Democrats Block Legislation Requiring COVID Tests For Illegals And Migrants

By William Teach March 17, 2021 – 10:38 am

What’s so bad about testing illegals and migrants? The same Democrats want U.S. citizens locked down and wearing masks, yet, not for those at our borders?

Democrats Block GOP Bill to Test Illegal Immigrants for Coronavirus

Democrats blocked a bill sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), which would require the federal government to test all illegal immigrants for coronavirus.

Republicans introduced a motion to block the previous question on a piece of legislation Tuesday tht would allow for the consideration of Miller-Meeks’ legislation, the Requiring Every Alien to Receive a COVID-19 Test (REACT) Act. This bill would mandate that the Homeland Security Department (DHS) test all migrants crossing the border illegally that the DHS releases into the country.

Miller-Meeks’ office noted that, as of March 8th, the federal government released 185 migrants into Brownsville, Texas, who have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Iowa conservative’s office also said that current law does not require the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or Immigration and Customs Enforcement to test illegal immigrants for coronavirus.

Miller-Meeks said on the House floor Tuesday night:

This week, I traveled to El Paso, Texas, to meet with CBP agents and officers. I saw firsthand the crisis they are facing, and I believe it is our job in Congress to address it and assist them. Approximately 50% of agents have tested positive for COVID-19, and very few migrants are being tested. My REACT Act would require that every migrant released from CBP or ICE custody is tested and receives a negative test. Border security and immigration is not an issue that only affects border states, it affects every community across the country. By ensuring that individuals entering the country are negative for COVID-19, we can help keep our communities safe and healthy.

Democrats voted to advance the previous question, or against Miller-Meeks’ bill, with 212 votes in against and 200 votes in favor of the Iowa Republicans’ legislation.

Americans locked down, illegals free to move about and spread disease. Let’s ship them all to areas that have high concentrations of Democratic Party voters, like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Albany, NYC, Boston, and so forth, see how they like it.

And this was a straight party line vote. Not one Democrat voted to require COVID testing on illegals/migrants. Bet they’d vote to require you to get tested. To force you to get a vaccine and carry around a vaccine passport.

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Bummer: British Teachers Complain They Lacking Training On Teaching ‘Climate Change” Which They Shouldn’t Even Be Teaching

By William Teach March 17, 2021 – 9:38 am

Should gym teachers be teaching about the climate crisis scam? How about English teachers? Sociology? Math? History? Music? Is it any wonder that more kids are getting degrees in worthless subjects when they are taught silly stuff in level classes

Most British teachers say they lack training on climate change – poll

Nearly three quarters of British teachers say they have not had enough training to educate students about climate change, the implications of global warming and how best to confront them, a poll showed on Tuesday.

Although 90% of teachers thought climate change education should be compulsory, 41% said it was rarely or never mentioned in their schools, according to a study by youth-led campaign group Teach the Future.

Seven in 10 teachers said they had not received adequate training on the topic.

In schools where children did learn about climate change, it was mostly limited to science and geography lessons, with only one in 20 teachers agreeing the issue was integral to many areas across the curriculum.

Why would it be taught in English or math class? Or classes on foreign languages? Or most other stuff? Heck, even teaching it science class is silly, since it isn’t actually about science. Perhaps in classes about world religions and cults.

Teach the Future campaigner Dorothy Joddrell said education was failing to prepare young people for the future.

“Our lives will be significantly affected by climate change, and our education should therefore prepare us to adapt to the climate crisis, empower us to contribute to its solutions and enable us to achieve climate justice,” she said.

Well, considering the Cult of Climastrology has a 30+ year history of failure in their prognostications, how can the CoC know what the future holds?

Teach the Future, which aims to improve education on climate change, was started by a group of secondary school students after the school climate strikes in 2019 led by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

The little snowflakes do understand they can actually learn on their own, right? They have enormous amounts of readily available material on the Internet, something most of us in Gen X didn’t have. We had to go to libraries. Hell, I did a 40+ page paper in grad school on the impacts of dumping garbage at sea, one of which was sea rise and rising temperatures, and what the governmental response should be, all from research in multiple libraries. Nothing on the Internet.

But research by the National Union of Students in 2019 showed only 4% of school children in England felt they knew a lot about climate change.

Well, here’s The Politically Incorrect Guide To Climate Change. And The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World s Top Climate Scientists. And INCONVENIENT FACTS: The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know. How about Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming. And The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania. And here’s something on identifying a cult.

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China Joe Wants Everyone To Wear A Mask Until Everyone Is Vaccinated

By William Teach March 17, 2021 – 9:15 am

Whatever happened to “wear a mask for 100 days to stop the virus”? Maybe he should take his own advice and stop taking it off while inside giving brief talking points

Biden tells Americans to keep wearing masks ‘until everyone is, in fact, vaccinated’

President Biden wants Americans to wear face masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus “until everyone is, in fact, vaccinated,” he said on Monday.

“I urge all local docs and ministers and priests to talk about why, why it’s important to get that vaccine and even after that, until everyone is, in fact, vaccinated, to wear this mask,” Biden said after giving an address on his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.

After his inauguration in Janury, Biden urged citizens to “mask up” for the next 100 days as federal and state governments work to make vaccines available. (snip)

Biden said in February that the U.S. will have enough supply of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the summer to inoculate 300 million Americans. However, he has also said that Americans should expect to continue to wearing masks into 2022.

When does Government wanting you to wear a mask flip from safeguarding citizens to wanting compliance for the sake of compliance so you’ll comply with more burdensome things later? What if lots of people refuse to be vaccinated? They can throw blame at Trump supporters, but, when you talk to people you realize how many who refuse to take the vaccine are bipartisan.

And, will people continue to wear the masks? When you look around, who is playing games with leaving their noses uncovered inside? Who’s pulling it just to their lips, down over their mouths, or leaving their faces completely uncovered? It darned sure isn’t just Trump supporters. I can confidently say, at least in my area, that at least 50% are Democratic Party voters.

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Who’s Up For Spending $131 Trillion By 2050 On Climate Crisis (scam)

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

Mind you, this is just for clean energy investment, not for all the other things the Cult of Climastrology wants to do

Climate Change: $131 Trillion Clean Energy Investments Needed to Avert Catastrophe, Report Says

Planned investment in clean energy must increase by 30% to a total of $131 trillion by 2050 to avert catastrophic climate change, with the need to massively scale up hydrogen production particularly acute, according to a study published on Tuesday.

In its annual flagship report, the International Renewable Energy Agency underscored the scale and pace of change needed to cap the rise in average global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius, in line with the 2015 Paris climate accord.

“The gap between where we are and where we should be is not decreasing but widening,” said Francesco La Camera, director-general of the Abu Dhabi-based organization, which has more than 160 member states. “We need a drastic acceleration of energy transitions to make a meaningful turnaround.”

OK. Then spend your own money on it. Why is it necessary to spend Other People’s money for your beliefs? I don’t ask gun grabbers to pay for my ammunition.

The agency’s “1.5C pathway” set out in the report found that fossil fuel consumption would have to fall by more than 75% by 2050, with oil and coal shrinking more quickly.

Use of natural gas would have to peak in 2025, although it would be the dominant fossil fuel by mid-century.

Renewable power capacity will have to expand more than ten-fold by mid-century, accompanied by a 30-fold increase in the electrification of transport, the report found.

I’m assuming that “clean energy” includes electric vehicles, non-gas stoves, fridges, and more. But, does this include retrofitting homes, all the climahysteric building requirements, compliance with production of food and goods, and more? Because that’s a lot of damned money. Where do they think it’s coming from, the Climate Fairy?

Warmists are fine with taking all their business and personal profits, right?

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If All You See…

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

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

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on Biden pushing tax increases.

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Democrats Pushing A Law That Even Californians Didn’t Like

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

It always seems to be something to kill jobs with Democrats, right?

Congressional Democrats push a job-killing law even Californians couldn’t stand

In the 2020 election, 63% of California voters backed President Biden. On the same ballot, those voters essentially repealed a job-killing state law that Biden and Democrats now want to impose on a national level in the form of the PRO Act.

That California law, A.B. 5, attempted to force businesses that use contract and freelance workers into hiring them with employee benefits. Instead, it predictably caused freelance work to dry up throughout the state. News conglomerates cut loose their California-based freelancers. A variety of independent contractors, such as truck drivers, professional service providers, and interpreters, suddenly faced financial ruin.

Legislators were forced to carve out multiple exceptions to their ill-considered law in a last-ditch effort to save it, but even that wasn’t enough. In the end, Uber and Lyft, the iconic ride-share applications that the law had originally targeted, came within a hair’s breadth of shutting down all service in California. A judge stepped in and blocked the law just in time. Finally, voters approved a ballot proposition exempting almost everyone from A.B. 5, and although its ill effects linger on for some, this destructive experiment in regulating work appeared to be over.

Unfortunately, Democrats have failed to learn from this mistake. They now want to pass the PRO Act, which, among other things, would codify the same job- and income-destroying rules of A.B. 5 that even Californians couldn’t stand.

The driving force behind this attempt to turn back the clock on employment is Big Labor unions, which cling to this as one more measure designed to delay their total obsolescence. For one thing, they favor the PRO Act because it would eliminate 27 states’ right-to-work laws. This is obviously a nonstarter. Right-to-work laws leave it to workers whether they want to join and pay dues to a union, a choice that should be a fundamental right.

As usual, the only way to pass it is to nuke the filibuster, which a few Democrats, such as Joe Manchin, realize not that it could boomerang on them, but will boomerang on them at some point. If it was good legislation there would be no need for a filibuster, because both parties would have enough votes. Instead, Democrats want to try and prop up the pro-Dem unions who are in bed with the Democrats, which would kill lots of those contract and freelance jobs.

In the last decade, smartphone applications have expanded the availability of independent and flexible freelance work to the average person. As a result, 36% of workers in the United States (and 42% of workers under age 34) were already deriving at least some income from the gig economy as of 2019. They are participating in such activities as ride-sharing, car-sharing, house-sharing, moving, delivery, scooter-charging, online tutoring, professional tasking, craft-making, etc. The list of opportunities is endless and evinces a creativity in the nation’s workforce that has probably been suppressed by the old 9-to-5 for decades.

These trends have probably only become more favorable to freelancing during the pandemic. Indeed, part-time side hustles have likely become full-time lifelines for many families.

According to one study, freelance workers report feeling healthier (68%) and happier (78%) outside of traditional employment. Another study found that more than 50% of them believe themselves more financially secure than they would be with traditional employers, and a third study found that 51% of freelancers say they would not return to regular employment for any amount of money.

This is very bad for unions, hence, bad for Democrats. If this somehow became law it would face massive numbers of lawsuits, starting with the federal government taking powers that the Constitution does not grant them. No one should be surprised that Democrats want to erase state and individual rights and take them for the central government.

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“Green” Groups Spending Big To Get Biden, Democrats To Spend Your Money On Climate (scam)

By William Teach March 16, 2021 – 7:51 am

Funny how these “green” groups always seem to have lots of money to spend on silly things. Why don’t they try giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their own lives carbon neutral, instead of trying to drag Other People into their cult beliefs?

Green groups launch $10M ad campaign pressuring Biden, Congress to spend huge on climate

A coalition of environmental groups backed by Democratic governors is launching a $10 million-plus ad campaign pressuring the Biden administration and Congress to spend trillions on climate change and clean energy as Washington gears up for its next fight over President Joe Biden’s infrastructure and jobs plan.

Dubbed “The Great American Build,” the campaign aims to set an aggressive starting point for negotiations over the size and scope of the infrastructure package, which is coming into focus as Biden’s next major push after last week’s passage of the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package.

Wait, we’re doing this infrastructure thing again?  Do we really want Joe in charge, after the horrible job he did with the Obama stimulus?

Biden campaigned on spending even more on infrastructure and green jobs. But many Democrats have said they are concerned that his commitment to reaching out to Republicans, combined with a lack of appetite for another huge round of spending so soon after the Covid-19 deal, could lead to a scaled-back infrastructure deal that would fall short of the trillions they say is needed to address the climate problem.

Can anyone point out anything bipartisan Joe is actually doing? Any reaching out he’s doing?

The first TV ad, which starts airing Tuesday on cable, uses black-and-white images of blue-collar workers to argue that America’s builders, roofers, electricians and steelworkers would be the ones to benefit from investing heavily in new, climate-friendly infrastructure, reinforcing the Biden administration’s claim that clean infrastructure and jobs go hand in hand.

“Your country is calling you to rebuild America, to create a cleaner, safe, more prosperous future for all,” the ad says. “Tackling climate change — this is the job of our lifetime.”

Sounds like a giveaway to unions

Organizers said they were spending more than $10 million on the campaign, which will include grassroots organizing and additional TV ads. The first ad was produced by Pereira O’Dell, the advertising house that recently created an ad featuring former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama encouraging Covid-19 vaccinations as part of the It’s Up To You campaign.

Grassroots? By a top down organization? I don’t think that word means what you think it means

A key goal is to put more political pressure on lawmakers who campaigned on bold action on climate to deliver, said Lori Lodes, executive director of Climate Power, which organized the campaign with the League of Conservation Voters and the Potential Energy Coalition.

“Americans elected pro-climate majorities in Congress, and they expect big things on the issues that drove them to the polls — including clean energy and climate change,” Lodes said.

OK, let’s build lots of nuclear power plants. They’re good with that, right? No? Huh.

“In some ways the bigger they go on the spending side, the easier it is to sell a broader climate package, because the net economic effect is pretty big,” said Navin, who is now at the government affairs firm Boundary Stone Partners. “I think the climate groups rightly recognize that this is their moment for action.”

Hey, remember how Obama’s Stimulus stimulated the economy? It didn’t do much at all? Huh.

Inherently linked to the debate is the looming question of how aggressively the U.S. will commit to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under its renewed participation in the Paris Agreement, which former President Donald Trump withdrew from and Biden rejoined. That announcement, expected in April, will require laying out what exactly the U.S. plans to do domestically to meet the goal and demonstrating that there’s the political support do to it.

He can lay out all he wants, and he’ll see GOP states blow him off, along with opposition from federally elected Republicans, all who will refuse to ruin our economy for a scam. Especially since there was no Senate agreement on Paris.

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Florida Has That Boomtown Feel

By William Teach March 16, 2021 – 7:34 am

Funny what the state taking a measured, realistic, non-authoritarian approach will do, no matter how much Democrats and the national media like to rail at Republican governor Ron DeSantis

Florida’s pandemic response gets a second look from the national media

After a solid year of living with a pandemic, the national press is beginning to ask the question that even Democrats have been quietly pondering in the Sunshine State: Was Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pandemic response right for Florida?

Don’t forget: More than 32,000 Floridians have died, a number the state’s leaders rarely acknowledge, but our death rate is no worse than the national average — and better than some states with tighter restrictions.

The Los Angeles Times compared Florida and California’s responses:

  • “California imposed myriad restrictions that battered the economy, and have left most public school students learning at home for a year. … Florida adopted a more laissez-faire approach decried by public health experts — allowing indoor restaurant dining, leaving masks optional and getting children back in classrooms sooner.”
  • But, it points out, “If California had Florida’s death rate, roughly 6,000 more Californians would be dead from COVID-19, and tens of thousands of additional patients likely would have landed in already overburdened hospitals. And if Florida had California’s death rate, roughly 3,000 fewer Floridians would be dead from COVID-19.”

Maybe. Maybe not. It certainly didn’t help that lots of Yankees, especially from the NYC area, decided to get the heck out of dodge as the pandemic was starting, potentially dragging it to other states, including Florida.

On Sunday’s front page, the New York Times explored the positives — from the booming real-estate market to Florida’s low unemployment rate — of an early reopening: “Much of the state has a boomtown feel,” writes Patricia Mazzei, “a sense of making up for months of lost time.”

The Times notes that Florida’s unemployment rate is 5.1%, compared to 9.3% in California, 8.7% in New York and 6.9% in Texas.

How long will it take for business to return to California? Lots of businesses and entrepreneurs were already in the process of leaving California due to their bad government policies on business and raising the minimum wage, along with other measures like a massive cost on living. So many are nowhere close to being able to fully reopen and start to make money.

Our (Axios Tampa Bay) thought bubble: We’ve long known that the state’s pro-business Republican leadership was making a sort of grand bargain: that the death toll was the price paid for keeping commerce flowing and keeping kids in school.

The leftists at Axios seem upset that Floridians would be pro-freedom and pro-not losing their livelihoods. DeSantis wasn’t sending seniors to nursing homes to die. He kept commerce going in the face of the knowledge that people would die. They would die regardless. It was, what’s that phrase? A global pandemic. Funny how so many in the Credentialed Media had harsher words, and still do, for an American governor but few if any for the Chinese government that spread COVID around the world.

NY legislature proposes nearly $7 billion in new taxes on wealthy

New York wants to sock it to Wall Street and the wealthy.

Both houses of the state legislature have proposed budgets that include nearly $7 billion in new and increased taxes on businesses and the rich.

The tax increases come despite a $100 billion avalanche of fresh federal aid to New York, including $12.6 billion directly to state government coffers. (snip)

To help cover the new proposed expenses such as rent for “New Yorkers who do not have access to unemployment, federal stimulus funds and other assistance programs’’ — including illegal immigrants — the pols said they want to raise the nearly $7 billion in new revenue through the taxes.

This is the kind of thing a Democratic state which implemented massive authoritarian controls on businesses needs to do, and wants to do. New York’s business is not really coming back at this time. And, something like this will simply drive away those who fund and create businesses. These people can simply move their primary residence elsewhere. Can you imagine if they moved the stock market to a business friendly state, like Florida? The last thing New Yorkers need is spending money on illegal aliens rather than actual Americans, but, Americans never seem to be the priority of Democrats.

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Who’s Up For A Climate Conscious Lent Or Something

By William Teach March 15, 2021 – 3:00 pm

What happens when a doomsday cult infiltrates a major world religion? This

A Climate-Conscious Lent: Healthy food for people and the planet

A complex food system — which includes production, transportation, processing, packaging, storage, wholesale and retail sale, as well as consumption, loss and waste — feeds most of the people in the world and provides an income for more than 1 billion people, according to a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

But although food production per capita has increased over the past six decades, so has malnutrition. And the entire food system is under increased stress from climate change, which is shifting growing seasons and contributing to weather extremes like drought and severe storms. This leads to decreases in crop and livestock productivity and, in some cases, to conflicts. (snip)

Individuals can contribute by making more climate-friendly food choices, but there must also be public policies that include comprehensive solutions to improve and protect food systems, the report says. This includes things like crop insurance for farmers, shorter supply chains that are less prone to disruption in emergencies, better storage for crops and food, more production of healthy food and less of carbon-intensive products, and government food nutrition programs.

The past year has shown the importance of preparing the food production and supply chain for emergencies, whether they come in the form of pandemics or climate change.

Lest you think this comes from the typical Climate Cranks, nope, from the National Catholic Reporter, which seems to be attempting to substitute the actual meaning of Lent (at its heart, following the teachings of Christ more faithfully) with climate cultism.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 15, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fridge with an ice maker causing the world to burn, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gen Z Conservative, with a post on government dismissing cases against Antifa and punishing patriots.

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