If All You See…

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

…is a house on stilts to protect against extreme weather and sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on leaked Coca Cola employee training on being “less white”.

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Democrats Unveil Full COVID Bill, Pretty Much Exactly What You Thought It Would Contain

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

The only way it passes is through reconciliation, provided any Republicans will cross the aisle, since Joe Manchin has said he’s against raising the minimum wage in the bill, as has Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema

House Democrats unveil full $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill with minimum wage increase

House Democrats took another step Friday in their effort to advance a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, releasing the full bill text, which includes an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, $1,400 direct checks for Americans making $75,000 or less a year, an extension of $400 federal unemployment benefits and more money for small businesses struggling amid the pandemic.

The legislation, which had already been passed in pieces out of individual committees, was packaged together by the House Budget Committee.

The panel will take up the bill Monday and it is expected to come to the House floor for a vote later next week. (snip)

The bill is not expected to attract much, if any, Republican support. On Friday, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise urged Republicans in an email to vote “no” on what his office called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Payoff to Progressives Act.”

“With millions of Americans unemployed and demanding relief to reopen schools and get people back to work, House Republican leadership is demanding its members vote against a bipartisan plan to help struggling Americans,” Nancy Pelosi’s office said in an email. “Americans need help. House Republicans don’t care.”

If it was a great, bipartisan bill there wouldn’t be much opposition. Take out the minimum wage increase idiocy, which might cause the bill to be shot down in court because that’s not part of what can be in a reconciliation bill.

Biden’s Coronavirus Relief Package Has Almost Nothing to Do With the Coronavirus

… (There’s $128 billion in the bill for schools)

But even if you think substantial additional funding is strictly necessary for rapid reopening, there’s a problem: The vast majority of the relief plan’s money for schools wouldn’t be spent in the current fiscal year, or even next year. Previous coronavirus relief and congressional spending bills have already included more than $100 billion in funding for schools. But according to the Congressional Budget Office, “most of those funds remain to be spent.”

As a result, just $6 billion would be spent in the 2021 fiscal year, which runs through September. Another $32 billion would be spent in 2022, and the rest by 2028. Biden is insisting that schools must reopen soon—and also that the only way for them to reopen is to authorize more than $120 billion in spending, most of which wouldn’t roll out for years. It doesn’t make much sense.

How much money did school systems not spend on electricity, water, supplies, throughout the day cleaning, operations, fuel for buses, etc? They don’t need it.

Similarly, Biden’s plan calls for $350 billion to backstop state budgets, which were projected to be down as much as 8 percent overall this year. Yet according to The Wall Street Journal, total revenues were down just 1.6 percent for the 2020 fiscal year, and 18 states ended the year with above-projection revenue. As Reason‘s Christian Britschgi noted last week, Biden’s plan would disburse money to every state—including California, which is set for a $15 billion surplus. Previous coronavirus relief bills, meanwhile, have already doled out $300 billion to bolster state budgets. The billions in extra funding Biden’s plan would deliver to soaring state budgets would, in all likelihood, not be spent this coming year. So much for not having a second to waste.

Payback to Democratic cities and states. And we know what would happen with a minimum wage rise to $15 by 2025 would do: job loss. Oh, and they’re raising the wage for those who get tipped, too, which will reduce the hours of servers and number of servers

How much of this alleged coronavirus relief plan is actually related to the coronavirus?  According to CRFB, just 1 percent of the relief plan’s spending would go toward vaccines, and just 5 percent would go toward pandemic-related public health needs. Meanwhile, 15 percent of the spending—about $300 billion—would be spent on long-standing policy priorities that are not directly related to the current crisis.

Plus, you aren’t even getting the $2,000 check Biden promised again and again, especially for the Georgia Senate revote.

Twitchy has a mega thread from Oilfield Rando which lays out the crazy, such as (click the more tag)

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Hot Take: High Flying John Kerry Says We Only Have 9 Years Left

By William Teach February 20, 2021 – 7:01 am

You remember John Kerry, right, and his private jet? Well, he now says we only have 9 years left

Here’s a CBS article on this idiocy

The wild winter weather this week has been called historic and unprecedented, and John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, wants to stop it from becoming typical.

“Obviously we want to prevent this from becoming the new normal to the degree that we can,” Kerry told CBS News’ Ben Tracy.

Many people wrongly believe that climate change only relates to temperatures increasing, not decreasing.

Kerry said it threatens all weather patterns.

“I think it’s a very appropriate way to think of it, so it is directly related to the warming, even though your instinct is to say, wait a minute, this is the new Ice Age. But it’s not,” Kerry said. “It is coming from the global warming and it threatens all the normal weather patterns.”

Yes, he did just blame the winter weather on Someone Else taking fossil fueled flights

Kerry said we have only a few years left to avoid a climate catastrophe.

“Well, the scientists told us three years ago we had 12 years to avert the worst consequences of climate crisis. We are now three years gone, so we have nine years left,” he said.

We’ve had 50 years of failed eco prognostications, many of those along the lines of “we only have X years left or Dooooooooom!” At least John was able to get his math correct.

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Democrats Pushing Gun Registry Legislation, Including Where People Keep Their Firearms

By William Teach February 20, 2021 – 6:48 am

Well, of course they are, this is what they do

Democratic bill would create public registry of gun owners, their guns, and where they keep them

A Democratic bill introduced in the House of Representatives this year aims to create a mandatory and publicly accessible registry listing the names of gun owners, how many guns they have, and even where they keep their firearms.

Additionally, the bill, H.R. 127, would ban several types of commonly used ammunition .50 caliber or greater, require gun owners to purchase firearm insurance costing $800 per year, and force those seeking to buy a gun to complete a psychological evaluation and a government training course prior to the purchase.

Should gun owners fail to adhere to the new restrictions, they could face an harsh penalty of 10 years in prison and fines of $50,000 to $150,000.

Sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), the bill is one of the most aggressive attempts yet by progressive lawmakers to curb Americans’ Second Amendment rights and is already drawing intense scrutiny from gun rights groups.

Publicly accessible doesn’t just mean the Government knows who has what guns and where they are kept: it means lunatic leftist gun grabbers know and can doxx people, and, criminals would know where the guns are so they can steal them. And other criminals would know who has them so they can target other homes.

Insurance? That would make owning a firearm much more expensive, and, for some, make it unaffordable. Psychological evaluation? You can bet most would fail in Democratic Party run areas. Government training? I’m not again it, but, I don’t remember any of this in the 2nd Amendment, and it would all certainly be struck down by the Supreme Court as violating rights. Not that it would make it through the Senate. Not unless Democrats want to kill off the filibuster.

Speaking with the Washington Times, the leaders of several retired police officer groups also slammed the bill as a brazen attempt to curtail Second Amendment rights — and a hazardous one at that. Under the legislation, retired officers would not be exempt from the public registry.

“This is very dangerous, especially for retirees,” Kevin Hassett, president of the New York’s Retired Police Association, told the outlet. “Things have gone so downhill with this level of hostility towards cops and we are out there with the label that we are no longer cops. Retired cops don’t have partners or backup. We are out there on our own.”

Democrats want to make owning a firearm very difficult for every citizen (yet, aren’t willing to give up their own armed protection).

While the bill has a long way to go before becoming law — it has no co-sponsors and has yet to be scheduled for a committee hearing — its mere introduction demonstrates the confidence of anti-gun lawmakers under the Biden administration and in a Democratic Party-controlled Congress.

“H.R. 127 is so outrageous, persecutory, and unworkable that its main function is simply to display the hostility of its author and supporters toward firearms, those who own them, and those who want to own them,” the NRA added in its blistering writeup.

What they’ll do is water it down slightly, get one idiot Republican on board, and call it bipartisan. Then they’ll hide what it really does and call anyone who is against it a racist and supporter of domestic terrorism, that they hate kids.

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Texas’ Frozen Power Grid Is A Preview Of The Coming Climate Apocalypse

By William Teach February 19, 2021 – 3:00 pm

I’m trying, really trying, to avoid this stuff, but, no can do, not with something this egregious. First, though, the U.S. is back in the Paris Climate (scam) Agreement, which most signatory countries are failing to get anywhere close to being in compliance. What does this mean, per Alok Sharma, the President of COP26?

(CNN) The return of the US paves the way for climate action to run like a golden thread through US domestic and international policies — mirroring our approach in the United Kingdom as we prepare to welcome world leaders to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow this November.

So, basically, it’s going to screw with every part of your life. This is what you advocated for with your TDS, conserving conservatism conservatives.

Texas’ frozen power grid is a preview of climate change disasters to come

The massive snowstorm that pummeled Texas over the weekend has put the state’s unique energy challenges into stark relief. Four days after an unprecedented and deadly blackout plunged 4 million people into darkness, some 450,000 remain without power according to PowerOutage.us.

The storm, which froze nuclear facilities, coal and gas power stations, and wind turbines, offers a cautionary tale of how extreme weather can paralyze critical energy facilities and throw vast swaths of country into chaos. Across the U.S., experts says, states like Texas are largely unprepared for a range of climate emergencies, from Arctic-like cold in warmer regions to widespread flooding, droughts, wildfires and other symptoms of a rapidly heating planet.

“This is a large-scale emergency,” said Julie McNamara, a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “We’re seeing the consequences of insufficiently considering climate impact on the grid. At the same time as grid operators underestimated potential for peak demand … they also insufficiently estimated potential for outages.”

You know what can really help? Relying mostly on solar panels covered in snow and wind turbines frozen solid. Yes, yes, there were plenty of problems with natural gas freezing up.  A lot because of so many above ground lines not able to take the cold and freezing ice, blowing out transformers, knocking down poles and lines, substations going down. But, yes, this is a cult which is blaming rare winter storms on ‘climate change’.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 19, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a tall building designed to survive extreme sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on the Woke destroying museums.

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Perpetual Lockdown: A Drop In COVID Cases Is Deceptive Or Something

By William Teach February 19, 2021 – 10:30 am

At this point it is hard to distinguish between real, common sense stuff and propaganda designed to keep people in fear and willing to give their liberty up to Government

A drop in Covid-19 cases can be deceptive, official warns. Here’s how the US can stay ahead of a variant-driven surge

Although the rise of Covid-19 variants in the United States could spell trouble, pharmaceutical companies and scientists are confident vaccines will evolve with them, senior White House adviser Andy Slavitt told CNN.

“I spoke to all the pharmaceutical companies and scientists, and they all say the same thing: Even if these vaccines diminish a little bit, they will be able to continually update them,” Slavitt, who is responsible for the Covid response, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday.

The US has witnessed a 26% decline in new cases from this time last week, continuing the trend of the steepest decline in new cases since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

But variants, many of which appear to be more transmissible, have been spreading, with more than 1,500 cases reported in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But, see, if we can double time it on vaccines we can maybe possibly fix this

Vaccination delays caused by harsh winter weather gripping much of the US means that many people will have to work “double time” to get back on track, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“It’s been slowed down; in some places going to a grinding halt,” Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said in an interview with MSNBC on Thursday.

Remember all the articles on continuing to mask and keep locked down even after you get the vaccine, even after herd immunity?

Health officials say the coronavirus will likely become endemic in the next several years. What does that mean?

Even as cases continue to decline and more Americans receive their vaccines, the coronavirus isn’t likely to go away anytime soon, health officials say.

The nation’s top infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci dismissed the idea that COVID-19 would be eradicated in the next several years at a webinar hosted by think tank Chatham House in November.

“We need to plan that this is something we may need to maintain control over chronically. It may be something that becomes endemic, that we have to just be careful about,” he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines endemic as the “constant presence and/or usual prevalence” of a disease within a population in a certain geographic area.

An endemic disease spreads at a baseline level every year without causing major disruption to people’s lives, said Dr. Donald Burke, professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Yes, but because it will be endemic, the Powers That Be can continue to make proclamations and issue edicts. Think they won’t? You haven’t been watching over the last year.

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Facebook To “Debunk” All Things Anti-Climate Cult

By William Teach February 19, 2021 – 6:59 am

First, let me get this out of the way so I’m not tempted to post yet another piece about climate cultists blaming snow and ice and cold on Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles

The Texas Power Grid Failure Is a Climate Change Cautionary Tale

Bunch of cultish lunatics. OK, moving on

Facebook will debunk myths about climate change, stepping further into ‘arbiter of truth’ role

Facebook announced Thursday it will now debunk common myths about climate change, further leaning into the “arbiter of truth” role that the company once renounced.

The social media giant said it is adding a section to its climate change information hub that will features facts with accurate information about misconceptions and falsehoods. This will include the fact that polar bear populations are declining because of global warming, as well as the fact that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere harms plant life.

The company said it plans to rely on experts from George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the University of Cambridge to identify and debunk climate change myths.

Facebook has introduced these information hubs and relied on them as a key part of its tactic to combat the widespread problem of misinformation on its services. It’s a stark turnaround from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s statement last May, when he defended unfettered speech from politicians on the platform and said he did not think “Facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth.”

In its announcement Thursday, Facebook said it will start adding information labels to posts about climate change that direct people to its climate change information hub.

Additionally, the company said it will now expand this hub to users in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Spain, South Africa and Taiwan. The feature has been available in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany.

Hmm, wouldn’t that make Facebook a publisher rather than just a platform, which means they are legally responsible for content of what people post. Also, what’s the “carbon footprint” of Facebook and their operations? How much “carbon” is put out by people using Facebook? What about all the ads that pop up for fossil fueled vehicle companies, fossil fueled flights and vacations, restaurants that offer Evil meat, and more? Will Facebook no longer accept ads?

We all know that the climate information hub will be one side cult propaganda. I recommend that it offer ways for climate cultists to reduce their own carbon footprint, like giving up their use of fossil fueled travel, meat, taking short showers, hand washing and line drying their clothes, and sending 20% of their net income to The Government.

What’s in this for Facebook? As they say, follow the money. How much money will they make off of pushing this scam?

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TDS: Dems Introduce Act To Stop Trump Name On Federal Projects

By William Teach February 19, 2021 – 6:41 am

We’re still waiting on them to call for the removal of Robert Byrd’s name from projects, since he was a member of the KKK at one point, and they now hate monuments, including Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson, but, in the meantime, they just can’t MoveOn from Trump

House Democrats Introduce ‘No Glory for Hate Act’ to Prevent Trump Name from Being Displayed on Federal Projects

Move OnDemocrats in the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would prevent former President Donald Trump from having his name displayed on federal projects, buildings, statues, lands, or other type of commemoration.

According to the bill’s text, which was provided late last month, the legislation would “prohibit the use of Federal funds for the commemoration of certain former Presidents.” While Trump is not mentioned by name in the proposed legislation, he is the only president to have been impeached twice by the House.

The bill, dubbed the “No Glory for Hate Act,” was introduced by California Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez and has 13 cosponsors, all of whom are Democrats. (snip)

The bill specifically prevents federal funds from being used to “create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives,” including “any highway, park, subway, Federal building, military installation, street, or other Federal property.”

The bill also prevents Trump from being buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (snip)

In addition, the bill states that twice impeached presidents are “not entitled to receive any benefit, other than Secret Service protection, under such Act.”

This is the Democrats version of unity, you know. Will Pelosi allow a vote on this? If it makes it to the Senate it will never pass the 60 vote threshold for a final vote, so it won’t make it to China Joe’s table.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1362454217152200714

How is it possible to negotiate with people who are unhinged and so hateful, so deranged? How can we work with people who have made politics so personal that it’s not enough to beat someone politically, but have to destroy them personally?

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What’s The Most Important Number For ‘Climate Change’? The Social Cost Of Carbon

By William Teach February 18, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Extreme Warmists are hot to trot to push the notion of the social cost of carbon. Why?

The social cost of carbon might be the most important number on climate change

Economists are urging the U.S. government to adopt a higher number for the social cost of carbon emissions.

Why it matters: The social cost of carbon might be the single most important number on climate change, one that helps decide how much we’re willing to invest to slow global warming — and how much we actually value the future.

Driving the news: On Monday, prominent economists Nicholas Stern and Joseph Stiglitz published a paper making the case that the U.S. needs to reassess how it calculates the social cost of carbon.

  • The social cost of carbon reflects the ultimate estimated dollar price to society for every new metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted.
  • Under President Obama’s administration, the figure was estimated at $50 per metric ton by 2030, in 2007 dollars.
  • Stern and Stiglitz, reevaluating the economic models used to estimate future climate damages and putting more value on the wellbeing of future generations, suggest a social cost at the upper end of a $50–$100 per metric ton range.

See, this isn’t just about putting a price on “carbon”, but linking it to everyone’s lives.

Be smart: The social cost of carbon represents the economic benefit that will come from reducing carbon emissions, which means that setting a higher cost justifies regulations that make emitting carbon more expensive.

  • The number is also one of the best representations of what the present feels it owes future generations that will suffer the most from climate change — or benefit, if we can curb its worst effects.

Got that? It’s what you owe future generations, hence, it’s important that government puts a price on the way you live your life, which gives them control of your life and your hard earned money. Why do all the little climate cult disciples not realize that they themselves will be recipients of all the bad parts of their cult? Are they so enthused to give up their money and freedom?

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