#ReOpenNC Plans Tuesday Rally, Will Do It Every Tuesday If Necessary

By William Teach April 20, 2020 – 7:51 am

Yesterday might have been Sunday, but, there were a lot more people out and about that previous. Home Depot and Lowe’s were slammed. And most people were practicing social distancing

ReOpenNC rally planned for Tuesday in downtown Raleigh

Protesters calling for a quicker reopening of the North Carolina economy amid the coronavirus pandemic plan to rally Tuesday near the governor’s mansion and say they’ll do so every Tuesday as needed.

Their attorney said members plan to exercise social distancing at the 11 a.m. protest. A once-discussed plan to bus people in has been set aside, attorney Anthony Biller said. Biller says he’s asking the governor and Wake County to respond by 2 p.m. tomorrow and resolve this. If not, he says, he’ll go to federal court to protect his clients’ rights.

Biller sent a letter to the governor’s office saying protesters should be able to exercise their First Amendment rights without fear of arrest. “It’s easy to have freedom of the press and freedom of assembly when everything is fine, and there is nothing contentious. But it’s times like these that we need to be the most diligent about respecting those rights,” he added.

Kinda like the whole “if we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” The 1st Amendment is specifically about freedom of speech and freedom to protest peaceably (among others) when government is involved. To be able to say what you want to say to criticize government, to protest government.

It’s unclear how many people will attend, but 9th District Congressman Dan Bishop, a Charlotte-area Republican, said Saturday that he plans to go, and the group’s Facebook page has more than 50,000 members. (it’s over 60,000 today)

ReOpenNC’s goal, according to organizer Ashley Smith, is to do away with stay-at-home orders and reopen the state economy in full at the end of April.

“The group is in favor of reopening North Carolina completely on May 1,” Smith said Sunday. “I believe that people will continue to make their own judgment calls. … Social distancing, hand washing, all those things are good practices, but they don’t need to be enforced by executive orders.”

And there it is, let people make their own choices, with health professionals guiding the NC government which provides guidance, but not Dictates.

Gov. Roy Cooper has said the state likely will relax some restrictions in the coming weeks, but he’s made it clear others will remain. He has promised careful consideration and to roll out more details soon.

It’s easy for him: he lives in a big mansion, has food brought in, is getting paid, and can travel around whenever he wants.

“At the end of the day, law enforcement has an obligation– I have an obligation — to uphold the law, and so we’re going to do that,” Wake County Attorney Freeman added.

No, their first obligation is to uphold the US and NC Constitutions.

(WRAL) More than 500,000 people are without a job in North Carolina because of coronavirus, according to the Division of Employment Security. On Sunday, Dr. Mike Walden, an economics professor at N.C. State University, said unemployment rates should improve by the fall as businesses begin rehiring. Walden also said it could take more than a year for North Carolina to see a drop in unemployment numbers.

People who aren’t working aren’t earning.

Wrightsville Beach will reopen its beaches at noon on Monday with some limitations. All access points, except for East Salisbury Street, will reopen, according to a press release. WECT reports beaches will be open for individual exercising only, such as walking, jogging, swimming and water sports. The exercise group can not have more than ten people in it.

This is what we’re talking about. You can’t sunbathe, but, why not be able to walk on the beach, fish, get in the water (it’s still a bit chilly, about 60F)

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster wants to open non-essential businesses in South Carolina starting Tuesday. The order will apply to numerous nonessential stores, including department stores, flea markets, florists, bookstores and music shops. Grocery stores, pharmacies, home improvement stores and medical facilities have been allowed to stay open during the pandemic.

And people can make the choice of whether to go. I’d probably stay out of a flea market at the moment, but I’d love to be able to go to PetsCo or PetsMart for a few new fish. Could use some new sneakers. Let it be our choice.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 19, 2020 – 1:01 pm

…is horrible bad weather from carbon pollution snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on why we need to keep Trump in charge of appointing federal judges.

It’s snow week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 19, 2020 – 9:19 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day to be an American. The sun is shining, the deer were in my backyard, and we will prevail over this outbreak of some thinking they are dictators. This pinup is by Vaughn Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That discusses Bat Soup Virus models compared to climate models
  2. 357 Magnum covers non-essential employees mad they still have paychecks
  3. Always On Watch has humor for the times
  4. America’s Watchtower covers your cellphone monitoring your voice and breathing
  5. Blazing Cat Fur highlights the snitches of Europe
  6. Brass Pills has a reasonable take on opening up the country
  7. Creeping Sharia has news you’ve probably not heard, about jihadis arrested in Germany intending to attack U.S. bases
  8. Free North Carolina notes #repopennc suing governor Cooper
  9. Geller Report News shows Handsy Joe going sleepy during an interview
  10. hogewash has some interesting data on the spread of Bat Soup Virus
  11. IOTW Report covers a UK cop threatening to just make something up
  12. Legal Insurrection discusses snitch-lines in NYC and LA
  13. Moonbattery notes Australian police hunting down campers in remote areas
  14. MOTUS A.D. discusses her imperial majesty Gretchen Whitmer offering the peasants a slight reprieve
  15. And last, but not least, Noisy Room covers the people rebelling against tyrannical government

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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Discovering Federalism: Washington Post Thinks States Can Band Together Despite Trump

By William Teach April 19, 2020 – 7:44 am

It’s really great how so many Leftists are discovering federalism and the 10th Amendment. Of course, this is what Trump wants. He’s said time and time again that he wants the states and municipalities to be the leaders in all this, because they are closer to the actual citizens. They know them better. They know the conditions on the ground better than some functionary in D.C. This is the way it is supposed to work. But, see, it’s always about Resisting Orange Man Bad

States can band together to fight the virus — no matter what Trump wants

With sudden, fearsome ruthlessness, the pandemic has laid bare the essential weaknesses — and, yes, also strengths — of America’s unique federal structure. When Washington proved slow in responding to the new coronavirus, states including California, Ohio and New York moved aggressively, imposing stay-at-home measures, closing parks and ramping up testing spaces to head off an even deadlier disaster. At the same time, our decentralized approach has left us with a patchwork system in which citizens in some states remain vulnerable.

With the president eager to reopen the economy May 1 — and clashing with governors over who has the power to do so — the question of the relative power of states vs. the federal government has rarely been more important. The Constitution is largely on the side of the states. Certainly, Trump doesn’t hold ultimate authority over local public health matters. At the same time, there are aspects of this crisis to which states simply can’t respond individually.

California, Oregon and Washington — and, separately, seven Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states — announced this week that they would collaborate as they consider cautiously restarting their economies; a group of Midwestern states may follow. But these states could go an important step further by establishing “interstate compacts,” a legally binding form of coordination sanctioned by law. They could thereby retain some of the advantages of local autonomy yet also gain some of the benefits of larger coordination. The White House could challenge these compacts — but it’s unlikely to prevail, absent a major change to constitutional law.

It’s also unlikely to challenge the compacts. Why would it? Trump is mostly leaving the authority in the hands of the states, where it rightly belongs.

Finally, experience with renewed waves of infection in Singapore, Hong Kong and China underscores the danger of migration from jurisdictions with lax mitigation policies. Whereas today New Yorkers are blamed in Florida for spreading the pandemic, the boot will probably soon be on the other foot.

While the Constitution protects the right to interstate travel, the protection is not absolute. It’s possible to imagine a compact among states with effective stay-in-place policies that enabled travel among those states, while limiting the entry of residents of states that failed to act in timely fashion against the coronavirus.

I’d bet that if the person in question is an illegal alien the states involved won’t stop them, but welcome them with open arms. I’m also betting that there will be lawsuits a-plenty if states restrict access to legal U.S. citizens, as that would be un-Constitutional. But, then, many might just say “don’t want my business? You’ve lost it forever.”

The past two months only confirm that state reliance on the federal government during the pandemic is a fool’s errand (unless, perhaps, you happen to be a partisan ally of the White House). Absent effective national action, compacts permit coalitions of willing states to protect public health gains and prevent the backsliding that a precipitous economic reopening would allow. So long as Washington dallies, states should keep in mind this constitutionally permitted path to collective action.

Wait, you mean the federal government is slow and ineffective quite often? Huh. Of course, Lefties will immediately push for big centralized government when all this is over.

State and local governments can be dictatorial, too

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1251633431299096578

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NYC’s Empty Streets Are A Lesson For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 18, 2020 – 3:08 pm

You have to wonder if the climate cultists really think about what they write, because it really doesn’t look good. Or, do they just not care and this is what they really want?

Video: In New York’s Empty Streets, Lessons for Climate Change in the Response to Covid-19

The world is reeling from yet another week of the coronavirus pandemic, with death counts rising, economies spiraling downward and half the global population under orders to stay at home.

But there are also lessons from the response to Covid-19 that can be applied to the climate crisis, and opportunities for cities to take the policies implemented to deal with the pandemic and apply them to their efforts to slow climate change. (snip)

One similarity, Gerrard notes, is the way in which both climate change and Covid-19 disproportionately affect low income and marginalized communities. New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, who serves the Lower East Side community of Manhattan, agreed. “When you think about our historically marginalized, disenfranchised communities,” she said, “I think that you will see how those inequities [have] really been brought to light” by weather events related to climate change and by the Covid-19 pandemic. (snip)

Many U.S. cities and states have enacted climate change initiatives, particularly since President Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement in 2017. Perhaps the most ambitious of these plans is in New York City, currently the epicenter of the U.S. Covid-19 outbreak. Amy Turner, a fellow at the Cities Climate Law Initiative at Columbia University, helps cities achieve their climate goals. She sees “an opportunity to marry some of the elements of climate policy and Covid policy, as we think about our response to both crises.” Turner cites increasing bicycle infrastructure, tackling building efficiency and increasing public transportation as some of these opportunities.

Councilwoman Rivera sees possibilities for transportation changes to increase bus ridership, and the opening up of green spaces. “When it comes to climate change, and to how things are changing and affecting us, we know as a coastline community that we’re going to continue to be affected,” she said. “But I really want to see investment in some of these communities to change things once and for all.”

So, let’s see, the climate cultists are thrilled that the streets are empty, poor folks are out of work (as are middle class folks), they’re shuttered in their homes by government edict, they’re threatened with fines and jail if they leave their homes, they want to force people (meaning the peasants) to ride bikes and take buses, limit their movement, and generally have their lives controlled by Government.

Interestingly, why do all these Democratic Party run cities have such inequality, so many marginalized and low income communities?

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If All You See…

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

…is a glass of wine, which will be decimated by ‘climate change’ in the future, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Handsy Biden confusing even the CNN hosts.

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NJ Citizens Protest Draconian Bat Soup Rules, Woman Arrested For Organizing Protest

By William Teach April 18, 2020 – 10:37 am

No more fear

Protest Against NJ Gov. Murphy Stay-at-Home Order: ‘No More Fear’

New Jersey citizens demonstrated in Trenton Friday against the “stay-at-home” order of Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy during the coronavirus crisis.

Politico reported the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce recorded video of the protest that showed “a long line of cars honking their horns along West State Street, across from the Statehouse and Murphy’s office.”

The chamber apparently tweeted about the demonstration, but that tweet and the video recording of the protest have been deleted.

According to the report, the demonstration featured people waving American flags.

“The words ‘no more fear’ were audible through a megaphone as a helicopter hovered overhead and law enforcement officers blocked access to the Statehouse parking complex,” the Politico report stated.

Interestingly, NJ.com was only really interested in the woman who was arrested, in an almost “don’t be this person, Comrades!” way

Woman charged for organizing protest of Murphy’s coronavirus stay-at-home order

A woman was charged Friday for organizing a protest in Trenton of the stay-at-home orders instituted last month by Gov. Phil Murphy to help slow the spread of the coronavirus in New Jersey.

This is the same Phil Murphy who said he wasn’t thinking about the Bill Of Rights and that it is “above his pay grade”.

Kim Pagan, of Toms River was charged by the New Jersey State Police with violating the emergency orders, according to a release from New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and Colonel Patrick J. Callahan, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police.

The protestors gathered outside the Statehouse and other locations in Trenton on Friday afternoon as Murphy and state health officials held their daily coronavirus press briefing.

Is that an actual law, as passed by the duly elected legislative branch? Besides the 1st Amendment, NJ has their own Constitution. Article 1

1. All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.

6. Every person may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.

18. The people have the right freely to assemble together, to consult for the common good, to make known their opinions to their representatives, and to petition for redress of grievances.

You can feel the lawsuits coming. Whether you think these people are going too far, asking too much, or agree with them, we still have Rights.

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‘Climate Change’ To Cause Major Floods Daily In Future Or Something

By William Teach April 18, 2020 – 8:48 am

It’s utterly normal for the seas to rise during a Holocene warm period. And the sea rise we’re seeing is utterly normal, as in utterly average, being in the range of 7-8 inches per century, when the average per century over the last 8,000 years is 6-8 inches per century. We should be seeing more during this warm period.

But, you know, doomsday cultists have to doomsday cult

US to have major floods on daily basis unless sea-level rise is curbed – study

Flooding events that now occur in America once in a lifetime could become a daily occurrence along the vast majority of the US coastline if sea level rise is not curbed, according to a new study that warns the advancing tides will “radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century”.

The research finds major cities such as Honolulu, New Orleans and Miami will become increasingly vulnerable to elevated high tides and stronger storms fueled by the global heating caused by human activity. Beach and cliff erosion will exacerbate this situation.

The accelerating pace of sea level rise means that by the end of the century floods currently considered once in a lifetime, or once every 50 years or so, will become a daily high tide occurrence for more than 90% of the coastal locations assessed by researchers from the US government, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Hawaii.

You know what’s not included? Any evidence that sea rise is accelerating. No charts, no graphs, no data. It is not accelerating. Even if it was, it doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation. Just a low level Holocene warm period.

Within 30 years from now, these now-rare flooding events will become annual occurrences for more than 70% of the locations along the US coast according to the research published in Scientific Reports. This scenario threatens huge, multibillion-dollar damages and, potentially, the viability of some coastal communities.

“If future sea-level rise causes once extreme but rare floods to occur frequently then … this may render some parts of the US coastline uninhabitable,” said Sean Vitousek, a scientist at the US Geological Survey.

The disruption caused by frequent flooding will threaten the habitability of much of the US coastline as it is already widely projected to do to many low-lying islands in the Pacific, Vitousek added.

Ah, the old 30 years from now canard (which, of course, makes it 2050). There never seem to be any consequences for making this advanced prognostications. But, see, if it does happen, they’ll say “we told you so.” If it doesn’t, they’ll say “see, the measures the world took in taking your money and freedom worked”.

Global sea levels have increased by about eight inches on average since 1880, although some places along the US coast have experienced higher rates than this. The seas are expected, on average, to rise by at least another foot by the end of the century even if emissions are constrained. This will be higher in some regions and much will depend on the pace of melting at the two great ice sheets, in Greenland and Antarctica.

They forget to mention that 8 is average.

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Are You Wearing Sweatpants While Working At Home During Bat Soup Virus? The LA Times Is Not Happy With You

By William Teach April 18, 2020 – 8:26 am

No matter what is going on, there will always be hot takes. People being Offended. I suspect if we had an alien invasion, nuclear war, a supervolcano going off, a zombie apocalypse, you’d still have SJWs being SWJs and naggy nags being nags

This is from deputy fashion editor Adam Tschorn (flip to Twitchy for his photo: no one should wear a hat like that and call themselves fashionable), who is worried about the Important Things. Here we go

I’ve waited, watched and bit my tongue during the last month of the pandemic-induced work-from-home era but I just can’t take it any more. Please, can we all put away those sweatpants, ratty, gray, decades-old collegiate sweatshirts and obscure minor league baseball caps and start our workdays looking like we deserve the paychecks we’re lucky enough to be earning while the world around us burns? Especially, for the love of all that’s holy, if there’s a group video conference involved?

How to dress for work when you’re working from home has been written about a lot over the last four weeks — including in the pages of The Times, where an early take on the topic suggested that you don’t really need to dress as if you’re going to the office. I couldn’t disagree more. For me, the WFH wardrobe is all about the three Rs: ritual, respect and reality. (Let me say at the outset that I don’t consider myself any kind of fashion plate. My personal sense of style falls somewhere between Vermont rural casual and West Coast preppy, but after 13 years of writing runway reviews for this paper, even I can tell when someone needs to switch up their style game.)

Sure, everyone is allowed their own sense of propriety, their own personal bitches and whines, some which have merit. Right off the top of my head, people pulling their shopping carts is annoying, but, then, when they do that they’re taking up more aisle space, it’s not just a random gripe. And I don’t usually waste space writing about it. Nor do I have a perch like the Los Angeles Times. I get the little amount of work I can do on my 7 days off (before 7 days on), just phone calls an some emails, takes about 30 minutes tops, done just fine in sweats or workout shorts and a hat (just happened to grab the one with USA on it today. Old and broken in and comfy). No one is seeing me.

Now, if you are going to be on a video call, yes, you should look professional. Shower, put on a decent shirt, and pants if the people will see them.

There’s something inherently grounding about the daily ritual. I won’t even consider punching the virtual time clock until I’m showered, shaved and fully dressed. This includes shoes — especially shoes — even if I don’t intend to leave the house. (If I do end up breaching the perimeter, there’s an elaborate protocol involving a second pair of shoes and a period of porch quarantine). Today, for example, I’m wearing a black-and-red check Brooks Brothers non-iron, button-down shirt, a pair of black Levi’s 559 five-pocket jeans, Stance socks and black Adidas Samba AV sneakers. I wore some version of this yesterday, the day before that and the day before that. I’ll be wearing some version of it tomorrow too and every work day until it’s time to return to the office, at which point I’ll probably kick it up a notch — by wearing a hat. (Everyone knows you shouldn’t wear a hat indoors.)

Well, good for you, you get an A for effort (that’s from some movie, can’t remember which). You know what’s great when you’re stuck at home? Being comfortable.

You’re more than likely laughing at me right now, sitting there in your yoga pants and your zip-front Patagonia faux fleece thrown over a circa-2000 Coldplay concert T-shirt sourced from the bottom of the hamper — your bare feet swinging wild and free under your Ikea Skarsta worktable. Your slouchy henleys, underwire bras, nice jeans and dry-clean-only designer tops are now shunted to the back of the closet like enriched polonium. If this sounds somewhat familiar, you probably don’t need the structure and reassurance of the daily armor donning to mark the start of your work day. Good on you for not being so rigidly ritual-bound.

Isn’t it rather sexist and patronizing to think that only women are reading his stuff? Wouldn’t this be the definition of “mansplaining”?

He seriously writes 8 more paragraphs on the subject. Good grief.

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Fossil Fuels Are To Blame For Bat Soup Virus Spreading Or Something

By William Teach April 17, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Wait, I thought it was Trump’s fault? Anyhow, Warmists who complain about fossil fuels are also big time globalists, but never seem to have an idea one what to replace fossil fuels with

Fossil fuels are propelling Covid-19—and the next pandemic

We tend to notice the connection between coronavirus and oil only when the energy markets collapse. But as history reveals, since the 19th century, pandemics have depended on fossil fuels to go global.

The novel coronavirus and rapid spread of the Covid-19 respiratory disease is no exception. In fact, this pandemic involves oil-fueled global connectivity that dates back to the 19th century. (snip)

What would an alternative model that connects oil and this novel coronavirus look like, then? Chiefly, it would factor in the true price of the fossil-fueled planetary infrastructures that spread pathogens and causes climate change since the 19th century and on. Coronavirus is not a distress call from mother nature to stop global warming. It is another symptom of the system that produces it, a motion sickness indicating that the carbon-based world we assembled is contaminated in more way we care to admit.

So, did fossil fuels spread (graphic under the fold) the Black Plague? Small pox (1520)? Plague of Justinian (541-542)? Even the Spanish (whoops, that’s racist) Flu, one of the biggies, occurred when there really wasn’t that much fossil fueled travel. People were still using horses quite a bit. Heck, you can’t blame AIDS deaths on fossil fuels, mostly on poor-education and gay males continuing to have risky anal sex.

Reducing both oil and the disease to little more than economic forces obfuscates another side of the equation, in which the virus is a thing in the world. Yet seen this way, tracing the coronavirus as a diagnostic marker that travels the arteries of capitalist globalization can expose the ills of the system. What transformed a local contagion in a wet market in Wuhan into a pandemic within a matter of months is a network that begins with ground transportation within the infected regions and ends with the sea- and air-lines—all powered by fossil fuels.

And it’s the fault of capitalism, too.

How capitalist economic ideology adds fire to the fuel

Yup, they hate capitalism. Interestingly, and like normal, the author, On Barak,  senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, doesn’t want to say what he wants to replace capitalism with to stop Hotcoldwetdry.

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