…is a hockey jersey that reminds you that all skeptics are evil, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on an Iranian mass murderer attending the climate conference.
It’s hockey week, as the NHL has returned.
Read: If All You See.. »
Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the NJ Devils won their season opener. Their next game is against the Seattle Kraken. Is that a perfect matchup or what, Devils vs Kraken? This pinup is by Bill Medcalf, 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?
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
This has seemed to make USA Today opinion writer Connie Schultz very upset, despite this happening back in early September. I say, this is a funny, and a great way for someone to take advantage of the system (it’s behind the paywall, you can read it by saving to Pocket or by adding 12ft.io/ to it, getting here)
Ohio mom becomes a minister in a minute, then signs religious exemptions for anti-mask families
On Sept. 3, the day after her children’s school district mandated that students wear face masks, Kristen Grant became an ordained minister.
She did this through the online site, Universal Life Church. The process takes less than a minute, I discovered. Two clicks, and I was one step away from becoming Rev. Connie. I declined.
The 37-year-old mother of four in Germantown, Ohio, says she sought the online ordination for one reason. She wanted to support anti-mask parents seeking religious exemptions for their children.
Valley View School District’s religious exemption form requires a signed statement from a “religious official.†Grant, a self-described “Constitutional Christian,†was happy to oblige.
“I haven’t broken any rules,†she said. “I haven’t broken any laws. I did what I was told I had to do.â€
No, she didn’t, and this makes the Mask Cult upset (that photo is from the article, but, not Grant. None of her at the piece)
On this, she’s right. Several school officials bemoaned to me Grant’s willingness to exploit a loophole, but the district set no qualifications for religious leaders. And so here we are.
Can you hear the pissed off in that “and so here we are”?
The letter goes on to recites what is becoming boilerplate language of the anti-mask anti-vax crowd. It ends with a Bible verse from 2 Corinthians, which, with its reference to “unveiled faces,†has become another go-to passage for those opposed to masks.
As a new minister, Grant has not hesitated to apply her signature to the bottom of those letters: 169 students have been granted a religious exemption from wearing masks even as the pandemic surges, again. School officials stress that this represents around 100 families, in a district of roughly 1,800 students. That caveat will be small comfort to any family of a child who ends up infected with Covid.
But, we were told that masks protect us from getting COVID. No?
Grant is certainly not the first “religious leader†eager to use a self-styed version of religion to defy government attempts to keep children and families safe during this pandemic.
How dare Grant defy Government! That’s so horrible! The Founders and all those who fought for independence would be very upset, right? Right?
So, why bother talking to Kristen Grant? Why give people like her any attention?
To me, the answer is obvious. She’s having an impact, just like other so-called leaders who are waging wars against science across the country. We can ignore them, and some enjoy mocking them. But we underestimate their growing influence at our peril.
Because those in the media would rather dox and denigrate average citizens who are engaged in Wrongthink than actually do the job for which they were give a Bill of Rights protection, namely, investigating government and government officials. Holding their feet to fire. Adding some sunshine to government operations. They want to protect Democrats. Look around at the news media: they’re barely covering Joe Biden. The NY Times, CNN, and so many others barely have anything on him. When Trump was president there would be at least 5-10 articles about him. Now? You barely know Joe is president. It’s easier to go after a private citizen who has no platform to fight back.
And, in fairness, I do think Grant is loopy, and it’s silly for a religious exemption for masks, but, I don’t make the rules. Also, quite frankly, Government seems to want to give religious exemptions for just about every other religion, even for military standards, so, this isn’t that much. I just like that Grant used the rules against the Mask Cult dictators, which makes them Very Upset
With Help From a Beer Maker, There’s a New Front Opening in the Battle Over School Masks
Shannon Jensen was diligent about making sure her sons wore masks to school when classes resumed in September. Other parents in Waukesha, Wis., weren’t. And three weeks after school opened, Jensen’s eldest son, who was seated next to an unmasked classmate who had COVID-19 symptoms, fell ill with the virus.
Soon, another of her boys had tested positive, according to a lawsuit that marks a new twist in the ongoing battle over what schools should be doing to protect children from the coronavirus. While parents across the country have filed lawsuits against states and school districts to protest mask mandates, Jensen, with backing from a local beer maker, is suing to force all of Wisconsin’s school districts to require masks and other safety measures in classrooms.
So, this says that masks do not work. And they mostly don’t. Study after study after study shows that, at best, they provide 10% protection. But, Jensen is happy to attempt to force all these kids to Obey her beliefs.
Read: Ohio Mom Becomes Minister, Signs Religious Exemptions For Masks »
Obviously, we all know that the supply chain issues are not just here in the U.S., but, world wide. Why are some so much worse than others? Let’s start here
Wilmington ports avoiding many supply chain issues affecting the US, small business still hurting
Ports around the world are seeing supply chain slowdowns, but that’s not the case in North Carolina. The ports in Wilmington are viewing the crisis elsewhere as an opportunity.
Throughout Friday, a steady flow of ships and trucks moved through the port of Wilmington without delays. The port authority says this could be a pivotal moment in taking business to the next level.
Wilmington is one of the biggest ports on the east coast. You also aren’t hearing about massive problems in Florida, Savannah, New York, and New Jersey. Yes, there are backups. Nothing like California, though, particularly Los Angeles and Long Beach, the biggest shipping ports on the west coast
This week, global supply chain issues reached a fever pitch, with the port of Los Angeles at one point facing a backup of more than 75 container ships waiting to offload their goods.
The CCO of North Carolina’s ports says disruptions to the supply chain in Asia are the cause.
“An exorbitant amount of the U.S. supply chain coming from Asia goes through LA/Long Beach. So in that respect it’s a disproportionate amount of cargo flow that’s going through the west coast,” said Bean.
Let’s head to California, for which The Last Refuge has done some interesting research
Hundreds of requests for details on the specifics of the container shipping backlog. So, I spent 3 days calling sources, digging for details and gathering information on the substantive issue at hand. The epicenter of the problem is not what is being outlined by financial media, corporate media and politicians who have a specific interest in distracting from the issues at hand.  This has nothing to do with COVID-19.
The issues being discussed today relate to events that happened a long time ago. As a matter of fact, it was so predictable that Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The Home Depot and Target all had taken actions years ago -long before COVID- because they knew this day would come. It was not accidental that those companies showed up at the White House to discuss the issue, because there’s now a full court press to hide it.
The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new California emissions standards. As a consequence, that mean trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. Operating the port 24/7 will not cure the issue, because all it does is pile up more containers that sit idle as they await a limited number of trucks to pick them up.  THIS is the central issue.
On October 16, 2020, the EPA reached a settlement agreement [DATA HERE] with California Air Resource Board (CARB) to shut down semi tractor rigs that were non-compliant with new California emission standards:
I won’t say that COVID has nothing to do with this, but, what we see is that one big problem is the inability to have the trucks to deal with the sudden increase of goods after a big drop in goods. Why are so many East coast ports not having these problems? We don’t have the insane climate scam regulations, even in NY and NJ. The article even mentions that many compliant trucks pick up the goods then switch out when they leave California, letting the non-compliant trucks take them, then heading back for more.
In effect, what this 2020 determination and settlement created was an inability of half the nation’s truckers from picking up anything from the Port of LA or Port of Long Beach. Virtually all private owner operator trucks and half of the fleet trucks that are used for moving containers across the nation were shut out.
It’s worth reading the whole article.
Read: Climate Crisis Scam Idiocy Heavily Involved In California Port Issues »
…is horrible heat snow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on #EmpyShelvesJoe.
Read: If All You See… »
Who is James Webb? NASA notes
The man whose name NASA has chosen to bestow upon the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is most commonly linked to the Apollo moon program, not to science.
Yet, many believe that James E. Webb, who ran the fledgling space agency from February 1961 to October 1968, did more for science than perhaps any other government official and that it is only fitting that the Next Generation Space Telescope would be named after him.
The guy was a titan of space exploration and the operations of NASA. So, of course
Good grief, now they want to Cancel James Webb, one of the biggest figures in astronomy and NASA https://t.co/jRbiH9V4ak
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) October 16, 2021
From the link
A NASA advisor quit following the agency’s decision to keep naming a $10 billion space telescope after a former administrator who was the US undersecretary of state during the dismissal of gay and lesbian federal employees in the 1940s and 1950s.
Lucianne Walkowicz, who identifies as nonbinary, wrote an open letter to NASA’s Astrophysics Advisory Committee on Tuesday, saying that they were resigning as an advisor over the way the agency had handled a request to rename the James Webb Space Telescope.
More than 1,200 people, including Walkowicz, have signed an open petition calling for the James Webb Space Telescope to be renamed. The petition cited the persecution of gay and lesbian government workers while Webb was the US undersecretary of state from 1949 to 1952. This was during the period referred to as the “Lavender Scare,” when thousands of federal employees were dismissed or forced to resign because of their sexuality.
The open petition also mentioned the former NASA employee Clifford L. Norton, who was fired in the 1960s after NASA said he made a “homosexual advance” amounting to “immoral, indecent, and disgraceful conduct,” said a record of the case on Justia, a website that keeps online databases of legal cases. The incident that led to Norton’s dismissal happened while Webb was NASA administrator.
NASA’s decision to keep the space telescope named after Webb “sends a clear message of NASA’s position on the rights of queer astronomers,” Walkowicz said in the open letter. “It also speaks clearly to me that NASA does not deserve my time,” they said.
OK, bye. I will give Walkowicz credit for quitting, since most of these cancel culture SJWs like to make a lot of threats but never put their money where their mouths are. And, unsurprisingly, she has purple hair. And, if you check that open letter link, she wants to name it the Harriet Tubman Space Telescope for some reason. Mostly, though, she was simply on the NASA Astrophysics Advisory Board, so, wasn’t actually in an important position doing space stuff.
And, of those 1,200 who signed the petition, not many seem to actually work for NASA. Many are “astronomy enthusiasts”, meaning they have a telescope in their backyard. Most have nothing to do with NASA.
What could possibly go wrong with Los Federales mandating a helping hand?
President Joe Biden has made clear that acting on the climate crisis is a top priority for his administration – and he also wants to ensure Americans’ wallets aren’t being hurt in the process.
On Friday, Biden unveiled a 40-page report, entitled “A Roadmap to Build a Climate-Resilient Economy,” which focuses on mitigating the financial risks climate change places on people’s retirements, pensions, savings, and more. This follows up on an executive order the president signed in May, which was dedicated to analyzing and mitigating the risk the climate crisis poses to homeowners, businesses, consumers, and the government. (snip)
Specifically, the report outlines a “whole-of-government” approach to promoting the resilience of the US financial system to climate-related risks, protecting life savings and pensions, incorporating climate related financial risk into federal lending, like mortgages, and building more resilient infrastructure.
The report says government agencies such as the Labor Department, Treasury, and Dept. of Veterans Affairs will work to develop tools to mitigate the financial risks across sectors, and they will be releasing subsequent details in coming months.
A 40 page report that doesn’t have the details? Try that in private business, your bosses will wonder what the point of the report is. Anyhow, what that report is pushing should scare everyone with any money, any savings, and retirement accounts. How involved will Los Federales become? Especially when this is a far left Modern Socialist administration. As it stands, Biden and his Comrades already want to know about every bank transaction of over $600. Why is this their business? Further, Biden wanted to know about every bank account with at least $600 in it. His Congressional Comrades are looking to raise that to $10,000. Again, why is this their business?
Anyhow, perhaps there’s a reason, beyond simply running everyone’s lives and making them beholden to Los Federales, for the plan?
Biden pledged during his campaign to reduce fossil fuel usage, and he is pushing for Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social-spending bill to be passed, which includes investments to combat the climate crisis, such as green affordable housing. While there’s no question on the urgency of the crisis, though, Bank of America economist Ethan Harris wrote in a Friday note that actions addressing the climate will likely hurt economic growth “during the transition from a dirty to green economy” because workers will need to move from one sector to another.
But in the long-term, as Harris noted, the stunted economic growth will be well worth it. The United Nations in August released a harrowing report saying some of global warming’s effects will be “irreversible for centuries to millennia,” emphasizing how there’s no time to wait when it comes to addressing climate change.
“Hurt economic growth” means “destroy the economy”. This won’t hurt rich folks, like those in Congress and Let’s Go Brandon, of course. Joe’s report includes lots of stuff like massive financial regulations, taking lots of private money for climate crazy projects, involving themselves into all people’s money and retirement savings, how people save, what they’re allowed to save.
First, let’s take a look at the NY Times
The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think
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The research and data we do have show that significant portions of the unvaccinated public were confused and concerned, rather than absolutely opposed to vaccines.
The Covid States team shared with me more than a thousand comments from unvaccinated people who were surveyed. Scrolling through them, I noticed a lot more fear than certainty. There was the very, very rare “it’s a hoax†and “it’s a gene therapy,†but most of it was a version of: I’m not sure it’s safe. Was it developed too fast? Do we know enough? There was also a lot of fear of side effects, worries about lack of Food and Drug Administration approval and about yet-undiscovered dangers.
How many are resisting on religious reasons? How many are simply just not ready for something that seemed to appear out of nowhere with little research and testing? How many are now confused as they are told that you can get COVID even with a jab, and that you have to wear a mask, when we were told the vaccine is how we get our lives back?
Navy sets guidelines for sailors who refuse COVID-19 vaccine
The U.S. Navy has announced how it plans to discipline sailors who refuse to comply with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Sailors who don’t get vaccinated and aren’t approved for an exemption have until Nov. 28 to get fully vaccinated, while those in the selected reserve have another month. The deadline is technically two weeks prior to that because sailors are not considered fully inoculated until 14 days after the completion of the dosage.
The Navy established the COVID Consolidated Disposition Authority (CCDA) to oversee the administrative discharge process for the sailors who refuse the vaccine, according to a statement.
The guidelines state that “administrative action may begin as soon as a Navy service member meets the definition of ‘refusing the vaccine,’†describing such a service member as one “who received a lawful order to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, is not or will not be fully vaccinated on the date required by the order, and does not have a pending or approved exemption request.â€
Moving forward, sailors who refuse the vaccine are not allowed to be promoted, “reenlist, or execute orders, with the exception of separation orders, until the CCDA has completed disposition of their case.â€
Any sailor who is forced out of the Navy will not receive anything lower than a general discharge under honorable conditions, which could result in the loss of some veterans’ benefits.
They would still keep all their VA and other benefits, the Navy could just be losing quite a bit of experience. And, supposedly, 98% of Navy members are on their way to being vaccinated, so they tell us. But
“The CCDA may also seek recoupment of applicable bonuses, special and incentive pays, and the cost of training and education for service members refusing the vaccine,” the statement added.
What will this do to recruitment?
A growing number of U.S. Navy SEALs who are seeking a religious exemption to the Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate are being threatened and, in some cases, harassed into submission, Fox News has learned.
A series of new directives by the Navy are promising severe punishment, including demotions, pay cuts and a ban on travel for SEALs, and other Navy service members, who do not comply with the vaccine mandate. For some SEALs who are in the process of seeking a religious exemption to the mandate, the process is nearly impossible to successfully complete to get a waiver, Fox News has been told.
Michael Berry, First Liberty Institute’s general counsel and Lt. Col. U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, who is representing approximately 34 active-duty SEALs and two reservists, told Fox News that the Navy’s new directives are illegal and infringe upon an individual’s First Amendment freedoms.
“Purging our military of its elite servicemembers is detrimental to national security. Doing so because the Commander in Chief refuses to accommodate their religious convictions is abhorrent to the Constitution. Their years of experience and leadership in service to our nation is immeasurable and irreplaceable,” Berry told Fox News.
Going after the best of the best, people who cannot easily be replaced, not at full standards. Good move!
Read: Navy Sets Guidelines To Boot Out Unvaccinated Members, Goes After SEALs »
That’s what we’re supposed to call this, right? The DOJ will be all over this, hunting down these people who broke into the DOI, right? It’ll be all over the news, right?
In a scene reminiscent of Jan. 6, extreme environmentalist protesters push police to try to force their way inside the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. They’re demanding the end of fossil fuels. Officers use a taser to force them back. pic.twitter.com/3Mll8ajJZT
— Andy Ngô ?????????? (@MrAndyNgo) October 14, 2021
Looks like insurrection to me, by the Dems definition
Hundreds arrested during ongoing climate protests around DC
The Extinction Rebellion protest is one of many in a weeklong string of climate protests that have led to more than 300 arrests so far this week.
Demonstrators hoisted banners and sprayed fake oil onto the façade of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building, which houses one of the largest lobbying groups in the United States. The banners depicted sayings, such as “Welcome to the chamber of climate chaos†and “Your business costs the Earth.†(snip)
Similar protests were held at government buildings around D.C., including the Department of the Interior.
So, they assaulted a privately owned building, as well. The DOJ will be strict on prosecuting them, right? Has anyone checked on AOC to see if she is traumatized? This is worse then 9/11, right? They’re terrorists, right? Here’s the Washington Post
Police And Climate Activists Hurt In Clashes At Interior Dept.
I was hoping I could find this article at Yahoo News, because it is behind the paywall, no luck, but, suffice to say, this is Very Bad because police were hurt during this insurrection. And, apparently, they are going to do it again today. D.C. Mayor Bowser and Nancy Pelosi are going to call in the National Guard, right?
They are demanding Biden stop approving fossil fuel projects and declare a national climate emergency at a time when scientists say the world must sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions. Those protesting this week have said they believe he has not delivered on climate-related campaign promises.
Will they be at the White House today? Might not matter since Brandon is going to be leaving this morning for several fossil fueled flights to and from Connecticut. Also, you know they aren’t all from D.C. How did so many of them travel to D.C.? Fossil fueled flights and vehicles, perhaps?
Read: Insurrection? Climate Cultists Tazed, Arrested For Entering Department Of The Interior »
…is an area flooded by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on the increase in breakthrough Chinese coronavirus infections.
Read: If All You See… »
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