Archive for 2022

GREAT MOMENTS IN KINSLEY GAFFES: Canned climate official was right, consumers suffer the most.

Remember David Ismay?

He was [Massachusetts’] $130,000 a year climate change czar — a mini-John Kerry — who was forced to resign after he was inadvertently caught telling the truth.

He revealed how the Green anti-fossil-fuel movement wants to punish you to save the planet.

Ismay, speaking to a virtual meeting of the Vermont Climate Council last year on gas and oil emissions, said, “Sixty percent of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you — the person across the street, the senior on fixed income.”

If that was not damaging enough, he added, “There is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts, to point the finger at, turn the screws on and, you know, break their will so we have to break your will. I can’t even say that publicly.”

Unfortunately for Ismay a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and Navy Seal, his comments were recorded by the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a conservative group opposed to Gov. Charlie Baker’s Transportation and Climate Change Initiative and offshore wind farms.

Ismay resigned after Baker took issue with his remarks.

Yet, in retrospect, Ismay was telling the truth when he talked about who would carry the burden for Joe Biden’s half-baked, premature and ill-conceived war on fossil fuel.

In his equivocating letter of resignation, he said, “Although my comments were interpreted by some as placing the burden of climate change on hardworking families and vulnerable populations, my intent was the opposite.”

The truth is that it is the hardworking families of the country who are paying for Biden’s ill-planned war on fossil fuel. They are paying for it every time they gas up or go to the grocery store.

Ismay should have stuck to his guns. He was right before he was wrong.

Earlier:

Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

Let them pump gas: Elitist environmentalists have contempt for working class.

THEY USED TO CALL IT YERBA BUENA:    As part of the Mexican-American War, the USS Portsmouth sailed into San Francisco Bay on this day in 1846.  Its orders were to capture the town of Yerba Buena (translation: “Good Herb”), which it did without firing a shot.  At that point the town had a population of no more than 500.

Somebody must not have liked the name, since in less than a year it was changed to San Francisco.  By 1849, with the discovery of gold in California, San Francisco’s population had mushroomed to 25,000.

The 2020 Census put San Francisco’s population at 873,965.  But, according to estimates, San Francisco’s population has declined more than any other city in the country since then–alas, not a surprise to anyone who has been there recently.

VOLOKH CONSPIRACY:  “China Kinda Sus.”  Five individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to silence critics of China in the U.S.

THE LEFT ALWAYS HURTS THE MOST THOSE THEY PRETEND TO HELP:  Who Speaks for Migrants?