If All You See…

By William Teach September 21, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Ebonics and Woke Culture.

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Growing Problem For Businesses: Ghosting Coasting

By William Teach September 21, 2021 – 10:30 am

I wonder if the people doing this realize the problems they will create for their job opportunities in the future?

Employers say ‘ghosting coasting’ is a growing problem, but workers have their reasons for quietly walking away from a job

unintended consequencesOver a summer marked by rage quits, the Great Resignation, and high-profile walkouts by employees who say they’re overworked and underappreciated, another issue has been quietly brewing.

While many employees have gone out with a bang this year, a growing number are instead departing without so much as a whimper. (snip)

“Retention continued to be a growing problem for firms,” the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said in its September Beige Book entry. “Restauranteurs noted concerns over ‘ghosting coasting,’ where a new hire works for a few days and moves on to the next restaurant without notice before they are let go due to lack of skills.”

The practice itself is not new, but it does appear to be more widespread than ever as job openings outpace job seekers, which allows workers to reclaim a measure of the power in a situation that has favored employers for decades.

And when other employers call to verify employment, they’ll learn this person is not eligible for rehire. Further, how do you put a job you worked for a few days on your application? But, hey, they think they have Reasons!

Meanwhile, workers pushed back against the Fed’s characterization that workers who ghost were somehow unqualified for the job, saying that misleading job descriptions, low pay, and inadequate training gave them little reason to stick around.

“The main reason employees are ghosting employers is they simply no longer have to put up with horrible working conditions, terrible bosses, low pay, and being overworked,” said Matt Murphy, an Oregon restaurant worker who told Insider he had never seen anything like it in 25 years in the industry.

How could they possibly know all that information about the job when they are only there for a few days to a week? They knew the pay when they applied and accepted the job. They knew what would be required of them. How can they know if their boss is a bad boss? They haven’t been there long enough to know the working conditions. Being overworked? I guess some are upset that they’re actually having to work.

“It is causing some positive change in our industry,” he said. “Employers who would ordinarily just treat people like disposable workers are now treating them like real employees. It’s definitely changed perspectives on things.”

They are disposable. They are low skilled jobs. If you don’t perform, you’re gone. Ghosting is a great way to make yourself unhireable. And, that’s how you get illegals and migrants to work the jobs. Have fun paying off your student loan debt.

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St. Greta Wants Her Acolytes Back In The Streets

By William Teach September 21, 2021 – 7:10 am

They might as well, they aren’t taking menial jobs, preferring to sit at home and take unemployment rather than work the low skilled to no skilled jobs they are qualified for

‘We will be back on the streets’: Greta Thunberg urges fellow youth activists to take part in global climate strike

st greta carDays ahead of what they are calling a “global climate strike,” prominent youth activists including Greta Thunberg urged young people to join them on Friday in demanding world leaders take action to tackle the climate crisis.

“Time and time again, the leaders today show that they do not care about the future — at least it doesn’t seem like it,” Thunberg, 18, said in a video conference call from her home in Stockholm. “They say that they listen to us young people, but they are obviously not. They have proven that now again. And that’s why we will be back on the streets.”

The Sept. 24 event, organized by Thunberg’s Fridays for Future, hopes to incorporate thousands of climate rallies in cities around the world.

In honesty, she’s not wrong. The grand high poohbahs in the climate cult don’t care what they youths want, because, they are young, and don’t freaking know anything yet. Just because they read a few pieces on the web about climate doom and listened to a few podcasts doesn’t make them experts, especially if they’ve graduated college with a degree in Feminist Studies or something.

The goal, she said, is to show that the climate crisis has not waned during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“It has been a very strange year and a half because of the pandemic, but of course our climate crisis has not disappeared,” she said. “It’s even more urgent now than it was before.”

She should urge all the young climate cultists to make their own lives Net Zero. Oh, right, that would be inconvenient. Instead, she’ll agitate for the others to demand that government…..control their lives and take their money.

She added: “We will still be back on the streets to show that we haven’t disappeared, that we are still demanding climate action and climate justice.”

“Democracy is not just on election day,” Thunberg said in a response to a question. “We can’t just vote for change, we also have to be active democratic citizens and go out on the streets and demand action.”

Again, she isn’t wrong, you have to continue pushing even after elections. It’s just silly to push for action that will increase the power of government, make them more authoritarian. But, hey, indoctrination has worked very well for the climate cult.

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COVID Today: Biden Admin Implementing International Travel Rules, Elites Are Exempt From Masking

By William Teach September 21, 2021 – 6:56 am

The Dementia Joe admin has mostly released the new rules for traveling from other countries to the U.S. by air. This would be called racist and xenophobic if Trump was president, you know. And it includes something very, very interesting

The new COVID rules for international flights to US don’t just impact foreign tourists: What travelers need to know

Airlines, tourism officials, European leaders and foreign travelers itching to visit the United States cheered the government’s plan, announced Monday, to reopen the country’s borders in early November with strict COVID-19 entry requirements.

The White House is billing it as a new “international air travel system” but the changes, which range from vaccination and testing requirements to contact tracing, effectively will put an end to an international travel ban from dozens of countries in place since March 2020.

What does it all mean for travelers abroad and for American citizens? Several details still need to be worked out before the new rules take effect in early November, according to Jeff Zients, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator.

Why is it being released without all the details being hammered out? Just lazy.

The new entry rules, which apply to air travelers bound for the United States from any foreign country – not just those covered by the travel ban announced by former President Donald Trump early last year – take effect in early November. The White House did not release a specific date but said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, airlines and others need time to iron out the details.

The biggest hurdle for foreign nationals: They must be fully vaccinated to visit. This includes visitors from countries outside the current ban, such as Mexico, who today are allowed to visit the U.S. by showing a negative COVID-19 test.

Airlines will ask to see proof of vaccination before boarding. The list of approved vaccines is still being developed.

Foreign nationals must also present a negative COVID-19 test, taken no more than three days before departures, a requirement in place for all U.S.-bound passengers, including vaccinated Americans, since January.

Wait, wait, wait, so, anyone flying from Mexico must be fully vaccinated? And show a negative Wuhan Flu test? That’s interesting. What of those driving in from Mexico? What of those illegally crossing the border and then being allowed to stay in the U.S. while Demanding asylum? Will any elected Republican question the China Joe admin over this?

Also, why is the Surrender Joe admin waiting two months to implement this plan? Why are big wigs from around the world allowed to travel to the U.S. before going to the United Nations right now without showing proof of vaccination and negative COVID test? Especially when Dementia Joe is bringing in tons of Afghans (who are testing positive for TB, malaria, and Measles).

And in Los Angeles, which has a pretty strict indoor masking policy

Seriously, LA is masking 2 year olds in daycare mask up. No where else in the 1st World are they treating the 5 and under crowd like this. It’s simply cruel (read this piece by Karol Markowicz). If you’re rich, famous, and or powerful, you get an exemption. We’ve seen it time and time again, be it the Emmy’s, the Met Gala, or other gathering of the Elites. No one is going to tell them to mask up. You? Good luck, because most companies will comply, and you have no choice, just like all the servants working at the events.

Do they even require illegal aliens to mask up?

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Climate Cult Today: GM Warns Bolt Owners, New Wind Turbine Design, CO2 Problems In Iceland

By William Teach September 20, 2021 – 3:29 pm

Remember, kiddos, electric vehicles are safe for the environment!

GM tells Bolt owners to park 50 feet from other cars in parking garages, confirms 12 fires

As it seeks a solution to a battery fire risk, General Motors issued yet another safety recommendation Wednesday for Chevrolet Bolt owners: If you’re pulling into a parking deck, keep your car at least 50 feet away from other vehicles.

A customer’s concern about the safety of leaving their electric vehicle in a parking garage led the automaker to provide the additional guidance to owners of the Bolts, all of which GM has recalled, spokesman Dan Flores said.

“In an effort to reduce potential damage to structures and nearby vehicles in the rare event of a potential fire, we recommend parking on the top floor or on an open-air deck and park 50 feet or more away from another vehicle,” Flores said in a statement. “Additionally, we still request you do not leave your vehicle charging unattended, even if you are using a charging station in a parking deck.” (snip)

GM recently had to recall every Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV — more than 141,000 — after the batteries caught fire in a handful of the electric vehicles. GM and battery supplier LG Energy Solution are working to understand how two “rare” battery defects believed to be the cause of the fires occurred. The automaker has confirmed 12 Bolt battery fires, up from 10 when it issued its latest recall last month.

In all fairness, 12 out of 141K is pretty low, but, it goes to show what happens when you rush stuff, and, more importantly, what do they do with all the batteries from those 141K recalls?

New offshore windmill design has lots of fans

A Norwegian company has come up with a radically different design for offshore wind turbines that could help the world achieve its renewable energy goals.

Why it matters: Wind power is cheap and efficient, but the strongest winds are far offshore, in deep waters, where it’s difficult to drive a turbine into the seabed. Floating wind farms can be anchored farther into the ocean.

Here’s a photo of the new seabird chopper

You know I’m in favor of alternatives, but, this seems worse of an idea than the giant ones.

Rather wild how much CO2 is required for all those foods. I knew about beer and  carbonated drinks, as well as dry ice, but, not the rest.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 20, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is carbon pollution fueled Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post showing that science says all of Antarctica is actually cooling.

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Media Seems Unhappy That Mississippi Gov Is Against Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

By William Teach September 20, 2021 – 10:30 am

Governor Tate Reeves is pro-vaccine. He’s taken the Wuhan Flu vaccine himself. He advocates that everyone else should get it. But, he’s against Surrender Joe’s mandate, which makes the media mad, because Progressives just don’t understand anything else by governmental force

Mississippi’s governor criticizes Biden’s vaccine mandate while suggesting people get vaccinated

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves argued against the White House’s vaccine mandate, calling the “unilateral action” an attack on the people of his state and threatening to sign onto a Republican-led lawsuit against it, despite the state having the country’s highest death rate per capita.

In a contentious interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Reeves on Sunday criticized President Joe Biden’s push for more vaccinations by requiring employers with over 100 employees to require their workers to be vaccinated.

“Obviously, we made it very clear that we are prepared to sue once we actually see the rule,” Reeves said in reference to the expected rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about the requirement for vaccinations in the workplace.

CNN’s Jake Tapper pushed back on Reeves to point out that the governor himself has received the vaccine and the state has historically required vaccines, for example, in schools.

“The Mississippi Legislature has enacted laws for many years regarding vaccines of many types. It is unique to kids and their ability to go to our public schools. It’s not vaccines mandated in the workplace,” Reeves said. “This is an attack by the president on hardworking Americans and hardworking Mississippians who he wants to choose between getting a jab in their arm and their ability to feed their families.”

Democrats just do not understand free will. They do not seem to understand that governmental force causes people to resist. Demands are often met with resistance. Try telling someone what to do and see how that works out. And when you already have people who are vaccine resistant, mandating compliance doesn’t work too well, either. Not that cajoling is working well in Mississippi, but, that’s their choice, and, if they get COVID, that’s their problem. They assume the risk. Sometimes you have to let people do that.

Further, most mandates for other vaccines are implemented by the States, which have the Constitutional power to do so, not the federal government, which only has power over federal employees. And, most of those vaccines work. For instance, in NC school kids are required to be vaccinated against polio and measles. The multi-shot regimens are virtually 100% effective, hence the reason there are no polio or measles outbreaks. Same thing with mumps, rubella, and diphtheria, among others. Most parents have zero problem with these, because they work. There would be no hypocrisy of Gov Reeves mandated the Wuhan Flu vaccine for the people of Mississippi (probably needing the General Assembly to pass a law), because this is a power of the state. Not Joe Biden.

Mississippi has pretty much the same vaccine requirements as North Carolina and most states. Those vaccines work a heck of a lot more than COVID ones. And it does not help the narrative when the COVID tyrants tell us that the vaccines only work as said if everyone else has one.

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Climate Kids Push For Climate Control In Charlotte

By William Teach September 20, 2021 – 8:38 am

Say, I wonder how the kiddies traveled to the park in Charlotte? Did mom or dad drive them in a fossil fueled vehicle, while the kids played on their smartphones, wearing nice clothes shipped in from China?

Young people raise awareness for climate change in Charlotte

Lawmakers are gearing up for a busy day on Capitol Hill with the U.S. House and U.S. Senate returning to session this week.

The Senate is expected to look at the $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan presented by members of the Democratic Party.

If passed, some of the money would go to help in the fight against climate change. The funding would also go to expand education, childcare and other social programs.

To highlight the message of climate control, young people held a rally in support of the bill on Sunday, Sept. 19 in Uptown Charlotte.

“Message of climate control”. Am I reading too much into those four words? Because it’s hard not to, not after watching the evolution of the politics of anthropogenic global warming/climate change since the late 80’s, how it’s evolved into a doomsday cult which demands more and more governmental control of citizen’s lives. Especially when it seems that the kiddies are looking at the crazy Democratic bill and all it does regarding ‘climate change’ and it’s authoritarian controls.

The event was held at First Ward Park and welcome around 20 people, mostly teenagers wanting to get involved.

The event was held by a group called the Sunrise Movement, a national organization geared for young people wanting to raise awareness for causes like climate change and equality.

“They’ll see that there are young kids, like me, a high schoolers, taking my Sunday to be here and advocate for the reconciliation plan and the Green New Deal,” said Veronica Bofah, a 16-year-old participant at the event.

Twenty. That’s all Sunrise could get to show up on a Sunday. From a city of 874K (there’s some confusion on the numbers, but, since the Census website is a mess and not working correctly, hard to know). The under-18 population is supposed to be around 27%. And then there are all those from the cities surrounding Charlotte. And the most they can get is 20. At a park which is dead center of Charlotte. Was it even worth sending a camera crew from WCNC? WBTV didn’t bother, nor did WSOC, nor Fox46. Perhaps the kids just really do not care as much as the climate cultists and their pet media say.

I still can’t get beyond the “climate control” part, though. Because that’s what it is about. And they’re seemingly admitting that that’s what the $3.5 trillion bill is about.

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Pfizer Claims Chinese Flu Vaccine Is Safe For Kids 5 To 11

By William Teach September 20, 2021 – 8:13 am

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I want to think it’s a good thing, but, you know that the politics of the Vaccine Tyrants will soon come into play

Pfizer says its Covid vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5 to 11

Pfizer-BioNTech said on Monday that the companies’ two-dose Covid-19 vaccine was safe and showed a “robust” antibody response in children ages 5 to 11.

Based on data collected in a trial that included more than 2,000 children, Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, said in a press release that the vaccine was “safe, well-tolerated, and showed robust neutralizing antibody responses” for this age group. No Covid vaccines have yet been authorized or approved for use in children under 12.

According to Pfizer-BioNTech, the children in the trial were given two smaller doses of the vaccine than those given to people 12 and older. The companies said that it produced antibody responses, and side effects, in children that were comparable to those seen in a study of people 16 to 25 who received the full dose of the vaccine. (snip)

Pfizer-BioNTech said they will now submit their data from the trial to the FDA for emergency use authorization. They are also testing the vaccine in children under five and expect results from that trial by the end of the year.

So, they’re using children as guinea pigs? Anyway, it would certainly be a good thing for kids 5 to 11 to be able to get a vaccine to protect them from the worst effects of Wuhan Flu, since it seems that some of the variants are effecting them more. But, the number of cases involving that age group is still very low, and the vast majority of cases are mild, often less than a typical cold or flu case.

But, perhaps if they are able to get the vaccine then one of the main Reasons for requiring all school kids grade K-12 to wear a mask is to protect those under 12, since kids 12 and up are eligible for the vaccine. It’s a rather dubious assertion, which seems more about forcing compliance to Government than protecting kids, especially as no allowance is made for those who are already vaccinated, and, the younger the child, the more they need to see faces to learn social cues.

And, of course, even if the 5 to 12’s get the vaccine, you know the mask fetishists will still push for everyone to wear a mask (I’ll admit, wearing a mask mostly doesn’t bother me, because I can hide many facial expressions. It’s really only the ear straps, which can cause headaches. As anyone who wears glasses knows, the back of the ears are very sensitive. I’m also going to wear it as loose as possible, meaning it is basically working less than the 10% a cloth mask works).  Masking is less about safety than Compliance. Virtually no other 1st World nation requires schoolkids to wear a mask in school. Nor make young children wear one anywhere.

The question now is, how soon till the COVID tyrants (who refuse to blame China) start demanding vaccine mandates for those 5 to 12? Because you know they will. Start requiring their vaccine papers to go to school, restaurants, stores, movies, etc? They just don’t seem to understand that they are causing more resistance than compliance.

In other COVID news, things are still nuts in Australia

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Hotcold Take: ‘Climate Change’ Is Sabotaging U.S. Education

By William Teach September 19, 2021 – 5:40 pm

Every once in a while the doomsday Cult of Climastrology comes up with something new

Climate change is sabotaging education for American students – and it’s only getting worse

The wildfires that ripped through California towns torched school buildings and postponed the start of school as students and teachers were left homeless. A deadly deluge in Tennessee flooded schools and delayed classes as rescue teams searched for dozens of people who’d gone missing. Students around the country were dismissed early due to heat waves and Hurricane Ida, while smoke settled over towns and cities as far east as Philadelphia, sending kids inside for recess.

Wildfires, eh?

They’re suing over negligence of PG&E, not because the Earth got a little warmer since 1850

This summer brought not only a resurgence of the coronavirus but also some of the starkest evidence yet of the devastating toll that climate change will take on the planet – and on the lives and learning of children. As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security.

School buildings and budgets aren’t up to the task of weathering climate disasters and the experience of living through these calamities is adding to the mental health strains on students already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic.

It’s a long, long piece which is long on bringing up disasters and short on providing evidence that it is in any way man caused via carbon pollution, fossil fuels, and the rest, ending with

Mental health professionals say we may have entered a new reality in which almost everyone, including children, is touched by climate change – and routinely so. “This summer has been a wakeup call for what we mean when we say climate change is a threat multiplier, in which many things come together to increase stress on people,” said Elizabeth Haase, chair of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on Climate Change and Mental Health.

Pretty much ever summer, and now winter, is a “wake up call” with these cultists. Perhaps if they didn’t position a slight temperature increase as Doom there would be no stress on the kids. But, then, the entire political movement of empowering government to control everyone’s lives would collapse.

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