All Wildfires Are ‘Climate Change’, Including Ones Used To Cover Up Murder

By William Teach April 30, 2021 – 1:00 pm

Say, you know how they were blaming the wildfires in California (with all the horrendous forest management practices that turn the areas into tinderboxes)? Well

From the link

A 2020 wildfire in Northern California that killed two people was intentionally set to cover up a murder, officials said Wednesday.

The Markley Fire was set near a dam in Solano County where the burned body of Priscilla Castro, 32, was found, according to the Solano County sheriff’s office and Vacaville police.

Two other people — Douglas Mai, 82, and Leon “James” Bone, 64 — were found dead from that fire in their homes, Sheriff Tom Ferrara said at a news conference.

Victor Serriteno was arrested by Vacaville police in September and charged with murder in Castro’s death, and prosecutors will file to add two more murder charges and arson charges, the district attorney said.

“Based on an extensive eight-month investigation, we believe Serriteno deliberately set the Markley Fire in an attempt to conceal his crime,” Ferrara said.

Of course, what the climate cult will say is that it was worse than it should have been because you take a fossil fueled vehicle to get an Evil burger.

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North Carolina, LA County To Enter Somewhat Relaxed Mask Rules Friday

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

Were people actually wearing masks outside when alone and doing stuff? A few cranks, of course. We were required to wear them around customers. I think government just likes laying down rules how we live our lives

You can ditch your face mask while outside starting Friday afternoon in North Carolina

Part of North Carolina’s mask mandate will come to an end Friday afternoon.

Starting at 5 p.m., masks will not be required outdoors in the Tar Heel state. This will be the first time in nearly a year that masks will not be required in some public spaces.

Gov. Roy Cooper said he was relaxing the restrictions because of the continued improvement to COVID-19 metrics and the increase in the number of adults in the state who have gotten vaccinated.

However, masks will still be required indoors.

Cooper said the indoor mask mandate would remain in place for a while longer. Before he removes that restriction, Cooper said he would like to see two-thirds of vaccine eligible North Carolinians get inoculated against the virus.

Although the outdoor mask mandate expires Friday, remember that the executive order is a minimum requirement. So individual businesses could still opt to be more strict about where customers are required to wear masks.

And that’s where it breaks down: what will companies require? Regardless, this changes mostly nothing for most of us who wouldn’t wear a mask outside anyhow. A bigger part is that Cooper is requiring 2/3rds of adults to have had at least one vaccine (thanks, President Trump for the vaccines!) before doing away with the indoors mask mandate. Right now it’s about 49%, and fewer and fewer are getting it. So, this is a way of keeping the government restrictions going, despite things going pretty good in maskless states like Florida, South Dakota, and Texas.

L.A. County relaxes outdoor mask rules for vaccinated people

The L.A. County Department of Public Health has revised a pandemic health order to align itself with new federal guidance that eased rules on when fully vaccinated people should wear masks.

The updated health order, which goes into effect Friday, states that unless they are in crowded settings, fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask when outdoors alone, with members of their household or with a small group of fully vaccinated people. They also can go without a mask when intermingling with a small group of people who are not fully vaccinated but not at high risk for experiencing serious illness or death from the coronavirus.

The order states that fully vaccinated people must still wear a mask in crowded outdoor settings, such as concerts or sporting events, in spaces where physical distancing isn’t possible and it’s unknown if everyone is fully vaccinated, in indoor public settings and at worksites or businesses.

So, requiring it at worksites and business doing business outside. These government folks really, really like controlling the lives of citizens. And really want to keep this stuff going.

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Climate Cult Says Abolishing Police Part Of Green New Deal

By William Teach April 30, 2021 – 7:10 am

Exactly what does getting rid of the police have to do with reducing “carbon pollution” in order to reduce the planet’s temperature? Well, it’s a cult, so, there’s always a reason, especially since this whole thing has little to do with science, as I’ve been pointing out for over 15 years

There’s No Green New Deal Without Police Abolition

Imagine a future where Black and Brown children don’t have to breathe toxic air from steel smoke stacks spewing polluted particulates. Imagine a future without police—with less crime and more safety. A future where there are enough jobs and housing for all.

This is the kind of radical imagination at the heart of the abolitionist climate movement. The U.S. spends billions on our police forces—dollars that could go toward addressing the root causes of crime, such as poverty and mental health, and toward building sustainable infrastructure. We can build a better world by uprooting injustices at the source and by investing in what communities need to thrive. That’s what the Green New Deal proposes. Let’s create an economy that’s beneficial to the people and the planet.

Welcome to The Frontline, where you’ll be hearing from Green New Deal mastermind Rhiana Gunn-Wright. I’m Yessenia Funes, climate editor of Atmos. I chatted with Gunn-Wright, director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute. Last week was what some legislators deemed Green New Deal week as they introduced a number of bills to make this framework reality.

It’s a pretty big jump from black and brown people don’t have to breath toxic air to “abolish the police”, eh, unless you’re in a cult.

YESSENIA FUNES Before we dive into the legislation that’s been introduced this week, let’s talk a bit about the verdict on the Derek Chauvin trial—because police abolition is a climate justice issue, right? How are you feeling given the news?

RHIANA GUNN-WRIGHT I’m glad that Officer Chauvin was held accountable. That is far too rare in our judicial system. What was really striking was looking back at the initial official police report of what happened. It was completely fabricated. It took not only a Black girl taking a video of what happened and posting it—but, then, millions of people protesting for this to happen, which speaks so poorly of our criminal justice system.

I can’t say I felt joy or even relief. I was very glad that he was held accountable, particularly for the Floyd family. That is the least that they deserve. But that feeling didn’t even last for the whole night because Columbus police then killed a 16-year-old Black girl who called them for protection: Ma’Khia Bryant. It just reminded me that policing is not a system that can be reformed. We have to follow the lead of abolitionists and find a different way of creating and maintaining public safety because this isn’t working. This is far from over.

So, hatred of police extends from a few bad cops (in this case, only one, because the second one protected a black girl from being stabbed by Ma’Khia) to all cops, and this is for the climate, people!

YESSENIA There’s been some discussion in the climate movement of how abolition goes hand in hand with building a Green New Deal and investing in all the elements that come with it—affordable housing, clean energy, robust public transit. How does this work to specifically defund the police as a critical move to helping fund something as ambitious as the Green New Deal?

RHIANA Well, it starts off with recognizing that police brutality is an environmental justice issue. The way that policing happens is part of a person’s physical environment, particularly in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. Environmental justice is not just about air pollution. It’s not just about how close or far you are from a fossil fuel facility. It’s also about what makes up your physical environment, including policing, public safety, education, clean water. All of that is part of a person’s physical environment. And in almost every way, Black communities, in particular, are put in unjust environments—environments that actively take away from their health, safety, and happiness.

When I think about police abolition and the Green New Deal, what actually unites them is a willingness to recognize that the system we have doesn’t work. And acknowledging that we might not know everything we need to do right now, but we’ll figure it out on the way as long as we’re committed to the right principles. That comfort with uncertainty and risk—and the creativity to find different types of solutions—all of that is necessary for police abolition and the Green New Deal.

So, it all connects together in the eyes of a climate cultist, because it’s a cult. What’s not being asked is “what replaces the police? Who will keep the crime down and deal with criminal activity in these clean energy areas with government run housing?” We’ve seen what happens in the areas with government run housing in Democratic run cities with law enforcement. What happens with none? Will a social worker stop all the drivebys and trash in the streets, among issues? The Green New Deal isn’t about the climate. It’s a political movement.

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Florida General Assembly Passes Voting Bill That Makes It Harder To Cheat

By William Teach April 30, 2021 – 6:53 am

This is similar to the one that Georgia passed, which was totally misconstrued and lied about by the Credentialed Media, Democrat pundits and lawmakers, and China Joe. Expect Florida to be the next state that the moonbats go after, especially the big companies.

Florida legislature approves measure that curbs mail voting and use of drop boxes

Florida’s legislature on Thursday night became the latest to approve far-reaching legislation imposing new rules on voting and new penalties for those who do not follow them, passing a measure critics said would make it harder for millions of voters to cast ballots in the Sunshine State.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who named voting security one of his top legislative priorities this year, said late Thursday night on Fox News that he “of course” would sign the bill.

Like similar bills Republicans are pushing in dozens of state legislatures across the country, the Florida measure adds hurdles to voting by mail, restricts the use of drop boxes and prohibits any actions that could influence those standing in line to vote, which voting rights advocates said is likely to discourage nonpartisan groups from offering food or water to voters as they wait in the hot Florida sun.

Non-partisan means “hardcore leftist groups looking for ways around election laws to keep attempting to influence voters in line.” People can bring water with them. Poll workers can bring water. And, perhaps Democrats can learn to run voting sites better, because it’s usually the ones run by Dems with very long lines. And quite a few Democrat run states have the same law on providing food and water.

Like Georgia, and most states, Florida did not actually have laws on the use of drop boxes and such for voting. It was just willy nilly making it up last year, and the law now codifies it.

The passage of the bill was preceded by an hour of emotional debate, as Black lawmakers stood up to decry a measure they said was aimed squarely at curbing the clout of voters of color.

“You are making policies that are detrimental to our communities,” said an emotional state Rep. Angela Nixon (D), describing herself as “distraught and disheartened.”

No matter the color of the Democrat, they think that black people are dumb and unable to compete and do the things that white people do without the helpful hand of Government. Of course, the offer zero proof that any of this will hurt blacks.

Nevertheless, DeSantis has said new restrictions are needed to shore up election security. “So we think we led the nation, but we’re trying to stay ahead of the curve to make sure that these elections are run well,” DeSantis said in a Fox News segment with other GOP governors Thursday hosted by Laura Ingraham. (snip)

“Why wouldn’t you want to do that?” Rep. Thomas J. Leek (R) said during House debate Wednesday. “I’ve heard repeatedly that we’re trying to fix something that is not broken. But I guarantee you those same people who are making that argument today would come back in 2022 when the system breaks and complain that we didn’t anticipate things that we should have anticipated. This bill fixes those things.”

Like Georgia, this is getting ahead of the potential problems seen in other states, along with codifying things like the use of dropboxes.

The legislation prohibits mobile drop boxes, and it requires local election supervisors to staff all drop boxes and to allow ballots to be dropped in them only during early-voting hours. Supervisors who leave a drop box accessible outside those hours are subject to a civil penalty of $25,000. The state’s association of county election supervisors opposes the law.

So, it prohibits simply dropping a ballot box off somewhere with no one watching it, and requires ballot boxes to be watched? How horrible!

The bill also limits who may turn in a voter’s ballot, allowing only certain family members to do so or limiting individuals to turning in the ballots of just two nonfamily members.

Limiting ballot harvesting, and attempting to keep ballot integrity is just horrible!

One constituency absent from the debate in Tallahassee is the business sector, which in both Georgia and Texas weighed in to oppose voter restrictions. There has been less of that in Florida, both Republicans and Democrats said, because the business groups are largely aligned with the GOP on regulatory and tax issues, and many of the leading businesses rely on tourist-heavy customer bases who aren’t exerting any pressure.

In other words, those darn companies aren’t cooperating in becoming political.

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France, Meaning The Elites, Vows To Change Everything To Solve Climate Emergency (scam)

By William Teach April 29, 2021 – 3:00 pm

And those same elites won’t change their own lives, you know that. Oh, they’ll throw a few bucks out to purchase carbon offsets, but, they aren’t giving up their own fossil fueled travel, and the massive rise in prices doesn’t hurt them much

France vows to change its ‘way of life’ in climate struggle

Countries that signed the 2015 Paris climate accord must do more than cut carbon dioxide emissions and develop new technologies to combat global warming — and accept the need to change their way of life, France’s environment minister has said.

Speaking in an interview, Barbara Pompili [she’s a French politician, Minister of the Ecological Transition under Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020], currently serving acknowledged the importance of technological solutions such as the rollout of hydrogen power in Europe, the US and Asia. But she also highlighted that the wide-ranging bill making its way through the French parliament would “mean profound changes in the lives of our fellow citizens”.

It was “great” for the Americans and others to rely on new technologies such as hydrogen. “But I think we have an extra ingredient in France and Europe. We’re taking these new technologies but we’re going further because we’re also looking at our ways of life,” she told the Financial Times. “We’re really talking about a change of model.”

The legislation includes restrictions on domestic flights, requirements for “climate labelling” of products such as clothing to show their impact on global warming, stricter regulations to enforce insulation of buildings and measures to reduce the carbon output of farming while ensuring sustainability and promoting vegetarian meal choices. (snip)

Pompili acknowledged the difficulties that could result from green policies, but said the climate legislation, which should be enacted by the end of the summer, showed how France could find a balance between saving the planet and preserving the economy and standards of living.

Yeah, right. The French people are going to find out the hard way, and should make the protests over the planned government increases in fossil fuels prices look tiny.

They include a ban on flights for journeys that can be made by train in less than two-and-a-half hours, as well as the creation of a new offence of “ecocide” for those accused of damaging the environment.

Have fun, French people. Maybe this will be a good learning experience for other countries as to the authoritarianism of the climate cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 29, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil fossil fuels pump, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on moonbat mask morons.

Photobucket is having some issues today, so, had to use an older photo.

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“Anti-Racist” Democrats Trend “Uncle Tim” After His Response To Biden

By William Teach April 29, 2021 – 10:30 am

As has been noticed time and time again, Democrats will attack people in racist, homophobic, sexist, and other ways simply for Wrongthink, despite saying they’re 100% against those things

‘Uncle Tim’ Trends On Twitter After Tim Scott Delivers GOP Response To Biden Address

Progressives pounced on Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott Wednesday night after he delivered the GOP response to President Joe Biden’s joint address to Congress.

Scott said in his response that liberals often called him the N-word and “Uncle Tom” simply for being a Black Republican – and liberals on Twitter and cable news then proceeded to call him “Uncle Tim” so much that it trended on Twitter. The senator called on his Democratic colleagues to accept offers from across the aisle to solve America’s big issues: “My friends across the aisle seemed to want the issue more than they wanted a solution. But I’m still working. I’m still hopeful.”

So, of course

Anyone surprised in the least? This is what they do. You either conform or the “party of diversity, debate, and tolerance” will insult you and attempt to destroy you.

Anyhow, Scott’s reply to China Joe’s Big Big Government speech is pretty darned good.

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German Court Rules Climate Crisis (scam) Law Unconstitutional, Must Take Actions Sooner

By William Teach April 29, 2021 – 7:45 am

Hey, look, it’s a rare win for the Cult of Climastrology, which loses in court way more than they win. Of course, this will be a loss for the people of Germany, including the “kids” who initiated the lawsuit, as their cost of living increases, consumer goods go up in price or are banned as Bad for ‘climate change’, and government slaps more and more restrictions and controls on everything, including the citizens

Germany must tighten climate law to protect young people’s future, court rules

Germany must update its climate law by the end of next year to set out how it will bring carbon emissions down nearly to zero by 2050, its top court ruled on Thursday, siding with a young woman who argued rising sea levels would engulf her family farm.

The court concluded that a law passed in 2019 had failed to make sufficient provision for cuts beyond 2030, casting a shadow over a signature achievement of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s final term in office.

“The challenged provisions do violate the freedoms of the complainants, some of whom are still very young,” the court said in a statement. “The provisions irreversibly offload major emission reduction burdens onto periods after 2030.”

Among the plaintiffs was Sophie Backsen here, 22, daughter of a farming family on the North Sea island of Pellworm, who fears that rising sea levels would engulf her low-lying island, leaving her with no inheritance.

“We are super happy with the court’s decision,” she told a news conference. “Effective climate protection has to be implemented now and not in 10 years’ time, when it’ll be too late.”

Warnemunde at .41 feet per one hundred years. Wismar at .47 feet. Travemunde at .54 feet. Cuxhaven 2 at .69 feet. All four are very long term stations, and show sea rise well below what would be expected during a Holocene warm period. And the countries to the sides of them are the same.

Anyhow, what this means is that Germany must implement even stronger climate crisis (scam) provisions and put them in effect before 2030, because it violates the freedoms of the little Warmists, who will soon be wondering where all their freedoms went to in order to solve Hotcoldwetdry.

The ruling was stark in the obligations it imposed on the government, said Roda Verheyen, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.

“The court focuses on the civil liberties of future generations, saying those rights are being infringed already today,” she said. “This isn’t vague, but a very clear decision about fundamental rights.”

Have fun, kiddies. Don’t complain when your freedoms, choice, and liberty are reduced, and your taxes and cost of living rise. This is what you wanted. What you asked for.

(DW) “The challenged provisions do violate the freedoms of the complainants, some of whom are still very young,” the court said in a statement.

“Virtually every freedom is potentially affected by these future emission reduction obligations because almost all areas of human life are still associated with the emission of greenhouse gases and are thus threatened by drastic restrictions after 2030,” the statement said.

When does the court give up it’s own use of fossil fuels and go carbon neutral? Anyhow, again, have fun kiddies. No complaining.

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Columbus, Ohio Mayor Ask For Federal Probe Of City Police, Soon To Wonder Why Crime Has Spike Amid Cops Leaving

By William Teach April 29, 2021 – 7:24 am

The mayor will be shocked when the unintended consequences fairy visits his city

Columbus mayor requests federal probe of police force

unintended consequencesWhile Ohio’s capital city has made significant progress enacting changes to its police department, the city needs additional help because of “fierce opposition” to reform within the agency, city leaders said Wednesday as they requested a Justice Department investigation following a series of police killings of Black people and other controversies.

The request by Mayor Andrew Ginther and City Attorney Zach Klein — both Democrats — capped several painful months for the city, culminating most recently with the April 20 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant as she swung a knife at a woman. Bryant was Black and the rookie officer who shot her was white.

Criticism has included not just fatal police shootings but also the department’s reaction to last summer’s protests over racial injustice and police brutality following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. A report commissioned by city council and released earlier this week criticized both the police department and city leaders, saying Columbus was unprepared for the size and energy of the protests.

I’m guessing it doesn’t matter that the girl Ma’Khia was attacking with a knife, intent to do serious bodily harm, was black, eh? Or that Ma’Khia was attacking another human being with a knife, intent on doing serious bodily harm, and that the law is on the side of the cops, as even some left wingers have noted. As for the protests, who was prepared for the size and energy (which means violence, arson, assault, looting, etc)? And why would that matter? And why would it be necessary to ask Los Federales to investigate, rather than, say, the state of Ohio?

“This is not about one particular officer, policy, or incident; rather, this is about reforming the entire institution of policing in Columbus,” Ginther and Klein said in Wednesday’s letter. “Simply put: We need to change the culture of the Columbus Division of Police.”

Oh, it’ll change: like so many Democratic Party run cities it will soon become more and more violent as police avoid getting involved in crime intervention, in looking to stop crime before it happens, in slow walking everything, and leaving the force for greener Reder pastures, with the city unable to find many to replace them.

The request by Columbus leaders came the same day that the attorney representing the family of Bryant requested a federal investigation into her death and the state’s foster care system.

The Blame Everyone Else strategy. Why was she in foster care in the first place? I’ll take this with a grain of salt, as it’s the only article really on her parents (but, then, the Credentialed Media has no interest in asking questions that interfere with a Narrative), but, they weren’t exactly good people, and there’s a reason Ma’Khia was in foster care, right?

Meanwhile, like so many Democratic run cities

More than 200 Seattle police officers quit over the last year, many citing anti-police climate

More than 200 Seattle police officers quit their jobs in the last year amid months of frequent anti-law enforcement, racial injustice protests and riots in the city.

Many of the officers cited an anti-police climate in the city – including in the City Council — and disagreements with police management in their reasons for moving on, leaving the department with what Police Chief Adrian Diaz called a “staffing crisis” on Tuesday.

He said 180 police officers quit last year and another 66 officers so far this year.

Some of the officers retired early while others took policing jobs in other cities or moved on to other careers, the officers said in exit interviews, according to KING-TV in Seattle.

He said the department is hiring more community service and crime prevention officers to handle non-criminal calls but said that doesn’t make up for a lack of front-line officers.

So, hiring lots of left-wing lunatics pushing SJW and stuff, but, the actual police officers who deal with criminals? Nope. And you know the officers left are staying away from anything that could put them in a bad position simply due to the color of the criminal’s skin color, being demeaned for doing the actual job, and so forth. This is what Columbus will soon look like. Seattle used to be a pretty decent place. It has jumped to be a 4 on the Neighborhood Scout crime rate scale. The lower the number the worse the crime. Columbus is the US’s 14th largest city, and is sitting at an 8. It should probably be up to a 4 for the 2022 review.

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New Computer Time – Dell Inspiron 3501

By William Teach April 28, 2021 – 4:53 pm

Thanks to everyone who chimed in yesterday. Helped a lot. I typically take every other Wednesday off (and every other Thursday), so, was off today. Ran around to multiple Best Buys and Office Depots, ended up with a Dell Inspiron 3501. 16GB ram (though, not the fastest type, no biggie), 256GB SSD hard drive (512 is nice, but, even after copying all my files for music, photos (lost a bunch of downloaded pinups), etc, I still have about 142GB, especially since I’m not installing a bunch of programs that I never, ever use, including all the add on graphics and stuff for the photo program I use. Full 1920 x 1080 display, which is pretty nice so far.

Speakers aren’t anything special, but, then, for all the named stuff in laptops, they’re rarely special, just too thin. Loud enough.

A fingerprint reader, which is nice.

Backlit keyboard, which times out after so many second of use, with 2 bright settings. Bright enough for sitting in the living room with the lights low.

Intel Core i5-1135G7. While some say the base speed is 1.5ghz, others say 2.4ghz. Regardless, the benchmarks I’ve read on multiple sites is good. Up to 4.2ghz.

Plenty of USBs, 1 HDMI, a memory card reader, even has an ethernet port, which is rather rare these days on laptops. Only thing missing is a USB C port, but, for those rare times I need to move something, usually a song or 2, to the phone, I have a USB to C cable in the car.

Only sorta negative is that it looks rather plasticy, and feels that way. Not smooth plastic as you rest your palms. But, in feeling the 4 other old laptops (2 now dead, but, could put new HDs in them, but would have to purchase Windows for them), and 2 that have real old copies of Windows and just barely allow work) which are smooth, the plastic is just as thick.

The keyboard, which has some really, really nice action, does sit a lot higher up towards the screen, we’ll see if this makes a difference. Huge touchpad, but, I rarely use that.

So far, impressed.

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