would have changed methods. Brandon is not wrong, but, scaremongering is not working.

Biden said the COVID-19 testing situation in the United States is “frustrating” but maintained that his administration is “making improvements” by creating federal testing sites and making more at-home rapid tests available to the public.

Why wasn’t he doing this from day one, almost a year ago? Testing seemed to be going fine while Trump was president.

The president again urged individuals to wear masks in public.

You mean like how he sometimes does, sometimes doesn’t?

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Surprise: Investigators Point Towards Shed Fire For Colorado Fire

By William Teach January 4, 2022 – 4:17 pm

Remember how Warmists were blaming it on ‘climate change’?

There are more than plenty like that. Interestingly, the NPR piece didn’t mention something rather relevant

Shed fire on land of ‘cult’ eyed as cause of devastating Colorado blazes that destroyed 1,000 homes

Colorado investigators believe a wildfire that devastated communities ahead of the new year could have stemmed from a shed fire on land occupied by members of fundamentalist Christian sect the Twelve Tribes.

“The fire originated somewhere in that neighbourhood,” Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said Sunday at a news conference. “There was a viral video that was posted of a shed on fire.”

He added that investigators did not know whether or not “that shed started the fire or whether it was secondary”, and that finding the cause of the fire was “complicated and it’s under snow”.

“We will sort it out,” he told reporters. “It’s an active, open deal and the outcome of that investigation is vital, there is so much at stake. So we are going to be careful.”

A resident of the neighbourhood meanwhile told The Denver Post that he thought he witnessed the beginning of the blaze next-door to him on Thursday.

The sect has been busted many times for illegal burnings, and, while it is no conclusive right now, the very fact that investigators are mentioning this and targeting them shows that, once again, a wildfire was started by a human, not because of ‘climate change’. Of course, being members of a cult, the Warmists will still say things like that because you ate a burger the fire was worse than it would have been. Because cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 4, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a perfect spot to put up a bunch of wind turbines, far from the big cities where they can’t be seen, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is neo-neocon, with a post on the invented coup living on.

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Why Are So Many Vaccinated And Even Boosted People Getting The Chinese Coronavirus?

By William Teach January 4, 2022 – 10:30 am

It’s official per the Associated Press: the “vaccines” are basically flu shots

Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately?

Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately?

A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect people, even if it doesn’t make them very sick, and its surge coincided with the holiday travel season in many places.

People might mistakenly think the COVID-19 vaccines will completely block infection, but the shots are mainly designed to prevent severe illness, says Louis Mansky, a virus researcher at the University of Minnesota.

And the vaccines are still doing their job on that front, particularly for people who’ve gotten boosters. (snip)

Omicron appears to replicate much more efficiently than previous variants. And if infected people have high virus loads, there’s a greater likelihood they’ll pass it on to others, especially the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people who get the virus are more likely to have mild symptoms, if any, since the shots trigger multiple defenses in your immune system, making it much more difficult for omicron to slip past them all.

Technically, a flu shot is a vaccine. We’ve all taken them, or know people who have, right? What happens? Medical professionals guess as to which variants will be present and put it together, you take the shot, and, hopefully it stops it. If not, you’ll probably have mild symptoms for a few days then you’ll be fine. It’s designed to hopefully stop you from getting the flu. That’s the way the COVID vaccines are working.

Then you have vaccines like for smallpox. You are given the shots, usually when a very young child, and you do not get smallpox. Period. You are now immune. You won’t get it, you won’t carry it, you won’t transmit it. Same with many other diseases and their vaccines. That’s how the COVID vaccine was positioned, right? It would get us all to herd immunity, that we wouldn’t get COVID if we took it. Is it any wonder that the people who are vaccine resistant are still resistant?

Advice for staying safe hasn’t changed. Doctors say to wear masks indoors, avoid crowds and get vaccinated and boosted. Even though the shots won’t always keep you from catching the virus, they’ll make it much more likely you stay alive and out of the hospital.

Perhaps if they positioned it as being a flu shot, that it would protect people from getting really sick, more would have taken it sooner. It also doesn’t help, as a sidebar, that the Powers That Be dropped the notion of social distancing and touching. Meanwhile

On the flip side, actual scientific studies that came after the gyms were closed show that the exhalations in gyms which spread COVID were stronger than in normal inside areas. People breathing harder, spreading it further. Remember, too, that SJWs, chubby celebs, and their enablers in the media yammer about “fat shaming”, enabling people to continue to feel good about being fat.

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Surprise: California Rules Will Make Solar More Expensive

By William Teach January 4, 2022 – 7:00 am

It’s already expensive, and the state of the People’s Republik Of California is requiring more and more be used to replace all the reliable, dependable, low cost oil, gas, and nuclear. So, let’s make it more expensive

Tesla Fights California Law That Could Make Solar Energy Costs Soar

In an announcement issued in late December, and reported by CNBC last Friday, electric vehicle and solar roof manufacturer Tesla has asked employees to fight a new California proposal that could make residential rooftop solar energy more expensive for many homeowners.

Under the legislation, residents using solar power would have to pay grid-connection charges based on the size of their system. The legislation would also reduce payments solar customers in California receive for selling their excess power back to the grid.

In addition to free electricity and a more sustainable lifestyle, the capability to sell excess power back to the grid is one of the primary attractions to solar electricity for many consumers. By selling excess power back, consumers can achieve net-zero electric bills or even receive money back from utility companies.

In a tweet from Dec. 13, 2021, @WholeMarsBlog pointed out that if the new tax rate was set at $8 per kilowatt-hour, as proposed, it could cost some Tesla Solar Roof owners as much as $80 a month for a 10 kW system. Elon Musk replied on Twitter, “Penalizing sustainable energy is insane.”

Let’s not forget that California code now requires all new home construction, single and multi-family, to have solar installed. Which, of course, raises the cost of new homes in California in a state which is already at the top end of cost. And this new proposal would penalize those very same people, along with those who want to put solar on their roofs. Shouldn’t California be doing something to reduce costs and incent people to put panels on their roofs?

And then there’s this

Activists say solar farm in Florida will harm Black community

“This is not a facility that’s compatible with the residential community,” said community member and activist Michelle Rutledge

Black residents in Archer — a majority Black town in Florida with a rich history — thought they prevented a solar power farm from being built in their historical community back in 2020.

Michelle Rutledge, a resident who lives across from the proposed site, said that she rallied the community together to object the construction, persuading their county commissioner to vote down the project.

However, in the summer of 2021, the state legislature voted to pass a law preventing municipal governments from blocking new energy infrastructure. Now, the power farm could be erected in Archer in the foreseeable future.

Isn’t this what Democratic Party voters want? The plan is to build it on a vacant 650 acre farm

“Our families have ties to those types of experiences since the Civil War, Jim Crow, and having to escape,” said Gerrie Crawford, another resident who lives across from the proposed site.

She explained that many families, including hers, have worked and purchased land there since the 1800s.

Crawford also said that many residents in the town are descendants of African Americans driven out of Rosewood, a town 30 miles away, during the 1923 Rosewood Massacre — a racially-motivated massacre where white locals burned down the Black town killing at least six Black residents.

Huh? They’re saying it’s in the wrong location, so, sounds rather like a NIMBY situation to the extreme

“We asked the county government to consider cumulative factors such as compatibility, community impact, cultural significance, systemic racism in land use, zoning, and urban planning, and environmental racism while making a decision,” she said.

Many also pointed to the issue of environmental injustice and racism. Communities of color have often been situated near waste sites, landfills and power plants that can cause irreversible brain and lung damage.

“We support renewable energy. But we feel it has to be a just transition to break the cycle of past injustices in the name of progress,” added Crawford.

Double huh.

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Biden Comes Up With A “Plan” To Combat High Meat Costs

By William Teach January 4, 2022 – 6:45 am

Up till recently, my Walmart and Lidl have mostly resisted the rising cost of foods, including meats. So, I was kinda shocked at how much pre-made burger patties had gone up. Probably around $2 from normal. Fortunately, #LetsGoBrandon has a Plan

I’m sure his plan can’t be that bad, right?

Joe Biden Ice Cream Afghanistan(Reuters) The United States will issue new rules and $1 billion in funding this year to support independent meat processors and ranchers as part of a plan to address a lack of “meaningful competition” in the meat sector, President Joe Biden said on Monday.

The initiative comes amid rising concerns that a handful of big beef, pork and poultry companies have too much control over the American meat market, allowing them to dictate wholesale and retail pricing to profit at the expense of their suppliers and customers.

“Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation,” Biden said. “That’s what we’re seeing in meat and poultry industries now.”

Yeah, it’s that bad, and divorced from reality.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) will spend the $1 billion from American Rescue Plan funds to expand the independent meat processing sector, including funds for financing grants, guaranteed loans, and worker training, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who was speaking at an event with Biden.

And how long will that take? Years? Who’s going to be able to step up? Seems like a plan without anyone involved

Attorney General Merrick Garland, also speaking at the event, said “too many industries have become too consolidated over time,” and that the antitrust division of the Department of Justice has been chronically underfunded.

Right, that will help drive down inflation. Maybe we shouldn’t be printing even more more to try and deal with inflation.

North American Meat Institute spokesperson Sarah Little said staffing plants remains the biggest issue for meatpackers and that the White House plan would not address it.

“Our members of all sizes cannot operate at capacity because they struggle to employ a long-term stable workforce,” she said. “New capacity and expanded capacity created by the government will have the same problem.”

How about putting a ton of those illegal aliens to work?

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If All You See…

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

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

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on Beverly Hills enjoying armed robberies.

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Who Would Have Guessed That Cloth Masks May Not Provide Protection Against Omicron?

By William Teach January 3, 2022 – 10:30 am

Or, really, just about any version of the Chinese coronavirus

Cloth masks may not protect against omicron, report says

Single-layer cloth masks may not provide adequate protection against the very infectious omicron variant of COVID-19, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

Many infectious disease experts noted people prefer cloth masks because they are more comfortable and fashionable to wear, but these masks can only block larger droplets of COVID-19, not smaller aerosols or particles that can also carry the virus.

The Mayo Clinic is now requiring all patients and visitors to wear surgical masks, N95 or KN95 masks, so if anyone wears a single-layer, homemade cloth mask or bandanna, they will be given a medical-grade one to wear over it, the report said.

Surgical masks block the COVID-19 virus through its polypropylene electrostatic charge characteristics, while N95 masks have a tighter mesh of fibers than surgical or cloth masks with also electrostatic charge characteristics, which allows the mask to be most efficient at blocking inhaled and exhaled particles.

The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), however, still recommends N95 masks only for health care workers, advising people instead to wear instead cloth masks that have two (or more) layers of fabric that completely cover the face and mouth, fit ‘snugly’ against the sides of the face (without any gaps) that also has a nose wire to prevent air leaking from the top of the mask.

And, almost no one wears two layers, even the mask fetishists. Let’s also not forget that the CDC didn’t update their mask guidance till the end of May 2020, and, based on the infection numbers, really hasn’t made a difference since

But Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, said, “If everyone is just wearing a cloth mask or just a surgical mask, it won’t make any difference” against the omicron variant.

“If you really want no exposure, you have to wear the right type of mask.”

But, few will do this. They are expensive, they are supposed to be worn once, and then disposed of. Or, just ignored, if you’re a Democrat escaping from the cold northeast city you represent with all those restrictions for a nice, warm, restrictionless Red state

Meanwhile, Commie Squad member Ayanna Pressley tested positive for COVID, as did Sec of SortaDefense Lloyd Austin. Both are boosted, both wear masks, and the latter is forcing all military members to get vaccinated.

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