…is champagne which will SOON be grown in Norway due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on the Christmas parade attacker being identified.
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…is champagne which will SOON be grown in Norway due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on the Christmas parade attacker being identified.
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It’s not enough that Democrats have attempted to keep black people down in their own neighborhoods, separated from white people, featuring poverty, crime, bad schools, and urban decay. Now they want to separate them altogether in their own state, proclaiming it a safe space
Black People Need a Safe State in America—Let’s Make It Georgia
The trial of the three men accused of slaying Ahmaud Arbery has Black Americans walking on pins and needles once again. Whatever the jury decides, I’m afraid, will fail to address a damming question that the tragic incident symbolizes: How can Black people ever be secure in America?
Executed by three strangers while jogging in a white neighborhood, Arbery’s killing reflects the mindset of domination in the culture of white supremacy: the belief that any random white person has the right to accost and detain a Black person with impunity. Authorities are ready to accept their claims of righteous endangerment–even when they are the instigators of the danger.
Jogging? I’m not saying what was done to Arbery was right, or legal, but, he was a well known criminal, one who had been found, at a minimum, lurking in the neighborhood, possibly stealing from the area. The whole issue is rather complicated, the defendants were most likely in the wrong and will be found guilty, and hardcore lefties feel the need to lie about what happened and make it raaaaacist
Yet, the Arbery encounter is just the latest in a series of violent racial incidents that linger in memory: George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, and so many others. The fatal consequences are recounted on television and social media and trigger episodes of post-traumatic stress in the Black psyche.
Don’t break the law and there won’t be problems. Don’t attack people and try and take their gun. Don’t be the money person for a confirmed drug dealer. Don’t point a gun, even if fake, at police officers.
Add to these graphic executions the racism inherent in the criminal justice system, and the increasingly unstable antics of states under the spell of Trumpism, and one can wonder if it is time for Black Americans to consider establishing a base for security?
Hey, some Trump Derangement Syndrome!
Such a conclusion runs counter to the direction of Black politics since the Supreme Court decision in the school desegregation cases. After the NAACP emerged victorious in Brown v. Board of Education, Black leaders embraced the illusion of integration even if it meant taking a beating. To be fair, the notion to “redeem the soul of America” from its legacy of slavery and Jim Crow had successes and failures.
Nearly 70 years later, after generations of racial strife, the climate today suggests that new options may be worth pursuing. In this new century, Black thinkers may want to weigh the merits of establishing a majority-minority state as a political base while still demanding the rights of citizenship across the land.
Why are black people so unsafe in cities and states run by Democrats? Let’s give them their own!
A project to create a Black-majority state would be in the political and cultural interests of the race. There are examples in U.S. history of vulnerable groups using the structure of federalism to create a safe haven state, most notably the Mormons in Utah. In fact, Black pioneers resorted to the strategy when forming independent towns across the West like Nicodemus, founded in Kansas in 1877.
And would make Democrats, who still hate Blacks, very happy, moving them away down there. Anyhow, it keeps going and going and going, ending with
While the concerns are all serious, over time the advantages of establishing a majority-minority state could come to outweigh any potential disadvantages. What remains urgent is that the Ahmaud Arbery outrage is the latest testament to the intransigence of white supremacy—and the need for a safe state.
Or, it could be that a couple of idiots saw someone who kept hanging in their neighborhood, going into a house under construction, and stupidly took matters in their own hands. Maybe don’t be a criminal to start with. Almost every incident occurred because the deceased decided to be a criminal. Doesn’t mean they deserved to die, but, don’t want none, don’t start none. Meanwhile, Democrats use this as an excuse to move all the blacks out of their cities, and Georgia would be plenty far from their northern and West coast cities and states, eh? Still racist after all these years.
Read: Daily Beast: Say, Let’s Give Black People The State Of Georgia As A Safe Space »
Of course, one thing is, the young and old Republicans who are going Warmist have entirely different ideas on how to Solve ‘climate change’, pretty much ignoring increasing the size of government, taking more more, and limiting freedom and choice. Except for some of the grifters, who want to have a carbon tax, calling it “free market”. Because they’ll make money off them. Anyhow
Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary
Standing in front of the partial ruins of Rome’s Colosseum, Boris Johnson explained that a motive to tackle the climate crisis could be found in the fall of the Roman empire. Then, as now, he argued, the collapse of civilization hinged on the weakness of its borders.
“When the Roman empire fell, it was largely as a result of uncontrolled immigration – the empire could no longer control its borders, people came in from the east and all over the place,” the British prime minister said in an interview on the eve of crucial UN climate talks in Scotland. Civilization can go into reverse as well as forwards, as Johnson told it, with Rome’s fate offering grave warning as to what could happen if global heating is not restrained.
Wait, what’s this about uncontrolled immigration? What does this have to do with climate doom? And, I can find almost no sources that talk about uncontrolled immigration. Slavery, attacks, other issues, not immigration.
This wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US and is now spilling into the discourse of mainstream politics. Whatever his intent, Johnson was following a current of rightwing thought that has shifted from outright dismissal of climate change to using its impacts to fortify ideological, and often racist, battle lines. Representatives of this line of thought around the world are, in many cases, echoing eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted in an earlier age of blood-and-soil nationalism.
Huh? This whole thing has nothing to do with the climate, does it.
In the UK, the far-right British National party has claimed to be the “only true green party” in the country due to its focus on migration. And in Germany, the rightwing populist party Alternative for Germany has tweaked some of its earlier mockery of climate science with a platform that warns “harsh climatic conditions” in Africa and the Middle East will see a “gigantic mass migration towards European countries”, requiring toughened borders.
Oh, so the doomsday cultists are upset that some of the more extreme folks on the right are taking advantage of what the cult calls a crisis, and emergency?
“Environmentalism [is] the natural child of patriotism, because it’s the natural child of rootedness,” Le Pen said in 2019, adding that “if you’re a nomad, you’re not an environmentalist. Those who are nomadic … do not care about the environment; they have no homeland.” Le Pen’s ally Hervé Juvin, a National Rally MEP, is seen as an influential figure on the European right in promoting what he calls “nationalistic green localism”.
Of course, they’re really talking about true environmental issues, not the fake climate crisis.
The response to this trend on the right has led to what academics Joe Turner and Dan Bailey call “ecobordering”, where restrictions on immigration are seen as vital to protect the nativist stewardship of nature and where the ills of environmental destruction are laid upon those from developing countries, ignoring the far larger consumptive habits of wealthy nations. In an analysis of 22 far-right parties in Europe, the academics found this thinking is rife among rightwing parties and “portrays effects as causes and further normalizes racist border practices and colonial amnesia within Europe”.
BTW, this whine, made possible in the UK Guardian by a far left group’s research, keeps going and going. Have fun!
Read: Climate Cult Concerned Over What’s Replacing “Climate Denialism” On The Right »
Great job electing incompetence over Mean Tweets, folks. Especially you unhinged #NeverTrumpers
BIDEN & INFLATION:
With many problems that present themselves, Americans nonetheless evaluate a president on how well it’s addressed once it happens. Biden gets among his lowest marks on handling inflation of all the issues tested. pic.twitter.com/QbhAFgPnE1— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) November 21, 2021
Only 67%?
(The Hill) A new CBS News-YouGov poll released on Sunday found that only one-third of those surveyed approve of President Biden‘s handling of inflation.
The results of the poll did not bode well for Biden, with less than half of respondents approving of his handling of major issues such as race relations, the economy, immigration and inflation. Only 33 percent of those surveyed approved of Biden’s handling of inflation with the remaining 67 percent saying they disapproved.
The poll conducted this month found that 56 percent of respondents disapproved of Biden’s job in office and 44 percent approved. Among the issues asked, COVID-19 vaccine distribution was the only area where a majority of survey participants approved of Biden’s handling.
A majority of survey participants — 64 percent — rated the national economy as being either “fairly bad” or “very bad.”
Among those who rated the current state of the economy as being “bad,” inflation was cited as the top reason for their assessment, with 84 percent of respondents citing this reason. Inflation was cited more than other factors such as coronavirus restrictions, product shortages and distrust in the Biden administration.
When asked about their recent shopping experiences, 82 percent of those surveyed said items are costing more than they did not long ago, while roughly two-thirds of participants said items they are looking for are often not in stock.
And you can bet this won’t get better. Almost nothing Biden is doing works. Nor will it.
Read: Bummer: 67% Disapprove Of Brandon’s Handling Of Inflation »
Well, this was fast
Electric vehicles won’t save us — we need to get rid of cars completely
Climate change is happening now. Wildfires are getting worse, flooding more common, hurricanes more powerful, and heat waves more deadly. Yet when world leaders met in Glasgow earlier this month, their proposals still had the world on track for 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming — far above the 1.5-degree target. Governments aren’t doing enough, but they are beginning to take action, and many are focusing on the opportunity offered by electric vehicles. (snip)
Electric vehicles are one piece of a strategy to slash transport emissions, but they tend to receive far more attention than proposals to cut car use. The electrification of transportation is essential — there is no doubt about that — but just replacing every personal vehicle with a battery-powered equivalent will produce an environmental disaster of its own. Such a strategy also denies us the opportunity to rethink a near-century of misguided auto-oriented city planning.
Or, hear me out, you Warmists can f*** off and mind your own business. Stop trying to tell everyone else what to do, especially when you won’t change your own lives.
For example, particulate matter created from tire, brake, and road wear, as well as the dust kicked up by cars on the road, does not fuel climate change, but it does create air pollution that’s harmful to human health. In the United States, these pollutants are responsible for about 53,000 premature deaths each year, and heavier electric vehicles like SUVs and trucks could actually generate more particulate matter than lighter, non-electric cars.
On that, I’ll agree, vehicles do create a lot of air pollution. Remember how clean the air was during lockdown? Doesn’t mean I want to get rid of vehicles, though
Yet while health effects are important, the biggest concern is the minerals that are required to make the batteries that power electric vehicles and the mining that has to happen to extract them. It’s a reality that seriously dirties their green image, and shows the “zero emissions” branding simply isn’t accurate.
We’ve been telling you nutters this
On top of the issues with mining and large vehicle pollution, continuing to have communities built around the assumption that everyone will drive simply isn’t sustainable. The automotive industry wants us to replace the vehicle fleet with battery-powered alternatives because they’ll make a lot of money in the process, but it’s not the best path for the environment, nor for our communities.
In other words, these Fascists want to limit your ability to move around.
We should seize this opportunity to challenge the past century of auto-oriented planning and emphasize walking, cycling, and transit use over driving. Not only would people’s quality of life improve, but if we’re serious about taking on the climate crisis, we need to significantly reduce the number of cars and SUVs on the road — regardless of what powers them.
Mind your business. Piss off.
Read: Hotcoldwetdry Take: Climate Cult Says To Forget EVs, All Cars Must Go »
…is orange juice which will disappear from rising seas, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on the world’s largest offshore wind farm being unprofitable.
It’s drinking week!
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Happy Sunday! Another great day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Lefties learned that self defense is legal. This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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). 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.
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.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
That, and they cost way, way more than most people can afford
President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill that was signed into law on Tuesday includes $7.5 billion for building out a network of charging stations to support the auto sector’s move to electric vehicles (EVs), a move that was praised by one CEO in particular.
The infrastructure bill is “so impactful,” Michael Farkas, CEO of Blink Charging (BLNK), an EV services company, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It’s going to allow us to put more charging stations in the ground. It will alleviate range anxiety that people feel, hey, can these electric cars go these distances, and will spark more buying, and then, again, additional investment in infrastructure.”
Of course he’s happy about it, because he’s making bank off of it. But, let’s say it was your birthday and everyone gave you some sort of cooking grill: would you be cooking a lot of steaks if they were $17.99 a pound?
Farkas contended that while range anxiety is the greatest obstacle to mass EV adoption, “it’s not a reality.”
“The fact of the matter is the average driver in the U.S. drives less than 40 miles a day,” Farkas explained. “We have EVs out there now with 200, 300, 400, and even 500 miles in range. It’s very rare that someone sits in a car and goes 400 or 500 miles on a single charge.”
Yes, on most days that is the case. I might not even drive 20-25 miles a day. Go to work, head to Planet Fitness after, drive home. Maybe a couple miles to get lunch. Seriously, I’m not even at 24,000 on my lease which ends in February. Even taking into account 2020, I’m only down about maybe 6,000 tops, since I usually do 10k or less a year. But, if I want to drive to NJ to visit the parents, head to the mountains or ocean, I don’t want to worry about charging, nor do I feel like spending $40K, $50k, or more on a car. If I won Powerball I’d think hard about getting an Acura RDX, top end Accord or CRV (maybe even Hybrid!) or Passport. Not the way I drive.
Anyhow, a lot of this article looks more like a paid advertisement than an article, and
Farkas noted that the increasing ubiquity of charging stations can only help put prospective EV buyers at ease. And the additional government investment will allow charging station companies to expand the reach of their networks.
Yeah, doesn’t matter when people cannot afford the vehicle. Let’s say you get 3% APR for 6 years for a $54k vehicle: that’s $820 a month. Who’s good with that?
Read: Range Anxiety Is Biggest Obstacle To Getting And EV Or Something »
…is a wonderful tiny house which Everyone Else should be forced to live in, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on pronoun lunacy in New York.
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