Hooray! Dodgers Win The Series 4-1 In Epic Comeback

By William Teach October 31, 2024 – 10:30 am

Forget politics, I’m loving this. I’ve been a Dodgers fan since I was in Little League and the team I played for was the Dodgers. Surprisingly, this is only the 8th Dodgers World Series title. They might have had more if the Astros and Red Sox weren’t cheaters (OK, I’m still salty about that)

Dodgers win World Series after incredible Game 5 comeback over Yankees

For the second time this decade, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions.

The Dodgers fought back from down five runs to take Game 5 of the Fall Classic against the New York Yankees, 7-6, to win the eighth title in franchise history.

Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm went back-to-back in the first inning, and by the fourth inning, it was a 5-0 lead for New York. However, their biggest issue in shoddy defense would come back to haunt them.

In the fifth inning, Judge dropped a routine line drive. Then, Chisholm couldn’t handle a short throw at third. After that, Gerrit Cole didn’t cover first base on what should have been the third out, which instead was an RBI single. The Dodgers saw an opportunity and pounced, as Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez each drove in two runs to tie the game at five.

I figured it was over after the Yanks jumped out to the 5-0 lead, and it was on to game 6. Consider, no one has ever come back from a 3 games to zero deficit in the World Series. Only one team has ever come back in the playoffs. No team had ever forced a game 6. And almost no one comes back from a 5-0 score.

But, then the Dodgers tied with 3 errors by the Yankees. The Yanks got one back to lead 7-6. Then the Dodgers regained the lead in the 8th with too many walks followed by sacrifice flies, and the Dodgers pitching stopped the Yanks in the 8th and 9th, with Walker Bueller coming in and shutting them down, including a strikeout to end it.

Freddie Freeman was the MPV, with 4 HR, 6H, 12 RBI, and 5 R. Totally monster.

Unfortunately

LA hit by looting and chaos amid Dodgers World Series celebrations

A bus was set on fire, shops were looted and fireworks thrown at police in scenes of lawlessness and “absolute chaos” in downtown LA following the Dodgers’ historic World Series win over the New York Yankees on Wednesday night.

LAPD said at 10:43 p.m. (1:43 ET Thursday) on X that there were reports of several stores being looted on Broadway and 8th Street. Various videos posted to social media, including one shared by the official LAPD X account, showed people walking out of a Nike store holding goods.

Of course this is a highly Liberal city. Please don’t do this, just celebrate. Happens too often after a sports team wins.

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Surprise: Americans Still Do Not Want To Pay To Solve Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach October 31, 2024 – 7:00 am

Whenever the question is asked of how much Americans are willing to pay to stop climate doom, most aren’t thrilled with using their own money

What Is The Right Price To Pay To Combat Climate Change?

Last weekend I read the report “Politics Without Winners CAN EITHER PARTY BUILD A MAJORITY COALITION?” by Ruy Teixeira and Yuval Levin of the center-right think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The Executive Summary begins by noting that “In the American political system, the parties’ purpose is to form enduring national coalitions. Look at almost any point in American history, and you will find a majority party working to sustain a complex coalition and a minority party hoping to recapture the majority. Today, however, American politics features two minority parties, and neither seems interested in building a national coalition.” It then goes on to analyze how a majority party might arise.

In doing so, in the short section “Energy Realism” (pp. 39-41), it addresses how Americans view the challenge of climate change and what must be done to address it. In this section it discusses survey findings where respondents were asked how much they would pay on top of their monthly utility bill to combat climate change. The increments were $1, $10, $20, and $75 dollars. At a mere $1 only seven percent of respondents were more willing to pay this than not. Twice as many political independents opposed this charge than supported it. Support from the working class was less than for those with a college education where there was a 20 point difference.

Margins widened at $10. Working class respondents opposed this by 30 points and moderates and independents by 20 points. “Raising the proposed levy to combat climate change to $20 a month appeared to reach a breaking point.” The spread for the working class and moderates widened to 40 points and to 50 points for independents. Even the college educated opposed this by 20 points. At $75 dollars support almost completely disappeared. “In fact, even liberal white college graduates couldn’t bring themselves to vote in favor of a $75 levy.”

Too bad they didn’t put it in chart form and/or show the specific answers, but, you get the idea. People are fine with Someone Else bear the monetary burden, just not themselves.

I’d still like to see a survey that only includes true Warmists to see what they say.

So what do these numbers mean? I draw two broad conclusions. The first is that for a large percentage of Americans (nearly half) paying fees to combat climate change is a luxury good they can’t afford to pay. The second is that even those who can afford it at the $75 level are unwilling to do so.

Hence, government must force citizens to pay it.

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Trump Campaigns In “Big, Beautiful” Garbage Truck

By William Teach October 31, 2024 – 6:45 am

Seriously, say what you want about Trump, his campaign responded to Biden’s garbage slur in less that 12 hours with this

Trump rides in ‘big, beautiful’ MAGA garbage truck after Biden attack on his supporters

Former President Donald Trump was greeted at a Wisconsin airport Wednesday by a “big, beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck.”

“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump, who was wearing an orange safety vest, asked reporters while sitting in the passenger seat of the MAGA-adorned garbage truck cruising around the tarmac.

“This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”

The stunt comes one day after President Biden, 81, referred to Trump supporters as “garbage” on a campaign call at the White House, denouncing comments made by comic Tony Hinchcliffe, in which he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at the Republican nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

This must have made the heads of the Credentialed Media explode, having to cover this and print/broadcast stories

And, yes, he then did his speech with that vest on. If he’s smart he’ll wear it for the rest of the campaign.

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Your Fault: Spain Experiencing Flood And Drought

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 4:39 pm

All because you refuse to turn your AC off

Spain’s deadly floods and droughts are two faces of the climate crisis coin

Residents of Chiva, a small town on the outskirts of Valencia, can expect a grim future of worsening drought as the planet heats up and the country dries out. But on Tuesday, they also witnessed a year’s worth of rainfall in a matter of hours.

The torrential rains that flooded southern and eastern Spain on Tuesday night, ripping away bridges and tearing through towns, have killed scores of people. Fossil fuel pollution plays a role in warping both extremes of the water cycle: heat evaporates water, leaving people and plants parched, but hot air can hold more moisture, increasing the potential for catastrophic downpours.

“Droughts and floods are the two sides of the same climate change coin,” said Stefano Materia, an Italian climate scientist at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. He said studies had linked droughts in the Mediterranean with the climate emergency through changes in atmospheric circulation at the same time that global temperature rise had severely heated the region.

No matter what happens, the answer for the Cultists is always “climate doom”. Or, should I say “climate breakdown”?

The damage that climate breakdown is doing to southern Europe is most startling in heat death figures. On Tuesday, researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health found climate breakdown was behind more than half of the 68,000 heat deaths during the scorching European summer of 2022. The heat-related death toll – which was about 10 times greater than the number of people murdered in Europe that year – was largest in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Yeah, that cult descriptor is gaining traction. Of course, they ignore that flooding is nothing new in the Valencia area, such as the 1957 flood, when CO2 was below the safe threshold of 350ppm

(Valencia International) On the 13th of October of that year (1957) heavy rains of up to 300 litres per square metre fell in the basin of the River Turia. On the 14th the rains continued causing two flash floods to hit the city. The Turia flooded its banks at 2 in the morning and then again at midday after a brief respite, the levels of water reaching two metres in some parts of the city.

The river has its source near Albarracin in Teruel province and falls a total of 1,600 metres during its 280 kilometre descent to the sea.

It is a river that often barely deserves the name, but in epochs of heavy rains in Spring and Autumn it often swells and overflows its banks. These epochs of torrential monsoon-like rain are known as the “gota fria” (cold drop) by Valencians and although brief, are often considerably destructive.

So, they actually have a name. 81 people died in those floods

One of the earliest documented floods occurred in October 1321, followed by others in 1340 and 1358, the latter, following a drought, destroying all the city’s bridges and killing 400 people.

There have been around 75 floods since that 1321 one. But, obviously, this time it’s totally your fault. So says cult dogma.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on Doug Emhoff and the #MeToo double standards.

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Supreme Court Rules Virginia Can, In Fact, Remove Non-Citizens From Voter Roll

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 12:43 pm

Of course, the Associate Press offers really bad headlines

A lot of other Credentialed News outlets are running the same headline, as well as the other AP one

Supreme Court’s conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations

ZOMG, those horrible conservative justices subverting Democracy, taking the right to vote away! But, at least the story jumps right into the reality

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.

The high court, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The court provided no rationale for its action, which is typical in emergency appeals.

Non-citizens should not be allowed to vote. Period. Why is the AP not asking why the Liberal justices voted to allow non-citizens to vote in federal elections?

The justices acted on Virginia’s appeal after a federal judge found that the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months. A federal appeals court had previously allowed the judge’s order to remain in effect.

Such voting is rare in American elections, but the specter of immigrants voting illegally has been a main part of the political messaging this year from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

1,600 is no small number, and can influence races, especially down ballot ones. And, this is 1,600 they know about

The National Voter Registration Act requires a 90-day “quiet period” ahead of elections for the maintenance of voter rolls so that legitimate voters are not removed from the rolls by bureaucratic errors or last-minute mistakes that cannot be quickly corrected.

Non-citizens are not legitimate voters. Can mistakes be made? Sure. Just like mistakes were made to allow the non-citizens onto the voting rolls.

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Joy And Unity: Biden Calls Trump Supporters “Garbage”

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 10:30 am

The White House and supportive news media outlets are trying to do cleanup, but, we can all watch and see it

There’s no apostrophe, as the White House and Politico, among others, tried to add in, making it “supporter’s” not “supporters”

Biden calls Trump supporters ‘garbage’ during Harris campaign call as VP calls for unity at Ellipse rally

President Biden went viral Tuesday night for comments disparaging Trump supporters as his No. 2 Vice President Kamala Harris made a major speech to voters from the Ellipse right outside the White House.

During a virtual Harris campaign call with Voto Latino, Biden took a swipe at former President Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, which made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchiffe made jokes mocking different ethnic groups with one joke referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

The jokes thing was dumb: Tony should have left it alone. Not the time, not the place, and poorly delivered (he tried it the previous Saturday night, and, it bombed. He’s no Don Rickles), I will say that. But, only the hardcore leftists are Offended, most are like “Tony, you’re stupid. That sucked”

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. “[Trump’s] demonization of Latinos is Unconscionable and it is un-American.”

“This is disgusting,” Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance reacted. “Kamala Harris and her boss Joe Biden are attacking half of the country. There’s no excuse for this. I hope American reject it.”

“Woof. Calls half the country ‘garbage’ while Harris speaks,” CNN contributor Scott Jennings said.

“Well there he is. So outraged by Tony the comedian that the sitting president borrows the garbage characterization to apply it to half of America. I imagine the cable news set will be all over this tomorrow, right?” Ruthless podcast co-host Josh Holmes wondered.

No, they’re all doing cleanup for Biden, as they usually do

(Fox News) White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich that President Biden “referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’”

“The president was referencing a joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he likened Puerto Rico to an island of floating ‘garbage’ in the middle of the ocean,” he said. (snip)

“Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporters at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” Biden wrote in a post on X. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”

Listen to what Biden said: he did, in fact, call all Trump voters garbage. Would Biden really spend time yammering at one dumb comedian? Wouldn’t he have named him and directly link him to Trump? No, Biden called everyone garbage. And, the more the media bring this up the more people who have yet to vote will see this, listen to it, and realize that Biden was calling Americans garbage.

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Biden Admin Approves Massive Lithium And Boron Mine In Nevada

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 7:15 am

In order to build all those EVs Biden wants for Other People many things are needed, including lithium and Boron

America Approves Colossal Nevada Mine With Enough Lithium for Untold Millions of Electric Cars

Electric vehicleThe Biden administration has approved a gigantic lithium and boron mine — and though the project could revolutionize America’s electric car industry, critics say it could also endanger the survival of a rare wildflower species.

As the Washington Post reports, the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in southern Nevada, roughly halfway between Las Vegas and Reno, could provide the country with an important source of the alkali metal, which is a crucial component of EV batteries.

According to the report, the mine could produce enough lithium for around 370,000 vehicles each year for more than two decades, giving the United States a massive leg up in the reproduction of electric cars. So far, the country has largely relied on lithium battery imports and has been home to just one operating lithium mine.

Obviously, the same enviro-weenies pushing for EVs have issues

Still, environmentalists have raised concerns about the mine endangering wildlife species that thrive in the area, as well as its water consumption. The area has been battling a historic drought, as WaPo points out.

How long till they sue?

The company behind the project, an Australia-based mining firm called Ioneer, tried to reassure the public during a call with reporters on Thursday.

The Biden regime couldn’t have found an American company to do this on American land? Really? They’re getting a $700 million loan from the DOE (which will probably never be paid back). Anyhow, the extreme-greens are worried about an endangered wildflower, and

(Las Vegas Review-Journal) An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

In a letter to Interior Department officials, the Center for Biological Diversity announced its intention to file a lawsuit, calling the mine an unacceptable threat to an endangered wildflower known as Tiehm’s buckwheat. The organization’s successful campaign for an emergency listing under the Endangered Species Act greatly shifted the mine’s plan of operations, with more accommodations made for the plant.

You can bet there will be others, and they will jam up the project, meaning there is no way that it will open in 2028.

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Kamala Pulls Campaign Funding From North Carolina

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s a weird thing: she is going to be in North Carolina Wednesday, doing something or other at Walnut Creek Amphitheater (I’d rather see Judas Priest), but, then, this

Democrat Kamala Harris Surrenders in North Carolina, Withdraws Nearly $2 Million in Planned Ad Spend from State

Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is waving the white flag in North Carolina, surrendering the state to former President Donald Trump as her campaign withdraws nearly $2 million in planned ad buys from television stations statewide one week before the election.

The more than $1.7 million in canceled ad buys by Harris’s campaign in North Carolina suggests that her team believes, given polling data and early vote data, that the Tar Heel State is no longer in play for her.

More than 3 million people have already voted in early voting in North Carolina, which can be done via mail-in absentee ballot or via in-person locations around the state. Republicans, interestingly, for the first time ever actually lead the early vote–North Carolina provides the partisan breakdown and demographic data on early voters in the state–something they have done now for more than a week. This remarkably consistent GOP lead has shocked political observers, and comes as demographic data also suggests Democrats face serious issues in competing at the top of the ticket in the state. Black voter turnout is down approximately 3 percent from 2020, and about 1 percent more men than women, as compared with 2020, are voting in the state. These strong headwinds against Harris in North Carolina were proving to be a major issue for her in the closing days of the campaign as she set to flip the only battleground state out of seven nationwide that Trump won in 2020. For comparison purposes, again Trump won North Carolina in 2020–and the electorate per the early voting data based on millions of votes cast so far suggests a much more GOP-friendly electorate even than then.

In addition, older voters are turning out in much higher numbers while younger voters are dropping off from last time:

Has she given up? Because she’ll be here and Tampon Tim will be cavorting around (no one knows where) NC. Is it just not worth spending the money in NC? Why not go to Virginia, if that is the case? Older voters will definitely skew in Trump’s favor. Maybe because the top issues are exactly what Kamala is bad at?

(WTVD) A Pew Research Poll found that 81% of respondents rated the economy as “very important” to their vote, ranking as the top issue.

“The cost of food, the cost of going out to eat, all those aspects that you do everyday, (when) you pull up to the fuel pump,” said Ronnie Casey.

“Just the cost of food. My daughter actually came home two days ago with two small bags. Small bags. They weren’t even full from the supermarket. And she said $75 in groceries. Two small bags. And I can’t wrap my head around that,” added Jacqueline Falacara.

Vote Kamala and you get more of this.

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PRC Considers Electric Motorcycle Mandate

By William Teach October 29, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Will this apply to the People’s Republik Of California Highway Patrol? It just wouldn’t be the same CHiPs if Ponch and Baker had to quietly buzz up to people doing wrong. Well, after charging up, patrolling for a little bit, then charging up again (via Green Jihad)

From the link

The regulations would impose a credit system for manufacturers so that 10% of motorcycles sold in California would be zero-emissions in 2028 and 50% in 2035, according to the state Air Resources Board. At the same time, a tighter standard for new gas-powered motorcycles would ratchet down their emissions for the first time in more than 25 years.

Under the proposed rules, more than 280,000 new electric or hydrogen motorcycles would be sold in California by 2045 — about eight times more than the total on its roads now. Electric motorcycles make up only 1% of current motorcycle sales.

The state Air Resources Board will vote on the proposed rules on Nov. 7 after a public hearing.

This would be the same unelected board which imposed the EV mandate on Comrades of the PRC, without noting if any of the members drive on themselves. Now they want to do this for motorcycles, and scheduled their public hearing for the day after election day. Weird, that, eh?

Anyhow, an EV bike might be fine for those who are simply puttering around town, but, most folks I know who ride want a motorcycle, not a scooter.

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