Good News: Biden Cracks Down On Diesel Trucks To Save Us From Climate Doom

By William Teach March 30, 2024 – 7:00 am

This totally won’t increase the cost of goods, including food, right? Pretty much everything that moves by truck. TVs, computers, smartphones, clothes, shoes, vehicles (car carriers), guitars, beds and sheets, couches, chairs, tables, appliances, etc and so on

Biden cracks down on diesel trucks in bid to fight climate change, reduce emissions

The Biden administration finalized long-awaited regulations targeting emissions generated from heavy-duty vehicles, including trucks and buses, the latest salvo in President Biden’s sweeping climate agenda.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced the new regulations Friday morning, and officials said they represent the strongest-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards of their kind. The rules will kick in beginning in 2026 for model year 2027 vehicles and progressively become more stringent through model year 2032, forcing a larger number of trucks and buses to be zero-emissions in that time frame.

“EPA’s standards complement President Biden’s unprecedented investment in our workers and communities to reduce harmful emissions, while strengthening our manufacturing capacity for the transportation technologies of the future,” said White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi. “By tackling pollution from heavy-duty vehicles, we can unlock extraordinary public health, climate, and economic gains.” (snip)

The new regulations apply to short-haul and long-haul tractor-trailer trucks, in addition to vocational trucks like delivery vehicles, garbage trucks, school and public transit buses, concrete trucks and fire trucks. EPA previously projected that the standards could lead to 50% of vocational trucks, 35% of short-haul tractor-trailers and 25% of long-haul tractor-trailers produced in 2032 being electric.

What could possibly go wrong with this? The Biden regime just keeps finding more and more ways to increase our cost of living.

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Jew Hating Hamas Loving Democrats Protest Biden’s Lavish Fundraiser

By William Teach March 30, 2024 – 6:45 am

Hey, these are your folks, Democrats. This is a mainstream belief of Democrats, and you don’t see many on the Democrat side taking offense and saying “these people do not represent us”

Yeah, it will, especially since Chicago is only a 6 hour drive from Little Somalia, ie, Minneapolis and all their radical Islamists

(The Hill) Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted President Biden’s multimillion-dollar, star-studded fundraiser Thursday while he was holding a discussion with former Presidents Obama and Clinton.

Comedian Stephen Colbert was moderating the discussion at Radio City Music Hall in New York City when protesters began yelling from the crowd.

“I want to point out that we are 10 minutes in, and I have asked one question. I want to do a quick lightning round here: Do any of you have plans to sell golden sneakers or $60 bibles? Show of hands?” Colbert asked, mocking former President Trump’s recent merchandise sales.

“No golden sneakers,” Biden replied.

Colbert then asked Obama and Clinton what they miss about being president, and when Clinton started speaking, the first protesters began whistling and yelling obscenities from the crowd. Reporters in the room said protesters were yelling about Russia and Ukraine, and then protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza joined in.

This was apparently organized by the Abandon Biden folks, and most Credentialed Media folks mention that they unhinged terrorist supporters were yammering about Biden having “blood on his hands”, but, most have ignored this

(Times Of Israel) Video clips show pro-Palestinian demonstrators accosting people on the street in New York City after they attended a big-name reelection fundraiser for US President Joe Biden.

In one video, several protesters can be seen screaming at a woman as they walk alongside her, with one man whose face is covered with a keffiyeh calling her a “fucking murderous cunt.”

“Fucking murderous kike,” he then shouts at her. He also told her to “fucking die” and “keep it moving bitch.”

Another clip shows demonstrators screaming at a couple walking by them, with one trying to snatch a poster from the man.

Yes, there is video at the link. We’ve seen some Democrats disowning these people, like Senator Fetterman, but, most have little to say, and always seem to be taking the Hamas side.

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Bummer: Biden Highway Climate Scam Rule Shot Down By Federal Judge

By William Teach March 29, 2024 – 5:47 pm

It still annoys me that no news outlet notes that Biden uses vast amounts of fossil fuels in a constant manner to travel, especially his very low MPG limo, despite him putting restrictions on We The People

Biden highway climate rule struck down by Texas judge: ‘Unauthorized’

A U.S. judge ruled against the Biden administration in a decision about a highway climate rule on Wednesday.

The rule was issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT)’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in December 2023. It requires states to measure and report the greenhouse gas emissions from any vehicles using the U.S. highway system.

The rule also asked states to establish declining carbon dioxide targets, and to report back about progress on those goals. Texas sued the DOT in response.

U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee, ruled in favor of Texas and wrote on Wednesday that “the rule was unauthorized.”

While issuing the rule three months ago, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that it “will provide states with a clear and consistent framework to track carbon pollution and the flexibility to set their own climate targets.”

In a December statement, the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that the DOT “does not have the statutory authority to institute such a rule, and the mandate violates the Administrative Procedure Act.”

“Further, the rule is arbitrary and capricious and violates the Spending Clause by impermissibly restricting the use of federal funds by requiring TxDOT to implement the greenhouse gas measure.”

And for all those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome who typically vote Republican, and those Independents who are Never Trump, just remember, despite the ruling the Biden regime will attempt this again, especially if he wins in 2024. They won’t give up. You may despise Trump personally, but, he won’t try and muck with your life.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 29, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Feral Irishman, with a post on when your cat spends too much time around blue collar tradesman.

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People Who Shouldn’t Even Be In U.S. Upset Philly Is Not Ready For Them

By William Teach March 29, 2024 – 10:30 am

One would think that the sanctuary city of Philadelphia would be uber-excited about illegal aliens

Migrant students in Philadelphia aren’t getting the support they need, advocacy group says

Zulma Guzman came to Philadelphia from El Salvador in 2019 and is a part of South Philadelphia’s Hispanic community. But she’s had a difficult time getting comfortable as the parent of three students in the city’s public schools.

She said through an interpreter that there’s been a lack of translation services in official school meetings that makes her feel unwelcome. When she and other Spanish-speaking parents have asked for interpreter services, Guzman said, they’ve often been told to “bring our students or children or another community member to interpret for us.”

In addition, she said she struggled to find people at her childrens’ schools to help make her aware of the resources available to her as a member of a newcomer family.

Guzman’s experience isn’t uncommon. In fact, it reflects complaints about significant shortcomings with how the district supports newly arrived migrants, refugees, and those seeking asylum, according to survey results collected by Juntos, an immigrant rights advocacy group, and shared with Chalkbeat.

Shows up illegally, brings three kids, and they make no attempt to learn English, but, it’s on SCP to provide the help and resources for someone who cares not a whit to assimilate? Anyone attempting to apply to go through the legal naturalization process must show competence in reading and writing English, otherwise they will not be accepted.

In the 152 responses from teachers, administrators, and counselors at 56 schools, just 17% said there were sufficient Bilingual Counseling Assistants or bilingual staff members to meet students’ needs in every language they speak. Only 19% said they had received newcomer-specific training that covered more than just interactions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And only 33% said they believe their schools are equipped to communicate with newcomers and their families.

“Newcomers.” The use of that idiotic word which replaced the also idiotic “undocumented immigrant” is gaining quite a bit of traction. Anyway, this means that schools, which are already having issues, must spend more time patronizing illegal alien kids rather than teaching kids who are citizens.

Philadelphia does have two “newcomer” academies at Franklin Learning Center and Frankford High School that are supposed to help these students. Students in grades 9-12 who have arrived to the U.S. within the past year can enroll in these academies. They are supposed to receive “an accelerated course of study” and unique support “so that they are able and expected” to get up to speed with their peers.

Ashley Tellez is a senior at Franklin Learning Center and a junior organizer at Juntos. Her family is from Mexico, but she was born and raised in South Philadelphia and has had a front seat to her school’s newcomer academy. She said in practice, students in these programs are not getting the support they need.

Why would someone born in SCP need to go to a newcomer school? Should she not have already learned English and assimilated? This is a big problem with illegals: they expect the U.S. to accommodate them, and teach their children the same.

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Warmists Surprised That Landfills Are Bad For Global Heating

By William Teach March 29, 2024 – 7:00 am

Well, gee wiz, sparky, way to come up with new information. The NY Times seems about 30 years behind

‘Garbage Lasagna’: Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says

climate cowThey’re vast expanses that can be as big as towns: open landfills where household waste ends up, whether it’s vegetable scraps or old appliances.

These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to federal regulators, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

The study measured methane emissions at about 20 percent of about 1,200 large, operating landfills in the United States. It adds to a growing body of evidence that landfills are a significant driver of climate change, said Riley Duren, founder of the public-private partnership Carbon Mapper, who took part in the study.

“We’ve largely been in the dark, as a society, about actual emissions from landfills,” said Mr. Duren, a former NASA engineer and scientist. “This study pinpoints the gaps.”

Huh what? The first few UN IPCC reports noted that landfills were a driver due to their release of methane, which doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere but are considerably more potent that CO2, and do not suffer from the doubling effect of CO2. How many times have I mentioned landfills over the years? I knew this before I switched from being a believer in manmade global warming to being a Skeptic, and it’s part of why I say that man does play a part in elevating the temperature of the Earth from a global perspective, along with a few other things, but, not more than 25%.

For the new study, scientists gathered data from airplane flyovers using a technology called imaging spectrometers designed to measure concentrations of methane in the air. Between 2018 and 2022, they flew planes over 250 sites across 18 states, about 20 percent of the nation’s open landfills.

And this is something Man can do something about, and landfills have been working over the last 30 years to reduce methane emissions as well as capturing them.

“The waste sector clearly is going to be a critical part of society’s ambition to slash methane emissions,” said Mr. Duren of Carbon Mapper. “We’re not going to meet the global methane pledge targets just by slashing oil and gas emissions.”

And their solutions will be government tyranny.

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Poll Shows Biden’s Top Accomplishment: Nothing

By William Teach March 29, 2024 – 6:45 am

They really should have included his ability to take the weekend off

Yeah, well, things are a little worse than that

(Fox News) Are you better off than you were four years ago? That question was asked by Ronald Reagan during a decisive 1980 debate with then-President Jimmy Carter.

Only about 1 in 5 voters today answers yes, according to the latest Fox News national survey.

Just 22% say they are better off than four years ago, while more than twice that many — 52% — say they are worse off. One quarter say their situation is the same.

Republicans (72%) and independents (59%) say they are worse off than four years ago, while Democrats say they are better off (37%) or the same (35%).

It’s that Independents thing that will make the big difference, but, all those Never Trump Republicans wackadoodles need to consider that, sure, they may despise Trump, but, things were better under Trump right up till COVID came along, and he really is on their side politically on most things. If only Trump would say something along these lines, rather than bashing the ones who are against him

When asked to name the administration’s accomplishments (without the aid of a list), 38% can’t think of anything or offer a negative response. Thinking back to the Trump administration, 27% are either unable to name anything positive or mention a negative.

Voters say the Biden administration’s top accomplishments are the economy/jobs (19%), not being Trump (6%), student loan forgiveness (6%), and infrastructure (6%). The top success for Trump is also the economy (35%), followed by immigration (10%), foreign policy (9%), and “everything” (5%).

“More voters fondly remember Trump’s economic successes than can recall any of Biden’s. That underscores the challenge Biden faces. He must connect the dots between his major policy initiatives and the economic benefits to not just the overall economy, but all household finances,” says Anderson.

But, will Trump take advantage of this and stop his normal schtick, or run the same old playbook?

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Biden Regime To Spend Lots Of Taxpayer Money On “Green Macaroni”

By William Teach March 28, 2024 – 4:23 pm

First, why can’t these companies spend their own money if they’re so hot to trot to Do Something? Second, get a load of who one of the recipients is (via Green Jihad)

From the screed

The Biden administration plans to spend up to $6 billion on new technologies to cut carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industries like steel, cement, chemicals and aluminum, which are all enormous contributors to global warming but which have so far been incredibly difficult to clean up.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday that her agency would partially fund 33 different projects in 20 states to test methods for curbing emissions from a wide variety of factories and industrial plants, calling it “the single largest industrial decarbonization investment in American history.” (snip)

Kraft Heinz, a food manufacturer, would get up to $170.9 million to install electric boilers and heat pumps at 10 facilities across the country, where they would be used to generate the large amounts of heat needed for things like drying macaroni without directly burning fossil fuels.

Hmm, this couldn’t have anything to do with John Kerry, could it? The guy who was Brandon’s climate czar? Or that Kerry is now working for Biden’s re-election? Seems rather shady, does it not?Kraft Heinz had gross revenue of $26.64 billion in 2023, so, why is it necessary to give them $171 million in taxpayer money?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 28, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible wall blocking climate refugees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on “misinformation” experts.

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Politico: Oregon’s Decriminalization Of Drugs Law Failed Because They Didn’t Give It Enough Time

By William Teach March 28, 2024 – 10:30 am

This is one of those stories from the Credentialed Media which makes you go “why? Why was it necessary to write this? To what point? This was weeks ago? What prompted you to bother giving this article a whirl? Don’t you have better subjects to write on?”

Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

America’s first experiment in treating hard drugs as a public health problem, rather than one for the police, looks like it’s about to end.

The Oregon Legislature has voted to repeal the state’s three-year-old law decriminalizing drug possession for personal use this month, joining cities from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., that are adopting new tough-on-drugs policies. Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek is expected to sign the bill, passed after a surge in fatal overdoses and public drug use, in the coming days.

But public health advocates behind the law say the repeal is coming before decriminalization had a chance to work. They point to Portugal, which saw a 75 percent drop in drug deaths since it adopted the same strategy in 2001 through 2022, as evidence that Oregon is giving up too quickly. Portugal’s success, they point out, wasn’t achieved overnight or even in three years.

Oregon’s experiment “was not given the time that it needed,” said Tera Hurst, the executive director of Oregon’s Health Justice Recovery Alliance. “This is a political response to a serious problem,” she said of the measure’s likely repeal. “This is life and death.”

Yeah, well, Portugal doesn’t have a fentanyl issue and massive homelessness like Oregon, particularly Portland and other Democrats run cities. They did have a big heroin issue, and worked hard to get those people into programs to help. It also didn’t have a problem with meth, though the use of meth is spreading across Europe. Portugal also did not go soft on crime simply because people were on drugs. Portugal didn’t simply say “hey, all drugs are legal, have at it”, they worked to make the drug use safe and then worked to get people off of them with treatment, which didn’t seem to be happening in Oregon.

It should be noted that Portugal was having a big problem with opioids in the 1990s, which led to their decriminalization law. They didn’t end up having a massive homeless problem after passing it nor a spike in crime.

Oregon’s lawmakers voted to once again impose criminal sentences for drug possession because of a surge in fatal overdoses and public drug use.

But Hurst and other decriminalization advocates said the law didn’t succeed because of problems with implementation: a failure to fund new treatment services for 18 months after the law passed, a failure to train police on their new role in addressing addiction, and a failure to direct drug users to treatment.

Well, who runs Oregon? That would be Democrats. And what works well in one place doesn’t necessarily work well somewhere else. Just because you and I buy the same guitar doesn’t mean we get the same results. Oh, and since Democrats were hamstringing cops and hating on them, why did they think the cops would go out of their way to handle drug users? But, hey, it’s easy for “advocates” to say to give it time and Credentialed Media writers to write in support when they are probably do not have to deal with the fallout themselves.

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