If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooding from Bad Weather rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on the GOP’s Israel platform.

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Biden Is Supposedly Going To Push For Term Limits For Supreme Court

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 10:30 am

No mention of term limits for Representatives and Senators….remember, Joe was a Senator from 1973 until January 2009, when he took office as VP…nor any explanation on how Joe’s plan actually comports with the Constitution

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes

President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to make substantive changes to the high court. The potential changes come in response to growing outrage among his supporters about recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas and decisions by the new court majority that have changed legal precedent on issues including abortion and federal regulatory powers.

Biden previewed the shift in a Zoom call Saturday with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Right, right, and how would this work?

“I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out — I don’t want to prematurely announce it — but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court. … I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help,” Biden said, according to a transcript of the call obtained by The Washington Post.

Term limits and an ethics code would be subject to congressional approval, which would face long odds in the Republican-controlled House and a slim Democratic majority in the Senate. Under current rules, passage in the Senate would require 60 votes. A constitutional amendment requires even more hurdles, including two-thirds support of both chambers, or by a convention of two-thirds of the states, and then approval by three-fourths of state legislatures.

I’m using the Washington Post article, because pretty much every other article feeds off this article, and nowhere does it mention that the Constitution pretty much establishes that the only way to remove a Supreme Court justice is to impeach them if they are not engaged in Good Behavior, per Article 3 Section 1. Or pass a Constitutional amendment

(National Judicial College) Many judges pointed out that term limits may be a moot proposition because the Constitution appears to give Supreme Court justices lifetime appointments. It would take a constitutional amendment to change that, and with the country so evenly divided politically, amending the Constitution appears impossible for the foreseeable future.

Good Behavior doesn’t mean removal for rulings people do not like, it means criminal behavior, like storing classified documents they have no right to have in the garage next to the Corvette

Several judges also took a cynical view of the proposal, seeing it as an attempt at decisional manipulation.

“So you disagree with the opinions of the justices on the court and now you want term limits? This is precisely why lifetime appointments are so important,” one unnamed judge wrote. “Someone has to protect the Constitution.”

Further, how would this work? Democrats have been pushing for a rotating 18 year limit

“An 18-year limit would enable a regular and planned refresh of the court and avoid the political upheaval associated with sudden death and which party is in power,” declared one anonymous judge.

But Judge Eugene M. Velazco, Jr. of the Merrillville, Indiana, Town Court was skeptical.

He imagined a scenario in which a president could name two candidates during an initial four-year term and two more in a second term. “You could also go long periods of time without a full bench because an opposing party from the president in the Senate could block the selection.”

That could end up being bad for one party or the other. Further, it wouldn’t start for quite some time, so, Dems would have to deal with the Conservatives on the Court ruling for the Constitution for almost 2 decades before this starts.

And, really, is this what people care about? It’s low hanging fruit, especially with the inflation, high prices of food, housing, and more, wars raging that could get much, much worse, illegal aliens who came in record numbers, and other issues. Will the Democrats spend a lot of time whining about the Supreme Court at their convention? I guess we’ll see.

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NY Times Seems Upset That GOP Convention Isn’t All About Climate Doom

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 7:00 am

I wonder how much about ‘climate change’ will be at the DNC? I’m sure it will be mentioned, but, I’m betting it will mostly be about Trump. Though, the DNC will surely include some speeches about taking reliable, affordable, dependable fossil fuels from the peasants

At the Republican National Convention, Climate Change Isn’t a Problem

st greta carThe United States is experiencing scorching new levels of heat fueled by climate change this summer, with dozens of people dying in the West, millions sweating under heat advisories and nearly three-quarters of Americans saying the government must prioritize global warming.

But as the Republican Party opens its national convention in Milwaukee with a prime-time focus on energy on Monday night, the party has no plan to address climate change.

While some Republicans no longer deny the overwhelming scientific consensus that the planet is warming because of human activity, party leaders do not see it as a problem that needs to be addressed.

“I don’t know that there is a Republican approach to climate change as an organizing issue,” said Thomas J. Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, a conservative research group focused on energy. “I don’t think President Trump sees reducing greenhouse gases, using the government to do so, as an imperative.”

No, we really don’t, especially since the Democrats version of Doing Something is mostly all about implementing government control over citizens while removing their freedom and life choices.

The party platform, issued last week, makes no mention of climate change. Instead, it encourages more production of oil, gas and coal, the burning of which is dangerously driving up global temperatures. “We will DRILL, BABY, DRILL,” it says, referring to oil as “liquid gold.”

It really should mention implementing next generation nuclear power stations, and spending on research for true clean alternatives.

By contrast, Mr. Biden has taken the most aggressive action of any president to cut emissions from coal, oil and gas and encourage a transition to wind, solar and other carbon-free energy. He has directed every federal agency from the Agriculture Department to the Pentagon to consider how climate change is affecting their core missions.

Weirdly, the Times fails to mention the vast amounts of fossil fuels Biden uses every week with all his limos, helicopter, and airplanes. Nor the huge number of people who will be taking fossil fueled trips to Chicago for the DNC.

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Chicago Mayor To Remove Washington Statue From City Hall

By William Teach July 17, 2024 – 6:45 am

Remember when Progressives were all about removing statues and plaques and renaming buildings and roads and military bases, and Republicans and other sane people wondered where it would end? And they said “no, no, all we want to remove are the Confederate stuff.”

Johnson to remove George Washington statue from outside his City Hall office

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration plans to remove the George Washington statue from outside the mayor’s office, his spokesman confirmed Tuesday while hinting at instead honoring a Black Chicagoan with a City Hall display.

Fielding questions at an unrelated news conference after reports of the statue’s impending removal, the mayor would not address his reasoning or explain plans for a replacement. But his spokesman, Ronnie Reese, later confirmed to the Tribune that the statue would be moved because “we’re just making some updates to some areas in and around City Hall.”

Reese denied the reason was because of the first president’s legacy of owning slaves: “No, it’s literally just moving a statue.”

Reese did not answer questions about when it would be moved, the cost of the move or the fate of the Washington statue, which he said was on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago and remained in City Hall late Tuesday afternoon.

But he floated names of local Black historical figures as alternatives, among them Ida B. Wells, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable and Harold Washington — the city’s first Black mayor whom Johnson invoked throughout his mayoral campaign.

They couldn’t, you know, add the statue without removing the Washington one? We all know that Progressives feel that George Washing is “problematic”, just like most of the Founders of this nation and the people who fought to free the Colonies from England. Nice that Johnson and his people have time for this stuff while the city is over-run with illegals and suffering from crime and shootings. I sure hope the GOP will be mentioning the removal of the statue once the Democrat convention starts.

Of course, perhaps George Washington would want his statue out of Chicago considering what an embarrassment it is.

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CNN Has Their Knickers In A Twist Over New Twister Movie Not Mentioning Climate Doom

By William Teach July 16, 2024 – 3:00 pm

I do have to ask, is anyone interested in the upcoming Twister movie? Maybe it will be really good, but, the previews do not interest me. It seems focused too much on action, rather than plot and the people, as the original did. Anyhow, CNN is big mad

You won’t hear about climate change in ‘Twisters.’ Here’s why

Like its titular tornados, “Twisters” blasts through a lot in its 122-minute runtime. A summer blockbuster with a surprising amount of brains to match Glen Powell’s brawn, it features subplots that are signs of the times – disaster capitalists; the Faustian bargain between scientists and financiers – and a deluge of imagery portraying lives and livelihoods threatened by nature’s awesome power. But two words you won’t hear from any of its characters are “climate change.”

“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like (it) is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung explained in an interview with CNN. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”

To his credit, there is some scientific justification for the omission, too. Generally, scientists are the least certain about the connection between tornadoes and climate change as it’s unclear how warming temperatures are changing storms themselves or the outbreaks.

So, of course CNN tries to Explain that tornadoes are getting oh so much worse and it is your fault. Except, they are not getting worse.

“We’ve never seen tornadoes like this before,” says Javi, Anthony Ramos’ entrepreneurial storm chaser, in one scene. He goes on to convince old friend Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) to join his research team, promising “We can save lives.”

In the film, ever-more destructive tornados carve up increasingly urbanized areas of Oklahoma.

It’s a movie. Things have to be bad, much like the Tommy Lee Jones movie Volcano, which was in Los Angeles, mini-series like 10.8 (about an earthquake), and more.

“I wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we’re preaching a message, because that’s certainly not what I think cinema should be about,” said Lee. “I think it should be a reflection of the world.”

In other words, he doesn’t want to get all preachy and have stuff that will drive the paying public away. He just wants a fun film that makes a lot of money. Who wants an action film that gets all preachy? I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a blockbuster. If CNN wants one with all sorts of climate doom preaching, they can fund it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 16, 2024 – 2:27 pm

…is a valley perfect for a massive solar farm far from the big Warmist cities which need the power, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on the Secret Service give a bizarre reason for failing protection.

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Tarboro Police Detective Suspended For Wishing Death On Trump

By William Teach July 16, 2024 – 10:38 am

Now, imagine if someone had tried to kill Joe Biden and a local police officer wished the bullet was a little bit over: would the news organizations all be covering this? Why, of course they would. Yet, in Raleigh, it’s only CBS17

‘An inch away’: Tarboro police officer under investigation for attempted Trump assassination post to Facebook

“Damn. Only about an inch away from making America great again…”

Those 11 words have put a 24-year veteran member of the Tarboro Police Department on administrative leave pending an internal investigation. A screenshot of the post shared with CBS 17 shows the post made by Detective Sergeant Brandon Richardson.

Tarboro Chief of Police Rick Mann confirmed on Monday that Richardson is now under investigation.

On Monday, Chief Mann took to Facebook to address the post which has gained a wide range of reactions.

“We take this matter very seriously, as it does not reflect the values and standards of our department,” Chief Mann said in the post. “We understand that such incidents can affect public trust, and we are dedicated to handling this matter with the seriousness and accountability it deserves.”

Richardson is currently suspended, we’ll see what happens. Tarboro tends to be a city that skews Democrat, so, will this guy continue to be a police officer there? He has apologized and taken full responsibility, so, does he deserve a second chance?

Anyway, neither WRAL, ABC11, nor the Raleigh News and Observer have covered this. Down East, for the big news organizations in that area, WITN and WNCT did cover this, but, News12 and the Greenville News and Observer did not. The small My Tarboro Today has it, and

One person called Richardson’s comments free speech, while others pointed out he is a law enforcement officer and was, essentially, condoning a murder attempt on a former president of the United States.

“He is sworn to uphold the law and murder is still against the law,” one person wrote.

There is that. So, what happens? There are lots of nutters who did this. A staffer for Democrat Bennie Thompson has been fired. Here’s another police officer

You can see this stuff being highlighted all over Twitter, Facebook, and others.

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Wendy’s Intends To Patronize The Climate Cult

By William Teach July 16, 2024 – 7:15 am

Of course, Wendy’s won’t do things like get rid of meat, and their frosties that are made with milk from Evil moo cows, stop serving sugary drinks, and stop using fossil fueled trucks to bring in product

Wendy’s makes game-changing announcement about major update for restaurants across country: ‘We are excited’

climate cowFast food just got a whole lot sunnier.

Wendy’s is partnering with community solar provider Ampion Renewable Energy to help its restaurants source clean, renewable energy.

This exciting development means nearly 140 Wendy’s locations across New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts will now get a significant portion of their power from the sun, according to Solar Power World.

The enrolled Wendy’s restaurants will source 30-100% of their energy from solar projects in their communities without needing to install a single solar panel.

As more solar capacity comes online, Wendy’s plans to enroll even more of its company-operated and franchise restaurants in Ampion’s innovative program.

All this means is that the cost of doing business is going to go up, so, they’ll have to increase their prices

For Wendy’s, this solar partnership is a major step toward meeting its goal of cutting pollution by 47% per restaurant by 2030. It’s also a huge win for the planet, with the enrolled restaurants’ solar energy totaling an impressive 27.5 million kilowatt-hours per year. That’s equivalent to taking over 4,000 gas-powered cars off the road.

How many cars drive to Wendy’s and idle for the drive thru?

Even more exciting, this partnership demonstrates how going solar is one of the best ways for businesses to save money on energy while fighting atmospheric pollution. By sourcing clean energy through Ampion’s community solar program, Wendy’s and its franchisees can lower their utility bills and operating costs.

Is there anyone who actually believes that? We’ll how this works out over the next year or two. Oh, and how do they operate on cloudy days and at night? How will this work for the massive coolers and ovens?

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Raleigh N&O Wants To Fight To Keep Trump Out Of Office

By William Teach July 16, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s a good thing the news media is impartial and neutral, eh?

We should show grace to Donald Trump – and fight to keep him from office | Opinion

A man who has rarely extended grace to his opponents is receiving grace from his opponents — and he should. He must.

And we must be unified in our horror that 20-year-old Thomas Crooks tried to murder Donald Trump.

There is no wiggle room, no clinging to the safety of partisanship, no giving into our dark angels. The world is watching. Our hearts should ache, our souls shudder. History will judge if we don’t find the compassion to keep the torch lit during a difficult period the way so many others did before us, and judge us harshly.

I wonder about all the nasty things that have been published in the Raleigh News and Observer that I’ve seen since 2015.

But in a country that is just, no man would get to spend years fomenting violence then benefit when that violence visits his front door. Trump is still not worthy of leading this nation. His indecency helped bring us here. To deny that is to deny truth and undermine the greatness we proclaim but often don’t uphold.

And there you go, it’s all Trump’s Fault that someone went batshit insane and took a shot at him.

We should pray for his health just as we should for any victim of violence. We should also continue doing everything we can to ensure he doesn’t return to office. He remains a threat to democracy. The way to beat threats to democracy is with the ballot box, not the bullet.

And that’s exactly the kind of rhetoric that caused someone to take a literal shot at him. Of course, “journalist” Issac Bailey goes on to say that Democrats are selfless and none of this is their fault. Perhaps he should have read his own opinion piece.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Keeping People From Going To The Doctor

By William Teach July 15, 2024 – 3:50 pm

It’s always something new with these Warmists. Always looking for some doom. Something to link and blame

Is Climate Change Keeping Patients from Vital Doctor Appointments?
Patients 65 and older, those with chronic conditions, had strongest association with missed appointments linked to climate change.

Temperature extremes, becoming increasingly frequent due to growing global climate change, are associated with higher rates of missed primary care appointments, according to a recently published study from Drexel University researchers in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The researchers found that rates of missed appointments increased by 0.72% for every 1°F decrease in daily maximum temperatures below 39°F and increased by 0.64% for every 1°F increase above 89°F. Patients 65 and older and those with chronic conditions had stronger associations with an increased rate of missed appointments.

“These findings should be a clarion call for clinical teams, including their practice managers to adapt to ensure care access for patients before the problem gets worse,” said senior author Nathalie S. May, MD, a professor in Drexel University College of Medicine.

The team tallied 1,048,575 appointments from 91,580 adult patients at 13 university outpatient clinics in Philadelphia from Jan. 2009 through Dec. 2019 and linked those with daily maximum temperature and precipitation data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The group controlled for seasonal trends, sociodemographic attributes and chronic disease status.

“During the covid pandemic, telemedicine became an integral part of healthcare delivery,” said Drexel College of Medicine Clinical Associate Professor Janet H. Fitzpatrick, MD, one of the lead authors on the study. “With worsening climate change, this study supports advocating for permanent telemedicine coverage as an option to ensure patients can get the care they need.”

And? It gets hot in the summer. Realistically, this is anecdotal, as there is no way to compare this to previous Holocene warm periods. You can’t even really compare it to 50 years ago very well. This “survey” only looks at a simple 10 year period. Of course, the climate cult doesn’t care, they know that their little cult base will eat this up and regurgitate the headline.

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