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The Cimate! Shave The Planet!

When you thought it couldn't get any wackier...

Apparently, the supporters of the climate change hypothesis are jealous of the streaming service because they released something almost as funny as a comedian on Netflix. They are complaining that watching Netflix (or porn) releases CO2 into the atmosphere and causes Climate Change.

Per Maxime Efoui-Hess, which is associated with the French think tank The Shift Project: “Watching a half-hour show leads to emissions of up to 1.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide.” That’s the equivalent of driving 3.9 miles.

 

The Granola State

A meteor streaks across the sky as gusty winds create an ember cast on a valley oak tree burned by the Kincade fire, early Wednesday morning, Oct. 30, 2019, in Knights Valley east of Healdsburg, Calif.

California’s Great Blackout of 2019 has begun as the lights keep going out for millions across the state’s northern stretches. What should be the past now seems to be the future.

Welcome to the land of rolling blackouts. It's going to be that way for years to come:

PG&E might have provided the spark that started the Camp Fire, but government supplies the fuel for forest fires that turn into raging wildfires, burning everything in their path. Federal environmental policy, driven by activists, has “continuously thwarted” the use of “scientific management techniques — including logging, prescribed burns, and thinning — to treat forest fuel loads” in preventing fires, says Hoover Institution researcher Terry Anderson. The eco-groups would rather “let nature take her course.”

And so she is; there are some 150 million dead trees in the state, so there's a lot of fuel. And the state's ostensible governor, "Pretty Boy Newsom", is adamantly opposed to restrictions on building in fire-prone areas, citing the historical precedent established by the rugged early settlers. "Pretty Boy", by the way, is Nanny Pelosi's brother in-law - which should tell you something right there.

The first two blackouts alone could cost the state’s economy $3 billion, says a Stanford professor, as business and commerce have had to take forced holidays. Students have missed school. Virtue-signalers have had to park their dead electric vehicles. It’s been weeks of people stumbling around in dark homes, few daring to open their refrigerators for fear of spoiling the groceries. Dining by candlelight has been by necessity, not in hope of romance. And only for those who have gas ovens (which have been outlawed in several California cities) and kept manual can openers in their kitchen drawers.

Those folks really should move underground; fires burn up, not down.

In any case, the costs for the Little People are massive:

With no electricity for the fourth straight day, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. She also had little hope of getting a good night’s sleep — there was no way to run the machine she relies on to counter her apnea.

Across Northern California, people who weren’t facing another day as fire refugees were worried about charging cellphones and electric vehicles, finding gasoline and cash, staying warm and keeping their food from spoiling. Some ended up at centers set up by PG&E where people could go to power their electronics and get free water, snacks, flashlights and solar lanterns.

To the last conservative to leave California,
Please conserve energy and turn off the lights on the way out.....
Oh wait!
Nevermind...

 

History - 30 October 1938

October 30 – On this day back in 1938 War Of The World’s plays, freaking out Americans.

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds. The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated “news bulletins”, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a ‘sustaining show’ (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program’s quality of realism.

• Whatfinger.com history

I hadn't realized that it aired the night before Halloween.

 

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Moonbeam's At It Again

He still ain't dead yet, and his latest trope's a doozy: he's blaming Trump and Republicans in general for the California wildfires.

Apparently, there were no wildfires there when Barry posed as president....

Former California Governor Jerry Brown told Congress on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party were responsible for the ongoing California fires because of their opposition to drastic climate change policies.

In 2015 and in 2017, Brown also blamed climate change for wildfires in California, though scientists disagreed, calling Brown’s arguments an example of “noble-cause corruption.”

But while California's burning, here in Oregon I awoke yesterday at 7 a.m to freezing temperatures outdoors and winds of 45 mph, which made it feel considerably colder out there. It was 28 this morning, plus strong winds, although the winds have settled as of this afternoon. I could be wrong, but I believe that Trump is still president and the Senate still has a Republican majority. Oddly, we don't seem to have any wildfires here.

But your problems are always something or somebody else's fault: The Gospel According To Moonbeam.

 

 

Rewriting The Constitution

NBC News published a lengthy article on the plight of poorly-run school districts, primarily in Detroit, Michigan. The article, headlined, “How a lawsuit over Detroit schools could have an ‘earth-shattering’ impact,” outlined how a court case could pave the way for education to become a constitutional right.

Nowhere in the Constitution is a Right to Education mentioned. That's not to say that education isn't desirable, but it's something that should be obtained by the individual. Especially given what passes for public education in America today, which is more appropriately described as public vegetation.

 

 

Juul Reorganizes

Juul will cut roughly 500 jobs between now and the end of the year, The Wall Street Journal first reported Monday. The cuts come as the e-cigarette company prepares for a proposed nation-wide ban on flavored pods, which comprise over 80% of its US sales. The e-cigarette giant is also cutting all ads across the US. Its Chief Marketing Officer, Craig Brommers, has departed and will not be replaced.

Makes sense; they hardly need a CMO if they're cutting all their ads. It also explains why they've been absent from the airwaves of late. Originally marketed as a smoking cessation aid, it seemed a bit odd that 80% of their sales were derived from flavored cartridges. Evidently, they're doing an about-face now. It's a step in the right direction.

And while the impetus underlying the turmoil may have positive attributes, it's important to understand a few points that are often overlooked: the bans on vaping products originated at the state level. And there's a reason for that - Oregon, for example, makes a lot of money on cigarette taxes, but nothing on vaping products. It's therefore in the best interest of the state to drive users away from vaping and back to cigarettes. And that's why they took action.

 

 

 

He Identified As Pansniffual

U.S.—Everyone praised the classified "Hero Dog" for taking down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Everyone, that is, except CNN, who quickly searched through the dog's internet history and college yearbooks. Sure enough, CNN found a picture of the Hero Dog partying at obedience school. In the picture, the dog is seen sniffing a butt without consent.

Democrats immediately called for the dog to be court-martialed and for the death of Baghdadi to be overturned.

Hmm? Why, yes, it is from Babylon Bee! How'd you guess?

 

Biden Rejected

Joe Biden was reportedly denied Holy Communion in a Catholic church in South Carolina, after being accused of 'advocating for abortion. 

Father Robert E. Morey, from Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, claimed that he refused the Democratic presidential 2020 hopeful Holy Communion because of his stance on abortion. 

Biden, who has been a lifelong Catholic but whose position on abortion is unclear, had attended 9am mass on Sunday as he was in South Carolina for campaign appearances.

He's only a Catholic when it seems politically expedient.

I suspect he'll be involved in Passover, though - he'll be Passed Over as Democrat nominee.

 

California Still On Fire

As if the fires themselves weren't bad enough...a lot of folks whose homes have burned to the ground say that they're going to rebuild; they have insurance. Unsurprisingly, insurance companies say "yeah, about that"....

After last year’s devastating wildfires, insurance companies are balking at fire coverage policy renewals for more than 350,000 residents in high-risk areas. "We are seeing an increasing trend across California where people at risk of wildfires are being non-renewed by their insurer," state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement.

The California Department of Insurance “has seen cases where homeowners were paying an annual premium of $800-$1,000 but, upon renewal, saw increases to as high as $2,500-$5,000,” a staggering rise of more than 300 percent in most cases.

The wildfires engulfing California this month have burned some of the same areas where other major fires have destroyed thousands of homes in recent years.

In June, the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies released a poll that showed that three-quarters of California voters believe the state should restrain home building in areas at high risk of wildfires. The poll, prepared for The Times, revealed bipartisan support for such restrictions after deadly fires wiped out tens of thousands of homes across the state in the last two years.

“The voters think there should be limits,” said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Berkeley IGS Poll.

The governor disagrees:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A desire to live near nature is embedded in California's ethos, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday as he explained why he doesn't want to block home building near forested areas at high risk for wildfires."There's something that is truly Californian about the wilderness and the wild and pioneering spirit," Newsom said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm not advocating for no (building)."

No, building in fire-prone areas isn't the problem, as far as he's concerned - he blames PG&E and other utility companies (even though fires have recently started in areas where power was cut off prior to the outbreaks).

No worries; keep repeating the same mistakes over and over. It's the California Way, according to their governor.