Biden Regime Proposes Swapping Palestinian Terrorists For Hostages Held By Hamas

By William Teach March 24, 2024 – 7:00 am

This will upset the unhinged Jew hating/Islamic terrorist loving Democrat base, who do not care about the hostages, they just want a permanent ceasefire which will take the heat off Hamas and allow them to rearm and reconstitute

U.S. proposes hostage-to-prisoner ratio in Gaza truce talks – Israeli official

The United States has made a “bridging proposal” for the number of jailed Palestinians that should be released by Israel in exchange for every hostage freed by Hamas in any new Gaza truce, an Israeli official briefed on the Qatar-hosted talks said on Saturday.

An Israeli delegation led by Mossad chief David Barnea is in Doha for indirect negotiations with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which CIA director William Burns is helping Qatari and Egyptian officials to mediate.

“During the negotiations, significant gaps came to light on the question of the ratio” of prisoners to be released for each hostage, said an Israeli official, who requested anonymity.

“The United States put a bridging proposal on the table, to which Israel responded positively. Hamas’ response is pending.”

Too bad Israel can’t do something like put small bombs in their head that also serve as tracking devices.

The sides have previously said that, if a deal is reached, Israel would suspend its Gaza offensive for six weeks and recover 40 of 130 hostages still held by Hamas from an Oct. 7 cross-border rampage that triggered the war.

If they release all the hostages and disarm, then the war ends.

Hamas wants any ceasefire to include an Israeli commitment to end the war and withdraw forces from Gaza. Israel has ruled this out, saying it will eventually press the campaign to dismantle Hamas.

That’s also what unhinged Democrats want. Israel will be vilified now matter what, they just need to dismantle all the Hamas  infrastructure and kill as many as possible. Palestinians back them and hate Jews. They made their bed, let them lie in it.

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Who’s For A Green Sabbath?

By William Teach March 23, 2024 – 6:05 pm

It’s always cute when the people who tend to denigrate religion…well, mostly Judaism and Christianity, never Islam…try to use it for their nefarious purposes with their doomsday cult

Breakpoint: Remember the Sabbath … to stop global warming?

St. GretaWhy should people exercise, eat better or cut back on caffeine consumption? In the not-so-distant past, the answer was simple and compelling: It would be good for them.

Today, however, according to the United Nations, the National Library of Medicine and the New York Post, one of the main reasons to do these things is to fight climate change. In fact, Google virtually any good habit, along with the words “climate change.” The results are plentiful.

Apparently, at least according to the mainstream press and governmental agencies, the best way to sell behavior, policy or technology is not by touting the obvious, actual benefits, but rather some tenuous, highly theoretical way they could, if looked at in the right light and all the stars align, possibly, help cool the planet.

The problem here is that the cult always wants to push solutions that involve higher taxes/fees along with taking away people’s liberty and life choices, empowering government. Interestingly, almost none of the climate cultists actually do things that are good habits to “fight climate change”. Exercise and eating better are, of course, real.

This is a telltale sign that, whatever the scientific merits of manmade climate change may be, it has become a religious system for many, complete with genuflecting, indulgences and ritual invocations. In fact, climate change was recently offered as a reason to engage in an actual religious practice, one that goes back thousands of years and is beneficial, even essential, to human well-being. In The Washington Post recently, advice columnist Michael Coren argued that one way to fight climate change is to take a weekly day of rest. He called his idea a “green Sabbath.”

“[C]lergy are now arguing that this practice, whether in a secular or religious context, can help redirect the world’s societies away from catastrophic climate change. In their view, it’s as essential to the future as any clean-energy technology or electric vehicle. A shared day of rest, at a minimum, might slow the pace of consumption, curb emissions or ease the burden of so many people working weary weekends.”

Ah, but, here’s the thing: the article meanders along and makes the case that the climate cultists should leave the proscription to “Remember The Sabbath day, to keep it holy”, alone. Stop conscripting everything, stop appropriating everything, especially the Word Of The Lord.

The Sabbath, just like exercise, better eating and less coffee is good for us because of how God made us. The strange need to justify everything with another threat of catastrophe is anything but restful. The original reasons to take a day off are better than an appeal to reducing carbon emissions.

Unfortunately, the Warmists will always find away to merge their doomsday cult beliefs with everything…well, not really Islam, yet, because that’s a good way to have a fatwa thrown your way and a bounty on their heads.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 23, 2024 – 1:00 pm

….are mangroves being flooded by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on someone who’s in a heap of trouble.

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Excitable Kamala To Announce Red Flag Funding In Trip To Parkland, Florida

By William Teach March 23, 2024 – 10:30 am

Interestingly, there were more than enough red flags for the Parkland shooting wackjob for the police to take away the guns he shouldn’t have had in the first place, to even detain him

Harris to announce gun control measures on visit to Parkland, Fla.

Vice President Harris will make two announcements on gun violence prevention efforts Saturday in Parkland, Fla., where 14 students and three staff members were killed in a school shooting in 2018.

Harris is set to meet with families of those killed in the mass shooting and will visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with them, along with Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and state officials. She will then deliver remarks on gun safety measures at 2:45 p.m., according to a White House official.

The vice president will announce the launch of the first-ever National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center, which will aim to help states effectively implement red-flag laws through training and technical assistance. The center will be funded through a Department of Justice grant stemming from the bipartisan gun control bill that President Biden signed into law in 2022.

Harris also will announce an official call to action for states to pass red-flag laws and to use the resources from the bipartisan gun control bill to implement them.

From what we’ve seen, red flag laws have not worked. In many big shooting incidents the laws were not used, despite all the red flags. If they actually worked, and if they protected people’s Constitutional, both national and state, rights, they’d be fine. Of course, the wackjobs hellbent on murder could using knives, cars, learn to build a bomb.

I’m looking forward to the typical word salad from Kamala

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Comrades AOC And Sanders Link ‘Climate Change’ And Housing

By William Teach March 23, 2024 – 7:00 am

This couldn’t possibly be a push to give the federal government even more control over the housing of citizens in the name of Doing Something about Hotcoldwetdry, could it?

AOC and Bernie Sanders Aim to Tackle Housing and Climate Change in One Bill

With a sweeping legislative proposal, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are attempting to place public housing at the center of the green energy transition, tackling the twin crises of global warming and soaring housing costs.

“Public housing should be the gold standard for affordable, environmentally friendly, and safe communities,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an email. “This bill is how we ensure that.”

The Green New Deal for Public Housing aims to decarbonize all of the nation’s public housing units—and build more of them—with an investment of between $162 billion and $234 billion over the next decade. In doing so, it would avert 5.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of removing 1.26 million cars from US roads each year, while creating jobs and public health benefits.

This would put even more citizens into government housing, forgetting that quite a bit of it are cesspools of crime and urban decay. But, they want to keep the low income voters voting Democrat

Instead of allowing the nation’s public housing stock to wither away, the bill seeks to transform it. Units would not only be repaired and freed of contaminants like lead and mold, but also made efficient and green.

The first part is good, the second part is just a pipe dream, and the people who live in them couldn’t care less.

Each would be insulated and weatherized to conserve energy, as well as outfitted with fossil fuel-free electric appliances. Renewable energy would be installed on-site. And developments would be made climate-resilient with increased green space and decreased paved areas, which can help absorb heat and soak up water during heavy rains.

Who thinks that the “renewable” energy on site would be damaged heavily in the first month?

“The Green New Deal for Public Housing is going to change the game for those of us and our neighbors who are being hit hardest by the climate crisis,” said Saul Levin, legislative and political director of the progressive advocacy group Green New Deal Network.

Why don’t those groups spend their own money? Funny how they always want to spend Other People’s money, eh?

Though the bill is not expected to pass, Climate and Community Project says support to expand and improve public housing is growing. In 2021, the report notes, the House voted to repeal the Faircloth Amendment and most Democratic lawmakers supported including $60 billion for public housing in the spending package that later became the Inflation Reduction Act, though both measures ultimately failed to pass.

Really, it would be good to help the homeless, but, this is just typical Modern Socialism, and if government controls their housing government controls them. All in the name of a scam.

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PRC Democrats Try To Solve Crime Without Solving Crime

By William Teach March 23, 2024 – 6:45 am

It’s pretty easy for the elected Democrats in the People’s Republik Of California to muddle around, since most of them are well to do and live in areas which are protected from the average criminals

California Democratic lawmakers seek ways to combat retail theft while keeping progressive policy

crying democratFacing mounting pressure to crack down on a retail theft crisis, California lawmakers are split on how best to tackle the problem that some say has caused major store closures and products like deodorants to be locked behind plexiglass.

Top Democratic leaders have already ruled out reforming progressive policies like Proposition 47, a ballot measure approved by 60% of state voters in 2014 that reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors to address overcrowding jails. But a growing number of law enforcement officials, along with Republican and moderate Democratic lawmakers, said California needs to consider all options, including rolling back the measure.

Here’s an idea: let the people vote. Have a referendum. See if they want to keep Prop 47. Obviously, loony tunes Democrats do not want that, because they’d rather pander to the moonbats who want to be soft on crime, which includes lots of rich people, rather than those citizens who have to deal with crime.

While shoplifting has been a growing problem, large-scale thefts, in which groups of individuals brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight, have become a crisis in California and elsewhere in recent years. California Retailers Association said it’s challenging to quantify the issue in California because many stores don’t share their data.

Urban areas and big cities like Bay Area and Los Angeles saw a steady increase in shoplifting between 2021 and 2022, according to a study of the latest crime data by The Public Policy Institute of California. Across the state, shoplifting rates rose during the same time period but were still lower than the pre-pandemic levels in 2019, while commercial burglaries and robberies have become more prevalent in urban counties, the study says.

That’s the law of FAFO.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a champion of Proposition 47 who has repeatedly argued California already has tools to sufficiently go after criminals, rejected calls to reform the measure in January. He instead urged lawmakers to bolster existing laws and go after motor vehicle thefts and resellers of stolen merchandise. California also is spending $267 million to help dozens of local law enforcement agencies increase patrols, buy surveillance equipment and conduct other activities to crack down on retail theft.

“Not to say everything about Prop. 47 is hunky-dory and perfect,” Newsom said in January. “We want to help fix some of the ambiguities there, but we could do it without reforming or going back to the voters.”

You stupid voters won’t be allowed to have a say.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, who has said he also doesn’t want to repeal Proposition 47, co-authored similar legislation taking aim at repeat thieves and online resellers. It would allow law enforcement to “stack” the value of goods stolen from different victims to impose harsher penalties and arrest people for shoplifting using video footage or witness statements. The measure also would mandate online sellers to maintain records proving the merchandise wasn’t stolen and require some retail businesses to report stolen goods data.

And you know that nothing they pass will make any difference. If they want to make a difference they need to get tough on criminals. It doesn’t have to just be hard jail. How about softer jails, literally set up like camps, which put the low level criminals to work doing things like cleaning roads, community service, painting lines, etc and so on? Corporal punishment would work (it’ll never happen, obviously.) You can’t be slightly less soft on crime and reduce crime.

You know why they’re talking about this? Election season. And once the elections are held the ideas to mildly fix crime will vanish. But, hey, you voted for this, California. Suck it up, deal with it.

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AP Climate Cultists Surprised That Water Can Be Scarce In One Place And Abundant In Others

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 4:02 pm

I’m guessing none of these people have taken STEM classes, or, were taught by people who ignore science. And history

AP PHOTOS: Water, abundant for some and scarce for others, highlights inequalities of climate change

In Soweto, South Africa, residents queue up for fresh water. In a favela in Rio de Janeiro, residents collect it from a naturally-occurring small stream. And in Guwahatai, India, residents collect water from an open drain, filling buckets to the brim.

Fresh water is central to the lives of everyone, but for some, clean and consistent water sources are harder to come by. This World Water Day, Associated Press photographers around the world captured both the lengths that some people must go to source water and the relative ease for others.

Only around 3% of Earth’s surface is covered in fresh water, and much of that is locked up in ice or soil, but the sources that humans and animals draw from are plentiful and varied. (snip)

But as the world warms from human-caused climate change and environmental concerns like waste impact waterways, the availability of the world’s most precious resource is getting increasingly erratic.

In Bangkok, Thailand, garbage clogs the Chao Phraya River, where cranes atop boats help collect waste and clear waterways. In Jakarta, Indonesia, canals are littered with plastic bags and bottles that bob on the surface. And on the exposed banks of the Miguel Aleman dam in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, the ground is so dry from drought and heat that it’s deeply cracked, starved of rain.

Sounds like the first two are caused by poor government and scummy people, while the last is just a part of the natural cycles of the Earth

Even the most pristine-looking sources, like a forest lake near Frankfurt, Germany, aren’t immune to the challenges posed by climate and environmental crises, as a warming world causes tumult across the globe.

Just like always has happened. Wait till a Holocene cool period, where more water is locked up in ice. Regardless, this is a cult, so we can solve this by limiting your freedom.

Seemingly half the photos at the screed show pollution, which has nothing to do with climatic change, natural or manmade.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a deformed fish from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on how many embassies have been evacuated under Biden.

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Massachusetts Allocates $800 Million For Illegal Alien Shelters

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 10:30 am

Every legal resident of Massachusetts could be give over $1 million each. Instead, the money of the taxpayers will be going to people who should not even be in the United States

Mass. Senate passes budget, with over $800M to help migrant shelters

A budget breakthrough in the Massachusetts Senate could be a gamechanger in tackling the Bay State’s migrant crisis. State senators passed its supplemental budget late Thursday night.

With a vote of 32 to 8, senators voted for this one-time use expenditure, allowing Gov. Maura Healey’s administration to spend the $840 million on the issue over these next two fiscal years.

The state currently spends about $75 million each month — or about $10,000 per family — on the 7,500 migrant and local families that are living in emergency shelters across the state.

Read that again: $10K per month. Depending on the source, the average American household spends $5k to $9k a month. And that’s with their own money. Which includes transportation. With their own money. Here we have taxpayers on the hook to pay for people who came illegally. But, in fairness, those who vote Democrat in Mass. voted for the government to spend their tax dollars on this insanity.

It also caps the time families can stay in state-run shelters at nine months, with opportunities to renew their stay in 90-day increments if they are veterans, pregnant women, caretakers for those with disabilities or people enrolled in work programs.

“With the failure of our federal government to act in aide in this crisis, the responsibility unfortunately falls upon our shoulders,” said Senate Ways and Means Chairman Michael Rodrigues. “This supplemental budget before the body today represents a balanced plan to the EA shelter crisis that is proactive.”

Wait, they’re paying for veterans of other nations? And paying for women to have anchor babies? The failure is of Biden, who opened the floodgates. And themselves, for voting for this.

Meanwhile

(NDTV) A Venezuelan migrant has sparked controversy with a viral TikTok video outlining how illegal immigrants can exploit squatting laws in the United States. Identified as Leonal Moreno, the man suggested that under certain circumstances, abandoned properties could be seized and inhabited, potentially leading to their sale, according to The New York Post. Moreno claimed to be considering this as a business opportunity, citing anecdotes from acquaintances who have purportedly occupied multiple homes using similar tactics.

“I have thought about invading a house in the United States. I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it,” Leonal Moreno said in the TikTok video.

Do illegal aliens have those “rights” to squat, which is essentially invading a house owned by someone else? Doing it while someone is on vacation? Of course, most of the lenient squatters laws are in Democrat cities and states, so, they voted for this. Enjoy!

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Your Fault: Easter Egg Prices Rise Due To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 22, 2024 – 7:00 am

We could fix this by forcing you to get and EV, but, since most can’t afford it, you taking the bus, walking, or riding a bike

Easter eggs costs rise as climate change hits crops

You may have noticed that Easter eggs are more expensive this year.

But did you know that climate change is one of the reasons?

Most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in West Africa, but a humid heatwave has blasted the crops and massively cut yields.

Experts say that human-induced climate change has made the extreme heat 10 times more likely.

Which? found some popular eggs have risen in price by 50% or more.

The shortage of cocoa resulting from the heatwave has seen prices soar to almost $8,500 (£6,700) a tonne this week.

Humid heat waves never happened before fossil fueled vehicles, you know.

I’m not particularly surprised by this article, as the climate cult always looks for way to link their cult dogma with current events.

Another factor impacting the crops was El Niño.

This is a recurring, natural fluctuation in weather patterns in the tropical Pacific that drives up global temperatures and can lead to extreme weather in some places. A strong El Niño has been active since last June.

Yup, natural variability is really the cause, and just being a typical Holocene warm period.

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