Where’s Kamala: Blows Of Meeting With Mexican Officials On Border

By William Teach October 9, 2021 – 7:19 am

Didn’t Surrender Joe make Cackling Kamala the sheriff in charge of the border? Which is wide open?

Kamala Harris skips US-Mexico border-security meeting, goes to New Jersey instead

Several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City on Friday for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t among them.

Harris, whom President Biden appointed in March to manage the U.S. response to the migrant crisis along the border, went to New Jersey instead.

Attending Friday’s high-level talks in Mexico’s capital were Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“Today’s High-Level Security Dialogue marks an important new phase in the US-Mexico security partnership,” Mayorkas tweeted Friday. “We will work together under a new framework to guide our joint efforts, and work toward our shared goals of security and prosperity for our two nations.”

And Kamala?

Harris, meanwhile, traveled to the Garden State, visiting a daycare center at Montclair State University in Little Falls and a vaccination site at Essex County Community College in Newark to promote the Biden administration’s agenda.

The vice president last visited the border in June, spending several hours in El Paso, Texas, while on her way to her home in California. It’s the only time she’s been to the border since taking office.

In fairness, did they really need her for the meeting? On one hand, the optics of her being there involved would have been good. On the other hand, her cackling and inappropriate laughing at random would have been distracting and bad optics. On the third hand, the meeting was pretty much meaningless, because the Biden administration will not do a damned thing about the border regardless.

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Federal Agencies Flag Six Aspects Of American Life At Risk From Climate Doom

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 3:00 pm

But, you know, if we give them more funding and power they can totally solve this!

6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change

Less food. More traffic accidents. Extreme weather hitting nuclear waste sites. Migrants rushing toward the United States, fleeing even worse calamity in their own countries.

Those scenarios, once the stuff of dystopian fiction, are now driving American policymaking. Under orders from President Biden, top officials at every government agency have spent months considering the top climate threats their agencies face, and how to cope with them.

I usually cut the links out of articles, unless they are relevant. That link? It goes to the NY Times piece on Google and Youtube restricting monetization and ads from “climate deniers”. Because they are apparently threats. And, they are. Because they expose the grift, fraud, and scam.

On Thursday, the White House offered a first look at the results, releasing the climate-adaptation plans of 23 agencies, including the departments of Energy, Defense, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Transportation and Commerce. The plans reveal the dangers posed by a warming planet to every aspect of American life, and the difficulty of coping with those threats.

The federal government has attempted this exercise before, during the Obama administration. That work effectively stopped under former President Donald J. Trump, whose disdain for climate science led most agencies to either shelve their planning for climate change or stop talking about it.

“Nearly every service that the government provides will be impacted by climate change sooner or later,” said Jesse Keenan, a professor at Tulane University who focuses on climate adaptation and has advised federal agencies.

The plans released Thursday are brief, many of them fewer than 30 pages. They include core themes: ensuring that new facilities meet tougher construction standards, using less energy and water at existing buildings, better protecting workers against extreme heat, educating staff about climate science, and creating supply chains that are less likely to be disrupted by storms or other shocks.

In other words, more funding, more power, more Governmental Control of everything. And these same people called Trump a Fascist and Authoritarian.

The documents also reflect Mr. Biden’s emphasis on racial equity, looking at the effects of climate change on minority and low-income communities and how agencies can address them. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services said it will focus research grants on the health effects on those communities.

This is not science, it’s politics, and it helps make people even more dependent on the federal government.

All this over a minimal 1.5F increase in global temperatures since 1850.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 10:30 am

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on forced masking in Florida. I never do this, but, let me highlight a really good point from the piece

We have stated that if you are going to mandate masks for employees, you have provide masks to wear (which the Board does not do for all employees, allowing “face coverings” which are not effective.) You also have to make those safety regulations meaningful. For example, there are many jobs where a hard hat is required, but no one would argue that a “Bob the Builder” “hard hat” should be allowed on a real job site and that it provides the same protection as an OSHA approved helmet.

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Biden Gives A “Let’s Go Brandon” To Those Who Lost Their Jobs Over Vaccine Refusal

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 10:30 am

That whole #Unity stuff is working great, eh? Meanwhile, Surrender Joe is allowing tens of thousands of unvaccinated “migrants” into the country and allowing them to stay (except Haitians, of course)

‘Look at the bigger story’: Biden dismisses unvaccinated losing their jobs

President Joe Biden took his COVID-19 vaccine requirement policy on the road Thursday, encouraging those concerned about “mass firings” and “hundreds of people losing their jobs” to focus on “the bigger story.”

During a speech at an Illinois construction site, Biden defended the policy but admitted he had been reluctant to introduce a vaccine mandate, saying it was not his “first instinct.”

“Let’s be clear: When you see headlines and reports of mass firings and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story,” he said, seemingly meaning more people in the workforce are now vaccinated.

“The vaccination requirements are tough medicine: unpopular with some, politics for others,” he said. “But they’re life-saving, they’re game-changing for our country.”

This from the guy who said that the vaccines wouldn’t happen for years during the general election campaign. But, hey, screw you folks losing you jobs, especially you folks who were last year’s heroes, the teachers, medical professionals, and first responders.

In the meantime, Biden asked employers on Thursday to act independently of his administration after he toured Clayco’s Elk Grove Village construction site and side meetings with public and private leaders. Clayco, one of the Midwest’s largest construction companies, will begin following Biden’s policy before the OSHA rule is published.

“The unvaccinated also put our economy at risk because people are reluctant to go out,” he said. “Because they’re worried they’re going to get sick. I’ve tried everything in my power to get people vaccinated.”

Polls show that the unvaccinated tend to be a whole lot less concerned than the vaccinated. And this undercuts the notion that the vaccines are meant to protect people from catching COVID. If the unvaccinated want to take the chance, that’s on them. Should I no longer consider the vaccine as protection from getting COVID, just the notion that it might not be as bad?

Anyhow, Joe is helping reinforce making the unvaccinated second class citizens. How soon till they’re required to wear a pin?

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Google, Youtube To Stop Ads And Monetization For “Climate Deniers”

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 8:15 am

How soon till they simply block all content which conflicts with their doomsday cult beliefs? Google is already suppressing content, dropping it to lower search status

From the link

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.

Why it matters: It’s one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.

Details: Google advertisers and publishers, as well as YouTube creators, will be prohibited from making ad revenue off content that contradicts “well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” the company’s ads team said in a statement. (snip)

Yes, but: Google often makes changes to its ads policies to reduce misinformation, but this update is notable, given how hard it can be to characterize certain commentary about climate change as denialism or misinformation.

The tech giant says that when evaluating content against the new policy, “we’ll look carefully at the context in which claims are made, differentiating between content that states a false claim as fact, versus content that reports on or discusses that claim.”

This is not based on science, it is based on belief. Nothing else. Google is part of the group that is trying to kill off the climate legislation coming from Democrats. The carbon footprint from Google and Youtube is huge, particularly the latter, with all the streaming, and Youtube trying to replace cable and satellite TV. Consensus is not science. The biggest hit is to those who use Youtube, attempting to make money.

Why it matters: Social media platforms have immense reach, and they’ve come under fire from activists and some lawmakers globally for doing too little to thwart the spread of inaccurate content.

It’s not quite censorship, but, it’s getting close. The point of these companies is to simply allow the flow of information. Denial simply means “disagrees with us.” They really do not like that.

Exactly. And they’re going to enforce their doomsday cult beliefs regardless. Which might make more people wonder what the cult is suppressing.

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2nd Class Citizens: Woman Who Refuses COVID Vaccine Denied Kidney Transplant

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 7:57 am

You might have seen some stories on social media about people being denied access to hospitals, and others about doctors saying they won’t treat people who haven’t gotten the Chinese coronavirus vaccine for serious problems. Even though they dealt with un-vaccinated people for a year without them having been vaccinated. This is one of the first I’ve seen where someone was actually denied

Colorado woman who won’t get vaccinated denied transplant

When a Colorado woman found out her hospital wouldn’t approve her kidney transplant surgery until she got the COVID-19 vaccine, she was left with a difficult decision pitting her health needs against her religious beliefs.

Leilani Lutali, a born-again Christian, went with her faith.

Even though she has stage 5 kidney disease that puts her at risk of dying without a new kidney, Lutali, 56, said she could not agree to be vaccinated because of the role that stem cells have played in the development of vaccines.

“As a Christian, I can’t support anything that has to do with abortion of babies, and the sanctity of life for me is precious,” she said.

I’ll be perfectly honest, I wasn’t aware of that argument. And, yes, the three main vaccines did use aborted fetal cells. Sort of

(Nebraska Medicine) Answer from infectious disease expert and practicing Catholic James Lawler, MD

No, the COVID-19 vaccines do not contain any aborted fetal cells. However, fetal cell lines – cells grown in a laboratory based on aborted fetal cells collected generations ago – were used in testing during research and development of the mRNA vaccines, and during production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. (snip)

Fetal cell lines are cells that grow in a laboratory. They descend from cells taken from abortions in the 1970s and 1980s.

Those individual cells from the 1970s and 1980s have since multiplied into many new cells over the past four or five decades, creating the fetal cell lines I mentioned above. Current fetal cell lines are thousands of generations removed from the original fetal tissue. They do not contain any tissue from a fetus.

So, yes, the current fetal cells derive from long ago. How strict does one want to be?

The Vatican and bishops agree. The Vatican has issued clear guidance that permits Roman Catholics in good faith to receive COVID-19 vaccines that use fetal cell lines in development or production. Read the Vatican’s comments on the morality of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

There is no similar statement from a Christian, as in non-Catholic, group, nor Muslim. Yes, Muslims are also refusing to take the vaccine. There have been individual statements, but, not from big leadership groups. I have my opinion on this, but, people need to make their own decisions.

UCHealth requires transplant recipients to be vaccinated because recipients are at significant risk of contracting COVID-19 as well as being hospitalized and dying from the virus, spokesman Dan Weaver said. Unvaccinated donors could also pass COVID-19 to the recipient even if they initially test negative for the disease, he said.

“Studies have found transplant patients who contract COVID-19 may have a mortality rate of 20% or higher,” he said.

Yet, they’ll do transplants for people with other diseases, such as HIV, full blown AIDS, Hepatitis, and others. What happened to doctors doing no harm? These people will live longer, and it is a chance that people take.

To Lutali, a recruiter for tech companies, it seems like her hospital was so insistent on saving her from COVID-19 that is is willing to let her possibly die by blocking her transplant surgery.

Lutali, who does not belong to a denomination, said she does not live in fear of dying because of her belief in the afterlife. She is searching for another hospital, possibly in Texas or Florida, where she could get a transplant without being vaccinated.

I’m surprised she isn’t suing.

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Good News: CIA To Focus On Climate Emergency (scam)

By William Teach October 7, 2021 – 3:21 pm

Good thing there are no real threats out there anymore

From the link

The C.I.A. will embark on a reorganization intended to focus more on China, the agency’s director announced on Thursday.

At the heart of the effort will be a new China Mission Center meant to bring more resources to studying the country and better position officers around the world to collect information and analyze China’s activities.

OK, that’s acceptable. Why they haven’t been more focused on China for decades is beyond me.

Another new center will focus on new technology and global problems like pandemics and climate change. Called the Transnational and Technology Mission Center, part of its mission will be to identify new technologies that could be used by the agency to help collect intelligence and by others against C.I.A. operatives.

Like so many other initiatives by Democrats, ‘climate change’ will end up being their primary focus of the CIA, just like has happened and is happening with federal agencies, where they waste their time on this stuff rather than their core mission.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 7, 2021 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is protein wisdom, with a rare post on winning the war on therapeutic nihilism. Hope this means more, since Jeff G. was booted from Twitter.

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Is An Existential Threat To Outdoor Activities

By William Teach October 7, 2021 – 1:00 pm

I was going to touch on this ridiculous piece on how electric vehicles cost so much less over time, because, for one thing, people rarely keep their vehicles for 15 years (the average is 4 years). But, this is is more fun in being bat guano insane

Study: Climate change poses an existential threat to outdoor recreation

Covid-19 has brought legions of new enthusiasts to the outdoors, but climate change threatens to send them right back inside.

That’s a key takeaway from a new study, “Global Environmental Change: Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States,” by Emily J. Wilkins, Yoshimitsu Chikamotoc, Anna B. Miller, and Jordan W. Smith of Utah State University.

In the study’s abstract, its authors argue that while more people are benefiting from outdoor recreation opportunities, “Changes in climatic conditions are likely to shift the spatial and temporal demand for recreational ecosystem services. To date, little is known about the magnitude and spatial variability in these shifts across large geographic extents.” (snip)

In an interview with Wilkins, the study’s lead author, KUNR Morning Edition host Noah Glick asked her to share her key takeaways from the team’s research.

“Across the whole U.S., we were finding that in the summer, as temperatures warm, we would expect to see visitation decrease at many parks and protected areas,” Wilkins said. “I guess, in a lot of places, it’s going to be getting too warm that people are no longer going to want to be visiting in the summer necessarily.”

In other words, demand for recreation on public lands will shift, creating a massive sea change for businesses that cater to outdoor enthusiasts—brands, retailers, adventure guides, and even non-outdoor shops in towns that serve as gateways to national parks and other recreation hotspots.

In other words, the Great Outdoors and everything associated with it is Doomed. In the future. At some point. They don’t know when. Just trust them. Because Doom is coming. They know it. Despite a minimal increase of 1.5F since 1850. And no acceleration of temperatures. And pauses. And that previous Holocene warm periods were warmer. And that a lot of this is simply land use/Urban Heat Island effect. And that these same people refuse to eliminate their own carbon footprints.

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Los Angeles To Mandate Vaccines For To Have Freedom

By William Teach October 7, 2021 – 12:44 pm

I wonder how much business is driven to areas that are not the city of Los Angeles? But, hey, this kinda of Authoritarianism is what you folks vote for out there, so, no complaints

Los Angeles OKs one of strictest US vaccination mandates

Los Angeles leaders on Wednesday approved one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates — a sweeping measure that requires the shots for everyone entering bars, restaurants, nail salons, gyms or even a Lakers game.

The City Council voted 11-2 in favor of the ordinance that will require proof of full vaccination for patrons and workers starting Nov. 4.

Mayor Eric Garcetti signed it Wednesday afternoon.

“Vaccinating more Angelenos is our only way out of this pandemic, and we must do everything in our power to keep pushing those numbers up,” Garcetti said in a statement. “These new rules will encourage more people to get the shot, and make businesses safer for workers and customers — so that we can save more lives.

71% in the county, voted for Biden, I suspect that number might be a bit higher in the City of LA proper. Why is there this need to require proof, when 77.6% of LA County residents 12+ have at least one dose? Of course, the thing is, they aren’t vaccinated in full without the second dose. You’d think all these Dem voters would be vaccinated in full, right?

The move came after the City Council postponed a vote last week to deal with concerns ranging from who could be fined for violations to whether employees could end up in fist-fights when they have to serve as vaccine door monitors.

Some critics charge that a mandate would amount to segregation of those who cannot or refuse to be vaccinated. Others call it unenforceable.

Business trade groups have said the city mandate will sow confusion because Los Angeles County’s own vaccine rules — which apply both in Los Angeles and in dozens of surrounding communities — are less sweeping.

What of those who cannot be vaccinated? Those with religious issues? What of those with immunity? Will the city be sending police officers and other city workers out to enforce this? Meh, who cares about the rising crime rate.

Negative coronavirus tests within 72 hours of entry to those places would be required for people with religious or medical exemptions for vaccinations.

Ah. How soon till the are charged by Government for the tests? Want to go to the gym? Get a test every single day.

Council President Nury Martinez has said it is clear that the vaccines work but too many people remain unvaccinated despite widespread availability and door-to-door campaigns to vaccinate more people. She called the mandate “a necessary step towards returning to normalcy” and the lifting of mask requirements and other restrictions.

There’s always something new that’s a “necessary step”, eh? Remember when it was simply herd immunity?

Councilman John Lee also opposed the measure, calling it “punitive toward businesses,” which are required to request customer proof of vaccination. Businesses can be given a warning for a first offense but fined up to $5,000 for repeated violations of the rules, starting on Nov. 29.

Why November 29th? If this is So Darned Important, they’re going to wait over a month and a half? Also interesting that they’re going to wait till the Monday after Black Friday, giving people the chance to shop. Same people are also against any requirement to show your ID to vote.

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