Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Could Make Military Equipment Useless, Experts Warn

By William Teach September 10, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Oh, is this why Surrender Joe left the Taliban all that military equipment? Besides, why would we need the equipment when our military is going Woke?

Climate Change Could Make ‘Military Equipment Useless,’ Experts Warn

Leaders from defense institutes across the world converged in Seoul this week to raise the alarm on military threats posed by “irreversible and abrupt climate change.”

Global temperatures are expected to reach or surpass a warming threshold of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 20 years, United Nations climate change experts reported in August, “unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse emissions.”

The global temperature went up 1.5F since 1850, and it’s going to go up at least 1.2F in 20 years? What happens if it doesn’t? Who do we hold responsible for this fear-mongering? Will any of the “scientists” resign over their failures? How about people at the U.N.? And the outlets like Military.com, which have gone climate cult?

Panelists from the United States, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, India and Bangladesh gave their assessment of these threats during a three-day seminar hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of Defense.

Tom Middendorp, Netherlands’ former chief of defense and chairman of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, warned Wednesday that nations had “a responsibility to prepare” for the implications of climate change.

“I cannot remember any other conflict in my military experience where we had this level of scientific foresight,” he said during the virtual portion of the seminar. “We know what’s coming to us.”

Interesting. North Korea is right there, as is China and Russia. No concerns? Also, they used a lot of fossil fuels for the trip, eh?

Severe heat patterns are also already having a direct impact on military equipment, according to Shafqat Munir, head of the Bangladesh Center for Terrorism Research.

Troops stationed in Mali as part of a United Nations’ peacekeeping force have been unable to use their communication devices until the evening, when the temperature cools off, Munir told the panelists.

Is this a joke? Did they buy crappy equipment? Mali’s high temperature forecast for the next 7 days is mid 80’s to low 90’s. My smartphone works just fine here in NC, where it gets pretty hot.

“Excessive heat is going to render military equipment useless,” Munir said. “We’re already seeing some of that in action.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 10, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a pond drying out because Other People eat meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on Valor Friday.

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DOJ Sues Texas Over Abortion Law

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

Well, of course they did, because this is the thing that Democrats are most concerned with. I guess they’re upset that fewer black women will be aborting their babies

Justice Department sues Texas over abortion law

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it is suing Texas over the state’s new law banning most abortions.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Texas law is “clearly unconstitutional” and includes an “unprecedented scheme” to insulate the state from responsibility.

The suit, filed in Texas federal court, charges that the law is invalid and asks a judge to issue a “permanent and preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of the statute,” Garland said at a press conference.

The law stands as the country’s most restrictive abortion access in decades. It grants a $10,000 minimum reward to private citizens who successfully bring lawsuits against anyone involved in aiding an abortion. The law also prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity — usually around six weeks into a pregnancy. Because many women do not even realize they’re pregnant that early, the law is nearly a complete abortion ban. (snip)

The action comes a week after the Supreme Court declined to block the law from going into effect, citing “complex and novel” procedural questions regarding the abortion providers who had challenged it. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court’s three liberals in dissent, but the five other conservatives prevailed in a 5-4 opinion.

The Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, declined to hear the case, yet, Garland is claiming it is unconstitutional? How so? The DOJ press release states

The Act is clearly unconstitutional under longstanding Supreme Court precedent. Those precedents hold, in the words of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, that “[r]egardless of whether exceptions are made for particular circumstances, a State may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability.”

First, that ruling is not in the Constitution, just a ruling. Second, the state isn’t prohibiting any woman, they can do it by week 6. They also are not stopping any woman from going to another state.

Because the statute makes it too risky for an abortion clinic to stay open, abortion providers have ceased providing services. This leaves women in Texas unable to exercise their constitutional rights and unable to obtain judicial review at the very moment they need it.

This kind of scheme to nullify the Constitution of the United States is one that all Americans – whatever their politics or party – should fear. If it prevails, it may become a model for action in other areas, by other states, and with respect to other constitutional rights and judicial precedents.

Getting beyond the silly idiocy of “nullifying the Constitution”, which has nothing in it about abortion, the last part is the point: that other states could institute similar laws, and abortion is the number one belief of Democrats.

The complaint therefore seeks a declaratory judgment that SB8 is invalid under the Supremacy Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment, is preempted by federal law, and violates the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity.

There is no federal law, so, how does the Supremacy Clause come into play? Same with the 14th. Meh, doesn’t matter, the abortionistas do not want other states to do the same thing, they want abortion on demand running smoothly.

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Democrats Unveil Details Of Their Climate Crisis (scam) Bill

By William Teach September 10, 2021 – 8:21 am

Interestingly, nothing in the plan requires the elected Democrats and their staffs to stop using fossil fueled travel and make their operations Net Zero

Democrats Unveil Details of Sweeping Climate Change Spending Plan

The coming weeks on Capitol Hill will be crucial to President Biden’s climate agenda, including whether the president can credibly make the case to the rest of the world that the United States will meet his promise to drastically reduce emissions that are warming the planet.

In Congress, details are emerging of the climate and clean energy policies in a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package that Democrats are drafting and hope to send to Mr. Biden’s desk by year’s end.

The most powerful climate mechanism in that bill is a $150 billion incentive and penalty program designed to replace most of the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants over the next decade with wind, solar and nuclear plants. The program would pay electricity suppliers for increasing the amount of power they produce from clean zero-emissions sources, and fine those that don’t.

Power plants that burn fossil fuels are the second-largest source of greenhouse emissions after cars and trucks, and shutting them down would significantly lower the nation’s heat-trapping pollution. If enacted, the program could stand as the centerpiece of Mr. Biden’s climate agenda.

First, you know that the climate cultists and extreme-enviros will block the construction of any new nuclear plants. Heck, the extreme-enviros work to block the construction of many wind and solar plants. What about hydro-electric and geothermal? No mention? Second, this will be more about the penalties, leaving the US woefully lacking in power, much like California. This will be the centerpiece of Biden’s climate agenda, fines and less power.

The House energy committee will debate other climate provisions in the budget bill, including $13.5 billion to construct charging stations for electric vehicles and promote the electrification of heavy-duty vehicles. Another program would spend $9 billion on updating the electric grid, to make it more conducive to transmitting wind and solar power, and to make it more resilient to the extreme temperatures, flooding and fires that scientists say are now unavoidable. Another provision would spend $17.5 billion to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from federal buildings and vehicles. The budget bill would also assess a fee from oil and gas companies for leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The government would use the revenue from those fees to pay for climate mitigation programs.

Fines. Of course. And, I hope reducing CO2 emissions from Los Federales means doing away with fossil fueled vehicles and travel.

At the same time, Democrats on other committees are drafting tax incentives intended to lure American drivers away from fossil-fueled cars — the nation’s top source of greenhouse pollution — and toward electric vehicles, and to boost companies that design clean energy technology. They are readying money for a “Civilian Climate Corps” — a program designed to put young people to work in environmental conservation and climate resilience. And they are preparing to channel billions to help low-income and minority communities, which are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, as well as communities that would lose fossil fuel jobs as a result of climate change policies.

Why haven’t most of these climate cultists replaced their own vehicles with EVs? Tax incentives mean little when EVs are unaffordable to most citizens, considering the average cost of $54,000.

It’s going to be a tough road ahead if they try and push the punitive electric generation part, along with the entire $3.5 trillion bill.

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Biden’s Forced COVID Vaccination Will Face Lots Of Lawsuits

By William Teach September 10, 2021 – 8:06 am

I’m sure you’ve read and heard all about Surrender Joe’s new COVID vaccination rule. Funny how so many were calling Trump a dictator for pushing for less government in their lives, while refusing to condemn Biden. Even some of the Never Trumpers, like unhinged Jonah Goldberg, who should know better after writing the book Liberal Fascism, aren’t criticizing Biden.

Let’s consider that it can take two to three years to come up with a rule, even IF OSHA has the authority to come up with one like this without Congress passing a new law. Remember, courts killed many of the rules from the Trump admin over failing to go through the proper rule-making process, which requires public review and so much more. I suspect Biden knows this, or at least the people around him do, since Biden isn’t all there mentally, and this is meant to get private companies to do this on their own before a rule takes effect?

‘See You In Court’: Republican States Say They Are Reviewing All Legal Options On Biden Vaccine Mandate

Republican states said they were reviewing all legal avenues after President Joe Biden unveiled strict requirements for private sector companies to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees.

Several state attorneys general quickly condemned the president’s actions Thursday and warned they would take the Biden administration to court to defend individual liberties. Arizona, Montana, Indiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia and South Carolina were all among the states that threatened legal action in response to the White House announcement.

“President Biden is now taking federal overreach to unheard of levels by dictating vaccine mandates for all private companies with over 100 people, federal contractors, and healthcare providers receiving federal dollars,” Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

They’ll have to wait for the rule to actually be released, and it probably won’t be hard to kill the rule off, even if it’s just over improper rule making. But, they should do this via the Constitutional route, in order to get the Supreme Court to rule on this federal over-reach and authoritarianism.

It bloody well is, and, intent is rather a huge thing in court

(Fox News) Ronald Klain, the White House chief of staff, faced criticism on social media Thursday after he retweeted a post that seemed to praise the Biden administration for pulling off the “ultimate work-around” for a national COVID-19 vaccine requirement.

Klain retweeted MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, who posted, “OSHA doing this vaxx mandate as an emergency workplace safety rule is the ultimate work-around for the Federal govt to require vaccinations.”

The New York Times pointed out that OSHA is tasked with overseeing workplace safety and has the authority to “quickly issue a rule, known as an emergency temporary standard, if it can show that workers are exposed to a grave danger and that the rule is necessary to address that danger. The rule must also be feasible for employers to enforce.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a critic of Biden’s announcement, retweeted a post warning Klain that courts consider intention when hearing cases, and the retweet could prove to be problematic during future challenges.

“Important,” Cruz tweeted. “Foolish RT from WH chief of staff. He said the quiet part out loud. Biden admin knows it’s likely illegal (like the eviction moratorium) but they don’t care.”

Forcing companies to force their employees to take the vaccine will surely not come under emergency temporary standard, and Cruz further noted that Courts tend to take “intent” into account. Biden has turned into a COVID tyrant (worth reading that entire piece, too much to excerpt).

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Christian Leaders Join Climate Cult, Call For “Meaningful Sacrifices”

By William Teach September 9, 2021 – 2:57 pm

Still waiting for their proclamations denouncing abortion, government tyranny, politicians who fail to act in accordance with the Bible, etc

World’s top 3 Christian leaders call for ‘meaningful sacrifices’ to combat climate change

mule fritter sherman potterThe leaders of the three largest Christian churches issued a joint statement Tuesday calling on the world to address the growing threat of climate change.

The first-ever joint address by Pope Francis, the archbishop of Canterbury and the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church asked fellow Christians to pray in the run-up to November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, that world leaders will reach significant agreements to curb greenhouse gas emissions and slow the rate of global warming.

We’re supposed to pray for Government to take away our God given freedoms? My first inclination is to tell them to F off, but, no, I’ll pray that they get a clue and stop trying to force Progressive (nice Fascism) beliefs on everyone, to focus on their jobs, which is to discuss the word of the Lord, rather than the ravings of a doomsday cult. They need to pick which one they want to follow.

“We call on everyone, whatever their belief or world view, to endeavor to listen to the cry of the earth and of people who are poor, examining their behavior and pledging meaningful sacrifices for the sake of the earth which God has given us,” said Francis, Archbishop Justin Welby of the Anglican Communion and Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.

And what are those meaningful sacrifices? Their joint statement doesn’t really say. There’s a lot of far left social justice, a lot of climate cult doctrine attempting to use a few passages from the New Testament to support this, yammering about “people-centered profits”, ie, giving profits to people who didn’t earn them. Can you guess what’s missing? What are these three Christian leaders sacrificing? The Vatican holds billions in money and treasure and art. How much are they giving to the poor? When is the Vatican tearing down it’s walls? When will the Pope stop using fossil fuels for travel, and restricting all employees of the church from doing so? Same thing for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

Focus on the teachings of Jesus, rather than joining the climate cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 9, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are plants that will soon die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post discussing the soon to be release Biden 6 step plan to control COVID.

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Hot Take: Texas Abortion Law Sets The Blueprint For Stopping Free Speech And Gun Ownership

By William Teach September 9, 2021 – 10:30 am

There have been plenty of hot takes regarding the Texas abortion law, because the insane left loves killing the unborn, which they can’t truly explain. They just know that abortion is a good thing. Here’s a scorching one by David Mastio (you can read it at Yahoo if USA Today blocks you with the paywall)

The Texas abortion law provides a blueprint for bans on speech, guns

Roe v. Wade is an awful Supreme Court ruling. Roe and the string of rulings that have followed upholding the original don’t even attempt to be serious constitutional law or have a consistent justification for defending abortion rights.

Except, it is not law. It’s a bad court ruling, possibly one of the worst of all time.

Bill Of RightsLast week, the Supreme Court essentially ruled that abortion advocates can’t stop every Texan from filing a lawsuit before they act, nor can it block Texas judges from hearing those suits.

The problem is that there is nothing about this scheme that limits its application to abortion. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his dissent to the court’s conservative 5-4 majority, it could be a “model for action in other areas.”

What does Roberts mean? Well, imagine the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature wanted to throw out the First Amendment to make sure that Gov. Gavin Newsom survived his recall election. They would just have to pass a law that outlaws criticism of the governor, authorizing any Californian to file a $100,000 lawsuit against anyone who speaks the forbidden words.

If California state courts were to follow the Supreme Court’s example, would that let California “avoid responsibility for its laws,” as Roberts writes, shredding free speech?

Or consider New York, where the legislature favors restrictions on the Second Amendment. Could it outlaw firearms by deputizing any New Yorker to file million dollar lawsuits against gun owners in the state?

Would that allow New York to “avoid responsibility” for ignoring the right of the people to bear arms despite clear Supreme Court precedent?

Um, no. Because both Free Speech and gun rights are not court rulings, they aren’t laws, nor rules and regulations. They are actually enshrined in the Federal Constitution. It doesn’t matter what states might want to do, if they want to try this game. Abortion appears nowhere in the federal constitution. Nor does it appear in state constitutions. But, Freedom Of Speech does in all 50, with serious protection, and most of those state constitutions protects most gun rights.

Last week, the court opened the door to more constitutional mischief with its lack of action than any decision in generations. Most likely, conservative state legislators around the country will be taking notes on how they can advance their anti-abortion cause. But if Texas and others succeed, expect more legislatures to use the same trick to advance pet causes that happen to be clearly unconstitutional.

Eventually, the court will rule on the merits, and chances are good that any of these ideas would be struck down, but until then all our rights are on the line.

Well, Mastio is correct on the last. The question is, will Progressive states actually try to pull some shenanigans with Freedom of Speech? They might try with firearms, but, I’m doubting they could be that stupid to attempt something with Speech, religion, protest, petitioning for redress of grievance. Could they?

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Biden Says His Climate Plan Would See Jobs Paying $45-50 An Hour

By William Teach September 9, 2021 – 9:27 am

Hey, remember when Biden’s boss Obama said that all the Stimulus jobs would be good paying jobs? Whatever happened to those? Especially since Barack put Joe in charge of running the big Stimulus

President Biden says jobs that pay $45 or $50 an hour – not $7 or $12 – are part of his climate infrastructure plan

Jobs that help prepare the US for the changing climate will pay a high hourly wage, President Joe Biden said after touring storm damage in New York and New Jersey on Tuesday.

“I think of one word when I think of climate change: jobs, good-paying jobs,” he said. “Not $7 or $12 or $15, but $45, $50 an hour, plus healthcare. That’s what is needed.”

Biden’s $45 figure is more than six times higher than the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, which has remained unchanged since 2009, when Biden was vice president in the Obama administration.

Businesses are increasingly finding it difficult to attract talent by offering less than $15 an hour, making that a de facto minimum wage in some instances.

And what are those jobs, specifically? Joe didn’t say. Because they don’t exist. Nor will they, unless they are CEOs of companies pushing climate crisis scam stuff. At least he didn’t say that jobs is a 3 letter word.

Though, good paying jobs is not one word. It’s no wonder White House staffers turn Biden events off over anxiety of his screwups.

Biden described increased spending on climate resilience as a smart investment, saying that each dollar invested under his Build Back Better plan in things like flood mitigation, forest-fire prevention, and burying electrical lines would ultimately lead to $6 in savings.

Yeah, they told us that each dollar spent with the Stimulus would save $3. That didn’t work out too well, either. Joe obviously meant that the jobs would be for low end workers, but, doing what? And if the low end jobs pay that much, it will mean that the cost of goods and services will skyrocket. The road to hell is paved with silly intentions.

Meanwhile

White House: Ranchers Reducing Cattle Emissions Can Help Lower Meat Prices

The White House on Wednesday argued that ranchers and farmers should still try to reduce cattle emissions in order to prevent climate change, which would also help reduce meat prices.

National Economic Council director Brian Deese blamed industry consolidation and supply chain disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic for rising meat prices. But he also warned about supply disruptions caused by climate change.

“Resilience is also important with respect to the realities of a climate-affected world and a climate-affected country,” Deese said in response to a reporter who asked him about emissions caused by meat production.

Yes, it’s a cult.

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Hot Take: CNN Blames Weakening Economy On Unvaccinated

By William Teach September 9, 2021 – 9:10 am

Well, Excitable Jill Filipovic certainly wouldn’t want to blame the policies of Biden and his Democratic Comrades, would she? She’d be the first to Blame Trump, though

Let’s be clear on why the US economy is weakening

The American economy is weakening. And we know who is responsible.

On Monday, Goldman Sachs economists downgraded their projections for economic growth in 2021. (“The Delta variant is already weighing on Q3 growth,” wrote Goldman economist Ronnie Walker.)

August’s job growth was sluggish. The Delta variant continues to ravage the unvaccinated and sicken so many, with the country hitting the dark milestone of 40 million Covid cases. And about 1,500 Americans are dying every day — almost all of them not fully vaccinated.

The people who are refusing the vaccine and refusing to mask up aren’t just killing themselves and infecting their neighbors. They’re destroying the American economy. (snip)

The fault doesn’t lie with the people who are choosing life over potential illness. It lies with the people who are pouring gasoline on the current outbreak, and who are refusing to take commonsense steps to get Covid under control.

See, it’s the fault of the people who refuse a vaccine which never truly went through clinical trials, which hasn’t been around long enough to actually know all the effects. It’s not like Israel was a vaccination poster child and now is watching Delta rampage through the nation, with people getting 3rd and even a 4th shot (in fairness, most people who get the China flu aren’t getting it that bad). And all you people who refuse to wear masks, even though most studies show that most cloth masks barely help at all.

Jill would be Blaming Trump were he still president. Perhaps she should be blaming Fauci and China

(NY Post) Powerful people are going to a lot of effort to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reputation, despite mounting evidence of his role in funding dangerous research on bat coronaviruses in the Chinese laboratory believed to be the most likely source of the pandemic.

It is clear that Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser, misled Congress when he denied that US money had paid for “gain-of-function” research in the ­Wuhan lab.

Grant documents published this week by The Intercept show that the organization Fauci heads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funded research in Wuhan on a number of novel (new) bat coronaviruses.

The aim of the research is spelled out in one 600-page grant proposal, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” signed off on by Fauci: to force mutations on the coronaviruses to see if they would infect mice with “humanized” lungs.

Fauci lied to Congress. Wuhan screwed around with coronavirus, and it got out, either intentionally or unintentionally. Why aren’t Democrats blaming them?

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