California, Ohio Institute Nighttime COVID Curfews Or Something

By William Teach November 20, 2020 – 10:30 am

Apparently, COVID is more dangerous overnight

(The Columbus Dispatch) Saying “this is not some game, this is life and death,” Gov. Mike DeWine began a series of airport news conferences Wednesday pleading with Ohioans to comply with an overnight curfew in an attempt to ward off a record spike in coronavirus cases.

“We are in a critical, dangerous time … we have to look at this as a time of crisis,” DeWine said in Toledo while speaking about the still-to-be issued order confining Ohioans to their homes between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. for three weeks starting Thursday.

“Stay home. Don’t go out,” he said. “I’m asking every Ohioan to find a way to pull back a bit … pull back from your contacts with other people.”

He doesn’t really say why there’s a curfew for these hours. He just requires Compliance

California imposes nighttime COVID-19 curfew but some resist

California is imposing a nighttime curfew as its coronavirus figures soar but it will lean heavily on voluntary compliance and sheriffs of some counties say they won’t enforce it.

What officials are calling a limited stay-at-home order requires people who are not on essential errands to stay home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting Saturday. The order will last until Dec. 21 but could be extended if disease trends don’t improve.

The curfew is less strict than the near-total ban on nonessential business and travel that Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed in March and which he credited with flattening the rate of COVID-19 cases, despite a summer peak.

But along with many other states, California is now seeing surges in virus infections, hospitalizations and deaths that threaten to overwhelm its health care system.

This order applies to 41 of 58 California counties. And, again, there is no real rationale for the why’s. The majority of people are going to be home anyhow. Bars aren’t really open yet in California yet, except those who can do it outside. Where else are people going to go? Most restaurants do not stay open that late. Where else are people going? It sounds more like, dare I write, an attempt to see what more compliance governors can get out of citizens.

Officials in Fresno and Placer counties say they won’t enforce state rules, and two Republican state lawmakers are trying to rally 14 Northern California counties to formally call for a local approach that emphasizes reopenings.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said he wouldn’t enforce a nighttime curfew for restaurants and nonessential retail businesses in the nation’s most populous county, where cases more than doubled in the last two weeks and hospitalizations rose 30%.

The county has seen more than 350,000 cases and nearly 7,400 deaths.

Villanueva tweeted that since the first stay at home orders were issued in March, “we have focused on education and voluntary compliance, with criminal enforcement measures being an extreme last resort.”

Wait, wait, an area that is primarily full of Democratic Party voters is having a hard time complying with all the mask, handwashing, and social distancing measures? Huh.

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AOC And Progressive Allies Tell Biden He Best Keep His Word On Climate Crisis (scam) Action

By William Teach November 20, 2020 – 8:01 am

Yes, this would be the same Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who introduced the Green New Deal almost 2 years ago come February, and has never demanded it be considered in committee, much less voted on. Also present was Senator Ed Markey, the sponsor in the Senate, who voted “present”.

AOC, Lawmakers Call on Biden Administration to “Keep Its Promise” on Addressing Climate Change

A group of current and incoming representatives – plus one sitting senator – reiterated their demands on Thursday that the incoming Biden administration put forward massive, progressive action on climate change.

Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ro Khanna were joined by representatives-elect Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones outside DNC headquarters alongside climate activists to push for action that addresses the concerns of everyone in the United States — not just white Americans. (there’s a tweet embedded in article of them Demanding Biden have a corporate free cabinet….good luck)

The representatives were joined by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, who was among those who signed on to the Green New Deal in 2019, and who agreed that climate change is also an issue of racial justice. Markey said his incoming colleagues represent “this revolution changing the way in which people see the issue of climate change in our lives.”

Markey further called on the president-elect to use the funding to fix “the obvious reality that Black and brown communities have always breathed different air than white, suburban communities in the United States of America.”

Weird that they breathe such bad air in Democratic Party run cities….of course, that has zero to do with ‘climate change’.

The group argued that minority communities are affected by climate issues at a much higher rate than white Americans, saying it is a matter of life and death.

Of course they do: have to keep those black and brown people fearful and Dependent on the Democrats for the votes, though, Dems never actually do something to resolve issues. If they did, there would be no way to keep those minorities under their thumb.

On Thursday, activists and lawmakers stressed that the president-elect had previously pledged 40% of his climate budget will go towards minority communities—and they plan to hold him to it come January.

“This is an urgent matter that we have to deal with. We are living in a climate catastrophe,” said Congressman-elect Jamaal Bowman of New York’s 16th district. “Biden has pledged a $2 trillion investment in environmental justice, and 40 percent of that has been pledged to districts like mine across the country.”

“That 40 percent has to be part of a green new deal that rebuilds Black and brown communities across this country,” Bowman continued.

Isn’t this what’s called “extortion”? They voted for Biden and now Biden has to pay up. Or, is this more of a shakedown? Anyhow, when do all these Democrats practice what they preach and make their own lives carbon neutral?

Ocasio-Cortez, who served on Biden’s climate policy panel during his campaign, assured viewers that they are making progress on addressing climate change. Describing Biden and his team as “decent, kind, and honorable,” Ocasio-Cortez added: “I don’t want anyone here to think we are not winning. We are winning. We are going to secure the tenets of a Green New Deal.”

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Tucker: Sidney Powell Needs To Show The Evidence, News Media Is A Disgrace

By William Teach November 20, 2020 – 7:39 am

Did you watch the press conference with Rudy Giuliani and his folks yesterday? I didn’t, was at the gym. I did read the recaps. And the media was an utter partisan disgrace. Within hours of making lots of claims, much of it backed up by actual evidence and affidavits, the Credentialed Media was out with hit pieces and “fact checks”. They spent zero time investigating the claims. The same media which spent 4 years on Russia Russia Russia

Tucker Carlson: Time for Sidney Powell to show us her evidence

China Votes BidenOn Thursday, Rudy Giuliani and a number of President Trump’s other lawyers held a press conference on the topic of voter fraud. If you didn’t actually see it, you’ve probably heard about it by now.

Giuliani, along with former federal prosecutor called Sidney Powell and a number of others, alleged that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. To demonstrate that, they exhibited some of what they found after two weeks of investigating. The presentation went on for 90 minutes with many different threads, about which more anon.

How you viewed it depended largely on who you voted for. Trump voters seemed hopeful that it might change the election results. The left and virtually every single person in all of the news media immediately dismissed it as an embarrassing clown show as well as a threat to the republic. That’s right: the very same people who swore that Vladimir Putin’s agents controlled the U.S. government called it a conspiracy theory.

A lot of Americans believe this election was rigged. They’re not saying that because they’re crazy and they’re not just saying it because they’re mad. They mean it. And that’s a potentially fatal problem for this country. Elections aren’t merely “central to democracy”, elections are democracy. Voting is the way the public expresses its will. It’s all people have. If elections don’t work, our entire system doesn’t work.

Yes, yes, we aren’t a pure democracy, I know, but, we vote, and we should have trust in our voting system. A little bit of cheating is something expected: massive amounts is not. We should be concerned with the allegations. We took time to investigate Russia Russia Russia, why not this?

But the media don’t want to know. They’re not interested. If you watched the coverage after the press conference today, you saw credentialed reporters, some of whom we know and like, actually, refuse even to acknowledge it. No mention whatsoever of the contents of what they described as “what he says are sworn affidavits.” Giuliani says that the Jacob affidavit has been made public, but they can’t be bothered to check. Instead, they launched new editorials about how dishonest and crazy Rudy Giuliani is, as if their job was to rebut Rudy Giuliani. But that’s not their job. Their job is to explain what just happened, preferably with some detail so that viewers at home can make up their minds. They didn’t do that. Behavior like this does not help anyone and diminishes the news media’s tiny remaining reserve of credibility. It certainly doesn’t inform the public

Why, exactly, was the press afforded an extra protection in the 1st Amendment, along with every state Constitution I’ve seen, if not to investigate government malfeasance with fear of reprisal? What they do is covered by Free Speech, right? Right now they are complicit in election fraud, and have killed themselves even more. It’s a disgrace, and they’re a disgrace. They refused to investigate anything.

That CNN “fact check” was published on WRAl at 330pm. Rudy’s show ended around 2pm or so, right? Meaning that said fact check was being writing while the press conference was going on or not long after. Meaning that CNN took zero time to investigate. That’s why they have “reporters”.

Anyhow

All of which brings us to the bombshell at the center of today’s press conference that was delivered by Powell, who also serves as Gen. Mike Flynn’s lawyer. For more than a week, Powell has been all over conservative media with the following story: This election was stolen by a collection of international leftists who manipulated vote tabulating software in order to flip millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The o”ther day on television, Powell said of Trump that when the fraud is finally uncovered, I think we’ll find he had at least 80 million votes.” In other words, rigged software stole about seven million votes in this election.

On Sunday night, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” texted her after watching one of her segments. What Powell was describing would amount to the single greatest crime in American history. Millions of votes stolen in a day, democracy destroyed, the end of our centuries-old system of self-government. Not a small thing.

Powell is not responding. She has not shown her evidence as of yet. She told Tucker’s people to stop contacting her. Here’s the thing: show the evidence. The People need to see it. And she and Rudy need to actually do something with it. It’s meaningless to say you have it and do nothing with it. The media won’t give it any credence like they did with the supposed evidence Democrat representatives like Eric Swalwell and and Adam Schiff said they had for 4 years and never showed. The media never demanded they show it. If Rudy and Powell want to show that Trump won the election so he is inaugurated (again) in January 2021, they have to show the evidence, and it must be conclusive.

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You Can Save The World’s Climate Fever By Sending Fewer Emails

By William Teach November 19, 2020 – 3:00 pm

The oceans are acidifying and doom is coming, and it’s all your fault

Climate change: Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?

Are you the type of person who always says thank-you? Well, if it’s by email, you should stop, according to UK officials looking at ways to save the environment.

The Financial Times reports that we may all soon be encouraged to send one fewer email a day, cutting out “useless” one-line messages – such as “thanks”.

Doing so “would save a lot of carbon”, one official involved in next year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow said.

But would it really make a huge difference?

The Financial Times report says the officials promoting this idea referred to a press release from renewable electricity firm Ovo Energy from one year ago.

It claimed that if every British person sent one fewer thank-you email a day, it would save 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year, equivalent to tens of thousands of flights to Europe.

The problem, however, is that even if the sums involved roughly worked out, it would still be a splash in the pond.

The UK’s annual greenhouse gas emissions were 435.2 million tonnes in 2019 – so the amount in question here is about 0.0037% of the national picture. And that’s if every single British person reduced their email output.

Yeah, but, see, what if we all also didn’t send the email that precipitated the thank you? And didn’t send a “you’re quite welcome, my pleasure” one? What if all the news outlets stopped sending emails to coordinate all their climate messaging?

“The reality is that a lot of the system will still have impact, whether or not the email is sent,” Prof Preist explains.

“Your laptop will still be on, your wi-fi will still be on, your home internet connection will still be on, the wider network will still use roughly the same amount of energy even with a reduction in volume.

Next up, they’ll restrict the amount of time your laptop, desktop, smartphone, and tablet can be on and connected to the WiFi, and a way to put your router into standby when not in use.

Rather than worrying about relatively low-impact emails, some researchers suggest we should turn our attention to services such as game and video-streaming and cloud storage which have a much larger effect.

But the topic is immensely complicated, and there is a debate about how estimates should be calculated – and who should be responsible for it.

Well, good luck with that one. You’ve lost most Millennials and GenZ, and a goodly chunk of GenX, who were really the big ones doing that stuff. Have fun with your cult.

Oh, and what’s the carbon footprint of all these climate crisis (scam) articles from climate cult outlets?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 19, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is what could possibly be an oil rig, but, even if it isn’t, it is a reminder that oil for Other People is bad, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Dems showing that they just cannot move on from Trump.

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China Joe Up For Forgiving $10,000 In Student Loan Debt Per Student

By William Teach November 19, 2020 – 10:30 am

Considering how much debt so many kids accrued in obtaining their mostly worthless degrees, how does this help?

Joe Biden supports ‘immediately’ canceling some student loan debt, penalizing American taxpayers

Former Vice President Joe Biden declared Monday that, as president, he would move to ensure that Americans with student loans have some of their debt “immediately” — by magic, apparently — wiped away.

Outstanding student loan debt currently stands at more than $1.5 trillion.

Biden was asked by a reporter on Monday whether student loan forgiveness is part of his economic agenda. Biden responded affirmatively, no doubt pleasing the Democratic Party’s far-left members.

“It’s holding people up,” Biden said of student loan debt, the New York Times reported. “They’re in real trouble. They’re having to make choices between paying their student loans and paying their rent, those kinds of decisions. It should be done immediately.”

Biden voiced support for a proposal from House Democrats that would forgive $10,000 of student loan debt per borrower.

“Immediate $10,000 forgiveness of student loans, helping people up there in real trouble,” Biden said, Fox News reported.

I guess that would be nice, but, what of the idiots who accrued $50K or more to get a degree in something ending in Studies or 5th Century Art or something? Let’s not forget that Democrats run most colleges and mostly set the costs of colleges. They’re they ones charging $200 for a text book that’s a quarter the size of a Steven King book which costs $30. And the ones teaching at colleges, pushing the kids into Victimhood for the loans they voluntarily signed, instead of working to pay for the degree or getting a scholarship.

House Democrats originally proposed forgiving $10,000 of student loan debt per borrower as part of their proposal for a second COVID-19 relief bill, which had a price tag of $3 trillion, making it the most expensive bill in history. The legislation was never considered in the Republican-controlled Senate because of its cost.

They scaled that back to only those who were “economically distressed” on the day before Trump declared the COVID emergency on March 12th, but, either way, is it any wonder that Republicans would not take the measure up?

Contrary to what progressives like Ocasio-Cortez claim, “canceling debt” is not something that actually exists. Lawmakers could remove a borrower’s liability for re-paying the debt, but the debt will be shifted onto someone.

In the case of federal student loans, the burden would be further shifted onto taxpayers.

Let’s not forget that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ie, Obamacare, made the federal government as the backers of all student loans, at which point the student debt exploded. So, if they “forgive” the debt, the federal government is on the hook, which means taxpayers are on the hook. Where will the money come from? And what happens next? What of the people who are in college now, who will demand forgiveness? And you can bet that homeowners, car owners, boat owners, people with credit card debt, etc, will demand the same thing. Some might be tongue in cheek, some might be real.

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Report: India Is The Only G20 Country To Meet Their “Historic” Paris Climate Agreement Commitments

By William Teach November 19, 2020 – 8:28 am

One thing to remember: for all the talk about how super awesome the Paris climate agreement was, virtually none of the the nations who signed it are keeping their commitments. For those who made commitments. And many of the commitments weren’t considered strong enough to comply with Paris. Heck, even France is not in compliance. Climate cultists can Blame Trump and the “lack of U.S. leadership”, but, did nations really need the U.S. to practice what they preach? If China Joe does rejoin the agreement, will the nations suddenly keep their commitments? Don’t count on it

India only country among G20 nations to meet climate change mitigation commitments

India is the only country among G-20 nations that is on track to meet its climate change mitigation commitments of 2 degrees Celcius under the 2015 Paris Agreement, said a report released by a coalition of 14 global thinktanks including TERI.

The development was flagged by Climate Transparency which examined the efforts of countries to combat climate change among the G20 nations.

According to the Climate Transparency report (CT) 2020 released on Wednesday, India’s actions on climate targets set under 2015 Paris Agreement makes it compatible to achieve curbs on global warming by 2 degrees Celsius.

The climate action tracker has put China in the ‘highly sufficient category’ despite its promise to become carbon neutral by 2060, according to a report in Times of India.

The CT report said that India has promised to reduce its emissions by 33-35 per cent and take action on energy, waste, transport and other sectors.

However, the report further said that India is not on the track to achieve the Paris climate agreement’s long-term goal of 1.5 Celcius target.

“India is the only country which is on track consistent to move the world to a 2-degree Celsius warming figure, though not a 1.5-degree warming future,” the Times of India report quoted TERI Director General Ajay Mathur as saying.

Huh. How about that? Of course, India’s pledges are actually pretty weak. And to say China is in the “highly sufficient category” is a joke. Talk is cheap, and that is what both nations are mostly doing, talk, especially China. Regardless, that only one nation is considered on track for 2C shows the folly of the Paris Climate Agreement. If you pledge to reduce your fossil fuels usage in half and call that historic, but you only reduce it by 10%, is that still historic?

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After Election Whooping, Florida Socialist Democrats Proclaim They “Aren’t F’ing Socialists”

By William Teach November 19, 2020 – 8:13 am

We can dissect the election ad nauseum. Yes, there were lots of, let’s just say, irregularities. Let’s also note that Trump did not help himself by creating enemies. He should have been battling the media and Democrats, not friendly fire with Republicans, and should have spent more time touting his achievements. Consider the way his spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany is able to battle White House reporters while also highlighting the reality. Somewhat TDS infused Ann Coulter is sorta right that Americans want Trumpism without Trump.

You know what they also do not want? Socialism, at least in large swaths of America.

‘I’m not a f—ing socialist’: Florida Democrats are having a postelection meltdown

It wasn’t just one bad cycle. For Democrats in Florida, Election Day 2020 was a tipping point in a long, painful buildup to irrelevancy.

After suffering crushing losses from the top of the ballot down, the state party now is mired in a civil war that could have profound consequences for future elections.

High hopes for gains in the state Legislature have given way to recriminations and finger-pointing. Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo is almost certain to lose her job, but no one has stepped up to claim her mantle. Prospective 2022 gubernatorial candidates, including state Rep. Anna Eskamani and state Sen. Jason Pizzo, are slinging blame. And redistricting, which could deliver Democrats into another decade of insignificance, is around the corner.

Even as Joe Biden heads to the White House, state Democrats know that President Donald Trump did more than just win in Florida. He tripled his 2016 margin and all but stripped Florida of its once-vaunted status as a swing state. His win, a landslide by state presidential standards, was built on record turnout and a Democratic implosion in Miami-Dade County, one of the bluest parts of the state.

“We have turnout problems, messaging problems, coalitions problems, it’s up and down the board,” said Democrat Sean Shaw, a former state representative who lost a bid for attorney general in 2018. “It’s not one thing that went wrong. Everything went wrong.”

Perhaps it isn’t the messaging, but the message? Nah, because, seriously, what’s unpopular about raising taxes, taking citizen’s guns, defunding the police, kowtowing to Iran and China, instituting Government run health care, and so much more?

While Democratic losses were particularly devastating in Florida, the party fared poorly across the country at the state level. The timing couldn’t be worse. Political redistricting begins next year and Republicans in control of statehouses across the country will have a chance to draw favorable maps that will help their state and federal candidates for the next decade.

That’s what has gotten forgotten in all this: there’s no state where Republicans had control that they did poorly. Many of them saw Republicans gain more General Assembly seats, and even in Blue states there were gains. Of course, Democrats make all sorts of Excuses for the losses when they were expecting wins, because they can never accept that some people are smart enough to realize that Democrat policies are bad for their lives

The day after the election, nine state lawmakers who had survived the GOP rout met by phone to air grievances, according to Sen. Jazon Pizzo. Among those on the call were Pizzo, who also is considering a run for governor, Annette Taddeo and Rep. Joe Geller — a mix of centrists and liberals.

The group fumed over pollsters who failed to capture what was happening on the ground, complained about the party’s use of out-of-state consultants and questioned whether they hit back hard enough against Republican falsehoods.

“I’m not a f—ing socialist,” Pizzo later said in an interview. “My life is a manifestation of the American dream. I believe in free markets.”

He may or may not be. As part of the Florida Senate, there’s still not a lot of information about him. He seems like a good guy, perhaps he is a centrist-Dem. But lots of his Comrades are Modern Socialists, otherwise known as Progressives (nice Fascists)

“We are a center-right state,” said Gwen Graham, another potential contender for governor who once represented a conservative congressional seat.

“There are so many wonderful young progressive leaders in this state, and I’m supportive of their passion and commitment,” she said in an interview. “I love their energy, but in the short term we need to elect a Democratic governor and need to be smart about 2022.”

If you’re touting the Progressives, you are far, far left, and all you’re trying to do is pretend you aren’t one for political expediency.

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Bad News: More People Have Access To Life Saving Surgery Which Is Bad For Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach November 18, 2020 – 3:00 pm

This puts a whole new spin on what could happen with Medicare For All  (Single Payer), eh? It’s also amazing that a publically funded news outlet will come out and say that this is bad

More People Can Access Surgery. That’s Great For Them, Awful For The Planet

Add surgeries to the list of human activities making the climate hotter and more volatile.

“Surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care is one of the major contributors to climate change within the health sector,” according to an article published this month in The Lancet scientific journal by doctors and researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They worry that the climate impact of current surgical practices will get worse as lifesaving procedures become accessible to the 5 billion people around the world, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, who currently can’t get them.

“We do need to get more people surgical care,” says Dr. Aaron Bernstein, co-author of the article and interim director of the Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment at Harvard University. “But if we do it in a model that has been developed in rich countries, it will break the climate — and we can’t afford that.”

So, I guess we’ll have to do surgeries like they do in 3rd world shitholes from now-on, eh?

The article zeroes in on surgical care because it’s the most energy- and waste-intensive specialty in health care. Operating rooms can consume three to six times more energy per square foot than elsewhere in a hospital, according to another Lancet study. That’s because heating, ventilation and air conditioning in operating rooms run on high even when no patients are in them. The article says that if hospitals ventilated operating rooms only when they were occupied, this would significantly reduce energy consumption. (snip)

Bernstein says it’s “absolutely” possible to increase access to surgical care without “breaking the climate,” despite challenges. For example, biomedical devices should be labeled with their energy-efficiency ratings, like refrigerators and TVs are, Wilburn suggests.

Tell you what: let’s practice this on Believers in anthropogenic climate change, especially the grand high poobahs. Oh, and we can start with the people at the Lancet. They’re good with, right?

“Sometimes wealthy countries tend to think that our approach is best,” Sheehan says, “when oftentimes, there is something to be learned from countries that are working with [fewer] resources.”

Right, right, because we’d all rather practice medicine like in 3rd world shitholes, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 18, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded due to extreme rain from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on an unworthy “historical” event.

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