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Nice Deb: If You Can’t Make It To Washington On Tuesday

By William Teach March 15, 2010 – 9:45 pm

Nice Deb has the deal-e-o on what you can do on Tuesday if you cannot make it to Washington for the big rally.

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Rusty On The Radio

By William Teach March 15, 2010 – 8:06 pm

Rusty Shackleford, he of The Jawa Report fame, was on WABC Radio discussing Jihad Jane. Head on over and take a listen.

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Climate Change Now A Danger To Chicagoans

By William Teach March 15, 2010 – 6:59 pm

Sigh. Crystal ball time

Heat-related deaths, the spread of infectious diseases and the threat of natural disasters in Chicago could skyrocket in the coming decades unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, according to the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

In the 2009 report, projections for Chicago suggest that the average number of deaths due to heat waves could quadruple by 2050. The Chicago Climate Action Plan said greenhouse emissions could jump 35 percent by that time.

Heat waves are the leading cause of weather-related deaths across the country. In July 1995, an extreme heat wave hit Chicago, killing over 750 people and hospitalizing thousands more. Projections from the Chicago Climate Task-Force show that heat waves as severe as the 1995 event could occur as frequently as every other year by the end of the century.

Uh huh.

During the Battle of Monmouth, June 28,1778, the day was almost, if not higher, then 100 degrees. Almost as many, if not more, men lost their lives to heat stroke then to battle related injuries.

This was during the time known as the Little Ice Age, which wouldn’t end till around the 1850’s. Remember Washington’s crossing of the Delaware, and how cold that winter was?

Or how about the 1901 heat wave, where around 9,500 Americans died? Not much time for the industrial revolution to get going. And, you had the Galveston hurricane in 1900, a supposed category 5.

There was also a large heat wave, with over 900 deaths in the US, in 1972, a few years prior to the media wondering if we were entering a new ice age. Hey, maybe we could blame the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 on global warming, er, climate change? Or, perhaps Chicago could worry about something real, like it’s murder rate. There were 510 murders in Chicago alone in 2008, which is still more than the predicted “climate change deaths” for 2055, per the graphic with the top article. And then there are the rapes, robberies, burglaries, car jackings, aggravated assault, arson, etc.

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March Madness Sweater Puppies! (21 Images)

By William Teach March 15, 2010 – 3:22 pm

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Oops! UN IPCC Wrong Again, This Time On Amazon, Plus Earth Hour Nuttery

By William Teach March 15, 2010 – 11:35 am

Can I get a big yawn in knowing that the IPCC got it wrong yet again?

A new study, funded by Nasa, has found that the most serious drought in the Amazon for more than a century had little impact on the rainforest’s vegetation.

The findings appear to disprove claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that up to 40% of the Amazon rainforest could react drastically to even a small reduction in rainfall and could see the trees replaced by tropical grassland.

Why, it’s almost like nature is able to adapt to changes in the climate, which have been going on, well, as long as the Earth has been around!

As for Earth Hour (via Jammie Wearing Fool)

Gisele Bündchen and husband Tom Brady create PSAs in support of the global climate change movement Earth Hour.

The couple is encouraging the world to join them in turning off their lights Earth Hour on Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 pm local time. At that time, hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour in the largest call to action of all time. An estimated 80 million Americans participated in Earth Hour 09 – nearly 1 billion globally.

You can watch their unhinged moonbat climate alarmist videos at the link. I really do not need to point out the silliness of this one hour a year stuff, do I? For people whose lifestyles put out enormous amounts of energy and CO2 to lecture others is just absurd. Gisele is a UN Ambassador for the Environment, aka, professional climate alarmist. Also, massive climahypocrite. But, hey, if anyone lives near Tom Brady, take a drive by his home at the appointed time and see if all his lights are off.

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House Democrats Start Their Health System Shell Game

By William Teach March 15, 2010 – 8:34 am

The cat poop sandwich (surprisingly, no video of that scene from Anchorman) they are showing is not the same cat poop sandwich they will ask you to eat, as the American Spectator points out

Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Democrats released a 2,309 page health care bill that will start the process of reconciliation — but don’t let that fool you, it’s not the actual reconciliation bill with all the changes you’ve been reading about. Instead, as Rep. Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican member on the Budget Committee, explained to me last week, this is just the “shell” bill — the vehicle that Democrats need to get moving on health care. Once the bill gets approved (likely Monday), Democrats will send this phantom bill over to the Rules Committee, where it will be stripped, and then they’ll insert in all of the actual changes that they’ve negotiated.

Why all of the theatrics?

Well, under the reconciliation rules in last year’s budget, any reconciliation bill would have to have been submitted to the Budget Committee by October 15, 2009. It just so happens that earlier versions of health care legislation cleared the Ways and Means and Education and Labor Committees last year. So Democrats just dusted that legislation off, and are using that as the vehicle to begin the reconciliation process. That’s why, for instance, if you look through the 2,309 page bill that was released Sunday night, you’ll find a public option, which leadership has indicated would not actually be in the final bill. (Interestingly, the student loan bill is also tacked on at the end.)

Just a “simple up or down vote,” remember?

Constitutional democracy? We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitutional democracy.

Michelle Malkin has a taste of the table of contents, at least prior to the Democrats get around to inserting in all the provisions not in the bill. The Democrats are expressly attempting to thwart the Will Of The People, as John Boehner points out

“Democrats may run Washington, but the American people are in charge of this country,” Boehner said. “The moment a majority forgets this, it is writing itself a ticket to minority status.”

Why would they do this? They don’t have the votes.

R.S. McCain, along with mentioning that the election of Scott Brown hurt the Dems ability to ram this through in a Constitutional way, writes

This whole Pelosi procedure is nothing but a thumb in the eye of the Constitution.

Gateway Pundit, through a commenter, points out the illegal alien and ACORN provisions.

Question: will any group, including the GOP, have the cajones to challenge the Constitutionality in court if passed?

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU

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Latest Fish Wrap Outrage: Private Contracters Tracking And Killing “Militants”

By William Teach March 15, 2010 – 7:47 am

The NY Times is outraged! In a front page expose, today’s edition features yet another secret operation exposed because, well, because they can, and because they, like so many lefties, hate the thought of Muslim extremists having their Constitution Rights, as extended to the entire world, violated, along with being killed without a long, drawn out civilian trial. But, don’t question their patriotism: Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants

Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States.

The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed former C.I.A. and Special Forces operatives. The contractors, in turn, gathered intelligence on the whereabouts of suspected militants and the location of insurgent camps, and the information was then sent to military units and intelligence officials for possible lethal action in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the officials said.

While it has been widely reported that the C.I.A. and the military are attacking operatives of Al Qaeda and others through unmanned, remote-controlled drone strikes, some American officials say they became troubled that Mr. Furlong seemed to be running an off-the-books spy operation. The officials say they are not sure who condoned and supervised his work.

Which officials? None are actually named. Besides, who, other than pusillanimous lefties, cares? It’s just fine with me that extremist Muslims, members of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and any other group, are tracked and wacked. Better them than us.

It is generally considered illegal for the military to hire contractors to act as covert spies. Officials said Mr. Furlong’s secret network might have been improperly financed by diverting money from a program designed to merely gather information about the region.

It’s also generally illegal to hijack planes and fly them into buildings. It’s generally illegal for terrorists to fight without wearing a uniform of any country. It’s generally illegal to saw a humans head off while alive. You don’t see the NY Times and other liberals complaining about those. In fact, they tend to back the people who do those things.

But, hey, good news: the NY Times has just put every person in Afghanistan and Pakistan in even more danger. Kudos, Fish Wrap! Way to start the work week, giving aid and comfort to the enemy!

Unfortunately

Officials say Mr. Furlong’s operation seems to have been shut down, and he is now is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Defense Department for a number of possible offenses, including contract fraud.

At one time in our countries past, Furlong would have been a hero for taking the fight to the enemy.

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How’d That Coffee Party Work, Part 2

By William Teach March 14, 2010 – 7:57 pm

As I said yesterday, didn’t go well. Via Gateway Pundit, only 6 showed up for the Chapel Hill Coffee gathering. Can’t really call it a party. Seriously, that is the best ultra-liberal Chapel Hill can garner?

Looks like 2-3 more showed up in Raleigh. You can peruse the Flickr sets if you will. Reminds me more of a simple meet and greet, rather than anything of importance. But, hey, good for the coffee shops!

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MSDNC Finally Covers Democrat Crackup, Does A Bit Of Projection

By William Teach March 14, 2010 – 4:36 pm

God forbid MSNBC covers the story of the Dems cracking up like a house with termites, no, they have to go with

Divided party? It’s not just GOP, but also Dems

Face meet palm

For all the evidence of a divided Republican Party, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour.

What evidence is there of a divided GOP?

Republicans are wrestling with their own deep splits. There’s a family feud over whether the Republican Party should strictly adhere to conservative principles or be more inclusive. That infighting is prominently on display in a slew of contentious primary contests.

Um, no. While there are surely fringe elements, the majority of Republican voters are conversing about the issues, putting aside social issues, focusing on core Conservative values, and attempting to hold our elected leaders accountable. You know, politics as usual. And that is the only paragraph MSNBC includes regarding the divided GOP. The other 29 paragraphs, some of them one sentence-ers, are all about Democrats losing it, including 7 bullet points on page 2 about what has happened in the past month.

Problems with the gay and lesbian community, unions, illegal aliens supporters, fringe environmentals, elected Democrats, the ACLU, the Congressional Black Caucus, liberals/progressives. You name the group – doesn’t it seem like everyone who is a left leaner has to be in a group, rather than an individual? – they have gripes. Don’t worry, MSNBC is there to provide advice in what was supposed to be straight news

Obama must bring together — and fire up — the many Democratic coalitions if he hopes to minimize expected losses for his party in this November’s election when control of Congress is at stake. The risk if he doesn’t is that Democrats could become so disaffected that they stay home in November.

It’s far from too late. Passage of the health care overhaul would mean a monumental victory for Obama just when he needs one. This president will have accomplished what others before him couldn’t, a triumph that would give the fractured rank and file something to rally around.

Right. Obama is actually in a lose-lose situation with health care. If it passes, his poll numbers will drop even further among the 48% dead set against this monstrosity, and there is an extremely good chance the Dems will lose Congress. If it doesn’t pass, his unhinged base will be demoralized.

Then, the governing began in earnest — and so did the complaining.

Governance is haaaaawd! Especially with partisan hacks like Pelosi and Reid in one part of the government, and a guy with no real world experience, no executive experience, the ability to duck the hard votes, and an agenda he hid during the campaign in another part of the government.

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