If All You See…

By William Teach January 18, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful carbon sucking trees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on ice cream from China contaminated with Bat Soup Virus.

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Who’s Up For Social Distancing Dog Collars?

By William Teach January 18, 2021 – 10:30 am

I’m not sure how I’m supposed to feel about this

High Decibel Social Distancing ‘Dog Collars’ for Factory Workers Deployed

A Swedish manufacturer in France has been accused of treating their employees like dogs after the company asked its workers to wear a social distancing device that emits a high decibel sound if employees are too close to each other.

The French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), the largest union representing workers at Essity, a Swedish global hygiene and health company, compared the device to a dog collar, saying it is “a system comparable to that which deters dogs from barking”.

The CFDT said according to the French newspaper Le Monde, that the necklaces emit a sound of 85 decibels as soon as “social distancing is no longer respected”.

CFDT union representative Christine Duguet said that “the idea is to discipline employees and call them to order,” going on to say that the implementation of the system represents “an attack on individual freedoms”.

“Since the start of the pandemic, we have scrupulously respected distancing and wearing masks. We wear them all day, we are responsible people!” she protested.

You can see a video, in French, here or at the above link. Now, on one hand, they really look more like uncomfortable necklaces for fall prone seniors, and, let’s face it, people are social distancing less and less, because they feel that the mask is enough, plus, COVID fatigue. So, yes, we need to social distance. I’ve had more people lately wanting to shake hands or bump elbows or bump fists. No. One customer, not mine, left when the rep refused to shake hands. Bye! On the other hand, perhaps it would be better if supervisors wandered around.

According to Le Parisien, the company has already deployed the system in the United Kingdom and has been testing it in the Netherlands.

A company spokesman told the AFP that it is just being “tested” in France.

Coming to the rest of the 1st World, including America?

Responding to the story, the president of the Popular Republican Union party in France, François Asselineau, said: “The next stage will be an electric shock of 380 volts between the 2 offenders.”

I’m sure he was joking, but, I wouldn’t mind if people who get too close to me get a mild shock.

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The Earth Is Dying Faster Than We Thought Or Something

By William Teach January 18, 2021 – 7:03 am

We can solve this with a tax, you know

The planet is dying faster than we thought

Humanity is barreling toward a “ghastly future” of mass extinctions, health crises and constant climate-induced disruptions to society — one that can only be prevented if world leaders start taking environmental threats seriously, scientists warn in a new paper published Jan. 13 in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science.

In the paper, a team of 17 researchers based in the United States, Mexico and Australia describes three major crises facing life on Earth: climate disruption, biodiversity decline and human overconsumption and overpopulation. Citing more than 150 studies, the team argues that these three crises — which are poised only to escalate in the coming decades — put Earth in a more precarious position than most people realize, and could even jeopardize the human race.

The point of the new paper isn’t to scold average citizens or warn that all is lost, the authors wrote — but rather, to plainly describe the threats facing our planet so that people (and hopefully political leaders) start taking them seriously and planning mitigating actions, before it’s too late.

So, the point is to scold average citizens, while ignoring all the elites who run around in big limos and private jets, living in their giant mansions, etc., who want to institute policies that control the average citizen

“Ours is not a call to surrender,” the authors wrote in their paper. “We aim to provide leaders with a realistic ‘cold shower’ of the state of the planet that is essential for planning to avoid a ghastly future.”

See? The leaders will institute policy.

What will that future look like? For starters, the team writes, nature will be a lot lonelier. Since the start of agriculture 11,000 years ago, Earth has lost an estimated 50% of its terrestrial plants and roughly 20% of its animal biodiversity, the authors said, citing two studies, one from 2018 and the other from 2019. If current trends continue, as many as 1 million of Earth’s 7 million to 10 million plant and animal species could face extinction in the near future, according to the new paper.

Yes, we do have a big biodiversity loss, that is true. All the urban areas full of leftists do not help, right? Climate cultists blame this all on ‘climate change’, of course.

Meanwhile, those same phenomena that cause natural disasters are all predicted to become stronger and more frequent due to global climate change. These disasters, coupled with climate-induced droughts and sea-level rise, could mean 1 billion people would become climate refugees by the year 2050, forcing mass migrations that further endanger human lives and disrupt society.

Overpopulation will not make anything easier.

Obviously, they do not mention the policy ideas of the extreme enviros and Warmists, which is to restrict population in 3rd world areas, especially where black and brown people live, just like their eugenicist (and racist) god, Margaret Sanger, wanted. And the extreme extremes simply want to kill people off, mostly in areas like Africa and Asia.

“If most of the world’s population truly understood and appreciated the magnitude of the crises we summarize here, and the inevitability of worsening conditions, one could logically expect positive changes in politics and policies to match the gravity of the existential threats,” the team wrote. “But the opposite is unfolding.”

Well, Warmists keep telling us we’re Doooooooomed, yet, they do nothing in their own lives. Go figure.

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Who’s Up For Some MACA (Make America California Again)?

By William Teach January 18, 2021 – 6:48 am

A bold move by China Joe and The Los Angeles Times

Make America California Again? That’s Biden’s plan

After four years of being relentlessly targeted by a Republican president who worked overtime to bait, punish and marginalize California and everything it represents, the state is suddenly center stage again in Washington’s policy arena.

Huh what? Targeted? That was California’s Xavier Bacerra  (who now works for China Joe) suing the Trump admin over lots of things, such as cracking down on illegal immigration. Sorry if California was asked to pay its fair share.

California is emerging as the de facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris administration and of a Congress soon to be under Democratic control. That’s rekindling past cliches about the state — incubator of innovation, premier laboratory of democracy, land of big ideas — even as it struggles with surging COVID-19 infections, a safety net frayed by the pandemic’s toll, crushing housing costs and wildfires, all fueling an exodus of residents.

There is no place the incoming administration is leaning on more heavily for inspiration in setting a progressive policy agenda. (snip)

Other Californians will be doing the same from Biden’s Cabinet. Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra is nominated to run the massive Health and Human Services Department. The nominee for Treasury secretary, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, is a professor at UC Berkeley, as is the nominee for Energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm. Longtime California resident Alejandro Mayorkas is the nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security. (snip)

Not that Biden needs the nudge. He’s been pushing to nationalize some of the state’s pioneering efforts on climate action, workers’ rights, law enforcement and criminal justice, healthcare and economic empowerment since he was vice president in the Obama era. He continued to champion the cause while he and Harris were still rivals in the 2020 presidential race.

Let’s see: poop and used drug needles in the streets, a massive amount of homelessness (decriminalizing homelessness and giving them drug paraphernalia) , rising property and violent crime rates in the cities run by Democrats, an outsized cost of living, excusing illegal immigration, rolling brownouts and blackouts, many of them planned, skyrocketing energy prices, skyrocketing housing prices, a hostile environment for businesses, and so much more, to the point people and businesses are streaming out of the state to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and even Mexico. Californians think the state is headed in the wrong direction.

How’s this going to work for that #Unity stuff?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 17, 2021 – 2:25 pm

…are flowers that will wither from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is NoTricksZone, with a post on proof of an earlier warmer climate.

Still clearing out the IAYS folder.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 17, 2021 – 9:13 am

Edward Runci Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America! The Sun is shining, the birds are signing, and the NHL is back. My NJ Devils had a good start. Just 2 games, and overtime loss and an OT win, but, they played the Bruins, who are one of the top 5 teams in the league. BTW, I’m giving NHL.tv a whirl, and I like it better than Center Ice. Can watch anywhere, and resolution is great. Anyhow, this pinup is by Edward Runci, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jihad Watch wonders why Twitter won’t ban Iran’s leader
  2. Legal Insurrection discusses loony Harvard students wanting Republicans stripped of their diplomas
  3. Moonbattery has a profile on loony race baiters
  4. Pacific Pundit notes Wuhan research with bats going back to 2016
  5. Patterico’s Pontifications discusses the Flight 93 impeachment
  6. Powerline has a discussion of whether the election was stolen
  7. Raised On Hoecakes covers “incitement”
  8. The Daley Gator highlights idiots speaking
  9. The First Street Journal covers how that impeachment is going
  10. A very rare link to the Gateway Pundit, which has video of DC military checkpoints
  11. The Hayride discusses the NRA leaving New York for Texas (why’d they stay in NY to start with?)
  12. The Last Tradition has an interesting take on AOC blaming Zuckerberg for the riots
  13. The Lid highlights China Joe’s COVID plan
  14. The Right Scoop has a reminder of what Trump’s 2017 inauguration looked like (I saved the link to Pocket for reference come the 20th)
  15. And last, but not least, Weasel Zippers covers Biden to ban “gendered” language at the White House.

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Biden Priorities: Amnesty, $15 Minimum Wage, Boys In Girl’s Bathrooms

By William Teach January 17, 2021 – 7:51 am

Hey, #NeverTrumper, you voted for this with your Trump Derangement Syndrome. This is what you agitated for by telling everyone to vote for not just Joe Biden, but Senators and Representatives. No crying. No whining. No complaining. Own it.

Big Business: Joe Biden’s Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Is a Legislative Priority

The big business lobby is cheerleading President-elect Joe Biden’s massive amnesty plan for the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States, calling the initiative one of their many “priorities.”

Biden floated the amnesty plan with a number of open borders and business lobbying groups during a meeting this week. Some executives with the groups are calling the amnesty “the most aggressive” plan they have seen while working on Capitol Hill, suggesting it includes not only legislation, but executive orders to legalize most of the illegal alien population. (snip)

Today, 18 million Americans are jobless, and another 6.2 million are underemployed, all of whom want full-time jobs with competitive wages and good benefits. Their chances of securing higher wages and more job opportunities are crushed by the mass inflow of illegal and legal immigration.

So, you have all these Americans jobless because of COVID, and Joe wants to add all these illegals to the rolls, who will take all those American jobs, and depress wages. There’s another massive migrant caravan moving towards the U.S., and, if Congress and Joe pass an amnesty, it will incent even more. And Joe could always expand the DACA idiocy. So, what could Joe and the Dems do for wages?

That’s right, it would destroy jobs, just like we’ve seen in cities that have implemented this. Portland and Seattle, among others, just saw businesses reduce their workforce, limit hours to avoid overtime, or just leave the city. California has seen the same, but, they just leave the state, some to Mexico. What happens if it is all of the U.S.? The same, except, when they leave, they do not leave for another state, they go to other countries. And, businesses who stay just pass on the increased cost to consumers. Which raises the cost of living, making the wage increase much lower. Some jobs just aren’t worth that much. Perhaps all the low wage workers agitating for getting paid more than their skills are worth should work on their skills. The median pay for a plumber is $55.

But, both of those require, really, a law from Congress. The only way that happens is if the Senate nukes the filibuster, which they should realize will boomerang back when the GOP eventually takes over. But, what of

Joe Biden Day 1: Order on Transgender Rights in Sports and Bathrooms

President-elect Joe Biden vowed to his supporters that, on his first day in office, he will begin removing any legal recognition of the two sexes by adopting pro-transgender polices.

Biden’s campaign website promises:

On his first day in office, Biden will reinstate the Obama-Biden guidance revoked by the Trump-Pence Administration, which will restore transgender students’ access to sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity. He will direct his Department of Education to vigorously enforce and investigate violations of transgender students’ civil rights. (snip)

Biden has also promised to sign the Equality Act into law in his first 100 days, a measure that would remove federal  recognition of two sexes.

The Equality Act will codify into federal law transgender bathrooms, the elimination of women-only sports, forcing preferred pronoun use, and other similar special transgender privileges.

So, on day one he plans to ruin women’s sports, make women and girls suffer with biological males in their bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers. Yay? Expect lots and lots and lots of lawsuits. We’ll see if the vast number of conservatives Trump and McConnell put on federal courts, including the Supreme Court, will matter.

The Equality Act’s bit about forcing pronoun use is against the 1st Amendment, so, expect lots of lawsuits there, too. If Democrats can get it through, which would require nuking the filibuster, again. And, if they forgot to include severability, that would destroy the entire law. But, yes, Democrats do want to codify Wrongthink as a crime.

These are just a few things that Joe plans to mess up. So, Never Trump should shut up and take it, and all the Dems losing their jobs and having their daughters exposed to boys and losing their earned sports spots, including scholarships, also need to shut up and take it.

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Capital Mostly Peaceful Protest Beginning Of Insurgency Or Something

By William Teach January 16, 2021 – 3:00 pm

I don’t really have to say yet again that I do not condone the violence that happened, but, when you call people you disagree with Nazis and White Supremacists and raaaaacists and such for years, then conduct an election that is full of, let’s call them, irregularities, which can’t be explained and are not explained, people are going to be pissed. When they hear the plans of Democrats, they are pissed. But, hey, dissent is now no longer patriotic, and will be deemed an insurgency

Attack on Capitol was the beginning of an American insurgency, counterterrorism experts warn

After ransacking the U.S. Capitol and threatening the lives of members of Congress on Jan. 6, they walked down the building’s broad steps unmolested and into the mythology of right-wing extremism. Many wore shirts identifying them as accolades of QAnon, riders in “the Storm” who believe the fever-dream conspiracy that they are foot soldiers in a war against Satan-worshipping pedophiles in the government’s “deep state” bureaucracy. There were also neo-Nazis and anti-Semites in the overwhelmingly white crowd, including a man wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt. Racists rallied to the Confederate flag of rebellion that some of the insurrectionists waved in the halls of Congress.

Yes, this hyperbole is actually in the straight news section. As far as ransacking, it was nothing compared to what BLM/Antifa did to privately owned stores across the country

With President Trump only days away from an unceremonious departure from the White House, the vision of a mob desecrating the citadel of democracy felt for many observers like the end of a shameful period of norm breaking and tradition smashing. But for counterterrorism experts who have spent the two decades since the 9/11 terrorist attacks closely studying and fighting violent extremist groups overseas, the spectacle looked like something altogether different: the likely birthing of a violent American insurgency.

Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal was formerly the head of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq and the commander of all U.S. and allied troops fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. “I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America,” McChrystal told Yahoo News.

A radical group of citizens have adopted a very hard-line view of the country, he noted, that echoes the Lost Cause narrative that took root in the old South after the Civil War. “Only President Trump has updated Lost Cause with his ‘Stop the Steal’ narrative that they lost because of a stolen election, and that is the only thing holding these people down and stopping them from assuming their rightful place in society,” McChrystal said. “That gives them legitimacy to become even more radical. I think we’re much further along in this radicalization process, and facing a much deeper problem as a country, than most Americans realize.”

Similarly, counterterrorism experts say a number of the white supremacist groups who took part in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol have reached out and formed linkages with white nationalist counterparts in Germany, Canada, Norway and Russia. “I worked with the State Department to designate as terrorists an extreme white supremacist group in Russia that has many ties to U.S.-based groups,” said Ali Soufan, a former FBI supervisory special agent and counterterrorism expert who led some of the highest-profile investigations of al-Qaida attacks, speaking on Thursday to reporters. He noted that a National Security Council strategy document identified the Nordic Front, a neo-Nazi group spreading throughout Nordic countries, as a threat to the United States. “If the Nordic Front is a threat to the U.S., that means they have some connection to activities here. There are also [right-wing] extremist groups in Canada designated as terrorist organizations by our ‘Five Eyes’ allies, but they still operate with impunity here in the United States. That has to stop.”

So, dissent will now be labeled terrorism and insurgency. Should be a fun four years.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 16, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post noting Pelosi hasn’t sent the impeachment papers to the Senate.

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Hot Take: “The Capital Riots Highlighted Corporations’ Hypocrisy On Climate Denialism”

By William Teach January 16, 2021 – 10:30 am

That’s the actual headline at MSNBC on the front page

The headline in story is slightly different, but, either way, same screed. The Cult of Climastrology is finally finding their groove in blaming/linking ‘climate change’ for the riots

(MSNBC) Last month, I co-published an article with the newsletter Popular Information exposing six corporations that “talk green but spend dirty.” Like so many articles we’ve written before, the piece showed how corporate America markets itself as a friend to the climate while directly funding climate deniers.

How dare these corporations using their own money in a manner they want!!!!! Cites like MSNBC called Trump and his supporters Fascists for 4 years, yet, are actually the ones wanting to limit what other people can say.

It’s fantastic that corporate America is finally starting to reckon with its role in spreading deadly, democracy-endangering misinformation. Since the violent riots on Jan. 6, at least 23 major companies now say they will no longer donate to lawmakers who voted against certifying the results of the election. To them, denying the results of a free and fair election has become politically unacceptable.

But denying a scientifically proven crisis that’s killing millions of people, particularly Black and brown ones, is still politically fine. Exactly zero of the companies that have pledged to cut off politicians who spread misinformation about the election have also pledged to cut off politicians who spread misinformation about the climate crisis, which has already killed far more people, and stands to kill far more.

This is how cults work: if A then purple, link the two in some manner.

Take Comcast, for example (not part of our original Popular Information piece). When the telecommunications giant announced a freeze on donations to election deniers, it called the riots they inspired “appalling.” But Comcast donated to Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., who was re-elected to his fifth term in November and whose decadeslong crusade against climate science has inspired Trump’s climate-destructive policies more than any other sitting lawmaker. In 2020, the company gave $10,000 to keep Inhofe in power.

Nope, nothing Fascist at all about attempting to shame a company for daring to give money to political opponents of Democrats.

Corporations are pausing contributions to election deniers because they don’t want to be seen as contributing to misinformation and violence. Well, guess what: They are contributing to misinformation and violence when they bankroll climate deniers. And I’m not just talking about violence to the planet and ecosystems. I’m talking about right-wing political violence, armed anti-government insurrections and white nationalism.

Cult. BTW, when does MSNBC go carbon neutral?

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