Bat Soup Arrests: How Does 6 Months In Jail For Holding A Yard Sale Sound?

By William Teach April 22, 2020 – 7:55 am

See, this is the kind of stuff that causes protests for authoritarian over-reach

Idaho woman faces jail for holding yard sale in violation of coronavirus stay-at-home order

A northern Idaho woman with six kids is facing six months in jail on a charge of holding a yard sale in violation of the state’s coronavirus stay-at-home order.

The misdemeanor summons was issued to Christa Thompson, 33, of Rathdrum on Friday, according to Rathdrum police and local media reports.

“The Rathdrum Police Department attempted to educate and warn prior to issuing a citation,” Police Chief Tomi McLean said Friday in a Facebook post that has generated more than 1,400 comments.

“Rathdrum PD has also received several complaints from the public in regard to the yard sale,” she said. “This was a large non-essential yard sale that filled the entire front yard and spilled into the back yard as well. These yard sale items could be seen from Highway 41.”

Under Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s stay-at-home coronavirus order, garage sales and yard sales are not an essential business and are prohibited. Violations of the order are misdemeanors punishable by a 6-month jail sentence or a $1,000 fine.

“Officers were on scene on April 9, 2020 when the owner asked if the yard sale was in violation of the Governor’s orders,” McLean said. “The officer educated the homeowner that the yard sale was in violation of the Governor’s stay-at-home-order, and they were admonished not to have the yard sale.”

So, there were some snitches, eh? Why is this there business? And then law enforcement comes by? What if everyone was still social distancing? Regardless, this is someone doing this on their private property. A yard sale. Are people not disturbed that law enforcement is coming to arrest someone having a yard sale? That the Governor (who is a Republican, let’s not that, because it apparently isn’t just Democrats being little Fascists) can simply deem everything not liked as non-essential, and have a citizen arrested like this? With the potential for 6 months in jail.

Also in Idaho

Coronavirus: Idaho mother’s arrest at closed playground area sparks protest

The arrest of an Idaho mother who allegedly refused to leave a playground area closed by the coronavirus pandemic sparked a protest at Meridian City Hall Tuesday, according to multiple reports.

Sara Brady, 40, was allegedly captured on video telling an officer to arrest her as she participated in a smaller planned protest at the park with a group of people and her two children nearby, according to reports.

“Arrest me for being difficult. Do it! Record it!,” she was allegedly heard saying. Police gave her a count of five to leave, according to Boise’s KTVB.

Now, this isn’t quite so black and white for liberties. Parks, and areas of parks, are closed periodically for reasons. In this case, it was the play equipment, which has plastic, and reports say bat soup virus can stick to plastic and metal and such for several hours to several days (which is interesting, because they also say that we shouldn’t worry about it sticking to stuff we buy at the supermarket, which can be in plastic containers). Kids play on it, someone gets it, they pass it on to older people. And, the rest of the park was open. There’s a time to make a stand and a time not to. This was in the “not to”, in my opinion.

Her arrest prompted about 100 people to demonstrate in front of Meridian City Hall.

This is not the hill to die on, as the saying goes, but, you know what? They can do them, because the Idaho Constitution says so. Article I section 10. #9 is freedom of speech. #2 is about power being inherent in the people.

There is a much bigger protest planned at the Idaho capital for Friday.

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AOC Thinks This Is The Time To Pass The Green New Deal

By William Teach April 21, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Let’s not forget, AOC and Ed Markey introduced the Green New Deal over a year ago, in February 2019. When Mitch McConnell held a vote on it in the Senate, every Democrat voted present, including Markey. And AOC flipped out, wondering why they were voting on HER legislation in the Senate, totally forgetting Markey submitted it. Since that time, she has clamored and yammered for the GND, but has never demanded a vote on it in the House. So, of course

Everyone should ask her when she is going to demand a vote on it. Heck, perhaps there is some reporter out there who might do their job and ask her the same. Ask her if she has given up her own use of fossil fuels and made her life carbon neutral. They won’t, though. Do Democrat voting and supporting reporters realize a GND would make it really hard to gather the news, as travel costs would skyrocket, and they wouldn’t be able to just head off somewhere to do a story?

Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

Also in stupidity

Brady was solo in the park, no one around, so where is the harm? This is what’s getting people upset. We’re cool with being careful, what we don’t like is this dictatorial government. They say “make sure you social distance”, we say “OK.” Then they say “you must stay home!!!!” No.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that will soon be a thing of the past, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on rumors that Kim Jong Un is in really bad health.

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Climate Crisis Scam: Will Florida Soon Be Lost? Will The North Pole Soon Be Ice Free?

By William Teach April 21, 2020 – 10:30 am

Yes, we’re back to the prognostication of an ice free Arctic. How’s that worked out all the other times?

Climate crisis: North pole ‘soon to be ice free in summer’, scientists say

The Arctic Ocean will likely be ice-free during summers before 2050, researchers say.

Amid rapid global warming – with average Arctic temperatures already 2C above what they were in the pre-industrial era – the extent of the sea ice is diminishing ever faster.

As the climate crisis worsens, scientists say it is now only the efficacy of protection measures which will determine for how many more years our planet will continue to have a northern ice cap year round.

A major new piece of research involving 21 leading institutes and using 40 different climate models has found that whatever action is taken, we are on course to see ice-free summers in the coming decades.

The research is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The scientists considered the future of Arctic sea-ice cover in scenarios with high future CO2 emissions and little climate protection – as expected, Arctic sea ice disappeared quickly in summer in these simulations.

Let’s see, it was supposed to be ice free by 2008, 20012, 2013, 2014, 2015, among the bigger predictions. How’d that work out? And ice free by 2049. Oh, and here’s one saying it could maybe possibly we think be ice free by 2020. What will they say when it isn’t? What’s the penalty for being wrong? Oh, right, nothing, they just make another prognostication.

Will Florida be lost forever to the climate crisis?

Few places on the planet are more at risk from the climate crisis than south Florida, where more than 8 million residents are affected by the convergence of almost every modern environmental challenge – from rising seas to contaminated drinking water, more frequent and powerful hurricanes, coastal erosion, flooding and vanishing wildlife and habitat.

If scientists are right, most of the lower half of the state will be underwater by the end of the century. Yet despite this grim outlook, scientists, politicians, environment groups and others are tackling the challenges head on.

Seas barely rising, totally within the average, so, less than it should during a Holocene warm period. Florida had a record drought for no landfalling tropical systems, including hurricanes. They sure haven’t been more frequent and more powerful. Erosion is utterly normal. As is flooding. Vanishing wildlife and habitat is real, though it has nothing to do with global anthropogenic climate change, though it does effect land use.

Florida will be fine.

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Majority Of Young Warmists Say ‘Climate Change” Has Effected Their Life Decisions Or Something

By William Teach April 21, 2020 – 9:05 am

Are these life decisions like “should I eat a Tide Pod”? Should I stick a penny in a socket and film it for Tik Tok? Should I sign a loan to go to college that is way outside my earning potential and then get a degree that is more worthless than one in Basket Weaving?

Majority of young Americans say climate change affects their major life decisions

Seventy-five percent of Gen Zers and 77 percent of millennials said climate change has affected their major life decisions, according to new research.

The survey of 2,000 Americans, split evenly by four generations, revealed 78 percent of Gen Zers aren’t planning — or didn’t want — to have children of their own as a result of climate change.

Seven in 10 millennials felt the same — but that’s not all: In addition to their thoughts on parenthood, 50 percent of Gen Zers said their career path changed due to climate change.

And 73 percent of millennials say climate change affected where they planned to live.

This is what happens when someone is indoctrinated into a cult, with their schools and news outlets pimping it.

It hasn’t only affected their decisions — it’s also impacting their health, as results revealed climate change has negatively affected 59 percent of respondents’ mental health (71 percent for millennials and 67 percent for Gen Z).

People in cults are known for their good mental health.

Commissioned by Seventh Generation and conducted by OnePoll in advance of Earth Day, the survey split respondents by generation — Generation Z, millennials, Generation X and baby boomers — and compared their thoughts and actions toward climate change.

Turns out, 44 percent believe — regardless of our actions — the Earth will become uninhabitable as a result of climate change.

Of those, the average respondent believes we have about 108 habitable years left — but that number decreased across generations; Gen Zers believe we have 95 years, while baby boomers averaged a slightly more optimistic 119.

Deranged people, Just deranged.

“We believe climate change is not only this generation’s problem to solve, but that the solution will be its legacy,” said Joey Bernstein, CEO of Seventh Generation. “Now more than ever, we want to underscore the importance of addressing the climate crisis and are inspired by the youth climate movement, which is committed to keeping our planet hospitable for years — and generations — to come.”

They can’t even solve their own problems. They expect Someone Else to pay off their loans, and demand that they be given jobs they haven’t earned and can’t actually do. And, most of them are failing to practice what they preach. Like with their student loans, they expect Someone Else, That Guy, Other People to solve it as well as bear the burdens of the climate cult’s beliefs.

Ask these Believers what they are willing to do in their own lives and willing to pay themselves, and see how that works out.

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Group Wants People To Share Their Bat Soup Virus Check With Illegal Aliens

By William Teach April 21, 2020 – 8:42 am

There’s an interesting question that WRAL failed to ask: did the people who put this together donate their own money? Or are they just trying to get Other People to do this?

#ShareYourCheck: Raleigh, Durham leaders encourage donating stimulus checks to immigrant taxpayers

A group of elected officials from Raleigh and Durham are encouraging the public to donate a portion of their stimulus checks to help immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The group includes Durham Mayor Steve Schewel and six councilmembers.

Called the #ShareYourCheck Challenge, the group is encouraging people who received stimulus payments to contribute part or all of their checks, if they can, to a new COVID-19 Immigrant Solidarity Fund, which helps undocumented families who can not receive federal stimulus checks despite being taxpayers.

Oh, it’s a challenge! Like one of those silly dance ones or taking off your pants while doing a handstand.

The #ShareYourCheck Challenge was created by Siembra NC, which works to assist families impacted by immigration detentions.

Undocumented taxpayers are not eligible for stimulus checks, and neither are U.S. citizens who are married to undocumented immigrants and file jointly with their spouses. In 2018, undocumented taxpayers in North Carolina paid an estimated $639 million in state and federal taxes, according to a press release.

The #ShareYourCheck campaign launched Saturday, with 219 donors raising $13,063 during a 12-hour Facebook Live. Among the donors were younger immigrant members of Siembra NC who already pledged their stimulus checks. The telethon benefited the #ShareYourCheck Challenge and seven Raleigh immigrant women whose husbands have been detained by ICE since January.

How much money did Siembra NC donate? They are a group that supports people who have broken U.S. federal laws.

Many Raleigh and Durham elected officials have taken the pledge. But, how much money did they give? And why are they pledging to support people who are unlawfully present in the United States?

Meanwhile

Trump to Suspend Immigration to the U.S. During Coronavirus Crisis

President Donald Trump says he will “temporarily suspend immigration” to the United States while the Chinese coronavirus crisis continues to claim American lives.

On Monday evening, Trump said he will pause all immigration to the U.S. — a moratorium that has not been enacted in four decades — while at least 22 million Americans are unemployed due to mandatory business closures by state governments.

“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

This has, of course, driven Credentialed Media outlets moonbat, with lots of opinion pieces disguised as straight news and “analysis”, as well as lots of crazy opinion pieces. Especially the NY Times.

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Feel Like Sunbathing Away From Everyone? There’s An Arrest For That

By William Teach April 20, 2020 – 3:01 pm

If there’s a nation that might want to stay away from looking Fascistic, Italy is it

Watch: Police Hunt Down, Fine, Man Lying Alone on an Italian Beach

Italian police used drones, quads, and a jeep to hunt down and fine a man thought to be spreading coronavirus by lying alone on an Italian beach.

The City of Rimini posted a video of the police action against the sunbather on its website, boasting of the efficiency of local police in bringing the miscreant to justice.

On Sunday, the Italian news service ANSA reported that photos of the police operation had gone viral, unleashing an unexpected avalanche of fury against the government for its “dictatorial” methods, while others praised the lone bather for his exemplary “social distancing.”

All that for a sunbather with no one within at least hundreds of yards.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 20, 2020 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post wondering if the shutdown of NYC failed.

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You Know What Can Solve The Pandemic? A Green New Deal

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

The climate cultists just won’t give up, will they? I wonder if the UK Guardian, which published this, realizes that a Green New Deal would restrict their ability to use fossil fuels to gather and disseminate the news? Or that solar and wind wouldn’t be able to power their operations? Since they are also against nuclear, will they hand-crank the servers? How about the two writers? Do they realize how much a GND will restrict their own lives and take their money?

Climate crisis will deepen the pandemic. A green stimulus plan can tackle both

The Covid-19 epidemic is ravaging our tattered healthcare system and shredding our economy. In the past month, over 22 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits, compounding the fear that unemployment could breach 32% absent massive public action. This is an unmitigated human disaster, recalling the horrors of the Great Depression. And it gets worse. We’re also facing the climate emergency. Immediate relief is necessary – but not sufficient. To tackle all these crises at once, we need a Green Stimulus that creates jobs and lifts up communities in ways that also slash carbon pollution, increase resiliency, and develop a just, modern economy.

The world economy right now looks like a world with a GND. Why have Warmists not made their own lives carbon neutral if they really believe?

Climate change is about to supercharge the coronavirus emergency. In April, California’s wildfire season will start. Restrictions on work caused by the pandemic will make it harder for firefighters to conduct controlled burns that steer fires – and smoke – from homes. Californians’ lungs could face Covid-19 and unusually intense smoke at the same time. A third of the country also faces serious flood risk through the spring. And in summer and fall, forecasters predict “above average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States”. We’re already seeing this catastrophic convergence elsewhere: In Ecuador, a muted government response to flooding in indigenous communities, for fear of spreading the virus; in Fiji, devastated by Cyclone Harold this week, 19 confirmed coronavirus cases are casting doubt on how to rebuild.

Hurricanes have always happened. Some periods are up, some are down. Nothing out of the ordinary. Funny, though, because Warmists did dismiss the long periods between landfalling hurricanes, both major and minor, as an aberration. Or blamed it on ‘climate change.’ Most of the wildfires were caused by humans, either by accident or on purpose. Not a tiny uptick in CO2.

Here in the US, green stimulus is easily the best way to create good jobs through public investment. According to a 2011 World Bank study, $1m invested in the oil and gas in the United States creates just five jobs, compared to 17 jobs per million dollars invested in energy-saving building retrofits, 22 jobs for mass transit, 13 for wind, and 14 for solar. Kammen’s research and that of other institutes all concur that investment in a modern green economy is a more efficient job creator than the fossil sector.

In other words, those jobs do not pay as well.

For these reasons, we recently joined nine other experts in social and climate policy to write a letter to Congress outlining a menu of policy options for a Green Stimulus. Our proposals span eight sectors of the economy. But fundamentally, a Green Stimulus is about mobilizing massive public funds – say, $2tn to start – in specific green investments to create high-quality jobs and improve the quality of life, especially in low-income communities, communities of color, and indigenous communities, which have suffered the most disinvestment and pollution in recent decades.

It’s almost like this is really about controlling people, not science.

  • Daniel Aldana Cohen is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsvylania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress @aldatweets
  • Daniel Kammen is professor at the University of California, Berkeley, coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and former Science Envoy for the United States Department of State @dan_kammen

So both have a vested interest in keeping this scam going. Surprise?

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Warmists Seem Super Excited To Get Rid Of Fossil Fuels, Using Current Affairs As A Model

By William Teach April 20, 2020 – 8:04 am

People aren’t using as much fossil fuels because government dictators have told them to stay home, have closed businesses, have caused businesses to whither, what with their policies to react to bat soup virus

From the article

Oil, it has been said, is the blood coursing through the veins of the world economy. In 2020 the economy is bleeding red. As covid-19 keeps workers at home and planes on the ground, demand for oil has fallen faster and further than at any point in its history. Amplifying the shock, a furious row between Saudi Arabia and Russia set off a price war in early March. Last month oil prices fell by more than half, leaving a giant industry reeling.

The rest of the article is behind a real paywall, but, it’s unnecessary to read the rest, you know where it is going. It will bash fossil fuels, say this is the world we need. “The oil slump is a glimpse of what is to come.” Right, people sitting at home not working, not earning, possibly losing their apartments, homes, cars. Dependent on government. Mass unemployment.

Only so many people can work from home. Can retail work from home? How about factories? If kids are not in school, but at home, at least one parent has to be home. Fewer flights? Trying to restrict where citizens can travel.

It is interesting that, despite urban areas being full of Warmists that their urban areas are pollution filled.

Why do green economists taking such delight in suffering?

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